Some retractions

Okay, Nyssa is playing through Assassin's Creed 2, and I'm quite enjoying being a spectator. The story is getting twistier and deeper, and I really have no idea what to expect (although I am predicting that the Templars will have been the good guys all along). Recently we found a glyph on the side of a tall building that is the same symbol we see so prominently etched in blood on the walls of Desmond's cell at the end of the first game. Apparently it was planted there, along with some kind of computer code, by the previous subject/prisoner of the Templars, "Subject 16," whose fate we do not know, but whose cryptic last words provide clues as to a greater secret of which we have only seen the tip of the iceberg. (At least, that's what the title of the Xbox Achievement was when we completed this segment of the game --- "Tip of the Iceberg".) So I am quite quite quite interested to see how all this stuff plays out.

And MY, how the gameplay has expanded from the first game! There are actual PUZZLES in this one, with platform/Prince of Persia style solutions! And we also did a puzzle that had us examine 10 paintings of mythical/religious scenes and "pick" the ones that had a "core" similarity (their words; the common theme of the paintings was "apples"). My point is, this game is CULTURED, with ART and HISTORY and conflicting PHILOSOPHIES!

I still bemoan the Farmville sidequest. It just seems gratuitous. BUT it is not essential to the progression of the game, and Nyssa seems to like it, so once again, I guess everybody wins! hooray!