In just two short months, Assassin's Creed fans can finally travel to feudal Japan. Slowly the tongues begin to loosen and the lifespan is finally clarified.
Assassin's Creed Shadows was one of the most anticipated games of the year. Based on player feedback during presentations and Star Wars Outlaws' commercial performance, Ubisoft decided to take more time. The pressure is twice as great for the teams that have no right to fail. On the one hand, because in Japan this episode expresses years of fan expectations, on the other hand, because it must be THE game that the French studio must get back on the right track. February 14th will be crucial, but the latest images shown recently should be more reassuring. The developers even took the time to interact with the community and provide some new information.
What is the lifespan of Assassin's Creed Shadows?
With Origins, the license has moved away from its original, more compressed and linear format and is now focused on today's codes. The saga needed a break and a brief (semi) return to basics with Assassin's Creed Mirage, an intermediate product that wanted to meet with the narrative. The open world was more limited, as were the additional activities, and the lifespan was inevitably less grandiose than recent action RPGs in the franchise. Assassin's Creed Shadows will repeat the usual excess of this new formula and will have you spending hours in feudal Japan as far as the eye can see. Jonathan Dumont, creative director, responded to a number of questions on the Reddit forums and stated that the duration of the main story of Shadows will be similar to the last main episodes of the saga.
« The lifespan of a game is always difficult to estimate in an open world game because players don't consume the content in the same way. I think the main story of Assassin's Creed Shadows will be comparable to Origins/Odyssey and Valhalla “, he explained. An answer that necessarily remains approximate, but we can expect around 45 to a maximum of 60 hours. One thing is certain: the experience promises to be robust once again, regardless of whether we decide to activate the branching options or not. As a reminder, Ubisoft had the bright idea of including a canon mode that allows you to stick to real events with a more linear campaign. Ubisoft should reveal more about the various reworks and mechanic changes as we get closer to the release of Assassin's Creed Shadows, scheduled for February 14, 2025 on PS5, Xbox Series and PC.
Source: Reddit AMA
