DISCLAIMER: It seems some creators may have been paid to play/talk about Mirage. I was not. I have never been paid to review something, and if for some reason I do it in the future, I will communicate that fully. Just also want to mention that when I said “I know they heard me but I can’t make them listen” I wasn’t trying to imply that Ubisoft should have or even could have reworked a fundamental part of the game. I was just trying to say that I’m doing what I can to advocate for what I and the fans want both in reviews and behind the scenes.
Yeah, but it's nice to hear. I think it would be very hard for the team to do this, the base (Valhalla) is built and they can only change it so much. Hopefully this team goes on to make another on now with complete focus on those things. I bet they know and I bet many of them also want to build that game.
@@Karugul man doesn't know shit about game dev huh. It started as a DLC for Valhalla.... You don't randomly get a team and put them working on a base that is almost 10 years old lmao As I said, hopefully the game does well and they move on to make a fresh game with new and rebuilt tools so they can make parcour a thing again.
@@rafatvaz I don't give a flying fuck if it started as a dlc for Valhalla. The parkour was ass in that game too. If you learn to read I stated that they need to use the parkour from unity. I didn't ask if it was made for Valhalla or anything about game engines or devs. Not my fault they're trying to make a new game by using a bad one for base design.
If it had I would have actually thought about buying it. Now it's just HOLD X... The parkour/running around is just too much of the gameplay time to me and if it's this simple the game will just bore me after 20 hours.
@@lucasbelmonte2832 15-18 is even worse than the other guy said. Damnn thats really sad. That means that over one weekend you could complete the game. That does not justify the price to me
Thanks for this, man! Probably the most honest take on this preview of Mirage. The rest have been too positive from what I've seen. And your critiques are quite objective regarding what classic AC should be and where you see this entry lacking.
The stealth segment was really encouraging. Moment to moment choices look to be the most interesting they've been since Syndicate. Great review man! Probably the most transparent I've seen so far.
It's a bummer that the parkour is limited mechanically but I am really glad to see the world design and stealth getting back on track, which, for me personally, is more important. My understanding is that this is a new team so hopefully they get to work on another one and are able to focus in on parkour systems for that (I'm guessing "Red" will be in line with the other RPG's so not expecting much out of that one with parkour, and have no clue what Hexe is even gonna be so . . .).
I hope they make the parkour animations/transitions a litter smoother it’s still pretty chunky, there’s no character in the parkour either because of how limited it is Pole vault got points tho- it’d be cool to see basims style develop a little
The parkour looks like imo all it needs is more animation variety. Because of the insane emphasis it seems to put on grounded stealth and emergent social stealth, I don't feel Bordeaux needed to add Unity levels of parkour to this one, especially considering the limited time or resources they likely had. Hopefully they fix that in Red though, especially considering the potential that playing a Shinobi could have.
I’m hoping it’s a lot more like origins with ac 2 mechanics and if it put stealth before combat it’s mostly why I preordered this game because origins is currently my favorite
I'll never get over the fact they said this would be a back to basics and one of the first gameplay clips i saw was the Assassin literally teleporting Not saying it's something bad but the whiplash legit made me laugh so hard
@@ac_nerd9794 oh don't get me wrong those are kinda ridiculous too but those games didn't go around saying they would be going back to the roots lmao Also I don't really hold the teleportation against this game, I don't mind that much, just found it funny and kinda contradictory
@@hiarus8850 Well, the crazy stuff has been in the franchise quite a bit before the RPG games so I'm just saying. I think it adds something to the game. Probably will make stealth more fun at points.
@@ac_nerd9794 It's more the fact that when they say "back to our roots", especially in this context, they're talking about mainly AC1-ACR (arguably even up to AC4). Idk how "roots" would be seen as Unity and Syndicate, roots tend to mean beginning, not the 7th/8th instalments of a franchise. I personally do hold those "mystical" aspects of Unity and Syndicate against those games, especially as they have no real in-lore explanation other than "animus go brrrr". Hopefully the teleporting in Mirage is as avoidable (if we so choose) as the disguise feature was in those games.
Can I just say that I really appreciate the fact that even though you got to play the game early and have all these benefits you STILL tell people not to pre order and instead wait for reviews, that's a rarity these days... you are definitely a trustworthy channel, and I look forward to more content from you. Great vid 👍
I am so glad that Baghdad was designed to be as diverse and dense as it was. One of my gripes throughout the entire AC series (at least with the 9 games I've played) is that while the parkour systems almost always felt fun and unique, the environments felt a little rough. In almost every game, I found my flow of movement being stopped and inhibited by some street that's too wide, a river that has no means of crossing aside from a bridge 80 feet in the other direction, or coming across a street that was objectively faster to run through than taking the rooftops. But with Mirage so far, it seems like parkour really is the most effective system of traversal in the game, and like it will consistently be open and dynamic.
Can't believe more people didn't catch the quote from the presentation "Parkour is easy to learn *and master* " From this moment I knew parkour would be dissapointment
@@timytimeerased That's not good parkour, that's easy parkour. Easy to learn, hard to master should be the goal for every game. I think the Ezio parkour is a great example of that. You can get through the game by holding the sprint button. But spending more time with the system, exploring the different maneuvers, and understanding the environment allows you to have much more fun and be much more efficient and elegant in your movement.
they had 3 years to redo basim's animations...and you can even hire freelance animator to animate basim maybe in 2-3 months yet they chose to use eivor animations because its cheaper and don't have to mocap or assign animators in the studio who could be working on something more profitable, this product is the literally definition of MVP minimum viable product
It's so weird to me how they promoted parkour, even showcasing Behind The Scenes footage of the development, yet... It's the same lackluster mechanic. Everything else you said seems on point! :D
Yeah I always understood that they'l we're focusing on the design, I feel like they were shooting themselves in the foot by saying it's similar to unity.
I've loved every Assassin's Creed game I've played so far (Everything up to Origins, and just started playing Odyssey today actually!) regardless of if the parkour has changed or not. I still find Origins and Odyssey really fun to run around and climb stuff, and in both games I've become a stealthy boi... and I'll be doing the same in Valhalla too when I play that. So when I finally get around to Mirage I feel I'm going to be a very happy gamer! This video was great by the way, just randomly come across it and it was a nice watch!
I feel like with slight adjustments to valhallas systems the parkour in mirage may be serviceable as long as the city is built as you said. The parkour in Valhalla feels the most rudimentary, but there aren’t many complex structures in the game or complex cities.
parkour in ac is two fold one part being the world design and the second is the depth and mechanics themselves no depth means the world design is wasted
@@jacksonhahn yea but the world design is wasted on basic parkour elements when it should’ve had depth. I don’t mean wasted as in its terrible I mean wasted as in huge missed opportunity
This is why I like u aqua. Instead of the review just being a wining fit about what isn’t included you judge the game based off what is there. For better or worse. U da man aqua.
6:34 Throwback to when you could just double assassinate two guards next to each other. My one and only WANT from an AC game. Unity really did peak the stealth. Gonna pass up Mirage till they properly revamp stealth.
I hadn't played an AC game since Unity and over the summer I began playing Origins through my PS+ sub. This game feels like a natural sequel to that game. Obviously I haven't played Odyssey or Valhalla, but I feel I've seen enough to put me off anyway. The game looks great and I'll likely be picking it up around launch (I'll wait for full reviews first). The hold X parkour is disappointing and it's a real shame they haven't listed to feedback, but everything else looks like they've nailed it. I can't wait to play in a story where there is an established brotherhood and with modern technologies of a 2020s release (lighting, render distance etc). Great honest review! (btw it's crazy that this will be releasing on an iPhone in 2024, if you get any hands-on demos of how that is I'd love to hear your experience)
I appreciate the review. This is pretty similar to what I expected. Huge emphasis on stealth and atmosphere but they weren't going to be able to overhaul the parkour given that it is still built off Valhalla and they lacked the budget. So they did the next best thing and focused on adapting the environment and tweaking existing animations. Also as an "AC purist", the Bordeaux team seems to know what they're doing. They understand what makes Assassin's Creed beyond the aesthetics.
Thank you, I keep seeing all this comments, about how people want unity parkour, when it would have been impossible to do so on valhallas engine and the team wouldn’t have the time to completely start development again as the game wouldn’t be finished before Red came out, I don’t care if the parkour is as good as unity, as long as I can play as an actual assassin doing assassin things in black box missions I’m happy
The parkour needs to be a LOT more fast paced than what I’ve seen. Unity has definitely the best parkour in any AC game and this honestly looks just as slow as Valhalla.
It is much faster than Valhalla, but doesn't have anywhere near the control of Unity or the classic titles. Seems like the parkour team must have been gutted or had budget cuts.
@@IndyMiraaga Thats because they changed animation system with Origins going forward. They would need to redesign animation system to be like in older games to have parkour at same level and they obviously wont do that.
what people really want is a focus on the assassin AESTHETIC with good parkour (namely Unity) Playing the ezio collection through odyssey…I noticed the focus on combat with the option for stealth has consistently been present (save for a FEW stealth-required missions across the older games).
So I was mostly right for being sceptical when they said return to form. My biggest concern was the parkour, and they haven't changed that. Though the game is a lot cheaper than I thought it would be
I won't lie, the lack of decent parkour is a dealbreaker for me. It's such a fundemental part of what I find enjoyable in these games and although I really do appreciate the lengths they've gone to center the gameplay around proper assassination missions with varying approaches and options, I simply cannot enjoy an AC game that doesn't have decent parkour. The improved world design won't suffice when all you can do is hold forward. it's a real shame because I thought this game would be something I could really sink my teeth into.
The simple addition of ejects itself increase the depth tenfold. Its such a no brainer addition for a game that's "going back to its roots" that you start wondering if somebody is going out of their way to sabotage this game.
@@darshil2317I really don't think that's the case. The studio branch responsible for Mirage got lucky to have been given the green light in the first place. Reworking the parkour system would have required another year of development, minimum. Maybe, if this game does well, the sequel will include a deeper and better parkour system.
Because they had already began development before they decided to make it its own game and not a Valhalla dlc, the parkour system was the exact same because it was being built for Valhalla, if they had decided to completely strip down and start again on a new engine it would take another year of development and by then Red would have been released so what would be the point?
man i love your videos man you give honest grounded level headed opinions and it seems like more often then not you have a nuetral take or if you dont you attempt to be
Mirage is simply a stand in game between Valhalla and Red, the thing was never meant to be its own game, so I’m cutting it slack but if Reds parkour isn’t improved than that’s all on Ubisoft
I knew once I saw Basim run like he’s Shrek in the gameplay leak that it was a bad idea to buy it. I can’t believe that I actually thought this game was gonna be a return to what made it good.
im glad i waited a day to preorder cause now im not going to. i had a tin sliver of hope that parkour would be anything more then run forward and take a nap. parkour is the main reason i play this series and this marks the 3rd game in a row that i wont be getting. RIP AC
It’s not that Bordeaux refused to, it’s simply that they started development for mirage as a dlc for Valhalla and so built it on the same engine, to completely overhaul that parkour system it could have taken them an extra year of development and money they didn’t have seeing as by the time they would have been finished red would be ready to launch so it would be pointless.
@lucasbelmonte2832 I see your point, and understand there many difficulties messing the pipeline for the game could cause with an overhaul, but surely with the tools valhalla has they could've done something right? This extra commitment would signal that the developers and upper management do indeed wish to live up to the "return to the roots " slogan.
@@BronzeApparathus I think the problem is that while Bordeaux would want that, Ubisofts heads don’t really care about Mirage, they simply see it as a money maker that will push them through to Reds release, so I doubt they want to allocate more time and resources to Bordeaux when they want to give all their money to Quebec to make red
This game isnt them returning to their roots. We need to be honest, its basically a step in the right direction, but it looks and still plays like Valhalla. What we really need is a game similar to Unity and Syndicate. If not that, then at the very least something similar to the Ezio Triology or 3,4 and Rogue.
Its not that hard to add side ejects, the controls are fine in parkour. When youre on a wall, just tap X(or A) and push stick to the right for side eject.
"Parkour lacks depth but the rest seems solid" *sigh* I guess this is a good compromise. Get stealth right first & then we'll worry about parkour later.
thanks for the review! it honestly looks very interesting, might pick it up after the launch. the combat gives me the ick though. I don’t care what people think, that teleportation during chain assassination is cool
First, I'm envious Second, I'm REALLY loving the gameplay and glad you got to play the game and I am loving a lot. And I agree with @BubblyJubbly that Animations need to be faster, and def take inspiration from Unity.
Yeah I'm gonna pass. The stealth focus is nice, but the combat looking bad and lacking any cinematic flair, as well as the parkour not getting an actual upgrade, are dealbreakers for me. This attempt at capturing the magic of the old games was either half-hearted or it didn't have enough budget to fully break away from Valhalla's DNA.
They are going back to something closer to Assassin’s Creed 1, where you couldn’t climb everything and making a getaway was a bit more strategic. A bit more planning than just jumping in, killing and button spamming up any old wall. As a long time Assassin’s Creed fan, from the first game onwards, this looks like it is finally realising the potential of playing as an assassin. They have reworked the sneak, detection and social kill systems - which have been lacking in the franchise for some time - and if there was any part which really needed rework it is those bits.
I’m so tired of this myth with Unity’s Parkour. Yeah did it look nice? Yes it did when it worked, that shit was fundamentally broken. This Parkour looks fine a little more control would be nice, but this is a good direction to take steps in.
I hate to sound so dramatic but the movement was what I was excited the most about and to see it’s essentially the same as Valhalla is very disappointing. I think this might be the first assassins creed game I’ll skip.
Wasn't sure if I was going to get this because it seems like Valhalla but slightly better, but after this video I think I will. The main downside is the parkour to me, Unity or Syndicate parkour would make it instant buy for me... but I can handle Valhalla's lame parkour, stealth looks fun. great video once again
Rebuilding the whole game on a new engine to implement a new parkour would have added another year of development time and money the team didn’t have seeing as by the time they were finished red would be releasing
The thing about you telling them about that parkour needs revamping/improvement is that Bordeaux probably can't do anything about it. Which is why they don't answer. They are a smaller Ubisoft studio who were given the task of making the Valhalla/Odyssey template as good as they could(in a certain timeframe), when it comes to being and classic AC game. I don't think they received the resources, nor the time to revamp the parkour system entirely. The same with the combat. I think Mirage is clearly a side project that Ubisoft gave to studio Bordeaux, while Montreal and Quebec focus on Codename Red. I definitely expect for Codename Red to be built from the ground up. Probably on a new engine. New combat, new parkour. I do believe that Bordeaux would have revamped these systems if they were given the time and money to do so.
idk this feels much closer to odyssey than valhalla to me. Odyssey is my favorite game in the series, but i completely understand that it never felt like an actual AC game. I look forward to this one because it seems to blend the two since the rpg fighting didnt bother me so much that stealth was never really an option as you said
I remember I bought Valhalla when it launched, but I only played a little and didn't pick it up until very recently, but now I'm having a pretty decent time with it. I'm sure I'm going to enjoy Mirage as well, especially if it's true that it takes "leaps into the right direction" as you put it. I appreciate these games, I'm having fun with them, but Ubisoft - please for the love of God give me back at least the side eject.
I was excited for this game since its announcement more than any game that came out this year because I wanted a new area to parkour with mechanics from AC Unity or before, and after watching this gameplay, this is just smaller Vallhalla, Vallhalla 2.0 and I have never been more angry and hurt, I'm literally gonna cry, I was looking forward to this game that was meant to go back to its roots
@@tonepivk9701 Well Unity is a 10 but I still would've been happy were it Kenway games or Ezio games style or simply anything that didn't just automate even the basics of parkour like climbing up
I don’t understand why you thought this would have unitys parkour, we have always know that Mirage was being built in valhallas engine and when it began development it was supposed to be a dlc before they changed it for ragnarok and made it its own game. To add a different parkour system they would need to completely strip the game down and start again on another engine and when they were done, Ac Red would have been released so it would be pointless. Mirage is simply a stand in in between Valhalla and red and to expect a completely revamped parkour system for a game built on the same engine as Valhalla is unrealistic.
@@lucasbelmonte2832 I didn't. Who's this 'we', I'm not 'we'. The answer to your first statement is your second statement, the answer to your second statement is your first statement. I'm a normal fan who only watches trailers and not interviews or articles or TH-cam videos because I know the more you know about something the less likely you get about buying it and i didn't wanna spoil my excitement for this game especially. Other than the first gameplay trailer, I was trying not to spoil myself with anything since I was very excited for it, I only watched this video because I was excited to see some parkour gameplay. I didn't at all expect it to be Unity's level of parkour but I keep hearing them saying they're bringing it to their roots so I had minimal expectations for the parkour to be anywhere from AC1 to AC Unity or anything remotely not automated in terms of those words, so I was hopeful and excited and I knew I would've been more than just happy if it were any kind of parkour pre Origins but after watching this video, this is in any meaning of the words just a condensed Vallhalla.
I've been skeptic about the parkour since the first trailer, and I see my suspicions were correct, I'm glad the world design allows for a better "playground", and that its a bit faster, but at its base it's still Valhala's Parkour, which means dissapointing. Seems like that for every step forward Ubi takes 2 stepbacks. Unity is and will remain the best parkour in the series for now it seems, too bad
Honestly as someone who’s also been a fan since the Ezio games, I don’t really care all that much about deep parkour because most of the time it’s about how nice it looks and not the mechanics. As long as it’s better than Eivor’s heavy and clunky movement then I’m all in
Can you tell the developers that we need more Ac games about Mesopotamian civilization - Babylonian civilization (in the era of Hammurabi) - Assyrian civilization... etc… cuz this country is full and rich of cultures
7:08 honesly sounds like the fear multi takedown in arkham knight. you can only get it after you do a silent takedown to charge it back up. and yea, it being a glitch would work, basically the animus lagging and speeds up to the next kill
Animus lagging? Only when you decide to use this ability? How convenient. "The animus can't keep up with Basim" my brother in Christ, it can keep up with a man falling from the top of the Bastille, how is Basim faster than that???
The studio branch responsible for Mirage got lucky to have been given the green light in the first place. Reworking the parkour system would have required another year of development, minimum. Maybe, if this game does well, the sequel could include a deeper and better parkour system.
Very excited about this game. To be fair I loved the stealth in Odyssey. I played the whole game through stealth and every area was a stealth puzzle, also because you couldn’t one take down the highest level enemies. You had to build up to strike them down, save them for the end. I think what people didn’t like it because stealth wasn’t mandatory, but it was in fact an amazing stealth system.
one understandably negative opinion about valhalla and therefore mirage is how parkour felt; yet i for one absolutely love it, which would've never been a problem. seeing eivor climb up walls scratched a nice part of my brain i cant put my finger on. so excited for this game
At 2:03, if you were able to climb just a bit higher than that beam Basim would've likely landed on it since they're the exact same from Valhalla based on appearance. That's the frustrating part of about the ejects in the new games. They're rare to perform right, as in going where you want to go, or hard to control because of the limiting aspect about it in comparison to the older games. It was cool how you could be slightly lower than the spot where you're trying to land in the older games and see that your character still has enough strength to make the jump after ejecting. The rest of the parkour however, looks beautiful and a massive step-up from the past 3 games.
World design and ambience looks amazing... stealth seems almost mandatory and thats great. Parkour looks very "magnetic and automatic" aswell as slow and too heavy
DISCLAIMER: It seems some creators may have been paid to play/talk about Mirage. I was not. I have never been paid to review something, and if for some reason I do it in the future, I will communicate that fully.
Just also want to mention that when I said “I know they heard me but I can’t make them listen” I wasn’t trying to imply that Ubisoft should have or even could have reworked a fundamental part of the game. I was just trying to say that I’m doing what I can to advocate for what I and the fans want both in reviews and behind the scenes.
Yeah, but it's nice to hear.
I think it would be very hard for the team to do this, the base (Valhalla) is built and they can only change it so much.
Hopefully this team goes on to make another on now with complete focus on those things. I bet they know and I bet many of them also want to build that game.
@@rafatvazThey should've used unity as the base design instead of Valhalla, unity was the last real assassin game they made imo.
@@Karugul man doesn't know shit about game dev huh.
It started as a DLC for Valhalla.... You don't randomly get a team and put them working on a base that is almost 10 years old lmao
As I said, hopefully the game does well and they move on to make a fresh game with new and rebuilt tools so they can make parcour a thing again.
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@@rafatvaz I don't give a flying fuck if it started as a dlc for Valhalla. The parkour was ass in that game too. If you learn to read I stated that they need to use the parkour from unity. I didn't ask if it was made for Valhalla or anything about game engines or devs. Not my fault they're trying to make a new game by using a bad one for base design.
A shame about the lack of proper parkour. Because if it had it, it looks like it would have been the perfect blend of old and new AC
If it had I would have actually thought about buying it. Now it's just HOLD X... The parkour/running around is just too much of the gameplay time to me and if it's this simple the game will just bore me after 20 hours.
@@HansWurst1569well the game is only 20 hours so if it takes you that long to get bored of it you’ll be done with the game by then anyways
@@HansWurst1569the story is rumoured to be about 15-18 hours
@@Sumunuhriginal wow really? Damn thats pretty sad….
@@lucasbelmonte2832 15-18 is even worse than the other guy said. Damnn thats really sad. That means that over one weekend you could complete the game. That does not justify the price to me
Thanks for this, man! Probably the most honest take on this preview of Mirage. The rest have been too positive from what I've seen. And your critiques are quite objective regarding what classic AC should be and where you see this entry lacking.
Agreed, I’m happy that he put his viewers first even if he got this demo for free
This seems pretty in-line with other reviews. Parkour reception was lukewarm but everything else was well-received.
Others are the paid ones
all these people are far too optimistic. from the gameplay shown so far, imo, it looks very bad.
@@white6505nope, also, I would never say that a game is bad until I try it first.
The stealth segment was really encouraging. Moment to moment choices look to be the most interesting they've been since Syndicate. Great review man! Probably the most transparent I've seen so far.
It's a bummer that the parkour is limited mechanically but I am really glad to see the world design and stealth getting back on track, which, for me personally, is more important. My understanding is that this is a new team so hopefully they get to work on another one and are able to focus in on parkour systems for that (I'm guessing "Red" will be in line with the other RPG's so not expecting much out of that one with parkour, and have no clue what Hexe is even gonna be so . . .).
I hope they make the parkour animations/transitions a litter smoother it’s still pretty chunky, there’s no character in the parkour either because of how limited it is
Pole vault got points tho- it’d be cool to see basims style develop a little
The parkour looks like imo all it needs is more animation variety. Because of the insane emphasis it seems to put on grounded stealth and emergent social stealth, I don't feel Bordeaux needed to add Unity levels of parkour to this one, especially considering the limited time or resources they likely had. Hopefully they fix that in Red though, especially considering the potential that playing a Shinobi could have.
I’m hoping it’s a lot more like origins with ac 2 mechanics and if it put stealth before combat it’s mostly why I preordered this game because origins is currently my favorite
I'll never get over the fact they said this would be a back to basics and one of the first gameplay clips i saw was the Assassin literally teleporting
Not saying it's something bad but the whiplash legit made me laugh so hard
So you hold that against Syndicate having Invisibility and Unity allowing you to shape-shift?
@@ac_nerd9794 oh don't get me wrong those are kinda ridiculous too but those games didn't go around saying they would be going back to the roots lmao
Also I don't really hold the teleportation against this game, I don't mind that much, just found it funny and kinda contradictory
@@hiarus8850 Well, the crazy stuff has been in the franchise quite a bit before the RPG games so I'm just saying. I think it adds something to the game. Probably will make stealth more fun at points.
@@ac_nerd9794 It's more the fact that when they say "back to our roots", especially in this context, they're talking about mainly AC1-ACR (arguably even up to AC4). Idk how "roots" would be seen as Unity and Syndicate, roots tend to mean beginning, not the 7th/8th instalments of a franchise. I personally do hold those "mystical" aspects of Unity and Syndicate against those games, especially as they have no real in-lore explanation other than "animus go brrrr". Hopefully the teleporting in Mirage is as avoidable (if we so choose) as the disguise feature was in those games.
I would've love the "chain kill" system more if it doesn't stop time at all honestly
Can I just say that I really appreciate the fact that even though you got to play the game early and have all these benefits you STILL tell people not to pre order and instead wait for reviews, that's a rarity these days... you are definitely a trustworthy channel, and I look forward to more content from you. Great vid 👍
I am so glad that Baghdad was designed to be as diverse and dense as it was. One of my gripes throughout the entire AC series (at least with the 9 games I've played) is that while the parkour systems almost always felt fun and unique, the environments felt a little rough. In almost every game, I found my flow of movement being stopped and inhibited by some street that's too wide, a river that has no means of crossing aside from a bridge 80 feet in the other direction, or coming across a street that was objectively faster to run through than taking the rooftops. But with Mirage so far, it seems like parkour really is the most effective system of traversal in the game, and like it will consistently be open and dynamic.
Can't believe more people didn't catch the quote from the presentation
"Parkour is easy to learn *and master* "
From this moment I knew parkour would be dissapointment
Exactly my thoughts
i mean yeah it's literally marketed as a momentum based easy to control thing and hey it looks pretty fast too i don't mind that
so its disappointing to have good parkour ? Should be complex cumbersome Unity style parkour ?
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@@timytimeerased That's not good parkour, that's easy parkour. Easy to learn, hard to master should be the goal for every game. I think the Ezio parkour is a great example of that. You can get through the game by holding the sprint button. But spending more time with the system, exploring the different maneuvers, and understanding the environment allows you to have much more fun and be much more efficient and elegant in your movement.
they had 3 years to redo basim's animations...and you can even hire freelance animator to animate basim maybe in 2-3 months yet they chose to use eivor animations because its cheaper and don't have to mocap or assign animators in the studio who could be working on something more profitable, this product is the literally definition of MVP minimum viable product
It's so weird to me how they promoted parkour, even showcasing Behind The Scenes footage of the development, yet... It's the same lackluster mechanic. Everything else you said seems on point! :D
Yeah I always understood that they'l we're focusing on the design, I feel like they were shooting themselves in the foot by saying it's similar to unity.
@@shadtowa8986 yeah man like just don't say it and I won't base my critique on that
FINALLY SOMEONE THAT TALKS ABOUT BACK-EJECTS!!! THANK YOU!!!!
I can't tell you how excited I am to see big dense city again. No more endless empty wilderness.
I've loved every Assassin's Creed game I've played so far (Everything up to Origins, and just started playing Odyssey today actually!) regardless of if the parkour has changed or not. I still find Origins and Odyssey really fun to run around and climb stuff, and in both games I've become a stealthy boi... and I'll be doing the same in Valhalla too when I play that. So when I finally get around to Mirage I feel I'm going to be a very happy gamer! This video was great by the way, just randomly come across it and it was a nice watch!
Wait till you play Valhalla I think it was very unique and fire 🔥 more like a barbarian Assassin Creed
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Wow ❤ Wasn’t expecting you here love your content
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one
I feel like with slight adjustments to valhallas systems the parkour in mirage may be serviceable as long as the city is built as you said. The parkour in Valhalla feels the most rudimentary, but there aren’t many complex structures in the game or complex cities.
parkour in ac is two fold one part being the world design and the second is the depth and mechanics themselves no depth means the world design is wasted
@@Zikuto_ I would just say misused not wasted because it’s better to have the good world design than not.
@@jacksonhahn yea but the world design is wasted on basic parkour elements when it should’ve had depth. I don’t mean wasted as in its terrible I mean wasted as in huge missed opportunity
This gameplay makes me wanna play AC3 for some reason. AC3 might have issues but the parkour and combat of that game is beautiful.
AC3 has the best parkour and combat hands down out of all the AC games.
despite its flaws, AC3 had a very fluid and satisfying system of parkour, combat, and movement.
For me this game makes me want to boot up Origins and climb a pyramid
Was looking for a first impressions video that wasn't sponsored. Thank you for this!
This is why I like u aqua. Instead of the review just being a wining fit about what isn’t included you judge the game based off what is there. For better or worse. U da man aqua.
First time seeing a video from your channel. This is an amazing review and video as a whole. You're a great creator man really good content.
6:34 Throwback to when you could just double assassinate two guards next to each other. My one and only WANT from an AC game. Unity really did peak the stealth. Gonna pass up Mirage till they properly revamp stealth.
I hadn't played an AC game since Unity and over the summer I began playing Origins through my PS+ sub. This game feels like a natural sequel to that game. Obviously I haven't played Odyssey or Valhalla, but I feel I've seen enough to put me off anyway. The game looks great and I'll likely be picking it up around launch (I'll wait for full reviews first). The hold X parkour is disappointing and it's a real shame they haven't listed to feedback, but everything else looks like they've nailed it. I can't wait to play in a story where there is an established brotherhood and with modern technologies of a 2020s release (lighting, render distance etc). Great honest review!
(btw it's crazy that this will be releasing on an iPhone in 2024, if you get any hands-on demos of how that is I'd love to hear your experience)
I've watched dozen of videos abaout mirage recently but this is smth i needed. Ty❤
I appreciate the review. This is pretty similar to what I expected. Huge emphasis on stealth and atmosphere but they weren't going to be able to overhaul the parkour given that it is still built off Valhalla and they lacked the budget. So they did the next best thing and focused on adapting the environment and tweaking existing animations.
Also as an "AC purist", the Bordeaux team seems to know what they're doing. They understand what makes Assassin's Creed beyond the aesthetics.
Thank you, I keep seeing all this comments, about how people want unity parkour, when it would have been impossible to do so on valhallas engine and the team wouldn’t have the time to completely start development again as the game wouldn’t be finished before Red came out, I don’t care if the parkour is as good as unity, as long as I can play as an actual assassin doing assassin things in black box missions I’m happy
@@lucasbelmonte2832 Isn't Valhalla on the same engine as Unity?
The parkour needs to be a LOT more fast paced than what I’ve seen. Unity has definitely the best parkour in any AC game and this honestly looks just as slow as Valhalla.
It is much faster than Valhalla, but doesn't have anywhere near the control of Unity or the classic titles. Seems like the parkour team must have been gutted or had budget cuts.
True! Unity despite its early bugs was great parkour and stealth.
@@IndyMiraaga Thats because they changed animation system with Origins going forward. They would need to redesign animation system to be like in older games to have parkour at same level and they obviously wont do that.
It’s not tho
@@buzzjaylen2730far more control than every ac title which came after it, back and side eject were such important features
what people really want is a focus on the assassin AESTHETIC with good parkour (namely Unity)
Playing the ezio collection through odyssey…I noticed the focus on combat with the option for stealth has consistently been present (save for a FEW stealth-required missions across the older games).
6:00 This reminds me of Arkham Knight’s Fear Mutli-Takedown and I mean that as a compliment.
So I was mostly right for being sceptical when they said return to form. My biggest concern was the parkour, and they haven't changed that.
Though the game is a lot cheaper than I thought it would be
I won't lie, the lack of decent parkour is a dealbreaker for me. It's such a fundemental part of what I find enjoyable in these games and although I really do appreciate the lengths they've gone to center the gameplay around proper assassination missions with varying approaches and options, I simply cannot enjoy an AC game that doesn't have decent parkour. The improved world design won't suffice when all you can do is hold forward. it's a real shame because I thought this game would be something I could really sink my teeth into.
Same
The simple addition of ejects itself increase the depth tenfold. Its such a no brainer addition for a game that's "going back to its roots" that you start wondering if somebody is going out of their way to sabotage this game.
@@darshil2317I really don't think that's the case. The studio branch responsible for Mirage got lucky to have been given the green light in the first place.
Reworking the parkour system would have required another year of development, minimum.
Maybe, if this game does well, the sequel will include a deeper and better parkour system.
@@user-zp8kj2cl9g At this point I'd be willing to pay for a DLC that gives nothing but the ability to side eject.
Because they had already began development before they decided to make it its own game and not a Valhalla dlc, the parkour system was the exact same because it was being built for Valhalla, if they had decided to completely strip down and start again on a new engine it would take another year of development and by then Red would have been released so what would be the point?
Thank you for the Honest Review and not leaning towards false advertising!
I am looking forward to this game and your preview made me even more excited. Thank you my dear boy. :D
You're the most honest reviewer ever you put all the goods which everyone did
But you also put all the bads which no other creator did!
man i love your videos man you give honest grounded level headed opinions and it seems like more often then not you have a nuetral take or if you dont you attempt to be
This review simultaneously has the most critiques for this game I've seen but also makes me want to play it the most.
I think Bearduex has made the best possible product based off of what they were given
You changed my out look on assassin’s focus with this video
Mirage is simply a stand in game between Valhalla and Red, the thing was never meant to be its own game, so I’m cutting it slack but if Reds parkour isn’t improved than that’s all on Ubisoft
4:47 wow I wasn't expecting kills like that from Basim. That was really cool
Why can't they just copy the movement of unity and have people be happy? Just copy paste that code lmao.
I appreciate this preview! We usually share the same opinions so I'm happy to hear good stuff. Plus the length of the video was perfect
Exactly the animus I'm happy you bring that up the Chain assassination is not unrealistic for ac
I knew once I saw Basim run like he’s Shrek in the gameplay leak that it was a bad idea to buy it. I can’t believe that I actually thought this game was gonna be a return to what made it good.
im glad i waited a day to preorder cause now im not going to. i had a tin sliver of hope that parkour would be anything more then run forward and take a nap. parkour is the main reason i play this series and this marks the 3rd game in a row that i wont be getting. RIP AC
Appreciate the honesty with parkour mate, a shame they out right refuse to implement better systems.
It’s not that Bordeaux refused to, it’s simply that they started development for mirage as a dlc for Valhalla and so built it on the same engine, to completely overhaul that parkour system it could have taken them an extra year of development and money they didn’t have seeing as by the time they would have been finished red would be ready to launch so it would be pointless.
@lucasbelmonte2832 I see your point, and understand there many difficulties messing the pipeline for the game could cause with an overhaul, but surely with the tools valhalla has they could've done something right? This extra commitment would signal that the developers and upper management do indeed wish to live up to the "return to the roots " slogan.
@@BronzeApparathus I think the problem is that while Bordeaux would want that, Ubisofts heads don’t really care about Mirage, they simply see it as a money maker that will push them through to Reds release, so I doubt they want to allocate more time and resources to Bordeaux when they want to give all their money to Quebec to make red
I’m in the camp of preferring the traditional games, but not minding the RPG games. So I’ll definitely be picking this up after reviews
Sick video knew exactly what everyone wanted to hear and didnt over hype or under hype the game just pure honesty ❤
Holy thanks for being real w it. Def looks like something interesting
loved the video and how genuine you are
This game isnt them returning to their roots. We need to be honest, its basically a step in the right direction, but it looks and still plays like Valhalla. What we really need is a game similar to Unity and Syndicate. If not that, then at the very least something similar to the Ezio Triology or 3,4 and Rogue.
This actually looks really fun, I'm excited.
Its not that hard to add side ejects, the controls are fine in parkour.
When youre on a wall, just tap X(or A) and push stick to the right for side eject.
It hardly works tho
"Parkour lacks depth but the rest seems solid"
*sigh* I guess this is a good compromise. Get stealth right first & then we'll worry about parkour later.
We're about 2 games behind but this would have been a perfect follow up to AC Origins. Minus the lack of good movement
thanks for the review!
it honestly looks very interesting, might pick it up after the launch. the combat gives me the ick though. I don’t care what people think, that teleportation during chain assassination is cool
Love your videos man
First, I'm envious
Second, I'm REALLY loving the gameplay and glad you got to play the game and I am loving a lot.
And I agree with @BubblyJubbly that Animations need to be faster, and def take inspiration from Unity.
I like all the improvements to parkour and stealth but I hope they add actual flinch to the enemies when you attack them
Not sure why it’s so difficult for Ubisoft to bring back unity parkour, this is Valhalla with a Middle East skin
@@ToTheMaxGaming1it’s the Valhalla engine what did you expect
@@youssefkabab5593 parkour that isn’t shit
Wdym by flinch?
@@youssefkabab5593 A wonderous thing called improvement or taking criticism and adding that to your game.
Thank you for being the voice of the people
Yeah I'm gonna pass.
The stealth focus is nice, but the combat looking bad and lacking any cinematic flair, as well as the parkour not getting an actual upgrade, are dealbreakers for me.
This attempt at capturing the magic of the old games was either half-hearted or it didn't have enough budget to fully break away from Valhalla's DNA.
They are going back to something closer to Assassin’s Creed 1, where you couldn’t climb everything and making a getaway was a bit more strategic. A bit more planning than just jumping in, killing and button spamming up any old wall.
As a long time Assassin’s Creed fan, from the first game onwards, this looks like it is finally realising the potential of playing as an assassin. They have reworked the sneak, detection and social kill systems - which have been lacking in the franchise for some time - and if there was any part which really needed rework it is those bits.
I’m so tired of this myth with Unity’s Parkour. Yeah did it look nice? Yes it did when it worked, that shit was fundamentally broken. This Parkour looks fine a little more control would be nice, but this is a good direction to take steps in.
I hate to sound so dramatic but the movement was what I was excited the most about and to see it’s essentially the same as Valhalla is very disappointing. I think this might be the first assassins creed game I’ll skip.
Wasn't sure if I was going to get this because it seems like Valhalla but slightly better, but after this video I think I will. The main downside is the parkour to me, Unity or Syndicate parkour would make it instant buy for me... but I can handle Valhalla's lame parkour, stealth looks fun.
great video once again
Rebuilding the whole game on a new engine to implement a new parkour would have added another year of development time and money the team didn’t have seeing as by the time they were finished red would be releasing
Honestly wish theyd ho back to the unity style the game still looks really good and better than some later releases
Leave it to Aqua to give us the real deets
Great video, I appreciate how unafraid you are to be critical
The thing about you telling them about that parkour needs revamping/improvement is that Bordeaux probably can't do anything about it. Which is why they don't answer. They are a smaller Ubisoft studio who were given the task of making the Valhalla/Odyssey template as good as they could(in a certain timeframe), when it comes to being and classic AC game. I don't think they received the resources, nor the time to revamp the parkour system entirely. The same with the combat. I think Mirage is clearly a side project that Ubisoft gave to studio Bordeaux, while Montreal and Quebec focus on Codename Red. I definitely expect for Codename Red to be built from the ground up. Probably on a new engine. New combat, new parkour. I do believe that Bordeaux would have revamped these systems if they were given the time and money to do so.
That whole jumping from one kill to the next is something you could do in Tenchu Z.
Really good video man
It definitely looks enjoyable as an AC game, i just hope there's actually new game plus this time
Not hopeful for the future but I will gladly take this
idk this feels much closer to odyssey than valhalla to me. Odyssey is my favorite game in the series, but i completely understand that it never felt like an actual AC game. I look forward to this one because it seems to blend the two since the rpg fighting didnt bother me so much that stealth was never really an option as you said
A.C is boring but ODYSSEY is the best game eveeer
I'm not gonna lie, Ubisoft needs a hard reboot and rewrite the whole story but knowing them they're gonna make it even worse somehow
LOL that boatman 3:33
How is the performance?
I remember I bought Valhalla when it launched, but I only played a little and didn't pick it up until very recently, but now I'm having a pretty decent time with it. I'm sure I'm going to enjoy Mirage as well, especially if it's true that it takes "leaps into the right direction" as you put it.
I appreciate these games, I'm having fun with them, but Ubisoft - please for the love of God give me back at least the side eject.
This was a great well rounded review
The screen glitches when performing the Assassins Focus abilty is something I hoped for. And it really does look alot better this way.
I was excited for this game since its announcement more than any game that came out this year because I wanted a new area to parkour with mechanics from AC Unity or before, and after watching this gameplay, this is just smaller Vallhalla, Vallhalla 2.0 and I have never been more angry and hurt, I'm literally gonna cry, I was looking forward to this game that was meant to go back to its roots
unity parkour system is just something else
@@tonepivk9701 Well Unity is a 10 but I still would've been happy were it Kenway games or Ezio games style or simply anything that didn't just automate even the basics of parkour like climbing up
I don’t understand why you thought this would have unitys parkour, we have always know that Mirage was being built in valhallas engine and when it began development it was supposed to be a dlc before they changed it for ragnarok and made it its own game. To add a different parkour system they would need to completely strip the game down and start again on another engine and when they were done, Ac Red would have been released so it would be pointless. Mirage is simply a stand in in between Valhalla and red and to expect a completely revamped parkour system for a game built on the same engine as Valhalla is unrealistic.
@@lucasbelmonte2832 I didn't. Who's this 'we', I'm not 'we'. The answer to your first statement is your second statement, the answer to your second statement is your first statement. I'm a normal fan who only watches trailers and not interviews or articles or TH-cam videos because I know the more you know about something the less likely you get about buying it and i didn't wanna spoil my excitement for this game especially.
Other than the first gameplay trailer, I was trying not to spoil myself with anything since I was very excited for it, I only watched this video because I was excited to see some parkour gameplay. I didn't at all expect it to be Unity's level of parkour but I keep hearing them saying they're bringing it to their roots so I had minimal expectations for the parkour to be anywhere from AC1 to AC Unity or anything remotely not automated in terms of those words, so I was hopeful and excited and I knew I would've been more than just happy if it were any kind of parkour pre Origins but after watching this video, this is in any meaning of the words just a condensed Vallhalla.
I've been skeptic about the parkour since the first trailer, and I see my suspicions were correct, I'm glad the world design allows for a better "playground", and that its a bit faster, but at its base it's still Valhala's Parkour, which means dissapointing. Seems like that for every step forward Ubi takes 2 stepbacks.
Unity is and will remain the best parkour in the series for now it seems, too bad
OK so what i got from this is mirage by no means is the assassin creed but IT COULD be the foundation to a even better AC than the older ones
Played through it in 3 days, agree with everything you‘ve said
Great video bro
Honestly as someone who’s also been a fan since the Ezio games, I don’t really care all that much about deep parkour because most of the time it’s about how nice it looks and not the mechanics. As long as it’s better than Eivor’s heavy and clunky movement then I’m all in
Your voice sounds a lot less annoying in this one, great job!
Can you tell the developers that we need more Ac games about Mesopotamian civilization - Babylonian civilization (in the era of Hammurabi) - Assyrian civilization... etc… cuz this country is full and rich of cultures
I trust ur review because u're just like us who are old AC fans! I wish they gave us more parkour controll. anyways I pre-ordered it XD
7:08 honesly sounds like the fear multi takedown in arkham knight. you can only get it after you do a silent takedown to charge it back up. and yea, it being a glitch would work, basically the animus lagging and speeds up to the next kill
Animus lagging? Only when you decide to use this ability? How convenient. "The animus can't keep up with Basim" my brother in Christ, it can keep up with a man falling from the top of the Bastille, how is Basim faster than that???
@@boiimcfacto2364 idk, i'm trying to be abit hopeful for the game.
The studio branch responsible for Mirage got lucky to have been given the green light in the first place.
Reworking the parkour system would have required another year of development, minimum.
Maybe, if this game does well, the sequel could include a deeper and better parkour system.
Very excited about this game. To be fair I loved the stealth in Odyssey. I played the whole game through stealth and every area was a stealth puzzle, also because you couldn’t one take down the highest level enemies. You had to build up to strike them down, save them for the end. I think what people didn’t like it because stealth wasn’t mandatory, but it was in fact an amazing stealth system.
Yeah...ODYSSEY remain the best game eveeer...
Thank u for letting me come first 0:35
I’m a giver, truly
@@ThatBoyAqua 🤣🤣
1:50
"The movement is unchanged from Val-"
Yeah, I ain't buying this shit
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I know asking Unity's parkour is a bit too much. But if Mirage has the same vibes as Kenway saga's parkour, I'd gladly to try that game.
one understandably negative opinion about valhalla and therefore mirage is how parkour felt; yet i for one absolutely love it, which would've never been a problem. seeing eivor climb up walls scratched a nice part of my brain i cant put my finger on. so excited for this game
At 2:03, if you were able to climb just a bit higher than that beam Basim would've likely landed on it since they're the exact same from Valhalla based on appearance. That's the frustrating part of about the ejects in the new games. They're rare to perform right, as in going where you want to go, or hard to control because of the limiting aspect about it in comparison to the older games. It was cool how you could be slightly lower than the spot where you're trying to land in the older games and see that your character still has enough strength to make the jump after ejecting. The rest of the parkour however, looks beautiful and a massive step-up from the past 3 games.
World design and ambience looks amazing... stealth seems almost mandatory and thats great. Parkour looks very "magnetic and automatic" aswell as slow and too heavy
something i noticed was how they reused ezios arm swing from when he is jumping from pole to pole
I got a bit sad when I heard the parkour was Valhalla but the rest seems great
Should be a setting when the call to prayer starts you can pray
Great review :)