Yasuke is actually a fantastic choice as far as history/narrative goes.
A shame the game looks like more generic Assassin’s Creed Mapfucking+Crowd Supermurder.
Which is fine if that’s your thing, but I haven’t been thrilled by an AC game since… well, AC1.
Wtf? AC2 and the entire Enzio Series are why AC got a Fan-Base in the first Place. AC1 was a mind blowing gameplay curiosity with lots of rough edges.
The last AC that got me interested was Unity, simply because it felt like AC2 in France (similar Story even).
The last AC that got me thrilled was Black Flag… I mean… it’s legendary!!!
I think Black Flag was so well received because it has the least amount of Assassin’s Creed gameplay in it.
It felt fresh in AC2 but there’s only so many times you can trot out the same exact game with an extra gimmick before tedium sets in.
Nothing highlighted this as starkly as AC3 where I realised that without Ezio I just didn’t care about the story at all.
I hate the present day bullshit. I wish I could just stay in the animus and skip the rest. I picked up mirage and stopped after an hour. Same shit, new game, the same bugs and glitches that have been present since the first entry in the series.
I played black flag but it was also what completely cooled me off to the entire series. it was clear that the actual story of AC was over and they were trying to reanimate a corpse.
more importantly it was entirely unserious to the point that it made me think maybe the devs who worked on it were angry at the higher ups so they made Abstergo into a ubisoft stand-in. Abstergo is literally making assassin’s creed games and trying to manipulate people in pursuit of untold gains? is this a joke? is the game making fun of me for playing it?
whatever I don’t care, never returned to the series and seeing news and reviews never regretted my decision. AC died with Desmond and I was there for it.
The Story of Black Flag was tongue in cheek 100% and very blunt about it… yes… but gameplay wise, Black Flag was definitely the requiem on everything the series had to offer (and more).
And again, you are right. I stopped caring. I wouldn’t even know a new AC is coming if it wasn’t for all the stupid stuff like “I don’t want to play a black man or a Asian woman” or “why is the first playable Asian protagonist black”… the game itself well… why?
But should Ubisoft go down, I would miss their quirky games like Splinter Cell, XIII and even Far Cry…
even there they left no quirk. they found the ac formula to work extremely well and made all their other games into ac-spliced gray sludge. some even before. they removed the best part of rainbow six. splinter cell became unrecognizable. ghost recon became open world or some shit.
apart from ac, thanks to the historical settings, I can’t tell any of their games from another. all their games have the same gameplay loop. all their games have drones. all their games have towers. even their fucking racing game had towers to unlock map areas ffs. they’re just a parody of themselves. in AC4 that was literally the case.