It essentially removes the need to climb at all – and given that we’ve already done rather a lot of climbing over the course of the main game, it’s liberating. Instead of climbing up windowsills and tottering across washing lines between buildings, you can zip around the rooftops at speed. As you might imagine, this completely changes the way you traverse the nascent Boston.
A touch of the right bumper lets you instantly transport to a high-up or faraway point. After another herbal-tea-induced dream sequence right near the beginning of the episode, Ratonhnhaké:ton learns to fly. Play Where Connor communed with the wolf in the first episode, granting him the power of temporary invisibility and a wolf pack to do his bidding, here the hawk offers its blessing. Once again all of the cutscenes have been specially made and recorded for this DLC, but the action comparatively cut-and-pasted – until you start applying the new supernatural spirit-animal powers. There is – spoiler warning – a prison escape, there’s a chase across the docks, and there’s an escort mission. Boston itself is familiar and so are many of the things you’ll be doing in it. This still feels like a strange narrative decision, though as with many things in this DLC, an explanation is promised in Episode 3. Ratonhnhaké:ton still seems as confused by this as he was in the first episode he’s apparently struggling to grasp the concept of an alternate-history story. We’re back with many of the prominent characters in Assassin’s Creed 3, including Ben Franklin – though naturally, as this is an alternate history timeline, they do not behave as you might expect.
Sadly, Episode 2 mostly moves away from the Native American concentration that made Episode 1 refreshing, and settles in more familiar urban territory. Only Connor is now much more in touch with his Native American upbringing, and he’s covered in war paint and furs, which makes it slightly more ridiculous that he instantly becomes invisible to potential aggressors by sitting down on a bench between two conversing gentlemen in tri-corn hats. Play Where episode 1 had us revisiting the snow-covered wilds of the frontier, Episode 2 brings Connor back to misty Boston.
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