4 Reasons Why Edward Kenway Is the Best Assassin's Creed Assassin

Twinfinite Writes: The Assassin's Creed series has many memorable protagonists, but the swashbuckling pirate Edward Kenway stands head and shoulders above them all.

[toddybad]

It was barely an assasins creed game and was all the better for it. Kenway by far the most interesting character, I've never understood the ezio love in tbh.

[Movefasta1993]

I loved ezio because you watch him grow to become an assassin,he wasn't just a badass at the get go.ANd he's charasmatic and the setting was awesome but that's how i feel at least.

[morganfell]

Personally I despised Ezio at every turn. He was a 14oos millennial and completely unlikeable. Then the 3rd game came around and suddenly I found him completely appealing and interesting. Age had temepered and wizened him.

But then again I am the oddball that absolutely loves ACIII. The reveal after the first sequence in that game is one of the best moments in Assassins Creed to date. Sitting in that tavern and the truth comes at you like a hammer is one of those things not to be missed. I feel sorry for the people that did or do not get to play that game without knowing the truth.

[RabbitFly]

It mostly comes from the fact that Ezio is the only character you actually get to know as a person. Every other character in every other Assassin's Creed is superficial in the sense that they don't personally bring anything to the story.

Altair is a blank slate. Ubisoft Montreal did this intentionally and it is a common style of storytelling in video games. But his character is pretty much non existent in the game. The idea is that this will let you as the player more easily identify the character as yourself.

Connor Kenway. While he himself is not that bad of a conceptualized, he keeps doing what most would consider stupid.

It becomes especially apparent when he at almost every turn criticizes the founding fathers for being the same as their enemies. What makes less sense is that he still chooses to chummy up to them and do as they please. Despite that he clearly understands what that would mean for his people.

Connor's plight is probably partially because of the need to keep the story somewhat historically accurate and the blasphemy that is to make the founding fathers seem like the bad guys. They probably felt that they skirted that line already.

Black Flag was a great game, but Edward Kenway was unfortunately one of the blandest thing about it. It's not that the character is that uninteresting per say. The issue is that he has no reason to do half the things he does in the game.

We get introduced to him as a self-serving pirate in every way. And at every turn he keeps saying he doesn't care about the assassin's creed, yet at every turn he chooses the assassin's creed without any thought to his own interest.

It makes very little sense for the character of Edward Kenway to do what he does in the game.

Arno Dorian's story was an attempt to create a love story and the personal conflicts that come with that. Unfortunately it took to much focus to actually give us any insight in Arno's character and too little of the focus to actually feel like a love story. The game did not do enough to try to make us fall in love with neither Arno nor Elise and yet did not make the love story plot small enough to make it inconsequential. I personally also think it was very strange to set the game in the aftermath of some of the biggest happenings during the french revolution. Would it not have been better to set it so that the characters could have been involved in those more famous happenings?

Jacob and Evie where a little bit more serviceable. Mostly because they at least featured very specific personal traits that made their interaction somewhat entertaining. I do not think I will remember Jacob and Evie any better than Arno and Elise in the future.

Now part of what makes Ezio great is that his reasonings are very human. We can understand why he does what he does. At first it's a youths sorrow and need for revenge. Then it becomes about defending the familiy he has left, before becoming both ambitious and righteous. Ezio's actions are all justified by something most people can relate to. Also it does not hurt that Ezio was introduced much slower than all the other characters. We get to see him grow up, we get to see him care for his siblings while rebuilding his family's castletown. etc. etc.

These quiet moments are much rarer in newer assassin's creed games, and when they come they often represent one of the weaker parts of the game.

I mean everyone has a right to a preference, but there are actually good reasons why Ezio is almost universally loved, while most of these others are usually not.

[quent]

I personally Found all the protagonists through the whole series to be boring or uninteresting, ubisoft open world games are less about the characters and story and more about gameplay and exploration, some of the villains are interesting though

[MercyKiller]

I'm just sad this is probably the only pirate game ill get to play this gen. by far the best assassins creed because it was so different from all the others with the whole pirate ships thing. it kinda felt like a Pirates of the Caribbean game. By far the best AC game.

[jensen86]

If ac went back to the black flag side of thing id b frowin my money at them but i dont even bat an eye wen i hear of a new ac no more black flag was n still is one of my favourite games ever