History YMMV / AssassinsCreedBrotherhood

* {{Narm}}: Cesare in general, but especially his so-called BadassBoast when he [[spoiler:kills his father.]]

* ScrappyMechanic: Getting 100% sync rate. To do so you cannot make even the tiniest of mistakes, like missing a jump. If you do mess up you have to start the whole mission over again, including all the cutscenes.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The first Cristina mission. After Cristina rebuffs Ezio's clumsy advances, he follows her to her house. Coincidentally, Vieri is waiting for her there in order to rape her. Ezio beats him up, and Cristina rewards him with "a second chance" and a SmoochOfVictory. What have we learned? That if a beautiful girl ignores you, you are justified in stalking her; that this is for her own good anyway, since her beauty will naturally attract [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality possessive creeps]] from whom she will need defending; that intervening when someone is about to be sexually assaulted is "very kind" (as opposed to "the least anyone should do for any fellow human"); that in your crush's eyes, this act will completely cancel out the fact that you followed her without her knowledge or consent; and finally, that instead of being freaked out by these events (and by men in general) for a while, she will instead [[RescueRomance suddenly desire you]] and invite you to court her favour. [[TakeThat Kinda like]] ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

* HolyShitQuotient: The start of the game. [[spoiler:The villa is under attack by the Borgia, cannonfire is ripping the town apart, there's an epic horseback sprint through the city to reach the walls as buildings fall around you, you take command of the cannons to fire back on the ''massive'' army the Borgia have sent against you, Mario is killed by Cesare Borgia, and Ezio is shot and, unable to fight properly, forced to flee with his family as the town is destroyed]]. All bets are off -- the Borgia are ''done'' playing around.

* LesYay:
** The "Seduce a Noble" Assassin contract involves sending one of your Assassins to court and seduce a noble lady associated with the Templars to get information. You can send either male ''or'' female Assassins on the mission. You can also send 5 Assassins for the job. No wonder why they only give as an answer a laconic "The mission has been a success" when they come back.
** Lucrezia and Caterina, with liberal streaks of FoeYay.

* HoYay: If you go to meet Leonardo after [[spoiler:escaping the Castel Sant'Angelo with the Apple of Eden in]] Sequence 8, at the end of their conversation Ezio tells Leonardo (who had just mentioned being busy with a portrait of a lady) not to get too distracted by women to build equipment for Ezio (and presumably Ezio's apprentices). Leonardo says that women would provide no distraction whatsoever, followed by him flirtatiously putting his hand on Ezio's shoulder. There is some historical evidence that Leonardo was indeed gay, but almost immediately Ezio says, "Wait, I don't get it..." leading to an awkward silence as Leonardo lifts his hand away and looks about.
** Leonardo's 'assistant' Salai in the DLC. As part of his introduction he asks Ezio, "Outside the church of God lies the realm of men. Do you worship there, ''Messere''?" Also, Ezio at one point declares to Leonardo, "Salai fits you. I approve." Though this probably doesn't belong under HoYay anymore considering [[spoiler: they ''are'' lovers.]]

* DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound:
** The Animus voice when trying to load a multiplayer game. "Searching for a programmed session... Searching for other Abstergo agents... Searching for a programmed session... Searching for other Abstergo agents... Searching for a programmed session..."
** The "Loading..." voice, half a dozen times, in every single Truth segment.
** The citizens screaming after a dead body shows up or when a battle breaks out in the streets. Realistic as it is, it starts to grate after a while since the number of lines of dialogue programmed to play in this situation are kind of limited.

* MostAnnoyingSound:

* EvenBetterSequel: ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' is a good game, ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' is a great game. ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood Brotherhood]]'' is ''awesome''. It polishes and refines the gameplay of '' AC II'' while adding property management, better customization, a vast recreation of Rome to explore and take over, and most of all, the chance to recruit and upgrade your own squad of Assassins that you can call in at any time for backup or to assassinate someone for you.

* CompleteMonster: [[MalevolentMaskedMan Il Carnefice]] (''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Executioner]]") is an executioner under the service of the Borgias who expresses brutality and enthusiasm in his work. Given a list of people to execute by Fiora Cavazza, he tells her a [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor sick joke]] saying that she on the execution list, much to her shock; due to Il Carnefice being illiterate, he doesn't go over the list and just executes who he wants, regardless of guilt or innocence, displaying the chopped body parts of his numerous victims to the crowds. He would also [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]] an innocent women, [[ForcedToWatch forcing her husband and the public to watch]], before he hangs her and later sends his men to kill the grieving husband when he tries to cut her corpse from Il Carnefice's noose.

** Try going out with Desmond while he free runs Monteriggioni. Play around with the Eagle vision. Its not like you will see any--wait, are those red footprints? They weren't there before. Holy shit, they lead to the only accessible entrance of the Villa. The Templars are here! Oh shit! It gets worse; those footprints came from the sewers and lead directly to where Lucy stands after talking to her once in that segment.

** Oh God, [[http://i36.tinypic.com/xlk0oi.jpg the Harlequin]]. It's even lampshaded, in SONG no less, by this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Dm77MdlVM GameStop commercial]]. To make matters worse, the [[MonsterClown Harlequin]] been made [[http://i35.tinypic.com/2vx4sw6.jpg into a Jack-in-the-Box]].

*** One puzzle leads to a phone conversation between a man calling his cable company and a female rep for said company. [[spoiler:The man accidentally stumbled across a monitoring system keeping track of him and his son through the channels. It keeps track of their interests, credit card purchases, and even their heart rates. The woman transfers him over and another man says a technician is on their way and will be there shortly. The sound of banging against a door is heard as the son wonders what's going on. The call ends with an eerie "Have a nice day, Mr. Jameson,"]].

** Subject 16's puzzles are chock full of this. "Have a nice day, Mr. Jameson," indeed.

** When [[LetsPlay/StephenPlays Stephen Georg]] played the game and had [[http://youtu.be/YHRsVIPocPY beaten all the Subject 16]] missions, the game glitched. So the characters asked Desmond if he was okay, and he calmly answered he's fine. But actually, he was shaking like crazy, bouncing back and fourth, until he got stuck inside the Animus chair. So even everyone in-game was calm, it was just weird, and their "thank goodness you're fine, now back to work" was just funny, for Desmond was definitly NOT OKAY.

** On the other hand, however, he WAS the one to think of [[spoiler:Leonardo's possible use of Invisible Ink and suggesting that Ezio use his Eagle Vision to find hints of it in the recovered paintings (which earns a funny "he told you about that, too?" from Ezio).]] Salai can be just as smart as Leonardo when he chooses to apply himself. The problem is that most of the time, he chooses not to.

** Taken to new heights with Ercole Massimo, BigBad of ''The Da Vinci Disappearance'' DLC and leader of the Hermeticists. [[spoiler:You don't even have a proper swordfight with him. You kill a bunch of his disciples, and then he cowers on the floor in front of you offering weak excuses for his actions before you kill him.]] To add insult to insult, he's not even the final encounter of the DLC, as there's an extensive platforming section afterward.

* GoddamnBats: The bards from ''[=AC2=]'' are back and as annoying as ever. This time they are supplemented by groups of beggars that basically do the same thing in groups. Thankfully the beggars stop spawning as you renovate sections of Rome. The bards, not so much.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** These New Puritans, "We Want War," for the first multiplayer trailer released at E3 2010.
** The [[OminousPipeOrgan organ]] and choir music used as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKsNepQ2DwE leitmotif for the Borgia]] is deliciously ominous. Not to mention the dramatic effect whenever Ezio destroys a Borgia tower.

** The [[OminousPipeOrgan organ]] and choir music used as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKsNepQ2DwE leitmotif for the Borgia]] is deliciously ominous.

** The [[OminousPipeOrgan organ music]] used as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKsNepQ2DwE leitmotif for the Borgia]] is deliciously ominous.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: These New Puritans, "We Want War," for the first multiplayer trailer released at E3 2010.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: These New Puritans, "We Want War," for the first multiplayer trailer released at E3 2010.

*** As of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'', a new FridgeHorror is in session: [[spoiler:The Apples are sentient and under Juno's control, so they influence everyone holding them and everyone around them subconsciously a la [[Literature/LordOfTheRings the One Ring]], and the commands linger on even if one is away from the P.O.Es. [[ParanoiaFuel EVERYTHING YOU SEE AND HEAR AROUND OR AFTER COMING IN CONTACT A PIECE OF EDEN CAN BE JUST ILLUSION MADE BY JUNO]]. So yeah, high are the chances you just killed a innocent LoveInterest under control of an AbusivePrecursor and her ArtifactOfDoom, and it keeps inducing illusions to make sure you believe you did the right thing. Oh, and that also means lots of Templars you killed could have just been Brainwashed due to having been in the presence of a Piece of Eden, for years perhaps. That's right, Rodrigo and Cesare Borgia were justk mind-controlled slaves of Juno, and that also applies to Al Mualim.]]

** The level in which you take control of Leonardo's tank and cut down vast swathes of troops, taking down many of the GoddamnedBats in the process. Even Ezio agrees.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: When Ezio encounters Lanz the Foodpad's despairing wife, she explains that she is about to kill herself in an effort to get through to her husband, who is both a Templar agent and an apparent murderer working for the Cento Occhi after their child died. Ezio, not fully aware of how closely Lanz's background cleaves to his own, assumes he is just another killer like the rest of the Templar agents he is hunting down and kills Lanz rather than left his wife sacrifice herself "for his crimes." [[PoorCommunicationKills Poor communication really does kill.]]
** The first Cristina mission. After Cristina rebuffs Ezio's clumsy advances, he follows her to her house. Coincidentally, Vieri is waiting for her there in order to rape her. Ezio beats him up, and Cristina rewards him with "a second chance" and a SmoochOfVictory. What have we learned? That if a beautiful girl ignores you, you are justified in stalking her; that this is for her own good anyway, since her beauty will naturally attract [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality possessive creeps]] from whom she will need defending; that intervening when someone is about to be sexually assaulted is "very kind" (as opposed to "the least anyone should do for any fellow human"); that in your crush's eyes, this act will completely cancel out the fact that you followed her without her knowledge or consent; and finally, that instead of being freaked out by these events (and by men in general) for a while, she will instead [[RescueRomance suddenly desire you]] and invite you to court her favour. [[TakeThat Kinda like]] ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

** Somewhat muted compared to the ''[=AC2=]'' example. On the plus side, the beggar women from ''[=AC1=]'' return in addition to the Minstrels from ''[=AC2=]'', so you can pummel them as well. On the minus side, while the guards still don't mind if you start a fist fight, it isn't completely penalty-free as doing so raises your notoriety. Interesting, those beggar women aren't begging for coins like in the ''Assassin's Creed'', they're begging Ezio to help deal with the Borgia.