A Skeptical Review of ‘Assassin’s Creed: Mirage’

bro is skeptical

For such a positive skeptical review, this outlook seems more of a "This game gives me hope for the future of AC" rather than "I'm impressed by this game and here's why"

Seeing Basim in that Bayek drip reminded me just how much I REALLY want an Origins sequel.

I always loved the continuity between the games like AC3 Connor being the grandson of AC4 Edward and the latter's son Haytham as a side character in AC Rogue which at the end gives the lead to AC 5 unity and so on. The level of excitement when I saw Arno and Elise playing around as kids in Rogue was like something else. I guess continuing the lineage or at least making spinoffs from there would be the real "back to roots" for me.

I find it funny when someone comments that in the past AC's focus was on stealth, then I remember that I would pick fights with everyone and one parry per enemy on the screen. I never cared about stealth, when parry is so broken (on AC1, AC2, ACB, ACR, AC3 and AC4)

I just wish we could get another AC as good as the Ezio Trilogy. The story, acting, characters and gameplay was perfection back then

Trailing missions only work when there is a very low amount of stealth combined with a very high amount of fun parkour traversal while an interestingly written and voice acted NPC or two converse in a funny or unexpected way, especially if they are commenting on and/or interacting with the environment.

When Luke said it’s skeptin’ time and skeptic’ed all over everyone. I felt that

TLDR: AC Mirage plays like an Assassin’s Creed game from 10-15 years ago, and while some will find that boring or lackluster, fans of those original games will likely enjoy the trip down memory lane. Mirage does what it set out to do. It’s far from a masterpiece, but it’s a good time for old school Assassin’s Creed fans, especially at the lower price point. p.s. If you listen close to the conclusion of the video you can hear my son Lochlan talking in the other room. A little Easter Egg for ya 😂 😉

I’m about 6 or 7 hours in and really enjoying it. It’s giving me what I want as an AC fan. City with parkour focused landscape as opposed to massive space of fields and rocks ✅ Stealth focused, I’d say more stealth focused than 1-4 no joke because you could so easily beat people in combat in the OG games whereas if 3 guards show up here I might actually just dip ✅ OG mechanics like bureaus and notoriety back ✅ Listen, it’s not the full fledged reboot that we hope is coming, but why did ANYONE and I mean ANYONE expect it to be? It was a Valhalla DLC, it’s obviously running on the same engine which brings a lot of the same feel, but I think they’ve done a good job in making it feel faster in movement and stealthier whilst essentially being a love letter (their words) to AC1 even adding the iconic filter that tinges the game blue. I’m happy for the £40 I spent.

The game looks like exactly what I expected: A small scale step in the right direction

The only frustration I have is the lost potential of the Unity's engine. They are onto something there but gave up because of the backlash instead of improving it. Cyberpunk 2077 proved that giving up on a game is always not the best option and I hope they learned from that. Hopefully, we'll go back to the golden age of gaming again as 2023 is a rollercoaster of a ride for the whole industry.

I'm honestly confident the series will return to the "Witcher Creed" type games in the future and Mirage is just an Olive branch to people like me who enjoyed the previous games after the criticism of Odyssey and Valhalla. That being said I'm more than welcome this as nothing has scratched my AC itch in years. Gotta support the product when they finally cater to ya.

To me it feels like a game I've seen and experienced too many times. Might buy it from sale for 20-30 dollars

They decided to go back to the roots but also remove the fun part, gadget look boring and uninspired. It lacks innovation.

Took me a bit to realize that Luke’s using a Bayek outfit for Basim and it feels odd seeing him without carrying at least a dozen different pieces of gear on his back

I want another AC like Unity. ❤

Seems pretty much what I expected. A "return to form" while simultaneously forgetting what made the original form so engaging.

This reviewer has the swagger of a skeptic, and watching his review makes me in turn feel like a skeptic.

We need more stealth games