User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/"World War II not unlikely for AC III."/@comment-3112758-20101015024252/@comment-5919381-20101015034429

That wasn't my point at all, my point was that Desmond's the technical main character of the series, and all of the ancestors were previously developed as guys for specific reasons, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Heavenly Sword shouldn't even be compared to this, because it's not even the same scenario; in Heavenly Sword you don't play as a guy that relives the memories of a woman, you play as the actual woman in her time with no thought nor mention of the guy descendant. No, playing a game with a female character never confused me, yet those games never bothered trying to relate that into a male character that has to relive all of the events that the female character did. And I wasn't referring to player-personal issues but character ones, Desmond is experiencing the Bleeding Effect, that is, he's gaining the abilities of the ancestors he relives the memories of in the Animus, do I really even need to say why a female ancestor would complicate things? We had Altair and Ezio for reasons, rather than Maria and whoever Ezio concieved his child/children with.