The Adventure Heroes (eBook)

Sequence 1

Welcome to Florence! Time for some street fighting after the scene, so get stuck in and let the game teach you some of the basics of combat: locking on, deflecting attacks and combos when fist-fighting with Vieri de’ Pazzi’s men. After the scene, fight some more and get used to mastering the counterattack – hold down the deflection button and hit punch as an enemy near you starts his attack. These are the devastating moves that make you master of almost every fight in the game.

Watch out for your health though, you only have a few bars of health in the top left to keep you going, but these guys will be pushovers if you’re an AC veteran or you get used to counterattacking quickly. When the fight ends, you’ll need to loot your sore victims to get 200 florins to pay the doctor: just walk over these severely wounded fools and hold Circle/B to loot.

Once you’ve collected 200f, you can loot more if you want, but you need to follow Federico, who is marked by the ‘!’ on your minimap. Talk to him and follow him down the street to the North, and over the boxes, across the beams and up the building at the end (if you’ve forgotten how to freerun, its R1 and X or RT and A). Follow him over the rooftop and down to the ground on the other side to meet the doctor.

After you’re patched up, Federico challenges you to a race to the top of the church – but he’ll take an indirect route, so use your free running to climb up the ledges on its front up and climb onto roof, and into the glowing circle before your brother to win. Follow Federico up the tower after the scene.

Walk onto the little perch and Synchronise to clear your map up a little, then perform a leap of faith into the hay below. Wait inside for Vieri to arrive and run off, before leaving. Vieri’s men will be marked by red dots on your minimap, so try and avoid them, but you can fight or flee them as necessary. Get up over the rooftops to get to the marker and down to the ground, but enter the little area to the west here to find a chest with some extra florins. Enter the glowing circle.

After the scene, climb up the wall ahead to get to her window and interact for some Italian Passion. When the morning comes, ahem, use your free running to escape the guards – use bales of hay, rooftops and any hidey-hole you can find to avoid them. Just remember, you can’t hide effectively while you’re in their direct line of sight. Once you’re free, head towards he next ‘!’ objective.

Talk to your father, Giovanni. Accept his mission and turn right, where you’ll find a chest containing extra florins. You can also read/listen to the letter in Database/Documents. Climb up to the building’s rooftop and open your map – we’re going for a viewpoint before completing the mission, the one North East of your current position.

Head over the rooftops towards the marker and you should spot that it’s a large white tower: you need to climb up the Santa Maria Del Fiore church behind it and then jump over onto the tower’s North Side, then climb up to the open window on the East side. In here you’ll find two chests with florins in: one up here and one if you climb down carefully to the bottom. Climb back up and out of the window, and continue climbing up over covered windows and eventually onto the roof. Head out onto the perch, Synchronise and leap of faith into the hay below to earn High Dive.

Now set your marker for another landmark to the South East of here, and make your way to the Palazzo Della Signoria tower: make your way up the building below it from the Northern side and quickly beat up the guard at the base of the tower (and scavenge his florins). Climb up to the top, head onto the perch to Synchronise and dive into the hay below.

Now set your marker for viewpoint just South of the objective. Head towards it over the rooftops and climb this simple tower, synchronise and dive down, before heading to the objective itself and talking to the target. Now speak to the nearby Tailor and Blacksmith for database files. Now set your marker for the Southern viewpoint, which is West of your position, and use the rooftops to head over there (avoiding or fighting the red-dot guards).

Climb, synchronise and dive down from this tower, now mark the next viewpoint to the Northwest. It’s another simple little tower so sync and dive, before marking and heading for the final viewpoint in this district, to the Northeast. This tower is also a simple affair, so sync and dive, and head back to your actual objective now. Talk with your brother and knock on the door.

After the scene, you’ll unlock some side missions. Go talk to Claudia, Ezio’s sister, on the nearby bench. Accept her quest.

Beat a Cheat

Follow the marker to go meet up with Duccio. During the scene, follow the onscreen prompts to punch him, then beat him up and grab him, and use some the other face buttons to lay into Duccio until he’s had enough. Mission accomplished. Head back to the family home and talk to your mother inside your house.

Friend of the Family

Follow her and listen to the conversation to meet Leonardo da Vinci. Pick up the box and walk back to the objective/your house with it (the two of them will follow you). Put the box down in the glowing circle to complete the mission. Head outside and talk to your little brother, Petruccio.

Petruccio’s Secret

You need to collect the three feathers marked on your map and bring them back for Petruccio: climb up the building to catch the nearest feather in the glowing circle, then take the rooftop route West for the other two. Make sure you look out for a little balcony on the left just before the second one to find a chest to loot more florins. Collecting all three feathers, florins and returning to the door will only cause the most inept of free runners trouble.

Now the 100 feather locations in the game are unlocked: these are very important for upgrades and awards, so now we’re going to collect all of them found in this, the San Giovanni district. If you’re not bothered about them, just ignore these next paragraphs.

Feathers in San Giovanni District, Florence

9 Feathers, bringing total to 9/100

1/100 – On your map, look West of your current position and you’ll find a circular looking structure with a Tailor to the South. On the North East side just above the dark grey rectangle is the first feather: get onto the rooftop here and it’s perched on top of the wooden crane.

2/100 – On your map, look North from 1 and find the dark grey rectangle North of the Blacksmith/Fast Travel location. Head over there and you’ll be able to spot this feather in a window just below the roof.

3/100 – On your map, look East to the church. Head over and climb up it and head to its Eastern side, and make your way up the huge dome via the Western side. You’ll find a few treasures to loot, before climbing up towards to the cross at the top where you’ll collect the feather. Be careful getting back down.

4/100 – On your map, look South East from your position at the church and mark the Eastern side of the Palazzo Della Signoria. Head over there and you’ll find it on the lower rooftop balancing on a beam to the East (listen out for the twinkling sound that gives away its position).

5/100 – On your map, look to the South and mark the Tailor shop near the city exit. Head over there and climb to the rooftops of the buildings South of the tailor, and head East a tiny amount, but look over the South side: the feather is balancing on a beam just over the edge.

6/100 – On your map, look West of feather 5 to the city exit: climb back onto the rooftops from the perch and head West and look to the Eastern side by the water below: the feather is again perched on a beam, so you’ll have to carefully climb down the buildings around it to collect it.

7/100 – Climb back up to the rooftops and head to the North Western edge of this dark grey exit area: there’s a little light grey section to the West with a bit jutting out to the North. On the chimney stack of the building this represents you’ll find the feather (if you can’t find it, look South of the Blacksmith/Doctor and one of the rooftops will have the feather).

8/100 – On your map, head to the lone blacksmith exactly West of feather 7. Head over to the tower to the South West and the feather is a level below the tower to the West, in a window.

9/100 – The final feather in this district, head directly North from your current position onto the houses opposite, climb up to the roof and the feather is in plain view on top of a wooden crane like the first feather.

Now there are a few extra missions to perform here, so we’ll go through what you have to do for them now quickly – some of these missions are straightforward and we...