It has a pleasant tropical setting that’s very different from that of the prior games in the series (except Liberation, though that had tiny environments), it refines a lot of the mechanics that the previous games had and is probably the smoothest playing of the early Assassin’s Creed games, and it greatly expands the ship combat from Assassin’s Creed III to make one of the better pirate ship raiding mechanics ever made. I started settling in to the game after the intro, exploring the various islands and collecting things in the open world, including the sea shanties that probably introduced a lot of young people to the art form and helped spark last year’s viral sea shanty Tiktok, and more boring things like the animus fragments that have never served any worthwhile purpose in any Assassin’s Creed game.īlack Flag does a lot of things well. Popular Youtuber Videogamedunkey has made a video detailing the game’s slow start, full of boring trailing missions and present day stuff (if you’ve ever wanted to play a virtual version of being onboarded to a new job by a chipper but phony superior then this is the game for you!) and he’s not wrong, but I still found the game entertaining enough and I could see why many consider it the high point of the series and one of the best pirate games ever made. I liked AC1 despite its age and flaws, really enjoyed AC2, and then liked each subsequent game a little bit less until I hit the nadir of AC III, a game that has its moments and its defenders but was just a little bit too self serious for me to say I actually enjoyed it especially when you throw in the modern parts (which I think are a weakness throughout the first part of the series.) At that point I was unsurprisingly burned out on Assassin’s Creed games and I decided to take a short break from the series, maybe a month or two at most.Ĭut to January of this year and I finally decide to play Assassin’s Creed IV.

Last year I played through the first 5 console Assassin’s Creed games and the console port of Liberation. I had a complex experience with Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.

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