Assassin’s Creed became less about the assassins and more about role-playing with Odyssey, but there’s no doubt this new take on the series presented with a lot more replay value in this open-world feature.
Since the progression of the plot relies on how you choose to proceed, there’s a definite amount of regret you’ll be carrying should you be confronted with a scenario that puts you on the fence. If you’ve started playing and want to be aware of the most difficult decisions that await you, then you definitely have to check out this list.
12 Choosing Between Alexios And Kassandra
How you perceive each of these characters hinges on your decision over who you want to pick as the protagonist. The storyline pits the two against each other, with the one that you didn’t pick going on to becoming the antagonist of the plot.
There isn’t much interaction between your character and Deimos either, meaning you’re pretty much saying goodbye to the either Kassandra or Alexios if you don’t pick one of these two. Thereafter, it becomes natural to perceive your chosen character as the canonical protagonist, despite what you might find out later.
11 Killing Or Sparing Nikolaos
It seems impossible to make the decision to kill your own father, but you do get motivated to do that to Nikolaos when the backstory of the Misthios is revealed. As it happened, Nicholaos willingly let the baby Deimos be sacrificed, and was then prepared to kill the Misthios too before they were flung off the cliff.
This instills enough resentment in the player to want to kill Nikolaos for what he did, but that also means the rest of the game unfolds based on your decision. If you choose to kill him, you’ll be met with hostility from Spartan soldiers from there on; if you spare him, you’re left to rue over how Nicholaos got away with trying to kill his own children.
10 Killing Or Accepting Deimos
Deimos is easily the most frustrating character you’ll encounter within the game, as all Deimos does is get angry at being abandoned as a child. It doesn’t help that Deimos’s sole motivation seems to be kill everyone, meaning it becomes extremely difficult to avoid the temptation of killing him.
There are numerous moments where you get to do just that, but it’s still factual that Deimos and the Misthios are siblings and you can’t just kill a sibling easily. Add to that, the ending changes radically based on if you kill Deimos or not, so your sense of satisfaction depends on killing or sparing Deimos.
9 Choosing To Leave Or Fight Daphne
Over the course of several missions, the Misthios was sent by a “Daughter of Artemis” named Daphne to retrieve the scales and furs of legendary creatures, during which the Misthios can fall in love with her.
This is why it’s almost an impossible decision when it turns out that Daphne had been collecting all that so she and the Misthios could have a fight to the death to see who could be the leader of the Daughters of Artemis. You could have an army of warriors on your side by killing Daphne, or you could try and appeal to your former lover that violence isn’t right. Either way, it’s not a pretty situation.
8 Deciding Agapios’s Fate
This kind man is one the Misthios runs into, where upon helping him it is revealed that his brother has become a maddened member of a group bent upon taking over the land. While the player’s inclination would be to simply kill Agapios’s brother, this turns out to be a hard decision because Agapios’s trust in the Misthios would be irretrievably broken if his brother was killed.
Unfortunately, if you do end up sparing Agapios’s brother - which is the most preferred choice once Agapios gives an impassioned plea - Agapios is killed by his sibling anyway. So, it turns out the choice of sparing or killing the brother actually decides Agapios’s fate.
7 Letting Aspasia Live Or Making Her Pay
Aspasia becomes a valuable ally and friend during the main storyline, only for it to be revealed that she was the leader of the Cult of Kosmos in search of Isu artifacts all along. This presents a split decision for the player, as Aspasia tries to defend herself by claiming she didn’t mean for it to go so far.
However, there’s no escaping the truth that Aspasia did cause the Misthios’s sibling Deimos to go crazy, meaning one would want to make her pay for what she did. Thus, your choice is to either forgive the person who wronged the Misthios’s sibling, or let her live and escape scott-free in the name of friendship.
6 Choosing Stealth Or Public Execution When Dealing With The Monger
Players will be sent to Korinth during their journey where they will learn that yet another Cult member is making lives miserable for its inhabitants, known as The Monger. The Hetaera Anthousa will task the Misthios in bringing The Monger down and free them of his tyranny. During the questline, players will come across a character known as Brasidas who also wishes to put an end to The Monger’s reign. Brasidas proposes to lure The Monger out to a cave and deal with him quietly while Anthousa wishes to make a spectacle and execute him publically. While the latter option may feel more gratifying, it does have some negative effects during later quests.
When dealing with the Cult member Lagos in Arkadia, players will have the opportunity to get him to quit the Cult instead of killing him. Lagos does not want to remain in the Cult and is only being kept there under threat. The choice to get him to leave the cult peacefully will only appear if players took Brasidas’ offer and killed The Monger in secret. Lagos offers some vital information on another high-ranking Cult member, which is otherwise not available.
5 Choosing Between Letting A Plague Spread And Killing A Family
Dialogue between characters is good enough to make the human element come across, which means making the decision to slay a whole family for what might be the greater good seems horrifying.
In this side mission, the Misthios is instructed to murder this family as they would otherwise spread a plague across the city. Since it’s ambiguous if the family really is sick, the Misthios can choose to spare them. However, it turns out later they did carry the plague and the city is now riddled with terminal infection. Still, it seems impossible for one to have to choose to kill a mother, father, and children when there was a chance they were wrongfully accused.
4 Guessing Which Is The Evil Twin
One of these two is an evil Cult of Kosmos member, but the problem is that the other is an innocent who doesn’t deserve to die. Unfortunately, the game gives you mere seconds to decide which one to kill, meaning there’s a 50% chance you take the life of the wrong one.
While the evil sister dies regardless, killing the innocent leaves a sinking feeling in you for failing to separate the good from the bad. The time that runs out so quickly only makes you curse it even more.
3 Sparing Or Killing Stentor
Stentor is the Misthios’ stepbrother who can come off as a bit rude at times. He hates the players’ character as he believes they killed his adoptive father, Nikolaos. In the mid to late game stage, players will have a stand-off with Stentor where an option to fight him and kill him appears. The choice is available only if players spared Nikolaos during the “The Wolf Of Sparta” quest during the early stages of the game and told him to help Stentor. In the event Nikolaos is dead, neither option is available and players will be forced to kill Stentor.
Both Nikolaos and Stentor are the Misthios’ family members, despite their differences, and need to live if players want the best ending to the game. In the event that they are dead, only Myrrine and Deimos will be present at dinner at the players’ home in Sparta, depending on their choices. Moreover, they will also not be available as lieutenants aboard the Adrestia.
2 Sparing Or Killing An Entire Clan
The Misthios is told that a clan of people have been killing soldiers and stealing food, information through which these people are tracked down. While they weep over the prospect of being accused as murderers, these people still stand firm and threaten the Misthios with death if you decide to take back the supplies.
On one hand, these people clearly don’t look like murderers, but since they’re openly antagonistic, it does incline you to choose to kill them. Whatever the reason, there’s no fun in potentially slaying loads of people at once like it had once been in earlier games.
1 Saving Or Abandoning A Baby From Burning
How can anyone willingly leave a baby to die in such a horrible manner? The problem here, though, is that the evil Cult of Kosmos member could walk free forever if you choose to save the child and let her go.
Even though this baby is part of a game, it seems a horrifying prospect to leave it to burn. However, the kid’s own mother doesn’t seem to care much, and you’re sent back considerably in your chase since the Cult member escapes. So, your choice is to fast-track through your game by letting a baby burn to death, or save it and play through some extra missions but with a clear conscience.
