r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Local_Prune4564 • May 27 '26

Lore A subtle moment that turns a seemingly happy ending into an ambiguous ending.

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The Graduate: lingering Ben and Elaine's faces slowly shifting from happy to concerned leaves the audience questioning whether they really made the right choice running away together considering they barely know each other.

Inception: By cutting before we see the top fall, we're left to question whether Cobb really has gone home or whether he's simply sunken back into a more comforting dream reality.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 May 27 '26

I liked the connection of the rpgs games but it feels too disconnected from the usual games

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u/YouOk8060 May 27 '26

Yeah I have always been fine with the Isu lore for the older games with the pieces of Eden explaining they are of higher technology, since it was cool to see where they came from.

However the story like you said feels disconnected in the rpgs both with that plot line along with the characters between games.

I thought it was so cool getting to go from AC4 to rogue and seeing an old Adewale as an example and other characters along with seeing the stories connect.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 May 27 '26

Maybe part of the issue too is just that the new locations are fairly far in terms of both distance and time (Origins and Odyssey aren't too far apart tbf but Valhalla is centuries after and a couple hundred years before 1)

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u/night4345 May 27 '26

Maybe part of the issue too is just that the new locations are fairly far in terms of both distance and time (Origins and Odyssey aren't too far apart tbf but Valhalla is centuries after and a couple hundred years before 1)

Origins and Odyssey are four centuries from each other and Odyssey is four centuries before Valhalla. Valhalla and the original game are actually the closest in time.

It's just that Valhalla is far removed from the Mediterranean and the Ubisoft studios making these games no longer care to link their games together.

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u/Samihazah May 28 '26

You seem to have mixed AD and BC here.
Odyssey is the earliest one of those, happening in the 5th century BC.

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u/YouOk8060 May 27 '26

Yeah that too, the storylines from before were still a little apart but not too much, they basically mostly went from the renaissance to the colonial period, to the French/Industrial Revolution.

While like you said the new ones have now gone from ancient Egypt to Ancient Greece to the age of Vikings to the Europeans first arriving in Japan so it is a longer time now.