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Im glad im playing Alexios on my 1st playthrough. The most fun character in the series. "He's screaming but not in agony". This is the most hilarious 😂

The funny thing no one mentions is that even if Ubisoft’s goal wasn’t historical accuracy, making Kassandra canon still doesn’t make sense, even in the context of the story and setting of the game itself. Everyone always mentions the Olympic part, but what’s more egregious is there’s a side quest where you help a woman escape a death sentence for sneaking into the Olympics to watch her son compete, thereby acknowledging that women were indeed barred from being in the Olympics in any regard, even in this fictional depiction of Greece during this period. They even went out of their way to have a historically accurate depiction of how women were executed for this crime by bringing her to the top of a mountain where she would then be tossed off. This then begs the question of why Kassandra would then subsequently be allowed to compete in the Olympics if she is in fact the canonical character who’s story involves competing in Pankration. This is something that never gets followed up on even in passing or brief dialogue, it just happens. However, if you play as Alexios all these narrative issues instantly vanish.

Most importantly, women weren't trained as soldiers in sparta or anywhere in greece, so the flashbacks with nikolaos don't make sense

Imo I prefer Kassandra as the main character and Alexios as Deimos, but I can understand totally why people prefer Alexios. I think it's annoying that some people believe that it is so mindboggling that Ubisoft would make a female character canon and that it was supposed to be Alexios, but there was a last-minute change to appear "woke". Especially since the novel came out around the game's release and in that Kassandra was canon. Great video and commentary!

Alexiose has the sassy way of making jokes while Kassandra cant even make a joke without being serious

Alexios as the main character makes it SO much more fun and the pure emotion we get from him is amazing, and his immense sarcasm and the historical accuracy is better

I’m pretty sure they made Alexios the original character and changed it last min for points and doing a 2 character system

I dont hate Kassandra but the problem with making a 'canon character' is telling the player they made the right or wrong choice. They could've easily programmed Valhalla to have a functuon which checks your previous game progress (if you have one) and insert either alexios or Kassandra. But what makes it worse is the fans who berate you for liking alexios or even just picking him over Kassandra One of my favourite voice lines from alexios is this - "i have fought in so many wars", now while i wont deny Kassandras VA tried to make it sound emotional, alexios VA made it hit so hard

if i can i play a male character to have a better immersion,so Alexios was really my only choice

Or instead, make both of them appear depending on the gender that you choose for Eivor. Ex: Kassandra will appear if Eivor is male, Alexios will appear if Eivor is female.

Thanks God someone telling what is right. Of course alexios have to be the canon protagonist

I'm sorry I just don't care. From the hairstyle to his voice,Alexios all the way.Always.

Alexandra is better ratio.

The thing is Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Valhalla only needed the male characters, cause is the most historically accurate to do in those times women were not warriors those were the men🗿

I totally agree. I enjoyed Alexios than Kassandra

I really like how Alexios delivers his lines, he reminds me of playful barbarian, he is fun

Alexio is more historical acurated dont blame me😂😂it said so in history they should not put the crossover at all ! I was like deimos! Bitch! I kill you!

His voice acting is just the average greek male

I like playing as Alexios in assassin creed odyssey.

Malaka!

It's so obvious to anyone with functional Braincells that Alexios was always intended to be the true protagonist of the game. Yeah, I know Ubisoft says otherwise. People forget that it was during this game's development cycle that Ubisoft "fell to the dark side". This was when the MeToo era was building up steam. When the politicization of videogames and the open promotion of social and political agendas in gaming was starting to become normal. This was when the Karens in Ubisoft's HR department essentially took over the company and anyone who dared contradict them would(and still will today) get MeToo'd and blacklisted. In addition to your point about women not being allowed in the Olympics, it's so much worse than that. In Ancient Greece a woman could not even approach a man to talk to him without a male escort unless she was at least one or two rungs ABOVE him on the social ladder. Grecian armies would rather DIE ON THE BATTLEFIELD than sit around waiting for a woman to come and lead them from the vanguard...the most glorious and honored position for a soldier...to victory. They'd be the laughing stocks of the greek world for letting a woman do all the heavy lifting on the battlefield for them. The losers would get less shade for that.

because he is a man and its believable i know its fiction but still. i hiate this agenda, trend that females can be warriors leaders etc. a very small minority of women can but not all and everywhere. they have to be exceptional to be like that.

For one he actually fits with the theme of Greece. Women ancient Greece didn't go around adventuring, fighting in wars, captaining ships, and competing in the MEN ONLY Olympics. That should be Alexios. On the flip side, Kassandra would be much better off as Deimos, the much more secretive and under the radar enforcer for this evil organization that wants to control the world.

The only reason Kassandra is canon is because the devs felt the need to force a female character to be the protagonist. Kassandra does not fit the protagonist in this game at all, and it shows.

I feel like Alexios as the protagonist and Kassandra as Deimos just does both of them more justice

I have yet to play this game. YT algorytm probably recognise I was more for Alexios by showing me this video.

Alexios is the protagonist hopefully some mods can fix valhalla.

thank you for making my choice easier

After two play throughs as both, I think it's obvious the game was built around Alexios being the protagonist and then later they decided to make Kassandra the protagonist for internet points (heck even the cover art of the game had Alexios on it 😭)

Did people seriously not like Alexios.... ...Because of his accent?

I liked Alexios far more, personally. I don't know, he felt more personable to me.

Bro, thank you. Alexios VA absolutely crushes it. Its just the modern cool thing to say that you prefer the female protag.

I’m 10 hours in noooooo😢

I played alexios coz i am a guy and i play guys if i can

Alexios is amazing

This didn't age well 💀💀

Meh- I think the last point is kind of weak. Assassin’s Creed has always been about rebelling against oppressive forces such as racial inequality, class inequality, dogmatic beliefs, and gender norms fits in there. There are a few ways I could see it written off why Kassandra could have been in the Olympics. But I think the rest is valid, Alexios seems like they were blessed with a better voice and/or mocap actor.

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I agree 💯

They choose Kassandra because DEI thats literally it its about sending the “Message”

A men will always be a better greek warrior than a women lol That's the truth

Bruh i played as him

He's a man. End of story.

Kassandra was a amazing demios

I gathered a bit of info on the game before i played it and most were saying that i should pick Kassandra, so ofc i went with Alexios. I found his voice acting to be good and i really enjoyed him as a character,he gets "hate" for no reason in my opinion.

Agree 💯

It's just that I can tell that kassandra was a second thought

my biggest issue with having Kassandra show up in Valhalla and not Alexios, is that it defeats the purpose of getting to choose who you play in Odyssey...if only one of them is canon in the overarching story, don't give us the second option .-. I also genuinely enjoyed Alexios, the scene where he goes to meet Myrrine killed me. The silence and the facial expressions are great imo, but I think he comes across as a little "underplayed" and maybe that's why I like him. As someone who also doesn't wear my heart on my sleeve and act out dramatically, I think I read him perfectly well and relate. I watched Kassandra's scene and it didn't hit nearly as hard. Alexios' face told of grief and pain and heartache, as well as relief and joy and love. Kassandra was just happy to see her mom.

His voice acting is much better and Alexios as the main role makes more sense historically.