Thematically, the storyline of playing kingmaker and investigating leadership was really appealing. Things quickly fall apart though as Eivor is easily the least memorable of main characters of the recent AC games. Consequently, the story really fell apart even if I liked individual moments and arcs.

While I appreciate the game has moved away from what feels like infinite gear and instead gave you the chance to improve a narrow range of it, the system still didn't feel great. The new raiding system wasn't particularly fun, though I really liked the theme of growing a settlement and recruiting inhabitants. Additionally, it still contains my biggest criticism from Odyssey: bloat. 5 years on and folks still haven't learned The Witcher's 3 best lesson: depth of quests is better than span.

In short, a big miss all around. Hoping Ubisoft looks back at AC 2 and Odyssey to find what made those sing and carry it forward to the next entries.