The PSVita had many games that are now considered underrated gems among those who played them. Most of the major franchises visited the platform to at least put out a spin-off title on the system. Assassin's Creed did something similar with the PSP with AC: Bloodlines and now did it again with Assassin's Creed: Liberation.
Liberation was offically a spin-off title called Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation, but later on the 3 vanished from the title and became it's own thing, getting released on consoles and on PC as well.
Liberation features Aveline, the first playable female assassin in the franchise, who wants to free slaves and run her father's business as well. Balancing between being an assassin and a lady is hard for her, but her father and friends help her to achieve her goal to become a full blown assassin and freedom fighter.
Let me tell you, that the story is awful just as much as the character of Aveline. Aveline is a somewhat "Batman wannabe" character type, who needs to balance between her rich daytime with the awful amount of assassinations in the night or afternoon. It pains me to see the brotherhood portrayed like this as she feels like a parody of some sort. Even the cinematics feature this awful comic book style music making them even worse.
There are at least fresh additions such as new areas, some new tools like the whip and the ability to swim under water (in certain areas). These things are rather dull but at least it is something new. Speaking of new things, the game features a persona system, where Aveline can change her outfit in order to become a lady, an assassin or a slave. These outfits provide benefits such as... lower notoriety? Yeah, they do barely anything, it is just a gimmick. You can sometimes charm certain people with the lady outfit or pick up a box as a slave to sneak around guards but that is it.
Liberation is a competent but dull and awfully written game that even features cameos from AC III, which feels really wrong after playing through that game. This game also crashed like 3 times but thanks to the short length of the whole thing, it did not bother me.
A boring, dull, unimaginative and utterly pointless entry in the franchise, which is playable but you will get nothing out of it.
Liberation was offically a spin-off title called Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation, but later on the 3 vanished from the title and became it's own thing, getting released on consoles and on PC as well.
Liberation features Aveline, the first playable female assassin in the franchise, who wants to free slaves and run her father's business as well. Balancing between being an assassin and a lady is hard for her, but her father and friends help her to achieve her goal to become a full blown assassin and freedom fighter.
Let me tell you, that the story is awful just as much as the character of Aveline. Aveline is a somewhat "Batman wannabe" character type, who needs to balance between her rich daytime with the awful amount of assassinations in the night or afternoon. It pains me to see the brotherhood portrayed like this as she feels like a parody of some sort. Even the cinematics feature this awful comic book style music making them even worse.
There are at least fresh additions such as new areas, some new tools like the whip and the ability to swim under water (in certain areas). These things are rather dull but at least it is something new. Speaking of new things, the game features a persona system, where Aveline can change her outfit in order to become a lady, an assassin or a slave. These outfits provide benefits such as... lower notoriety? Yeah, they do barely anything, it is just a gimmick. You can sometimes charm certain people with the lady outfit or pick up a box as a slave to sneak around guards but that is it.
Liberation is a competent but dull and awfully written game that even features cameos from AC III, which feels really wrong after playing through that game. This game also crashed like 3 times but thanks to the short length of the whole thing, it did not bother me.
A boring, dull, unimaginative and utterly pointless entry in the franchise, which is playable but you will get nothing out of it.