why i HATE Assassins Creed Shadows

So Assassin's Creed Shadows has been out

for a bit now, and I thought I'd make a

video, a review, about why I find this

game really annoying and I kind of hate

it. So one of the main parts of the game

has to be the castles. So you've got all

of the cool castles like Osaka Castle,

Abakasaki Castle, and they are pretty cool

to look at, and I thought they were

interesting to explore at first until you

realize they're basically just this little

minigame where You gotta kill the Daishos,

the Samurai Daishos, and to get the top

loot at the top of the castle, you'll kill

all 5 or 3 of the Daishos. And I've been

running around this castle now for hours

and I cannot find the last Daisho.

And there's no way— I mean, you can put on

the tracking view like this,

it doesn't really help because I can't see

anything because everything's already dead

already. Maybe that's him over there.

Is that him? There's no way that's

actually him. I've been looking for this

guy for hours. It's just really annoying.

I wish they would just show you where they

are highlighted a bit better. And then the

combat is basically just spam attacks on

them, try and dodge their attacks, and

then they'll block and they'll do some

heavy attacks like that. The combat is a

bit bland, boring, and lacking in a

certain kind of luster.

Not really quite up to the standards of

previous Assassin's Creed games, and

that's saying a lot coming from someone

who plays a lot of Assassin's Creed games.

So that wasn't even a dice show.

So look at this. You go around the castle

perimeter looking for the Daisho so you

can get the loot. And the weather— I don't

know why the weather is always raining all

the time. Look, these guys, you can't even

assassinate them a lot of the time, which

is really annoying.

And they block way too much. It's hard

to just shred your way through enemies

because they keep blocking, which is kind

of stupid and annoying. And then before

you know it, you get surrounded.

And yeah, this is basically

what the combat's like. You just keep

spamming attacks.

It's really hard to see what's going on

sometimes.

Oh, he nearly got me. And then this guy—

I've got no health.

So this is basically— you go backwards and

forwards, charge up a heavy attack,

a special attack,

and then spam a bunch of light attacks.

And that is basically the combat. The

combat's very shallow. And then hopefully

you get a ration. No rations, okay.

And then you're just going around these

castles.

Sometimes the climbing can be really

annoying, like getting on this ladder. I

don't know why this is so hard. The

pathfinding for the jumping and stuff like

that is really not great a lot of the

time. And then you got this tower

and you keep getting stuck on— there's so

much crap everywhere, like boxes and

crates and this and that.

And yeah, where even is the Daisho guy?

There's like a shrine thing.

Is that an enemy? No. Says 4 out of

5 Daishos killed. Okay, so where is the

5th Daisho? Maybe up there. That's a

level 8 guy. I don't know why they make

this so frustrating to do. And also, I

don't know why you can't climb up trees.

I don't know if this tree is climbable or

not. In previous Assassin's Creed games,

you could climb up every tree.

Look, she just won't move anymore. Are you

gonna climb it? No. That looks like an

easily climbable tree that would go over

onto the wall. Why isn't she climbing it?

It's just really annoying.

You would think you could climb this.

Nope, she just does a little

backflip off it. Okay, so I can't climb up

that tree.

Kill these guys. It always seems to be

nighttime. I don't know why.

I feel like it's nighttime or raining more

than it's not. So maybe the dice shows

this place.

Oh, what? Oh, I did assassinate him.

Yeah, I just— I don't know,

sometimes the combat can feel quite good

and then sometimes it just feels really

janky. And then this thing where you got

to try and find the Daisho is really

annoying.

Like, why can't I just assassinate them

from up here?

And also the finishing animations get a

bit annoying sometimes. Like, okay, I've

killed the guy, can I just skip the

animation of her doing the finishing move?

Because I've seen it 100 times already.

The first 5 times were cool, then it Gets

a bit repetitive. Maybe the Daisho's

there.

No. Also, the leveling

system's weird where you can kill so many

enemies and you still don't level up.

And then you got all this gear that you

can't use because you're not the right

So there's no enemies— oh, there's an

enemy.

Still no Daisho guy.

I feel like I'm not gonna find this guy.

I really think they should— also the

moats, really annoying. Trying to

get into the castle can be so annoying.

Then also pressing this special view thing

is really annoying because for some reason

it doesn't work when you're sprinting,

and then when you turn it on it stops you

from sprinting, and then when you sprint

again it turns off. So it's not great when

you're trying to find something quickly.

Yeah, this Daisho thing, I don't know, I

feel like I'm gonna have to give up

because I can't— I've run around the

castle 100 times.

Really annoying.