After teasing its reveal earlier this week, Ubisoft has officially unveiled Assassin’s Creed Shadows with its first cinematic trailer, revealing a dual protagonist in the process. As many speculate, Shadows puts players in control of Japan’s first real-life African samurai, Yasuke, and a female shinobi character, Nao. It will be released on November 15.
This dual protagonist approach isn’t too surprising given that Ubisoft Quebec is developing the game — it did the same with Kassandra and Alexios in 2018’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey — but it’s interesting nonetheless. However, it remains to be seen whether players will control both throughout the story or have to choose one to play like Odyssey. Also, the trailer showcases the beauty and scale of feudal Japan that we will explore in Shadow.
Check it out for yourself in the Assassin’s Creed Shadows reveal trailer below:
Here’s another look at Yasuke and Naoe:
Shadows is an interesting entry in the sprawling Assassin’s Creed series. It’s finally bringing players to feudal Japan, something fans have been craving for years, and is the next open-world mainline RPG installment since 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. While last year’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage was pretty fun – read on Informant in the game Check out here to find out why we gave it an 8 out of 10 – it was a throwback to the more linear worlds of Assassin’s Creeds of the past. Shadows is the series returning to its new open-world format that began in 2017 with Assassin’s Creed Origins.
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