There is no reference to her living on for a few millennia, as seen in the game’s nonsensical sci-fi story. Her legacy is to provide the matriarchal line to subsequent assassins. In the end Kassandra is lost to the mists of time. But it all falls a bit flat, because their noble cause is thinly veiled fascism, held up as an affront to Kassandra’s own quest for messy democratic ideals. Odyssey’s evil characters tell us that they work for the best of motives, larding their justifications in the most reasonable language. I’m always interested in why antagonists do the things that they do, something that games rarely address in a convincing fashion. The best thing that can be said of it, is that its writers make an admirable attempt to justify The Order’s activities. It’s a remarkable achievement in terms of gameplay design, world-building, and storytelling.īut Bloodline is nothing more than a marker for the limitations of this game and the notion that a AAA game in 2019 must be so totally all-consuming. My point is that all single-player, open-world narrative adventures run their course, and this one has run a much longer course than most. It’s only now that they feel tired and worn-out though long usage. I want to stress here that these Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s activities have kept me amused for 165 hours. Long, repetitive fights against big bosses.Upgrading of weapons and abilities that are now fantastically overpowered.Traversing countryside, collecting stuff that I no longer need.Dialogue trees that make little difference to subsequent events.Chore-like area explorations and clue-hunting.Big fights against multiple opponents who all die.Nothing new occurs I do more of the stuff that I’ve done a hundred times, including: So off we go on a series of quests that bring us closer to the end. When she says she’s going to crush every last one of them, I know she’s not goofing around.

More convincing is her unholy rage at her baby’s kidnappers, The Order. Kassandra’s grief is difficult for me to swallow, given that I do not believe for a single second that she would ever fall for this fool. I’m sorry to say that Kassandra’s fella is the most wet napkin of a video game NPC I’ve ever come across. Her husband’s death is supposed to elicit sympathy. It’s not a good sign, when the best thing about a story is the departure of a key character. Not for nothing, fans were outraged.Īs expected, part three begins with things going awry, when Kassandra’s enemies launch a murderous attack on her family. When we left Kassandra (or her male counterpart Alexios) at the end of part two, she’d been entirely betrayed by Ubisoft, saddled with a cozy little family, and a dweeb of a husband. First, there’s the story itself, which suffers from a plain case of narrative exhaustion.

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