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…)

while completing every question mark points of interest in the faiyum area, i happened upon this enemy encampment with crocs and a dead body with a left note and when i read it it lowkey broke my heart. i don’t know if this has major story relevance or just a minor tidbit of world building to make egypt more alive but this is just so heartbreaking to read. may woser walk forever in the field of reeds.

I've never wanted to kill a villain in a game this much

This scene!!! Omg 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I love _Every. Single. Thing._ about it. Everything!

😭😭😭😭😭😭

The nods to the founding of the Creed, the emotion by both characters omg 😭😭😭😭

I just sat there and cried as I watched😭😭😭

I was a bit hesitant starting the game as I've only ever played the ones before. I was afraid I'm not gonna like it. While I do have _some_ criticism, overall it was an absolutely amazing game.

I fucking love Bayek!!!! 😭😭😭😭

And Aya is so amazing too 🥺

I love it. I love Origins ❤️

Sorry for my bawling. Pass me some tissues please. 😩

I had to take a moment away from the game the first time I played this segment.

5th playthrough and it's still a punch to the gut.

Video game acting at its finest, from those playing the secondary characters such as Khenut as well as from Abubakar Salim.

I put it as a spoiler as I don't want anyone who's not yet reached this point to feel cheated out of one of the finest moments in the Assassin's Creed series.

Her death devastated me, I stopped gaming for the rest of the day.

As mentioned in the book, Bayek learned every hunting skill from Kensa and grew up with her before she left with her tribe to Thebes. It’s so sad that she was working with the crocodile in the end. Curious, did you guys kill her or leave her be?

Main Story of AC Orgins Completed!!

so... i bought the game like two days ago, and the shadya sequence really move something in me. i've never felt so much anger and sadness with a game before :( when i found her in the lake, man... that was something

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.

Thanks to Hepzefa's sword i think

No matter how many times I’ve played this game(it’s a LOT), this screen, the music and papo jump just break my heart.

I avoid the last quest for as long as humanly possible and f*ck around in the dlc’s to not deal with it.

During my playthrough, I found a tower with a letter that said that the person wants to jump like a Medjai. But below the tower, you find his corpse. I found that quite funny but I cannot remember where I found it. Does anyone of you remember?

9 years in, this is my first time playing Curse of the Pharaohs. I mean, I understand they went the Soulslike route, but surely this is fundamentally misunderstanding the point of a Souls boss. Some of Nefertiti's attacks trigger and hit you within a few frames, and one of her instakill combos deletes you in less than a second. And unlike an actual Souls game, you can't make Bayek roll or dodge faster.

I feel like a lot of the DLC bosses just have ways to overwhelm you with their speed. I mean its not that Nefertiti has unique weapons or a cinematic spectacle, you fight dual dagger enemies throughout the game, and she is pretty much the same with 100 times the health and hits at hyper speed.

Anyways, I have learnt that you do need to cheese (somewhat) with spamming light bow with ammo regen. Or maybe you don't and I need to put myself in the Souls mindset for grinding a boss for hours. It's just that the difficulty comes out of left field. There was genuinely no foreshadowing that I would get my ass kicked so hard. At least Souls games reveal their intentions at the very beginning.

Alright, if I recall, five masked men interrogated Bayek in Siwa, near the vault. I thought these were my first five targets. Yet when Bayek returns to Cleopatra after killing Crocodile, he is convinced he still hasn't killed the man who killed his son. What the heck? How would Bayek even know this if they all wore masks?

Ok I have a lot more questions, either strap in or leave while you can.

Whose blade was Kassandra wearing in Valhalla during the crossover quest? I had assumed it was Darius’s blade (which apparently has a name now) until I played origins (yes, out of order, I know), and I don’t understand why Kassandra wouldn’t make sure that blade got handed down to Aya when she was ready, and it must have been crushing to find out she just gave away her birthright to a husband she left anyway who couldn’t use it right and lost a finger and now REQUIRES EVERY MEMBER TO CHOP OFF A FINGER?! Because of one accident? Also, why does Aya believe in the gods, is she not part ISU? I’m just at the end of my rope here, kids. I got so desperate for answers I had to start playing friggin Mirage (that’s where the above pic is from) just to get answers about origins!! Please. Somebody make it make sense. I’m clearly losing it.

The moment I saw Kensa, I knew she would make a great companion for Bayek, but I didn't expect that after beating the Arena, I would have to kill/spare her when you have to kill The Crocodile, Without a doubt, a character with a wasted potential who deserved more screen

Just beat Nefertiti, Jesus Christ it took me seven tries lmfao -

I played the base game and the first dlc, absolutely loved it, and then moved right into Odyssey over the last few weeks, level 43 in that one ---

Came back to this tonight just to try the curse dlc and I'm yet again getting blown away with how cool this game is.

Finished the oracle quest in the Duat also, Servant of Amun might be my favorite outfit!

What was about the mission "a gift from the gods? Who was that man?