The argument raged for millennia. Titans clashed on an appropriately dramatic field, with internet armies raging between their massive feet. Will you choose to play as Alexios or Kassandra? my local grocer cried, eyes wild with suspicion. “They re both the same!” screamed a man set aflame. Yeah, I m picking Kassandra, said literally everyone else.
However, after playing through the three-hour opening of Assassin s Creed Odyssey nearly seven times for you (and continuing to play over a dozen hours on a separate save) I can confirm that both Kassandra and Alexios are distinct, compelling, and valid protagonists. Choosing between Alexios or Kassandra colours the events of Odyssey in a multitude of ways, even moreso than FemShep and BroShep of the Mass Effect trilogy. Ways I am now going to describe, so that I can clear some of the several thousand screenshots on my hard drive.