Pirates are dope as hell. Assassins suck though.
This one did take me kindof awhile to finish, as I started the Xbox version probably 3 years ago? But today I finished the main story and boy, is the actual Assassins crap not fun at all. Especially when roughly half the game involves fuckin stealth missions. What makes it worse is that theres a memory sequence of dope Pirate stuff, then one thats only stealth missions that seem to take 8 hours to complete. The worst of them is where you for some reason need to take your ship through a fuckin lagoon and its hell. Its all bad, even the hand to hand combat isnt great since sometimes it feels like kills are recorded via an animation finishing and not how much damage you do. But again, the Pirate stuff is very good. Towards the end when youre overpowered relative to everyone else it falls off a bit and boarding ships can get monotonous but besides that.
The actual story of this, as per ususal, is fuckin all over the place. I genuinely didnt know what was going on for 90% of the game, most of the main pirates sounded and looked pretty identical, there was a part about the Portugese in the middle that seemed unneeded, and there was an underlying thing about Slaves that Im assuming is tackled more in Freedom Cry (which I have paused right now) that just seemed tacked on and unresolved. The modern day stuff was actually sorta good for once, seeing that this game really hammers home that this is all very meta and game within a game and all that. Idk I enjoyed it, and Im actually sorta understanding whats happening with the Isu.
Im finally almost fuckin done with these AC games, just Freedom Cry (DLC so it probably shouldnt count), Liberation Remastered (which I started and stopped because I wanted pirates) and Rogue (which I havent touched before).
This one did take me kindof awhile to finish, as I started the Xbox version probably 3 years ago? But today I finished the main story and boy, is the actual Assassins crap not fun at all. Especially when roughly half the game involves fuckin stealth missions. What makes it worse is that theres a memory sequence of dope Pirate stuff, then one thats only stealth missions that seem to take 8 hours to complete. The worst of them is where you for some reason need to take your ship through a fuckin lagoon and its hell. Its all bad, even the hand to hand combat isnt great since sometimes it feels like kills are recorded via an animation finishing and not how much damage you do. But again, the Pirate stuff is very good. Towards the end when youre overpowered relative to everyone else it falls off a bit and boarding ships can get monotonous but besides that.
The actual story of this, as per ususal, is fuckin all over the place. I genuinely didnt know what was going on for 90% of the game, most of the main pirates sounded and looked pretty identical, there was a part about the Portugese in the middle that seemed unneeded, and there was an underlying thing about Slaves that Im assuming is tackled more in Freedom Cry (which I have paused right now) that just seemed tacked on and unresolved. The modern day stuff was actually sorta good for once, seeing that this game really hammers home that this is all very meta and game within a game and all that. Idk I enjoyed it, and Im actually sorta understanding whats happening with the Isu.
Im finally almost fuckin done with these AC games, just Freedom Cry (DLC so it probably shouldnt count), Liberation Remastered (which I started and stopped because I wanted pirates) and Rogue (which I havent touched before).