Assassin's Creed Shadows Teaser Analysis

To celebrate Assassin's Creed Day, Ubisoft has released a 7-second teaser trailer for Assassin's Creed Shadows!

The teaser also serves as an end to the AC Shadows promotional campaign for 2024, kickstarting once again in early 2025. The short teaser contains possible snippets from an upcoming story trailer.

Here is our breakdown!

1) The Hidden Blade.

It's finally back.

The Devil is in the details or so they say, such is the case for this short trailer that has somehow managed to hype the community in a much more impactful way in mere 7 seconds than it has in the whole marketing campaign over the past months, undoubtedly.

First things first, in the opening sequence of the trailer we can see Naoe's surprise upon the activation of the iconic Hidden Blade handled by what is assumed to be her father, Nagato Fujibayashi, most likely at the end of her proper induction into the Brotherhood.

We know according to Entertainment Weekly's article that she will be introduced to the Assassins at some point as it was heavily implied that her mother might have been an Assassin as well as her lineage being from a long line of "Different type of Shinobis" (Assassins).

2)  Assassins Tombs.

Who's ready for some good old ACII dungeon crawling?! Anyone?... No..? oh well...

Well. I'm certainly glad that what looks like to be Assassin Tombs are making a return to the franchise, many of you surely happy as I am, however, those who do not know what it is, let me break it down for you.

The Assassin Tombs originated in ACII back in 2009 introducing enclosed areas filled with puzzles and time-based obstacle courses that you had to navigate through while doing parkour eventually reaching the resting place of a legendary Assassin or treasure depending on the game.

The way you accessed those Tombs was just how we see it in the trailer; Hidden Blade plunged in a hole in the wall acting as a key that you need to spin in order to unlock the mechanism of the door, so, hopefully this is an Assassin Tomb or at least an obstacle course!

3) Oda Nobunaga & Yasuke.

Looking more epic than ever before.

In this snapshot, we can appreciate the Model of Oda Nobunaga with its iconic Clan Insignia and his stylized kimono looking at what appears to be Naoe given the legs appearing in the frame.

Yasuke appears once again enshrouded in this dramatic/cinematic tone showing off his charismatic yet out of place character that will earn a place among Japanese nobility and Oda himself before making an alliance with Naoe as previously revealed by Ubisoft.

As noted by TOWCB team member Zephryss, this appears to be a younger Yasuke, possibly when he first arrives in Japan!

4) The Templar Order.

I'm just genuinely happy.

The Templars, ah, remember them? They used to be the backbone of the reason why the Assassins used their Hidden Blades in the first place. Jokes aside, we have, for the first time, a visual confirmation of the Templars being present in Assassin's Creed Shadows.

We have talked about this before in the threads, the Portuguese and Italians are the ones who introduced the Templar Rite in Japan with Alessandro Valignano and Francisco Javier seeking to expand the Templar ideology using the Jesuits as a front for their activities.

It is very interesting to see how this all plays out as in 1565 the Assassins arrived in Japan with Kotetsu -Shao Jun's disciple- aiming to build a Brotherhood in the Islands eventually ending Templar activities by 1615 according to the established lore and AC: Memories.

5) Naoe captive

Also spotted by Zephryss, it appears that Naoe is being held captive by someone! Could the Templars use her as a bargaining chip?

6) Seven Samurai

Zephryss counts seven samurai in this shot, possibly acting as a reference to Akira Kurosawa's iconic film Seven Samurai. This makes us wonder how many other nods towards popular movies or books will feature in the game.

7) Bright Future.

The sun is rising, indeed.

I'm always highly judgemental, however, I will allow myself to be hopeful now that I've see this and I also believe many of you are feeling the same right now, yes, just because of a stupid cross, but a cross that brings back the essence of the Assassin-Templar war.

Merry Christmas!

I wish you all the best Assassins.

Stay tuned!

Article made up of observations by TOWCB Team members Ubicypher and Zephryss.

Original Isu_Network thread