Assassin’s Creed Shadows is great, when you’re an assassin

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the Assassin’s Creed game we’ve been dreaming of. For more years than I can count, players have been asking for a Japanese-set version of Ubisoft’s flagship open-world series, desperate to take to tiled Pagoda rooftops and brutally murder enemies from above. Shadows delivers that in droves with female protagonist Naoe, the Shinobi whose vengeful path will leave a trail of bodies in its wake. When it comes to Yasuke the samurai, however, it feels like Ubisoft has just made its own, rustier version of Sucker Punch’s 2020 epic, Ghost of Tsushima.

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