Loki is already making Marvel Cinematic Universe history. Two years after the series was part of the first wave of Marvel Disney+ originals, it’s done what no other series could do: it snagged a Season 2 renewal. Now, Loki’s adventures in the TVA are only getting better and more complicated, to keep up the pace with an MCU now branching out into multiverses and galactic adventures.

Loki Executive Producer Kevin Wright opens up about Season 2, future MCU development, and the big ending that could change the MCU as we know it.

Running along the circular wall that surrounds the inner city of 9th-century Baghdad, I take down every guard in my path, one after another, in an endless stream of parkour and murder. After several minutes of this mindless action, I wonder if I’ve done a complete loop of the wall and if I could just keep this going forever.

The entire experience of playing Assassin’s Creed Mirage feels a lot like this small anecdote of my time in the walls of the Round City. The franchise itself is right back where it started in 2007, with a return to roots that revisits what fans love (assassin intrigue in an ancient city). But the core loop of Mirage is an endless treadmill of missions so frictionless you can basically turn your brain off.

While the details found at every turn during Mirage’s roughly 15-hour story demonstrate a high level of polish and care from the developers at Ubisoft Bordeaux, these parts are greater than the whole. In looking back to the origins of the franchise, Assassin’s Creed demonstrates how much creativity has been lost in pursuit of designing a video game to be as unobtrusive as possible.