HoloDust said:
The very thing I hated about AC2 is exactly what you described - being able to kill so many guards that all the running and hiding from the first game became almost unnecessary is what put me off of it very quickly (I had the same problem back in days with original Hitman 2, after stealth of first Hitman). Origins was ridicoulusly easy and almost no staelth was required, Odyssey is pretty much the same - only real chalange is you play at hardest diificulty.
As for improvements..well, there's only one type of bow and you can sort of be more free to explore without handholding (but just barely), story seems more interesting and those light RPG elements give you way to somewhat customize your gameplay experience. But absolute crap they pulled is that regions and enemies level up with you, so whenever you level up, your gear is automatically oudated until you uprade it...not so much grinding for resources at the beggining, but it's getting there as you progress.
World is gorgeous, Athens is stunning, and as always I pitty artists at Ubi that made this game world so beautiful, only to have game designers put such a repetitive and dull game-loop into it. For the time being, I quit after some 20 or so hours, not sure I'll come ever back, though if it was possible to go through main quest only, I would do it, but if reviews and reports are correct, you can't do that due to main quest level requirements, so you have to grind side missions...or buy XP via micro-transactions.
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