More Alive Protagonists
There’s one problem with most of the protagonists of the Assassin’s Creed franchise: they don’t really seem to have a life outside of jumping on things and slicing throats. Or, rather, they don’t seem to have outside lives that really exist alongside the world they’re inhabiting. There have been characters who do have this perfectly reflected–Aveline’s wardrobe dynamic in Liberation is a particular example–but otherwise, they all just seem to be people who live in the world instead of being a part of it.
Syndicate introduced multiple protagonists to the series with both Jacob and Evie Frye, twins in London. Should we be playing as multiple characters again, it would be cool if we got some glimpse into what they do in the free world. It’s the little features that help a game world feel like an environment that is inhabited rather than simply lived in. GTA 5 did the same thing with their character swapping, and one of the cool parts is that you could sometimes meet the other characters out in the open world and send each other messages. That isn’t to say that we want to be able to send messages to ourselves via pigeon, but….actually, that would be pretty cool.
