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Throughout the history of the Assassin's Creed series, the "Ezio" trilogy, which began with Assassin's Creed 2 and ended with Assassin's Creed: Revelation, undoubtedly has a very special place. On the one hand, for many series veteran players, the "Ezio" trilogy is the beginning of their pit of this series, which is still regarded by countless people as a classic that is difficult to surpass; on the other hand, it also lays the foundation for all subsequent "Assassin's Creed" series games, although each work in the series will more or less carry out some gameplay innovations, but in the open world exploration, stealth assassination and other basic gameplay, the "Ezio" trilogy can be said to be the entire series for the follow-up. All set a clear direction.
It is also because of the "Ezio" trilogy has always had a high popularity, Ubisoft in the past few years launched a collection of three complete works and two independent drama short films - "Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection", which re-optimized the graphics of the original game and landed on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One X and PC platforms at that time. Recently, this collection has finally come to Nintendo's Switch platform, although the content is not any different from the previous versions of other platforms, but considering the switch's not powerful function, and the convenience of playing anytime and anywhere, the Switch version of "Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection" is still somewhat exciting.
Players' biggest concern about the landing of Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection on Switch is nothing more than the ability of Switch to support the smooth operation of the game. In fact, I can tell you with certainty that playing Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection with Switch is no worse than on other platforms. Thanks to Ubisoft's excellent optimization ability this time, the Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection on the Switch runs very smoothly overall. Although, as on other console platforms, the game is forced to run at 30 frames, whether playing in handheld mode or connected to a monitor, players can get a relatively stable frame rate performance, and there is rarely a visible frame drop problem.
I was particularly surprised that compared to the PlayStation 4 version I had experienced before, the Switch version of Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection showed a certain advantage in terms of graphics. Thanks to the smaller screen in handheld mode and Ubisoft's optimization of the game's graphics, Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection in handheld mode still presents a wealth of detail, and the overall clarity of the graphics is far superior to other Switch ported games. After connecting the monitor, the switch version of the game in the graphics effect, and other platforms gap is also further narrowed, although compared to the PlayStation 4 version, the game removed some of the shadows and material details, but the picture clarity is better than the PlayStation 4 version, the look and feel is more comfortable.
YouTube bloggers @Cycu1 compare the differences in image quality between different versions of the game
In addition, the Difference Between the Switch version of Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection and other platform versions is only the addition of HD vibration and touchscreen operation. And these two functions, their own sense of existence in the game is not strong. Considering that the game itself is not much content that can adapt to the features of the Switch in terms of gameplay, this processing is also understandable.
In all respects, this Switch version of "Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection" is very suitable for old players to choose for the sake of feelings and convenience, new players can of course use it to further understand the history of the "Assassin's Creed" series, it tells players from beginning to end, the life of the legendary Assassin Ezio Auditore, and its many gameplay also laid a solid foundation for the subsequent "Assassin's Creed" series works.
Starting with Assassin's Creed 2, Ubisoft has shown great strength in open-world game design. Although subsequent Assassin's Creed games were often criticized by players as formulaic open worlds, in that era, when you first entered the game in Renaissance Florence, you had to admit that its open world design was ahead of its time at the time.
In the original Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft adopted the design of open maps, but in the real-world games of the time, players had very limited interaction with the entire open map, except for synchronizing bird's-eye views and finding collectible items. In Assassin's Creed 2, this situation has improved considerably. Open world map exploration has since become one of the fixed labels of Ubisoft games, and through the "Ezio" trilogy to continuously enrich the game content, Ubisoft has also accumulated a wealth of experience in the road of open world game design.
In Assassin's Creed 2, players have more freedom to explore the cities reached by the protagonist Ezio. Not only do they have their own unique scenery, but players can also undertake side quests such as delivering letters, racing, assassinating fixed targets, and exploring ancient tombs in the map, which greatly enriches the playability of the open world map. In "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" and "Assassin's Creed: Apocalypse", stronghold scrambling, cultivating the Assassin Brotherhood, stronghold tower defense and other gameplay have also been added, so that players can experience a little freshness when playing each new game. And these contents also roughly constructed the gameplay framework of many subsequent "Assassin's Creed" series works.
In a way, the "Ezio" trilogy is the most interpretive of Ubisoft's understanding of the identity of "Assassin" in the series. Whether it is from the gameplay or the spiritual core of the story, they fully interpret the assassin's creed of "ploughing in the dark and serving the light". There are levels in the game that force the player to track targets and stealth assassinations, and once the player exposes his tracks in front of the enemy, the mission is declared a failure. Most of the main quests will also have additional "perfect synchronization" conditions, requiring players to think more carefully about the level strategy. These difficulty settings, coupled with the intertwined sense of the story itself combined with real history, it is easy for players to have a stronger sense of substitution. Compared to the sequel to the series, the protagonist who abandons these mechanics can have a berserker-like game experience all the way to the end, which is indeed nostalgic.
Of course, for new players in the series who have not experienced the original "Ezio" trilogy, it will be difficult to accept its outdated graphics and impersonal gameplay design. The Assassin's Creed series has evolved over so many years and will be refurbished every once in a while, resulting in the current Assassin's Creed being two completely different games compared to the Ezio trilogy. Although the core gameplay such as stealth assassination and parkour have been retained, it is somewhat difficult for players to experience the smooth parkour operation of the "Ezio" trilogy and carefully track and assassinate the target. For most Assassin's Creed fans, the only reason you can get to play this collection is the convenience of Switch and the only feelings left about the old works of the series.
At least for me personally, this Switch version of Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection will be sincere, it has a good graphics on the handheld, it also includes three of my favorite works in the series, and most importantly, I can now open the game anytime, anywhere, no longer limited by equipment and venue, although the collection does not add more features to the game, but it is already very satisfying.
Of course, if Ubisoft is willing to actually remake Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection with current technology, it will be even more regretless.