Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Greece)

I played about 4-5 hours last night. I decided to play as Kassandra the female character.

The game is beautiful, and plays a lot like a Origins except being a lot more of an RPG and more options to customize your character.

The biggest change is the talent trees, you have one for hunter, warrior and assassin. You can get abilities that you bind to the 4 buttons and use them with L1 and the button of your choice. For example right now I have poison weapon tied to triangle, and the ability to throw my spear and teleport to the target on X. That means you will have to make decisions on what abilities you want available to you, as you won't be able to use them all. That way you can tailor your character to your playstyle, even if you learn everything you won't be able to use all of the skills.

Each tree has it's own damage number which seems to increase the more you invest in it, but also with gear...you can have boots with +warrior damage, or +hunter damage aside from regular stuff like +health, + crit etc.

Story has been decent, nothing special but it setting up stuff nicely. I finished the first area and got my boat and left. Something happens story wise that definitely made me want to continue.

Ship battle seems ok, it look skippable for most part if you're not into it, you can customize appearance and ship stats with different crew members, you can get missions for ship stuff.

Mercenaries look fun, you can have a bounty put on you. You can chose to pay the bounty to get rid of the mercenary, kill the mercenary, or the person who put the bounty on you. Can even recruit the mercenary as a crewmember. The bounty can increase if you steal and people see you, or kill innocents. So that's interesting and new.

The rest is typical Ubisoft open world for better or worse.

I'm looking forward to playing more, story definitely took an interesting turn.

Regime said:

Having a blast. I had to pry myself from the controller to go to sleep.


The best ability I’ve come across is that healing ability in warrrior. Super OP same with Devastating shot.

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Yeah, I went to bed a bit too late, I'm tired this morning, I'll be totally unproductive...so unprofessional of me.

Yeah, I went all in into the assassin's tree so far, but I need to get that healing ability which looks really nice, also heard it's a must for when you get into the big battle thing since you can't hide during those to heal.

Not sure if it's because I'm comparing low level Odyssey with memories of high level Origins but it seems to be a bit easier to sneak around. It looks like guards don't detect you as easily, and might have more time to hide again when they do.

Oh 2 more things, content level with you which is really nice since I played most of Origins out-leveling the content.

The other thing is the quest dialog options, so far on the first island. I had 1 choice that I saw the result of my decision a little later. I had 1 other choice that I think would have a very different outcome, not sure the long term ramification of it but would most likely have some. I had at least 1 other that hinted that something could be happening, but didn't see it. Other than that it seems choices are mostly flavor which is fine really, sometimes the illusion of choice is enough. Also, I enjoy being an asshole and I'm happy that I can be one.

Tuco said:

I'm gonna need to hear from someone who beat Odyssey and got bored like 10 hours into Origins before I even contemplate looking into this one.

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Only 5 hours in, and I liked Origins, so not exactly feedback you asked for but first impression I'd say if you didn't like Origins, I doubt you'll like this one. While it has more RPG elements, it plays very much like Origins did and the overall structure is the same.