Never in my wildest dreams would I think my hatred for what the Assassin's Creed saga has become would be rivaled by someone else's, but I'm glad for this bond.
One of my favourite designs tbh, and one of the only times I'm totally fine with them breaking away from white and red robes (because im a filthy purist) her black and red ones look phenomenal
@@LazerzZ I couldn't agree more (I'm also a filthy purist), and I love her outfit. At least her design resembles an actual assassin, unlike the last 2 games
When this game came out I remember describing it as "The most Assassin's Creed Assassin's Creed game since AC1" - despite how very different the style of the game is, something about the combination of aesthetic and challenging gameplay scratched an itch that no other game since the first has nailed for me.
I love that this game plays a lot like an evolution of the old school Prince of Persia games, which is fun since Assassin's Creed was originally supposed to be a Prince of Persia spinoff
It's sad how the series I grew up on and used to "love" has now turned into "loved" for every other person who grew up with it too. It's the ones who fell in love with Altair and Ezio are who truly appreciate the core values of what used to make this series so great. We in sense grew up with Ezio from his birth until his death, and now we're experiencing the birth and possibly the death of Assassin's Creed.
I think her character is the only one that truly deserved a rendition of Ezio's theme. The theme could've embodied what Ezio passed down to her. Ezio's theme could've been more meaningful and personalized, but now it's just a theme for every assassin no matter where they're from. Like you said, it would've been nice to have a more meaningful journey with her. So sad she doesn't have a mainline game. I think she would've been a nice character to explore off the heels of Ezio. Just start the game with the events of Embers to act as a tutorial. We could say one last goodbye to Ezio and it'll be a bridge into a new story.
It also quite poetic, Polo family travel from Italy to China while preserving Altair’s wisdom, and later on Shao travels back to Italy to search for the same wisdom from Ezio and along the way who knows how much brotherhood was grown.
Its crazy how the chronicles game really showcase the series lineage. I mean china can be considered like the ac1-revelations era. India is like ac3-ac rogue and russia is like unity-syndicate.
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As someone who played China for the first time, I loved it and wish Ubisoft would consider giving us more Chronicles-style games. (I really liked the glass cannon nature of the combat.) I haven't played India or Russia yet so I am hoping I enjoy them.
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Chronicles China really was the peak of this side games. I do think the Anastasia sections from Russia were cool tho, simply for the fact that they were pure stealth.
I love all the Chronicles games and always hated how underrated they were, seriously i loved all of them 3 alot and i say this as a hardcore AC fan who played every single main game and buys every new title, i love all the AC games at least at an extent but the fact that these 3 games that tried something like this got absolutely ignored for most of the time is awful, i loved Shao Jung story and Nikolai Orelov's character, i didn't like much the indian one even though it was still a great time.
About the different voice actors, its a super not important thing but in odyssey Victoria Bibeau talks with a normal american accent and in the last descendants audiobook she has a 100% french stereotype accent. Same with Gavin Banks, 2 audiobooks and 1 is normal american guy and the 2nd is a literal 85yr old man voice. Like no consistency whatsoever
Classic Ubisoft really, they have little consistency in how characters are portrayed, whether by actor but also how they look can wildly change between games too. It’s strange.
I agree chronicle China is the best out of all three of the games that come on the disk. I bought it for cheap at GameStop and also it reminds me of the sides calling games like to play super Nintendo in high school.
LazerzZ, you NEED to play Mark of the Ninja. It's the game that inspired the AC chronicles games. However, it has way more depth and focuses on stealth more. I played it after ACC China and I was never the same man again IT'S AMAZING
@@LazerzZ You absolutely should. Mark of the Ninja is probably one of my favourite stealth games of all time, and It's influence on Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China is immediately obvious just from looking at any gameplay. Very much the same appeal, mechanically.
the canon connection (partially in my opinion) is that, An abstergo agent, likely Otso Berg, was going through archives trying to track the box ever since they saw it in Shay Cormac's memories. They knew Ezio had it at a point in his life and tracked it through any assassins he had come into contact with with led them to Shao Jun. After following her memories they continued researching what happened to the box until they discovered it resurfacing in India, leading to Chronicles India. Finally they had to track it again through Russia, but at the same time wanted to see how the box reacted to other pieces of Eden, discovering that the box created a sort of Bleeding Effect on Anastasia making her believe she was Shao Jun. The final cutscene reveals that Abstergo (or at least that specific scientist) wanted the box for Project Phoenix, which was a plan to fully revive Juno into a new body
Thissss!!!!! Underrated asf comment & deserves sooo many more likes I was going to write it out but summed it up perfectly these games play a crucial part in the story & links in perfect actually if I’m not mistaken Arbaaz in India is Evie & Jacob Great Great grandfather or something like that his name came up in the game as well as the precursor box as well. Showing how these games actually explain a lot of the in depth info as well as them canonically speaking tying so to speak. Shao inherited the box from Ezio/His passing (Assassin creed ember bleeding into Assassin creed china) she’s loses Arbaaz some 295-298 Yrs late in 1841 tracks it down (Assassin creed India) which in a way branches off to syndicate due to Evie & Jacob being of his lineage. It’s just perfect! Thank you for explaining & allow me to pig back to further illustrate the point 🙏🏾💯
@@tequanbeatty4034 close, but the connection to the Frye twins wasn't by blood. Arbaz's son (I forget his birth name) would change his name to Henry green and move to London where he meets Jacob and evie
I played chronicle China and just finished India and I had a blast. The animations are very unique and the gameplay feels very smooth. One of the most underrated ac games and it doesn't deserve that.
Playing it after playing Mark of the Ninja was definitely an odd feeling, but it's also been close to 10 years since I touched either so I can only remember that and not much else. I hope they make a stealth-centric AC game again someday, preferably one with a new proper parkour engine and good combat. We'll see how Mirage goes, I'll probably buy it used on console so I don't help Ubi profit.
Nice video might give china a chance played only India didn't like it so I didn't bother with the rest but now im intrigued to try it also I like that valhalla didn't sour your opinion about darby
Chronicles is always so satisfying when you pull off a section perfectly and get that gold rating. Not a big fan of getting a lower rank if you assassinate non-targets but when you get to your target and can finally just kill him, it's a great pay off. Russia is probably my favorite of the three despite the weird Shao Jun possession plot line, but my god do I hate India with a passion. China has its difficult sections that might take a few attempts but if I needed to restart I knew it was my fault. India felt like most sections were trail and error, having timed section that you need to know the path beforehand to actually pull it off. Amazing video as always, looking forward to what you create next!
I actually kind of the the chronicles games. I just treated them more of a puzzle game to do each section in perfect stealth and playing it that way was pretty fun. Not "Classic" AC by any means but it was pretty clear from the offset it was a spinoff series so I really didn't mind.
For sure, the puzzle aspect is what really reels me in, when you execute a route perfectly without being seen it's the same feeling I get from taking out a target unnoticed in AC1. It's a totally different sort of game but the feeling it evokes is wonderful
for me Chronicles China is the sequel of AC that i want, it has that classic multiple approach to assasination style (though for C China, it's levels), and i can play it with different playstyles. honestly loved it, need a better computer to run it tho, and a better keyboard keybind, cuz it is painful to run it with its default keybind.
Man thank you for covering one of my all time favourites series sharing so much information and giving love for some of my favourite games growing up sharing very similar experiences. Been replaying a lot of the AC Games and getting up to 3 and 4 and Rogue so hope we see a similar retrospectives for those one day!
I found that chronicles india was just as fun if not more for me. The game felt like it ramped up the difficulty and the level design felt a lot more open compared to china. I found myself utilizing my gagdets a lot more and pulling off moves that made me FEEL like an assassin. The escape sequences in india were also so much fun to play through.
This was actually my first Assassin's Creed game and I really enjoyed the feeling of stealthily making it to your target without being spotted and taking out *only* the target. Then, deciding to actually play the first AC game, I was thrown off by not being punished for taking out guards simply in the way, ha. It feels a bit weird having gone from this gameplay style to that one, but different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Great video as always, keep up the good work. I’m looking forward to the next one. Also I never understood why people hated AC1, I played it when I was 12 years old and I loved it, I played it not long ago and even though it was a bit repetitive I thought it was really good.
Man, you should try Styx one day it has almost the exact same system(shadow, assassin, brawler) and is just as satisfying if not more and the level design OMG you will be so impressed. And one of the best plot twists in gaming history in my opinion.
FINALLY someone has said it!!! I love this game SO MUCH I have replayed it so many times. There's something so brilliant in the art and the feeling of the game. When I talk about video games being art, this game is what I think about.
I remember enjoying Chronicles China quite a bit compared to India (I never played Russia, I couldn’t be bothered) it felt way less restrictive than India and let experiment a bit more. All I remember from India was being incredibly frustrated because 90% of the game just forced you into stealth rather than encourage it and there was only one specific way of going through a level
yeah true, it is a shame we didn't see a fully fledged AC game in China, Shao would've been a great protag and it would've fit the classic formula incredibly well, but at least what we did get (before the new mobile game) is a good game, even if it's not traditional AC
@@LazerzZ Yeah China is a perfect setting it be cool if we got a Mongolia game back in the day following AC1 and a Shao Jun game written by Darby McDevitt directed by James Welford and instead of a game in ancient Greece that made no sense a short game in ancient China 210 bc with Wei Yu I think the mobile game is ancient China but I guarantee they aren’t even gonna use the actual AC lore that’s there 😭
I played the Chronicles games a few months back and really enjoyed them! The art style is beautiful, the gameplay is fun, you have to think carefully about how to get through a room. Great games.
I haven’t watched the video yet but I have a soft spot for chronicles. Those three characters were some of my first assassin’s creed games played in full
Im glad to say I only used the Helix hability twice in the game, I hate that this is in the game, but at leats it is mostly an easy mode option, it forced me to push my habilities to the limit trying not to use it
i dont know why they didnt make a mainline game about her. her design is nice, and the setting being in china wouldve made for a nice change of pace. it wouldve been like ghost of sushima before ghost of sushima
Have you played Assassin’s Creed Discovery? I remember it being genuinely good, and a nice little spinoff that was actually briefly mentioned in Revelations. On top of that, that’s the game that started this style of 2D AC spinoffs.
I think it'd be very cool if AC Red's main character was the new recruit Shao talked to at the end of the game Also. At 17:18 i got an ad, and it took a second to play, so for all I knew, he did a freeze frame on this for comedic affect, and i gotts say, it was affective
The chronicles trilogy is literally my favorite game of all time. Got me obsessed with platform stealth (a highly underutilized subgenre). All ill say in defense of india and russia is that they had loads of potential with the additional mechanics. This goes largely unrealized thanks to bad level design esepcially in russia. But both of those games have challenge levels that utilize their toolsets to the fullest. Anyway watch Aquas video on the trilogy if you want some in depth discussion on them.
I got it for free when they gave it away at lunar new year, and they did it like 2 years in a row I believe so all my friends have it as I mentioned it being pretty good. Since then they gave away all the 3 chronicles away for free in the launcher idk on what occasion tho
Could I ask why? Just wondering what you felt wasn’t great about the game design or mechanics. I might forget to check back to this comment but I’ll try to remember if you reply 😅
This setting and character would have deserved a main line title.. I hoped for long time that Ubi will do a remake and we get it as a „normal“ AC. But with the release of Codename jade I don’t think we will see that.
Watching your video on the upcoming Mirage and then this one is really just....depressing, cuz I checked out at Black flag when I heard they were going to do pirates and focus on ship combat, I got excited for Unity and saw how buggy it was and never bothered to buy it and then was cautiously hyped for Syndicate which was fun but even when I was checked out of the franchise I still kept up on the sidelines but it wasn't until the first game that was just skyrim wearing the skin of Assassin's Creed like a freakish coat that I fully checked out.
@@drunktoast3289 it lacks in some areas in comparison to AC especially when it comes to the setting, but only when compared to the first 4 games, combat is unmatched tho. This is my opinion of course
Cant believe they made this a 2d game such potential for a good game I enjoy this game for what it was but the whole time I was imagining a full ac game maybe with some call backs to ezio
Bullshit. This game and Shao Jun are wasted potential. This should’ve been a full mainline assassins creed game. Especially with her being the last to see ezio and getting taught by him.
They actually giving away all the AC Chronicles last year around 15th anniversary of AC Wanna ask, what differentiate Chronicles China from India & Russia ones?
I really liked China when I got it free and was so excited that there was two more games to go through. I was very disappointed when they were shit so I’ve never beaten them, but China’s a lot of fun
Honestly surprised to see someone with the same opinion as me. I got chronicles China free with PS+ in 2017 and I really loved the game, enough that I bought chronicles India a few weeks after I beat it and was heavily disappointed.
19:13 Tbf ac2 does have persistent blending. I actually tested it recently. Without using crowds, I figured out that guards meters fill up faster when Ezio is in high profile or is close to them as opposed to walking and being far away from them. You can even see detection meters drastically fill up faster when going from standing completely still and not pressing any buttons to just pressing high profile and standing still. TLDR ac2 guard detection is based around your actions like the first game but also distance from guards themselves.
Yeah to be fair, I suppose I’ve been a bit unfair because you’re right the ezio trilogy does treat the detection meters full differently depending on high vs low profile. I think how AC1 does it is still ultimately deeper as a system, but there are elements of it in the ezio trilogy for sure. I think the main difference is that you can’t be detected in AC2 unless you’re notorious or in a mission that makes you notorious, whereas in AC1 you’re always on guard which makes detection and blend more important to consider. So you can spend most of AC2 just running around unless you never tear down a poster.
@@LazerzZ I agree, it’s way more simplified in ac2 and it’s mostly cuz the notoriety system isn’t well implemented. Ac1 notoriety is probably the best way to keep the player on their toes. But if we are in control of notoriety, then I think we should retain ac1 social stealth but also implement AC3 like notoriety. I know this might be a hot take, but ac3 actually makes you feel as tho the city is constantly responding to your actions and it gets harder to navigate as enemies get more vigilant and reactive to your presence. Idk if it was executed as well as it could’ve been, but imo I think it was going in the right direction.
I really enjoyed this game's setting, music, atmosphere and gameplay, especially the whole "don't be seen and kill only your targets" approach (which is how I like to play these games anyway). The one elephant in the room that must be addressed though, is that Shao Jun's voice actor does one of the worst jobs I have ever heard. The voice acting is shamefully bad.
When I first got the chronicles games I initially thought they are shit. But then I realised you can back eject and it got me hooked into it. I feel like India wasn't that bad either. There is this trophy in the game that requires you to finish the game without killing any random guards, which is how ac games would be played out canonically. Russia was definitely bad though. Once again proved how guns ruin the ac games and it felt more like a call of duty side scroller
I hate those Unity gaslighters, like it's so easy to google what was wrong with ACUnity and they still somehow ignored it like they're evidence allergic or something.
Since playstation gave out almost all AC games for free and Valhalla for 17 bucks. I'm playing all these games in chronological time order. I skipped Odessy after the first mission btw 🤣 I'm just waiting for Mirage to play it after Orgins. Btw I hate the present storyline. I hated it first and started to love it with Desmond. But then they ruined that also for us. 🤣
So like yeah there is humour to a video championing the game's quality spend the first stretch destroying the story but also the shadow/assassin/brawler playstyle sounds like the options hitman gives you, no? Eliminating only targets and remaining undetected, being a bit more liberal with kills or just guning everything down but punishing the combat option. Same options as given in the dishonoured games which are probably a better comparison given the tools and approach. Great vid as always though james, although thats 3 positive ac vids in one year which must feel wretched for you
yeah the ranking system is VERY Hitman, I did make that comparison in my head but never wrote it down for some reason. A lot of the best stealth games give you different rewards for different options. Thanks for the kind words and, y'know it's nice to be positive, at least about the good ones, feels better than constantly shitting on stuff I hate 😂
Kinda curious: why do you think ACC India or Russia were "dogshit"? I thought India's setting (with great, colourful art), music and story were quite fun and unique. AC Russia has this sense of urgency and grim feeling to it that you don't often get in AC imo & the difficulty caused by the AI using modern tools (mainly guns, tanks, etc.) were quite challenging and fun as well (+ the sniper was fun to use in an AC game). I'd rank the games as follows: ACC India > ACC China > ACC Russia, the first 2 being in this order only because I loved India's art more than China's. Not looking to prove a point or argue, just curious to hear why you or other people may have viewed these 2 games as "dogshit" as opposed to ACC China.
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Yeah, the thing about India and Russia is that aside from the settings they don't really add anything interesting to the formula and the level design ends up beign kinda wack. I mean, I like Russia's setting, I think early 20th century era is really pretty but aside from some specific moments the levels are just not fun to play for me.
I think they're just designed poorly. The level design, the mechanics, it doesn't flow or feels anywhere near as rewarding or fun as China does. It feels clunky and messy. I think Leo K has commentaries on them that outline a lot better than I can here what the issues really were. I can't remember where he does, but I'm pretty sure he does. I know that's pretty useless information, but that's as good as I've got 😅
Don't't really remember being put off by design apart from some missions in Russia being quite challenging (= is it bad design or insane difficulty?), but I guess it's just personal preference. Thanks for you guys' answers ;) And thanks for the video James, enjoyed it a lot
Mirage is a bit of an absolute banger isn’t it … that I was certainly not expecting, at all. Shocked .. if every game was like mirage it would be a great series across the board. Every part of ACM Gameplay loop is hitman like from detection, mission style, to NPC’s shoutout at guards to chase Basim .. easily top 6 AC game with BF and golden 4 first games. I’m shocked with Bordeaux … it feels AC , Baghdad is an incredible location for an AC game; on a low budget with 2 year development did a pretty good job there. It doesn’t feel like an assasins coat of paint. It feels the AC vibes r fundamental to its gameplay fabric but also the story too, certainly it is about an assasin journey, not ashamed to be AC. Shows Assassins at its core is a great concept. If only … Montreal Ubisoft we’re like this particular smaller team Jesus
I've been thinking, what if the other actress sounds different is because she speaks in her native language and they just present it to us like it's English?
Opens vid, skips to gameplay section, hears “this game has a ranking system” and quits. When will developers realize how many of us don’t want to be graded by our entertainment?
See, the thing is, lots of people do like this, especially in game with a high skill ceiling. It's nice to be able to rise the ranks, to see your skill level get higher and higher as you achieve better medals and overcome the challenge of the game. If you don't like that, fair enough, but that's personal taste, not the fault of the game trying to achieve something that there is a large audience for.
22:35 you blocked me on twitter but i'll have to agree with you here Ezio's family is the ''Let it go'' equivalent from frozen i turn it off the moment i hear it play
Gotta be honest dude, I’m an og ac fan, and social stealth was never very fun. It was cool ig, but waiting while a crowd slowly moves around for you to do anything was never a fun gameplay mechanic. Stay mad tho
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I always figured the box would have them disks of Altiars life in it.
Never in my wildest dreams would I think my hatred for what the Assassin's Creed saga has become would be rivaled by someone else's, but I'm glad for this bond.
It truly keeps us together
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You and me both
I fucking hate what this franchise has become now yet i just can't stop buying these games and thus i know my hate to it is worthless either way
Why do you hate it?
Shao Jun has a really cool design and she deserves her own mainline assassin's creed game but i know ubisoft is gonna fucked it up somehow
One of my favourite designs tbh, and one of the only times I'm totally fine with them breaking away from white and red robes (because im a filthy purist) her black and red ones look phenomenal
@@LazerzZ I couldn't agree more (I'm also a filthy purist), and I love her outfit. At least her design resembles an actual assassin, unlike the last 2 games
When this game came out I remember describing it as "The most Assassin's Creed Assassin's Creed game since AC1" - despite how very different the style of the game is, something about the combination of aesthetic and challenging gameplay scratched an itch that no other game since the first has nailed for me.
It's weird how underated ac1 is
@@BrokeAssassinyeah since I'm actually one of the people who like AC1
I love that this game plays a lot like an evolution of the old school Prince of Persia games, which is fun since Assassin's Creed was originally supposed to be a Prince of Persia spinoff
wow an actual full circle moment.
It's sad how the series I grew up on and used to "love" has now turned into "loved" for every other person who grew up with it too. It's the ones who fell in love with Altair and Ezio are who truly appreciate the core values of what used to make this series so great. We in sense grew up with Ezio from his birth until his death, and now we're experiencing the birth and possibly the death of Assassin's Creed.
I think her character is the only one that truly deserved a rendition of Ezio's theme. The theme could've embodied what Ezio passed down to her. Ezio's theme could've been more meaningful and personalized, but now it's just a theme for every assassin no matter where they're from. Like you said, it would've been nice to have a more meaningful journey with her. So sad she doesn't have a mainline game. I think she would've been a nice character to explore off the heels of Ezio. Just start the game with the events of Embers to act as a tutorial. We could say one last goodbye to Ezio and it'll be a bridge into a new story.
It also quite poetic, Polo family travel from Italy to China while preserving Altair’s wisdom, and later on Shao travels back to Italy to search for the same wisdom from Ezio and along the way who knows how much brotherhood was grown.
Its crazy how the chronicles game really showcase the series lineage. I mean china can be considered like the ac1-revelations era. India is like ac3-ac rogue and russia is like unity-syndicate.
I played and finished china and I couldnt play india or russia
That’s actually a really funny way of looking at it, but it’s really true
Let’s go. I love that the game encourages you to not kill anyone except for your targets. Stay your blade from innocents.
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What about Valhalla 😂
As someone who played China for the first time, I loved it and wish Ubisoft would consider giving us more Chronicles-style games. (I really liked the glass cannon nature of the combat.)
I haven't played India or Russia yet so I am hoping I enjoy them.
Chronicles China really was the peak of this side games. I do think the Anastasia sections from Russia were cool tho, simply for the fact that they were pure stealth.
I love all the Chronicles games and always hated how underrated they were, seriously i loved all of them 3 alot and i say this as a hardcore AC fan who played every single main game and buys every new title, i love all the AC games at least at an extent but the fact that these 3 games that tried something like this got absolutely ignored for most of the time is awful, i loved Shao Jung story and Nikolai Orelov's character, i didn't like much the indian one even though it was still a great time.
It’s the closest we’ve gotten to the modern day without actually being modern
I’m still interested to see the Jazz age assassin
About the different voice actors, its a super not important thing but in odyssey Victoria Bibeau talks with a normal american accent and in the last descendants audiobook she has a 100% french stereotype accent. Same with Gavin Banks, 2 audiobooks and 1 is normal american guy and the 2nd is a literal 85yr old man voice. Like no consistency whatsoever
Classic Ubisoft really, they have little consistency in how characters are portrayed, whether by actor but also how they look can wildly change between games too. It’s strange.
I agree chronicle China is the best out of all three of the games that come on the disk. I bought it for cheap at GameStop and also it reminds me of the sides calling games like to play super Nintendo in high school.
LazerzZ, you NEED to play Mark of the Ninja. It's the game that inspired the AC chronicles games. However, it has way more depth and focuses on stealth more. I played it after ACC China and I was never the same man again
IT'S AMAZING
I’ll have to check it out!
@@LazerzZ You absolutely should. Mark of the Ninja is probably one of my favourite stealth games of all time, and It's influence on Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China is immediately obvious just from looking at any gameplay. Very much the same appeal, mechanically.
the canon connection (partially in my opinion) is that, An abstergo agent, likely Otso Berg, was going through archives trying to track the box ever since they saw it in Shay Cormac's memories. They knew Ezio had it at a point in his life and tracked it through any assassins he had come into contact with with led them to Shao Jun. After following her memories they continued researching what happened to the box until they discovered it resurfacing in India, leading to Chronicles India. Finally they had to track it again through Russia, but at the same time wanted to see how the box reacted to other pieces of Eden, discovering that the box created a sort of Bleeding Effect on Anastasia making her believe she was Shao Jun. The final cutscene reveals that Abstergo (or at least that specific scientist) wanted the box for Project Phoenix, which was a plan to fully revive Juno into a new body
Thissss!!!!! Underrated asf comment & deserves sooo many more likes I was going to write it out but summed it up perfectly these games play a crucial part in the story & links in perfect actually if I’m not mistaken Arbaaz in India is Evie & Jacob Great Great grandfather or something like that his name came up in the game as well as the precursor box as well. Showing how these games actually explain a lot of the in depth info as well as them canonically speaking tying so to speak. Shao inherited the box from Ezio/His passing (Assassin creed ember bleeding into Assassin creed china) she’s loses Arbaaz some 295-298 Yrs late in 1841 tracks it down (Assassin creed India) which in a way branches off to syndicate due to Evie & Jacob being of his lineage. It’s just perfect! Thank you for explaining & allow me to pig back to further illustrate the point 🙏🏾💯
@@tequanbeatty4034 close, but the connection to the Frye twins wasn't by blood. Arbaz's son (I forget his birth name) would change his name to Henry green and move to London where he meets Jacob and evie
I played chronicle China and just finished India and I had a blast. The animations are very unique and the gameplay feels very smooth. One of the most underrated ac games and it doesn't deserve that.
Playing it after playing Mark of the Ninja was definitely an odd feeling, but it's also been close to 10 years since I touched either so I can only remember that and not much else. I hope they make a stealth-centric AC game again someday, preferably one with a new proper parkour engine and good combat. We'll see how Mirage goes, I'll probably buy it used on console so I don't help Ubi profit.
Well this is a video I didn't expect
Me neither lol
Nice video might give china a chance played only India didn't like it so I didn't bother with the rest but now im intrigued to try it also I like that valhalla didn't sour your opinion about darby
Chronicles is always so satisfying when you pull off a section perfectly and get that gold rating. Not a big fan of getting a lower rank if you assassinate non-targets but when you get to your target and can finally just kill him, it's a great pay off. Russia is probably my favorite of the three despite the weird Shao Jun possession plot line, but my god do I hate India with a passion. China has its difficult sections that might take a few attempts but if I needed to restart I knew it was my fault. India felt like most sections were trail and error, having timed section that you need to know the path beforehand to actually pull it off.
Amazing video as always, looking forward to what you create next!
I actually kind of the the chronicles games. I just treated them more of a puzzle game to do each section in perfect stealth and playing it that way was pretty fun. Not "Classic" AC by any means but it was pretty clear from the offset it was a spinoff series so I really didn't mind.
For sure, the puzzle aspect is what really reels me in, when you execute a route perfectly without being seen it's the same feeling I get from taking out a target unnoticed in AC1. It's a totally different sort of game but the feeling it evokes is wonderful
for me Chronicles China is the sequel of AC that i want, it has that classic multiple approach to assasination style (though for C China, it's levels), and i can play it with different playstyles. honestly loved it, need a better computer to run it tho, and a better keyboard keybind, cuz it is painful to run it with its default keybind.
Man thank you for covering one of my all time favourites series sharing so much information and giving love for some of my favourite games growing up sharing very similar experiences. Been replaying a lot of the AC Games and getting up to 3 and 4 and Rogue so hope we see a similar retrospectives for those one day!
I found that chronicles india was just as fun if not more for me. The game felt like it ramped up the difficulty and the level design felt a lot more open compared to china. I found myself utilizing my gagdets a lot more and pulling off moves that made me FEEL like an assassin. The escape sequences in india were also so much fun to play through.
This was actually my first Assassin's Creed game and I really enjoyed the feeling of stealthily making it to your target without being spotted and taking out *only* the target.
Then, deciding to actually play the first AC game, I was thrown off by not being punished for taking out guards simply in the way, ha. It feels a bit weird having gone from this gameplay style to that one, but different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Great video as always, keep up the good work. I’m looking forward to the next one.
Also I never understood why people hated AC1, I played it when I was 12 years old and I loved it, I played it not long ago and even though it was a bit repetitive I thought it was really good.
Man, you should try Styx one day it has almost the exact same system(shadow, assassin, brawler) and is just as satisfying if not more and the level design OMG you will be so impressed.
And one of the best plot twists in gaming history in my opinion.
I've heard good things about that one, I'll have to give it a look some time!
FINALLY someone has said it!!! I love this game SO MUCH I have replayed it so many times. There's something so brilliant in the art and the feeling of the game. When I talk about video games being art, this game is what I think about.
gonna add this next to when you put the clip of you finishing ac rogue for the first time
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This game is so aesthetically pleasing to look at and so smooth to play once you master the systems
It’s always a joy to watch your videos James thanks
I remember enjoying Chronicles China quite a bit compared to India (I never played Russia, I couldn’t be bothered) it felt way less restrictive than India and let experiment a bit more. All I remember from India was being incredibly frustrated because 90% of the game just forced you into stealth rather than encourage it and there was only one specific way of going through a level
ubisoft really did china setting dirty, why waste such a culturally rich era by making it a Odyssey 2.0 🫠🙆
yeah true, it is a shame we didn't see a fully fledged AC game in China, Shao would've been a great protag and it would've fit the classic formula incredibly well, but at least what we did get (before the new mobile game) is a good game, even if it's not traditional AC
What Odyssey 2.0 you talking about the mobile game?
@@LazerzZ Yeah China is a perfect setting it be cool if we got a Mongolia game back in the day following AC1 and a Shao Jun game written by Darby McDevitt directed by James Welford and instead of a game in ancient Greece that made no sense a short game in ancient China 210 bc with Wei Yu I think the mobile game is ancient China but I guarantee they aren’t even gonna use the actual AC lore that’s there 😭
@@lilautistico1635 yes
this was the first AC game I ever played and I thought this is how all the games are, so I happily went out & bought Syndicate...
I played the Chronicles games a few months back and really enjoyed them! The art style is beautiful, the gameplay is fun, you have to think carefully about how to get through a room. Great games.
I AGREE WITH YOUR VIDEO ON ASSASSINS CREED 1, IT WAS A GREAT VIDEO AND I WATCHED ALL OF IT
Shao Jun is one of the scariest assassin she will crack your neck by her bare hands
Assassins creed chronicles China is a masterpiece… Shao Jun deserves a base game… she is my favorite Assassin of them all!
So Assassin's Creed has a dragon scroll. You can never go wrong with borrowing an idea from Kung Fu Panda.
I haven’t watched the video yet but I have a soft spot for chronicles. Those three characters were some of my first assassin’s creed games played in full
For people that love this game Id recommend to play Mark of The Ninja. It pretty much better in every way.
Assassin's Creed Unity was Not bad at all on my base PS4.just the frames
Im glad to say I only used the Helix hability twice in the game, I hate that this is in the game, but at leats it is mostly an easy mode option, it forced me to push my habilities to the limit trying not to use it
i dont know why they didnt make a mainline game about her. her design is nice, and the setting being in china wouldve made for a nice change of pace. it wouldve been like ghost of sushima before ghost of sushima
They’re cowards
Have you played Assassin’s Creed Discovery? I remember it being genuinely good, and a nice little spinoff that was actually briefly mentioned in Revelations. On top of that, that’s the game that started this style of 2D AC spinoffs.
Mirage is fully a real ac game not looking for beef just stating the obvious that it is brilliant 🙌🏻
I remember liking the Shao Jun manga (which is probably better than this games story) so I'll have to play this sometime
It’s true. I’m an absolute filthy whore for James Talking about Assassin’s Creed
I think it'd be very cool if AC Red's main character was the new recruit Shao talked to at the end of the game
Also. At 17:18 i got an ad, and it took a second to play, so for all I knew, he did a freeze frame on this for comedic affect, and i gotts say, it was affective
The chronicles trilogy is literally my favorite game of all time. Got me obsessed with platform stealth (a highly underutilized subgenre). All ill say in defense of india and russia is that they had loads of potential with the additional mechanics. This goes largely unrealized thanks to bad level design esepcially in russia. But both of those games have challenge levels that utilize their toolsets to the fullest.
Anyway watch Aquas video on the trilogy if you want some in depth discussion on them.
I got it for free when they gave it away at lunar new year, and they did it like 2 years in a row I believe so all my friends have it as I mentioned it being pretty good. Since then they gave away all the 3 chronicles away for free in the launcher idk on what occasion tho
I literally just played this the other week for the first time, and heavily disagree with the title
Could I ask why? Just wondering what you felt wasn’t great about the game design or mechanics. I might forget to check back to this comment but I’ll try to remember if you reply 😅
This setting and character would have deserved a main line title.. I hoped for long time that Ubi will do a remake and we get it as a „normal“ AC. But with the release of Codename jade I don’t think we will see that.
AC Chronicles may be the best Assassin's Creed games since the end of the PS3 games.
slick plug bruh
Watching your video on the upcoming Mirage and then this one is really just....depressing, cuz I checked out at Black flag when I heard they were going to do pirates and focus on ship combat, I got excited for Unity and saw how buggy it was and never bothered to buy it and then was cautiously hyped for Syndicate which was fun but even when I was checked out of the franchise I still kept up on the sidelines but it wasn't until the first game that was just skyrim wearing the skin of Assassin's Creed like a freakish coat that I fully checked out.
I would love to see assassins creed taking places in Asia
Ubisoft has got you. Don’t worry you get a mobile game and an odyssey clone. Lucky you
While it's not really an AC game Ghost of Tsushima scratched that itch for me
@@zjay it really is amazing. Like old ac probably better
@@drunktoast3289 it lacks in some areas in comparison to AC especially when it comes to the setting, but only when compared to the first 4 games, combat is unmatched tho. This is my opinion of course
@@zjay setting does come down to preference but it’s ur right with the combat
I wish Ubish*t just sold the company to Sony or Microsoft. It would be good to see what a semi-competent company could do with these IPs
Cant believe they made this a 2d game such potential for a good game I enjoy this game for what it was but the whole time I was imagining a full ac game maybe with some call backs to ezio
James just can't get away from Assassin's Creed lol I love it. Neither can I. I still go back and play Black Flag all the time.
Bullshit. This game and Shao Jun are wasted potential. This should’ve been a full mainline assassins creed game. Especially with her being the last to see ezio and getting taught by him.
They actually giving away all the AC Chronicles last year around 15th anniversary of AC
Wanna ask, what differentiate Chronicles China from India & Russia ones?
They have poor level design and mechanical integration so become frustrating and boring. Nothing flows quite right.
I just realized that James has deleted all his Assassin's Creed Valhalla videos all his walkthroughs let's play everything lol
Why did he do that 🤔
Don't rightly know
@@Stevethyawesome yeah man it was weird for him to do that i wonder why
This is the motivation i needed to finally give it another shot
DO IT!
@@LazerzZ i definitely will as soon as i finish the Ezio trilogy, i'm actually hyped to play it now!
I wish the chronicals got a switch port
I really liked China when I got it free and was so excited that there was two more games to go through. I was very disappointed when they were shit so I’ve never beaten them, but China’s a lot of fun
Honestly surprised to see someone with the same opinion as me. I got chronicles China free with PS+ in 2017 and I really loved the game, enough that I bought chronicles India a few weeks after I beat it and was heavily disappointed.
Yeah, I always loved China. India and Russia even more so were hugely disappointing
19:13 Tbf ac2 does have persistent blending. I actually tested it recently. Without using crowds, I figured out that guards meters fill up faster when Ezio is in high profile or is close to them as opposed to walking and being far away from them. You can even see detection meters drastically fill up faster when going from standing completely still and not pressing any buttons to just pressing high profile and standing still. TLDR ac2 guard detection is based around your actions like the first game but also distance from guards themselves.
Yeah to be fair, I suppose I’ve been a bit unfair because you’re right the ezio trilogy does treat the detection meters full differently depending on high vs low profile. I think how AC1 does it is still ultimately deeper as a system, but there are elements of it in the ezio trilogy for sure.
I think the main difference is that you can’t be detected in AC2 unless you’re notorious or in a mission that makes you notorious, whereas in AC1 you’re always on guard which makes detection and blend more important to consider. So you can spend most of AC2 just running around unless you never tear down a poster.
@@LazerzZ I agree, it’s way more simplified in ac2 and it’s mostly cuz the notoriety system isn’t well implemented. Ac1 notoriety is probably the best way to keep the player on their toes.
But if we are in control of notoriety, then I think we should retain ac1 social stealth but also implement AC3 like notoriety. I know this might be a hot take, but ac3 actually makes you feel as tho the city is constantly responding to your actions and it gets harder to navigate as enemies get more vigilant and reactive to your presence. Idk if it was executed as well as it could’ve been, but imo I think it was going in the right direction.
mark of the ninja best 2d stealth game it solos china
I need to give it a play, heard tons of good things in the comments.
I really enjoyed this game's setting, music, atmosphere and gameplay, especially the whole "don't be seen and kill only your targets" approach (which is how I like to play these games anyway).
The one elephant in the room that must be addressed though, is that Shao Jun's voice actor does one of the worst jobs I have ever heard. The voice acting is shamefully bad.
ac chronicles china with multiplayer would've been an instant 10/10
This looks like a worse Mark of the Ninja. If you like this, try that game. Great 2D stealth.
When I first got the chronicles games I initially thought they are shit. But then I realised you can back eject and it got me hooked into it. I feel like India wasn't that bad either. There is this trophy in the game that requires you to finish the game without killing any random guards, which is how ac games would be played out canonically. Russia was definitely bad though. Once again proved how guns ruin the ac games and it felt more like a call of duty side scroller
I hate those Unity gaslighters, like it's so easy to google what was wrong with ACUnity and they still somehow ignored it like they're evidence allergic or something.
I'd play this, if i could get my controller to work in the game
My main problem with this game is that I went for the plat and... this ruined the game for me.
Of course that's my very own mistake.
Just give Shao Jun a full fledged game that’s not 2d and make Ezio return as a side character
Underrated game!
Since playstation gave out almost all AC games for free and Valhalla for 17 bucks. I'm playing all these games in chronological time order. I skipped Odessy after the first mission btw 🤣
I'm just waiting for Mirage to play it after Orgins. Btw I hate the present storyline. I hated it first and started to love it with Desmond. But then they ruined that also for us. 🤣
I thought you said Assassin’s Creed 1 was a mid masterpiece at the beginning I was so confused
Maybe my wording was a bit scuffed there 😅
So like yeah there is humour to a video championing the game's quality spend the first stretch destroying the story but also the shadow/assassin/brawler playstyle sounds like the options hitman gives you, no? Eliminating only targets and remaining undetected, being a bit more liberal with kills or just guning everything down but punishing the combat option. Same options as given in the dishonoured games which are probably a better comparison given the tools and approach.
Great vid as always though james, although thats 3 positive ac vids in one year which must feel wretched for you
yeah the ranking system is VERY Hitman, I did make that comparison in my head but never wrote it down for some reason. A lot of the best stealth games give you different rewards for different options. Thanks for the kind words and, y'know it's nice to be positive, at least about the good ones, feels better than constantly shitting on stuff I hate 😂
It may seem like im joking but ac 3 chronicles china and valhalla are my favourite games (at least after black flag)
I mean, at least you're honest. Although I've never seen 3 games being such opposite and also someone's favourites
Kinda curious: why do you think ACC India or Russia were "dogshit"?
I thought India's setting (with great, colourful art), music and story were quite fun and unique.
AC Russia has this sense of urgency and grim feeling to it that you don't often get in AC imo & the difficulty caused by the AI using modern tools (mainly guns, tanks, etc.) were quite challenging and fun as well (+ the sniper was fun to use in an AC game).
I'd rank the games as follows: ACC India > ACC China > ACC Russia, the first 2 being in this order only because I loved India's art more than China's.
Not looking to prove a point or argue, just curious to hear why you or other people may have viewed these 2 games as "dogshit" as opposed to ACC China.
Yeah, the thing about India and Russia is that aside from the settings they don't really add anything interesting to the formula and the level design ends up beign kinda wack. I mean, I like Russia's setting, I think early 20th century era is really pretty but aside from some specific moments the levels are just not fun to play for me.
I think they're just designed poorly. The level design, the mechanics, it doesn't flow or feels anywhere near as rewarding or fun as China does. It feels clunky and messy. I think Leo K has commentaries on them that outline a lot better than I can here what the issues really were. I can't remember where he does, but I'm pretty sure he does. I know that's pretty useless information, but that's as good as I've got 😅
Don't't really remember being put off by design apart from some missions in Russia being quite challenging (= is it bad design or insane difficulty?), but I guess it's just personal preference. Thanks for you guys' answers ;)
And thanks for the video James, enjoyed it a lot
Assassin's Creed and Star Wars suffers from the exact same shit : (
I'm not a Star Wars fan so what is it exactly?
Is it the disconnect between corporate management and the fans?
We are gonna need that last of us 2 rant soon
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Remember is a good game but it's not a last of us game sequel.
Mirage is a bit of an absolute banger isn’t it … that I was certainly not expecting, at all. Shocked .. if every game was like mirage it would be a great series across the board. Every part of ACM Gameplay loop is hitman like from detection, mission style, to NPC’s shoutout at guards to chase Basim .. easily top 6 AC game with BF and golden 4 first games. I’m shocked with Bordeaux … it feels AC , Baghdad is an incredible location for an AC game; on a low budget with 2 year development did a pretty good job there. It doesn’t feel like an assasins coat of paint. It feels the AC vibes r fundamental to its gameplay fabric but also the story too, certainly it is about an assasin journey, not ashamed to be AC. Shows Assassins at its core is a great concept. If only … Montreal Ubisoft we’re like this particular smaller team Jesus
The game is free if you have Xbox live gold
I've been thinking, what if the other actress sounds different is because she speaks in her native language and they just present it to us like it's English?
She's my third favorite assassin after ezio and Connor.
i wonder if people speedrun this game?
The world record is around 50 minutes, which is wild, but I bet it's fun as fuck to run
@LazerzZ could make an interesting stream series learning the tech if there's any fun glitches
hey, i make videos on ac china, it's so nice to see someone else who likes it 😂
Assassin's creed India also has the same side view
Opens vid, skips to gameplay section, hears “this game has a ranking system” and quits. When will developers realize how many of us don’t want to be graded by our entertainment?
See, the thing is, lots of people do like this, especially in game with a high skill ceiling. It's nice to be able to rise the ranks, to see your skill level get higher and higher as you achieve better medals and overcome the challenge of the game. If you don't like that, fair enough, but that's personal taste, not the fault of the game trying to achieve something that there is a large audience for.
22:35 you blocked me on twitter but i'll have to agree with you here Ezio's family is the ''Let it go'' equivalent from frozen i turn it off the moment i hear it play
You’re not just… trying to throw Ubisoft off are you?…
Gotta be honest dude, I’m an og ac fan, and social stealth was never very fun. It was cool ig, but waiting while a crowd slowly moves around for you to do anything was never a fun gameplay mechanic. Stay mad tho
I like that the extremely racist accents of Ezio and the Chinese girl are missed 😅 please remember that, as an Italian, we find Ezio accent terrible
No it isn’t lol
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> come
>disagree with a reasonable argument
> leaves
Pretty based tbf
“This game was free and slightly better than I expected, therefore underrated”
I mean true, but also it is actually really fun and would be worth money if I paid money which I didn't