Assassin's Creed Introduces Bizarre Attack on Titan Crossover for Holiday Season

In a unexpected partnership that defies traditional forecasts, Ubisoft has revealed an in-game partnership between Assassin's Creed Shadows and the popular anime series Attack on Titan. The unusual Thanksgiving event runs from November 25 through December 22, including complimentary additional story content for Shadows players.

Strange Mission Revealed

According to the formal announcement, "A strange encounter draws heroes Naoe and Yasuke into a original adventure, where hints of prohibited rituals and monstrous transformations echo through the obscurity." The storyline presents a "unusually dressed woman named Ada" who tasks the pair with journeying into the Gemstone Grotto—a key location from Attack on Titan—to save her ally from a clandestine group.

The questline focuses on "peculiar experiments and a terrifying adversary" and is available to all players who have acquired the Yasuke character.

Familiar Settings and Changes

The teaser highlights the Subterranean Sanctuary from Attack on Titan reimagined as the Crystal Cave. This historic location was earlier where the Reiss royal family passed down the Founding Titan ability through ages. The trailer finishes with a powerful scene showing a character, likely the captive, transforming into a Titan that looms over Naoe and Yasuke.

Exclusive Rewards and Additional Content

Players who accomplish the quest will obtain an unique katana alongside multiple items hidden throughout the area in secret chests. The update also contains in-store Attack on Titan item packs, including:

• Titan-inspired outfit for Yasuke
• Mikasa costume for Naoe
• Special weapons
• Survey Corps steed

Third Free Story Content

This patch also introduces the game's newest free story episode, titled "A Puzzlement." This humorous quest partners Naoe and Yasuke as they exchange characteristic skills: Naoe introduces a performative variation of Yasuke's war kick, while Yasuke learns non-fatal stealth takedowns. Faithful to its name, "The Mystery" also includes a new environmental puzzle that may finally shed light on some unanswered questions from the main storyline.

Earlier Japanese Animation Crossovers

This represents hardly the primary time the Assassin's Creed franchise has collaborated with well-known anime franchises. The series earlier featured a 2020 crossover story uniting Assassin's Creed: Valhalla with Makoto Yukimura's Vinland Saga. Furthermore, Valhalla informally included a quest that obviously nodded to the well-known series One-Punch Man.