If they were to take things back to the old school style of AC games (and not the modern day open world ubislop), I always thought the golden age of Spain would make a kick ass time period.

Have someone like Antonio Banderas voice the protag, make them sauve and charismatic like Ezio was, maybe have the actual fucking assassins and templars back in the story. Spain was a pretty massive empire back in the day, fought wars, built colonies, conquered a huge chunk of the planet. It’s a narrative gold mine just sitting there mostly ignored by the franchise.

But yeah, they would need to have actual game designers on board and cut all the activist cancer out first. If there are still nigs, girl bosses or fuckin sweet baby anythings in the game it’s not worth even bothering.

Last Kingdom was such a breath of fresh air for making the anti-immigrant faction the good guys and really showing the foreign hordes as murderous rapists. If it were anything but Saxons vs. Vikings respectively it could've never gotten made. Ditto Britannia for the "diverse" Roman invaders being (admittedly sympathetic) villains to the ethnonationalist Celts.