Player voice · Assassin's Creed Shadows
The patterns long-haul reviewers keep returning to.
What players love
Feudal Japan itself — the seasons, the light and Naoe's stealth kit keep 100-hour players exploring long after the story stops mattering.
Reviews behind this:
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"Assassin's Creed Shadows tells a story that we've known for years: Ubisoft are exceptional at building beautiful open worlds, but coherent storytelling is still a lost art for them. Visually, the game looks stunning, with the dynamic seasons and weather effects creating an incredible atmosphere, eve…"
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"One of my favourite Games. The story and the world are beautiful, and you spend a lot of time exploring the entire world. The only downside for me is that I would like an even higher difficulty level."
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"Favourite AC game so far. I have over 100 hours and still have plenty of main and side quests to do. The game is beautiful and storyline is good"
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What frustrates them
A thin story, an open world that repeats itself, and a launcher that locks them out — and the Claws of Awaji expansion made the first two worse.
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"The base game was solid and enjoyable, but the DLCs are repetitive, grindy, and add little meaningful content. Overall, I can't recommend it."
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"Shallow not very interesting story. I hoped it would get better with the DLC's (it did not) The collab events were disappointing also."
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"i will now summarize the entire game: Walk 5km Kill some nutbag Walk back Walk 4km to buy groceries Walk back Walk 1km Play conflict resolver (mostly ends in you wiping an entire zipcode off the map) Walk back there you go, saved you ~80 hours of horrible storywriting, thank me later"
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