WALKTHROUGH - Assassin's Creed (by Bou)

Hello, readers of Method to Madness. My name is Izzy, or Bou as I am known online. I'm a friend of this blog's owner, and he's allowed me to post my video walkthroughs on his blog. I've decided that I wanted Assassin's Creed to be the first one done.

You can see the walkthrough in its entirety by following this LINK to the playlist.

It's quite a long trip, though. Eight hours worth, so please, if you do watch it all, do it in segments, don't force yourself to sit there for eight hours! Now, some things I would like to say about this particular walkthrough. Assassin's Creed. The very first one? Boring. The worst in the series, not counting any spin-off titles for the handhelds as I've never played those. I'm strictly talking the "main series" that are on the consoles.  Anyone who says otherwise, needs to take off their beer goggles, and if they're not wearing any, needs to be slapped with a tuna fish.

So, you may be asking yourself: "Why did you do videos for it?"

Well, the simple fact of the matter is I wanted to do Assassin's Creed II. But I felt by doing that, I would be limiting my viewers key story components from Assassin's Creed. So, I came to the conclusion to do the first entry in the series. Now, while I do enjoy the game, I am not afraid to say it's a bad title in the series. Anytime anyone asks me "Which Assassin's Creed would you recommend I start with?" I always tell them to start with the second game, and then, only then, if they want to fill in those questions, to go back and play the first one.

That's all the first one really has going for it. The story. The game play is a repeat of the same six things, well seven if you count the assassinations, all the way up until the final memory block when they decide to throw the stealth out the window and make the last couple of things nothing but open conflict. A nice change, I must admit, but still not enough to save it from the tedium. Alongside the story, I do like the evolution of Altair's character from a self-absorbed ass to someone who realizes the things he has done wrong, and owns up to them. With that being said... I do enjoy the game, for what it is worth, and am glad that they expanded upon it and made a much greater game out of it with the second title.

I do hope whoever watches it finds some entertainment in it, despite it being a non-commentary. If not, I hope it at least helps you in some way, shape, or form. With each assassination, I approached it to kill the target outside of open conflict, except for those that start you in open conflict. This basically boils down to a stealth kill, now the guards usually do spot you after a kill so it's not a "True Stealth" if you will, but a stealth in the sense, the target didn't see it coming, until it was too late.

This isn't meant to be a review by any means, just me running my mouth and saying how I feel about the game. If you DO want a review of it... Well, I'm sure the owner of this blog wouldn't mind giving you that, if he so chooses to. Hah.

Anyway... That should about do it for my first entry here.