Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation gives Aveline her own story alongside the era we were exploring with Connor. It originally came out on the Vita in 2012, then came to other plat…

Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation gives Aveline her own story alongside the era we were exploring with Connor. It originally came out on the Vita in 2012, then came to other platforms through Liberation HD and later Liberation Remastered. The setting is eighteenth-century New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana territory. Slavery, colonial power, and the Assassin–Templar conflict are all tied into Aveline’s story. She also crosses paths with Connor, but this is her adventure, not another version of his. One of its main ideas is Aveline’s three personas. Changing between the Assassin, Lady, and Slave disguises affects how she can move through the world and how people respond to her. They aren’t just different outfits with the same result. That gives the social side of stealth a different role from simply climbing a building and disappearing over the roof. The personas are worth spending time on because they change the situation rather than just your appearance. You have to think about where Aveline is going and how she can get there. That’s a different problem from choosing the strongest weapon and heading straight into a fight. The game also moves between New Orleans and places outside the city, including the bayou and Mayan ruins. It wasn’t built on the same scale as the big console releases, but it still carried its own character, locations, and ideas. I want to give it its own space in this series instead of just mentioning that it existed and moving past it. There’s also the whip, the bayou, and the move between different parts of her life. Liberation is a smaller game than ACIII, but it adds another perspective to that period instead of leaving the entire colonial story with Connor and the Kenways.