Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018)

ENG

This game is a masterpiece! I love Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman history, so it was a delight for my eyes to see all the buildings, the atmosphere, the spoken Greek, the ship's songs, etc. The story is very interesting and the presence of some ancient people is an amazing thing too (I have played this game after reading the books of Herodotus). The Battle of Thermopylae was a great event and it was very delightful to see it being explored by the plot.

The open world trying to recreate part of Hellas was very rich, beautiful, colorful and full of life. The world is so beautiful that many times I felt that desire just to stop e observe the nature, for the good feeling it was bringing to me. The sea is fantastic! One can dive and see even fish and other wonders underwater. There are some shipwrecks undersea and one can find treasures and other contents.

EO

Ĉi tiu video-ludo estas ĉefverko! Mi amas historion de la antikva greka kaj antikva romia, do estis ĝojo por miaj okuloj vidi ĉiujn konstruaĵojn, la etoson, la parolatan grekan, la ŝipajn kantojn, ktp. La rakonto estas tre interesa kaj la ĉeesto de iuj antikvaj homoj estas mirinda afero ankaŭ (mi ludis ĉi tiun ludon post legi la librojn de Herodoto). La Batalo de la Termopiloj estis bonega evento kaj estis tre rave vidi ĝin esplorita de la komploto.

La malferma mondo provanta rekrei parton de Helado estis tre riĉa, bela, kolorigita kaj plena de vivo. La mondo estas tiel bela, ke multfoje mi sentis tiun deziron nur ĉesi kaj observi la naturon, pro la bona sento, kiun ĝi alportis al mi. La maro estas mirinda! Oni povas plonĝi kaj vidi eĉ fiŝojn kaj aliajn mirindaĵojn subakve. Estas kelkaj ŝiprompiĝoj submaraj kaj oni povas trovi trezorojn kaj aliajn enhavojn.

Things I learnt about this game:

• The only way to enjoy it is to play as a videogame character and not an actual person. Just go and kill everyone and steal everything just because the game gives you a checklist. If you try to find any sort of sense of motivations into what you do, you'll fail and lose all the fun

• Stealth absolutely sucks. For a game called "assassin's creed" assassination is as barebones as it can be. You can't really distract guards or move it around and they mostly stay still so you don't even get to memorise patrol patterns. And even if some NPC explicitly tells you to be sneaky, you don't actually need to. Essentially this is Brawler's Creed and the sooner you get that, the sooner you can start having fun and not re-loading your save ever time the finnicky "assassinate" prompt disappears just as you try to press it.

Oh, boy, so I've got to the moment in which I get to play some woman and watch her talk with other women about shit that I don't understand nor care about. Also, they all speak regular American English but still pronounce names in Greek, I literally cannot pay attention to anything but that.

Also, should I go back to jumping over rooftops and sailing the Greek seas or stay here and read a thousand emails?

Some feelings so far:

• Gorgeous world.

• Being able to have an "aesthetic" equipment and a "stats" equipment is brilliant; more games need to do this.

• The fact that when you equip a new piece of equipment it overrides your aesthetic equipment is painfully dumb.

• No nonsense magically-spawning horse is great. Much more useful than those silly BOTW quadrupeds.

• The horse handles too well. I still think that the best horse I experienced in a game was Shadow of the Colossus'.

Really a great game, but I am finding too many dialogues blunt and "disconnected". When you make the last dialogue choice when first talking to the wolf, Kassandra, who had been rather composed until then, just goes nuts. The change does not feel natural to me, at all - note I am not referring to her feelings, but to the aforementioned transition.

Further, while I recognize that describing a dialogue choice with just a couple of words can only be difficult, this game seems to me to have less success at it than other games.