Kathleen was responding to a pre-recorded video that Russell made (before knowing what she would comment on), which is why it seems like he is rushing past things. We won't make that mistake again!

I really like how excited she gets when seeing certain things. I have a thousand hours into playing this game so far. People laugh when they ask how my day was and I reply "I spent some time visiting ancient Greece". I play games like this because I am disabled and rarely physically leave my small apartment. Thanks for making such a great game that allows me to continue being an adventurer.

As a ubisoft 3d artist i can confirm, we do a whole lot of research :)

When I played Odyssey I always had my friend who is a Greek and Latin philologist explain things to me on Discord. He didn't know this game existed and when I told him I was playing a game on Ancient Greece he was SO interested. I showed him the game and he was absolutely amazed. He would ask me every now and then "where are you now?" and then he would tell me stories or myths about the places I was visiting in game. It was a cool experience haha

Being an archaeologist myself, and History nerd in general, and having played Assassin's Creed since the very first one, Origins and Odyssey blew me away. The detail is just nuts, and the overall accuracy shows a lot of historical research went into this (Hollywood take a note on how it's done).

Seeing people talk about things that they're so passionate and excited about makes the happy chemicals in my brain explode

It would be great to have like an archaeologist commentary that you could switch on while playing the game.

This was really intresting! But imagine her playing the game, it would take her probably 1000 hours to finish the main story lol

I would definitely watch more of her commenting on Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. (Especially if you dropped a note to Russell to not rush by or look away from something she's commenting on. It'd be even better if Kathleen could drive, but I'll understand if she doesn't quite feel comfortable moving with the controller.)

Make more videos with her or other specialists walking through different locations & islands in the game.

I love how excited she is :) history is her passion that's for sure

They should redo this with live game play, allowing her to take her time explaining things... if she has the time, they could make this into a series...there is so much history in this game and I would love to her commentary on it.

I need to see the reaction of her friend seeing his dissertation work in a best selling video game, if he doesn't already know.

The lore of the Assassin's Creed games are that the player is "experiencing" the world via their ancestor's point of view through mitochondria memory accessed by a fictional device call the Animus. I like to think the "Disney" view of the worlds, the inaccuracies and compressed timelines are caused by memory bleed from all the other data stored in our mitochondria through the millennia. It helps with immersion and fills the gaps and supports the presence of some of the fantastical creatures in some of the games etc. Just my humble opinion. I'd be elated if I were a historian to see the ancient world as it might have been, in such detail and care.

Odyssey was the first Assasin's Creed game I played and I LOVED how historically accurate the game is. It would be awesome to have more of these walkthrough videos for different locations with an archaeologist.

One of the most beautiful games I have ever played!

Kathleen said that she really needs to see more. SO SHOW HER MORE!! (and then show it to us) Thank you very much for the video.

Give 10 hours of this immediately, this was amazing!!

i thought for sure as the colossal athena statue was coming into view she would laugh at how ridiculously exaggerated it was, but no! that thing actually existed. please make more odyssey videos with her

For people that say video games aren't enriching, this game inspired me to go on a massive Greek history trip on KZfaq. I knew next to nothing about Greek history before. That, in turn, inspired me to learn more ancient history, another topic I knew very little about. It's been about a year and I'm still learning tons about the bronze age people's of the world. Thanks AC Odyssey.

Show her the palace of Knossos and the underwater minoan ruins,to see what the woman knows about them!

One of my favorite game and an archaelogist is commenting?! THANK YOU SO MUCH CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM!!

I'd love to watch her play a discovery tour mode session or something. It'd be really nice to see her just wander around and talk about things that appear.

This is really cool to have an actually person who has knowledge of what it was actually like in real life. They did a pretty good job by the sounds of it!

This was amazing. Please call Kathleen again to react to the Atlantis and Elysium DLCs too. We would pick the fantasy fan part of her, and see how she could criticize this imaginative part of the game, too. Very instructional video here. Thanks.

There is a tour mode in the game named Discovery Tour, they should try it in this format and make more videos like this. It would be awesome to see that.

hearing her talking about the whole thing feels like actually hearing an ancient greek person that was frozen in time and asked to recall her home. respect for these scholars

Great takes. She should get her own KZfaq channel.

I am a gamer first and a very low key history enthusiast. Odyssey and Origins blow my mind, I can’t wait to see what comes next. Thanks for doing this video, I enjoyed it. It seems like you two enjoyed making it too.

I am obsessed with this. It’s so interesting! I now need a series of archeologists explaining every single assassins creed game to me.

You know, if they had someone like her working with the programmers and modelers to make a "game" which was just an accurate model of Athens or Rome or Thebes, and all you did was explore it with her commentary behind it, I'd pay $60 for it.

Assassins Creed is an incredible series. Odyssey really got my into the series, more than any other game. And now I play Valhalla and I'm blown away by it as well. I can't wait for the next!

I want more episodes with her, i really appreciate this kind of video on youtube

Being a Athenian myself, I was really interested in this. Amazing job has been done, and research, yes. If someone wanted to nit-pick on certain details - or maybe not-so-small details - you could find a lot of errors in the depiction of ancient Athens in the game. Then again, there's some amazing correct details as well, far more than the erroneous ones. Myself I'd say its way more than what I expected in game depicting a historical site/era - I expected more fantasy than actual reality. Instead we got this. Incredible stuff.

the templars are looking for you lady... you know to much

You need to show them Olympia,one of the best cities in the game imo.

This game is three years old, and I still play it. I don't care that most of the live-service game is just weekly fetch quests post-main story. I just love living in Classical Greece. The ocean is gorgeous, Athens is stunning, Sparta is mind-blowing, and the temple of Artemis takes me beyond tears (Artemis is my girl). I could ramble for hours about everything I love about this game, but I'll stop this comment now. Look on the bright side, you now have another point in the KZfaq algorithm. lol

So many accurate details that most players just run past as quickly as possible, chasing our quest markers. This video made me re-appreciate all the artwork.

The crazy part is this is just a fraction of the amount of detail and cities. Would love to see more of other locations.

Thank you for posting the whole video. i have been searching for it!

say whatever you want to Odyssey but this is a work of art

For me Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a piece of art. Absolutely gorgeous landscape. The amount of effort the developers do to put in the details, you can never appreciate them enough. I haven't had the chance to play AC Valhalla, I'm sure it must be equally gorgeous if not better. While playing Odyssey I wonder what happened to all these huge statues and buildings and weapons. Why have most of them disappeared without a trace!?

What a joy to hear such an expert comment on this with such enthusiasm for her subject of expertise and for sharing her knowledge. I would watch a whole series of this. Yes I agree with your comment that it would be preferable to have her comment as you walk through so that you can pause on what she is discussing. It would be easier to learn from and allow her or other experts to really expand on the topics. Wonderful tool for teaching my students. Please consider doing more. Many thanks.

Loved the idea, the video and, of course, the information! ❤️

Great video idea! Thanks for doing this. Cincinnati museum rocks!

This was wonderfully explained and so enjoyable. Please do more of these! Subscribed 👌

Please make more! This was fascinating - her passion is contagious!

Really really interesting video - thanks for creating and sharing this. More Odyssey content please!!

This video is wholesome. Love this. Muchos respect to the Devs and artists of Odyssey. The hidden geniuses

gotta just love her enthusiasm. these videos are rad you guys at the museum should make it into a series.

This is such a cool video! I really appreciate y'all putting this together. I was a history major in college (found out about classical studies too late to get a degree in it) and the amount of detail they put into Odyssey's game environment is honestly my favorite part of this whole game. ❤️

Please more of this. I love history and I've always been fascinated with experts takes on these historical places in video games.

As a historian can I love this 10,000,000,000 times? Even if I don’t agree with everything?

I was a classics major and Odyssey blew me away from that perspective. Also, the water is gorgeous as is the other scenery. I loved that they have a discovery feature outside the game. I appreciate this video because after playing the game for 180 hours , I had gotten so bored with the repetitive tasks, every tomb/fort being similar, that I forgot just how amazing everything else was. Hopefully she got to see more of it, maybe on her own, as ther is so much to see, including Knossos, etc.

She was so excited, and this video was so much fun to watch, and learn at the same time. Nice work guys, and thank you for that

I absolutely LOVED this!! How cool! It’s my favourite game for a billion reasons and it’s great to hear an educated and excited mind speak about these things. I would LOVE to see a longer version. Perhaps a live stream? Thank you for doing this!!

Fantastic video. Keep 'em coming if possible.

Thanks for this. I enjoyed this a lot!

I want more of this! I love hearing about the historical accuracies and inaccuracies of games. It's cool to think we can explore a place as it existed thousands of years ago.

The best part of this video is not her knowledge on ancient Greek archaeology, but the energy and pure joy when she shows.

Great premise for a video! Hope you do more like this, she was awesome! I don't remember if Odessy had the option but origins has the museum/exploration option. Seeing experts go into more detail or summarize those or confirm it would be fun to watch. Thanks again to both of you for doing this!

It must be such a tender experience to see the subject of your work brought to life in such incredible detail, and to be able to run around through it like a giant sandbox. I wonder if it would make you feel closer to the subject matter to get to experience it that way.

this is the coolest video I've ever seen I could watch her talk about this virtual world and pick it apart for hours PLEASE MAKE ANOTHER LONGER ONE

Awesome video guys, thank you very much, well done

Great video! I just found the original two-parter today and was bummed that it cut off like it did, so this is amazing to see in full. Thank you! I would be curious to see experts experience the Discovery Mode titles for Origins and Odyssey - both of these were created for the purposes of teaching actual history through gameplay, unlike the main games, which - as you have correctly noticed - get inspired a lot from actual research, but take liberties here and there.

This was really enjoyable, I adore the details in these games and it's great to learn about the work that went into them.

This was awesome!! I’ve never played Odyssey, but listening to Kathleen was incredibly informative and fun.

"where we begin does not define who we will become" - a life lesson if there ever was one.

Super interesting interview, thanks :)

This is a phenomenal video! More of this please!

This should be a live stream. Could listen to this lady for hours. Love it!

I love this video. Thank you for making it. I learned a lot, too.

This video was well done. Thank you all for the great work

This was really interesting, I would love to see a whole series of these videos. 👍

This is what it looks like when someone loves the job that they do. The world would have been a better place if more people were genuinely excited about their profession like she is. Very much enjoyed this video.

How infectious is Kathleen Lynchs enthusiasm, I loved this, thank you.

Man this is such a great idea! i loved it! please bring us more of her commenting the game or who knows other "experts commenting other installments of assassinscreed. They are all so much fun to play and a big part of it surely is the awe we all experience when seeing these buildings and details from another time in front of us.

This was the first of the series I played and I got it because I've studied so much about ancient Greece. It really helped visualize what that world could have looked like. It also sort of hit home how Classical Greece was built on the ruins of another mega-building civilization, the Mycenaeans, as you could see ruins everywhere you went in the game.

Things learned: Greek ampitheaters were polygonal & wood seated not rounded. Athena statue acted as a bank. Alexander turned the religious buildings into a triumphal arch of sorts, possibly inspiring Romans. Pots had paintings not simple repetitive decorations. Kickwheels were in common use. Paintings were on wooden panels not on stone, and none survived, and would have had multiple ground lines like medieval tapestry. Meat may have been only from sacrifice up until near this period. Romans put swirltchback ramps in to replace Greek straight ramps. Modern Greek has more "e" less "oi" sounds. Athena's bronze helmet acted as a lighthouse of sorts.

looooved this video please keep them coming

AC Odissey brought me and my family visiting Greece a few times. I loved the effort the developers put in the constrution of this huge open world game. No matter how precise are the details of the architecture, from the visual part is the best game ever. It is an amazing journey to ancient greece.

That was lovely. Thank you

I’m playing the game for the first time right now. This sort of content is awesome. I can’t believe the went through the work to add so much detail!

I love this! Please can we have more of these?

Experts critique historical games. Brilliant! She was fab and so informative. I'm also pleased to know that when playing these games I'm also learning history.

I love the excitement she’s exhibiting seeing all of this reconstruction of the places she knows so well. It’s part of the reason I love the Assassin’s Creed franchises, I get to visit historic places and see it animated as it might have really happened. He joy pulls us in. To have a someone that knows the period and places says it’s really accurate and cool. Someone did some major research for all theses games to get it and we the fans appreciate it. Thanks for the video.

This is the kind of video I've been looking for.

now i want to play back Odyssey just to really looks into all those arts & scuptures!

This was Awesome! Would love to see Kathleen respond to more things like this, but perhaps live gameplay so she can take more time to look at more details etc.

I'd love to have her as a guide while playing Odyssey again. My favorite AC so far and the input from her gives even more insight into the world.

Awesome stuff! Would watch more

this was fascinating, thank you :D

More of this sort of thing please. Seeing non-video game people reacting joyfully to the unique things they can bring to the wider culture - mmwaa, chef's kiss!

Just wanted to point out that the syncing music at the end of the video is the best one in ACOD, period. Gives me goosebumps every time.

Could've just uploaded this in the first place.

OMG I didn't know I have been waiting to see the hard work of the designers being validated. SO so so happy.

I'm just now seeing this video, but I want to beg you to do more with her and other experts in different historical fields. I could have watched her for two hours without being bored. Please consider bringing her and others back for gaming videos like this and make them as long as you can! Great job!

thanks for the full video

6:35 I bet, amongst other compromises with reality, one thought was "this is a real piece of a real art depicting some kind of a story in quite a detail... but its original placement is one that NO PLAYER EVER will even notice that it exists. Let's put it somewhere else, into more constrained space that the player needs to go through more slowly, so we give the piece of art a chance to be noticed and examined."

This video was amazing please do more