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.
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.