It seems the eagerly anticipated Assassin’s Creed Shadows will provide much more flexibility and freedom over the game’s dual protagonists, to the point that even if the players largely ignore one of them, they won’t really miss out from the overall experience in any way.
In a recent interview with Screen Rant, Jonathan Dumont, the Creative Director of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows has confirmed that despite featuring two protagonists with drastically different playstyles, the game won’t force players to play as both of them for any considerable time. Also they won’t be missing out from any story related content if they choose to largely ignore playing one of the characters entirely.
“I don’t think you’re missing out on things too much,” Dumont stated. “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. Let’s say [for] 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.”
This essentially means players can easily focus on their preferred playstyle without ever needing to worry about any story content being locked out to them or anything like that. This added freedom definitely makes the game way more accessible and intuitive for players who want a stealthy approach or prefer to bullrush through enemies head-on. But if they do want to mix-n-match the two playstyles at any point, the game allows that too.
“We’re not imposing players try to split the time,” Dumont said. “If you prefer one character for any reason, you can play maybe, I don’t know, I’m not going to put a percentage, but quite a bit of the game using one of them.
“But if you want to balance it out… I play quite a bit balanced out and what happens is, I play with one for three, four, five hours, and then I switch, and then I just play two, three hours. Usually I play stealth and then I [say], ‘All right, let me destroy some camps and stuff all right for a while.’ And then I just change like that.”
The full interview features the Dev sharing exciting details on many other aspects of Assassin’s Creed Shadows and is simply a must-read for anyone looking forward to the game.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is set to arrive on March 20 for Playstation 5, Xbox Series X|S and the PC platform.
