History YMMV / AssassinsCreedRevelations

* ItsTheSameSoItsSucks: Oliver Bowden's novelization of the game is rather dry, sticking heavily to the source material of the game and adapting the Altair scenes again (Bowden had earlier in 2011 done a novelization of the first game and included what would become Altair's flashback scenes). It's commonly considered the weakest of his novels, largely just for adding nothing the game doesn't give you (Unless once doesn't get ''Assassin's Creed Embers'', which ties up Ezio's story).

* BestLevelEver: UbiSoft is in some kind of competition with NaughtyDog over chase sequences; Sequence 8, Memory 3; End Of The Road has Ezio ''parasailing'' behind a runaway carriage, dive-bombing like an attack falcon to dispatch mooks!
** Of course, you wonder [[YouFailPhysicsForever how a horse can gallop fast enough to haul a parachuting Ezio into the air]] '''while pulling a carriage...'''
*** But nobody gives a shit because '''''[[AnimalMotifs master assassins are birds of prey]]!'''''

* XMeetsY: Now that Desmond's in a dark coma chamber and Ezio is seeing Altair's memories we can add ''SourceCode'' and ''Film/{{Inception}}'' to the list. Creative director Alex Amancio confirmed parallels to the latter in a July 2011 interview.

* MoralEventHorizon: Where do you begin with Abbas Sofian? [[spoiler:Having Altaïr's son Sef killed and telling him that Altaïr ordered the execution? Or framing Malik for said murder, having him imprisoned, then after he gets saved by Altaïr, has him decapitated to make the other Assassins doubt Altaïr's motives.[[hottip:*:According to ''[[AllThereInTheManual Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade]]'']]? All this because [[spoiler:[[DisproportionateRetribution Altaïr told him his father committed suicide when they were young]].]]

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYpIqx6eLyY Scheduled for Deletion]] is ''very'' powerful. Considering it's also used in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcpAZMbL8e0 the trailer]] for ''The Lost Archive'', it may very well double as Sixteen's theme -- fitting, especially with that title. A pity it's so short.

* FakeLongevity: The "Scholar" achievement. It's not uncommon to have collected every treasure, data fragment and got full synch before you have the roughly 500,000 Akçe needed to buy all the game's books.
** The Mediterranean Defense minigame. Basically, it rewards the player for [[SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer managing the guild every ten minutes or so]], instead of doing story missions.

** Swami, Abbas's [[TheDragon Dragon]], also deserves credit for the above action. He was the one who actually killed [[spoiler:Sef and Malik]] and, when he meets Altair in person, brags about how he told [[spoiler:Sef]] that Altair was the one who ordered him killed. He then kills [[spoiler:Altair's wife, Maria]] as [[StupidEvil she's trying to stop Altair from killing him]].

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: Skunks are native to the Americas, a pair of continents discovered less than twenty years before the game takes place, yet we can believe that biologists/hunters have studied them enough to work out how to remove their scent glands, store the oil, and ship it on a three month voyage across the Atlantic, thus creating a pipeline from the New World to Turkey? However, stink bombs are pretty cool, sort of.

* DemonicSpiders: Janissaries. Ubisoft felt the need to take Papal Guards, the DemonicSpiders from the previous game and make them ''even stronger.'' Much more health than a Papal Guard, immunity to execution chains and counter-kills, very strong ranged attacks, and very difficult to hit in melee. Good luck if you ever get into open conflict with one, let alone a group of them.

*** Not to mention beating them usually involves graphically jamming there knife into there face.Its up close.

*** Some of the counter attacks are rather painful to watch.One involves Ezio ''sticking his sword in an enemies neck and twisting there head 180 degrees!''

* MoralEventHorizon: Where do you begin with Abbas Sofian? [[spoiler:Having Altaïr's son Sef killed and telling him that Altaïr ordered the execution? Or framing Malik for said murder, having him imprisoned, then after he gets saved by Altaïr, has him decapitated to make the other Assassins doubt Altaïr's motives.[[hottip:*:According to ''[[AllThereInTheManual Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade]]'']]? All this because [[DisproportionateRetribution Altaïr told him his father committed suicide when they were young]].]]

** In ''The Lost Archives'', [[spoiler:finding out that Lucy is a traitor is tough enough. But Ubisoft gets some serious kudos for revealing it just before Clay's breakdown -- and you realize that he would have been ''fine'' if Lucy hadn't turned on the Assassins, because if she'd remained loyal, she would have gotten him out before the Bleeding Effect could have done any permanent damage. He'd have suffered no breakdown. No insanity. No suicide. She didn't just destroy his life, she destroyed ''who he was''. She stood back and let Vidic break him to the point that killing himself with a ''ballpoint pen'' and painting desperate messages on the walls and floor in his own blood was a better option than living. She did that to him]]. To me, that simple, understated scene carried more weight than any dramatized [[TheReveal Reveal]].

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Being able to hear the Assassins talk while on Animus Island is pretty creepy. What with them talking like Desmond's not there, and being totally unaware of what he's going through really cements the coma feeling.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[spoiler:It's a little horrifying to make your way up the tower where "Sofia" is being held hostage . . . only to realize that it's ''not'' her, and the real Sofia is ''being hanged from a tree in a courtyard in the distance.'']]
** Also, the Templar stalkers, who can backstab you at anytime. What was Ubisoft thinking?!
*** Not to mention beating them usually involves graphically jamming there knife into there face.Its up close.
** We finally get to see what happens when someone without [[spoiler: sufficient First Civilization DNA]] tries to use an Apple of Eden. It isn't pretty. [[spoiler: When Abbas activates the Apple, it goes ''berserk'' and starts firing off randomly; knocking Altaïr around and reducing everyone else to writhing on the ground in pain. This includes Abbas himself, who is in the process of being slowly killed by the Apple until Altaïr shuts it off.]]
** [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95G44qE089M "And then the world ended..."]]]]
*** Some of the counter attacks are rather painful to watch.One involves Ezio ''sticking his sword in an enemies neck and twisting there head 180 degrees!''