Uh oh! We did an oopsy-doobers by unaliving the wrong person. But that’s okay, because we have another Masayf Key we can go for to make the boo-boo go away.
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One of the big issues I find with Revelations is that each of the various ongoing plots don’t interweave or overlap anyway except the very end of the game. And even then, there’s no real thematic tissue forming that link.
Take the Altair plotline for example. While it’s an abridged version of the tie-in book for the first game, what we see is a tale of his attempt to keep the Assassin order together even as it suffers and bleeds itself out through petty spite and factional infighting. It’s a tale of how personal vendettas resulting in major divides, but divides that can be overcome through patience and understanding. There’s a lot of depth even to those brief windows we have.
Unfortunately, these themes are completely irrelevant both to Ezio and to Desmond. Ezio, at this point in his story, commands respect and reverence from those in his order. Even the local branch of the Assassins from Constantinople welcome him with open arms, treating him as if he was always one of their own. His newly courted relationship with Sofia is equally friendly. Perhaps the Sultanate court is divided among family lines, but that has almost nothing to do with Ezio and ultimately ties more into the overarching fiction and the war between Assassins and Templars than Altair’s journey.
Desmond connection to that Altair’s plotline does exist, but it is tenuous. One could argue that the way he ran away from the Assassins after fighting with his parents mirrors the way Abbas split the order because both come down to personal reasons more than ideological ones, but if that was the intent of the development team they don’t bother emphasizing it. Desmond’s content is also optional for story completion, further burying it.
And that’s just one example. Each of these plots has a similar problem where the connective thematic tissue doesn’t exist. Rather than supporting each other in a harmonious symphony, they’re all competing for attention, all lacking the screen-time to make a significant impact.
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