User blog comment:AssassinRome/Assassins in Japan?/@comment-4043223-20120804120015/@comment-1153722-20120806072953

I'm not an optimist, but I'm not a pessimist either. Well, I am a pessimist, but I keep my pessimism to myself.

...And you have already talked about this multiple times on the IRC. >.> We don't know if they had hidden blades, but if they are gonna make a game in Eastern Asia, they will surely just give an explanation on how the hidden blade ended up there, since they aren't going to make an Assassin's Creed game without their iconic weapon.