User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-24760042-20150520160753/@comment-1888015-20150521002738

I'm hoping that Evie gets such a positive reaction at E3 that Ubisoft considers skewing the gameplay portions more favorably if the Kotaku estimate is to be believed. I am a little disappointed with the news of Syndicate taking place during only 1868. I was hoping more for a 18 months time allocation to the story, because "during 1868" is so vague on the timespan of Jacob and Evie's life that you have to wonder how them taking over London with street gangs is going to play out in the future.

I'd like so see how the balance of power fluctuates over into 1869, because having the Assassins come in to cause a little chaos and then the curtain falls after the big bad is taken down is just a bit plain. I want to get the feeling that lasting effects are happening, and that Jacob and Evie have far more substance in shaping the course of the welfare for the impoverished than just establishing a criminal underworld in London and then the city is just left to fend for itself after they've cut away the supports of London's infrastructure. Also, having 1868-1869 would give more relevance to Dickens' works of literature, especially where it mentions his considerations of a farewell book tour, and I want to see him progress through that just more than a few choice conversations.