Assassin’s Creed Shadows is here, and spoiler alert: it turns out to freaking rule.
Ahead of its release last week, the discourse surroundingAssassins Creed Shadowswas fraught.
To put it mildly.
Commenters online likewise viewed the footage as disrespectful to Japanese culture.
Thats not to say the games historical elements arent important, of course.
But theres a deeper point still regarding the nature of historical fiction.
Assassins Creed has reimagined history in countless ways since its inception in 2007.
In the same games, Leonardo da Vinci builds the player a wooden tank!
Nobody complained about these inaccuracies for obvious reasons.
TheAssassins Creed Shadowstale of Naoe and Yasuke never happened, of course.
Did Leonardo da Vinci actually make gadgets for the Assassins in their eternal struggle with the Templars?
But who cares?Assassins Creed IIrules!
This is the silver lining of the story.
