Take it for what it is: 3.5/5
So I loved AC: Origins. I love a new take on a series and like it when developers take risks and do something different. I am actually enjoying the AC RPG trilogy and about to start Valhalla after this. I always encourage devs to take chances and try different things. This game I do however have mixed feelings on.
Most of my time, I enjoyed it. It is similar to Origins with the RPG mechanics. Way more grindy than Origins though, but I understand why because of their gear and abilities design. If you truly play this like an RPG it is not a bad experience. The gear and abilities can be tweaked to where you can feel like your character can be changed according to your playstyle.
The biggest gripe I do have with this, is the amount of quest that are just repeatable dailies like an MMO, the mercenary/wanted system is fun at first but does get annoying, and the assassinations are kind of annoying with most high-level boss type enemies are all just an action battle.
As for the quest, they are not bad, but I did enjoy Origins more. There were just a couple of repeatable quests in daily format for a piece of gear but most of the side quest and main story were awesome. This game, however, gets long winded and goes all out with a ton of quest that are pretty much like MMOs. Not bad for grinding and getting gear for the RPG mechanics, but again I get mixed feelings on these. Nice for getting gear/upgrading but they do break the immersion for a single player game with natural RPG progress.
Then, the mercenary system. It was cool and interesting at first, but holy cow it gets annoying later. So much so that they will randomly show up in the middle of a story quest and just disrupt the single player story flow. This is similar to Far Cry 5. I loved Far Cry 5 but again just getting interrupted while enjoying the story breaks the immersion. Again cool concept and nice to get gear but in AC: Odyssey, it gets even more frustrating later on. Also, be nice if I could at least assassinate them but at higher levels almost every one turns into a long fight that also gets longer as more mercenaries show up if you have even more wanted levels. More frustrating that fun at later levels with these mercenary/wanted systems.
Finally, I reiterate the assassinations. Origins you could still level pretty well and mostly still play it with assassinations. This game however I feel really handicapped You basically have to really tweak your gear to get enough assassination damage output to feel like an assassin. Especially annoying when you have a quest asking for you to be quiet when you end up going warrior build. I know it is more RPG like but it would have been nice to have you actually feel like an assassin. I highly highly recommend you get a secondary set of assassination only gear, yet... a mercenary might show up and boom you will have to fight him warrior skills and shift out of gear etc. Overall I tried to have a balanced set where I could kill most with assassinations and only a select few I would have to fight.
Overall, I have enjoyed my play through of AC Odyssey. I took it for what it was as a Greek open world RPG. As any RPG there is grind. When people talk about grind, it is an RPG…. That is the playstyle. I do not like to dog out a game if there is grind. The biggest gripe is the break in immersion because of some of these mechanics. If they tweaked the game to allow you to focus on the story more without the breaks in immersion and you go and do the side stuff like hunting mercenaries, killing high level bosses with one hit assassination shots, it really would have been much more enjoyable.
Well it has been a long time playing this and now on to Valhalla. Again, these are good games and I can see the time and effort put into these. This new AC RPG trilogy is so massive I am still in awe of the work of pulling this off. Anyone who craps on these games being dumb, terrible etc., go develop an open world game as large as these. Then come and complain to me. I did an entire year in college doing programming and just getting a simple security check on login with no security issues was freaking annoying. Why I do believe if you are interested in a lengthy Action RPG with a decent story and plenty to do. Pick this up. It is not as terrible as what others said. Worse comes to worse, as I always say, go watch some twitch streams and see the game in action if you would like.
Final note, I have finished it on Xbox but I have also played on PS, and on a nice mid-range PC. It works well everywhere and has gone through a breadth of patches.
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