AC Unity is a based game, teaching young men the dangers of simping.

Arno deserves a sequel, it would have greatly benefited his character if they did

I’m late to this but Arno was one of my favorite characters because when playing unity I didn’t feel like someone who was overpowered or could take on armies right off of the bat. It’s ASSASSINS CREED NOT WARRIORS CREED. Everyone compares assassins and always says Arno is horrible but Arno is the very embodiment of what every assassin should be. He was creative on how he hunted down templars. The French brotherhood said he was the most gifted assassin they had ever seen. He was amazing at dueling and was the stealthiest assassin. He became a master at picking locks and managed to take on someone with a piece of Eden just as Altair had done in the past. The thing I love about Arno the most tho is how strong he is morally. Arno in dead kings discovered another apple of Eden and instead of showing bad blood to the brotherhood for getting rid of him he sends it to them. When it comes to hunting down templars Ezio was known for being a legend but in my opinion Arno isn’t because nobody even knew he was there.

Arno is one of my favorites, his whole life was plagued with tragedy same with Ezio’s, seriously underrated character

The “Rise of the Assassin” mission in Versailles stood out to me for Arno’s character development.

Despite being disgraced and exiled from the brotherhood, he pulls himself out of that depressed and drunken gutter he fell into to take down La Touche. Not for “redemption”, or revenge, or to simp for Elise, but just because he “Had something he needed to do” before returning to Paris.

Him telling Victor and Hugo that he’s rescuing them because “Being a thick headed man mountain isn’t a capital offense” when they ask why he would even bother to help them was more than just comedic relief, Arno was displaying a genuine, selfless drive to step up and help the people of Versailles by putting an end to the unjust cruelty of La Touche. Arno is beginning to truly embody the deeper calls, duties and ideals of the assassin brotherhood now, rather than just using the brotherhood as a means to his own ends.

Unity’s story could have been so much better if they spent more time fleshing out more developments like this.

I feel like Arno had a lot of potential as a character that was never fulfilled, and sadly the opportunity to do so would inevitably have been in a sequel that we never got. Imagine a game where Connor and Aveline come to France on the cusp of the Napoleonic war to hunt down Shay, Arno joins them and Shay himself reveals he killed Arno’s father, maybe he is regretful or maybe he boats that killing him secured the French Revolution. These 4 definitely needed a crossover game, especially for Arno and Shay to continue their stories.
The French Revolution was a perfect choice for an AC game, but not this one, Arno’s personal story feels like it has nothing going on with the wider historical context which is a shame really because 3 and Black Flag nailed this!
I really did like the Arno and Elise story, they were an interesting duo to watch and the whole star crossed lovers vibe was unique for the series I just wish it overall fit in with the theme of the Revolution better, this game needed at least one rewrite before starting to really get all these aspects right
Fantastic video, would love a Connor analysis in the future or a comparison of the Frye twins

You can actually know that Arno’s father is an assassin before Bellec tells you, even if it’s your first time playing as you can see the logo of the Brotherhood dangling from his jacket

I liked how Shay Cormac was the man that started Arno's journey by killing his father at the end of AC Rogue.

Arno is one of my favourite assassins, he deserves a second game.

As much as I enjoyed Unity, the absence of memory corridors and the classic animus loading screen always bothered me, especially considering the games immediately preceding and following it had them.

It’s also very clear that Unity was supposed to launch a sequel, but classic Ubisoft learned the wrong lessons from Unity’s launch….

This game is slowly catching up to AC 2 as my favorite in the franchise. If there was any game I want a direct sequel to, it's this one.

Late but Arno deserved a trilogy. He had the same potential that Ezio had. Arno's journey from the beginning of the game to dead kings is just beautiful. He's very relatable to a certain group a people in terms of his love story with elise and you can tell how he feels. However weather or not you feel a strong relation with Arno the story alone give everything you need to understand how Arno feels and is through the game.

Dead kings gave us a Arno that can continue to grow with the kid he took on at the end. Arno also was going to Egypt so origins with bayek's story coulve worked 100% since we saw this done in revelations.

It would've worked. Bayeks story with losing his son and finding the creed works with Arno having the kid with him which I assume would bring a huge amount of fatherhood in Arno. The start of the brotherhood affecting Arno really comes from his speech at the end. You can see that Arno truly has his own understanding of the Creed and what it stands for and with Bayeks story. Also historically Napolion did go to Egypt and Arno did work with Napolion closely and Arno did have a interest in Edan pieces.

The character of Arno will always be the man who could've been. His story his development his impact on the universe could've been the next Ezio and have the impact of the Kenway saga. Truly it's a shame Arno was scrapped because of bad reviews and ubisoft getting scared and deciding to redo the whole thing from the ground up.

You are missing the point of the DLC totally, you even ignored the moment Arno decided to come back, which is when Arno realizes the evil that the brotherhood fights against when he considers what a man like Captain Rose may do with the power of an Apple of Eden. Arno says so himself "He shall fall, for I am an Assassin". He goes back because he understands the bigger picture, and wants to make the world a better place for people like Leon and Madamme Margot. The fact that Arno worked against Napoleon in Franciade without ever meeting his old friend and wishing for nothing in return makes him embody the motto of the brotherhood, he walked in the dark to serve the light

Looking at Arno at the start of the game, i feel like it should've lead to Arno loosing himself, because everytime he looses someone, he turns to unhealthy coping mechanisms, when he lost his father he became a cocky selfish arogant asshole who gambles and possibly turns to occasional violence and trouble with the law, and the only time he seems to be a nice charming man who has fun is with Elise, but when he was put in jail we saw him get angry and vengeful, until he got the chance to reconnect with Elise, whitch when that didn't work out he started drinking until joining the order, whitch still sounds like unhealthy coping mechanism as he just chooses violence and revenge rather than emptying of bottles.
And we see him loose his personality due to this as he looses himself to the "mission". Whitch once he looses his place at the order and Elise (who he always turns and clings to as the only person who seems to bring out the nice and fun parts of himself) he goes back to drinking and loneliness.
Whitch to me just seems that the moment Elise died Arno either should've went out in a last attack at Germaine where they'd both perish, or Dead Kings should've seen him be at his worst, until what seems to be him deciding to attach himself to Leon and the order, whitch to  me just seems as him "if i do this, maybe i'll at least die in battle"  and it being another unhealthy way for him to cope.

This ac game had the most potential in the whole ac franchise,everything was literally there, the best stealth, the best parkour, the best combat, great open-world and could've been one of if not the best story if it was given a trilogy like Ezio, but sadly classic ubisoft always blows it.

I never thought about the title  being a reference to Unity between Assassin and Templar.  I always figured it was about the multiplayer gimmick,  as multiplayer was a huge thing at the time.

I'm gonna say it Arno needed a sequel where we see him as a fully trained assassin progressing up to master assassin

I think customization is one of the best things about Unity because the traits you get from the gear pieces is only a bonus. You can wear combat armor and still play stealth without it being extremely difficult. Not only that but you have high stat gear that doesn't break immersion like the Sans Cullotes set which is the first stealth set availabe and fits both the setting and Arno himself.

I really like arno's character. He's interesting, flawed, yet more self-aware than a lot of other AC protagonists.

He learns over the course of the game that using an ideology as an excuse for revenge or doing whatever you want is truly dangerous, whether it was by Germain or Bellec, or even by him and elise on a smaller scale.

He's also the first protagonist who, while acknowledging that the assassins are the comparative good guys in the conflict, also accurately points out that they are basically a cult. I mean, the templars are pretty much a cult too, but the assassins dial that aspect up a lot more.

With the memory sections I have a take on them: We don't see Arno speak to his targets till the end after Elise is dead. I think it's like that because the killing is something that is perceived as a pure act of necessity to make things right. It isn't personal so he just gets what he needs and heads on. But it doesn't mean it isn't personal because it is he just can't let it out because he wants to succeed with it and don't let anything get in his way not even him self and his emotions. It's a total act of love. And after Elise death there is no reason for him so he lets it go. And it is here where we see him talk to his target for the first time. Because now there is only Arno left with nobody else and so he begins to exist as himself again and now it personal because it is the only thing that is left.