It happened slowly with the assassins creed series. It started with killer Swordplay and deadly assassinations in awesome historical settings with a pretty compelling sci-fi modern day hook, and a shit ton of lore and mythology neatly encompassing all the best conspiracy theories ever discussed.

Then one day, for no reason at all, female pirates. Okay no big deal 🤷🏼‍♂️

Then one day a set of fraternal twins in Victorian England. She a shrewd, smart and deadly killer assassin; he a bumbling simpleton who never thinks things through (and is hinted at as being bisexual). Oh yes and a cross dressing woman pretending to be a man whom no one bats an eyelid at...in VICTORIAN ENGLAND.

Then Egyptians darker than the cast of captain Phillips and an inexplicable retcon of the entire series mythology so that it wasn’t Greyworm-lookalike who founded the brotherhood, but his fuckin wife. His wife founded the BROTHERHOOD 🤦🏼

Then it was a female Spartan mercenary (which were never a thing) screwing her way around Ancient Greece, and if you dared play as the male counterpart you’d be smugly reminded by reddit that the female is Muh cannon 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏿

Then we all got pumped from 6 months of promo clips and trailers showing a bad ass Viking dude getting his face painted in blood and throat-blading Andre the giant’s big brother while an epic thunderstorm breaks out in the distance. The actual game arrives and nope, the main character is actually a chain smoking German chick who looks like Dolph Lungren mid-transition. She’s supposed to be the reincarnation of Odin, but somehow she’s the only Norse god who changed sex when the space magic machines mixed their DNA with Homo sapiens. Christians are bad, the game map is bloated to all hell, christians are bad, the modern day element is atrocious and christians are bad. And did I mention christians are bad?

The series is now about as close to the original assassins creed as it is to Mario kart