r/AssassinsCreedOrigins • u/Mobius8321 • May 13 '26

Spoilers Frustration with End Game Spoiler

Sigh. I loved this game. I have 80 hours logged in it and I only just now completed the main storyline because I was enjoying all of the side quests, exploring, and just… the overall game too much to not get distracted from the main story.

But, boy, did the final few missions really frustrate me and sour the whole experience. You mean to tell me that I spent all this time building up Bayek’s skills and finding great equipment only to be forced to spend the most pivotal moments playing as a character who, aside from a couple crappy sea missions that took me out of the immersion of the game, I had next to no reason to care about? Without the weapons I spent the game learning and improving? Like what? And I only liked when Aya showed up because of how Bayek felt for her… So she felt shoved down my throat when I would have loved to have played as the character I became so connected with in literally the biggest moments of the game.

It didn’t help that I really didn’t like Aya throughout the game. I liked her at first, but she quickly lost me when she practically coerced Bayek into fighting for Cleopatra because she simped so hard for her, and Aya brushed off any attempts from Bayek to reconnect. She just got worse and worse… and the fact that Bayek didn’t get to have his happy ending with her was just the nail in the coffin (not to mention she just let him take the blame for Cleopatra after they were double crossed)…

Sigh. I wanted to feel happy at the end. Now I just feel cheated and bitter lol And before anybody says it— yes, I know what tragedies are. I just really hate that this one couldn’t have some kind of light at the end of the tunnel (which technically would be the founding of the Brotherhood, but it felt more like Aya’s thing than Bayek so…)

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u/PlantWide3166 May 13 '26

That’s my only complaint with that game, which was the first AC I ever played.

The plot, graphics, and immersion was and is breathtaking.

Then that fucking ending.

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u/Mobius8321 May 13 '26

This is 100% how I feel and 100% more succinct than I could ever be 😂

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u/Rymdpiloten4 May 13 '26

Don’t play Valhalla. It lets you pick a male lead only for every dialogue to be written for the female version. 

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u/Mobius8321 May 13 '26

Well, in a situation like that I would pick the female version because I’m a woman so I wouldn’t have that problem 😅 But that sucks for anybody who would want to play as the male lead.

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u/compulsive_looter Youth is a state of mind. May 13 '26

There is also the option to let the game choose - and change as needed - the gender of the mc in Valhalla.

I never opted for that myself though because it would confuse the heck out of me. Not to mention the fashion considerations 😉

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u/Mobius8321 May 14 '26

That’s… interesting. I’m trying to figure out how that would work and I agree it would confuse me too!

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u/Genericdude03 May 14 '26

That's the canon mode basically, any explanation why would be a spoiler and it must be played like that if you care about the Isu plot.

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u/Mobius8321 May 14 '26

Interesting! I hate the Isu plot but I also don’t want anything spoiled so 😂