User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-5174994-20150619144131/@comment-13471981-20150619173414

I spent an inordinate time yesterday flip-flopping between cautiously optimistic and hopelessly pessimistic. I sort of ended up on the former, thanks to reading a lot of write-ups of people who played the demo. I don't mind graphics that don't entirely match up to Unity's if it means a decent performance (also London actually has colour besides washed out blues and greys).

I'm really crossing my fingers that Evie gets more of an advertisement push during Gamescom; I've read that a few times, so I hope it's true. The one thing that could kill this game for me is if Evie, the skillful and dedicated Assassin, dies to motivate her brother into taking the Brotherhood seriously. It would be Unity all over again, and I don't think I could handle that. It'd be such a waste of a character and such godawful writing. SO, Jeffrey Yohalem, please don't screw this up; a good story can save a game that is not especially outstanding in other respects.

Anyways, something that is a bit worrying is that it sounds like a lot of things are still subject to change (human shields mechanic is not returning apparently, even though I remember Ubi saying it would) or need to be done. A lot of the NPC dialogue I've heard is from Unity, which means British accents but French names lol. The game is shipping in four months - it seems like an awfully short time to get everything done.

Am I the only one hoping the release date will be moved?