But first we save the galaxy

I wish I could see you You could always see me

🕶️ Sydney Bristow + Sunglasses 😎

I was thinking about this episode recently! At the end, Myka assumes they're going to arrest the bank robbers, but Pete stops her, says their only goal is to get the record back and the thieves should be allowed to take their chances. He understands that while what they did was "wrong," they had a reason, and that matters to him.

Then a year later, Myka meets Helena--a woman who has done many things wrong, known and unknown, but she had a reason. And because of Pete's influence, Myka allows that to matter to her.

Pete, knowing what a hardass Myka is, knowing her judgement is both harsh and sound, trusts her over his own vibes, something he has only once before done, ever.

♡ I love her your honor ♡ ⤻ Aeryn Sun

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016) Cinematography by Greig Fraser

There are 12 Assassin Creed games and I own 11 of them (+ Liberation as it was bundled with III). I don’t own Unity because I read so many comments about it being ‘buggy’ that it put me off. I didn’t feel any particular draw to the location either. If it had been super cheap like the earlier games I might have decided to try it, but even with the Steam sale it wasn’t quite cheap enough so I decided to skip it.

Anyway, I’ve talked a couple of times about reducing my backlog of games so this weekend I booted the games that I’d not even touched. I’ve now at least loaded all of the Assassin’s Creed games. Breaking it down game by game, this is what I thought:

On October 9th, 2021 I made this post, so that’s like 2 and a half years ago? And I feel like doing a little update.

It’s funny what experience changes. I hadn’t had my PS5 long when I wrote this and was still playing all of the AC games on the PC through Steam. The PS5 controller was a million times better than the Steam controller I had previously been using but I was still struggling. I didn’t grow up with a console/controller. I played a few PC games as a kid but wasn’t really a ‘gamer’ until I discovered Warcraft and that as an MMO with keyboard/mouse is a very different beast.

Anyway since this game by game breakdown there have been developments!

Shadows has released and 107 hours later I have Platinuumed it.

So it’s been a little over a year. There’s currently a heatwave, I am waaaay too hot and not turning on the PC/console/TV etc. unless I have to because my PC especially functions like an oven. I tanked my Nintendo Switch battery this morning so now I’m rambling on the iPad (hey I have to keep myself occupied somehow). Anyway! Last time I mostly rambled about Shadows and I was a bit over-complimentary if I’m honest. You see, I think I’m often not honest because I don’t like to admit how much I suck at games sometimes. I said that Shadows had “so much depth to the combat system” and… maybe? That’s certainly what the videos on YouTube say, but for me? Nope. It’s too much for me to engage with, and likely as a consequence I find the combat to be very ‘button-mashy’ and quite boring – at least on Yasuke. Recently I picked Shadows back up to finish it off, as I need to make space on my PS5. They have made quite a few updates as well, so it’s possible I need to credit an update with it feeling better than I remembered on Naoe. Like the chain assassination thing – that’s fun! I also tried mixing up strategies a bit, like attempting to use smoke bombs, or luring guards near explosives and then using a throwing star to detonate them. However, Yasuke is still not good to play. I still just wind up spamming the abilities, flailing until the adrenaline fills, and then spamming the abilities again, until everything is dead. Nothing else seems to work. So how do I rank the games now? And have I played anything else?

Freedom Cry Technically this is a Black Flag DLC, but you can own/install it separately which is what I did. I 100% this in about 10 hours I think? It was good. I don’t remember much more than that to be honest, as it’s been about a year since I played it. AC II About this time last year I had to move out of my house for about a month, while the upstairs floors got ripped up for central heating to be installed (which given how flipping hot it is now seems insane, should have had them install air conditioning instead). Anyway! I was without my PS5 and there’s only so much Crash Bandicoot I can take before wanting to throw things, so I picked up the “Ezio Collection” on Nintendo Switch. I played it a bit last year, and then last couple of days (heatwave keeping the PC/console/TV switched off) I have picked it up again. It’s certainly much better than I remember it being when I tried initially booting it on Steam years ago. I wonder if being on the small handheld screen of the Switch helps? However, the controls are absolutely aggravating. It’s funny I watched a deep-dive analysis on parkour on YouTube the other day, and this guy waxed lyrical about AC2 and the superior control scheme and I now think he must be functionally insane. I have never had a worse time simply trying to run around. Combat is equally as annoying BUT that being said, there is something oddly charming/addictive about the game. I find that with most Assassin’s Creed games to be honest. I like cleaning up the map and collecting all the things. Unity Haven’t played it yet but I now /cough own it on PS5. Mirage Worth mentioning as a free DLC has dropped, along with big updates to parkour etc. I reinstalled it on my PS5 but haven’t managed to boot the game and check it out yet. However, I remember I very much liked Mirage when I played it, I just wished it had been longer – and it seems that I have now got that wish. In addition to the DLC campaign, they also added replayable missions with optional objectives (which feels like a throwback to the older games, and getting 100% sync). I really do want to dig into this, but I don’t know when I will find the time. Let me ramble for a moment I’ve come a long way from the person who had never played an action-adventure type video game. I had played Warcraft for years, obviously, but I didn’t think of myself as a ‘gamer’, I was just a WoW player. I think Jedi Fallen Order might have been my first? Pretty sure I picked up AC: Origins after that, and then I continued on Steam for a bit. First I got the SteamLink/controller. The link part never really worked, and the controller… I didn’t realise how bad it was until I got my PS5 and hooked up my PS5 controller to the PC. After Origins bricked itself (yup really), I basically quit Steam/PC gaming because it wasn’t worth the aggravation. I think all the different drivers and specs, it’s no wonder things go wrong, either with the game or how controllers function. Anyway, I started off with just a couple of PS5 games and then just like with Steam, the backlog expanded (now stands close to 30) and I really do consider myself a gamer now. So what does this ramble have to do with Assassin’s Creed? Well, mostly it’s context because there was the change from PC to PS5, and it also explains why that change was made. I didn’t intentionally buy games on Steam, to struggle with them, not play them, and then buy the same game on PS5, but functionally that’s what has happened. I also thought it was worth noting because I now own every single Assassin’s Creed game, and most of them more than once /facepalm. At least most of them were on 75%+ sale!

AC 1 – PC (doesn’t run properly)

AC 2 – PC (some controller issues I think) / Nintendo Switch

Brotherhood – PC / Nintendo Switch

Revelations – PC (wouldn’t run at all) / Nintendo Switch

AC 3 (Remastered) – PC / PS5 (came free bundled with Odyssey both times)

Black Flag – PC / PS5

Rogue – PC / PS5

Unity – PS5

Syndicate – PC / PS5

Origins – PC (bricked itself after 60 hours!) / PS5

Odyssey – PC / PS5

Valhalla – PC (partially, missing 3 DLC) / PS5

Mirage – PS5

Shadows – PS5

Not a main-line game but also Liberation (PC / PS5, as part of the AC 3 bundle), and Freedom Cry (PS5). Worth noting is that a remake of Black Flag (the Resynced mentioned in the title of this post) will be releasing July 9th. I haven’t pre-ordered it yet, but odds are high. I’ll obviously get that for PS5. So now I have explained the tangled way I came to have this collection, how about that rating? Rating the games in May 2026 The last rating I gave a year ago went:

1. Syndicate

2. Origins

3. Shadows

4. Rogue

5. Black Flag

6. Mirage

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