Assassin’s Creed Shadows Uses One Gameplay Mechanic Better Than Ghost of Tsushima

It is no surprise that immediately upon release, people were comparing Ubisoft’s newest release, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, to 2020’s AC-lite third-person samurai simulator, Ghost of Tsushima. Of course, the latter did Assassin’s Creed in Japan long before Ubisoft took a crack at it, and it did it well. Ghost of Tsushima offered a robust, narrative-driven, open-world experience with some of the best third-person melee combat we’ve seen in quite some time, and a smattering of stealth mechanics to drive home the comparisons between it and its obvious Assassin’s Creed influences.