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Assassin’s Creed: Mirage’s new free permadeath mode deletes your save when you break the lawNot everything is permitted
Not everything is permitted
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft
You can enable Full Synch Challenge on any difficulty. Cross-progression and cloud saves will be disabled in the process, and you can’t turn FSC off after starting the game. Finish a permadeath run, and you’ll be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams in the shape of… an emblem when completing the game on Easy, an emblem and a Rayhan costume when you complete the game on Normal, and an emblem, a Rayhan costume and six new dyes for existing outfits (specifically Initiate, Zanj Uprising, Abbasid Knight, Hidden Ones, Rostam and Bayek) when you complete the game on Hard.
Fail, and your sorry plight will be to stare disconsolately at a new stats screen showing your finishing time, how many conflicts you triggered, how you died, how many people you killed, and your assassin rank.
Some might call a new emblem, dyes and costume a scant return for the labour of avoiding being killed or getting caught breaking the law in Mirage. To these people I would say: you whippersnappers don’t know you’re born. Back in the day, every game was a permadeath game because there weren’t none of your fancy “save files”, thank you very much. Every morning, our dad would make us play through the entirety of Sonic 2 before we even had breakfast. “Sithee, you’ll get nowt snap till you’ve polished off Oil Ocean Zone and I don’t want any chuffing backchat,” he’d say. I once got locked in the pantry with a copy of Ghosts ‘n Goblins. It sure was grim up north.
Mirage was one of Ubisoft’s biggest success stories last year. Our Alice B called itthe most enjoyable Assassin’s Creed game for years. The next game isset in feudal Japan.
