With Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ubisoft is finally taking the series to a setting that fans have been begging for since the start, but feudal Japan has been "very, very tricky" for the devs, who "want to be respectful" and "avoid telling a culture about their own culture.

The editors of GamesRadar+ participated in Ubisoft's presentation, where they discussed, among other things, The Animus Hub, a service designed to connect all contemporary installments of the series (starting from Assassin’s Creed Origins ).

Assassin's Creed Shadows's Japanese setting proved to be "very, very tricky" for developer Ubisoft because the team wanted to be "respectful" and "avoid telling a culture about their own culture".