Mainly quoting this so the video will show up in the thread again but relative to that,
I just watched Mortismal's review. He is absolutely one of the most positive, non-political reviewers on Youtube and rarely rates anything worse than a "wait for a sale" but he gave Shadows a straight "not recommended". For reference, he liked Starfield and Veilguard well enough.
Two elements he seemed to dislike a lot in Shadows were the pay-to-progress micro-transactions and the melee combat of the samurai path. He said that Yasuke was basically an unstoppable killing machine and the combat was boring. He also disliked that most of the "rpg" elements were pretty much meaningless. To be fair, he had a ton of technical issues with the review build, which might have been fixed with the first patch.
It really sounds like Ubisoft tried to cram a bunch of stuff into the game that just made it feel watered-down instead.
Last edited by Bandorr - on 22 March 2025
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