History YMMV / AssassinsCreedOdyssey

** Good luck finding a ''Legacy of the First Blade'' player who has anything positive to say about Natakas/Neema. While they're not so much ''detestible'', they're fairly boring and it seems like there was way more attention in the game's writing put towards making their father Daris seem cool and interesting instead of them--despite the fact that they are the one [[spoiler:the game's plot ostensibly ''forces'' the player to have a child with to move the story forward]]. While none of the game's romances are much to write home about, most of the other LoveInterest options have a more developed personality and a least a bit of chemistry with the Eagle Bearer. And of course, a game which gave players previously the choice on Kassandra/Alexios' sexuality suddenly pivoting and [[spoiler:forcing the player into a heterosexual relationship]] rubbed much of the game's LGBTFanbase the wrong way.

** Kassandra being the canonical protagonist. Some appreciate a strong female character, and simply find her more interesting than Alexios. [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory However, a real Greek woman of the period wouldn't have the freedom and status Kassandra enjoys]]; this is most obvious in a questline where Kassandra is able to compete in the Olympics while another woman faces execution for merely trying to spectate. [[https://kotaku.com/assassin-s-creed-odyssey-developers-say-breaking-series-1835696764 The game's producer Marc-Alexis Côté admitted in a June 2019 interview at Kotaku]] that two-thirds of their entire player base chose Alexios over Kassandra as the PlayerCharacter, which means that the majority of gamers who finished the game didn't play the canonical version that Ubisoft settled on after the game's release.

* CriticalDissonance: Go to Metacritic and look up the reviews. The metascore is very good. The userscore on the other hand, is more negative, mostly due to the presence of microtransactions, which some believe are responsible for slowing down the natural character progression.

** A character-specific example happens with the Eagle Bearer's canonical identity. Two-thirds of players selected Alexios over Kassandra, and thus most pretend that he is a Spartan mercenary instead of his sister.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The reveal that [[spoiler:Aspasia is the Ghost of Kosmos]] leaves a lot of ambiguity to [[spoiler:Aspasia's]] character:

** Alkibiades can fall here. His ''introductory scene'' is an orgy with both men, women, [[BestialityIsDepraved and a goat]]...which he invites the player to, regardless of gender. (He insists the goat was just watching, though.) Every appearance is filled with innuendos and flirtations directed at everything that moves, which can be pretty uncomfortable for some players.

** If Chrysis hasn't already crossed it long before the game began, by torturing Deimos ''as an infant'' to break them into the Cult's mindset, she certainly crosses it during the game by setting fire to a temple with a baby inside as a distraction to make her escape (and if you take the bait, she later murders an innocent man to set a trap for you!))

** Sparta, and by extension, [[spoiler:Myrrine]], can be this to some when she and the Eagle-Bearer return to Sparta. Even after everything that happened to her family, [[spoiler:Myrrine]] still [[MyCountryRightOrWrong fully accepts the cruel aspects of Spartan society]], like slavery and the ''agogé''. She even reprimands the Eagle-Bearer if they help a group of Spartan boys being attacked by wolves, claiming he made them weaker, [[NoSympathy even though one was killed during the "training".]] While Alexios/Kassandra are angry about this, especially since she neglects that they already ''fully'' understand the consequences of breaking Spartan law, it never comes up again, making it seem like [[spoiler:Myrrine]] was in the right for defending Spartan customs. [[labelnote: Note]] The Spartans were essentially ''Fascists'' by modern standards, practicing eugenics, slavery (who they would often abuse and murder), [[ChildSoldiers and turning children into psychologically damaged killers.]] Their abuse of the helots in particular led to a destructive uprising, and most historical analysis agrees that Sparta did not last long precisely ''because'' of their overly militaristic practices. [[/labelnote]]

** Sparta, and by extension, [[spoiler:Myrrine]], can be this to some when she and the Eagle-Bearer return to Sparta. Even after everything that happened to her family, [[spoiler:Myrrine]] still [[MyCountryRightOrWrong fully accepts the cruel aspects of Spartan society]], like slavery and the ''agogé''. She even reprimands the Eagle-Bearer if they help a group of Spartan boys being attacked by wolves, claiming he made them weaker, [[NoSympathy even though one was killed during the "training".]] While Alexios/Kassandra are angry about this, especially since she neglects that they already ''fully'' understand the consequences of breaking Spartan law, it never comes up again, making it seem like [[spoiler:Myrrine]] was in the right for defending Spartan customs. [[labelnote: Note]] The Spartans were essentially ''Fascists'' by modern standards, practicing eugenics, slavery (who they would often abuse and murder), [[ChildSoldiers and turning children into psychologically damaged killers.]] Their abuse of the helots in particular led to a destructive uprisings, and most historical analysis agrees that Sparta did not last long precisely ''because'' of their overly militaristic practices. [[/labelnote]]

*** At this time, any mooks recruited prior to the sidequest don't count towards the numbers in the sidequest itself. Which is irritating since you can learn about liberating Elysian soldiers from the loading screen long before you get the sidequest itself(and there's an achievement that outright mentions it).

** Ancient Tablets turn the act of upgrading your ship into a chore. you need a variety of resources to upgrade your ship, almost all of which you can easily earn by playing the game. You get them from resource nodes the wild, salvaging them at sea, and dismantling your gear. Ancient Tablets are the sole exception to this. You require multiple tablets per upgrade, and the only way to get them is to either loot them from Ruins or buy them from Blacksmiths (there's no way of telling which of the dozens of blacksmiths in the game sell them). Ancient Tablets will very quickly become the bottleneck that prevents you from being able to upgrade your ship.

*** For players who just want to play the story, the strict (and often inconsistent) level scaling slows it down to a snail pace. It can be especially frustrating when a larger string of missions are all under one story that is within your level, but the actual missions arr ''above your level''. The game essentially tricks you into starting new missions, [[ILied only to be hit with multiple road blocks]] when the ''actual'' missions start.

** During the cultist meeting where the player is introduced to Deimos, their scabbard is missing the Sword of Demokles. This wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that the Eagle Bearer will note at the Great Forge that one of the slots resembles the sword Deimos was carrying at the cult meeting--which of course, they weren't actually carrying. Later, during the Battle of Amphipolis, Deimos is seen fighting with the sword... with another identical Sword of Demokles sheathed in their belt. Curiously, the version of of Deimos' character model with and without the sword seems to have been switched in these two cutscenes.

** The repeatable side quests make use of full-sentence MadLibsDialogue. The individual lines themselves don't sound bad, but can lead to absurd scenarios; a [[HighClassCallGirl hetarae]] who is also apparently a musician wants you to kill a random Spartan because he insulted her music? How about the priestess of Hera who was attacked by wolves...so wants you to kill some unrelated bandits instead? Or how about the merchant who can't sell his goods to a neighboring city because of hostile Mercenaries after him, so he...[[BaitAndSwitch asks you ]][[InsaneTrollLogic for a handout?]] Made worse because some of these will also have arbitrary dialogue choices that mean nothing and have no impact on the quest, making the whole thing feel even less natural. Most players will probably skip the dialogue in these quests after finishing them once or twice.

** The [[spoiler:Hekatonchires]] at the end of ''The Fate of Atlantis'' is hyped up to be a world-destroying EldritchAbomination engineered to defeat the Eagle-Bearer...and while it can be decently challenging due its [[FlunkyBoss exploding minions]], with the decent critical hit build you should conceivably have by the endgame it's also possible to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BObAEkhpg78&feature=emb_logo demolish the creature in mere minutes with a few Overpower Strikes]] on difficulties as high as [[HarderThanHard Nightmare]].

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Sparta, and by extension, [[spoiler:Myrrine]], can be this to some when she and the Eagle-Bearer return to Sparta. Even after everything that happened to her family, [[spoiler:Myrrine]] still [[MyCountryRightOrWrong fully accepts the cruel aspects of Spartan society]], like slavery and the ''agogé''. She even reprimands the Eagle-Bearer if they help a group of Spartan boys being attacked by wolves, claiming he made them weaker, [[NoSympathy even though one was killed during the "training".]] While Alexios/Kassandra are angry about this, especially since she neglects that they already ''fully'' understand the consequences of breaking Spartan law, it never comes up again, making it seem like [[spoiler:Myrrine]] was in the right for defending Spartan customs. [[labelnote: Note]] The Spartans were essentially ''Fascists'' by modern standards, practicing eugenics, slavery (who they would often abuse and murder), [[ChildSoldiers and turning children into psychologically damaged killers.]] Their abuse of the helots in particular led to a destructive uprisings, and most historical analysis agrees that Sparta did not last long precisely ''because'' of their overly militaristic practices. [[/labelnote]]

** Chrysis crossed it long before the game began, by torturing Deimos ''as an infant'' to break them into the Cult's mindset. She crosses it ''again'' during the game by setting fire to a temple with a baby inside as a distraction to make her escape (and if you take the bait, she later murders an innocent man to set a trap for you!))