By now, anyone with an ear to the ground in the gaming space has heard the relentless comparisons being drawn between Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Shadows and Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima. To be fair, both games are set in feudal Japan, and Ghost of Tsushima left such a mark on the industry that any successor that is even remotely similar is subject to comparison. However, Assassin's Creed Shadows possesses a number of defining qualities that arguably set it apart from Ghost of Tsushima, should its loudest critics be willing to admit those differences are there.