This was the first AC game that i played, and i absolutely loved it. The story of Ezio is one of the best in the entire franchise, because is well written and makes you connect with the character. The parkour improves from the original along with the combat. The cities are beautiful crafted and along with the environmental music, its a joy to run across them. Maybe there is no much variation in mission and the side content is lacking, but its a fantastic game and a great entry point if you want to begin with the franchise

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!

Sometimes revisiting old favorites is a good way to deal with gaming burnout, even if it loses a bit of the magic.

I beat AC2 originally back in 2012, while I enjoyed the first game to an extent, the sequel became one of my favorite games and I was so invested in the story I did not want it to end. Obviously much time has went by since then, and the gameplay feels really dated to play in 2023.

The platforming feels clunky at times, and there are moments where the game demands precise and timely platforming that the mechanics do not have the flexibility for. I've have quite a few moments where I held the control stick in the direction I wanted Ezio to go and it did not respond until I went over it a few times. The timed missions are OBSCENELY tight, hell even the opening race needed a handful of attempts (not exactly a good first impression), and some of the stealth missions where detection meant failure demanded you deal with the AI in specific ways or face repeat attempts. The combat, while better than the first game, is still stiff and repetitive (I recall Brotherhood fixing my problems here, let's see how that replay goes).

However, when the platforming and stealth gameplay work, they REALLY work and it reminded me of my 2012 where I went through these games. The Florence assassin tomb, the final mission before my Platinum trophy, was easily a highlight and one of my favorite sequences in the game. The gameplay shines when it gives you freedom to parkour areas with interesting design.

Thankfully, the story and characters held up well, albeit more convoluted than I remembered. Ezio is still an extremely charismatic and entertaining character, perfect for a lead, even if the rest of the characters could go either way (although the scene when you get the reward for collecting all the feathers was WAY more emotional than I expected).

While the game certainly shows its age in a lot of areas, it was nice to revisit this game, and I hope to go through the rest of the series eventually (going to take my time going through the rest of them, since burnout was a factor in my losing interest). Getting the Plat really felt like getting closure after not properly finishing it after all this time.

Going with a strong 7/10.

um tesão de jogo amo AC e o II entrega tudo que a franquia tem de melhor

não é perfeito e tem uns tropeços aqui e acolá mas não prejudica a experiencia

pfvr estudios indies simulem o feeling de jogos dessa era do X360 tmj

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.

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.

Volví a jugar el clásico y para muchos el mejor Assassin’s Creed: el segundo. Como resumen general, creo que es un juegazo excelente en prácticamente todos los aspectos excepto en los controles y movimiento del personaje. El resto, es espectacular. Sigue mucho texto siendo detallista e insoportable, como siempre.
La historia y personajes son de lo mejor del juego. De entrada te atrapa y te mete en la historia. Literalmente vemos a Ezio desde su nacimiento. El inicio del juego siempre se siente genial. La escena de los títulos con Ezio y su hermano es una belleza. Cada vez lo juegue me va a encantar ese momento. El desarrollo que hace Ezio a lo largo del juego, todo lo que pasa en el camino, los aliados y enemigos que hace, todo se siente parte de una historia coherente. Las interrupciones en las que volvemos al presente con Desmond son pocas y no molestan, porque lo queremos (y extrañamos) a Desmond.
El período histórico y ambientación es una belleza. Italia y Renacimiento, no se puede pedir más. Los sonidos/diálogos de fondo de los NPCs hacen que el mundo se sienta vivo. Además hay una buena densidad de NPCs en las ciudades. Recuerdo cuando lo jugué la primera vez y estaba viendo en la carrera que estudiaba, justamente, el Renacimiento y quedé fascinado viendo los edificios, obras de arte, personajes históricos, plasmados en un juego tan bueno.
La música es todo un logro aparte. Creo que tiene unas de las mejores bandas sonoras de los videojuegos que recuerde. Porque no es solo el famoso “Ezio’s family” (que es un temazo), sino todas las músicas de ambiente que complementan la experiencia. Realmente la música es uno sino el más alto punto de esta entrega.
Las mejoras de equipo y demás son muy simples y eso se valora. Tenés una sola moneda que la usás para municiones, medicina, mejora de equipo, compra de equipo nuevo, etc. En lugar de tenerte juntando recursos genéricos como se suele hacer en juegos más modernos, acá fueron por una sola moneda y mejoras simples, eso me gustó.
El juego tiene varias actividades extras y secundarias para hacer, pero mientras lo jugaba me gustó que no te obligaban directa ni indirectamente a hacerlas. Yo en este caso quería ir por la historia principal y nada más. Y me venía encantando poder hacer eso. Por eso mismo me pareció muy pero muy flojo que, para poder jugar la última secuencia, el juego te obligue a juntar todas las páginas del códice. Es cierto que está justificado dentro de la historia. Pero a mí me resultó muy anticlimático. Veníamos del final emocionante de la secuencia anterior, con el discurso de Ezio en su Firenze natal. Y de la nada me encuentro teniendo que ir viajando de nuevo a los distintos mapas para buscar qué páginas me quedaron pendientes. Me bajó mucho el envión con el que venía enganchadísimo para terminar el juego.
Ahora, sabemos que en todos los Assassin’s Creed hay algún que otro problema con el parkour, que queremos saltar para un lado y salta para otro, cosas así. Pero, la verdad, no recordaba que los controles fuesen tan toscos. Creo que esto y lo que comentaba de la secuencia final, fue lo único que me hacía dejar el juego por momentos. Son las dos únicas críticas concretas que realmente me estropearon un poco la experiencia.
El combate no es muy bueno, safa. Con pocos enemigos safa, mejor dicho. Me pasó de que sobre el final se me acumularon una banda de enemigos y se me hizo eterno hasta eliminarlos a todos. No porque sea difícil, sino porque la manera de eliminarlos casi siempre es esperar un ataque, esquivar o contraatacar y listo. Y tenía por ahí diez o más enemigos rodeándome y no atacaba ninguno. Podía atacar yo, pero no es lo más práctico por el modo que tiene de combate.
En definitiva, el juego es casi perfecto. Los defectos que digo son dentro de todo entendibles, aunque me hayan molestado. El parkour, se entiende que es recién el segundo juego de la saga y que es algo que fueron perfeccionando con el tiempo, son sus mejoras y defectos. Y el final de juntar todas las páginas, es entendible teniendo en cuenta que es Ubisoft y si hay algo que les gusta es estirar innecesariamente los juegos con actividades de relleno.

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.