These are my top 5 Assassin's Creed games.

1. Assassin's Creed III
2. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
3. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
4. Assassin's Creed
5. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

The worst in my opinion is Unity.

Recently, replaying Black Flag and Rogue, back to back, I found El Impoluto to be the hardest of the Legendary Ships to defeat, more often than the others. She is just so damned fast. (I described these battles as raid boss fights, but I had forgotten that they can engaged and beaten at a stage of progression less than halfway through the main sequence of memories in each game.) I will soon play II and Brotherhood for the first time. Someday afterward, I may consider the newer games, but I don't yet possess the hardware for them, so to speak. I also have to figure out how to catch them when they are on sale.

Okay, so I finished II and Brotherhood over the past three weeks. I didn't expect for two of the main Sequences of the former to be missing its original stock rendition, thus instead being available only downloadable content (which isn't free of charge and which I've never observed go on sale). The protagonist, Ezio, won't be able to set foot in Oltrarno (rather than merely observe it across a "desynchronization" barrier) until the player has installed "Bonfire of the Vanities". Apart from this hiccup and others like it, or the overall feeling that a game is incomplete, I'm not really disappointed even in the slightest by II. Similar is the case with Brotherhood.

Observing the Auditore family crypt (containing six memorial statues of ancient Assassins) for the first time, I could see how II had set the stage for the creation of several of the more recently-published installments in Assassin's Creed franchise, as though much of it was being planned out long ago.

I'm still, however, trying to wrap my head around the political implications of everything that the character Abstergo Subject 16 (i.e. the captive by the name of Clay) had uncovered about the Templar Order, if not the sentiments and beliefs he carries alone. The overall message of the pertinent side quest (glyphs in II and clusters in Brotherhood) do rather flamboyantly equate "capitalism" with tyranny, while criticizing the outcome of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, one of those controversial 5:4 decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States, from the past two decades, and of course, taking maybe just one pot shot at Vladimir Putin (even at a time before the Euromaidan protests [including riots and sieges] and the successful Crimean "unconstitutional" referendum to leave Ukraine and join Russia). I understand that the storylines of the whole Assassin's Creed franchise are predicated upon putting an amusing fictional/fantasy twist on ancient mythology, modern conspiracy theory and everlasting historical mysteries, but the storytellers' political bias as conveyed through the character Clay does come off as rather extreme, since the Democratic Party (of the United States) is not implicated in the tyranny at all but almost exclusively the Republican Party (of the United States) is, despite it being rather clear that Clinton, Gore, Bush, Cheney, Obama and Biden, along perhaps with Pence, are a linked together in a way Trump and candidates like him aren't, as far as the question of the so-called "deep state" goes, versus the problematic ways of Alex Jones and his ilk, who did eventually admit in so melodramatic of a way his frustration with Cue-a-Nun's egregious unreliability (rather similarity to being a bonafide psyop). The interesting this is that, to my knowledge, the franchise hardly touches on stuff like that outside of anything to do with the character Clay's discoveries. I'm also unaware of any direct reference to MK Ultra or any program like it, something that would be right up the franchises's alley, albeit extremely uncomfortable subject matter.

Now, I just have to find a way to experience Liberation, if I don't proceed to move on to Unity, Syndicate, Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla and Mirage, after acquiring a ninth generation video game console, my preferred avenue (since I haven't done PC gaming since the 1998). I think, I'll be wanting to just skip the eight generation altogether. On a side note, with such a complex franchise with so many installments and moving parts as Assassin's Creed, hence the emergence of many flaws and contrivances, I see why there is a lot of growing friction between Ubisoft and the players of the video games published by Ubisoft, but the same may go for several of the other big-budget publishers/studios (Activision, Electronic Arts, Take Two, Valve, Volition et al.). I noticed that the some elements of Black Flag are satirical, in the sense of certain aspects of Abstergo Entertainment serving as a slight parody of Ubisoft or the entertainment industry altogether. I look forward to seeing the continuation of contemporary era storylines in which Melanie, Juhani or Laetitia, particularly the former, are involved. From reading around Fandom, I know that Violet wound up getting killed as some point.

Indeed and a number of YouTube content creators are live-streaming their respective gameplay.

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I created one list long back but never posted it. It is still private.