When you talk about "Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag", the first thing you think of is "Age of Discovery". There are already many games on this theme. Needless to say, "The Age of Discovery", this word was created gloriously. The textbooks used to be called "Geographic Discovery". In addition, more famous ones include "The Voyager", "The Pirates of Sidmel", etc., as well as "The Sailing King", "Age 1701", etc. We also have a "Century of Discovery" independently developed by Suzhou Snail. The online game from seven or eight years ago is still alive today. But even with so many works, no such thing as "Black Flag" can get so close to stare at a pirate, see his emotions and desires, and his glory is in decline.
The Assassin series has always adhered to a creed since its establishment, that is, not only the times must be real, but also the characters must be real. First of all, starting with the screenwriter, this is a real event. Once a real person is real, he cannot make it too hard, which means he tied himself up with a rope from the beginning. Moreover, reality does not have the strict origin and connection of scripts. If you want to tell a fictional story in a real context, you can only use your imagination in the gap, which tests the screenwriter's level. Therefore, there is a common feature of "Assassin" in the past dynasties, which is to let small characters be the protagonists. Even if these people really exist, after looking through the information, they find that they are all fragments. No matter how you write them, everyone has no temper. This is what Ubisoft is smart.
Then all the famous characters became supporting roles. I still remember the Marquis of Thade in "The Great Revolution", who was made into a sissy and almost euthanized me. The beautiful Anne in "Black Flag" also exists, but no one knows whether she is really pregnant. In short, she just wants to take advantage of the law. Including being imprisoned with another beautiful pirate, Mary, who died in prison. These are all true. Later, Anne ran out, how did she get out? No one knew about it, so he played the role of a hero saving the beauty, and traveling around the world with the male protagonist. According to Ubisoft's own words, history is their playground.
Anne is a famous female pirate in history. Her story can be told very much, because the information is already scattered, and Ubisoft can actually be edited again. For example, her relationship with her original husband, her first husband was a sailor, and later became a civil servant, mingling with the royal governor of England. The black flag was about this governor, named Woods Rogers, who was in charge of the security of the entire Bahamas. Anne was first a tavern waitress. Her husband thought I was such a decent person. How could my wife go to work in a bar? Later, Annie comforted him and said that I was going to give you a look at the gossip of those pirate men. If you tell the Governor, the Governor will reward you. In fact, she just couldn't help but find such an excuse.
Later, she and Jack were very funny when they met him. Anne was interested in him, but she couldn't say it out loud, so she always emphasized that it was just a friend. His husband is not stupid either. He was worried that his wife would have an affair with others, so he warned her to be careful of being whipped, because he was afraid that he would be cuckolded and would not be able to bear the weight. In addition, this person is very greedy,I married Annie in New Year for her rich dad, and she was a typical man who was a soft-hearted man.
Anne knew her husband very well, so she thought of a trick, asking Jack to take the initiative to find her husband, give her some money to "redeem herself" for herself, and then pretended to know about this by chance, and got furious and said, "What do you think of me!" The double act was singing like this, and he decisively took the opportunity to "show off". Poor Chuchu said that since you all suffer for me, then I will quit myself. Maybe I was born without a relationship, so it would be better to go away and run away with Jack. After passing the level, I felt that Annie's image was a little thin. These jokes can actually be put in the back. After she became the first mate of the "Jackdaw", she would chat with the male protagonist for no reason, or simply do the task, which would definitely be very interesting.
In addition, the sea battle is a highlight of "Black Flag", which is an unprecedented attempt. Many friends say that this work is not profound in meaning, but it is indeed fun, and the reason may be this. In the past, the themes about the Age of Discovery were mostly given to an SLG's perspective. You just looked down at the two ships and jumped upwards. "Black Flag" is not a strategy game, so it must not be played like this, but maritime trade itself is closely linked to naval warfare. If you have to focus on riding the wind and waves and outlining the smoke everywhere, you will definitely lightly describe commercial trade. Like other artistic forms, the most taboo thing is to be large and complete, so we simply don’t design the so-called “golden route”, and no matter what product is thrown into the store, all the prices will be fixed.
There are only five products in "Black Flag", among which rum and sugar are sold. The raw materials for rum and sugar are used for sugar cane, which is a specialty of the entire West Indies. At that time, there was a famous Black Triangle trade. The colonists set off from the Bay of Biscay, dragged the broken guns and iron from the Iberian Peninsula, and followed the trade winds to the south to West Africa, and traded gold, ivory and black slaves with the chiefs of the Sanghai Empire. Then, through West Africa to Cape Verde, they stopped for a while and drove directly west to the Caribbean Sea, selling black slaves to free up the warehouse to pack rum, sugar and silver. This trip was called the middle-range; finally, they dragged a ship full of gold, silver, ivory and wine candy to return home and sell them at high prices, completing the last journey of the triangle circular trade.
The Black Flag talks about black slaves, like the previous black mate, but after all, it is still a minority, and pirates have little impact on trafficking of black slaves. First of all, most of the pirates were white. At that time, white people looked at black slaves with a look, and most of the predecessors of these people were "royal pirates", which was to privately rob the enemy country as a third party at sea with a "license" issued by the state. Later, they not only robbed the enemy country, but also robbed their own people and fired guns directly at their own warships. Therefore, all the sect leaders and countries prohibited pirates from private plundering. These people are only interested in interests and are not as righteous as they imagine.
Pirates not only do not liberate black slaves, but even sell them themselves. Many pirates tried to break through the blockade and ran to West Africa to sell slaves. At that time, a pirate caught 300 black men in Sierra Leone and sold them to the West Indies at a unit price of 25 pounds, making a fortune. SellingThe profit of selling black slaves was extremely high. By the 18th century, it was not just the Caribbean. The entire America started from Brazil, and went up along Central America to southern North America. It was a trading point for black slaves. In Angola alone, 3 million slaves were transported to Brazil, indicating that such a trend had been formed. There were very few things like pirates liberating black slaves or recruiting black slaves as crew members. Look at the crew on the "Jackdaw", many of them were still white, so it was better to leave the liberation of black slaves to black assassins. I saw some articles criticizing, saying why the male protagonist didn’t liberate the black slaves? How can you be so indulged in luxury? I personally think this is more appropriate.
The series "Assassin" has become very familiar to this day, and it is to resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely. Regardless of myths, medievals, great voyages or Victoria, I even brought in World War II, and changed the outside of the crust, and the inside core was still unchanged. Following this path, I think the story of "Assassin" can be told forever, so as to maintain this stable structure and adhere to the characteristics of small people in the big era. I believe that the future will be more exciting.
