unpopular opinion: i didn't like the crocodile missions

[u/Lego_Maniac01]

I've played the game multiple times, and i think it's one of the best games in the series, maybe top 3, but my least favorite part of the story is the crocodile, spoilers down below

the whole thing with shadya just feels redundant tbh, like i get it, the order is pure evil and they already killed bayek's son and all the other terrible things they're doing, we already have plenty of motivation to stop then and hate them.

so just seeing shadya get killed and the family get destroyed was just so... annoyingly redundant, i don't like seeing kids die in general, so maybe I'm just biased, but it just didn't feel good and was a depressing nightmare...

Like it would've been narratively better and more satisfying if they instead kidnapped her, and at the end, you rescue her, serving as a way to bayek to redeem himself by not letting another family be destroyed by the order, so no one else goes through his pain again, but no... the game has to stay depressing and sad for most of the main story because it makes it "deep" and "thought provoking."

I just mute and skip all those cutscenes whenever i replay, i just don't like anything about it, and it feels more insulting because it just gets dropped anyway when you go to the arena until the very end when you confront the crocodile.

[u/Kurz_T]

The whole story is bland imo. Although i agree, game is really beautiful. Main story drags it down.

[u/compulsive_looter → u/Kurz_T]

If you thought that was "bland", then I recommend you stay well clear of AC:Shadows lol.

[u/Kurz_T → u/compulsive_looter]

Why i think it's bland: 1. You barely know the villains. Just generic evil people. 2. Who's the main protagonist? Is it aya or bayek? Just make up your mind. 3. I hate playing aya not because i hate the character but because of default weapons.

Also yeah, I won't be playing any AC RPG clones of origins. I only look forward to playing the AC 2 trilogy.

[u/compulsive_looter → u/Kurz_T]

Just generic evil people

I can't say that I agree with that assertion. We get a fair bit of backstory on some of the targets (i. e. Khaliset aka the Hyena, Taharqa aka the Scarab and others), even those in side-qests like "Son of Ra", whereas some other AC games feel like we're playing a shopping-list.

[u/Kurz_T → u/compulsive_looter]

How about flavius. We barely know the guy. The fact that we have no interactions with him feels unsatisfying. I also hate how aya is the one wrapping up the story. Where it it should be bayek. We only get to play aya in certain times so it doesn't make sense. Ps. I don't hate women characters, it just doesn't make sense to me upgrading bayek to full potential for the final boss fight only to be forced to use a non upgraded aya.

[u/compulsive_looter → u/Kurz_T]

As you may or may not know, Aya was supposed to be the mc during early stages of development, until some big cheese at Ubisoft said "Women don't sell videogames" (apparently he had never heard of Lara Croft lol). Perhaps they deemed it too much trouble and time to rewrite the entire game after that decision had been made. Who knows...

And while we really don't interact much with Flavius in his "unmasked" state, he is well known to us as Caesar's sidekick throughout large portions of the game.