User blog comment:SupremeAssassin/Assassin's Creed 3: Combat System/@comment-117.193.246.8-20120530174153/@comment-217.208.111.85-20120531165421

I think that on mentor difficulty you should have very little health, plus that the enemies would be a lot faster. Taking away combat options and making it like ac1 would only slow the game down and make it boring. It would be more interesting if they made it more realistic were you actually have to do everything to avoid getting hit and have lightning reflexes to counter faster enemies. That way, it would also give you an incentive to go stealth.