Assassin's Creed Shadows features two protagonists, Naoe and Yasuke. Yasuke has certainly gotten the lion's share of attention, but in a brief clip, Ubisoft has reminded us that Naoe has some cool tricks up her ninja sleeve, including parkour flips and a sick, physics-based grappling hook.
On X, we got a short clip showing the shinobi in action, and it certainly looks more like the Assassin's Creed of old. While both protagonists can, of course, sneak and fight as the situation requires, Naoe is much more geared towards taking the quiet approach, with specialised gear and abilities to aid in the endeavour.
Shadows has been in development for four years, the longest dev cycle for a game in the series, which we think is probably for the best and hopefully less all-consuming. Valhalla was just too much game, and we hope Ubisoft has learned its lesson, creating a more focused and concise world to get lost in.
What do you think of Naoe's more acrobatic, traditionally assassin-style gameplay? Are you picking up Assassin's Creed Shadows in November? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Realistically, I plan on playing as much of the game as Naoe as I can. Her gameplay is much more “my Assassin’s Creed,” you feel me?
As we all know, it's more efficient to do a flip off of a roof instead of just jumping off it.
Looks great! Got it pre-ordered and ready to go. Probably going to be the last game I buy for the year. Looking forward to it!
Valhalla was my kind of length. Loved every second, and did all the missions and collectables.
Really hoping Shadows has as much content.
Removed - unconstructive
"Move swiftly across rooftops with Naoe’s new parkour moves."
Ah, yes. Play as the 16th century Japanese ninja who uses 20th century French acrobatics to move around. Because I guess admitting that she is about as authentic a ninja as Naruto is too hard. Ironically the black samurai is actually more historically accurate than she is because he is an actual real person.
That looks quite cool. Now, if only UbiSoft stopped putting guards on rooftops... which diminish the entire advantage and the sense of a logical world.
Nobody will forget Yasuke, someone that the hack called Thomas Lockley completely made up. Changed Wikipedia records, pulled the STORY (not history) out of thin air and wrote a freaking book about it. It's all utter nonsense and the fools at Ubisoft fell for it, probably willingly.
Let's hope Japan cancels this game and doesn't import this garbage of an insult to their culture
@Specky No offence intended, but did you learn that from some stranger on Twitter or Facebook? Because I just ran a Google search and even the Smithsonian agrees that he existed. Incidentally, Wikipedia has an undeserved reputation. It gets corrected very quickly once vandalism is discovered and thus I am inclined to believe it over your source - unless you are able to provide a citation of course.
New animations? 😱😱😱😱😱
I don't even care that they are absolutely f***ing ridiculous ones. Let's go haha
I'm guessing you'll just be holding down X while moving the stick upwards to enable all these cool moves, in typical AC fashion?
Personally I prefer when the parkour requires some well-timed precision input from the player, like in Mirror's Edge, Titanfall 2, Pseudoregalia etc.
@LifeGirl Well Nihon University fired Lockley over it, so you can believe whatever sources you want, but when an academic institution looks at your body of work and cries foul so much so that you are terminated from your position in the faculty, that's about as proof as one needs. Even the people who "helped" him with his study have come out against him for his misrepresentation and flat out lies about Japanese history.
"Forget Yasuke"
Yep, that's what should be done with every "brawler" protag they've added ever since they split the design with III.
Seems like every AC game now has two protags. The intended assassin, and Kiryu.
I didn't need to see this, already plan to play as Naoe as much as possible.
@NEStalgia in connor’s defense , he could whoop every assassin . the combat and brutality in AC3 was one of the positives about it
@nomither6 I still tried to play it as a stealth game.
@LifeGirl
You think the Japanese government got involved because some Facebook post?
It's a wrongful translation. The "black" could've been an attire or literally anything else and he took it as "yeap that's a black skinned samurai, lets write a whole book on this one single sentence and make it all up"
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