Assassin's Creed Odyssey: $27.29 at the time of review
This was my first foray into the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Honestly, I wasn’t going to get it until a buddy recommended it. Little did I know that this would become one of my favorite games of the last 10 years.
*What I liked*:
The world is a *beautiful* and faithful recreation of ancient Greece. There were moments (sunsets over the fields of wheat, for example) where I just sat there and watched the sunset. Just an amazing world to be in.
The story is fun and engaging. I won’t mention any specifics for fear of spoilers (even now, three years after it came out), but it’s pretty good writing for a video game.
The questing/world exploration incentive model is fantastic. You explore the many smaller Greek islands and each one has a number of objectives that can be completed in order to “complete” the storyline of that island. It’s a perfect break up of objective-based gameplay that lets me feel like I got something done in my gaming session.
There is a bounty system (think the star system from Grand Theft Auto) where increasingly tough bounty hunters come after you. I LOVE this! You can fight & kill them to work your way up the prestige ladder and become #1.
The skill tree and combat have been a polarizing thing in this game. But for me personally, it is amazing. You can really dial in on sneaking around and being stabby (my preference), being shooty (my second favorite), or being an outright brawler. There’s a little more weight on being a brawler due to a number of large battlefield type fights which basically render your sneaking null. But they are still doable (and even easy be sparing a few skill points to the melee tree).
The loot system is something closer to a Blizzard game with color-based rarity and randomized stats, another thing I LOVE. This makes getting a new piece of equipment potentially very exciting! Also, if you like the thing you have, you can just upgrade it. I used the same weapon for something like 40 hours of gameplay this way.
Speaking of gameplay, there is *so much* to do here. I spent over 150 hours in the game and I never got the DLCs. But the best part is that if you just want to focus on the story you can. You don’t have to get lost in the world, but you can if you want to!
*What I didn't like*:
So, this game isn’t perfect. There are some quality of life skills (*cough* no fall damage *cough*) that come later in the game than they should. I’m not a fan of forcing players to choose between a quality of life skill and combat skills and you do have to do that here.
There are some frustrating times where I think I should be stealthed but the AI seems to see me through walls.
The ship combat is… there. It’s pretty fun at first, but even with later boat and skill upgrades it becomes tedious. I ended up maxing it out my boat so that I could just face roll the ship fights.
*The Bottom Line:*
As I mentioned above, AC: Odyssey is one of my favorite games of the last 10 years. I know it’s not the typical AC game (in fact, it’s below average from that perspective) but as an open world roleplaying game it is amazing. It is five stars out of five all day long. I wish I could go back and play it again without knowing anything about it. I would absolutely buy this again. For $27 bucks?! Oh yeah!
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