5 Ways Assassin’s Creed Shadows Outshines Ghost of Tsushima

With Ghost of Tsushima already having explored the iconic setting, here are 5 ways that Assassin's Creed Shadows outshines Sony's classic.

[Obscure_Observer]

Not really a fair comparison when one is a current gen game vs an old gen one.

Specially when GoY is just around the corner.

[TheExecutioner]

Let's compare it to other games of its generation.

Compared to titles like The Witcher 3 or Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, its open world felt restrained. While the game had a solid story, its gameplay content was lacking for an open-world experience.

The world itself felt lifeless, relying heavily on camp clearing, collectibles, and repetitive side activities rather than dynamic or immersive interactions.

[IAMRealHooman]

So that's why the witcher 3 is better than valhalla and shadows?

[Christopher]

So, a game has both immersive interactions and repetitive side activities, therefore it's worse. I don't get that logic unless you don't know the game does have immersive interactions.

There's plenty of complaints about AC Shadows open world, don't need to make any up. 75% of the world itself is useless and should have been closed off, for example. Traveling through it is nothing but running into trees over and over or skirting mountain sides you can't climb. It doesn't need vantage points to unlock interesting areas, that's literally cooked in with dynamic NPCs that immerse you in the world. You don't need to make up stuff. It's got issues as it is.

[DivineHand125]

"While the game had a solid story, its gameplay content was lacking for an open-world experience.

The world itself felt lifeless, relying heavily on camp clearing, collectibles, and repetitive side activities rather than dynamic or immersive interactions."

Let me start by saying Ghost of Tsushima is a great game. The beautiful environments, sound track, sword styles and the unique navigation system gave us a breath of fresh air in the genre but I think you are spot on with the issues wrong with the Ghost of Tsushima. I have not played AC Valhalla but I did play AC Odyssey. There was so much going on in that world that you can easily lose track of time in real life. There were also decisions you make early game that can have consequences for you later in the game.

I hope Ghost of Yotei builds from those other open world games and becomes a much better game than the Ghost of Tsushima.

[Armaggedon]

Witcher 3 was dry. Had to force myself to finish that game

[TheExecutioner]

I was talking about ghost of Tsushima

[pwnmaster3000]

I would hope so, GoT is an older gamer.
We are suppose to be advancing.

[Furesis]

What the fuck does that mean? sekiro is better than both of those games and is older.
Advancing he says as if it's some kind of linear line we are moving along. There are good games and bad games this is in the middle. I'd rather play 20 year old games than this slop.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

Have you played it? What’s so bad about it in your opinion?

[Armaggedon]

People speak with such furosity, almost as if not realizing that what game is better than the other is subjective.

[Fonsecap]

Armaggedon your comment apply to every comment section on the internet. Some comments seem so aggressive that, it almost look like if the person responding was near of the guy who commented in the first place, the first would assault the second.

[goken]

Historic accuracy… firstly there is no evidence yasuke was a samurai. Given that a samurai needs to train their whole life to become a samurai, maybe it’s kinda insulting to Japanese culture and history so say that yasuke was a samurai.
In a game, yasuke being a samurai is fine, but to say it’s historically accurate… is potentially insulting to the Japanese.

[InUrFoxHole]

Sorry but gaming doesn't care about your feels.

[goken]

Huh? I don’t even know what you mean? (Grammar not withstanding)
Is gaming capable of caring one way or another?

[InUrFoxHole]

Lol not you directly but to the history aspect. Suck it up. It's a game.

[Angyobangyo]

But apparently comments on this site hurts yours.

[InUrFoxHole]

@Angy
I don't know if this is a generational gap thing but trust when I say. It's gonna take more than a n4g comment to get me In my feels. Just because someone on here responds or notes their opinion it doesn't mean they have a certain feeling behind it. Just sharing. Feel free to disagree with my opinions. Respect

[IAMRealHooman]

This isn't the first time Yasuke has been depicted as a samurai in media.
Koei Tecmo, has him in both Nioh and samurai warrior games, pretty sure koei Tecmo is Japanese

[goken]

Hey no problems yasuke being depicted as a samurai… the problem is the article depicting it as “historically accurate”….

[gigoran8]

Sure, but to the best of my recollection, it's the first time a publisher has come out day one and claimed it to be an historical fact and if you don't agree then you're a racist. There is a big difference between someone making a purely fictional fantasy game, and another demanding you regard it as fact.

[DivineHand125]

Historic accuracy is not important since many of the Assassina Creed games deviate from that. I believe you fought against mythical beings in the previous games. The only people who put so much stock in Yasuke's race are the racist.

The main issue the Japanese people have with the game is in the previous gameplay reveals, the devs in all their wisdom showed the player destroying a temple which was seen as disrespectful to the Japanese people. This created a fear that some may see it and mimic that on their actual temples.

[IAMRealHooman]

odyssey: fought medusa, cyclops, a minotaur, your end up living for thousands of years, because you hold onto a magical spear.

[goken]

I never said historically accuracy was important to a game… i am referencing the Article, which says that shadows is better than GOT in terms of historical accuracy.

Also I didn’t bring up race, you did.

[DivineHand125]

@Goken you are here trying to downplay that Yasuke was a samurai. According to the Shinchō Kōki manuscript which kept some record of his life, Yasuke was granted the rank of Samurai from Oda Nobunaga after he showed he had incredible strength as a warrior. He was the first foreigner to receive the samurai rank and was taken in as an attendant. It cannot be seen as disrespectful to the Japanese people if one of the most powerful figures in Japanese history gave him that rank. Not much else was documented about him but I personally have not played Assassin's Creed Shadows nor do I care if it is historically accurate.

[Abnor_Mal]

There a story I’ve seen going around about Japan banning locals and foreigners from a temple made popular “worldwide” after being depicted in Ghost of Tsushima.

I’m not sure how true it is, but there are several different articles.

https://www.ign.com/article...

[goken]

I am not downplaying anything.
No problem Yasuke being a samurai.

My problem is with the article claiming historical accuracy.

[goken]

@Abnor_Mal

Interesting.
But appears to be some incident that triggered the ban.

Black myth wukong also used real life temples and statues for many of their locations. Caused a huge spike in popularity in the real life locations.
So far they seem to be happy with the surge in popularity, i wonder if issues would emerge further down

[pwnmaster3000]

I don’t care if he was depicted as a samurai.
I think he looks cool, but he was never granted the rank Samurai.

Idk where you got your facts from but he was a retainer, not a samurai.
Big difference.
Don’t go up making false history.

“It cannot be seen as disrespectful to the Japanese people if one of the most powerful figures in Japanese history gave him that rank.”

That never happened. No records whatsoever.
It’s widely believed he was there for show. Like a human pet.
Also if you arnt japanese you cannot say it’s not disrespectful. Do you 100% know their culture. If not then you have no stand.

[DivineHand125]

@pwnmaster3000
"I don’t care if he was depicted as a samurai.
I think he looks cool, but he was never granted the rank Samurai.

Idk where you got your facts from but he was a retainer, not a samurai.
Big difference.
Don’t go up making false history.

“It cannot be seen as disrespectful to the Japanese people if one of the most powerful figures in Japanese history gave him that rank.”

That never happened. No records whatsoever.
It’s widely believed he was there for show. Like a human pet.
Also if you arnt japanese you cannot say it’s not disrespectful. Do you 100% know their culture. If not then you have no stand."

It only took me a few minutes to look up the history of Yasuke, and multiple online sources have the man as a samurai. The story of Yasuke also originated from a professor at the University of Tokyo. He was also taken in by Oda Nobunaga as a vassal, not a retainer. I have attached one of the sources I came across.

https://www.britannica.com/...

Also, to address your other point, I don't have to 100% know Japanese culture; I simply look at what they are saying and what issues they had with Assassin's Creed Shadow. Yes, there will be a few that hate the game simply because they featured a black samurai, but I have a feeling that most of that hate is coming from the west. The Japanese people straight-up had major concerns about their shrines being destroyed in a video game, and their prime minister even commented on it. Ubisoft had put in a day one patch to address the issue with the shrines to damage control.

https://www.nme.com/news/ga...

It only takes a few minutes of your time to look online and see what others are saying about this game. I don't have to make up anything since it is all there out in the open for those who wish to seek out the information.

[IAMRealHooman]

@pwnmaster3000

William Adams in Nioh Was an Irish Pirate.

He was English.

He could also channel amrita and be revived by spirit beasts, and cast fire jutsu.

He could not do that in real life.

William encounters Yasuke the Obsidian Samurai in game.

They never met.

Nioh was a Japanese developed game.

[pwnmaster3000]

You must of been reading just the title and not the article itself if it only took you a couple of minutes but for every article I read, the majority states they arnt 100% sure if he was.
There are actually a lot of sources saying he isn’t also.
Not enough of proof to even say he was.
Even this Japanese historian that was interviewed by wired says is not enough proof.
https://youtu.be/IEpd2SVw0F...

Also if your talking about Yu Hirayama, the historians that made several books about the era, even he admits there was no documentations, but he believes he was.
Like again no proof just opinion.

I don’t care if he was, I’m not Japanese nor black so it doesn’t effect my culture and history but I’m just stating what I looked up on and studied(yes studied, not browse the internet for a couple of min) and from what I gathered l, there isn’t enough proof to say he was.

That’s just my judgement and multiple historians

[pwnmaster3000]

@Iamrealhooman
Cool I don’t care lmaoo.
It’s not suppose to be historically accurate.

I think you have me confused for someone who gives af about weither they have a black samurai. I honestly dgaf. I’m just saying what I gathered and learned. If you don’t agree and think he was irl then so be it, there isn’t a wrong answer as of right now.

[IAMRealHooman]

A Retainer (Kashindan) is a class of Samurai, so this debate is even dumber. Was He a Samurai or a different kind of Samurai.

[Daeloki]

Samurai in most, if not all, pop-culture context are historically inaccurate, including GoT. Your choice to suddenly care about historic accuracy when it comes to Yasuke is very telling. You don't care a bit about historic accuracy, or defending Japanese culture. You're just straight up racist, and you're not fooling anyone.

[PanicMechanic]

Facepalm🙈

[goken]

Huh?
I believe no one here is claiming the importance of historic accuracy except for the makers of the game and the writers of this article.
No problem being a fictional game, it’s when people claim historical accuracy problems arise

[Toecutter00]

Ghost ate Shadows lunch a long time ago. There is nothing that Shadows does better and that includes stealth, which is an AC staple. In fact, I predict Ghost will see a bump in sales and engagement along side the release of Shadows.

[goken]

I find the facial animations for the cut scenes in shadow is often hard to look at. I thought GOT was awesome.

I haven’t actually played shadows, so I can’t comment on game play.

[DedicatedDark]

Are you seriously suggesting Ghost has better stealth than Shadows? This is just nothing but blind fanboyism.

[Mindphyx77822]

When are critics IE basicly and game site lies about this disaster of a game going to stop no one trusts iGN Gamespot ect. It is currently a 5.8 by users on metacritic users who are the true judge not some peerson on VG247 who gave it ' perfect score oh yes its PERFECT. They sold 2 million copies in 2 days then silence for days, we've all seen the peak steam numbers and their plummiting share prices since games release. All points to what every real review says looks great but adds NOTHING new or exciting to the tired AC formula. And to claim 5 ways this trash outshines GOT is a total lie and a joke. Thats why no one cares about "critic" reviews or opinions they sold out long ago. The true reviews are the users. Sites like this trash can't t go out of buisness fast enough.

[attilayavuzer]

No one's reading all of that

[Mindphyx77822]

@atti not my problem you can't read or write and have the IQ of a rock

[P_Bomb]

“It is currently a 5.8 by users on metacritic users who are the true judge…”

Meta user reviews are just a war of attrition between zeros and tens.

[dmonee]

Im just not into the old japan setting. If this new assassins creed game took place somewhere else id be interested. From what ive seen and from what ive read are 2 different things. Watching people playing it on YouTube it looks like a good assassins creed game. It doesn’t appear to look any better then ghost of tsushima though. I feel like graphics have regressed this console generation

[Kratos_Kart2007]

No

[jznrpg]

I’m sure it looks better as it’s years newer. I really don’t care if Shadows is better than GoT as I loved GoT. I just want it to be another good samurai game and that’s enough for me

[PanicMechanic]

“5. Historical Accuracy & Lore” - o no you just didn’t 🤣delete this article mate🤣

[joab777]

5 ways a 2025 game outshine a game from last gen! Is this the bar?

[javier-hndz]

I think the game is good but I don't think it can surpass Ghost of Tsushima.

https://tutuappx.com/