Asymptotical ([personal profile] asymptotically) wrote in [community profile] press_start_comm 2020-06-20 09:59 pm (UTC)

Assassin's Creed

It makes sense to me to split Assassin's Creed. The vast majority of the gametime, to the point that you can easily forget that the modern storyline exists even as a briefly introduced framing device, is in very different settings with very different characters. I don't think the modern storylines of the new games even share characters with the Desmond era modern storylines (if they do, they were brief enough appearances that I do not remember them) so that connection is even more tenuous than it has been. Basically the only thing connecting most of the assassin's creed games to one another is the idea of the Isu and Abstergo and some easter egg appearances. It's become less of a modern storyline and more of a modern framing device since about AC3.

The only ones I would argue for combining are the Ezio Trilogy, since those three games do share characters in both the animus and modern storylines. Or the Heritage Collection (The Ezio Trilogy & AC1 & AC3) since those games are the ones where the modern storyline had a storyline with Desmond.


So I would say split:

Early games:
Option 1) All as one collection containing AC1, AC2, Brotherhood, Relevations, and AC3.
Option 2)AC1
Ezio Trilogy
AC3

The rest of the games:
All split. Only two of these even share a modern character and otherwise the only link is bloodline based and easter eggs.

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