A few weeks back I wrote some very positive things about Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and so it should be of little surprise given the series’ contentious, recent past that
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Assassin's Creed Shadows is gorgeous, but does it succeed in the narrative it’s trying to tell? And how does it balance historical accuracy with having a good time? On the latest episode of Aftermath Hours, we talk about it.
In Assassin's Creed Shadows nature is, for lack of a better word, dense. This is not just a problem that games set in Japan have; it’s a problem that open world games set in nature have on the whole. Forests do not feel like forests, they feel like video game forests.
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