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Top 5 Hidden Features in Assassin’s Creed Shadows You Must Try!

2025-03-31 · 8 min

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  1. Uh, hello, welcome back to a new

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  2. Assassin's Creed Shadows video. So today

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  3. we're going to be talking about some

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  4. beginner tips that you might not know if

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  5. you've just started the game, things that

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  6. help you in the beginning of the game that

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  7. you might not know about. So tip number 1,

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  8. castles are a great place in Assassin's

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  9. Creed Shadows to get some great loot, get

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  10. some XP. There's loads of enemies in

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  11. there, and if you get to the top of the

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  12. castle, you unlock a fast travel place

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  13. where you can perch and see a great view.

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  14. So if we go to the fast travel area, you

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  15. can see what I'm talking about. So all you

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  16. have to do is fight your way or just climb

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  17. your way to the top of the castle. And

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  18. Osaka Castle is pretty impressive. As

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  19. someone who's been there multiple times in

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  20. real life, it does look pretty cool. So as

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  21. you can see, we're on top of Osaka Castle.

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  22. You get this amazing panoramic vista of

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  23. the bay, Osaka Bay, And you can see the

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  24. village and the town getting built. So if

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  25. you go down into the castle, there's

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  26. actually, as you can see, there's quite a

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  27. lot of loot boxes in the castle. Now you

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  28. can choose to sneak in there using

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  29. stealth, or you can just brute force your

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  30. way into the castle. It's really up to

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  31. you. As you can see at the top of the

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  32. castle, you get this red chest which will

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  33. give you some pretty damn good loot if you

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  34. defeat all of the Samurai Daisho. So

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  35. Samurai Daisho can be found around the

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  36. castle, and all you have to do is defeat

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  37. all of them and then you'll get access to

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  38. the top floor loot. There are many enemies

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  39. within the castle, and as you can see, as

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  40. you can see, the enemies are pretty

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  41. formidable inside of the castle. So yeah,

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  42. you want to be careful inside of the

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  43. castle because there can be a lot of

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  44. enemies. You can easily get overwhelmed,

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  45. and you really want to be on your best,

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  46. your best performance here.

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  47. Sometimes in the game, using stealth will

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  48. be your best bet. Hide around walls and

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  49. corners and catch enemies off guard like

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  50. that, and you can easily dispose of them

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  51. very easily. Also, use your

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  52. environments to your advantage when

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  53. fighting the enemies. Enemies like this

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  54. can do a lot of damage if you

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  55. are not careful. Like that.

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  56. But if you use tactics and

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  57. blocking and rolling at

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  58. the right moments, you'll be able to

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  59. overcome most of the enemies in the game.

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  60. Holy fuck.

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  61. Or just throw a kunai at them. Wow, he was

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  62. really tough.

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  63. Another cool little trick is if you want

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  64. to distract enemies or lure them over to

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  65. you, you can press down on the D-pad to do

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  66. a whistle, and that will grab them— grab

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  67. their attention over to you. And you can

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  68. do things like sneaking around like that

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  69. to catch them off guard.

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  70. Oh,

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  71. is he

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  72. holding a— was he like holding a wooden

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  73. fan to hit me with? Well, this guy's

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  74. tough. The hell?

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  75. What? You can get many different weapons

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  76. in the game depending on the character.

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  77. So for the Naoe character, you'll mainly

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  78. get the swords. So you have all these

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  79. swords available to you. As you can see by

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  80. the stats, uh, you have different stats

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  81. like weapon DPS, ability damage,

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  82. adrenaline gain. It all depends on your

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  83. playstyle. Do you like doing abilities?

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  84. Do you like doing main weapon damage? You

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  85. pick weapon based on what you like to do.

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  86. You can also get different hats.

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  87. So for example, I've got this headband and

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  88. I've got this hood and I've got this

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  89. peasant hat and a hood. So the headband

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  90. gives you more health, so that's pretty

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  91. good. Make sure you check your gear

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  92. because they have attributes. So this one

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  93. has 51 health and this one has 55, this

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  94. one has 54, this one 41, 46. So this one's

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  95. obviously got more health. You can

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  96. also

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  97. equip it, and you can also

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  98. have this one. You can have a trinket.

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  99. This gives you 10% damage per unused

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  100. ability slot. And yeah, so you've got

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  101. different trinkets. And what else can you

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  102. do? You can also make her naked

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  103. for some reason and see her sexy

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  104. underwear. She's basically just wearing a

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  105. loincloth. Didn't they have underwear back

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  106. in those days? It's literally just a piece

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  107. of cloth clipped together and wrapped

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  108. around her bits. Okay, I'll put the

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  109. shinobi robes back on. Oh no, I was using

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  110. the Warrior Kusode.

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  111. Oh, this one's better. Shinobi robes.

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  112. Yeah, so yeah, that's a good tip to have

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  113. in case you need to fight enemies that are

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  114. really strong. And you can jump from

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  115. platform to platform like that, and you

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  116. can like sneak up on enemies like this

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  117. and, uh, go up here.

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  118. And then if you go prone, uh,

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  119. when you see a little silver shadow, it

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  120. means they can't find you anymore. And

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  121. then you can sneak up on him. The AI

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  122. luckily is really stupid,

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  123. like they can obviously see you but they

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  124. for some reason don't see you. Wheel,

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  125. wheel! Another really useful tip is you

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  126. can go into the mastery part and you can

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  127. find different skills in the Tantray. So

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  128. in the beginning you've got these 2 which

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  129. are pretty good, like Dodge Attack and

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  130. Tidal Wave. Tidal Wave's pretty cool, and

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  131. you got tools like Smoke Bomb.

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  132. Oh, I can get it now. And yeah,

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  133. you need mastery points to get those, and

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  134. then you can do cool stuff like ninja

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  135. stuff. And what's this guy doing?

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  136. Oh, he saw me. Whoops.

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  137. He's gonna come up here. Where is he?

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  138. And also these red barrels, they explode

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  139. if you throw something at them.

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  140. So if you hold trigger and press Y, you do

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  141. the special attack. Which is very

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  142. damaging, and you can destroy enemies like

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  143. that effortlessly. So easy.

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  144. And then you can also loot these boxes.

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  145. Uh, oh, I got a Flora and Fauna wall

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  146. decoration. Oh fuck, is that going

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  147. to explode? For some reason—

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  148. oh yeah, so if you, if you hit the

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  149. explosive barrels with your sword, they

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  150. will explode and you'll die. But really,

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  151. one of the coolest things to do when

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  152. multiplying enemy attacks, multiple

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  153. enemies, you can do assassinate like that

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  154. and then run into the bush like that.

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  155. They won't even be able to find you

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  156. because the AI is so dumb.

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  157. But he's just shooting at the tree now.

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