Let Me Tell You Why You Were Wrong About Mirage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ม.ค. 2024
- Let Me Tell You Why You Were Wrong About Mirage
The finale of my Assassin's Creed Series Ranking Videos explores the newest entry: Mirage. A return to the "classic" style of games that maybe shouldn't have been judged as positively as it was.
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Assassin's Creed Mirage is a 2023 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Bordeaux and published by Ubisoft. The game is the thirteenth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series and the successor to 2020's Assassin's Creed Valhalla. While its historical timeframe precedes that of Valhalla, its modern-day framing story succeeds Valhalla's own. Set in 9th-century Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age-in particular during the Anarchy at Samarra-the story follows Basim Ibn Ishaq (a character first introduced in Valhalla), a street thief who joins the Hidden Ones to fight for peace and liberty, against the Order of the Ancients,[b] who desire peace through control. The main narrative focuses on Basim's internal struggle between his duties as a Hidden One and his desire to uncover his mysterious past.
Originally envisioned as an expansion for Valhalla, the game was reworked into a standalone title to expand its scope. The design philosophy behind Mirage-the first game to be developed primarily by Ubisoft Bordeaux, previously just a support studio-was to return to the series' roots by focusing on stealth, parkour, and assassinations over the role-playing elements featured heavily in recent installments. As a result, the game is much smaller in scale than its predecessors and combines elements introduced in them with those found in earlier installments of the franchise.
Mirage was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on October 5, 2023. A mobile version is also scheduled to release for iOS on iPhone 15 Pro models in early 2024. Upon release, the game received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its world design, focus on stealth and return to form of the franchise, though some criticized the characters and the story's reliance on previous installments in the series. - เกม
My understanding of Basim and Loki is that they are not two separate entities, Loki is not taking over Basim’s body, Basim is choosing to embrace the part of him that is Loki, but the original him as we know him is still very much there. Basically the opposite of what Eivor did in Valhalla, where they rejected Odin. They both had the same choice, but one chose to embrace and the other to reject.
That makes sense. I hadn't thought about it being the opposite of Eivor's choice like that.
Makes sense BUT didn’t the gods die and get reborn as humans? Due to the life-tree?
@@WhiteHeavenRuckus99Yes that's the sage program
@@Shadowyesville this whole thing is a pile of nonsensical trash if you ask me.
Assassins Creed has always been connected to mythology considering the ISO, but introducing God’s like Loki, Eivor and more just made it extremely complicated
@@WhiteHeavenRuckus99 loki is not a god, he's an isu. norse people think he's a god the same way romans thought minerva, juno and jupiter (other isu) were gods. deities from real cultures have always been isu in assassin's creed lore. you may revisit origins and see who narrates voice messages from isu artifacts. isu who have names of egyptian gods
Regarding Roshan's exit at the end, there's one little tidbit that I really appreciated: Mentor Rayhan, as she is leaving, says her full name: Roshan bint-La'Ahad. In AC1, our protagonist is Altaïr ibn La'Ahad. The [ibn/bint] bit is a patronymic (meaning "son of" or "daughter of," respectively), and I believe can also be used like a surname, so I'm pretty sure we're meant to understand that Roshan is Altaïr's ancestor-meaning she's Desmond's, as well. NGL I got really excited when I heard Rayhan say her name lol
Oh wow, I completely missed that! Good spot! Maybe they're planning on doing something with that connection in future games? Or maybe it was just thrown in for a bit of a laugh 😅
I actually really liked this game. It genuinely brought back all the good features from old and new AC games and combined them into an interesting setting with a cool character.
It brought back weak facsimiles of the good features
@@Frankthegb nah if anything they were better than the original iterations
To be fair, Alamut is a real location that was used by real world assassins (and everyone knew they lived there 😂)
I feel like people spend way too much time focusing on other people's opinion. These games are all subjective. If u like it u like it. If u don't u don't. Have a mind of your own
people need some one to tell them what to think
That's a problem I've seen in recent years, I keep seeing people parroting their favorite content creator on something.
Beautifully said. That's where I'm at now and I'm surprised by my taste in games. I like games a lot of people hate and vice versa. Also, like games that are considered popular too and vice versa.
@@egontokessy1610 yeah, i loved odyssey and hated tsushima, but for some people its hard to accept that😂
@@RipaStar00 lol I know exactly what you mean. I’m a mgs fan but for some reason, I’m still after multiple attempts unable to get into Phantom Pain which got a game of the year award or some award.
A game everyone really hates but I love is Forspoken. I told my friend that and he gave me a lecture that we have to be responsible consumers and not lower our standards for games.
I think he blames me for how he perceives the video game industry for turning out. Problem is I sincerely love that game. It makes me feel like Dr strange with how you can chain combo spells and I like the open world.
At some point I just went fuck it. I’m going to play what I want and only listen to reviews as a source of entertainment and not a deciding factor of what games I should play.
Sorry if I ruined the game industry for anyone, I just love video games and want to play the ones I want to play. Haha 😜
So far I think most of the fans I've come across they the game, they don't consider it a masterpiece, but they know what a fun little game is, basically a 7 out of 10; the vast majority of the hate seems to come from content creators who only seem to monetize hate or were expecting something completely different than what Ubisoft promoted.
It could be said that the 'nerf' to the healing system is also a way to push the player to use stealth and avoid combat
In Odyssey combat is almost mandatory, it makes sense that the healing system works around that
Truly enjoyed my time playing Mirage, but is very obvious that it was supposed to be a DLC for Valhalla as you very clearly need to know beforehand that Basim is Loki re-incarnated. Otherwise the ending is veeery WTF just happened.
As for the dialog options you mentioned for the missions, they actually were optional. I noticed this after I finished the game as I still had the prompts to listen to the information about them.
Never saw that coming with Nehal. That was a massive spoiler so I'll be paying a lot more close attention in her cutscenes. I think Basim might be my favourite assassin's creed character.
Please do the farcry ranking, I would really enjoy that. And maybe also halo, and maybe even gears of war, that would be sick
That's probably about a year's worth of videos right there haha
lol, I better get credit
But for real though, if you had to do one, please do the farcry one, it would be really cool
it didn't help day of release Skill Up comes out with "i dO nOt rEcomMeNd - AC Mirage".
I thought it was a pretty clear 6 or 7/10 game.
Yeah something like that probably wouldn't help, but I agree that this was fairly clearly not going to set the world on fire or blow anyone away. I do have issues with it but taken on it's own it's somewhere near a 7/10, as you say.
I've just started new game+ after completing the entire game, it's revitalised my love for Assassin's Creed, I'm just hoping AC Red is more like Mirage but its combat is more like AC Brotherhood
I agree, personally I think Brotherhood is when they really nailed the combat.
Supposedly shadows is the last RPG style combat AC games so it’ll be like Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla, but Hexe is supposed to be something pretty different
I dont know if you've seen, but they added the ability to where the armor sets as costumes so you can now have the perks you want with the look you want. I didnt even realise that wasn't there at the start as i didnt actually play it till this last month. Great video, really well put together.
Considering how busy life is, I very much appreciated Mirage being shorter. 80-120 hr games are just too much for me. I also was very happy that it was more urban focused and felt more like classic AC. Sure it has some problems, but I will take them over the ridiculously massive open worlds that takes so long to finish that I forget more about the story than I remember.
Weird I’m the opposite I love games I can sink 50-200 hours in slowly. Valhalla however outstayed it’s welcome at hour 82 out of my 128 hour playthrough
Honest opinion: it was fun asf bt the downsides of the game came from Ubisoft listening to the ppl who kept b***hing about the RPG ACs. “A return to roots” is what y’all wanted
Took me two full playthroughs to realize that you can get those Khidma tokens through pickpocketing very easily… I have 20+ of each type now at all times basically
It was my understanding that the government of bagdahd sent their soliders to Alamut not the Templars.
I view Mirage as a proof of concept for Ubisoft Bordeaux; it was built off of Valhalla, and came with some major limitations because of that, but given those constraints I think they did a pretty good job of demonstrating that they understood the appeal of the AC series in a way the RPG games didn't. If they get a chance to head a game from scratch, I'm excited to see what they'll be able to create.
I agree and I do hope that they are given the chance to expand on this style of AC, but with the way the industry is at the moment I worry that they'll see it as "not successful enough" and move away from it.
Gasp He made a Ryan George joke.
A lot of my own concerns with this game and its claims of going back to its roots which although has somewhat been attempted, remains far from what was necessary to have that effect and just about every aspect of this video sums up most of these issues.
Thank you for making this video.
is there alot of sidequests and things to do besides the main quests? thats what i like and not just "assassinate this one person" with no story i want other types of gameplay or stories. maybe some mystery or esoteric . something weird or humorous
Started with valhalla and now just finished this video.
Great work!
Gonna watch all your assassins creed videos now.
Sub!
@@isaiahgarcia2464 Thank you! Though I take no responsibility for any loss of brain cells due to so much exposure to my stuff!
Future Ben needs to be interrupted by an even more into the future Ben. And at some point an entire Benception
2 Bens is more than enough. God knows I can barely stand 1!
Haven’t finished watching the video and I don’t know if you still read the comments for this particular video but to elaborate on the parkour update:
The base system wasn’t changed really, Ubisoft Bordeux increasing the possible distance for back and side ejects means that (the contextual) jumping off a wall to grab on to something that’s behind you or beside you is a lot more responsive and can gain height. You will only ever feel this change if pre-update you were deliberately already trying to do ejects. And to do an eject you have to tap parkour up or parkour down while your analog stick is neutral (for back ejects) or to the left or right (for side ejects).
You can find clearer examples of these ejects in the original 4 AC games (1 to Revelations). They’re also often demonstrated in pretty much any parkour exhibition video on Assassin’s Creed.
TL;DR the parkour update was made for those who are deep into learning and expressing the mechanics of parkour, it’s not something who plays these games casually will notice.
You can pickpocket people to farm tokens. Depending on the type of person you pickpocket effects the token you have a chance to steal off of them. Its a pretty abundant currency. My only issue is that you tend to use one more than the others. I never used the scholar tokens until I found the merchant in the inner ring who sells maps and clues to the other collectibles. I just bought them all.
I loved orgins and unity. I have played alot of ac games but i will only push story in mirage. Sutch a crap game
I don’t want to be “that guy” but it’s “such” not ”sutch”
@@NevadaCowboy576 well you are that guy 😉 english aint my first language
Thanks, and what is your first language, if you don’t mind me asking
@@NevadaCowboy576 nordic 😄
Cool
20:35 ohh i see what yer doing there sir.
NAVIGATING A BUSY MARKET IS 'TIGHT'
.... you do know Alamut was the real life location of the real life faction the Assassin's are based on right?
I've been known to have read some Wikipedia articles that said as much, yes. Pour quoi?
@@borangedunn probably because you question why they are so "visible" since they're called The Hidden Ones. Honestly, they should just get back to calling the faction "Assassins" (it made sense in Origins and Odyssey but from Valhalla they should be the Assassins again)
PLease try The Witcher series next. I would love to know what you think about the first title
The Witcher is definitely on my list, but those games are so big that I shudder to think how long those videos will take to make. One day though...
Least favorite part is the "investigation board" i rather it be straight forward
That's so freaking weird Basim leaps over the laundry instead of the normal human way to traverse laundry terrain.
I tried it for about one hour and thought it sucked. I’ll come back to it and try it again, but so far not impressed at all by Mirage
Didn't feel different bruh they added higher back ejects and alout more freedom of movement you clearly didn't try at parkor
I very much enjoyed this game. More than Valhalla for sure. It was so well done imo. This is the direction they need to go. Lose the action rpg combat bullshit from Valhalla. More stealth assassin shit
On PS5 it is so unbelievably unexpectedly low textures game so we will never spend a second of our precious life with bad visuals. Everything must to be excellent so we can give our precious unrepeatable moments of our precious life no compromise only the best possible visuals
With that viewpoint about the importance of having as high a standard of graphics as possible, I'm interested as to why you play on PS5 rather than PC?
*I love the size of Mirage 👍 its a mid size world that perfectly encompasses the vibe it was going for and I enjoyed the missions, story and overall Experience 👌 but the AI was dumb as shit 😂 and overall, its a been there, done that formula 💁 the franchise should have ended a Loonnggg time ago, the story doesn't even make sense anymore 😂 Ubisofts attention needs to be on Far Cry 7, Watch Dogs 4, a Splinter Cell MEGA PROJECT with Kojima 🕵 and then around 2029, Bring AC back and END IT* 😭
Yeaah right, but no thanks
Mirage was dope asf but i wanted a story as long as valhalla. Being able to effortlessly beat the game in less than 5 hours is sad to me.
This is what the community wanted. The biggest complaint was they didn't understand how difficulty sliders work for assassinations and how long the game was. Valhalla was the goat but it's not assassins creed. Valhalla is actually fun and not full of doing the same 4 things. I haven't played mirage but seeing they went back to their old ways cause the community shows I need to leave assassins creed in the dust cause they've all been boring AF except the 3 RPG ones
Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...but MIRAGE i skipped i don't liked
@@TuscanBrick yes, I made many new game+ because I like the game... and I only play games from ROCKSTAR and UBISOFT because they are realistic... I don't like games from Sony, for example (God of war, spiderman, or ghost of tsushima etc...) never buy games from SONY
Wtf is a ps viter and Valhaller 🤣🤣
It's what you play when drinking margariters and eating pizzer
I fw the game but the combat is trash, and the parkour feels slow and sluggish.
fake fan and refusing to elaborate /j
Valhalla still sucked xD
Mirage was the best we've had since Unity.
Not in parkour, but other than that this was the most Ac has felt like itself in a decade.
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Ac stories get dumb and dumber as time goes on i miss when they didn’t have all the stupid god BS. thanks UBISOFT for being loyal to the generation that made you a AAA studio. Now go cater to the generations that can’t even afford to buy your games
i refuse to play valhalla and mirage because of the paranormal shit
Fair enough. What was your take on the mythological stuff in Odyssey?
We’ve had paranormal stuff since the beginning tbh
AC Unity at the bottom and AC Revelations in the middle. All opinions of the series invalidated.
Basim weak this series lost. Enjoy my GTA 6
I don't buy short games
unity was way better than most of these games
Lies it was completely fair to judge this game this way, no one even goes deep on how inflated the game is with graphics just to barely look better than assassin creed two, this game was dog water
The RPG games are the best games and blow all the older ones out of the water. Sorry but it's just true. And I say that having bought 1 and 2 when they came out. 2 was amazing of course. But I think it's fashionable to shit on the RPG games, but they're honestly the best in the whole series. I don't care if they're "true Assassin's Creed games" or not, whatever that even means. I care if the game is fun and awesome, they are.
hippy.."the vibes" lol
Don’t want to be that guy but Alamut was the main center of activity of IRL Assassin order which the games are ( albeit loosely ) based on
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizari_Ismaili_state
You're not the first person to comment this, but I'm still not sure what I said in the video that contradicts that fact.
them RPG fake assassin creed games r fucking trash they r not enough good
i am on my second playthrough of Assassin creed mirage its my game of the year for when it came out and I quit playing that trash fake assassin creed Valhalla its trash and its not assassin creed I did not beat it and its because it is shit and it has nothing to do with assassin creed its a RPG fake creed game assassin creed is not a RPG
It was my understanding that the government of bagdahd sent their soliders to Alamut not the Templars.