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As usual, the longer the game series, the longer it goes into the dead end and reveals many weaknesses, often receives pouting, quality criticism, although those judgments are based on subjective and inexperienced.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4, Battlefield V, or Assassin’s Creed Odyssey… are the most conspicuous “victims” in the blockbuster series.
With the Assassin’s Creed series, after the changes that can be said to be somewhat overwhelming with Assassin’s Creed Origins and reaping great success, Ubisoft will once again “reuse” mercilessly this game series annually. ?
That is something that may be any fan of this series must put a big question mark because Assassin’s Creed Odyssey soon announced after Origins version just over … 6 months before the surprise of the fans.
Not to mention, what Ubisoft performed at the fairs made Assassin’s Creed Odyssey not receive many positive reviews, mainly saying that this version is no different from an expansion pack.
But not! As a player who has “ripped” almost every version of this Assassin’s Creed series and invested more than 60 hours of gameplay in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the writer is fully confident to declare that what the game brings is worthwhile you spend every minute to experience …
It’s not just the version of Assassin’s Creed that a fan wants, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is a game every gamer should try.
Over 10 mainstream versions, the original storyline throughout the Assassin’s Creed series from a strong point is gradually becoming a weakness when revealing many holes in the storyline, as well as not going into an explanation for the signs asked out loud that previous versions left behind.
However, Ubisoft with its puzzling “defiance”, the postings with a somewhat distant plot from the core are the confrontation between the Assassins Guild and the Templar Knights. The race to acquire the treasures of paradise has also gradually been accepted by players … reluctantly.
Assassin’s Creed Origins has brought players back to the birthplace of a belief that gave birth to the Assassins Guild, now Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will bring players to a historic milestone as far as 400 years – the famous Peloponnesus of Greece.
This timeline is also the origin of another faith – The cult of Kosmos, the forerunner of the Order of the Knights Templar later.
Interestingly, Ubisoft exploits this scene from a variety of perspectives, in many ways so that players can better understand the seeds of the chaos of this period.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey divides the campaign mode into several different main quest lines, like the “Odyssey” but no longer divided by chapters as before.
Each main questline will refer to a different event and gradually when things start to go into their orbit, invisible bonds pull them together to form a total storyline unity.
There are many reasons for a gamer to prefer the single-player experience of rushing in to “rush B” for all the main tasks, regardless of what the developer has been trying to set up.
And Assassin’s Creed Odyssey initiative to write down a variety of mission lines, both primary and secondary, but has an interaction of Creed’s Odyssey.
This is how CD Projekt RED has been hugely successful with The Witcher III: Wild Hunt and Ubisoft must have been “selective tutoring” for both Assassin’s Creed Origins and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
Although introducing two main characters for the player to choose from is Kassandra or Alexios, but unlike Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, the two differ only in gender, but the main storyline is completely unchanged.
Whether you choose Kassandra or Alexios, grim fate will put them against each other, but the way you receive it is not just the way God has designed it.
Each situation in each Odyssey will provide more than one choice for players to judge based on the information obtained.
Or you will choose a detour for a panoramic view and make the right-might-right decision, or make a superficial decision with popular resentment over your sad fate …
And in the end, killing or forgiving someone will give you a worthy end to what you did.
How this system determines the organizational structure of the plot twists is quite interesting as the story gradually unfolds later (albeit at a somewhat slow pace).
The linearity of the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey plot is still there, not as profoundly impacting as Mass Effect or Dragon Age did, it’s just that the storytelling is more open now than it used to be and you’ll be the one to bear results by only their guilt or satisfaction.
Not stopping there, the deeper the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the more players will gradually absorb more of their decisions to make the changes of the ancient Greek world, regardless of the level of cause and effect great.
I consider this a basic premise, as the changes that Origins, Unity, or Rogue have made to make future versions better.
At this point, if you are a gamer who likes “rush B” and is still planning to “training fast” Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the writer would like to conclude that: At least, you will spend about 50-60 hours playing just for The main storyline exploration only, and there are up to 4 different endings for you to… play again!
It only took a year for Ubisoft to create Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and they used to be blatant about how massive this version contains at major game fairs.
But it wasn’t until Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s official release that many fans were overwhelmed by what Ubisoft made of Ancient Greece in the game.
Assassin’s Creed Origins continues to be the version that creates a premise of “role-playing”, which has been rekindled earlier from Assassin’s Creed Unity’s version.
But it wasn’t until Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s that a truly immersive nature has come to fruition, not simply the simple additions called “improvements”.
You will be a hunter with a bow talent, a mighty warrior specializing in “leveling”, an assassin that goes and comes no one to know, or an adventurer who leaves love on the shoulder. …
First, with the combat system, Assassin’s Creed Origins introduced new combat mechanics but still left many inadequacies that left it stuck in the way of defeating an opponent.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is different, the game has an extremely aggressive combat system and is relatively happy without the presence of shields.
If you have experienced Dark Souls and Bloodborne, it will be a similar example of this change in fighting style.
The way of organizing the 3 skill trees for the three branches of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s character development also does not have many significant constraints as each branch can freely build without binding in the form of mother-child, the burden of “score”.
As a result, the player is not only strong in a branch-like Origins, but can master all 3 skills to become an outstanding warrior in all aspects.
On the other hand, as mentioned above, the equipment and level factors greatly affect a player’s exploration of the world.
These are two factors that if you disregard as previous versions, you will never escape the “well” in this ancient Greek land.
Equipment upgrading is the priority before entering a campaign, each item not only has normal physical stats but also the appearance of attributes, player support.
These upgrades are also based mostly on the achievements you accumulate in the course of the action.
Besides, always train yourself with side quests, which are clues, experiences and also help you grow more on the way to find your family again.
“Specialty” that many young people will probably love in popular role-playing games molded by BioWare or CD Projekt RED is the aspect of “love” also exploited for the first time in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
These are the relationships that will develop gradually under the interaction between the player and the NPC, sometimes it’s fleeting, sometimes it’s something worth thinking about …
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s love, though only shown in the basics, with a fairly long playing time, they give you a little sense of peace, away from the scheming bustle out there; or like a landing place for sometimes players to stop and watch the sunset after a windy sail.
In particular, your personality in these relationships will also create behaviors that make Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s main plot choices even better.
Everything is related, just you are seeing what you want from family, love, and mutual support or not.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was the 11th mainstream version of the entire series, yet the way the early versions built the open-world remains the foundation for players to continue immersing in ancient Greece.
Gamers keep criticizing it over and over, it’s boring, how boring it is, they will have to admit that it’s very difficult to get rid of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey once engaged.
With a beautiful Greek world that spans all parts of Europe right now, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is the most exploratory-heavy version ever, to the point that sometimes you’ll get the feeling that you’re on the move tarpaulin somewhere in Tamriel.
The context of the war between Sparta and Athens is not only a backdrop like the French revolution, nor will it be the scuffles of the London market dust, but will be a different perspective on the road to explore the overall plot by Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
That is also the reason that the game has several main quest lines, between the complex family of Kassandra and Alexios, or the ancestral origin of the Cult of Kosmos, the foundation of the legacies of the first civilization, and the escalation in the wars of both these famous ancient empires.
The relationship between the world in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and the quest lines, whether primary or secondary, has the power to influence the occurrence of future events.
The situation will be changed based on the player’s choice, what actions the player takes during his stay in that area will affect the way conflicts unfold.
For example, the destruction of the Athenian supply and the prime minister of the Athenian army in this area, the subsequent expansion of the Sparta army would be greatly multiplied, as evidenced by the number of ships and patrolmen, and the plantations will all be occupied.
A small interesting point is that players also have the opportunity to participate in unprecedented battles between the two sides on the battlefield just like the Dynasty Warrior series.
After all, no one else than the “initiator” is… you will take action to clean it up!
For example, if you choose the Spartan faction as an invader, the task will be much more difficult in return for more generous rewards and the immortal Spartan spirit.
On the contrary, choose for yourself how to protect Athens, to maintain the peace that this beautiful world inherently will be more leisurely and less dramatic.
That is the fateful path of a mercenary, and one day your head will be hung on the spear for “crows catch, hawks eat” by dozens-dozen other notorious bounty hunters.
Can you “stand” in this game?
You can be a hero, you can be a vile double-sided mercenary, sometimes you will be a prey always in hunting, and of course, you can also be a predator.
An important line of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s main mission is the Cult of Kosmos’ massive centipede system – the cult behind the underground chaos of this period.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s list of enemies that can assassinate is nearly… 50 people.
This organization is divided into branches that manage different parts of the whole Greek realm, each branch will be further divided into lower ranks with different areas of activity.
In that sequence, you will gradually find the person responsible for your family’s misfortune.
The identities of these fanatics are also not readily available to the table for players to come and destroy easily.
They are always hiding with dozens of layers that you will have to diligently gather all information from all over to conclude: “the culprit”.
The question is, where can any information and clues about them come from? – Assassin’s Creed Odyssey does not “dot” for a specific point on the map, but mainly depends on the player’s exploration process.
Maybe this clue is in a certain cave, or in a chest, maybe a related character (with sub quest), or maybe an event in some area. … They are scattered throughout every corner of the game.
The clue you appear sooner or later is more or less based on the speed of the player’s map discovery.
If you still superficially discover Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, players will forever not know where and where to go between this immense Greece.
The story does not stop there when not all of the Kosmos fanatics can kill.
Everyone has an idea, and you will have to learn it in one way or another in order to be able to see the truth as clearly as possible.
Because as I still say, everything you do has an impact on the future.
Fortunately, the above effects are relatively linear and are specified for some specific subjects.
But thanks to that, you will also get more secret information, uncovering a veil to cover another “giant boil”.
Campaign duration is more than 60 hours, discovering an almost endless ancient Greek world, mission system, and immersive role-playing will never be done … Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Massive not only about the size but also the content it contains.
But, Ubisoft once again overused the “immeasurable” world because of its creation, making it lose focus.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey inherits many of the strengths and features of most previous versions, including older versions like Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.
You will have an improved combat system and equipment from Origins, a quest system learned from The Witcher series, a basic cause-and-effect system and a variety of love from other role-playing games, battles from Black Flag, the organization pulled the party from the Syndicate, and a complex civil war scene like Unity, Assassin’s Creed III …
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey never leaves a real focus because most of them are spread out in a very equal way, whether you like it or not, you have to stick to the game’s setup.
So that sometimes players forget what they were initially looking for with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s what.
Don’t like naval warfare? – still have to sail out to sea and wreck a few times.
The whole of Greece might seem wide, but the formulas of the interstate organization are almost the same except for differences in form.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is not as open as you think it is, it still has a huge constraint on gameplay settings rather than allowing players to figure out which path to take in the first place.
The mainline of duty is indeed too slow.
The twist in the details in act 2 is also pale and sooner or later players will guess who is the real final boss after only half the journey.
The way to “time-consuming” in the main quest line of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is quite inexpensive, which is to stretch a series of missions with a series of other support missions, turning players around from one person to another one mission after another and indeed those missions did not match the circumstances of that time.
The coherence and continuity of Assassin’s Creed Origins’ main and secondary missions are very well done, but coming to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey it feels like a crumpled, nagging, and cumbersome scroll-like asking for a stamp of some heavenly country government organization.
With a plot design that isn’t as new as Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s, “what” is not an important question to motivate players to move on, but “how”.
What players are interested in during the experience is not “what will happen” but “how will they face it”.
And actually, the “how” that Ubisoft can do is bad, while Assassin’s Creed Origins has been impressively successful.
That is not to mention the return of modern “useless” characters.
I do not understand why Ubisoft still wants to give players the “experience” of controlling characters that only need a cut-scene is enough because they do not play a practical role in the context of Assassin’s Creed today.
Last big minus point, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s disrespect for women, because most of the outfits in the game are only for the male body, while Kassandra is the main character, not Alexios.
I cannot see Kassandra wearing an 8-pack of the male warriors, but Kassandra was also very crude (except beauty) from the beginning.
If you yearn for a Kassandra like “Big Sister” Wonder Woman then that’s unfortunate …