I think people are taking this as more of a bitter ending than it actually is. I might be wrong, but, from the way I understood it, no one got taken over or mentally “killed”. Young Basim simply had a supernatural form of amnesia. Imagine you lose your memories, get lost in a different place, build a new life, make new experiences, and so on… then you gain your old memories back. Are “old you” and “new you” two different people? No. Or at least not necessarily. In the best case scenario, you’ll simply reframe your second life within your memories of the first one, and move on with both experiences guiding you forward. That seems to be what happened to Basim, in my opinion.
That’s exactly what happened to Basim. It’s not two different characters like people seem to believe. Basim is Loki, and vice versa. It isn’t two sets of memories with one taking over the other, it’s the same individual. The reason most people think that is because of how things played out between Odin and Eivor. It was the same scenario, or it could have been. But where as Basim accepted his memories of his past life, Eivor pretty much just interpreted them as visions. It pretty much caused her to have multiple personalities. Like Basim, she’s still Odin, and Vice Versa. The Isu aren’t parasites, or anything like that. The amnesia comparison you made is pretty much the long and short of it.
Loki/Basim is misunderstood - people consider him evil because his intentions don't always benefit everyone else. but if someone asked you to forsake yzour family for the good of society would you do it? probably not...
Although not supernatural, more genetically embedded amnesia. The reason Basim sees it as supernatural is his inability to comprehend the Isu as a technological race. Other than that, that's exactly how Sages are in the series.
I'm pretty sure Ubisoft said that there won't be any more modern day In the main assassin's creed games anymore, instead ac infinity will be the main modern day story and will update after each game releases
Am I the only one that found the modern day scenes annoying and boring? Like I didn't give a shit at all when it went to modern day. I just wanna remain in the setting and explore the world, not explore some modern technological bullshit.
He was practically Loki already, and that was what Roshan was trying to protect him from. She probably knew about it and tried to prevent it, which ultimately failed and she left the Assassin Order
Yeah I know I was joking It's just funny that Basim had nightmares of the djinni thing what is basically old memories and trauma from his other "personnality" I would really love to know what Basim could have become without all the Isu stuff @@ASSASSIN19923
@@ismaelbouissef4436 no, Basim is gone. Loki took over. Like a parasite in a host body. That’s why Basim asked if he be alone, and nehal said “you’ll never be alone.” That’s the moment Basim was absorbed. Loki would never share a body with anyone, and the end of Valhalla he goes completely off the rails. Basim was a whole different person in Valhalla too. Personality wise
@@elsecaller-jacob8346 The moment I see eagle coming to Basim, I knew something going to happen as he is Loki and not Basim. And, then, eagle scratched him.
Idk if i don't underdtand, basically Enkidu attack Basim because she could see who are there in the end, Loki instead of Basim Just like Basim say farewell to Rayhan, saying : Goodbye "mentor", but the last word in a derogatory way
Basim is an incarnation of Loki, but because Loki's memories were suppressed/repressed, I personally consider Basim to be a separate character even though in truth, he isn't. I think Roshan was feeling the same as me. For Basim is Loki but with innocence, as he doesn't have his memories. With Loki's memories reawakened, Enkudu can see that this person may look like Basim, but this person is a far more cynical and grim human being (Odin had him severely tortured). Remember, eagles, falcons and especially crows are all highly-intelligent animals. The game emphasises that the eagle can tell that Basim is now Loki reawakened, and evil. At least, that's my interpretation. Thanks for attending my TED Talk on AC: Mirage. Have a g'day y'all!
I know the end would be depressing but not like this. I never expected Basim to be so selfless and brave. All he ever wanted to do is join the assassin and help people. Even till the end he wanted to help them, but rochan technically betrayed him, without any explanation. Blind trust isn’t enough sometimes. Great game. Great ending. I like how it wasn’t to long and It felt progressive. But the only AC to make me cry was black flag lol the end song was torture
Assassins have always been very shady “trust what we say and question nothing” type of group. Wouldn’t feel bad if the series ended with the assassins failing.
Templar Order and its predecessor Order of the Ancients are much worse, though. They are so nasty Assassins and Hidden Ones looked like saints in comparison.
@@bsoulstone6024 you’re right! I’m literally replaying AC origins now and didn’t even realize how corrupt Egypt was. They’re literally oppressing and kidnapping people across the whole country, and the damn rouge animal attacks lmaoo
@tronarclight2976 yes no doubt but even basim wanted to know how could eivor speak with odin. He probably didn't realize that Eivor found a way to keep his persona different from odin and to watch his memories from a distance so to speak. Basim at this point was mentally compromised and so he thought it was over but loki managed to have more of a dominant presence in the merge.
Really enjoyed AC Mirage. Gave me a lot of AC Origin vibes and I loved AC origins. Odyssey and Valhalla felt a lot like RPG and face to face combat and less about actually an Assassin game.
Maybe Ubisoft should stop making this Abstergo and modern day shit and keep to making "historical inspired" RPG's where one might learn about history. And possibly trigger a interest in historical events.
The way Basim blamed the hidden ones for using him yet Roshan wanted to help him several times but he refused . the hidden were then ones who raised him and took care of him like a family wasnt enough for Basim
Basim was also young and naive. They didn't properly teach him to internalize the creed. Altair essentially had the same background as Basim but he internalized the creed as AL mualim taught him.
@m.r4841 the jedi didn't fail anakin but that anakin failed himself. He made the choice to become Vader and slaughter hundreds. Basim was betrayed but he still saved his brotherhood, at the cost of himself.
@m.r4841 I have a deep understanding as I've read the og lore since I was a kid. The jedi weren't purely responsible for Anakin's fall. Anakin made that decision purely on his own. The only thing the jedi failed to do was to evolve their old tradition. And it wasn't until after luke skywalker reformed the order that the jedi truly evolved. Anakin betrayed all he was for one person and couldn't accept death whereas Luke did and was willing to sacrifice himself.
AC Mirage teaches us how Sages really work: Sages sometimes grow up seeing figments of their Isu past guiding them either by using their true Isu forms or another disguise. The figments are like advanced Isu AI relics that feel like actual illusionary figments people sometimes imagine or see. It is like Odin is an Isu memory figment for Eivor while Nehal (Loki) is an Isu memory figment for Basim. Unlike Odin, Loki used a form that Basim is comfortable interacting with, a normal human thief. Recognize how no one acknowledged Nehal's existence other than Basim which is revealed at the end of AC Mirage. Nehal is Loki in disguise and he mentored and protected Loki via cunning pieces of advice throughout his life.
He didnt protected him. He manipulated him. He took the form of someone that Basim will become atouched too and he droved him to ignore people who cared for him, so that Basim will recover their memories and Loki to take controle. Loki is indeed the most disgusting and despicable character of the franchise!
@@ΣτέργιοςΜποπότας-ζ1μ There are Isu far worse than Loki: Odin, Juno, and Aita. How Loki handled Basim compared to Aita handling his sages is more saint-like (almost all of Aita's sages go mad). William Miles still trusted Basim after showing him his memories. It should be noted that Sages choose to adopt their former memories or not. Basim made his choice. Despite this, you are right to say what Loki did to Basim is despicable, though Basim did not betray the Hidden Ones and never broke their Creed when pursuing his personal Isu goals.
Basim for real didn’t deserve to get his mind takeover like that. Dude had a superhero like personality and was genuinely trying to do right by the people. Stealing from the rich to help the poor and becoming an assassin to bring justice to the people
Not a takeover. A merge. Basim is still there. It is just he is more akin to who loki was now. Long before the merge, you could see that basim had most of loki's motivations and slyness. If it were a full loki take over, he would be much like the Abstergo Technician who was not a merge and a clear takeover of Aita's DNA and memories. Basim, when he talks about other things, it is him. But when he talks about isu things, and his feelings on the matter, it is loki. In reality, none of the sages are real reincarnations. Just invasive DNA with memories that tries to hijack the host's consciousness or merge with them if it is able.
You're all wrong.... basim and loki are and always were one person. Only he represented his memories as an imaginary fraind. Anything he couldn't explain, he said it was nehal... It's a mental thing. Nehal is shown as activating the memorie peace of Eden, but it's a physical thing, so that was actually basim... he's just dealing with the unexplained... Even before the end, he says he "remembered," and he is in "his" cell.... Basim is loki, but the experience he has had in the ignorance of that somewhat separate him. But in the end, he embraced his own past. He even says he's whole and that he was resisting part of himself. It's a mental state but not a different entity. Nehal isn't real in any way at all, just his imagination... he is her master what she does, he made her do... she's his imaginary fraind... not loki. Basim is loki. This is just his coping method, and he ended up using it to face a painful and confusing reality... that he, basim is the norse god loki reborn... This other stuff about loki taking over wasn't ever cannon it's a meta way to describe a meta physical event... the inner working of a human mind. The only reason anyone ever took this literally is because it suits people who don't want to admit that eivor is odin, because odin now being a lady is goofy and dumb and steps into politics around gender. Eivor and basim are odin and loki... not separate beings. Don't be fooled by people who willingly misunderstand because they have political or personal problems with it.
It breaks my heart how Basim begs for Roshan to yield when he says it the second time. He doesn't want the blood of someone who means so much to him on his hands
So Roshan choose to leave the Brotherhood was because she had a disagreement with Rayhan? She couldn't accept who Basim is now or she felt she failed in protecting Basim from his past?
I think it's because Rayhan ultimately decided to keep Basim in the Brotherhood, even tho Basim is someone that the Order of The Ancients worships, a inside weapon of the enemy, that can never be fully trusted, but Rayhan owes his life to Basim.
@@orochinagis Does it mean Roshan all along knew Basim was an Isu? Is that why she desperately tries to prevent Basim from discovering his true nature?
@@Noctuam734 So Rayhan realizes his mistakes in the end and assigned Haytham to keep an eye on Basim? It's kinda weird that Roshan never mentioned anything about Basim in Vahalla. I guess she already accepted the fact that the real Basim whom she greatly cared for is gone.
@@TerraWindVampire Roshan was afraid the old ones information would corrupt Basim like their enemies which proved her right but She wasnt aware of Basim real nature
Honestly, Roshan was right after all. She wanted basim to fight the loki inside him like eivor did with odin in valhalla but he ended up dying as himself for loki to gain control over his body.
@@m.r4841 The "mutual understanding of who they were" is something Basim himself talked about in Valhalla's ending. Also the fact that Basim stays with the hidden ones and would go on to take Hytham under his wing, and much later offer his help to the modern assassins show that Basim is still present, while still pursuing Loki's agenda. When you think of it, the only evil thing he has done in Valhalla was attacking Eivor (and Layla... But who wouldn't want to kill Layla?)
@@firionnel7833 I don't think Loki is evil. He is an opportunist. Why would he leave the Assassins now that he has risen the ranks. I don't think your points are contradictions. I think he meant that he as Loki still understands Basims past even though Basim is gone. By the way the mimic and the way Loki talks is totally different than Basims. Nothing in Valhalla or the ending of Mirage ressembles Basim.
@@m.r4841 Loki is certainly evil, just look at what he did to Baldur simply because Odin imprisoned his son. Basim is the opportunistic "good" guy. Where Eivor refused to remain the same person she once was who caused so much harm for her loved ones, Basim fully embraced the awful man he was as Loki. Eivor refused to regress to what she once was in the good ending of Valhalla and Basim refused to change into the good man Roshan made him into on this life.
22:53 guessing Enkidu attacked Basim for he was already merged with Loki and the bird smelled it from him,taking him for a different person (albeit similar looking)
@@YannGaisser might be lighting thing,sometimes when you have too much blood particles (forgot their name) your color might appear darker,can be seen also when you are taking blood tests that the blood in the vial is darker as well
What people make the mistake on is that not one single sage is a true reincarnation. They are nothing more than DNA with memories that tries to hijack the host's consciousness. Thus making them a mental clone of the original Isu donor. Eivor is more akin to Aang from avatar: by rejecting the Odin personality from taking over, she is now able to interact with her "previous" life's memories as if they are a separate individual (and for all intents and purposes they ARE separate people and that odin's soul is by no means inside or "is" Eivor), much like Basim with Nehal but only the Eivor was always aware of Odin being an apparition. Sigurd and tyr are merged. Sigurd is more-or-less himself but with the memories of tyr. Valka willingly gave herself up to being Freyja. Harald has pretty much have always been thor without really being aware. Basim merged with loki only that loki is more dominant AFTER he remembers his isu counterpart's life and when around the other mental clone sages. Aita is the most spontaneous and random personality because there can be more than one at a given time. Desmond's son is one who rejected him and that Abstergo Technician was the one fully taken over and these 2 existed at the same time. Thats what i like about the sage storylines. Because the more you go into it, from what we have seen, nothing about them are true reincarnations. We only say that because it is lazier that way. But when you get to the details of it, odin and every other isu with a sage have truly been dead the entire time. Sages are just embodiments/avatars of invasive memories of a long dead race, none of the memories are truly theirs.
@@MichaelGriffin-wv5tx the DNA tries to change the host to accommodate the isu construct. That's the point. They are supposed to be the same but they aren't. Imagine me being dead for a long time and I sent my DNA into the human genome and when it activates, it is in the process of changing you physically and then mentally to fit who I was in life. YOU are NOT me. You are now a mental clone of me with my likeness, and that's if my construct assimilates you or we merge.
I don’t care what nobody says if you understood basim and how he fully embraced his past to find peace and other things bruh this in my opinion might off been one of the best assassins creed games ever im glad i could beat the game in 3-4 days it was fantastic yall enjoy🖤
you wanna know whats funny is people still dont see that it is atually loki now, the haunting past what he does in valhalla, basin at the end of this game is the basin from valhalla. Who is actually loki reincarnated. :D
Exactly. If you played Valhalla you knew this ending was coming🤦♂️🔥🔥. The part where the eagle scratch basim face cause it wasn’t him no more gave me chills
I think the introduction of Sages as a concept in Assassin's Creed really contributed to the decline of the series' lore. And Black Flag is to blame for that, despite how great of an action/adventure game that it was. They should have stuck with the original plotline setting up Juno as the primary modern-day antagonist. Imagine characters exploring the animus whilst having to battle the consciousness of a precursor "goddess" that uploaded herself into the Web at the end of AC III (which was actually alluded to in the game). Talk about a great plotline for a series ostensibly devoted to the conflict between freedom and oppression, peace and war. Juno could have been used as a metaphorical personification of technology and the negative - even dangerous - effects of our world's technological advancements on society. Think of the implications, and the differing reactions of the Assassin and Templar orders when faced with a monster that both organizations require for survival, yet cannot control. Nope, instead we see Juno turned into an unhinged, obsessive widow whose whole vendetta was sloppily wrapped up in a comic. And now we have the ridiculously confusing concept of Sages, which revealed just enough information about the Isu to make them far less interesting, and also served as an excuse for the devs to insert high fantasy elements into a series that used to revel in its unique blend of historical fiction and futuristic sci-fi. The lore is just a mess now. What a damn shame. It used to be fun to dive into this stuff. Now it's just a bummer. 😂
Correction as basim he have his own memories too but also loki memories too and he is now whole and he also have his human memories and isu memories too so don't say he forgot his humanside
@@Tripolizz770 revelations was sad tbh, but I feel like I’m black flag Edward did it to himself. Basim at the end of mirage had me in the feels the most
Of course. Had she come clean from the start, she would not have been controlling him. But because she sought to keep Basim away from that knowledge to the point of being willing to die for it or kill him for it, it was wrong.
@@Marukanitelnothing extrodinary to bebetter than ac mirage if we compare the best of the assassin creed story with call of duty in comparison bo1 and 2 are boring and stupid games
@sausage563 it means nobody bro or to put it literally "No One" He pronounced it wrong in the game though , but it's written right in the subtitles. Bint La'Ahad means the daughter of no one.
Yeah , this final make me fall in hate because the storyline/lore of AC is wonderfull since AC1 ate AC 3 , but with Desmond death and June end in Comics , make me fell so hate of this actual Ubisoft. They lost so many oportunities to make the Junos villanism to become a greatfull threat in AC modern time with Desmond father´s (or Desmond respawn).
@@atanor2768 oh lol yea the game was real short i finished literally everything collectables and story in bout 2 days smh Valhalla was wayyyyy better than mirage cant even compare… there were so many cool boss fights in Valhalla. Unlike mirage there wasn’t even one real boss fight smh. It was a fun game but it honestly felt like a dlc package then a full game smh very disappointing. And this is not only my opinion or how i feel. I can guarantee 90% of real AC fans feel the same way…
@@David-nq8cvi read that loki only could take over basim because he convinced basim and they are kinda both in controll now or sum like that, he didnt back up his claims though so i dont know
@@deimosok2003 Yeah, Assassin's Creed has always had shit bosses. Always just a normal enemy with more health, no unique move sets or challenging. Only exception is the old psp game no one played, and maybe in the rpg entries, I haven't played those. It sucks and I wish they'd improve things but ubisoft never learns.
@@ChuckPalomo Now that you mention it yeah Bloodlines had nice bosses.... Bouchard was difficult.... And each boss had his own unique weapons and moveset... All the rest of ac games were the same you could kill anyone with just Break Defense+Execute or Block/Execute... The rpgs just spam.spam.spam.....
Meanwhile AC1 and AC2: PIECE OF EDEN You guys NEVER and I mean NEVER understood what Assassins Creed really IS. Yet you buffle all the damn time about magic in this game when IT IS ITS CORE.
@@quiet3455 Al Mualim himself talked about mythological and religious events being summoned by the apple... Myth was always part of it. The great catastrophe was a thing since Revelations.... So Juno Minerva and Jupiter arent considered Roman Myth? In AC2 we saw them a game which takes place IN ITALY. Then in AC3 we saw Juno again and spirits of animals and such.... In 4 they went deeper with the sages who could show us more ISU memories.... And in Origins and onwards they built upon it so we could finally see who these guys are This story was being built since 1
@@quiet3455 In 1 Al Mualim used the apple to freeze Altair's body and trick his mind... It even glitched the animus if you remember showing us that those so called apples are indeed technological and not religious creations
In moments of extreme emotion that happens. Either he's upset that he thinks his master betrayed him or he is frustrated with her persistence. Good performance.
Basim is not dead. Loki was never gone either. Basim has come home to himself. Think a supernatural form of amnesia. If you had a life and we're thrust from it with all memories of it removed and remade a new life distinct from the previous only to remember your previous life, you wouldn't be the old you or the current you. You would reframe your second life within the context of the first. This is what happened to Basim. He simply remembered who he was.
@@DioStandProud that’s not how sages work tho, Basim is his own unique personality. In some cases personalities merge, in others the Isu conscious takes over completely and In Eivors case for example the human host rejects the Isu. Basim was Never Loki, he is his own person, a Human. But Isu memories injected into the Human gene pool forced him to have memories that weren’t his allowing for the Isu conscious to take over. Sages are just another example of how diabolically evil the Isu were.
It’s huge in explaining Basim’s character imo, and it’s definitely cool to see the early Assassins hundreds of years after their creation but before their peak
we can see like this way , but Loki is inside of his mind manipulate him to make obviously steps to confuse him and make become madness and acccept the Loki images.
I thought basim/Loki wanted revenge for his son but now seems more like he had a tragic past was that Odin that try to stab basim/loki or someone else?
It's possible but i remember from AC1 that Ibn La'Ahad meant something like "son of none" and Altair had it because his parents were dead and he was raised by the brotherhood. Bint La'Ahad probably means "daughter of none"
@@sheogorathzSons of no one means son of no one. La'ahad means anyone so ibn La'ahad is sons of no one if i remember it correctly. This concept of La'ahad is not like the concept of family's name like you used to, it's like if he doesn't recognize his (orphaned) family or leaves his family name
How people can listen to Basim’s conversation with Nur in the cave and especially the last talk with Nehal and claim this game has bad voice acting is beyond me
Its an amazing game but i hate that Ubisoft gave it a small budget. Basim couldve had a longer story but im impressed they did this with that small of a budget. The only thing was the facial animations.
Game feels so absolutely half baked with no modern day sequence at the end. Modern day works best intertwined with the story and removing it and seperating it just to appeal to the lowest common denonimator who will never care about these games is a terrible decision. They're still not gonna be happy. Imagine listening to the people who say modern day is boring when the greatest parts of these games is when shit goes awol at the end. Ever since ac1, shadow clone fight with al mualim at the end, dramatic escape in the intro to ac 2 and the death of lucy, down to desmond saving the world in ac 3 and the epic thousand year revival of basim at the end of valhalla. These parts give the game so much force and hype, because whenever the subject of the animus's story ends, its only the beginning and you get a dramatic irl sequence to fulfill the need for more, its exciting and can go anywhere. No idea how you can think its not so important to a game about exploring the past, what these people do doesnt matter, theres no catharsis to the story if its just watching a medieval guy live his life and die, what makes it matter is its connection to irl and the spanning plot. Basims modern day story developing at the end was what i was looking forward to in ac mirage when it was announced after the sublime setup of ac valhalla. Nope, just find out how he became loki and thats it. Story barely matters or develops. All that potential drama that could have been had in this game as a send off to modern day to setup whatever they do next, terribly missed opportunity. And all so joe bloggs can hate on every aspect of these games whilst posing as a fan cuz theyre just some dude who plays it mindlessly. Guess ubisoft needs to make their money, Infinity just better be good as fuck if theyre gonna sacrifice a core part of the writing that made these games dramatic before. If it were up to me, the whole fanbase would boycott them for it, but hey, its not even a fanbase at this point.
Man, exactly what I tought when watched the ending, the Enkidu part is pretty cringe tho like bro didn't have to do hat just to tell Basim is a different person now, totally not cool.
@@sambruh1410 Ah, that part will be easily done even by some lazy writing and it'll acceptable enough. Ubisoft just have to make stories like Basim gives it to someone or Enkidu died in some sort of mission.
Most disappointing ending ever! Basim wanted to meet William miles cus he was the head of the assassins in the end of vahalla we got nothing tho ): Wanted to see rebecca and sean again too we really need a new protagnist for the modern ac world again, rip desmond.
He talked with William at the end of the last Valhalla's DLC William asked Basim for his dna so he could explore it in animus That's probably what we see in mirage
@@maciejpolak2458 of course they made it a fkin dlc smh…. Didn’t know cus that game was overwhelming long and cluttered with all sorts of stuff in the map 😓
The ending almost good, until that Nehal & Jinni nonsense like when does even Loki in? And how exactly? We just see another bunch of nightmares then he just turns into Loki the Isu God of mischief? Please enlighten me for any Masters Assassins here 🙏
This story is a prequel to AC Valhalla. In that game, Basim is an reincarnation of Loki, so he turns out to be the final boss in that game. It’s a really complicated story but pretty much Loki was a member of the ISU and they had a technology to have their lives reincarnated before the great catastrophe occurred. So Loki managed to get his life reincarnated into Basim, which is why we see Nehal following and guiding Basim through this game because it’s Loki in disguise who’s trying to bind with Basim and make him accept he’s Loki after all. The lore is really complex overall
@@David-nq8cvbut , after all , Nehal is a person who exist in Basim life in the pass or Loki just created this "woman" to make Basim fall in love and fall in the trap (Loki´s trap) for her and follow her ways ?
Bro really pretend old AC games don't have boss fights, Al Mualim, Rodrigo Borgia, Cesare Borgia and even Germain in AC Unity, are basically boss fights in old games.
I was tempting to play this after a decade hiatus. Last time I played AC was Black Flag, which in terms of assassin's lore wasn't my cup of tea. But seems like past Ezio trilogy story wise everything else is just meh.
@@cinnassforehead only reason people liked the trilogy is because of Ezio himself being charismatic and all, without him those 3 games wouldn't be as good
Ah no. Altair ibn la Ahad means "Altair son of nobody " where "ibni/bin" translates into the word son. In here it says Roshan "binti la Ahad" with binti means "daughter." So, she s Roshan daughter or nobody. Its just that maybe they dont want people to know their origins or any other reasons.
@@matchayum23I think they are still hinting she is an ancestor to Altair. Your translation of Roshan's name is correct, but in this case, it seems Roshan's adopted title of "bint-La'Ahad" also functioned as a surname for her children and descendants. Case in point: Altair's father, Umar, was referred to by the full name "Umar Ibn-La'Ahad". Plus, there's no way Ubisoft would drop a name like "La'Ahad" without intending for their audience to notice and make the connection.
@@jones9048 hrm now that you ve mentioned it. It does sound logical. It got past my mind since Muslims dont really have surnames. Instead they use their father's name/patronym. Hrmm unless its a nisba.(onomastics) Im a Muslim so Im not well equipped with knowledge regarding the use of surnames so I'm sorry for any misinformation. Thanks for pointing it out btw, i ll do some more research in this. Update : It says here that the La Ahad name is used for several reasons. 1. All Assassin children will be separated from their family to avoid any attachments so they can focus on their training. 2. Umar brings shame in the order due to his past actions so they didnt use his name as a patronym in Altair's name. (The first point seems like the most logical reason)
@@matchayum23and Roshan was, canonically, an slave and then send into prison; she literally had no one to take care of her until she met the Hidden Ones
The games have increasingly made "actually fight the Templars/Ancients" into a side goal at best. To the point that the previous game didn’t even have you in the Assassins or Templars at all. Best you don’t hope for them to be the focus anymore.
The ISU side of the Sages are known to come back in another form, same thing keeps happening with Aita. Maybe that’s what Basim is up to in the modern day, tracking down Odin’s Sage to torment his tormentor. And with the Staff of Hermes, he can keep hunting down those Sages for as long as he pleases.
Basim is not dead. Loki was never gone either. Basim has come home to himself. Think a supernatural form of amnesia. If you had a life and we're thrust from it with all memories of it removed and remade a new life distinct from the previous only to remember your previous life, you wouldn't be the old you or the current you. You would reframe your second life within the context of the first. This is what happened to Basim. He simply remembered who he was.
@DioStandProud but you are under the impression that Basim has no agency as a person of his own. Eivor threw off Odin's influence and had his own identity.
"I will make skywalker pay" "Revenge is not the jedi way brother" "The jedi way? You sit here bleeding to death and still cling to this foolish code, and for what? The Jedi way couldnt protect the temple and neither could i."
The fight with Roshan was awful lol. "Yield!" as he has already sliced and diced her, and then doing a parkour air jump driving his blade into her damn chest. But she seems pretty much fine right in the aftermath like... not even an "ouch".
@@AlexiosJG Well Eivor took a dagger to the side by Basim and walked it off, didn’t crawl around like Roshan, Shay falls from ice breaking and is fine whereas Liam was literally seconds from dying.
So he gets rid of the Ancients from Baghdad (and the Abbasid court consequently)...but some how the Tahirids (Abbasid vassals) are under the Order's influence and they attack Alamut since they are supposedly under the influence of the Ancients too? Don't think all of the bad guys have been taken out yet...
Again and again, there is no progress in the modern day they make a different world and add some new moves with the same game engine I have loved this game since my childhood, but the first time I hated it.
@@tylerhendrik4974in odyssey it was very bad story but, in Valhalla(we not talking about dlc with gods it’s trash ❤) but story of basic game was insane for me
@@fimklum7325yeah , we know the really AC Storyline fall is someone inside Ubisoft decision to finish Juno story in Comics , they lost the potencial to create a wonderfull villain for Modern Assassins and for Modern Templas too , imagine a game focus in modern world and Juno is a threat to humans and have a decision to kill al human race and Asssassins and templars need to let their war a side to join forces to defeat Juno , i think 65% of fans gonna like this story if a canon story , and i just a fan who imagine a way to make the lore more logical or reasonable.
ubisoft has made the entirety of this series so boring that it is not possible for me to take any interest in it anymore. Everything, from the stories to the world-building to the lore to the dialogues and characters and delivery and cutscenes, all are just cheap churn-outs they desperately make and move on the next xhit game. They used these trailers and stuff to build the hype for this game and it was xhit in every way. Incredibly disappointed in AC in general now
Ever heard of the saying "too many cooks spoil the broth" ? Well too much nonsense lore & too many shitty games has fucked up the franchise.. it needs a reboot...
I love this game but I wish they handled the story in a similar way they did Ezio in AC2. Have the story take place over a few decades and we see Basim consumed by Loki halfway through and meet Sigurd at the end
Basim is not dead. Loki was never gone either. Basim has come home to himself. Think a supernatural form of amnesia. If you had a life and we're thrust from it with all memories of it removed and remade a new life distinct from the previous only to remember your previous life, you wouldn't be the old you or the current you. You would reframe your second life within the context of the first. This is what happened to Basim. He simply remembered who he was.
Just scrolling through you tube and see this thumbnail. Was it really necessary to show spoilers for a game that’s not even released yet? TH-cam won’t allow me to type what I’d like to call you but it’s a four letter word starting with C!
when i join last room (mystic room with nihal) i jumped in water and game over, memory lost 🥲🥲 so thank u for this video now i know idea of basim and this game. i will never play again this game because i died in almost finished game ☝️
I think people are taking this as more of a bitter ending than it actually is. I might be wrong, but, from the way I understood it, no one got taken over or mentally “killed”. Young Basim simply had a supernatural form of amnesia. Imagine you lose your memories, get lost in a different place, build a new life, make new experiences, and so on… then you gain your old memories back. Are “old you” and “new you” two different people? No. Or at least not necessarily. In the best case scenario, you’ll simply reframe your second life within your memories of the first one, and move on with both experiences guiding you forward. That seems to be what happened to Basim, in my opinion.
That’s exactly what happened to Basim. It’s not two different characters like people seem to believe. Basim is Loki, and vice versa. It isn’t two sets of memories with one taking over the other, it’s the same individual.
The reason most people think that is because of how things played out between Odin and Eivor. It was the same scenario, or it could have been. But where as Basim accepted his memories of his past life, Eivor pretty much just interpreted them as visions. It pretty much caused her to have multiple personalities. Like Basim, she’s still Odin, and Vice Versa.
The Isu aren’t parasites, or anything like that. The amnesia comparison you made is pretty much the long and short of it.
Right on the money i dont understand how so many people dont get it
Loki/Basim is misunderstood - people consider him evil because his intentions don't always benefit everyone else. but if someone asked you to forsake yzour family for the good of society would you do it? probably not...
Although not supernatural, more genetically embedded amnesia. The reason Basim sees it as supernatural is his inability to comprehend the Isu as a technological race. Other than that, that's exactly how Sages are in the series.
ah yes the good old question "are we our memories?" here to induce existential dread again
I’m honestly shocked there’s no modern day scenes. I was really looking forward to see what Basim was planning in modern day 😢
Exactly that's what I was looking for. Kinda disappointing
Prob in a dlc
I'm pretty sure Ubisoft said that there won't be any more modern day In the main assassin's creed games anymore, instead ac infinity will be the main modern day story and will update after each game releases
Me too
Am I the only one that found the modern day scenes annoying and boring? Like I didn't give a shit at all when it went to modern day. I just wanna remain in the setting and explore the world, not explore some modern technological bullshit.
I love the way Enkidu reject Basim because he different (with Loki memories)
He was practically Loki already, and that was what Roshan was trying to protect him from. She probably knew about it and tried to prevent it, which ultimately failed and she left the Assassin Order
No he didn’t lol
So, basically, Basim is a schizophrenic who has PTSD from his other personnality
nah , Loki was Nehal and took over Basim body
proof Enkidu scratched his face because he didn't recognised as Basim anymore
Yeah I know I was joking
It's just funny that Basim had nightmares of the djinni thing what is basically old memories and trauma from his other "personnality"
I would really love to know what Basim could have become without all the Isu stuff
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@@ASSASSIN19923he didnt took his body....those were memories of loki and when he accepted him , they became one , thats why enkidu attacked him
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He just remembered his past.
@@ismaelbouissef4436 no, Basim is gone. Loki took over. Like a parasite in a host body. That’s why Basim asked if he be alone, and nehal said “you’ll never be alone.” That’s the moment Basim was absorbed. Loki would never share a body with anyone, and the end of Valhalla he goes completely off the rails. Basim was a whole different person in Valhalla too. Personality wise
I am surprised nobody has mentioned that the scar Enkidu gave to Basim is visible in Valhalla as well.
Yeah I was thinking that too lol
@@elsecaller-jacob8346 The moment I see eagle coming to Basim, I knew something going to happen as he is Loki and not Basim. And, then, eagle scratched him.
@alibashiri9233 hes both lol. Hes still basim. Just fully unlocked hos conciousness now
Idk if i don't underdtand, basically Enkidu attack Basim because she could see who are there in the end, Loki instead of Basim
Just like Basim say farewell to Rayhan, saying : Goodbye "mentor", but the last word in a derogatory way
Basim is an incarnation of Loki, but because Loki's memories were suppressed/repressed, I personally consider Basim to be a separate character even though in truth, he isn't. I think Roshan was feeling the same as me. For Basim is Loki but with innocence, as he doesn't have his memories. With Loki's memories reawakened, Enkudu can see that this person may look like Basim, but this person is a far more cynical and grim human being (Odin had him severely tortured). Remember, eagles, falcons and especially crows are all highly-intelligent animals.
The game emphasises that the eagle can tell that Basim is now Loki reawakened, and evil.
At least, that's my interpretation. Thanks for attending my TED Talk on AC: Mirage. Have a g'day y'all!
I know the end would be depressing but not like this. I never expected Basim to be so selfless and brave. All he ever wanted to do is join the assassin and help people. Even till the end he wanted to help them, but rochan technically betrayed him, without any explanation. Blind trust isn’t enough sometimes. Great game. Great ending. I like how it wasn’t to long and It felt progressive. But the only AC to make me cry was black flag lol the end song was torture
Seeing enkidu leave basim was sad. He knew his friend was dead.
Assassins have always been very shady “trust what we say and question nothing” type of group. Wouldn’t feel bad if the series ended with the assassins failing.
I hope the assassin's fall they have allways been the bad guys
Templar Order and its predecessor Order of the Ancients are much worse, though. They are so nasty Assassins and Hidden Ones looked like saints in comparison.
@@bsoulstone6024 you’re right! I’m literally replaying AC origins now and didn’t even realize how corrupt Egypt was. They’re literally oppressing and kidnapping people across the whole country, and the damn rouge animal attacks lmaoo
"My own struggle with Loki was intense but brief, ending with a mutual understanding of who we were"
You weren't kidding, Basim, lol!!!
I guess he wants to sever loki from himself as eivor did.
@@ace9924complete opposite of what eivor wanted. the fuck are you talking about
@@ace9924 Not really, Basim embraces Loki. He still makes his own choices, but he completely accepts Loki's memories and the fact that he was Loki.
@tronarclight2976 yes no doubt but even basim wanted to know how could eivor speak with odin. He probably didn't realize that Eivor found a way to keep his persona different from odin and to watch his memories from a distance so to speak. Basim at this point was mentally compromised and so he thought it was over but loki managed to have more of a dominant presence in the merge.
Really enjoyed AC Mirage. Gave me a lot of AC Origin vibes and I loved AC origins. Odyssey and Valhalla felt a lot like RPG and face to face combat and less about actually an Assassin game.
Maybe Ubisoft should stop making this Abstergo and modern day shit and keep to making "historical inspired" RPG's where one might learn about history. And possibly trigger a interest in historical events.
The way Basim blamed the hidden ones for using him yet Roshan wanted to help him several times but he refused . the hidden were then ones who raised him and took care of him like a family wasnt enough for Basim
Basim was also young and naive. They didn't properly teach him to internalize the creed. Altair essentially had the same background as Basim but he internalized the creed as AL mualim taught him.
The brotherhood failed Basim just like the Jedi Order failed Anakin
@m.r4841 the jedi didn't fail anakin but that anakin failed himself. He made the choice to become Vader and slaughter hundreds. Basim was betrayed but he still saved his brotherhood, at the cost of himself.
@@ace9924 I think you have a deep misunderstanding of Star Wars. The jedi order was the main reason Darth Vader happened
@m.r4841 I have a deep understanding as I've read the og lore since I was a kid. The jedi weren't purely responsible for Anakin's fall. Anakin made that decision purely on his own. The only thing the jedi failed to do was to evolve their old tradition. And it wasn't until after luke skywalker reformed the order that the jedi truly evolved. Anakin betrayed all he was for one person and couldn't accept death whereas Luke did and was willing to sacrifice himself.
AC Mirage teaches us how Sages really work:
Sages sometimes grow up seeing figments of their Isu past guiding them either by using their true Isu forms or another disguise. The figments are like advanced Isu AI relics that feel like actual illusionary figments people sometimes imagine or see. It is like Odin is an Isu memory figment for Eivor while Nehal (Loki) is an Isu memory figment for Basim. Unlike Odin, Loki used a form that Basim is comfortable interacting with, a normal human thief. Recognize how no one acknowledged Nehal's existence other than Basim which is revealed at the end of AC Mirage. Nehal is Loki in disguise and he mentored and protected Loki via cunning pieces of advice throughout his life.
cringe
@@dogestranding5047 True. Assassin's Creed shined the most whenever it focused on the Renaissance Age.
He didnt protected him. He manipulated him. He took the form of someone that Basim will become atouched too and he droved him to ignore people who cared for him, so that Basim will recover their memories and Loki to take controle.
Loki is indeed the most disgusting and despicable character of the franchise!
@@ΣτέργιοςΜποπότας-ζ1μ There are Isu far worse than Loki: Odin, Juno, and Aita. How Loki handled Basim compared to Aita handling his sages is more saint-like (almost all of Aita's sages go mad). William Miles still trusted Basim after showing him his memories. It should be noted that Sages choose to adopt their former memories or not. Basim made his choice. Despite this, you are right to say what Loki did to Basim is despicable, though Basim did not betray the Hidden Ones and never broke their Creed when pursuing his personal Isu goals.
@@ryankwon8785 So how did that device end up in Alamut again? I still confused why it's there in the first place.
Basim for real didn’t deserve to get his mind takeover like that. Dude had a superhero like personality and was genuinely trying to do right by the people. Stealing from the rich to help the poor and becoming an assassin to bring justice to the people
He cared for and loved Nehal so much.... You cant help but feel sorry for Basim....
Not a takeover. A merge. Basim is still there. It is just he is more akin to who loki was now. Long before the merge, you could see that basim had most of loki's motivations and slyness. If it were a full loki take over, he would be much like the Abstergo Technician who was not a merge and a clear takeover of Aita's DNA and memories. Basim, when he talks about other things, it is him. But when he talks about isu things, and his feelings on the matter, it is loki. In reality, none of the sages are real reincarnations. Just invasive DNA with memories that tries to hijack the host's consciousness or merge with them if it is able.
You're all wrong.... basim and loki are and always were one person. Only he represented his memories as an imaginary fraind. Anything he couldn't explain, he said it was nehal...
It's a mental thing. Nehal is shown as activating the memorie peace of Eden, but it's a physical thing, so that was actually basim... he's just dealing with the unexplained...
Even before the end, he says he "remembered," and he is in "his" cell....
Basim is loki, but the experience he has had in the ignorance of that somewhat separate him. But in the end, he embraced his own past.
He even says he's whole and that he was resisting part of himself. It's a mental state but not a different entity. Nehal isn't real in any way at all, just his imagination... he is her master what she does, he made her do... she's his imaginary fraind... not loki. Basim is loki. This is just his coping method, and he ended up using it to face a painful and confusing reality... that he, basim is the norse god loki reborn...
This other stuff about loki taking over wasn't ever cannon it's a meta way to describe a meta physical event... the inner working of a human mind.
The only reason anyone ever took this literally is because it suits people who don't want to admit that eivor is odin, because odin now being a lady is goofy and dumb and steps into politics around gender.
Eivor and basim are odin and loki... not separate beings.
Don't be fooled by people who willingly misunderstand because they have political or personal problems with it.
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@kadmosrebellion4934 and not quite but you're on the right path.
It breaks my heart how Basim begs for Roshan to yield when he says it the second time. He doesn't want the blood of someone who means so much to him on his hands
So Roshan choose to leave the Brotherhood was because she had a disagreement with Rayhan? She couldn't accept who Basim is now or she felt she failed in protecting Basim from his past?
I think it's because Rayhan ultimately decided to keep Basim in the Brotherhood, even tho Basim is someone that the Order of The Ancients worships, a inside weapon of the enemy, that can never be fully trusted, but Rayhan owes his life to Basim.
Roshan knew Basim cannot be trusted but the brotherhood didnt know that and was on his side because he saved their lifes
@@orochinagis Does it mean Roshan all along knew Basim was an Isu? Is that why she desperately tries to prevent Basim from discovering his true nature?
@@Noctuam734 So Rayhan realizes his mistakes in the end and assigned Haytham to keep an eye on Basim? It's kinda weird that Roshan never mentioned anything about Basim in Vahalla. I guess she already accepted the fact that the real Basim whom she greatly cared for is gone.
@@TerraWindVampire Roshan was afraid the old ones information would corrupt Basim like their enemies which proved her right but She wasnt aware of Basim real nature
Honestly, Roshan was right after all. She wanted basim to fight the loki inside him like eivor did with odin in valhalla but he ended up dying as himself for loki to gain control over his body.
Loki did not take control over his body. They merged and gained a mutual understanding of who they were and are.
@@DeviniteHDThat's only a theory. But the scenes with Loki shows you're wrong
@@m.r4841 The "mutual understanding of who they were" is something Basim himself talked about in Valhalla's ending. Also the fact that Basim stays with the hidden ones and would go on to take Hytham under his wing, and much later offer his help to the modern assassins show that Basim is still present, while still pursuing Loki's agenda. When you think of it, the only evil thing he has done in Valhalla was attacking Eivor (and Layla... But who wouldn't want to kill Layla?)
@@firionnel7833 I don't think Loki is evil. He is an opportunist. Why would he leave the Assassins now that he has risen the ranks. I don't think your points are contradictions. I think he meant that he as Loki still understands Basims past even though Basim is gone. By the way the mimic and the way Loki talks is totally different than Basims. Nothing in Valhalla or the ending of Mirage ressembles Basim.
@@m.r4841 Loki is certainly evil, just look at what he did to Baldur simply because Odin imprisoned his son. Basim is the opportunistic "good" guy.
Where Eivor refused to remain the same person she once was who caused so much harm for her loved ones, Basim fully embraced the awful man he was as Loki. Eivor refused to regress to what she once was in the good ending of Valhalla and Basim refused to change into the good man Roshan made him into on this life.
22:53 guessing Enkidu attacked Basim for he was already merged with Loki and the bird smelled it from him,taking him for a different person (albeit similar looking)
Exactly correct
Good i am not the only one who notice that
By the way basims blood look really dark like black or something
@@YannGaisser might be lighting thing,sometimes when you have too much blood particles (forgot their name) your color might appear darker,can be seen also when you are taking blood tests that the blood in the vial is darker as well
that's why it's not present in Valhalla... good catch !
It may be a small detail but that part gave me chills🤦♂️🔥
Basim’s big monologue at the end is just BEGGING for a ‘came out in 2007’ meme where we splice in In The End by Linkin Park
Oh shocks. Brain fart. The song is What I’ve Done by Linkin Park
Like Transformers Bay saga?
😂
I got goosebumps hearing Ezios theme during the conversations with Nur. This moment is what cemented the game as a fire experience.
Especially the meaning of the arabic in the song: "where is my home? Who am i?"
Timestamp?
@@ERICTENHAG56 starts around 2:20👌🏽
This whole ending is a brain teaser I really like it
Basim instead going to therapist, he joins asassins...
No therapist in this time.
If it was Basim joining the assassin's, don't forget the Loki side of him took control to exact revenge on the reincarnation of Odin
They didn't have therapists in this time period...
Not gonna lie, I'm kinda disappointed in the "Loki reveal". It should've been a lot more impactful.
True and even Shay had a better ending speech than this
What Loki? When does he even do anything? I only see basic nightnares & nonsense from jinni & Nehal
@@afiffarakhan4992 Nehal was Loki in disguise secretly guiding Basim to be reunited and take over because Basim is the reincarnation of him
@@David-nq8cv Thank you bro, I wasn't get it in the first place. She doesn't look like norse isu god
@@afiffarakhan4992because they aren’t gods😂
19:23
-I will never see you again? Will I be alone?
-You're never alone
Ok, I cried
What people make the mistake on is that not one single sage is a true reincarnation. They are nothing more than DNA with memories that tries to hijack the host's consciousness. Thus making them a mental clone of the original Isu donor.
Eivor is more akin to Aang from avatar: by rejecting the Odin personality from taking over, she is now able to interact with her "previous" life's memories as if they are a separate individual (and for all intents and purposes they ARE separate people and that odin's soul is by no means inside or "is" Eivor), much like Basim with Nehal but only the Eivor was always aware of Odin being an apparition.
Sigurd and tyr are merged. Sigurd is more-or-less himself but with the memories of tyr.
Valka willingly gave herself up to being Freyja.
Harald has pretty much have always been thor without really being aware.
Basim merged with loki only that loki is more dominant AFTER he remembers his isu counterpart's life and when around the other mental clone sages.
Aita is the most spontaneous and random personality because there can be more than one at a given time. Desmond's son is one who rejected him and that Abstergo Technician was the one fully taken over and these 2 existed at the same time. Thats what i like about the sage storylines. Because the more you go into it, from what we have seen, nothing about them are true reincarnations. We only say that because it is lazier that way. But when you get to the details of it, odin and every other isu with a sage have truly been dead the entire time. Sages are just embodiments/avatars of invasive memories of a long dead race, none of the memories are truly theirs.
Harald is Freyr's reincarnation btw. Halfdan is Thor's
@@Sinodev thank you. Been a while, I forgot which was which.
The lore is a mess
If that's the case why are they both identical?
@@MichaelGriffin-wv5tx the DNA tries to change the host to accommodate the isu construct. That's the point. They are supposed to be the same but they aren't. Imagine me being dead for a long time and I sent my DNA into the human genome and when it activates, it is in the process of changing you physically and then mentally to fit who I was in life. YOU are NOT me. You are now a mental clone of me with my likeness, and that's if my construct assimilates you or we merge.
I don’t care what nobody says if you understood basim and how he fully embraced his past to find peace and other things bruh this in my opinion might off been one of the best assassins creed games ever im glad i could beat the game in 3-4 days it was fantastic yall enjoy🖤
you wanna know whats funny is people still dont see that it is atually loki now, the haunting past what he does in valhalla, basin at the end of this game is the basin from valhalla. Who is actually loki reincarnated. :D
Exactly. If you played Valhalla you knew this ending was coming🤦♂️🔥🔥. The part where the eagle scratch basim face cause it wasn’t him no more gave me chills
@@joey2765 100% man loved that and the cheeky smile he gave the eagle aha
I genuinely cried when he said "Will I be alone?"
Yeah I agree this story is way better than the last two games.
I think the introduction of Sages as a concept in Assassin's Creed really contributed to the decline of the series' lore. And Black Flag is to blame for that, despite how great of an action/adventure game that it was. They should have stuck with the original plotline setting up Juno as the primary modern-day antagonist. Imagine characters exploring the animus whilst having to battle the consciousness of a precursor "goddess" that uploaded herself into the Web at the end of AC III (which was actually alluded to in the game). Talk about a great plotline for a series ostensibly devoted to the conflict between freedom and oppression, peace and war. Juno could have been used as a metaphorical personification of technology and the negative - even dangerous - effects of our world's technological advancements on society. Think of the implications, and the differing reactions of the Assassin and Templar orders when faced with a monster that both organizations require for survival, yet cannot control.
Nope, instead we see Juno turned into an unhinged, obsessive widow whose whole vendetta was sloppily wrapped up in a comic. And now we have the ridiculously confusing concept of Sages, which revealed just enough information about the Isu to make them far less interesting, and also served as an excuse for the devs to insert high fantasy elements into a series that used to revel in its unique blend of historical fiction and futuristic sci-fi.
The lore is just a mess now. What a damn shame. It used to be fun to dive into this stuff. Now it's just a bummer. 😂
That’s what happened to Juno?! They should just reboot the franchise at this point.
Man's telling fax, good one brother.
True
I agree. I love Black Flag as a game but it's the start of how the story declined so much.
💯 all true. Writing the plot/story for AC games has gone off the rails
"I will never see you again, will I?" - that hit hard
I would pay a lot for another AC game set in the Middle East.
Correction as basim he have his own memories too but also loki memories too and he is now whole and he also have his human memories and isu memories too so don't say he forgot his humanside
The scene with Nur is by FAR the most touching AC scene I’ve ever experienced. I want more games to be like that.
Idk bro black flag and revelations ending was brutal. Had me crying like a baby 🤣🤣🤣
@@Tripolizz770 revelations was sad tbh, but I feel like I’m black flag Edward did it to himself. Basim at the end of mirage had me in the feels the most
Yes, I'm sure that Loki still has a relationship with Basim
" I don't want to lose you to whatever you find inside " but roshan did lose basim. I think Roshan's intentions were good but maybe her ways was wrong
Of course. Had she come clean from the start, she would not have been controlling him. But because she sought to keep Basim away from that knowledge to the point of being willing to die for it or kill him for it, it was wrong.
They pulled a viktor resnov on us.
Exactly 😂
Hudson:- The Numbers Basim, what is it?
Except Call of Duty Black Ops 1 & 2 are 100x better than this.
And a better plot twist
@@Marukanitelnothing extrodinary to bebetter than ac mirage if we compare the best of the assassin creed story with call of duty in comparison bo1 and 2 are boring and stupid games
"Roshan bint La'Ahad"?
You gotta be kidding me!!! Roshan is literally the ancestor of Altair!!!
... "ibn la'ahad" just means "the son of nobody"
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No it directly translate to " son of the one"
الأحد here means one and not nobody
@sausage563 it means nobody bro or to put it literally "No One"
He pronounced it wrong in the game though , but it's written right in the subtitles.
Bint La'Ahad means the daughter of no one.
@@fathy1223so it's the same thing just said differently due to gender the end point she still Altair ancestor
@sausage563 its لا احد La ahad. Not al ahad.
HOW?! Other TH-camrs just dropped Part One just now and you DONE?! NANI!
The result of having no life and being fat
Got the game early this is how
Did you just say Nani? That's fucking cringe
They don't have a life
Man playing the game since 12 am
wow!!! enkidu missing in Valhalla is now understandable!!!
The series needs a hard reset, it is in its current form poisoned by bad decisions of the past games
So, like, this is the fridge horror ending right? Or is it okay to meta-physically murder someone if they want it.
Plot twist you are the final boss.
as the jinny said "This is The Beginning" basim got a new life with his new memories
Ubisoft had mastered the production of average games. Such a dhane they have the rights to AC and Splinter Cell IPs. fuck
Sigh... Man you are right
i love average games
your hate of ubisoft is so forced
Yeah , this final make me fall in hate because the storyline/lore of AC is wonderfull since AC1 ate AC 3 , but with Desmond death and June end in Comics , make me fell so hate of this actual Ubisoft. They lost so many oportunities to make the Junos villanism to become a greatfull threat in AC modern time with Desmond father´s (or Desmond respawn).
@@tylerhendrik4974 Man's telling fax
This ending was a mind-fuck
The Flash: I'm the fastest man alive!
The Cameraman: Hold my camera!
BabyZone: Ayo bro!
Literally 🗑
I dont get it?? Can someone explain please?
@@MaCAttaKhe finished the game exceptionally fast
@@atanor2768 oh lol yea the game was real short i finished literally everything collectables and story in bout 2 days smh
Valhalla was wayyyyy better than mirage cant even compare… there were so many cool boss fights in Valhalla. Unlike mirage there wasn’t even one real boss fight smh. It was a fun game but it honestly felt like a dlc package then a full game smh very disappointing. And this is not only my opinion or how i feel. I can guarantee 90% of real AC fans feel the same way…
Help me fellow assassin's fans, So basically pulled a Fight Club ? and is it explained why Roshan didn't want Bassim to recover his loki memories ?
Because it's a trade, Basim gets those memories but in return Loki takes over
Yeah. It"s "clever" because the secondary title of the game is mirage.
@@David-nq8cvi read that loki only could take over basim because he convinced basim and they are kinda both in controll now or sum like that, he didnt back up his claims though so i dont know
Lol, the final boss fight is like fighting with a 5 level opponent.
what kind if ending was looking for you nitwit
Remember Rodrigo Borgia? Or Al Mualim? They were easier than this
@@deimosok2003 Yeah, Assassin's Creed has always had shit bosses. Always just a normal enemy with more health, no unique move sets or challenging. Only exception is the old psp game no one played, and maybe in the rpg entries, I haven't played those. It sucks and I wish they'd improve things but ubisoft never learns.
@@ChuckPalomo Now that you mention it yeah Bloodlines had nice bosses.... Bouchard was difficult.... And each boss had his own unique weapons and moveset... All the rest of ac games were the same you could kill anyone with just Break Defense+Execute or Block/Execute...
The rpgs just spam.spam.spam.....
@@ChuckPalomovalhalla was way better and better boss fights mirage was so short smh
7:31 epic battle + epic music + epic cutscenes = Perfect Game-movie
Alll these magical blades look so ridiculous
Meanwhile AC1 and AC2: PIECE OF EDEN
You guys NEVER and I mean NEVER understood what Assassins Creed really IS. Yet you buffle all the damn time about magic in this game when IT IS ITS CORE.
@@deimosok2003shut up rammus pfp
@@quiet3455 Al Mualim himself talked about mythological and religious events being summoned by the apple... Myth was always part of it. The great catastrophe was a thing since Revelations....
So Juno Minerva and Jupiter arent considered Roman Myth?
In AC2 we saw them a game which takes place IN ITALY. Then in AC3 we saw Juno again and spirits of animals and such.... In 4 they went deeper with the sages who could show us more ISU memories.... And in Origins and onwards they built upon it so we could finally see who these guys are
This story was being built since 1
@@quiet3455 Ezio used the apple to defeat Rodrigo Borgia in the Vatican remember??
@@quiet3455 In 1 Al Mualim used the apple to freeze Altair's body and trick his mind... It even glitched the animus if you remember showing us that those so called apples are indeed technological and not religious creations
8:10 that voice crack 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Should've done another take on that 😅
In moments of extreme emotion that happens. Either he's upset that he thinks his master betrayed him or he is frustrated with her persistence. Good performance.
Basim is the reincarnation of Loki 😢 poor guy at the end loki completely took over his mind & body
Yeah.. the modern Basim is no longer himself. It's 100% Loki
@@Player-gv5lp You mean Basim keeps reincarnating over and over again?
@@user-eu8qe8fe7xno he used the staff of hermes in valhalla ending
@@user-eu8qe8fe7xBasim still live in modern Assassin, thanks for lying to Layla of course. But William Miles Suspecting Basim is Loki of course
@@ezalfarizy7113 He is inmortal?????
Enkidu scratching him made me realise that there really is nothing of Basim left but a soulless body inhabited by Loki.
Basim is not dead.
Loki was never gone either.
Basim has come home to himself. Think a supernatural form of amnesia. If you had a life and we're thrust from it with all memories of it removed and remade a new life distinct from the previous only to remember your previous life, you wouldn't be the old you or the current you. You would reframe your second life within the context of the first.
This is what happened to Basim. He simply remembered who he was.
@@DioStandProud that’s not how sages work tho, Basim is his own unique personality. In some cases personalities merge, in others the Isu conscious takes over completely and In Eivors case for example the human host rejects the Isu.
Basim was Never Loki, he is his own person, a Human. But Isu memories injected into the Human gene pool forced him to have memories that weren’t his allowing for the Isu conscious to take over.
Sages are just another example of how diabolically evil the Isu were.
No lol he clawed basim cause the times he sent enkidu to scout in an area before taking out the marksman
6:55 Did he just,..took half of the FINAL BOSS'S health with single throwing knife??? 😳😳😳
Mee too i did the same
@@diegobrando4630he's talking about basim, not the guy playing 😂
I did that too it was weird honestly
That’s her weak point, because there’s no armor there. The game specifically tells you.
@@physicssimulator2656There is literally iron chestpiece,..
Best AC game we have had since origins
Thanks for posting this
It's SMALL in PLOTS/SIZE compared to Others I'think 🤯
It's intended to be a filler like with AC Rogue, even Ubi knows this by making it cheaper than other new games
@@David-nq8cv60 usd is cheap?
@@raffielj would you rather pay $70? and 60 is deluxe and 50 for standard with Mirage
@@David-nq8cv for 12 hours? Nope
It’s huge in explaining Basim’s character imo, and it’s definitely cool to see the early Assassins hundreds of years after their creation but before their peak
so Basim is technically schizophrenic?
we can see like this way , but Loki is inside of his mind manipulate him to make obviously steps to confuse him and make become madness and acccept the Loki images.
Yup, what he needs is actually a therapist
@@afiffarakhan4992 Along with the protag from yakuza like a dragon.
@@KoreyVortex And don't forget those guys from Fight Club movie & Mr. Robot series. It's literally the same concept.
Yup that's the plot of both mirage and Valhalla.. a whole bunch of schizophrenic dudes realize that they're schizophrenic lmao
This whole scene in start is him all alone this game literally requires a second playthrough everything has double meanings once you know the ending.
I thought basim/Loki wanted revenge for his son but now seems more like he had a tragic past was that Odin that try to stab basim/loki or someone else?
Could possibly be Odin. Nonetheless the Jinni represents the torture of Loki, spearheaded by Odin
Technically both. He and Odin were likely always at odds, but Fenrir is what drove their conflict over the edge.
The great problem of assassin's creed is not the game , is the comics and books
Basim is on his Anakin Skywalker Arc
it's so sad that a boss to eliminate in assassin's creed valhalla, Basim had great potential
Basim is the new modern day protagonist
22:01 I'm shocked of Roshan's full name 😅 he's Altair's ancestor
It's possible but i remember from AC1 that Ibn La'Ahad meant something like "son of none" and Altair had it because his parents were dead and he was raised by the brotherhood.
Bint La'Ahad probably means "daughter of none"
@@JoCoHoBut Altair Father also have La Ahad surname, so Roshan could be Altair's ancestor
@@sheogorathz holy shit that's actually true, it's like a family tradition that started WITH Roshan... it all makes sense now.
@@sheogorathzSons of no one means son of no one. La'ahad means anyone so ibn La'ahad is sons of no one if i remember it correctly. This concept of La'ahad is not like the concept of family's name like you used to, it's like if he doesn't recognize his (orphaned) family or leaves his family name
@@JoCoHo bn La'Ahad means in arabic son of the one
not of non
"al" is like "the" in english
To be honest it’s hard to believe Basim is Loki reincarnated even after Ac Valhalla
i'll give my take on it, it would be much better if he had arrived earlier than the order and the assassins tried to stop him
How people can listen to Basim’s conversation with Nur in the cave and especially the last talk with Nehal and claim this game has bad voice acting is beyond me
Its an amazing game but i hate that Ubisoft gave it a small budget. Basim couldve had a longer story but im impressed they did this with that small of a budget. The only thing was the facial animations.
Game feels so absolutely half baked with no modern day sequence at the end. Modern day works best intertwined with the story and removing it and seperating it just to appeal to the lowest common denonimator who will never care about these games is a terrible decision. They're still not gonna be happy. Imagine listening to the people who say modern day is boring when the greatest parts of these games is when shit goes awol at the end. Ever since ac1, shadow clone fight with al mualim at the end, dramatic escape in the intro to ac 2 and the death of lucy, down to desmond saving the world in ac 3 and the epic thousand year revival of basim at the end of valhalla. These parts give the game so much force and hype, because whenever the subject of the animus's story ends, its only the beginning and you get a dramatic irl sequence to fulfill the need for more, its exciting and can go anywhere. No idea how you can think its not so important to a game about exploring the past, what these people do doesnt matter, theres no catharsis to the story if its just watching a medieval guy live his life and die, what makes it matter is its connection to irl and the spanning plot. Basims modern day story developing at the end was what i was looking forward to in ac mirage when it was announced after the sublime setup of ac valhalla. Nope, just find out how he became loki and thats it. Story barely matters or develops. All that potential drama that could have been had in this game as a send off to modern day to setup whatever they do next, terribly missed opportunity. And all so joe bloggs can hate on every aspect of these games whilst posing as a fan cuz theyre just some dude who plays it mindlessly. Guess ubisoft needs to make their money, Infinity just better be good as fuck if theyre gonna sacrifice a core part of the writing that made these games dramatic before. If it were up to me, the whole fanbase would boycott them for it, but hey, its not even a fanbase at this point.
First rule of the hidden ones; you do not talk about the hidden ones.
Second rule of the hidden ones; You do NOT talk about the hidden ones.
This shit definitely sounds like The Fight Club
Man, exactly what I tought when watched the ending, the Enkidu part is pretty cringe tho like bro didn't have to do hat just to tell Basim is a different person now, totally not cool.
Exactly. That's what comes to my mind when I watch this 😂
@@afiffarakhan4992 They had to somehow explain why Basim has no eagle in Valhalla tho
@@sambruh1410 Ah, that part will be easily done even by some lazy writing and it'll acceptable enough. Ubisoft just have to make stories like Basim gives it to someone or Enkidu died in some sort of mission.
@@afiffarakhan4992 Well the choices are almost infinite but I don't mind this one no big deal for me dunno how about you
I bought this game from Ubisoft on the 28th of December and finished it just yesterday, I never thought Nehal would be an hallucination.
Most disappointing ending ever! Basim wanted to meet William miles cus he was the head of the assassins in the end of vahalla we got nothing tho ): Wanted to see rebecca and sean again too we really need a new protagnist for the modern ac world again, rip desmond.
Sadly they won't return to modern day in Red and Hexe :/
Damn near a better ending than a lot of the other ac in the series including the older ones fym
If you were expecting modern day scenes here, you got your hopes up lmao. This game is a backstory.
He talked with William at the end of the last Valhalla's DLC
William asked Basim for his dna so he could explore it in animus
That's probably what we see in mirage
@@maciejpolak2458 of course they made it a fkin dlc smh…. Didn’t know cus that game was overwhelming long and cluttered with all sorts of stuff in the map 😓
The ending almost good, until that Nehal & Jinni nonsense like when does even Loki in? And how exactly? We just see another bunch of nightmares then he just turns into Loki the Isu God of mischief? Please enlighten me for any Masters Assassins here 🙏
This story is a prequel to AC Valhalla. In that game, Basim is an reincarnation of Loki, so he turns out to be the final boss in that game. It’s a really complicated story but pretty much Loki was a member of the ISU and they had a technology to have their lives reincarnated before the great catastrophe occurred. So Loki managed to get his life reincarnated into Basim, which is why we see Nehal following and guiding Basim through this game because it’s Loki in disguise who’s trying to bind with Basim and make him accept he’s Loki after all. The lore is really complex overall
@@ramsathasivam9747 good job explaining it and honestly Nehal is the weakest part of the story to show why Basim willingly accepted to merge with Loki
@@David-nq8cvwhat was the jinni about then?
@@parsa475 Nehal is Loki and the jinni are his memories
@@David-nq8cvbut , after all , Nehal is a person who exist in Basim life in the pass or Loki just created this "woman" to make Basim fall in love and fall in the trap (Loki´s trap) for her and follow her ways ?
Game was one of the greatest games I've ever played, but i wiah we got the boss fight on the tower, that was teased in the trailers.
Ubisoft: it's a stealth game
Final Boss: i m gonna pretend i didnt hear that
Eh its fine.
Remember AC 1, AC 2, AC Brotherhood, and AC Revelations. All had final boss fights.
Bro really pretend old AC games don't have boss fights, Al Mualim, Rodrigo Borgia, Cesare Borgia and even Germain in AC Unity, are basically boss fights in old games.
Fr. It should’ve had an ending like origins
Meanwhile old Ac games: I'll kill you with this magical golden ball
I was tempting to play this after a decade hiatus. Last time I played AC was Black Flag, which in terms of assassin's lore wasn't my cup of tea. But seems like past Ezio trilogy story wise everything else is just meh.
Ezio trilogy is mid and overrated ac3 and black flag are better even ac1 is better
@@cinnassforehead ac3 is joke black flag is joke
@@litt420 deluded
@@cinnassforehead only reason people liked the trilogy is because of Ezio himself being charismatic and all, without him those 3 games wouldn't be as good
@@cinnassforeheadcap I honestly stopped playing once they scrapped the modern story
Assassins Creed Mirage plot was in the name Nehal was never real she was just a Mirage guiding you
whoaa...so youre telling me that roshan is connected to altair???
Ah no. Altair ibn la Ahad means "Altair son of nobody " where "ibni/bin" translates into the word son.
In here it says Roshan "binti la Ahad" with binti means "daughter." So, she s Roshan daughter or nobody.
Its just that maybe they dont want people to know their origins or any other reasons.
@@matchayum23I think they are still hinting she is an ancestor to Altair. Your translation of Roshan's name is correct, but in this case, it seems Roshan's adopted title of "bint-La'Ahad" also functioned as a surname for her children and descendants. Case in point: Altair's father, Umar, was referred to by the full name "Umar Ibn-La'Ahad".
Plus, there's no way Ubisoft would drop a name like "La'Ahad" without intending for their audience to notice and make the connection.
@@jones9048 hrm now that you ve mentioned it. It does sound logical. It got past my mind since Muslims dont really have surnames. Instead they use their father's name/patronym. Hrmm unless its a nisba.(onomastics) Im a Muslim so Im not well equipped with knowledge regarding the use of surnames so I'm sorry for any misinformation. Thanks for pointing it out btw, i ll do some more research in this.
Update : It says here that the La Ahad name is used for several reasons.
1. All Assassin children will be separated from their family to avoid any attachments so they can focus on their training.
2. Umar brings shame in the order due to his past actions so they didnt use his name as a patronym in Altair's name. (The first point seems like the most logical reason)
@@matchayum23and Roshan was, canonically, an slave and then send into prison; she literally had no one to take care of her until she met the Hidden Ones
@@MrAvakstone92 yep. But ngl i actually hoped that they pulled an Aya there. If u know what I mean.
That "How long has it been?" line sounded like the Old Basim VA.
im just strolling on youtube and i see a thumbnail i definitely didnt want to see,thanks for ruining the game
That Ending was very predictable
The most bitter part of this ending was the falling out with Roshan.
How people manage to go through main story only for few hours??????? All fun is gone when you finish the game for 5 hours after it's release
It is a short Game unfortunatly.
It's 20 hour long at max.
Some people were given early access to the game. That or they just rush through it to get out content
Literally. I just finished it at 41 hours.
6:26 - one of the best sound effects I have ever heard.
So is there no Templar/Order of Ancient leader you have to kill?
The games have increasingly made "actually fight the Templars/Ancients" into a side goal at best.
To the point that the previous game didn’t even have you in the Assassins or Templars at all.
Best you don’t hope for them to be the focus anymore.
Yes you kill templars throughout the game.
@@GZilla311 Roshan kills the final Order memeber, the whole game you kill the order members, reminisent of AC 1
Odin needs to come back. Time for a showdown between them in future games.
The ISU side of the Sages are known to come back in another form, same thing keeps happening with Aita. Maybe that’s what Basim is up to in the modern day, tracking down Odin’s Sage to torment his tormentor. And with the Staff of Hermes, he can keep hunting down those Sages for as long as he pleases.
@@alpacawizardman6778I thought it also depends if it was the will of the Sage? If they wanted to come back?
Odin was destroyed by Eivor
So what's next ,where they actually going to explore????
The bankruptcy process, I hope
@@Maestro7228ayoo💀💀💀
@@bahutoopa1190 they're creatively bankrupt anyway
Japan with Code Red, and somewhere in Germany for witch trials in Code Hexe
@@Maestro7228 with games like these fr
This felt like a dlc rather than a full fledged game
Rest in peace Basim
you dont deserve what happened to you
damn you Loki
Basim is not dead.
Loki was never gone either.
Basim has come home to himself. Think a supernatural form of amnesia. If you had a life and we're thrust from it with all memories of it removed and remade a new life distinct from the previous only to remember your previous life, you wouldn't be the old you or the current you. You would reframe your second life within the context of the first.
This is what happened to Basim. He simply remembered who he was.
@DioStandProud but you are under the impression that Basim has no agency as a person of his own. Eivor threw off Odin's influence and had his own identity.
"I will make skywalker pay"
"Revenge is not the jedi way brother"
"The jedi way? You sit here bleeding to death and still cling to this foolish code, and for what? The Jedi way couldnt protect the temple and neither could i."
Final boss is a grandma?
It feels kinda lame, to be honest
master grandma
Gilf
Are you saying the game is generally good?
@@tahaarslan4345 it's mid, some part a little bit emotional
It's always like that, remember al mualim and basim himself?
please dont put inportant story elements in the thumbnails i just started this game
You can tell basim really didn’t want to do that to roshan by his voice crack
The fight with Roshan was awful lol. "Yield!" as he has already sliced and diced her, and then doing a parkour air jump driving his blade into her damn chest. But she seems pretty much fine right in the aftermath like... not even an "ouch".
She’s an Assassin.
@@sxerwin And? Being an assassin doesn't mean you can take a dagger to the chest lol.
@@AlexiosJG
Well Eivor took a dagger to the side by Basim and walked it off, didn’t crawl around like Roshan, Shay falls from ice breaking and is fine whereas Liam was literally seconds from dying.
@@sxerwin except shay got like the biggest plot armour in the series even compared to ezio lmao.
@@lordtouchme77He makes his own plots.
So he gets rid of the Ancients from Baghdad (and the Abbasid court consequently)...but some how the Tahirids (Abbasid vassals) are under the Order's influence and they attack Alamut since they are supposedly under the influence of the Ancients too?
Don't think all of the bad guys have been taken out yet...
Again and again, there is no progress in the modern day they make a different world and add some new moves with the same game engine I have loved this game since my childhood, but the first time I hated it.
I like spoilers so thank you! I figured it either had to be Nehal or Roshan
Am I the only one who thinks that was Masyaf castle in the end?
Said The Same Shit Bro Eyes got Wide Asl Definitely masayaf Castle Cause ain’t nun else surrounded by Snow if u Played Revelations
@@hollywoodjah5573 That castle wasn’t created yet this is a different castle
@@Ghost_-nz5dy Oh ii I was Finna Say that shit Definitely Masayaf Castle but I Appreciate u Looking out
Alamut castle is another castle. Masyaf castle is somewhere else.
We didn’t even get to climb the castle.
Why would you put that in your goddamn thumbnail I didn't want this shit to get spoiled and SOMEHOW IT WAS RECOMMENDED
A new world awaits........
Let's see what happens in hexe and red
nobody cares , this final made all AC storyline in trash , ubisoft really shit in AC lore
@@tylerhendrik4974in odyssey it was very bad story but, in Valhalla(we not talking about dlc with gods it’s trash ❤) but story of basic game was insane for me
@@fimklum7325yeah , we know the really AC Storyline fall is someone inside Ubisoft decision to finish Juno story in Comics , they lost the potencial to create a wonderfull villain for Modern Assassins and for Modern Templas too , imagine a game focus in modern world and Juno is a threat to humans and have a decision to kill al human race and Asssassins and templars need to let their war a side to join forces to defeat Juno , i think 65% of fans gonna like this story if a canon story , and i just a fan who imagine a way to make the lore more logical or reasonable.
ubisoft has made the entirety of this series so boring that it is not possible for me to take any interest in it anymore. Everything, from the stories to the world-building to the lore to the dialogues and characters and delivery and cutscenes, all are just cheap churn-outs they desperately make and move on the next xhit game. They used these trailers and stuff to build the hype for this game and it was xhit in every way. Incredibly disappointed in AC in general now
Ever heard of the saying "too many cooks spoil the broth" ? Well too much nonsense lore & too many shitty games has fucked up the franchise.. it needs a reboot...
The way he says mentor shows hos disdain for people above him.
My brother in Christ what
I love this game but I wish they handled the story in a similar way they did Ezio in AC2. Have the story take place over a few decades and we see Basim consumed by Loki halfway through and meet Sigurd at the end
I'm mad that they didn't give Bordeaux a bigger budget. The fact that they pulled this off with the limited budget they had was amazing.
Basim is not dead.
Loki was never gone either.
Basim has come home to himself. Think a supernatural form of amnesia. If you had a life and we're thrust from it with all memories of it removed and remade a new life distinct from the previous only to remember your previous life, you wouldn't be the old you or the current you. You would reframe your second life within the context of the first.
This is what happened to Basim. He simply remembered who he was.
Just scrolling through you tube and see this thumbnail. Was it really necessary to show spoilers for a game that’s not even released yet? TH-cam won’t allow me to type what I’d like to call you but it’s a four letter word starting with C!
when i join last room (mystic room with nihal) i jumped in water and game over, memory lost 🥲🥲 so thank u for this video now i know idea of basim and this game. i will never play again this game because i died in almost finished game ☝️
Bros already finished the game 💀
Yeah all content creators have early copies of the game, it’s not a surprise
@@Fantasy_Gamer_ yes, but as other people have said, other content creators have just made part 1, let alone the ending
@@Fantasy_Gamer_i saw the disc on sale yesterday at the store so...
@@isuckatcod2162other content creators have finished the game. They're only uploading part 1 to make it a series.