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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a tale of two very different assassins
Instead of choosing a single character to play the entirety of Assassin's Creed Shadows, you can switch between the characters for assassination runs and exploration segments. They have two very different playstyles, too.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is set in feudal Japan, in the late 16th century, to be precise, at a time of political upheaval that birthed the ninja. If you missed the initial reveal, Shadows' protagonists are Yasuke, a powerful outsider samurai who can strike the armor off enemies, and Naoe, an assassin/ninja with a killer “sickle on-chain” kusarigama and those traditional AC killing methods — she has a wrist blade. Yasuke is based on a historical figure: An African man who served as a retainer to the Japanese lord Oda Nobunaga for roughly a year.
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