{"id":18151,"date":"2025-03-17T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/its-been-a-challenge-assassins-creed-shadows-and-the-quest-to-bring-feudal-japan-to-life\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T14:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:38:10","slug":"its-been-a-challenge-assassins-creed-shadows-and-the-quest-to-bring-feudal-japan-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/its-been-a-challenge-assassins-creed-shadows-and-the-quest-to-bring-feudal-japan-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s been a challenge\u2019: Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows and the quest to bring feudal Japan to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From watching classic samurai movies to rendering the unique way light falls on Japan\u2019s mountainsides and modelling individual characters\u2019 socks, Ubisoft has spared no effort recreating a fascinatingly violent period of history<\/p>\n<p>More than four years after its announcement and after two last-minute delays, the latest title in Ubisoft\u2019s historical fiction series Assassin\u2019s Creed will finally be released on Thursday. Set in Japan in 1579, a time of intense civil war dominated by the feudal lord Oda Nobunaga, it follows two characters navigating their way through the bloody chaos: a female shinobi named Fujibayashi Naoe, and Yasuke, an African slave turned samurai. Japan has been the series\u2019 most-requested setting for years, Ubisoft says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been on [this] franchise for 16 years and I think every time we start a new game, Japan comes up and we ask, is this the time?\u201d says executive producer Marc-Alexis Cot\u00e9. \u201cWe&#8217;ve never pushed beyond the conception phase with Japan until this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/mar\/17\/its-been-a-challenge-assassins-creed-shadows-and-the-quest-to-bring-feudal-japan-to-life\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/92075e37c98dab2d956d863abd42c221b45e874d\/240_0_3600_2160\/master\/3600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b22c28719660d738537b6b69e88297dd\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s been a challenge\u2019: Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows and the quest to bring feudal Japan to life\" \/>From watching classic samurai movies to rendering the unique way light falls on Japan\u2019s mountainsides and modelling individual characters\u2019 socks, Ubisoft has spared no effort recreating a fascinatingly violent period of history<br \/>\nMore than four years after its announcement and after two last-minute delays, the latest title in Ubisoft\u2019s historical fiction series Assassin\u2019s Creed will finally be released on Thursday. Set in Japan in 1579, a time of intense civil war dominated by the feudal lord Oda Nobunaga, it follows two characters navigating their way through the bloody chaos: a female shinobi named Fujibayashi Naoe, and Yasuke, an African slave turned samurai. Japan has been the series\u2019 most-requested setting for years, Ubisoft says.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve been on [this] franchise for 16 years and I think every time we start a new game, Japan comes up and we ask, is this the time?\u201d says executive producer Marc-Alexis Cot\u00e9. \u201cWe&#8217;ve never pushed beyond the conception phase with Japan until this one.&#8221; Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From watching classic samurai movies to rendering the unique way light falls on Japan\u2019s mountainsides and modelling individual characters\u2019 socks, Ubisoft has spared no effort recreating a fascinatingly violent period of history More than four years after its announcement and after two last-minute delays, the latest title in Ubisoft\u2019s historical fiction series Assassin\u2019s Creed will &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/its-been-a-challenge-assassins-creed-shadows-and-the-quest-to-bring-feudal-japan-to-life\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It\u2019s been a challenge\u2019: Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows and the quest to bring feudal Japan to life<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}