In a shocking turn of events, Acharky and I finally get to play as Desmond Miles in the real world doing real Assassin missions. I know. We were as shocked as you are now.
(This week’s audio is a huge step up from last week, but it appears I still have issues to debug with my audio balance post-restore. This is still not up to my standard of quality and I do apologize.)
Streamed at https://www.twitch.tv/newdarkcloud
We said it in the middle of the episode, but this Desmond mission really does feel like it only exists in order to placate people like me, who wanted to see Desmond come into his own in what was supposed to be the series finale. Even after their pivot to a yearly schedule, they needed to payoff all the plot threads of the previous games, since the whole reason we dove into Ezio’s memories to begin with was to download his experience into Desmond’s brain via the Bleeding Effect. Otherwise, the Ezio trilogy would feel like one big waste of time in the narrative.
And honestly, it still does in a sense. This detour is a far cry from becoming the one who will save the world from the threat of the Mayan Apocalypse. They had time to ret con this is Revelations and chose to hold firm, for reasons I don’t honestly comprehend but likely had to do with the insane production schedules of these games.
It’s sad, but at least now we have Ratonhnhaké꞉ton’s incredibly well-designed robes to show for it.
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