Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ many strengths and few failures have made me realize that one of Ubisoft’s maligned games isn’t as bad as people say.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows players will spend dozens of hours traversing the sprawling provinces of central Japan. Now they’ll be able to turn off their brain during those long treks through the rolling hills of the countryside, thanks to a feature introduced — or should we say, reintroduced to the franchise — in the first proper patch for the game.

The first substantial update for AC Shadows has dropped and has brought about numerous overhauls to the stealth-action game.