This year the Animus, Ubisoft’s memory-hopping time machine, is taking us back to 16th century Japan in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Naturally that means we’ll be exploring the life of a Japanese character – the daughter of famed ninja master Fujibayashi Nagato. But Shadows has a second protagonist: an African samurai. If you’re surprised to see a man of such origins wielding a katana, you may not kn