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Sushi is the better AC game in both gameplay and writing. Shadows is best when playing as Naoe and infiltrating castles or wandering around the areas you know human designed (Mountains are nearly all procgen slip and slides, the roads and any villages, towns, or buildings are human designed), but the story is just whatever outside of Yasuke's focused content. You can also tell it's heavily trying to be like Sushi at times. It's a nice step up over Odyssey and Valhalla but it's longer than Valhalla if you want to 100% it since you need to do a 100% run and then like an 80%ish run to get every item. A playthrough with just the story is gonna be like 40-60 hours at least and that's just doing the Shinbakufu, Templars, Naoe's story, and the epilogue. Highly recommend playing on Nightmare for both stealth and combat if you are going to, the other difficulties are a joke.

Have not played Yotei, will get it when it's like $30-40. Everyone says it's the same story beats as Naoe's side on Shadows but with a worse character and story while the gameplay is both an upgrade and a downgrade due to the weapon system instead of stances.

Also, to go on a bit of a tangent; How Long to Beat is a straight up lie and no one there has 100%ed the game at all. They platinumed/1000 GSed it and even admit it in their "Completionist" side those absolute liars. Schwabbler and mchanna65 are the only people who seem to have done it on a pre-CoA version, but they don't say they've bought everything from every store, got the secret mount, maxed out at least one set of equips to 9, hit level 100, and I assume played on the easier difficulties to get their times. I am at 315 hours now still not done with Claws of Awaji or gone into NG+ and only 40 hours of those max were fog of war clearing and contracts. I'm only level 91 right now and only Naoe has even one tier 9 equip with some 7s and Yasuke has some 5s.