User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-13471981-20150710215042/@comment-13471981-20150711130827

Umm, yes, by all means answer the question. What makes a woman less capable of stabbing a guy in the back with a blade than a man? What makes female Assassins not "historically accurate" in a franchise that has Ezio running around with a Hidden Gun strapped to his wrist in the 15th century?

The Brotherhood aims to serve the people, particularly the disenfranchised - is it not logical to assume they recruited the disempowered and trained them to strike back at their oppressors?

As for the controversy, Ubisoft isn't blameless. If they'd owned up to the fact that co-op was just four Arnos, there would've been no fuss. But no, instead they decided to use a bullshit excuse, claiming female animations would have cost too much time and money. They were called out on that and they deserved it. What they did not deserve was people continuously ragging on them for it. Unity deserved to be ragged on for a whole load of other reasons post-release, but the "women are too hard to animate for Ubisoft lol" wore out its welcome very quickly. Anybody who uses it now basically admits to being a troll.

As for the lack of women being a criticism, it's entirely valid for me when you look at the series on a whole. How many pieces of media within this extensive franchise have starred women and how many have starred men? The balance isn't pretty. And if you don't care about that, that's your right, but personally, I have tired a bit of playing "charming reckless rogue" after "charming reckless rogue". There will always be time for the stories of men, I'd just like to see Assassin's Creed feature more stories about women.