Assassin's Creed Is devastatingly popular, but it is also a franchise on the rocks. Ubisoft has the weather out the ups and downs in its flagship series since the end of the 2000 Crying than Prince of PersiaIts first inspiration, and the results have been mixed least.
Killer's Creed Valhalla May have been a colossal success for the series, but the glowing discussion about the coming Assassin's Creed Shadows proves that IP's status is anything but sure. Generally speaking Assassin's Creed Franchise has wanted for Allure in recent years, especially when its complex story is becoming increasingly long in the tooth and its core mechanics stagnates for so many editions. The series may still be able to achieve a certain degree of success under the current formula and the story, but it can also see declining returns if it does not double on innovation, and a hard rest may be just the way to do so.
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Assassin's Creed has dropped the plot
The story of Assassin's Creed Have gone off the rails and not in a particularly good way. Unlike other franchises, as Metal Gear Solid and RIKE HEARTSthat are complicated in a somewhat charming and chaotic way, Assassin's Creed Has seemingly stacked new narrative blocks on top of each other without any clear end point in sight. Each new entry in the franchise appears to be just to set the scene for the next chapter, rather than leading the story to some meaningful conclusions.
The modern side of Assassin's Creed Formula has been the basis for its overall plot, but it has become far too steamy and transient to be satisfactory or rewarding to follow. Until Assassin's Creed 3The franchise apparently was on its way to some kind of finale, with each game that developed the protagonist Desmond Mile's story in a reasonable way. Many even assumed that the franchise would culminate in a full -fledged modern edition, which would bind all previous games together. As it says, the franchise feels like it just spins its wheels, releasing new, disconnected games, shuts down the main characters arbitrarily and introducing increasingly complicated ideas without actually delivering any of them.
This does not only apply to the story either. The game with Assassin's Creed can be defined as trend chasing rather than trailblazing, borrow from those as The WitcherThe Dark soulsAnd different MMOs without actually putting a unique spin on any special idea or mechanic. As such, Assassin's Creed Has lost much of its identity over the years, to be more a vehicle to produce action-RPG-shock-full of predictable content than a coherent, artistic whole with a focus on innovation and exponential growth.
Assassin's Creed needs a new, firmly creative vision
With a word you can describe Assassin's Creed Like rudderless. There is nothing in itself wrong with wanting a franchise to last forever, although such a strategy requires a less satisfactory story due to the lack of an end. But Assassin's Creed Feels like a franchise that is not quite sure what it wants to be, repeatedly course-correcting and responding to the success or failure of its previous editions instead of growing its existing elements into something bigger.
Perhaps a definitive pivot away from modern history and a reintegration of nuclear murder versus temples-fight can help Assassin's Creed Recycle some of its lost identity and charm. In the same way, perhaps unique stealth systems double, abolished with Kvasi-magical forces and embrace less, more focused game design would relieve some of the fatigue players feel with the series. Also, abandoning microtransactions would not hurt.
