Assassin’s Creed Shadows review - new ideas drowned in repetition and flat drama

There’s a good idea at the core of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. It stars a pair of main characters, the samurai Yasuke and ninja Naoe, who not only play differently from one another but also represent the series’ distant and more recent past. Yasuke, who arrives in Japan during the game’s introduction as an African-born slave to Portuguese traders, is best suited to direct combat, slashing at enemies with a long katana and crashing through doors at a sprint. His movement and combat style ar...