Ever since the very first Assassin’s Creed there has always been hints towards a possible Assassin’s Creed taking place in Japan. In as you can see, every new Assassin’s Creed never is set in Japan and today we find out why.
Ubisoft now reveals it has a fear that gamers would think the game is too “familiar” and “boring”. Alex Hutchinson of Ubisoft, creative director of ACIII and Far Cry 4 spoke with Total Xbox on the subject.
You could always do it, but the point I was trying to make was that in the broad strokes and scale of history, that’s a theme that’s been well-mined in videogames. So, Assassin’s Creed is one of those games that can take [lesser-known] time periods or corners of the world and make them cool, fun, new and refreshing. Feudal Japan would work as an Assassin’s game, for sure, but I feel like it would start to look like ‘oh, have I played this?’ You know what I mean – ‘oh, I’ve been a ninja before, I’ve been a samurai before’.
