Probably one of the best sequels I've ever played. It does everything you want it to coming from the first game and the story is without a doubt my favourite in the franchise. Everything from characters to areas feels memorable and the modern day plot is still well handled.
Despite all this, it's not exactly a masterpiece and still suffers from some clunky gameplay in combat and climbing. As well as this, the final story beats fall more flat from forcing the player to go collectable hunting to progress to the end.
Generally though, I always have a great time with AC2 and can always find more to love than not.

This is an annoying one. The inclusion of Mara Jade is great but that's kind of it.
I love Dark Forces II, and this did a lot of things wrong as an expansion.

For one Mara is far weaker than Kyle and you have very little in the way of force powers by the end, where we should have seen different things. The levels in Dark Forces II felt fine enough for me, but a lot of this game takes the piss with how silly the solutions are. The final levels also throw such retarded enemies at you it's rare you'll ever make it round a corner without save spamming.

That aside, the game is still enjoyable to play like DF2 and i liked a couple of bosses at the end so the core experience was still there. It's just been buried in a lot of shit.

AC Origins is a pretty clean reboot of the franchise. It does enough of its own thing while paying respects to past games without going on for an eternity like Odyssey and Valhalla.
It doesn't hold back with being an action-RPG which isn't what I want out of this series, but stays grounded enough that you can still get an assassin experience.
I quite like the story in this one a fair bit, but with long stretches of time and side content between each beat my interest started to dwindle being used to past titles. I was also so lost with the modern story at this point that the new protagonist didn't interest me at all.
I find Origins worth playing for the solid mechanics more than anything and being able to just explore ancient Egypt, and I do prefer it to some previous entries.

I really appreciate this game and enjoyed it for the most part.
Unfortunately I am severely mentally disabled, so when my party members died from so much as stepping on dirt the wrong way my tiny brain could just not conceive of how to play.
This resulted in me activating baby diaper gagagoogoo mode but I don't care because I just wanted to see the world and story after a point and not have 7 Excel spreadsheets open. It's a testament then that even if I broke the game, it still had me hooked on the exploration and little moments. The main story is kind of generic fantasy shart, but then it's D&D so I'm not about to judge that.