Let Me Tell You Why You Were Wrong About Mirage
Let Me Tell You Why You Were Wrong About Mirage
The finale of my Assassin's Creed Series Ranking Videos explores the newest entry: Mirage. A return to the "classic" style of games that maybe shouldn't have been judged as positively as it was.
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Assassin's Creed Mirage is a 2023 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Bordeaux and published by Ubisoft. The game is the thirteenth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series and the successor to 2020's Assassin's Creed Valhalla. While its historical timeframe precedes that of Valhalla, its modern-day framing story succeeds Valhalla's own. Set in 9th-century Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age-in particular during the Anarchy at Samarra-the story follows Basim Ibn Ishaq (a character first introduced in Valhalla), a street thief who joins the Hidden Ones to fight for peace and liberty, against the Order of the Ancients,[b] who desire peace through control. The main narrative focuses on Basim's internal struggle between his duties as a Hidden One and his desire to uncover his mysterious past.
Originally envisioned as an expansion for Valhalla, the game was reworked into a standalone title to expand its scope. The design philosophy behind Mirage-the first game to be developed primarily by Ubisoft Bordeaux, previously just a support studio-was to return to the series' roots by focusing on stealth, parkour, and assassinations over the role-playing elements featured heavily in recent installments. As a result, the game is much smaller in scale than its predecessors and combines elements introduced in them with those found in earlier installments of the franchise.
Mirage was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on October 5, 2023. A mobile version is also scheduled to release for iOS on iPhone 15 Pro models in early 2024. Upon release, the game received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its world design, focus on stealth and return to form of the franchise, though some criticized the characters and the story's reliance on previous installments in the series.
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My understanding of Basim and Loki is that they are not two separate entities, Loki is not taking over Basim’s body, Basim is choosing to embrace the part of him that is Loki, but the original him as we know him is still very much there. Basically the opposite of what Eivor did in Valhalla, where they rejected Odin. They both had the same choice, but one chose to embrace and the other to reject.
I feel like people spend way too much time focusing on other people's opinion. These games are all subjective. If u like it u like it. If u don't u don't. Have a mind of your own
Regarding Roshan's exit at the end, there's one little tidbit that I really appreciated: Mentor Rayhan, as she is leaving, says her full name: Roshan bint-La'Ahad. In AC1, our protagonist is Altaïr ibn La'Ahad. The [ibn/bint] bit is a patronymic (meaning "son of" or "daughter of," respectively), and I believe can also be used like a surname, so I'm pretty sure we're meant to understand that Roshan is Altaïr's ancestor-meaning she's Desmond's, as well. NGL I got really excited when I heard Rayhan say her name lol
I actually really liked this game. It genuinely brought back all the good features from old and new AC games and combined them into an interesting setting with a cool character.
To be fair, Alamut is a real location that was used by real world assassins (and everyone knew they lived there 😂)
Honest opinion: it was fun asf bt the downsides of the game came from Ubisoft listening to the ppl who kept b***hing about the RPG ACs. “A return to roots” is what y’all wanted
AC Unity at the bottom and AC Revelations in the middle. All opinions of the series invalidated.
Please do the farcry ranking, I would really enjoy that. And maybe also halo, and maybe even gears of war, that would be sick
I very much enjoyed this game. More than Valhalla for sure. It was so well done imo. This is the direction they need to go. Lose the action rpg combat bullshit from Valhalla. More stealth assassin shit
Hell yeah! X Wing Alliance reference! I can still hear the protagonist's inexplicably Irish brother saying "That hurt yet, Enkidu?"
So far I think most of the fans I've come across they the game, they don't consider it a masterpiece, but they know what a fun little game is, basically a 7 out of 10; the vast majority of the hate seems to come from content creators who only seem to monetize hate or were expecting something completely different than what Ubisoft promoted.
Truly enjoyed my time playing Mirage, but is very obvious that it was supposed to be a DLC for Valhalla as you very clearly need to know beforehand that Basim is Loki re-incarnated. Otherwise the ending is veeery WTF just happened.
I dont know if you've seen, but they added the ability to where the armor sets as costumes so you can now have the perks you want with the look you want. I didnt even realise that wasn't there at the start as i didnt actually play it till this last month. Great video, really well put together.
It could be said that the 'nerf' to the healing system is also a way to push the player to use stealth and avoid combat
Started with valhalla and now just finished this video.
Never saw that coming with Nehal. That was a massive spoiler so I'll be paying a lot more close attention in her cutscenes. I think Basim might be my favourite assassin's creed character.
I've just started new game+ after completing the entire game, it's revitalised my love for Assassin's Creed, I'm just hoping AC Red is more like Mirage but its combat is more like AC Brotherhood
Took me two full playthroughs to realize that you can get those Khidma tokens through pickpocketing very easily… I have 20+ of each type now at all times basically
it didn't help day of release Skill Up comes out with "i dO nOt rEcomMeNd - AC Mirage".
Considering how busy life is, I very much appreciated Mirage being shorter. 80-120 hr games are just too much for me. I also was very happy that it was more urban focused and felt more like classic AC. Sure it has some problems, but I will take them over the ridiculously massive open worlds that takes so long to finish that I forget more about the story than I remember.