Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Literally forced myself to finish this game and all the DLCs. I tried to play it without any expectations, but I cannot recommend this game. At first, you may think, “Oh, there is totally different gameplay with the shinobi and samurai,” but everything feels clunky and boring, especially after level 30+. Both characters play kind of the same because of that annoying level upscaling. I beat the final DLC at around level 65, and that stupid enemy scaling to your level completely ruined the experience. Bosses can one-shot you, and some attacks that should be blockable after unlocking the combat block perk still cannot be blocked. Some shots and hits can even ignore walls and buildings. The sad part is that there is no really rewarding gameplay loop that makes you want to keep playing and become stronger. At some point, you realize that since enemies simply scale to your level, it is better to avoid most fights and focus only on key enemies. Exploration also gets very annoying. If you try to cover most points of interest on the map, you will quickly get tired of seeing copy-pasted trees, bushes, and rocks everywhere. There are also so many rocks that look climbable but cannot actually be climbed. Parkour feels very weird sometimes too. Your character can suddenly jump in the wrong direction or simply not go where you want. The story is super weird, especially in the DLCs, and the characters overall are not interesting at all, especially the samurai dude. The only cool thing is Japan and some of the locations. They look really good. I like Japan, by the way. Be aware and buy this game only with a huge discount.

Man this sucks so much

The intro was great, and the combat was fun at first, but the game quickly became repetitive and boring. I eventually started skipping the story because the dialogue just wasn't engaging. This was my first Assassin's Creed game, and I honestly expected a lot more. The ending was especially disappointing- it was basically just a cutscene with no real payoff. And don't even get me started on the mountains... constantly climbing them got old fast. Overall, I'd give it a 5/10

I've finished all achivements for this game three times. Thankfully the last update is out. This game is visually stunning, the gameplay loop is just that... a loop. The only aspect of the game that really moved me was the true ending, after the credits when more templars come to Japan. I would recommend this for Assassins Creed enjoyers but not achivement hunters. They require you to hit Lv 80 for an achievement but you need to be at least Lv 96 to finish Domain 10. Getting those levels takes HOURS. I had to replay the entire game three times just to reach level 80.

Don't play this after Black Flag Resynced. It makes you realise how bad the new games are

Currently at 70/75 achievements. After looking into the remaining ones, I don't get why I have to spend another 60–70 hours repeating the same tedious grind from my first playthrough. It adds zero value to a second run. For example, why force players to reach level 80 and complete a level 100 Domain? The cap for both should have stayed at 60. Grinding 60 hours just to finish a 10-minute domain makes no sense, The same goes for upgrading the hideout to level 13 it makes no difference compared to level 9 since I easily finished the story and got all my resources anyway. It just feels like artificial padding to keep people playing even locking the dual katanas behind New Game+ feels pointless. It’s a shame, because previous Assassin's Creed games were great and didn't have achievement lists that dragged on like this. Achievement bloat aside, the game itself was good. I can't really complain too much since I got it at a 60% discount. For now, I'm moving on to Black Flag Resynced. I might return to finish the remaining achievements in the future, but I'm just not willing to drain myself right now by repeating everything I already did in a 100+ hour playthrough.

育碧风景，育碧玩法，经典鲜花插在牛粪上，超过10个小时后的游戏体验就是狗狗又屎屎。