Played the remastered version - which definitely improves textures and the lighting (the fire looks amazing!), but has weirdly inconsistent color grading, some stuttering and all-over-the-place audio mixing.

About the game itself: adored Connor as a main character. Nuanced stoicism yet emotionally potent. Extremely hot, too! It was interesting coming in blindly and wondering what was the game doing for the first few hours, and I admit once you play as Connor, the build-up is quite slow, but overall I like what they did character-wise. Also love the environments (snow!!) and the score (very cinematic, in the best possible way -- reminded me of Batman, for some reason).

Biggest flaw: the mission design. Tired, frustrating and mostly not very interesting. It basically has the same problems as ACII/ACB/ACR but with less imagination and a longer campaign. The open world systems are not very fun either. Crafting sucks, most of the liberation/contracts/assassination stuff is pointless and I didn't bother hunting.

I'd strongly recommend finding every single trinket so you can do the Captain Kidd missions. Very set-piecey but extremely fun! Also, do Homestead missions in between the main story. The character development and little stories are wholesome and show a different side to Connor. You'll end up thinking how can anyone NOT love him?

I think I might give the DLC (Tyranny of King Washington) a shot.