User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-3046679-20141108231027/@comment-3046679-20141109173453

Well, from what little you see here, Shay seems like the younger Haytham when he first arrived in the colonies. Although he really, really drops his "I make my own luck" line way too much later in the game. Yes, we get it, you can stop repeating that now.

So he's alright, definately rates higher than Mr. Bore McWhereIsCharlesLee, even though Shay's story is half the one Connor had in terms of span.

Also, for story reasons I can't tell yet, the jumps between sequences are very jaggy, like in AC3. You have an end of one sequence, then it jumps forward 5 years or so, when there could've been more missions there instead. And from what I've seen on youtube, Shay's Templar outfit seems to glitch between it's initial appearance, being black coat and yellow undervest, and the fully decked one with red accents and red undervest. Especially jarring when it happens right after he gets it.