Part 27: Requiem

Part 27: Requiem

The almost final last battle... Almost.

Our objective is to get inside the perimeter of the castle and reach the Pope in his private apartment -- for full 100% Sync we need to not be detected.

The path forward here is very obvious and linear until you get inside, once you are inside it is not so obvious.  Use the crates in the corner by the door to climb the wall and then shimmy around, using the beams and bars to swing and jump.  When you get on the platform head the other way, and when you get to the end of this run and it looks like you have no place to go once you are on the beam at the corner, turn to face the direction you came there from and drop town and grab the beam you are standing on.

You can now shimmy along the wall here!  Do that until you are under the trap door above, climb until you cannot and then jump to the other side of the shaft and climb out.  I do not have to tell you to kill the guards you encounter, right? 

Work your way to the next marker, which is in an open set of doors -- go inside and up the stairs, then ease around the corner and take out the guard inside then the two on the balcony.  Use the bookshelf to climb up, then move to the marker at the other end of the balcony, climb out the window and shimmy towards the next marker.  Drop on the roof then climb up to the marker to end this part of the memory and view the CS.

I am not sure what I was expecting here, I knew that Borgia was going to have a confrontation with the Pope, but this?  More than I expected :)

-- An Apple a Day --

Our objective is now to beat Cesare to the Apple -- to get a perfect Sync we cannot kill anyone in the process. 

You are on a timer -- just follow the marker down to have a confrontation with Borgia, and then use the cargo pallet haning at the far side of the hallway to jump to the beams and pole to get to the shaft above the door Borgia locked.  Go up and then follow that path outside, running away from any guards you encounter -- or killing them like I did, either way.

You are in speed mode, and you will want to use the two leaps of faith ahead to get the jump on Borgia.  When you get to the end stand in the marker and hit X then turn on Eagle Vision to end the memory.  That oddly shaped thing inside the columns in the middle of the courtyard is the next memory starting location -- once you use Eagle Vision it will begin to glow.

Use B to interact, and get the Apple just as Borgia shows up -- but the difference between him and you is that YOU know how to USE that Apple!

-- The Apple of Eden --

Now that you have the Apple of Eden you need to escape from the Vatican -- for Full Sync you need to do it without losing any health!

This is the most simple mission in the game -- just run and evade the guards until you are outside of the Vatican and in the Central District, at which point you should climb to the roof and hide.  Once you do that you will get a CS of you using the Apple to see what Borgia is doing, and that triggers the next memory.

-- Demilitarization --

The objective is for you to destroy Borgia's Roman Army.  Doing so is supposed to leave him no support to wage a counterattack.  Now that you have the Apple of Eden this is supposed to be a cake walk.

Climb to the roof of the church to trigger a CS in which Borgia argues with his Generals, and then you are inexplicably on the ground and once again surrounded by soldiers.  Your task is to slay the five marked Generals using the Apple. 

How this works is pretty simple - the Apple of Eden is powered by your life energy.  The more you use it, the weaker you get.  You have to stop using it for a bit so that your life energy recharges.  The other thing is you cannot really control who you kill with the Apple.  Someone near you will die when you use it, but probably not the person you want to die.

All that you can do is get close to the target and keep using the Apple until they die, or you need to run in circles to recharge your life energy, and then rinse and repeat.  Eventually you will kill the people you are supposed to kill, and then you will get a CS which signals the end of this memory, and the start of the next!

-- Seeing Red --

Evidently killing those five Generals had the effect of destroying Borgia's Roman Army.  Good on ya mate!  Now you need to drop in on a meeting he is having with the Cardinals and stop it.  Sounds simple enough, right?

Sadly this is another mission you will be using the Apple of Eden for.  You appear out in the sticks tasked with tailing one of the Cardinal's to the meeting - you know the drill, do not get too close, do not drop too far back.  Use your Recruits to take out the guards outside, then head inside the Collesum to get a CS of the meeting and you breaking it up!

I am not really sure what the point to all of this was other then to use the Apple a lot.  You can call in your Recruits to help speed this up -- I did -- but mostly you will be using the Apple a lot.  Have fun!

When this mercifully ends you get another CS that does not make a lot of sense, with some epic music and then the memory ends and the next one begins!

-- All Roads Lead to --

Our next task is to join the Assassin's Guild and confront Cesare Borgia -- and once again you are stuck using the Apple of Eden.  When you are holding the Apple you cannot use any item or weapon.  All you can do it mash the X Button and hope that one or two of the people you actually want to kill get killed.  Yeah, it stinks -- I don't know about you but I did not see the game going in this direction.  It went from massively cool to absolutely stupid in the blink of an eye.  What were they thinking?!

Borgia is making a speech in the square when you arrive -- a fight begins and you really have no choice but to call in the Recruits.  After they kill all of his men you get another CS by the gate, and Borgia is arrested.  It is something of a bittersweet victory since you played pretty much no part at all in the final battle.  All you could do is stand around making your Apple blink. 

Watch the CS that follows, and then be very grateful that the memory has ended.  Be eternally grateful that the memory also ended the Sequence.  You are probably thinking that if the next missions are this lame, you may as well stop playing now -- but trust me, you have worked your way through the lame bits. 

As the Sequence closes out you unlock the Achievement "Vittoria Agli Assassini" which is worth 20 GP.  Congratulations mate, you are almost to the end of this.  Very sorry about the last few missions, even though it is not my fault I still feel compelled to apologize to you for what these people did in the this game.