Assassin's Creed Shadows is the newest addition to the Assassin’s Creed franchise. It is set in Japan and offers a unique take on the assassin’s creed genre by giving players the ability to choose and play with two characters, rather than with just one. The game is a massive open-world RPG that takes about 70 hours to beat.
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How Long to Beat?
Assassin's Creed Shadows will take various amounts of time to beat depending on what kind of run you wish to do. You can either go for a main-story-only run that will take you about 60-70 hours, or you can also go for a full completion run that can take you 100 hours or more to see through. Regardless of which way you choose to play, you will certainly find yourself sinking a ton of hours into the game.
Main Quest Run
The main quest run focuses on only completing the main quests to progress the game and eventually reach the ending. The quests in Assassin's Creed Shadows are lengthy, and Feudal Japan is by no means small. Even if you only follow this path, you will still need to sink in between 40 and 70 hours in the game, depending on which difficulty setting you choose. Difficulty plays a huge role in Assassin's Creed Shadows. You have various different settings you can touch up on the difficulty to make your experience easier so that you can focus solely on the story.
If you decide to go with the easiest setting options, you will probably be looking at around 50-60 hours of content from just the main quests. The lowest difficulty setting will allow you to fully immerse yourself in the story and not worry about combat. Having said that, if you want to have a more samurai-like experience, then you can always bump up the difficulty setting and make your life a living nightmare.
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Full Completion Run
Similar to the main quest run, the full completion run’s clear time will largely depend on the difficulty setting you choose. However, even without it, you are still looking at roughly 100 hours of playtime. For the full completion run, you need to beat not only the story quests but also complete all of the open-world activities across all of the base game’s 9 regions. Open-world activities are certainly a blast and can easily boost your playtime if you do not feel like letting go of the game just yet.
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