After Ubisoft released the new image of the female pirate Anne Bonny in the remake of “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag”, the community quickly appeared with a large number of comparison pictures, focusing on the clothing tailoring and chest visual presentation, believing that the new version is more restrained than the original version. Before the work was officially released, the topic was first diverted by the appearance of the characters.
You can remake it, but don’t remake it with character recognition.
For veteran players, Anne Bonny already has a clear and strong personality and visual memory in “Black Flag”; if the overall temperament is changed too much after the remake, it will easily be interpreted as a change of taste. So this wave of dissatisfaction is not just about “big or small”, but “this is still not the character I remember.”
Some people think that it is just the difference in angle, material and light and shadow
Another group of players believes that the current public materials are limited, and comparison pictures often use different poses, lenses, and compression qualities, which can easily cause visual errors; in addition, remastered versions generally adjust fabrics, lighting, and realistic proportions, which may not be directly equivalent to deliberate deletions. To put it simply, many conclusions are still based on social sentiment.
The real key is actually the official announcement on April 24
The report mentioned that the official announcement will be made this week. If more actual machine and character dynamic content is released by then, players will be able to judge whether this is a misunderstanding caused by a single promotional image, or whether the overall art direction has indeed changed significantly. For Ubisoft, this wave is already a warning: the biggest fear of classic remakes is not that they are not new enough, but the loss of the core impression that old players are familiar with.