Haven’t gotten to Balteus yet but I’m loving it so far. Strongly recommend playing with KB+mouse if you’re able the gamepad controls are stupid – 4 attack buttons + 3 boost buttons and both sticks is poor design for a gamepad game, imho. I haven’t played an AC game since AC2, and that one I barely touched… But I was a hardcore obsessive AC1 fan, to the point of having 2 savegames with 100% of the parts of all 3 ac1 games 1 savegames with the “plus” cheats and 1 savegames played pure. AC1’s aiming and moving controls were bonkers, but the fact that they managed to fit all the actions onto 4 face buttons was better imho.

I love the swordplay in this new game, and the cooldown based weapons. I’m disappointed the shopping UI hasn’t improved much in like 30 ish years – switching back and forth between the buy screen and sell screen and garage is such a ball-ache and I’m surprised it’s still a thing. Why can’t I just buy and sell and equip from the same screen?