Don’t me.Īlthough incidentally, it is sort of hilarious that Ubisoft made such a huge deal about allowing players to pick their genders (and even sexuality) within the game when I thought Syndicate allowed you to play both a man and a woman? Revisionist much? Everyone knows women can’t assassins! A second time…Īs already stated, I have enjoyed Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and actually think it might be something of a stand-out title in the series. However, there is still a modern-day plot, and this time the goal is to discover the hiding place of the Spear of Leonidas (which Alexios/Cassandra uses as their assassining-stabby-device).Īs a manly man myself who cannot relate to women I picked Alexios, so from this point on I will be referring to the protagonist as a “he”. You ALSO are doing this all through a new animus as one of the modern-day Assassins but their involvement is genuinely so minor that without Googling it, I couldn’t tell you a single of the modern-day character’s names. Now, following a series of events your character is thrown back into the world from where they were hiding away, going on a massive island-hopping adventure to discover the truth about their family, uncover a sinister cult and potentially rescue the Greek world and democracy itself!
You play as either Alexios or Cassandra, a Spartan child who was cast away when young and has had to go through life as a solitary misthios (a paid mercenary). Odyssey takes place in the world of the ancient Greeks, in a period following the Battle of Thermopylae (of 300 fame). No, the last of those, I’d argue, was Syndicate (although by that point the series itself was dying a pretty ignoble death given how Syndicate was received). What it is not though, is an Assassin’s Creed game. Flawed to be sure, but still pretty top notch.
So, rather than do my research I’m just going to pretend, for the duration of this review, that Origins doesn’t exist and everything is new.Īll this talk of new mechanics is important as well because at some point I want to ask “at what point does something no longer belong in a franchise?” I ask this because Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is in actuality a pretty excellent game. However, because I have not played Origins I don’t know which mechanics are specific to the new generation and which are specific to Odyssey. I mention this because I am going to spend a lot of time talking about “new” mechanics and changes to the formula of the series, changes which were likely largely made in Origins. This review requires acknowledgement of a couple of things: the last Assassin’s Creed I played prior to Odyssey was Black Flag back in 2013, thus missing out on AC: Origins, the first of the new style of Assassin’s Creeds.
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