Only one name remains on the list: Rodrigo Borgia aka The Spaniard. One more name, and our revenge is complete.
On one hand, I like this as a part of Ezio’s character arc, where he learns that all of his friends have been secretly guiding him over the past decade, but as other voices have called out, this is strange. Stranger even than the fact that Machiavelli is 17 years old when this scene takes place and was 7 years old when Ezio’s family was killed.
I remember at the time being surprised not that all of these characters were secretly Assassins, but that I was supposed to be unaware of that fact despite the fact that Uncle Mario made that pretty clear in the early game. I was also not aware that Ezio wasn’t officially an assassin until this moment. I figured that when he told Mario that he would take on his father’s work, that would come with the implication that he was an Assassin.
Normally, we would be marching straight into the endgame. However, this version of Assassin’s Creed 2 comes with the missing DLC sequences 12 and 13 packed into the game. Therefore, we will begin next week with Sequence 12: The Battle of Forli.
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