Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

This brings back the memories, and I love all the added new content. I just hope that Ubisoft take notes from this game and understand why this is so popular. Pros - this game gives you freedom to explore and work on whatever you want to with very limited restrictions- treasure hunt, grind / level gear or ship upgrades, contracts etc etc. Graphics - absolutely stunning. SFX - Sound can be a little off sometimes but the music is absolute cinematic. Gameplay - diverse and immersive. I just wannn it

Good game, go touch grass

Can't even play the game anymore because it refuses to launch.

Спасибо за детство

Game is doper than ever!

I've beaten the game and done a good portion of the side content. So here I'm going to document my final opinions. So to start I'm an AC fan, maybe not one of the most hardcore one's whose played every game but I've spent more than a couple hundred hours in the franchise. I have played AC4 before, though it was so long ago I hadn't remembered much. I'm going to judge this game based on the experience of someone with only a few memories of the original. So to get the good stuff out the way: Ships are great, they feel cumbersome at first but once you get used to the weight of the movement they feel quite good. The general moment to moment combat, while relatively shallow compared to other entries is decent. I definitely feel you should be able to disarm enemies and use their weapons like in the Ezio games. Story is solid, although you can definitely tell this was the start of Ubisoft losing the plot with the AC games. Now for the negatives because I believe that the meat of a review is in the negatives, when you look at what's wrong you can normally figure out whether they're serious enough issues to make the game bad. My first issue comes in the form of the Assassins, namely they do very little for the story. They have one little village and serve as informants. The only one who really has a big impact is Kidd who is could've served the same purpose as just being a friend, the Assassin identity didn't contribute much. Edward was always going to hunt the Templars for personal reasons. Honestly even the Assassin's as informants didn't need to be a plot point since Edward should've had the reputation to deal with information brokers anyway. I really wish the Assassins were more important here. Secondly, for things I had issues with, was the extremely low difficulty of the game. Even when I played on the hardest in every category, I was still able to beat ships that had skulls on them and even a couple forts. I would often hear Ade tell me the ship I was engaging would blow me to piece, only for me to gun them down, then kill all the crew on bored in 30 seconds. Partly because the guns were so overpowered that I actually had to limit my use of them late game to let myself enjoy the combat a bit more. Guns one-shot to the dome and can reload super fast, especially if you get the gun that slows time when you hit and enemy, you can clear an entire camp before they can react to you being there. For my third issue, it actually relates to the ease of combat. All stealth segments feel suboptimal, anytime I could be sneaking, engaging in stealth in the assassin game. It would've been far easier to simply walk in and tear through the camp with a mix of gunshot, smoke bombs and takedown chains. Which is great for the pirate part, but doesn't fulfil the assassin fantasy at all. Finally and probably, no definitely, my biggest issue. I encountered several bugs in the story that required me to reload a save. For example a bug that made me spawn inside the hull of my ship towards the end of the game. Which is infuriating not just because I had to reload but because I faced that same issue before in Odyssey. Insane that the bug is still happening. I also had another segment again near the end where I had the audacity to try and interact with an object while characters were talking, doing so got Edward stuck in an A-Pose where I had to reload. Twice. Overall those are my only issue's with the game however. I think the game is quite good and the stuff I dislike is pretty nit-picky or just personal preference. Apart from the bugs anyway. My final thoughts are simple and familiar: This doesn't feel like it needed to be an AC game. Much like Odyssey, this would've worked fine as a standalone pirate title. The AC brand was just a vehicle to generate noise and that rubs me the wrong way. But the game is fun and a worth while 38 hours of my life. I had so much fun I would recommend it to anyone.

Game fun played lots