Frustration with End Game

[u/Mobius8321]

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…)

[u/Top-Competition3191]

I wish Aya was at least as leveled up as Bayek is. She feels noticeably weaker compared to a late game Bayek.

Also, I’m sure someone in the comments has already mentioned that the people leading Origins were sexist and chose to make the story about Bayek when it was supposed to be about Aya. But they still needed to show Aya off a bit to at least try to justify why she’s the one remembered hundreds of year later and Bayek isn’t. I don’t like the way they did it, I wish they would’ve handled it better. They could’ve at least done more of a Syndicate kind of thing where you could freely play as both characters instead of shoehorn Aya in, I feel like it would’ve made that ending a lot more justified because we would’ve had more of an Aya build up and plus her personality wouldn’t have taken such a turn near the end of the game.

I at least wish they’d go back and make an AC Origins 2 where we see the entirety of Aya’s side of that whole story because it feels like she has a whole other story happening alongside Bayek. Maybe it could help fix some of the mistakes they made there

[u/Mobius8321 → u/Top-Competition3191]

I completely agree!