This game is a mixed bag! I love it fundamentally, where it takes AC back to the roots but with a fresher than expected result of playing as a female. This gives way to some nice new perspective script and gameplay wise where in the script your gender can come into play both positive and negatively (but never in your face and obnoxious) and in gameplay the persona system brings out the lethality of a femme fatale in three unique and fun ways.
HOWEVER! Thank you Ubisoft for supporting VITA but you could have done much better. I know; resources, priorities and so on, I know you guys have a lot AC games to make and the bigger boys get more attention but guess what!? A paying customer doesn't care, it's not our role to care or worry about that stuff.
So why did I bring that up? Let's start with the minor issue of performance. Framerate I don't think every stays at a solid 30fps. Maybe it does, but it sure as hell doesn't feel like it. Game always has that sluggish feel which you oddly get used to after a while, well I did anyway. But still would have preferred a nice smooth game.
This is the biggie; everything VITA is not tested at all! The game engine QA guys did well. I guess most of the engine was ported over so engine is not bad other than the above issue. There are no engine bugs unique to VITA. But the controls?! Cannoning feels weird as hell, pick pocketing needs some practice because again, it just feels odd, pointing at a "light" source sometimes doesn't like the brightness of THE SUN and the damn tilting in the maze puzzle is TERRIBLE at picking up your calibration to the point where it feels down right broken!
Now why is Ubisoft getting the slack? All these AND MORE worked great in other VITA games. Uncharted mainly did most of that and they were amazing. I could FINE AIM using the tilt in Uncharted where as here I couldn't move a maze in the direction I wanted to it was so god damn badly implemented!
So it is the good old AC without all the bells and whistles (which I mainly find boring in the main series) so that worked for me! Female character worked for me, great touch and overall I really liked it. Story was OK in parts, but a bit lame near the end, but passable.
However the experience is hinder by the mainly technical problems that could have been ironed out if someone at Ubisoft cared a bit more!
Still, I would LOVE another VITA entry from AC, that again keeps it simple, POLISH IT! Ubi, and maybe evolve a couple of the mechanics.
As it is in this one though, it will get an OK stamp, which is guess what?!- OK! I know if IGN or whatever gives game a less than 7 it's the end of the world but I actually use the scale from zero to ten so 5 is ok. You are going to have an ok time with this game. If Ubisoft fine tuned the VITA experience it could have crossed into 'good' but no, they didn't, so OK it is;
5/10.
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