Honestly, the game is tons of fun. Is it perfect? No, but what game is? There's so much land to cover, things to explore and do. Hidden Blade combat is finally back, which is wonderful.

I think that we should've been able to scale the hills and mountains much more easily; however, Shadows is intent on having you follow the main roads and the GPS path. Everything is on the main road, including keys and the like.
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So, that was my original review. After months more of playing on and off, everything, while I still recommend the game, it's not without its flaws. The story was never as great as we hoped for, a lot of the added content over time was lacking or straight up poorly implemented, and it wasn't great. There were collab/crossover events and they gave us a banner to put up in the Hideout. That wasn't what anyone asked for.

The game wants you to play NG+, but I have no inclination to do so. The only thing keeping a lot of people going is logging in to do some weeklies.

Honestly, the game is tons of fun. Is it perfect? No, but what game is? There's so much land to cover, things to explore and do. Hidden Blade combat is finally back, which is wonderful. I think that we should've been able to scale the hills and mountains much more easily; however, Shadows is intent on having you follow the main roads and the GPS path. Everything is on the main road, including keys and the like. _________________________________ So, that was my original review. After months more of playing on and off, everything, while I still recommend the game, it's not without its flaws. The story was never as great as we hoped for, a lot of the added content over time was lacking or straight up poorly implemented, and it wasn't great. There were collab/crossover events and they gave us a banner to put up in the Hideout. That wasn't what anyone asked for. The game wants you to play NG+, but I have no inclination to do so. The only thing keeping a lot of people going is logging in to do some weeklies.