Spoiler warning: This article discusses the ending of Assassin's Creed Origins.
With Bayek and Aya, Assassin's Creed Origins' husband and wife duo, Ubisoft is on to a very good thing. The main game's best story moments occur when the two interact, when they are allowed time to live on screen as a mature, authentic couple. But it's a difficult balancing act, because the meat of a typical Assassin's Creed game is seen through the eyes of one character - the series' stereotypical roguish loner who roams rooftops righting wrongs single-handed, while looking moody in a hood.
Origins plotted its way around Aya and Bayek's relationship by finding excuses to send Bayek off alone, by giving him jobs to do while Aya was off-screen doing other things, and sometimes - just sometimes - by letting you see what she was up to as well. Until, that is, the game's rather abrupt ending - when Aya, newly rechristened Amunet, ditches Bayek for good to oversee a new chapter of the fledgling Assassins in Rome. (Fans were not pleased at Baya's breakup.)
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