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46. Beat a game that features historical events or people
Assassin's Creed: Origins

+Great protagonist is Bayek and great sort-of protagonist in Aya
+Gorgeous visuals, huge and varied environment. Climbing the pyramids in Giza is an all-time great AC moment for me, and it's not even required for the story
+Historical moments were really awesome (Battle of the Nile, rise and fall of Ptolemy, Cleopatra, and Caesar)
+Navigation is mostly smooth and easy and almost everything feels climbable
+Ranged combat is great
+Phylakes are cool (if underutilized)

-Re-invented melee combat is loose and sloppy and frustrating. It's especially frustrating given how smooth the combat was in Syndicate. Counters are barely usable, combos are impossible, dodging is garbage and sometimes little inconsistencies just ruin it (in particular, war elephant fights are terrible because 2/3 of the way through the fight, the archers begin rapid-firing through the elephants shots that are impossible to dodge)
-Big environment is cool but it's SO BIG and riding over miles of empty desert on camelback is about as fun as it sounds
-Sounds dumb to complain about there being too much to do but there are SO MANY sidequests, and about 75% of them feel completely inconsequential. In trying to make the game into an RPG they added a ridiculous amount of fodder, and after a certain point none of it feels worth the effort (compare earlier games like AC2, where there were less side missions, but completing each one would have a specific effect on building your villa, which made it feel worth it, whereas here it all just gets you EXP)
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