Today‘s game is Assassin’s Creed 2. I know I said it last time but this game is so gorgeous for its era. I will state this again too, that I am using ReShade to ditch the piss filter, but with some color stabbed into it, it looks good.
I especially love the field areas outside the cities. They feel so much more lively than what AC 1 had. In a way they remind me of Oblivion and how its cities look on the outside.
I notably made it to Venice. It looks really pretty so I’m excited to explore (plus tons of water), but I have heard that the parkour sucks kind of here. I’m hoping that’s not the case but I’ll have to see. I am excited to use the boats though, even if I suspect they’ll hurt my thumb.
I also liked getting to play as Altair in the Flashback. It’s cool they didn’t just ditch him to the wayside, even if he only really gets like 1 flashback (I assume) in this game. I know revelations though has a pretty big role for him though so I’ll be excited to play that again.
Anyways. As far as I know this is the halfway point so I’m already close to finished I think. I was hoping for some more modern day segments, but the lack of them I suppose is okay. Assassin’s creed 3 had that cool stadium segment I really liked so I know it doesn’t get entirely kicked to the curb (at least in this era)
oof, that colour looks way oversaturated. i found the colour grading of ac2 to be really nice, it really gave the cityscapes personality. try toggling reshade in different places.
and yeah people hated the modern day story beats and arbitrary gating, especially in ac4 and forward when desmond wasn’t the main character anymore. makes sense the remake stripped all that out.
Agreed, I thought the assassin had been pasted on top of a screenshot from a Pokémon game!
I thought it was some new animal crossing meets dark souls mashup, there for a second.
It is oversaturated, but I see it as a huge improvement over the piss filter of the original.
i went back to look at screenshots and honestly i don’t see it.
Maybe it’s because I’m colourblind and a mess of browns is just boring to me. I love a good splash of different colours.
lots of different warm ochre tones on italian buildings of the time:
if most of these look the same then i think that’s just you.