I love the story about Naoe, her family and her crusade for justice. Yasuke's story is also decent but his is not the dominant tale in this game. Everything is intertwined really well. You just have to be able to remember what's going on cuz the story will take you all over the world where it's easy to get sidetracked. The further you get into the story, the more it opens up as well. It gets pretty deep.

Gameplay has the same old bugs and bullcrap that has happened throughout the series but it's mostly playable and enjoyable. I recommend playing on easy and enabling the guaranteed assassination. That's how it feels like the older AC games to me, anyways.

I've written quite a lot of my thoughts of the first twenty-ish hours here:
https://germalitygaming.blogspot.com/2025/03/assassins-creed-shadows-review-early-impressions.html

Then I went back and wrote a new post with some extra details after 60 hours here:
https://germalitygaming.blogspot.com/2025/03/assassins-creed-shadows-review-the-little-details.html

I still have not completed the campaign yet. The game has issues but overall I have really enjoyed it so far. There are better games. I still enjoy these as well. Ghost of Tsushima has better combat and AI but the visuals in GoT don't come anywhere close to this.