Assassin’s Creed Mirage on the PlayStation 5
Assassin’s Creed Mirage! Yes, we got another Assassins Creed’s game and by god, hopefully, we will keep getting them until the end of time, A-fucking-men!
Anyway, Mirage, set in the ninth-century Baghdad period, just a few decades before the events of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. In this game, you play as Basin who played a critical role in the events of Assassin’s, Creed Valhalla. This game is basically his origin’s story if you will, going from street thief to apprentice to master assassin. Mirage was intended to be an Assassin’s Creed Valhalla DLC but it somehow became its own game. That said, it does feel a little like a DLC as is not as full of “features” as Valhalla or other entries.
With Mirage, they’re trying to take it back to the original roots of the franchise, making it less of a massive open-world thing, and more of a contained area, so is going to feel a lot smaller compared to Valhalla or other recent AC games. So this one it’s focused more on narrative, and character development and with the stealth parkour action that we all know and love.
It does have an Assassin’s Creed One feel to it, like you’re back plain as Altair, but much with a fresher look and up-to-date gameplay mechanics. I liked how they brought back the notoriety level, or at least that’s how I think of it. The more you fight out in the open the more notoriety you earn making the guards and other enemies more aware of your presence and the way to lower your notoriety is by bribing people or getting rid of wanting posts. Oh! And the throwing daggers! Such a fan of using those.
Instead of hunting for armor pieces like in other AC games, you get full outfits which is nice. The one thing that I can’t stop thinking about and in some way bothers me a bit is that even though the world isn’t big, there’s a lot of “empty space” on the map, so lately, I’ve been just exploring around and finding random stuff. Makes me wonder if Ubisoft is planning for some DLCs in the future or if this just it.
