While it’s not quite as good as Ubisoft's roast of the world’s most pathetic man, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is still a fun time. Clearing out castles as a neck-slitting shinobi is bloody brilliant now that this series, just 300 games in, has finally figured out how to let you smoothly climb down a building. What a nice change from throwing you in a random direction and alerting every guard within fifty miles.
Shadows has also beautifully recreated 16th century Japan at an astonishing level of detail. And then, because this is Ubisoft, it's put glowing floating orbs in all the important places. Scan one of those orbs and it’ll unlock a page in your codex which tells you more about the history of said place. Nice idea! But goodness me, look at the utter state of this:
