These are interesting traits that you wish the game would explore in more detail, but it's more concerned with a dizzying roster of villains and side characters than spending much time on the heroine at its center. Her recruitment into the Assassin Brotherhood is quickly glossed over, while her gender and mixed ethnicity only occasionally factor into the story. She's introduced as an intriguing and strong-willed character, but Aveline's personality is hardly explored beyond that initial introduction. The greatest casualty of Liberation's muddled storytelling is Aveline herself. The bayou is filled with trees to climb and swamps to swim through. There are occasional flashes of excitement when a mysterious hacker infiltrates Abstergo's narrative to offer you the "truth" about these events, but they amount to little more than a handful of extended cutscenes back-loaded toward the end of the game. Though the story deals with such heavy themes as slavery and the cultural identity of a city transitioning from French to Spanish rule, it's a largely aimless and hastily delivered plot that sees Aveline bounce around like a pinball from one enemy to the next for the bulk of the game. There's great potential here for the type of storytelling unique to an unreliable narrator, yet Liberation takes little advantage of its own narrative format. It is, in other words, a story about Assassins as told by Templars.
Rather than one of Desmond Miles' trips through the Animus, the narrative in Liberation is framed as a piece of historical entertainment delivered by Abstergo Industries, the illusive corporation that serves as the series' overarching antagonist. In fact, this Vita spin-off introduces a number of intriguing concepts. It's not that Liberation lacks for new ideas. The New Orleans of Assassin's Creed III: Liberation is a beautiful, if somewhat dangerous, place.
She's the sort of figure capable of anchoring a truly special game-making it all the more disappointing that Liberation, taken as a whole, is a bit dull. This is a woman born from the romance between a wealthy father and a slave mother, someone who has overcome her uncertain upbringing to find a new life in the Assassin Brotherhood. Not only is the heroine of Assassin's Creed III: Liberation the series' first female protagonist, but her backstory deals with one of the darkest periods in American history. Aveline de Grandpre is a fascinating character.
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