{"id":118627,"date":"2020-11-12T11:11:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T11:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/assassins-creed-valhalla-ableist-language-update\/"},"modified":"2020-11-12T11:11:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T11:11:54","slug":"assassins-creed-valhalla-devs-apologize-for-ableist-language-promise-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/11\/12\/assassins-creed-valhalla-devs-apologize-for-ableist-language-promise-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Devs Apologize for Ableist Language, Promise Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla<\/em><\/strong> is the twelfth major installment and twenty-second overall release<\/a> in Ubisoft’s long-running Assassin’s Creed<\/em> franchise. Set in 873 AD, the game follows the story of the Viking invasion of Britain. Gamers get to control Eivor, a Viking raider who finds themselves caught up in the conflict between the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Templar Order that sees them\u00a0explore the ancient cities of Winchester, London, and York.\u00a0However, the game seems to have already stumbled into a bit of controversy for one line of dialogue.<\/p>\n

Courtney Craven, who founded Can I Play That?, an award-winning games media outlet for disabled gamers, discovered the words within the newest Assassin’s Creed<\/em> title. The game, which was released yesterday<\/a> to coincide with the Xbox Series S\/X launch, contains a piece of writing that describes Eorforwine’s backstory. It highlighted how Eorforwine was “horribly burned in a childhood accident” and now lives in fear that someone will “see her disfigured face.” This fear is alleviated, however, as she “relieves her fury with bursts of violence.”<\/p>\n

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Craven took\u00a0a screenshot of the in-game writing and shared it with their Twitter followers, noting how, although it wasn’t covered in their Assassin’s Creed Valhalla<\/a><\/em>\u00a0impressions piece, “it’s equally important to address.”\u00a0They stressed how it is “absolutely unacceptable” to talk about facial differences a person may have in the way Ubisoft has done before calling out video game writers, telling them they “need to do better.”<\/p>\n