So people complain (rightfully) that these games are formulaic and soulless, but when this one, the first in the series, actually establishes the main conventions that the other ones would eventually follow albeit in a more refined way, is picked as the worst of the bunch? I repeat, the first one? The one with actually decent writing and purposeful direction? The one whose design wasn’t “make the same game, only bigger and in another place, and make it prettier… and put an historical figure or two” but tried something kinda new and exciting? The one with this, like, menacing aura that despite its many flaws it succeeded in telling a compelling story both with Altair and Desmond?

I don’t believe you.