User blog comment:Fijibuffman1925/What Happened to the Hook Blade?/@comment-13471981-20140706204939/@comment-3046679-20140706211525

Or they're just going with a new blade gimmick for each new game. Connor had his idiotic pivot skinning knife, Arno will have hidden crossbow, Ezio had the pistol initially. Edward returned to the roots of having blades that are just blades.