User blog comment:JAlbor/Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Q&A Opportunity/@comment-6517-20130809125408/@comment-4829046-20130812101035

The problem was emphasized since you just transition to the elevator after pressing the Assassinate button instead of looking at his corpse or giving the iconic catch-phrase. I was like, "that's it? What?" I was really expecting a Shakulu moment where he survived or maybe he turned and blocked the blade at the last second. What an anti-climatic end to a guy Desmond could have killed two times before.