This certainly is the 1st AC game all right.
For as much flack as the new games get for not making you "feel like an assassin", this game is just about as bad in that regard in my opinion. For a game called Assassin's Creed, I spent maybe 2% of this game actually assassinating people, and the other 98% slogging trough the tedious swordplay. Not only that, but stealth assassinating your targets, you know, like an assassin would do, is incredibly hard to accomplish and downright impossible at times.
The story is just like the gameplay loop, i.e. incredibly boring and repetitive, although I will say the modern day story is actually really solid this time around. Not only that, but even though the story is bare bones, the philosophical questions it brings up are really interesting. Not enough to warrant a 2nd playthrough, but maybe enough for me to rewatch a couple of the cutscenes on YT to try and fully understand the dialogue and what it was trying to convey. You know, maybe it would have been easier for me to understand it all on my 1st playthrough if the game had FUKING SUBTITLES.
Needless to say, if this was my first introduction to the franchise, I would have not stuck with the series.
For as much flack as the new games get for not making you "feel like an assassin", this game is just about as bad in that regard in my opinion. For a game called Assassin's Creed, I spent maybe 2% of this game actually assassinating people, and the other 98% slogging trough the tedious swordplay. Not only that, but stealth assassinating your targets, you know, like an assassin would do, is incredibly hard to accomplish and downright impossible at times.
The story is just like the gameplay loop, i.e. incredibly boring and repetitive, although I will say the modern day story is actually really solid this time around. Not only that, but even though the story is bare bones, the philosophical questions it brings up are really interesting. Not enough to warrant a 2nd playthrough, but maybe enough for me to rewatch a couple of the cutscenes on YT to try and fully understand the dialogue and what it was trying to convey. You know, maybe it would have been easier for me to understand it all on my 1st playthrough if the game had FUKING SUBTITLES.
Needless to say, if this was my first introduction to the franchise, I would have not stuck with the series.