Assassin's Creed Shadows Fans May Have Already Worked Out The Game's Map

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Assassin's Creed Shadows has finally been revealed, with more info surrounding the game now online to pore over until launch. There's still a lot we don't know though, including where in Japan the game is actually set. We know that the game's map will be about as big as the one in Assassin's Creed Origins, but fans now think that they've nailed down the area of Japan in which we'll be running around as Naoe and Yasuke.

Shortly before the big reveal of Assassin's Creed Shadows' release date, a string of numbers was added to the official Assassin's Creed Twitter account's description, which fans had quickly grabbed and have been tinkering with ever since, attempting to uncover the obvious secret they're hiding. Assassin's Creed fan account Access The Animus was the first to translate the numbers into a Japanese sentence with a cipher, which then hinted that data needed to be passed through an X-axis and Y-axis.

More information related to the tease was then spotted in the header image for the Assassin's Creed website, another string of numbers which were plotted as points on a graph, as hinted at by the previous hint in the Twitter account's bio. This gave Access the Animus a relatively rough shape of what appeared to be a portion of Japan.

With their rough shape in hand, Access the Animus then pulled up a satellite image of modern day Japan and overlapped the two, and there's one area which is almost an exact fit. That area can be seen in Access the Animus' final tweet, and it seems like the game's map could potentially take up only a small part of Japan, that being the Kyoto region and various provinces surrounding it.

Of course, none of this has been confirmed just yet, and it would be a little odd to see Ubisoft step back from portraying condensed versions of full countries like we saw with Greece and England and Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Valhalla. It's also possible that this could be one map in the game, and that Assassin's Creed Shadows could be