Modern Day Progress
The original Assassin’s Creed games–or the main trilogy, rather–had a modern day story in conjunction with all the time hopping and throat slashing involving one bartender named Desmond Miles. ACIII ended with Desmond dead and the prophesied cataclysm being avoided, and Juno (one of Those Who Came Before) declaring that it’s time for her part to begin. But since then, the story on that front has sort of stopped and started, taking some odd paths that don’t seem to have really gone anywhere.
Since Desmond’s death and subsequent dissection at the hands of Abstergo, players have been taking control of a nameless and voiceless Abstergo employee and a gamer who winds up becoming an Assassin Initiate. There’s some stuff involving a Sage, and Juno making appearances every now and again, hoping that she and the Assassins will be friends someday. Odds are they won’t, but hey, it’s nice to dream.
It’s a mystery as to what the heck is going to go on in Assassin’s Creed 2017, but here’s hoping that the modern day segments see some improvements. Some serious progression with Juno and the Precursors and that whole Sage business needs to be made, or just scrap the modern day stuff completely and rework everything from the ground up. Hell, it may even be time for us to finally take our Initiate out into the real world and see how these folks operate in the modern day. We’ve only gotten brief glimpses, but one has to imagine that the tools of the trade have changed significantly since then, and that would be fun all on its own.
