Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018)

God damn do I love the Judgement of Atlantis. I am playing an Assassin's Creed game in an actual Isu city. Ok, a simulation of an Isu City, but all the same. I don't think I have enjoyed an AC game as much as I have Odyssey in a long, long time. I thought I enjoyed them, but this is on another level. I have two requests for future AC games.

1. A Viking AC game. I want to play a game with Viking ships and a setting that encompasses all of the Scandinavian landmasses. I also want a DLC that is the equivalent of The Judgment of Atlantis, with the full host of Norse Isu.
2. A full AC game set in an Isu civilization. Before the Greek civilization, but after the Isu create the humans, and then create the first human Isu hybrids. I want a game where your task is to lead the rebellion against the Isu.

Those two games would probably keep me busy for several years, at the rate I've been playing Odyssey.

According to Grouvee, I started playing this early February this year. That blows my mind, because I am still playing it. This is the longest I think I have ever played a single-player campaign game. I know that it's partially because I am taking it slow (and because Switch games continually demand my time), but it's also because I think this might be my favourite AC since AC III. I love Kassandra. I love the Greek world, and I love the sheer amount of Precursor content in this game. Origins gave us a taste with the Isu temple in the dessert, and some of the DLC content, but Odyssey finally returns the Isu as a significant aspect of the game narrative. There are moments in this game that produce in me an awe and excitement that rival what I felt when decoding of the glyphs in AC II that led to the revelation of The Truth. And that is without having experienced The Fate of Atlantis. I am stoked for that DLC.

While Ubisoft games always have their flaws, especially flaws related to the enormity of a game like this, I have to say I am thrilled to death with Odyssey.

1. Good story
2. Good combat
3. Good side missions
4. Good leveling system
5. Many many things to do
6. You can play like rambo killing everything in a castle or going steatlh like a tenchu game
7. Its the first time you use an artifact of eden the entire game, the spear of leonidas.
8. There are many cool questlines like the one where you have to find the 4 apples of eden, you have to take them off from creatures that descent from the isus ( they had sex with animals) like medusa and others.

The only bad things is the parkour and how ubisoft use recycle models of characters all the time, even for important characters

For all it was made out to be at launch, levelling really isn't slow in this game. I can't imagine paying for double XP, I'd hit level cap far too early based on my progress. This game is so big you could just spend most of your time on one island doing daily quests and eventually hit level cap.

I kind of want Ubisoft to dial it back a bit. I'm starting to feel the open world fatigue I had when playing Unity. Odyssey is a thousand times better than Unity (I mean anything is better than Arno) but I am frequently in a position of skipping content because there's just too much of it in this game. Origin was more manageable. It was easier to complete all the quests in a region. But now there are endlessly renewing quests, all forts and garrisons can be repeated indefinitely, and I swear to god there is no end to the number of mercenaries in this game. They must be randomly generated. I've cleared out whole mercenary tiers and there always seem to be more, even in the same tier. Although, the endless supply of mercenaries is great because some of them have sweet gear and I do love destroying one after another after another. They are much easier than they were in Origins. I think Ubi softened them up a bit because they really aren't a challenge, while some in Origins felt like mini bosses. I like the endless supply of loot, but I miss the higher challenge.