It’s surprisingly hard to find things to do in AC Shadows’ empty world

In about 15 hours The killer’s profession shadowFinally, it was time that I was avoiding this journey. Earlier, six hours of gameplay, I opened the second game’s main character Yasuke, and saw the beautiful purpose on the screen that it had two goals that were linked to its statement, in Omi. Like many other Open World RPG, Shadow You encourage you to fully discover the areas that you quickly unlock, and I have spent a leisure time in killing and eliminating various enemies in the first two regions of the game: Ezomy Sittsu and Yamashiro. But as far as I can tell, I was mostly there, and was ready to travel that would eventually take me to some new parts of the game world.

This track was 3,000 meters away from my nearest fast travel point to OMI. OkayI thought. It would be enough trip, but I’m sure I would discover some things to communicate or discover on the way. I was very, very wrong, and ended with the end of my session, thinking that I have ever taken the game again.

All in the journey Shadow The sports of the game meet close to the real regions through but faulty faults as much as possible. The shortcut is almost impossible – too much standing to climb the hills, the forests are too thick. The environments are beautiful, but the paths to your destination are very limited, which takes a lot of fun to find. More importantly, the lack of ways to engage with the world around you, such as beautiful wildlife and feudal lords of Japan.

This is a difficult line, as the modern Open World RPG (which includes the killers’ credit franchise) has struggled with crowded maps, external mechanics and empty checklists. But it seems that Yubisoft here has made excessive correction here, especially for that reason Shadow It does not show any purpose on your map unless you know where it is. To find this, you usually have to spend one of your (quite limited) scouting resources, so you have to actively choose to choose what you want to pursue instead. And as much as I like the visual design of the object screen, there is no way to set the missions in terms of location, so it is very easy to lose whatever is closer to you. (Or if there are any things to work, somewhere, a journey of 3,000 meters).

On an hour -long journey near Omi, I encountered some random confrontation between soldiers and savage that I could choose to join, and a chance to paint the local wildlife. I didn’t engage with the former, because there was no story or mechanical reason to do so, but I benefited from the latter – this is one of the systems I like about the game. But it was, and he noticed the representative of my two biggest problems ShadowIn such a wider world, IT, it feels amazingly empty, and there are very few ways to communicate with the environment or the living things there. Painting is a good example, but there are very few examples of this in the world. The last thing that needs these games is more system, but thinking about how Red Dead Redemption 2 And Sushma’s past Dealing with making the world more interesting, I felt myself that I can do something like a catalog that I face all the plants and animals in my journey. It felt like a real journey, and not a slogan, and that I was really talking to the world that I was passing through.

Then I reached O’Me, and my frustration only increased. Yasuke’s missions served as an introduction to a character that I had already played for a long time, completed with a weapon lesson that I was using for hours. This is an astonishing decision, such as when you unlock these missions, you are nowhere to OMI, so it seems that many players will only plant lines there. I think these are the dangers of your own speed story that don’t want to be deceived by traveling.

All were told, at the end of my 3,000 -meter journey, the prize was about an hour of katisins and walk and talk missions, which are completed with three (three) different examples of seasons, and the lessons for things I already knew. (There’s another problem with Shadow: Two types of mission specifically “talk to this person so they can tell you to talk to another person” or “stick to the place and kill everyone there.”)

It’s OK if you are really gripped Shadow‘The statement, but I am not. I feel like I have seen more interesting versions of similar stories before (partially because the spread of this game makes the story a very fracture). At the end of the night, I noticed that I spent more than two hours playing ShadowAnd I felt as if I had found nothing but empty progress.

This problem is not unique to it Shadow; This is a lot of sports in the struggle for this genre. But a better way is possible – avowed Leaves you in the world and gameplay and keeps going without feeling you are full of time (playing Shadow After directly avowed The former did no favor), and I listen Atom Fall Very the same. I’m enjoying Shadow‘Stealth and fight, and when I am actually playing this, it’s a lot of fun. I wish I didn’t feel like I had to fight the game (or the number of hours in one day) just to reach these points Shadow It fulfills the promise of a game where you can switch to two uniformly but very different killers in search of bloody revenge in a beautiful environment.