User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassin's Creed: Revelations (PC) - Official Assassin's Creed Wiki Review/@comment-1661665-20111204062505

I think I agree with everything you put here D. Cello. I excused Ezio's face changes 'cause he's older now (though that begs the question why Ezio's Brotherhood model wasn't middle ground between AC2 and AC:R), but honestly you've got me to to thinking and I remembered thinking, he looks horrible. Altair's voice is perhaps better because of they actually gave him half an accent this time but still lacking, those bleeping Jans are a real pain to kill especially with low level armor and that really pissed me off... Bombs were just kinda... meh. Shouldn't be quite as complicated, take it or leave it. Den defense was lacking and although I like the minigames in the AC series, I don't like it when it's forced on me like that... And renovating shops increases notoriety? Herald: "We must unite and bring down these Assassins! These scum are renovating buildings and increasing our economy, improving every citizen's lives! They must be brought to justice!" Sidequests are much more uninteresting than Brotherhood and AC2 and though I love seeing the romance of Ezio and Sofia as much as the next guy, it felt a bit shallow at times and... the picking flowers mission was absolutely pointless. Just show another cutscene where he gives her the damn flowers I mean GEEZ. Assassinations, or picking flowers. Hmmmm... And the Altair bits. In the book Altair mentions (or it is mentioned) that he renovated local buildings, etc, suggesting we would have free roaming as Altair. No, just short sequences with Maria whose face has become so damn repulsive I wonder if she's a descendant of a sewer rat... And of course they messed up Desmond's face and I was reading another review, someone brought up Desmond never asked Sixteen the important questions we all want answers too. Lucy's dead, Altair and Ezio's apples are seperate and Altair's may contain a secret, Desmond is out of his coma and knows what to do. That's all the revelations we got, along with suggestions we may be fighting Daniel Cross (Who is no doubt a true Templar now, the cretin) in AC III. They should have picked a better title than Revelations. Back on the subject of the Jans... in AC I felt like an Assassin. In AC2 I felt like an Assassin who could REALLY be challenged (the timing is pickier for counters) in AC: B I felt like an experienced Assassin whom only occasionally got a challenge (thanks to combat system being tweaked to be a tad easier), in AC: R I felt like a wimp with the face of a monkey who couldn't do sh** until he got some fancy armor. Early in the game I was desperately relying on my Assassino minions... I suspect the quality is lower because they've had to focus on AC III. In which case, honestly... Maybe Revelations shouldn't have been. Maybe they should have just finished Ezio's story in another book.