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Shuhei Yoshida told Sandfall not to call it a turn based RPG because the label could put players off.

Do you think Expedition 33 changed that perception?

"But these original ideas allowed us to develop his story through the next two games"

"When we designed Assassin's Creed II, Ezio's story arc was roughly from his birth to him becoming the mentor," Jean Guesdon, a series veteran who now serves as head of content for the franchise, says in an interview. Ezio's ascension as the mentor of the assassins' order would ultimately occur near the end of Brotherhood, just before the game's climactic final chapters.

“We can’t charge 60 bucks for a five-hour game with no multiplayer,” the dev team thought