
Smoke bombs for just skipping the fight and using hidden blades. Unarmed is the best method in combat because you can disarm and it goes by faster. You can just spam counter attack and even then sometimes the enemies block this. At first I did this because I prefer how Ezio's outfit looks without the armour on but I quickly realised how useless the blacksmith stores ended up becoming. I went through the majority of the game with just the leather greaves the game forces you to buy and the default weapons, as well as the metal cestus to make the unarmed combat more interesting. I'm going to list my main gripes as best I can, but I should preface my nitpicks are likely results of the game being of its time (it's a PlayStation 3 game lol) and also acknowledge the fact that I'm a moody bitch. It started out nostalgia drenched and I was loving it but as the game went on it just felt like a chore. I had just finished a full playthrough of Bloodborne and figured revisiting the Ezio games would be a nice change of pace. Well, back in May I got the Ezio Trilogy remaster collection and I was looking forward to replaying it. So it was a pretty long time since I played an Assassins Creed game. Not Syndicate, Origins, Odyssey or Valhalla.

After that I lost interest (nothing against Unity, I played it after it was fully patched and thought it was OK) and I hadn't played a game that came out in that series since. I started with the first one and I played every single one till Unity. Like some of you, I'm sure, I grew up with the Assassin Creed games. at least I didn't think so till recently.
