“years later” does not matter in my case because it wasn’t that many years later l—probably only 3 or 4 years after release, and I don’t play western action RPGs or stealth games. I think the first Assassin’s Creed is the only Ubisoft game I played, for example, and it surely did not influence any of the games I actually play: Bayonetta, The Wonderful 101, Hellsinker, or Guilty Gear.

Pretty sure I would’ve had a problem with it on release because it’s shitty repetitive design.