You probably won't be surprised to learn that Assassin's Creed Shadows is a long game. Playing it for review these past few weeks, I clocked nearly 50 hours by primarily sticking to the critical path and stopping to do side stuff here and there. Even knowing roughly how long the story was going to be, I still wasn't prepared for its slow beginning. It's an Assassin's Creed game, so of course it has a leisurely prologue and ramp-up to action, but Shadows' introduction is so extended that I started to wonder when its second main character would show up.
Just so you don't go a little bananas like I did, it's worth knowing that you won't get to play as Yasuke for a while in Shadows. I didn't unlock Yasuke until I'd been playing as Naoe for around 10 hours. Without getting into spoilers, I'll explain:
