This video is really different to my usual (I like to think) polished content, as I only had a couple days to make it, alongside working full time. But I really wanted to share as much with you guys as possible, so you can truly see what the gameplay is like rather than other videos that’ll only show the best bits. Saying that, I am thoroughly impressed with the game. It’s graphically incredible, the story is well written with some terrific voice acting and cutscenes, and the combat mechanics in particular are amazing. Naoe feels like the perfect Assassin. Nimble, lightweight, quick, artsy with her movements, but also great at combat too. I genuinely can’t wait to start playing it properly. But what do you think?!
I noticed that the old duck and cover around walls and such was a mechanic that I haven't seen since a few Assassin's Creeds back. Origins I think may have had it... but I know anything after Black Flag... and Unity and maybe Odyssey had it, which I really liked the in game Assassin's mechanics in Odyssey. I just was surprised that Mirage didn't have the game mechanic... which they nearly brought back old mechanics that were from the Original first few Assassin's Creed games.
@@utkarshvishwakarma3590 I believe the content creators were only allowed to play the game on January 19th, so this gameplay would be the current state of the game (which looks awesome btw)
I can’t wait I’ve already pre-ordered. Naoe is the character I’ve been wanting to play as for years. I love her design, her animation, her speed. Love it.
Same! I'm a bit disappointed by the parkour but oh well, only so much you can do with a big open world in comparison to a small city like the old games or mirage... Still hope they add side and back ejects until release but let's see. But it looks at least serviceable. Stealth looks solid and fun, which is the most important part for me. And it looks like it captures the Shinobi fantasy, which is what I'm looking for.
Looks pretty good. I’m less impressed than I was with Mirage but it’s certainly a game I will absolutely enjoy. I like how they did a lot more to make it an Assassin’s Creed game after Mirage showed how much we missed it. I also like the dual protagonists, one for the stealth fans and one for the combat fans seems like a good choice. I wonder how the story turns out, but I think there’s great potential.
this looks amazing overall, the developers really reaching the peak of there limits with these delays man, Also I'm pretty glad they brought back the climbing tools, haven't seen them since syndicate so I'm excited for that. Hoping they have poisons though.
This is a great video, and the game looks amazing. But honestly this awesome video is worrying me because I’m seeing 90% combat and like 10% stealth. I want to take out an entire camp silently without anyone knowing I was there. I don’t see that happening in this game. I’m hoping I’m very wrong because I preordered this a long time ago because I was so excited for it.
Thanks dude. And in all honesty, the reason it’s largely combat is because I was still finding my feet with it. I had a few moments of stealth, but then got spotted. But once I get my hands on the game, I’ll be an expert ninja I promise 😂
@ Ha ha! No, you be you, Bro. You were crushing it. I just suck at combat so that’s why I was hoping to see a lot of "ghost kills". Maybe, just maybe, if I hike the difficulty all the way down I’ll survive. But watching you play? No way I can do that. 🤣
This actually looks quite good in my opinion. I do wonder if it’s got the chops and longevity to engage you into the story like GoT did. One thing I didn’t like when watching is just how fast you can run.. but maybe they’ll change that 🤷♂️ Love the format of the vid though, nice work bud
Have you played dynasty warriors origins? I find it very fun when it comes to combat, especially with bosses/mini bosses. It gives the option for player to go agressive and provide moderate stagger long as you are able to counter their moveset attacks. I was hoping ac shadows can do the same without it stopping you from interrupting your flow of combat.
Good question; and my instinct is to say no, just judging on what we saw. To be fair though, I wasn't sure if there was even a hood on hood off button, so we'll have to wait for more info.
I love gaming, but there are a lot of whiny gamers within our hobby. People have been asking for a feudal Japanese Assassins Creed game forever, Ubisoft answers their call and people still bitch. I feel like if you’re not interested in a game, that’s fine, everyone has different tastes, but don’t 💩 on everyone else’s view of what they perceive as fun. To each their own!
i agree 100% too many radicalized politicized beta crybaby red pill anti woke grifters. they r offended by everything now!!! its pathetic! this game is fire!!!
Personally I'm just really annoyed by internet, everywhere I go there is this stupid woke vs anti woke war and everyone spams negative comments about everything, it's kinda depressing...
I've just come off your Yasuke video, and already I'm much more interested in playing as Naoe. As I had mentioned in my comment under that video, I prefer stealth and this is what I want to see. I am a little confused though, I know they split the fighting/stealthy play styles into each character, but seems you could fight just as well with Naoe despite her being more fragile? (Well, maybe you need a tad more practice ;p ) Doesn't seem like Yasuke serves a purpose now other than being a more tanky fighter? And the constant interruption asking which character you want to play as seems annoying. Price wise I think this will be a wait and see sort of thing, but I am interested. Thanks for the double videos!
I think most people will be more interested in Naoe, and I’d say yes, you can definitely fight as her in any scenario. But, and it’s not something I focused on in my Yasuke video, his Kanabo is crazy powerful. I do think overall you’ll find combat scenarios easy; and actually out of the two, I found his combat more enjoyable. (And yes, I was not proud of my combat in this 😂)
Judging from how the game is still 2 months away, id say buy it. If it looks this good now, imagine how good the finished product will be. I'm planning to pre order 😅
How could they? Hundreds of UA-camrs have been given access to this early, that’s all it is. No one (or not me anyway) has been paid. Plus I’m critical in the video too!
I been so hyped and a waited for so long for this game... After i watched several previews i just went on and canceled the Pre-Order my wife surprised me with. Yasuke really couldnt get a grappling hook ??? One of the main protagonists of an AC game cant climb is like selling a car without wheels... There been so many animation/clipping issues in this 1 hour video that i cant even time stamp every single one. This game would need minimum 5-6 months more work... Extremely repetitive combat animations too. I was expecting heads, arms and legs flying like in Valhalla. Samurai swords are pretty sharp... But no. It took Naoe 3 min to kill 1 Elite enemy with a SAMURAI SWORD !!! Talk about sponge enemies... I dont really like stealth personally. And i definitely dont like an open world adventure game what forces players to play a certain way in some situations because only 1 character can climb...
Really? Thats surprises me. Parkour in this game I honestly think isn’t going to be the biggest factor, it’s the combat/stealth and story which are going to be the highlights. Plus, you can literally always just play as Naoe. I also think the game looks and plays pretty great, I noticed very few visual glitches, and this will be an old model I was playing too, they still have a couple months to iron out the small bugs. And I really like Valhalla’s combat, and whilst similar, I think this is better. Much more challenging for one! I even think this is more brutal too, the amount of blood spurts is nuts! Each to their own, but I was really pleased with it.
@@IronsideGeorge Good for you. I wish you a lot of fun with it. 😉🤙 For me. It has everything i dont like. It is gorgeous for sure but i want an adventure game where i can freely play the way i want. Every single streamer said that thats not possible because Yasuke simply cant get to certain areas... I like the Odyssey approach... And when it comes to combat... I dont like Dark Souls so i dont see the point where you have to slice an enemy for 3 min straight ( thats how long it took for Naoe starting at 15:17 ) with a Samurai Sword to kill him. And to answer to what you wrote. : Why would i want to play as Naoe all the time ??? For me Yasuke was the main reason i wanted to buy this game for...
The non hand holding to find objectives is a big negative for me, i enjoy going from point A to point B with the option to explore along the way not just have no direction and get lost and frustrated only to end up looking at a walkthrough. The combat being challenging is a turn off unless there’s a custom settings option like in Valhalla to make the combat easier like letting us do more damage than easy mode I’m probably going to pass the rest of the game looks good but the combat being unplayable makes the game unplayable because I can already tell that I’ll get stuck in the prologue I hate that soulslike parrying dodging play style that this game seems to force you into doing against elite enemies.
@ I personally hate samurai in general from a historical perspective I’ll be exclusively playing Naoe unless the release English medieval knight armor and a great sword to transmog on yasuke but it’s looking like easy will still be to challenging I’m hoping for a Valhalla custom game mode so we can increase the damage dealt and reduce the damage taken beyond the regular difficulty limitations.
I mean, I would say it’s not too difficult? They’ll give you the region, compass direction and a hint - and that’s not every mission prompt obviously, just certain parts. Appreciate it’s not for everyone but I think the majority of gamers would prefer it. Same with the combat too, I prefer a challenge! I’d say as well, I played with each character really for maybe 90 mins each, if that. It probably isn’t as difficult as I made it out to be in the video, I was just finding my feet.
@@IronsideGeorge do you know if you were playing on guided mode or exploration mode? I saw on hidden ones vid that there will be a guided option when starting the game. When i play I never parry or guard so this combat will be highly difficult for me and my nonstop attack play style.
Thats one of the few comments I had to be fair; although I would say it's more lack of mouth movement than anything. Still two months to go, we might find that improve it.
Worse than valhalla enemy didn’t even react to some hit, looks very repetitive too no parry timing, just pure hit him until health fucking gone, this looks exactly like odyssey
bro u call all things woke. u anti woke moronic low iq people have become a meme. u call everything woke now even when it makes zero sense. u have made woke 1000% meaningless. woke is badass anyway, the last of us is woke and it’s one of the best freakin games of all time. i’d rather woke over u nauseating red pill anti woke grifter beta cucks any day of the week!. u crybabies r now offended by everything under the sun! everything offends u now. your like the new karen’s!
This video is really different to my usual (I like to think) polished content, as I only had a couple days to make it, alongside working full time.
But I really wanted to share as much with you guys as possible, so you can truly see what the gameplay is like rather than other videos that’ll only show the best bits.
Saying that, I am thoroughly impressed with the game. It’s graphically incredible, the story is well written with some terrific voice acting and cutscenes, and the combat mechanics in particular are amazing.
Naoe feels like the perfect Assassin. Nimble, lightweight, quick, artsy with her movements, but also great at combat too. I genuinely can’t wait to start playing it properly.
But what do you think?!
I noticed that the old duck and cover around walls and such was a mechanic that I haven't seen since a few Assassin's Creeds back. Origins I think may have had it... but I know anything after Black Flag... and Unity and maybe Odyssey had it, which I really liked the in game Assassin's mechanics in Odyssey. I just was surprised that Mirage didn't have the game mechanic... which they nearly brought back old mechanics that were from the Original first few Assassin's Creed games.
I will admit I was skeptical but this gameplay you got looks great! Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks dude! 🤙
That's actually November gameplay
@@utkarshvishwakarma3590 I believe the content creators were only allowed to play the game on January 19th, so this gameplay would be the current state of the game (which looks awesome btw)
@@jormdeworm No Luke said it was and earlier build. As a work in progress build of the game cannot be played
As a day one assassin creed fan this makes me happy
I can’t wait I’ve already pre-ordered. Naoe is the character I’ve been wanting to play as for years. I love her design, her animation, her speed. Love it.
Love to hear the positivity dude.
Same! I'm a bit disappointed by the parkour but oh well, only so much you can do with a big open world in comparison to a small city like the old games or mirage... Still hope they add side and back ejects until release but let's see. But it looks at least serviceable. Stealth looks solid and fun, which is the most important part for me. And it looks like it captures the Shinobi fantasy, which is what I'm looking for.
How to waste money 🤓☝️
@@Gigachadeditz69ratio
Same this looks like the perfect assassins creed
I think they actually worked really hard on this one. Now, only one problem remains: how repetitive things get after 15-20 hours.
So glad they took the time to perfect it I loved Valhalla so I’m excited for shadows
I think im in love with Naoe now
Fun fact this will be the first good open world ninja game in a way
Looks pretty good. I’m less impressed than I was with Mirage but it’s certainly a game I will absolutely enjoy. I like how they did a lot more to make it an Assassin’s Creed game after Mirage showed how much we missed it. I also like the dual protagonists, one for the stealth fans and one for the combat fans seems like a good choice. I wonder how the story turns out, but I think there’s great potential.
Honestly, the prologue was awesome. If it continues down that trend, we're on for a winner.
@@IronsideGeorgethat’s amazing to hear! 🙌
24:27 It looks like health regenerates on its own when combat is over, so you can save on medicine.
Nice spot.
Can’t wait to play this game!!!!
Me neither
this looks amazing overall, the developers really reaching the peak of there limits with these delays man, Also I'm pretty glad they brought back the climbing tools, haven't seen them since syndicate so I'm excited for that. Hoping they have poisons though.
13:06 Is there a transmog system for the outfits? I know Odyssey has one.
Not confirmed (I don't think), but I'd strongly imagine there will be. There has been in Valhalla.
Another creator I watched said it has a transmog system, can't remember which though, i watched to much videos lmao
Yes, it's been confirmed.
@ 😃
Very nice. Very unlike ubisoft to release a finished, high quality game.
2:37 this is so exact similar like ghost of tsuhima
No just a cliche
このゲームは直江だけだったら割と売れてた可能性はあるぐらいの完成度なんよ。
It will sell well. Valhalla got hated the most and broke every selling record of the franchise
This is a great video, and the game looks amazing. But honestly this awesome video is worrying me because I’m seeing 90% combat and like 10% stealth. I want to take out an entire camp silently without anyone knowing I was there. I don’t see that happening in this game. I’m hoping I’m very wrong because I preordered this a long time ago because I was so excited for it.
Thanks dude. And in all honesty, the reason it’s largely combat is because I was still finding my feet with it. I had a few moments of stealth, but then got spotted. But once I get my hands on the game, I’ll be an expert ninja I promise 😂
@ Ha ha! No, you be you, Bro. You were crushing it. I just suck at combat so that’s why I was hoping to see a lot of "ghost kills". Maybe, just maybe, if I hike the difficulty all the way down I’ll survive. But watching you play? No way I can do that. 🤣
Haha you’re kind - I think it’ll be a little bit of a learning curve compared with previous AC games, but we’ll all become pros soon enough
This actually looks quite good in my opinion. I do wonder if it’s got the chops and longevity to engage you into the story like GoT did.
One thing I didn’t like when watching is just how fast you can run.. but maybe they’ll change that 🤷♂️
Love the format of the vid though, nice work bud
give them a realistic, slow character, they complain. give them a fast shinobi character, they complain
Hey hey please leave with her running too fast. Majority of us love it that way
Didn’t ask
@@DeFrancisPlays don’t have to
Pre order?
March 18, 2025.
Have you played dynasty warriors origins? I find it very fun when it comes to combat, especially with bosses/mini bosses. It gives the option for player to go agressive and provide moderate stagger long as you are able to counter their moveset attacks. I was hoping ac shadows can do the same without it stopping you from interrupting your flow of combat.
I haven't, but I was crazy into Dynasty Warriors 4 when I was like 11. Literally killing thousands of enemies, was nuts!
Is there no hoods in cutscenes?
Good question; and my instinct is to say no, just judging on what we saw. To be fair though, I wasn't sure if there was even a hood on hood off button, so we'll have to wait for more info.
I love gaming, but there are a lot of whiny gamers within our hobby. People have been asking for a feudal Japanese Assassins Creed game forever, Ubisoft answers their call and people still bitch. I feel like if you’re not interested in a game, that’s fine, everyone has different tastes, but don’t 💩 on everyone else’s view of what they perceive as fun. To each their own!
Ikr? Those people aren't even gamers, they're professional haters😂
I honestly despise looking at comments on Twitter surrounding this game because it’s always soooo negative. Hoping the new footage will reduce that!
i agree 100% too many radicalized politicized beta crybaby red pill anti woke grifters. they r offended by everything now!!! its pathetic! this game is fire!!!
Personally I'm just really annoyed by internet, everywhere I go there is this stupid woke vs anti woke war and everyone spams negative comments about everything, it's kinda depressing...
Kinda hypocritical of you to claim people are whiny when they have valid reason to criticize and doubt ubisoft, yet saying "to each their own"
I've just come off your Yasuke video, and already I'm much more interested in playing as Naoe. As I had mentioned in my comment under that video, I prefer stealth and this is what I want to see.
I am a little confused though, I know they split the fighting/stealthy play styles into each character, but seems you could fight just as well with Naoe despite her being more fragile? (Well, maybe you need a tad more practice ;p ) Doesn't seem like Yasuke serves a purpose now other than being a more tanky fighter? And the constant interruption asking which character you want to play as seems annoying.
Price wise I think this will be a wait and see sort of thing, but I am interested. Thanks for the double videos!
I think most people will be more interested in Naoe, and I’d say yes, you can definitely fight as her in any scenario. But, and it’s not something I focused on in my Yasuke video, his Kanabo is crazy powerful. I do think overall you’ll find combat scenarios easy; and actually out of the two, I found his combat more enjoyable.
(And yes, I was not proud of my combat in this 😂)
looks great. not a fan of the whistling as imo makes the stealth a little too OP. but then again I have the option of not using the whistling.
Not heard that comment before, but fair play - and yes obviously you don't have to use it
Dont use it if you think it's OP
If just Ubisoft don't make a black samurai these has a potential to save the AC franchise
Naoe will be my main ninja build .........
I love naoe
They should release a demo if they want people to buy the game after it wasnt received well last year.
Broo! Shinobi spartan kick😙😏 31:37
26:36 the blood just dissappeared i wish the gore was done right
In almost every game the blood disappears after few seconds
Do you think i should get it when it comes out or wait for a deal
Honestly. I’m severely impressed. Obviously completely up to you, but I’ll be playing it day 1.
@IronsideGeorge thanks for the reply. Also nice vid. Games looks incredible but obviously costs a lot so I'm still unsure but thanks either way👍👍
At the end of the day, the decisions up to you. I'm getting it day 1.
That’s fair for sure, after a few months, like anything it’ll be on sale. Depends how much you think you’ll like it!
Judging from how the game is still 2 months away, id say buy it. If it looks this good now, imagine how good the finished product will be. I'm planning to pre order 😅
Wow the voices are TERRIBLE! Did you adjust the sound or is it just that bad?
I'm curious if playing in japanese dub will be better
Maybe in black n white too
I would actually say yes. My only instinct on saying that is that any anime you watch is always better in Japanese imo.
this is a poor mans ghost of tsushima
As a huge Ghost of Tsushima fan this looks great to me. You don't hate Devil May Cry if you're Ninja Gaiden fan.
BOOOOOOOO
nope. its another openworld masterpiece from ubir0x!
@@mohdsalmand1385exactly
1:18 no it’s not good
Hope nobody accuses you of being bought by Ubisoft
How could they? Hundreds of UA-camrs have been given access to this early, that’s all it is. No one (or not me anyway) has been paid. Plus I’m critical in the video too!
Ya apparently haters are dumb enough to think that everyone who says nice things about this game is paid by ubisoft 😂😂
They made the Asian more athletic than the African 😂😂
The voice sync is soooo off. They better fix rhat for release its like robots
People have to cry always lol
I been so hyped and a waited for so long for this game... After i watched several previews i just went on and canceled the Pre-Order my wife surprised me with. Yasuke really couldnt get a grappling hook ??? One of the main protagonists of an AC game cant climb is like selling a car without wheels... There been so many animation/clipping issues in this 1 hour video that i cant even time stamp every single one. This game would need minimum 5-6 months more work... Extremely repetitive combat animations too. I was expecting heads, arms and legs flying like in Valhalla. Samurai swords are pretty sharp... But no. It took Naoe 3 min to kill 1 Elite enemy with a SAMURAI SWORD !!! Talk about sponge enemies... I dont really like stealth personally. And i definitely dont like an open world adventure game what forces players to play a certain way in some situations because only 1 character can climb...
Really? Thats surprises me. Parkour in this game I honestly think isn’t going to be the biggest factor, it’s the combat/stealth and story which are going to be the highlights. Plus, you can literally always just play as Naoe.
I also think the game looks and plays pretty great, I noticed very few visual glitches, and this will be an old model I was playing too, they still have a couple months to iron out the small bugs.
And I really like Valhalla’s combat, and whilst similar, I think this is better. Much more challenging for one! I even think this is more brutal too, the amount of blood spurts is nuts!
Each to their own, but I was really pleased with it.
@@IronsideGeorge Good for you. I wish you a lot of fun with it. 😉🤙 For me. It has everything i dont like. It is gorgeous for sure but i want an adventure game where i can freely play the way i want. Every single streamer said that thats not possible because Yasuke simply cant get to certain areas... I like the Odyssey approach... And when it comes to combat... I dont like Dark Souls so i dont see the point where you have to slice an enemy for 3 min straight ( thats how long it took for Naoe starting at 15:17 ) with a Samurai Sword to kill him. And to answer to what you wrote. : Why would i want to play as Naoe all the time ??? For me Yasuke was the main reason i wanted to buy this game for...
The non hand holding to find objectives is a big negative for me, i enjoy going from point A to point B with the option to explore along the way not just have no direction and get lost and frustrated only to end up looking at a walkthrough. The combat being challenging is a turn off unless there’s a custom settings option like in Valhalla to make the combat easier like letting us do more damage than easy mode I’m probably going to pass the rest of the game looks good but the combat being unplayable makes the game unplayable because I can already tell that I’ll get stuck in the prologue I hate that soulslike parrying dodging play style that this game seems to force you into doing against elite enemies.
You could just play as yasuke on easy
@ I personally hate samurai in general from a historical perspective I’ll be exclusively playing Naoe unless the release English medieval knight armor and a great sword to transmog on yasuke but it’s looking like easy will still be to challenging I’m hoping for a Valhalla custom game mode so we can increase the damage dealt and reduce the damage taken beyond the regular difficulty limitations.
I mean, I would say it’s not too difficult? They’ll give you the region, compass direction and a hint - and that’s not every mission prompt obviously, just certain parts. Appreciate it’s not for everyone but I think the majority of gamers would prefer it.
Same with the combat too, I prefer a challenge! I’d say as well, I played with each character really for maybe 90 mins each, if that. It probably isn’t as difficult as I made it out to be in the video, I was just finding my feet.
@@IronsideGeorge do you know if you were playing on guided mode or exploration mode? I saw on hidden ones vid that there will be a guided option when starting the game. When i play I never parry or guard so this combat will be highly difficult for me and my nonstop attack play style.
I am actually totally unsure I’m afraid. I’d assume unguided because of the prompts within the game, but I couldn’t confirm
Such a shame that Shadows is not getting a PS4 release I sadly cannot afford a PS5.
I hope i change the language to Japanese
You can change it to whatever you like!
I hope I CAN change the language to Japanese *
Yes you can
Phantom Blade Zero has ruined games for me.
That game isn't out yet
no facial emotion compare to odessey
Thats one of the few comments I had to be fair; although I would say it's more lack of mouth movement than anything. Still two months to go, we might find that improve it.
the voice acting is shit
Bro combat animation still looks dogshit
You tripping dawg
bro your insane. animations r insane and badass. u people cry over everything!
Damn bro… what’s it like to get cooked the way you just did ?? I honestly want to know 😂
Fighting as a whole is still not the best, but I would say that animations are pretty good.
Worse than valhalla enemy didn’t even react to some hit, looks very repetitive too no parry timing, just pure hit him until health fucking gone, this looks exactly like odyssey
Yuck
Cope and seethe
copy and paste, They will never change and its full on woke
Did you watch the video? They’re so many new mechanics in this game we’ve never seen before.
Where is it woke ?
bro u call all things woke. u anti woke moronic low iq people have become a meme. u call everything woke now even when it makes zero sense. u have made woke 1000% meaningless. woke is badass anyway, the last of us is woke and it’s one of the best freakin games of all time. i’d rather woke over u nauseating red pill anti woke grifter beta cucks any day of the week!. u crybabies r now offended by everything under the sun! everything offends u now. your like the new karen’s!
@@JustxLiving909a woman and a black person is “woke” to these idiots , pay them no mind
@@JustxLiving909 no emotion facial expression sucks compare to odyysey