Official details about the upcoming Assassin's Creed Hexe have been few and far between since its initial announcement in 2022. However, some recent leaks have supposedly shined a fascinating light on the game's setting, characters, and major plot points, and attention is now starting to shift towards this mysterious Ubisoft title.
While these leaks should be taken with a grain of salt, they confirm many assumptions that fans have had about Assassin's Creed Hexe, leading to an explosion of fresh discourse about the project. Significant attention is being paid to the plot points that the leaks allegedly reveal, which suggest that the game's story will be centered around its protagonist's thirst for revenge. Considering how often the Assassin's Creed franchise has used the revenge trope as a major plot point, it only seems right that Hexe differentiates its revenge story from previous entries, and there are some engaging ways that this can be achieved.
Assassin's Creed Hexe Needs to Make its Alleged Revenge Plot Stand Out
Following the game's reveal in late 2022, fans quickly assumed, due to its codename and the imagery contained within its brief reveal trailer, that Assassin's Creed Hexe would be centered around a coven of witches. This seemed like a great way to lean into the supernatural themes that the series often uses, and the community theorized that the title might take place around the time of the Holy Roman Empire, with that being a time of intense real-world persecution relating to perceived witchcraft.
This theorized Holy Roman setting could place Assassin's Creed Hexe anywhere between 962 and 1806 AD, with the 1600s being a particular time of witchcraft-related persecution.
This would give Hexe an obvious major institution that could harbor an antagonistic Templar threat, and some recent leaks give greater validity to these assumptions. According to recent Assassin's Creed Hexe leaks, the game will have a much darker tone than previous entries, and its protagonist is allegedly named Elsa. More importantly, the leaks propose that Hexe's story will be centered around Elsa's desire for revenge following the execution of her mother during a witch trial.
Many Assassin's Creed games have structured their plots around revenge, with iconic entries as far back as 2009's Assassin's Creed 2 leaning heavily on revenge as a main theme. This can be seen in recent titles, like Origins, Odyssey, and Shadows, which are narratively defined by the concept of revenge. Shadows, in particular, puts significant focus on revenge, and the recency of that game's release means that a similar revenge arc in Hexe runs the risk of feeling even more repetitive than usual.
Any Revenge Plots in Assassin's Creed Hexe Should Quickly Be Resolved
In past games, revenge was usually tied to a shadowy organization, and recent entries use this as a way to give the player a long list of targets to systematically hunt down and kill. While these titles usually reach a revenge-tied crescendo towards the end of their stories, Hexe could feature a more distinct revenge story by having it be resolved quite early on in the game's narrative. This revenge could then shed light on another plot point that takes precedence, allowing Hexe to really breathe away from the tired trope of vengeance.
Assassin's Creed's recent entries have only consolidated the growing stereotype of the franchise relying on revenge to motivate its characters, and Hexe could move past this quickly to make the most of its unique setting. While vengeance makes sense in the stories that Assassin's Creed usually portrays, Hexe deserves a unique premise, and the supposed revenge narrative of the title should just be the beginning, giving way to something more distinct.
- ESRB
- mature m17+
- Developer(s)
- Ubisoft Montreal
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft
- Engine
- AnvilNext
- Franchise
- Assassin's Creed
- Genre(s)
- Adventure, Platformer, Fighting
