Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
HOLY CRAP I passed Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood today. That is quite an ending, and it really makes me excited for the next game. While I still don’t want to run around as Desmond, I’d be okay with it if it comes to that, because man oh man do I want to find out what happens next. This is the first time that the events of Assassin’s Creed actually seem to matter to the people in the outer story, because you spend some much time jumping around as Altaire or Ezio that these morons on the surfaces are just kinda there, you almost forget exactly why they are doing what they’re doing. But now, oh man, right now? Something is happening.
I also totally called the last chapter, which takes place on top of a castle in France. You throw that jerk Cesare off of it. It’s not spoiling anything if it’s history. There was this one part before that was spoiled for me in a one-star review, and frankly I think he overreacted. The missions in question were definitely tedious, but they did not completely negate every other thing that happened up to that point. Plus, they took only about 15 minutes tops. Sure, it felt rushed, but I think they ran out of time and were focusing on other stuff, and they needed to make it perfectly clear that the Borgia were definitely out of Rome, which they achieved. So yeah, not exactly super pleasant dénouement, but nothing to completely trash the game over.
Oh, and there was this one stupid race at the Coliseum, in which you have to bustle up from the bottom to the top and leap off into a haybale. Interesting race, except for the complete weirdness that it starts you standing at the top of the Coliseum already, and you need to get down to the bottom and back up again. Why would I be standing up there? And why do I need to spend the 30 to 45 seconds to safely get down to the ground floor? The guy who gave me the mission is standing on the ground near the starting gate. Start me next to him! Odd.
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