After finishing my 3rd playthrough of Black Flag, the difference in cutscene, dialogue and voice acting is NIGHT and DAY! Black flag’s character all feel like REAL people with meaningful dialogue. I think we took the masterful story telling and dialogue in early ACs for granted. The stealth however looks really good.

This is one of the gameplay breakdowns of all-time! Awesome to hear you're loving the stealth. That makes me more excited for it :)

Leave it to Leo to again have the best breakdown of what little information we have so far. Looking forward to when a larger variety of players get access to the demo to showcase what Shadows actually has to offer.

Might I also mention that CLOTH PHYSICS ARE FINALLY BACK!I I don't know why they weren't present in Valhalla but Jesus Christ was it immersion breaking when the game had worse physics than the Ezio trilogy and AC1.

Hit the nail on the head for your first point. I genuinely don’t know how Ubisoft can go from some of the best, well animated, choreographed and directed cutscenes to whatever ai generated boring stuff they have right now.

Excellent breakdown as always Leo! It is nice to finally see some more evolution in stealth for this series (hopefully these evolutions aren't abandoned in the next game) , although as you mentioned I do find it strange how there has been effectively no mention of social stealth. I do think another gameplay demo would be beneficial as I still find myself with a lot of questions that went unanswered.

Stealth looks like heavily Tenchu inspired with all the gaget related moves (Cling to ceiling, breath underwater...). Let's not forget that castles are said to be whole designed levels. So expect more indoor stealth, with hopefully, ways to crawl under the houses or go in secret passages.

The way my smile dropped when I saw Naoe doing the RPGCreed jump

So glad you agree with the acting thing too, i felt crazy complaining about it

12:45 The use for the bell is TBD. Jorraptor asked about them and was told by Ubi they couldn't reveal it yet. This makes me think it's something else, like recruit actions.

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Always great to see you post, interested to see how this game pans out

On an unrelated note… I remember playing Red dead 2 right. Hear me out, it was the pinnacle of sublime creations of art, nuance, immersion, & alluring experiences. That challenge your open minded view on other games, that aren’t necessarily in the same league as RDR2 or a God Of War. When my adrenaline reached its climax, subsequent to RDR2’s scintillating beauty gracing my optic nerves. I took a deep breath, allowed my adrenaline levels to simmer down, took a hard look in the mirror & said to myself “every game & genre is exhilarating, sublime in its own way if done right. It doesn’t have to realistically enchant you with every encounter & every nuanced detail like RDR2 for you to be immersed. After observing the dilemma I was in, I realized that there are games that lack the sophistication of RDR2, yet I appreciated the type of art depicted and stories told without comparing masterpieces such as RDR 2 to it. In other words, Ubisoft can put a gun to my head. I ain’t buying the game or its ridiculously priced editions until that hoe comes down to $20.

Very detailed analysis good work. Also huge thanks for making subtitles again they make me love channels so much more, which is great because yours is so exceptional

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Great video. I’m glad to see someone call out just how awful the cinematic presentation of these games has been for YEARS now. It’s genuinely embarrassing how long these games have felt absolutely sterile and lifeless in terms of scripts and performances. When Naoe said “I won’t be alone… I’ll be with the Shadows™️” I audibly groaned. On a more positive note, I remember expressing a few times in your streams my skepticism regarding Shadows being able to pull off light and shadow stealth in a dynamic open world. I’m glad to see that I seem to have been proven wrong in that regard. Stealth genuinely looks fun and it may be the most mechanically interesting and varied it’s been since the classics. Although, as the token social stealth guy, I can’t help but feel bitter that we’ve gone ANOTHER game without any kind of meaningful social stealth. However, I wonder if that visibility meter could be iterated upon and also implemented into visibility inside crowds. That would be pretty interesting. Shame about the parkour, although the environment could hardly support anything more advanced than Origins’ system, unfortunately. The combat also looks very stiff and simple, which as you said, is very unfortunate if they have an entire protagonist whose kit is JUST that one thing plus a gun. I hope to also see practical examples of how the seasons and dynamic weather impact stealth and AI. They promised a lot in that regard but have oddly opted not to show any of it, despite those things being probably the most unique ideas this series has had in a long time. I agree with your thoughts on the spy system and exploration. I hope future AC games continue to try to use diegetic means of communicating information to the player and encourage organic exploration rather than handholding the player through every single step of the way, as if Ubisoft thinks the average person sniffs glue for fun. This is a great change and I hope more AC games rely less and less on HUD and waypoints to tell you what to do.

I’ve never clicked on a video so fast. Thanks in advance Leo

Hi, I'm from Ubisoft's marketing team!!! Our development team at Ubisoft Quebec and our support studios around the world have been so hard at work these past four years crafting incredibly deep and impactful stealth systems that are affected by many systemic and handcrafted elements alike. In order to commemorate this achievement and show off their game to players properly, here is six minutes of Naoe climbing and performing basic assassinations. We also hope you enjoyed the few minutes of Yasuke slow walking through a village and conversating with an NPC before getting into a combat sequence beforehand. Please preorder and show your support. Thank you!!!

One thing I was hoping on Naoe's part was for them to show double or chain assassination and see the animation of it, because the chance is right there even if she only has one hidden blade.

Can Yasuke even parkour thought? Seems like he is such a beefcake strength build character.

Found your channel recently and I'm really enjoying it. Been looking forward to your thoughts on Shadows!

Very interesting commentary! The highlight for me was Yasuke petting a dog. Very cute dog

It's awesomely impressive how you pick up on things just by looking at them, man. Tons of people on Twitter kept asking what the down button prompt was and no one knew. You figured out the posture system and broke it down beautifully. Awesome work, brother. (It's M btw)

I really like how enemies who cant be assassinated are properly telegraphed to the player now and force u to switch up your strategy. They remind me of the minigun brute enemies in Arkham Knight. They cannot be taken out silently in the regular way so you are in encouraged to leave them till last to avoid drawing the attention of other enemies. However u can still take them out earlier if u are smart with your environment and gadgets. Hopefully shadows is similar in this regard and there are other ways of taking them out other than straight up combat.

The dynamic between the two protagonist was actually pretty good they seem they bounce off each other well.

Enjoying this running theme of you making the best AC breakdowns on KZfaq, on the point of hoping Yasuke has meaningful & challenging combat I whole heartedly agree, one thing I noticed is one guy is attacked mid unblockable (parry only) attack, & killed instantly because of it, so here’s hoping things like that will get rewarded this time around

thank s for this man, I've been waiting for your review

Hey leo, loved the video. Always love to see you taking a stab at new or old stealth games. THIS IS WHY I SUB!!!

can’t wait to watch this! u give the best takes in the community .. looking forward to this video & (from what we’ve seen so far) i’m kinda looking fwd to Shadows

very good breakdown, i havent noticed before many of these details you explained

great video something i noticed is when naoe is sneaking on enemies she extracts her hidden blade kind of similar to the older ac games so hopefully we can extract it whenever we want

As always, you give a very rational look at the situation. Love it!! As a hardcore stealth player and a hardcore ac fan, I am happy that the series is finally expanding in the stealth space, as the genre itself is a rarity to see in video games nowadays. I am so excited for 'Hide in Shadows' mechanic! I actually recreated this a while back in Unreal Engine. Quebec does some great design, but they always NOT deliver the AC feel, whether it's the story, the world, the visuals. That department is well handled by Montreal and now Bordeaux.

To this day ive considered AC1 as the best game in the series. Pretty much for everything. Parkour, combat, stealth, story, protagonist, antagonists, and modern day. Top of the top tiers. All that being said, im shockingly and genuinely excited for shadows. But if im being honest, i just want a remake of the first AC. Modern tech, tweak it by a smidge, and add newgame plus. The day that happens is the day i shed a tear of joy for gaming. As always great video bro. As someone whos loved the series since first seeing the AC1 trailer on the G4 channel, i appreciate all the work youve contributed over the years. Thank you.

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Like Leo mentioned, my biggest concern with the dual protagonists from a gameplay perspective is will there be enough reason for my to pick one character over the other? For example, if I barge in with Yasuke on an assassination mission there has to be some kind of downside to it. Maybe my target has a bigger chance to escape because he would be alerted. But if I go with Naoe it will be easier. And in the reverse if I pick Naoe for a more combat centric mission then I should get my shit rocked because Naoe should be made out of paper in combat. And it's not enough for Naoe to just have bad defense. If I fight 5 dudes clad in Samurai armor with Naoe, I should be having a rough time with them like I am playing a Souls game.

I’m somewhat excited for this one honestly. I’m definitely a stealth and parkour guy but this game looks like it’ll be fun and introduce some cool new concepts. I’m a little worried for the lack of depth Yasuke seems to have but I’ll reserve those worries until we see more. Some of the animations look choppy and I’m also not super impressed with the graphics but I’d like to see this game in a higher fidelity. Overall I’m not crazy hyped or anything but so far I’m looking forward to this one. Anyways, great content as always! You always break down tiny details that no one else touches on and I love it.

Another great Vid Leo. Keep it up you're doing great.

I really come here for some sanity in the ac fandom. The community/comments on this video is so much better than the one on the trailer. I hate that I have to see so much racism in the comments of the trailer, so I'm glad to see actual focus on the game instead of that. Thanks Leo for providing a safer environment to talk about the franchise!

The game adds several immersive elements, which is a nice touch. I'm tired of crouching everywhere when I should be crawling. Combat looks mediocre, and the parkour is... never mind! The game caters to a different type of Assassin's Creed experience, which is fine, and I understand the motivation for trying different Assassin's Creed games for different gameplay experiences. But I'm freaking tired of not having a dense, city-focused Assassin's Creed game that offers the OG parkour experience that made me fall in love with the series. We want an Assassin's Creed game with a core focus on parkour.

What do you think of the writing? I thought it was the cringiest thing ever ("I am justice", "It will be me and the shadows"). I can't remember being so put off by the writing in a game.

Im glad youre not focused on the whole historical inaccuracies. I could honestly care less about them and since when has AC ever stuck 100% to history anyways. Im just extremely excited to finally have the chance to play AC in Japan, hopefully with more of Unity's parkour mechanics.

great analysis as always 👍

About the failed assassination, you can notice that the eye indicator is full, so that possibly has something to do with not being able to assassinate fully. Considering it's daytime, that probably makes sense

leo k im just wondering where you got the information that you can turn off the not being able to assassinate the big enemies?

I've wanted an AC game set in Feudal Japan for SO LONG, I'm hoping to god that it's as good as Ubisoft promises.

I 100% agree that good acting has been almost non existent since origins but I personally like Naoe in the showcase and didn’t think too too bad about Yasuke

Great points brother I’m excited to get hands on the game to really gage an opinion on it but from what we’ve seen so far it’s decent but will see on full release

Ok, my favorite thing hands down is the list that you get as your objective, my least favorite thing about ac especially the kenway saga which are the only games I’ve played so far, is the forced turning on of ship health/button prompts/enemy counter windows etc, and other objectives such as the ship you need to follow that makes the spy glass thing where it shows the name of the ship all but useless but I keep it on bc I want to see the loot I get from enemies

it's also worth considering that both the brute and Naoe are in broad daylight when she goes for the failed air assassination in that clip. What if brutes are impossible for Naoe to kill in daylight, but considerably easier in shadow (assuming that setting is turned on)? Meaning she'll have to lure the brute over to that patch of darkness on the left in order to take him out. This means the devs have yet another ludonarratively consonant tool they can potentially use to challenge the player's skill with stealth

22:17 pure descriptive genius, after that beautiful explanation the enemy's "Big"ness was so apparent to me, that I was in awe. Jokes aside man, great breakdown and i love your point of view always in these scenarios as you dont give up hope and belief. There are always two types of people - ones who hail every new entry as the savious of the franchise or the ones that hate it like the game cussed out their mama(sorry). This game looks like it will be good and sure the same parkour moveset for the FIFTH DAMN TIME irks me, it'll prolly change (right....right?). Also people dont mention it much but the robes flow in the wind - hell yeah - properly after ac 1 i believe and thats very cool. Hope to see reviews and clips from you. Keep up the amazing work LEO🙏

5:05 ive noticed a lot of people overlook this but that looks exactly like the world events we had in unity and before

Something I haven't stopped to think about is how damn good your speaking skills are. I could hear you yap for hours.

Good to see you upload. You always have good insights that others don’t mention. I still think the person on your profile picture look like they have a leaf over their head.

I don’t think it would make sense for social stealth to be in this game since a shinobi wouldn’t be hiding in a crowd they would stick to rooftops and shadows and yasuke is a 6ft tall black samurai he just doesn’t blend in.

I enjoyed the gameplay; I'm excited to play with both characters and take advantage of the overall game mechanics. What I like the most is the exploration. I disagree about the art direction; I find the AC settings always very visually appealing. But overall, you raised very pertinent points and made it very clear what type of player you are. Great analysis!

About the clip at 23:00 of the stealth immune enemy, one thing I see nobody mention is the bright red obvious explosive barrel he's standing right next to.

off topic: have you checked out rooftops & alleys yet? that one parkour game that a viewer told you to check out during a bloodborne stream. it released a few weeks ago and it's been getting pretty much daily updates, and you'd probably enjoy it a lot. otherwise, good video

damn thats the best analysis i saw, ubisoft release a small trailer and expect that we are going to be looking at the HUD, your work was essential to understand the trailer, thank you

hi leo i heard about ur channel atleast a year ago but forgot and reheard of it while watching altairstealth i wanted to ask do you play assassins creed on controller or keyboard?

Perfect commentary addressing hard truth complaints that AC has been suffering from these past few years. you perfectly put forward what all of us desperately want to change for greater art. this should be seen by everyone working at Ubisoft behind not only the AC series, but every IP they bring fourth.

In retrospect I was and still am jumping to conclusions too quickly about this game in a positive light. I am still excited about the ideas at play here but of course execution matters. Your perspective here is eye opening on that fact and it’ll be fun to look back on all of these things come launch, however the game turns out.

It was so funny seeing her perform Spidey's web zip attack with her rope-sickle lol. But also quite badass, hopefully this attack is limited by range. I also appreciate how acrobatic she feels both through combat and assassinations. I remember sharing fantasies with you how an Assassin should be able to fight like a trickster, jumping behind enemy backs or rolling away after a kill to quickly disengage and it seems like it's at least partially implemented. What I saw from Yasuke was just Ghost of Tsushima's duel system (been playing it myself with my new Dualsense controller) and I can only welcome it. I always thought that GoT combat is what AC should have always been like, it looks amazing but is also challenging since you can't really see behind your back, making you focus on 3-4 enemies tops. That is unless there's a cheap mechanic where enemies off-screen become passive (like in DMC and other games). I personally find the ease of the combat and lack of damage sponges as a welcome change of pace, I've been starving lol. Never want to see any level-gated enemies ever again, only tough enemies that you have to learn how to fight AC1 style and maybe somewhat protecting yourself from their damage with better gear. All in all, didn't expect to like the game made by Quebec but what was shown in the demo I quite enjoyed. Don't even care about what the Abstergo symbol in the Animus means at this point if it means the actual experience is good.

Love your stuff, Leo. It’s crazy how a quality 30 minute video seems to go by faster than 5 minute clickbait trash.

I'd like to mention: we see that we can finally flex the hidden blade whenever we want again which I love. Also each weapon has a special assassination technique: the katana can stab through shoji doors and the kusarigama has a ranged takedown. Naoe uses a tanto and the hidden dagger for combat so I think the tanto's special ability will be the dual assassination but I'm just speculating.

I started tuning out the dialogue in Horizon because the dialogue run on too long. Game devs need to learn more on how to weave a story by showing more instead of telling (talking).

Good video. I agree with the points you made here Leo. I am a fan of the Splinter Cell games. I always wished for more sound and light factors in AC. Its just too bad that it is featured in a game outside of the traditional formula. There are features i do like though, like the clean map and investigation systems. Time will tell.

You don’t have to justify your frustration with bad acting. Origins is almost ten years old and it’s shocking how much the series have regressed in this regard (among many) over the last decade. The interaction between Yasuke and the old lady was pretty much the point when I checked out lol

Just thought that I hope they kept the slide because it would be really cool and stylish to slide into a prone position imo

Great video. Especially the point about the combat concern. Will it be as rewarding as what they've made the new stealth out to be? Yet to be seen. I'm also worried that no climbing mountains will hurt my personal satisfaction at times. I really like being able to feel like i can go anywhere within the the map's area

excellent breakdown as always Leo. like you pointed out with the resolve above the health, the red and blue glint for certain attacks, and what I noticed with the swinging rope for that cool air assassination and to get up the roof are things taken from Ghost of Tsushima. This game is gonna be compared to GOT heavily since they're both based in Japan and have similar mechanics and knowing Ubisoft I don't think they'll compare when the game comes out. still think the stealth looks good in this gameplay though

LEEEOO!!! Very happy to see this tonight! Interesting Input. Very observant 👍💯🫀

As a fan of samurai and ninja movies and a long time ac fan i can spot alot of things that need improvement but my bar for ac shadows was so low that i was impressed by the gameplay especially naoe stealth gameplay which was classic ninja style, hopefully the parkour and combat gets improved before release.

I had really no reaction to the demo. The only time a sound came out of me was during the naoe section and it was a slight: oh that's cool. I like your way of putting it. Being excited for half of half of the game is kind of how I feel atm and I am not even that excited. But at the same time I know that I am not the target audience this time around so I'd say it's fine. I did not expect you to go off on the acting though. That caught me really off guard. Probably goes to show how little I care for the time being, which I don't know how to feel about. And last but not least: 🍞

Hi leo, you're my go to Assassin's Creed YT person.

The spaces where you are considered to be in a shadow could be ambiguous in some situations, especially for those who play on lower graphical settings. Hope they keep this in mind and work out a suitable way to convey it clearly.

I appreciate and agree with you on almost all points The irony is Ubisoft is doing exactly what they say they don't want to do, trying to appeal to everyone. An even bigger irony is this would be the perfect game to do exactly that. We've seen a game do it successfully already (looking at Ghost of Tsushima) The only thing GoT lacked was the movement and social stealth, and even then it had "parkour starters", "catch ledge" and other nifty little movement tricks, if nothing else to get the height advantage for better jump attacks. And as for social stealth, the Mongol armor (one armor you get in endgame) literally made you blend in when out of combat. So even the gameplay mechanics it didn't promise it did pretty well. Between that and Mirage's post launch update to movement, I think Shadows can pull it off *if they really want to* and *if they are given the time/resources to* Those are 2 extremely big *ifs*, though. Too big to bank on a day 1 purchase. I will wait and see.

3:55 I’m pretty sure they did mention that it will only exist for Naoe, could be wrong

It seems that Quebec games are really trying to experiment with that exploration mode thing, which is I guess smth that I appreciate the most about their games. Even in Odyssey despite me not loving it most of the time it was really interesting and exciting to hunt down Cult members, searching for clues, deciding how you would approach the target in the open world or just randomly stumbling on them while free roaming. Interesting to see how Shadows spy network will work in the game combined with that Exploration mode

This breakdown is great, was waiting for it! I’m bummed about the gutted level design with regard to parkour. I wasn’t really expecting it, but it still stings nonetheless considering its AC! Stealth mechanics seems good enough and familiar enough to the point that I’m left wondering if and when we will see a new Splinter Cell game. I also wonder if Yasuke was a late addition to the game since the early promotional artwork for AC: Red featured only Naoe!

Great video. Also one thing that makes me worried about parkour is there aren't even parkour starters in the streets. You could see them even in origins (haven't played odyssey or valhalla so not sure about them). Overall it just seems the same system but with some new animations for jumping and vaulting to make free running (not parkour) a bit more satisfying than previous games

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Fun fact about the chonky dude in armor that can block your assassination: the button prompt says "Stealth Attack" and not "Assassinate"

I think I haven’t been this excited about an ac game since origins. I think the most exciting thing is seeing how good we can get at combat with naoe and stealth as yasuke. I like to think of it as a Batman Arkham knight system where Batman can do stealth takedowns everywhere but the other characters like red hood can still take down but not silently. Like imagine trying stealth as yasuke but you can’t go prone, hide in the darkness and his takedowns do a lot more noise. Where either character can do things but they have specialties

What gripping you had for animations, for me it was the UI sounds repeating. Hoped it would be unique.

If Ubisoft would use motion capture, it would make these games so much better. I know it’s much more expensive but can you imagine The Last Of Us or God Of War type of motion capture for these games.

Hoho i was wanting for this, gameplay looked fun.

The best part was the Japanese hip hop music while dude was fighting lol

I knew they said Yasuke would be more combat focused and more "direct" but goddamn bro is an absolute unit like even though the animations are somewhat jank i like the weight added to his moveset tho you do bring up a good point regarding his kit and how he should have more ways to be utilized tho i unfortunately doubt ubisoft would go far outside of surface level aspects but great analysis as always leo

I just played Black Flag for the first time and completed it over only the course of a week haha, and then when I look at the acting in this AC Shadows gameplay teaser and I feel kinda sad knowing how much better it was only 11 years ago. Origins I agree was the last game with good voice acting and animations in cutscenes (Bayek is a goat character, and so is Captain Edward 😊)

so at 21:30 . The big guy assassination. What I heard is that Naoe is indeed able to kill him in an assassination, but also can fail it. Its just luck in the end. So like an all or nothing, or u can turn it off to make sure to always hit that secure assassination. Anyway im exited(like always haha), but im not expecting unrealistic things that wont occure so we will seeeeeeeeee

you’re absolutely right about the cutscenes, ac has had terrible cutscenes since odyssey. can’t believe ubi regressed, considering ac2 had heart wrenching cutscenes filled with vibes, despite the graphics it was full of charm. something like tlou2 has cut scenes damn near comparable to a feature film. ac isn’t close to anything like that at all. i get what people might say, the open world makes it harder to make set pieces and add dressing. however, the witcher 3 had good, serviceable cut scenes. ghost and red dead had amazing ones. i really hope ubi can improve this considering they’re really fucking rich, lol. i just want to be able to feel the stories again. haven’t felt anything that really impacted me since ac4. i’ve fully given up on a refined parkour system, so hopefully they can figure out everything else.

I think Black flag excellently, dealt with this on instances when the interaction was not cinematic heavy or emotionally gripping they simply kept the camera to third person mode with more focus on cheeky and good deliveries rather than focusing on sloppy animation of face. When the cinematic camera did shifted to face the facial expression really gripped you. A similar approach could be taken in newer games, just give us proper facial expression with good facial captures and please make the dialogue make sense. No human talks like the people portrayed in newer titles. The moment someone speaks that is precisely when my immersion breaks. Also deviating a bit,lets talk about harder game modes, where we see enemies with bigger health pool. I say you could just use the tenant of the creed to make it more challenging. Like in the hardest mode. The assassin needs to kill only his target, stay his blade from the flesh of the innocent. Donot get detected things like these, i believe incorporating this as a difficulty spike makes you truly feel as an assassin as you level up side by side of your character, from being a novice to a master assassin. Failing to meet the criteria would not fetch 100% sync. Further some more lore heavy missions could be locked behind these sync gates encouraging players to take stealth seriously and evaluate their surroundings like a true assassin would. Sorry that you had to read through a lot, it was something that was there in my mind for some time. Let me know what your thoughts are.

Iirc Leo, in the dev breakdown of the gameplay, they mentioned that social stealth is going to be an “implied” action, not an actual feature. So no aura to show you’re blended or no actual cover mechanic, but maybe it blocks line of sight partially? Unsure what that mean

this game has so much potential and it pains me to think this game could be cancelled due to the male protagonist, I hope they decide to change things before it's too late

As for Art Direction, this is the first game after the departure of Raphael Lacoste, AC's premier art director, maybe that is why there's a visible change in art direction. As for Parkour, I never particularly expected it with Japan's open ended fields and short storied buildings, excluding castles. The time period and environment are very important to the implementation of parkour, I think. We have a better chance of getting better movement in Hexe, which is said to take place in a very urban environment and from early reports looks like a hub based semi open world game.

i really like the armored guy tho, it makes you have to play AROUND the guy and adds a challenge that the old games lacked while not bullshiting you randomly out of stealth because its a really easy to know what the type of enemy is

Whatever happens, it's not gonna be worth the ridiculous price tag.

-Like i said i miss the Puppetering concept so much -Naoe seem more fun and fast than Yasuke -Getting Splinter cell and Tenchu vibes from her -although i will miss movement and parkour rifts from the old games i do like we can get to positions much faster with the grappling hook from range assassinations to rope climbing kind of like batman arkhams grappling hook or spidermans web zips/web lines -social stealth is gone? -i wish Naoe was able to carve enemies like ac brotherhood with like a "3 hits you're out" rule but idk if that will happen -Naoe movement seems really smooth almost like unity especially when she run assassinates and continues foward rather than Basim being animation locked to flip the enemy for some reason lol xD -stealth is really good -i hope the next gameplay they show is more of the city interactions and such -love your thoughts on all things AC keep doing what you do :)

acting and body language in modern AC games is emotionally disengaging not entertaining and lacking in dynamism... you literally took the words out of my mouth mate... truer words have never been spoken... this is how I feel about modern AC games... and this problem persists in many other modern AAA games too... Origins was the last game to have properly executed emotional weight and engagement behind the acting and dialogue of its characters... Odyssey also had engaging voice acting and performance throughout most of its main story... since then its completely removed... it defeats the whole purpose of playing the game... I can't even get connected to any characters and feel anything for them... like I did for Ezio, Edward, Bayek, Shay, Connor, Evie, Haytham and Arno... And my opinion about the gameplay is that its a watered down version of Ghost Of Tsushima... a game that did a far better job (best I would say) at portraying Japanese culture and which Ubisoft desperately tried to imitate... but failed miserably and did worse in every aspect... Ubi just copy-pasted GOT's perfect gameplay without actually understanding or respecting any of it at all... it's just as bad, disengaging, vapid, soulless and mediocre as you would expect...

On the armored enemy, I think it would be pretty cool if you had to essentially 1 2 him. Kunai to the helmet to break it then assassinate. Would throw out some interesting ideas around resource management, target prioritization, and timing