Final AC:Odyssey thoughts

They didn’t really do anything with Sparta/Athens or kingship/democracy, they kinda finished up with a vague sense of necessary balance between an equivalent Order (Templars) and Chaos (Assassins), which was kinda what they were going with London and the Americas ones

They have been hinting in universe in ancient-aliens-voice about a series reboot tho, that’s funny

It was so long I finally got bored at 85%, but that’s only cause I’m the type to grind to 100%

To come back for the 3rd time, it’s really the best use of moralized choices in a narrative I’ve ever seen. I’ve said before it’s less angel/demon than strict/lenient with no obvious relationship to instrumental ends. More than that no obvious relationship to moral ends because it really does grok a pagan ethic where “fiery, proud, vengeful” can be virtuous just as much as clever and subtle; you effectively get the choice to be Achilles or Odysseus.

And the choices are subtle and so distant from their payoff to deter savescumming so in the course of a playthrough you will experience tragedy. But you can’t really “fail” them and they’re not really central except in the Socrates and Hippocrates questlines. Which are written so well that whatever ethical choice you make gets well-challenged and honestly yes the Socrates and Hippocrates questlines should be about ethics.

Also not as much as AC:Egypt (which, not AC:Rome, is the one with Julius Caesar) but things like the Minoan ruins and all the collapsed temples really realized the fact that the cultures we consider “ancient” were living among reminders of civilizations just as far back themselves

They use a flavor epithet - malaka - but sometimes they just say “fuck”. Also the herms don’t have dicks out but some of the statuary does so good.