User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-13471981-20150710215042/@comment-413232-20150712161519

"The first civ stuff'' is the cohesive storyline plot linking all the games with each other. Without it what is the point of reliving the memories of the ancestors or finding new artefacts ? The war between the Templars and the Assassins ? The game is pretty clear about it, they are like the two faces of the same coin, they can't exist without each other, so the games are not about ending the T/A war and seeing a winner.

Without the First civ's plans for humanity, there is no driving force compelling the hero to quickly discover more about the past. For me since the end of Miles and 2012 catastrophe story arc, the sense of urgency and the reason behind the use of the animus is partially lost. Each game is more like an adventure of the week spinoff than the meaningful follow-up of the previous game.