Assassin's Creed Shadows was the subject of both heated fan debate and gross toxicity from online culture war warriors, but associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois recently said all the drama hasn't scared Ubisoft away from making a game with dual protagonists in the future if it makes sense to do so.
"Dual protagonists can be divisive along very strange lines, right?" Lemay-Comtois said of the discourse around Naoe and Yasuke in an interview with GamesRadar+. "It's not just a 'Well, I prefer a war, therefore I prefer Yasuke.' Some people just don't like one character over the other, and they don't like to spend time with one. It was true with [Assassin's Creed Syndicate's] Evie and Jacob, but with Naoe and Yasuke it's more divisive. And we knew this. We knew going into it, but I think it can split our fan base a little too."
