Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Taking a break and going to Arkham City (And 100% the base story) was definitely worth it.i think i was starting to get burnt out a little. Ubisoft made a fun game, but it’s way to big for it’s own good.
I did a quest where i had to rescue kidnapped Envoys. Having been playing a bit of Arkham lately i instinctively found myself trying to block and stuff with it’s control scheme. It took me a minute to get the hang of it again. The moment i loaded my save i entered a fight and was basically flopping around like a fish trying to remember how to dodge.
After rescuing the Envoy i had to recover a letter for peace talks. It took me up through the mountains and i got to look at all the pretty trees and see some lovely sights.
The letter ended up being taken to a castle which i had to break into to grab it. The NPC who gave me the objective told me to approach from the south but i had some issues getting up too the wall.
I luckily was able to scale the cliff faces with a bit of luck and scaled the outer wall. While i was in there i grabbed the synchronization point and took out a few of the samurai.
The letter ended up being guarded by these two guards. I stood there for a bit hoping there pattern would change but i guess they have no patrol route and just stand there 24/7. So instead what i did was stab one and make a break for the outer wall and hung off of it to hide. Once i was free i took the other guy out and grabbed the letter.
The Quest ended with me having to take the letter to this temple where the lady who needed it was waiting for me. While fast traveling to it the Season changed to winter, which gives me the opportunity too get some good photos and also grab a legendary Sumi-e i need.
Ghost of Tsushima is not quite as big as more recent Ubisoft games, though. Valhalla was just a stupidly large game with not much meaningful content in it. Just big for the sake of being big.
I heard that Shadows was supposed to be a bit smaller, but guessing they still don’t know how to really pare down the scale to match the content.