Assassin's Creed Shadows will encourage self-driven exploration. Yasuke and Naoe will occasionally have to find alternate routes depending on which character you're playing. Despite another delay to the release date of Assassin's Creed Shadows,

Assassin's Creed Shadows will get an official prequel story, fittingly told by a tie-in manga series. But rather than simply adapting the story of Ubisoft's upcoming feudal Japan stabathon, the series will instead be set some time prior.