Assassin's Creed Odyssey

I have been playing AC Odyssey lately, and still feel I am rather close to
the beginning, despite nearing the 60 hour mark. That all is a bit weird,
as previous ACs even if they were good had some serious issues keeping my
interest after about 20 or 30 hours or so. Last summer I was playing AC
Brotherhood, and even though it was a good game, at one point I just
wanted it to be over. I managed to get Black Flag past the 50 hour mark,
but I had to stop and restart twice because I lost interest.
Odyssey on the other hand it much closer to that real kind of RPG gameplay
that I like, to the point where the repetitive missions become a bit
grating.

One interesting part of the experience is that despite advertising the
presence of a medusa in the cover art used for Steam... there actually is
very little fantasy in there so far. Besides the typical Assassin's Creed
fare of people who can hang on to tiny precipices with their fingertips
while wearing heavy armor, and the ability to survive falls from any
height as long as there's a small heap of leaves on the ground. But that's
all explained in the more sci-fi elements of the setting.
Which makes the game the most low fantasy RPG I have played so far I
think. The setting is ancient Greece at the time of the wars between
Sparta and Athens, which also is rather convenient because that was one of
those periods we learned about in school really well.

If there's one thing that annoys me though it's the crowded world it
presents. Unlike World of Warcraft for example, which is a great example
of building a world that is both small but looks big, this one grates my
suspension of disbelief almost immediately. It's all ok when you are on
the tiny island at the start, but once you find an Athens where the walled
passage to Piraeus is a 100 meter wall section, and where you can see the
houses on Salamis from the port... yeah. Everything's a bit... small.