Will I have to play both characters ?

[DeLastOne]

Or can I just focus on one and ignore the other ?

[Wintermist]

I've not finished the game but some quests are part of a characters arc and has to be played by them. So for the majority you can stick to whichever character you prefer.

[Seifer]

how is this related to ASMONGOLD?

[Vik]

You have to play with Yasuke for 10 minutes in the prologue. After that it is optional (although I haven't completed the game yet).

[DeLastOne]

Originally posted by Seifer:

how is this related to ASMONGOLD?

I do not understand your question

[DeLastOne]

Originally posted by Vik:

You have to play with Yasuke for 10 minutes in the prologue. After that it is optional (although I haven't completed the game yet).

Thanks ! that is helpful

[Wintermist]

Ignored me cause I'm Swedish :P Danskjävlar! j/k

[DeLastOne]

Originally posted by Wintermist:

I've not finished the game but some quests are part of a characters arc and has to be played by them. So for the majority you can stick to whichever character you prefer.

:) no no ;) thanks to you as well !

[Wintermist]

Originally posted by DeLastOne:

Originally posted by Wintermist:

I've not finished the game but some quests are part of a characters arc and has to be played by them. So for the majority you can stick to whichever character you prefer.

:) no no ;) thanks to you as well !

<3

[Mindlessbear]

I found a kofun that requires Yasuke. I think he would be easier to use for some of the castles but I haven’t unlocked him to say for sure yet.

[longjohn119]

My castle strategy basically boils down to:

Night = Naoe and mostly stealth
Day = Yasuke, and kick the damned doors down

[Ubi-WheelyDuck]

Hey guys,

It is great to see that the answer needed has been shared. To summarise, indeed both characters are needed for different sections of the story.

If we can ever help with anything support related, just let us know

[Shin Happens]

Originally posted by DeLastOne:

Originally posted by Vik:

You have to play with Yasuke for 10 minutes in the prologue. After that it is optional (although I haven't completed the game yet).

Thanks ! that is helpful

Only the answer is wrong, you are required to play as Yasuke in some main missions that are unskippable. Also, if you want to level up Naoe you MUST do some of the challenges and minigames with Yasuke or else you won't have enough knowledge points. And some vaults/kofuns are only accessible as Yasuke as well, that means legendary gear (although it is mostly just gear for Yasuke in those locations).

Either way, you will absolutely have to play as Yasuke. A geme design decision I really, really, really dislike. A game should never ever force people to do anything. Odyssey and Valhalla had the ideal solution, either select your character of choice at the beginning or freely swap whenever you like. But Ubi probably feared almost no one would ever play as Yasuke in an AC game where you usually want to be an assassin and not the least stealthy character in any AC game ever and extremely clumsy brawler and thus made him mandatory...