"I'm Getting My Own Opinion": Stop Listening To Others And Try Assassin's Creed Shadows For Yourself

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Mar 22, 2025

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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the latest victim of the culture war. It features Yasuke, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a historical Black samurai, but in a series where we fistfight the pope to steal the Apple of Eden, and where magical staffs make Greek warriors immortal, he's somehow too far-fetched.

With Shadows, the anger has come from many directions - those 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ꦉclaiming to b꧟e offended on behalf of Japan, at the historical inaccuracy of romances in a series that has always kept reality at arm’s length, or simple 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:outrage at playing as Yasuke at all.

Yet Shadows is the first game in a long time to give me hope. The noise mattered little, as the game s♛ol🌊d over one million copies in a single day, while 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the player-led Steam review𓆏s are ‘Very Positive’. But more than that, there’🥀s a palpable sentiment among the community that mirrors exactly what I, and so many ܫothers, are feeling - all this vitriol does not matter. Play the game, and decide how you feel from that.

; u/Ronja_Rovardottish’s Reddit post on r/assassinscreed is succinct, but it captures the moment perfectly. We’re all tired. It isn’t just one game every now and then where backlash is stirred up by content creators, it’s every single new release. I’m still recovering from Avowed, and I can’t even remember why people were mad. Hell, they even tried it with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Monster Hunter Wilds before its rampant success caused a back pedal that saw people try to claim it as a mascot of everything they want gamin🐼g to be, not a representation of its evils.

The last thing I expected after months of online arguments in every comment section was for Assassin’s Creed to be the one that marks a change. Yet popular posts on the subreddit say that “Ubis꧙oft absolutely cooked with this prologue”, that the canon mode is the “best mechanic they’ve added in years”, and that it easily has some of the “best stealth combat” in the series. There’s so much positivity, as people are ignoring the outrage — if not actively pushing back against it — and seeing for themselves if the game is worth their time. It’s such a simple notion, but for years it has felt completely out of reach.

All The Backlash Is Getting Exhausting

Yasuke standing in the rain in Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Sometimes a ‘woke’ game turns out to be pretty bad. Just look at 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Concord - although, was anyone anywhere on the political spectrum excited for Concord? These failings 'confirm' that wokeness is what poisons games, conveniently ignoring the real reasons these games failed: the studio meddling, trend-chasing, and mass layoffs of veteran talent. It also side-steps progressive games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3 that were smash hits, and forces the position to turn on a dime when Monster Hunter Wilds or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Space Marine 2 launch to positive reception. Do this for every single new releas🐈e, and you have a bit of a problem.

People like u/Ronja_Rovardottish eventually tire of hearing that the game they’re excited for in a series they love is “woke garbage”, so they try it for themselves. And in most cases, they’ll probably 🐭like the game (Veilguards are pretty rare), and every time this happens, the anger 𝐆in the far corners of the gaming sphere loses touch with the masses.

Naoe in her Master Assassin outfit in Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Poke enough fan bases, go after enough big, crowd-pleasing blockbusters, and try to wage a culture war against all of gaming and the facade will𝓡 quickly disappear, because people will play these games and quickly find that none of this outrage matters. We’re seeing that right now with Shadows, where “Fk it, I’m get🐽ting my own opinion” is clearly winning out.

We also saw it with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, where gamers tried and failed to weaponise an optional gay romance, and we saw it last year w🐲ith Silent Hil𓂃l 2 Remake’s ‘woke’ strip club sign, which turned out to have been exactly the same as the original game, which true f💖ans were quick to point out.

It feels like the tide is finally turning. People are getting fed up and, frankly, bored with all the outrage. There’s not much point in a hobby if you spend most of it angry online, arguing with strangers. I only hope that this collective exhaustion leads somewhere productive, and we don’t need to go through this with every new release. Just play the game, find out for yourself if it’s any good, and stop letting YouTubers tell you how to feel. Gaming is only this negati൲ve if you let it be.