Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Needed These 4 Changes to Be Perfect
A Solid Modern-Day Story Arc
This is probably one of the most divisive elements of the Assassin’s Creed series. With Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Ubisoft opted to take a slightly different route with the modern-day story. Aside from the opening cutscene that helps to establish exactly why you’re going to Ancient Greece with Alexios and Kassandra, Layla Hassan is barely in the game at all. That is, unless you choose to pursue an optional side quest that fleshes out that story arc further.
The interesting thing about this quest is that it’s so integral and so important to Assassin’s Creed lore, but it’s completely optional. The Assassin’s Creed games have always shined when it came to the ‘historical’ parts of the game, but ever since good ol’ Desmond Miles’ story arc ended a few games back, the modern-day arc has just felt like a mess. However, with Layla Hassan as the new modern-day protagonist to root for, the series has the potential to bring it back in a big way yet again.
Odyssey did a pretty good job of establishing what Layla’s end goal is, but it needs to be taken further. Maybe in the next game.
