#AC Unity storyline

[damez1979]

Assassin's Creed Unity - Destroying Lafrenière's Gunpowder | La Halle aux Blés Mission Walkthrough

[sleepyconfusedpotato]

Ubisoft don't make banger trailers with even more banger songs anymore 😔

[datcloudboi]

List of Video Games Turning 10 Years Old in 2024

Alien: Isolation

Assassin's Creed: Rogue (the one where you play as an Assassin turned Templar.)

Assassin's Creed: Unity (the one set during the French Revolution.)

Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky

Azure Striker Gunvolt

The Banner Saga

Bayonetta 2

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea (the DLC where you go back to Rapture)

A Bird Story (a sort of spin-off of "To the Moon")

BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! (is this a sequel to 1 or a prequel to 1? I forgor)

Bravely Default (in North America)

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (the one with K*vin Sp*cey)

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (to date, the last new Castlevania game to release)

Child of Light

The Crew (going offline at the end of March)

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (a wonderfully strange game from the guy that made Deadly Premonition)

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (in North America)

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (in North America)

Dark Souls II

Deception IV: Blood Ties

Demon Gaze

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

Disney Infinity 2.0

Divinity: Original Sin (from the team that would go on to make Baldur's Gate 3)

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

Dragon Age: Inquisition (the winner of GOTY at the very first TGAs)

Drakengard 3

Earth Defense Force 2025 (EDF! EDF! EDF!)

The Evil Within (from the creative director of Resident Evil)

Fable Anniversary

Fairy Fencer F

Far Cry 4

Freedom Planet

Guilty Gear Xrd Sign

Hyrule Warriors

Inazuma Eleven (in North America. And digital only.)

Infamous: Second Son (as well as its expansion, First Light)

Kirby: Triple Deluxe

The Last of Us Remastered (just one year after the original version came out...)

The Legend of Korra (the game from PlatinumGames that you can't buy anymore)

Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham

Lego The Hobbit

The Lego Movie Videogame

Lethal League (from the team that would go on to make Bomb Rush Cyberfunk)

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (the third and final chapter of the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy)

Lisa: The Painful (yes, really)

LittleBigPlanet 3

Lords of the Fallen (not to be confused with Lords of the Fallen, which came out in 2023)

Mario Golf: World Tour

Mario Kart 8 (the original version)

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes (the prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which came out 18 months later)

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Might & Magic X: Legacy

Murdered: Soul Suspect (it's like Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, but not as good)

Natural Doctrine

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! (a from the ground up remake of the first Oddworld game from 1997)

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2 (yes, it got a sequel. I don't know how or why.)

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

Pokemon Omega Ruby & Pokemon Alpha Sapphire

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (the last time that Professor Layton himself was the protagonist. At least, until the New World of Steam comes out)

Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Pushmo World

Risen 3: Titan Lords

Sacred 3

Samurai Warriors 4

Shadowrun: Dragonfall

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (the 3rd one)

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

Shovel Knight (yes, really)

Skylanders: Trap Team (the 4th one)

Sniper Elite III

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal

South Park: The Stick of Truth

Steins;Gate (in North America)

Strider (the one from Double Helix)

Sunset Overdrive

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS (or Smash 4 for short)

Tales of Xillia 2

Tales of Hearts R

The Talos Principle

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call

Thief (the reboot)

This War of Mine

Toukiden: The Age of Demons

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (this game merged the storyline of the War for/Fall of Cybertron games with the storyline of the Michael Bay movies. I’m not joking)

Transistor

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

The Walking Dead: Season Two

Wasteland 2

Watch Dogs

The Witch and the Hundred Knight

The Wolf Among Us (sequel this year!)

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z

Yoshi's New Island

[assassinschaoticcreed]

Ok but what would you rank the boys in terms of alcohol tolerance (including Shay, Basim and Bayek if you know them well enough)

so Bayek is the only one out of those 3 that I don't know enough to rank. if I'm being honest I couldn't get into origins or odyssey. I keep telling myself I'm going to force myself into playing them but life has been busy. (Unity) & Syndicate was the last (what I consider) AC game. but since the whole Desmond thing the franchise has gone downhill. I'm waiting, hoping for Elijah to show up in the plot line soon 😭

the boys:

so obviously the ones who can hold their liquor the most is Edward, Arno & Jacob.

I'm gonna put Desmond & Ezio in the middle

then Altaïr & Connor as the light weights.

Basim (Mirage) when the game starts out hes like 17 or 18 and seemed very focused on the hidden ones and what they do, trying to impress them etc. I don't see him doing much drinking hence another light weight. plus from there on out when his training starts he's busy with all of that, and by the time his training is over he's straight into the main mission of finding the grandmasters. so i would put him with Altaïr & Connor.

Basim(Valhalla) since he's in his 30's (if I recall correctly) in this game I'd say he's had more down time as he's gotten older i know hytham is his pupil i honestly dont remember if and how many others there were and i dont even remember if hes a mentor or not at that point. i was too focused on the main storyline that Basim was not even part of my thought process until he was in the main missions. PLUS when you're living amongst the Raven Clan and knowing about their feasts and drinking competitions, I'd say he's on the higher end, just a little more than Desmond & Ezio.

Shay I'd put Shay in the middle with Desmond & Ezio. he just seems like the type of guy that can hold his liquor, but drink socially. but he also doesn't like to drink alone, he'd prefer to drink with friends/allies.

I say Altaïr & Connor as light weights since they take their roles so serious, like both of them have been focused on training growing up and they don't really converse with people either. they don't seem like the drinking type honestly. Altaïr was born and raised in the brotherhood while Connor started training when he was a teenager I think, he looked at like 16 or 17 to me tbh. but then again he has a large frame so he could have been younger.

idk if yall ever forgot when playing Unity when Arno was drunk, I would forget not to use Eagle Vision and about blinded myself while using it. I also felt bad for Arno, rip Arnos eyes and splitting skull.

[sc4llywag]

How did you learn about the Assassin's Creed games? Which are your favorites and why?

OHHGGHEHEGEG GOOD QUESTION‼️‼️💥💥

My lovely sister Courtney had Ac2, the collection with Liberation ac3 and ac4 in it, and Unity. (I have almost all the games now LMAO)

Idk when but one day I remembered how I used to watch her play Ac2, I was maybe 12, and she would climb on top of the buildings to get a viewpoint and I think I fell in love right then and there.

I just loved how it looked and the atmosphere blew me away. I couldn't play at the time though bc I was a child, mature game y'know.

I picked it up maybe last year and mistakenly played 3 after playing 2 so you can imagine how confused I was with the main storyline.

Once I played 3 though GOD I fell in LOVE WITH ITBRHRJRHE❤️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️💥💥

Its fs my fav ac considering all the amazing aspects of the game itself. Character design, world building, amazing storyline, super fun combat, it's so good rgegegege

All things said, I have more to say abt 3 but all the older games I hold so dearly to my heart and especially Rogue, it's my second fav<3

Thank you for asking my fellow brother<33

[teecupangel]

It was just announced that AC Mirage is releasing in October. Are you excited? (I managed to get the collectors edition!)

Congrats! I pre-ordered the Collector's Edition as well <3

Sidebar: the normal version is currently 49.99 USD in PSN which gives us an idea of how long (and how big) this game would be. It's not surprising as Mirage did start off as a DLC of Valhalla so this will definitely not be as long as the recent AC games. I hope that means this would have a tighter more focused storyline and doesn't mean the narrative suffers because it's shorter. Also, as it's available for previous generations, it would probably have the same graphic options as Valhalla.

Alright, this can be a bit of a rant because, well, it's me XD

I read it's using Origin's parkour system but they've improved on it which sounds nice 'cause it's like the love-child of old and current AC games' parkour system.

The scene where Basim used that lamp-looking thing to quickly turn? Reminded me a lot of the old AC games, that's for sure. And that throwing knife kill? Definitely gave me AC1 flashbacks XD

Special assassinations are back and, not gonna lie, absolutely excited for that. That was my favorite part of the stealth mechanics of Unity, Syndicate and Valhalla's Siege of Paris DLC. I'm hoping it's quite diverse like those games and that scene where Basim uses a rope to hang his target feels like one of the special assassinations.

Also, also, also...

Chain Assassinations look so cool and if this is an unlockable skill, I know where my early skill points are going XD

As for open combat, I'm a sucker for dual wielders especially if it's the more traditional long blade/short blade combo and I love fighting styles that have a lot of twirling around so this entire sequence?

Yeeeessss, thank you. Twirl for me, dorky wolf dad. Twirl. I demand more twirling.

Btw, his Mirage fighting style is a bit different from his AC Valhalla style and I wonder if we'll know why he changed his fighting style in Mirage? (I'm betting it's connected to his Loki memories)

Baghdad looks awesome btw and, not gonna lie, I am having AC1, Revelations and Origins flashbacks.

Also, we saw another character in this trailer that is actually mentioned in AC Valhalla.

(So we know he's not gonna die which is nice XD)

Overall: I am cautiously optimistic and I hope Ubisoft doesn't fuck this up. I really hope Mirage is a success so the higher-ups in Ubisoft see that stealth-heavy AC games are worth developing.

Also, I read the Prince of Persia remake is being handled by Ubisoft Montreal (who is also handling Hexe) who handled Mirage so this might be a good indication of the kind of game the Prince of Persia remake could be.

Also, because it's me.

Hello, Hidden Blade Kink, my old-ish friend.

[corvus-the-trickster]

Speaking of ac victory. Clearly there were changes made in the process of it turning into the syndicate game we know. Were/are you happy with the game we got?

Oh absolutely i'm happy with the game we got. I would have liked victory dgmw especially with logs suggesting giants causeway was gonna feature and the isu storylines we could have gotten with that.

But no I am still happy with the game we got, the characters are fleshed out and the story and game are fun. I think there's a slight chance Victory would have been kind of a unity case where I like the story but not the gameplay.

[libertineangel]

The thing about Assassin's Creed is that it's always been deeply fucking stupid but at least in the early days it did it with an earnestness that wasn't blatantly trying so damn hard

Like AC2, commonly regarded one of the high points of the series (which is now at eleven mainline games), culminates with the Pope using the Papal Ferula as a magic staff (which is actually an ancient high-tech mind control weapon) in a duel in the Sistine Chapel before running off to the secret vault underneath the altar where you go for a second round boxing match, this is absolutely fucking ridiculous by any measure whatsoever but it's presented so straight-faced and down-to-earth that you just kinda go with it like hammy classic sci-fi

But then they start getting desperate in AC Syndicate ('cause they rushed Unity and it came out the door broken so they made fanservice schlock to try and regain some goodwill), where you meet Alexander Graham Bell and he makes you some fucking Batman gadgets to help out your friend the liberal democrat Karl Marx and then get knighted by Queen Victoria, and like sure nothing's individually any more ridiculous than the previous games but there's just too much of it, like this is a game where half the main plot is about searching for the Turin Shroud which is really an ancient high-tech medical device and that's standard acceptable fare for this series but that sort of nonsense has to come with setup, nobody would buy the extremely silly AC2 finale if it didn't have a whole serious storyline leading up to it, the historical nonsense needs a decent foundation or it just reads like the self-insert fanfiction of a teenage history nerd

Then with the RPG trilogy we end up with the desperation of ever-increasing stakes to try and stay big & dramatic (which a stealth game series should never be in the first place) so we go from a glut of historic cameos to actual fucking gods and mythical creature which stretch the realm of plausibility even in this utterly batshit series, I just wish the devs would calm the fuck down

[vinnymauro]

i love that ac unity isn’t my favorite so i’m replaying it and i can’t remember any of the storyline like did i finish this? (i did) but playing the very clearly meant for online play missions is exactly why i don’t like this game

[youre-drinking-embalming-fluid]

To all y'all who are saying Arno is physically weaker than previous Assassins - you're right and you should say it.

Think about it. Altaïr and Shay were both raised in the Brotherhood. Ezio was a street brawler, womanizer, and (by necessity) escape artist. Connor was a hunter, Edward a sailor. Arno was a nobleman's servant - a messenger, horse groomer, and gambler on the side. Sure, he could swing a blade, but going toe-to-toe with multiple assailants? Not a chance, buddy.

Side note: I have actually gotten quite used to AC Unity, to the point where I'm actually a better fighter as Arno than i ever was with Ezio. I've started the AC Syndicate storyline but i absolutely will be returning to Unity regularly.

Another thing i was gonna mention in my AC Unity post about how Arno feels different from earlier Assassins:

If Arno gets into a fight outside of his caliber, he loses. Badly. Maybe I'm just not as good at the game as other hardcore players, but if I fuck up a stealth mission and suddenly I'm fighting eight revolutionaries, I'm screwed.

If Ezio screws up the stealth, he beats twelve guards into submission with his bare hands. Connor takes on whole squads by himself, on level ground. Shay takes on entire forts singlehandedly. Even Altaïr does this - the climax of his story is taking on Everybody At The Same Time and winning.

Arno wins fights by surprise, speed, and planning. I've learned to kill snipers on rooftops before moving to ground level, how to utilize cherry bombs to draw attention away from a target. My favourite trick is drawing attention with a berserk blade and picking off the combatants with a rifle from cover.

Playing AC Unity is fundamentally different from any AC game that came before, and its game design is extremely impressive.

[sisterlelianas]

ubisoft please listen... we don't want "the biggest open world yet", we want a good game with a great storyline and a great single player experience; more enjoyable content, less fetch quests and no armor locked behind a pay wall. bigger does not mean better. stop being cowards!!! and start putting actual effort into the story you want to tell instead of shoving huge maps filled with absolutely nothing down our throats

[breezeinmonochromenight]

What are some of your hottest/most controversial takes regarding video games?

Uhhh like recent games or in general?

Anyway:

I think it’s really hypocritical to praise modern games like RE Village for being shorter and letting the mediocre shooting mechanics/story slide because of how gorgeous it looks when we were practically crucifying on The Order 1886 for doing this exact same thing on last gen consoles.

That being said, there is also such thing as “too much game���. It gets to a point where I just don’t care anymore. There’s a reason RDR2 sits largely untouched in my library.

The difficulty of SoulsBorne/Sekiro is so overhyped it’s embarrassing. They’re excellent games, but they’re completely doable, even if you’re new to video games entirely.

Little Hope’s ending is one of the rare few times the “none of this is real” plot twist actually worked well. Peace of mind/a better mental state/the ability to finally move on from tragedy is a worthwhile outcome even without the presence of a physical threat.

Peace Walker is better than MGSV and the best game in the series. MGS4 is still good, but the weakest entry in the series.

Raiden (MGS) didn’t need a badass cyborg ninja makeover to be interesting — he was already interesting in MGS2.

Death Stranding didn’t need to be a Metal Gear Clone, it’s fine as it is.

Devs in companies like Square Enix don’t owe anyone a faithful remake with FFVII and can do whatever the fuck they want with their IP and bitching about it does nothing. Changing things in a remake of a “classic” game/story isn’t inherently bad — it’s what you do with those changes that matters. Anyone who gets mad about that needs friends and/or a new hobby.

ACIII and AC Unity both have interesting protagonists and Unity in particular had a very interesting plot/was gorgeous to look at, but my god the fucking bugs make them miserable experiences.

While we’re on the topic of AC, Syndicate is extremely underrated and ACII + Brotherhood would have been a 10/10 and 9/10 respectively if you didn’t have to get out of the animus. I don’t care about what’s happening outside of the animus. I will never care.

Fallout 4 isn’t that fun/feels empty/doesn’t look good without mods, but it shouldn’t be the responsibility of modders to make a game fun/make it feel less empty/look better.

Abby from TLOU2 isn’t inherently a bad character at all, she just had the misfortune of being in a game with a half-assed story that’s made infinitely worse by some of the most bizarre pacing I have ever seen in a game.

I don’t think Detroit: Become Human is a bad concept for a game, but I do think it was laughably bad in execution. Connor and Hank have the best storyline and I feel like that was a total accident. David Cage is a fucking joke and absolutely shouldn’t be allowed to write these scripts, let alone without a team of heavy handed editors.

FFXV/XIII/X-2 were good, some of ya’ll are just snobs.

FFX Tidus isn’t the worst character ever, but I feel like he was put into a unique position for a protagonist and the writers failed to capitalize on it.

Faceless and/or silent protagonists are rarely ever fun, save for like the new Doom Marine. (I will never care about Ethan Winters.)

Don’t like something? Don’t waste your time on it. There’s also a big difference between criticism of something you don’t like/didn’t enjoy and endlessly pissing and moaning about how much you hate something.

[softshuji]

HAL YOU PLAY ASSASSINS CREED WHAT

yea i've played every one up until unity and syndicate. AC III was my fav, i adored connor's storyline, I think its the only one i played more than once. Originally it was for the soundtrack cos I liked it and I was like only 11 or something when I played the first one w my brothers but i remember it being so fun and also I liked seeing jerusalem and all those areas, places that were my own muslim history back in the past (lol i partially went onto do history for this reason in college) these games were my life, i think black flag was my early precursor to liking pirates lmao

did you?

[teecupangel]

I think so? If I remember correctly, there are a few French-exclusive merch of AC, including an AC Valhalla webcomics and a novel so they do give attention to their French fans. (Also the AC comics with the noncanon story of Desmond was created in France first then localized later on). And Valhalla has an entire DLC set in France XD

Oh boy. Forsaken… I… That book did Ratonhnhaké:ton dirty and that’s why Imma ignore most part of it. I will say that props to it for keeping one of Ratonhnhaké:ton’s best speeches that got taken out in the game.

I’m going to be completely honest, AC wiki doesn’t list the crew and I am not willing to click each person that has the category “Development Team” in hopes of being lucky and finding the narrative director for each game of Layla’s Trilogy BUT I do specifically know one director mainly because I looked into his Reddit AMA for more information of any future plans for Desmond.

Darby DcDevitt mainly worked on AC2 Discovery, Bloodlines, and Lost Legacy (which was canceled and its story refitted for Altaïr’s side of AC Revelations). He was a consultant during the development of Origins too. Interestingly enough, he’s the main writer or narrative director for the Sage-heavy storylines (Black Flag, Unity and Valhalla) so if you like or don’t like the Sage setup, this dude’s one of the main guys to praise/blame.

Of course, the writing of AC isn't purely on the shoulders of the writers and narrative director. The head honchos of Ubisoft also have a high sway on how shit goes and these are the people who didn't approve of Aya becoming the real protagonist of Origins so yeah... Any lore or story choices of varying degrees of "???" is in the hands of many people.

Okay, so this is just my opinion but I always assumed that the reason why so many lore dumps and background stories were relegated to the database and in-universe emails is because they want to keep the actual story tight. Do we want to know the history of Basilica di San Marco? Yeah, that sounds cool. Should the story halt so Shaun could talk about it? No, because it’ll get annoying if it happens each time. It's both for the sake of the pacing of the game and QoL. Although, I do think there’s an exception to that rule: the first Assassin’s Creed game. There was no database there because Abstergo and most probably Vidic didn’t care about history, they just want the Apple (and it’s ironic that this narrative setup is in a story set primarily in the middle east with AC1’s Abstergo being primarily white dudes. Coincidence? XD) but the emails Desmond is able to access once he can snoop around gives hints of Lucy’s supposed personality and what’s happening in Abstergo and the world (which they later retconned as Erudito hacking the emails to fuck with Abstergo). In that game, it’s part of the mystery and integral to deepening the world-building: Abstergo’s true connection to Desmond’s ancestors, the world-building, and even hints at the true allegiance of the characters. It’s part of the game because the game itself is meant to have a mystery to it. Who truly is Abstergo? Why are they doing this?

Then you get to the other Desmond games and Shaun starts the database with his dry sarcastic humor sprinkled all over and the emails show the team’s personality. There’s the hints of Lucy’s betrayal in the emails as well masquerading as reports. Shaun’s database steals the show and it becomes sorta a staple of the franchise, regardless if Shaun is the who wrote it or not. At some point, adding information and lore in the database became just another AC game standard that may or may not have been influenced by other lore-heavy RPGs who kept the history of their world in books you can find. Any lore or story that enriched the stories but aren't really important to know so we can understand the main story of the game are pushed into these sections. (Also, common western practice is to pay a voice actor per hour so adding these word heavy infodumps into texts is cheaper)

I was hoping Shao Jun would be the main character of Jade before more information came out on its setting and then the leaked gameplay got posted online and that hope got kicked to the curb. XD

(In Nikolai’s defense, the Fall comics which heavily focused on him and Cross are still canon. XD)

Hell yeah, cherry-pick everything. Only take the ones you like. That’s how we survive in fandoms anyway XD

Sidebar: My headcanon is that Ziio pretended that she shooed Haytham away because Haytham lied to her about killing Braddock and the truth was she sent him away because she feared the ‘darkness in his eyes’ and feared that it would consume her unborn child as well (Hide and Seek memory):

But his eyes... His eyes were ever fixed on the future—one in which he and his Templar brethren controlled all. My greatest fear is that one day I shall look into the face of my son and see the same dark hunger there.

“And no. Remasters do not count.” Ubisoft adds, “But we will keep asking for money for them though.”

Irt Shao Jun's Name

Why is it even spelled "Jun"? Even in her first appearance in Assassin's Creed: Embers, Ezio and Sofia pronounce it "Shao Yun."

It's...a mixed bag in Chinese fandom, as far as I've seen. There are no official characters for her name, and without them, we don't know what her name means or even how to correctly pronounce it because there are no tones. Fans usually pick a number of characters to spell out either Shao Jun or Shao Yun, which means her name is usually pronounced differently, with different meanings.

Tbfh, I always favored 绍君 for her name, AKA Shao Jun with "Shao" being a surname to mean "carry on" and "Jun" being a word to describe a gentleman/someone of noble birth and bearing. It bears a lot of power.

In the official AC novels by Yan Leisheng, he uses the 少芸，or Little Yun, which has me taken aback because I've always read Shao Yun as her full name, meaning "Shao" would be a family name, not a prefix. I guess both would work, given that she's a palace concubine. The "yun" he uses means "rue," the flower, which is fitting for a concubine, but doesn't bear the same weight and power as the "jun" I chose for her.

Either way, Ubisoft can't commit to her name. They spell it one way, then pronounce it another. Even the novelization is apparently officially non-canon, meaning once again, the VIBE of this girl is completely up to fanon.

[sc4llywag]

I sent you the ask about track recs the other day, thank you so much for your response!! Are there any tracks/soundtracks that you think I should know the context of before listening? Basically, what I'm saying is, I know being aware of what scene is happening in a certain storyline can make the music even more meaningful in a lot of cases. I'm totally down to try and find any corresponding clips of the game on YouTube to certain tracks so I can be all like "ohhh that's what 'Ezio Confronts Lucrezia' (AC Brotherhood) is about" 😂

(Or is that not what the soundtrack is like? I first started listening to video game soundtracks with Detroit: Become Human's, and those tracks play during the actual game itself. But idk if it's the same case with the AC games, or if it's just a separate song album to go with the vibe of the games, y'know)

Also, while I'm here, why not just say this (even though I don't know what you're gonna do w this info 😂): I was googling what "Tarantella" means since there's Florence & Venice Tarantella (AC 2 & AC Nexus), and (the first thing on) Google was saying it's like an Italian folk dance. I keep imagining what was going on in the game was like that Kingdom Dance scene in Tangled, and I think that's what really made me think about what was happening during all of the other tracks, and what made me come back here :)

I can't even believe I didn't see this when you asked! My greatest of apologies<3

For the soundtracks, certain contexts are good! With your example, in ACB when Ezio confronts Lucrezia happens I believe happens when either speaking to her after Cesare's betrayal, or the dlc which I unfortunately am not familiar with yet </3

For Ac3, context is important to me, for the track Connors life I believe is so so important to know his backstory and his emotions throughout the game, it's also his theme so in general you'll hear it within a lot of tracks(bonus as well!) as a motif because it represents him as a whole and I love Lorne Balfe for that whegahah

Certain OSTs like unity, don't need too much context imo. The songs are enjoyable and constantly you hear the same motif for the main theme in a lot of the tracks! But the track Put your mind at Elise is played at a time with Elise, Arno's lover, who is very key to the game and Arno's story. So it's a bit mixed for unity if I think about it hard enough

All of these OSTS have tracks that play throughout their respective games and that's what gives the games life imo, some tracks aren't included in the official OSTs, so I recommend going to YouTube and looking for unofficial ones that people have posted! There are some really good ones :)

Kingdom dance from tangled is SO perfect for the label of tarantella you're so right asker

I'm so glad you came back to ask<3 again sorry for my late posting!!🩵🩵

[werewolfetone]

I'm actually really glad that Marat does not have his own storyline in ac unity because while the rest of the game is rage inducing having to sit through ac unity's takes on Marat might just be my breaking point