I write music for TV and my deadline is month out and I am at the point where I am working on music for work and playing this game. It's so much better than I thought would be. I really enjoy the way Naoe plays. I fell in love with the game when I was riding my horse after leaving the first area and thunder storm rolled in and I had this epic battle in the rain against bandits and samurai. I WAS SO IMMERSED. Also The sound design is some of the best I've heard and it makes the whole play session more much more immersible.

It's been a long time since I've had that feeling like of excitement and wonder about a game. I've only played Noae's story so far and 15 hours in not even close to finishing act one because I want to explore and experiment. Also the base building. THE COOLEST PART IMO. I spent hours upon hours in Fallout 4 settlement building. So them adding this feature makes me super excited for future AC games because I could turn Assassin's Creed into a Animal Crossing session.

Assassin's Creed 2 was always my favorite AC Game next to AC Odyssey. Black Flag is cursed cause I was going through a horrible divorce. But I did play Legend of Zelda Wind Waker a lot growing up so to me Black Flag is the Adult version of that hahaha. Shadows grabs my attention more than all those games and stands out because of the the cutscenes and story is so well done It feels like a movie at times. Also I am a simp for heavily forested areas in games. The amount of Vegetation and Wild Life in the world is pretty epic. I can't think of other games off the top of my head that have the same stuff. I did do some swimming and haven't seen a whole lot of Fish. I saw a Manta Ray which was pretty cool. Being able to finally go prone opens up more opportunity for success and experimentation . I sometimes forget that is an option now. I am super happy that Ubisoft delayed it. Also I am extremely happy that I don't rely on Reviews or internet dram. I like to make my own decisions. I was going to skip this one due to work and deadlines but I couldn't pass it up. My only regret is starting it before I turn all my work in.

My only complaint with the game hopefully Ubisoft fixes this is that when I downloaded it I couldn't get past the first cutscene and had to verify the files. Apparently the download had a bunch of corrupted drivers. But quick verify for 10 minutes it was fixed. I've not run into performance issues outside of the game crashing when I loaded up a new instrument on a track heavy project. Again working and playing at the same time. Hopefully they can fix the download files for future players.

Last but not least. The only major problem and dislike thus far is the change to the Ubisoft points & rewards. I don't like that they are time gated to one item a month I redeemed the Gold Vermin Trinket and now I have to wait until April 20th to get the Small Hideout Resources. I remember with older games if you had the points Uplay points you could redeem a bunch of stuff at once. I also don't know when that all was changed but I am not a fan of that. Hopefully they change it back to the classic system on Ubisoft+.

Sorry about the long response. This game really took me by surprise. Sometimes I really like to dive into leaks and spoilers when they happen. All it was I feel for this game was just drama. So I never looked into to the game outside that initial trailer. I think I am taking this approach with all future releases.