@@Snowie7826that's not in the slightest like the old games this game trash just like all the others after origins engine = still the same animations = garbage and copy and paste even worse than the games before mirage Graphics = outaded because it's the same engine since 2017 just bumped up some more details wohoo yay... Assassins Creed unity is more a technical achievement than this game. Unity was in fact Peak Ac and still got the best parkour system (which is a lackluster now) the only problem was the game needed definitely 1 year development time that's why the release was so bad. (now it's fully playable cutscene animations even look way better than most of the other ac games after origins) and ubisoft is milking 1 thing so dry until you get burned out example origins was good now we have 4 games that look identical. They don't work on the engine on ragdoll system or water physics or something it's just copy and paste bs lazy as ubisoft they can go and let ac finally die or do something great with it because mirage is not Great its below mid. Nah actually it's garbage.
It's impressive how ya'll have managed to turn laying like 60 people doing online tech-support or whatever off out of a company with over 20,000 employees into a big deal. Yeah - they haven't been releasing much that's original or ground-breaking or anything lately, but that's a symptom of the fact that huge successful companies mainly really focus on minimizing risk - I.E. not fucking up the shit's that's working. If they genuinely cut like 95% of their work-force I think that's probably the best chance that we have of seeing Ubisoft doing really anything original or ground-breaking again. Huge successful public companies are really mainly worried about keeping the ship on an even keel.
Assassins creed 1,2, and black flag fan. All others are sad. People need to stop buying these to show its not acceptable. Enabling is destructive behavior for both parties.
@@DboyinDtown have to agree on this one, I bought Odyssey because it is actually kinda good, but then I bought Valhalla and it's a buggy mess, I don't want to play it even though I am a fan of Vikings, so I will never buy Mirrage and will wait until they make a game on a new engine, before I buy anything from ubi
bro why couldn’t they just make another one from scratch? i thought thats what they were going to do. games trash i dont even have to play to know that it is. smh ubisoft sucks now. farcry 6 was trash too
"the protagonist is a decent guy and he just runs around killing everybody with a knife and he tells a little kid to jump off a ledge" is one of the best dunkey lines ever
1:10 This is what I've always loved about Assassin's Creed. I totally get it's criticisms, but I've always had an interest in history, and being able to read bite-sized blurbs about real-world people, places, and events while getting to explore a virtual ancient city is very fulfilling.
That's what made me fall in love with Origins. I'm not into AC at all but when I played it I got sucked in and it felt great to walk around ancient Egypt.
thats why Origins is up there as one of my fave AC games ever... as an Egyptian you can't imagine how it feels walking around in (not so) ancient Egypt visiting cities that still exist today like Faiyyum and seeing monuments that sadly don't exist anymore like the library and lighthouse of Alexandria, and the great pyramids at near their prime!
Personally I'd love to see a game set before the Ptolemaic era (like during the Middle Kingdom period or the reign of Thutmose III), but I wholeheartedly agree- there's a lot of awe and love put into the recreation of Egypt for AC: Origins.
Yeah, I'm surprised that he had anything positive to say about the series. His praise for getting to read about real-world history has always been one of my favorite parts about AC.
Every AC game is a 'sum of things'. Every game has it's strengths and it's weaknesses and sometimes weaknesses are overwhelming and bring the whole game down. Mirage has poor story, poor storytelling, poor cinematography, poor combat, some unneccesary elements... aaand it is still better 'as a sum of things' than half of the franchise. Baghdad is easily in top 5 cities Ubi has ever made.
I think everyone likes Assassin's Creed a little. It has parkour unlike any other game. It's flashy and interesting. The settings are also pretty interesting. It's what is shoved into every corner of the world and the writing that people dislike.
@@backupschmliff1156It’s one of Ubisoft’s best game ideas and it actually lives up to it, problem is it’s sandwiched between so much shit like tailing missions, clunky gameplay, bland-ish story etc. that it takes a while to get to the fun part.
it’s genuinely impressive how many assassins creeds dunkey has forced himself to play through for our entertainment. thank you for your humble sacrifice dunkey
He can't do an in-depth review of a game as shallow as this. And pretty much all the criticism he does for the other AC games would just carry over, there is no point really.
Well it was a previous unreleased DLC for Valhalla, not a new game. Not worth 50 and I'm sure it's just meh overall. Already did the middle east setting.
It's funny cuz there's a teleportation assassination that's stronger than the one in Odyssey. So they couldn't even stick to the "old school" AC gameplay
He's not teleporting. Basim was so fast that the animus glitches when it loads those parts of the memory. People seem to forget that these games are set in a simulated VR created feom degraded genetic menories and the player isn't seeing everything as it happened in the past. The player is seeing the Animus' recreation and interpretation of memories. Some of the superhuman stuff that the games feature are nothing more than animus glitching.
Has there *ever* been an assassin's creed game where the character didn't stupidly get stuck to shit when you're trying to move fast? I'm playing AC 3, Odyssey, and valhalla atm. And the biggest gripe I have are the damn glue fingers.
@@VikingTeddy every game before 3 you could let go of the parkour button and still run. I'm not gonna say it was perfect, but it was wayyyyy easier to avoid.
tbf the team didn't get a lot of time and resources and had to work off of their stupid new rpg engine, so they decided to make the stealth, environmental design and story as good as possible
“Im sure there are upsides to the engine from AC Origins… I just don’t know what they are” Really sums up this franchise since 2017. I knew there was no way they would “return to their roots” if they are still using this engine
It's not, they've completely rewritten parts of it a few times before. According to the internet, Unity even uses a newer version, that had been rebuilt from scratch (which has been upgraded and used in all other titles ever since).
@@vladbuhoci6512 assassin's creed uses anvil engine which is made by Unisoft. All ac games are done in anvil and yea theyve added on to anvil over the years but it's still anvil. My main point is that the engine of the game isn't why the AC recent games are mid
@@nananina982 I know, I know, that is true indeed. My point is, the engine they use for AC is most probably continuously adapted to their latest game. Going back "to their roots" would mean replacing lots of things they developed recently. Chances are, the way things were previously implemented is simply not compatible anymore with the current codebase and would require a lot of re-writing of current engine base or adapting of old code to new engine.
@@nananina982 it feels like your character’s running on butter ever since Origins, and the parkour is so janky/uninspired too. A far cry from the AC games pre-Syndicate
"video games, you need to stop talking at me, you don't have anything to say" is something I'm gonna keep for the rest of my life. What an absolute great line.
@@samc9133agreed. Either say something worthwhile (ie mass effect) or just shut up (please tears of the kingdom stop telling me the same story over and over)
It seems like he enjoyed this one more. One of his main complaints about the games was that they were too tedious, so this one being really short probably helped. Plus, Dunkey loves funny glitches and gimmicks in games and this video showcased a lot of those, so he probably likes those parts as well.
@@ZachAttack6089it seems the lower price and higher focus on story with a lower time commitment goes a long way toward dunkey tolerating the goofiness. Don't want to make an innovative, quality, ultra-polished product? That's okay, just don't charge a premium for it.
This really hurts because I loved the original 4 assassins creed games, and it's a universe that has potential to be made into a game of the year if only ubisoft wasn't working on it
Dude the combat animations where the better part of the AC series. Enemies desperately blocking your attacks to signify them taking damage was such a nice touch. Now enemies are just taking hits without a care in the world.
Yeah and it's also stupid that they specifically stand up for the death animation just before you kill them because Ubisoft was too lazy to make a death animation for sitting guards.
I notice this exact thing and I felt like I was the only person who noticed it, and when u parry or clash swords at all its kinda just mimicing it, the old games that animated that interaction
Missed opportunity during the knife throwing compilation to say “Black Ops,” but other than that, Dunkey being somewhat nice to an Assassin’s Creed game is honestly quite the feat so kudos to this game
Dunkey mentioning the historical aspect of Assassins creed made me remember why I even liked assassins creed to begin with. I might have to pick this game up sometime when it goes on sale. Thank you Dunkler
I remember when AC had fluid cool assassination animations like 10 years ago. Now that time has passed and tech advanced, animations make the npc stand up straight and turn around to greet you while you stab them in the gut…
@@seiaka I was making a joke, I know it's a triple A game and is a big game for Ubisoft. but some people were not highly anticipating for it and knew it was going to be just another bad Unisoft game
AC games need to be immersive, and make you feel like a badass. The latter of those things is caused largely by animations. They REALLY need to get back to doing those old school AC animations for combat and assassinations, because those were a big part of what made AC fun.
Those cost money, and Ubisoft doesn't want to spend money on making the game good. They just want to slap together a minimum viable product called Assassin's Creed, and sell it for as much as they can. Number has to go up!
This is officially the LAST dunkey video before he became a dad, from here on out, every vid is coming straight from daddy dunk!! congrats on the baby my dude!!
I 100% the game and there is ONE tailing mission in the main story. And like 2-3 more in OPTIONAL side-quests. Combat is subjective, but the parry-attack-instakills were very satisfying to pull off, but he decided to not show that aspect of combat. Because why would he if he planned to hate on the game before even playing it?
2:41 I liked how in assassins creed revelations you could hold a button down to prompt when you wanted to be climbing if you weren't already. It made it so you wouldn't climb the wall next to a window or grab the wall outside it either.
same in Mirage, if you (on a PS controller) hold Circle instead of Cross you will do "parkour-down" movements and not jump around and grab everything. Not sure if it works specifically with windows though as they seems to be mapped specifically to "parkour-up" movements that is the Cross-button.
@@quangphung9396Good joke, in what universe does Val-shitta have anything good? With crappy AI that gets stonewalled by a frigging pebble in front of them. Bullet-sponge enemies that have stumble to even hit you on the hardest difficulty. Actually, what combat are you even talking about? There's better combat in frigging Mark of the Ninja. I will agree that stealth and parkour evolved quite well, and peaked towards Unity, but it still removed a lot of the better features of AC 2. Such as the ledge grab. Tbh, and this isn't a good preference, but i prefer Revelation's parkour.
Ezio Trilogy and Black Flag are regarded as some of the best games. But this one managed to be better than the previous ones at least. Not saying it’s perfect or amazing, but it’s a solid game after all. 7-8/10 is where it’s at. Doesn’t have to be a guilty pleasure.
@@AFGsultanZMirage is no where near a 7-8/10. It’s a 5/10 max. Story is garbage, Combat is very janky and not fluid at all, and the parkour is terrible as well. The only thing that’s good about Mirage is the stealth and the visuals.
Idk bro I played Black Flag, Odyssey and ACII recently and I think AC fans are just nostalgia blinded. All three are similar in quality. Gameplay was a bit more fun in Black Flag but apart from that, old AC is not what it's cracked up to be. A 12 year old finds assassins much cooler than a 22 year old.
@@trippinhard250I agree maybe back in 2007-2012 it was fine. For 2023 though the old AC games aren’t really that good. I still consider AC Brotherhood my favorite AC game. Yet I personally would rather play AC games like Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. I like having multiple things to do instead of following a linear path. Mirage just isn’t that good of game as some people are making it out to be.
I love how the NPC walks through another NPC, and dunky laughs and then talks over his own laugh, mirroring what we've just seen, this is how deep this man goes
Or just don’t buy it, why give them any money at all? Because then you’re basically paying for a $50 DLC lol. Heck even if it’s drops to $20, there are so many better games to play and companies to support.
It’s truly amazing how Ubisoft always remembers to give Dunkey a bad copy of their game so that way he can pay his bills, truly the Ubisoft moment of all time
I didn't recognize the title of this Dunkey video. So i thought it was a new Dunkey video. It wasn't, but it was still full to rewatch it! Thank you for being so funny and verbose!
that’s because games have been in arrested development for about 10 years now. does Starfield or GoW or TLOU really feel “next gen” in their gameplay or is it just graphical fidelity
Yeah I was thinking back to basics like they were going to basically use the Parkour of Unity. And combat style of the older games and remove all the RPG bloat. But nah. Ubisoft basically sat there and said what if we make Assassin’s Creed 2. But with none of the compelling additional features, bugs out the ass, and nice up to date environment visuals. At least the setting is good?
I have no idea how dunky had those problems with the parkour, I really think this is the best parkour out of all of the AC RPG games, it really makes me think why those games had to be open world and not like this, short and sweet. Plus you can pull some AC Unity level shit is you actually know what you are doing and not just pressing up with the joystick
Props to dunkey for letting the gameplay do the talking as far as critical review and highlighting the good aspects of the game he enjoyed. people cant even be mad at this point when he takes a shot at Ubisoft because its clear they're struggling at this point and will take any amount of money they can get.
as someone who has beaten it now nearly 100% I will say I did enjoy it. I suffered only an occasional janky parkour, I can certainly appreciate the smaller and older gameplay style but with the newer rpg elements they kept in.
What makes a game triple A is only the studio where it comes from. Not the look, length or gameplay. Any game from a Triple A studio is a triple A game,
@@Weylane it’s a shame that can’t be applied to the AC games, Ubisoft has always been one of my fav indie studios but kinda seems like they haven’t improved their Windows 7 computers for their new games.
dude when the last guy put away his bow that was the funniest thing I've seen for a while. WTF is this shit, this would have been okay in 2004 in GTA San Andreas but this is 2023 lmao
It’s honestly impressive how dedicated Ubisoft is to not improving anything between installments. Really shows their consistency as a company.
Nah dude this is what people want. The return of an old tired formula with zero innovation 8 years later
@@TheGamingRapper the old games were better, we wanted a better game
@@TheGamingRapper People will say they want familiar things they already like, and then complain when that's what they get.
@@TheGamingRapper Unfortunately I think you're right
@@Snowie7826that's not in the slightest like the old games this game trash just like all the others after origins
engine = still the same
animations = garbage and copy and paste even worse than the games before mirage
Graphics = outaded because it's the same engine since 2017 just bumped up some more details wohoo yay...
Assassins Creed unity is more a technical achievement than this game.
Unity was in fact Peak Ac and still got the best parkour system (which is a lackluster now) the only problem was
the game needed definitely 1 year development time that's why the release was so bad. (now it's fully playable cutscene animations even look way better than most of the other ac games after origins)
and ubisoft is milking 1 thing so dry until you get burned out example origins was good now we have 4 games that look identical. They don't work on the engine on ragdoll system or water physics or something it's just copy and paste bs lazy as ubisoft they can go and let ac finally die or do something great with it because mirage is not Great its below mid. Nah actually it's garbage.
This game really makes you feel like you're being laid off by ubisoft
4 hunredth and twenty FIRST like. Take that potheads!
very funny
im gonna light it up just for you@@stanmarsh912
@@stanmarsh912 jokes on u, bout time i quit smoking anyway. video gaming is the new addiction!
It's impressive how ya'll have managed to turn laying like 60 people doing online tech-support or whatever off out of a company with over 20,000 employees into a big deal.
Yeah - they haven't been releasing much that's original or ground-breaking or anything lately, but that's a symptom of the fact that huge successful companies mainly really focus on minimizing risk - I.E. not fucking up the shit's that's working.
If they genuinely cut like 95% of their work-force I think that's probably the best chance that we have of seeing Ubisoft doing really anything original or ground-breaking again.
Huge successful public companies are really mainly worried about keeping the ship on an even keel.
Dunkey extending an olive branch to the assassins creed fanbase with this one
I feel like it’s just sad and unfair at this point. Punching down.
Assassins creed is good franchise
Assassins creed 1,2, and black flag fan. All others are sad. People need to stop buying these to show its not acceptable. Enabling is destructive behavior for both parties.
@@DboyinDtown have to agree on this one, I bought Odyssey because it is actually kinda good, but then I bought Valhalla and it's a buggy mess, I don't want to play it even though I am a fan of Vikings, so I will never buy Mirrage and will wait until they make a game on a new engine, before I buy anything from ubi
@@3bladeninja21 Used to be. Together with Far Cry series.
this is a throwback to the beginnings of the assassins, indeed: The world, the clothes, even the animations and clunky gameplay. Good job Ubisoft.
Good job? Haha
The combat in the first game was MILES ahead of this crap
You are smoking crack if you think the first game plays as clunky as this one lol
bro why couldn’t they just make another one from scratch? i thought thats what they were going to do. games trash i dont even have to play to know that it is. smh ubisoft sucks now. farcry 6 was trash too
They took “back to the roots” literally
this is probably the nicest he’s ever talked about an assassins creed game
I just can't understand why people are actually buying this? There's nothing new.
Nah im pretty sure he was being sarcastic, he deliberately shows a flaw with the game after "complementing" it.
dwelling into game development might have humbled him a bit
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@@Onepieceistheworstfuckinganime Because gaming is about having fun. Not finding new stuff.
The NPC putting his bow away to be assassinated was too funny lol
"Good to meet you, assassins creed"
Ah, well met Assassin! Let me just move this out of your way.
bro t-posed
didnt AC had 4 directional killed animation😅
every ac game has that sort of stuff, little things that just break your emersion down.
This game is like looking at something awesome in the distance and then when u get there its something u were not expecting.
A... mirage
@@16exodia😂👏
@@16exodiaBravo holy shit
*yells in cyberpunk*
it looks generic from a distance, not sure what this awesome part was
"the protagonist is a decent guy and he just runs around killing everybody with a knife and he tells a little kid to jump off a ledge"
is one of the best dunkey lines ever
Johan apologists be like
@@critormiss6084 johan liebert?
@@critormiss6084 Who tf is defending Johan?
Homelander?
@@TheBanMan Ah yes, I truly loved the part in The Boys where Homelander used a knife to kill people
For a dunkey video on Assassin's Creed, he gave this game incredibly high praise
I’ve never felt happier as a dunkey fan who actually enjoys assassins creed
cuz its short so he didnt have to suffer long enough to hate it
prbly cause it's short 😅
that's because the industry standards have dropped far
@@traderjoes7976because you need his approval for you games?
"I will not suffer such insult twice"
*man walks straight through him like he's nothing*
This guy just can't catch a break
He was the real mirage all along.
💞💞💞
That's what Ubisoft said when they make this game, the first insult was when Elden Ring ranked high on meta score
while he pointing 3 fingers
1:10 This is what I've always loved about Assassin's Creed. I totally get it's criticisms, but I've always had an interest in history, and being able to read bite-sized blurbs about real-world people, places, and events while getting to explore a virtual ancient city is very fulfilling.
That's what made me fall in love with Origins. I'm not into AC at all but when I played it I got sucked in and it felt great to walk around ancient Egypt.
thats why Origins is up there as one of my fave AC games ever... as an Egyptian you can't imagine how it feels walking around in (not so) ancient Egypt visiting cities that still exist today like Faiyyum and seeing monuments that sadly don't exist anymore like the library and lighthouse of Alexandria, and the great pyramids at near their prime!
Personally I'd love to see a game set before the Ptolemaic era (like during the Middle Kingdom period or the reign of Thutmose III), but I wholeheartedly agree- there's a lot of awe and love put into the recreation of Egypt for AC: Origins.
@@cupofmozzarella the first game had a lot of cool history too
Just read 10 minutes of a hustory book and play age of empires after
it’s starting to feel like somewhere deep inside, dunkey actually likes assassins creed a little
Yeah, I'm surprised that he had anything positive to say about the series. His praise for getting to read about real-world history has always been one of my favorite parts about AC.
Every AC game is a 'sum of things'. Every game has it's strengths and it's weaknesses and sometimes weaknesses are overwhelming and bring the whole game down. Mirage has poor story, poor storytelling, poor cinematography, poor combat, some unneccesary elements... aaand it is still better 'as a sum of things' than half of the franchise. Baghdad is easily in top 5 cities Ubi has ever made.
It's cause the word "ass" is in there. Twice.
I think everyone likes Assassin's Creed a little. It has parkour unlike any other game. It's flashy and interesting. The settings are also pretty interesting. It's what is shoved into every corner of the world and the writing that people dislike.
@@backupschmliff1156It’s one of Ubisoft’s best game ideas and it actually lives up to it, problem is it’s sandwiched between so much shit like tailing missions, clunky gameplay, bland-ish story etc. that it takes a while to get to the fun part.
it’s genuinely impressive how many assassins creeds dunkey has forced himself to play through for our entertainment. thank you for your humble sacrifice dunkey
They're not so bad that they're unplayable, fortunately, they're just mostly bland
@@venyren No they are trash that should never be played.
Dunkey fan when asscreed is mentionedonce.
😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬👿👿👿👿🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
Bluds should get a life
@@nrnjn8547 Is this mental illness?
@@nrnjn8547 you sound more hysterical then anybody here. "bluds should get a life"
This was honestly the most straightforward Dunkey video I've seen in a while
Yea it was refreshing and not cringe for once.
He can't do an in-depth review of a game as shallow as this. And pretty much all the criticism he does for the other AC games would just carry over, there is no point really.
01:06 😅😅😂😂🤣🤣
@@chiryo1224bro has his own crazy ass interpretation
@@chiryo1224 Im just having fun dont know what youre talking about
This has to be the best Assassin's Creed game ever, Dunkey actually suggested buying it on sale? Incredible!
Well it was a previous unreleased DLC for Valhalla, not a new game. Not worth 50 and I'm sure it's just meh overall. Already did the middle east setting.
Yh he suggested buying if you are wanting to play Forspoken...who wants to play Forspoken?
Prolly. 1 of the worst
@@raphael9055lol yeah "wanting to buy forspoken" can only mean bad things
Not only did they take the setting back to AC1, they did the same with the gameplay. Truly a feat only Ubisoft can pull off.
But even the combat was way better and more impactful in the first game
The combat sucks
It's funny cuz there's a teleportation assassination that's stronger than the one in Odyssey. So they couldn't even stick to the "old school" AC gameplay
it's worse..
He's not teleporting. Basim was so fast that the animus glitches when it loads those parts of the memory.
People seem to forget that these games are set in a simulated VR created feom degraded genetic menories and the player isn't seeing everything as it happened in the past. The player is seeing the Animus' recreation and interpretation of memories. Some of the superhuman stuff that the games feature are nothing more than animus glitching.
good parkour and combat in this game is just a mirage
HE SAID THE THING.
TalkToMeat hello
Has there *ever* been an assassin's creed game where the character didn't stupidly get stuck to shit when you're trying to move fast?
I'm playing AC 3, Odyssey, and valhalla atm. And the biggest gripe I have are the damn glue fingers.
@@VikingTeddy every game before 3 you could let go of the parkour button and still run. I'm not gonna say it was perfect, but it was wayyyyy easier to avoid.
tbf the team didn't get a lot of time and resources and had to work off of their stupid new rpg engine, so they decided to make the stealth, environmental design and story as good as possible
It’s refreshing to see the same parkour issues as AC1. Very nostalgic
At least he can swim?
@@jordanstark5924 which is also bugged
Sorry, but based on what I see, Ac1 has better parkour
@@ferst262 Oh. Oof.
Ac1 parkour is fantastic, you most likely just suck at it because the game doesn't teach you all the mechanics properly.
"Video games, holy sh*t. You need to stop talking at me, you don't have anything to say" I really felt that one
“Im sure there are upsides to the engine from AC Origins… I just don’t know what they are”
Really sums up this franchise since 2017. I knew there was no way they would “return to their roots” if they are still using this engine
its the same engine since ac 1
It's not, they've completely rewritten parts of it a few times before. According to the internet, Unity even uses a newer version, that had been rebuilt from scratch (which has been upgraded and used in all other titles ever since).
@@vladbuhoci6512 assassin's creed uses anvil engine which is made by Unisoft. All ac games are done in anvil and yea theyve added on to anvil over the years but it's still anvil. My main point is that the engine of the game isn't why the AC recent games are mid
@@nananina982 I know, I know, that is true indeed. My point is, the engine they use for AC is most probably continuously adapted to their latest game. Going back "to their roots" would mean replacing lots of things they developed recently. Chances are, the way things were previously implemented is simply not compatible anymore with the current codebase and would require a lot of re-writing of current engine base or adapting of old code to new engine.
@@nananina982 it feels like your character’s running on butter ever since Origins, and the parkour is so janky/uninspired too. A far cry from the AC games pre-Syndicate
"video games, you need to stop talking at me, you don't have anything to say" is something I'm gonna keep for the rest of my life. What an absolute great line.
i was just scrowling to see if someone had quoted this great poetry piece.
All I said, when dunkey said it, is "word"
Nah im pretty sure he was being sarcastic, he deliberately shows a flaw with the dialouge after "complementing" it.
A lot of video games do have something to say, and they're great! But GOD it sucks when they don't and keep talking anyways
@@samc9133agreed. Either say something worthwhile (ie mass effect) or just shut up (please tears of the kingdom stop telling me the same story over and over)
This might be the most respectful ac dunk vid of all time.
It seems like he enjoyed this one more. One of his main complaints about the games was that they were too tedious, so this one being really short probably helped. Plus, Dunkey loves funny glitches and gimmicks in games and this video showcased a lot of those, so he probably likes those parts as well.
@@ZachAttack6089it seems the lower price and higher focus on story with a lower time commitment goes a long way toward dunkey tolerating the goofiness. Don't want to make an innovative, quality, ultra-polished product? That's okay, just don't charge a premium for it.
Didnt dunkey kinda like odyssey?
yeah for the glitches 😂@@ryancrafar3733
@@ryancrafar3733 odyssey and gayhalla is great game
This really hurts because I loved the original 4 assassins creed games, and it's a universe that has potential to be made into a game of the year if only ubisoft wasn't working on it
never underestimate the capability of ubisoft to make something mediocre and ruining their own shit
"Video games, you don't have anything to say so why are you talking to me?" - this was actually deeply fucking true I felt that shit to my core LOL
He did rate God of War Ragnarok really highly...
The best video games show you something, they don't tell you something.
I love the facial animation.
Really takes me back to the 360 era, very nostalgic.
the 360 era never ended
That's an insult to 360 games 😂 even AC3 and black flag got better facial animation 😂😂
Their budget was cut
More like Sega Saturn era
@@harrisonchristopher8708 lol ok and?
Dude the combat animations where the better part of the AC series. Enemies desperately blocking your attacks to signify them taking damage was such a nice touch. Now enemies are just taking hits without a care in the world.
That genuinely feels like a downgrade from freaking Assassin's Creed 1
Yeah and it's also stupid that they specifically stand up for the death animation just before you kill them because Ubisoft was too lazy to make a death animation for sitting guards.
I notice this exact thing and I felt like I was the only person who noticed it, and when u parry or clash swords at all its kinda just mimicing it, the old games that animated that interaction
The consensus seems to be that it all went downhill after 2014's Unity and Rogue
01:06 😅😅😂😂🤣🤣
Missed opportunity during the knife throwing compilation to say “Black Ops,” but other than that, Dunkey being somewhat nice to an Assassin’s Creed game is honestly quite the feat so kudos to this game
Hey Dunkey I don’t know if you’re going to read this, but I just wanted to say it’s amazing that you’re a father now. I’m wishing the best for you.
This game really makes you feel like jumping off a building. 10/10
It actually does a great job at making you feel like a building being jumped off of.
Looks like what you would/should usually expect from a Ubisoft open world title. Moving on
real life leap of faith but theres no hay at the bottom
Can't spell Mirage without RAGE
oh my god you're right
It’s crazy seeing you here. Love your stuff!!
Ryan is everywhere I go
actually it's super easy, barely an inconvenience
One of us! One of us!
Dunkey mentioning the historical aspect of Assassins creed made me remember why I even liked assassins creed to begin with. I might have to pick this game up sometime when it goes on sale. Thank you Dunkler
I remember when AC had fluid cool assassination animations like 10 years ago. Now that time has passed and tech advanced, animations make the npc stand up straight and turn around to greet you while you stab them in the gut…
I remember when the animations also made sense and then in syndicate you would stab someone in the ass for a silent kill
This game was so sneaky I didn’t even know it existed until this video
It was everywhere for me. Kept getting annoying ads for it like it was a big anticipated game.
@@Shak2k11because even though it's a smaller game for Ubisoft, it's their biggest title since Far Cry 6
@@seiaka I was making a joke, I know it's a triple A game and is a big game for Ubisoft. but some people were not highly anticipating for it and knew it was going to be just another bad Unisoft game
@@Shak2k11 Ubisucks and NFTs you can say that
Almost like a MIRAGE 🗿
AC games need to be immersive, and make you feel like a badass. The latter of those things is caused largely by animations. They REALLY need to get back to doing those old school AC animations for combat and assassinations, because those were a big part of what made AC fun.
Yeah, like the perfect block to finishing move in ACII or the chain kills in Black Flag
I loved just chaining counters. It was awesome. Bring that back.
Those cost money, and Ubisoft doesn't want to spend money on making the game good. They just want to slap together a minimum viable product called Assassin's Creed, and sell it for as much as they can. Number has to go up!
You are preaching
The rpg trilogy combat feels like cheap ass hack n slash ripped of some garbage mmo
@@oesyps3 Revelations was the best AC game imo. They really improved everything by that point. And if you remember there were grenades too.
Truly a game of all time. In a year with SO many bangers of games I just cannot express how extremely non-interested I was/still am in this game.
This is officially the LAST dunkey video before he became a dad, from here on out, every vid is coming straight from daddy dunk!!
congrats on the baby my dude!!
This might be one of Dunkey's most positive Assassin's Creed videos ever. Seems like he genuinely kinda liked the game
@@poleve5409i don't know if that's a burn or a praise.
“Assassin’s Creed is a good franchise”
I wouldn't go so far as to say he LIKED the game but he definitely thought it was funny
@@andaristalit’s praise
That's exactly what I was thinking as well. I was expecting him to hate this game way more than he ended up doing
This game really makes you feel like an annually released assassin.
haven’t played as an assassin in years
Last game came out 4 years ago, nice try.
@@shimik113 years ago*
and nothings changed 😂
@@shimik11 The game looks like it came a year later...
"Video games, you have nothing to say, so stop talking at me!"
Probably the BEST way that's ever been put Dunkey thank you
Great video as always Dunkey. Can't wait for that Baldur's Gate 3 review where being talked at is the whole game!
3:47 You killed this guy before he could say his iconic line: "Good to meet you Assassin's Creed Mirage 2023"
This game really makes you feel like playing assassin's creed for the 20th time!
@@PhillyWonkenI mean yeah it does because you are
Somehow you're playing the same last 3 games
And the first few
@@GatoSander0in one game for 50$ that a steal! I just don’t know who’s the sucker
Your comment really makes me feel like I’ve read this type of comment 200 times
No "Assassin's Creed is a good franchise" remix. Truly the end of an era.
In a world as chaotic and dark as this one, it's nice to know that some things never change.
Assasins Creed Mirage is a brilliant return to form as made evident by its rigid combat and trailing missions
I’ve played 20 hours of this game, progressed through most of the story and literally encountered 3 trailing missions.
I 100% the game and there is ONE tailing mission in the main story. And like 2-3 more in OPTIONAL side-quests.
Combat is subjective, but the parry-attack-instakills were very satisfying to pull off, but he decided to not show that aspect of combat. Because why would he if he planned to hate on the game before even playing it?
@@Geertt So how did he get the footage which was shown in the video ýou just watched, here on the internet site youtube
@@Geertt This is literally his most positive AC review
@@Geertt nah bro comon, I'm a huge fan and also finished the game and the combat sucks, you can enjoy things while still accepting their flaws
2:41 I liked how in assassins creed revelations you could hold a button down to prompt when you wanted to be climbing if you weren't already. It made it so you wouldn't climb the wall next to a window or grab the wall outside it either.
same in Mirage, if you (on a PS controller) hold Circle instead of Cross you will do "parkour-down" movements and not jump around and grab everything. Not sure if it works specifically with windows though as they seems to be mapped specifically to "parkour-up" movements that is the Cross-button.
@ZahhibbDev Ok, that is not obvious from the footage 😆
@@chance713 yeah there's not really any HUD input of that, simply the tutorial messaging goes through it in the beginning
The parkour is evolving, just backwards.
The enemy is dropping whenever they're doing to default pose so that you can assassinate them really makes you feel like Dark Souls
I think the best thing about AC games is that I wouldn’t even know they still make them if not for dunkey. Bless
🥰🥰🥰
Same, I haven't played one since AC3 and only know about the new ones from UA-camrs like Dunkey.
I think the best thing about AC games is that I don't have to play them. That's a feature I can fully get behind.
This is truly the lastest Assassin game to ever be released
This game really makes you feel like in a mirage of a good game.
"you don't have anything to say so why are you always talking at me"
that's gold
It pretty amazing how this game reminds me of every worse part of AC1 and 2. Really bringing it back to the roots
At least they had better combat and parkour lmao
Than the janky old 2000s games, they fail the combat to Vahalla, and fail the stealth and parkour to Unity.
@@quangphung9396 The combat in Valhalla is decent and is something that I don't think I will bore of for 20 or so hours but any more than that and...
@@quangphung9396Good joke, in what universe does Val-shitta have anything good? With crappy AI that gets stonewalled by a frigging pebble in front of them. Bullet-sponge enemies that have stumble to even hit you on the hardest difficulty. Actually, what combat are you even talking about? There's better combat in frigging Mark of the Ninja. I will agree that stealth and parkour evolved quite well, and peaked towards Unity, but it still removed a lot of the better features of AC 2. Such as the ledge grab. Tbh, and this isn't a good preference, but i prefer Revelation's parkour.
@@TheKueiJin Mfs see a worse clone of the Witcher 3 which already has average combat and act like it's good lmao.
I have to admit; Assassin’s Creed was always a guilty pleasure of mine. This one is far from perfect, but I prefer it over the last three games.
Ezio Trilogy and Black Flag are regarded as some of the best games. But this one managed to be better than the previous ones at least. Not saying it’s perfect or amazing, but it’s a solid game after all. 7-8/10 is where it’s at. Doesn’t have to be a guilty pleasure.
@@AFGsultanZbroo coping. Being worse than a 10 year old game isn't something to be proud of of worth 8 points
@@AFGsultanZMirage is no where near a 7-8/10. It’s a 5/10 max. Story is garbage, Combat is very janky and not fluid at all, and the parkour is terrible as well. The only thing that’s good about Mirage is the stealth and the visuals.
Most positive dunkey review for any AC title ever
Thanks for saving me from wasting my money on this game dunkey. True hero.
The promises to deliver a back-to-the-roots Assassin's Creed game are the actual mirage here.
Assassin's Creed was never good.
Although it certainly has gotten a lot worse too
Idk bro I played Black Flag, Odyssey and ACII recently and I think AC fans are just nostalgia blinded. All three are similar in quality. Gameplay was a bit more fun in Black Flag but apart from that, old AC is not what it's cracked up to be.
A 12 year old finds assassins much cooler than a 22 year old.
@@trippinhard250I agree maybe back in 2007-2012 it was fine. For 2023 though the old AC games aren’t really that good. I still consider AC Brotherhood my favorite AC game. Yet I personally would rather play AC games like Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. I like having multiple things to do instead of following a linear path. Mirage just isn’t that good of game as some people are making it out to be.
@@dacueba-games Ooh, a mirage in a mirage. A double mirage, if you will.
@@trippinhard250 You have zero critical skills.
The bow training one took me out 😂
Took you out where? To dinner?
Took you out like a tko? You fought the archer?
How was your date?
Very bethesda thing
I'll take u out bby gurl
That knife throwing montage was gold 😂
I just went back and played Unity and Black Flag, the only AC games I've touched - and wow the parkour is so smooth by comparison what happened
I love how the NPC walks through another NPC, and dunky laughs and then talks over his own laugh, mirroring what we've just seen, this is how deep this man goes
For those wondering this was originally a DLC for Valhalla, they then decided to make it its own title which is why its so short, wait for a sale.
Probably why it's God awful
"Wait! We could make even more money by releasing the dlc as a separate game" - the guy who got a big raise
Or just don’t buy it, why give them any money at all? Because then you’re basically paying for a $50 DLC lol. Heck even if it’s drops to $20, there are so many better games to play and companies to support.
I wouldn't touch this if they paid me to.
More like don’t buy and support garbage
Truly one of the video games of all time.
npc
This is the nicest review of the mudslide that the AC series has become. Thank you Dunksouls
I love how dunkey imitates the guards.
"Oh, why hello my old frienGAHHHH"
@@305backup
Huh, must've been the wind
"Good to meet you assassin"
It’s truly amazing how Ubisoft always remembers to give Dunkey a bad copy of their game so that way he can pay his bills, truly the Ubisoft moment of all time
It took me 3 watches to realise you zoomed in to make the phrase 'I rage', once again showing you're the best in the biz Dunk.
I didn't recognize the title of this Dunkey video. So i thought it was a new Dunkey video. It wasn't, but it was still full to rewatch it! Thank you for being so funny and verbose!
Assassin’s Creed is such a good franchise that they found a way to lower the prices while keeping the quality exactly the same! Thanks, John Creed!
Ubisoft wanted to make a back to basics assassin’s creed game but took it a little too literally. This feels like a game that came out a decade ago
The old games had a better story and more variety
Unity came out almost a decade ago and is arguably better
They even stripped the good movement and other features from newer titles. Talk about back to basics lmao.
that’s because games have been in arrested development for about 10 years now. does Starfield or GoW or TLOU really feel “next gen” in their gameplay or is it just graphical fidelity
Yeah I was thinking back to basics like they were going to basically use the Parkour of Unity. And combat style of the older games and remove all the RPG bloat.
But nah. Ubisoft basically sat there and said what if we make Assassin’s Creed 2. But with none of the compelling additional features, bugs out the ass, and nice up to date environment visuals.
At least the setting is good?
I have no idea how dunky had those problems with the parkour, I really think this is the best parkour out of all of the AC RPG games, it really makes me think why those games had to be open world and not like this, short and sweet.
Plus you can pull some AC Unity level shit is you actually know what you are doing and not just pressing up with the joystick
Congrats on the mini dunk daddy dunk!
Is so refreshing to see Assassins Creed as a protagonist again!
Props to dunkey for letting the gameplay do the talking as far as critical review and highlighting the good aspects of the game he enjoyed. people cant even be mad at this point when he takes a shot at Ubisoft because its clear they're struggling at this point and will take any amount of money they can get.
as someone who has beaten it now nearly 100% I will say I did enjoy it. I suffered only an occasional janky parkour, I can certainly appreciate the smaller and older gameplay style but with the newer rpg elements they kept in.
2:25 2:30 “In terms of gameplay ehhhh..” 😂💀 best description
Truly a game made with passion
I knew this would come out before Bones, but at the rate Ubi's going our bones might might be visable before that crap comes out.
They couldn’t even figure out how to hand out beta keys or apologize for screwing so many people over, bones will be a disaster as it was
it wasnt made by montreal or quebec
did not realize it was Dunkey talking at ~3:40 and legit thought "Good to meet you, Assasin's Creed" was a real voice line for a sec
This is the first I realized last year even had an Assassin's Creed game.
This game truly makes you ~feel~ like Creed from the office
It amazes me how Dunkey somehow made this game look like an actual AAA game, bravo dunks, you continue to impress me.
What makes a game triple A is only the studio where it comes from. Not the look, length or gameplay. Any game from a Triple A studio is a triple A game,
@@Weylane it’s a shame that can’t be applied to the AC games, Ubisoft has always been one of my fav indie studios but kinda seems like they haven’t improved their Windows 7 computers for their new games.
@@succboah2000 😭😭😭😭 This hurt my soul deeply.
@@Weylane I’m sorry…
Star Wars Outlaws better be awesome 😭@@succboah2000
The last montage of the guards turning around to greet you before being assassinated made me wheeze so hard I was crying! Lmfao xD
And then the bow guy T-posing.
Dunkey was nicer to this Assassin's Creed because there was less Assassin's Creed in it.
Congrats on your new baby!
That was really thoughtful of him to put the bow away before getting backstabbed.
it's always a treat to watch a dunkey video on assassin's creed.
assassins creed is a good franchise
I guess the real Mirage is the people who thought this game was gonna be good.
Most game series get better, but this one stays the same. Very impressive. Gotta respect how they don't want to do what everyone else is doing.
Stop believing in liberal history.
@@IkeOkerekeNewshuh?!???!
What's even more impressive is that they did this for like a decade with multiple franchises. AC, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, they're exactly the same games!
@@doubleoof7907
I.e. the idea that things always gets better over time.
0:40 Dunkey is a true gentleman. He let's the ladies finish first.
Dunkey, thank you for making me smile in each and every video.
You’re welcome pal. Although I don’t make videos and my name isn’t Dunkey?
This is the nicest video he has put up about Assassin's creed wow.
origins was my absolute favorite after black flag. Just loved the setting. I really liked the direction AC was going. More open world RPG.
I fucking died at the guard saying "Good to meet you Assassin's Creed" while getting killed 3:47
So did the guard, coincidentally.
That was dunkey saying it
@@BiggusNickusno he was stabbed
Me too 🤣🤣🤣
dude when the last guy put away his bow that was the funniest thing I've seen for a while. WTF is this shit, this would have been okay in 2004 in GTA San Andreas but this is 2023 lmao
I just rewatched your Assassins Creed vids, glad to see you’re still keeping tradition
This looks like a step up from the Gollum game. Def going to give it a try.
This game really makes you feel like a mirage.
3:25 imagine getting a knife thrown in your face and just saying "someone's up to something" as you die
This is like a hybrid between a regular review and a “Dunkey messes around” revirw
The best thing about AC Mirage is Dunkey's review.
1:30 I like that stuff, I got some pretty cool ww1 lessons from bf1 between games and actually managed to use them in game