Ubisoft released some new Assassin’s Creed Shadows artwork for another day. It is a collage of faces that somewhat oddly minimizes two playable characters (you can see all the pictures at the bottom of this article). There is a big guy at the top who is more important than the managers in the place, for example, but is far from the most agreeable person – who you would even think is the game’s protagonist from his recognition and the beautiful face on his cheek – is the child stalwart positioned directly in the logo.
Who is this child?
As a recent one Fun every weekhis name is Junjiro and he is “the future Naoe hopes Japan will be,” Naoe is one of Shadow’s two playable characters, the stealthy ninja counterbalance to Yasuke’s samurai muscle. So the child appears to play an important role in the story, but with our well-educated expectations of old movies, it’s hard to look at the near-smirk and not think it will be a fun experience for ennui-laden adults. around him. “This kid is going to save the day with some incredible people when everyone needs it the least,” PCG news hound Andy Chalk said after sharing the artwork in our social media post.
We don’t know much about Shadow’s support, and our opinion here is possibly (OK, maybe) unfair. Junjiro may not be the main character despite his front and center position on the poster, but we can’t stop ourselves from coming up with ideas for Assassin’s Creed missions that deal with the plucky kid hero anyway.
Here are our best guesses for how Junjiro will fit into Shadow:
Wes Fenlon, Senior Editor: Assassin’s Creed Shadow takes place about 20 years before Tokugawa Ieyasu seized power and became shogun, so maybe he must be one of Tokugawa’s or Nobunaga’s bastard sons or something, with new ideas like “What if we all got along?”
Lincoln Carpenter, Reporter: The “future of Japan” hint makes me think that he is some kind of precocious child inventor. You have to take this kid all kinds of half-finished pictures so that he can make dart launchers and upgraded grappling hooks, and he will be happy, and then you will take him great jobs and use them to make bad heaps. of the unnamed. He will think this is cool. My guess is that he may not know exactly what the game thinks he is must think this is cool.
However, or so it seems, a Gundam pilot.
All I know is it will have a minigame and it won’t be fun.
Tyler Wilde, US Editor-in-Chief: I think Lincoln’s child inventor estimate is strong. I don’t see Ubisoft as the type to put a kid in the fight, so it would make sense for him to hang out in a safe place. If his clothes were grubbier, I’d say he might be a guide or a scavenger – the street kid who always gets the rockets he steals from the rocket launcher fire for you, or a tip about the crime boss he runs the package for. His face is too clean for that kind of thing, however, maybe it’s more of the emotional advice that Wes leaned towards: the pure counselor of the heart that helps you digest the effects of your last bad action and guide you to the next level. . Every time you talk to him you’ll get a notification like, “Junjiro said you’ll find the answer at his favorite shrine. Check it out.”
(Even if it’s not a carrier, I still think that you will at some point find “Junjiro’s cache” and it will contain rockets.)
Christopher Livingston, Child Disliker: In the stories about success there is often a bad heir and a good heir, and I bet this child is somewhere in the “good” blood that means it is definitely stolen. First, you need to know him so that you are “lucky” even if you just want him to go so that you can start killing ninjas. And he’ll be one of those annoying kids who says shit like “I know the secret way into the castle!” and then you have to watch him climb the big tree and follow him, like you can’t figure that out for yourself. Then the evil heir will kill him and you have to save him by stabbing 700 people in the neck. Hopefully this means he doesn’t come to almost all games. (I don’t like children.)
Ted Litchfield, Associate Editor: I think the kid would be like Atreus from God of War or D Dog from MGS5, and you would be able to tell the kid to kill loot and stuff for you. Maybe the kid will be our new Eagle Vision, “Yasuke press the right button to use Kid Vision and find your target in the crowd!” If something like Young Wolf and Cub’s babysitting shows one or two actors to heal from their trauma, I’ll post the movie on hold until we can prove it. that we can trust them again.
Rich Stanton, Senior Editor: You just know that this little smugster will make quips and make fun with a pure heart that gives you hope for the future. The child is 100% getting stolen and, chances are, when he does you will be very happy: And a little stress the game makes you save him.
Andy Chalk, NA News Director: I’m following my thoughts on wacky shenanigans. At some point in the game, everything will be gone: Cool, some damage will be dealt to Yasuke and Naoe like charging samurai cavalry. “Of course we’re lost!” Yasuke cried, bracing himself for the last time. “If we still hold the power of Nobitsura Kage, we will be saved,” Naoe replied wistfully, steeling himself for the end. And then this kid—Naoe’s doofus cousin, who was a pain in the ass from the word “go”—came out of the background and said sheepishly, “You mean it. this Nobitsura Kage?” He breathlessly gives the legendary sword to Yasuke, who uses it to whip the hell out of everything. man Or you know, something like that Shenanigans!
