Assassin’s Creed: This work of fiction was designed, developed, and produced by a multicultural team of various religious faiths...
Assassin’s Creed: This work of fiction was designed, developed, and produced by a multicultural team of various religious faiths and beliefs
Also Assassin’s Creed: lol no one’s gonna terrorism us for blaspheming against the Egyptians, you fight all those wacky animal-head gods as endgame bosses to collect the elite Anubis gear set
I will say Origins really dropped the ball on the serious revisionism they’d been doing, like 3 was “Ben Franklin was a dirty old man and George Washington was an incompetent self-dealing genocidaire who stumbled into something good”, Black Flag/Rogue/the mobile slavery one were “the entire settlement of the Americas was bad guys”, Unity/Syndicate were like “capitalist democracy happened because it became an easier and more comprehensive way for the strong to dominate the weak than feudalism, also the anarchistic freedom this series always idealized is a juvenile ideology counterproductive on its own terms”
Origins was like “pre-capitalist Egyptian society and economy was completely organized around temples run by mostly-hereditary priests who controlled the distribution of goods and prestige under severe tensions and pressures and sometimes they became corrupted towards self-interest on an individual basis, which meant they might be selfishly blasphemous”
I mean like the apex of this was a mission sequence like “a priest of Sobek (the crocodile god) is killing crocodiles to use them as mummies to smuggle opium”
(like that 80s Chipmunks balloon movie!)
And it’s interesting to see Bayek, the sympathetic protagonist, get murderously angry at blasphemy that means nothing to us
But without that I think it expects us to have residual anger at illegal opiate dealers that doesn’t work when they exhaustively exhibited how opium is a normal crop and law, taxes, trade, and death mean completely different things in this world