I have no faith in the quality of this game because of Ubisoft's longstanding policy of making sure their handheld spinoffs act as just promotional goods for the console games. However, I'm actually surprised that AC Vita seems to have some original thought put behind it. I would've expected Ubisoft to pump out a "Here's Altair killing some more people with reused assets from AC1!" spinoff game that took place in some really, really obscure time space so no one gives a shit about. Granted, given this game is coming out the same day as AC3, there's a good chance no one will give a shit about it unless Ubisoft Sofia defy Ubisoft rule.
I don't really care for this franchise, but I'm pleasantly surprised at what we've seen.