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Update added the following afternoon:

The original Assassin’s Creed concept was a man in the future who had to learn the skills of his ancestors via ancestral memory in his DNA or something to fight against the Knights Templar, and actual Catholic group that has suffered bad PR ever since Dan Brown’s book The DaVinci Code, if not sooner. However, fans found themselves preferring the stages set in the past, and thus the only remaining science fiction aspect were the various artifacts the Assassin’s Guild tried to keep out of the hands of the Templars to protect the world. Yes, the murderers were the good guys and the villains were Catholics. You imagine that I, as a non-denominational Christian raised in a Catholic family and raised on heroes who found non-killing solutions to stopping evil, am not the target audience. Take anything I say here with that in mind. I ain’t playing this thing regardless and I have no eagle in this fight. I’m just a fan of storytelling who has been confused with Ubisoft’s mindset starting with the most recent game, Shadows. I did a few articles on that whole nonsense, but here’s some NEW nonsense.

Game File is reporting that Ubisoft canceled their next idea for an Assassin’s Creed game in light of the response to Shadows. While there is no name attached, the game would have been set after the US Civil War, a period no doubt discussed often in France (the country Ubisoft is based in) and taught in French schools due to the importance to French history. It would have followed a just freed slave since the anti-slave North had won the war, for those you who weren’t there that day. That Park Place allegedly got past the paywall and read the whole thing, but there is a bit of commentary in there. Heck, there’s a bunch of commentary right here, so you should be ready for it anyway.

This does sound like it could be a good game…in a different time and place, and not in light of some of Ubisoft’s recent decisions, like adding a black character to a game that shouldn’t have had one, while making a concept long desired by the fans turn into a monkey’s paw as they went for political points. So would this game be any good? Clearly the best people to talk about the biggest race-related event in US history…

The creative team behind Assassin’s Creed: Shadows.

…is an army of the whitest French people they could put together.

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