Ubisoft would have a winning formula with just making a hattori hanzo game, as it is they push the bs mythological deities shit in AC. Hanzo could have been a ninja serving the tokugawa shogunate that defends against supernatural threats and finds out about the templars in the process and how they are trying to subvert japanese rule and joins the order of assassins. The game would have been a hit with the japanese, gamers would not be outraged and they would have sold gangbusters. But I guess ubislop and common sense are antithetical to each other