AC Origins is the first game in the franchise that took a year of to reinvent the wheel to make old feel fresh again, to change from action adventure to RPG style adventure a change I think was necesarry for the franchise or else it would die in darkness with leaving a legacy of negativity around the franchise.
The story is hillarious bad I pointed at the screen with almost tears rolling out of my eyes sockets from laughing.
I am a massive lore nerd of Assassin's Creed series but this made me feel insulted keep this in mind because I will explain this later.
The story is an unoriginal bad written revenge story and the worst part is that I can't even call this a story or a narrative.
The games story opens nicelly with showing you the main character Bayek of Siwa one of the last Medjay's of Egypte and protector of the innocent, the pharaoh visits Siwa on a elephant and two mysterious figures appear behind him... Than suddenly it's one year later with Bayek looking like he was bathing in a dumbster and screaming to somebody we don't know and care about cause VENGEACE!
Everyone is talking about that the pharaoh is evil now and the mysterious group called the Order of the Ancients are evil! EVIL I TELL YOU MUHAHAHA but who the heck cares XDDD the story doesn't even bother given you a reason to care, we don't get anytime to develop any of the characters in the game because the story is written that you must stop playing the story to grind for hours so it can make you play the story again.
I will keep this as spoiler free as possible but just imagen that you are Bayek oke good keep that in mind you are a protector and believe in God so fine right well now we go to an ancient room of a old civilization with technology shooting a beam at the roof and giving messages... Bayek ignores this and never mentions it again there was hardly any reason for this to exist or appear .
An enemy appears and challenges you to a duel and she will wait for you to come to her but the game is designed that you can leave any moment, the first time I heard this I was interested but now I see it on screen it's godawful you can just leave the target there and she will wait for you forever while everyone NPC does something different in the world. You can come back later and the target be like ''Ooh youssa have returned missa wanna kill you''.
There was even an side mission were you prevent a woman from commiting suicide and Bayek says he will come back later but one second later if you have the item he says ''I got what I need'' and gives it her which is fine I guess... But you can leave the SUICIDAL woman on the road attacked by lions while you said you would protect her you can come back 1 week later and acts like nothing happened and why would I care no NPC or story character dies in a level because the game is designed that you can leave any moment.
There are even moments in the story that you drink a potion and dream about a giant f****ng snake that attacks while you shoot LIGHTNING ARROWS at it, you wake up later after defeating it and act like nothing happened those things just happen in the story for no reason!
The games historical characters play a part in the story and if you have not paid any attention during history class you will have no idea who they are you only know that they are kings and queens what would be fine if they weren't so one dimenional freaks.
In the older games you had databases that will fill in the history pages for you but they are completely absent here in this game.
Sometimes a historical character appears and just leaves.
The Gods believes in the game are never explained and make me very confused to what's actually going on.
There are even moments that when you kill a target THIS HAPPENS IN THE FIRST HOUR that you need to confirm your kill and you wake up with him in a water room cause... I don't know and the target shot sand lightning at me cause reasons, than we get playable flashbacks eh sure... And than we are dead and Bayek uses a feather to bring the target to the duat which is the afterlife I assume and... Why does he do that he absolute hates the targets with his life? There is no reason hell sometimes a knife or sword he uses to kill a target turns into a feather for no reason... There are even pyramids sometimes for no reason.
There are even lore breaking moments in the game
Camera goes away from the main character sometimes which should break the simulation anyway and should cause deschronization.
Bayek can see things that get explained to him and I have no idea what it is it's like he is reliving somebody's flashbacks a term I never knew existed until now
Bayek has a symbiotic connection with his Eagle Senu (I have no idea how he got that Eagle btw never explained) and he can look through the eyes of an eagle for absolute zero reason this is never explained nor even mentioned in the story the Eagle's only point in the game is to be a mechanic nothing more.
Bayek can do things complete out of character and leave area's even though he can't or shouldn't because deschronization but you do get punished for killing innocents but leaving suicidal people alone to be eaten alive is oke and complete in character I guess.
So this is nick picking to the hardest and I was ready to forgive this and ignore it so long the story was good but it isn't, the Animus is designed to relive your ancestors life to the fullest and most real way possible so the memory works better but now... We see giant health bars with numbers on there head and 100 hit points and more
Call me a bitch but one of the old characters appear in the game but is fully redesigned for no reason so I didn't regonise the character and the voice actor/actrice has changed for no reason.
Ending was meeeeeeeh could be worse.
Bayek is really well acted though.
Story parts end here now to the rest!
Good combat with a beatiful open world with annoying grinding.
The old combat was slowly becoming a joke in the gaming industry and didn't really feel new anymore and the change is welcome, I love how hard the combat is you really have to think and plan your attacks in advance I absolute like that idea!
The stealth got a big update to and you will have to use it against higher level enemies, infiltration and other things that stand in your way the stealth is better than ever before in the franchise. I do advice you to grind for higher levels I mean it they destroy you if you are three levels lower and you will be grinding alot, actually it takes so long sometimes I was considering microtransactions even 0_0.
Sometimes you get forced to explore the open world if you play only for the story because sometimes you need 4 levels higher.
The open world is stunning beautiful like holy hell it looks so good and feels so alive and there are a tons of side quests to do in the game you will be lost in it there are arena boss fights, races, murder mystery missions, political and more kind of missions... But most of the times you don't get money and have to sell items though but it's not required.
The games animations are really... Stiff and bad at times and my game crashed multiple times and there are some hilarious dumb glitches like I was walking around in a bath house and out of nowhere... Two city soldiers came out the walls running around on horses and bumping in to every NPC there and just left please never patch the glitches they are amazing!!
Modern Day:
It's back and better than the last 5 years... But the story is godawfull and so bad pasted in to the game Desmond Miles Modern Day was way better I won't spoiler anything I just say it's playable.
Verdict: A 7/10 It's a good game with issues:
A short summary for those who don't like my exttreme long post and final thoughts.
The game is definitely open world focused with great combat but it does get repetitive because 50% or so are infiltrate this base/camp/fort. The story is absolute bad no way to deny that and I think the only things that make this game your time worth well is the open world if that sucks this game would flamed by the Greek fire of the reviewers.
I might sound really negative but I am negative person to begin with so this is to expect and I like I tell you I like every single idea the story and game has I mean it every firetrucking idea is good but there is always a negative thing for me here and there it's not a bad game it has the right direction but it could be done better but do advice this game well if you:
Only care about the open world
Combat
Grinding
Don't want a good story
Want a lot of combat
Game of Thrones/Witcher style open world missions
Don't like rushing BELIEVE ME don't do that because the game is designed to firetrucking hate you if you do that!
I tell you buy this game NOW with it's hilarious amazing glitches (or wait until it stops crashing and buy on sale) I played the game for 30 hours or so and only have a few % done but I don't think I will buy the next game until all the negative things are fixed or just wait for sale. I probably won't even play this game now anymore or just once in a while because I just sometimes don't care about anything that happens
Good:
Great combat and stealth a big 8+
Great open world just stunning a big 8+
Fun side guests here and there
Funny moments
Great ideas and potentional
For people that wan't to play there game FOREVER
Bad:
Terrible story if this game was only story focused I would give it a two or three.
Repetitiveness
Bad animations
Horrible passing
Crashes
Grinding takes forever
Assassin's Creed stuff happens after 27 hours... And you still have Medjay missions should call the gamwe Medjay job
My rating system for people that think 7 is bad... I sear to God I get attacked when I give something a 7/10
Rest in piss: Never touch!
Abomination: HOW THERE IS SOMETHING IN THERE THAT SAYS MAKE ME GOOD... But it's Assassinated!
Awfull
Bad
Mediocere: sometimes good and somethings bad nation stuff
Okay/average worth to look at and have a fun time but time is better spend elsewhere
Assassin's Creed Origins Review PS4
A Reboot that falls short and shows greatness at the same time
FIRST HOUR SPOILERS!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fZTbPZuRJU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fZTbPZuRJU
AC Origins is the first game in the franchise that took a year of to reinvent the wheel to make old feel fresh again, to change from action adventure to RPG style adventure a change I think was necesarry for the franchise or else it would die in darkness with leaving a legacy of negativity around the franchise.
The story is hillarious bad I pointed at the screen with almost tears rolling out of my eyes sockets from laughing.
I am a massive lore nerd of Assassin's Creed series but this made me feel insulted keep this in mind because I will explain this later.
The story is an unoriginal bad written revenge story and the worst part is that I can't even call this a story or a narrative.
The games story opens nicelly with showing you the main character Bayek of Siwa one of the last Medjay's of Egypte and protector of the innocent, the pharaoh visits Siwa on a elephant and two mysterious figures appear behind him... Than suddenly it's one year later with Bayek looking like he was bathing in a dumbster and screaming to somebody we don't know and care about cause VENGEACE!
Everyone is talking about that the pharaoh is evil now and the mysterious group called the Order of the Ancients are evil! EVIL I TELL YOU MUHAHAHA but who the heck cares XDDD the story doesn't even bother given you a reason to care, we don't get anytime to develop any of the characters in the game because the story is written that you must stop playing the story to grind for hours so it can make you play the story again.
I will keep this as spoiler free as possible but just imagen that you are Bayek oke good keep that in mind you are a protector and believe in God so fine right well now we go to an ancient room of a old civilization with technology shooting a beam at the roof and giving messages... Bayek ignores this and never mentions it again there was hardly any reason for this to exist or appear
.
An enemy appears and challenges you to a duel and she will wait for you to come to her but the game is designed that you can leave any moment, the first time I heard this I was interested but now I see it on screen it's godawful you can just leave the target there and she will wait for you forever while everyone NPC does something different in the world. You can come back later and the target be like ''Ooh youssa have returned missa wanna kill you''.
There was even an side mission were you prevent a woman from commiting suicide and Bayek says he will come back later but one second later if you have the item he says ''I got what I need'' and gives it her which is fine I guess... But you can leave the SUICIDAL woman on the road attacked by lions while you said you would protect her you can come back 1 week later and acts like nothing happened and why would I care no NPC or story character dies in a level because the game is designed that you can leave any moment.
There are even moments in the story that you drink a potion and dream about a giant f****ng snake that attacks while you shoot LIGHTNING ARROWS at it, you wake up later after defeating it and act like nothing happened those things just happen in the story for no reason!
The games historical characters play a part in the story and if you have not paid any attention during history class you will have no idea who they are you only know that they are kings and queens what would be fine if they weren't so one dimenional freaks.
In the older games you had databases that will fill in the history pages for you but they are completely absent here in this game.
Sometimes a historical character appears and just leaves.
The Gods believes in the game are never explained and make me very confused to what's actually going on.
There are even moments that when you kill a target THIS HAPPENS IN THE FIRST HOUR that you need to confirm your kill and you wake up with him in a water room cause... I don't know and the target shot sand lightning at me cause reasons, than we get playable flashbacks eh sure... And than we are dead and Bayek uses a feather to bring the target to the duat which is the afterlife I assume and... Why does he do that he absolute hates the targets with his life? There is no reason hell sometimes a knife or sword he uses to kill a target turns into a feather for no reason... There are even pyramids sometimes for no reason.
There are even lore breaking moments in the game
Camera goes away from the main character sometimes which should break the simulation anyway and should cause deschronization.
Bayek can see things that get explained to him and I have no idea what it is it's like he is reliving somebody's flashbacks a term I never knew existed until now
Bayek has a symbiotic connection with his Eagle Senu (I have no idea how he got that Eagle btw never explained) and he can look through the eyes of an eagle for absolute zero reason this is never explained nor even mentioned in the story the Eagle's only point in the game is to be a mechanic nothing more.
Bayek can do things complete out of character and leave area's even though he can't or shouldn't because deschronization but you do get punished for killing innocents but leaving suicidal people alone to be eaten alive is oke and complete in character I guess.
So this is nick picking to the hardest and I was ready to forgive this and ignore it so long the story was good but it isn't, the Animus is designed to relive your ancestors life to the fullest and most real way possible so the memory works better but now... We see giant health bars with numbers on there head and 100 hit points and more
Call me a bitch but one of the old characters appear in the game but is fully redesigned for no reason so I didn't regonise the character and the voice actor/actrice has changed for no reason.
Ending was meeeeeeeh could be worse.
Bayek is really well acted though.
Story parts end here now to the rest!
Good combat with a beatiful open world with annoying grinding.
The old combat was slowly becoming a joke in the gaming industry and didn't really feel new anymore and the change is welcome, I love how hard the combat is you really have to think and plan your attacks in advance I absolute like that idea!
The stealth got a big update to and you will have to use it against higher level enemies, infiltration and other things that stand in your way the stealth is better than ever before in the franchise. I do advice you to grind for higher levels I mean it they destroy you if you are three levels lower and you will be grinding alot, actually it takes so long sometimes I was considering microtransactions even 0_0.
Sometimes you get forced to explore the open world if you play only for the story because sometimes you need 4 levels higher.
The open world is stunning beautiful like holy hell it looks so good and feels so alive and there are a tons of side quests to do in the game you will be lost in it there are arena boss fights, races, murder mystery missions, political and more kind of missions... But most of the times you don't get money and have to sell items though but it's not required.
The games animations are really... Stiff and bad at times and my game crashed multiple times and there are some hilarious dumb glitches like I was walking around in a bath house and out of nowhere... Two city soldiers came out the walls running around on horses and bumping in to every NPC there and just left
please never patch the glitches they are amazing!!
Modern Day:
It's back and better than the last 5 years... But the story is godawfull and so bad pasted in to the game Desmond Miles Modern Day was way better I won't spoiler anything I just say it's playable.
Verdict: A 7/10 It's a good game with issues:
A short summary for those who don't like my exttreme long post and final thoughts.
The game is definitely open world focused with great combat but it does get repetitive because 50% or so are infiltrate this base/camp/fort. The story is absolute bad no way to deny that and I think the only things that make this game your time worth well is the open world if that sucks this game would flamed by the Greek fire of the reviewers.
I might sound really negative but I am negative person to begin with so this is to expect and I like I tell you I like every single idea the story and game has I mean it every firetrucking idea is good but there is always a negative thing for me here and there it's not a bad game it has the right direction but it could be done better but do advice this game well if you:
Only care about the open world
Combat
Grinding
Don't want a good story
Want a lot of combat
Game of Thrones/Witcher style open world missions
Don't like rushing BELIEVE ME don't do that because the game is designed to firetrucking hate you if you do that!
I tell you buy this game NOW with it's hilarious amazing glitches (or wait until it stops crashing and buy on sale) I played the game for 30 hours or so and only have a few % done but I don't think I will buy the next game until all the negative things are fixed or just wait for sale. I probably won't even play this game now anymore or just once in a while because I just sometimes don't care about anything that happens
Good:
Great combat and stealth a big 8+
Great open world just stunning a big 8+
Fun side guests here and there
Funny moments
Great ideas and potentional
For people that wan't to play there game FOREVER
Bad:
Terrible story if this game was only story focused I would give it a two or three.
Repetitiveness
Bad animations
Horrible passing
Crashes
Grinding takes forever
Assassin's Creed stuff happens after 27 hours... And you still have Medjay missions should call the gamwe Medjay job
My rating system for people that think 7 is bad... I sear to God I get attacked when I give something a 7/10
7.5 Very Good: close to awesome.
8. Awesome!
9. Near perfect!
10. Masterpiece!
Edited by AwesomeKHfan