Assassin's Creed is a franchise at its best not merely for the ways it brings the past to life, but for how it uses historical fact as a basis for new ideas that enhance the experience. With Assassin's Creed Shadows finally taking the series to the final throes of Sengoku-era Japan, it appears that Ubisoft is doing just that.
To be clear, debates discussing the 'historical accuracy' or validity of a Black samurai as one of dual protagonists for this latest Assassin's Creed are fueled more by modern political ideas than historical fact. Although gaps in knowledge make it impossible to know his full story, everything from surviving written accounts to artwork of the period note Yasuke's arrival in Japan and time as a trusted retainer to the first of the 'great unifiers' Oda Nobunaga, and later his son Oda Nobutada.
