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Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is the latest form of media to make me question whether I was even present for the majority of my Ancient History degree.

Ditching a surprising amount of the Assassin’s Creed baggage to the point I sometimes find myself thinking “this actually plays a bit like one of those Assassin’s Creed games”, Odyssey takes you on a wild romp through Ancient Greece, set in the midst of the Peloponnesian War, or at least I think it’s this and I’m too scared to look it up in case I’m wrong and I have to hand my degree back in.

It features running, jumping, assassinating through stealth or in my case attempting to assassinate through stealth and then having to blunder your way through half of the Athenian/Spartan army to run away.

It also apparently includes surprise emotional trauma for me. Spoilers for a minor side quest called “Making Friends” after this paragraph. If you’re not sure if you’ve done this one or not, it’s the one with the little girl in the clay pit. If that doesn’t ring a bell, you haven’t done it yet.

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The last time I scribbled about Assassin’s Creed, it was with Assassin’s Creed II, whereby I did a post-completion double-take when I realised I had just been manoeuvred into an in-context fist fight with the Pope.

I may have just found my equivalent double-take moment in this follow up title.  As it could be considered spoilery, I’ll hide it behind the jump.

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by ·Comments Off on Gaming Frustrations Part 2: Assassin’s Creed II

There are two things to note about the title of this post:

1)      Read aloud it sounds like the score from a football match.

2)      This looks like it is following on from an earlier post.

Number 1 is of course wrong, and number two is misleading.  I was originally going to talk about Assassin’s Creed II in my previous post but I got caught up discussing the binary nature of existence.  Needless to say, also on my to-finish list was the slightly more recently released Assassin’s Creed II.  This doesn’t really need you to have read part one, but maybe there’s a theme.  They’re both published by Ubisoft and I think they use the same game-engine, so that’s something I guess.

Just a quick note, “frustrations” might be the wrong word for this one, because I realise now that I’m not really frustrated with this game so much, just moderately baffled by something it managed to do, but I wanted to have a couple of blog posts with “Part 1” and “Part 2” after it to make it look coherent, despite the fact that they’re really about different things.

This post is spoiler-riddled so if you’re interested in not knowing how this one ends, look away now and come back another day.

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