{"id":2845,"date":"2025-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2025-03-27T18:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:21:29","slug":"games-inbox-is-assassins-creed-shadows-the-best-ninja-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/games-inbox-is-assassins-creed-shadows-the-best-ninja-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Inbox: Is Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows the best ninja game?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows – shinobi does it better? (Ubisoft)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Wednesday letters page thinks a Metroid Prime 4 reveal this week makes total sense, as one reader predicts Mass Effect<\/a> won\u2019t be part of any Nintendo Direct.<\/p>\n

To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stealth assassins<\/strong>
I\u2019ve been playing a lot of Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows<\/a> and I have to say I\u2019m really enjoying it. It\u2019s not really doing anything new for the series, but the graphics are very good and there\u2019s not many bogs, which is a nice change. But the thing I like best? It\u2019s the closest thing to a next gen Tenchu I\u2019ve ever played. Which by default makes it the best ninja game of the modern era.<\/p>\n

The problem is that there aren\u2019t many other contenders. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice<\/a> is definitely a better game but it\u2019s not that similar to Tenchu, which is fine because that\u2019s not what it was trying to do and I\u2019d much rather FromSoftware make something original. (The irony is From did actually make a Tenchu game, back in their pre-Dark Souls days, but it was just an Xbox<\/a> Live Arcade spin-off.)<\/p>\n

Ubisoft isn\u2019t exactly on their artistic level though, so they\u2019re the perfect ones to make a new game that is Tenchu in all but name and I kind of love them for it. I\u2019ve honestly had a lot more fun with it than Ghost Of Tsushima<\/a>, which wasn\u2019t trying to be that stealthy but I found became repetitive much too quickly. Maybe Shadows will in the end but so far I\u2019m enjoying sneaking over rooftops and peering round corners, just like Tenchu on the PS1.
Franky<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crazy Direct<\/strong>
The idea of another Nintendo Direct this week<\/a> seems crazy at first, given everyone\u2019s waiting for the one next week, but I think we\u2019re forgetting just how weird and unpredictable Nintendo can be. Metroid Prime 4 and Mario Kart 9 makes sense to us as a launch line-up, but we don\u2019t know how far along those games are or what they\u2019re like.<\/p>\n

It seemed madness to me that there wouldn\u2019t be a Switch 2 specific version of Metroid Prime 4 but what if, instead, Nintendo uses it to show how much Switch 2 improves the quality of Switch 1 games? That actually makes more business sense, because then you\u2019re telling everyone that even though the Switch 2 looks the same it actually makes the games you\u2019ve got even better.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the PS5 Pro pitch, except I imagine the differences will be more obvious and the console will be more affordable – and do other things the original can\u2019t. So, if there\u2019s a Switch 1-only Direct this week and Metroid Prime 4 is the focus, I actually wouldn\u2019t be surprised.
Onibee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winners and losers<\/strong>
It will be kind of hilarious if this autumn there\u2019s nothing out except GTA 6 and Switch 2 exclusives. I can easily imagine it too, because we know that\u2019s what\u2019s people are interested and as publishers now seem to be accepting, people haven\u2019t got time to play a dozen games a year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an extreme example, that probably won\u2019t be repeated again, but it does highlight the vast gap between the winners and losers in this business. Gamers aren\u2019t willing to take a risk on anything that isn\u2019t either a big name or dirt cheap, preferably free.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s always been true but never to this degree. Seems to me the answer is to make smaller and cheaper games but I don\u2019t see any sign that anyone\u2019s trying to do that. It\u2019s the same old problem of everyone trying to be number one and nobody being willing to admit they won\u2019t be.
Clancey<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Vapour, where?<\/strong>
So is there any theory for why Rockstar hasn\u2019t shown Trailer 2 of GTA 6 yet? I hate to ask a stupid question, but it seems really strange to have your first one in 2023 and then nothing, and we\u2019re now a quarter of the way into 2025.<\/p>\n

A delay seems the only explanation, but Take-Two says it\u2019s not that, so what is it? Are we only ever going to get two trailers? Are we going to get a bunch of them all in a row, just before release? Won\u2019t that seem a bit overkill?<\/p>\n

I just don\u2019t get it and if this was any other game we\u2019d be accusing it of being vapourware at this point. It\u2019s not like there\u2019s an obvious date they\u2019re waiting for, so you can\u2019t assume it\u2019ll be in June, or whenever. There\u2019s just no clue at all and that\u2019s beginning to seem weird.
Flossy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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