not only ignorance, however. It also expresses contempt for one of the pillars of the Assassin's Creed series itself. An important reason I appreciated and enjoyed the first four installments ( I , II , Brotherhood and Revelations ) of the series as much as I did was the fact that each game was reasonably successful in evoking a culture different my own. The ability to do this is, in fact, one of the series' great strengths, and one that distinguishes it from its peers. Why, then, would a person in a leadership position on an Assassin's Creed game reveal such shallow thinking about the products of cultures other than his own? Hutchinson does not have a credit on any of the previous Assassin's Creed games; his most recent credit is having been the creative director of Army of Two: The 40th Day (which, ironically, Game Informer criticized for " lacking a cohesive story "), so perhaps the wording of his comment is simply the result of inexperience in matters outside of his own intellectual sphere. Or perhaps he is actually familiar with those traditions, but simply doesn't personally like them. There is of course nothing wrong with failing to connect with certain kinds of stories, or even admitting you feel those types of stories amount to "gibberish". Such matters are the province of opinion. If that's the case -- if he was trying to express a preference of opinion -- then I certainly understand what Hutchinson actually wanted to