the new xbox lets you suspend a game and pick it back up whenever so every now and then i'll boot this up and do a couple of towers and an investigation and then play something else for another week or so. insanely weird game that i love even though it's actually kinda terrible. making a game set during the third crusade is already just so different and out there and the layer the animus adds on everything is so nuts. the present day stuff only exists so that every single system in the game is completely diegetic, which is probably why every entry after this one immediately started spinning out and crashing with the desmond shit. i can't think of many other games that lay themselves out like this one. it isn't actually good but i think it's very cute.