With one fell swoop, the good doctor has gone straight to heaven. And then there were seven.
As a narrative setup and plot device, being demoted down to Novice for our hubris and blatant disregard, so that we can build ourselves back up to Master, is a tried-and-true story for a reason. It works. And though Altair’s voice performance is too dry to pull it off, the rest of the voice cast does enough work to compensate for it.
In particular, the heads of each of the Assassin Bureaus each sell how much Altair is hated at the start of the game with their initial interactions all veering towards some level of snide and sneering attitude towards him. Watching how all of them start to change their tunes as we earns back their trust, especially Malik, is a nice touch that further sell the idea that Altair is learning and maturing from the experience of getting humbled.
It’s not perfect, but very few things about this or any Ubisoft game are.
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