The Ups and Downs of Assassin's Creed's Memory Corridor Confessions
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- From the original Assassin's Creed to the newly released Assassin's Creed Mirage, take a deeper look into how the memory corridor sequences have evolved across the franchise for better, or worse.
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0:00 - Intro
2:34 - Original Game's Vision
4:19 - Refining the Formula
7:07 - Peaks and Troughs
8:51 - A Different Direction
15:07 - The Pros
17:13 - The Cons
18:34 - Looking Ahead
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Fun fact, Arno does technically have one memory corridor interaction at the end with his antagonist.
i think tht structure could have worked if tht final scene with Germaine gave you more answers than questions. it doesnt feel satisfying for the right reasons. Its just empty and we barely even know him. Ubisoft thought they could substitute a sage plot for deep character writing and it failed miraculously
I really liked memory corridors in AC4
Most of them effected Edward in many ways and helped him become a better person.
I agree. Syndicate tried to have Jacob's targets affect him in transformative and profound ways but like willis said the episodic structure cant carry any themes or drama. its just saturday morning bullsh*t. Sucks too bc i want the assassin brotherhood that Edward established to have depth. like say...ac3. better combat villians and such
Johnson, pitcan and Haitham of AC three the way all three of them were so foreboding was fantastic.
My favourite is Garnier in AC1. For me, AC1 corridors were a close second after AC4. These two also have the best stories and are well ahead of the others.
I kinda fundamentally disagree on your stance on the ac1 corridors. The whole point of ac1 was at first you were a mindless drone, killing just because it was asked of you like in hit man. You learn about your target and how bad they are to make you sure they deserve to die, though when you kill them and hear them you hesitate; changing the way you think about your allies, your targets, the story, world and your place in it.
Before I even watch the video, I gotta give some(!) credit to Valhalla!
The philosophical arguments between Eivor and Odin about power, legacy and honor were pretty well done imo.
Certainly better than any memory corridors since Black Flag, I felt!
"You are not my target. I will not take your life."
"Requiescat in pace, you bastard."
"I DON'T THINK SO!"
"I am not yet dead."
"I did not come here to kill you. He who is the cause of someone else becoming powerful is the agent of his own destruction."
Despite the fact that not killing the target in the memory room was set in place from the very start of the franchise, and a common theme throughout, it almost always served a surprise twist if you aren't a history junkie who knows that historical figures aren't going to die.
This actually answered my question I’ve always wondered what these scenes were and confused
My favorite are the revaluation-AC4
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whoa! thank you so much
A lot of AC has always been "vibes", a lot of style with little substance trying to trick you into thinking it's got something poignant to say.
But occasionally there will be some good writing, though AC3 is the only time I can recall the assassin and templar ideologies actually being meaningfully discussed.
Maybe one day we'll get a game worthy of AC's awesome concept, but it is a Ubisoft IP so probably not.
Visually speaking, I dig the Memory Corridors that have the more "Standing Eye To Eye" conversations (1 letting you initiate that via the optional cutscene glitches, Syndicate, Origins, Valhalla) more than the ones that just have the target dying on the ground, although there are exceptions (3, mainly because I *adore* the AC3 Animus aesthetic). 4's I have issue with just by the visuals of it just sorta *plops* you into the Memory Corridor when you deal the assassination/killing blow instead of having that windup of seeing the Animus/Helix un-render everything around you like the previous games did before it initiated the Corridor.
that was amazing how you mentioned the animus/helix rendering after kills bc it elevated the presentation of ac3, reminded you where you were, and was very cinematic. its small but when you pay attention to the glass-shattering and distorted transitions after poking someone with the hidden blade its euphoric. like you just planted a bunch of flower seeds into the ground, but like with bloodshed. ubisoft should deff bring that back
I like AC1’s memory corridors the best because they make the player and Altaïr question if they’re doing the right thing and if you play through again you can see how they hint at Al mualim betraying the assassins. The confessions are very well written and I really like Garnier and Sibrand the most in those corridors. A lot of people can relate to Sibrand over the existence of god and Garnier over the free will of mentally sick people.
Arno being the only assassin that was raised by Templars as a boy and would by that intimate upbringing/subconscious indoctrination would yield the most interesting confession kills in the series is beyond me as to why he just has a crystal ball. Bring Shay back to send it all full circle and you have like the perfect AC game. The transition from the Kenway/Naval saga to the Industrial Revolution saga was sloppy. graphically, gameplay, stealth-wise its everything i wanted but narratively its one of the series' biggest mistakes--alongside no more trilogies for protagonists. unity corridors could have surpassed ac3's which would have been a major plus. sucks tht this series' most ambitious games have to drop the coolest concepts
Origins had the best memory corridors