User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 10-05'12 — World Gameplay Premiere/@comment-1888015-20120511183711/@comment-5100323-20120513031119

Okay, I see where this might possibly lead to.

First off, I've watched the trailer again and I see what you mean about the quick transitions and retract my earlier statement about dangerous, fast and agile. But you have to remember, which I'm sure you do, this is a trailer. They want to show off alot of these new gameplay elements in a quick fashion, so they aren't going to let you watch Connor do one thing for a long period of time and then smoothly transition to the next. That would take to much time. But if you're talking about those random flashing cuts in the middle of a clip, yeah, those mess it up a bit.

Secondly, I'm still defending my previous statement and adding something new. That was the climax of the trailer, where Connor leaps off the rock and assassinates the general. Would you really want him to be stopped by two soldiers and it just be an anti-climatic moment?

Finally, it's supposed to be a quick kill and its supposed to look cool. It may not have been "Oh wow, that is amazing" but it looked good enough. And Connor has a different fighting style. He isn't going to do something Ezio or Altair would have done. He's going to do something he would have done, which is what you saw.