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Assassin’s Creed Shadows review - new ideas drowned in repetition and flat drama
There’s a good idea at the core of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. It stars a pair of main characters, the samurai Yasuke and ninja Naoe, who not only play differently from one another but also represent the series’ distant and more recent past. Yasuke, who arrives in Japan during the game’s introduction as an African-born slave to Portuguese traders, is best suited to direct combat, slashing at enemies with a long katana and crashing through doors at a sprint. His movement and combat style are reminiscent of the bruisers featured in more recent Assassin’s Creed entries, like 2020’s Valhalla and 2018’s Odyssey. Naoe, on the other hand, is a more direct heir to the sneakier, fragile protagonists of the first Assassin’s Creed games from the late ‘00s and early 2010s. She’s adept at quietly slitting throats, scrambling up walls, and slipping away from confrontation in the billows of a tossed smoke bomb. Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Shadows review - new ideas drowned in repetition and flat drama MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RPGs on PC, Best stealth games, Assassin’s Creed Shadows release date
There’s a good idea at the core of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. It stars a pair of main characters, the samurai Yasuke and ninja Naoe, who not only play differently from one another but also represent the series’ distant and more recent past. Yasuke, who arrives in Japan during the game’s introduction as an African-born slave to Portuguese traders, is best suited to direct combat, slashing at enemies with a long katana and crashing through doors at a sprint. His movement and combat style are reminiscent of the bruisers featured in more recent Assassin’s Creed entries, like 2020’s Valhalla and 2018’s Odyssey. Naoe, on the other hand, is a more direct heir to the sneakier, fragile protagonists of the first Assassin’s Creed games from the late ‘00s and early 2010s. She’s adept at quietly slitting throats, scrambling up walls, and slipping away from confrontation in the billows of a tossed smoke bomb.
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