History VideoGame / AssassinsCreedOdyssey

* LivingStatue: Most locations in the simulations have spear-wielding bronze statues standing around on plinths. Starting a fight near them may awaken them, which turns them into miniboss-level enemies with an impressive list of unique attacks. If they don't wake up on their own, attacking them deliberately works just as well (a critical assassination can often one-shot them), and [[MetalSlime the huge amount of XP, money and resources they drop]] makes it well worth the risk.

* MetalSlime: Don't leave any of those spear-wielding bronze statues standing. They're powerful and dangerous opponents for sure, but they drop obscene amounts of XP, money and other items upon destruction.

* BleakLevel: Athens, when it's afflicted by the plague. The streets are filled with the sick and dying, the Followers of Ares are everywhere, and the sky is constantly grey. There's also the town of Aipeia in the Messenia region, which is engulfed in fog and has children forced into slavery, among other delights.

** Zigzagged with Nikoloas. Early flashbacks present him as a stern but generally good and loving father to both the young PlayerCharacter and their baby sibling. However, as the Eagle Bearer leaves Kephellonia, it's revealed through another flashback that he [[spoiler:allowed for his younger child (the PC's sibling) to be sacrificed to the gods to fulfill an oracle's prophecy. When the PC intervened, toppling a Spartan elder and their sibling off a cliff in the process, Nikoloas himself threw them off afterward--heavily conflicted between his duty as a Spartan and his duty as a father, though ultimately the Spartan won out.]] When they meet again decades later, his ReplacementGoldfish adopted son Stentor notes that his ''pater'' has always been somewhat withdrawn, implying that Nikoloas' decision that has always haunted him. [[spoiler:If spared, he will admit that he lost his honor by not protecting his children and that he failed them as a father.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:At the end of episode 3, Layla skewers Juhani Otso Berg with the Staff of Hermes, crippling him.]]

* AnAesop: The Hippokrates arc takes a brief, unobtrusive moment to espouse the benefits of a healthy diet. Not really surprising when you're dealing with the father of medical science himself.

''Assassin's Creed Odyssey'' is the eleventh major title in the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series, set between 431 and 422 BCE during the Archidamian Phase of UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar. It was released on October 5, 2018 for the UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/Playstation4, and [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]].

** Choosing not to follow Brasidas' advice in Korinth used to have a dominio effect which resulted in one of the clues for the Sage of the Peloponnesian League being unable to be obtained. This was fixed in a patch later, and now you can simply buy the hint at the blacksmith in Korinth for 50 Drachmae.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler:Provided that you choose the right dialog options in your interactions with them, it's possible to talk down Deimos in your final confrontation with them by convincing them to reject the Cult and rejoin your family]].

* SchrodingersPlayerCharacter: Averted in an unconventional way. Regardless of who you choose to play as, Kassandra and Alexios both exist within the game's story. However, since the player character will always be [[CanonIdentifier the Eagle Bearer]], the roles of the Eagle Bearer/older sibling and [[spoiler:Deimos/younger sibling]] are [[StaticRoleExchangeableCharacter swapped between the two accordingly]].

** Choosing not to follow Brasidas' advice in Korinth used to have a dominio effect which resulted in one of the clues for the Sage of the Peloponnesian League becoming this. This was fixed in a patch later, and now you can simply buy the hint at the blacksmith in Korinth for 50 Drachmae.

** Choosing not to follow Brasidas' advice in Korinth has a dominio effect which results in one of the clues for the Sage of the Peloponnesian League becoming this.

* NeglectedSidequestConcequence: A minor example: If you don't perform certain sidequest before facing [[spoiler:The two Spartan Kings]], they will request that you do three lengthy tasks for them instead of only two.

** The quest-giver of the download exclusive quest "Prince of Persia" has their identity obscured... unless you have a look at him with Ikaros, revealing he's [[spoiler:Artaxerses]] ahead of schedule.

** While skipping the battles against [[spoiler:Aspasia and Pythagoras in the Cult and Atlantis arcs respectively]] is done via a simple moral choice, skipping the battle with [[spoiler:Deimos at the end of the Family arc]] is ''much'' more convoluted. Instead of a simple choice at the very end, you instead have to choose ''very'' specific dialogue choices in your various interactions with them throughout the arc. Make just one wrong choice, and not only will they refuse to surrender, they will outright [[spoiler:kill your mother when she tries to intervene in the fight]]. Fortunately, there are two verbal cues in their dialogues which inform you if you're on the right track.

** [[spoiler:While skipping the final battles against Aspasia and Pythagoras in the Cult and Atlantis arcs respectively is done via a simple moral choice, skipping the final battle with Deimos in the Family arc is ''much'' more convoluted. Instead of a simple choice at the very end, you instead have to choose ''very'' specific dialogue choices in your various interactions with Deimos throughout the arc and resolve with Myrinne to save Deimos. Make just one wrong choice, and not only will Deimos refuse to surrender, he/she will outright kill your mother when she tries to intervene in the fight. Fortunately, there are two verbal cues in Deimos's dialogues which inform you if you're on the right track]].

* Deimos tends to deliver these to anyone they fight ''but'' their elder sibling, who matches them:
** They kill [[spoiler:Brasidas, who was a famed Spartan general and no slouch on the battlefield, without breaking a sweat.]]
** They will ''continue'' delivering these if [[spoiler:convinced to defect from the cult and made a Lieutenant on the Adrestia. Not only do naval boardings get a hell of a lot quicker with their help, using the "Call to Arms" ability while fully upgraded, they can wipe out a room of guards all on their own.]]
* In gameplay, this can be invoked when fighting in the arena. Unlike every other fight in the game, the five main battles here have a fixed level, the lowest being at Lv. 22. If you go there on a level beyond the 40s, you're just one-hitting every enemy in your side, and even the boss of the first challenge goes down in a handful of hits.

* CurbstompBattle: Deimos tends to deliver these to anyone they fight ''but'' their elder sibling, who matches them:

* GladiatorSubquest: There's an arena. Some mercenaries can only be fought there.

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