The allegedly minimize ending of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, which was set to make the sequence’ already extremely difficult meta story much more advanced, might be nothing to fear about in accordance to Ubisoft.
As reported by Eurogamer, a Reddit “Ask Me Something” from Mirage artwork director Jean-Luc Sala noticed one fan basically ask if minimize content material discovered by a datamine was canon to the bigger Assassin’s Creed story.
“All we will say is that what’s not in your playthrough doesn’t exist,” Sala stated, suggesting the minimize content material was minimize for a motive and subsequently bears no impression on the Assassin’s Creed tales which have truly been launched. He adopted up with a winking emoji, nevertheless, maybe simply to go away followers a bit on edge.
The minimize content material was thought to be a tease for Assassin’s Creed Hexe, the upcoming spooky-looking entry seemingly linked to witchcraft. Mirage, like most video games within the franchise, options minor connections to the trendy day meta story, however this minimize tease pointed to the distant future for the primary time.
Gamers might decide up on a dialog that takes place between two Animus Operators (the Animus being the machine that sends folks’s consciousness again in time), through which they refer to the twenty first century as “historical historical past.”
What makes the cutscene much more difficult, and a bit eerie, is that it exhibits Mirage protagonist Basim’s eagle flying from what seems to be Mirage’s regular map into the desert to a technological tower of some variety, suggesting the sport will not be set in ninth century Baghdad as steered.
However this “doesn’t exist” in accordance to Sala, because it did not truly make it into the ultimate recreation, so followers will simply have to wait and see if Assassin’s Creed goes in that course down the road.
There are alternatives for Ubisoft to take the franchise in a special course, after all, as two upcoming entries — the aforementioned Hexe and a feudal Japan-set Assassin’s Creed Pink — are already confirmed to be in improvement, and can each be sheltered beneath the Assassin’s Creed Infinity umbrella, a brand new platform performing as a sequence hub.
Particulars are nonetheless slim about all three of those tasks, however one worker listed the extremely anticipated Pink as a 2024 recreation.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage launched October 5, 2023 as a smaller-scale entry that returns gamers to the sequence’ roots by slower-paced, stealth-based gameplay, veering away from the role-playing recreation foundations of the current trilogy of Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla.
In our 8/10 overview, IGN stated: “Murderer’s Creed Mirage’s back-to-basics method is a profitable first step in returning to the stealthy type that launched this sequence.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.