![]() ![]() ![]() The closest Assassin’s Creed has ever come to self-awareness was when the witty playboy Ezio Auditore da Firenze smirked his way through the Renaissance in Assassin’s Creed II and its spin-offs. How does a game that’s always wrapped up in a dull post-modern framing sequence about a guy playing a game remain so un-self-aware? Like its predecessors Assassin’s Creed IV is unflinchingly sincere, devoted to the paranoid style of history and a convoluted metastory about a modern day company pillaging the memories of assassins to find artifacts left by ancient alien astronauts. That one brief, recurring cut-scene summarizes the entire series. Like Assassin’s Creed IV itself, it’s awkward and endearing and unabashedly corny. He turns around and a second crewmember excitedly shakes his arms with a look of complete euphoria, like the friend in an ad where a teenager gets his first car. It prompts a canned animation where your pirate captain Edward Kenway puts a big hat on one of his crewmembers, who gets a dopey grin on his face as he realizes what’s happening. The best part of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag comes whenever you add a new ship to your fleet. ![]()
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