So I've been playing this on and off for a week now and am finally getting into it - think I'm on sequence 8.
The cut scenes are very nice, and I'm quite enjoying the story now. The jumps to different times in history is fun and the scene is very well done with the NPCs and the reproduction of Paris. The number of NPCs is impressive, but Arno clearly slows down when running through even a fairly small group - not something that massively bothers me, but noticeable.
The main problem is the terrible terrible controls! With all the extra moves this should be the easiest to get about Assassins Creed, but it's plagued with glitches and bugs. Times when he just wont jump up, or pull himself up, or jumps off in the wrong direction, or your clambering around and around a window and he just won't go in no matter how hard you pull the left trigger; or when you're in a fight and you press A to roll away and he goes into cover; or you're standing over a dead body to loot and instead he drops of the side of a building. The list just goes on and has caused huge amounts of frustration.
Also, they've gone a bit bonkers on the collectables - it's really pathetic now. Over 1000 chests in this game apparently. It's not like you have to get them, but in previous games I quite liked randomly finding one in my path and opening it up. In this... it's too much. It feels like their artificially bloating the size of the game, and I don't think they need to - it's actually got a lot of genuine content - like the murder puzzles, Nostradamus, Paris stories etc. The random events are very repetitive too... they're a good idea, there just should be more flavours of them.
Until my last session I was pretty bored of it and was just determined to finish it - but now I've actually got into and am enjoying it... phew. They really need to up their game on the next one... less chests, better parkour.
I've setup an OcUK club (on Xbone) since there didn't seem to be one before - guessing PS4 and xbone must be separate. Anyone free to join
