Assassin's Creed Unity

Are you still on the tutorial missions? There's plenty of time to explore Paris, but you do have to get past the intro.

I didn't finish Unity (yet), but I thought the parkour was very smooth and enjoyable. I play KB&M.

Idk I’m just running away again from the blacksmith after trying to deliver a letter to my benefactor. I think I was at a palace

If you haven't been set loose in Paris yet, just hang tight


Keyboard and mouse.

All the older AC games are similar gameplay-wise (as far as the common types of missions), but I don't really know what you mean by this. I think all of the games have tailing missions, but some have more than others, and they are not the majority of the game.

Agreed.  It is a good demonstration on why the people that really liked the AC games before Origins were disappointed with the game for it was in a lot of ways a complete re-imagining of how the games work and felt completely different.

To me, stealth is the whole point I think Valhalla and Odyssey are way more repetitive than the older games, though their length may contribute to that impression.

But if you don't like sneaking around and knifing people in the back, then the older games may not be your thing. Are you going to finish more of Unity, though?

I ended up really liking Unity in the end but it certainly was the AC game, where it took me the longest by far to get into.

They increased the difficulty quite a bit in this one, both for stealth and for combat.

Unity - more than any other AC games - makes you learn the correct patterns to counter different enemy types. Some you have to parry, some you have to evade with the right timing, some need you to attack with fast strikes, others need slow and heavy attacks. Once you know what you are doing and when you have some decent equipment, it's actually pretty well manageable but especially the beginning is pretty hard.

In general - as has been said by a couple of people already - if you enjoy the last three games with their fairly free gameplay, the older ones may not necessarily be your cup of tea. The gameplay since Origins is more a rip-off of Witcher 3 and other open world RPGs, whereas the older games are much more action-adventures with strong stealth elements.

Even so, maybe give Black Flag a shot. It's a bit easier than Unity, especially in combat and it allows for a bit more straight forward aggressive gameplay, only needing stealth in a couple of missions. Also, it had by far the best ship compat in an AC, so if you enjoyed roaming around with the Adrestia in Odyssey, you'll probably love the Jackdaw in Black Flag (and Rogue because that's basically just a Black Flag asset flip with a new story ;D).

I'll just piggyback of this thread to talk about my AC Unity experience.

I started with Odyssey, t'was alright, then Origin. God I loved that game, being Bayak was awesome. It made me realise how much more I prefer a solid fleshed out character who's dialogue you can't influence, over Kassandra and the player dialogue and romance options.

Anyway I seriously disliked Unity at first, it took a while but it was the NotreDame mission where the game really started. It's very narrow and tutorially up until that point. I loved Paris, it was by far the most engaging setting so far. The people, the grime, the variety of missions, the helix missions in future Paris, I loved all of it.
I got obsessed with Enigmas, learnt a ton about the Revolution, actually read the database entries which is unlike me, and had a grand time.

My gripes are that I never cared about the characters, and some of the QOL elements were so badly done. I'm one of the unfortunates who was forced into the DLC early in the game as I clicked the wrong fast travel button, and had to do a level 5 mission at level 2 just to exit the damn thing and get back to Paris. Very poor implementation.

So....Syndicate or Valhalla next?

One of my personal favorites is Syndicate and I played the majority of AC games at release.  It did have some quirks to it, but I found using Evie whenever I had the chance it felt fairly close to most prior AC games, I found Jacob and his playstyle would have fit better with the last three games where Evie was more like the prior games.