In a unexpected collaboration that breaks usual expectations, the game developer has announced an digital collaboration between Assassin's Creed Shadows and the acclaimed anime series Attack on Titan. The unexpected holiday event continues from November 25 through December 22, including no-cost extra story content for Shadows players.
According to the formal statement, "An unusual encounter leads heroes Naoe and Yasuke into a new mission, where whispers of prohibited rituals and terrifying metamorphoses resonate through the obscurity." The storyline features a "unusually dressed woman named Ada" who assigns the characters with traveling into the Crystalline Cavern—a significant location from Attack on Titan—to rescue her ally from a clandestine sect.
The mission centers on "peculiar experiments and a fearsome foe" and is accessible to all players who have gained access to the Yasuke character.
The teaser features the Hidden Temple from Attack on Titan redesigned as the Crystal Cave. This historic location was earlier where the Reiss royal family transmitted the Founding Titan ability through ages. The trailer finishes with a dramatic sequence showing a character, presumably the captive, changing into a Titan that rises over Naoe and Yasuke.
Players who accomplish the quest will obtain an special katana together with numerous objects secreted throughout the area in secret chests. The update also contains purchasable Attack on Titan item packs, including:
This update also introduces the game's newest no-cost story content, titled "A Puzzlement." This playful mission pairs Naoe and Yasuke as they swap signature skills: Naoe introduces a theatrical version of Yasuke's war kick, while Yasuke acquires non-lethal stealth takedowns. True to its name, "A Puzzlement" also features a new environmental puzzle that may finally clarify some lingering questions from the main storyline.
This signifies hardly the first time the Assassin's Creed franchise has collaborated with well-known anime franchises. The series earlier featured a 2020 collaborative story connecting Assassin's Creed: Valhalla with Makoto Yukimura's Vinland Saga. Furthermore, Valhalla informally included a quest that unmistakably nodded to the well-known series One-Punch Man.
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