Assassin's Creed Black Flag's Edward Kenway is "a really bad assassin," says Resynced's game director, so Ubisoft had to recapture his "spirit" in the remake

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We're back on the high seas for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced this coming July, putting us back in the boots of one Edward Kearney in his quest for treasure. Naturally, he gets to do all the killing you've come to expect, but he's not quite the hero prior protagonists are, at least at the start, and the devs worked to enhance those aspects of his journey.

Indeed, when Black Flag kicks off, Edward's doing it all for the money, never mind to defeat the Templars, but over the course of the game, he becomes more like his forebears in Desmond and Connor. In the original story, [Edward's] a really bad assassin," Richard Knight, game director on Resynced, tells GamesRadar+.

"He's taking deals with Templars, he's taking deals for money, he's doing all these bad things to eventually become this heroic, larger-than-life character," Knight continues. "And the original game nailed that, and we don't want to change that."

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A huge part of what made Black Flag fun is playing someone who's both an assassin and a pirate. A killer-for-hire and a wealth-obsessed explorer. Two edges of the same sword that's being plunged into the back of many enemies, and when it came to revisiting the game in light of modern installments like Mirage and Shadows, the goal was to massage these aspects further.

"It's important for us to have that same spirit and flavor of Edward, to tell that same core story, just in greater fidelity, but in a modern gameplay experience too," Knight explains.

He teases that narrative ideas that have been kicking around since the early 2010s have been fleshed out and finished, making this a time capsule, of sorts. As always, keep to the shadows, watch your back, and 'X' marks the spot, in more ways than one.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is "definitely a remake," but its original director "couldn't feel where the original content ends and the new content begins"

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Anthony McGlynnContributing Writer

Anthony is an Irish entertainment and games journalist, now based in Glasgow. He previously served as Senior Anime Writer at Dexerto and News Editor at The Digital Fix, on top of providing work for Variety, IGN, Den of Geek, PC Gamer, and many more. Besides Studio Ghibli, horror movies, and The Muppets, he enjoys action-RPGs, heavy metal, and pro-wrestling. He interviewed Animal once, not that he won’t stop going on about it or anything.

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