History VideoGame / AssassinsCreedOdyssey

* ShownTheirWork:
** The Greek columns and some statues are actually painted as they would've been back then as opposed to the exposed white marble we see today.

* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. When the Eagle Bearer is confronted with the corpses of the people they have killed, as well as with the relatives of the dead, they can argue that they "had no choice, because they would have otherwise killed me".

* BoringButPractical: As mentioned above, sniping your enemies at range may not look very cool (unless using Predator Shot), but it gets the job done quickly. Just as well when sniping isn't an option, walking up behind your target and just backstabbing them is equally painless, at least for you. Quick, quiet, easy. Bosses with just a sliver of health left after a Critical Assassination or a Hero Strike aren't very scary either.

** The quest "Family Values" also features this, depending on your choices. The Eagle Bearer can choose to seduce the town Blacksmith in return for a spear he has in his possession that belongs to a local boy, Supideo. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the Blacksmith is the biological father of Supideo, and when he finds out that the Eagle Bearer "fucked his ''pater''", he's so horrified he ''blinds himself''.]]

* BonusBoss: A nice and varied selection of them in the base game. Eight legendary animals, four mythical monsters, six arena champions and an unknown number of legendary ships can be fought for fun and powerful equipment without any of them tying into the main plot.

** One type of BonusBoss are the twelve so-called Alpha Ships, unique warships with distinct looks and fighting styles that can be encountered all over the Aegean. Though not quite as awesome as the legendary ships from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' or ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'', they still put up a fight and look pretty cool.

* EasyLevelTrick: Six of the eight [[BonusBoss legendary beasts]] can be slain safely and easily by dodging their charge attacks and pelting them with arrows while they recover. ArrowsOnFire make it even easier and faster to pull off, assuming you have access to them. The tactic can also be used on the two remaining beasts, but their FlunkyBoss status tends to make it a tad more challenging, although definitely not impossible (and it's still safer than trying to get into melee, especially with the [[GetBackHereBoss Kalydonian Boar]]).

* BonusBoss: [[LivingStatue Elysian Colossi]] serve as optional minibosses of sorts to stealthy players. Colossi are always encountered just standing around on pedestals, and they stay that way until you either start combat in their vicinity, do something special (destroying a Marble Maiden statue, interacting with Keeper's Secrets, etc.), or actively attack them first. Stealthing around them is usually not difficult to do, so most battles with them will only happen because the player triggered them on purpose.

** {{Lightning Bruiser}}s use battle axes as their primary weapon. Axes (along with war hammers and war clubs also available to the Eagle Bearer in the game) had long since fallen out of use as weapons of war by the time of the Peloponnesian War; with the exception of archers, javelin skirmishers, and slingers (the latter two of which aren't enemy types in the game), the spear was the primary weapon of all Greek infantry.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Comes with the territory regarding the SpaceCompression of Greece. Ignoring that however, a mountain range is added in the north to prevent the player from leaving Greece, and the land of Thrace (now the country of Turkey) is pushed ''very'' eastward to make it look like the player shouldn't sail there at all (to put this in context, Chios and Lesbos in real life are right on the coast of Turkey, and much closer to Turkey than to Greece). The Macedonian area is shifted south, the island of Kriti moved north into the game map, and many of the smaller islands in the Aegean Sea are removed. The island of Thera is also depicted with palatial ruins on its caldera, both within the Animus and in the modern day segment which occurs there, when no such ruins have ever existed there.

* FinishingMove: It's an ''Assassin's Creed'' game, so naturally.

*** The Eagle Bearer gets uncomfortable when General Timo gives Myrinne a traditional Spartan valediction before leaving for battle in front of them, given by a warrior's wife: "With your shield, or on it." [[spoiler: The exact nature of their relationship is never revealed because Timo never appears nor is mentioned again.]]

* ThickerThanWater: Played with with the protagonist's family. Depending on the player's choice, the Eagle Bearer can believe this as wholeheartedly as Myrrine does, and the story can follow suit--[[spoiler:with their estranged sibling rejoining the family]]. However, the opposite can also be true, with the Eagle Bearer [[spoiler: forsaking their sibling and their sibling doing the same--ultimately ending in a DuelToTheDeath]].

*** The Eagle Bearer gets uncomfortable when General Timo gives Myrinne a traditional Spartan valediction before leaving for battle in front of them, given by a warrior's wife: "With your shield, or on it."

** In Argolis, Hippokrates requests that the player retrieves his notes in order to save a quickly dying patient he's tending to before he'll agree to talk about Myrrine to them. However, once you go to a nearby military fortress for them, the doctor on site will admit they were burned in a recent scuffle, though he has most of the information memorized. He ''can'' return with you to assist Hippokrates, however, since he has his own patient who will die without him, he refuses to do so without a price--meaning you can either pay him off or forcibly take him back with you, which will lead to his patient being left to die. You can wait with him until he's finished with his patient, but doing so will leave Hippokrates' patient to die. No matter what you do, an innocent patient will not survive the quest chain.
** Also in Argolis, the player is tasked by a priest to find a white bull for sacrifice in order to save the lives of the plague victims he's treating. However, when you find the bull, bandits have already killed it. As a result, the priest claims the sacrifice will only be enough to save one person. The player then has to choose who will recieve that sacrifice; a farmer who claims to feed much of the region with his farm, a rich woman with children she has to care for, or a young child who selflessly insists the player choose the other two. No matter who is chosen, the other two are (at least in their minds) condemned to death.
** In Kephallonia, the player has to choose between allowing an innocent family with the plague to be killed by priests, or defending them and potientially allowing the plague to spread. [[spoiler:If the player chooses to save the family, Kephellonia does in fact become devastated by the plague]], but when the other option is being complicit in the murder of a family ([[DeathOfAChild with children, no less]]), there isn't exactly a good choice to be made no matter what.

** The ruins sprinkled throughout the game incorporate actual surviving Mycenean and Minoan Frescos into the environments. Specifically the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-Leaping_Fresco "Bull-Leaping Fresco"]], which actually was found by archeologists in the real life Palace on Knossos--which also happens to be a location in-game, though it funnily enough ''doesn't'' use that particular texture.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Thespis, a playwright the Eagle Bearer befriends and assists, is convinced he's a brilliant writer, and gets huffy if the Eagle Bearer corrects his badly-written dialogue on stage.
* SmarterThanYouLook: In an easy to miss bit of ambient dialogue with Barnabas, the Eagle Bearer speculates that the stars might just be many faraway suns. Herodotos corroborates that some people had already theorized this at their time as well.