The Shrieking Birth of Assassin's Creed 

“Prince of Persia died for this!”

You didn't even mention how Revelations had the single best thing in the entire franchise: Ezio pretending to be a bard at at a high-class party, singing dirty tavern songs because they're the only songs he knows.

"Oh no Alitair, that is very haram" I died

Back in the day I was invested in the Desmond story because I thought they were building up to him becoming an assassin with his own game in modern times to finally take down the Templars, with some crazy twists and turns like Adam and Eve, or Ezio finding a message meant for Desmond in the future. Then Revelations acted as pure filler for his story, and AC3 resulted in an ending less satisfying than that of the Mass Effect trilogy.

When are we getting a full version of Punch The Pope?

I just realized that Altair to Ezio is kind of like Jonathan to Joseph Joestar, and it's very similar reasons why people liked the character changes so much

"... like Dan Brown shlock" Oof a personal attack, but perfectly explains why I obsessed so much with this franchise during teens.

That title lol, excellent

The "Hey Padre what are you doing" "Oh you know, just hanging around" was just perfect

Aaaah AC 1&2. The way enemies would politely wait for you to finish killing one of their friends before engaging. Classy men all round.

Jank aside, I still like the Ezio trilogy to this day. It has a charm that the later titles were/are lacking. That said, I've always wanted Assassin's Creed to lean more towards hardcore stealth as opposed to action, the latter of which they leaned heavily into with AC Brotherhood and continued up to AC Rogue. Unity was the closest one to prioritizing stealth over combat, but the game was glitchy and clunky as hell. Now with the new trilogy, they're just trying to build off of what The Witcher 3 did. It would be nice to see this franchise get its identity back. Rest in Peace BANCO

The only reason I can think of for as to why they had the whole "linking via memory" story premise was they wanted some of the video gameyness to be diegetic. Like the starting over from death thing is just the memory getting synced better. A lot of games at the time seemed to want to try and explain away video gamey details. Like they were trying to appeal to normes, and were embarrassed to be games.

I may be the only person alive who actually likes a lot desmond and present time participations in the games, lol I feel like this is a great way to connect the player with the ancient history parts of the game, because we actually live in the present, so the past seems like fantasy for someone from the XXI century. And the plot twists envolving Desmond and the present time templars like the "ancient gods" talking to him, the map being shown to the templars, the message that Ezio will never understand, it's just genius.

KBash, you've been teasing them mic skills for a couple of videos now. You might as well hit us with the whole mix tape fam.

Assassins creed was a favorite of me and my friend of 13 years. We would hang out as his house and I’d watch him play every assassins creed game. It’s one of my favorite franchises because of the memories I have of it and because I’m a history buff

I feel like Haytham Kenway was the only sort of sympathetic Templar and that's just because you get to play as him and he gets way more backstory outside of AC3.

"Can't renno because the shops are Templar territory? Well now I care! Because no one gets in the way, of BANCO!" Best line 10/10 16:00 for the best of Banco

this is a good criticism of the game. Even though I do genuinely love the games - or more accurately I love the premise, and in particular the Ezio Trilogy and AC4 - the assessment made is pretty much completely fair. I will say, though, that for all the jank I do think that where Assassin's Creed actually shines is in its narrative. It's why AC2 and AC4 are my personal favorites. The jank is real in both, but I genuinely love the narrative that's told through them.

I think this is one of the most entertaining video essays ive ever seen. Really hope part 2 happens

Never did I thought I would see a WELL MADE AC retrospective.

That "Prince of Persia died for THIS?" comment REALLY hit me hard

In the first one, youre not supossed to mash attack button, youre supoosed to counter and kill in one hit. Best game in the franchise.

If ac 4 is so good why isn't there an AC V

To me what saves Revelations is the amazing trailer/intro. Still the most beautiful animation I've seen, gives me chills everytime with that song too.

Man I honestly always forget this is a relatively small channel. Love your content!

Altair and Ezio Trilogy, was when Assassin's Creed was ACTUALLY about Assassin's Creed.

Great video, Altair character wise is the goat.

Dude you just went up on my list k bash. This is a great look and review for the series. Better then anyone has ever done. Can't wait for pt 2

awesome video kbash! Ezio had the best arc (there's a reason for the ezio collection right?) hell, there is even an animated movie! to me the franchise should have stoped right after revelations buuuuuuuuuuut................can't wait for the part 2 now! :P

"Punch the pope." -Ezio auditore.

A lot of what I remember of Ass Creed 1 is assassination sidemission where I climbed a roof and threw daggers at people. But maybe Assassins Creed is what planted the seed of really liking Art History. Which is a weird thing to learn when you've spent $20,000 in loan money and has nothing to do with what you've picked as a major.

*you know, just hanging around* God damn it I laughed more than I should have

AC1 is still my favorite. Are the info-gathering missions boring? Busywork? Yes, because being an assassin is not just about plunging stiff blades into quivering necks. There's clerical shit to do. When you finally get to the target, it feels meaningful. Fuckin' love it.

Regarding the "Prince of Persia died for this", I know it's said tongue in cheek, but I still feel it's worth pointing out that it only seems that way in retrospect. I guess most people know that AC started out as a spin-off of Prince of Persia during development, before taking on its own identity and that adds to this perception, but when AC released, PoP wasn't quite dead yet. There was that reboot in 2008 (a year after the original AC) simply titled Prince of Persia and Forgotten Sands in 2010. Plus, also in 2010, they released the live-action movie. I wanna point out, that was the same year that AC Brotherhood released. I didn't play Forgotten Sands, but I did play PoP 08 a few years later, and I wasn't exactly a big fan of that one. I guess there were a lot more people like me, leading to the franchise getting axed.

You are so underated. I love these videos more than other reviewers. Honestly just keep being you, its funny.

THANK YOU! I thought the same when I played them. 2 has the best story, but Brotherhood has the best gameplay and feel overall. I also enjoyed 3 (another unpopular opinion), but I agree it has too many imperfections and weird mechanics to name it "one of the best"

I did a playthrough once where I only fought with the hidden blade only in ac1. It was rough at times but fun.

I didn't really like the first AC, but 2 was when I got properly into the series, Brotherhood is great. Revelations didn't really do anything for me, and 3 was just awful. Black Flag was cool, and the series after all just melded into one of those "Annual Ubisoft Tower Game" blobs for me.

10/10 for “Punch The Pope”

I, too, got the collectors edition of AC2. Ezio hangs out on our landing, watching over our stairs. He’s a friend

I did a KBash marathon last night and then you release a new one video. Coincidence? I think not!

The amount of creativeness in your videos is amazing man love them the OMEGA JANK ZONE made me laugh soo good

automatically had to like this video because i've been waiting for you to talk about this series!!!

I was never really into this series, but one time, I was watching a friend play AC2, and when he got to the "It's a-me" scene, I fucking died!

Days since Kbash said "Himbo" : 0

For all the problems of the original AC, I remember every single assassination and it's target despite the fact I haven't played it in almost a decade, each one was meant to be a big deal, I don't remember the name of a single bad guy in Odyssey.

I love the omega jank zone bit haha, keep up the great work!

Yo KBash I NEED the rest of Choke The Pope, gimme that fire!

AC1 will always be one of those emblematic 360/ps3 generation moments to me. basically incomplete, but intriguing enough to get me hooked. thanks for a cool-ass retrospective on a series that really does deserve it, for better or worse

There is one thing that I cannot forgive Brotherhood for doing: Introducing optional objectives. Fuck those things.

Revelations had a really fun platforming minigame I wish you mentioned/played, it's really really fun

Thank you for covering the jank. It's very difficult to showcase in video because you automatically open yourself up to the "That's just in short clips" defense, but it's just *all the time.* I literally jank out in three different ways climbing the same building, and the erratic camera motion really doesn't help. I don't know how this didn't stay in my memory of these games As an AC1 stan, I'd assume you know where to access the documents you gather during your investigations to formulate a plan of attack. It wasn't until Unity that the handholding level design that followed would finally cease and allow you to infiltrate any way you see fit Some of these games require self-imposed rules to be even slightly challenging outside the bullshit failure states littered all over the later ultra-linear missions. Never buy armor if you want to react quickly to near death encounters frequently, or medicine if you want an endurance challenge to manage your health as the fight progresses, or ignore chain kills if you want to manage breaking one target's defense at a time, or some combination thereof if you think you're really badass I believe the intention is for you to join your character in reflecting on your target's dieing words and come to the conclusion of whether they had to die for yourself. Although the Assassins are indisputably painted as *more* morally just than their adversaries, I sometimes just go for a run or a horse ride after an intense assassination or debate to think it over. That's why I looked forward to the philosophical discussions with Al Mualim, and nothing has really held up since

All they had was a cool climbing simulator. The word assassin was a total misnomer, I expected a mix hitman and thief the dark project back in the day. Instead I got medieval GTA. The story twist at the end of the second one made sure I never played another one of these, also because they never added gameplay actually worth playing. The gameplay never evolved after the first one, they just added more and more side missions. At least that’s my impression, since I never played any of them after the second game.

AC games lost their charm after Unity. Syndicate was too modern and the rpg style games just don't fit the assassin's creed theme. Anyway, "Altair that is very haram" got me cracking lmao. Keep up the great work man👊

I actually think Revelations was the best. The hook blade and expanded bombs with the bomb crafting stations really tried to focus the game on avoiding combat and focusing on parkour. Together these things aligned the game to a unified vision.

The content I've been waiting for

My fitness goal is "60 years old? A minor inconvenience."

Loved this - definitely interested in seeing the rest if you have it in you. To answer the prompt in the description, maybe a little too much screamy for me personally, but probably not enough to drive people away, so you do you.

The puzzle parkour places in AC2 were easy for me, no joke. Literally had no trouble with them.

having never been an AC fan, i was never told of the hurt-the-pope gameplay. i feel this might've won me over

Ahh yes, another video from my favourite youtuber

Please do a video or to finalizing this! You're the best bro! Please keep up the great work!

I love the captain falcon line at 10:24

your scripts are always bomb, good vid

God damn. I love this channel. My kind of humor. "Watcha-a-doin" "you know. Just HANGING AROUND" *NECKSNAP* AHAHAHAHA

That pure joy in the first few seconds is amazing.

My god the segment about BANCO was such a mood

If you play assassin's Creed one on PC with minimum graphics settings it becomes very easy to kill every single beggar and crazy shoving guy, because they look like polygonal monsters.

another great video kbash thank ya for all ya hard work the ac franchise is def overall a mixed bag but i still love 3,4, and rouge will eventrully have to give the later games a shot too

I think one of the biggest mistakes was after Revelations scrapping the 'Building the Assassin Order' Mechanic. I friggin' loved doing that shit, yeah 3 had it but all of them were pre-made, it wasn't the same.

to this day AC2 the only game in the series I enjoyed, except for a lot of Black Flag. This franchise just never seemed to take the turns I wanted. The Desmond stuff was a major bummer and probably the nail in the coffin for me

The original Assassin's Creed is amazing and always will be.

I have the old Pokémon encounter theme as my ringtone and hearing that was a mild panic attack.

"Prince of Persia died for this!?", as a PoP fan, you have no idea how much this resonates with me.

KBash: Prince of Persia died for this! Me: Why does that make me sad?

I loved this! I would enjoy it if you did the rest of the franchise.

the "choke the pope" song brought me some nostalgia... those were the good days ! 😂

The first line of your actual description is my feeling towards ac.I have played them all and I will not play anymore going forward tbh.

I loved Brotherhood. Definitely went down hill after that game. I stopped playing them After AC3 because I was convinced that Ubisoft had no roadmap to ending the series at that point.

Kbash: THE COMBAT IS TRASH LOL Also Kbash: He’s not supposed to be going on murderous rampages!

Played AC2 and Brohood and I completely agree with your assessment.

New Kash? Let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I always forget AC was about a dude finding his ancestors bruh

i would watch a 10+ minute video of just clips from the omega jank zone

I remember in AC 2 or brotherhood doing a mission where I had to kill a guy with the daggers but he glitched and kept jumping back and forth between 2 banisters on some stairs and I kept missing him then when I timed it right he shot into the air like a cannon and rag dolled back to earth dead

Cmon Kbash, AC writing isn't Dan Brown tier. He at least is smart enough to not build up a story arc and main antagonist which even involved the sacrifice of his main protagonist to further that plot line, only to pussyfoot around it for ages before finally finishing it off in a damn comic. Not many are that level of all over the place incompetent.

Oh hey a batch of hay!! Vrooom Crash Kaclunk.

Praise Banco, and Praise Brotherhood

I love The Ezio's Trilogy And Black Flag Soo Much

26:15 these pronounciations tho tbh never listened to you read up all the names but i was busy and let it run, thats kinda nice to listen to xd

Very excited to see what he thinks of Origins and Odyssey. I personally dropped off with Syndicate, just got tired of the busy work. Genuinely curious if I'd feel differently about the new games or if I played them on the Switch.

“Himbo dumbassery” yep that’s Ezio.

It’s weird how KBash does a video on a franchise that I always just happen to be replaying, it’s honestly uncanny.

That Magi Nation card flash get out of my childhoooooooooood

I LOVE YOU KBASH

I just want to know how you have those two minute monologues with your assassination targets after every. single. kill. Time just sorta... stops for you to have a one on one dialogue.

One year later and I wonder, will Kbash cover the rest of the franchise? Will we ever hear his take on the franchise fatigue and subsequent game play overhaul?

Thank you so much for omega jank zone, truly

Despite whatever contentious statements you make (a lot of which i agree with) you are extremely entertaining.

"Prince of Persia died for this!" is pretty much my opinion of the series. I don't hate the game but I certainly haven't been enthralled with it a lot of the time. My favorite thing about the games tends to be the story, but even that's hit or miss. I'd take the streamlined level design of the SoT trilogy over this any day, but what can you do.