So my nostalgia for this is kinda ruined now.
What was once my favorite AC game, and the reason I got into the series, is now kinda….not great? The pacing is fuckin terrible, you spend half of the game in a tutorial thats a slog, in addition to bullshit trailing missions now theres bullshit eavesdropping missions which are even worse, and the story while interesting on the surface (the founding fathers dont know what the fuck theyre doing! the native american people got fucked over! Gotta hear both sides!) it seems real rushed because half the game is about fooling you about what Haytham is, and who could possibly care. Connor is annoyingly naive and too stoic though I guess that makes sense in context of who hes supposed to be. The modern day stuff kinda came together though, I sorta understand what the point of it all was. Its really gone off the rails in the, like, 6 games since this, but the stuff with Desmond was pretty ok at the very least in retrospect. RIP Desmond, you saved the world but you destroyed the future of modern day.
Gameplay wise its pretty much the same as the last 3 but now you have a tomahawk and it fuckin rules. Idk why but just fuckin hacking at people is so much better than using a sword. I didnt do a lot of the naval missions just because I know I have 4 coming up in a bit here and theyre a lot better there. The Homestead stuff is good, having a home base that you can grow is a thing I love in basically every game. The economy is terrible, crafting and trading sucks and costs too much money with not enough ways to make it. and the Underground is pointless. Theres not enough climbing and jumping puzzles.
In terms of the remaster, a lot of it looks better (general environments and textures) but a lot of the character models and especially the animals look terrible and plastic.
There were elements of a good game in here, and I wanted it to all sync up but alas. Probably still the best of the last gen games so far though. Fuck I want the tomahawk in every game.
Now onto the Tyranny of King Washington (Counting it as a seperate game i dont care) and then Liberation, which will probably benefit a lot from the remaster treatment.
TYRANNY OF KING WASHINGTON: Had I just played this linearly, straight through the story missions, this wouldve been great. Its a super interesting concept, and it introduces neat gameplay elements that wouldve made some of the sloggiest parts of the main game a whole lot better. But I ran around trying to do the little radiant quests that popped up, and open treasure chests, and all this other shit, compounded with the fact that part one is during the winter in the snow which is extremely prohibitive to the spirit of these games made it a real unenjoyable experience until I started actually playing the story.
only 3 more of these fuckin games left then I’m free from this prison
LIBERATION: This game introduced a lot of interesting mechanics that have since been abandoned and I rushed through it
What was once my favorite AC game, and the reason I got into the series, is now kinda….not great? The pacing is fuckin terrible, you spend half of the game in a tutorial thats a slog, in addition to bullshit trailing missions now theres bullshit eavesdropping missions which are even worse, and the story while interesting on the surface (the founding fathers dont know what the fuck theyre doing! the native american people got fucked over! Gotta hear both sides!) it seems real rushed because half the game is about fooling you about what Haytham is, and who could possibly care. Connor is annoyingly naive and too stoic though I guess that makes sense in context of who hes supposed to be. The modern day stuff kinda came together though, I sorta understand what the point of it all was. Its really gone off the rails in the, like, 6 games since this, but the stuff with Desmond was pretty ok at the very least in retrospect. RIP Desmond, you saved the world but you destroyed the future of modern day.
Gameplay wise its pretty much the same as the last 3 but now you have a tomahawk and it fuckin rules. Idk why but just fuckin hacking at people is so much better than using a sword. I didnt do a lot of the naval missions just because I know I have 4 coming up in a bit here and theyre a lot better there. The Homestead stuff is good, having a home base that you can grow is a thing I love in basically every game. The economy is terrible, crafting and trading sucks and costs too much money with not enough ways to make it. and the Underground is pointless. Theres not enough climbing and jumping puzzles.
In terms of the remaster, a lot of it looks better (general environments and textures) but a lot of the character models and especially the animals look terrible and plastic.
There were elements of a good game in here, and I wanted it to all sync up but alas. Probably still the best of the last gen games so far though. Fuck I want the tomahawk in every game.
Now onto the Tyranny of King Washington (Counting it as a seperate game i dont care) and then Liberation, which will probably benefit a lot from the remaster treatment.
TYRANNY OF KING WASHINGTON: Had I just played this linearly, straight through the story missions, this wouldve been great. Its a super interesting concept, and it introduces neat gameplay elements that wouldve made some of the sloggiest parts of the main game a whole lot better. But I ran around trying to do the little radiant quests that popped up, and open treasure chests, and all this other shit, compounded with the fact that part one is during the winter in the snow which is extremely prohibitive to the spirit of these games made it a real unenjoyable experience until I started actually playing the story.
only 3 more of these fuckin games left then I’m free from this prison
LIBERATION: This game introduced a lot of interesting mechanics that have since been abandoned and I rushed through it