for sure, but it is kinda strange the project that literally spun off Black Flag doesn't really build upon its established foundation. It felt like part time spare time stop gap pet project at times

Seriously! I think that’s true about most companies these days. They literally go the worst route possible 90% of the time.

Yakuza Pirate In Hawaii had a similar problem tbh. The pacing of the game kind of encourages you to fuck around doing Yakuza stuff instead of Pirate stuff for the midgame but the Pirate stuff was way more fun than clearing like, 90 bounty fights that all went the same way once you were good at the combat.

Yes, oh my god at the times they would bring you out of the Animus for some shitty present day story that wasn’t nearly as interesting as the in Animus story!