"Oh shit we forgot to put actual missions in AC4" - Miyazaki coming up with For Answer, probably
Just like Last Raven before it, For Answer follows up on a mediocre game and turns it into something great, although for reasons completely different than Last Raven; LR is the hardest AC game, but FA is definitely the easiest one so far.
FA saw the good points of AC4 and doubled down on them: never before have you been so fast, flying around infinitely is now basically a given and it rules. In AC4, sometimes you'd feel like a badass because you're just controlling a huge mech and blowing up everything (something cool on a fundamental level), but it never lasted long enough for it to ever feel that good. FA solves this by making missions longer, and more varied: from destroying huge fleets of dozens and dozens of battleships to fighting city sized forts, the variety of stuff to blow up in FA is extremely good, and even having to replay missions for the different endings doesn't feel like a chore. The final chapter of the last ending is just literally insane and something i'm sure to remember for a long time, truly the second best AC game to me (LR still clears) and definitely the one i'd recommend the most to people willing to play one of the older AC games
Just like Last Raven before it, For Answer follows up on a mediocre game and turns it into something great, although for reasons completely different than Last Raven; LR is the hardest AC game, but FA is definitely the easiest one so far.
FA saw the good points of AC4 and doubled down on them: never before have you been so fast, flying around infinitely is now basically a given and it rules. In AC4, sometimes you'd feel like a badass because you're just controlling a huge mech and blowing up everything (something cool on a fundamental level), but it never lasted long enough for it to ever feel that good. FA solves this by making missions longer, and more varied: from destroying huge fleets of dozens and dozens of battleships to fighting city sized forts, the variety of stuff to blow up in FA is extremely good, and even having to replay missions for the different endings doesn't feel like a chore. The final chapter of the last ending is just literally insane and something i'm sure to remember for a long time, truly the second best AC game to me (LR still clears) and definitely the one i'd recommend the most to people willing to play one of the older AC games