30YrdScreamer30yrdscreamer@mastodon.me.uk
Nov 3, 2026, 10:05 PM@stephaniepixie is it any good?
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stephaniepixie 🏳️🌈stephaniepixieNov 3, 2026, 10:16 PM@30yrdscreamer Is this a rhetorical question about the game I’ve been raving about for months? 😄
I love AC Shadows. My favourite edition of the AC franchise. It fits my style of playing games really well. A perfect balance of quiet nature time (including finding animals to paint), social interaction (chatting with allies at the hideout), being able to accessorize and design the layout of the hideout (one of my favourite parts of the game I can get lost in for hours), adopt adorable animals, fantastic climbing mechanics (has a mixture of the old rooftop parkour without compromising on open world - which is quite large and lets you go off-grid), excellent combat (if you like the Odyssey warrior style you can focus on Yasuke, but Naoe is more the classic assassin type shinobi), the best accessibility options I’ve seen in the franchise, great music, and improved horseback riding so it’s nearly on par with Red Dead Redemption 2.
I’m on my second play through and having just as much fun.
- 30YrdScreamer30yrdscreamer@mastodon.me.ukNov 11, 2026, 10:23 AM
@stephaniepixie your enthusiasm convinced me to buy the game. Just finished the first major boss fight and I'm enjoying it a lot so far.
Runs really smooth maxed out on my pc and looks gorgeous.👍
- stephaniepixie 🏳️🌈stephaniepixieNov 11, 2026, 5:51 PM
@30yrdscreamer It really is a beautiful game. I’m glad you like it. I play on console and I had been so used to Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Sims taking ages to load but I treated myself to a PS5 this year and games are so fast now I don’t have time for a snack 😄
I actually hate big boss style of fighter games and AC Odyssey had a lot of that and I still loved the game.
Shadows somehow doesn’t feel as big boss style even though there’s so many branches of clan bosses. I like that I can still sneak up on most of them and if there’s a lot of fighting I just use Yasuke.