As my Ass Creed quest continues, I’ve now played through 1, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, 3, 4 (Black Flag), and Unity, the whole “Desmond Trilogy” and then some. Here are some thoughts about each of those!
Playing them in quick succession like this feels like overhearing an argument – someone wants it to be about this, someone disagrees, someone relents, but gets their way in the next game, only to be overruled again on the one after. Meanwhile some malevolent higher-up keeps interfering and being capitulated to. These games feel so troubled that when they’re good it’s quite exciting, persisting with them feels like rooting for an underdog. I don’t know quite what they succeeded in spite of, but it had to’ve been quite something.
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