Canon mode is a setting in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Like all the familiar boot-up settings — subtitle preferences, game difficulty, immersive mode, guided exploration mode, and so on — you’ll choose whether or not to activate it before starting a new game. But the thing is, once you select it, you can’t change it. You’re locked in.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows is Ubisoft's latest foray into the historically-based, open-world formula that they've been creating for decades. Like the other more recent entries in the series, Shadows is once again crammed full of well over one hundred quests,