We’ve solely seen one trailer for Murderer’s Creed Shadows, the following entry in Ubisoft’s open-world stealth-RPG sequence, however followers already suppose they know precisely the place the sport takes place. Past the period through which the sport will likely be set, Sengoku-period Japan, a sequence of developer riddles has drip-fed data that appears to level to a particular space of Japan that may function the sport’s location. Right here’s what group sleuths have uncovered.
The hunt for Shadows’ location began solely a few weeks in the past, in mid-Might. Proper earlier than the sport’s official reveal, Ubisoft posted a sequence of ciphered numbers hidden in photographs on X (previously Twitter) that despatched followers scrambling. When aligned correctly, the numbers could possibly be graphed on X and Y axes to kind a form, that when in comparison with a map of Japan revealed it seemed just like the Kansai area, which incorporates Kyoto and Osaka.
Now, followers have solved a second spherical of puzzles that additional help the Kansai setting, with Kyoto particularly seeming increasingly more seemingly as a hub for Shadows. On June 3, the official Murderer’s Creed Discord started one thing known as Murderer’s Creed Shadow – The First Mission. Sure content material creators have been despatched particular packing containers with codes and hints to unravel.
This was an ARG-type expertise that included creators messaging in-lore characters on Discord, unlocking real-world locks, translating Japanese, and lots of different puzzles the group helped clear up. Entry The Animus, a YouTube channel dedicated to the sequence, streamed the whole puzzle expertise and accomplished it in round two hours. At one level a map is in comparison with an actual map of Japan, with landmarks surrounding Kyoto and Osaka lining up.
The ultimate reward was unlocking new items of idea artwork for Shadows. Included in these are a number of landscapes and landmarks giving followers a greater understanding of the attainable map structure for the sport. One picture seems to point out Kyoto within the winter, whereas one other appears to be like to be Takeda Fortress, positioned to the northwest of Kyoto. With these key landmarks, the tough measurement of the map falls according to the beforehand found map structure from the ciphered numbers puzzle. This may make narrative sense, provided that Kyoto was on the middle of political and army struggles all through the Sengoku interval throughout which Shadows is ready. We all know Shadows will likely be one other open-world RPG within the vein of Murderer’s Creed Odyssey, though it’s been confirmed the map will likely be barely smaller, extra akin to Murderer’s Creed Origins.
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