• Jumi@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    From the trailer he just seems so terribly out of place. Also, it’s bullshit to have a samurai in Japan in a game about assassins when they had fucking ninjas, the Japanese equivalent of assassins.

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      6 months ago

      The AC games haven’t been about covert assassination since Syndicate. They’re much more focused on open combat now, and playing a samurai fits that better. Yeah, it’s pretty stupid that a game series about assassins isn’t really about assassination anymore, but that’s where they’re at.

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        6 months ago

        I wasn’t really following it but didn’t Mirage go back to its roots somewhat?

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        6 months ago

        Origin was still about stealth and assassinations. It’s only Odyssey and Valhalla that broke away from it.

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      6 months ago

      I’d wager there’s no accurate historical depiction in any media.

      Everything is stylized or fictionalized to some degree.

      Maybe The Passion of the Christ is closest I can think of as they did all the speech in Aramaic and Old Latin

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        6 months ago

        If we are talking about ethnicity, there were huge liberties taken. I think a few of the romans were actually Italian but no one else was close to plausible.

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          6 months ago

          I haven’t seen the film and don’t plan to, but most Romans weren’t Italian by that point, especially in the military.

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      6 months ago

      He’s for players like me who like to hit stuff, not sneak around. There’s another stealth main character for people who wanna be sneaky.