Assassin's Creed: Mirage - Before You Buy
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2023
- Assassin's Creed: Mirage (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S) is a simple, shorter Assassin's Creed game modeled after the classic style. How is it? Let's talk.
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The one thing I loved about the very first Assassin's Creed game was the challenge to sneakily assassinate just the evil bad guy from above in each chapter and then escape with minimal carnage. The original bad guys in AC1 were legitimately evil.
Evil with the desire to control to varying degrees of depth.
Well they added that back to mirage
I feel like that was the classic games' worst aspect, story wise.
It's supposed to be a gray conflict, each side with their ideologies and flaws, but the Templars from AC1 up to Ezio's Trilogy are legit like cartoon villains. Thankfully in some future games they gave the Templars more nuance and understanding rather than just being cliché le evil bad guys
@@GabryyLG Not really tbh. They justify their cruelty as a sacrifice/means to achieve world order, and thus peace, similar to how the brotherhood did through Altair.
almost all the bad guys in AC games are cartoonishly evil. Never felt any nuance since ezio and kenway trilogy
The sluggish movement was something i immediately noticed in the first gameplay trailer. I think it’s his run cycle, Basim looks like he’s perpetually going on his morning jog.
I think the team who worked on watchdogs are doing the walk/combat/parkour stuff on all ac games after syndicate hence the downfall.
It just looks like AC Valhalla movement tbh
@@oldtimer666it's all made in Unity's engine which is why everything feels so sluggish and clunky.
@@Pedro_Le_Chef They haven't change the fucking AnvilNext 2.0 yet? Even Unity looks more appealing than the last 4 games lmao
@@Pedro_Le_Chef Do you mean the game engin Unity or the game engine they used for Assassin's Creed Unity? If you meant the engine Unity that's not true. If you meant the engine they used for Unity, it doesn't explain why the parkour felt so much more fluid and satisfying in AC Unity. They actually went backwards in that regard.
The AC Unity stealth kills were honestly peak. They were well animated and FELT precise. Like Arno knew exactly the weak spots to target, as an assassin should. Definitely wish they brought back that variety of both running kills and stealth kills and different animations for each. Also you gotta be able to manually engage and retract the blade. That's just a staple of any assassins creed game imo. Combat in the older games was simple but it worked for what it was at the time. I think they nailed it in Unity if only they offered more variety in enemies and smoothed out the gameplay and animations for combat. Overall Ubisoft should have stuck with the Unity systems and built off of them to make them smoother.
Unity was beyond underrated. Been replaying the sequences and it still holds up incredibly, the amount of customization that game provided was peak
Unity was great in that the first few hours Arno was a mess, i couldn't control his parkour and his combat was atrocious, but over time he got better and better and by the end of the game his parkour & combat skills were second to none. i felt the same way with Mirage, though the animations were more clunky than in Unity, but at first Basim was getting bodied by 1 or 2 guards, by the end, and by utliziing all his skills in combat, he was wiping the floor with entire squads.
I personally loved Unity and played it a lot… I do agree with the stealth kills… so much satisfaction came from doing it just right and not being caught
Unity flopped because it had a disastrous launch technically and because the story was incredibly boring. AC3 felt epic because they interwove it with American Revolution and Conor was integral to that struggle. For some baffling reason with Unity they set it against the backdrop of the French Revolution and then....... ignored it completely to tell a pound store version of Romeo and Juliet.
BUT in terms of the parkour and the assassinations it was probably best in class.
@@PaulWatchorn-uz2eq totally agree. The French revolution felt like a vague conflict compared to previous games and they did an awful job of interweaving it with the assassin story. I played through the story twice and couldn't even tell you what happened in general.
I'm with you on AC going back to its roots. The 1st one was tedious and repetitive but I thought it was cool and interesting how they tied in historical events and figures into the game, especially so in the AC2 games. I tried playing the newer open world one and they were just a bit overwhelming for me. The exploration is interesting but can be burdensome. This is definitely a welcome change to AC fans like us.
What do you mean the first one was tedious? Maybe if you played the game years later, but it was super innovative for its time
@@omgfackdehellit was the same missions over and over. not really innovative at all. everything else was tho ig
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Said the 10 yo who bought and played all of them in a month
Great review Jake!
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I’m glad the map is smaller Valhalla was kind of overwhelming with the size
definitely a positive here
It was wayy too big for me 😂
Yeah I played 15 minutes of Valhalla and it was a little too much. I went back to black flag it's still just the right amount of everything and holds up
Valhalla was empty too, odyssey/origins despite being huge felt so lived in and had a lot to explore, but it makes sense why Valhalla feels kind of empty, It's how it was meant to be due to the Anglo-saxon time period.
Valhalla map size was fine, and representative of the sparseness of the period the game was set in.
I missed how they had Desmond and the story of him learning from his ancestors and how they both had a story. I loved it and they dropped the ball.
AC died for me when they killed off desmond all that potential down the drain, but hey, it's ubisoft afterall 😔😢
@@bluemajiic1979yea that was weird bro
@@bluemajiic1979if you continue playing Assassin's Creed games Desmond is not dead he just became a being of energy
Love the games, started playing way back when and the first game and the twist was nice but after that the present day segments were so boring lol
It's unfinished they should give him a proper goodbye
I'm torn between the newer and older AC games. I like both of them in different ways. I absolutely love the overarching story of AC games, since the RPG trilogy were longer there was more of that, rather than the ~15 hours Mirage lasted for me. I hope they continue to make both RPG and old school versions.
I hope they do bylut not call it assassin's Creed
I remember when assassin creed was dropping in its prime i played ac 1 to now the day they dropped im 24 so I have a chunk of years to back this up at least but people used to beg Ubisoft when I was a kid and teenager to make action rpgs exactly like Valhalla and now that it’s hear the og fans are back pedaling what we asked for for a decade I’m not being hostile at all btw I know how social media be
same I really like the RPG AC games but also like the classic short story assassin AC games, both genres have their own strengths and weaknesses alike
I loved ac Valhalla, but also loved the Ezio games, think its okay to love both. @@Lewiss248
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Anyone that has played AC from the beginning fell in love with this series because it was different. I love how they weave their story into history that we know or can lookup. I don't mind the newer games there are parts that are great. But a mix between the old and new game styles would be a welcome sight I think
The novelty wore off FAST for me. Their adherence to history or geography is practically a joke. They've even given up the pretense in recent releases. On top of that there is the lame scifi plot which means you are *never* playing an assassin. Instead you're playing some dork called Desmond or whatever from the future playing the assassin. It's a completely needless and jarring disconnect from the game proper. They should reboot this series and dump all the scifi shit entirely. Just have some mysteries around the place, like you might find in RDR2 and leave it at that.
I enjoyed every Assassin's Creed games, but can't ignore the fact of the downgrade after syndicate
@@mohammedwissam3064 honestly the downgrade started with syndicate
Go play assassins creed syndicate : Jack the Ripper tbh
@drxym The parts with Desmond are part of the game itself and the story is really good with an underlying narrative. There doesn't need to be an adherence to actual history because this is still a Sci-Fi story, it's not our world and it never was. Even AC1 had Sci-Fi elements and if you disagree with it being that way then it means you were never a fan of the series and should be looking for a History Simulator of some sort because that's not Assassin's Creed.
It's wild to think they haven't innovated on environmental gameplay. The crowd options in AC2 made you feel so stealthy and they just forgot how to try on the stealth options. Last time they tried was Unity with more interiors to navigate and the disguise option. Even AC1 had the prayer hands. Imagine if they'd thrown all those stealth options into this game, with some environmental discretion options to interact with the world which causes a distraction or obfuscates or gives you access to something else.
Let's just be glad they brought those features from the old days back for now. I have no doubt at all your exact point is something people will make when it comes to time to talk about the next one.
I’d say they left the praying option out because Bazim is Muslim most likely 🤷🏼♂️ Christianity is not present. It’s authentic
You can hide in crowds mate and you can hire merchants to use like the priests in AC1. You can hide in benches, enemies actually search and look for you relentlessly (something which hasnt happened in years. And i meand decades. Even before Unity).
the problem with AC Mirage is that they didn't even go back to original AC style... they literally just made a smaller scale AC Odyssey type game lol
@@Ed_Assyrianexactly!! The graphics look the exact same too😂😂😂
My dream AC game would be Origins for actual combat, Unity for parkour and open worldness (not really open world but also not linear), AC3 for assassinations, and AC2 for story. I think combining all those aspects into one game would make for a great seller.
Leaning more towards odyssey combat or Valhalla but the rest..definitely
Ac3 and Syndicate style side missions too
Imagine an Assasins creed game with the quality of Rockstar/Gta.😅
The first time I saw Damascus in the first Assassin's Creed is forever burned into my memory. One of my core gaming memories. I would love to see the series go back to its roots.
I swear to god
A little help for anyone that feels parkour is weird. I personally switched controller configs around to be closer to AC4 / UNITY. In the config menu you can also determine if a button has to be held or tapped for an input. I now hold circle to decent, hold x to parkour and my R2 to sprint while doing it just like the classics. It feels like butter now 🥂
I literally did the same thing so much better
Oh really? That’s cool. I like the idea of r2 to sprint. Are X and O configured to be pressed for each action rather than automatic when holding? Did you also change assassinate to square?
Dope gonna check that out
I think they should bring back Unity’s systems. That was the perfect evolution of the formula just needed to get the story part and glitches out the way
@@BuddyChy I kept assassinate as R1. Withe the button you can press or hold
Totally agree about the hidden blade kills. Half the time, Basim does the stupid “swipe” animation where they phase their whole hand through an enemy, and there’s still the age-old problem of guards seemingly stopping in their tracks just to get stabbed.
And you’d think sliding before assassinating someone would trigger a slide-stab animation (something that they’ve animated and can just recycle), but nope, Basim just snaps into the regular standing stab animation. Ubisoft games feel AA
I've always wanted something really simple: some kind of controller input where you can choose the type of hidden blade animation, like for example holding down X and up, or holding down X and down, etc, you get different kinds of animations. It's really simple and they can do it easily.
They’re not even AA lol
here cause "they" contemporary fairies smh 😂😂
@@drexgaming7194 keyword: feel
Did you just use "they" when talking about basim lol 😂
I've played for about 7 hours already and I have to say I love it. The characters can be a bit extra, and I think Jake hit the nail right on the head when he said the assassinations didn't feel right. That's exactly my biggest problem in the game. Assassinations never felt locked to an animation. Like in the older games if you walked up to a guard you could nonchalantly stab him in the neck and keep walking away and it felt seemless. I know they could fix this and make it better if we let them know these problems with the games. They listened to what we wanted from a new assassins creed, we should see how much they'll listen to actual fans of the franchise. Ac1 and 2 were before me but I've been playing since three and even played the remake of the ezio trilogy. I'm excited to see what ubi does with it, even if they ruin it
Not exciting to see a game get ruined in any regard... This franchise is so old and it'd be a real tragedy to see it get ruined. The games were always a success regardless... Going back to roots is fine but I hope they make bigger games like their last titles too, which I personally enjoyed more. I don't want to pay $70 for less content really... That's what people are essentially cheering for. Pay more for less. It's kinda weird, not gonna lie
its all Basims fault!
Odyssey and Valhalla are my 2 favorite games.
TIP: Changing the control scheme to the classic one is a major step in the right direction in terms of making it feel like the old games. There's a tutorial on YT for it as we speak. If you watch it, Be sure to change the attack (press) and heavy (hold) attacks to X or square, and you're set.
At least someone said it. Based 💯
I loved the older Assassin's Creed games. AC2 was so well done and simple. Ezio is still the most memorable character in any of them to me. I still have to look up the character names of all the "modern" AC games and I've completed all of them.
To be fair, we did spend like 4 games with Ezio, so he his by far the most fleshed out character in the AC universe, but I haven't played an AC game since Syndicate 😬
@@AdanteWatts that's a great point but you have to believe we spent so many games with him due to fan demand. But then again by the 4th game, sales dropped so that's a very solid argument.
Not really Evior , Kassandra , unity or rogue is memorable too
@@AdanteWattsyou should try Odyssey n Valhalla trust me
Same besides Edward Kenway, hard to forget that guy lol
If you are having problems with Basims momentum while running. One great tip to solve this is to go into your control settings and tinker with them. By default the sprint on controller is binded to the left analogue stick and is set to toggle to sprint but you can change this very easily. It has the option to hold to sprint instead of toggle this way you always know that when you are holding the button down you are sprinting. For me as well I binded sprint to the right trigger which made the whole experience of running through the city feel far more satisfying. There are lots of settings you can change to make things feel more like the older games. Plus one bonus fact which I have appreciated is the amount of animations both combat finishers and assassination animations that are taken directly from AC unity since most people forget that these games are made using the Anvil Engine. Overall loved this game I agree it is a middle ground between the different genres of games in the series
I played all assassins creed from the start, but I like both sorts, so I think a mix of them is perfect. Can't wait to play this game and see if it turns out to be how I expect it, a mix!
9:40 I think it's mainly because most of the time Basim goes for the stomach or chest while assassinating someone and after that he throws them to the ground as everyone looks while Ezio mostly went for the neck with a quick stab and by the time the target slowly fell to the ground, Ezio could go into hiding in the crowd again. It's obvious what's more satisfying here and who's the best Assassini of all time.
I really enjoyed the way you explained that. Thank you
Well they tended to combine it with a pretty forceful sort of push movement or a quick spinny slash. There was a real sense of weight behind it.
The best Assassini of all time was Altair. Ezio was the most popular one (deservingly so)…but if you compare every aspect of what makes one an Assassini and the legacy they left behind….Altair is second to none…even Ezio was always giving respect to Altair.
totally agree
it's the same with Arno in ac unity, he is just so damn clean with the assassinations
Yeah love the move where you could could stab a guard and would just keep walking past like nothing happened. Everything looks so clunky to me in this game.
Black Flag had a great story with interesting characters and excellent voice acting. I absolutely loved that game. I enjoyed Odyssey and Origins but the writing just didn't pull me in. The quality of the story & narrative makes a huge difference.
Black flag was on another level
Hated Origins combat system...and a chore to battle multiple enemies
Black flag is still my favourite AC
Black Flag ship battles was epic too.
Very true. AC4 had the Best Story in any AC games
I really do like what they did with this game. As a massive fan of the series and liking both newer and older games, this game was great. Took what I loved from the older games with what I loved from the newer games (mostly Origins since that game was amazing compared to Odyssey and Valhalla) and made something great.
Except the combat system is absolute shit. It doesn't give you enough time to recognise whether you have to parry or dodge. By the time you've seen the colour indicator, you've already been hit, and the parry mechanic in general is unforgiving. I get that we want a challenge, but it's flawed. Completely sapped the fun out of the game for me. When on a mission to liberate Ali or whatever his name is, I was doing great until one guard saw me. Just a regular guard kicked my arse for the reasons I stated above. I had to turn it off. Unity had the best combat by far. It was challenging when surrounded, but one guard isn't going to beat you, and so he shouldn't. The parrying also felt good. Playing this after finishing Spider-Man 2 really showed how bad Ubisoft are. I want a refund!
@@craig8304it sounds like you just suck
I actually agree with you Jake, I loved the combat of AC and ACII. Glad to see they returned to it. I'll definitely be picking up this game as soon as I can :)
I agree with you as far as liking the first AC combat. Yes it was technically too “easy” but I loved the one hit kills
You run a sword through someone they typically die. I despise the bullet sponges of them later games
@@mtnman8783absolutely agree
@@mtnman8783someone runs a sword at you, you typically die but no just keep tanking hits and heal with some plant lmao. Don't try to apply realistic logic to a game my guy
@@v9730Dawg there needs to be a balance. Honestly to me unity had the best combat. It was easy, satisfying, and smooth. The game needs to be realistic but arcadey enough to be fun ya kno.
@@lewisholland4925 unities combat was slick as heck. Loved that game and honestly consider it to be last real.assassins Creed game
The problem with the parkour feeling off is big. It's just hold A/X and move. If it had right trigger and A/X to sprint, it would feel a little more like you're actively controlling the speed and made the other games feel so much better than the simplified nature of the newer games. Old control scheme worked so much better for me. Kinda wish they'd gone that route and went even more like the old AC games
Change the controller settings. I hold RT and A (xbox) to sprint/parkour.
Thats literally the original control scheme for the OG AC games, press A, run towards a wall and then parkour
@@jsrocker248Right I’m thinking what’s the complaint comparison to here. It’s literally started as this
The climbing, even the running, feels so dull. It's not fun. The game is ass
The only gripe with this game I have is the fact that sprint is on toggle and you can't change it
i loved Mirage. it wasn't perfect, but it was most of the things i loved about AC before it kept growing and growing until it was almost not even about the Assassins anymore. visually and musically it was beautiful as well. i hope for smaller entries in the series like this in future in between the massive ones and the mobile/VR ones.
I’m one of the people who enjoyed Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla a lot. I was a bit reluctant when I saw that they were going back to the old system but after buying it, I think it’s a great game.
Thanks, as always, Jake, for your fair and balanced reviews. I am not convinced to or dissuaded from buying this game, at least not yet, but you've given me a decent amount to consider for if and when I might wanna get it.
Sounds like a title that would be great to wait for a sale. It is only 50$ new and not 70$
Wait a second, that's some ass creed origins combat. I thought this was back to basics
same, thanks for my neighbor gamer review! I know exactly how he fell. ( old time gamer here )
“A Valhalla DLC that got spun into its own game”. I hate when companies pull this crap. Nope hard pass until it drops to $10 or goes on gamepass. If it was meant to be a dlc, then charge dlc price. Don’t charge full price for a half baked game
I’m sure the Assassin’s Creed subreddit is perfectly happy and no one is arguing about the reviews of this game!
(lol)
Gotta say the price definitely helps. $49.99 for a lean assassin creed game is great. I agree this is a step in the right direction. Once they focus and actually make a game that’s not based on DLC from the newer games i can see this becoming a great genre again
Plus it's available at release on their $15 subscription
i thought it was $50?
Its $49.99 for the Standard version, $59.99 for Deluxe. Not sure where you got $40.
Just purchased from the game collection and they have a deal with 4.3k point back (£10) so I can use the points in the future for final fantasy or something
@@FrigidHeights *uses Jedi mind trick* why of course that’s what I said
I've been a fan of Assassin's Creed since the first game. It was a huge part of my childhood and I've played every single main line game. Mirage brought back memories of those first games, so that's a plus. It has a nice setting and historical ambience. I hope Ubisoft finds a way to either: combine old and rpg Assassin's creed to satisfy both sides or that they can alternate between them.
IMHO teu nailed it on Unity. It's a shame the game was rushed on release and most people never played it again after the fixes... Something similar-ish to cyberpunk, but the latter had its chance of redemption.
@@pedroh.m.8989 I had loads of fun with unity
The plan is to alternate between both styles. I don't know if they're are going to alternate between both every year though. I do know that the next game in feudal Japan will be the RPG type.
@@pedroh.m.8989yes dude. Unity was one of my favorites from the pre rpg days.
@@pedroh.m.8989once they fixed all the game breaking bugs and stuff, Unity was actually fire 🔥
I’ve played about 10 hours now, and I’d say your assessment is spot on. Hope the future AC games are like this but better, a little closer to the feel of the older ones.
Fortunately this is just an exception and the next couple of games will be full RPGs again
@@m.r4841lame. There’s already so many rpg games around. We should let Assassin creed be what got it popular
My favourite was actually Assasin's Creed 3. I loved the game play, setting, story and especially the momentum with the smaller axes.
3 was my favorite one too. I loved the myth side quests (headless horseman, lochness monster, etc.)
I loved the parkour and combat
same. also the crafting and homestead elements kept me busy.
Yes yes yes. I think it was the best one
i hated 3, it was worse than syndicate and unity for me
While this game does go back to its roots, I was hoping that they would do more with the mechanics and give us more ways to really flesh the mechanics out. But this is a good direction, I hope Ubisoft is convinced that this is the kind of games some of us really want and I hope they invest more into games like this alongside whatever RPG thing they're doing
this was meant to be a dlc
They didn't have the time or budget for that. With what they were given, they completely changed the gameplay style and added so many old features and made it actually about assassins. I think they did a pretty good job.
They had to back step from the RPG stuff first.
They need to actually continue the series in this direction if we’re ever going to see meaningful additions to the core AC gameplay.
this aint roots
Why couldn't they just build Upon Unity
@@NO0Kn0OK budget and time
Ezio in revelations was slow but skilled, he was clearly close to retirement but smooth and knowledgeable.
Man I've got really old playing Assassin's Creed. My back hurts now😅
Something I miss a lot for brotherhood and revelations is getting assassins to join your guild and training them up to be these assets you can call on at all times during the game
I’m really enjoying it 😂 it’s much harder than previous AC games you can’t just fight everyone if you get seen - bad habits I picked up from the last 3 games!
Noooooo I used to do that to 😭😭
@@captainnaruto1500why don’t you just shut up and kiss me already!!
It's literally easier than ever before... how bad are you?
I haven’t played it yet
@@Somtric lol 😂
Why do the graphics look from 4-5 yrs ago?
I was about to comment this only
AC mirage is easily one of my favorites in thr series and it make me think of the very old school from the first one ❤️
I was a huge fan of the old AC games, this one looks like it could be a cool throwback but definitely not good enough to play full price for. Also from what was shown, I would have given a pretty similar review as you.
what do you mean not pay full price, its 50 euros brother. I havent played any AC game since syndicate cause i saw that these were not AC game. Mirage feels like the old good games. I am currently 1h into the game and I fully recomend it.
it isn't full price. it's 49.99
It's not full price.
I don’t know if you know but it isn’t full price lol
Complaining for no reason, wow have some gamers become so self entitled, it's not full price, as others have said, it has around 43 main missions, if you want to talk about full price, try the new Spider-Man 2 game, which costs here between $105-$120, and it's said to be around similar length in its story compare to assassins creed mirage
I really enjoyed Origins, Odyssey, and some of Valhalla. But I feel like this is a refreshing throwback that a lot of us AC fans will enjoy.
Odyssey was really good imo except the corny dialogues.
@@Wpeoplee lmao agreed, odyssey was my favorite from the three
I enjoy all the games way back to the first, but I liked the direction they went in the last three games. The problem with this game is they are trying to satisfy all the fans instead of committing to one direction all the way which they should have
@@snakedoctor145yeah i wish they didn't cater to the old fans that are blinded by nostalgia and won't accept change. i've been playing since the beginning and those games got stale after 3. i tried to go back and replay them but it was rough. definitely didn't get the same enjoyment from them like i did originally. the last 3 games were definitely a breath of fresh air for this franchise.
yet lack of features. i shall pirate these games till i die or they fix and add achv
I bought the game because I appreciate when a company listens to the feedback , I am aware that Ubisoft lost track of its products quality in the last years but I am glad they are making changes and starting to reconnect with its audience, I am super optimist with y this franchise future , Mario rabbids, the upcoming avatar and Star Wars games.
They did for this game, but their next big project is going back to open world format
This is the first AC I’ve bought day one since Unity. And I am not disappointed the slightest. ❤
I’m with you. I loved AC1 and 2s (the ezio ones really). Rather than smacking one guy 12 times with a crazy big sword, timing 7 parries to installing a huge group of guards was awesome, especially when down to just a hit left of your own health
Yeah I fucking hate these health bars bullshit, this is not what I expected when I heard AC is coming back to it's roots, this is nothing like the old games
you can still play like that lol.
@@Mart-E12Should've watched the video first
I did and it's nothing like the old games. The only upsides are graphics and cool outfits
@@Mart-E12 He literally said in the video multiple times that it was not like the old games
I loved Brotherhood. I loved that Ezio could recruit potential new assassins, train them, and send them on missions. And once they've reached their max level; you perform the Assassin ceremony. I also loved everything about Black Flag. I wouldn't mind a Black Flag 2
Brotherhood may possibly be my favorite AC game, soo good!! Also how could one not love Ezio, he was such a perfect character for the series
Brotherhood with unity combat and parkour
Brotherhood had one good thing: multiplayer lol. It was so damn fun xD
And when they died you’d close their eyes 😢
Dont know about a Black Flag 2 but i heard rumours that Ubisoft is working on a Black Flag remaster... fingers crossed, i just recently played Black Flag for like the 4 or 5th time but i'd definetly play the remaster again when it comes out.
Watching this at Walmart parking lot contemplating if I should pick this up while they’re on sale 😅
I really miss the old apprentice system from ac brotherhood and revelations! I really wish they implement something like that in games moving forward. I also agree with the animations and parkour being jenky, I really liked the unity animations, it felt really well done and I hope someday we can get something like that again. I am enjoying everything else about mirage so far though. The story may be a bit lacking in characters, they just don't feel as interesting to me, maybe because I didn't play valhalla, but maybe with time. I also like the hitman-ish style of the big assassination missions.
I believe for an Assassin’s Creed game to be great, we need to really be put in the protagonists shoes in the setting they’re in & the atmosphere has to be realistic. For me, the previous games that have amazed me were in simple connections that the games do because of how well put together the entire world was. Example: AC2 as Ezio you would get random mini games to hug or handshake someone mid cutscene creating more immersion with the player & character, AC3 when you would do a viewpoint music would start playing as you moved up to the final moment when you synch, Or Ac4 as you get off the boat to a new island the camera kinda moves off center to show you the island & all the objectives you can complete on it! As a old fan, those are minor experiences I recall gave me much enjoyment to the assassin’s creed franchise instead of a mindless open world, or repetitive side quests that seem like homework rather than adventure 😅.
For me, it's how much focus they apply to the depicted era. And if that means taking a bit of focus away from the Assassin story itself, that actually makes it better for me.
What I loved about Black Flag was that it basically didn't even care about telling a story about the assassins, instead it wanted to tell you a story about the golden age of piracy reaching its end.
Ah yes finally someone mentions the music kicking in just before reaching the top of a viewpoint. I loved that.
They’re all great in their own way. Very profitable and beloved by the people they were made for. Every game was amazing in its own way to me… and millions of others😊
The music that plays as you approach a viewpoint is easily one of my favorite little things from AC3. It evokes such a strange feeling. I can't put it into words. Those long, drawn-out notes feel suspenseful, which is fitting when you hear it in the early stages of the game as the war is building up. Those notes also have a courageous sound, and even a sort of depressing sound, all of which are fitting for both the American Revolution and for Connor's story. I get chills every time it plays.
They never disappoint us in making a 7/10 AC game.
7/10 is good tbf
@@UserNot_Known you mean average?
@@UserNot_Knownmore like 6/10 for fumbling core elements like movement, assassinations and combat
ubisoft games not good and not bad. i give 5 or 6 for ubisoft games.
@@UserNot_KnownThey're basically the MCU of video games, pumping out mediocre products left and right.
I have never seen Ubisoft make a GOTY worthy game yet.
I've played all of the Assassin's Creed games over the years and I've enjoyed them all for different reasons. Ezio's games are by far my favourite--just because of the vibe, the setting, and the gameplay. But I also enjoyed Odyssey, even though it didn't feel like a classic Assassin's Creed game and at times the sheer size of it was overwhelming (I'm a Greek mythology nerd, so that probably had something to do with it). Ultimately, I'm in favor of AC going back to basics. The older games are classics for a reason and I'd love to see characters like Ezio come back again.
As a classic AC fanboy, and a person who doesn't have much time; I appreciate the attempt to return to the roots to the simple. Spending 100+ hrs on a game, I just dont have the time with life being the way things are and have been. I have Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla; played Origins for about 2 hrs and never picked it back up
Me too. I have 3 kids so I dont have that much time to play. Valhalla is just as trash but have you tried odyssey? Ive sunken almost 200 hours into that game because its just that good(including the atlantis dlc). If you havent I suggest you do. Hardcore AC fan here and Odyssey made me forget all of the disappointments that Ubisoft has dished out all these years since the OGs
Assassin's Creed 1 and 2 had such a satisfying feeling when running around and using the hidden blade! So sad to see they haven't fully committed to going back to their roots with this one, hate seeing healthbars above enemies etc.
You can dissable all hud stuff to your liking
Yeah but have you gone back to AC1 recently? It aged badly.
Ac 2 also had health bars above the enemies heads
bro ac2 has healthbars😂
They had health bars too. removed in some but added back in others. In Valhalla you can turn off the rpg stuff so it plays more like the older games one shot assassination and no levels
I like Unity best when it comes to those quick hidden blade kills, you can toss a smoke bomb and just go to work on four guys then disappears, though I never thought it was realistic to just one-tap someone like that. Here it looks like Basim is putting a lot of force behind his strikes which gives more killing power. It also seems he takes a moment to consider how and where to strike which might speak to his inexperience being an assassin. Plus this is AC1-era hidden blade which I think has to be engaged before you use them. Overall that gives a little bit of a lag which breaks the momentum. I've been looking forward to this one, might gives it a whirl and see.
I LOVE unity's stealth and parkour and I wanted mirage to be like unity
But I guess they are taking baby steps with it (ubisoft).
Unity has the best stealth and parkour in Assassin Creed franchise
No game will ever top that
The game brings back the Unity hidden blade assassinations with some new ones on top.
@@dragomegaman3711Every game before Unity had better parkour and Ac brotherhood had better stealth than unity.
Now Mirage also has better stealth than Unity.
@@Pedro_Le_Chef with stealth not being best, I agree. but It definitely was the smoothest and best parkour in all of AC series.
My favorite AC is origins. The map is varied and beautiful, the weapon and armor system is simple but customizable and completing side missions doesn't get repetitive+ you get better weapons that are fun to use
I like black flag with the naval combat and big map. I wish it was more fleshed out. I stopped playing until orgins, never beat odyssey but loved Valhalla. They are hit and miss. I don't even understand the outside story anymore and it's gotten pointless
Origins is the worst game ever so overrated got scammed into playing that stupid game never seen such a bad game i will rather play Gotham knights 1000 times
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The first AC game I’ve played was origins, i fell in love with it alongside oddyssey and valhalla. I really like the RPG aspect. Mirage just feels like there’s something missing for me..
Mirage tries to step away from the RPG element, it tries to go back to the roots.
Great review Jake! As a fan of the entire franchise, I’m saddened to say I may not give this a shot. Maybe on a deal. The thing that made the originals sooooo good was the in depth story and gameplay. I loved the new ones but it was definitely too much lol if the story isn’t captivating in Mirage, I’m not sure it will draw me in enough, but I guess only time will tell when I try it out. Thanks again for the before you buy! Amazing as always.
Completely agree
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they just need to add ac valhalla brutal finisher mechanic and this will be perfect
They should have made this in unity- syndicate engine. I enjoyed the newer games, but only finished origins. I will wait for sale before buying this.
I've 99 percent completed every Assassin's Creed. I've learned to wait a year or even 2 for all bugs to be worked out and DLC to be finished. Then I buy the complete edition for $20. I do this because of Unity. It's also a mainly single player game so no big deal about waiting. Thanks for the video!
Altair will always be the OG, wonderful game. Great story.
Ezio will always be the fan favorite, his life story is amazing to watch with each release of the games.
I've always loved open world rpg's. So Odyssey, Black Flag, Origins, and Valhalla were fun. But the essence of AC was lost ever since Revelation.
I wanted to try Mirage.... but if the flow of killing and free running isn't there, I'll pass. Maybe next game ? 😅
I have no idea...what type of Assassin's creed game u need. Trust me! ubisoft gave their all creating this game and I love it. I even loved the older games to be honest. I actually loved them all.
Not planning on getting the game but Gameranx always puts out good videos, keep up the awesome work!!!
Wait for empress
@@aaradhyanagar2097when tho??
@@Aravind-aceI guess it will take a month,like it always does 🥲
@@aaradhyanagar2097 Son of a bee-hole, I thought there was going to be an AC game called AC: Empress... -_-
I Googled that shit and imagine my disappointment!
Wtf! The Whole Game Industry will collapse if you don't buy this game
Initially started this series with AC2 and absolutely fell in love. Somewhere in between Brotherhood and Revelations I played AC1 and thats when I trully became enveloped into this series as a whole. Very much like yourself, I feel the same way on your key notes. Getting to play Origins with Bayek was fun and nice to see the key roots of where the Assassins come from, but I feel like that game (for all its glory) pushed us in the wrong direction with this series. I feel a turn in the tide with Mirage. I’m going in with very little expectations but from what i’ve seen, I’m actually already enjoying it. People say Basim is slow but really I think he works somewhat better than Altair and Ezio. What made their movements look more appealing and fluid is when we learned to break the movement by using side and back ejects properly. I remember the first time seeing what AC2 parkour was actually capable of and it was so cool because it made it look like there was a learning curve to movement and really distinguish how you play. Basim has flashier moves but not having those side and back ejects are what limit him. Overall, I love this series but ever since Unity its been all over the place with what was good and bad and honestly I just hope this “return to roots” is what gets us back to the games we love
Nah, strong disagree.
Origins is a masterpiece.
The one that screwed things up was Odyssey and even that game wasn't so bad.
Take us back to the games we love? Lol
Origins was peak Assassins Creed.
@@MeGustanLosTacos1013you’re smoking crack
While I do agree with you, I actually liked the RPGs. I think it would be better if Ubisoft had two franchises, one for the RPGs, and one for the originals
No one’s reading allat buddy. Ur not him
Assassin's Creed Odyssey was the best out of all of them. In my opinion.
You clearly haven’t played the Ezio games
Very unpopular opinion but odyssey and vahalla are much more entertaining because you can play how you want to play I hate when games hold my hand to much and there seems to be nothing but story here
i agree 1000%
Even if the story’s a little lacklustre, I’m a sucker for the addictive pure assassin gameplay itself so this one feels worth a try, especially in the desert setting which is a nice shake up from the older games that this gameplay style references (I say references not uses entirely).
I feel like the old games were good because they were different. There's much better games out there now of that style
@@Awesome30034could you name some?
Seconded
Odyssey was great in introducing super bosses. Also the tough mercenaries hunting you. Loved that as the flight Ng is v répétitive
The only thing I love about Odyssey is the exploration and world building. It's just crazy we can explore whole ancient Greece.
it also introduced pool noodle combat.
Yeah I personally love odyssey, I just wish they added actual consequences for breaking stealth and made combat more lethal and something to be avoided. I know it gets alot of hate cause it's not what a core AC game should feel like (I agree with that) but it's still fun (the basis for what a video game should be) and would be perfect if the things I mentioned were in the game
@@jessegarcia526 I agree with you. Odyssey was a good ancient Greece themed RPG game. It was just a poor assassins creed game.
Just picked up Mirage with the end-of-year sale and actually really enjoying it. Being from the same generation of gaming as Jake and Falcon (allegedly for the bird) I have very similar tastes so I must have seen this review at least three times. I absolutely love the aesthetics and design of ancient Islamic architecture and find this recreation of Baghdad beautiful. The colours, ceramic tiles patterns, overall warmth, gardens, and markets (and I love how the Assassins bureaus are the same as in the very first AC). The smaller contained scope feels really nice, but wish the characters had more time to get us more involved and attached to them. I so wish it could control like Unity (especially having replayed it just before Mirage) and give Basim fluid assassinations like Arno depending on your momentum. Glad there is a double assassination mechanic that is not the teleporting thing, didn't use it once apart from the tutorial moment. Give me back a bow instead.
Here's hoping they could find the sweet spot in scope and size somewhere between Mirage and Origins with the tight parkour of Unity and combat of Origins (or closer to Ghost of Tsushima) would be doing it for me.
Also wish they would just drop the Isu bit but that's a personal thing, it just doesn't work for me.
I would personally draw the line right after AC Unity. The ones after just lost its dna. Ezio trilogy was the peak in terms of mechanics and lore. So many iconic characters and the narrative was well written. Have Ezio, Altait, and Desmond (after AC3) proper send off
I love basically every AC game, and I actually like that gameplay varies throughout the series. My favorite one is hands down Origins, mainly due to the setting, ancient Egypt, and how lived in it feels.
AC is the closest thing to a time machine IMHO, so I'll buy them regardless😂
Odyssey is probably my fave, but thats just because they expanded on everything introduced in Origins (which I agree was a fantastic game in its own right)
Origins and Odyssey were great. It’s just people don’t realize the old AC formula was dead after Black Flag. It was literally getting repetitive and stale. They HAD to change it to rpg to, as you guessed, make more money. And the community cries about why did they change the formula? Why did the community start bitching about AC going stale then? Make up your goddamn mind you toxic idiotic fanbase!
I'm with ya, hard to hate any of the mainline games. I'm tore between odyssey and 3 being my favorite. But the 4 was so good too. Favorite story is Ezio though.
4hrs in being released early in Australia, so far so good, and one big thing I’ve noticed is the epic “larger-than-life” scope with the chilling AC1 style of music and sound design. I know it’s an overly used term with filmmakers but this feels “cinematic”.
I never finished an old AC until origins. I love to discover and explore and I even like empty spaces. The immersion feels more real when cities are so close together or there is no vast open space.. So I am all for the giant open world games. I like to let my imagination run wild and get in the atmosphere created by the games.
I used to play the older games, AC4 and older, almost entirely for the story. The last few have been more of a cultural immersion, I suppose. I really enjoyed going around and seeing Egypt and Greece, and the artists interpretation of 9th century Baghdad will be a joy as well imo. I’ll have to judge the story and gameplay on its own merit, but I doubt it’s going to capture my old feelings.
Did you play it how you feel about it
My favorite ac’s were the ones to that had a real
Story real history behind it like ac3 unity ac4 was ok but I didn’t like the naval combat but it was decent story did the story for mirage ever feel interesting?
Would be good if they had their own nemesis system like the Shadow games. Having enemies that could drop a smoke bomb and do their best to run away and you can track them down before they leave but if they do, they return stronger etc but actually have names etc would make the concept of murdering pointless enemies a little more focused and interesting. Challenge I have with AC is the repetition of killing enemies without any great satisfaction feels counterintuitive for an Assassination based game…
It’s a shame that the nemesis system is copyrighted so nobody can use it except Warner Brothers
It is a patented system. I wonder how they can replicate a similar system. How does it work?
That sounds like a damn good idea 👌
@@theclaytusand the worst part is they havent used it since shadow of war, they could have used it in gotham knights atleast
@@ezioassassainit was conceptually easy to patented but VERY hard to programmed. I don't even think Monolith will do one for their Wonder Woman game.
I miss having 2 hidden blades and being able to equip them as a weapon and also holding down square or x to make the blades come out while not in combat. Also all tho origins was amazing it took along time to level all the way up and by the time you did you already did most the stuff in the game and with all the games after I feel like I’m playing the same game with different designs and skill trees. I was expecting the graphics and physics to be a little bit better but mostly my problem is that ever since odyssey, dialogue and some quests have taken more of a goofy or not serious tone while origins was the last game to have a dark and serious tone to it.
Agreed. For me the biggest downgrade is the massive lack of gear/weapons/itemization compared to recent titles. This game certainly is like a remaster of AC1 and I am not of fan of the dumbing down.
They should have cranked it way up instead. This game doesn't look appealing to me at all and I finished Odyssey and Valhalla.@@dantauche7917
I ALMOST pre ordered this and I still want it but I have to focus on bills. It seams like the games I want only come out when I can't afford to get them.
I didn't know the game had changed away from their roots. I haven't played them since then, but I figured I would buy one someday. Maybe if the next one is more like the original games I'll give it a shot. RPG mechanics are cool and I wouldn't mind those too, but if the game doesn't feel like the original assassins creed games, what's the point?
I love the original Assassin's Creed games, and I love the newer Assassin's Creed games it's true both styles had their strength's and weaknesses, seeing how Mirage is trying to mix the two for a new style is refreshing if there is one way I would love to see return it's Unity and Syndicate, with storytelling like Rogue.
Those are still my three favorite games of the series
Loved Rogue and Syndicate.
Rogue was amazing ,the first ever ac I played and completed fully,got me into the series actually
I’m replaying the whole series again, on AC3 at the moment. I absolutely will buy this game because I dedicated and I’ve found something to love about every game. I’m sure I will enjoy this game. I hope it’s only further refined eventually giving us some classic AC. Of course, I definitely want to keep the newer, big open world, RPG-style games, too. Thanks for the info, Jake!
So true. They all have something unique and fun. And some stuff that amazes you. All the people complaining about minor things are pretty silly. I loved the old games, I loved the RPG games too. They always manage to bring something new even though they’re all familiar and evolving.
Oh yeah I beat every single game plus the dlcs on all of them even the new ones. Im super hyped for mirage just for a kinda return to the roots but mixed with the new stuff.
These comments sound like those fake ones people use to advertise their business. "I saved 2000 saving using her method!" "did you really save that much? I heard good things about her. Im calling her right now!"
AC3 is my favorite game of the series
I was doing that too. Took a break at unity. Need to go back and finish it up
I always watch your videos before I buy my games lol it really helps me out
Happy to see them going back into the direction of the old style of games... IMO they will NEVER be able to replicate AC2 through Revelations, they captured lightning in a bottle for those games and they are truly one of my favorite games of all time. Every aspect of them was made with so much love and care, they had a specific vision that tied every aspect of the game together so nicely, they are still excellent games to this day.
I think the developers mentioned somewhere that the running and jumping or general parkouring was purposely made to be slow and chunky and improves as you progress as an assassin.
But that don’t make it good
Yeah it does. Progression is a huge thing.
That's a lie, developers never mentioned that
It doesn’t speed up over time it’s the same pace
@AarushKumar-sf1vk I’ve watched other reviews and talked to people who are currently playing it. There’s zero parkour progression that’s just cope
Jake you usually find great things to say about every game which is why i love this channel. Thats also why you're one of the best for telling me when a game is bad because you really struggle to find nice things to say 😂.
Thanks for the much needed review. Played a good amount of Valhalla but was starting to get tired of the gameplay with the last few AC games.
I like that Mirage is sorta going back to its roots even just a little bit, and it being on sale rn helps the incentive to buy it. Still, nothing has topped Black Flag for me yet
As a massive fan of the whole franchise from day one my personal opinion I absolutely love the *RPG* style games the most, out of all the games in the series three was my favourite with Conor up until Origins came out & still to this day for me Origins is the best in the whole series.
Based on your review, I would say I'm probably also a weirdo. I love the old games for how they felt, not how they played. The assassination/parkour animations, camera angles, cinematics, etc. what were what the older games did really well. I think that's what those games were really about and they got lost in RPG land. I really liked origins and odyssey, but they were very different games and I never had the time to beat them.
I agree 💯 I loved all the games except Syndicate and Odyssey and I have yet to play Valhalla. I like the way they added more side missions and stuff but the rpg aspect isnt working at least ubisofts rpg mechanics compared to the likes of Bethesda. I just don’t get why they can’t make a story as meaningful as Ezio’s and the combat mechanics of Conor with the parkour system of Arno just fully fixed this time and the side quests/map size of the new games. Imagine a game like that! That’s all we’re asking for but yet these companies don’t listen. Ill give this a shot but wait for black friday sale or something not full price as I yet to play Valhalla.
Origins is still in my top 3 AC games. Such a gem out of nowhere. I agree about Odyssey and Valhalla though. Been playing since AC 1
I loved the games up until Ezio died...I liked the parallel between ezio & Desmond...the story was amazing & they had simple things such as picking up the enemy weapon is u fill them & being able to use it that was fun
@@tnastytfv25 yea Idk even know where we are at in the modern day story tbh. Are we still on Layla or is she dead too?
@@dracorex280 who know...the modern day stuff doesn't even feel captivating anymore
Meh, still getting it. I don’t trust skillup review at all. The things some folks are complaining about are what makes AC AC.. the original AC games were “repetitive” and simple. Like AC II was rinse and repeat throughout the game. Everyone wanted to go back to that style of game and leave the RPG style and now they’re still complaining.
I’ve had every AC and I’m sure I’ll find it fun and sell well. The history aspect has always been my and many others fave part of AC. Copping Ubisoft+ for this and the crew. Very excited
Just compare the replies here to r/assassinscreed it’s clear this is what hardcore fans want and who ubi are appealing to here. It’s not going to create new fans who already disliked the series, but for those of us who have been playing this series for 16 years it’s a great entry.
I liked Mirage overall, mostly for the story and how it ties into Valhalla and it gives you more backstory on Basim. The game has it's problems for sure, and it's a bit simple and basic compared to the last couple of games. Except for a few very short "side quests", theres not a lot to do besides collecting the usual things and doing a few side missions from a job board. The story is a lot more "down to earth" than previous titles but imo if you are into the AC lore and universe it's nice knowing more about Basims backstory.
Spoilers below
When you see how Valhalla ends, i'm pretty sure Basim will be the new main character you play as in the modern world, so it's nice to know what hes been through and done
Coming from Horizon Zero dawn, why do the colours look washed off?
I miss the days of AC I to Unity so, so much, 12 year old me was obsessed with this franchise so I was excited about this game because "back to basics" is something I wanted ever since I stopped playing Origins halfway through, and yet, it still feels off... I don't recognize this franchise anymore
I agree fully with you. But those games are always there, available to play whenever you want. Especially Unity. Peak AC for me! Mirage looks, at the very least, a step in the right direction. A step backwards- in a good way though!
Unity might be my favorite. I didn't like Origins but thought Odyssey was decent. While I'm glad they went back to smaller maps. The chosen location of this one is meh. Idk I think the desert makes a terrible stealth environment. It feels like they just wanted to reuse assets from origins and Odyssey.
it just looks like rpg ac with missing features branded as back to roots/ old ac kinda... Duh
@@videodeposu8741 that's it! Those are the words as to why it feels off
I can't believe Unity looks, feels and plays more modern and polished than this
why so draumatic?
I did enjoy when they made somewhat historical accurate location's, I hope that they continue to do that along with making larger maps. This one looks fun!
They’ve always done this
The locations have always been historically accurate for the most part.
Notre Dame in Unity was hilariously accurate
This sounds like I'd love it. I loved Origins and Odyssey precisely for the reasons traditional AC fans hate them. I hated Valhalla. But I do agree with the point that "new style" of AC was really big and burdensome and changing gear all the time gets annoying once you figure out the in game economics. I really don't like the original AC style but a hybrid might actually be a happy medium between the two. I will buy it on sale.
Odyssey is A++ amazing.. loved everything about it. I'm hoping there's some elements between that and brotherhood.
Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...
This is about what I expected after I saw the walkthroughs recently. I really want to see AC hit a new level. For old times sake. I used to love Ubisoft as a company back in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s because of AC and Far Cry 3. They haven’t been quite the same since and I haven’t played an Ubisoft game since Odyssey. I’m waiting for them to release something truly good.
It’s because they traded out making cool things for implementing systems they can monetize.
@djstarzlightNo I liked them as well. They were a new direction that personally felt was needed. Don’t get me wrong I loved the og games but the combat system needed some change. However I wish the fans would actually pay attention I’m tired of seeing people say odyssey Valhalla and Origins was not ac games when they were. The series has always been about the assassins templars and the Isu. Origins was meant to show the start of the assassins, Odyssey was meant to show the start of the Templars while Valhalla was meant to give us more on Isu. It all tied in the story so well for me and that’s what the series has always been for me is the story.
@@wolfpern9831well thats just you. most people fall in love with the gameplay and stealth. you’re not more of a fan just because you like story over gameplay.
They dropped Immortals Fenyx Rising a few years ago and that was truly good. But ppl like you didn't support it which is why the sequel for the game got cancelled
@@wolfpern9831you absolutely right fam
Thanks Jake, as another long time fan, I totally get what you mean with the overall feel of just sprinting around, the parkour weight and level design, using the hidden blade in low profile, etc. Like yeah while Mirage is bringing back these classic elements, it's still made in the newer games' engine, which is what's giving it that 'off' feel you're describing. Even looking at this small clip of the parkour at 10:08, you can just see the way Basim is snapping to the next object, and without playing I can already tell it just looks wonky lol
I'm fan of both the old and new and I just wanted to say that the next AC game if they decide to please those that only enjoy the old then it's the it might get use a different engine and framework since Mirage was meant to be a Valhalla DLC, it might feel right then.
To be honest I've stopped caring, there's too much conflict between fans of the old and the new.
I haven't had this much fun with an AC game since Unity. The biggest problem with it is how short it is and how there's no post game content. Which in a way is a good thing. Unlike Odyssey and Valhalla, after I beat Mirage, I wanted more.
So I played AC Mirage and just to let everyone know I am not a speed player, I tend to take forever to play a game and in most cases I never finish the main story with over 200 hrs played.
I played AC Mirage and in 5 days with about 40 hrs played I completed everything, all collectibles, side missions, trophies, ubisoft connect challenges and rewards, and the main story.
I don't really see replayablity for it either.
It was a fun game with a decent story but it was short, I feel it would have been better with 2 more areas of equal size and content to the base game because as I am a slow game player most people will probably beat it in 20 to 30 hrs.
I’ve enjoyed all of the AC games. You knew that once they killed off Desmond that things would have to change. A large part of the enjoyment of those older ones was the connection between the modern character with the historical one. I enjoy the RPG ones and I’m enjoying Mirage. Yes, Basim feels a little slow but he’s not a warrior like the last characters. And Altair wasn’t exactly fast either. Ezio and Connor were only a little better. I honestly think expectations were to recreate what we all felt with the first game when it launched and you just can’t recreate that. Mirage is a solid edition by a smaller studio under Ubisoft. Their recreation of Baghdad and nods to the OG AC is a nice trip down memory lane
I HATED the modern day parts of AC 1 through Rogue.. The new ones weren't so bad! But the original 6? Ugh!!! I'm older now, ans appreciate the story aspect way more in the modern stuff.. But I personally never met anyone who said it was part of what made it great, all my friends said they should remove the animus ans just follow the assassin in the time they lived!
Also I feel like until maybe unity? (I barely played it) they really didnt change they just added ships instead of horses!!! Lol
I would have felt more of a connection if I was playing the assassin, not some scfi dork called Desmond who was playing the assassin. I've never seen why they did this since it was an unnecessary disconnect and completely redundant.
@@savannahpaige3670 exactly! It sucked. It would be like playing Red Dead Redemption 2 but you're not playing Arthur Morgan, instead you're playing some weakling nerd who is playing Arthur Morgan. Can't think of a better way to ruin the immersion.
Lol nobody likes the animus gameplay. It really takes you out of the medieval experience.
The whole animus thing & playing as Desmond or somebody pretending to be the assassin always sucked. I never understood why they just couldn’t tell the stories from the single point of view of the assassins in their timeline. Bringing this overly complicated modern mess into the Frey just seemed over done.
A cool thing I recognizd was that the Assassin Bereaus are the same as the ones in Assassin's Creed 1. You can find this detail at the first one you go to once the game opens up.
Your opinions are spot on about recent AC games. Origins was good, but odyssey, and valhalla were jokes. On a side note - Mirage has some of the best graphics i have seen in a AC game to date.
Aye thanks for this I’ve been pretty iffy on buying it or not. Been playing AC since day one! I’m definitely hoping AC goes back to the old ways, this new age AC just feels all sorts of weird and not well thought out.