Back to the basics, but stripped of a decade of improvements

User Rating: 6 | Assassin's Creed Mirage PS5

I know that Mirage was suppose to be "back to the basics" but in doing so, the game was mostly stripped of a decade of improvements in both game play, story, and breadth. Most notably, all aspects of the Animus - the backbone of an Assassin's Creed story from game one - was removed. The story could have had an incredible tie-in to the events of Valhalla and almost any other Assassin's Creed story both in location and in time. The short story was almost a shock having played Assassin's Creed games from the beginning and it seems like Mirage could have been an DLC for Valhalla. Of course, I know a lot of work goes into these AAA games. Visuals and sound score/track were both excellent.