Everything GREAT About Assassin's Creed 2!

this video is sponsored by world of [Music] warships [Music] my name is desmond miles i'm a prisoner of war a war i never knew existed waged by two groups i never thought were real templars and assassins thousand years of history flowing through my veins brought to life by this machine using me to search for something call it the apple one of many so-called pieces of eden they want to make us all their slaves i met someone her name is lucy she's gone now he's taken away by that bastard warren vidic and his templar masters all i know is i need to get out of here quick and succinct opening to catch people up in the story from ac1 so we don't have to play it because oh boy was the first game of slog this red wall has a lot of interesting messages written by subject 16 is really eerie way of starting the game most of what is found on the wall all have vague preferences to the end of the world some math equations expressing infinity and chaos and some phrases in chinese just to seem more cool i'll leave a link in the description if you want to know more about everything on this wall it's a great way to show how mad the animus drove subject 16. a reason desmond didn't go mad in the animus is probably because he was playing world of warships in his downtime world of warships is a free team-based sea battle game for pc the game features over 400 historical ships that you can control in beautiful maps and in unique living landscapes you can also customize your own ships to your liking or to perform better there are more than 44 million players already working together on the open seas world of warships also boasts four unique warship types they've got the destroyers that rely on their speed maneuverability and stealth battleships that have the thickest armor and the heaviest of guns cruisers universal ships capable of varied tactics and aircraft cares the masters of reconnaissance and devastating airstrikes you can download world of warships using the first link in the 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it's better just to go all in than sit and deliberate i'm sorry where are my manners i'm shaun hastings this is rebecca crane they're touch and go throughout the entire game don't worry sean we still love you actually i prefer animus 2.0 since baby's twice as awesome as anything you'll find at abstergo some nice and universe reason for all the gameplay and ui adjustments between ac 1 and 2. what's done is done desmond don't dwell on the pass accept and move forward there he is victoria ezio's first words we hear is basically the way he lives his entire life to the assassin's creed he's got to get his lip scars somehow right i have no money for this doctor of yours ubisoft has their phone every now and then with the stereotypical italian gesturing it is a good life we lead brother the best may never change and may it never change us [Music] the best title card to any game ever is it completely carried by the score yep but i don't care it's beautiful and always fills me with joy back i mean fine but only for a minute a minute is all i need indeed well wait that came out wrong ezio is so well established as a young relatable teenager that we can all just relate to this setup makes the eventual crash hit all the more then who hasn't said something this embarrassing to a partner before your behavior is unacceptable it's it it reminds me of myself when i was your age father vindication it's explained as a glitch in the animus that some italian slips through here and there which i love as it spices up the dialogue and helps immerse us more in the culture of the story still recovering from last night even a game in 2009 had some pretty banging facial animations i mean come on i know i've made that exact expression before you should find an outlet i have plenty of outlets i meant besides vaginas ezio has a wonderful open relationship with his family i'm blessed to have an open relationship with my parents as well and would suggest giving it a shot if you're not with yours i'd rather contribute more practically more directly like making a blade that will kill hundreds of people i loved him no claudia you only thought you did he should suffer for what he's done did you all see ezio cast that jedi mind trick on claudia i mean there was nothing subtle about that hand wave oh duchy oh duchy oh give it here ezio's cool and suave and around people like him but throw him around those less fortunate he folds over which is pretty realistic to people nowadays love how much desmond looks like his ancestors i mean of course he does but the designers did it really well between seo and desmond giving them shared features like their nose but keeping them distinct from each other [Music] you can never go wrong with a nice suit up montage especially when paired with this banging score understanding i'll clear everything up mysterious hooded men foreshadows betrayal don't worry ezio everything is going to be fine well he wasn't lying everything was fine from his side and he got exactly what he wanted are a tighter roberto and one of them you may take our lives this day but we will have yours in return i swear i promise that it is fulfilled this is why you got to say what you want out loud manifest it roger craig smith's performance as seo is just immaculate blade is designed to ensure the commitment of whoever wields it ezio just like desmond is ready to go all in being an assassin before he really knows what he's signing up for i was only having fun it's you leonardo's a funny guy what of the body bring it inside and put it with the others back in the old days was a weird time and leonardo a weird dude but hey ethics weren't as stark as they are today and someone's got to figure out the human body be attending an unveiling tonight over rocky's latest work so you're ready for some reaching leonardo da vinci was the people of verochio in real history uberto is going to an unveiling of his latest work so i find it poetic that leonardo and ezio unveil their latest work to him in the form of the hidden blade and assassin skills respectively you can see and feel the rage inside ezio with this kill no respect no honor just brutal vengeance for its own sake the auditory are not dead i'm still here to murder this high profile figure in broad daylight scream out his own name all while surrounded by guards and the camerawork just makes this all the better mario really wearing his heart on his sleeve with that assassin insignia on his shoulder do i know you from somewhere don't you recognize me it's a me mario they just couldn't resist could they but i just don't have the time or money to fix things up yes that's life sad reality noises i trust you believe me now yes my father was an assassin relaying this exposition over training is much more engaging than just walking around the city and listening to them talk it seems my plan is mario is remarkably calm for someone in the middle of a war zone may the father of understanding guide you may the father of understanding guide you nothing is true everything uh whoops again smith impresses with his performance though this is basically the end of his arc it's still great to see what he grows into from this rage do you think he would have shown either of us such kindness you are not fiery do not become him never stoop to your enemies level do you know what that means what it's true nice you must be cerezio am i right uncle i like this architect he gets very observant when he can spell much this is a nice bit of levity from all the seriousness that has been going on for the last three memories the past two years have been kind to you but you are not the same at all are you these two are such chums ezio said nothing but leo picks up on his new energy and understands things have changed leo did say that he uses bodies for research purposes here is your mind the way he catches his money's baller but like he could have just accidentally swatted the pouch off the roof confidence i guess you'll notice i don't use the armor of altair that's just because i love these default robes so much but that doesn't take away from how badass those robes are and how fun and well designed each of the assassin tombs are i can't wait to go home to elena and tell her how much gold we made tonight humanizing the bad guys these soldiers just doing what they're told doesn't make them inherently bad it's normally just the ones at the top that are awful do not underestimate our enemies francesco or have you already forgotten how your son was murdered yakupo is probably the most wise and smart of these templars and since templars are bull-headed it's what gets him killed sadly may the father of understanding guide us request damn it's so close there he is as stupid as it is you gotta respect the top of the order being the ones to get their hands dirty gods god no one's coming for you cesare i mean francesco i am in your debt once more my friend any time it's you any time everyone deserves a friendship like these two fedex libraries in a short amount of time etsy has become wise beyond his years and it's beautiful to see the respect he shows his enemies for those who watched trailer footage we believed that this man would be dying a carnivale nice of them to switch it up on us so it wasn't a spoiler you make excuses and insult us how do you expect me to respond i don't know you know i feel really bad for yakapo mostly because of that sad delivery i know you're only doing as you're told so if you release me i will spare your life see what i mean from earlier even ezio recognizes that fact about these soldiers that's the strongest [ __ ] lifting the entire wagon without sami the gameplay can get from time to time the set piece is here and there are a nice breath of fresh air madonna oh you're good the ladies must like you the men too at me it would be my pleasure to welcome you i look forward to enjoying your hospitality with all the literal stabbing i forgot about ezio's affinity for the other kind that woman is as powerful and dangerous as she is young and beautiful this is the harmless talk the phrase boys will be boys should relate to something happened in 1321 yeah polo encountered the assassins while visiting kubla khan this must be when he obtained the codex now when he returned to italy he passed it on to dante now i've no idea what brought the two of them together i reckon we could find out sean is abrasive but it's because he really cares about his work i mean listen to the way he goes off about marco polo in the codex but sometimes there's no other way sometimes desmond people have to die for things to change i'm still wrestling with that thought process if you see my last of this video i go into deep detail on why i feel so strongly that killing is never the answer but then there's the other side of the coin of examples where people had to die to protect the greater good it's something that i don't think for as long as we live we'll be able to ever come to a consensus on let me know how you guys feel about this topic down below you've picked up every single one of ezio's skills becca know nine loops is just cool sci-fi tech now with neuro link becoming a possible thing in our lifetimes downloading information and abilities might be something we get to experience what the hell i'll tell your throwback wait a second why aren't i following ulta here i don't recall if they mentioned this in the first game but this comment by desmond confirms that the way we experience the game is the same as desmond does third person camera ui everything desmond checks to make sure his finger's still there the time the enemies is definitely getting to him learning from past mistakes we spelled no expense in its design i hope you didn't do it like john hammond we all saw what happened to his park yes i didn't miss the hug go fetch bianca be quick what are you gonna hack off her leg your work in florence and the rest of tuscany good work too if a little unrefined then you know why i'm in venezia i can guess i like that ezio's ego doesn't pipe up to antonio calling his skills unrefined in cafe what's cafe an interesting concoction i'll never not enjoy these little interactions about stuff we are so used to nowadays i was hoping you could help me with something and that would be i want to learn to climb the way you do oh etsy is a working man can't have any distractions but i do understand her disappointment they don't translate it for us but this saying is an italian idiom used in theater and opera meaning good luck its literal translation is into the wolves mouth and may the wolf die which directly applies to the goal of this mission i feel the need to involve myself more directly the patch he disappointed us in frenzy i feel him having things go awry when you're not in direct control of it stings a lot more than if you were we need to scout the palazzo carefully see it from every angle we just might find a way in i know of a tall campanile behind the palazzo or we might find a way to climb the back of the basilica do you have any ideas i assume the front door is out and this is why we love you ezio does it work leonardo can it really fly so cool that ubisoft used a lot of leonardo da vinci's actual codex to bring these designs to life in the game and fantasize about how they might have worked this has just died up to 11 brotherhood to such a fun degree of course what is he doing now nice confirmation that ezio doesn't understand a thing that leo is ever doing but just rolls with it it's ridiculous but just plausible enough to not feel out of place and be fun you are too late the doge is dead well he somehow managed to get his king to the opposite side of the board and was still alive so good on him for the effort forgive me signore i tried what a [ __ ] situation to be in your savior being moments late and apologizing for not being able to save you moments before your death but hey at least he apologized in fact it seems to be a kind of armada ubisoft really just said let's take all of leonardo's possible inventions and make ezio use them and i'm here for it the carnavale cape is super sexy and i'm sad we can't use the whole game where did they get king moraz mask from jacket from caspian these games are simple actions of what we do all the time but with a fun narrative spin on them that shakes up the usual mission structure of go kill these guys and we play capture the flag like what don't know if i should kiss you or slap you maybe both just never a bad idea to cover all bases and it's always a good day to kiss the homies after fighting with him i'm not surprised in the slightest that bianca is a sword we should celebrate this victory what it's true ten years hunting the man responsible so close to the end now but no closer to understanding what any of it was for it's this kind of reflection that i've been aching for since ezio flipped his y switch after killing vieri it's nice to see him contemplate and realize that killing all these men has brought him no peace you know i gotta win the sauce we're watching box what's in the box iodora what what are you all doing here avengers assemble you want all assassins i can understand him not knowing they were assassins but some of them volpe mario mario even tells him he's an assassin either way it's nice to see that to be an assassin you don't need a hood with a beak where other men blindly follow the truth remember nothing is true where other men are limited by morality or law remember everything is permitted the phrase is a really simple way to approach life and i really like it but the way the assassins lived by it is hilariously hypocritical but the hypocrisy of it is what i enjoy about it so much because it proves that not even the best of us are infallible and living that open and free as human beings is impossible i like it as something to strive for but to understand that reaching it is unrealistic and impossible this only hurts for a while brother like so many things thank god to get rid of the finger cutting tradition for one it seems a little much in cultsy but it's also a funny humbling reminder of how aspects of tradition religion and cults could be born spoilers for assassins creed origins but bayek lost his ring finger because of a limitation of the mechanical design of the hidden blade and not to feel embarrassed bike decided to make the finger sacrifice tradition to show how hardcore you are about their club when in all reality it's not necessary it's still wonderful that the ceremony is punctuated by a leap of faith as following the assassin's creed truly is just a leap of faith explain to you why the earth goes around the sun you mean the sun around the earth again with their gaps in knowledge [Music] everyone's in pain but leo is the one that sees inside among the apple and tries to gain as much as he can from it before it's gone 22 years ago i stood where i stand now and watched my loved ones die betrayed by those i had called friends [Music] vengeance clouded my mind would have consumed me where it not for the wisdom of a few strangers taught me looked past my instincts i never preached answers but guided me to learn from myself we don't need anyone to tell us what to do not seven or all not the marriage we are free to follow our own path there are those who will take that freedom from us too many of you gladly give it but it is our ability to choose whatever you think is true that makes us human there is no book or teacher to give you the answers to show you the path choose your own way do not follow me or anyone else you'll notice i skipped all of bonfire the vanities but this moment that's mostly because it was a dlc that wasn't intended to be part of the main game and is super boring but this speech is something that should be it's a beautiful full circle of ezio's arc and should have been the moment when his art completed what makes this better is that he describes the assassin's creed in terms that are more reasonable and understandable versus the culti phrase i thought i was beyond this but i'm not i've waited too long lost too much now after that speech we thought ezio was the perfect man in assassin but when confronted face to face he feels all that old vengeance flow back through him he knows this kill serves a higher purpose but feels guilty about enjoying the kill ah it's the same thing i'll tie her dead no more tricks no more ancient artifacts no more weapons let us see what you are made of old man you know i'll let him have this being a grown wise man for over 20 years being respectful and killing targets quickly he's allowed one moment to feel himself and fight the man that murdered half his family no killing you won't bring my family back i'm done after all those heated feelings of vengeance resurfacing rodrigo gives ezio time to think and calm down through fighting him it's a good reminder that we as humans are weak in moments of rage and anguished we are bound to make stupid decisions when our brains are clouded with one emotion and we can't take time to reflect and make a measured choice we must speak minerva looks straight into the camera which is the animus's camera which is desmond which is super freaking cool your minds were not yet ready and when this scene played back in 09 our minds weren't ready either this entire scene was a trip way back in the day you anchor him but please be silent that we may commune ezio's place in the story being this simple and going through all he did just for desmond to hear this message is awesome gives me goosebumps every time and again minerva knows exactly where the animus camera is and talking directly to desmond blows my mind and that also means that cutscenes in the animus give the actual users cinematic angles just like we see the rest is up to you and and and that's when we all ship bricks as we got confirmation that she was talking to desmond what the [ __ ] desmond perfectly sums up all of our reactions [Music] could you imagine if they just ended it there having to wait a whole year for brotherhood to see what happens next the mystery confusion rot from that scene was such an awesome time to be on the internet and an active fan it breathed so much life into the community and ushered in the era of weird conspiracy theories and creepy feelings about the world of assassin's creed boy does it feel good to whip ass as desmond in the modern day the templars aren't our biggest threat not by a long shot so what the sun is what's it gonna do cook the earth i doubt it but i don't know there's been some speculation that the earth's magnetic field is weakening a sufficiently strong flare could flip the poles and cause a geomagnetic reversal and how [ __ ] wild is it that ubisoft hinged their modern day story on the 2012 into the world phenomenon and to have to release their next three ac games once a year just in case the world didn't and i mean hell for all we know desmond miles spoilers for ac3 did save the world and this is the story about that but we weren't really allowed to know so they hid the truth in plain sight with this game i know a stupid theory but at least the modern day story had something actually going on in this narrative at this point in the assassin's creed franchise you're probably thinking wow that was such a short video there's got to be so much he missed to that i'd say maybe i'm not all knowing but to me replaying this game surprised me with the amount of i want to say filler but that word has such a negative connotation attached to it i guess for what i'm feeling is story deprived missions i'll go into that in a minute last i played ac2 i was young younger still when i played through my first time and i'm sure that's the case for many of you as well assassin's creed 2 had the benefit of releasing in a video game market that was overhauling almost every type of genre due to the massive jump in power between the generations that with a great story that maybe could have been told better and our nostalgia being too kind to this game we remember ac2 as the best in the series that's where i was at replaying the game for this video it was a humbling experience to say the least we so often just remember the good parts the good times associated with something long gone even now when i think back to me playing as a kid i romanticize those long nights running atop venice's rooftops and those memories are beautiful and i will cherish those nights forever but it becomes a problem if you let it skew present day judgment like i did now i can approach the rest of this conclusion from two standpoints speaking on it from a critical standpoint with our modern understanding of what we believe we want out of a video game or from back in o nine when we played it and what that experience was like i'm not 90 anymore and i've learned a lot about storytelling video game structure and at least a lot about what i desire out of a video game so this might air on the more critical side of conclusions but hey constructive conversation will always beat out blind loyalty i know ironic when i say that as this channel is formed around the idea of almost blindly looking for the good and what might otherwise be trash but i'll digress and start actually talking about assassin's creed 2. for at least the first four memories we get to watch a brash teenager get his entire life change in the course of a day and be forced to learn how to use murder as a tool responsibly and respectfully and that's my biggest disappointment replaying the game after killing vieri it's one little reprimand by mario and ezio turns into his wise respectful assassin self i know the game jumps years at a time and it's not hard to believe he did some soul-searching off-camera but how much more powerful would it have been if it took till near the end to complete his arc to go through all of that with him just to regress for a moment at the end with rodrigo it was the decision of speed running his arc that a lot of the game to me feels devoid of story all of florence tuscany and the slog of venice just plot really do this to get closer to killing the bad guys and it isn't very engaging because ezio doesn't grow at all lengthen the arc throughout the whole game and have each templar he murders relate to his position and his personal story and maybe our thoughts of this being the best assassin's creed game would be vindicated am i being harsh am i being too negative for the channel that's supposed to beam positivity maybe but not always is blind praise the best way to approach these videos with objectively bad games yes but with a game we all hold so dear like assassin's creed 2 i think speaking constructively at least for a moment suits it better even with the disappointment of the story it doesn't take away from the overall amazing product that is this game the story told here is still the great one just told in a funny way that in tandem with everything else it accomplishes is what really made it such a masterpiece for its time being able to climb virtually any surface was nutty basically pioneering the stereotypical open world of viewpoints and collect-a-thons and bringing us one of my favorite video game scores ever i'd be remiss not to mention the stellar music used throughout the entire game the music always hits just right in conjunction with its scene and i'll catch myself throwing on venice rooftops or ezio's family at least a few times a year out of nowhere and i've gotta talk about ezio's family that track is what a beautiful piece of music easily my favorite single track from any video game ever is beautiful and so impactful from a narrative standpoint everything ezio becomes is because of family which is why i love that the track has become the de facto assassin's creed theme which and i think it's perfect since after he lost his family he was able to find a new one among the assassins ezio's family is the assassin's creed and it fills me with so much joy that every game after ac4 has had a rendition of it in their osts but assassin's creed 2 is nothing without its fantastic characters chief among them one of the best leading men of the ps3 360 generation this game isn't what it is without roger craig smith as ezio the charisma coming from this man is astounding and something we all wish we could pull off it's a special thing getting the opportunity to follow quite literally from birth to death the story of a character and not have its characterization falter one bit throughout i think i'm getting a bit ahead of myself though i'll save that praise for the revelation in embers videos though i have my complaints about ezio's character arc being rushed it doesn't take away from the power of his story my favorite aspect being that the entire time he was focused on family in the start with his brother doing everything he can to save the mail out of toray wanting to sail to spain with his mother and sister picking up his father's work and standing by the assassins ezio's a man whose life is run by devotion to family and if you've seen my other content you know how important family is to me so it's very cathartic to play as a man who does everything he can to avenge and protect what's left of his but even beyond that ezio's just a likable ass dude from his way with the ladies to his funny jokes to the rapport he shares with leonardo when i was younger i remember wanted to be just like him and i mean hell even now i wouldn't mind it at any stage of the story really i can't wait to talk about his character more in future assassin's creed videos but i want to save a little bit to talk about for those videos assassin's creed 2 is still a great game it just hasn't aged as well as we might have hoped when it succeeds it does in space but the cracks are more obvious today than they ever were i think my big takeaway from this experience with the game is that sometimes things are better off left as memory remembered fondly upon in the safety of our minds [Music] so you

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Published: Tue Jun 22 2021