Recent reviews by Nova Prima

It's fun, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The review average should be higher.

Ridiculously good.

It's good, really, but...

It's fun to start off with, but it gets unbelievably repetitive way before the end. The mission types repeat and repeat and repeat, and one (eavesdropping) doesn't even involve gameplay. Climbing viewpoints gets tedious most quickly, and there are (by my count) 91 of them in the game. Some aren't that high, but some are these ridiculous towers it takes probably well over a minute to climb, sync and dive from.

The free running feels good, except when you randomly stop climbing or you randomly fail to jump to or grab something or it just doesn't respond properly in the heat of the moment.

The combat is alright, but it doesn't really make sense that when you're surrounded by enemies, only one attacks you at any given time.

The graphics are still decent, but even with the highest settings there's heavy LOD-popping going on as you roam around, especially in 'the kingdom', the area in between the key cities. And the shadow resolution drops, jarringly, for anything further than a few metres from you. People even popped into existence before my eyes once or twice. You do get to ride a horse through the kingdom though, which is strangely satisfying.

The story is alright but the most interesting part is the 'present day' stuff, which really doesn't tell a proper story, more like the first couple of chapters.

Oh and you know what's the most annoying? The drunks, beggars and deranged who annoy the absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥ out of you any time you're on street level.

So... I strongly suggest watching the cutscenes on YouTube and skipping right to the second game, unless you're the neurotic type who feels compelled to play through all of them (like me). But if that's the case, play in short bursts and definitely don't waste your time trying to collect the hundreds of flags scattered through the game. There's no fun to be had doing that, and not even any pointless achievements.

Also, the game has no subtitles whatsoever.

This game is simply smashing, in more ways than one.