• Shoegazer [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I’m surprised they haven’t made a Cold War assassins creed were you go around killing communist leaders and liberating people and bringing free market reforms to the oppressed

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Unfortunately for Ubisoft ACII established that except for Stalin pretty much all Communist governments were Assassin aligned.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          The secret glyph puzzles lay out how the Templars have fucked shit up through history. Hitler and Stalin were both Templar Plants set there by Templar leaders FDR and Winston Churchill to forestall Lenin (an assassin ally, his brother was an assassin)

          Additonally Allende, Castro, Sankara, the Spanish Anarchists Durruti, and at least some of the International Brigades were Assassins/ or Assassin Aliies. Venezuela and Chavez are Assassin aligned as well

          • theytakemeawayfrom [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            plus i think a puzzle in ac brotherhood reveals that the dissolution of the soviet union was a templar plot. it's also revealed that capitalism was created by the templars (with people like henry ford and other capitalists at the helm) to ensure control of the working class.

            i recently replayed the ezio games and it's surprising how much based stuff is in the modern day plots and puzzles, although it certainly isn't perfect

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          But a moderate faction one if I recall. One that wanted an alliance with the Assassins.

          EDIT: Yeah, Sun Yat Sen was a Templar reformist, Mao is indicated to be either with Sun Yat Sen's faction or an Assassin depending on the source.

          Chiang Kai-shek was a hardline templar ally, but betrayed the Templars and the Assassins and is generally considered an awful person.

          • RION [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Eagerly awaiting the next AC installment to see how Deng fits into all this

            • Mardoniush [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              Deng Xiaopeng is canonically mentor of the Chinese Brotherhood of Assassins, like his predecessor Zhou Enlai.

              EDIT: Apparently not canonically, see below. Still let's go with this.

              • RION [she/her]
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                2 years ago

                Okay so if you're getting that from this page it's apparently from a fanmade project. Before I realized this I got really freaked out because it references a 2021 game by Ubisoft Shanghai set in China during WWII and I thought I was legitimately getting Mandela effect'd because I'd never heard of this in my life. Then I looked a little closer at the url and the fact that it was "available for PlayStation 5, XboxNEXT, and PC, with a planned release on Nintendo WiiPlay in 2022" which made things pretty clear.

                • Mardoniush [she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  Ah, I'd assumed that was a comic I'd not read that was related to the Black Cross series that has Sun Yat Sen.