You may be surprised to learn that the Templars were actually the villains of Assassin’s Creed. Now that they’ve completely exposed themselves, let Acharky and I begin the task of dealing with them… after this tutorial.
(As a heads-up, this week’s recording are terribly audio balanced because I forgot to do a sound check after restoring my PC. That blame lies solely on me, and I do deeply apologize.)
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Even now as I write this, I feel torn about the point Acharky made while we were discussing the tutorials we were still getting here in Sequence 4. While I respect Ubisoft’s desire to slowly build up and set up the characters and conflict, especially since I am personally enjoying the experience so far, there is something said for the observation that we are over three hours into the game (ignoring all the side content, so for many players it would likely be even more time), and we have not seen our main character wearing the Assassin’s Robes. In fact, we will end this batch of recordings without seeing that.
As a point of comparison, we noted with Ezio in Assassin’s Creed 2 was wearing the Brotherhood Regalia in less than two hours of game time. Even though that game also continues tutorializing for another hour afterwards, we spend that time playing as our lead character in the role of as Assassin. Assassin’s Creed 2’s intro segment wastes very little time. We have just enough missions with Ezio’s family to form bonds with them, and understand why he cares about them, before we’re thrust into the revenge story at the heart of its plot.
I think Acharky is onto something when he points this out, because by this point in the story most of the other Assassin’s Creed games we’ve played up until now have fully completed their setup. We’ve already been thrust into the action, and it’s possible a lot of players weren’t ready for such a slow build. It makes me wonder how long is too long for an Act 1 in a video game like this.
I don’t have an answer, but it will be something I contemplate going forward.
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