In both its universe building and its politics it finds itself stuck.
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The series doesn’t make an awful lot of sense. This is ultimately the crux of Assassin’s Creed. The view from the Great Pyramid at Giza in Assassin’s Creed: Origins. In Assassin’s Creed the command to save the world is quickly brushed aside and only mentioned again through strange loading screens and glowing glyphs. It’s almost the equivalent of the burning bush in the Book of Exodus only at least the bush delivered a command that was meaningfully carried out by a leftist prophet.
Ever since Ezio first beat up the Pope in Assassin’s Creed 2 the presence of an ancient race of extinct Gods has plagued the series. Assassin’s Creed is especially guilty of this. It’s a trope that’s been endlessly complicated by Lovecraftian horrors, government conspiracies and ancient aliens. The battle between secret societies has been ongoing in fiction ever since the first novelists picked up their quills. If they were then the evil machinations of the Templar Order would be a thing of the past long before the Templars even came into existence. Judging by what I’ve seen from the in-game seas of the Caribbean to the slums of Victorian London it’s that the Brotherhood of Assassins need to seriously think about their next step because it’s clear that their bureaus of recruited assassins aren’t doing their job properly. Destroying the tools and crippling the systems of a corrupt state all have their merits but it’s what happens next that truly matters. To say I disagree with the methods of the Brotherhood of Assassins would be wrong but I do think they need improvement. ”Ever since Ezio first beat up the Pope in Assassin’s Creed 2 the presence of an ancient race of extinct Gods has plagued the series”p> You would think humanity would learn but impatience often wins out. Assassination from the Roman Empire to Genghis Khan to the Austro-Hungarian Empire has splintered massive swathes of land into warring nations time and again.
Democracy, when used right, is often geared to solving problems while assassination causes a great deal of problems regardless of how it’s used. Traditionally democracy has proven itself as the best tool of the people not murder. Whether it’s an invading force or one man with a hood and a wrist blade no one ever seems to think about what happens next?Īs fun as it is to steer pirate ships, scale pyramids and run across rooftops a quick glance down at the political mire Assassin’s Creed places itself in is enough to give anyone pause for thought. It didn’t work when the British colonised Ireland nor when the Japanese invaded China nor even when the United States intervened in countless war zones. Anyone with a passing interest in history can tell you that that never works out well. They’re mostly right to do so but what do you do after you’ve knifed some despot in the neck?Īccording to Assassin’s Creed all that’s left to do after destabilising the local government is move on to the next depraved ruler that needs a hidden blade in the neck.
The Brotherhood of Assassins or Hidden Ones as Bayek names them seek out and assassinate those they see as tyrants. Throughout the series whether it was Altair, Ezio or Edward every character has sought to destroy the systems that they see as holding the people back from true liberty. Politically the Assassin’s Creed games have always leaned to the far-left though they often veer closer to anarchism than hard socialism or full-on communism. Bayek serves all three to some degree and eventually becomes a rebel in his own right meaning his motives are not all about revenge. Along the way he meets Queen Cleopatra, King Ptolemy and Julius Caesar because Assassin’s Creed is nothing without its historical celebrities. A former Medjay (think Egyptian super detective) Bayek is out for revenge against an order of masked men responsible for the death of his son. The most recent game in the expansive series, Assassin’s Creed Origins, puts you in the sandals of Bayek. Personally, I’ve never really understood what the Assassin’s Creed games were trying to say. But confusion remains about where some games stand politically. It’s 2018 and games are tackling politics in a big way. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus let players kick Hitler in the face, literally. The new Far Cry 5 will set you to killing a far-right militia in the American heartland.
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