(Minor Assassin’s Creed Shadow spoilers from 15:12-15:30.)
After all the posturing about how much cooler and better he was to the “savage” Ratonhnhaké꞉ton, the white-boy Charles Lee is trying to leave the country.
But he can’t leave yet. Acharky and I still haven’t shivved him yet.
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I can’t say more than I said in the episode about how much the scene between Connor and Charles Lee at the bar sucks. At all times, Charles Lee presents himself to us as either a coward or a monster. To give them this moment of respect for each other when their relationship has been nothing but ruthlessly antagonistic feels cheap and hollow. It is sadly perfectly in line with what I would expect from Ubisoft’s creative team in that era, but that’s because I have low expectations.
Which, funnily enough, stands in stark contrast to the scene where Ratonhnhaké꞉ton buries Achilles next to his lost wife and child. By contrast, that scene logically follows from the way those characters interacted over the course of the game. The cinematic also makes heavy use of non-verbal communication and visual cues to convey the emotion of the scene in a way that words alone are incapable.
It’s a tasty morsel sandwiched between two incredibly awful sequences.
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