- Assassin’s Creed Black Flag resync creative director Paul Fu says the team “expanded” Edward Kenway’s story with new content
- Fu says the team wanted to stick to the original “as much as possible”
- The team further explored the theme of “greed”
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag resync creative director Paul Fu has confirmed that Ubisoft did not change Edward Kenway’s story in the upcoming remake, but expanded the character with additional content.
Speaking in an interview with TechRadar Gaming on a Black Flag Resynced preview event in Paris, Fu explained that the team didn’t feel obligated to change any of Kenway’s introduction to flesh him out, and that they wanted to stay as close to Black Flag writer Darby McDevitt’s original vision “as much as possible.”
The story of Black Flag starts with Kenway already equipped with his athletic parkour skills as a pirate before joining the Brotherhood as an official assassin. While Fu understands why some would think his abilities should be explained, he said the team didn’t feel the need to do so.
“We didn’t play around with the idea of changing the leap of faith or anything like that,” Fu said, “because I understand that there’s a line of thought, ‘Why could Edward do all these things despite not being an assassin?’ But that was beautifully explained in the original game where he says, ‘Anything goes.’
Fu refers to the core principle of The Brotherhood, “Nothing is true, everything is permitted”, but in the story, Kenway initially selfishly interprets it as “Everything is permitted? I like the sound of that”, before later finding more meaning in the words.
Although Kenway’s story hasn’t been changed, the developers explored the theme of “greed” from the original game and “expanded it with the new content.”
“I don’t want to spoil too much of it for you, but we thought it was a strong juxtaposition of who he is, who his inner self is, deep down, he’s a really nice guy who wants to provide for his family and he loves his friends, but because of greed, things don’t work out in his favor,” Fu explained.
“And we felt that theme was very, very strong, a little bit dark in the original Black Flag. [We] wanted to expand it, and we did.”
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag resync launches on July 9 for PS5, Xbox Series X and Series S and PC.
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