Assassin's Creed Shadows review: How Ubisoft learned to stop worrying and embrace imperfection

You’re probably familiar with the Japanese art of ‘kintsugi’, quite literally meaning ‘golden repair’. Kintsugi is part-philosophy, part-art form. It revolves around the act of repairing broken pottery or ceramics with lacquer, mending cracks and broken edges with dusted, powdered gold, silver, or platinum. ‘Kintsugi’ aims to expose, emphasize and celebrate the damage that was once done, and find new meaning in the repaired product - an homage to an item’s unique history.