Assassin’s Creed Shadows Players Who Stick Mainly As One Character ‘Aren’t Missing Out’ Says Director

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Jonathan Dumont, the Creative Director on Assassin’s Creed Shadows, has revealed during an interview with ScreenRant that players who decide to favour one of the game’s protagonists over the other won’t necessarily be “missing out” on anything.

While Assassin’s Creed Shadows offers the choice to play Yaoe or Yasuke, who offer differing play styles as a ninja and samurai, respectively, players won’t miss out on much in terms of content if they decide to focus on one character rather than switching it up.

I don’t think you’re missing out on things too much. I think it’s more on your preference to [say] ‘okay, I’ll see how the game will adapt a little bit to the character if you choose one over the other’. They get individual introductions, and then they get their own questline also. So that one is, let’s say Naoe, a personal questline cannot be played by Yasuke and those are two distinct things. But the core of the game can be pick your character and the game adapts.

So I guess you can switch for gameplay reasons, you can switch if you think that you like one of the other [protagonists] better, but I don’t think you’re missing out. That’s more, all right, have fun with the game, just play it as you want. And there’s going to be a couple of choices here and there that I wonder what happened, what would happen with this character, but I don’t think you’re missing out.

Dumont has added that players can enjoy “quite a bit of the game” with just one character, as the developer is “not imposing players [to] try to split their time” between Naoe and Yasuke. On a personal note, Dumont prefers to juggle both characters, switching it up every couple of hours.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is scheduled for release on March 20, 2025 for PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S. It was recently confirmed that the Japanese version of the game is censoring some of the game’s graphic content.

[Source – ScreenRant]