I first played Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India back when it was released at the beginning of the year. I played the first two levels and quit as it really wasn’t grabbing me. A couple of nights ago, I found myself thinking about it and loaded up a lets play video to see if maybe there was something I missed. I watched the first level being played through and it looked like a good time. So I reinstalled it and went through the first level and halfway through the second before remembering what it was about the game that turned me off before.
Firstly, playing through the tutorial level is actually a good amount of fun. The level’s pastel colored background is beautiful, and the game does a decent job of teaching you how to play. Then, the second level shows up and nearly undoes everything the first level did. The level is artistically cluttered, making the multiple plains of movement hard to notice. In one section, I kept trying to sneak past guards in obtuse ways before I realized there was another path around them I hadn’t noticed before. Some jumps look farther or shorter than they are and the level in general just lacks a sense of visual cohesion.
It doesn’t help that the controls immediately become cumbersome on this level. Before they felt simple to understand, but in practice now feel redundant and unnecessarily confusing. Depending on your situation, you may need to press either up or the jump button in order to ascend and down or the cancel button to descend. Using items feels cumbersome too as there’s too many button commands required to use them. Combat is unfortunately clunky and often feels unresponsive, which is exacerbated by the fact that protagonist Arbaaz dies in one to two hits. In my experience, having to engage in a sword fight meant certain death.
I didn’t spend a lot of time with the game but I wasn’t motivated to continue on as it frustrated me with its punishing combat and perplexing level design. Even the first level, though well designed, just felt boring. I can appreciate an Assassin’s Creed game with a bigger focus on its stealth mechanics but in all honesty, they weren’t the strongest aspect of the main games and they are lacking here as well. Since that’s the focal point in India, it tanks the game as a result. It’s not a terrible game but there’s really no reason to play this.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
