Assassin's Creed Shadows dev Brooke Davies details how the team tells a historically informed tale of two very different protagonists.

The lack of flexibility in when you can change characters reads as an intentional design choice, as if Shadows is denying you the chance to have as much fun in the sandbox as you’d like. The titular Assassin’s Creed creed stipulates in part that “everything is permitted.” Well, clearly not everything!