this game just felt like AC2 with less variety in locations and more side content gimmicks that artificially increases playtime for completionists.

while i like that there was much more emphasis on the overarching plot here, we end off once again with a cliffhanger and still a really weak understanding of the lore.

some things that bothered me specifically:
- the reuse of locations over and over again (because of the lack of locations)
- how the crossbow makes this game ridiculously easy
- how the game bugs out at certain points regarding full synchronization, and has multiple points in time where having over 60 fps will softlock your gam
- the guilds system as a whole (leveling up guilds is just lame as hell, including the assassins guild)
- some missions are just straight up boring

ultimately it's still assassin's creed and it's still fine. just not special at all.