Murderer’s Creed Shadows’ formal reveal is just some hours away, however details about the feudal Japan-set sequel remains to be leaking via the gaps in its Yoroi armour. Two days in the past, the sport’s official YouTube channel by accident leaked a launch date – November 15 this yr, whereas yesterday noticed costs for the sport and DLC slip onto the Web.
Now, one other leak has revealed what seems to be the sport’s field artwork, which additionally reveals what’s presumably the sport’s predominant characters.
Ubisoft has been frantically eradicating the leaked pictures on reddit and varied social media websites, however extra are popping up sooner than the writer can take them down. If you wish to go into tonight’s reveal fully clear, learn no additional.
The leaked field artwork for Shadows depicts two characters, suggesting the sport can have twin protagonists a-la Odyssey and Valhalla. One in every of these characters seems to be the historic determine Yasuke. Often called the primary black Samurai, Yasuke travelled to Japan through the Sengoku period and stayed there for 3 years , serving as a retainer to Oda Nobunga between 1581 and 1582.
The second character seems to be a feminine shinobi, wielding a hooked weapon on a rope with a steel ball on the far finish. A separate leak means that this character’s identify is Naoe, and that her backstory shall be extra immediately tied into the sequence’ present Murderer/Templar fiction.
The primary trailer for Murderer’s Creed Shadows will drop at 5pm UK time tonight, so we can’t have lengthy to attend to see if this newest leak is correct. Both means, I am eager to see what Ubisoft have in retailer for this newest Murderer’s Creed. Shadows is the primary full-fat Murderer’s Creed sport since 2019’s Valhalla, and feudal Japan has lengthy been a dream setting for sequence followers. That is not to throw shade on final yr’s Mirage, in fact, which was a superbly gratifying throwback to the sooner years of the sequence.