Summary
- Assassin's Creed Hexe may feature a dark and sinister theme, potentially centered around a coven of witches, making it a unique entry in the franchise.
- Rumors suggest that Assassin's Creed Hexe may include future-set gameplay segments, marking a significant departure from the series' traditional historical settings.
- The events of Assassin's Creed Red, set in Japan, may tie into the narrative of Hexe, indicating a new approach to marketing for the franchise.
Assassin's Creed Hexe is one of many upcoming projects for the longstanding franchise, with the IP seemingly moving away from expansive mainline releases to allow for more spin-off titles. With only a brief cinematic announcement trailer giving fans everything they currently know about the release, a ton of rumors have started to spread that aim to provide a clearer picture of what experience the game will provide.
These rumors and theories have been honed ever since Assassin's Creed Hexe was announced, with things like the setting, characters, and core gameplay of the release often being the center of attention. If most of these rumors hold weight, then Assassin's Creed Hexe may just be one of the most unique titles to ever come to the AC franchise.
Assassin's Creed Hexe Could Be New Territory For the Franchise
One of the most immediate factors that makes Assassin's Creed Hexe unique is the dark and sinister imagery that the project has employed. While past Assassin's Creed trailers have been lauded for their vibrancy and personality, Hexe's trailer provided a very somber and brooding theme that will likely transfer over to the title's gameplay.
The codename Hexe and the forest imagery of the game's trailer have led to rumors that suggest the game will be centered around a coven of witches, perhaps fostering the first purely female protagonist in a mainline AC game. The focal group of any Assassin's Creed title is typically fighting against a superior force embedded into societal institutions, leading to more rumors that Hexe's antagonists will be within the Holy Roman Empire.
The Holy Roman Empire saw the height of witch persecution in Europe between the 1400s and 1700s, mainly around the area of modern-day Germany. This has given way to the most dominant rumors surrounding Hexe, with many fans believing they have already nailed down the game's timeline and physical setting.
Assassin's Creed Hexe's Links to AC Red and Going to the Future
Away from the uncharacteristically purely dark themes of Hexe compared to the wider IP, rumors around the modern-day gameplay segments of the game also paint Hexe as quite unique. A recent datamine of Assassin's Creed Mirage uncovered an unused post-credits cutscene that would have acted as a further teaser for Hexe. The cutscene simply involved a conversation between two animus users, with one describing the 21st century as "ancient history" during the discussion. This indicates that the segments of Hexe away from its historical setting may take place in the future, being a first for the franchise and something that would significantly change its "modern-day" storyline.
While this is an interesting indicator of what to expect from Hexe, the choice not to include this cutscene in Mirage could suggest that Ubisoft has scrapped these future-set gameplay segments.
The general vagueness behind Assassin's Creed Hexe is also something that makes the game stand out, with Hexe being announced at roughly the same time as other upcoming AC projects like Jade and Red. Assassin's Creed Red is set to be the next mainline entry to the franchise, finally taking the IP to Japan, and this project has already revealed a lot more of its core details than the comparatively mute Hexe.
This has led many to believe that the events of Red will directly inform and tie into Hexe's narrative, with this kind of approach to marketing also being a first for the franchise. These rumors are of course subject to change, but they are backed by some airtight logic that points Assassin's Creed Hexe in the direction of being an experience that the franchise has ultimately never seen before.
- Video Game(s)
- Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed 2, Assassin's Creed 3, Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag (2013), Assassin's Creed Unity, Assassin's Creed Rogue, Assassin's Creed Origins, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Assassin's Creed Mirage
- Creation Year
- 2007
- Developer(s)
- Ubisoft
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft