Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is primed to be the most ambitious title in the series yet. Ubisoft Quebec’s ambitious intent won’t solely be evident in Odyssey’s RPG mechanics. Story plays a part as well, since players will choose which character they want to experience the narrative with. Choice factors in, too, thanks to the aforementioned RPG mechanics. Additionally, according to Creative Director Jonathan Dumont, the influence of the Greek tragedy also shines through.
During an interview with Official Xbox Magazine, Dumont discussed how choice factors into the narrative. Furthermore, Dumont teased the ways in which inspirations from Greek tradition of storytelling prevail.
We try to say that there are no wrong choices. They?re all choices that you make and they?re all valid. They?ll give you what you are looking for I guess, but I think most of the time people try to be nice. I hope. It?s okay to decide depending on the situations ? we have multiple storylines, but we have a main storyline that has quite a bit of it inspired by a Greek tragedy so we try to put you into situations where choices will be tough ? not necessarily what the impact will be but they?re very emotional. When they make a choice after that in the world we also give you options so you can lie, romance, or decide to attack people in the dialogue as well so those will have immediate consequences. You sort of know where you want to guide things, and sometimes lying to somebody can b...