story in this game was great.
gameplaywise its a bit clunky but much better then AC 1
characters are really memorable.
sometimes in cutscenes when scenes are switching it feels a bit unnatural.
overall very good game with some small gameplay issues.
haven't played brotherhood yet but i hope it will be better then this one :)

SÍNTESE ;
- jogabilidade - 4/10
- história - 4/10
- arte - 8/10

PARTES BOAS ;
em geral, o jogo tem uma direção de arte estupenda, desde a composição geral das cenas até as músicas. os personagens também são bem carismáticos e aparecem algumas figuras históricas que podem te tirar boas risadas quando reconhecê-las.

PARTES RUINS ;
apesar de se sobressair na qualidade artística de composições gerais, o jogo peca em outras partes essenciais. acredito que valha a pena pontuar:
- quantidade considerável de bugs
- sistema de combate chato e arrastado
- movimentação dura e conflitante. você eventualmente acaba caindo e tendo que reescalar todo o prédio sem querer ou, na pior das ocasiões, morrendo.
- simplesmente mal planejado em algumas ocasiões. como o fato de você não poder trocar seu equipamento fora do armazém de monteriggioni.
- câmera mal planejada e alguns níveis pouco intuitivos e/ou confusos

EM SUMA ;
AC II é um jogo bom, mas bem superestimado. a nostalgia e a estética do título podem fazer um eu mais jovem ficar bêbado com as coisas boas que o jogo entrega, mas ao rever o jogo anos depois, você provavelmente vai perceber que não era lá tão bom assim. a história é bem mais ou menos (salvo o final) e o fato de ser arrastada por vários títulos seria muito mais legal se jogos fossem mais acessíveis que são. é um jogo que me diverti jogando e platinando, mas duvido um pouco que pegaria pra zerar ou jogar de novo.

Aunque saqué el Platino en su momento en PlayStation 3 y se trate de un juego de 2009, la verdad es que sigue siendo un videojuego bastante redondo, siendo su punto más fuerte la ambientación italiana del siglo XV. El parkour no se hace pesado y el combate, aunque mejorable, tampoco está nada mal. La variedad de localizaciones me sorprendió, ya que pensaba que Venecia formaba parte de La Hermandad por algún motivo pero resulta que es un buen trozo de este juego. La historia es interesante, aunque mentiría si dijese que recuerdo el nombre de la mayoría de personajes, pero se disfruta. El final es pura ciencia ficción, que contrasta con el carácter histórico-alternativo del juego.

Honestamente eu nunca entendi o fato de tantas pessoas gostarem desse jogo, talvez o fator do saudosismo e da nostalgia, jogando hoje em dia olhando de forma como alguém que não tem o mínimo de nostalgia pela série tampouco pelo jogo em si eu achei um jogo medíocre. Vamos aos fatos, a gameplay, eu sei, a gameplay dele não é de se comparar com um jogo de hoje em dia, e eu nem estou fazendo isso, tenho muito apreço por muitos jogos antigos, mas é fato que a gameplay desse jogo não comporta nada demais, em questão de exploração temos um mundo com várias cidades que não oferecem absolutamente NADA além de penas pra você procurar de um lado pro outro, alguns colecionáveis que até são interessantes sobre o Animus e atividades secundárias completamente chatas, o combate dele é nada mais do que repetitivo e monótono, não da nem vontade de jogar. E o stealth?! tantos jogos naquela época já tinham um stealth muito melhor que esse, o sistema de escalada é interessante mas depois de você ter que rodar Veneza pra um lado e pro outro umas 10 vezes (por que o jogo faz questão de te fazer isso já que muitas missões são extremamente longes das anteriores) fica enjoativo.
Já adianto, eu gosto do roteiro do jogo, mas tem um dado momento que me desperta os nervos, a sequência de memória 13, por que ou eu sou MUITO burro ou é uma sequência de quase uma hora completamente inútil pro funcionamento da história que só me fez querer que esse jogo acabasse logo, honestamente, narrativamente falando não faz nenhum sentido pequeno alerta de spoiler já que introduz um personagem DO NADA e te mete em mais um problema que é criado apenas pra ser resolvido em uma sequência de memória final do spoiler além de ENCHER durante toda a sequência a cidade com guardas, o que fica extremamente chato de se locomover, reforçando novamente minha vontade de que esse jogo acabasse logo.
Por fim vamos aos elogios ao jogo, a história do jogo é muito boa e é repleta de personagens extremamente cativantes, talvez os mais cativantes de toda a série estão presentes aqui, além da reconstrução histórica ser muito bonita, enfim, é isso que eu tenho de falar de positivo sobre esse jogo, no mais pra mim é um 6/10.

I was pleased by my first foray into Assassin's Creed. It's a very immersive experience with plenty of room for creativity in movement, creativity in combat and creativity in stealth. Unfortunately, the game lacks some significant QoL, mostly in lack of convenient inventory management and fast travel, and the controls can sometimes be flimsy. I would still call it a worthwhile time, though. Nolan North's Ezio is a treat, and you'll find few other opportunities in gaming to get such a taste of Italy.

remember when assassin's creed was good

yea me too

(altair still my goat though)

What an amazing game.

Ezio continues to be one of the best characters I've ever experienced.

One of my favourite games ever.

The game is guilty of all the usual dialogue surrounding awesome and cool and based Ubisoft collectathons. I will just discuss why I think this game is better than the first while also highlighting some problems that I believe are unique to Assassin's Creed II.

The biggest and most obvious improvements are from gameplay changes and additions. The new addition that had the greatest impact on gameplay and just simply my enjoyment of the game is the inclusion of more assassination techniques. In the first game, assassination boiled down to walking up next to someone, stabbing them, and walking away. The build up towards the assassination attempt is what made the game as the actual killing was quite boring. In Assassin’s Creed 2, you get to jump from ledges and pull people off ledges and… I guess they really just added interactions with ledges. A simple change yet very important as it opens up the ways you approach playing the game a lot more. You can actually have the ability to be stealthy and sneaky if you are able to lead from unseen places to kill.

The parkour in this game was also greatly improved over the first. Though it still has massive flaws, it feels a whole lot better to run around in this game. You move significantly faster while performing actions like climbing and you have the ability to parkour off and on things you were unable to in the first game. Additionally, it seems like they put a little bit more work into creating environments that would be more interesting to traverse. It still has the problem of buildings repeating which causes the late game to become a real drag as all you’re doing is climbing the same buildings you already have 10 other times. However, there is significantly less repetition than there was in the first game, which is a meaningful thing to say as the game itself is much bigger.

A complaint I do have for this game, compared to the first, is found within the combat. Something about the combat in this game really bothered me. In the first game, the combat was quite fun even with how repetitive it was. It felt really good to perform counter attacks and the really basic combos, there was some weight going on. This game changes a couple things though. The combat feels lighter and the timing for moves in combat just seems sort of… off. This is not a situation of, “I can’t perform the combos, so I think the game is broken.” No, I can do all the things the game asks for just fine. The problem is that I needed to adjust myself. The rhythm to the combo attacks and counterattacks, which is supposed to be determined by visual and audio ques during the fight (mostly just the clink of swords hitting) do not actually match when you are supposed to attack like they do in the first game. There is some discrepancy that forces you to adjust your own rhythm. This does not affect how playable the game is, but it affects how satisfying the gameplay is. Given that there is a lot of combat in this game, and it is all basically the same fight copy-pasted, you would really REALLY hope the combat feels good. Alas, it feels mediocre.

Assassin’s Creed 2 also sort of just fails its main premise. This is a problem that the first game has and a problem that all the games after it that I have played also have. It fails to allow you to be a sneaky little guy. You can totally do some sneaking, and there are some fairly well rounded stealth sections. However, those sneaky little guy parts are outnumbered 1 to 5 compared to all the open combat encounters. Even still, virtually all the sneaky little guy portions head with you forcefully being RIPPED out of stealth and thrown into open combat without any ability to stop it. I wish they had invested more time and effort into making you feel like an assassin. I think they were aware how limited your “assassining” options are so they limited how much of the game could be spent being sneaky, as you would quickly realize how repetitive it is. I could write a whole other essay on this, but I will stop myself here. Just know, your sneaky little guy expectations that you might expect from a game called ASSASSIN’S Creed probably will not be met.

Assassin’s Creed 2 is slightly more visually appealing than the first and the music is about the same. I will say, the voice acting in this game was a big update compared to the first. Neither game has great voice acting, but I think the performances in this game were much more believable and immersive.

The first game had virtually no story. It was short and sweet. Assassin’s Creed’s lack of story was better than Assassin’s Creed 2’s inclusion of one. None of the characters are that likable and absolutely none of them have any depth at all. I do not find myself disliking any of them, but I am given almost no reason to care. The plot of this game is also just batshit insane. Like, genuinely, it is fairly disgusting. Ezio’s personal life and personal story are serviceable. But the overarching Assassin’s Creed plot is a disaster and honestly distasteful. They really jumped the shark with this on try #2. Can’t wait to see how brotherhood goes!

I have more to say about this game, but I am not really sure if a game like this is worth talking this much about. It is a simple, mind-numbing game. It certainly numbs the mind, so it is doing the job. The few improvements I mentioned over the first game are enough to push it a half star further than its predecessor, putting it in pretty alright game territory. It is a little bit of dumb fun and that is just about it.

One final note: DO NOT TRY TO PLAY THIS DOGSHIT ON THE SERIES X. I was forced to buy the remastered version of this game for the ps4 even though I had the 360 version. The 360 version on the series x and xbox one simply does not work since ubisoft's weird DRM shit is guaranteed to corrupt your save. I lost 5 hours of progress before switching over to the ps4. Please do not be like me.

Joguei Assassin's Creed até Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag na época do PlayStation 3 e havia gostado dos jogos.

Mas agora, com a oportunidade de revisitar toda a franquia com calma, que jogo bom! Toda a jornada de Ezio Auditore é marcada por vingança, dúvidas e amadurecimento.

Sobre a platina, ela é bem tranquila e não possui muitos desafios, então vale a pena tê-la no seu perfil!