Assassins Creed Shadows

Obu actually was an ally of the Brotherhood instead of the Templars. It only ended when a Sword of Eden corrupted him. Curious to see if they’ll follow this lore or retcon it.

Rino @rinothebouncer
Assassin’s Creed Shadows will have Naoe and Yasuke get into different romantic and non-romantic relationships with various types of people, and people will feel differently about each of them🚀

I hope they are optional. The way this is worded worries me that we’ll be forced into relationships.

Well, you'd hope that after the flack they took from Odyssey, they'd have learned their lesson...

I guess I have been playing Assassin's Creed too long, for all of the things they are talking about to try and get people interested in Shadows I have a reaction of "you did that in Assassin's Creed 'x'"

Dunno. There was always a push for AC content set in historical Japan, but... after Ghost of Tsushima? And the goofy writing in modern Assassin's Creed games? What exactly is the point?

Honestly, I feel like Ghost of Tsushima is terribly overrated and shouldn't dissuade anyone from taking their own crack at it. GoTs is set hundreds of years earlier, anyway. Other than "Japan", they shouldn't have much at all in common. Even with the loose interpretions of historical events and Isu stuff thrown in, Ubisoft will give us a much more accurate, immersive experience. GoTs was a mess, in terms of historical fidelity, full of anachronisms.

It also was full of the things for which Ubi used to get criticized: horribly repetitive tasks (duel after duel after duel), samey-same locations (shrine after shrine), huge open world without the content to justify it, etc... I have my gripes with Assassin's Creed, but they've resolved many of those issues in recent entries. GoTs lost me early in Act 3. I generally love long games, but I was very ready for it to end long before it did. I also replay my games for years, investing thousands of hours. I could never make myself revisit GoTs. It was a big disappointment for me.

Ubi missed the ship for Japan completely. Too bad as I was looking forward to a AC Japan but I'm not getting this game. Nor any more titles from Ubi. Valhalla is the last of the AC titles.

I would put my AC experience as interesting and enjoyable through the years, since 2007 with AC I. Right up to Odyssey where the combat and game world is what I thoroughly enjoyed. And Kassandra of course.  Valhalla is a disappointment even though I did enjoy some aspects of the game. What I'm seeing of Ubisoft with Mirage, with Shadows along with the SW title isn't promising nor interesting. Time for me to move on.

Neither AC nor GoTs tries to adhere to history with their stories. The background of Assassin's Creed, the worlds, are incredibly detailed and faithful to history. They feel vibrant and alive. You can see people going about their lives in an historically accurate backdrop doing the things as we understand them to have been done. In comparison, GoTs was simply empty. The only thing to be encountered were roving Mongols, Inari Shrines, and Hot Springs. It was such a lifeless world. I can't comprehend how anyone could find GoTs even a fraction as varied as any AC game in years. GoTs had only a handful of activities on repeat for way too many hours.

There were things I did appreciate about GoTs. Jin was a likeable protagonist, and the major NPCs felt like realistic persons with their own goals and place in the world. The game completely dispensed with BS fetch quests and was built entirely around meaningful plots. Its combat was fun, until it got monotonous. The main storylines were good, just dragged out across far too many hours.

Ghost felt like playing a hazy dream, or something. The fuzzy, stylized visuals, combined with a completely anachronistic idea of Japan and a very, very empty world to just put me to sleep. It wasn't immediate. I was really into it, at first. It just got progressively more stale as I played out the same gameplay loop for hour after hour. The end of Act 2 breathed some life back into things, but then Act 3 just suffocated that ember.

I assume Ghost will get a sequel. I hope they will focus on creating a more meaningful, believable world. I'd like a world with more people, crisper visuals, and less unnecessary roaming. Given my opinions of the first game, which I find only mediocre, I'd really need to be convinced to invest more time or money into a sequel.

Ubisoft Forward
Monday, June 10 at 12PM PDT / 9PM CEST

Since Naoe received her hidden blade from her father, it would seem that these Iga clans were the Assassin Brotherhood. Nobunaga may essentially wipe out the Brotherhood. Naoe and Yasuke are the two "Shadows", and likely the future of a revived Brotherhood.

If someone were willing to dig through the Assassin's Creed thread on this forum, they could probably find the years old post in which I laid out this game's basic premise: the Brotherhood in Iga Ikki, the Sengoku Period, etc... 😄