Assassin's Creed® III Remastered

There aren't many other games with AI so stupid that have made me mad enough to consider throwing my PC out the window; the mechanics can be clunky and it's a very clear remaster of a game first released in 2012, but aside from that it's pretty solid. The story is great, the dialogue is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hilarious, and the characters are well fleshed out. Some might say the beginning sequences are slow and boring due to who you play as, but personally I enjoyed those even more than the rest (and I really wish we got to see more of Haytham). Pick it up on sale and watch as your life descends into chaos when the only thing you can think about during the day is when you can finally get home and play this damn game.

Spoilers ahead: I honestly think this game is very underrated. This is my opinion on the game by the way I'm not touching in the remastered aspect of it because I have not played the original so I wouldn't even know how to compare. The introduction is incredibly long, but I didn't find it dragging for some reason, maybe because of my completionist instinct I actually took 12hours to complete until sequence 6 which how much stuff I found and had to do. I cam into the game completely blind since I'm playing through these games for the first time so I actually did got surprised by the twist of Haytham being a Templar because I thought he was going to be the protagonist we were supposed to play, so when it switched to Connor I thought it was pretty cool, but I understand why some people would dislike the feeling of halfway through the game you lose all your gear and start over with a new character. Didn't bother me though. The twist at the end was what got me pretty upset. Makes me wonder what the original story for these games were before Ubisoft decided to make it endless. For the gameplay I can appreciate the engine upgrade from the previous games, parkour system is a bit better, although I did really enjoy the hookblade from Revelations and wish they'd kept it in this game. I really enjoyed the naval missions too aboard the Aquila, nice to see them giving a preview of what the next game would be all about. I missed a way to make passive income too like the previous entries to the series. Strategies the convoys were ok i guess. I only had to defend from attacks once though so I really didn't feel like I needed to take the risks into account. Only gameplay complain I have for this game is the stupid convoluted side objectives for the full synchronization of a memory. This one mission of having to not get detected while air assassinating someone in two boats with no checkpoints in between was driving me crazy. Not to mention the naval missions where you have to sink the 3 ships by exploding the powder kegs. While my favorite AC game storywise is still the second one. For gameplay and how it felt playing the game I enjoyed this one way more. I caught myself playing this for 67 hours at the time of this review and I did not see the time pass at all. I still got more stuff to do though I gotta finish those dlcs