History YMMV / AssassinsCreedUnity

** Finding money to renovate the Cafe Theatre and buying over the various cafes in Paris. As livres are always useful in ''Unity'' [[note]]The most expensive equipment cost well over 100k livres a piece. In contrast, the maximum income of the Cafe is just over 10k every 20 minutes. Also, medicine becomes more expensive as the main story progresses.[[/note]], it only made sense to invest money into the Cafe in order to make more money. What makes this Game Breaking is that this can be done in Sequence ''2'', way before Arno unlocks his more powerful skills. Also, the renovated cafes are Fast Travel points for Arno, while completing cafe missions will liberate various Parisian districts, making it safer for Arno to explore.
** Come Sequence 9 where Arno's most powerful abilities are available for purchase, level 3 lock picking is almost certainly the first skill players would buy. Many chests with 3 pin locks hold several thousand livres each, while doors with 3 pin locks often offer valuable shortcuts to bypass enemies or (in Co Op Brotherhood missions) allow Arno to access Synch Points, mitigating the cost of the skill.
** Dropping Smoke Bombs while in combat. What makes this Game Breaking is that while enemies are disorientated by the smoke, Arno is ''not''; even enemies who can parry Arno all day are left helpless, allowing Arno to dispose of them. Unlike the other bombs, Smoke Bombs are inexpensive, and more belts offer an increase in holdong capacity for them.

** Despite being a critical part (and allegedly one of the major causes) of the French Revolution, [[Creator/MarieAntoinette Queen Marie Antoinette]] appears in one 5 second cutscene in "The Women's March" co-op mission asking for more cake, though weirdly she still gets an ingame model and a database entry.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: The developers worked for years to create a painstakingly detailed recreation of the Notre Dame cathedral in the game, and the in-game model will be used to help rebuild the famous chapel after the roof was devastated by a fire on April 15, 2019.

* RomanticPlotTumor: Some people argue that the interesting factors and characters of the French Revolution, along with a genuine Assassin-Templar alliance was forced onto the sidelines by the relationship between Arno and Elise. See TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter and TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot below.

* MagnificentBastard:
** Francoise Germaine successfully orchestrated a coup within the Templar Order to become Grandmaster himself, and then manipulated Arno to get rid of his remaining enemies whilst playing every faction of the French Revolution against each other to make the entire nation tear itself apart so that he could sweep in and take control in one way or another, all while still managing to stay one step ahead of the Assassins and rival Templars.
** Also [[spoiler:Napoleon Bonaparte since he hoodwinks an Apple of Eden under the very nose of a trained Assassin, and the latter doesn't even have the faintest idea (though admittedly he wouldn't have any idea what it was, not having encountered a Piece of Eden before).]]

* MostAnnoyingSound: Crowd NPCs will grunt and snarl when you run into them. Most are fine, but certain ones give off ear-piercing shrieks, especially if you have the volume turned up.

** King Philip le Bel in the Prologue of ''Unity'' doesn't have a line of dialogue, but his model animations, his cold GrayEyes, and the fact that he' responsible for the Templars most brutal and public loss leaves a memorable impression. Likewise, Jacques de Molay in the same prologue was seen by many as a far more impressive and interesting villain than the Revolutionary Templars of the game.

** Napoleon won fans pre-release for his badass cynical wit. Many fans couldn't wait to start RootingForTheEmpire.

** The revelation of [[spoiler: Robespierre]] as a Templar has gotten some of this, particularly to those who are aware of said individual's HiddenDepths and would prefer a more [[FallenHero ambiguous]] [[BlackAndGreyMorality view]] of the Assassins vs. Templar conflict. There's also the fact that very few of the more colourful French Revolutionary-Era figures are included; many were hoping for the likes of Marat, Desmoullins, Corday, or Saint-Just to have major roles. When the game came out, fans were appalled at how blatantly and demonstrably false and biased the game's depiction of the Revolution was compared to the fairness other historical events were treated with in the Series.

** The game's handling of History is either a strong message against revolutionary extremism or extreme falsification of events, with certain historical figures like Robespierre especially, being for some far beyond HistoricalVillainUpgrade and close to MaliciousSlander. This eventually became so important that Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the ''Front de Gauche'' (French far left-wing party) [[http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/citations/2014/11/13/25002-20141113ARTFIG00300-un-responsable-du-parti-de-gauche-denonce-la-propagande-d-assassin-s-creed-unity.php declared that he was disgusted by what he called "propaganda"]]. He said the portrayal of Robespierre was one of a beast, and the revolutionaries are all seen as dangerous madmen.

** Napoleon had won fans pre-release for his badass cynical wit. Many fans couldn't wait to start RootingForTheEmpire.

* NarmCharm
** There's just something so ridiculous and goofy yet ''awesome'' about seeing an entire army of Assassins running around Paris in broad daylight during one of Unity's multiplayer trailers.

** King Philip le Bel in the Prologue of ''Unity'' doesn't have a line of dialogue but his model animations and cold GrayEyes leaves a memorable impression. Likewise, Jacques de Molay in the same prologue was seen by many as a far more impressive and interesting villain than the Revolutionary Templars of the game.

** Despite being a critical part (and allegedly one of the major causes) of the French Revolution, [[Creator/MarieAntoinette Queen Marie Antoinette]] appears in one 5 second cutscene in "The Women's March" co-op mission asking for more cake.

* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: The general critical consensus is that Paris is one of the greatest, if not ''the' greatest, maps of the series in terms of SceneryPorn and free-running, but the story is among the weakest yet. Likewise there's also much praise for the Assassination missions going back to the open-style of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' but they also state that the targets are largely unmemorable and the villains aren't entertaining or complex.

* TheScrappy: Deacon/Shaun Hastings, who returns to write the Database entries. While Shaun's snark in the database made him an EnsembleDarkhorse during the Desmond games, in ''Unity,'' he ''doesn't shut up.'' (Shaun usually kept to one or two quips in the Database entries, but here, he commonly drops upwards of half a dozen per page). Likewise, the earlier database entries were funny ''and'' informative, here it's full of quips [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch and filled with blatant disregard for facts]].

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r47yZIYBUzc author/historian David Andress]] who wrote "The Terror" also discussed the historical depiction and he noted that the game was largely counter-revolutionary. More generally, while admiring the largely accurate (if streamlined) reproduction of Paris, he dismisses its portrayal as largely cliche and noted that the Templar ConspiracyTheory instigating the Revolution was a famous right-wing myth that refuses to give credit to the popular movement and pay real attention to its GrayAndGreyMorality.

* OlderThanTheyThink: This is not the first time that Templars have roused the common folk into a rebellion which the Assassins then tried to curtail. One of the Assassin Recruit missions in ''Brotherhood'' featured this during the reign of King Henry VIII of England. Its text is as follows "while we have no interest in protecting Henry from his people, we cannot allow the Templars to lead the rebellion".

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Arno. Either one of the best main characters, OvershadowedByAwesome compared to Shay from ''Rogue'' and the ''Unity'' supporting cast, or just the worst AC lead so far.
** So much so that he's compared by some critics in a negative light to [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII Connor]], who endured his own BaseBreakingCharacter until Arno came along and [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap changed some minds among his detractors]].

* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: The general critical consensus is that Paris is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, maps of the series in terms of SceneryPorn and free-running, but the story is among the weakest yet. Likewise there's also much praise for the Assassination missions going back to the open-style of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' but they also state that the targets are largely unmemorable and the villains aren't entertaining or complex.

** So much so that he's compared by some critics in a negative light to [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed3 Connor]], who endured his own BaseBreakingCharacter until Arno came along and [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap changed some minds among his detractors]].

** The outfits- more specifically, the full costumes you get for completing objectives in game. The Thomas de Carnellion outfit is the worst example, as it's the token "Complete the puzzles to get the special outfit" reward. The problem is, because it's a purely visual design, there's no gameplay benefits for doing the riddles (Which many players see as ThatOneSidequest), making going for the outfit entirely pointless.

** Connor fans wish that the game was about him helping the French Revolution, or that he was one of the Assassins in the co-op missions. What makes it worse in their eyes is that ''3'' teased this very idea, with La Fayette telling Connor that he wished to show him Paris, and Juno telling him he was still important. Ubisoft's often dismissive comments about the star of their best-selling game.
** The revelation of [[spoiler: Robespierre]] as a Templar has gotten some of this, particularly to those who are aware of said individual's HiddenDepths and would prefer a more [[FallenHero ambiguous]] [[BlackAndGreyMorality view]] of the Assassins vs. Templar conflict. There's also the fact that very few of the more colourful French Revolutionary-Era figures are included, many were hoping for the likes of Marat, Desmoullins, Corday, or Saint-Just to have major roles. When the game came out, fans were appalled at how blatantly and demonstrably false and biased the game's depiction of the Revolution was compared to the fairness other historical events were treated in the Series.

** The idea of a Templar-Assassin unity that was promised in the promotion [[spoiler:get shelved since it's entirely confined to a romance between Arno and Elise. With the exception of Bellec and the indecisiveness of the Assassin Council, the game is still Assassin Arno and Templar Elise versus ''even'' worse Templars, and there's no real attempt at unity]].

** The game's mega-glitch and Nightmare Face essentially became Unity's SignatureScene, much to the developer's dismay. They apologized for the game's weaknesses during the announcement for the sequel ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' and promise it will WinBackTheCrowd.

** Ubisoft faces some backslash for not having French characters speak with french accents. They are also criticized for giving an Irish character too heavy of an accent. Come 2016, and they get even more flak [[VideoGame/FarCryPrimal because characters don't speak any modern languange in a game that takes place 10,000 BC.]]

** The reason why it and [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIIILiberation Liberation]] don't have French as their spoken languages even though [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII more]] of [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag them]] contain various languages? WordOfGod wrote in a tweet that was later deleted that they believed that foreign audiences wouldn't understand the differen't French dialects and what class they were for. In other words they believed foreign audiences to be too ''stupid'' to understand them. Way to insult your fans, Ubisoft.

*** Likewise many feel that Arno calling for peace and preaching against [[spoiler:Pierre Bellec and Germain for believing that they can change the world by killing people, hypocritical since that is what all ''Assassins'' believe and have practised before him.]] Though, to be fair, Assassins are very specifically targeted killers. The Assassins are an organization which does not kill the innocent and by violating this part of the creed, the Assassins have lost their way. The Templars, of course, have never had that view.

** King Philip le Bel in the Prologue of ''Unity'' doesn't have a line of dialogue but his model animations and cold GrayEyes leaves a memorable impression. Likewise, Jacques de Molay in the same prologue was seen by many as far more impressive and interesting villain than the Revolutionary Templars of the game.

** The fact that the Assassins are on the side of the aristocratic elite decrying mob rule, covering up corruption of their leaders [[spoiler:letting Napoleon steal an Apple under their noses]] as well as the game's narrative bias to place all the violence on a single faction and a bad apple]], makes the Templar's radical approach all the more sympathetic]], since they are playing an active role in history.