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I actually like this a lot more than any dlc. Instead of extra missions it’s a whole new story with a new assassin. Adewale is my second favorite character and his tools are so much fun. I always catch myself playing this when I pop in black flag
I liked that there’s no moral ambiguity with what Adewale does. They’ve re-hashed the ‘am I really the good guy or is there a middle ground I haven’t met?’ trope in since AC2 all the way to AC4. But this was a good subversion. There’s nothing morally grey about what Adewale does. He’s just a good guy. All that for Ubisoft to butcher his conclusion in AC: Rouge though.
Lol yea wtf it did. I'm mix of everything and as a kid when me and my brother played this we felt like our ancestors 😂 being part Mexican black, spanish, Brazilian, Portugal. I was all over the map in this game
Liberation was released as its own game on the Vita (the HD remaster being included as part of the Assassin’s Creed III Remastered release), while Freedom Cry was developed as DLC for Black Flag. Comparing them doesn’t feel right as they were developed as different things. It’d be more apt to compare Freedom Cry to Dead Kings or Jack the Ripper, DLC that revisited the worlds of the base games and used the same engine.
Honestly, I really like this DLC, and I wish Ubi made games focus on other independence movements, heck, imagine an AC game set in South America, helping Simon Bolivar pushing Templar supported spain colonizers out of the continent
@@alejandrohernandezcarrillo2436 I can either see Bolivar being portrayed as a Templar or just a useful pawn to them. What would make it interesting is the possibility of him meeting with San Martín.
The box in Freedom Cry is the same box that is completely central to Rogue's story. That's why Adewale is that far north in the first place; he was chasing the Templar that stole it from the Maroon Assassin that caused the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. The box and the Voynich manuscript that Edward recompiled in Black Flag are necessary to Rogue's story and Adewale's part in it. Yes, that box is also why Arno's birth-father died. Pretty sure it's not the same box from Chronicles. Anyway the point of Freedom Cry's story is Adewale being the Creed incarnate and freeing hundreds of slaves. No Assassin has so literally fought for the freedom of humanity as Adewale. He earns the hype he's given early in Rogue at Davenport. Unlike Aveline who kills more former slaves than she herself frees and whose greatest story impact is being an Abstergo Entertainment product.
There are few game missions as satisfying as methodically stalking and taking out plantation overseers one by one, then setting everyone free. That's one of my biggest problems with Liberation - it's in the title, but very little actual liberation happening. Aveline could have been such a fun player to play, but they missed the mark IMO. I couldn't really even tell you what the point of the story was, it was just kind of weird. Adewale shreds through the bad guys, and it's sooo fun.
The Voynich manuscripts are part of the collectible items that are shown on the map as scrolls. It is assumed that Edward eventually got them all, though they were never refered to in Black Flag's main story.
Ofcourse! I like Adewale. He is an assassin personified. A traditional assassin and I love it. I also like him in AC Rogue. I was happy to see both him and Achilles from AC3 in the past. He is one of the assassins that I think need another chance to shine. Plus, the chronicle assassins who need a real legit ac game.
I was genuinely pissed at him in Rogue, because of what we knew about him in Black Flag and Fredom Cry. We know the Maroons that Adewale freed and assembled all got wiped out by one giant earthquake. Then under the order of Achilles Shay looked for the second Artifact and caused a second giant earthquake in lisbon, killing thousands again. Adé should've made the connection immediately and realized that the assassins were the cause of the death of many innocents and that Shay was right in attempting to steal the map from Achilles in order to prevent any more mass killings. Nonetheless he was one of the Assassins who saw Shay as a traitor and went to hunt him down as a Templar. And in his death he went down disgraceful, disrespecting him and in turn got scorned by Shay who until that moment respected him and didn't want to kill him.
@@solidzack Hey, atleast he didn't have a random cameo that has nothing to do with the main story like how most games do. “Oh hey, I'm from AC Black Flag and DLC and now I'm here. Ok byeeee.”
@@solidzack I guess that Ubisoft just wanted to do the easy way back then. Ubisoft belike: "Want to promote a game where you play as a Templar? Make the Assassin's side become stubborn and make them break every of their Tenets. After that, re-use our playable character in our previous DLC, attract some fans, and let him do questionable stuffs so that our new protagonist can kill him and be justified about it! " PS: sorry that I replied to a 7 months old comment, just give my 2 cents here
isn’t the hint the fact that adawale is in rogue? his story finishes there, at least i mean. maybe the dlc was supposed to give more about what happened to him between black flag and rogue than it ended up actually giving
Freedom cry was always more fun for me to roleplay when i originally played it- a man who simply just freed slaves I thought it was badass to liberate slaves and especially hearing the songs after the plantations/ships were conquered it was immersive and idk it made made feel good in a way
except in real life and history, it was the British navy that stopped slavery inn and to the west... not a random black dude, those were known to be against the British stopping this sort of behavior. I said inn and to the west, cus that the only place on earth that stopped slavery, Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America all continues to this very day, they aren't even on the same scale as the British to compare themself as men of quality. The amounts of millions the British crown used to bribe the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, ect to stop slavery is huge, in my humble opinion, all shaded people in the west owes 50% of their salaries their entire lives to the British crown, until the debt has been repaid in full with inflation. I didn't care to play a blackwashing of history like that... I respect the dead white British men that gave their lives to free the blacks, browns and asians in the west.
@@savagegtalks5912 Are we really arguing on the historical accuracy...of Assassins Creed? Okay. (also your comment comes off as super white savior which is a double yikes)
@@ubermaster1 why you hate on the British that stopped slavery? Why don't you take your racist, slavery supporting attitude somewhere else...? Now if you truly was anti-slavery, you would support what I said and not start a discussion about blackwashing it and lie about it. But you feel offended cus it's part of you and your culture and you behave like this to exterminate the British to reopen your slave markets in Africa. West Africa started reopening theirs here in 2018-2019. So I see why you would make huge profits from behaving like this towards me, when I stand up for those that already gave their lives to protect the freedom in the west. No more discussion about it cus you are trying to make profit from slavery. Your anti-white racist tactics don't work on me. Your black nazi attitude isn't very cute...
@@savagegtalks5912 Are you seriously harping over history in an Assassins Creed game..? An alternate universe in which the literal explanations for things have been altered. The Assassins keep themselves out of history books for a reason. This could just be easily explained away with “those Brits were actually a minor role in ending slavery, but rather it was the Assassins spearheaded by Adewale that brought slavery in the West Indies to its knees.” Your ahistorical views of the history of chattel slavery aside, “blackwashing”? Really dude? You’ve touched on all the weird gamer-gate talking points that can’t even be applied to this story. Are you really that upset that a FICTIONAL black guy freed slaves, (a morally good thing mind you). How’s that really an issue to you 💀
@@i.theworstguys298 this was just the easy beginning of what is today an even more clear blackwashing, just see Amazon's Rings of Power and Vikings "black jarl"... Take your anti-white racism back to California please...
Unrelated to my previous comment, This was actually my first foray into the Assassin's creed series, when it was free on Playstation Plus some years back. I was confused about why there's no tutorial at all, not realizing it was a standalone DLC, and couldn't actually figure out the controls very well and put it down quickly
Apparently, as good as the dlc was AC liberation got some flack for how the slaves were not depicted with more “accuracy” in how they were treated. Meaning the absence of harsh punishments, trapped in cages, auctions, plantation labor, etc. so they just wanted an unapologetic dlc with the same the premise. And as some on of African descent I really like it cause maroon history isn’t really shown in video games depicting slavery or American colonialism in general. Mainly just natives and whites.
I completely forgot about Freedom Cry! I remember really enjoying the DLC at the time but I couldn't tell you why now. Maybe it was the return to more Assassin's Creed-ish gameplay but I loved Black Flag so I have no clue. Regardless, as always love your work mate!
I thought it was fine having the mission progression dependent on the number of slaves you've freed. It gave me something to do while scouring Port-au-Prince for collectables. In fact I usually hit the quota long before I run out of collectables.
I remember having a bug where Adewale's voice was replaced by Edward's for an entire sequence. Think it was the one where you infiltrate a place pretending to be a slave.
Amazing DLC. The whole Black Flag saga was amazing despite the fact people think its far away from assassins creed, it felt connecting and still related to animus
I got the AC rebel collection for Switch, on sale, and it came with Black Flag and it’s DLCs and Rogue. Been playing Freedom Cry and having a good time.
Those machete kills were so based and if you held triangle for your next chain kill, Ade would use the blunderbuss to kill 2 enemies in a stylish double kill. Same with Edward with his guns. Not a lot of people know this
I played through this DLC twice, once back on the day when it first released, and again in The Rebel Collection for the Nintendo Switch. And still, I can hardly remember anything that happens in the story. Just, Adewale gets shipwrecked in Port Au Prince, stuff happens, he kills the governor and kickstarts the Haitian Revolution (which to be fair is a fascinating historical event, slaves and semi-free blacks rising up to take over the French colony of Haiti). Still, despite the story it's a very fun piece of DLC.
I played Freedom Cry some years ago when it was free with PS+, and I remember feeling really mixed about it. I liked Adewale and thought his load out was cool and fun to use, but aside from that it felt lackluster. The gameplay loop was fun but felt dampened by how it was a bit tedious and necessary to progress the story, and then before I knew it the game was just over. It wasn’t a terrible experience, but I don’t know that it’s one I’d necessarily pay for. Also, I recall a rumor among my friends back in middle school that if you 100% Freedom Cry you get Adewale’s outfit. Suffice to say, I was a little disappointed when I full synched the game in 2019 and learned that rumor was just bs
@@RiderXtreme1 Played Bloodlines and AC 2 on the console. Not a fan of both. AC Rogue is the only I didn't like. Syndcate, Black Flag, Odyssey, Origins, Brotherhood and 1 are my favorites.
Freedom Cry is for people who have exhausted Black Flag, or even just run through it, and want another story in that world. It also fleshes out his character, as you do see him again in AC Rogue. Same for Avelines dlc pack for Playstation players. Some more character building and a story within that world. As a standalone game though, I think Freedom Cry falls apart pretty quickly due to it’s insanely short run time if you aren’t doing side stuff. Although all the old AC games are pretty short and FC is still 1/4 the length of Black Flag’s main story and also 1/4 the price.
About halfway through this DLC and though there is alot of busy work, I'm still having a ton of fun tbh. Love this character. He's definitely one of my favorites if not my favorite. Also I got this for sale for $15 on the Switch with AC Black Flag and Rogue, all included in the Rebel Pack. Pretty happy with that purchase.
I’m imagining a world where instead of this small dlc and the crazy release of Unity and Rogue, Ubisoft recognized the massive untapped potential of Black Flag sequels and made a full Adewale sequel followed by an Edward sequel exploring Europe and Africa, and then a better, more polished version of Rogue. There were so many directions they could have gone.
10:00 oooh that line! Yessss God that sounds like such a heroic statement. He has some great line delivery, I would take a whole game like AC3 if it was based around this guy. Stealing the show and stealing my heart! Hell yes
@@brendanc1243 I can’t remember when it became free but it was a while after it released and when I saw a piece of AC was free I delved so heavily into that DLC
I never realized there were time skips😭😭. I was so lost as to why he was in such a fucking hurry to leave. And it really didn’t help that the whole thing plays out like a week’s worth of work from any other games.
I was looking through my PS Plus games and this is one of them. Never played it, but figured you might have a video on it, so here I am seeing if it's worth checking out.
I feel like the comparison between Freedom Cry and Liberation isn't fair because Liberation wasn't DLC. It was its own complete game built to help sell PS Vitas. Anyway, I did forget about Freedom Cry, which shows how memorable it was to me. It was aight. At the time I just wanted more Black Flag. I agree it has a good beginning and good ending. But when people talked about Assassin's Creed getting stale, things like this were some of the culprits.
Yes I remember Also I got stuck in a part that I couldn't continue because i didn't have enough materials to upgrade my ship and I didn't know how to get the materials
when i got around to play freedom cry, I was already kind of tiired of ac in general, so i don't really remember of it as being fun, just being more ac, wich I was really just tired of haha, but it's nice to see it was fun for a lot of people, great video.
Ya know, this being a DLC story to a previous game makes a lot of sense. Years ago, Freedom Cry was given out as a free PS Plus game. I played it and agree that the gameplay is decently satisfying. Story though was an absolute snooze feast! Just didn't care for anything and eventually got to a point where I didn't know how to progress, leading me ultimately dropping the game. Knowing that this is a story that required me to play another game beforehand is most likely the reason why Freedom Cry fell flat as I knew nothing about Adewale, so I'm little inspired to check out Black Flag soon. Great video!
After black flag I didn’t care about the story of ac games because I knew it couldn’t be better than black flag. I like freedom cry because of the machete and blunderbuss. I wish adewale’s outfit, machete, and blunderbuss were available in the main game. I also wish that they added British, Spanish, French, and Portuguese ships and locations to both games instead of just having the Portuguese in one sequence of the main game and no French at all. If they just update it or something and put all these things in the main game and dlc and fix the bugs, no one would complain. People would actually buy it if they didn’t already 8 years ago.
As person who play Freedom Cry in the Rebellion collection on switch which I got for 49 AUD. I enjoyed it for what is was but I have over the recent year come to expect short DLC from Ubisoft from time to time. But when I played two years I ago it was fun and when it ended I was quite satisfied. So I think point at one price where you buy it as stand alone price is one thing but for some they buy the best for money deal which is what I got. So it doesn't bother me knowing I got a short DLC because the whole package was good fun and I got 100+ hours out of a game for 49 Dollars. Note the Rebellion collection includes AC 4, the Aveline DLC, Freedom Cry and Ac Rogue.
This is the point of Freedom Cry: Giving you more of the awesome gameplay of Black Flag Exploring Adewale as a character Having an awesome story that really makes you question your morality and if freeing all these slaves is really the right thing to do, when all the ones you haven't are being punished for it Getting to beat up slavery.
This was dlc was made for black people. And we appreciate it. When I got this game for free I never heard of the game gave it a shot and still love it today
Don't say we cause this could have been alot better. Yes is it was pretty great, fun, some challenge here and there but alot of it felt like busy work. The main character Adewale was amazing until you play Rouge and his sense of understanding goes out the window. A solid 6/10
I'm not sure. Over the course of my videos, I have skipped over a few DLCs, and part of me thinks I should do one big video wrapping up my thoughts on all the DLCs. Skimming over the ones I covered and giving in-depth thoughts on those I didn't. What do you think?
i got a ton of assassins creed games in a massive steam sale recently, and it felt like i got a crazy deal on everything except this game. it felt like the proper price WAS the discounted price at around five dollars iirc, but even w it being very overpriced for the amount of content you get, i liked it way more than liberation. i didnt do any of the side objectives in liberation because it didnt feel rewarding, and the story was so sporadic and unfollowable
I enjoyed Freedom Cry for two reasons, firstly I love games around revolutions, especially Slave Rebellions that you’re building up. Second, a lot of media romanticises this area and time period whereas Freedom Cry focuses on the uglier side of it by putting slavery in the spotlight.
I got the game for free on PS Plus a few years ago, I had just beaten Unity so I thought it was gonna be similar. Then it was like black flag but more ground based and it confused me so I never played it again.
I haven’t even finished black flag yet (first AC) (only 30% complete) it’s amazing!! I like adewale and I’ve never spent money on game currency or dlc but I want this to be my first DLC
I got the jackdaw edition (all fancy dlc stuff) a year after it released b/c I wanted a ps4 b4 playing AC black flag and it was absolutely worth it! wouldn't buy it full price though, as ubisoft is as greedy as they come freedom cry was a refreshing breath of air, the characters got expanded and most of all: it wasn't meant to pander, but to tell a story, and that it got right. great to see you making a video about it. kudos mate!
historically it was the British navy that stopped slavery, and later helped create the American navy to support them on the seas. So if I was to run around in Black Flag to free slaves, it would feel more accurate and better if it was Edward doing the lifting, not Adewale...
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I think the next assassin creed is going to be in sub Saharan Africa which is why freedom cry won’t make sense until the next AC
@@plntycash I've heard rumors that the next AC won't take place in 1 singular time. It'll bounce around to different times and areas.
I actually like this a lot more than any dlc. Instead of extra missions it’s a whole new story with a new assassin. Adewale is my second favorite character and his tools are so much fun. I always catch myself playing this when I pop in black flag
who is your favourite?
@@millennium677 I love Altair the most. He’s just so wise and I love his story from the first game. He’s just a legend
@@Gu5A2 his Ezio's mentor aswell
I was gonna say the same. I'd never say "oh, that one", I usually say "one contender for the best DLC I've ever played"
@@millennium677 elaborate please
Adewale is a good dude, and the power fantasy is fed by freeing slaves. That's all I needed.
I liked that there’s no moral ambiguity with what Adewale does. They’ve re-hashed the ‘am I really the good guy or is there a middle ground I haven’t met?’ trope in since AC2 all the way to AC4. But this was a good subversion. There’s nothing morally grey about what Adewale does. He’s just a good guy. All that for Ubisoft to butcher his conclusion in AC: Rouge though.
He's the Assassin pirate Django (the Jamie Foxx version).
I enjoyed unleashing my ancestral rage on slave owners in this. Felt like I was playing a game version of Django Unchained
Talking about Django, a game about him would be cool
😂lol
Lmao 😂
Lol yea wtf it did. I'm mix of everything and as a kid when me and my brother played this we felt like our ancestors 😂 being part Mexican black, spanish, Brazilian, Portugal. I was all over the map in this game
@@keyman245would be like rdr3
I love freedom cry because of only one thing - big pirate shotgun.
you mean a blunderbuss
that sound so wrong
@@sanguinebonlin.7979 no the big pirate shotgun, you nerd
You also had that in Dead Kings
@@sanguinebonlin.7979 precisely.
Big pirate shotgun.
Liberation was released as its own game on the Vita (the HD remaster being included as part of the Assassin’s Creed III Remastered release), while Freedom Cry was developed as DLC for Black Flag. Comparing them doesn’t feel right as they were developed as different things. It’d be more apt to compare Freedom Cry to Dead Kings or Jack the Ripper, DLC that revisited the worlds of the base games and used the same engine.
Yeah but Freedom Cry was a standalone. Neither Dead Kings or the Jack the Ripper DLC where that
Is rogue a dlc then
@@Kodaiva Rogue is a separate title entirely, you can purchase it was it’s own PS3 or PS4 remastered title. It’s in no way a DLC.
@@Kodaiva lol, yeah
@@jbcatz5 His question was hypothetical.
Honestly, I really like this DLC, and I wish Ubi made games focus on other independence movements, heck, imagine an AC game set in South America, helping Simon Bolivar pushing Templar supported spain colonizers out of the continent
Never thought about that, sounds like damn good idea, maybe you should be the one writing these games
Or one that takes place during the Civil War
Maaan I've been saying for years I want a South American AC fighting the Spanish.
An Indonesian AC fighting the Dutch would also feel so good
And what if bolivar was the templar??? Huh?!
@@alejandrohernandezcarrillo2436 I can either see Bolivar being portrayed as a Templar or just a useful pawn to them. What would make it interesting is the possibility of him meeting with San Martín.
I loved freedom cry. Sucks we couldn't get his outfit in anything else.
This outfit would have looked so badass in Origins.
@@chillguy7687 honestly any game after freedom cry. The sleeveless look with the hood would've been righteous.
@@_TheTacticalGamer I don’t think Arno would look too good in it
@@BalroomBlitz715 hmm maybe not him in it but imagine the crisp colors of unity on that suit
Would've been a great fit for Bayek.
The box in Freedom Cry is the same box that is completely central to Rogue's story. That's why Adewale is that far north in the first place; he was chasing the Templar that stole it from the Maroon Assassin that caused the earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
The box and the Voynich manuscript that Edward recompiled in Black Flag are necessary to Rogue's story and Adewale's part in it. Yes, that box is also why Arno's birth-father died.
Pretty sure it's not the same box from Chronicles.
Anyway the point of Freedom Cry's story is Adewale being the Creed incarnate and freeing hundreds of slaves. No Assassin has so literally fought for the freedom of humanity as Adewale. He earns the hype he's given early in Rogue at Davenport.
Unlike Aveline who kills more former slaves than she herself frees and whose greatest story impact is being an Abstergo Entertainment product.
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Any assassin who works too free slaves is good in my book, i may pick up the game now
There are few game missions as satisfying as methodically stalking and taking out plantation overseers one by one, then setting everyone free. That's one of my biggest problems with Liberation - it's in the title, but very little actual liberation happening. Aveline could have been such a fun player to play, but they missed the mark IMO. I couldn't really even tell you what the point of the story was, it was just kind of weird. Adewale shreds through the bad guys, and it's sooo fun.
I played Black Flag but I don't remember Edward collecting the Voynich Manuscript or that box. Is that from one of the companion books?
The Voynich manuscripts are part of the collectible items that are shown on the map as scrolls. It is assumed that Edward eventually got them all, though they were never refered to in Black Flag's main story.
I don't remember having any issues with freedom cry, just felt like more black flag which I needed more of.
The best ac dlc ever thanks so much for doing this.
DaVinci disappearance, dead kings and hidden ones: what?
AC 3 and tyranny of King Washington?
@@jaksamadera4421 Never
@@ninjafrog6966 Hidden Ones and Curse of the Pharaohs.
@@ninjafrog6966 this is still better
Ofcourse! I like Adewale. He is an assassin personified. A traditional assassin and I love it.
I also like him in AC Rogue. I was happy to see both him and Achilles from AC3 in the past.
He is one of the assassins that I think need another chance to shine. Plus, the chronicle assassins who need a real legit ac game.
I was genuinely pissed at him in Rogue, because of what we knew about him in Black Flag and Fredom Cry. We know the Maroons that Adewale freed and assembled all got wiped out by one giant earthquake. Then under the order of Achilles Shay looked for the second Artifact and caused a second giant earthquake in lisbon, killing thousands again. Adé should've made the connection immediately and realized that the assassins were the cause of the death of many innocents and that Shay was right in attempting to steal the map from Achilles in order to prevent any more mass killings. Nonetheless he was one of the Assassins who saw Shay as a traitor and went to hunt him down as a Templar. And in his death he went down disgraceful, disrespecting him and in turn got scorned by Shay who until that moment respected him and didn't want to kill him.
@@solidzack Hey, atleast he didn't have a random cameo that has nothing to do with the main story like how most games do. “Oh hey, I'm from AC Black Flag and DLC and now I'm here. Ok byeeee.”
@@solidzack I guess that Ubisoft just wanted to do the easy way back then. Ubisoft belike: "Want to promote a game where you play as a Templar? Make the Assassin's side become stubborn and make them break every of their Tenets. After that, re-use our playable character in our previous DLC, attract some fans, and let him do questionable stuffs so that our new protagonist can kill him and be justified about it! "
PS: sorry that I replied to a 7 months old comment, just give my 2 cents here
isn’t the hint the fact that adawale is in rogue? his story finishes there, at least i mean. maybe the dlc was supposed to give more about what happened to him between black flag and rogue than it ended up actually giving
Freedom cry was always more fun for me to roleplay when i originally played it- a man who simply just freed slaves
I thought it was badass to liberate slaves and especially hearing the songs after the plantations/ships were conquered it was immersive and idk it made made feel good in a way
except in real life and history, it was the British navy that stopped slavery inn and to the west... not a random black dude, those were known to be against the British stopping this sort of behavior. I said inn and to the west, cus that the only place on earth that stopped slavery, Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America all continues to this very day, they aren't even on the same scale as the British to compare themself as men of quality.
The amounts of millions the British crown used to bribe the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, ect to stop slavery is huge, in my humble opinion, all shaded people in the west owes 50% of their salaries their entire lives to the British crown, until the debt has been repaid in full with inflation.
I didn't care to play a blackwashing of history like that... I respect the dead white British men that gave their lives to free the blacks, browns and asians in the west.
@@savagegtalks5912 Are we really arguing on the historical accuracy...of Assassins Creed?
Okay.
(also your comment comes off as super white savior which is a double yikes)
@@ubermaster1 why you hate on the British that stopped slavery?
Why don't you take your racist, slavery supporting attitude somewhere else...?
Now if you truly was anti-slavery, you would support what I said and not start a discussion about blackwashing it and lie about it. But you feel offended cus it's part of you and your culture and you behave like this to exterminate the British to reopen your slave markets in Africa. West Africa started reopening theirs here in 2018-2019. So I see why you would make huge profits from behaving like this towards me, when I stand up for those that already gave their lives to protect the freedom in the west.
No more discussion about it cus you are trying to make profit from slavery. Your anti-white racist tactics don't work on me. Your black nazi attitude isn't very cute...
@@savagegtalks5912
Are you seriously harping over history in an Assassins Creed game..? An alternate universe in which the literal explanations for things have been altered. The Assassins keep themselves out of history books for a reason. This could just be easily explained away with “those Brits were actually a minor role in ending slavery, but rather it was the Assassins spearheaded by Adewale that brought slavery in the West Indies to its knees.”
Your ahistorical views of the history of chattel slavery aside, “blackwashing”? Really dude? You’ve touched on all the weird gamer-gate talking points that can’t even be applied to this story. Are you really that upset that a FICTIONAL black guy freed slaves, (a morally good thing mind you). How’s that really an issue to you 💀
@@i.theworstguys298 this was just the easy beginning of what is today an even more clear blackwashing, just see Amazon's Rings of Power and Vikings "black jarl"...
Take your anti-white racism back to California please...
Unrelated to my previous comment, This was actually my first foray into the Assassin's creed series, when it was free on Playstation Plus some years back. I was confused about why there's no tutorial at all, not realizing it was a standalone DLC, and couldn't actually figure out the controls very well and put it down quickly
I loved the story and more Adewale played it through the rebel collection. Also felt like I was getting my get back for my ancestors
Apparently, as good as the dlc was AC liberation got some flack for how the slaves were not depicted with more “accuracy” in how they were treated. Meaning the absence of harsh punishments, trapped in cages, auctions, plantation labor, etc. so they just wanted an unapologetic dlc with the same the premise. And as some on of African descent I really like it cause maroon history isn’t really shown in video games depicting slavery or American colonialism in general. Mainly just natives and whites.
I completely forgot about Freedom Cry! I remember really enjoying the DLC at the time but I couldn't tell you why now. Maybe it was the return to more Assassin's Creed-ish gameplay but I loved Black Flag so I have no clue. Regardless, as always love your work mate!
I thought it was fine having the mission progression dependent on the number of slaves you've freed. It gave me something to do while scouring Port-au-Prince for collectables. In fact I usually hit the quota long before I run out of collectables.
I remember having a bug where Adewale's voice was replaced by Edward's for an entire sequence. Think it was the one where you infiltrate a place pretending to be a slave.
I had the same problem
Amazing DLC. The whole Black Flag saga was amazing despite the fact people think its far away from assassins creed, it felt connecting and still related to animus
I love the blunderbuss in Freedom Cry I hope to one day see it return
I want a relationship that lasts as long as Pyrite's patron to Aqua
I got the AC rebel collection for Switch, on sale, and it came with Black Flag and it’s DLCs and Rogue. Been playing Freedom Cry and having a good time.
Those machete kills were so based and if you held triangle for your next chain kill, Ade would use the blunderbuss to kill 2 enemies in a stylish double kill.
Same with Edward with his guns. Not a lot of people know this
I loved Freedom Cry’s. I actually played most of it on my vita using remote play. Lol
I played through this DLC twice, once back on the day when it first released, and again in The Rebel Collection for the Nintendo Switch. And still, I can hardly remember anything that happens in the story. Just, Adewale gets shipwrecked in Port Au Prince, stuff happens, he kills the governor and kickstarts the Haitian Revolution (which to be fair is a fascinating historical event, slaves and semi-free blacks rising up to take over the French colony of Haiti). Still, despite the story it's a very fun piece of DLC.
This was a PlayStation plus a few years back and I thoroughly enjoyed it
I played Freedom Cry some years ago when it was free with PS+, and I remember feeling really mixed about it. I liked Adewale and thought his load out was cool and fun to use, but aside from that it felt lackluster. The gameplay loop was fun but felt dampened by how it was a bit tedious and necessary to progress the story, and then before I knew it the game was just over. It wasn’t a terrible experience, but I don’t know that it’s one I’d necessarily pay for.
Also, I recall a rumor among my friends back in middle school that if you 100% Freedom Cry you get Adewale’s outfit. Suffice to say, I was a little disappointed when I full synched the game in 2019 and learned that rumor was just bs
Freedom Cry Is my favorite DLC ever and I've played all AC games and their DLCs
Bet you haven't played Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines or Assassin's Creed 2 multiplayer on the mobile 🤔
@@RiderXtreme1 Played Bloodlines and AC 2 on the console. Not a fan of both. AC Rogue is the only I didn't like. Syndcate, Black Flag, Odyssey, Origins, Brotherhood and 1 are my favorites.
@@metodoinstinto I'm on about Assassin's Creed 2 multiplayer. Still doubt you've played that
I feel like this could've been great if it was a full game and had alot less padding.
Freedom Cry is for people who have exhausted Black Flag, or even just run through it, and want another story in that world. It also fleshes out his character, as you do see him again in AC Rogue. Same for Avelines dlc pack for Playstation players. Some more character building and a story within that world. As a standalone game though, I think Freedom Cry falls apart pretty quickly due to it’s insanely short run time if you aren’t doing side stuff. Although all the old AC games are pretty short and FC is still 1/4 the length of Black Flag’s main story and also 1/4 the price.
About halfway through this DLC and though there is alot of busy work, I'm still having a ton of fun tbh. Love this character. He's definitely one of my favorites if not my favorite.
Also I got this for sale for $15 on the Switch with AC Black Flag and Rogue, all included in the Rebel Pack. Pretty happy with that purchase.
I’m imagining a world where instead of this small dlc and the crazy release of Unity and Rogue, Ubisoft recognized the massive untapped potential of Black Flag sequels and made a full Adewale sequel followed by an Edward sequel exploring Europe and Africa, and then a better, more polished version of Rogue. There were so many directions they could have gone.
10:00 oooh that line! Yessss
God that sounds like such a heroic statement. He has some great line delivery, I would take a whole game like AC3 if it was based around this guy.
Stealing the show and stealing my heart! Hell yes
This was my first taste of AC cause the DLC was free atm so I played the CRAP out of it, thanks for this video!
It wasn’t free when I first got it
@@brendanc1243 I can’t remember when it became free but it was a while after it released and when I saw a piece of AC was free I delved so heavily into that DLC
I never realized there were time skips😭😭. I was so lost as to why he was in such a fucking hurry to leave. And it really didn’t help that the whole thing plays out like a week’s worth of work from any other games.
Best synchronisation sting
did a pseudo-speedrun of the entire series and I finished this one in 2 hours, 18 minutes, and 4 seconds
They should make an Assassins Creed game set in the early 1800s, where you play as a former slave who goes around assassinating slave owners
Black Flag is my favourite game I never wanna replay. Freedom Cry is a fantastic little game to go back to when I feel nostalgic.
I was looking through my PS Plus games and this is one of them. Never played it, but figured you might have a video on it, so here I am seeing if it's worth checking out.
I actually really liked Freedom Cry. Albeit I got the Rebel Package for 15 dollars and practically got Freedom Cry for free, but I still liked it.
Randomly finding out one of my favorite RUclipsrs is also a celiac because of a sponsor ad
We share the pain of never enjoying good food 🤘😔
@@ThatBoyAqua Is Gluten-free food still like 4 times the price for no reason in Canada?
Yes lol it’s getting better but still by no means cheap
I feel like the comparison between Freedom Cry and Liberation isn't fair because Liberation wasn't DLC. It was its own complete game built to help sell PS Vitas.
Anyway, I did forget about Freedom Cry, which shows how memorable it was to me. It was aight. At the time I just wanted more Black Flag. I agree it has a good beginning and good ending. But when people talked about Assassin's Creed getting stale, things like this were some of the culprits.
I love freedom cry its underrated
It’s a sad thing that people forgot about freedom cry..
Yes I remember
Also I got stuck in a part that I couldn't continue because i didn't have enough materials to upgrade my ship and I didn't know how to get the materials
The only AC where i got the 100%, i loved Adewale in Black Flag and despite not playing Rouge i like that he appears there like the legend he is
when i got around to play freedom cry, I was already kind of tiired of ac in general, so i don't really remember of it as being fun, just being more ac, wich I was really just tired of haha, but it's nice to see it was fun for a lot of people, great video.
Didn't know you were Canadian ^^ (yeah we really do get rekt on game prices...)
Adewale to me personally is Edward and Connor in one person!
Regarding the price, getting it on sale etc...
It REGULARLY goes down to £2.99
I would highly recommend picking it up on a sale
all of that greatness in 8.089 GB
2:00 Damn, sorry to hear. I only have the misfortune of the former.
Ya know, this being a DLC story to a previous game makes a lot of sense.
Years ago, Freedom Cry was given out as a free PS Plus game. I played it and agree that the gameplay is decently satisfying. Story though was an absolute snooze feast! Just didn't care for anything and eventually got to a point where I didn't know how to progress, leading me ultimately dropping the game.
Knowing that this is a story that required me to play another game beforehand is most likely the reason why Freedom Cry fell flat as I knew nothing about Adewale, so I'm little inspired to check out Black Flag soon. Great video!
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After black flag I didn’t care about the story of ac games because I knew it couldn’t be better than black flag. I like freedom cry because of the machete and blunderbuss. I wish adewale’s outfit, machete, and blunderbuss were available in the main game. I also wish that they added British, Spanish, French, and Portuguese ships and locations to both games instead of just having the Portuguese in one sequence of the main game and no French at all. If they just update it or something and put all these things in the main game and dlc and fix the bugs, no one would complain. People would actually buy it if they didn’t already 8 years ago.
“Who was this made for”
*Sighs heavy black sigh*
Most underated AC game I loved it
bro started rhyming at 4:22
As person who play Freedom Cry in the Rebellion collection on switch which I got for 49 AUD. I enjoyed it for what is was but I have over the recent year come to expect short DLC from Ubisoft from time to time. But when I played two years I ago it was fun and when it ended I was quite satisfied. So I think point at one price where you buy it as stand alone price is one thing but for some they buy the best for money deal which is what I got. So it doesn't bother me knowing I got a short DLC because the whole package was good fun and I got 100+ hours out of a game for 49 Dollars. Note the Rebellion collection includes AC 4, the Aveline DLC, Freedom Cry and Ac Rogue.
This is the point of Freedom Cry:
Giving you more of the awesome gameplay of Black Flag
Exploring Adewale as a character
Having an awesome story that really makes you question your morality and if freeing all these slaves is really the right thing to do, when all the ones you haven't are being punished for it
Getting to beat up slavery.
This was dlc was made for black people. And we appreciate it. When I got this game for free I never heard of the game gave it a shot and still love it today
Don't say we cause this could have been alot better. Yes is it was pretty great, fun, some challenge here and there but alot of it felt like busy work. The main character Adewale was amazing until you play Rouge and his sense of understanding goes out the window. A solid 6/10
"Remember Freedom Cry?"
Me: *Cries in Assasin's Creed Rogue* Yes... yes I do...
I remember that Fredom Cry was the 1st DLC I got for my RGH XB360
Will you do remember Tyranny of Washington?
I'm not sure. Over the course of my videos, I have skipped over a few DLCs, and part of me thinks I should do one big video wrapping up my thoughts on all the DLCs. Skimming over the ones I covered and giving in-depth thoughts on those I didn't. What do you think?
@@ThatBoyAqua I'd say go for it. It doesn't make sense to make a video for each DLC as most are just two hours long or less.
I literally just started playing Freedom Cry😂. Will you ever do any Far Cry games btw?
Yeah of course how can I forget the hot chocolate guy!
I liked it a lot but I didn't play Black Flag, I watched a mate play it so I knew all the info needed
Ubisoft constantly has these older AC games on sale for $2-3 a piece
Always nice to see a lovely upload from yourself. would love to see a ranking, as you've got an interesting view on the series.
Freedom cry is so good!
this is why we sail the high seas
I would think that with this being released before Rogue that the hints they talked about is first Rogue and Unity with them coming a year later.
I feel that this dlc was created just to say that there was an inclusive Assassin's Creed without devoting any major resources to a full release.
This was my first assassins creed game
I do! And I loved Adewale and his machete!
Tomb Raider 3 music at 8:48 😁💯
Man I loved that game
I liked the Tomb Raider 3 level 1 background music playing.
PS: Freedom Cry is my favourite Assassin’s Creed.
Black Flag was my favorite as well.
i got a ton of assassins creed games in a massive steam sale recently, and it felt like i got a crazy deal on everything except this game. it felt like the proper price WAS the discounted price at around five dollars iirc, but even w it being very overpriced for the amount of content you get, i liked it way more than liberation. i didnt do any of the side objectives in liberation because it didnt feel rewarding, and the story was so sporadic and unfollowable
Just got into your channel and finished binging it, thank you for the new video!
Edit: I’m also celiac, I feel the limited choices of food.
I enjoyed Freedom Cry for two reasons, firstly I love games around revolutions, especially Slave Rebellions that you’re building up. Second, a lot of media romanticises this area and time period whereas Freedom Cry focuses on the uglier side of it by putting slavery in the spotlight.
I got the game for free on PS Plus a few years ago, I had just beaten Unity so I thought it was gonna be similar. Then it was like black flag but more ground based and it confused me so I never played it again.
I haven’t even finished black flag yet (first AC) (only 30% complete) it’s amazing!! I like adewale and I’ve never spent money on game currency or dlc but I want this to be my first DLC
The box also showed up in dead kings dlc.
I got the jackdaw edition (all fancy dlc stuff) a year after it released b/c I wanted a ps4 b4 playing AC black flag and it was absolutely worth it! wouldn't buy it full price though, as ubisoft is as greedy as they come
freedom cry was a refreshing breath of air, the characters got expanded and most of all: it wasn't meant to pander, but to tell a story, and that it got right. great to see you making a video about it.
kudos mate!
Thought it was awesome
Playing as my main man Adewale
Being an assassin
Freeing slaves
B L U N D E R. B U S S
Well it just came onto ps plus’s game catalogue
Basically Freedom Cry is redundant, because Liberation exists.
This was cool and all but I kind of wished we got Kenway fighting ghost pirates and a Kraken.
Hey I liked it 🤷♂️
The music is awesome.
historically it was the British navy that stopped slavery, and later helped create the American navy to support them on the seas.
So if I was to run around in Black Flag to free slaves, it would feel more accurate and better if it was Edward doing the lifting, not Adewale...
I enjoyed this just as much as the Jack the Ripper dlc
I loved this dlc but wish it was longer
Sadly he was killed by shy from ac rouge
freedom cry was fun but it was extremely short