Assassin's Creed II is Good Until it Isn't

[@FeatureHistory]

I am still alive, and still unemployed. So have an old video not before on KZbin and don't mind me monetising it... enjoy!

[@kuriankeralaIndia]

You can

[@yezdanus]

we are ok, keep'em coming

[@ststclair]

Always good to hear from you. Good luck on the hunt.

[@flamme6827]

Let's GOOOOOO !

[@georgehutchinson527]

I struggled with unemployment as a result of undiagnosed ADHD. Now I'm finally happy in a job I love that fits my routine. No more debt either. You can do it bro

[@kylinslittlecorner8888]

The real unsung hero of the assassin’s creed franchise is the person that puts a haystack under every historical monument in renaissance Italy and beyond

[@cs0345]

And the real villain of Assassin's Creed 2 was that farmer in the Bonfire of the Vanities DLC who wanted to hoard all the hay

[@Kometheus]

Templars just have to put a dagger or rock in there and they'd win.

[@shubhroy7960]

@@Kometheus AC Rogue missed a real opportunity to use "Assassin Traps". Since we play as a templar WHO KNOWS the way of the assassins, we should have been able to hide spikes in haystacks and wait for dumb assassins to impale themselves. Man, we need another game where we play as the templars and get to do such stuff.

[@lixobounce6588]

​@@shubhroy7960 all fun and games until you forgot you put a trap there and accidentally impaled yourself

[@prodELOKX]

@@shubhroy7960that’s genius

[@jesuschrist9513]

Imagine being a police officer and telling a teenager to stop running on the rooftops and he just leaps on you and stabs you in the neck

[@mikehunthurst6953]

Lol

[@jungi001]

average tuesday activities in London actually

[@nigga6662]

@@jungi001 lmfao

[@tylernelson4901]

owned

[@poutineausyropderable7108]

Well, Police officer wouldn't shoot a teen because he's running with a hoody. Huh... nevermind. USA USA USA!

[@BlaukaeppchenS04]

Monteriggioni isn’t unrealistically tiny in the game. It’s unrealistically HUGE. The real town ist really just a very few houses, a plaza, the church and the walls. There’s no Auditore mansion and there’s way less houses.

[@antialiasantialias4958]

I think it spans about 20 years, not 40. Ezio was 17 in the opening fight scene on the bridge. If it was 40, he would've been 57. He's in his 50s in Revelation.

[@Succubusy]

But it starts when he’s a new born baby in the very beginning so technically he’s right. I hated this video tho, he’s whining about the lack of antisemitism and slavery not being in Venice when that’s not really what was happening in the story. He seems to think that’s what people would want In their video games. It is not supposed to be a simulator it is a video game

[@cba2make1up]

@@Succubusy Agreed, highlighting sensitive subjects in a game focusing on literal magical artifacts is just irrelevant and infuriating.

[@mackenziebenedict8403]

@@Succubusy I’m not finished the video, but he’s not really reviewing it’s quality as a video game, and it’s game play though. He’s reviewing how accurate it is to it’s historical setting. To which the lacking of anti-semitism and racism against slavs and slavery, and general black and white washing of some historical figures would actually be points against it. Remember, he’s not IGN or meta critic, he’s a history youtuber

[@shubhroy7960]

@@mackenziebenedict8403 yeah, but he overdoes it a bit. I mean say it once... WE GET THAT THERE IS NO RACISM. stop saying that every 30 seconds

[@mackenziebenedict8403]

@@shubhroy7960 he mentions it twice, both times during the section on Venice.

[@MrDarkSephirot]

I must say Monteriggioni is absolutely not "unrealistically tiny". I've been to the real place and it's surprisingly much smaller than the one represented in the game. Otherwise great video and sense of humour, keep it up. 👍🏼

[@mathewkirk1748]

It is also missing a certain villa…..

[@aspiretospidey]

@@mathewkirk1748 sadly yeah🙁

[@enorak1139]

The game also does a fantastic job on the historical architecture and city layout, however, there are some differences: 1. Ponte Vecchio already has a portion of the Vasari corridor on top of the meat and fish shops, even tho it wasn't built until 1565, while the game takes place between 1476 and 1499. 2. Similar to the last one, the facade on Santa Maria del Fiore, at least the one shown in-game, wasn't finished until 1887, the one that was present during the game events only went a little bit past the entry doors. 3. The Medici brothers did get attacked in Santa Maria del Fiore, however, Giuliano died in front of the Duomo's altar, while Lorenzo actually got a wound in his neck but managed to hide inside one of the sacristies of the church before escaping.

[@vaclav_fejt]

AC II is great at educating the player...through pop-up cards about historical buildings. When I played AC II and AC Brotherhood, I was immediately thrown back to my high school trip to Italy. Everything else is so Hollywood nobody at least a bit educated would take it seriously.

[@ianbailey4213]

Yeah the actual historical information is mostly in the index entries, as well as more recent games historical tour modes. IIRC Black Flag even acknowledges that one of the famous churches you can find in Jamestown wasn't even built during the game's time period, and it's explained in-universe as Abstergo Entertainment embellishing a famous landmark for marketing purposes.

[@Deivid-bn6yw]

It’s kinda impressive how they create that balance of history and fiction and integrate it into the story

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Still a better history lesson than most classroom lectures.

[@Kometheus]

:|

[@OverseerAI]

Dude I aced the renaissance part of sophomore high school history class because of AC2 😂 knew all the syllabus already

[@rick7424]

A 20+ hour game is better at teaching history about Italy during the Renaissance than a single lecture having to cover a much broader subject without acces to such visualisations? Who would have thought.

[@adrianalicea6704]

It's not

[@kassandraofodyssey6475]

@@adrianalicea6704 Yeah it really isn’t. But it’s a good basis to start off with to delve further into Italian history.

[@Radii999]

I remember first getting out of Florenzi and I was astounded when I realized there was more cities to jump into

[@Michael_the_Drunkard]

*Firenze

[@chochmah]

I thoroughly enjoyed AS2 as a walking sim through renaissance Italy. The soundtrack was at least half of the experience.

[@vaclav_fejt]

@@JaykPuten or costumes.

[@chochmah]

@@haseebsheikh7189 Really can't agree more. The Ambient soundtrack makes the game.

[@jessetorres8738]

Good to see you're back talking about a video game franchise I played all the time during high school.

[@shrimpfry880]

you can escape those problems with 2 things -the warning before the game saying its fiction -and the game plays from the perspective of ezio because we're playing desmond's genetic memories (idk how that works but that's what i've gathered)

[@shrimpfry880]

and for the claim of anti semitism: there's not a single place and time in history where the jews weren't hated/discriminated against except the modern (post ww2) western civilization

[@Michael_the_Drunkard]

​​@@shrimpfry880 it's about time we stop pretending that Jews were always hated for no reason after being expelled from over a 100 kingdoms.

[@ginogatash4030]

​@@shrimpfry880 ok but it being norm at the time doesn't make it not be anti semitism, the definition of anti semitism is hating jewish people and non jews certainly did hate them, plus it was a pretty significant part of history nonetheless so to see it completely omitted in a story about a secret organization fighting for fucking freedom is a pretty odd creative choice.

[@radioclash84]

The peak of Assassin's creed series. I feel like the setting is very important in these games and Italy provides that. And also Ezio as a character was so multi faceted. He goes through young, youthful to vengeful but still always keeps what made him Ezio.

[@memecliparchives2254]

Revelations was the peak narrative wise.

[@godzillazfriction]

AC 2 suffers from very mid writing especially with ezios character arc with it being practically non-existent and it making no sense.... ppl only say that ezio was well written because of the simple change of him being revenge driven but then turning into a wise adult which is simply not true... ezios character growth happens way too quickly and doesn't help thr fact that the game time skips constantly... so by the time ezio is in sequence 5 or 6, he's already a wise not revenge driven adult who explains how much he has grown in that speech in sequence 13 but it ultimately falls flat because ezio remained the same as he was since sequence 4 or 6.... and he explains how his ppl aka the assassin's showed him the path of vengeance isnt right even though thats not true because they always wanted him to kill templars and trained him to do so... even the girl that got betrayed just like ezio gave ezios the abilitied to aid him against templars... also ezio never makes any mistakes except for disrespecting francescos son but it was over so quickly that it didn't even matter and because ezio himself hangs francesco brutally and has the music to show that this was cruel but it is never mentioned and never has any reprocussions for that action that ezio did, ubisoft hinted at making ezio somewhat grey with that snippet of him hanging francesco and the cinematic trailer where the templar seems like somewhat of a decent person as well as the guards but ubisoft just decided to not do that and instead abandon what they had from the 1st game where everything was morally grey and you couldn't decide which sides were right... now ezio vs the borgia is basically just like tlou2 but somewhat worse and I love how everyone praised this but not TLOU2, however ubisoft did fix ezios character in brotherhood and in revelations and using his character to reflect on how he was in AC 2 where machiavelli just said that ezio was a prophet even though ezio never really was able to cope with it as well as retiring after dealing with rodrigo borgia but all that changes where his city gets attacked and is done with this shit

[@godzillazfriction]

plus why is everyone forgetting about AC1 who arguably has the most interesting story out of any ac game..... the game is very unique in its gameplay and story as well as pointing out how everything is morally grey which AC2 fails at but still had hints of it like with Uberto even though he wasn't a templar

[@cba2make1up]

@@memecliparchives2254 Objectively correct sir

[@splinterborn]

I'd argue AC1 is peak AC. I Just prefer ACII, Brotherhood and Unity. All by the same original Montreal division . AC1 has best story AC1 is the most immersive & AC1 is fundamentally the closest game to Patrice's original vision, coming off POP Assassins.

[@t1t0s89]

Hope you're doing well.

[@Ihadthismate]

So happy to see you making videos! Well done mate. You’re a legend

[@DolanOk]

We miss you, brother! I hope you've been doing well and we all care about how you're doing. It may be an old video but I'm so happy to see something from ya! We all love your videos and I think your content has and always will be amazing.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

I loved Assassins Creed 2, I had a blast exploring Renaissance Italy

[@zomaariemand5650]

Monteriggioni unrealistically tiny? It's even tinier in real life then in the game! Was a bit of a shock when I got there tbh (but yeah, no mansion irl, churches yes)

[@Oliver_Saer]

This is brilliant, I'd love to see you do the rest of the AC series too!

[@rdf4315]

Assassin Creed II still has arguably the greatest soundtrack ever put in a game .

[@antonioskoda9516]

Revelations disagrees

[@rdf4315]

@@antonioskoda9516 you're right Revelation did have a few good songs but still fell short of assassin Creed 2 songs.

[@antonioskoda9516]

@@rdf4315 the good ones I can specifically name from AC2 are Ezio's Family, Venice Rooftops, Sanctuary and Home in Florence. Revelations has many better ones IMO. I respect your opinion cause AC2 has a near perfect soundtrack.

[@PallaDiMaldini]

@@antonioskoda9516 you missed Earth from AC2

[@antonioskoda9516]

@@PallaDiMaldini it's as overrated as Ezio's Family, while being basically the same song.

[@m.m.1301]

10:22 although you're right about the dialects, I need to correct you on two things: - while today they seem mutually unintelligible (although, if you know Italian, you can still understand most of them) that was not the case back in the day. In the 15th century, dialects were 500 years closer to Latin compared to today, and therefore much more similar to one another. - ever since the 13th century, the Florentine dialect (which would evolve into modern Italian) was the official lingua franca of Italy and was widely used by all educated people, such as Ezio and Barbarigo. Dialects were generally reserved for the lower classes. Remember, while at the time power had fragmented into small city states, they were all part of the kingdom of Italy and considered themselves Italian

[@m.m.1301]

@@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes as a speaker of Ligurian and French, i can say that they are very similar to the point of mutual intelligibility. Modern Spanish and Italian are also mutually intelligible today, as are most Italian dialects

[@Argacyan]

I feel like the same could be said about dutch and german or german & other stuff, but some of the people writing this in the comments would maybe lose their shit if it was pointed out

[@erraticonteuse]

Yeah I was about to say, AC2 takes place well after The Divine Comedy, whose Tuscan dialect gets credited as the origin point of modern Italian. Any educated Italian of the Renaissance was very familiar with Dante's tongue.

[@FluffyFishy69]

I hope you don't mind me pointing this out and it doesn't come across as aggressive but the commentry on Venice is a little wrong for the time period, Slavery was banned in the city in 960 and partially continued but was massively cracked down on in the early 1400s, The city was also quite open to Jewish communities during the time period and it wasn't until the Ghetto was established after in 1516 that the yellow armbands were used, and for a fairly short period, mainly over fear of the new foreign community acting as spies especially after recently suffering the war of Cambrai, the use of armbands was temporary as a resolution for inviting large potentially dangerous communities to the cities. Slavic people is an interesting one because the Conquest of Constantinople cut off the other Italian republics from their main source of Slave markets in the Black sea a market mostly monopolised by Genoa anyway, and for the most part The Venetians used Dalmatia and Montenegro as fairly independent and integral parts of their nation, whilst more concerned with the political chaos increasing over Italy at the time and growth of the Ottoman empire. Venice was also not especially for its time a racist state, they traded openly without prejudice valuing practical secular commerce over creed, religion or race. Class was a much more contentious issue during the AC2 period since the Concio (council of citizens) was abolished in 1423 and there was significant centralisation of power in the decades following this, so is surprisingly fitting for the game, even if by accident with a fairly dramatic power shift to a few powerful families within the Venetian nobility. This was somewhat fixed by increased checks on powers by growing displeasure by the great council and the citizens it governed. Sorry its a bit of an essay, thank you for reading :)

[@RealBadGaming52]

The writer just an SJW who wants to flex about how virtuous he is, I’d let it slide

[@Zero00899]

Good info. Comments like this make it worth going through all comments. Thanks for the good read.

[@eddiekrustysock4395]

Bro I was replaying Brotherhood and goddamn we didn’t know how good we had it.

[@DeathWolf-lr2qv]

For real. I hope with mirage Ubisoft goes back to AC's roots like they said they will.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

I went back and played it, I forgot how stiff the gameplay was, We've come a long way in video game physics

[@ivansalamon7028]

Stiff? Wut? How? I played it and found it absolutely refreshing, and every bit as good as it was the first time I played it. It had a solid vision, unlike these modern AC games where the vision of what they are meant to be is so very fragmented.

[@hawken796]

@@ivansalamon7028 You do know AC 2 and especially brotherhood are the games that introduced the "checklist" style of open world design right?

[@ivansalamon7028]

@@hawken796 That's the thing. They introduced a lot of things that were later bastardized and bloated. Whatever checklist gaming was in AC 2 was fine. Its not necessarily a bad thing, within reason. Its nice to have collectibles and things to strive for alongside your main content, but I do see why you think its a problem. AC2 also inadvertently introduced a slightly stylized art direction of things such as, primarily armors, and some enemies, that while I think worked great for the renaissance period they were portraying, set the foundations for much greater departures from historical accuracy down the line. I don't think their vision was bad in any sense. It worked amazingly for the Ezio trilogy. Its just the fact originality was lost over the years and shareholders had to get their share, and gamers got tired of the same old thing... Look at AC Valhalla, for example. Its not a bad game by any means. It has some amazing things about it, and is quite rich in good stories told, locations, immersion etc... but just as full of bloat, and never have I ever seen a game of such disjointed gameplay mechanics, reflected even in the artstyle of the game.

[@SharkSprayYTP]

@@ivansalamon7028 Youre only saying its fine because of nostalgia, fact.

[@ivansalamon7028]

@@SharkSprayYTP No. Not at all. I replayed it recently. It was EVERY bit as good as I remembered. Gave me the same butterflies, so to speak. Nostalgia is a myth. The game is simply that good.

[@joestack1921]

Something about the way this game’s written, I have a hard time following the plot. I didn’t learn anything about history and I assumed the details were more fictional than they are. But I learned a lot from your video, thanks!

[@Ace_of_Horns]

Funnily enough they kind of addressed this in the first game. Desmond asks Vidic why the things he sees in the animus aren't accurate to what he had learned about in school. And Vidic basically tells him that those history books have unreliable information skewed by years of opposing opinions and bias seeping their way into the chronicling of the events.

[@ginogatash4030]

Sure but that doesn't quite work when you then sanitize historical figures to have a good vs evil dynamic that favors history's winners.

[@jungi001]

5:08 I have been to the real Monteriggioni and it seems way smaller in real life. So they made it unrealistically big in the game, not small.

[@chuck2703]

Glad to see a new video. From one stranger to another, stay safe and take care.

[@lucapeluso4768]

I'm italian, I visited the real Monteriggioni. In comparison, the game version is NY.

[@rothern3761]

Ugghhh Feature, I'd be careful about that part about slavs in Venice. The idea of slav being equated with slave isn't one really supported by many historian nowadays. One of the more popular modern thought is its related to slovo 'people who speak like us'

[@FeatureHistory]

Yeah I did wince a little remembering I said that in this video. Is not true.

[@erraticonteuse]

I thought the idea was that the rest of Europe butchered the Slavs' name for themselves into "slave", not that the Slavs' name derived from being slaves.

[@keneokafor8327]

glad to see a new video of you

[@lordray1284]

I was just listening to parts of the soundtrack a couple of hours before this video was uploaded. So it was nice hearing it in the video.

[@TEC6608]

Good to see you back hope your doing ok 👍

[@erraticonteuse]

This was the game that got Blue from OSP into history, so we've all benefited from it, regardless of its inaccuracies.

[@syn_chrony]

love to see new content, glad you're back mate and looking forward to whatever's next!

[@Ash-Winchester]

Machiavelli should not be an assassin at all since his book "The Prince" (something every mafia boss reads to learn how to control the people) is a complete contradiction to the assassin's more radical and anarchist views of individuality, freedom and "not needing people telling us what to do" as ezio put it. Really, no ruler would ever really be friends with the assassins.

[@jakubhejna6301]

You can't miss Kingdom Come: Deliverance. One of, if not THE best historical game.

[@youtubeman2001]

Don’t understand the hype. The gameplay is stiff and janky and the combat is extremely awkward and frustrating. Plus movement is painfully slow

[@Conorp77]

​@@youtubeman2001yes, but the setting and accuracy are S tier.

[@cloakedoblivion22]

Even if it’s old it’s gold!

[@MCL003]

Glad to see a new video mate

[@Kzummo]

You know what, if the channel should or shouldn't continue is up to you, I'm just happy that you've been honest with everyone along the way about it

[@samwill7259]

I hope you're doing alright and I know you're going to be ok if you keep pushing. And hearing more from you is always worthwhile

[@nedargiordano7018]

I finished the game twice, it was a great game, in that 2009 era of gaming. The beautiful open world and soundtrack knocked this game out of the park

[@Gouldsonuk]

You have a great art style and irreverent writing style that deserves a bigger audience

[@dansmith7131]

I just finished playing through AC2 again a couple days ago - phenomenal timing! I've been thinking talking about people and events that occur in the games would be an excellent opportunity for videos, so thanks for stepping up! Your trademark wit hits the spot also! Hope you're doing well!

[@digdougx]

So amazing to say anything from you. We all love you here. Keep getting better and just know we all miss you.

[@namduonghoang2931]

this game can define my "child hood gaming career".

[@maxpalermo-u8l]

Hope you’re okay dude 👍🏼

[@enzoamore8971]

The franchise was never about accuracy, but the opposite. It was always exposing "historical fact". Its about history being a lie.

[@noaheke2666]

My takeaway is that AC2 is a lot more historically accurate than I thought

[@dead-uwu]

i honestly didn't mind the dlcs. it was a pleasant surprise on replay to think i was approaching the ending and getting like 10 more quick assassination missions from those missing memories i always wondered about playing it the first time as a kid

[@mitchellwright5478]

Brotherhood and AC4 are really the only AC games you need to play. Also Rouge because unironically the game points out how hypocritical the assassin ideology is

[@SharkSprayYTP]

Also Rogue because if you liked AC 4 then Rogue is basically just more AC 4

[@cba2make1up]

If you will recommend Brotherhood and Black Flag for the gameplay and Rogue for the story, then you're not really doing justice to the rest of the games that also excelled in at least one of the two, particularly Revelations.

[@uglovasgaming]

I think AC3 is good for that last point too. You get to see their point of view through Haytham

[@mitchellwright5478]

@@uglovasgaming true, but how they handled connors responses kinda messes with me a bit, like I understand he’s ignorant of the whole situation but his acting and story was just a little harder to believe than Shays, who albeit the entire game is about him, you can follow and completely understand why he does what he does, Connor kinda is just like ‘where my da, me mum dead’

[@mitchellwright5478]

@@cba2make1up that’s not to say other AC’s aren’t great, Revelations, Syndicate, etc

[@MissAlice_646]

The pope excommunicating the entire city of Florence and Florence excommunicating the Pope back is just pure comedy

[@jackdigan6024]

Great video AC2 holds a very nostalgic place in my heart

[@ptlemon1101]

The Templars and the religious order the Assassins come from still actually exist, even close to each other in Portugal. King Denis of Portugal gave exile to all Templars and started a new order, the Order of Christ, which still exists and the President of Portugal is its Grandmaster. Also in Lisbon, there's an Ismaili Center, one of the only 6 in the world.

[@ag7898]

Hooray! Feature History video!

[@andystewart3421]

Hope you're well mate

[@aidanmxlui]

glad you're back man!!!

[@WetworkWarlock]

Dead Channel, ban me from the channel/server, you can’t escape it. Rest In Pepperoni Lachlan, the 21st Century Schiziod Man

[@cameronjohnson9361]

Whether historically accurate or not the we have your kids I have a vagina will always be a all time comeback 😂😂😂

[@cheezybrotherstudios]

It always bugged me that Ezio was boys with Machiavelli AND the Medici. The Medici like, personally hated and even tortured Nicollo! They even mention it in the games codex!

[@Theradbrad714]

The video is great and glad to see a new video.

[@micahistory]

Glad to see you back!

[@AA-db9cb]

The writing was way weaker in Assassin's Creed II compared to the first one. First one was gritty and realistic, and dialogue was short but succinct. In AC2, it felt more like a theatrical play with much longer dialogue and it was written where Ezio had deep relationships with a lot of his allies and enemies, whereas a lot of the supporting cast in AC1 were more like acquaintances with Altair, which was much more realistic.

[@darkkillerx29]

Honestly I guess we can all agree that at the end of the day it’s just a game and it’s meant to be fun and enjoyable over being a historical playable documentary. It has its own lore it’s own stories and we all love it for what it is

[@Minuteman_Medic]

I hope this video takes off and makes your situation better bro 🤙

[@nuur2825]

10:20 It's more than close enough to be mutually intelligible to a good extent in my opinion. That's an unfair nitpick for all the dialects that would be in the game. It doesn't include any Sicilian or Sardinian in the game. If you're curious just how intelligible there are plenty of videos of various italian dialects and standard italian speakers trying to understand it as well as speakers of other romance languages by Ecolinguist.

[@aaronblygh4719]

Welcome back dude!

[@alekseev7646]

Missed you, dude Keep it up, please!

[@jaredgup6537]

Hopefully you're doing better mate! Cheers!

[@blava3155]

I really like these! Thank you

[@adoringfan4945]

3:13 The game talks about Leonardo's sexuality in the game database. 2:20 the first game spans across 22/23 years - 1488 - 1499

[@simont.4633]

It does technically spend 40 if you include his birth

[@Michael_the_Drunkard]

There is still no concrete proof that Leonardo was a homosexual. All of his pupils after his death had wives and all we got was an anonymous accusation of sodomy in 1476 in which he is 1 of 4 a accused of solliciting the service of Jacopo Saltarelli, a male prostitute. The erotic painting of the "incarnate angel" is presumed to be drawn by his pupil Salai, who used the right hand rather than the left hand, that Leonardo drew with. One of the main supporters of the "homosexual theory" was none other than Sigmund Freud, member of the proto-cultural marxist Frankfurt School, who relied on a mistranslation of his recorded childhood memories. The word he mistook for meaning vulture actually meant kite in his story. It should be no surprise, that he used this interpretation for ideological motives.

[@mds_space2]

You forgot to talk about the Truth puzzles and how the kneet a whole conspiracy throughout history. They must have had a team of people in Ubisoft with the sole purpose of researching a bazillion conspiracy theories from different periods of history and make they all seem connected

[@RedLogicYT]

Hey man. Hope you're doing good. Miss you.

[@Ma1q444]

You should do a historical accuracy video on every assassin creed video, but probably put history in the title it will get more views

[@TheLastSoundNL]

Eeeh I didn't get the impression that Lorenzo was all that flattering. I thought I was helping a really bad mob boss and just another ruthless guy using Ezio for his own influence, not much better than the antagonists.

[@HOUNDxROYALZ]

Assassin's creed 2 was my favourite in the series. I definitely encourage anyone who hasn't played it to give it a try.

[@norma8686]

I don't know why the game got Forlì city's name wrong, the stress is on the last i not the first o.

[@geodageo]

welcome back, man!

[@JimboPresi22]

I actually think the depiction of monterigioni in the game makes it look larger than it actually is

[@9ElevenGamer]

It's good until it starts adding time limits to objectives, making it a repetitive chore in some scenarios.

[@cygun09]

Part of the parkour in this game is killing guards on the roofs while running

[@TitusCastiglione1503]

2:22 Uh… The Papal States didn’t control Rome. Rome tried to control the Papal States… and usually not very well.

[@jackjones735]

Played this when I was 11 or 12, need to play again

[@allstarwoo4]

I'm playing AC2 for the first time I don't blame Ubisoft for simplifying or sanitizing history. I get annoyed when people think people or history is so clean and clear. So simplifying history for story purposes is fine. If non history people don't like that I bet they could name 5 historical figures and find at least one bad thing about them.

[@Linkario86]

I've been to Monteriggioni. It's actualy that small. At least the old village

[@bieateofanalexandru]

Bad title. Asassins Creed 2 is a great game, and that is it. Of course it does not true 100% to the history. It does not try to. But the setting, visuals, sound are incredible. The history gives you enough to understand some new things and for the game to be understandable. And the story/Enzio fit perfectly. It is a great game

[@Pizzifrizzo]

Well, this was good, thank you! I look forward to your covering of Brotherhood and Revelations, those games are way worse than ACII in terms of historical accuracy. Especially Brotherhood, I have a big gripe with their game's depiction of... well, almost everything.

[@TheKarabanera]

Ezio doesn't kill Borgia in AC2 in 1499, he dies in Brotherhood in 1503 as per history.

[@Rigel_6]

The best thing compared to more modern entries like Syndicate (the wannabe RPG I will pretend don't exist) is that the story is the meat of the game, more than half of everything you do. As much as Syndicate combat rocks and the story is ok, the city liberation/conquest overstays it's welcome quickly and is repeated about 10x times more than needed

[@thomasguiral7121]

On the topic of Venetian antisemitism, while it did indeed exist, as it did in the rest of most of the catholic world, I feel like the video overblows it. Of course, the fact that Jews were made to wear armbands understandly appeals to our own modern experience with that action, but when compared to the rest of Europe, the Venetian Republic was very tolerant of Jews. I know there were instances of them being kicked out of the city, and that when they weren't, they were confined to a strict curfew, forced to live in specific parts of the city... but again, in medieval times, that was about the best treatment they could expect. The next best thing for a Jew looking for kind treatment would have been to go East and have a look at the Ottomans

[@Blind_Hawk]

To be fair, I thought the game WANTS you to think you are the good guys, while in real history. The assassins sided with the bad guys and actually are the bad guys.

[@impalergaming5359]

lol, this mission to assassinate 9 leautenants without getting seen was a real pain. Why the F did they put this into main game? :(

[@Michael_the_Drunkard]

It was originally a DLC. While the missions became repetitive, I liked the story behind it and the epic speech Ezio gave afterwards.

[@comradeotaku]

honestly it would be way more interesting (and it would make a lot more sense - no goody goody medici) for the assassins to be supporting piero soderini and his administration of florence, especially since machiavelli was a minister in soderini's government and because soderini actually tried to revive and strengthen Florence's republican institutions. plus the fact that soderini was eventually deposed by the medici would be an interesting end to the game, you don't win all the time after all.

[@restitvtororbis5330]

Now this is a pleasant surprise 🤠 glad to see you're still kickin

[@catpurrito5586]

So rather than making the plot more gray and grim like in the first game, ac2 just sanitized the history and made things more black and white

[@casthedemon]

DaVinci doesnt really make futuristic things tbh. His real life counterpart had plenty of whacky ideas including helicopters and tanks. As for Ezios wrist gun the first gun was made in the 900s. Plenty of centuries before this game so its not too outlandish.

[@RandomOne1999]

Hearing an English person unnecessarily try to speak another language when pronouncing foreign names will never not be hilarious

[@neb_grange]

Video Summary For Those On a Time Crunch: The game makes a numerous basic historical inaccuracies that should be impossible to get wrong. In changes the pope's death date by several decades, and shows the night's templar as existing long after it was destroyed. The worst offense is the attempt to depict certain people as better that they were in real life. For example, Marco Polo is depicted as a freedom fighter rather than a slave owner, and a town is depicted as not being full of antisemitism, racism and slavery. Feature history believes that not a single historical figure in the game is as good of a person as the game makes they out to be. However, Feature history believes that if you look past the obscene inaccuracies, you can enjoy the game.