User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-4136513-20141118132459/@comment-3046679-20141118141529

They connected Rogue to Unity, but didn't bother to do it the other way around. You don't see any character passing by Arno and Elise as kids in Unity, even though it was the only path in Rogue, so it had to happen.

Also, Arno seems more beat up over the death of his Templar stepfather and seeks vengeance for his death, rather than his biological one, which makes the whole concept of revenge kinda pointless. Ubi really tried for another Ezio, except in a Revolutionary period, since their first attempt at another Al in a different revolution failed miserably. Hell, Arno's outfit looks almost exactly like Ezio's noble attire.

Another thing, it really shows they tried to avoid putting Revolution on the forefront this time, to avoid AC3's "'MERICA" feeling. Good on them, but they withdrew it so far, you barely notice it's there. Sure, people are gathering in front of that hotel Mirabeau and De la Serre met. Sure, people stormed the Bastille. And? Next thing you know it's just a lot of debris and different crowds in the streets, because most revolutionaries got relegated to side stuff. Hell, first I saw Robespierre was in a co-op mission that I played solo.

Ubi seriously has no luck with revolutions, they just can't get a middle ground on the setting. It's either so in-your-face you want to slap it off, or it's barely present. Not like events of AC2, the Pazzi Conspiracy for example, that was very well done in terms of mixing historical events and AC story.