Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed Shadows. I finally finished up Act 2 today, and i’m pretty sure i’m close to finished with Act 3. The above screenshot i got in a sidequest for Naoe where she goes through her heritage and discovers the past of the brotherhood, and i get some sick ass robes that i’m like 90% sure is inspired by Ezio. This is all essential stuff for Act 3 as far as i understand. I feel like it would have been better interspersed with Act 2 to help with the monotony, but it was still a cool moment. Especially because i had some fears that the Assassin Brotherhood plot line was being dropped to the side.

Pictures of Animals

Before i start lore dumping though, here’s a cool shark i found. It was swimming in the ocean while i was wandering around in the Obama region (No, that’s not a typo).

A few feet from it i found a Stingray, and then another two to the right of this one. This one is the only one i photographed though. I used photo mode to peak into it’s mouth and there was ribbing along the top.

Lore Pictures (And spoilers)

Act 2 Ends and Act 3 opens with you using a battle to sneak into a fortress and kill one of the last two guys responsible for killing your father. It’s a really cool moment, and i wish either A) the last few targets before this were this cool or B) they were cut entirely.

The assassination had you chase after the target in the battle field on horseback as Yasuke. I assume if you chose to go after the target as Yasuke intially (i chose Naoe initially), then it would be Naoe chasing him instead.

You corner him on a dock, and you start to fight him. Midway through the battle though you switch from the character you chased him down as too the other one, which was really cool. Especially because both Yasuke and Naoe have a grudge against this guy so it’s a bit appropriate they both get too fight him.

Anyways, after you fight him, and also find out who is behind the entire organization, you also find out the Templars are working in Japan and are behind this whole thing. Naoe goes on this quest and confronts a guy from her past who reveals all about the Assassin brotherhood.

Act 3 then opens up to even more story with Yasuke hunting Templars and his previous Slaver, and Naoe discovering more about her past. Which all in all, while i enjoyed a good few of the Assassinations in Act 2, this is leagues better than 1/3 of the Assassinations.

I ended my gameplay session as Yasuke having killed the second of what i believe to be 4 total Templars. I’m getting the feeling that after the Templars that will be the end of Act 3, and then the Story is over. All in all, Act 3 is a lot more fun than Act 2. Act 2 was fun at the start, dragged on a bit too long, and then got really good again as it transitioned over to Act 3.

A lot of this is feeling like it’s setting up for a Sequel involving more of rebuilding the brotherhood and a direct confrontation with the Templars, which would be interesting to see as irc we haven’t gotten a direct sequel since Ezio. This feeling might just be because there have been a few Ezio references and this game is giving major “BoTW Soft Reboot” vibes though.