Assassin's Creed

[Silent Assassin]

Man, I REALLY wish I still cared about this series as I once did. I watched every single trailer a dozen times in anticipation. I dropped off after AC3, when BF was announced to be a pirate game. I already had some issues with the story of AC3 and I felt BF would just go farther away from that Templar-Assassin conflict I loved so much.

I stopped then but came back to the series when Origins was announced. Since the story was the major reason I abandoned the series, I figured Origins was an excellent shot to get me interested again. So leading up to it, I bought 4 and Unity. And while I enjoyed them, they just reminded me of why I stopped playing the series.

And then Origins, while a great game, just didn't feel right. And it's even the small things, like the hidden blade. It's such a tiny little thing. The blade was established in the lore as needing a finger sacrifice to work, because of the way it was designed. That cut finger was a symbol of an Assassin. The Origins comes along and claims that Bayek just used it wrong and the blade does not require sacrifice at all. Despite the lore establishing that it was Altair who fixed the blade centuries later so that it no longer required a sacrifice. Most people don't care but those little details like that really put me off of the lore even more.

That was the last AC game I played until 2 years ago when I tried Valhalla just to see where they took the series. Needless to say, I only played a little.

And really, It's such a shame they couldn't keep the quality up. Last year I replayed the Ezio Collection and the charm is still there. janky gameplay, sure, but the story and lore was still there.