Assassin's Creed Shadows: Naoe or Yasuke for Your First Hours?
The two protagonists play like different games. Here is what each one is actually good at, and when switching is worth the walk back.
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The two protagonists play like different games. Here is what each one is actually good at, and when switching is worth the walk back.
Naoe and Yasuke are two genuinely different games sharing one map, and Shadows is at its best when it stops pretending otherwise.
Ubisoft's post-launch work on Shadows keeps circling back to the seasons — the one system that changes how the game is played rather than how much of it there is.
Shadows is a game about light, contrast and distance. These are the panels that actually show you what the art team drew.
Type at least two characters.