Evolution of Hidden Blade in Assassin's Creed
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Evolution of The Hidden Blade in Assassin's Creed Series.
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:22 AC Odyssey
1:24 AC Origins
2:33 AC Valhalla
4:40 Hidden Gun Upgrade (AC)
5:34 AC II
7:46 Hook Blade Upgrade (AC Revelations)
9:05 AC IV: Black Flag
9:41 Rotatable Hidden Blade (AC III)
10:50 AC Unity
12:01 Phantom Blade Upgrade (AC Unity)
13:17 Grappling Hook Upgrade (AC Syndicate)
14:53 Outro - Hry
I miss the double hidden blades and when they were included in combat
Agree
Syndicate had two hidden blades. Its just that the right handed blade didn’t have a mechanism and it was pulled out of the sleeve. This can be seen in multi kill combat scenes and shows a lot about their training in multiple combatants.
Yeah, I specifically liked them in Black Flag and Rogue
The greatest spam attacks of all time.
@@aris_analysisreadingintell9967 syndicate didn't have two blade, you had one hidenblade and a kukri or canesword
It’s so interesting to see that as the times progressed, you “lose” some previous upgrades. Like the gun
The phantom blade is personal favorite and Connor's dagger blade a close 2nd
I believe they focused on tools more than weapons. I just hoped that some of those tools really made it into proper combat. Like the grapple hook of the Frye twins where they could hook enemies, The Frye’s syringe with multiple types of injections, and more. The phantom blade is the most interesting as it is a portable projectile weapon that is silent than a gun. I just with a lot of the weapons and tools had smooth quick shots and can be implemented in combat.
I think one thing that may apply with some hidden blades is the knowledge the "Great" Altair might have gained from the Apple, it may have given him a knowledge from the Isu, or from future man made craftsmanship, the gun or the hand cannon, which truly wasn't created until around the time of Ezio (based on game lore, not historical)
Only hidden Blade add-on I liked was the hook blade, it was a hook and a blade, and was only in revelations
@@moonsets-on_you ah tabai is black flag. You mean abbas is the one Altair shot
Only the modern hidden blade is missing, although some assassins still use blades Shawn showed us that the hidden blade can become a lethal tazer because nowadays a blade is more an inconvenience in a world with guns and bulletproof vests
Not only that but if you got caught by the police carrying a concealed blade on the Underside of your arm nowadays you would be in trouble with the law but if you simply got caught carrying a concealed taser they probably wouldn't give a shit so long as they didn't know it could kill a person with one taste
@@Fallout4277
Always hide in plain sight.
That would be true if in Watch Dogs Legion the AC DLC character didn't use a hidden blade
@@wingman-1977 damn right
@@ile1237 yes they did they use them in their stealth takedown
My favorite is the hookblade
It has the hook and the blade
Elegant desine
Did you know it was originally supposed to reappear in black flag, but it got scraped I would have loved to see it again
Brah Fr I free roam around using it in combat that blade is rare I hope they bring it again
Is there a blade on the hook? I always though Ezio used the eagle beak part of the hook for assassinations. Does it also have a blade compartment as well?
@@JacksonWalter735 what part of "it has hook and blade" do you not understand bro
The Origins hidden blade scene was my favorite. Bayek was never trained with something like this and almost took his hand off. A realistic touch because people need training to use tools properly.
No other NPC made me smile more than Leonardo Da Vinci
Facts I got so sad when I played revelations because ezio games just aren’t the same without Leonardo :( Sophia was alright though
Charles Darwin is another wonderful character
Ezio without hesitation giving up his ring finger 😂
Gotta admire his devotion to his cause. Willing to go all in without a second thought.
Well revenge was in his mind
The funny part is that he put it on the wrong way lmfao
It’s funny how Bayek basically created a whole unnecessary tradition of cutting off your ring finger for centuries. Eivor actually wears the hidden blade correctly, as Darius also wore it on the top of his wrist.
If its like that then its no longer a hidden blade because people can see whats on theur wrist
@@benjamintan5399 You can easily see it under your wrist too, let’s not act like the hidden blade is actually “hidden” in any of the games lol.
@@jared1465 u shuld see shays hidden blade, because in his outfit his sleeve goes over his hidden blade so its literally hidden
@@benjamintan5399 dude every assassin except Altair stands out like a fucking sore thumb.
Actually bayek don't wanted his recruits to cut they fingers they did that to show their devotion
It's funny how the original and first blade is worn over the wrist, and then mistakenly worn under the wrist which caused a whole group of assassins to lose their finger. Only to be called out by a Norwegian Raider.
even funnier is the fact that after a certain point in the Assassin history they stopped cutting off their fingers cuz it became very obvious that the ppl with 9 fingers were Assassins 😂 a mistake which was turned into a commitment which ended up being the easiest way to expose them
Beyak’s excursion to a bathhouse really messed with the Assasins
On bayek defense he really don't wanted then to cut their fingers
@@josesoares4601 if Bayek saw what was happening to their ring fingers, he would think the Hidden Ones were crazy. It wasn’t his intention to remove his ring finger because it was an accidental loss, caused by him having to kill Eudoros.
The first Assassin's Bayek trained cut off their ring finger even though they didn't have a hidden blade
I like how Connor’s turns into a knife that he can use in combat much easier
The Phantom Blade is so underrated.
It's really not that different from throwing knives, or how Ezio also had Da Vinci design a hidden crossbow upgrade for some of his apprentices.
The golden hidden blade seems more like an art piece than an actual weapon
That makes it more hidden among the clothing of vikings. It’s more hidden than ezio’s gauntlet, that literally has the assassins symbol facing outward so everyone knows you’re an assassin
It kind of is, Basim gave it to him as a show of good faith, he basically thought "This guy is a dumbass Viking, he probably isn't gonna use it" and then Eivor did
This is a hookblade. It has the properties of a hook and a blade.
i miss og AC style and also lil note, i rly like how as ezio aged u not only hear obviously his voice age but also his demeanor at first he was a young buck with a bit of impulsivity. then in revelations u see a hardened master assassin
Plus he even played differently. He couldn’t freerun infinitely due to his age
Phantom Blade looks bad ass
i feel like the phantom blade is the most stealth applicable considering it’s a silent ranged option
hell yea man
but I'm wondering what do they use as bullets, blades or arrows?
@@princeerinestomago5306 it’s like a mini blade pretty sure
@@overlordzlol makes sense as why it still has blade on its name
Ezio's hidden blade: 🔪 🔫 🪝
Altair and Ezio's blades: ------------
Every other assassin's blade: ----
Forgot the poison
Now : it's not hidden anymore 🤡
Vikings go brrrrr 😁
The Not-So-Hidden Blade
I hope rift was not disappoint us
@@NexaTerraGaming no shit its a viking
@Mason Ballard only cause retcons
It's funny how Bayek literally put it on upside down. And there you go... Hidden blade.
I find it amusing there is a whole debate over the positioning of the hidden blade: under or over your arm.
@@kevinle1083like bro wear it in any way that doesn't hurt both the target AND you
Its funny. How the first hidden one made the mistake of wearing the blade underneath and now all assassins wear it this way and lose the ring finger to use it (until altair altered the blade) while the viking who is not an assassin or hidden one wore it the correct way
If correct way means literally having it on EVERYONE'S sight, yes
@@dubstrap6095 I think their outfits with all the gear and weapons is a bit more obvious, don't you think? :)
Funny considering I didn’t know that. This man had no knowledge on how a hidden blade, yet unironically wore it the correct way
Eivor’s hidden blade is the safest one though
Impractical*
Seems like it wouldn't be as effective though since you can't use it to stab as deep because your fist would be in the way (unless the blade is very long). Your fist would make contact with the opponent before the blade goes deep enough. If it's under your arm, you can at least move your wrist up and out of the way for the blade to go in deeper.
@@Vel_D and despite how impractical a real hidden blade would be, eivor's is the most impractical
@@Vel_D
It's way better to have a hidden blade strapped to your arm than holding a shiv.
For one a shiv can be dropped or taken from you during hand to hand combat.
If you have ever played Assassin's Creed lll and Assassin's Creed Origins you would see that in both of those games the protagonist is getting choked to death but the use of their Hidden Blades saved them.
Hidden blade’s greatest advantage was that it was a one hit kill machine due to it not being revealed to anyone. After it gets revealed you can’t really fight with it (Unless you’re Ezio and a fucking badass)
Only those who have played assassin's creed revelations would understand how good the game was
I miss the hook blade
I don't know why revelations is not so popular...to me ezio saga was best
especially when Ezio met Altair (what's left of it) and could see Desmond...literally chills
The game is....just wow.
The atmosphere of Constantinople, the gameplay and the satisfaction of using the hook blade, the story and the perfect ending to a trilogy....it really hurts me that there are many who hates the game.
AC2 might be a better game critically, but for me personally....Revelations is the one I have an emotional connection with.
Too bad, people likes Brotherhood more than Revelations, even tho it's understandable why they hated it
Arno's blade is my favourite
Phantom balade*
Same. You get a hidden blade and a ranged option all in one. Connor's pivoting hidden blade is cool too
Honestly, I played assassins creed origins, odyssey, and Valhalla before going back and playing the older ones so my experience is real skewed. But I will say I understand why they mixed up the formula, it had been roughly the same experience for a lot, a lot of games and when Unity flopped they decided they needed to go a different direction. Understandable. But it’s been four games now, can we please play as someone who’s actually an assassin at the very least, please and thank you.
I think unity and syndicate are really appreciated for what they were nowadays. Especially after unity got all those bug fixes. People (me included) love those two and I just started origins but I miss the actual AC formula. If I play AC I don’t want an open-word RPG that takes 1000hours to finish.
Bayek was an assassins, why do everyone act like he’s a “hidden one”. But fr Bayek needs love too.
If the would have done the same again like the first few Ac Games, the gamers would habe accoused ubisoft to be like ea or Activision, so they have done smth diffrent, and now they get hate for changing the concept, i really dont know What's up with the gaming Community since the past few years, but regardless what gaming Companys Do they get hate for that
I mean Bayek was sort of an assassin and debatably one of the best in the AC series, but alexios/kassandra and eivor are just too different imo
@@alexandermcfadden5862 fax 💯
5:07 ah yes my favorite part of AC was when Altair talks about looking at an apple and then pulls out the .9 and shoots abbas
It did show him the future
@@brandontaylor6677 showed him Chicago 💀
Literally parry this you casual
@@ksknght4613 I don’t think dales Detroit urban survival tactics existed back then
in AC Revelations, Altair said the Apple could make you see the past and future...that's why he built a wrist gun (because he saw Ezio's weapon in the future)
I'm still pissed that in odyssey, you had to have the DLC to see the hidden blade but you're not even the one using it.
Even though the first hidden blade was weird I think it was more useful in open combat than stealth. It would've been a good shield to block attacks.
The hidden blade is a tool of justice made to deliver kills elegantly and silently
Meanwhile eivor starts flexing on his hidden blade
Imagine the look on Kassandra's face when she saw Eivor wearing the hidden blade worn above the wrist
Daddy Darius Flashbacks
if the grappling hook had a similar effect in combat like the rope dart then I think it would have been more liked
I miss when we could actually fight with the hidden blade have to say Connor and ezio hidden blade were the best speaking how they are the most unique
Marvelous video, loved chronological sequence. So many memories right here though cant rewind the time.
Why are you all complaining ac2 literally has a statue of a Persian named Darius with a blade above instead of under. They literally implied that he was the first to use the blade in ac2, then they solidified it in Odyssey.
Darius's statue in Ac ll has the blade under his wrist though like every other protagonist except Eivor. It's seems he turned the blade under shortly after Xerxes's death
People are complaining because it was dumb how he acted like an assassin from the brotherhood before the brotherhood was around.
@@obsidianwarrior5580 Yeah, its stupid how he thought the best way to get close to Xerxes was to act like one of his guards.
Ridiculous, no such thing existed before the brotherhood was formed.
Jesus fok. Is it really so far-fetched to think about putting on a disguise to get close to your assassination target?
@@DZ-1987 Read the comment properly I didn't say it was stupid he acted like an assassin I said it was stupid he acted like an assassin from the *brotherhood*. How he dressed very similar to the assassins we know today, how he had tenants waaay too similar to the brotherhood and how he literally even had his own brotherhood of assassins in the DLC. It's all a ludicrous amount of coincidences and probably the worst offender is the fact Darius does the Leap of Faith, something taught to Bayek from his father and Darius had no way of knowing how to perform. So yeah, it is ridiculous.
@@obsidianwarrior5580 I did. Sarcasm, innit.
I've this thought that the reason Darius originally wore his blade over his arm is to not lose his finger, only for his successors to wear it under the arm and use the lost finger as a sign of devotion to the cause.
Well with the whole blade being under the arm thing, that all started with Bayek misunderstanding where to properly place the blade, which led to him losing a finger, and after starting a movement for his cause, unintentionally inspired a ritual sacrifice to mimic the loss of his finger for devotion to said cause 😩
With the size of darius’s blade it wouldve taken 4 of them
@@peterlanguila4028 its the same one as the one in origins isn't it?
@@yaboi7248 it didnt look as huge in origins
@@peterlanguila4028 I'm pretty sure it the same one because the video said he got the blade the kill Xerxes which was Darius' blade.
That was my favorite line from eivor. "I don't wish to hide this, and I would rather not use the same mistake as you did." It was such a great line like fuck that I'm taking this blade straight to the eye socket of my foe and I hope he sees it the whole time. It was so badass!!!
Hytham: 😡
Bro didn't want too lose his finger 😂
Translation: Bruh, I got to hold an axe, I can't just cut my fuckin finger off
@@yazzmegbil8988also Hytham: “ok fine keep your blade and use it as you please.”
Imagine a hidden blade design that’s a prosthetic Hand during the world wars time?, could be fitted with all manner of impressive mechanisms.
Being a member of an assassins is better than meeting the hidden ones
Sure my friend
What are you talking about it’s the same meaning?!
@@infinitelight5178 Uh he means losing a finger
My top 3 favorite hidden blades:
1: The Phantom Blade
2: The Hidden Gun
3: Rotatable Hidden Blade
Connor's Pivot Blade is my favorite. It let the hidden blade become a more functional multi-tool.
It doesn't rotate. It just slides out of the compartment on the forearm. We see Connor use it completely detached from the gauntlet.
Nice video bro 🤘
I was not ready for the volume on that outro
Back when hidden blade was actually hidden
It was originally not hidden until bayek and even that was an accident
@@ACLA23 still the hidden blade is better than any others
@@ACLA23 On the statue of Darius in AC2, he wears it under his arm. This is a retcon.
Wyatt Long 🤷♂️ it makes more sense to wear it over arm but under arm is more practical
@@wyattlong8321 or maybe the statue is just wrong? Like the statue wad built well over a 1000 years after darius died. And for 1000 years the blade was worn under the wrist. So perhaps whoever designed the statue just dressed him like an assassin people were used too
Also missing Shaun’s modern taser blade
I'm always perplexed by the thought that it took so long about over a 1000 years maybe 2000 years before someone thought yeah maybe we should change the hidden blade a bit so it doesn't cut of your own finger when you use it.
Since it was viewed as a sign of devotion there was likely little incentive to do so.
And even after that some of them still cut their fingers off
If i would choose one i go for connor one
looks badass along with his tomahawk
A shame Arno never earned his second hidden Blade.
He did if you unlock the double assassination skill
@@covertsagecandidate9553 even with double assassination, he still uses one hidden blade though
@@covertsagecandidate9553 gameplay wise he does but lore wise he only has one blade
@@f10pped36 because arno is mad before elise(daughter of templar) so before getting a full assassin status, arno is removed from the brotherhood due to compromising the brotherhood term
honestly its forgiveable, i like the double kill animations in unity
Nice
Am I the only one who loved Arno and Ac Unity looking back? It could’ve been better sure but damn i remember having good times in that game
Terrible protagonist and unused potential of a game.
My favorite hidden blade is the one in odyssey where you never get to fucking use it.
In all honesty favorite hidden blades are split between Unity and black flag. Black flag seems more bold and unity is like what I picture a classic hidden blade would be
You never use it because it was doing what it does best, be hidden
Spear of Leonidas
@@chez1241 yo bich chillout
Best hidden blade upgrades for me is the hook blade from yusuf. always been satisfied how it works
I still love how other than ezio Arno was the only one taken in truly by the brother hood, ps Connor doesn’t count to me because it was only him and Achilles
mantul
Basim: I give to you the hidden blade
Eivor: the what blade?
I love all assassins creed games. I have played them all, nearly every single one of them to 100% (AC3 still gives me hadaches :D) and i have to say, im a huge fan of the AC3 hidden blade! really close after that AC2 and then the Phantom blade :3
So Darius was the reason the Hidden blade is iconic in the assasins creed franchise
They forgot the hidden taser from Syndicate IRL
,,Eivors blade isnt hidden anymore!". As if he didnt carry 2 greatswords and a bow on his back.
Edward carries 4 pistols and 2 swords and its still hidden
@@joaquimlopes257 only because he was wearing blades someone scavenged from dead assassins as trophies, until he lost them after being sent to jail and received his own pair from Ah Tabai for the breakout.
Most of Edward's actual attempts at stealth consist of him tailing people for eavesdropping purposes then going for the kill while he's at it, otherwise he basically makes no attempt at ever actually being hidden and is an open fighter out in the seas. Dude shoots people up and wields twin swords no fucks given, the hidden blades are just there
@@natchu96 but they are there for stealth in the cities, and why would he be stealth when he his boarding a fucking ship?? Or taking a fort?, also he didn't take duncan ones because they were broken but there are a lot of situations were they are fiting, being an open world gane you can use them or not its your choice
Gotta say, not seeing Odyssey, Darius' assassination of Xerxes was pretty badass.
Also to those saying that wearing it on top isn't hidden, your right for Eivor since it's fucking gold. But you could make it a bracer color
Tbh after Eivor put the hidden blade on the front part of his arm, completely revealing it to the public who would see it, it has just lost its true purpose. It would’ve been cool to see Eivor’s finger get cut off for the hidden blade. Rn if you unlock the Basim outfit in AC Valhalla the hidden blade is concealed properly, and it’s a much better design than having the hidden blade out in the open
The blade was always meant to be worn like that.
i mean it could be hidden if the design was to look more like bracers... then bam surprise.
@@KingShibe yeah that’s true but then the assassin’s changed it so eivor kind of disrespected the assassin’s
@@SmokeyGameing23 more like Basim did
The thing people forget is that Eivor isn’t an Assassin, or a Hidden One. He’s a Viking, and Vikingr were very up-front about their plans to kill something. Thus, the overhanded technique.
Unity was on another level
4:23 " This is no mistake "
I'm pretty sure it was a mistake lol
I started with AC2 then went to Brotherhood. Didnt play again til black flag came out. Then Unity (slept on nowadays). Xbox Games w/Gold finally let me play the OG & rogue. Still have to play 3, Syndicate to present & any DLCs with all the games
I was expecting someone to say "hey there Delilah" in the intro
Watch at 14:45 when Evie Frye said I'll take that hook upgrade from Jake's hand that got me laughing
Back when the hook blade used to climb higher things, but now we can climb everything
Honestly, a phantom and pivot blade dual wielding set would be awesome.
Bros outro is more louder than my phone
Hidden Blade Rankings from high to low(many of the blades are reused design mechanics so they may fall in the same rank):
1) Connor’s in AC3 because that mf could turn into a dagger
2) Ezio’s Because of its updated mechanics for the wielder and it can be doused in poison. I’ll also count Revelations here too because of the Hook attachment
3) Bayek’s because when it’s fully upgraded it looks better double bladed
4) Evie/Jacob’s because I got around quicker with the grappling hook mod
5) Arno’s because the Phantom Blade, although not completely conventional, it was still pretty useful
6) Eivor’s because of the design and how smart he was to not “accidentally” cut his finger
7) The rest because though the designs are fan favorites, the mechanics and designs are all identical basically
Now the stealth returns in AC Mirage.
Ngl kassandra hidden blade and ezio (AC2) looks pretty
To be fair to the viking almost no one would look at that golden bracers and think it is a blade
Beforr origin is out, if i recall correctly Altair is the only assassin to use a hidden blade. You can even see every assassin's wrist on ac 1 and revelations, only Altair has the blade
Don’t forget the detachable blade from bloodstone and the taser blade Shaun uses
Eu queria vê como foi criada a lamina, pois todos falam que o designe dela é impressionante ent como Darius conseguiu criar algo assim
People complain about odyssey not having a hidden blade but it is historically correct because the brotherhood was not founded yet
I like how some of these guys lose the lose their finger while Edward just swing two around
His grandson takes his side too
The ac hidden gun blade was GOAT
I miss the damn hookblade. It was so vicious
I miss the double assassination, the phantom blade and the grappling hook option. I just wish they would’ve introduced the grappling hook option. Much better in the beginning.
“Do not fetishize a piece of metal”
Ezio's blade was the best
almost all ac games: stabs the enemy calmly and dies
Ac odyssey: impales the enemy from behind and snaps their neck and grabs the blade from the front
👍⭐
phantom blade is actually so good
It’s funny how Eivor is the only one to “correctly” wear the hidden blade without knowing it’s true origin.
What about Shao Jun Hidden Blade in boot?
Explain how the grappling hooks anchor is the assassin symbol when it was taken from a Templar
Bro was incensed Eivor would get the blade and not need to cut his finger
7:17 Poor Ezio xD
Is Jacob's hat always missing in the Syndicate cutscene or is there a mod that removes it? I can't remember.
He sometimes takes it off in cutscenes
The only moment he took of the hat is only probably when he meet alexander
plot twist: Altaïr modified the hidden blade so that you could still flip people off
yeah the hidden blade really did evolve backwards
I'm surprised despite being the most "out of place" assassins, Edward didn't lose his fingers
I wanna know how the hidden blade works. Like how does it come out?
Pressure trigger, most likely has a switch that the back of the palm hits to release and when not pressed in the switch brings the blade back, or its a pulley system with a ring on the finger when pulled the blade comes out and the string is less tightened the blade returns
Explanations are vague till this very day. it ain't that far off from your regular switchblade, just that the 'button' is placed somewhere along your forearm muscle, triggering it using a very specific manner, instead of being pushed with a finger.
Hey what about Shay's Hidden Blade and Edward Kenway & Haytham's Hidden Blade?
Many don’t talk about it because they were rather plain, Not bad, but just no special tricks
Shay and haytham don't have a sequence where they get the blades for the first time, when we play as them for the first time they already have blades
@@dubstrap6095 but edward got a sequence where he meets governor torres and he got his hidden blade by those two guys of governor.
@@Manoj_Kumar1973 Is not that sequence in the video already?
The part from Odyssey is actually set in 466 BCE not 431 AC, AC isn't even a real abbreviation when it comes to dates
Not because you're atheist and hate your religious mother doesn't mean everyone should stop using AC
at that time Assassin are known as mercenaries, there is not brotherhood established at that time of odyssey
AC means "Antes de Cristo" or "Before Christ" in Spanish.
NOOOOOOOO WHY DID U REMOVE THE MUSIC?????? The one in AC3 is the most emotional one, especially with the music!!! In AC3 the hidden blades were so epic!!!
Am I the only person who misses the cut off ring finger idea
Still pisses me off why there was not a game about darius creating the most iconic weapon in AC history... thats why i left the series only watching from youtubers not playing it myself
Because you know already from Sanctuary, that he was a legendary icon...
@@MrSpawn229 amunet was known since ac2
We have origins
@@s.bs.b5834 but not bayek .. he was just add in time without any explaination.. in my eyes hes just a filler character just like kassandra and all of the unknown characters we played so far
@@RogerHR for bayek you are right
Original plan was him to die and aya being the mc but a ubisoft head said " only alpha man will make is money" so he force the game to change and bayek to stay
@@s.bs.b5834 and that's why I can't accept him as brotherhood leader and first assassins. the onlyone assassin was Adam and even and the person stays in the shadow being and assassins was Darius
So the hidden blade that Bayek used originally belonged to Darius. Correct?
only just realised bayek put the blade on backwards, but i guess thats why thye are all backwards now. any by backwards i mean under the arm not over
What about the tazer upgrade?
14:55 WARNING, ears!
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