Assassin's Creed Odyssey - Easy Allies Review

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey builds on the franchise's legacy in meaningful ways.

Written by Michael Huber
Video Edited by Brandon Jones
Reviewed on PlayStation 4 Pro
Available on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

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[SkillUp]

First of all great review as always.

For me, the most interesting part of this review is not the review itself, but the comments responding to your not mentioning micro-transactions (which is fine btw- no reviewer is under any obligation to mention anything when they choose to review a game).

Personally, I've put 60 hours into this game and have completed everything but a handful of side-quests. There's absolutely a monotonous grind of repetitive and dull side-quests that throttle your progression through an excellent main campaign. If I had bought an XP booster, I would have had a manifestly better experience playing Odyssey because I found the side content terrible, and the main content great.

The question is: does this throttling exist to 'force' you out into the open world, or does it exist to exhaust you and incentivize the purchase of micro-transactions? We will honestly never know, but the fact that we even have to wonder that is shitty.

We used to be able to get XP boosts and special cosmetics etc through cheat codes- now we pay for them because we've ceded, little by little, parts of our experience to the microtransaction model. We've reached an equilibrium for what is and is not acceptable in multiplayer games (broadly speaking) but the battle over single player experiences is intensifying and AC: Odyssey is the most audaciously monetised single player game ever produced. Given the defense of these practices in this very comments section, which represents the core of core-gamers, I think it's safe to say that the battle is already lost and we'll see these practices become more pervasive with time. Which honestly makes me very sad.

There's a lot of Jim bashing here, but Jim foretold the primacy of the lootbox years before everyone jumped on that bandwagon, and he's no less right here. This stuff will ruin single player games if people continue to not only swallow but defend it.

I want to stress that this comment is not about the way that EZA approach this review (which I thought was excellent) but about what I was reading in the comment section.

[solofox]

I expected not to like it because it just seemed too much like Origins. Origins was alright but I am enjoying this one alot more.

[EXTRMINR]

I’m glad I found you guys. Game Trailers was my favorite review site. Glad to see you created your own channel. You have a subscriber! Thanks for the great review as always.

[nissanfreak]

This makes me want to play Odyssey even more! But I have such a huge backlog of games to play >_<

[EdwardGutierrez]

as a person who hasnt really invested in any Assassins Creed game since AC2, this one is definitely the game to pick up, it truly is a 9/10 game, meaning they really put hard work and passion into it.

[ChickenWhat-]

I'm loving the game so far, hope I can beat it before red dead 🤤

[SourRobo]

Oh man, I got such a nostalgic attack with that opening song. It hit hard man.

[JoaLoft]

Have put 100 hours into the game ever since September 21st, and have had a - mostly - fabulous time. Great game.

[lowhighkangLHK]

I don't think a game should be penalized just by having in game store purchases or DLC alone, but rather - if such things negatively impact the game. If it's a non-issue, no matter. But if it does alter the game's impressions in a bad way, it makes sense to dock the score accordingly. Watching this review, it seems for Huber - it was a non-issue. Hence why he didn't bring it up nor why it seemingly didn't affect the game's score.

[ShinigamiCustoms]

Eliminating deaths from fall damage and being able to whistle for your horse, for it to get close to you and mounting it all while running and keeping your momentum are the two greatest additions to this franchise.

[HylianTicipated]

This is a good review. Huber's experience was this review and it told me a lot. Great coverage and edit, guys!! L&R.

[Renk]

Great review, Huber! I agree completely on the points having played the game for about 20 hours. Odyssey is simply amazing and one of the best entries in the series. Of course it helps that Ancient Greece is one of the most interesting periods and places in history of this planet.

[bambibroode]

Huber is honestly at his most delicate when it comes to reviews, you can tell its Huber reviewing of course but the word Delicate just comes to mind as well for some reason. He keeps getting better at reviews man.

[hark]

What a game! Took me a year (150 hours) to complete this! I often lose interest in games, very quickly, but this kept me hooked!

[Giablo]

Why in the FUCK is this game getting so much hate? I'm roughly 10 hours in and its fucking phenomenal, good God the gaming community is salty as all hell these days for no apparent reason.

[HowBigistheMap]

I walked across the entire map in AC Odyssey. It took me 2 hours and 25 minutes!

[joeyacevedo]

FINALLY! A fair and unbiased review of this game, unlike some *other* content creators on the platform. I’m definitely getting it now.

[lordlothric]

Agree with the score after 45+ hrs, overall a great game in general.

Edit: Lmao the salt in the comment section.

[YuGiOhDuelChannel]

The vastness of the game is downright jaw dropping, easy 9, maybe even 9.5, really great game. My two cents, try playing it without a mount, force yourself to discover the world, gives it a fallout/skyrim feel 🙂

[OrlinChris]

This Game is a wonderful piece of art!