First Trailer For 'Assassin's Creed Shadows' Dropped
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Fans of the Assassin’s Creed franchise have long awaited the time when the next game would take place in Japan, and that time is finally here. The excitement has been growing as the teaser depicts a Japanese setting where a ninja (shinobi) drops onto the picture with the telltale logo of the franchise. It was codenamed Red at the time.
We now know that the next game will be called Shadows, and just a while ago the trailer dropped, giving us a glimpse of what the game will be about and who players will get to play as.
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The narration indicates that the game takes place during the unification period of Japan, and by the depiction of one of the main characters, the playable samurai will be Yasuke. Yasuke is an actual historical figure. He was an African man from Mozambique who served under Oda Nobunaga. Oda Nobunaga is the first of the three “Great Unifiers” of Japan, which ended with the victory of Tokugawa Iyeasu, and a unified Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate until the mid-1800s.
Thematically, the narration indicates a play on light and dark, represented by the warrior caste of the samurai, and the clandestine shinobi clans, colloquially referred to as ninjas. Yasuke is almost always depicted in full armor, and brutally strong and taller than those around him, implying that he’ll be the out-front, in-the-light part of the dichotomy of light and dark, and Naoe (the shinobi) will be agile and without armor, characteristic of the franchise’s origins with shadow play.
It releases this holiday season on November 15.
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