![]() ![]() The problem is, while doing all of this you are still subject to the rules of the game, so if you are seen to murder or steal you will have a bounty placed upon your head and a powerful mercenary will track you down. During the course of the story missions in Legacy of the First Blade you find yourself infiltrating military camps for secrets, investigating a mysterious sickness in a village and unmasking the various members of the Order of Hunters lineage of the Ancients. This feeling is further compounded by the Mercenaries mechanic that seems to have been dialled up for the DLC. Of course, the nature of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey could mean that Makedonia is under Athenian control when you arrive, particularly if you have engaged with the territorial battle mechanic and helped change leadership, but there is no escaping that it feels odd to have a sworn enemy of Greece traipsing around the region. However, in the setting of Peloponnesian Greece it seems a little out of place to arrive in a Spartan controlled area as the grand-daughter of the fabled Leonidas to find it overrun with Persians manipulating the local populace. Long term fans of the Assassin’s Creed series will recognise Darius as one of the earliest Assassins, credited with killing the Persian King Xerxes, and meeting him is an interesting prospect, particularly as the shadowy cabal he is tracking is the Order of the Ancients. Your actions catch the eye of Natakas and his father Darius who wields a mysterious hidden blade. Upon arrival you see a number of civilians burning to death and immediately you begin to investigate. For practical reasons you will need to have completed Chapter 7 of the campaign and be at least level 29 in order to start it as Makedonia is a higher levelled area. ![]() You receive a mysterious letter that asks you to come to Makedonia to provide assistance as “innocents are dying”. It is a shame then that this moment of enlightenment for Kassandra isn’t pursued further and the DLC descends into a microcosm of the larger game, where most of the systems it employs seem to get in the way of the story it is trying to tell.Īnd what of the story? Upon loading into your game you are automatically presented with a new quest. ![]() It is an interesting mirror of some of the main game’s themes that Socrates has you questioning, but now rather than the value of free speech, you are asked to consider the nature of fate and who decides what is good and evil. Arriving at the location one of the many quests takes her to, she is faced with the family members of those she has killed in the pursuit of vengeance, and is forced to consider the impact of her actions. There’s a crucial point in the story of the first Assassin’s Creed Odyssey DLC, Legacy of the First Blade, where Kassandra is forced to face the consequences of her campaign to take down the Eyes of Kosmos and reunite the family that was stolen from her as a young child. ![]()
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