Another Assassins Creed is in the bag!

In a highly appropriate and ironic (at least to me) outcome, the first game to be completed in the year 2018 was Assassin's Creed: Origins. And I didn't just beat the game... I platinumed it.

While I enjoyed the game immensely, there was a few things I wish had been touched on more or even added. Like Layla. From what I understand I'm one of the few people that actually enjoys the present day storyline. And I just wish more had been done with her. While it was a step back to the roots with being able to actually move and not just watch from a camera or being hacked, it still could have been so much more. I mean, the moment I saw the computer I just got so excited, I thought the humerous emails were back but there was nothing. There wasn't even a chance for conversations to build Dee and Layla's characters, and after the events about halfway through the game, I lost even that. Not to mention the fact that the fate of Rebecca wasn't even mentioned. I mean, I understand why it wasn't, it would just come entirely out of left field otherwise considering no one except for old WM would have known and why would he say anything about it, Layla wouldn't have cared either way. The only reason I even know Rebecca is still alive is cause I read the Last Descendants novels, but I'm sure not everyone read those so the fact remains that Rebecca's fate is still left unexplained after two years since Syndicate's release.

That being said the reappearnce of old WM was a nice surprise at the end. Just wish more had been done with the ending for Layla.

The only other thing that was missing for me was I think an issue with almost everyone: the database. From what I understand, Ubisoft is releasing an interactice database early this year (which will be pretty fucking cool, don't get me wrong) but the lack of it still hurt. The history nerd inside of me cried everytime I met someone or passed by a building and I couldn't go look up more information on them. And once again, I understand why there is none storywise. It's confirmed early in the game that the only people working on this project are Layla (a computer engineer) and Dee (a nurse), neither huge historians from what I understood, and they're both keeping this hidden from Abstergo so there isn't exactly a historian on hand to make a database as they go along. But the exclusion of it just felt wrong.

Also, some endgame spoilers now, but Aya's tomb just doesn't make sense anymore. It was shown that Aya ran off to Rome to make a bureau there while Bayek stayed behind to make one in Memphis. And after the events of the game, they broke up their marriage and I'm assuming she died in Rome. So why was her body buries with Bayek's? Unless something happened way later and they made up, she shouldn't be there. And it wasn't Bayek's second wife or anything, cause Layla was able to see Aya's memories from the sample she took from the mummy.

That being said, Bayek was adorable. I loved his interations with children and I hope he got his own son or daughter later on. The fact that women also played a huge part in this game, being more often than not the most driven and badass characters was nice. I like to think that Bayek's bureau was made of mostly women, seeing as they were more often than not the ones who went on a muderous rampage of revenge while the men tended to stay behind and cried. It was nice.