Assassin’s Creedfans are currently taking a trip down memory road, it seems. A popular post in Reddit’sAssassin’s Creedcommunity pulled up an old interview with franchise creator Patrice Désilets. Désilets ultimately only worked onAssassin’s Creed,Assassin’s Creed 2, andAssassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, departing Ubisoft before the conclusion of the series' first story arc. In this interview, however, Désilets discusses his “first spark” idea for how the story of Desmond and the Animus should end.
The interview in question comes from 2017 when the now-defunctAssassin’s Creed Initiates programinterviewed Désilets about some of his past work on the franchise. Désilets is asked about the “original” plan for the end ofAssassin’s Creed’s story as it was first planned. Désilets refers to his “first spark,” which may or may not be the original plan but was at the very least Désilets' first idea. Needless to say, it’s a shocking choice that unfortunately never came to fruition.
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Désilets says that his “first spark” idea was to have the world end in 2012, as was foretold in theAssassin’s Creedgames. It appears that Désilets would have followed through with theMayan calendar’s predictionand had the solar flare end all life on Earth. Desmond, however, would survive. He and Lucy would escape the destruction on a spaceship. Not exactly a happy ending after all of the players' efforts, but it would certainly have been daring.
After escaping the destruction of Earth, Desmond and Lucy would use the Animus to “learn how to become perfect human beings.” They’d then start humanity all over again, using all of humanity’s past experiences so as to make a better world and society. Desmond and Lucy would, in effect, have becomeAdam and Eve, with all the knowledge granted by the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
Obviously, that’s not the ending that happened inAssassin’s Creed 3or any of the otherAssassin’s Creedgames since. Désilets left Ubisoft in 2010 and theAssassin’s Creedfranchise took Desmond’s story in a completely different direction. Désilets himself may already have planned a wildly different ending as part of his earlier games, as this ending was just his “first spark.”
Looking back, it’s impossible to tell which direction would have been better forAssassin’s Creed.Desmond’s storyended up being widely criticized, but not destroying the world allowed theAssassin’s Creedfranchise to continue. Ubisoft obviously prefers this way, but fans might have chosen a proper ending – even if it resulted in Earth ending.
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