User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 31-03-'15 — Assassin's Creed Chronicles announcement trailer/@comment-5174994-20150509161130/@comment-3046679-20150509225601

Put it this way - AC3 had the whole 'MERICA theme on the forefront, and that wasn't good. Here, they pushed the revolution sooooooooooooooo far away from the story, you don't even notice it's there most of the time.

So yeah, they should've taken these 50 side missions and worked the prominent ones into the story in a way, rather than keep padding the game with five times the collective side missions as the campaign itself.

Also, Germain was the very definition of cartoon evil, with his "I wanna avenge Jacques de Molay at all cost", and so was all of his posse - every single one of them were oppresive murdering bastards, just like in the early AC games. And yet, they all came out bland and boring, without any real motivation of their own. It all boiled down to "Let's throw our lot in with this guy, because we don't like the truce with the Assassins."