Assassin's Creed Shadows could well be poised for success as the next great upcoming Ubisoft game, delivering a stealth-action Creed experience like none before. But perhaps the biggest hurdle Shadows needs to clear is that of its own baggage.

With Assassin's Creed Shadows just around the corner, the hot topic right now is one I thought had already been established: Yasuke is not an assassin, which means he gets no fancy assassin tools. As one of Shadows' double billed protagonists,