Japanese Officials React to Assassin's Creed: Shadows Temple Destruction Video

The controversy surrounding the temple in Assassin's Creed: Shadows has reached a new level: the representatives of the sanctuary themselves have commented on the sensational video. The caretakers of the sanctuary depicted in the video have already promised to take action.

Recall that in early February, a video from a preview by blogger Skatha went viral online, showing the destructibility of Assassin's Creed: Shadows using the interior of one of the in-game temples as an example. The building turned out to be real — the Itate Hyozu sanctuary from Hyogo Prefecture was recreated in the game. As reported by the Japanese publication Sankei News, the representatives of the sanctuary are already aware of the "taking action". By the way, the management of Itate Hyozu was against its recreation in the game in any case: "If they [Ubisoft] had contacted us, we would have refused".

As for the rumors about the involvement of the Association of Shinto Shrines of Japan in the situation, they turned out to be false, as found out in Sankei News.

Assassin's Creed: Shadows will be released on March 20 on PC, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5.

This is not the first such scandal related to the accusation of Assassin's Creed: Shadows of disrespect for cultural heritage. The most striking example was the identity of Yasuke himself and his belonging to the samurai — the mention later disappeared from the Japanese description of the game. And recently it turned out that the release date of the action coincided with the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Japan.