Style or not: Assassin’s Creed outfits are actually catastrophically impractical
Ezio doesn’t exactly have it easy fighting and climbing in this outfit.
It is a trademark of the Assassin’s Creed games: the assassin’s robe with its distinctive hood. Altair wore them, Ezio wore them, even rudimentary assassins like Eivor use them to hide. However, the outfits are usually more for the catwalk than for the fight.
who wants to be beautiful must suffer
If you’ve already assassinated your way through crowds of enemies with one of the classic assassins and jumped quickly over roofs, you might have had the thought: what he’s wearing must be annoying in combat and parkour, right?
In that sense yes, because the hood alone unnecessarily restricts the assassin’s field of vision, which is a clear disadvantage in combat. And then there would be the rest of the outfits like the cape and the belt buckle that can be unnecessarily annoying.
We already get the impression in trailers like Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Granted, it looks stylish and Ezio is at least dropping the cloak, but he’s only making things unnecessarily difficult with the hood:
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Assassin’s Creed: Revelations – E3 trailer for the end of the Ezio trilogy
While the enhanced perception of Eagle Eye may make up for some of the limitations, Assassins like Ezio pay a higher price for their traditional appearance in the form of increased enemy damage for the sake of anonymity. So it wouldn’t be amiss if they changed their tailor. Instead of bulky and restrictive assassin robes, light and unobtrusive clothes would be an advantage.
A matter of perspective
But how fortunate that we don’t care how our assassins walk around – apart from the armor values of the newer games. Because logically we are only talking about a game with a third-person view and not about reality. All of this only scratches the immersion, but it has no effect on the game. The guards don’t even notice when a remarkably well-dressed assassin jumps off the roof in front of them.
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In fact, the outfit debacle is more of a game problem. The situation looks a bit different in books, as do fans Reddit make clear. In it, Ezio, for example, dresses more often according to the occasion.
Also, the constant wearing of the hood in the older games is also more of a technical than a narrative choice. On the other hand, in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, for example, Jacob and Evie really only wear their hoods when sneaking, and in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla we can put them on and take them off at our discretion.
And while we’re on the subject of design decisions: The fact that we fight so much in close combat with our hooded assassins is of course for the fun of the game. A real assassin usually avoids direct confrontation by stealthily killing from the shadows. A hood doesn’t bother you either.
But how do you see it? How do you like the assassin outfits? Should they be made even more realistic?
Reference-www.gamepro.de