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Omg babes, Assassin’s Creed Rogue is sooo icy-chic! ❄️ Playing Shay as a Templar traitor gives me life—nothing beats blasting your ex-Assassin pals on the high seas 🚢✨ The snowy Hudson Valley vibes are super cozy, even if a few missions feel a tad grindy. Still slaps, 8.5/10 💕

AC, but what if you're a Templar instead?

A fascinating idea that is extremely well executed in AC Rogue. Shay is brash and naive, but likable; a guy who just wants to do right by the world. When extracting two ancient relics lead to the 1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake in Haiti, and the legendary 1755 Lisbon earthquake , Shay becomes disaffected with the Assassin Order and decides to stop them instead. It's a great plot device that leans on old school AC ideas of historical precedent being caused by Assassin/Templar folly. The game is short but sweet, and plays like Black Flag. The setting is all over the place- NYC, The Maritimes, and the "River Valley". NYC is great fun to roam around in, and the base challenges there are difficult but fun.

Now here's a quick bit of the negatives. Don't get excited, Canadians, about running around 18th Century Halifax. The game is set in the Seven Years war, so the town was only 5 years old or so at this point. It's basically 6 houses. A lot of the villages you visit while sailing feel like that. Then there's the "River Valley". That basically means "Colonial America, but not NYC". Albany, NY is a hop, skip, and jump away from Mount Vernon, VA. Not exactly true in real life. I get it's a video game, but I'd rather just teleport to these story locations than "sail" there in the "River Valley".

All in all, it's a good, short game. I really liked it.