There are only a few video game series which enjoy the same level of fan following and hype as the Assassin’s Creed series. The biggest reason for this is the consistency of the series, as not only do the devs bring us new games at frequent intervals, but most of them are the kind of quality games we look for. Since 2007, the series has featured twelve main games in total, the most recent being 2020’s Valhalla. Main games in the series are set in an open world and played from the third-person perspective. Owing to consistently great performance of the series, fans will be getting yet another epic game in the Assassin’s Creed series by the name of Assassin’s Creed: Mirage. As it happens, the game is now out and we have some the full plot recap for you guys below!
Assassin’s Creed: Mirage Story Recap and Summary
While Assassin’s Creed: Mirage is being praised for its gameplay, fans are calling its story a big let down compared to previous games. Assassin’s Creed Mirage is a back-to-basics approach for the long-running series, with Ubisoft returning to the stealth-action, narrative-driven roots that defined Altair and Ezio’s earliest adventures. Following is the what the story of Mirage is all about.
In the age of the Abbasid Caliphate, Basim Ibn Ishaq is a young street thief living in the city of Anbar with his friend Nehal. For all of his life, Basim has been haunted by visions of a monstrous jinni, which Nehal had been helping him cope with. While just a simple thief, Basim has greater aspirations and attempts to join the Hidden Ones, but is flatly rejected by senior Hidden One stationed in Anbar, Roshan. In an effort to prove himself, Basim sneaks into the Caliph’s palace to steal a chest that both the Hidden Ones and the Order are seeking.
He manages to open the chest to find a disk-like artifact, which activates upon his touch and gives him a brief vision before being interrupted by the Caliph. Nehal kills the Caliph to save Basim and they both flee the palace. The palace guards then begin slaughtering all of the known thieves in Anbar, many of which were Basim’s friends, and he blames Nehal before parting ways. Now on the run, Basim manages to escape the city with Roshan’s help, and she takes him to the Hidden Ones’ mountain fortress at Alamut. Over the next few years, Basim trains under Roshan and is eventually initiated into the Hidden Ones. Mentor Rayhan then learns of the Order’s rapidly expanding influence in Baghdad, and decides to send a contingent of Hidden Ones to the city to investigate, led by Basim and Roshan.
Upon arriving in Baghdad, Basim learns that the five members of the Order have infiltrated the Caliphate’s highest levels of power, and are exploiting it in order to excavate or rebuild ancient First One artifacts. He proceeds to hunt down four of the Order members, assassinating them and foiling their respective plots. Meanwhile, Basim reunites with Nehal, who encourages him to investigate the artifacts the Order is looking for and their origin, as she is convinced she and Basim are linked to them somehow. Basim then corners the last remaining Order member, Qahiba, who claims that the answers he seeks lie in a First One temple underneath Alamut.
Roshan then assassinates Qahiba before she can reveal anything more, and warns Basim not to investigate any further otherwise she will treat him as an enemy for defying the Hidden Ones’ tenets. Basim disobeys Roshan and heads for Alamut with Nehal. Upon reaching the fortress, he finds that it has already been attacked and conquered by the Order’s forces. Basim rallies the surviving Hidden Ones and launches a counterattack, routing the enemy forces and gaining access to the temple entrance. Roshan then attacks Basim and he is forced to battle his mentor, resulting in Roshan being incapacitated. Basim and Nehal then proceed inside the temple, which opens in response to Basim’s presence.
Inside, he finds a First One stasis pod, and comes to the realization that Nehal never existed. Both she and the jinni that haunted him are in fact representations of his repressed memories as Loki. Basim decides to fuse with Nehal, regaining his memories. Upon leaving the temple, Basim is welcomed back into the Hidden Ones, which causes Roshan to resign in protest. Now fully remembering that he is a reincarnation of Loki, Basim muses that he has been reborn, and looks forward to a “reunion” with those who were responsible for his imprisonment. This reunion being talked about here is the one we see in Assassin’s creed: Valhala.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage will release PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S and Microsoft Windows on 5th October 2023.
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