9 Ways Assassin's Creed Odyssey Is Dividing The Fanbase

1. It Would Make More Sense Without The Assassin's Creed Branding

This question comes up whenever any major franchise repeatedly deviates from established norms set across a handful of initial instalments.

At this stage though, just look at Call of Duty, or even The Legend of Zelda. The latter ditched its rigid item-based progression entirely in Breath of the Wild, and was all the better for it; resigning dungeons and puzzles to smaller parts of the overall progression.

It could be that Ubisoft wants Assassin's Creed to be an umbrella term given to a HUGE amount of games, all going in a variety of directions, bound by a throughline lore and occasionally, some characters or terminology mentions.

The wider canon has seen everything from the death of Juno to Desmond Miles' son take up the same assassins life as his father. We've had comics, side-scrolling platformers and mobile games. Maybe at this stage, Assassin's Creed is already more experimental than we like to admit, and Odyssey is just continuing that?