‘Yasuke became the obvious choice to include in the game’: Assassin’s Creed Shadows art director talks about the series’ ‘first historical protagonist’ a year after launch.

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows Art director Thierry Dansereau talked about the game at a recent conference.
• He explained why the historical figure of Yasuke was chosen to be one of the game’s protagonists.
• “It gave us the opportunity to play and see Japan as a foreigner, like most of our players,” he said.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows officially turns one year old, and art director Thierry Dansereau reflected on why his team featured historical samurai Yasuke as the protagonist at an event held to celebrate the game’s anniversary.

“Yasuke is the first historical protagonist that the assassin’s creed “The games have it,” he said. “We did it because Yasuke, from the historical knowledge we gathered, [was] close to Oda Nobunaga, who is one of the main characters of the game.”