We've all been there. Everyone is talking about the hottest new game – or in this case, a stone cold classic – and you just can't bring yourself to care. TV static droned between my ears the first time I heard of Red Dead Redemption 2, and as someone with absolutely zero interest in the whole outlaw cowboy fantasy, I let that absolute masterpiece of a game pass me by until just a few months ago. My self-ascribed stubbornness has a tendency of keeping me from greatness that way – and I don't want it to happen again.
I was relying upon Assassin's Creed Shadows to challenge my rigid tastes further still. I'm a horror and fantasy hound through and through, so the whole shinobi-samurai action hero shtick never really appealed to me. Still, as I told myself back when the game was first announced: if any franchise could change my mind about how much fun it would be to swashbuckle about with katanas in bulky ancient armor, it would be Ubisoft's iconic stealth series. But now that it's been delayed to the new year, I've decided to take a stab at a certain game that's been sitting in my Steam library for months now. After just two hours, I'm glad I did.
