From the moment it was announced, Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ interpretation of feudal Japan was met with immediate blowback — mostly from the West. The usual suspects were up in arms over the general identities of the protagonists,

Let’s get down to it – as my good colleague Andy has already noted in his Assassin’s Creed Shadows review, Ubisoft 's latest RPG is brilliant. It’s a great ninja-em-up that feels like a modern successor to Tenchu (I’m going to talk about Tenchu as much as I possibly can, it rules), but oh, boy, does it love to crib from Kurosawa.

Ubisoft has addressed concerns about Assassin's Creed Shadows that were expressed recently by Japanese government officials in parliament.