Assassins Creed Odyssey

They don't make those Shadow of Nyxes like they used to.

You are so fat, you get the Pythia tortured to death!!1!

Why though? Even my clumsy Alexios somehow managed to sneak in unseen.

*face smack*  I entirely forgot about that.  But then again part of my reticence was my last playthrough I think I snuck all the way through only to have a bunch of guards just waiting for me on the other end anyways as I got through.  

Its also a good thing that I took video of the Nikalous death scene because apparently I was right that I did not have it.  But to my chagrin I apparently do not have video of Kass sticking the Cylops eye up the goat's...behind eye.  

So I continued off hunting down Elpenor at all of his locations.  First up the little Fort that his fake was hiding at.  The good news Kass's descent into pacisfism is kind of well on its way as I didn't kill everyone at the fort and it was kind of cool too given how much trouble that has given me in the past.  It was concerning, however, that for some reason it seems my base assassin attack is not killing people unless it crits, by and large...and one time it did not crit but I finished him off with a Hero Strike.  

Followed Elpenor to the Temple of Snakes and well, they suffered my wrath.  Cleared them out quite easily and just owned Elpenor to the ninth degree of Sparta.  Then who needs Sparta Kick?  With the bow of...what's its face...with the knock back...and well I shot the final Cultist Guard/ Commander off the cliff with a devastating shot from the other end of the temple.  

Did the quest with the old lady wanting to reinvigorate her love life...and I do like it that they made sure there was a little bit of humor no matter what you do.  

And I infiltrated the Cultist meeting and I do find it a fun game to play trying to guess which Cultists are who that you run into later.  I do not think I am good at it.   But I am like 99% sure you run into the crazy witch who raised Alexios/ Deimos which was a bit of a nasty shock.  

I beat it. I think. Never saw any credits roll but Kassandra handed the staff to derpy Layla and committed seppuku. Not how I wanted to see her go. Seemed trivial after such an epic life. I have some practical questions, like where did she get the suit? Was she able to travel the world with the staff or was she stuck in that cave for 2000 years? Is this even the ending of the game or do I have to complete the DLC to see a definitive ending? I suppose I'll find out why Kassandra is considered canon after I play the expansions.

Took me 190 hrs on insane and exploration mode, and there's still a ton of checkmarks on my map. I don't know how I spent so much time with this game. My Witcher 3 runs were shorter than this. I think it's substantially better than Origins and the best one I've played so far. Story and characters were pretty solid and it had more gameplay systems and more reactive quests, so it felt far less one-dimensional than past games. Ubi still has a long way to go in writing seamless conversations for branching dialog and implementing choice and consequence. The absence of a journal where characters and quests could be summarized was a big misstep. I lost track of what the hell was going on because halfway through I treated it like a TES game and just went into roaming/exploration mode. It actually functions well that way and the gameplay loop of stealthing, combat, ship battles, finding Ostraka, killing cultists and mercs was super addictive.

Aside from the writing and quest design, I have two other complaints: the fetch quests need to go. They undermined any seriousness or character building for Kassandra. It felt out place that she'd do such menial tasks and was made worse by perfunctory, disconnected dialog. If Ubi wants this series to be a kind of live-service experience where you come back to it just to grind and level up, they need to implement this content in a more coherent fashion. My other gripe is the level scaling. On nightmare, the only way to stay ahead of the difficulty curve was to constantly level up your gear almost every time you level up, or you're in for the same two-hit and death bullshit at level 50 that you experienced at level ten. And enemies are massive damage sponges. You feel like you never get ahead. Pretty pleased overall though and I'm not sure I'll be able to finish all the DLC before Valhalla arrives.

FINALLY.

Now that she's properly dressed, I feel like things can get moving. At level 46...

Fair enough. My own personal taste on the matter is; I have the opportunity to dress a Greek Demi-goddess like Wonder Woman. The world does not exist where I don’t take advantage of that opportunity

I may end up swapping the actual set out for better/different stats, but I’ll keep the look, because I love it.

Nobody saturates colour like Hrungr saturates colour.

So... its a weird phenomenon with this game as I play it...maybe even especially when I get to Pephka especially ...that as I play it I get more hyped for Dragon Age 4 than anything else. Even with Vaalla just around the corner getting more hyped about DA 4. (Though watching Vahalla vids is getting me hyped enough for that in the first place.) Also the Athens section is always a reminder of how much Democracy sucks. Which is nice.

Anyways though I don't know why but I have been a bit worried about me bull rising the game...suppose it has something to do with the possibility of me feeling tempted to bullrush the game for the end of November. . I mean for the first few days of this game I have virtually been doing nothing but the story missions. But then this game is just so huge that it does not really *open up* where you have a logical reason to start exploring and doing side quests (in my mind) until quite a good deal of GP. Which I have pretty much officially reached.

Which I guess the only thing worth mentioning from this little marathon other then things I am sure I have mentioned before is that I think for the first time I triggered the singing game between Euripidies, Aristophanes, and Kassandra. Can you say 'insipration for Flyting'? Which was actually kind of awkward though, Kass's singing left a...little to be desired.

Now that my path is open and I can go wherever I went my first stop was Pephka. I began of course by running around the Minotaur area collecting all the quests though I passed up the kid's tour...at first. On the way to one of the synchronization points I ran into a merc on a horse...so he was getting away from me...I predator shot him...and it hit the horse...which I found amusing enough to tell my wife about.

I did like it, and I did forget, I had all the arena things unlocked...or were they always unlocked...but I was able to kill Belos which is the only arena fighting I would think of doing for this PT. Then off to the Minotour. I tried to leave the guys who tried to get me alive with my blunt staff but since the objective mentioned 'kill' I had little choice in the matter.

Have never worn that outfit or even used it aesthetically, just never occurs to me. 

I am actually enjoying the simple gear I am wearing now, I think Kass wears gold better than silver but I am enjoying just the simple silver stuff.

Are you asking where and what the trojan horse quest is?

www.powerpyx.com/assassins-creed-odyssey-sacred-favors-side-quest-walkthrough/

I have never come across a quest re magic mushrooms and hallucinations either, the only one involving mushrooms I can think of is the one with the witch and the woman she causes her hair to fall out. I don't remember a chance to eat the mushrooms.

Which quest is Zakros in?

I love EB’s response to the Trojan Horse quest if you don’t join in the celebration.

“I didn’t drink anything last night, so why am I seeing a giant horse?”

Ugh...Eppie...*drinks*

At least there is only one stele to go.

That camp is the one I use for the Weekly kill bandits quest like last weeks as it has about 15 bandits in it.