But the recent release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows has unleashed my inner Goldilocks. Valhalla was a tour de force, but with every new gray hair I find, my patience for games of that size wanes. Mirage was a welcome change of pace, but it lacked staying power. Shadows nails the balance.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is confirmed to have had the second biggest launch in the history of the franchise, just behind Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

There is enormous pressure on Assassin's Creed Shadows to do well for Ubisoft globally after a number of delays and the sales failure of last year’s Star Wars Outlaws. Indeed, Ubisoft suffered a number of high-profile flops,