The game is definitely a great rpg Viking game but it is not a great assassin's Creed game. I understand that alot of people like the idea of having a skill tree however it doesn't immerse me into the game. Shouldn't the main character be learning skills from a master assassin? I'd much rather them have a teacher to teach you the skills and make you feel like you are a assassin in training, before I get bashed for this I want to clarify that I do not mean like the previous assassin's Creed 2, 3 etc they did a terrible job of this as well.
Onto the second thing that makes this a terrible assassin's Creed game. What happened to the robes, the hood, the hidden blade all of the things that gave this series a iconic look. Is Ubisoft just trying to remove the identity to gradually shut down this series ? Probably.
For the love of all things good in the world please just give me the robes the hidden blade and a feudal Japan setting so I can fall back in love with this series. Im sick of playing the older games reminiscing on what assassin's Creed once was.