Just incase 6 episodic pieces of DLC weren't going to be enough, the idea was manifested to keep plying the game with a bunch of side quest content - presumably to keep the appetite at bay. You almost have to admire the brazenness of the belief that the one thing everyone who played 80-100 hours of Assassin's Creed Odyssey's main game wanted more of was generic stocking filler content.
"Additional Feats" or better known in-game as The Lost Tales of Greece, are simply a collection of side quests, released steadily beyond the main game - Delivered to tide players over between each episodic release of it's story-driven post-game DLC.
They're a bunch of short stories centered around a host of different characters. Some new and some existing, each with their own predicaments or situations Alexios is naturally required for his assistance on. I didn't do much side questing at all throughout my main experience with Assassin's Creed Odyssey, simply because I didn't need to in the end, but side-questing in open world games is so predictable, I'll generally avoid it until I have good reasons to indulge. Like when there are trophies on offer.
There is a little Easter Egg theory that each of the quests relates to a Greek God/Goddess and what they were most known for in Greek mythology. Cool, if true, but that's about as interesting as it gets. Each quest, despite who you may run into or where they may take you, simply just boils down to running around doing silly errands for someone - Something Assassin's Creed Odyssey has become way too comfortable with at this point.
The odd quest is somewhat intriguing, and there is a way this sort of content could have proven more useful. However, I don't need the experience points any more, the weapons/armour rewards are made redundant by the fact I'm comfortably scaled and the lore doesn't really add anything a story that has long concluded. Fetch this, kill them, discover that. It's classic stocking filler, and for something that was designed to tide players over between episodic DLC, it's only made me further desire the moment I can finally shelve this one for good.
There are 13 trophies added to the package as part of these additional feats, and each trophy relates to the completion of an individual quest.
They're quite lengthy and make up an entire questline built up of multiple quests in most instances, with the majority of these trophies taking between 1-2 hours to achieve each, especially if you're taking in the dialogue and lore, of which there is plenty.
There are 2 trophies linked not to questline completion, but taking down mythical creatures that roam the land, and these are slightly shorter as a consequence, but the longer-winded nature of the majority of these quests serves only to make them feel more like a chore to full completion. They just feel way too similar to one another, despite different story angles, and it makes Assassin's Creed Odyssey just feel more exhaustive each time you pick it up.
Even the quest structure is predictably rigid. In very noticeable fashion, most questlines are broken down into groupings of 3. Speak to 3 people to trigger a quest for each person or visit 3 different locations to complete a quest within each of those areas - Usually a wolf-ridden cave or snake-infested tomb. I was mostly sleepwalking through this content at the sheer predictability of it's nature.
I tackled everything in mostly random order, and the exercise itself is a fairly straight-forward one with no surprises to completion along the way. Beat one questline, unlock the trophy for it and move onto the next until the list is complete. It's very self-explanatory. Just a quick note on a couple of the trophies;
- The "Every Story Has an Ending" trophy did require a few additional hours of pre-requisite questing. I had some outstanding questlines to complete before I could unlock this one. It ties up a few lose ends regarding a couple of main story characters.
- The "Heir of Memories" trophy requires you to begin the build up and opening portion of The Fate of Atlantis DLC and you'll experience the entire opening sequence to this content before seeing Atlantis itself on your way to unlocking this trophy. Both trophies leaned towards the higher end of 1-2 hours per quest guideline mentioned above as a result.
This package took my overall save file completion time from 107 to 119 hours, meaning an estimated overall completion for the package to be around 12-13 hours. With 3 more episodic DLC packs still remaining, we're pushing towards, at least, a 130 hour experience in total.
That's alot for any game, and I would question the true value this content added to the experience. Some people will always want more, and that's fine, and I have said before that more of the same isn't always necessarily a bad thing. It has to be the right thing to do though. Releasing drip-fed quests into the game designed to be tackled in bitesize chunks isn't a bad idea on paper. However, it doesn't translate well for those that have to complete it all in one go and just ends up dragging.
At least it was free though, but it's left me almost on my knees praying for The Fate of Atlantis DLC to be the deserving conclusion we're desperately after at this point.
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