Assassin’s Creed extensions come in two flavors: basic consequences that develop a drama and the intrigue of the main game, or completely fancy bonkers, which turn everything upside down, adding unicorns or pulling you to Asgard. The expansion of Shadows, Claws of Awaji, is very first, almost guilty. Naoe gets recent combat tricks thanks to a completely recent weapon, and the overall pace of exploration becomes more feverish and tense, because the enemies are much more hazardous and much more motivated to fight. But the Earth itself is not different from the rest of Japan, and the basic adventure is delicate at revelation and does not make too much of its own existence.
The story that takes our heroes from the continent and to the island is similar to the history of the main game, filled with colorful characters and a dim group of conspirators, which must be systematically reduced, but it is a basic and predictable story in general. He raises the threads of the missing mother Naoe and the growing impact of the Templar order in Japan, but to the end does not bind to those in a satisfactory way. It is also not much justification for this world’s vision. Despite all Valhalla’s mistakes, each extension seemed to introduce a recent dimension for the larger world that Eivor and friends occupied. The claws end, and the 16th -century Japan does not seem much larger than 10 hours ahead.
The island of Awaji is just as stunning as the rest of Japan, but it is not so different from the continent, that a person who has not spent over 60 hours of the game yet would be able to see the difference at first glance, in contrast to when Eivor left for Ireland in Valhalla. Awaji is a bit more mountainous, which is more noticeable when you need to move up and down the map due to a significant lack of rapid travel points throughout the text. There are also hidden visual gems like a dim swamp with terrifying leaves or a enormous ship that is under construction. But if you saw a mountain attached to winter snow at the beginning of this year, it will look exactly.
There are more same tasks and side activities at Awaji, which is good for acquiring knowledge points to invest in a restricted number of recent skills and improvements available to NaOe and Yasuke, but still quite optional and uneducated differently. Side searching seems even more hidden than the main game – I have not met any of them organically and I had to put an additional effort in finding people with problems that I can solve.
Naoe gets a recent weapon in the claws of Awaji, staff because. Made as a hybrid of a long -term crowd controller and mixing machines, it turned out that it is much better in the latter than the first one. This is mainly due to creative attacks based on the attitude, using high stabs to stop enemies and low sweeping to take them off the legs and open them to enormous, reliable damage. In the absence of a chance for extended fights as Shinobi, because it was reliably my second choice for the nest.
There are also recent skills for both Yasuke and Naoe, but I did not consider them particularly sizzling to reject my tried and real staples tested in decades of chopping and stabs. Some recent equipment is available for locking, but as it was in the basic game, these are not really a carrot worth racing, unless you really like to have all the icons on the map.
The island of Awaji is fat on the occasion to test all its skills and equipment. It’s dense with people who at best do not trust you, or worse, would travel far and wide to kill you. I felt that I was hunted and conspired with much more than in the basic game. Each horse journey longer than 100 meters left me exposed to road traps set by the enemy Ninja. City guards are much more jumping and more suspicious and do not hesitate to start in a brief circuit in the middle of the market to remove you.
I liked the general chaos of the island cleverly married the goals of the main task to remove three trusted Taisho Templar leader in the region. For example, these Ninja Road team? They work for Nowaki, hunters who terrorize the region for sport. Stopping to take them out, instead of avoiding them, gives you a chance to lead a pocket to tips where their master can hide. All these hills the guards respond to Tomeji, a mighty avant -garde that enforces order with an iron fist. He is very noticeable in the castle surrounded by his elite guardian, but he chooses fights and causing that General Ruckus will force him to send these guards to stop you. And when they do not return because of his earlier retirement, he left more and more susceptible to your inevitable siege. The exploit of scouts to track goals will cause that the search zone will be on a high ambulance thanks to the third Big Bad on the island: Dark Department of a thousand alias. This is a strange harmony that could be disgusting in a greater adventure, but is a welcome challenge, taking into account the relative brevity of claws.
When the main mission missions come to Crescendos, which require a team more directly from the team, Awaji’s claws still divide the tasks between Yasuke and Naoe, leaving Yasuke to perform most of the open fight, and Naoe to undertake the obligation to attack and the assassination. A handful of recent boss fights also plays well in the individual strengths of the couple, including a very nice hidden battle that causes solid metal equipment and requires all Naoe skills to overcome.
