Assassin's Creed Shadows: AC Japan

[rudyjuly2]

I’m only level 7 and I like it so far. I hope there are cooler special combat moves later on. I like the parry and dodge system. The world is big and yet also constrained because you can’t really go off roading or the vegetation becomes a mess on your screen. Combat is definitely more difficult in that Naoe cannot take a lot of punishment. Can’t charge in guns a blazing.

The story is solid although I’m not crazy about the meditation points to tell the back story through flashbacks. There are 22 of them!

[Gotmadskillzson]

I'm level 22 or 23. I love the winter snow areas of the map. See your foot prints in the snow, run on the roof and you can hear the ice crunching and falling off. Combat moves get better how ever you have to level up your knowledge level quite a bit because all of those combat abilities are locked behind knowledge levels. So therefore you have to go around gathering knowledge points, big grind really.

Yasuke is a tank. However he is slower and not agile at all. So if you find yourself in a group situation, it can be an issue. Do love running through doors and stuff with him. Naoe quicker, super agile, better sneaker, etc., with the cost of not being able to handle a lot of hits.

All in all, there is no shortage of groups of enemies to take out in this game. Think you have it all figured out and boom, a new thing pops up and another one and another one. Game is definitely on the list for me for Game of The Year.

[fsufan4423]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gotmadskillzson

I'm level 22 or 23. I love the winter snow areas of the map. See your foot prints in the snow, run on the roof and you can hear the ice crunching and falling off. Combat moves get better how ever you have to level up your knowledge level quite a bit because all of those combat abilities are locked behind knowledge levels. So therefore you have to go around gathering knowledge points, big grind really. Yasuke is a tank. However he is slower and not agile at all. So if you find yourself in a group situation, it can be an issue. Do love running through doors and stuff with him. Naoe quicker, super agile, better sneaker, etc., with the cost of not being able to handle a lot of hits. All in all, there is no shortage of groups of enemies to take out in this game. Think you have it all figured out and boom, a new thing pops up and another one and another one. Game is definitely on the list for me for Game of The Year.

You can also slip on ice when walking on frozen water. Pretty cool animation.

[Gotmadskillzson]

I laughed when I was trying to jump pole to pole with Yasuke. His big butt made it most of the way, but the last pole was a tad bit too far for him to reach. Went sliding down the hill. Switched to Naoe and made it across with ease. So yeah anything climbing or leaping involved, Naoe is the one to use.

30 hours in and about to call it the night. Oh yeah made it to level 3 with the knowledge too. Didn't care for Naoe history, but Yasuke history be shorter and more straight forward. Did have 1 glitch when my character got stuck in the boat. Like half of the body was below the boat, other half on top of the boat. Couldn't move at all, had to load one of the saves.

[Kramer5150]

Quote: Originally Posted by onetonmartin

Hate: - NPC AI is ridiculously dumb

I don't have the game yet, but I did read that in order to make the AI a bit smarter is move stealth up the expert setting, this will be the first thing I do when I pick the game up.

[Gotmadskillzson]

4 levels of difficulty, 4 levels of stealth, 3 levels of combat style, what language you want the game to be in, 3 levels of aim assist, mini game input choices, assassination choices, loot choices, dialogue choices where you can have full or just storyline specific. I dare say this is the most customizable Assassins Creed game that was ever made.

[Critical Kills]

New front runner for game of the year, i'm early but wow, its amazing

[Gotmadskillzson]

56 hours in and I'm only a level 34. Have a long way to go considering some of these people I need to go after are level 49. Definitely Gamer of The Year worthy. Also definitely the best Assassins Creed in the entire series, yes even better than Black Flag. Unlike other games in the series, this game slow rolls out the plot. You think you have it figured out and who is who and than a few hours later, you find out you were wrong.

For example.

Spoiler

I just now came across my first templar and he is a level 35 and I was 55 hours in when I finally came across one. You come across dozens of different kind of enemies but they aren't templars, they are just rival clans, rogue ronin and rogue shinobi.

Also love the fact there are a wide variety of weapons Yasuke and Naoe can use. They really do have something for every play style you can imagine.