Could be a game where Quality mode is usable for some. Performance mode looks terrible. Def be using Balanced mode I'd reckon. 40-45 frames is perfect imo. 

Okay. Many more influencers watched out of curiosity and I think we hit a case of access media on the aggregate. Even DreamCast guy says it's average. Could be a FF7 situation, average but not bad but far from great or even good. Below is the best review I've seen that sums up everyone else's thoughts in less words. All that's left is the public and it's gonna be hard to judge cause of the anti woke army. 

Thinking on it now, the difference between the Youtubers and all the bad stuff mentioned by them but not in those 9/10 written reviews I'm convinced they were given financial incentive or were coming out to save Ubisoft. The 10/10 from VGC is very clearly lying now. I remember him mentioning it as the biggest Assassin's creed ever but from everyone else praises as a positive that it isn't even half the size of Valhalla and many people say they dialed back all the markers as a good thing but went too far and left the world feeling empty, I think he was the same one that said it is immaculately researched. That must have been what they were using the delay tike to clean up. Gonna leave it up to the public to break thar sentence apart. Fuck access media, we have such a big problem in this industry and Opencritic and Mrtaceitic need to hold these sites to it and remove their allowance to be apart of the aggregate. ACG said he felt the game was punishing him the first dozen hours, as so many else have said the game is bad for the first 12 to 14 hours so I now believe now this isn't going to have legs, def an FF16 situation. The fans will buy on and then noone else will follow them.

Also, watched some dialogue and it is terrible, it almost feels racist that they put on Japanese accents which is ACs thing but they speak like they are still learning English but struggling to do so which makes it feel like sterotypical mockery. It actually might be racist tbh. Whatever the case it is horrendous on all levels, very flat phoned in with zero enthusiasm. Something not largely mentioned by written reviews. 

I knew it. They were all playing on PRO. Even the Youtubers. 😩 The game looks terrible, worst than a ps4 game. 

Steam DB charts paint an OK picture, not great.

It was blatantly obvious access journalism would rear its ugly head again. For whatever reason some gamer's hold IGN, Eurogamer or whoever to high regard. 

Looks like it's selling well but not many have had the chance to get to their purchase yet. 40k on Steam right now and climbing but then falling anfd climbing and falling. Interested to see where this goes, every time it seems to gain some players it drops off again. Europeans should be getting on now and boosting those numbers.

I've watched a bit of the reviews from Fextralife and Skill Up and it really just sounds like more of what you'd expect from Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed. At least, relative to the shinobi character. The samurai path sounds like a dud, since it drops all the things that people typically like about Assassin's Creed games.

Interesting decision from Ubisoft to have a main character route where you play the game from the standpoint of a warrior. They probably wanted to cash in on the Souls trend but trying to expand your audience often lowers the quality when you mash everything together. Reviews would probably have been more positive if they'd concentrated on the shinobi, both from a gameplay and a story perspective.

Honestly, the game sounds like a chore to get through, with the story seemingly trudging along in typical Ubisoft fashion where nothing interesting actually happens until it reaches the final chapter. They really need to look at how their open world games are structured and try something new.

Zero interest in it, the last AC game I bought and played for real was Odyssey. I liked it, but then Valhalla was the exact same, and Odyssey was already very similar to Origins. The series has lost its flair and meaning for me, much like Far Cry and most other Ubisoft franchises. Ubisoft as a whole are in dire need of a massive re-invention if they want to remain relevant. PC sales of Shadows aren't looking all that hit right now, if SteamDB is anything to go by. It needs to more or less double its player-count to even beach the Top 10 most played right now.