Iagine trying to be a cool expansion, about a important piece of greece's history and culture, only to chop down all of the gods personality, making Persephone a sociopath, Hecat the goddess of Magic useless, and missing the entire point of the underworld of hades by making the place with no life, resistance or will, a realm of fire and fights, GUESS WHAT? FIRE IS LIFE IN THE GREEK MITHOLOGY, AND THE UNDERWORLD IS A PLACE WITH NOTHING BUT EMPTYNESS AND DESPAIR, but the worst part, is that you has to endure the ridiculous writing of all of the characters in this dlc, not one god is interesting or enjoyable, not one mythological figure you encounter is endearing and fun, nothing is fun, this sucks, just like the whole game

These mythological segments in Assassin's Creed can be entertaining even if I'm never entirely sure what is actually happening in the story while we're seeing all this mythical stuff. Interacting with the Greek gods is fun and I particularly enjoyed Hades' performance. We get to dive into three realms: Elysium, a paradise filled with lush fields; Underworld, a dreary hellscape of death and brimstone; and Atlantis, a gorgeous high-tech city. I appreciate the variety they went for with the realms even if the Underworld was a bit overbearing. That is, of course, the point of that region but it did make it a bit dull to explore. The large urban environment of Atlantis was a large reminder that the current parkour system isn't really built for navigating a city despite it being the foundation that the series was built upon. My favourite part of Odyssey was making builds and this DLC gives us some progression in the form of enhancing abilities in the skill tree. I wasn't going to use all these unlocks for the build I was working on but it was fun to have new things to work towards. I really liked the ability that made a double of your character to do a quick assassination of an enemy you're aiming at from a distance. It reminded me of ordering your assassins in the Ezio days. Although I was starting to feel some fatigue after all the many hours of Odyssey I've played up to this point, I did enjoy the DLC and a good continuation of the main game.

Made me uninstall the game. I've rarely played a DLC that's been so needlessly padded with tedium. I've yet to finish the other two zones as Elysium ended up bugging out.

I cleared every last enemy in the particular area of the map I was working on, but didn't weaken control enough - Fair enough, I guess I need to kill more dudes - only no dudes would spawn.

Overall incredibly uninspired even if it didn't bug out. I guess we'll see if I end up picking it back up to finish in a few years, but for now I'm done.

This one is tricky to review. The dlc is split into 3 chapters much like previous one, but each has a different structure, narrative thread, set of characters and even takes place on completely different realms. You won’t get a satisfying conclusion when you’re already into the next episode. Maps started shrinking as the episodes went on, much to their benefit as the activities started filling less like filler. My favorite was 2, the underworld one. It seemed to strike a nice balance where all the world activities tied into the main quests and the side-quests. Narratively is also the best one as you’re able to close some threads with the characters that died in the main game.

Now, the overall changes; they started churning out NPCs that don’t have the same 4 face models. All maps are separate from Greece with new stunning art directions. There’s a bigger focus on verticality made more prominent with teleporters at different height levels. This journey focuses on Kassandra mastering the powers of the staff, as such it comes with newer gameplay mechanics. Your existing abilities can now be enhanced with often new satisfying effects; Ares’ madness was a highlight since it allows all the beefy bulk of your assassin damage to be used in combat.

Sadly this dlc also concludes of the modern time plot, which means we have to deal with, ugh, Layla. She goes out of her way to be her most annoying self, it’s beyond me as to why they decided to add interludes where she keeps acting as a brat.

(Review from Aug 2020) Interesting side missions through Greek mythology, although Elysium was way too long and Tartaros was underwhelming. Atlantis was neat, and some of the callbacks to earlier Isu were really cool, but also... the game just sort of ends? I’m a little salty that this DLC was basically required to get the “true ending”, since the original ending was a little underwhelming. And I think the simulation explanation worked in the end but was a little fantastical - there’s almost a bit too much showing the mystery beings here

I always enjoy it when Assassin's Creed leans into the sci-fantasy weirdness of its entire ancient aliens schtick, and Fate of Atlantis is a brilliant example of this as our protagonist explores datascape recreations of the parts of precursor society that inspired the myths of ancient Greece. The fields of Elysium, the blasted hellscape of Hades, and finally the shining city of Atlantis are the settings for each of the episodes; the gameplay loop in each one is more of the regular Odyssey gameplay, but the change in setting is enough to keep it fresh and engaging all the way through.

Very conflicted on whether this is worse or equal to the first blade DLC, I'm gonna say worse because I liked Darius in the first blade.

This DLC feels extremely drawn out, and is ultimately disappointing. You get to delve into the mythological side of ancient Greece, but in the AC universe the Greek gods are actually just powerful Isu, which is an interesting idea, but is never really talked about.

Anyways, unlike the first blade DLC using parts of the base game map, this DLC gives us three new smaller scale maps. This would be a welcome idea, but the maps flat out suck. All three of these maps are lifeless, reuse base game assets and new DLC assets egregiously, and most of these maps are extremely vertical to a point where it becomes a major pain to just traverse them. They add these teleportation points meant to ease this pain but it is not enough. A majority of my playtime on this DLC was climbing mountains.

The rest of my time in this DLC was spent doing fetch quests! in all 3 chapters you're just doing fetch quests to fulfill some requirements that allow you to go to the next zone or in Atlantis's case, end the game. It is really quite dull and idk if this is just from fatigue with odyssey in general or if it's the DLC, but I was just trying to get this done. It felt like a chore.

The modern story is somewhat interesting but we get barely any insight on any of it. Like, we just know it's the assassins vs the templars for the staff, which has ultimate power I guess? It never goes any further than that, as the ending feels very anti-climatic and abrupt, but hey I guess it'll continue in AC Valhalla.

Elysium was genuinely one of the most obnoxious open worlds I've ever traveled, the underworld is barren and empty, void of anything interesting, and Atlantis is quite disappointing and generic feeling, should've had more water.

All of the Greek gods had very lame character designs and just boring personalities, I really think more effort should have been put into the gods, they feel so lackluster.

This has just been a bit of a rant and I apologize for not having anything better to say, but yeah, this DLC is lame and disappointing. You're better off just watching a Youtube summary on the story.

If you wanna see my rankings as I go through the series, click here.

Each episode of this DLC was better than the last, and I almost cheered when the second episode actively restrains your progression slightly so you just don't do everything. The most basic gameplay functions are actually present here! Unfortunately, most of the quests are little more than fetch quests and as Kassandra/Alexios quotes so well in episode 3: "Go do this, Go fetch this, Go kill him." Just because you say this joke doesn't mean you're funny ubisoft!

I really liked the stories as the episodes went on, however:
- Episode 1 dragged heavily with really bad voice acting and a bit too tedious of tasks imo, but the brief mission with Leonidas was very nice, but I wish it was longer.
- Episode 2 was much better, the repetive gameplay was still here definitely but the story revolved mostly about Kassandra/Alexios helping those from their past and not just helping them move on, but saying goodbye in a way that matters to the player. Was very good stuff! The Phoibe quest especially was awesome. Again, wish it was longer in those regards!
- Episode 3 had probably the coolest buildup, in which you're making a lot of choices and having to do things to be the judge of Atlantis. A great premise that is utterly RUINED by the end because it does the whole ME3 thing, in that the choices you make don't matter.

Speaking of those choices, that's what annoyed me the most of this DLC. Finally, it felt like Ubisoft was fully understanding what choice-based story could be! Choices would be made that directly influenced what would happen in these realms you travel to, because these are your trials, these are tests! But by the end, we lose any sort of possibility that something could change, that you could fail or anything because things have to go a certain way. In Kassandra's case, I can forgive that since you're playing through Layla in the Animus (Once again, it was a bad choice for Ubisoft to input choices in their gameplay of reliving memories! what the fuck that doesn't make any sense!), but even in Layla's eventual choices, nothing changes. Because the story has to go a certain way. It was annoying! Why have choices if you're just going to write an extremely linear story?

I will give the gameplay and art direction massive points though, because the art direction and designs were very fresh and cool (except for the Isu, they felt very uninspired) but each location was so cool and neat to explore, especially Atlantis!
The gameplay and combat also got new things to mess around with, namely a whole new enemy type that you have to strategize with better, and to think about and change up your styles for. It was cool! Felt new, fresh, and most importantly more difficult as the enemies got more powerful!

That's all I have to say though. This game was mid, the DLC was mid, and I cannot fucking believe this took up more than 300 hours of my life.

Episodes 1-3 completed, each with 100% of trophies earned. Overall, a superb send-off for one of 2018's best games, I enjoyed this second expansion package more so than the earlier Legacy of the First Blade, which was already good. The Fate of Atlantis sees Kassandra (or Alexios, I suppose) travelling to three mythological locations - Elysium, Hades and finally Atlantis itself, each populated with very interesting characters and with an engrossing storyline. As new areas independent of the base game, each of these three locations is smaller in scope, but still sizeable at that - an impressive accomplishment for a DLC pack. I'm just sorry now to see my time with the game coming to an end!