‘Heads Will Roll’ walkthrough, Yaya or Mitsumune choice in AC Shadows

“Heads Will Roll” is the ultimate quest within the hunt for The Wounded, one of many targets in Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ main story questline. It ends with the assassination of Wada Koretake, and asks you to select that would doubtlessly anger Yaya, somebody you possibly can recruit as an ally.

On this Murderer’s Creed Shadows information, we’ll stroll you thru the right way to full the primary “Heads Will Roll” quest and whether or not or not it’s best to facet with Yaya or Mitsumune in terms of sparing or killing Nobunaga’s troopers.

‘Heads Will Roll’ walkthrough in Murderer’s Creed Shadows

To start out the hunt, comply with the marker in your map till you attain an Animus portal. Work together with it.

After a prolonged cutscene, you’ll be dropped right into a fortress to assassinate Koretake. Your allies will struggle a battle in opposition to Koretake’s troopers on the bottom, and also you’ll begin on the rooftops with one purpose: kill the snipers on the gates. You’ll get markers in your display screen for the areas of all six of those snipers, so work your manner throughout the fortress rooftops and take them out.

Whilst you can assassinate many of those snipers to immediately kill them, you don’t want to stay incognito to progress. As a result of they’re snipers, they’re fairly easy to struggle, as they don’t actually have any good close-range fight choices. They’ll even be distracted by your allies, permitting you to sneak up on them.

When you kill all of them, head to the primary courtyard, which has all of the yellow flags and curtains. Keep on the rooftops to the left and look ahead to extra archers and snipers.

Find out how to assassinate Wada Koretake in ‘Heads Will Roll’

Climb alongside the rooftops to the again a part of the courtyard, behind a small constructing that Wada Koretake walks as much as and pauses at on his loop. Assassinate the snipers and scouts within the space to scale back the chance that you just’ll get caught. Beware {that a} beefy fortress guard tends to roam right here even for those who keep stealthy.

As soon as the enemies are taken care of, climb up the small constructing and perch on the purpose overlooking the courtyard. When Wada Koretake will get shut sufficient, assassinate him out of your perch. It will convey you right into a cutscene that may finish the mission and result in a alternative.

Must you facet with Yaya or Mitsumune?

With Koretake lifeless, your allies have gathered all of his troopers within the courtyard space. Mitsumune is trying to execute all the troopers, whereas Yaya and Kyonyo wish to show that they’re totally different than Nobunaga and his goons.

Partway by way of the cutscene, you’ll get two dialogue choices:

The sport warns you that “this [choice] will influence Yaya,” however doesn’t offer you any extra data. After enjoying the mission twice, we will inform you that Yaya desires the troopers spared, and she or he’ll be pissed for those who determine to assist their execution. Nonetheless, you received’t see how the choice impacts Yaya till later within the sport — and it’s unclear how a lot of an influence it actually makes, exterior of her perspective in dialogue — although if you wish to recruit her as an ally, go along with “killing them isn’t justice.”

No matter your alternative, Mitsumune and his goons will execute a soldier, and the cutscene will play out virtually identically. The one distinction is whether or not Yaya and Kyonyo blame you and Mitsumune, or simply Mitsumune. Mitsumune is chilly to you both manner. Sparing the troopers will make the fewest individuals mad at you — particularly Yaya, who’s the one character the sport explicitly calls out as being impacted by this alternative long-term.

For extra Murderer’s Creed Shadows guides, see our working lists of Lost Pages, Kuji-kiri, and armor areas. Or see our full Assassin’s Creed Shadows walkthrough, and our guides on the right way to get all companions and romance options.