Ubisoft has just served all of its fans with the best poetic twist for Assassin’s Creed Shadows by dropping haikus, and they all went buzzing in. The tweet, as posted by the official account, reads: “Embrace all your fears. Centre and steady your heart. Trust in the unknown. 🦅” And like a ninja tossing a smoke bomb, it fades away-leaving fans to compose haikus in the replies.
But here’s the weird part: the replies are… empty? Like, zero. Nothhing. Zilch. Which is kinda wild for a franchise with a fanbase this massive. You’d think at least one person would’ve dropped a “roses are red, hidden blades are blue” by now. Maybe everyone’s too busy practicing their parkour to rhyme.
The haiku itself? Classic Assassin’s Creed stuff- mystical, introspective, and low-key dramatic. It has that leap-of-faith energy both literally and metaphorically. The emoji? A bald eagle. Which, okay, if you squint enough, it’s sort of like the Assassin logo. Or maybe Ubisoft’s just really, really into birds right now.
Thus no replies meant no chaos, no cringe, no accidental masterpieces. Silence. Almost poetic silence at that. Like, imagine screaming a haiku into the void and the void just stares back.
What’s next? Ubisoft is perhaps crafting a haiku mini-game for Shadows. It would be something like sneaking through feudal Japan and instead of air assassinations, dropping syllable bombs on unsuspecting guards.” Your patrol ends here. My blade sings a silent song. Blood blooms in moonlight.” Okay, that one is actually kind fire.
Or maybe the empty replies are a hint. A meta-commentary about the lonely assassin’s way. Deep, huh?
In any case, if you got a haiku concocted in the mind, now is the time. Jump in those replies before Ubisoft hears the cricket chirp. And who knows-kid, maybe you’ll be the hidden blade into the heart of the internet with your words.
