I meant to talk about this game a while back, but I let my love letter to Bastion get away from me. Oh an addendum to the post about Bastion, it has more than one ending. Every last one is awesome. Note how I didn’t reveal how many endings there are? That’s right I didn’t, because I am not some spoiler-spreading motherfucker. Motherfucker is apparently correct as one word according to WordPress. Okay now before I blow my next few paychecks on buying a diamond solitaire and sending it to Supergiant Games, let’s talk about Ubisoft’s yearly Triple A stab-fest: Assassin’s Creed. In this case, the one with the subtitle Revelations. It has some story revealing stuff. Heavy I know. Let’s move on.
First of all, I really cannot fathom this. In a console generation where trilogies are generally decade-long affairs, Ubisoft manages to pump out quality title after quality title once a year. The first game had a few pitfalls yes, but it laid the groundwork for the great games that started with AC2 moving forward. What is even more mind-boggling is that the games keep on getting better and better with each installment. Revelations is no exception to this trend; it is the best AC game yet, to a point. It underplays a lot of weaknesses of what came before only to introduce a whole host of new ones. Continue Reading
