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The weird thing to me was it's a game set in a school where you play as a student, but you spend zero time in class.

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1. It's not truly open world. It's a gorgeous setting, and you want to explore it, but it has these frustrating areas of thick vegetation/woods where you get stuck in it, lost and no clue where you're going, and will often find uphill climbs that you simply can't climb. With Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla, if I saw a POI or just an interesting area I wanted to check out, I would go to it. Shadows feels like it's trying to funnel you in the direction it wants you to go. Also, even in villages with NPC's, the world feels really empty. Head scratching.

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This game has 3 big issues:

1. It's not truly open world. It's a gorgeous setting, and you want to explore it, but it has these frustrating areas of thick vegetation/woods where you get stuck in it, lost and no clue where you're going, and will often find uphill climbs that you simply can't climb. With Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla, if I saw a POI or just an interesting area I wanted to check out, I would go to it. Shadows feels like it's trying to funnel you in the direction it wants you to go. Also, even in villages with NPC's, the world feels really empty. Head scratching.

2. I truly hate how Ubisoft is now doing quests. There's no longer a quest log, just a page with trees of objectives, nothing to indicate if this is main story or a side quest. Mirage did this, I wasn't a fan, but that's a smaller scale game so it kind of works. I fire up Shadows, look at that tab, and want to quit out every time. I have no clue what I want to do.

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3. It just doesn't distinguish itself enough from Tsushima, which was always going to be the litmus. Combat is fun, I think so far the story is pretty interesting (although I hear it gets boring/confusing towards the end), but I feel like I've played a better version of this before and it's hard to stick with it. Yasuke is an interesting character, I want to see how his story progresses, but it gets lost in the aforementioned convoluted story telling method, so you can't tell. But his fighting style is really fun once you come to grips that you can't really play him as stealth. He wrecks shop and that's amazing in certain scenarios. Naoe is the same way, play style is super satisfying, story seems to have potential, but the presentation falls flat. Also, from a few podcasts I listened to, the story of Yotei is pretty much a carbon copy of Naoe's

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Entertaining so far.

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What confuses me is that not only are they putting up metal ones, they are also putting new wood thicker ones too in some sections.

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