Awesome video, seriously well done. I'll be honest: I like both Mirage and Origins, but it's clear Mirage spent more time on the general "assassin" vibe, and I think it's generally more fun to play than Origins. What gripped me in Origins was the story, whereas in Mirage it was the gameplay (I do like the story in Mirage, too). Origins cities felt like set dressing and aren't engaging for movement (which is odd cause they could've made the cities more akin to older titles and kept the in-between wilderness more barren/add more engaging viewpoints like you showed; would've made a good juxtaposition IMO); Alula and Baghdad felt like living cities/environments and are a blast to navigate. I have about equal hours in both games; in Origins, that's just a single 100% playthrough including all DLCs, and in Mirage it's SEVERAL playthroughs, and even a few permadeath runs. I think that's a testament to how well-designed Mirage is in comparison to Origins (which I still love). Once again, thanks for the great breakdown!

Origins had some care put into navigation into some of its cities and areas, but Odyssey is the one that completely foregoes it.

Ladies and gentleman, this is how a game that was supposed to be a DLC became a greater game than the 4 main rpg games ac had in the last decade...

AC IIs Florence was on another level

Mirage's stealth would be great to me if it didn't have that shitty ass over the should assassination just reminded me. Oh and the pauses between assassinations

And people will tell you with a straight face that Bordeaux are a bad studio and don’t deserve to make a bigger title than mirage, now I’m from the Middle East so it’s way more enjoyable for me, people will call it a soulless world, but when you actually understand what people are talking about it’s so much better, esp when they start cursing at you while parkouring (yes they do that)

I think they just made Origins for a different type of gamers or anyone who is new to AC frenchise.
While Mirage was made to please the Og fans.
The city design in Origins aren't so bad IMO. In fact Mirage parkour system could still work in such enviroment, but they choose to make it worse than syndicate by removing the h/l profile and parkour down system.

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As a hardcore fans since ac brotherhood, both are SHIT. Magnetic parkour, sudden puma jump still throws me off to this day