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Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Just finished Act One.
SJRB
Gold Member
It's pretty clear all the creative budget went into act I because the game falls of a cliff presentation, story, pacing, cutscene-wise as soon as you finish it.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Idk what to say, folks, 57 hrs in and I'm still enjoying exploring the world, killing bandits and Nobunaga's scum 
I'm about to continue the story, finish Act 1 and experience the rest of the game, so will see how I'll feel about it after
I'm about to continue the story, finish Act 1 and experience the rest of the game, so will see how I'll feel about it after
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yamaci17
Member
I've completed the game
I look forward for them to add extra additional challenges like they did with ac valhalla. I'd especially appreciate stealth related missions with limitations (similar to ac valhalla mastery stealth challenges) so I can come back to it
the story was overall decent. it had an incredible start, but rather lackluster ending. the journey itself had its ups and downs but I liked the overall pacing of the journey. companion NPC side quests often delivered which was surprising. hideout was quite lively compared to valhalla with NPCs having all kinds of interactions with each other so that was fun to see. the whole hideout thing was so much fun, being able to build your own hideout
gameplay was always fun, enough to keep me engaged all the time. I have experimented with lots of different builds and managed to master all weapons and tools available in the game. all of them was fun in their own unique way. stealth naoe, combat naoe. and even bow stealth yasuke was a really fun experiment. thanks to this dynamic, the game never get stale or boring for me even when the quality of quests were not consistent
animations and physics were a big improvement over previous games with some physics being really great compared to most games actually (destruction, seasons, wind, the whole thing). the whole seasons thing also keeps the game fresh at all times which is a nice addition
overall I'm giving this game a solid 84/100
I really really liked naoe and yasuke dynamic and all the interactions they had throughout the whole game.
I look forward for them to add extra additional challenges like they did with ac valhalla. I'd especially appreciate stealth related missions with limitations (similar to ac valhalla mastery stealth challenges) so I can come back to it
the story was overall decent. it had an incredible start, but rather lackluster ending. the journey itself had its ups and downs but I liked the overall pacing of the journey. companion NPC side quests often delivered which was surprising. hideout was quite lively compared to valhalla with NPCs having all kinds of interactions with each other so that was fun to see. the whole hideout thing was so much fun, being able to build your own hideout
gameplay was always fun, enough to keep me engaged all the time. I have experimented with lots of different builds and managed to master all weapons and tools available in the game. all of them was fun in their own unique way. stealth naoe, combat naoe. and even bow stealth yasuke was a really fun experiment. thanks to this dynamic, the game never get stale or boring for me even when the quality of quests were not consistent
animations and physics were a big improvement over previous games with some physics being really great compared to most games actually (destruction, seasons, wind, the whole thing). the whole seasons thing also keeps the game fresh at all times which is a nice addition
overall I'm giving this game a solid 84/100
I really really liked naoe and yasuke dynamic and all the interactions they had throughout the whole game.
HRK69
Member
At least it's greyed out when it's unavailable
Unlike other systems. Want to switch characters? Well, get ready to hold down a button, except we won't let you know if the character is available until you've already committed to the press
It's a terrible design choice
Yeah that shit only works, when circle is either half full or went full 360.
That's so pointless, because when these states has been reached, the game does that automatically as soon as a mission is completed or you fasttravel.
Topher
Identifies as young
I love the change of seasons as it changes up the world a bit, but then they went further and said "let's make it so some activities can only be done in Summer, etc." I'm done with the game. I have one trophy left to get platinum. I got Naoe standing in a safe house waiting for gotdang Autumn so she can take a picture of some fox at night.
Who thought this shit was a good idea?
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Kurotri
Member
Same problem here, except Naoe is waiting for Winter instead to kill some group of raiders. There's more stuff that is simply not working, for instance I'm pretty damn sure that they said you'd be able to use Kunai or Shuriken to destroy lanterns, another lightsource that you frequently see. It NEVER worked. Not in my game atleast.I love the change of seasons as it changes up the world a bit, but then they went further and said "let's make it so some activities can only be done in Summer, etc." I'm done with the game. I have one trophy left to get platinum. I got Naoe standing in a safe house waiting for gotdang Autumn so she can take a picture of some fox at night.
Who thought this shit was a good idea?
yamaci17
Member
well here's something for you. this could be spoiler about the winter related quest so don't say i didn't warn you
actually not being in winter is helpful for the winter raiders quest. all of them are hiding in a cave together when not in winter. only in winter they spread out to different places. I don't know how but somehow I came across their cave while not in winter. and with yasuke they were no challenge
Topher
Identifies as young
Lots of broken stuff here. On PC, switching weapons during combat works every now and then. My horse keeps getting stuck on stuff for some reason. Earlier today, I couldn't go through an outdoor opening because a damn cat was standing there. I literally had to climb over a wall to get through because of a cat.
Kurotri
Member
That's pretty neat to know, thanks. If I ever return to the game I'll keep that in mind.
Topher
Identifies as young
Yeah, same for changing weapon inventory. I've had random moments where I couldn't change out a weapon for a something newer, better.......just because. No warnings or being in a hostile environment, etc. Just "nope"
HRK69
Member
I haven't swapped my equipment much during my 50 hours with the game, so I haven't run into that issue yet. But it seems consistent with the overall feel of the game lol
That being said, the menu navigation isn't exactly fast either. I don't want to keep complaining, but it definitely doesn't feel snappy
I had a solid 10 hour session yesterday, but honestly, I ended up feeling more frustrated than satisfied
Oh, and I absolutely dread the 'hold the button' actions. I can't stand them. Honestly, it's one of the most annoying design choices for me. It's like the game is trying to waste my time, and it's honestly more frustrating than I can even put into words
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SJRB
Gold Member
Ubi: a hotkey to change literal seasons but nothing to simply change time of day in your stealth infiltration game.
I swear to god in the way the seasons progress it takes like 15 in-game years for this game to finish.
Topher
Identifies as young
While I'm waiting a couple of hours for Autumn to come back around, I'll give a short review of the game. Overall....disappointing. The story is ok, but I'm not going to spoil anything. It is.....fine. Naoe is a good assassin and a good character. Great choice for a Japan AC. Yasuke is out of place and I dreaded the sections that forced me to play as him. The phrase "a bull in a china shop"comes to mind.I think he would be great as a side historical character much like Hanzo, but Ghost of Tsushima did a much better job of melding the shinobi and samurai roles than Shadows. I did like Yasuke's character and story. Just not as a main character. The way their story converged worked well I thought, but I just didn't find them compatible as co-main characters when I only want to play as one of the two: the asssassin. Far too much contrast. Should have just stuck with Naoe.
Combat in Shadows wasn't great. GoT also had far superior combat. Not even close really. Ubisoft overcomplicated everything in Shadows while Sucker Punch took a simpler approach, which is what benefits GoT over Shadows across the board, imo. Like the absurd skill tree. 12 different skill trees. 6 for Yasuke and 6 for Naoe. That is ridiculous for an AC game. Whoever designed this sought out to make it the most complicated AC game ever. We see this also in the absurd season and time change system we have beeng talking about. Stupid ideas that are entirely unneeded.
What was good was the stealth. It was pretty standard stuff, but thankfully not overcomplicated like combat. This is what AC should be, imo.
This game literally feels like it had 10 different people designing it with not one person leading the way and deciding what needed to be left out because everyone's ideas were included. I feel like everything in this game could have been halved and it would have been a better game.
I set out to finish this game and get the platinum and that's what I'll do in about a couple of hours while I wait, but this game was ultimately just mediocre. Had the developers focusing on making half of the shit in this game as good as they could then the overall game would have benefiited. Instead so much was poor thought out and either not implemented well or should have never beend done in the first place. On the average, this game is exactly that: average. Isn't entirely bad, but it isn't very good either. Which, to me, makes this the worst Assassin's Creed game since AC 3.
5/10
Combat in Shadows wasn't great. GoT also had far superior combat. Not even close really. Ubisoft overcomplicated everything in Shadows while Sucker Punch took a simpler approach, which is what benefits GoT over Shadows across the board, imo. Like the absurd skill tree. 12 different skill trees. 6 for Yasuke and 6 for Naoe. That is ridiculous for an AC game. Whoever designed this sought out to make it the most complicated AC game ever. We see this also in the absurd season and time change system we have beeng talking about. Stupid ideas that are entirely unneeded.
What was good was the stealth. It was pretty standard stuff, but thankfully not overcomplicated like combat. This is what AC should be, imo.
This game literally feels like it had 10 different people designing it with not one person leading the way and deciding what needed to be left out because everyone's ideas were included. I feel like everything in this game could have been halved and it would have been a better game.
I set out to finish this game and get the platinum and that's what I'll do in about a couple of hours while I wait, but this game was ultimately just mediocre. Had the developers focusing on making half of the shit in this game as good as they could then the overall game would have benefiited. Instead so much was poor thought out and either not implemented well or should have never beend done in the first place. On the average, this game is exactly that: average. Isn't entirely bad, but it isn't very good either. Which, to me, makes this the worst Assassin's Creed game since AC 3.
5/10
Topher
Identifies as young
I'm a little over half way through summer since I posted over an hour ago about the season change crap. And then once I'm in autumn, I have to wait another hour or so for night time. Then I can go see the damn fox and end the game. Just stupid.
saintjules
Member
Why go for platinum if the game was mediocre to you? I wouldn't go through the misery. Regardless if I was a collector of plats or not.
I'm still in the early hours of the game. Not sure if I'll ever finish it, but I'm enjoying it for the time being.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
The story in this game is utter trash that should result in the firings of everyone involved. It's actually somewhat decent early on before act 1 and then yasuke's introduction is mostly fine but the way they have you find and kill the 12 masked templars is simply awful. They are custom stories where u r introduced to a bunch of new characters with no personality and they are discarded just as fast. None of it is good let alone memorable. You cannot tell a story like this. You are essentially resetting the board every hour or so and none of these characters have time to shine.
Not that the writing is good enough to make them shine. I have no idea why Ubisoft isn't making the ac2 and brotherhood people write this stuff. Why are writers who worked on fuckimg division making this game? How did you lose all that talent from past games?
Why weren't they promoted? Why wasn't petrice brought back? Why put so much time and money into the story and then give the keys to a bunch of nobody's?
The team is full of talented people who have crafted this beautiful world and wonderful castles to infiltrate. Even the combat is good. I love playing as both characters. But the writing is so bland, so dull and so boring you really don't want to play through the game.
Also say what you will about Sony games but they don't force you to walk behind someone during every single mother fucking quest. Some do it more often than others but it is done maybe 4-5 max. Here it is every single story quest. Kingdom come 2 as well. Stop with the wall and follow you hacks.
Not that the writing is good enough to make them shine. I have no idea why Ubisoft isn't making the ac2 and brotherhood people write this stuff. Why are writers who worked on fuckimg division making this game? How did you lose all that talent from past games?
Why weren't they promoted? Why wasn't petrice brought back? Why put so much time and money into the story and then give the keys to a bunch of nobody's?
The team is full of talented people who have crafted this beautiful world and wonderful castles to infiltrate. Even the combat is good. I love playing as both characters. But the writing is so bland, so dull and so boring you really don't want to play through the game.
Also say what you will about Sony games but they don't force you to walk behind someone during every single mother fucking quest. Some do it more often than others but it is done maybe 4-5 max. Here it is every single story quest. Kingdom come 2 as well. Stop with the wall and follow you hacks.
Topher
Identifies as young
Who said a mediocre game automatically means it is miserable? It has good and bad. The good was good enough to keep playing but that doesn't mean it wasn't an average game.
That's me though and it is just one opinion. Definitely hope you enjoy it more than me.
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Reizo Ryuu
Member
Bit of an image dump
Funny bug with a ship going crazy and teleporting in the air:
Killed everyone here with yasuke's bow in stealth from the same position lol.:
Bad time to be having a fiddle mate:
I do really like fighting around bamboo, since they react nicely to cuts:
This one is for a side quest and I was waiting to finally run into something like this, but I haven't seen anyone talk about it yet so I'll spoiler mark it
Palliasso
I tried adding all the images here with the new uploader, but two of them failed right of the bat, so I still had to do those off-site via imgur 
Funny bug with a ship going crazy and teleporting in the air:
Killed everyone here with yasuke's bow in stealth from the same position lol.:
Bad time to be having a fiddle mate:
I do really like fighting around bamboo, since they react nicely to cuts:
This one is for a side quest and I was waiting to finally run into something like this, but I haven't seen anyone talk about it yet so I'll spoiler mark it
Heard some villagers talking about the "Yuki-Onna", so I went looking for her, on my way there I actually started the whole quest chain for "The Yokai".
Oshiroi Baba had some nice atmosphere too:
Yuki-Onna was actually the last one I tackled because she needed winter and I was still in summer, the third one I did you actually save this girl, and her eyes were immediately sus to me.:
Lo and behold:
Finally some actual supernatural shit.
Oshiroi Baba had some nice atmosphere too:
Yuki-Onna was actually the last one I tackled because she needed winter and I was still in summer, the third one I did you actually save this girl, and her eyes were immediately sus to me.:
Lo and behold:
Finally some actual supernatural shit.
Palliasso
I tried adding all the images here with the new uploader, but two of them failed right of the bat, so I still had to do those off-site via imgur
Topher
Identifies as young
I usually have to post images to imgur after downloading them from the PS app, but this time it worked without imgur.
Nice pics, btw
Nydius
Member
The killer part is that hotkey doesn't fast forward or skip anything and they don't really even explain that. You can't actually fast forward seasons, you have to go through the full season timer. If you've reached the time limit it'll change the next time you fast travel, begin or end a mission, OR you can use the hotkey to do it manually. But that hotkey only becomes available once the time limit for each half season has been reached.
For those who haven't yet gotten the game or who have just started, here's a helpful tip for your time management:
Each spring, summer, and fall half season is 70 real world minutes long, making each full season 140 minutes. Winter is longer, at 90 minutes per half-season or 180 minutes for the full season.
And it's a major pain in the ass when you open up quest lines that are like "this target can only be found in spring at night time".
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Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Wait. You can't force the season change in the pause menu?I love the change of seasons as it changes up the world a bit, but then they went further and said "let's make it so some activities can only be done in Summer, etc." I'm done with the game. I have one trophy left to get platinum. I got Naoe standing in a safe house waiting for gotdang Autumn so she can take a picture of some fox at night.
Who thought this shit was a good idea?
Gonzito
Gold Member
You know I miss the old tombs from the Ezio trilogy, they were really interesting from a design perspective, there was a lot of parkour and they felt deeper
Topher
Identifies as young
Only when it is actually time for the season to change. You can't advance it before then. Pointless
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
40 hours in!
I got a good few hours yesterday and good progress. Game grabbed me again after I enabled guaranteed assassinations and enabled "guided mode", so I don't have to guess where next objective is. I got tired of doing that.
Gotta say the main quest to get all she shinbakufu is tiresome. They are all... the same ? A dude, In a castle.
I've got only 3-4 left.
So these +naoe and Yasuke quests are the only main quests you have to do?
I got a good few hours yesterday and good progress. Game grabbed me again after I enabled guaranteed assassinations and enabled "guided mode", so I don't have to guess where next objective is. I got tired of doing that.
Gotta say the main quest to get all she shinbakufu is tiresome. They are all... the same ? A dude, In a castle.
I've got only 3-4 left.
So these +naoe and Yasuke quests are the only main quests you have to do?
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
The whole seasons stuff is strange.
You talk to someone when invading the castle and if there is a mid-mission loading, it can change the season mid mission lol. It's so stupid
Certinty
Member
More or less, the story in this game is horrible.
The first act is fairly good and has pretty good production values with the story.
After that, it's a mess. Story is more or less smaller story arcs for each shinbakufu member about why they should die and how they're a horrible person bla bla bla, a majority which are trash and low quality.
More on Naoe's backstory and Yasuke's revenge arcs are rushed and played as an afterthought rather than something meaningful.
I enjoyed the game but the story and what they chose to prioritise for the main storyline were bad. Give Naoe and Yasuke proper story arcs following on from the first act with high production values and the game is far better than it is.
Topher
Identifies as young
I kept thinking there was going to be some big twist in the story, but there really wasn't one. I did like the story initially because I thought they might go somewhere interesting with it, but it never did. Personally I didn't think the story was horrible, but was it wasn't great either. It was serviceable which means it was pretty much forgettable, but had enough going to keep me playing. So it did its job. It's kind of like the 8th or 9th iteration of a horror movie where you are just there for the kills and jump scares.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
I am doing the last kufu member I can (other than two who cannot be taken as a mission yet) and it's repetitive and it makes no sense how some of the plot points connect in these sub missions.
There should be way more on assassins stuff. As it is, most of the mission feel like side quests.
The 2 main characters backstory missions were good though.
Although… while I like two characters in this game, I think naoe is clearly the main character and it's all about her. She should be the only playable character and a bit more fleshed out.
Having multiple playable characters complicates things and makes nonsense at times. I hated it in gta 5 too.
It could use more focus with just 1 playable character.
Although I am playing yasuke more because he is stronger. But his gameplay got nothing to do with ac. I like him being fish out of water but they are not playing much into it.
And then you have to manage 2 inventories, upgrade both, engrave both, both use different materials to update. Cmon.
The game should be 50% smaller and 1 character. Next yeah other character could have his game.
Also, the story is just not that interesting.
I've not played any ac past black flag.
Should I play one of them?
Ac shadows looks great, parkour is ass though. Movement is clunky unlike old games. But I still enjoy the game. It's impressive at times. It's like a 7-8game. Maybe closer to 7
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Play Unity. Skip Syndicate. Play Origins. Skip Odyssey and Valhalla. Pretend Mirage doesnt exist.
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JORMBO
Darkness no more
I did one the other day where it kept giving me a choice of two paths to take. One loops back to the start and the other progresses on. But there is not clues as to which is the correct path. It feels like it was just designed to waste your time. No challenge to any of it either. It's only the second tomb I did and made me not want to do any more.
Clintizzle
Lord of Edge.
Dark Shinobi
Neo Member
I'm so confused. I see people posting about how gorgeous this game looks and then I boot it up in balanced mode with PSSR on my LG G4/PS5 Pro and all I see are graphics that are super disappointing and underwhelming. HDR is washed out, flickering foliage both near and far, and a very unstable overall image. My TV was professionally calibrated too. Are there some magical video settings I'm missing?
Nydius
Member
I'm pretty sure I know exactly which tomb you're talking about; It has a slide that brings you down to a water pool, right?
If so, it does have clues. The clues are the horse statues above the cave passageways.
HRK69
Member
I know exactly what tomb lol
Didn't knew the statues were a thing
Doesn't help that I can't see shit in those tombs
DavidGzz
Gold Member
Idk if it's been fixed since, but no one really attempted to ring the bells in my game until I was well past getting Yasuke. I didn't even remember they existed until then.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
Sounds about right. I have unity and origins already for some reason. So why not.
I thought mirage got good rep?
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
What?
It looks insane.
HDR is deep and gorgeous too. O play on lg c1 using dtm and 4000 nits setting in game. No change to exposure or whatever the 2nd setting is.
Foliage is flickering with pssr during winter. Clearly an oversight. But other than that is looks crazy good.
Nydius
Member
Completely agree with you on this. The lighting in the tombs is complete trash and no amount of fiddling with graphics settings seemed to help.
Gonzito
Gold Member
I really liked Mirage except for the story/cutscenes animations
I thought it was a great game
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