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Ubisoft Responds To Assassin's Creed Shadows Romance Backlash: "Flirting In RPG Games Is Always Optional"

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Mar 26, 2025

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Assassin's Creed Shadows has drummed up backlash over its queer romances, but Ubisoft was quick to remind players that they are completely optional.
In fact, they aren't even canon. If you play through the new 'Canon Mode', which makes every choice for you based on the 'true events' of the story, Naoe and Yasuke don't romance anyone.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed Shadows came under fire before it had even launched last year for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:featuring queer romances, despite them being a staple of both Odyssey and Valhalla (Jacob Frye, onꦜe o👍f two protagonists in Syndicate, is also bisexual).

But wit♔h the game now in the hands of players, the controversy over Yasuke and Naoe getting it on with same-sex partners, and even a non𝔉-binary character, has stirred up again.

Ubisoft was quick to address the backlash with (via ), poking fun at those complaining about queer romances. "Remember the fourth tenet of the Creed: Flirting in RPG games is always optional." They only happen if you pursue them; as the old Doom addage goes, "you control the buttons you press🎀".

None Of The Romances In Assassin's Creed Shadows Are Canon, Anyway

Naoe romancing Gennojo in Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Not only are the romances in Assassin's Creed Shadows completely optional, as was the case in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, which similarly came under fire for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:its own gay romance, but they aren't canon.

Shadows has a brand-new feature which was implem💧ented following feedback about Odyssey and Valhalla. The community wanted to know what choices were canon to the story, given that there are no world states like in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Witcher — in the sequels, Ubisoft simply decides what happened in the last game, which often leaves fans 🌟confused.

If you played through Odyssey as✅ Alexios, you'll no 💖doubt have been left scratching your head when Kassandra was the one to appear in Valhalla.

So, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ubisoft implemented the 'Canon Mode', which makes all the decisions for you based on the true events of the story. And in this mode, Naoe and Yasuke don't romance anybody. Every single romantic endeavour you chase down in the game is optional and non-canon, s💦o those queer romances are merely for the players' enjoyment (read: whoever is 🤡strapped into the Animus).