History YMMV / AssassinsCreedMirage

* GeniusBonus: While Basim ''does'' piece together [[spoiler: that the Jinni represents a painful, horrific memory from his past life as Loki]], the game never really goes into specifics of what the details of it were. However, if you're well-versed in Norse mythology, you may recognize what this is meant to represent; [[spoiler: Loki's torture for orchestrating the death of Baldur. In actual Norse mythology, this torture consisted of him being tied down and tormented by a snake, who dripped venom onto his face until Ragnarok. In the game, he is bound in an Isu machine and tormented by another Isu, heavily implied to be Odin.]]

* DarthWiki/NightmareFuel:
** Ali, while undeniably well-meaning in his goal of fighting corruption, is borderline sadistic in his pursuit of justice. Perhaps the best indication of this is when Basim walks in on him torturing a man for information, with blood already puddled on the ground. When Basim leaves, Ali keeps going off-screen, though [[NothingIsScarier we cannot see what he does, only hear the blood-curdling screams of the victim]]. [[spoiler: Later, it's revealed that Ali did not let the man live; his corpse is laid in the room]].
** The Jinni. It's a decrepit hallucination that has plagued Basim his entire life, showing up in his sleep to torment him and shatter his mental state. When he joins the Hidden Ones, the Jinni seems to go away... Only for it to return with each target he kills, further terrifying him. [[spoiler: TheReveal that the Jinni is actually Basim's memories of being ''tortured nearly to death'' in his previous life as Loki makes the Jinni even more haunting.]]
** The [[spoiler: Isu mechanism used by Al-Rabisu]] is something out of a cosmic horror story. [[spoiler: Al-Rabisu places innocent people into the machine which, upon activation, gives the person within glimpses of the Isu society from long before humankind's rise to power. More often than not, the people who are on the receiving end of the machine's treatment GoMadFromTheRevelation, unable to comprehend the Isu's existence and rendered a shell of their former selves.]]

** Assassinating Al-Ghul carries a lot of gameplay dissonance, ''especially'' if you do it the way the game clearly wants you to. The game wants you to draw Al-Ghul out and then perch above his balcony, and perform an aerial stealth assassination, clearly labelling it a ''stealth'' assassination. Except once you do it, Basim goes out of his way to be as showy as possible, jumping behind Al-Ghul, tying a rope around his neck and tackling him off a roof to publicly hang him and then performing a superhero landing. For a "stealth assassination", Basim does everything short of cheer and fist pump.

* {{Narm}}: Assassinating someone on the ground has them calmly turn towards you as if to have a pleasant talk before you shove your Hidden Blade into their stomach. They do this every single time regardless of what they might be doing when you approach them. This leads to incredibly silly situations where some enemies who have a weapon drawn will ''sheathe it'' while you're stabbing them.

* {{Narm}}: Assassinating someone on the ground has them calmly turn towards you as if to have a pleasant talk before you shove your hidden blade into their stomach. They do this every single time regardless of what they might be doing when you approach them. This leads to incredibly silly situations where some enemies who have a weapon drawn will ''sheathe it'' while you're stabbing them.

* ScrappyMechanic: Assassinations animations are unskippable, so if Basim is caught during one a guard is fully capable of attacking him and taking out about a third of his health before the player is able to defend themself, even if they have the Chain Assassination upgrade.

** The devs apparently listened to these concerns as around a month after the official gameplay reveal, [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wbijToUlMnw footage was released]] by some who were given a pre-release copy of the game, and it showed that Assassin Focus, while still functioning as originally shown, now has a noticeable glitching effect to make it seem like the "teleporting" is more a consequence of the Animus technology failing to properly render Basim's rapid movements.

%%Examples of BrokenBase and BaseBreakingCharacter are not to be added until six months after the game's release (April 5, 2024).

* TaintedByThePreview: While fans were still optimistic about ''Mirage'''s goal of RevisitingTheRoots of the franchise, several were not pleased by the inclusion of Assassin Focus, a Mark-and-Execute-style system that makes it look as if Basim is teleporting to each of his targets for his takedowns that was shown in the extended gameplay reveal. None-too-kind comparisons were made to the assassination mechanics in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey Odyssey]]'' too.

* TaintedByThePreview: While fans were still optimistic about the game's goal of returning to the roots of the franchise, several were not pleased by the inclusion of Assassin Focus, a Mark-and-Execute style system that makes it look as if Basim is teleporting to each of his targets for his takedowns that was shown in the extended gameplay reveal.

* SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced: Many long-time fans who had grown tired of the series' increasingly large RPG-focused games were ecstatic upon the reveal that ''Mirage'' was a deliberate attempt to return to the roots of the series, with many of the early trailers and information revealed harkoning back to fan-favorite entries like ''Assassin's Creed II''.
** The gameplay reveal, which showed that ''Mirage'' was reverting to a focus on parkour and stealth that the series had been gradually shifting further and further away from was also met with significant praise. While some were displeased by certain mechanics that were shown (see TaintedByThePreview down below), the general consensus was that it was a huge step in the right direction.
** The reveal that the story would be taking place in a Middle-Eastern city, just like the original game did, was already a source of high praise. Fans only grew more excited with the reveal that Basim, a fan-favorite character from ''Valhalla'', would be the protagonist.

* TaintedByThePreview: While fans were still optimistic about the game's goal of returning to the roots of the franchise, several were not pleased by the inclusion of a Mark-and-Execute style system that makes it look as if Basim is teleporting to each of his targets for his takedowns that was shown in the extended gameplay reveal.