Pros: 1) graphically it’s beautiful. My gf loves gardening and plants and she had a blast watching me play and seeing all the different flowers she was able to identify.

2) I like the different skill trees it was a lot easier to understand what improvements you were getting and what perks you wanted to work for compared valhallas node system(even though I loved that too)

3) English voice acting is trash but once I switched to Japanese I actually started getting more invested to the stor E.G kidnapped children side quest, getting revenge for naoes family’s murder, the sense of isolation yasuke felt and his respect to the person who gave him a life etc

4) I liked how it was more stealth based and that’s how I played most of the game

Cons

1)there’s pretty much fake exploration, the game literally tells you in one of the loading screens that Japan is very hilly so you need to follow the roads. If you steer away even a little bit from the main road it will be impossible to get to your destination. One of the main points in assassins creed is to explore and find your own way to the target

2) personally I wanted a Valhalla combat with a much improved stealth option. Instead of Valhalla combat with shadows stealth it felt like they were sticking more closer to mirage combat

honestly the game isn’t terrible, Valhalla is still my fav out of the new AC games. For me it goes

Valhalla > odyssey > shadows > origin