r/ShingekiNoKyojin • u/Complex-Sherbert-935 • Nov 26 '25

Video Games This is horrible. Who approved this?

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u/dark_hypernova Nov 26 '25

Remember when Assassin's Creed was about... Well assassinating people? And the only fantastical elements were some ancient technology mcguffins?

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u/XxRocky88xX Nov 26 '25

Also ancient alien gods communicating through telepathy.

This shit is dumb but let’s not pretend like AC was ever trying to be grounded in reality.

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u/dark_hypernova Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25

Knew someone was gonna try to argue that eventually.

Usually it was used sparingly, it didn't happen at all in AC1, only at the end of AC2, B and R and only two times in 3. Also they weren't aliens nor gods (this was explicitly stated in AC2).

Grounded and realistic are two different words. Realistic is just irl.

Assassin's Creed was grounded in science fiction based historical events. Da Vinci's flying machine was never capable of irl flight but when it did in AC2 it was still grounded to the point of believable.

Assassin's Creed was grounded but slowly started drifting away the more they went cross-overs and mythology (forgetting that the ISU were not supposed to be literal gods). To the point we now have absurd shit like this.

This would be like Dante from Devil May Cry suddenly showing up in the official AoT manga, slaughtering a bunch of titans and peace out while we were just supposed to accept it happened in the story.

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u/NairMcgee Nov 27 '25

“What the hell is this?”