While the controls are characteristically convoluted and in some cases discordant (for instance, the run button for on-foot mode becomes the fire cannons! button in ship-captaining mode, which causes no end of trouble), generally it's a pleasure to take the wheel of Kenway's ship, the Jackdaw. There is a redemptive narrative thread for good ole boy Kenway, whose jack the lad nature decreases somewhat as the game wears on, but really we're all in it for the yo-ho-ho and the Master and Commander-lite naval battles and blowing up island forts and air-assassinating ocelots (that last is a real in-game mission objective, delivered with an impressively straight face). It is greed, it is the celebration of greed, and it is refreshingly unabashed about it. This is a game about blowing up every ship that moves for its loot, finding every icon on ever island for its loot and hunting every animal, both on land and at sea, for its skin (i.e. This also entails an admission, of sorts, of what Assassin's Creed games are really about - the pursuit of wealth and power, rather than justice and subtlety. The secret society and ancestor race bollocks which has made what should have been a light-footed tale tediously heavy is still in some evidence, but the vast majority of it has been downplayed in favour of Just Doing Some Piracy. I suppose you could argue that they can loosely come under the definition of 'assassin', what with all the killing, but let's not pretend this series has ever had much interest in what that word implies. I had thought that game's joyless hero Connor (Kenway's grandson, chronologically-speaking) wasn't going to make any appearance in AC4, but then I realised that the ship's plank was surely an homage.Īnyway, pirates. AC4's piratey protagonist Edward Kenway has an accent that appears to be on a cycling tour of the British isles, but when it does settle on a Welsh lilt it fits - it fits the rogueish, laddy character, and it fits this much more playful AssCreed.
It's a crap town if ever there was one, but I can't help but be fond of it.
I went to university in Swansea, you see.
It's the best Assassin's Creed yet! Which is 90% because Black Flag, a a third-person action adventure about pirates in the Caribbean, isn't really an Assassin's Creed game in the traditional sense, and 10% because the lead character is from Swansea. Isn't that helpful? PS: in the name of all that's holy, turn off cloud saves in Uplay before you start playing AC4). Is this is Wot I Think? Is it mere Impressions? It's both and neither. It also meant I lost a bunch of sea shanties, which was what upset me the most. (The ugly portmanteau in the title is because damnable Uplay's damnable cloud saves system destroyed and rewound over three hours of my progress, which has kept me from getting quite as far into Black Flag as I'd hoped.
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