Assassin's Creed Odyssey Fundamentally Breaks Canon/Lore | Here's Why 

lets be real, the modern day story died off when Desmond died

Everyone: we miss Desmond we don’t like layla Ubisoft: gives her artifact that makes her immortal

I think the most pressing question is why they made AC: Origins and then IMMEDIATELY made a game set before it lmao

This is the assassins creed equivalent of “that’s not how the force works!”.

Y’all remember eagle vision?

personally Ive always thought of it as...Desmond does the same things Altair does because its Altair's memories, Altair REMEMBERS wanting to do something, so he does it. Desmond relives those memories and experiences the same desires/emotions that Altair did, therefore Desmond FEELS that he has free will but in reality he is just remembering Altair's free will, if that makes sense. So everything you do in the game is cannon, because you relive those memories you can't change them, even though you feel that you can. Every action you make, Altair already made a thousand years ago. And if you become conscious that you don't actually have free will, and try to do something that Altair explicitly didn't, the animus desyncs.

I actually really like Odyssey, it just shouldn't have been and Assassin's creed game

Who's idea was it to have a assassins creed game which has nothing to do with assassins or templars since those factions don't even exist yet?

Remember when assassins wore white robes an a hood?

My biggest question WHERE THE HELL ARE SHAWN AND REBECCA ?

My question is how is Layla immune to the bleeding effect she has gone to times farther than Desmond had she should be crazy by now

Remember when the Hidden blade always kill instantly ? Unity and Syndicate did it best, I hate the fact that you need mad farming and grinding to be able to guarantee an instant stealth kill.

Your forgetting that nothing is true and everything is permitted...that’s the Ubisoft mindset so...

Am I the only person who misses the feeling of “real” assassins creed

Odyssey should have been its own game, and I am salty that they didn’t put a hydra in the game.

Origins adds rpg elements without breaking lore and then Odyssey just shits on not only the lore but the work Ashgraf did on Origins. smh.

That is the problem with a long runing series that has no clear direction. To justify their new ideas they have to keep adding new stuff to the lore and changing the rules, causing the lore to become inconsistent and contradictory. There are ways to make it work of course, but is clear ubisoft does not care about the lore as much as the fans do. Witch causes this divide.

Actually, the eagle is a significant symbol in Greek mythology because it was believed to have a connection to Zeus. So a lot of people domesticated eagles so as to convince others that the Gods of Olympus supported them. So historically, the eagle thing works.

Everything changed when Patrice Désilets left the project. I hope that he come back for just one more game and save the franchise like when Cory Barlog did with God of War.

Before Odyssey it was as if every time an assassin did a leap of faith, they were fulfilling Bayek’s dream of teaching his son, by having faith in him and his teachings and doing the jump Khemu could not. It’s a perfect symbol of Bayek transitioning from father of a son to father of the creed. Odyssey ruined that.

Layla's machine uses frog DNA to fill in the gaps

I stopped caring about present day the moment Desmond died. I just play AC for fun and it's historical things. I usually skip everything happening in present day and when I get forced out of animus I jump right back to it. They screwed up the present day big time and there's no going back.

This whole thing is less complicated than you're making it. The way you play the game shapes the story as a whole, it's not the canon. The choices you make are not made through the Animus, it's not Lyla the one who chooses, they're the choices Kassandra/Alexios made at the time. Also the DNA memory gets corrupted because it's passed down through generations, but in this case it's Kassandra/Alexios's own DNA. On the spear there's both of their DNA, Lyla choses which one to analyze and by doing that, you as the player, decide which of the siblings lived the main adventure.

20:00 But when Ezio, Connor, Edward, Arno or any other character performs a leap of faith when they're not yet an assassin, what happens? They didn't learn it unlike Eivor in Valhalla, where we can't make a leap of faith until Hytham teach us to how to do it. I think that that's just a mistake from the entire franchise, not only from Odyssey.

So like, if Layla’s Animus fills in the gaps. Wouldn’t that make the experience potentially false? And if so what’s the point? For all anyone knows what Layla sees is totally wrong.

in brotherhood, rebecca has a line where she tells desmond that he cant continue with ezios memories until he completes all of the tombs because ezio had already completed them at the time, so wouldn’t that mean that desmond IS puppeteering ezio?

The Animus actually does fill in gaps, based on the ancestor's memory. Why are there so few different buildings? Well Ezio and other ancestors aren't architects. They just climb them, they remember climbing them, they don't remember when, but they do. If you climb a building in your playthrough and I don't, that doesn't mean it's immersion breaking for the sake of enjoyable gameplay. It just means Ezio doesn't remember if he climbed a building or not, just that it was plausible he did just as it's plausible he didn't. That's how full syncs in missions work. If Ezio remembers he conducted a memorable part of his journey without getting spotted by guards, then the full sync requirement is that you don't get detected. Why doesn't Desmond get thrown out of the Animus for getting in a fight when Ezio didn't? Because Ezio remembers that he fought people before, and the Animus is just filling in that blank. "Oh, you got into trouble? I don't have data for what to do here, the DNA for the fight must be here somewhere." It's pretty consistent logic that the Animus would fill in blanks with generic memories, such as NPCs saying the same dialogue over and over again because Ezio/Altair/whatever didn't remember much else and the Animus is just filling in blanks of generic memory to not interrupt flow. When Ezio climbed a building, he must have remembered one time an NPC said "Another capering crusader." Maybe he found that comment funny and that's why he remembered it happened, but not when it happened. So now when Desmond climbs a building, Ezio's DNA will remember an NPC comment and pick one from the generic memory bag. And we know we're experiencing what the ancestor remembers, not what actually happens, because of Ezio's Caterina missions in Brotherhood. The Animus has always filled in generic gaps. Things ancestors remember doing but not anything like full on dialogue or areas they never went to. You don't even have to resort to "It's a game so gameplay will be slightly different for each player." Nah. The majority of the game when you're running around not in a mission, it's just generic memory you're playing, not active memory. So yeah, Desmond _is_ exploring. Desmond is doing what he wants. But it's all bound by the very rules of what Altair/Ezio/Connor remember doing. If they remember running down a street, then congrats, now Desmond in the Animus can run down a street, which street? Dunno, the ancestor doesn't remember any specifics like that, so the Animus just fills in the same data for every street.

Hatham can't climb a tree but Connor can and that makes sense When playing in AC 3 and haytham approaches a tree the animus blocks him off because haytham didn't have that certain skill. But AC 4 Edward can perform a leap of faith and Ubisoft says it's an animus glitch How can it be an animus glitch when the merchant Edward traveled with to Havana acknowledges it. Answer either the animus made that up and turned itself into a simulation because it was getting tired of people not acknowledging it. Or it's just a ubisoft thing to do weird stuff that makes no sense

Did you make a 24 minute video just to ask "Why/How is Leila's animus different?"

23:37 - Because you were mentioning the Unity-Bugs again: Was I really the only one who didnt experience any bugs in the game? O.o

The last two games haven’t felt like Assassin’s Creed at all. They’ve been fun games and I enjoyed them, but the core mechanics of stealth and crowd environments are gone.

I remember the apple of Eden in the first few games basically just created illusions and fucked with peoples minds. If I remember correctly the pieces of Eden originally weren't that many and they often worked with eachother, or at least that's how it was explained. It was really cool how they were so mysterious and yet so sought after for their power, a power which turned out to be a sort of social commentary. Now it sounds like they just give you powers very generically. Furthermore, I found the series' story as a whole far more interesting when it was heavily referencing Christianity and making the church to be an elaborate control tool created by the Templars. It allowed the "apple of Eden" to become as iconic and symbolic an item for the series as it was. I think the series should have had a planned out ending. Now it looks very soulless. I lost interest in the series after Black Flag and haven't played another entry since.

Remember when Assasins Creed was about being a Silent Assasin

Leap of faith isn't some special symbol at all. Edward performed it in the piriod when he just a sailor and only care about money. The leap of faith is only a move which brave people can do, Bayek teach his son to do so is because he want his son to be brave, and nothing more.

The gender choosing part gives the option isn't filling in for lost data, at the beginning it says that there are 2 dna strands on the spear, the game basically just give the option to choose and whichever one you do happens to be the hero

"do its own thing and explain it off with the most surfaced-level bullshit" Spot on.

Remember when we had a decent modern day main character

Hey, new to the channel, thought the video had some really strong points and it honestly has always come down to the yearly releases because Ubisoft really need to pull their heads out of their asses and sit down and give a shit about this franchise. I dont know what everyone else's opinion is but i personally loved origins for those little nods to the assassins such as the leap of faith as you pointed out in your video. but all in all I feel like it all comes down to the problem of yearly releases.

Just got back into the series, I appreciate your vids.

Your ultimate thesis , that the lore is being abused to suit gameplay decisions, I completely agree with. In fact, I've been saying the same thing since the end of ACIII. With your other arguments, you make some good points, though you also. Make a few too. Many assume ruins for my liking. On the whole though, I agree, it's not a simulation.

Let's be real, Ubisoft just doesn't care enough about the lore to go back to previous games to analyze how it works. They're just lazy and want to shit out a new game with AC on the title just to sell more copies. And the sad thing about the last part is that it still works.

I gotta say I agree with almost all you said but I think it makes sense the animus has the potential to create a simulation from the DNA it is coded, of course not using this as an excuse to make choices from "Corrupted DNA" but... At least for me, the simulation thing is something I always believed, for example, just think in the multiplayer, all of that is canon and it was treated as a simulation from someone DNA to train abstergo soldiers, later as a toy in AC3 and BF lol but, anyway, it made sense for me. As I said, I agree with almost you said in the video except for that part. And of course, I'm not satisfied with those excuses for Odyssey, they never explain property and I'm so done with that. Great video and analysis as always bro!

are we forgetting that the events of origins and odysee take place before the brother hood was formed. so therefore all the rules are non existent this is the stuff that is leading up to the events of ac 1. origins and odysee are more stories based on the isu then anything.

Wait what about syndicate? How on earth could they swap between siblings? Unless... the siblings had a child...?

I don't know what all the fuss is about. Have people forgotten that the precursors, the people who created the ancient artifacts found in game, are/were GREEK so-called "gods"? The assassin's are an idea, not an organisation. The creed might not exist at that point, but is it so unrealistic that there might be SOME ancient Greeks who would try to discover, understand, and protect what was left behind by the deities they worship? The lack of intelligence or willingness to think outside the box by many RU-vidrs is astonishing, and I'm not even a fan of the franchise anymore so I'm half inclined to agree. But when I see people claim that it "fundamentally breaks the lore", without connecting the dots, I have to draw the line. If the game was in south America 500BC, then I'd say yes, there's an issue with how the story connects, but it isn't out of the realm of possibility that you COULD find evidence of precursor activity, as we find ruins in the Caribbean during black flag. He wasn't an assassin, but it shows that you don't NEED to be one, nor associated with them in any way to interact with the overall plot. Take your finger out of your ass, stop talking bullshit trying to sound intelligent, and stop judging something before you have any idea how the story will play out.

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. Assassins Creed Odyssey would be better without the Assassins Creed name.

Ubisoft took a Todd Howard approach to Layla's animus - "It just works"

I always thought that Layla's animus just let her view memories from DNA that isn't her own. Why couldn't they just leave it at that?

19:58 "WeLl, i'M sUrE sOmEoNe HaS jUmPeD fRoM a HiGh PlAcE bEfOrE" LMAO

2016: “AC is just a carbon copy of all the other games” 2018: “Odyssey differs from the rest of the series so it’s not cannon #notmyAC”

I feel like they could claim that the animus fills in degraded memories with historical accounts of the characters, which is why there are differences because history is so often told differently by the various people who tell it, I'm not defending the degradation of established lore, but I feel like that could work and explain why the RPG choices exist.

this entire video, essentially, seems to hinge on your definition on simulation being different than a 'rendering'.

you know what this means? H E L L O I N I T I A T E

The story of assassins creed has been dead since the end of AC3 from the moment that Desmond died I knew the story of the game would be dead

that first few lines on AC not being ac anymore, just a franchise seeking trends and pushing an RPG because of it, hit. It hit hard man...

I've just stumbled on this video in my recommended and I'm mostly agreed with the things you've said. I've spent about 300 hours in the game and I have conflicting feelings about it. Now I'll try to speculate on some things, but I in no means trying to justify the game. 1) Memory and simulation. It is a fact that at the beginning of the series animus was only capable of decoding and showing genetic memories in virtual reality and it required a living owner of that genes. But it was in 2012 (ingame timeline) and they had if not greatly but still superior technology to what we had in 2012 maybe even compared to nowadays. And we for some time now have neural networks that are capable of filling gaps in texts, images even videos. So it would be possible to achieve results in that field to 2018 considering the fact that Abstergo researched Isu tech for years. As we see in the game that the living owner of genes is no longer needed we could speculate that DNA memory is not "streaming" raw data, but was processed beforehand and simulation was created. It is all possible but neither of it was explained or even mentioned. 2)Gender and choices. This is my least favoured thing in Odyssey, idk why they did it and who thought it was a smart idea in AC story/canon. Gender wise they tried to come with the reason that the blood sample was taken from the spear (which was found under the rocks and by the time it was blood would decompose, vaporise and some other thing but nvm) and both Alexios and Kasandras blood was presented on that spear (which is never explained when and how did it happen and how/when did she lost/buried seemingly in the same place Leonidas lost it). So I can see their blood having quite the same structure and beeing mixed it could confuse the Animus, so Leila, seeing it and understanding the problem of fixing it properly in time, could've just said: "Fuck it, render main character as this model and simulate the voice". As for the choices I don't have a problem with secondary choices if we look at it as the simulation from before with filled stuff in fucked up memories using working memories and knowledge of ancient Greece we have. But the main choices are kinda dumb because in order to create a simulation Animus would've needed some core elements to be present, BUT even if didn't it all would be fine if it was explained how both of their blood would be on the spear. 3)Spear and its powers. Spear in the game is a joke. The only thing explained was the power of combat assistance but only in a way of boosting users own abilities and perception. Everything you can justify by it is fine. Boosting the strength of attacks for a limited time - fine, boosting the speed of both attacks and movement - fine, assist to perform complicated moves and precision attacks - fine, and so on, BUT other things are stupid. Jumping from any height without any damage - stupid, teleportation after spear throw - stupid, corpses dissolving - stupid and there is more. So the spear in the game is mostly stupid and made into magical all problems solving thing, which in fact should be just glorified google assistance. Going ahead of myself - the possibility of doing a leap of faith would be rooted in this assistance. But we never saw MC without the spear, maybe there would be a huge difference. 4)Translation. The first game was in 2012 and translations were given to characters and us, players by someone like Lucy in 1st game and Shaun in latter games in the Animus menu outside of memory itself. But the tech was progressing and like now we have a way to translate an image on the go in real-time using smartphones I don't see a problem in modern upgraded Animus translating writings in real-time. 5)Eagle. I can see eagles being used to scout the area and eagle point of view shown only to Animus user and the player but not MC. What I can't see is the eagles hovering like a drone and seeing targets and things through walls and earth matter latter to be shown to the character to see through said walls with a real-time update on their location. Maybe it was only shown to user and player, but eagles should've been explained and how assassins obtained the ability, latter known as eagle vision. Sorry for this block of works if someone actually went through it.

Incredible video dude. Its a real shame the franchise has gone down this route of just spewing out games to keep up with industry trends, without any communication between studios and no clear evolution of narrative - especially as the franchise was founded on one of the most intriguing concepts, with so much great lore.

New technology is a thing in our world so in my opinion its not such a huge leap to think that this is some better version of animus and the eagle is literaly one of the most important animals in greek mythology so its not weird to me at all also every game has introduced a new piece of eden and now all of a sudden its weird or a story device even though it brings new kind of gameplay to the franchise, personally I wont judge the game before I have played it

the way i saw it was that the memory is freely able to be accessed in any angle but you can't go outside of it hence why some areas are locked off as those areas were never experienced by the character, the 100% sync in ac2 just means that ezio originally was doing the things that cause 100% sync which is why some 100% sync things were not just hard but also oddly specific, so if you fail to do them you don't play the memory as originally experienced by ezio you just play it in a limited way, cutscenes are where you lose control over the character but outside of cutscenes is a simulation of the memory so you can do whatever you want run and kill whoever even though your character never originally ran that way or killed those people, a fake simulation meaning all the people you experience are just made up it is only story specific events that are the set in stone memories while the freeroaming is a place you can run and move however you like inside the world based off the memory until you start an event and the actual genuine memory begins.

Old AC games: Eagle vision Recent: haha Pidgeon goes zoom!

The "Kassandra is canon and lesbian, therefore didn't have a child and can't be Desmond's ancestor" is irrelevant because they used the DNA found on the spear, not Desmond's.

*How is it an "Assassin's Creed" game if it takes place before the assassins and their creed???*

The being able to make decisions thing could have been easily explained by the new animus allowing its user to also expirince the thought-process of the observed historical figure; you may think you are deciding to fight or bribe a guard for example, but in reality when you are presented with those two options, you are just seeing your character asking him/herself the same question of "should i bribe the guard or should i fight him". The animus user may percive the decisions as his own but its just as much an ilusion as are the things he hears or sees

I know the video is a bit old now and don't if anyone is going to answer me, but I've just replayed AC II and I must ask: if the Animus is just the visualization of one's ancestors memory and not a simulation, then how does Desmond actively seek the Glyphs planted by Subject 16? And I say "seek" because the guys outside the Animus say that Desmond has to "keep an eye out for them", which implies that he is actively searching for them inside the Animus. PS: not trying to "refute" anyone, just really trying to understand how does that fit in the lore

I assumed the mods Layla added to her animus were from the entertainment animus that built the world from other memories to piece together more fragmented memories.

I think the whole problem was created because Ubisoft wanted to stick to a modern day story. After AC3 the modern day story has been a joke, it would be better to drop the anomus all together and just have a game in ancient times, that would eliminate all these problems. To me this is an RPG in Ancient greece, the modern day story in Origins was extremely boring and out of place

Just drop the assassin's Creed name and just make games for different time periods

That was a well structured video. Great explanation. :)

Yeaaa went to the Discord. Saw someone being told by a mod that the Discord isn't for AC discussions. They were literally on the AC-Discussions page -_- I jumped outta that toxic mess. No offense

Newer fans and older fans see things much differently - this was my favorite franchise growing up. I was absolutely sucked in by the sheer mystery, and raw manipulation of history that Ubisoft... well, sadly HAD. Origins saved the franchise for me, revitalized my love for the games - it gave me great hope. Ubisoft tore us down for a few years after Black Flag, then raised us back up with Origins, only now to tear us back down again. Watching Odyssey gameplay has actually appalled me, like what the living f***? Who is in charge? Who is so out of touch, that, they thought this next game appropriate... in any manner. I will not purchase this game, Ubisoft can consider me a protest... lol. Love the video, and love the channel. Been around since 10-20k & I'll be around for 100-200k! Much love!

Don't forget how they just slipped in minotaurs, cyclopes, Mecha-Anubis, etc. I can't wait to see how they explain the Kraken, or Nidhogger, or the Jotunn in ACV.

See I noticed this not to long ago but once you level your spear up to I think level 3 or level 4 and the handle style changes the assassins logo appears on the handle of the blade

I've got a serious theory to explain how her animus is different and it explains why there are different dialogue options and branching story lines. It's very biological so bare with me. Odyssey is set in the far past about 2000 years and so the memory would be difficult for the animus to depict or 'decode '. Her particular animus may be able to fill gaps in the memory and see that there is 'missing' DNA, meaning DNA that codes for a particular period in the memory is not present in the given DNA sample. A second sample of the same or similar DNA from a close relative of the original subject could be used to find overlaps in the DNA and therefore fully reconstruct the memory DNA and therefore the memory. This type of 'fitting' rule was actually used in the human genome project that was done over about 15 years, 2000 to 2015 I think. Obviously in real life its a bit more complicated but the point is that there are multiple different DNA stands that seemingly fit between different sections of DNA, a problem that researchers faced in real life. This could explain why there a multiple possible ending in the animus. Not sure how well I explained the point but if you want some more information of how DNA is reconstructed to find the base sequence, research the human genome project.

I appreciate your effort in a video and I’ve played assassins, read all the books and comics, had friends who worked on ac3, like you I could say I’m an expert but facts are... 1) a hidden blade is in oddessy, it’s in the dlc and explains the original hidden blade. 2) there are notes that tell you the progression of the animus system And technology (if you look properly) 3) the eagle is a huge thing is creek mythology..so kinda wrong there..it fits 4) the leap of faith was shown to Khemut (sorry shit at names) to be brave..not to be an assassin. As I said I appreciate your work on your channel but it just feels like “I don’t like this so it’s bollocks” games evolve, stories evolve. Sometimes you just need to enjoy them. sometimes shit gets muddy in games..look at anything..nothing has clear perfect cannon. #factsarefacts

Bro it's so crazy how much you know about the animus I really need to play assassin's creed 1 again to refresh

Remember when the Assassins were actually Assassins?

Yeah I remember when I played in 1191 A.D I was an assassin, killed Templars who looked like Templars....

Hey man. Currently, I live in the Silicon Valley and work in app development. Since you’re not from the states, you may not know that the Silicon Valley is where Apple, Google, Netflix, and many more tech companies reside. I see new technology before most other places in the world EVERYDAY! I am also a massive fan of this franchise. I personally can understand the concept of this game and time period. Layla is a struggling engineer at the bottom of Abstergo’s food chain. She wants desperately to move forward with the company, though no one takes her seriously, so she is trying to prove herself. She is amazing at what she does, and has created an ever growing simulation using previous DNA. I think of No Man’s Sky, but in a much more controlled environment. It’s all randomly generated, but follows the same themes. As for your other point, think of phones within the last 10 years. Their has been so much change, and so many advances! The same thing would happen with the Animus. If I took “a picture of a picture of a picture” with a flip phone, then it wouldn’t be long before the photos got SUPER blurry! If you did that same thing with an iPhone X, then you would see way more pictures for way longer. Layla has created the iPhone X of animus’. Though to agree with you, I would like for Ubisoft to explain how, though I’m sure they won’t. Layla has invented a machine that allows her to go back further in time without corrupting the memory, and then uses randomly generated simulation FROM said memory, to further the experience. As for the Spear, I hope that the modern tie-in involves Layla and her new assassin friends searching for the weapon, and that all of the characters customizations also last when Layla gets ahold of it. I don’t understand the “male or female DNA” thing either, though to play devil’s advocate, just because you are a brilliant engineer, doesn’t mean you know everything about the biological standpoint of your “test subject”. From what we know, no one is really helping her with her invention, which means that the stuff she doesn’t really understand, would also affect the way her invention works. As for the “multiple different endings”, it doesn’t make any sense... UNLESS, it affects the future games, kind of like dragon age inquisition, which I personally believe would be amazing. This route also helps the franchise branch out when it comes to multiplayer. I think Ubisoft might introduce a “GTA Online” like multiplayer experience in the future, that they can defend with the new mechanics, which I wouldn’t hate. Anyway, I know a lot of people are probably agreeing and disagreeing with you, though hopefully I have given some unheard insight. Thanks for the vids! I really enjoy them.

These are very very valid points but I would still like to play it if I could but due to the covid 19 stuff laying me off and my Xbox one being stolen but anyway neither here nor their great video thank you for it keep up the good work please sir

I always thought when Desmond or Layla get into animus all the stuff and choices u make in there is supposed to be what ezio or the others did in there memory ornpast life

Having now actually played the game, your whole argument hinging on being able to pick between two characters is simply wrong. Categorically and unequivocally wrong. Canonically in game: You are told to pick between two strands of DNA to follow as two different strands are found on the spear of Leonidas: Alexios or Kassandra. (The rest of this is spoilers for the big reveal and the end of the second plot point) No matter which one you pick, *BOTH of them are characters in game* they both go on to live their lives and have major impact on the plot. And no I’m not talking about the one you don’t pick being a baby sibling that is thrown off the cliff, that does happen but that baby grows up to become the direct antagonist of whoever you picked. So canonically: there are literally TWO different memories the animus could follow. The ones of the hero you pick, or the villain you didn’t pick. The animus isn’t “trying to decode corrupted data”. Furthermore, your ability to pick which sibling becomes the hero and which becomes the villain, and chose dialogue choices, *IS NOT CANON* these are presented purely as game mechanics, whatever ending you get, and what ever choices you make BECOME the unalterable memories you were ranting about. Maybe you should have waited till the game came out to publish your 30 minute long list of assumptions after all

According to Vidic the animus projects genetic memories as a 3d world. • In my opinion that means the DNA is used to create the 3d world. Lucy says that you can de-sync if your subconscious reject the memories • I think meaning that his mind has to subconsciously step into his ancestors shoes. The animus tutorial also says you de-sync when you do what Altair wouldn't have done aka killing innocents, not following the creed, getting extremely injured etc. And in the first game Desmond looked like Desmond not Altair in the animus. • So i think Desmond is in a simulation, and he is basically controlling a puppet version of himself. • And when he truly believes that he is the ancestor subconsciously and starts to behave and think the same way that as them, is when he starts to sync with his ancestor. • So i think the animus can really create whatever simulation it wants to with the corrupted DNA and fill in parts of what it can't find to create a somewhat realistic world. And the dialogue options are there because the animus doesn't fully know how the ancestor acted due to the corrupted DNA. As for gender i got nothing.

U know... I’m saying this more like the rarest chances of rarest chances but what if all goes to find out that Layla’s animus was actually showing up false memories since u did say they were corrupted. That u must’ve meant by another meaning but I like my thing where it turns out some of the memories turn out false.

Great video man, I agree with all your points. You got yourself a new subscriber. Did you hear about the new assassin's creed ragnarok leaks? maybe you should do a video covering it.

And as far as Layla’s animus..if you go and actually READ the information on her computer they LITERALLY tell you how she did it. Smh 🤦🏾‍♂️

The Second largest salt deposit in the world is the Khewra Salt mines of Pakistan The first is the RU-vid 'complaining about videogames' section

Wow, this is the first time I've encountered anyone else aware of the lore tidbit from the manual of the first game about Desmond's puppeteer controls.

Loved everything in this video and very much agree, but maybe the thing about it giving her all these insane abilities and being the only one is because it was so rare? Pieces of Eden have shown mind control and creating being for killing, so we know they're powerful, but maybe they wanting something that brings more of a fight instead of just getting everything done. In the games, you don't get pieces of Eden for very long, so maybe this was also a way to give you powers of Eden without killing anything and everything in your path

Wow, James. This is some of your best work yet! Well researched, concise, and informative. Would love even more long form, serious content like this.

I agree with your points but I do have some points About Layla’s Animus’ ability to fill in the blanks: It is revealed that Layla has modded the Animus, maybe she modded the Animus so it is able to create simulations that takes real world history, stories and lore as well as the DNA’s imbedded memories then creates a simulation of sorts based on the calculated possibilities. Layla’s Animus is different, how: In Origins, it is established that Layla’s is a different model, my guess is that her’s is an exploration or research model instead of domestic one, similar to how Rebecca upgraded her Animus in Brotherhood and Revelations. The difference is noticeable when Layla is able to take a DNA sample straight from Amunet (Bayek’s wife, who’s real name escapes me) and places it into the Animus for decoding and sequencing. Using Corrupt DNA: If Layla’s Animus is modded and is able to simulate potential sequences, she could use DNA from people who was also involved to create a simulation of what happened, not a true sequence but a baseline sequence. DNA not knowing if it is Male or Female: DNA as an organic substance, has a decay rate, a half life. DNA’s half-life is 531 years so by the time Layla gets to it, it would of at least been halved 4 times so it would be at 12.5% integrity, at this stage, parts of the DNA would be gone, this can include gender markers. About Multiple Endings: If Layla’s Animus uses a mixture of historical references and DNA (or in this case, lack there of), the Animus needs to fill in the blanks. Which gives it certain liberties (Which infuriates me). Main Character’s Eagle: The Eagle is a symbol of Zeus and an avatar that he can use to come to earth. Perhaps it’s a respect thing. Leap of Faith: Spartan families each have separate rites, maybe it’s a rite of their family, not a leap of faith but a leap of fearlessness The Spear: Pieces of Eden are usually used by people who are associated with their abilities, eg the use of the apple with Hitler and Nepolean, it is not a surprise that Leonidas, a legendary warrior had a PoE that gave him legendary power. Also about it’s power, since there is limited info, perhaps the Animus needed to fill in the blanks a little but still sticks with what it knows about it, which is it gave superhuman abilities.

The current animus accesses what's in the genetic memory but puts it more into what Abstergo used for presenting the games. Basically it builds around the genetic memories, but they're able to be altered within this version of the animus.

Don't even waste your time trying to explain to the fanboys certain things, they'll just close their eyes and throw their money at Ubisoft anyway lol In my opinion Assassin's Creed died with Desmond and no one can change my opinion for now. Ubisoft became such a greedy company nowadays. Don't get me wrong, after AC III all are good games itself but not good Assassin's Creed Games. Simple as that.

but in ac2 at some points you had to choose how to react with Leonardo da Vinci (wetether you hug him or not) so would Desmond had made that choices

One way of looking at it is by comparing two archeologists. Ac2 and AcO are both looking for an ancient diary in some ruins. (Different diary and ruins) Ac2 finds most of the pages but decides to keep looking until all of the pages are found. (Full Sync) Otherwise we wouldn't have all of the info. AcO finds a few pages and from those pages creates an entire story about everything that happened. Where the pages aren't enough AcO makes stuff up. They both hand in papers to be reviewed. Which would be the better paper?.... Which of the two is a better Archaeologist?

Imagine if they revived Desmond or if he was still alive somehow and he comes back in the next game and you can play as 2 assassins in the Animus that tie together story wise. In the modern day we can switch to Desmond or Layla based on what assassin you want to play as in the Animus. They would both have different story missions and side missions that would tie together so it would basically be like 2 Assassin’s Creed games in 1.

The way I viewed synchronization is that the animus wasn't 100% accurate but when you completed a mission without doing side objectives, it is close enough to where it doesn't desynchronize you and the higher the synchronization the more accurate the animus is

What'd be cool is if Rebecca and Shawn got a hold of some information from abstergo that said abstergos newest game filled with choices (oddyssey) is actually a way for abstergo to get all the possibilities in the easiest way so they can figure out something about Kassandra that they don't know bc of the jank memories, sadly Ubisoft won't do that 😥😥

I don't wanna try to stick up for this mess of a game, but... The leap of faith part. It's an assassin technique passed down from mentor to trainee and beginning with Bayek and his father. If this is the case, how was Edward able to perform leaps of faith as well? I don't remember if that's ever explained in Black Flag or not

What if... now hear me out... they hit a wall in the outside the animus story 4 games ago and instead of writing themselves into triple A purgatory (like they have been doing), reinvented themselves to heighten the charm of reliving history, being a total bad ass, and discovering wild pre human tech that blows your mind. Just a thought. But fine tell me more about how you miss social stealth mechanics.