This was one of the first 7th gen games that I played when I was younger, so it holds a special place into my memories.
What the game does well at this point is well-known: you'll be assassinating people (either stealth or not, up to you), run through roofs and jump onto bales of hay. and that, no matter how much time passes, is hecking fun.
It's surely an incredible advance compared to the first Assassin's Creed, but even if slightly better it falls short in the similar issues: repetitive combat, clunky movement and camera, boring collectibles and puzzles.
The movement and the hopping around was a pretty big thing in those years, but it definitely didn't age magnificiently.
The combats are as boring and tedious as the collectibles, an infinite wait for the enemies to attack so you can either counter or side-step. Not only that, but the assassination is sometimes (luckily not too many times) hit and miss, sometimes it works as you want and sometimes it doesn't, usually fucking up the stealth.
The glyphs and the "puzzles" were mostly so stupid that I gave up doing them even if I were to find a glyph halfway through the game. Give me an actual puzzle instead of a "find a png with a 10% opacity on this painting", please?
The lines felt like they were written by a twelve years old and everytime you assassinate someone where time "stops" for a little bit to hear them saying something, you'll be left wondering if you just witnessed two Oblivion NPCs.
This issue makes the character feel very.. forgettable, except for certain rare cases such as Caterina Sforza. Ezio itself isn't the most incredible charming character either, as again it seems to be the fantasy of a twelve years old.
In the end it's an ok game because of the historically semi-accurated setting, existing and well-portrayed places (considering its limitations, obviously) and because zwing-zwang, blades and all that stuff. It'd probably be a 2/5 if it wasn't for the nostalgia factor.
I seriously need a break before Brotherhood or I'm gonna burn out though.
What the game does well at this point is well-known: you'll be assassinating people (either stealth or not, up to you), run through roofs and jump onto bales of hay. and that, no matter how much time passes, is hecking fun.
It's surely an incredible advance compared to the first Assassin's Creed, but even if slightly better it falls short in the similar issues: repetitive combat, clunky movement and camera, boring collectibles and puzzles.
The movement and the hopping around was a pretty big thing in those years, but it definitely didn't age magnificiently.
The combats are as boring and tedious as the collectibles, an infinite wait for the enemies to attack so you can either counter or side-step. Not only that, but the assassination is sometimes (luckily not too many times) hit and miss, sometimes it works as you want and sometimes it doesn't, usually fucking up the stealth.
The glyphs and the "puzzles" were mostly so stupid that I gave up doing them even if I were to find a glyph halfway through the game. Give me an actual puzzle instead of a "find a png with a 10% opacity on this painting", please?
The lines felt like they were written by a twelve years old and everytime you assassinate someone where time "stops" for a little bit to hear them saying something, you'll be left wondering if you just witnessed two Oblivion NPCs.
This issue makes the character feel very.. forgettable, except for certain rare cases such as Caterina Sforza. Ezio itself isn't the most incredible charming character either, as again it seems to be the fantasy of a twelve years old.
In the end it's an ok game because of the historically semi-accurated setting, existing and well-portrayed places (considering its limitations, obviously) and because zwing-zwang, blades and all that stuff. It'd probably be a 2/5 if it wasn't for the nostalgia factor.
I seriously need a break before Brotherhood or I'm gonna burn out though.