Lying on the animus, Ben heard a sound like electricity in his ears, and the next moment his eyes went dark.
Something like data appeared before Ben's eyes.
He was no stranger to this, as it was obviously the world of the animus.
Then, accompanied by a cutscene, Ben found himself in a place that looked like a laboratory.
A young man in a white shirt sat up from the animus.
Ben recognized him at a glance. This young man was Desmond, the protagonist in the first promotional video for "Assassin's Creed" about the animus.
'My name is Desmond Miles, I am a prisoner of this war...'
Then Ben heard Desmond's inner monologue, which gave him some understanding of Desmond's background.
The Desmond before him was born into a family of assassins, but he always felt that the so-called assassins and Templars were just fantasies of his parents' generation. So he couldn't stand it anymore and left his family to go to New York, where he hid his identity and became an ordinary bartender.
But when he took his motorcycle license test, he registered his real identity information, which led to the Templars discovering his assassin identity and directly kidnapping him. They forced him to return to the bodies of his ancestors through the animus to find the location of the Pieces of Eden.
Of course, this information was all learned by Desmond from a previous assassin master named Altair, whose body he had possessed.
It turned out that the feud between the Templars and the assassin organization had been going on for thousands of years until now.
Now the Templars' power had infiltrated all aspects of politics, economy, and culture.
Similarly, the assassins' forces had been fighting against the Templars.
Lying on the animus, Ben experienced a wave of being born as a baby. Then, with Lucy's help, there was an escape scene.
It wasn't long, and Desmond was still in an invincible state with no health bar.
Compared to the original version, Lucas slightly strengthened this part of the plot to make it more in line with the story.
After all, although the main purpose was just to let players understand the general situation of the modern timeline, and to act as a beginner's guide to teach players how to attack and run.
But in the original plot, Desmond and Lucy escaped too easily.
It couldn't even be called an escape. Instead, they directly punched and kicked their way out, and also let Desmond show off his Eagle Vision.
So Lucas made the escape plot in the modern timeline a little more realistic.
Shrinking in the trunk with the screen black for a few seconds, Ben and Lucy arrived at the new base, and under the arrangement of Lucy and others, he lay on the machine again.
What he had to do now was to use the genes in his blood to find the memories of his ancestors.
Use the Bleeding Effect to learn assassin skills at the fastest speed, and find the location of the Pieces of Eden one step ahead of the Templars.
"It's finally starting!" Seeing Desmond lying on the animus, Ben looked very excited.
Although he had been operating the modern timeline plot before, it was obviously completely different from the game experience he had imagined.
Lying in the chair, as a needle-like thing was inserted into his arm, the scene before Ben's eyes began to blur, and then turned into countless light and shadow fragments.
Things like data fragments around him were constantly reorganized, and buildings were assembled.
At the same time, the camera slowly zoomed out.
Ben's perspective also became a third-person view.
After the buildings appeared, countless data formed humans.
Then, as the data was generated, the whole world began to slowly operate.
'Screech!' A hawk's cry came from the air.
After that, only scattered data could be seen in the sky. Pedestrians who had been standing still on the streets and alleys began to move and chat, just like a real world in operation.
Florence in the Renaissance, and various strange buildings, came into Ben's view.
As the number of pedestrians on the street increased, a line of subtitles appeared in Ben's field of vision.
'Florence: 1476 AD'
Finally, Ben's camera came to rest on a young man giving a speech in Italian.
'We stand together!'
'Quiet, my friends, quiet!'
'Thank you.'
'Do you know why we're here tonight?'
'It's honor! Vieri insulted my family's name and forced his misfortune on us, if I...'
Facing a group of strong men, the young man was giving a speech, but he was soon interrupted by someone.
'Don't talk nonsense! Idiot!'
At the other end of the intersection, another young man led a group of people over with angry faces.
'I'm surprised to see you here. I thought the Pazzi family only hired others to do dirty work.'
The young man who started the speech looked at the other person with disdain.
'Your family only calls the guards when they're in trouble, cowards! Can't you handle things yourselves?' Vieri responded.
'Your sister seemed very satisfied with the 'handling' I gave her before!' The young man who gave the speech smiled playfully.
This is Ezio from the promotional video.
This is an assassin master?
Why does he feel like an old pervert and a rogue!?
Listening to Ezio's words, Ben was a little confused.
If there was any character in the game that he was most looking forward to, it was Ezio.
After all, he was so handsome in the previous promotional videos.
But now that he just entered the game, why is this Ezio like a rogue, and a perverted rogue at that!
The contrast was too great.
What happened to the white-robed assassin with no emotions? How did he become an old perverted hooligan?
As Vieri threw a stone that hit Ezio on the forehead, the next part was a common game tutorial level, teaching the player a more detailed fighting mode.
Compared to the combat system of the previous life's "Assassin's Creed."
Lucas had made more extensive changes in this area.
For example, parrying, rolling, grappling, and the chain kill system that was added later in Brotherhood.
The combat elements in the game were very rich, including blocking, countering, and combos based on attack frequency.
In particular, the execution animation after the counterattack made Ben feel very cool.
But what Ben liked the most was grabbing the enemy and then attacking their balls with his knee.
It wasn't a very difficult fight.
The only thing he was worried about was that he didn't know what the difficulty of this game was like.
After all, Nebula Games usually made games without difficulty options quite challenging.
Although there were exceptions, such as the previously released "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption."
But this "Assassin's Creed" seemed to have some action elements.
But even though Ben was a little scared, he still had to play it.
These previous scenes didn't have any special meaning, mainly to explain Ezio's relationships and background.
What Ben felt was more amazing was the parkour race with his brother Federico that followed.
Compared to freely climbing mountains in "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," climbing in "Assassin's Creed" was more like "Uncharted."
The walls and houses had specially designed support points that could be climbed.
However, compared to "Uncharted," the climbing in "Assassin's Creed" was smoother, like parkour, without having to stop at all, as long as you planned a route to move forward.
Running through the streets and alleys of Florence, climbing the rafters, and finally arriving at the top of the cathedral, Ezio and his brother stood together overlooking Florence.
At this time, the background music called 'Ezio's Family' sounded in Ben's ears, and the "Assassin's Creed" logo appeared in his field of vision against the moonlight.
The beautiful melody in his ears, and Florence under the moonlight before his eyes, made Ben intoxicated.
Of course, this intoxication was soon broken by the conversation between Ezio and his brother that followed.
Faced with his brother's question about going home, Ezio looked at a house not far away.
His brother immediately knew what his younger brother was thinking.
'Ezio! Let Cristina get a good night's sleep!'
'There will be plenty of time for her to sleep later.'
Ben: ????????
This Ezio is too immoral, isn't he?
But that's good, if he is so immoral, Boss Lucas probably won't add knives to the plot.
Although the theme of Templars and assassins seems heavy, it is only the theme.
Thinking of his brother just now, and the still unseen Cristina, Ben in the game also smiled. It felt like the relaxed and pleasant feeling of "Uncharted."
(End of this chapter)
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