Assassin's Creed Shadows' has been an instant success for Ubisoft, but the series' clunky RPG systems feel more out of place ...

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Lack of real RPG depth. You got gear, but it barely changed how you played. Shadows fixes this with deeper progression, skill trees that feel meaningful, and armor/weapons that significantly ...

Shadows' take on progression overall sounds ... evolved and eventually leaned into an RPG direction, we eventually got the big, overblown web-like skill tree system in Assassin's Creed Valhalla ...

In Assassin's Creed Shadows, playing as Yasuke and Naoe is as powerful as the Shoguns that ruled during this era of Japan, ...