(The ugly portmanteau in the title is because damnable Uplay’s damnable cloud saves system destroyed and rewound over three hours of my progress, which has kept me from getting as far into Black Flag as I’d hoped. It also meant I lost a bunch of sea shanties, which was upset me the most. Is this is Wot I Think? Is it mere Impressions? It’s both and neither. Isn’t that helpful. PS in the name of all that’s holy, turn off cloud saves in Uplay before you start playing AC4).

It’s the best Assassin’s Creed yet! Which is 90% because Black Flag, a a third-person action adventure about pirates in the Caribbean, isn’t really an Assassin’s Creed game in the traditional sense, and 10% because the lead character is from Swansea.(more…)