How Infinity Nikki and Assassin’s Creed Shadows Made Me Fall in Love with Photo Mode
Infinity Nikki and Assassin’s Creed Shadows turned video game photography into my new creative obsession.
Matilda
How Infinity Nikki and Assassin’s Creed Shadows Made Me Fall in Love with Photo Mode
Infinity Nikki and Assassin’s Creed Shadows have become my twin obsessions for their meticulously detailed environments, textures, and weather. With open-world dress-up game Infinity Nikki, I continue to be agog at how clothing textures are rendered with such detail and fidelity that by mere sight, I know exactly what a piece of fabric will feel like. For Assassin’s Creed Shadows, an action-packed romp through feudal Japan, I’m constantly in a state of awe at the natural beauty of the Japanese countryside, a feature that has been widely celebrated since its release. Both games are so visually arresting they made me fall in love with a video game staple that I’ve never really cared about before: photo mode. Image: Google Photo mode, which typically pauses the game to give players the ability to take professional grade images of their video games, is a modern gaming feature that’s been around long enough to become a standard inclusion, especially in AAA games. But I’ve never seen their ap…
