A promised-to-be-expansive story will accompany the mass quantities of slashing steel and maelstroms of magic, thanks to something called "multi-angle character scenarios". We're betting that this basically means there'll be intertwining stories for each character. The screens that we've seen so far certainly hint at a raging torrent of backstory, chronicling tenuous human/monster relations ... to which blind genocide is almost certainly the answer.
Assassin's Creed Shadows was originally envisioned without Yasuke, but Ubisoft wanted the full feudal fantasy: "We were sort of making a stealth tank, and it didn't quite work"
Assassin's Creed Shadows lead says dual protagonists are "a cool thing" the new action RPG "does better than what we've done in the past"
