Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ “Canon Mode” gives you the official RPG experience – but it’ll cost you almost every romance option

The time has finally come – Ubisoft‘s long-awaited action RPG Assassin’s Creed Shadows is finally here, but its inclusion of a “Canon Mode” might leave new players confused about the implications of opting to turn such an option on.

As YouTuber JorRaptor describes it in a recent video discussing Shadows’ mysterious Canon Mode, it allows players to experience a more cinematic, linear version of the game: “You are basically experiencing the events in the way that Ubisoft intended them.” How does it do so, though? By stripping pretty much all of the dialogue options players get in-game so that the story instead follows the mode’s aptly dubbed “canon” path.