Should you confront Otama or Wakasa in Assassin's Creed Shadows?

Choosing to confront Otama or Wakasa in Assassin's Creed Shadows at the end of the tea ceremony is one of the first major choices you must make relating to a target – in this case, you'll discover the identity of the Golden Teppo, getting Naoe one step closer to crossing them off her list. This is a choice in Assassin's Creed Shadows that is actually the last in a series of choices based around the ceremony that leads up to this moment - having kept your cover (or blown it, depending on what you say), you then get a chance to approach either Wakasa or Otama and try to lure them somewhere you can assassinate the Golden Teppo accordingly. But which one do you confront? We'll cover one of the more significant early game choices in AC Shadows below.

Should you confront Otama or Wakasa in the Assassin's Creed Shadows tea ceremony?

Having reached this Assassin's Creed Shadows Otama or Wakasa choice after the tea ceremony, you need to confront Wakasa - she's the real Golden Teppo. However, what happens after that depends on what choices you made as part of the tea ceremony.

Consequently, there are three potential outcomes to this whole mission:

• Confront Wakasa (and made all the correct Assassin's Creed Shadows tea ceremony choices)
  • If Wakasa hasn't seen through your disguise, she invites you back to her home to talk in more detail. At this point, you can find her Teppo on the wall and interact with it to begin a cutscene that ends with Naoe killing her. There is a choice of dialogue part way through, but it's irrelevant - the conversation ends the same way either way.
• Confront Wakasa (with incorrect Tea Ceremony choices)
  • Seeing through your disguise, Wakasa just leaves the Tea Ceremony after you confront her. At this point you need to track her down and assassinate her. She's at the top of Osaka Castle, surrounded by guards you'll need to either fight through or sneak around.
• Confront Otama
  • No matter what you say before this, Otama is just the wrong choice, and not the Golden Teppo. Confront her, and she'll run through the streets to escape you. Naoe has to hunt her down and kill her, but she's not the target either way. After killing Otama, you'll need to track down Wasaka - the real target - at Osaka Castle, as above.

The rewards for each method are the same each way, with one exception - if you pick the first choice (confronting Wasaka with your cover intact), you also get a Pirate Flag wall decoration for your Hideout. More importantly, killing Wakasa in every outcome will get you the Shinobi's Fury Tanto, one of the best weapons in Assassin's Creed Shadows. Equip this immediately - it's a devastating game changer.

Before heading into Osaka Castle, make sure you've equipped yourself with the most useful Assassin's Creed Shadows skills for stealth. If you need better skills, make sure you seek out ways of earning Assassin's Creed Shadows Knowledge Points, such as finding lost pages at the Assassin's Creed Shadows Makinoodera Temple.

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