so.....i beat revelations
Despite the fact that it is almost Christmas I've been feeling restless, moody, and over-emotional. I guess you could call it the Christmas blues except for the part where I don't think it is at all.
The fact that I beat Revelations last night and watched Embers just now is probably not helping. So now I guess I'm going to ruminate intensely over the deaths of a couple of fictional video game people? idk.
Somehow I think Altaïr's death at the end of Revelations is getting to me more than Ezio's death in Embers? Which surprises me considering how much more of an emotional attachment I thought I had with Ezio.
I guess what got me about Altaïr was that it was a sending off for both of them. When Ezio was walking into the library and lighting all the torches and then in the memory Altaïr goes down the corridor and extinguishes all of them - it sounds silly when I'm describing it but it was a very affecting moment in the actual game.
And I think in Revelations as a whole they really drove home how very tirelessly Altaïr worked to better the Order and how much he lost in the process. Yeah, Maria's death? Did not see that coming at all. That scene just kind of...settled in the pit of my stomach and stayed with me for quite a while after I turned the PS3 off. That hasn't happened with Assassin's Creed since that unlockable flashback in Brotherhood where Ezio sneaks away the bodies of Giovanni, Federico, and Pertrucchio to give them a proper burial.
As much as I adore Ezio I came away from Revelations kind of regretting that we don't get more of Altaïr. I really feel like Ubisoft could've done some great things with him and they just...didn't. We only get these little tantalizing hints in Revelations about his life.
I guess Revelations and Embers together just really drives home how little of Ezio and Altaïr's lives were really their own. There's just this overwhelming sense of regretting all the things you did or didn't do and how to make peace with that.
Man, for a series about stabbing people in the neck, when these games get emotional they get emotional. The exchange between Darim and Altaïr when he's about to go, y'know, die in his library really wrecked me. What was it he said? "All that is good within me began with you, father"? Jesus Ubisoft, punch me in the heart some more why don't you.
So I dunno. I guess in a sense I'm satisfied with Revelations and Embers for actually making me feel the conclusion of Ezio and Altaïr's stories, but I wasn't expecting it to be this...um, heavy, for lack of a better term.
The fact that I beat Revelations last night and watched Embers just now is probably not helping. So now I guess I'm going to ruminate intensely over the deaths of a couple of fictional video game people? idk.
Somehow I think Altaïr's death at the end of Revelations is getting to me more than Ezio's death in Embers? Which surprises me considering how much more of an emotional attachment I thought I had with Ezio.
I guess what got me about Altaïr was that it was a sending off for both of them. When Ezio was walking into the library and lighting all the torches and then in the memory Altaïr goes down the corridor and extinguishes all of them - it sounds silly when I'm describing it but it was a very affecting moment in the actual game.
And I think in Revelations as a whole they really drove home how very tirelessly Altaïr worked to better the Order and how much he lost in the process. Yeah, Maria's death? Did not see that coming at all. That scene just kind of...settled in the pit of my stomach and stayed with me for quite a while after I turned the PS3 off. That hasn't happened with Assassin's Creed since that unlockable flashback in Brotherhood where Ezio sneaks away the bodies of Giovanni, Federico, and Pertrucchio to give them a proper burial.
As much as I adore Ezio I came away from Revelations kind of regretting that we don't get more of Altaïr. I really feel like Ubisoft could've done some great things with him and they just...didn't. We only get these little tantalizing hints in Revelations about his life.
I guess Revelations and Embers together just really drives home how little of Ezio and Altaïr's lives were really their own. There's just this overwhelming sense of regretting all the things you did or didn't do and how to make peace with that.
Man, for a series about stabbing people in the neck, when these games get emotional they get emotional. The exchange between Darim and Altaïr when he's about to go, y'know, die in his library really wrecked me. What was it he said? "All that is good within me began with you, father"? Jesus Ubisoft, punch me in the heart some more why don't you.
So I dunno. I guess in a sense I'm satisfied with Revelations and Embers for actually making me feel the conclusion of Ezio and Altaïr's stories, but I wasn't expecting it to be this...um, heavy, for lack of a better term.