I can't believe how well made this trilogy is and remastered. I first played on ps3 and having picked the trilogy up a while ago on ps4 I have just started brotherhood after completing 2 and i am in constant awe in how perfectly the creators balance ezio out. For me walking through the truly beautiful streets of rome (i can't explain how good it all looks) i have this sense of calm power. The sense that i am an extremely deadly man capable of killing pretty much anyone who even looks at me wrong and able to take down groups of 10 (which is pretty fun to do) but at the same this sense of.. not needing or wanting to fight. Other games like it encourage you to fight even other AC games, giving you all these powers and skills making you into this pure powerhouse forcing you into big fights but something about the way ezio walks and talks is just calming. The character has this steady walk/run that is of a man who is calm in his skin but not brash. You can easily tell how much he has grown up since 2

At the same time the game has a very good way of showing me my limits. Yes ezio is extremely deadly but there is a thousand of them and one of you and you very much can get overwhelmed. As a example, there are side missions in brotherhood running around Roma where you can hunt down and kill commanders that are defending little sections of the city keeping it under enemy control and when you kill them and burn down a tower, it allows you to buy businesses and buy stuff in that bit of the city, one of the commanders i had to kill was hiding 3 stories underground which forced me to run like a man on fire through 20 guards in a courtyard and down the stairs being chased all the while pissing off about another 8 in the process running down the stairs all to kill one guy, killing said guy i turned around my back to a wall to 10 guards of different types surrounding me.. It's a humbling experience. "An assassin doesn't die easily" It does a very good job at not just teaching you but showing you the power of keeping your strategy balanced. Sure you can run into a building sword out and crossbow at the ready but why not just consider scaling upwards? why run through the city streets fighting each enemy when there's any hundred of ways to the roof where you can just as easily avoid a fight. It makes you think each individual situation through fully. The variety of ways to kill too!

Speaking of more than just ezio (that's a fun name to think and say) can i just talk about how comfortably the game flows? in other games in the series (i've played through the ps3 era games) i've noticed it's not overly difficult to get messed up with jumping and get stuck somewhere or to not grab the walls right but in this remaster it all feels right. the camera sensitivity is just right so that you can smoothly walk around corners and jump across buildings and down without having to get ezio in a proper position. There are still a few times i find myself yelling "ezio auditore da firenze! get on the wall" or variants like an angry mother but it's rather rare and a second try is all it takes. There is a bit of a funky thing with standing on roof edges with enemy troops as they try to hit you and you can't get off the edge properly but that's again minor.

Everything in this game just feels good. I honestly don't know how else to explain it. Even the hiding behind pillars right in front of guards is fun and easily done. Smooth and evenly balanced. I truly adored revelation my first way through always remembering the end and how deeply it hit me, i'd dare call it pretty much equal to arthur morgan's end. Don't come at me! it's a opinion lol, and i can't wait to experience the rest of the series.

If you haven't played this trilogy you truly must.