There's Naoe, an adept shinobi assassin with a more stealthy approach reminiscent of the series' past icons like the beloved Ezio Auditore. Then there's Yasuke, a hard-hitting samurai who deals ...

Yasuke, co-protagonist of the upcoming ... For the most part across the Assassin's Creed series you do, in fact, play as an assassin, but there are occasions where you don't even if they're ...

Syndicate isn't the only AC game that's tried to broaden our combat horizons. Ubisoft has been seeding the concept of a ...

in a series where you are meant to stealthily assassinate people, is somewhat beyond me. However, the issues start with the fact that the other protagonist is Yasuke and he’s now a samurai.

Ubisoft is at a crossroads with Assassin's Creed. While the franchise's recent RPG era has been financially successful, it ...

The video game is the 14th major installment in the series, and is set in feudal Japan ... taken" and ultimately meets the African samurai Yasuke, who tells her she is "a part of something bigger ...

Yasuke's actions in Assassin's Creed Shadows spark outrage, allegedly challenging the boundaries of respect for Japanese culture. Fns defend the series, noting its historical accuracy does not ...

Yasuke plays like a (somehow) even less nimble version of Kassandra and Eivor and leans into Shadows' breakable armor system to make combat marginally more complex and interesting than the series ...

Set in feudal Japan and starring dual protagonists Naoe (a slight, stealthy shinobi warrior) and Yasuke (a big ... to the development process of the series, every single entry of which has ...

From the trailer, we can see that Yasuke's playstyle favors the slick arts of the samurai, while Naoe's quiet, deft work in the shadows more closely resembles the AC series' stealthy origins.

With Assassin's Creed Shadows just around the corner, the hot topic right now is one I thought had already been established: Yasuke is not ... of that is down to its series-first twin dynamic.