Oh Boy! You are going to LOVE & HATE this game!
Well after playing it all, without grinding.
The GooD.
- The atmosphere, the year and place were is ambientate is really great.
- The Level of detail, is an insane jump from previous titles (I'm playing in order, haven't played the syndicate or newer).
-- you will encounter a high amount of NPC variety; each will vary per district (from poor to rich, also there will be exclusive ones, as different types of jobs like Color dying, farmers, etc).
-- there will be various places you can enter and traverse to cut through buildings; this will vary form different jobs, bakery, bar, cafe, woodwork, etc.
-- is just insane the amount of details is packed in this, with the buildings, npc, weather, lighting, sound, and music. is just mind-blowing. it will keep you involved inside the game soo well.
- The map it could look small, but is SOO dense and Packed with detail that it just the right size.
- the sound desing and npc musichian are really good.
- Story is decent, nothing stand much, it lacks the the story's strength that moves forward the franchise with previous titles, like the Eden artefacts, old gods interactions, It almost make the astergo modern interaction to drop of importance.
- The graphics i found them outsting a lot, the in game cinematics use a different type of rendering. It is still in game but it has better fidelity, specially in the shadows.
- The weather system, seeing the locations in the night all lit by just toruches makes everything just change so well.
--The weather system is partially dynamic. it will not change from day to night, but it can change from cloudy to sunny, rainy, foggy, etc. Instead, if you fast travel you will automatically get a new weather profile from day to night.
The BaD
- The BUGS, omg these freaking bugs. well get ready to rage. Luckily the game has some checkpoints, but they are still annoying as F"%k, and this can happen really often.
--if you use the rope to traverse to the top of the building, you will teleport inside the building.
--if you are climbing and you either get shoot or injure you will get stuck in the wall.
--while parkour and walk over a pack of object, you will get stock on top.
--While figthing, you will not be able to do anything like hit, dodge, etc. apart form moving.
-The parkour: sometimes it will not do the jump; if you keep re-hitting the button it will do it.(this will happen a lot). the parkour animation are smooth, but in a lot of times it will drop momentum.
--also in my case in a lot of occation the character will almost get stock on top of fences, it just dosnet matter how many times you keep hiting the button to drop, this is really annoying, especially when trying to enter inside the building, and you are stock there and get caought until it does the damn animation.
--like executing a wall eject, it just feel like a gamble. By searching, is say that it requires the right timing, but even by just staying on the wall it will still happen the same.
-there is some type of input lag or something, if you try to drop a smoke boomb, and it dosent do it and you keep trying by hitting, eventually will drop 2 or 3 in an instant, it may be that some animations have weight but it dosent actually feels like that.
-the game feels it have more care for multiplayer than single-player (there are some missions that have better structure and storytelling than the side quest)
-the game have some music, and they are really good, but it feels like luck when you ever listen to one of these tracks sounding while playing.
-the game wants you to grind, FFFF NO, hate grinding. the co-op mission are meant to play varius times to get all the rewards available, also to unlock skills, as you only get this point by soo.
-the fighting game skill progression is REALLY BAD.
--if you want to feel OP, like in previus AC, thats not gonna happen, it still have some death animations, but some skills that should be available inmediately are lock. For example, if you tacked a enemy down. you can not kill it immediately????? because you dont have the ground execution, soo you have to wait till it gets up and keep fighting REALLY?? The F, seriously, and like that a lot of stuff. Like if you drop a smoke bomb in a group but an sniper manages to see you, you can not instant kill with hidden blade, you will only standard-attack the enemy. This is just stupid.
--soo expect a slow-ass figthing, until you get one of the high level weapon, but it will still feel slower than previus games.
-they dont care about your time, the chest have some mini game, after 20 is just annoying. and by improving the skill it just get more annoying. they should have remove the stupid game an instant open it after increasing the last skill.
ONLINE still works, and it feels amazing to do co-op and see other player styles, but a bit hard to get some 4player mission, but there is the choise to play solo. you are not gonna find trouble with 2players just wait a bit.
Still by the the end you are still going to LOVE how it looks and when it does what you want, but HATE when it just F you, and does whatever it wants.
PS for sure never getting all the collectables or doing all, it just take a horrendous time.
