Assassin’s Creed Shadows follows shinobi Naoe Fujibayashi and samurai Yasuke as they work together during the Sengoku period in feudal Japan. Naoe is the more nimble protagonist of the two, and she definitely felt like a throwback to the older Assassin’s Creed games, but with a few new tools.

I got to try out Assassin’s Creed Shadows via a livestreamed four-hour preview. Just a week before that preview, Ubisoft had announced that the next main entry in the open-world franchise about sneaky assassins and evil Templars had been delayed.