From assassinscreed.wikia.com

Back in October, the amazing game Assassin’s Creed:  Odyssey came out, and boy am I happy it did.  I haven’t played that many Assassin’s Creed games, and the only one I truly finished was Syndicate, I don’t have that much experience with the franchise as a whole.  Odyssey takes place in ancient Greece, during the Peloponnesian war.  It has a really large map, and highly encourages exploration.

Sailing has been pretty big in some of the games, and it really is in Odyssey.  Ship fights are really annoying sometimes, so I generally try to avoid them.  Sometimes, you have to go against a lot of ships, and it can get messy.  That’s why it’s important to stop by the shore and save A LOT.  Saving is super important, especially when playing on the hardest difficulty, nightmare mode.  I wanted to try that, and it really encourages me to try and assassinate people rather than straight up fight.

The RPG-style of the game makes me like it too.  It really makes sure you only go for things your level, as almost everything you fight is your level or higher.  The enemies go up in level with you, so that it always remains balanced.  Except when you explore an area and literally every enemy is like level 50.  Balanced as all things should be, yeah right.

There are so many things to do in Odyssey, so you really want to know how to focus on what’s important.  There are a lot of irrelevant quests that aren’t true sidequests, and are usually your basic fetch quest type.  Others are very complex and last long; those are the quests you want to do.

There are some animals you can hunt for various materials.  Some animals are even bosses.  For example, the Kalydonian Boar is a boss off of one of the “good” sidequests.  I’ve tried to beat it, still haven’t.  The boar is an actual cheat code.  It can spawn up to four boars at a time, which do a lot of damage with charging, and have tons of health.  There’s a cheese method to deal with the boar spawning, because the boss boar by itself is not hard, IT’S ALL THE BOARS CHARGING YOU.  The boar won’t spawn in more boars unless the boars die, so you can just knock them out with paralyzing arrows.

Anyways, it’s a fun game, try it.