I lost the game. Edit: The Den Defense must only be done when your notoriety goes up. If you avoid raising your notoriety then you will theoretically never have to do it more than the one time in the story. Regardless, it is a pain to avoid it so I'll leave my thoughts on it as is.
I actually loved this game because it dived deeper into the Assassin's Creed lore which is probably why some people didn't like it since the plot didn't concentrate on a villain and their goals, but rather it concentrated on how everything started with Altair and the importance of his bloodline along with what the library is and what the keys and/or pieces of Eden are.
This whole game could’ve just been an Altair game rather than an Ezio game… for Ezio I think the story is pointless, even as a game that concludes the trilogy. Ac2 and Brotherhood were significantly better as a complete story with Revelations feeling like something on the side, kind of like a spin off…
@@brahmanwithin6623 eh Ezio was and is a better character than most of the new ones aside from Bayek and Edward. Having another game with him is worthwhile IMO.
@@brahmanwithin6623 Disagree. I think it was a good send off for not only Altair buy also Ezio. Much better than just dropping a protagonist as soon as their game is over like every other AC game nowadays.
I think the idea of it was the conflict is never ending as the game said You haven’t really resolve things this time. You just put it off for someone else to fix I am guessing that was the theme.
And that’s what I love about it. We already had two amazing villains. The cunning and infuriating, yet respectable Rodrigo Borgia. And then the absolutely detestable and top tier villainous prick, Cesare. Both encapsulated their own villainy in such fantastic ways and made those first two Ezio games so much fun. Rodrigo is still the best villain in the series, easily. But the fact that Revelations ditches that idea and tosses Ezio between a war he doesn’t care to pick sides in (remaining Byzantines and the Ottomans), is really stellar. It has him on a search for answers and it’s just such a wonderful way to change things up and cap off his story. By the end of AC2, Ezio had grown tired of yearning for revenge and even speaks against it in the ending of the Bonfire of the Vanities dlc. And then he’s brought back into it by Cesare, thereafter finally finishing off the Borgia takeover of Italy and revitalizing the Assassin Brotherhood. In Revelations, he’s an old man who had lost almost all his family and just wanted to stay out of the politics and bloodshed that had plagued his life, and hold onto what he had left. Ezio wanted to finally get answers to what he had seen in the Vatican and the mysteries of the world that tied the Templars and his family together, as well as learn from the life of Altair who he would relate to being that Ezio had become grandmaster of the Brotherhood in Italy. It shows so much growth and wisdom that he isn’t really playing politics or holding onto anger and hate anymore. He’s trying to find answers and wisdom in his twilight years, which leads him to finding Sofia and living a real life outside all the chaos. It’s such a fundamentally superb sequel that I can’t believe Ubisoft was once this spectacular. Revelations, to me, shows just how strong the writing and minds of the franchise were back then. And it still remains my favorite in many ways because of it. Brotherhood may be the best as a game, but AC2 and Revelations are the pinnacle of storytelling in Assassin’s Creed.
I love the multiplayer so much for this game, but what makes this game a masterpiece is one line... "The hookblade has 2 parts, the hook and the blade".
Yes, I agree. Revelations was actually the first AC game where I actually got close to crying. I was so emotionally connected to Ezio due to how long we’ve been with him, but I cared even more in this game. He’s older, wiser and STILL looking for answers. We also get more stuff with Altair (which I still think we need even more with him), and Ezio gets to learn directly from the Mentor himself. Ezio learns to be satisfied with the life he has, to accept he has done his part and has seen enough for one life. “No books, no wisdom; only you, fratello mio.”
I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who thinks that. I was under the impression that later Ezio games, especially Revelations, were kinda forgotten by the majority of AC fans. It doesn't get nearly as much praise as it deserves. Thanks to Aqua for fixing that.
@@Agent_3141 is Roger Craig Smith the guy who voices Ezio? if he is, then he was also the guy who voiced Crane from Dying Light as well i think, can hardly tell haha
I can't even begin to fathom the fact that people didn't like this game. As a kid, playing this game was great but I wasn't really into the whole crafting bombs thing. Overall a great story.
Den defense was pointless, territory control is annoying especially buying stores, notoriety is so sensitive in this game compared to previous entries, the Mediterranean Defense is busy work because I can't go 20 minutes without that shit bugging the hell out of me of something wrong and if you want the achievement it'll take a long ass time to complete. Oh and the Desmond sections are the worst out of any of the games. It's basically a shitty version of portal with stiff controls and poor platforming. Not to mention the DLC is ass compared to any of the AC games because it's just more Desmond section levels.
Also has the most forgettable villains out of the Desmond saga, a forgettable second act, and bombs are so fucking useless unless it's smoke because it allows you to kill enemies without killing civilians.
@@cjallenroxs6239 it's only fun when more than 60 percent of the game isn't just needless padding. While one can argue all the worst parts of AC started in Brotherhood I'd say Revelations is where I felt the franchise was where it's worst aspects took the forefront and being the 4th game in the series using the same game engine since the original is what made this game really stale not to mention there's very little variation in it's gameplay compared to previous entries making it the most uninspired in the franchise.
Concerning Den Defense: I've never once had an opportunity to play it outside of the tutorial and I've played the game multiple times since release, including multiple 100% runs. It's tied to your Notoriety (Or whatever they call it in Revelations) so if you're obsessed with always keeping it low like I am you literally never experience it. Plus once you put a Master Assassin in a Den, it can never be taken over, so maxing out all of your Assassins essentially locks you out of the mini game.
And then watching Assassin's Creed Embers after playing the Ezio trilogy really punches me right in the feels. But yeah, this is a stellar and underrated game in the franchise, for sure.
One of my favorite characters from these games was Ezio’s sister. She had a great arc. The mission where she is inducted into the order in Brotherhood always hit me in a special way, and at the beginning of Revelations Ezionis writing to Claudia. We can assume she is his equal as he is confusing in her as a sister and fellow assassin.
Revelations is definitely my favorite in the trilogy. There are some aspects I’m not exactly thrilled to play (hub defense and the weird block shit with Desmond), but otherwise there’s a lot to this game I love. Parkour with the hookblade is fun and satisfying, I actually really dig Old Man Ezio and his new design, and I thought the bombs offered a lot of new options and opportunities for stealth. The Janissaries were kinda annoying sometimes but overall weren’t too bad. But aside from gameplay, I really enjoyed the story and felt it was a nice conclusion to Ezio’s and Altair’s story. I don’t know what it is but I found myself liking Ezio more in this game than in the other two. Also worth mentioning, the music in this game might also be my favorite in the trilogy. AC2 has some amazing tracks, but the main theme and the music that plays throughout the city really just helps complete the atmosphere and feel of the game for me.
Ezio was pretty much the James Bond of AC. thats why we love him. He grew like Daniel Craig in Casino Royale. As im typing this im REALLY hoping you mention AC Embers which is the end of his story overall.
My theory on the eye colour change might be because of his Eagle vision evolving into the Eagle sense, as Ezio has managed to make his Eagle Vision evolve during his lifetime without the use of the bleeding effect which is pretty abnormal.
nobody didn’t like it to be honest “in defense” is kinda unnecessary. it’s the least liked like in the trilogy and maybe an underrated game but everybody I’ve spoken to in the community who has played revelations agrees it has the best or one of the best stories in the series
Same, playing this in 2021 for the first time. AC2 was good and as bad as I remembered in parts. ACB improved many things and ACR improves and refines it further. Also old Ezio >>> young ezio
I actually really enjoy this setting, while most of the buildings are pretty much brown, the actual architecture looks great and when your on street level the clothing of the NPCs and the shop decore looks really colourful
I was the same, played it when it came out then again in the ezio collection, appreciated it more the second time and noticed more of the improvements over the others in the trilogy as I played them all in a row. Awesome breakdown!
YES!! Finally someone who understands. Revelations is my definitely favourite game in the series, alongside AC1. Both amazing games, with amazing stories.
The Assassins Creed Community is the most toxic community i’ve ever been a part of, telling people to be civil in the comments won’t cut it sadly, awesome video though Aqua, i love revelations, it’s an awesome game. one of the few games that i enjoyed walking around the busy areas of the city. I loved walking around the Bazaar area and just blending with the crowd. i never felt out of place in revelations
its annoying because its just seems to be the biggest voices in the community slating odyssey and if you like it youre a non conformist who just wants to be different and if you dont think AC 2 is a masterpiece youre just wrong.
SharkSprayYTP i know what you mean, as someone who hates Odyssey myself i can understand what they’re saying about it but i think the whole community needs to just learn to respect each other’s opinions, if i think AC 2 is the best game, people should respect my opinion as i do with theirs. if someone likes odyssey, i don’t mind. that’s their choice, and I respect that, i’m in a discord server where most people there love odyssey, and we all respect each other’s opinions, it’s just a shame that doesn’t happen everywhere else
The Hagia Sophia is Constantinople's colosseum esque landmark. Sure the map doesn't have the open spaces of Rome and it has a weird yellow filter on it, but this particular criticism of the world not being as memorable could be because Constantinople just isn't as familiar a setting to a western audience as say Rome/Italy.
I agree this was the best Ezio game for me too and still one of my favorite AC games till this day. The setting was so unique and peaceful and i liked the wiser less brash and less foolish Ezio. Also i could see the major graphical upgrade the series had since AC2.
Less brash and foolish Ezio? The dude's first thought when encountering a locked gate? Mass riot. Manuel is in hiding? Set the entire underground city on fire. This blatantly contradicts the first tenet of the Creed and no Mentor should even consider those options.
THANK YOU. Revelations is my favorite game in general of the series ... I thought the best was Odyssey after having played through that .. then I replayed the old ones and rediscovered the heart of the series long lost
Revelations happened to be my very first assassins creed game, and I was lucky since it came with a copy of the original AC, and eventually I've played the other ezio games of course Absolutely LOVE the music, the atmosphere, and I hold it very dear to my heart to this day
When you counter steal Janissaries (the bad boys), there's a chance to execute them when you're attacking them while their confused animation still plays.
For me what I liked the most about it were the murderers that tried to back stab you at random. There you were calmly walking about and then suddenly you feel something is not quite right but you can't pinpoint what, then it hits you: the music stopped. And in its place come crawling out this tense violin crescendo, and you try to race against the controls to prepare to counter when you realize there's a murderer sneaking up on you.
i liked how they improoved that system in Rouge. To be able to chase your hunters, trick them into leavging their hide and jump on them was my fav side activity.
Keep up the great work my dude! School’s a pain in the arse don’t let it take ya down. Take all the time ya need to make videos, we’ll be here. Cheers mate
whenever aqua posts a new ac review, I get excited. revelations is in my opinion the second best ac game. it is heavily underrated, so thank you for doing it justice :D Ezio is at his peak ability wise in revelations, like you said, with the parkour and combat being the best in the ezio trilogy, and I agree! I ADORE the revelations parkour, best in the series! zipping around with the hookblade, gliding down with parachutes,,,it was all so oddly satisfying! gameplay wise revelations is my fav as well. the plot is defo not the weakest in the trilogy, like people say. I find revelations to have one of the most interesting stories in an ac game. ezio meeting with altair and desmond was sooooo EPIC, and the whole ottoman storyline was intriguing as well. the villains are a lot more well written in revelations, like ahmed, shakhulu and such! Revelations is a beautiful game, a fitting conclusion to the old era of ac, a nice wrap up with loads of new fun features. we need more videos like this one :)
The game's ending with the story of Altair and Ezio concluding, Ezio "talking" to Desmond, the Isu stuff, is probably the most impactful, emotional moment in the whole franchise. The mechanics didn't really change much from BH, so it was still smooth and nice. The bomb crafting was a bit meh most times. Useful but like half of it. Like I didn't see much point for the mines. Or the blood bomb. Also as with Brotherhood, this game had multiplayer too, as it's best form. The score written for the multiplayer parts only are so great, the chase themes, the subtle themes... oh they were so good, loved listening to them just on their own too.
At emotional level, hell yeah!! It hit me too hard when ezio honoured Altair’s soul & had conversation with Desmond in the end. Nothing has ever topped that scene till today in my opinion. Revelation has already gone in the gaming history as the most satisfying end to a saga that we all loved
I got this game Christmas day and beat it before 2 days passed by. I will tell you this I then replayed it 6 more timed and on my 7th I 100% it. I remember the very vivid moment of when I was climbing gelotta tower and as I passed the horizon of the roof the song hello world was playing and the chorus started just as the city came into view. My favorite game up until unity
The thing Brotherhood and Revelations were missing in the way of boss fights was Shaun's presentation of the target. That made it feel like an important task.
The assassins creed community always changes their “favorite” game, like two months ago it was unity and now revelations, when are we gonna realize that syndicate wasn’t all that bad.
Syndicate gets old FAST. Especially end game. Roaming around ain't that fun cuz the amount of enemies just aren't as much as the other games for you to just mess around. This is only my opinion but I hate Jacobs top hat so much. I know it's supposed to be fitting for the time period but god I hate it so much
Honestly my favourite changes everytime i play a different game between 3, Unity, 3 and Origins. i think thats the good thing about the games, theyre different to the point where depending on whether youre feeling like you want to play a more stealthy game you could play unity, you want an rpg? play originns, you just want to mssacre people in the street dropping stunners on anyone who tries to stop you? play 3.
@@drekiskrek5008 yeah thats just my preference, I'm really fucking nitpicky and I like to customize my characters in stuff I would actually wear, a top hat just looks silly to me, I'm trynna see if I could make a mod that just deletes the hat texture
Syndicate wasn't all that bad. I found it a refreshing game after playing it right after Unity which was a very classic AC experience. I enjoyed hooks and driving as gameplay additions much more that ships. I still have Odyssey ahead of me so I dread ships again, I hated them in 3, 4, Rogue and Origins... But I digress. Main story was enjoyable with a very memorable and omnipresent Starrick even if modern day was a filler. The worst part was turf wars, but the rest was fun and some open-ended missions are among the best in the series. It's also quite lighthearted which was, again, refreshing. I like Syndicate a lot.
This is my first AC game ever and it still holds a special place in my heart til now. For all its flaws I think it still holds up in a lotta aspects and I think it’s severely underrated especially in comparison to AC2 and Brotherhood
The only thing wrong that I noticed in this video was the lute playing and the buttons representing what he sings. It's all randomised, doesn't matter what button is pressed. (I was excited to test it out and sad to realise it wasn't true)
My favorite after ACIII. By far the best story in the franchise, it closes Altair's and Ezio's arcs, while giving Desmond much needed backstory(though it's behind a boring puzzle minigame), i never knew Desmond was indeed born in the Brotherhood but just wanted a simple life, i always thought he was a random guy that later finds out his father is a Mentor. And that ending, fuck that ending is a masterpiece. Ezio talking to Desmond, the end of the Isu, Subject 16 unlocking Connor's memories in Desmond DNA and the ending that goes directly to ACIII, that shit at the time got me so hyped for the end of this story.
Revelations aged like fine wine. It gets more love the o,der it gets. However, I think they did Ezio and especially Desmond dirty with that face design in this game.
I'm a bit discontented you weren't able to include the game mechanic I mentioned in the Brotherhood review but I understand that you're quite busy with school and whatnot and it's okay that you may have left it out. Here's a quick demonstration of what I was talking about: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vInw1GSN8nQ.html Anyways, amazing review of the game. In my opinion, the den defense and the bomb crafting is what makes this game unique since no other AC game has this mechanic. I had a lot of fun doing the den defense mini game as it progressively becomes more difficult the more you do it. There were moments when everyone's gangsta until the enemy rolls out the flamethrower tank. Man, that flamethrower tank cuts through barricade like cake. I even lose sometimes because of that bastard lol. The bombs are so much fun to play with. You can throw caltrop bombs to make people dance, use lamb's blood to freak everyone out, or use datura to make enemies dance to their deaths. The bomb content is only half of it, the fun happens when experimenting with which shell you put them in. Impact shells detonate on impact, like molotovs. Fuse shells take a few seconds to detonate after throwing them, like a frag grenade. Trip wire bombs act like claymores and sticky pouches act like semtex or C4's. 15:15 Also, there's a minor error in the game where Ezio stabs Leandros with his right hidden blade. If you remember in the opening cutscene, Ezio's right hidden blade was cut off, leaving him with only with his left hidden blade functioning which doesn't make sense how Ezio was able to stab Leandros with his right hidden blade. It's magic I guess.
I really love your take on things bro, you focus on the positives on things its really refreshing in this day and age. Your video convinced me to play assassins creed unity and its one of my favorite games now
One detail I love about this game is how Ezio treats his enemies in this game. Not only does he become more ruthless as the Creed wears on him, but he also only says "Requiescat in Pace" twice in the game. Once to Leandros and once to Altair at the end. Meanwhile, in 2 and Brotherhood he said this to every single fallen foe save for Vieri, before he was taught to respect the dead. Now the death scenes are far more tense in Ezio's end and he seems more keen to retire the Creed than to continue preaching its narrative.
My God! Watching those short clips of Brotherhood make me want to play it again. So bright and vibrant. Sure the combat requires no skill from the players perspective but required a lifetime of training from a master assassin to make it so seamless for the player, Ezio says you're welcome. Anyway I loved Revelations too and played it at least 3 times but now I might replay again just so I can remember why Brotherhood was so much funner.
this is my favorite AC game ezio is one of my favorite characters in fiction and I feel like revalations is peak of ezios character and the movement/ combat is great. while the setting of constantinopal isnt as grand as half of italy in 2 or all of rome in brotherhood I feel it holds up as a gorgeous representation of the city. I actually like the base defence in all honesty I always thought it was really unique
I think the brotherhood/assassin management system was the best of the series(even though they used it for like 3 or 4 of the games). I liked how you could take over the cities that you can send your assassins to for missions and they generate additional money and bomb ingredients each income cycle. I also liked how you had to maintain control over each city by assigning assassins to increase max control and on missions in the cities to increase actual control. And by assigning assassins to each city, they gain exp every income cycle without any risk. Income in all forms can be increased by certain missions that are unlocked when you take over a city. Not to mention, when it came to the various districts of Constantinople, you could assign an assassin to become a master assassin and when they get maxed out, the district becomes immune from Templar attacks.
40:22 "While not the most impactful or memorable" I just can't take that one seriously that was as memorable and impactful as it can get in my opinion the Altair music carried on from AC1 to revelations just to keep the feeling His wise and sad words when he said he wanted to just say he has seen enough for one life and simply retire but he wanted to fight for the truth when he returns after exile and the game shows you ghosts of his dead wife all over the mission and you can activate eagle vision to relive those memories during that mission playing as an old Altair who can barely walk and keeps coughing every now and then and stops for rest and last but not least one of the best game endings I have ever seen when you walk to hide the apple and hear the words of Al Mualim and conversation between Altair his wife who is not even alive anymore (with acre music in the background ... the place he first met Maria) then the game tells you to sit down and rest for a while as you are too tired only for that to be the last moment of your life the music, the camera rotation, everything in that scene was incredible it almost brought me tears. Altair side story was not a side story it was the main story, if you notice ... Ezio travelled looking for wisdom but in the end all he got was another artifact that he had no use for. what did he gain from this ? does the purpose of this story go to waste ? Altair already gave his wisdom to Ezio through those memories he saw from the beginning to the end ... the journey was the takeaway from this and not the end result. And only in the last Altair memory does Ezio realize that Altair was sending a message to someone and I think only then does he realize that person was Desmond. An incredible "I have seen enough for one life" quote that would have never been that impactful unless you hear Altair say it first ... It was Altair's advice to Ezio across timelines only in an indirect way and I think Ezio took the Advice. And again the music is fascinating throughout this whole scene. I can't picture in any other way how that could have been more impactful and memorable.
Revelations is one of the few games where I cried but felt content by the end. As for the story structure, In the AC 2 the whole plot was vengeance, the enemy was one borne of a personal nature, the in AC B the enemy was more prominent because the struggle effected more people in more obvious ways, then in Revelations, it became more a reflection. In a reflection of one’s life sometimes it is difficult to identify enemies, good vs bad, kind vs cruelty, thinking about these become taxing thus this game, its story, Ezio’s story was more a meditation, it was no longer about his enemy, this was an enemy to a city, absent his own emotions. His only tie then becomes his legacy, the assassin’s brotherhood he came to mentor for a time, his enemies were but obstacles in his student’s way, hence all those side missions to help them. Where previously Ezio’s main solutions were to do it himself, now he simply aids, make strong. At least that’s how I see it. He who increaseth knowledge (wisdom) increaseth sorrow.
@@Agito4774 OMG, YES! I'm glad I played AC 1 before Revelations because I might not have thought so otherwise. I mean, I understand why they did it, maybe the voice actor was busy, or maybe they just wanted an accurate voice for him, but they kept Al' Mualim's voice actor, so that's not even a good reason. Both are fine, but the original was better. And even if he seemed pretty emotionless, it's because he was curious and asking questions the entire game. The Revelations version honestly feels like a completely different character.
@@DarthTingleBinks Exactly my thoughts and you're right that they sound like completely different characters. It's just that the Altair I know is the one from AC1 and it's because it's the first version of him that I knew and it's because I already got used to the voice of his from AC1 already and Altair's voice in AC1 just sounds much better and badass in my opinion.
I really enjoyed learning about Desmond's backstory. It translated well into Assassin's Creed III. I'm currently replaying the series in order when I'm free from work, and I'm eager to learn more about Clay. I never played the dlc memories. This game brought Ezio's story to a great close. My favorite theme was Desmond overcoming his feelings of being defeated and breaking out of his coma. It showed me why his mood completely changed by ACIII.
Finally someone like AC Revelations. I do not get it why people love AC Brotherhood as much as they do. My favourite AC game will always be AC2. for me brotherhood feels like AC2.5 rather than a new game it feels like a long DLC for AC2. AC Revelation genuinely feels like a new game overall.
I'm less sold on Rev's merits. To me it's the best of the Ezio games but still one of the worst AC games. The combat is still same boring counter spammy stuff. Stealth is still overly rigid and most of the additions added don't really add depth to the game but only make it wider or obsolete other features. The story itself was also lacking. Desmond's story was lacklustre because it was recapping stuff we already knew since AC1. They should have incorporated stuff from the Lost Legacy into that instead. Desmond never even gets to really confront that Lucy was a triple agent all along. Altair's sections have their issues. Some of the impact is lost because we don't see the stuff that happens in between memories. Like, we had no connection to Altair's son before he died. We don't see Altair in exile, we just see him coming back after his Exile and taking back Masyaf so to Altair and the world it was this long hard struggle but we just get the ending. Maria probably would be the oddest to players who played just the main games since she's had like 2 minutes of screentime tops across the franchise before Rev and you'd wonder why Altair is with a Templar and it's no big deal. Unless you played the PSP game Bloodlines and see how they came to be friends which retroactivly makes that memory in AC2 a lot better. Ezio's stuff is also lacking. To quote Mirror and Image: "Revelations is a game that deeply suffers for its game mechanics: from recruiting assassins to defending dens to recruiting guilds it paints Yusuf in a very poor light as a leader, and yet he has important death scene that we're supposed to care about. Yusuf's development in the game is little more than a caricature (though that's a hell of a lot more than Sofia gets... more on her later) for the simple reason that the game is doing too much. The story has something of a kitchen sink mentality - we have the political intrigue of Suleiman and his uncle and father, the trials of Yusuf, the master assassin missions, the quest for the memory disks, the Altair side-story, and oh yeah, Ezio needs to fall in love with someone by the end of the game. The idea of a game being that dense is normally great, but the juggling act the writers are forced to do means that none of these stories gets the time and care necessary for any of them to develop well. The price is that many of the characters of the game flatten out because there just isn't time to craft it. ... Before we start ragging, we need to express that we love the IDEA of Sofia. We love that Ezio, after fifty years of fighting and serving, finally manages to find a small bit of happiness in his life and manages to get a family of his own. We like the idea that Sofia is not an assassin at all and knows nothing about the cloak and dagger world that surrounds Ezio. We like that she's meant to be a nerd. And while we both roll our eyes at the huge age difference between them we accept that such a gap was common to the point of normalcy back in the day. Look at Bartolomeo and Pantasilea - they have a similar age gap and it still works. But good GAWD Sofia suffers terribly in this game. She suffers from kitchen sinks, game mechanics, bad writing (which we normally are incapable of attributing to Ubisoft), bad stereotyping, bad everything. She is less a character and more an archtype - and a poorly written one at that. The first thing she suffers from is the kitchen sink. There is so much going on in Revelations, from the Ottomans to the Janissaries to the Byzantines to the keys to ALTAIR to Yusuf etc; and while most of the plots can all interconnect Sofia - who by definition of being ignorant of this Assassin/Templar war - is wholely isolated from the overarching plot. She becomes a subplot in a game where she was supposed to be a feature. While Yusuf suffers this as well, he at least gets a couple walk-and-talks and memories where he's out and about giving him a sense of belonging to the world; Sofia by contrast is ONLY ever interacted with in cutscenes, removing any players sense of connection to her. The next thing to hit her is the obvious attempts to modernize her. Does it make sense in the sixteenth century Ottoman empire that a woman will be an independent business owner? Does it makes sense that she's in what's supposed to be a tactful period dress when her cleavage is on display for the world to see - again in sixteenth century Ottoman empire? But by FAR the thing that hurts her the most is the combination of the writing and the gameplay mechanics. Because Ezio is the protagonist, he's the one who gets all the objectives to accomplish. Any gamer recognizes that towns people and quest givers are utterly incapable of doing their own jobs until you the player swoop in to save the day. For Sofia this is compounded by the limitation that she's supposed to be "normal" (blatant modernizations excluded, of course). What does Ezio actually DO with the Sofia missions? 1. He meets her and introduces her to the map (and how does he know that she's an experienced cryptographer? Whatever, it's not the worst sin that's committed) 2. He saves her from Duccio (male empowerment) and then saves her from waiting for a delivery (dafuq?). 3. He learns her shop is robbed once or twice a year (da-DOUBLE-fuq? WHAT?) and rescues her painting 4. Picks flower for her in what is the ONLY EXISTING well-written scene with her. We hated, and I mean hated Sofia until A Little Errand. The best thing about that memory is that why Ezio is doing this mission is contextualized to the actual relationship rather than saving the damsel in distress. And that tiny amount of goodwill is utterly destroyed as Sofia is kidnapped off screen and needs to be rescued from hanging. And what does she do after seeing her life flash before her eyes? Does she demand to know what's going on? Does she feel conflicted when Ezio admits he's the one who put her in danger? Does she have a normal reaction to a near death experience? NOOOOOOOOOO, why try to make her a character now? Instead, not three seconds from struggling for breath she abdicates Ezio of any responsibility, saying, "You are not responsible for the actions of other men." HOW IS THAT THE FIRST THING SHE SAYS? And if that isn't insult to injury, the writers try to modernize her again by dragging her along with the over the top action set piece so that she can be damsel'ed AGAIN and make witty commentary about women driving. You know, for comedy, because there's so much of it in Revelations! And then she calmly lets Ezio walk alone into Altair's crypt for the end because of course she isn't meant to be there because she's just the love interest. Sigh. Sofia is relegated to typecasting. The developers and even Ezio as much as say that he's going to Istanbul for inspiration, and so not only is she a damsel in distress, she is the "muse", a stereotype that women are often forced to be for men regardless of their own lives. Sofia, as all muses, is expected to drop whatever it is she is doing and help Ezio through his depression and fall in love with him, and it's not even done WELL."
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Funny story about the Tower Defense minigame: Completely by accident, I actually never triggered it again after the initial tutorial. I guess I just managed my notoriety really well without realizing it. Genuinely ran around after beating the game and deliberately drove up my 'Wanted Level' so that I could do it again because I'd completely forgotten it ever existed. Even then it never triggered, so my game may have just have been glitched. Sounds like I stumbled upon most people's ideal playthrough lol
I might sound a little biased here since this was my first AC game ever, but I did love this game a lot and when I played through Brotherhood and AC2, I appreciated this game even more. To much like your thinking, this is the best Ezio game. To me this game was more memorable than Brotherhood was for me. Loved how Ezio was as a character in this game the extra content based on Altair provided more insight about what kind of man he grew into after AC1. It wasn't needed but appreciated. I'm glad I watched that E3 footage and a playthrough all those years ago, because without those, I wouldn't be the AC fan that I am today
Cappadocia is the coolest city ever put in a AC game. I also really liked the tower defense and the look and feel of Constantinople was really enjoyable (it really gives me christmasy feelings for some reason), it's much more memorable to me than Rome in Brotherhood.
After just finish my first replay of Revelations, it is rivaling Brotherhood as my favorite AC game. While I get not really liking the modern day story with Desmond's first person block journey, I really enjoyed it. Where ACII and Brotherhood focused more on background characters, we FINALLY got Desmond's backstory, aided by some visual graphics and immersive music. Plus, the final sequence inside of Abstergo really made the rest worth it in the end. Not only were we getting more of Ezio's journey, but Altair's, Desmond's, and Clay's as well. After so many years, we were starting to get answers and conclusions. As for the Istanbul storyline feeling a bit disconnected, I feel like that was perfectly intentional. Ezio arrived in a city controlled by Templars, but with an established Assassin presence, and helped them where he could, as a Mentor Assassin should, but it wasn't his primary goal, and if the game is played in a way that reflects that for the first few sequences, you can find a nice flow between the Istanbul story and Ezio's personal hunt for the Masyaf keys. Then, they converge into one story during Cappadocia, and it all gets wrapped up nicely in my opinion.
Didn't knew this was a debated topic, this game is straight up fantastic, good graphics, great combat, fantastic story, there are points in this game that literally give me goosebumps. Ezio explaining the meaning of the creed. Desmond coming back from the coma through the help of subject 16, the soundtrack and the way the world is literally being deleted around them. Ezio finding Altair corpse and talking to us (Desmond) through fucking time. Amazing game.
This is my favorite assassins creed game of all time. It maintained that feel, unlike the newest ones, and the combat wasn't weird like ac3 and onwards. That being said, the combat was entirely too easy unless you were in cappadocia with the enemies with big axes. The combat was doing nothing but countering with occasionally attacking someone so they can't shoot you. In assassin's creed 2 at least, enemies could punish you for countering
My favorite kill animation still to this day in any assassination creed game is in this game. When Ezio jams his sword in a enemies neck grabs his head and slowly slides it off the blade. Edit: also the head spin kill @16:44
18:41 another use of the cherry bomb is to attract Byzantines and Ottomans in one area and have them engage in a faction fight, it's a great distraction
Assassin's Creed Revelations was and still is a great game. I didn't intend to, but bought it for PS3 at launch and loved everything about it. Now, I still need to play it again on Xbox Series X at some point...
I played the first two Ezio games before I played any others, then I decided to play Assassins Creed 1, and I was shocked because the free running felt so smooth, the combat felt so much better, and the only thing I didn’t like was that air assassinations were really hard, but that is only because I was used to Ezio. I honestly loved that game more than the first two Ezio games. Then I played Revelations and I loved that game even more, because it had an intriguing story, great gameplay, and really got me to feel for Ezio.
One thing i love about the Ezio Trilogy is that it never feels like you are playing as a character past its prime (Unlike Altair in Revelations) you never feel limited by his age, and you see how he has gotten better and better.
Also another note: The eagle vision showed traces of people. You could follow them even when they were not there. I liked that detail, along with "scanning" targets.
I love the whole Ezio trilogy but Revelations was probably my favourite. I really enjoyed the story I enjoyed seeing the wiser Ezio. The parkour and combat where the best of the series. Yusuf and Sophia are some of my favourite side characters in the series. The stealth was fun and I really enjoyed how cinematic the stealth kills are. I also enjoyed seeing Altair in the game. Constantinople is one of my favourite locations in the Assassins Creed series. I loved how vibrant and beautiful the city was. I also enjoyed how the tomb missions where a part of the main story.
