anyone feel the series has lost its way a bit ? have they completely dismissed the assasin aspect ? it looks like a witcher 3 clone in some aspects
Not me, I actually feel the opposite. The AC games had become extraordinarily stale, the most common thing said about them was that they needed to change, they went away and changed it came back with something more akin to whats regarded by many as one of the greatest PC games of all time (Witcher).
I own every AC game ever released and I didnt consider a single one of them to be my game of the year at their releases, until AC Origins (which was my goty) and then AC Odyssey (which was also my goty). I never 100%'d any AC game, until Origins and Odyssey, but 100%'d both of them. I never played any AC game for 100+ hours until Origins and Odyssey, but did over 100 hours in both of those.
Now, admittedly, Origins and Odyssey arent very AC-like and frankly could have been a whole new IP but as games I think they are both far superior to the previous AC games.