Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India is like a colorful side-scrolling adventure through old-time India! You play as this assassin dude, Arbaaz, who's out for revenge. It's fun sneaking around the beautiful palaces and stuff, taking down enemies with your hidden blades and whatnot. Though, messing up once usually means starting over, which can get frustrating. And the story's kinda short. Still, for a quick dose of Assassin's Creed goodness with a fresh twist, Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India is worth checking out!

I believe Assassin's Creed Unity could learn a thing or two with this one. Although the Chronicles series are pretty shallow on the story telling department, and I do not like making game reviews based on fun and gameplay inputs, I have to give this one praise.

It inproved quited alot on the first one (China), going as far making me care about the main protagonist. Which is a shame, Assassins Creed Chrinicles China had a good proposal for a protagonist, An chinesse imperial concubine turned assassin. Back to India.

But what I really want to give the game credit is actualy making a compeling love story. I am fond of love stories, on that note, it is hard to make a good one in pop culture outside of the romance genre.

Not only in gaming, but anime, tv series and movies. It is filled with nuances. It can't take too much of the plot to the point of overshadowing the action, adveture or main point. But it can't also make the romance so shallow and with no character development that you question why is it there on the first place.

That said India doesn`t have a deep love story, but it is also not a deep game. I like to see it more as an one page short story. And on that, It created a plot, showed its characters , established their bonds and by the end it tied it all together. Short, simple and enjoyable.

(spoilers of assassins creed unity ahead)

Arno in Unity became a decent assassin with what seemed to be effortless, foud out his childhood love aspires to be his enemy, gave up on his belifs and on his people during french revolution to chase her. It still astounishes me how the managed to overshadow the french revolution with a love story.

India is not a perfect game by any means, but it is a book I enjoyed reading in controler input.