[Electric Turahk]

I just want to comment on Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD a little.

I'll start by saying I didn't mind the main mechanic of the game at all, that being the guises. While I didn't really see much of a difference between the Slave and Assassin's (especially given how easily Slave notoriety raises), the Lady was interesting. I didn't like her until you got the parasol gun, because then she became useful. It was an interesting change of pace and added a new dimension to Aveline's character.

But Aveline's character... so messed up. Not her personally, just how she was presented to us. That's the biggest fault of the game - that it's a game within the game universe. That's an interesting concept in and of itself, but it made the game incredibly convoluted to understand. Even after watching all of the "true" cut scenes, I still feel like I was missing out on information or that not everything was really revealed.

The Templars also felt exceptionally weak here. There was indeed an artifact they were after... but I don't even remember hearing the word "Templar" until near the end of the game. Just "enemy this" and "enemy that." Perhaps that was part of the "altered history" of the game too? But because it was a jumbled mess of an altered timeline, I didn't know who to believe was on the "good" side and what everyone's true motivations were.

The world was an interesting one, too. Between New Orleans, the bayou, and Mexico, there was some nice diversity. I wish we had gotten to explore Mexico more and that the bayou wasn't so barren. For being built off of the Assassin's Creed III engine, I was expecting hunting. Instead we had very sparse quick time-only encounters with crocodiles. And only them. So that felt lacking.

So it was indeed an Assassin's Creed game. I still enjoyed running on rooftops (except as the Slave given, again, how ridiculously easy her notoriety increased) and assassinating people. But the world was barren and the story lacking.