Big doubt. For free roaming maybe, but I could definitely see them forcing the use of either character during set piece missions. From what I understand, they have separate weapons and abilities, so we’re probably gonna level them up simultaneously throughout the story. Not utilising two separate characters would be weird.
The premise looks great, and I’m very much interested in the game. Now, let’s see some gameplay.
I feel like I´m the only one uninterested here right now… This trailer was the very definition of bland, and both protagonists seem even blander. Would´ve preferred a gameplay trailer as well.
“With our dual protagonists, we have two fantasies, the samurai and the shinobi,” game director Charles Benoit explained. “We want the player to experience both, and we cannot squeeze both fantasies into one character because the samurai and shinobi came from different social classes. They have different lives. So we cannot really mix them together.”
Ok, I don´t know if you can actually fully develop both styles simultaneously since I haven´t played the game, but point is that GoT did mix them together in one character, so… I feel like for Ubisoft it´s mainly an excuse to have both a male and female protagonist again (arguably the least clumsy one, since it just follows Syndicate´s method). Not to mention Yasuke wouldn´t really fit any of the social classes they speak of here… I find his inclusion to be a (potentially) questionable choice, though if they´d explicitly tie it to Portuguese presence in Japan (and make him originate from the Mozambique areas), that might be neat.
I see this pop up alot. What exactly is the issue?
I also think it’s odd that you see having two different playable characters as some excuse rather than a feature.
I´ve edited it to “(potentially) questionable”, since that´s probably a slightly better wording. For me personally - I straight out want to play as Japanese characters in a samurai/ninja game set in feudal Japan. And I also don´t really trust Ubisoft much on the character(isation) side these days. But it depends on how Yasuke is actually implemented in the story. I absolutely might be jumping the gun here, since the trailer didn´t really tell us anything. I´d be happy to be proven wrong about it (heck, Yasuke may turn out to be the better call and Naoe the opposite - or both will be good - or both will be bad - the trailer just didn´t do anything to make me at least a bit excited or intrigued).
My main point was that it would be totally possible to mix two gameplay styles in one character (as evidenced by GoT as well as most older AC games). And I also kind of miss when the AC games had one protagonist as the clear focus of the story. As a feature, having two playable characters with completely different styles (and/or personalities) can be both good and bad, based on your preferences and how much mandatory time is dedicated to each. I would prefer to have the stealthy character only, since that is the sort of gameplay I want to see in an AC game. The open brawl/melee playstyle has always been the weaker point of the series for me, and if the game doesn´t do this aspect right and then forces me into it way too often, it will lessen the enjoyability for me. Again, I wouldn´t mind being proven wrong about it.
I guess that’s only fair. Luckily, there’s games that fulfil those criteria.
I’m willing to put some faith on the writers. Maybe having one character being an outsider is integral to the story they want to tell. We don’t really know where they’re going with it yet.
GoT was a bit conflicting in that aspect. It’s been a while since I played it, but I don’t think Jin was suuuuper keen on using shinobi tactics. The game obviously needed to tick some gameplay boxes and they used it to portray an internal morality struggle for the character. It was fine, but it doesn’t really take away from the AC devs saying samurai and shinobi are mutually exclusive.
Right, I just remembered the ending to GoT
Jin abandons his samurai honor and morals to save the island and his uncle. His uncle is so enraged by that, that he chooses to fight you. And you choose to either kill or spare him. So yes, in that particular story it’s fitting to mix both.
it comes out June 13th on pc and two weeks later for consoles
They also showed off this which I think is the skincrawler like enemy they teased in February
Free stuff to celebrate Minecraft’s 15th anniversary
So in follow-up to my statement here, I didn’t realize that another trailer had dropped where Ubisoft talks about who the two playable protagonists are, and it seems that yes, this is in fact the historical Yasuke as rumored, altered from his historical context in the same manner that Jack The Ripper was in Syndicate, except Yasuke is apparently going to be playable through either the entire game or most of it, making him the only historical domain character to be a playable protagonist for the main game.
At least, so far. Now that it’s happened, would not be surprised if we get an AC game set around President James Garfield during his time as a soldier in the Union army during the American Civil War, or something like that.
I’ll believe it when I see it 
Deadlock will reportedly be a 6 vs 6 third-person hero shooter. The game will feature a large map with four lanes to attack that have tower defense mechanics as well as various items and abilities to utilize.
I’m leaning more towards the “I don’t want to believe it” camp since I’m tired of Valve releasing such games instead of focusing on their single player / coop IPs. Hope it has the same fate as Artifact 
So if you play this trailer at 0.25x speed at the 11 second mark you can see a banana guard from adventure time
Valve games suck anyways. CS 1.6 was the exception and I’m not sure if it was even made by valve
Deadlock will reportedly be a 6 vs 6 third-person hero shooter. The game will feature a large map with four lanes to attack that have tower defense mechanics as well as various items and abilities to utilize.
Ugh.
Chapter 9: The Part Where I Kill You
“Hello! This is the part where I kill you.”
Achievement unlocked: The Part Where I Kill You
While playing the song in the ost -The Part Where He Kills You
And so the whining about “Black Samurai” and all the not-so-coded complaints about how, even though the character was historically real, there were so many other options to choose from, but they decided to not adhere to accuracy. 
Not only has the AC series never fully committed to “accuracy” - and an explanation as to why is actually built into the lore - but the racism and misogyny behind rants such as these are so blatant, I don’t know why they bother trying to code their words anymore. “It’s not racism or misogyny, I wanted a Japanese character, and women weren’t allowed to be Shinobi! It’s historically accurate!” Yeah, wonder what they think the Civil War was about (no, I actually don’t wonder).
What I find so weird about it is the idea that asian males aren’t represented in video games? There’s plenty of games to choose from if that’s a criteria.
And who actually gives a shit about relating to a video game character anyway? Especially within a franchise like AC, that’s so laissez faire with supernatural and fantasy elements. Just seems like an invented problem in my eyes.
Personally, I’m a normie ass cis white male from Europe. I enjoy playing games with main characters that are female, robots, animals, non binary, hollow avatars, children, cartoon-ish, gods, teenagers, black, asian, hispanic, alien, superheroes and cars. As long as the game is good/interesting, I’m in!
And the fact that the other main character is actually japanese just seals it. These people are entitled bigots.
Precisely. I mean, how often do we get to see a non-white character becoming exposed to another non-white culture? We have plenty of white characters meeting non-white culture, and plenty of non-white characters meeting white culture. Yeah, there may have been other non-Japanese people in that period who became samurai, but how often do you see a person of African descent being inducted into a Far East culture? You don’t really see that. You want to play as a Japanese man? Go play all the other ninja or samurai games there are. You want a story about the white historical figures who joined Far East culture? The Last Samurai and 47 Ronin are on streaming services now. Otherwise, this is a chance to do something that we don’t see often enough, actually happened, and has the Assassin’s Creed flavor attached to it. Stop whining and enjoy something new!
