2. It Breaks The Pace
By far the modern day's biggest crime against the series, interrupting the natural flow of the story is an irritation that has cropped up in each and every AC game. Just as the plot is about to ramp up the player is sucked out of the animus to accomplish some mundane tasks that hold no comparison with the main events of the story - it's extremely tedious, and takes away enjoyment from the overall product along with it. Needless to say, returning from an epic mission to assassinate a Templar in the notre dame is not easily piqued by some contrived dialogue occasionally mentioning how Abstergo are trying to 'catch' you, and does much to sully the enjoyment once derived from the main proceedings of the story as well. It's quite clear that as soon as players are forced out of the animus, they will do anything they can to get back into it as soon as possible, meaning all the little extras placed in the modern day segments are completely ignored. It would be far more appropriate for the developers at Ubisoft to instead focus their efforts on what makes Assassin's Creed so good in the first place - actual assassinations.
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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
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