Perhaps the highest game in 2025 so far, Assassin’s Creed Shadows It was a main topic of the conversation between the gaming community. It has been released for a few weeks, so the conversation in the Slack channel we filmed here at Polygon to discuss the game has slowed down significantly (especially for some people in the team that have switched to other games to create a feverish post, such as Green Prince). Even so, I should probably know that I will not be able to ignore my latest advancement update into Slack without my colleagues to comment on it, interfering with the strange ways that I play video games.
“I ~ 26 o’clock last night, and me just now Unlock Yasuke, I wrote in the fourth morning.
The next topic has ended with 75 messages. The first response has come within two minutes from my original post, the courtesy of our editor, Pete Rol:
A real question: how
As inside, what did you spend your time? What does your target table look like?
These are good and valid questions, Pete! I wish I had a better answer outside my brain and if you see how I play this game, you will sleep for a few minutes and this is why I never ended the open world games.
For unknown people, Yasuke is one of the two main characters of Assassin’s Creed ShadowsBut apart from an introduction, you must not play like him until you finish the game’s first action. Now, if you are one Normal People, maybe you will reach that point for 10-12 hours or longer. Our instructions on Yasuke unlock allows it can lose some players as long as 20 hours. But longer than the entire Earth’s rotation on its axis? How is the animation possible?!
This is where I tell you that I am weird. I was easily distracted by shiny objects in games, which is a problem in open world experiences, because they are often designed to encourage exploration and investigation. I also love sneaky games, but they are often designed in a way that satisfies my worst global trend: if you let me participate in saving, I will use it to the maximum level.
Perhaps you can start understanding why an Assassin Creed game will be a quick consumer of my entertainment time. This is especially true this The Assassin Creed game, which I used to type the update after the Slack: now I am a person like 16 o’clock at AC Shadows and I have not decided if I really like this game. I was about to start the mission (legitimate)) in which Naoe participated in a tea ceremony, and the reason I took a lot of time to even receive there I simply didn’t care much about the story until that time – something that now was less right when I had unlocked Yasuke.
So far, I have almost missed Assassin’s Creed Shadows‘The main tasks are beneficial for exploring the feudal Japanese version and performing auxiliary activities like invading castles. The game took place around 1579, until the end of the Sengoku period, the period of wide civil war in which the prototype idea of a Japanese castle was born. They were set with a multi -race surrounded by yard, moat and residential buildings. IN Assassin’s Creed ShadowsThe base of any castle is full of guardians to fight, along with civilians who will scramble to warn their armed people if they see you.
I want you to understand, my dear reader – the reader is probably my normal person – the internal activity of my very special mind. Here is an approximation of my dispersed and hard approach to penetrate a castle like Naoe:
- I found a path across the exile.
- I removed one or two people, then moved to another position not far away. Rinse and repeat until all the enemies in a dead area, so I can collect all the boots there.
- AW, friend, I was discovered! Ok, ok, it’s good – I took them out before they could give an alarm. Now I have to look around for some health diets, though.
- HM, that building is not near anywhere, but [engages Eagle Vision] Ooh, there are two samurai and a loot in it? Certainly, I will go out for it!
- Sweet, I made it inside. Wait, it’s the last Samurai Daisho that I need to kill so I can unlock the bonus chest at the highest level of the castle? Damned … [goes back outside and pores over the castle grounds]
- [20 minutes later] Now I can finally collect my reward and go to the synchronization point at the top! The task has been completed!
Perhaps that doesn’t seem to be unusual for you. But you should know that I am also a compulsory saving program and because there is no Quicksave function even in the PC version of Windows Assassin’s Creed ShadowsSave my game is a process of many people. And that’s what I did about once, because I really hated any progress. As a result, a single castle can take an hour to complete. Is your skin crawling up to this crazy time?
Now I have deleted all the castles to realize that this process has not changed much from one place to another, so this element of the game is starting to lose its light to me, even though I still find that the hidden stealth experience brings satisfaction. I have the hope that taking the time to get acquainted with Yasuke, now I have unlocked him, will force me to escape my obsession with NaE’s stealthy mechanism – because he is simply he is not an assassin, or really an assassin – and breaks my bad habits. (I have no similar hope for the improved story, because my colleagues tell me that it is not more attractive from here onwards.)
But why hurry? Perhaps I will give up everything and visit virtual, try to create photos from my honeymoon in the game’s photo mode. Himeji CastleI came here …
