United Kingdom, April 2 -- 'Assassin's Creed Shadows' originally didn't feature two protagonists.

The latest action-adventure title - which is helmed by Ubisoft - allows you to play as samurai Yasuke and shinobi Naoe, though creative director Jonathan Dumont has now revealed 'Assassin's Creed Shadows' was initially envisioned with only a single shinobi protagonist.

He explained to GamesRadar+: "When we started early on, we only had a shinobi - it's 'Assassin's Creed Japan', it's probably going to be a shinobi.

"But the more we were playing with the character - we were in the conception phase - we were like, 'Ok, we could do this with the character, there's things on the samurai side.' We were sort of making a stealth tank, but it didn'...