Assassin's Creed Shadows (PS5)Story The latest Assassins Creed is set in the times of Feudal Japan, and the story begins exactly in 1579, at the beginning of the period known as Azuchi Momoyama the end of the Sengoku era, which was a period of a long and exhausting civil war in Japan. As in other instalments of the game, the story is based on real events and true characters one of them being Oda Nobunaga, a daimy (powerful Japanese magnate) who effectively dealt with the Takeda