Hello everyone!
I "recently" started to replay (finished 3 games) the Assassin's Creed series, except for the first, because I already maxed out everything in a playthrough years ago, and I don't have the game anymore, it was on a lost account, and I don't want to buy it again.
Looking back at this game, you can say that this part hasn't necessarily had a great evolution, but, for 2009 it looked real good, comparing with other titles from that time. Anyway, comparing with the original Assassin's Creed, this one is a big improvement.
But, some places look better than others, some parts have more detail, being more meaningful to the story, and so on. And some places in AC2 are still looking great, even for today's standards. The cathedrals especially had a lot of attention to details.
Florence it's just beautifully build. And it was trully appreciated that you're able to walk through the entire town from the beginning. No more availability zones inside the same city, freedom at last.
Again, I will compare it to its predecessor, and AC2 is in every way better. I remember the first time I encountered the ability to carry around bodies, it was like a mind-blowing, I spent hours cleaning the streets after a big battle, just hiding bodies, attracting guards to random streets, just for another stealth kill, or to collect more money for a new weapon.
Talking about weapons, I've had to own them all. Every hammer, sword, knife in a beautiful collection in the Monterigioni villa. But, my favorite thing to do in the game was just throwing a heavy weapon, like an axe at a guard. Don't get me wrong, I've played a lot with the double blades, the poison, the darts and bullets, but the heavy throwing was the most satisfying for me.
If you invest directly in renovations in the villa from the start of the game, the economy can be only described as broken. The amount of money that you can collect after is just insane. When I finished the game I had somewhere around 1M coins remaining, after purchasing every weapon, painting, and all that money can buy in that game.
I found the tombs to be the most interesting part of the game. It was just another atmosphere, more mysterious, more challenging, and with a big reward at the final. Because Altair's armor is just the one thing in the game that money can't buy, with all the money in Italy that Ezio was spinning.
Starting out experimenting some parkour skills that Ezio already has before discovering about the Assassins, you are rooting for this young lad from the begging. His arrogance towards everyone, except maybe his family, is making you hard to believe how easy this guy is making friends left and right, until the end of the game when you realize that all of them were in fact his father's friends.
The enemies however have very few character development, but you still got enough of them to make you get that feeling of "I can't wait to kill this one" (I can't think of another expression here). You get the feel of betrayal right when you get your Assassin's cape, a perfect moment, to get your revenge on the man that was your last father hope, but turned out to be the end for your father and brothers.
The codex pages were my favorite puzzle in the game, every decoded page could get you a new way to kill. From this point, Assassin's Creed 1 seems just basic, full equipment looking just rudimentary by comparison.
Is this game still worth playing in 2022, I think so. The Ezio trilogy is one of the best story in the series, the game is still fun to play, and for me personally, it's a piece of childhood. The start of the journey for Ezio Auditore da Firenze is unique in my perspective, and it's one that for sure I recommend.
All the images were captured during my gameplay.
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