The Yasuke Assassin's Creed Drama is INSANE...
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- The Assassin's Creed Shadows rabbit hole keeps going deeper, and the lengths that the media (and possibly Ubisoft) are going to to protect this game is pretty astounding. This is a major AAA release, and Ubisoft literally cannot afford for this game to fail.
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Just a reminder that the people defending AC: Shadows are the exact groups that screamed racism over Ghost of Tsushima, which depicted period accurate characters, homages to old Japanese samurai films, and a very respectful depiction of the samurai code of honor, even as the story called said code into question and whether it was even capable of winning a war against the vastly overwhelming Mongol horde while rigidly adhering to said code. And they called it racist because it was made by an American developer. Japanese critics and players' response was basically: "Check it out! Americans made a cool samurai game!"
Edit: Every jerk who thinks going "I wasn't offended" or "that never happened" can take a warning: That's not the "goctha!" you think it is, and I'm not wasting my time reading more replies to this when those trying to disagree with me can amount to nothing more than "no u."
There's also an active Twitter hate campaign trying to imply that ghost of tsushima did not sell very well on PC and that the 60k+ concurrent players is somehow "very low"
@@Dragonk116 Well, that's also easily the Sony fanboys crying about losing exclusives because they think having exclusives on PlayStation gives their empty existences value.
Because Westerners appropiating and/or stomping over another nation's history is only acceptable if it's in the name of progressivism.
The sad lot. But misery loves company as they say.
Really, I thought Twitter users were racist towards Japanese people, given how a lot are more left leaning and all that.
I haven't had a chance to play it yet, but I now have definitive plans to buy it the day AC Shadows releases.
Just boycott the game
Just STFU an quit crying.
I already have boycotted Ubisoft, and I never bought their game copy in my life.
I haven’t bought a single Assassin’s Creed game, and I certainly won’t do so now.
Why?? He is actually a historical figure..
@@TreyeParker He was NEVER an actual samurai. Bother doing the barest of minimum of research.
1. Make the main character black.
2. Claim that all criticism is just racist.
3. (No) Profit.
2. Fr have see some of those folks in these comment section just becouse you are not fallow whitout question strange and wierd decision by ubisof about this whole thing
1. The main character is base on an actual person
2. There are woke weirdos out there calling everything racist but there really are some who now act historical accuracy matters and think Japanese are racist at the time lol.
3. AC tend to sell well unfortunately.
@@Mario123007the main character, yes, was a real person, but he was just a glorified sword carrier of the Emperor for crying out loud.
@@Mario123007A person existed in that era, in that space, with that name and dark skin. That does not make it the same person.
"Hey, I'm writing a story about a guy - let's call him Michael Jordan - he invents a new toaster that is accidentally a superweapon, causing WWIII when people discover this, so he sets on a quest to..."
The name does not make the man.
LOL the game will do another billion for them and you guys will be mad it happened.
Reminder: The "Japanese history expert" that ubisoft hired paper to get her degree is about Man-boy love history in japan.
To be fair it’s extensive history but it’s ridiculous to have that person anywhere near this
Funny thing is another Japanese history expert living in the USA (Yoshiko Okuyama, the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo) said after the anime series on Yoke that he is literally unknown in Japan. So we have two experts of Japanese descent, none of them being a historian or familiar with the era, claiming something complete diametrical about the same figure and his status in modern Japan... Though I can attest that he is pretty much unknown here which makes sense as he was at best a footnote.
@@caesarjergens that's not true. Yasuke is actually a popular historical figure in Japan. Please do your own research and don't be a straight sheep
@@caesarjergensbad news
@@caesarjergens him being a footnote is actually a best case scenario for projects like assassins creed, finding someone who was in the same room who may or may not have done things is what you should want to have when writing a piece of historical fiction as it gives a bit of freedom while still giving guidelines
Just don't buy the game.
Ghost of Tsushima is right there.
yeah if it was an assassins creed with unity parkour and ghost of tsushima fight system this wouldve been good, and only focus on one person
True but when game fails, media and activist and Ubisoft gonna blame racism - not themselves or the audiencethis is for. We saw with fail of The Marvels how media claimed MCU fanboys were intimated by strong women.
Too expensive for regular gamer
Except Ghost of Tsushima is a great samurai game, but a shitty ninja game
@@jamesneese7663let them keep talking or blaming others for their failures. It'll only drive the normies away because they won't understand why it's their fault when the people they're actually trying to blame either don't care or were never gonna watch it to begin with.
They changed wikipedia, enciclopedia britannica and even famitsu....over a game.
Not over a game - over The Message™
I was amazed when I checked Britannica. They taught us in college that Britannica is very reliable and stuff, but now I don't believe so.
Money they changed everything.
History is getting Blacked
We were always at war with east asia.
I am fucking tired of the media trying to tell us what we think instead of hearing what we are saying
DEI is absolutely destroying triple-A games. This was such a missed opportunity. People have been wanting an AC game set in feudal Japan for a long time. It was almost guaranteed to be a success, and then they decided to gamble it away just for DEI brownie points. Good job, guys.
What I find annoying was they already had 2 games where you played as a black person, Adewale and Aveline!
The fact Hanzo Hattori a LITERAL assassin and samurai got passed over is incredibly stupid
@@Mugman896 fuck i mean the Shinsungumi or the Kihetai wouldve been good aswell to be focused on.
Evil acts
would absolutely have bought this game if it been true to feudal Japan characters in an AC style, samurai, swords, proper AC stuff and not the just bludgeon everythink Viking style, how can you lose, oh yeah lets DEI it. epic fail
and bayek also black
Italian Assassin's Creed features and Italian assassin.
Islamic Assassin's Creed features a Muslim assassin.
Viking Assassin's Creed features a Nordic assassin.
Egyptian Assassin's Creed features an Egyptian assassin.
Japanese Assassin's Creed features a Japanese assassin? Lol. Jk. He's black.
Japan and everyone else has every right to be upset about this.
"The greatest disrespect to a culture is to find an exploitable aspect in its history and expand it infinitely to cater to another culture. Not only that, but this style of cultural conditioning is disrespectful to both cultures at the same time."
French from France Greek from Greece Brit for UK native American for ACIII.
@@WayStedYou i think you mean ac syndicate.
Islamic? Remove the Italian and call it Christian then
There is a Japanese assassin but yall don't care cause shes a woman 😜
@@Uruk02think he meant arabic for AC1 protagonist or the recent one from ancient bahgdad in AC Mirage, both middle easterners
Japan can sue like Egypt suing Netflix for lying about a historic figure.
Yasuke was a real person, you know.
@@wesmcinerny4524 He was not a Samurai and didn't even speak Japanese.
@@wesmcinerny4524so was Cleopatra, your point?
They can't. Egypt was able to sue Netflix because they presented their Cleopatra movie as a documentary. Assassin's creed has always been historic fiction so it's not applicable.
@@wesmcinerny4524 so was cleopatra it’s the making up of facts about a real historical character cleopatra was macidionan Greek that’s a fact they made up. A lot shit about her being black. Same with yasuke he was a real person but his historical impact on Japan was miniscual he was. Glorified jester at best.
They really said "Japan doesn't need ANOTHER samurai character, it's our turn now!" God damn.
imagine if this exact sentiment was taken with their current people of choice.
The same journalists calling everyone racist by not liking a black guy killing Asians ??? .... do i have to mention resident evil 5 ? The hypocrisy.
What ?? You know only main character. There are multiple playable characters.
Sweet baby inc is actually a part of this game, theres a picture of the people who worked on this game,and the sbi ceo is in it
That tracks.
SBI went to the blackmailing islands. Let that sink in. Boycott them.
Why am I not surprised?
And that explains everything.....
@@LuigiTheMetal64 You mean the child rape island?
You know dam well that if they released assassins creed japan 10 years ago they wouldn't use yasuke as the main
Main what?
Every other had an assassin from their region.
Ac3 native american Italy italian France French UK british.
Japanese? NO
@@TreyeParker Main character
yeah they would use yamauchi taka in assassins creed memories
@@stephenschneekloth1535 what's wrong with that? He was actually a historical figure
Disney created the playbook for this:
Company: do something controversial related to ESG and receive funding from Blackrock at lower interest rates
Consumer: get annoyed and complain about controversial ESG related thing
Company: reiceve an insane amount of coverage/backlash/"marketing" on the internet and call detractors of controversial ESG item all of the "ists" and "phobes" that apply
"News agencies": write articles applauding how stunning, brave and groundbreaking controversial ESG item is, and double down on calling unhappy fans all "ists" and "phobes" that apply
Target consumer: doesn't buy the product
Company: Make an excuse for failure or gaslight - i.e. "No one bought it because they are all racists" or "this controversial product was a great success despite sales" or "this wasn't as successful as we hoped due to market oversaturation"
Non-consumer shills: This product is amazing (even though we don't consume said product, we are going to virtue signal to you that we approve of your controversial ESG thing)
Rinse and repeat across all media. I'm tired of it, honestly. It's predictable and formulaic... just like the media they create. Souless corporate BS
Fun fact Ubisoft once said they wouldn't ever make an assassins creed game set in Japan because it would have been "too obvious" Well now i wish they had stayed true to that statement.
Then why didn’t they just take advise from my assassins creed concepts
Which is Funny cause it turned out they did had it in the can for quite a while (circa 2013 I believe). A former Writer of Ubisoft I believe went on twitter and said that a script was made for an AC game set in Japan and detailed what it was going to be about.
@@THEINFINITIVERSESAGA what?
Pretty sure, if Ubisoft presents this to China... Yasuke isn't in the front cover
lol
Well China wouldn't care, since they hated Japan for what the Japanese did during World War 2. Just because China and Japan are in East Asia; it doesn't make them lovers; more like sibling rivalry
the game already has two strikes, one it stars a black man, and its about Japan. dont see China giving the OK.
They'd make him asian or comic relief like with Fin
@@patrickdees5256 dude they did that to yakuza they change the face of the chinese assassin
Leave it to game "journalists" to run their mouths off. Remember they don't care about cultural appropriation as long as it's someone they approve of. Not to mention it requires online connection in a single player game.
EDIT: It actually only requires a online connection to purchase and then you can play it offline.
Yep they would be singing a completely different tune if they, say, cast a white guy as the main protagonist of the game.
I think the online connection for a single-player game is one of the worst scams in video games. That and the ridiculous price they want for this game.
@LazyGryphon Exactly and not only that Ubislop said that you should get use to NOT owning the games we buy anymore. They already took away The Crew from people who bought it.
Compnaies paying these so called journalists to defend them will just make it worse for them. Lol
It's an always online crap as well? That's another MASSIVE red flags for Ubislop
It’s not that he’s black, it’s that he’s not Japanese. They could have made him any race except Japanese and we’d have the same exact problem with it.
And because he's not Japanese, there's absolutely zero chance he was a samurai.
@@darthlaurel Ignorant. William Adams was not Japanese and made a samurai...
Yep nobody wants a white samurai either that had one job and effed it up.
@@a1racer441 Ubisoft been taking liberties for years now. They decided THIS is gonna be the hill they commit sudoku on.
@@chilomine839 agreed but they at least stayed kind of true with the AC games having people from the countries they are in. This is just the nail in the coffin that is AC.
Watching that Wikipedia edit war in real time was wild.
The psychology of someone being so dedicated to defending an Ubisoft game that they’re willing to rewrite history is truly beyond me.
History is a battlefield because these marxists want to control everyone's future.
About rewriting history, search “philip cross wikipedia”, you’ll be amazed.
WE WUZ SAMURAI meme is going strong with Ubisoft.
LOL!
"We WUZ WARRIOR KANGS AND KWEENS!! WE ARE DAHOMEY!!"
@@kumikoloh9190 diahomey is a real kingdom in africa.
... And sheeeit.
@@Moonmonkian WE WUZ SHEEEEIT.
Corrected it for you.
They're trying so hard to gaslight everyone.
It's insane.
That's what their side does - repeat lies over and over and over enough hoping people will eventually believe it. It's really crazy.
@@brandongray1059 Man... When will DEI nonsense stop? I want a healthy, fun and profitable gaming industry, not this BS! Without these shiddy politics and etc.!
@@BulletSponge71436 Me too - it's likely going to need to crash for a bit before it gets better so just keep voting with your wallet my friend.
You're the one who wants to gaslight, ironic isn't it
@@brandongray1059 That's what you do
Look Madden 25 is $150, anyone buying AAA games at this point are a lost cause
If they wanted Yasuke, he could’ve been a side supporting character, but these Cirque de Soleil rejects continue to $#!t on everything to one up each other.
It's not the fact he's there. It's the fact they are wasting space in game for a character who would best be an antagonist like in the classic AC games. He'd make an interesting Templar representative to Obu Nobunaga.
Or he could have made an excellent side quest character. He SHOULD have been in the game. Just not as a main character.
Idk about that
He's gonna be the descendant of the guy from the Egypt game and that's how he ties into the larger AssCreed story. Cuz he's black and that's the best they've got to make him "important."
@@argnator so they're going to insult Egypt again as well as Japan in this process of pandering?
wonderful
@@argnator that's so stupid
For the main premise about assassins, they chose the one who stands out the most as one of the main characters.
Just wait until they have him “blend in” with the crowds to stop being followed.
The memes about that are hilarious.
Yasuke as an "Assassin" looks like Nick Fury in russia scene in Secret Invasion.
To say he stood out was an understatement. The first historical mention of Yasuke was an entry by one of the Portuguese Missionaries to whom he was a slave. They described how they had hundreds, perhaps a thousand people outside the gates of the Portuguese Trade Compound wanting to pay money to see the strange new thing. "A towering tall figure with skin like the blackist ink, but it does not wash off!". He stood out so much that upon the first glimpse of him by members of the Japanese Public people wanted to fork over cash to get a look. "I know lets make a game where he is a Samurai Ninja!!!" /smacks head. It's not like this was hard to find. There are literally only 4 statements about Yasuke in the historical record. 4 sentences. This one might be the hardest to find because it is from before Nobunaga named him Yasuke, by a few days. It was shortly before the Missionary had an audience with Nobunaga, where he gave him to the Daimyo. (Let the mob go bother his lordship)
@@andrewtaylor940 wow. nice find !
The insane part is that if you have any criticism about this game... it means you automatically hate anyone with dark skin 🤦♂
If you don't buy the game they will shut down a studio , blame it on you, and threaten to stop making them and shame you.
Don't buy into that and definitely do not buy the game.
Literally trying to rewrite history on Wikipedia.
They have been rewriting that site for years now. Taking down truth and putting up lies. Welcome to the digital frontier. Obey and don't ask questions.
The racists? Yea they're freaking wild😂
Almost like the bible
That's ironic
@@robinnewhouse1563It's not something I worry about. The entire planet laughs at black American cultural ridiculousness and it's Cuckold allies. Not even giants like Black rock, Vanguard, and State Street can keep the charade going.
As someone from Norse ancestry I'm looking at the Japanese and saying 'first time?'
same, had a flame war with a guy accusing me of racism for saying yasuke was a man servant and only Japanese aristocracy could be samurai
@@ghostofwolfmoonmani3877 apparently we can confirm he was a bodyguard, so a type of warrior. Pretty much why was with the Jesuits in Japan in the firstplace.
Then it gets very murky. I think Oda liked him, not sure about the rest.
@@lightningpenguin8937 Yasuke was in Japan 15 Months... What can ye do in 15 Months? Lol... Also, Nobunaga is his First Name, Oda is his Family Name... "Nobunaga liked him..." Is how ye need to say it.
織田信長公の家臣の先祖全員：いやーーーん！
@@steelshanks1265 Good thing calling someone by their family name is a sign of respect in most cultures
Time for a redhead Malcolm X, a Vietnamese Shaka Zulu, a Mexican Martin Luther King, and a Chinese Midget Michael Jordan, can you make this happen Netflix.
Wasn't Malcolm x conservative? That is against their narrative 🤣
Malcom X was not only conservative but also racist af... he hated white people, so the DEI marching band can overlook the conservatism and just focus on the "approved" racism.
Malcom X did have red hair lol and his mom was white
Oh I mean Black samurai REEEEeeeeeeee
malcolm x was a redhead, cesar chavez is the mexican martin luther king, and the other two are probably findable if we looked hard enough
Grummz said the original idea was a Monk... Oda Nobunaga went to war with the Ikko Ikki Warrior Monks... A Monk or Warrior Monk, turned Assassin, going against Nobunaga basically writes itself... The Price is hilarious... WHO is going to buy this? No one... They'll wait til it's $10.00 on Steam...
more like wait until when it gets bundled with 10 other games for $12 on Humble Bundle Choice....
I wouldn't buy this crap even if it was $1. I wouldn't play it even if it was free.
Historical accuracy is not here for ac shadows. The architecture is Chinese even and the whole thing of assassins creed is they don’t use actual historical figures as playable characters because as an assassin the main character’s are supposed to be so unknown that there is no record of them existing.
Assassin's Creed Shadows is set in medieval Japan, not China.
@@thebatmanofneo-gotham5667 architecture is Chinese. These people are such losers that they couldn't even do the base level research.
@@thebatmanofneo-gotham5667 yet the building are designed the wrong way. They look more Chinese than Japanese. That’s the point being made.
AC games have never been historically accurate
Plus, they can easily mess up a historical figure. Putting Yasuke as the first playable historical character is a huge risk.
The Asian versus black protagonist issue isn't even about "historical accuracy" as such. The problem is that when people buy a game in a certain setting, they want to play a character who is representative of that setting. A minority of one is not representative of Japanese Samurais.
Funny how this was not a problem when we had a blonde-haired blue-eyed protagonist in Nioh. Why are the bulk of people complaining when the Japanese themselves aren't?
That's a weird irony to all this, the side that'd normally rally to lose their minds if the character wasn't region accurate (especially if they're white) are the ones whole heartedly embracing this.
@@utteero I can also use that same logic as well on how people who called Resident Evil 5 racist because the protagonist was a white male in Africa who had to survive against zombies who were of notable darker skin tone are same people defending Yasuke being a samurai in Japan. Not all AC fans played Nioh or are even fans of souls like games. You’re comparing two communities as a gotcha argument win.
As a half Japanese. I was like, sooooo where are the Inu people?
Female ninja (Kunoichi) is a nice touch and ninja clan could have interesting link to the syndicates and stuff, but like where are the Inu people? We have Connor for AC3 but not this time?
The loudest bang I heard about Inu people was Golden Kamui manga. (Great stuff, recommended)
@@SurprisedAtom-ly8jf That is a totally different game that has no bearing on this. I never saw where anyone complained about Racism in 5 when they were already killing a whole village of hispanics in RE4. I played RE5 and enjoyed it.
Stop changing the goal-post with irrelevant Whataboutisms. I am comparing 2 games set in feudal japan which included real historical characters in their stories. It is not unexpected that it would attract a similar audience.
I don't have to go far beyond Nioh to see how people like you are silent when the tables are turned (Gods of Egypt, Last Samurai, Ghost in a Shell, King Solomon's Mines, Tarzan, the list goes on...).
Meanwhile Japanese creators are ever so willing to have black characters in their IPs (Nagoriyuki, Raven, 8-Tails, Yoruichi, Giovanna, Master Raven...the list goes on)
The loudest voices against this are salty white boys.
Don't forget this Yasuke "controversy" is Ubisoft's response to the fact the full game would cost 130 dollars. Yes, they'd rather use a minority as a shield than say the game's so good it's worth nearly double a normal AAA one.
What I'm confused is, I wouldn't even buy this game on a 90% discount. and they want to sell it for $130? Not sure the part where it make sense.
Those journos should be supporting this left and right, and each of them get a $130k loan and buy 1000 copies of these. Oh right, they are broke and will be out of job soon.
Incorrect. The full game at base is actually 70 dollars. You're thinking of the Ultimate Edition, which IS 130 dollars.
@@thebatmanofneo-gotham5667 And that 130$ is basically the full experience of the game. From what I know there are skins for your character and their hideout, even though it’s a single player game, and there are special side missions that go with the ultimate edition as well from what I heard.
@@SurprisedAtom-ly8jf Yeah, I don't like that Ubisoft is pushing for gamers to spend 130 dollars for a full game experience. Such content would be fine for about 90 dollars or so.
@@thebatmanofneo-gotham5667 Probably just day 1 DLCs. I mean by now it must be loved by gamers right, not like they'd still have those old-fashioned opinions that day 1 DLCs are bad.
Assassin's Creed : Shadow, a video game version of a Kotaku anti-japan hit piece where a PoC Samurai and a Strong Woman save Japan from itself.
Damn they got Heather Swanson in this game. 😳 hell yeah she be busting the Macho Woman famous Elbow drop. With her catchphease..catchphrase... Luck is for dudes
See, you are getting closer to what this is about.
A particular large Eastern country that despises the country in the game, to this day, gets a game developer to make a game putting a man that said country is prejudiced against, into the lore of its enemy.
Pretty much trying to mock the Japanese
What slays me is that it was so obvious that if the main character would have been a Japanese man in a samurai game set in feudal Japan, it would have been a guaranteed money maker.
I just cannot understand how these businesses like Disney, Bud Light, WoTC, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Hollywood, and so on just don’t get it that not catering to an existing customer base does not bring in the dollars.
It’s not about the main character being black. It’s about not having a Japanese guy in a…well…Japanese action game set in the old days.
What have they done with their focus groups?
The thing is the series stuck to the main characters being *native* to the setting. AC: Origins was in Egypt so you were an Egyptian, AC: Odyssey was in Greece so you were a Greek, and AC: III was in America during the American Revolution so you were Native American. And since the series is branching into a "choose your character" game as far as the RPG series goes, fans wanted the characters to be both native Japanese characters.
Make up your mind. First it's Ubisoft sucks and is trash and the game wasn't going to sell anyway even if Yasuke wasn't in the game. Now it's the game would have sold if he wasn't there.
I all honesty would have buy it but even though it would have been bad now it a hard pass
@@emodante1084 correction the series stuck to the MC's being native SOMETIMES
They know. It isnt about customers it is about propaganda and cultural warefare. They dont lose money on bad games, they spend money on propaganda. The loss is the cost of the message. Stockholders get screwed, but blackrock et al keep writing cheques.
These companies arent pumping out trash to try and please .001% of the population, or because they are stubborn and dumb, or even truly woke and ignorant. They pump out trash to destroy your culture and make you feel like you're the only one who dislikes it. Their benefactors want you to think reality is not what it is. To normalize the grotesque. To erase your history and your heroes.
Even my boomer(actual) mother in law who watches msm news 3 times a day (literally) has said of tv commercials "Have you noticed they all have mixed race lesbians" Despite the fact the consumer base is majority not black, much less mixed race ( barely anyone is), and certainly not gay.
Man, I really feel bad for the people who were looking forward to this game. They've been asking for a Japanese entry to the franchise for so long and it's finally happening, only for one of the MC to not even be Japanese for "reasons".
Yasuke was the opposite of stealthy. One of the only things we know about him is the amount of attention his dark skin brought him.
YASSSSUUUKKKEE... would have no issues picking up Japanese women.
I'm sure there were some Japanese women at that time looking at him and comparing him to their husbands and thinking "Damn, who is that fine motherf* there? I want some of that strong blood.."
Probably why he isn't the assassin huh?
Nothin to do with his skin
That group of people always scream about representation in games, yet somehow they are okay denying Japanese representation in a game set in Japan about Japan. This game is insultingly racist.
Those same crazies consider Asians "diet white"
Ignoring the Japaense representation much?
Oh but you say rahcist.. Hypocritical and ironic much?
@@PaulSmith-nb6md she looks Japanese?
People keep accusing anyone with actual criticism as racists, but don't stop to question why, if the devs wanted a black main character, why not base it off African history?
No, don't question the devs, don't question the corporations. Blame anyone who asks "OK but why" as the problem with society.
I also keep seeing people say this is the interesting option, not the pandering one.
I just cannot comprehend that line of thought.
"Leave my billion dollar company alone!!" This but unironically...
You miss the point. Most if the activists and proponents of this are just interested in "dunking on the chuds" and pushing their own takeover. And when characters from Nick Fury to Annie to Little Mermaid go ( ) they never go back, regardless source material. Anyone here really think Doctor Who is ever going to be like David Tennant ever again now?
You seem to be working under the assumptions leftists have a shred of honesty.
You would be wrong.
The reason’s fairly simple, very few people care about African history whereas a lot of people care about Japanese history. They just want a wider stage to be seen as virtuous on.
Frankly it’s a shame, I think an Assassin’s Creed set in Mali or something could be rad.
For me it's about respecting the culture. He was only a retainer for 15 months. He was only in Japan for 3 years. This makes him one of the worst people to serve as a representation of the culture.
On top of that, from how they've worded things, he's fighting against nobunaga. Literally the justification people are using for "he was a samurai" was his retainership to nobunaga.
Yasuke isn't there to represent Japanese culture... They said he represents foreigners that actually know close to nothing about the place and the feeling of being "a fish out of the water".
@@basalgiraffe742 the the topic about him being a samurai is pointless. He obviously isn't going to be one in the game, right?
The game itself is painting this as 2 stories, one of kunnochi, one of samurai.
If he WAS a SAMURAI, The Emperor would have allowed him to commit Sabuko. The Emperor denied his request, stating clearly that Yasuke wasn't a Samurai, and simply had him executed.
@@susandolan9543 actually he was allowed to leave. Given back to the jesuits. Really harsh interpretations translate the passage as saying he was akin to an animal, but that's likely an unreliable takeaway. The more likely translation is "he's foreign, let the foreigners have him"
Thank you for pointing out that the trailer seems to imply that he will fight Nobunaga. That is the part that irks me the most. Samurais should never EVER betray there lords so upgrading Yasuke to a Samurai for the game then have him do the one thing a Samurai shouldn't do is a spit on the face. If they really wanted a story of Templar Nobunaga being betrayed by a member of the assassin order they could have just use Akechi Mitsuhide, the actual guy who betrayed Nobunaga.
Ubisoft kill the Assassin's Creed franchise with greed, this game is DOA
The Japanese consultant Ubisoft hired for this game is an associate professor in Japanese Literature and Culture, not history. Of course they are going to fluff things up to make Yasuke a more significant historical figure than he actually was. Game development takes longer so if we trace back time, developing this character is definitely to pander for DEI. Unfortunately for Ubisoft, gamers and even normies are more aware of this BS and will vote with their money.
Basically, saying Yasuke was a samurai is like saying a jester is a knight.
He was a retainer
Retainers are a class of samurai
Know your history
@@Gamerlord17 A stable boy qualified as a retainer. Retainers are not a class of samurai.
@@supremecaffeine2633 taking care of a lords horse was a high Honor and there were different ranks of Samurai
Yasuke had a sword. Owned land and was well respected by Nobunaga.
He was a samurai. Period.
@supremecaffeine2633 Samurai are Bushi, not all bushi were Samurai. He was a bodyguard. Stop seeing things in black and white. The actual answer is in the grey. Yasuke was 6'2 and incredibly strong. Nobunaga loved western stuff. It makes sense for him to have a huge black dude as a bodyguard/bouncer.
Explain William Adams then. Was he a jester too?
Ubisoft: "It's not cultural appropriation when we do it."
"We WUZ WARRIOR KANGS AND KWEENS!! WE ARE DAHOMEY!!"
white woman wrote the story for this... it's ok
white western studio makes Samurai game = racist
They say appropriation when non-X does something from X culture.
What do you call an outsider trying to insert something into X culture?
The New Colonialism, run by White leftists.
@@kumikoloh9190🤣🤣🤣
As a native asian male I feel canceled. So if you play this game, means you help the company and DEI people to cancel native asian males and support rewriting history .
Add Yasuke for the expected backlash, hide behind the manufactured outrage bait while enforce the greedy scummy shit.
Yasuke - the DEI Samurai!
He Didn't Earn It
Samurai Token
Oda: "Cause he's BIG, BLACK and BRAVE!! He's stunning and brave!"
@@Shiirow More like " Yasss Suuke..". Like saying " Yasss Queen".
"How does a nonbinary samuria cut people?"
Answer: "They slash Them."
I like how they are showing their support for the rise in Black on Asian violence.
also when you lose the fight, guard brutality
Notice "stop asian hate" dissappeared as soon as it was discovered who was doing all the hating.
There is a minority hierarchy with the woke
They believe in BSupremacy
@@IRaoulDuke Yeah surprise surprise in the places where the asian % of the USA reside white people werent the ones hassling them.
Well, u know, after seeing a total blackwash of western culture, with black Vikings, black Cleopatra, black Anna Bolena and much more i pretty understand Japanese reaction. Ubisoft has crossed the border with this one
They'll probably patch Assassin's Creed Origins to make Cleopatra dark skinned. So it aligns with the Netflix version of history.
Omg the photographic evidence. Anyone remember when people were putting out fake 'photos' of yasuke earlier this year trying to pressure for him to be in Shogun? He existed hundreds of years before photography.
approx 300
Not to mention the video phone footage of him doing his katas.
lol. i already knew it to be fake. there's no katana that are placed on the back. that doesn't exists in reality.
Lol it's so funny
I know right? A photograph taken 250 years before cameras were even invented
A retcon of the original Japanese MC concept for Yasuke. Ubisoft did this purposely plus the egregious price of $130 for it.
Ubisoft needs to go bankrupt. To show the industry that if you don't do what the fans want, you go under. Lesson for other developers.
You can tell that despite setting a game in Japan, the Devs at Ubisoft hate Japan. You can tell by historical revisionism, and CHINESE architecture in the trailer.
How? The castle looks very similar to a japanese castle
Ya suck hey drama.
Remember when the journalists hated ghost of tshushima because a Western studio made it?
The Japanese and the island its set on loved it.
And they said the Japanese hated it too when in-fact it was the exact opposite not only did they love it they made them the official ambassadors of Tsushima. But something tells me Ubisoft won’t be getting that same level of respect in fact I think they’ll be getting the exact opposite.
Yusuke was brought to Japan by an Italian Jesuit. He was then given to Nobunaga as a gift. Nobunaga used him as a trophy to show of and to do his bidding as a retainer. No, not as a Samurai. Yusuke never did any fighting, battle or wore a proper Samurai armor. He was given a (Wakizashi), (small sword) and a small house. When Nobunaga's general, (Akechi Mitsuhide), rebelled against Nobunaga and killed him. Yusuke was given back to the Jesuit and was never heard from again.
Yeah, Yasuke was likely an odoke, and during the battle in which Nobunaga was killed, Yasuke was captured shortly after the battle began and was brought to Akechi Mitsuhide, who declared him as not a threat, stripped him of his wakizashi and sent him on his way.
@@xxAntiOtakuxx he was a kosho, an attendant, could be a bodyguard but kosho are primarily just attendants.
@@neonlightcabasag4043 There is text that use the word Bushi to refer to him which does not make him a Samurai. He was most likely just a bodyguard and MAYBE he practiced Sumo if the one black man who is depicted doing so is indeed him (then again there is not that many people who could be the person in said painting)
That's the summary of it but you should give more details because his info is very limited
From what I read, the Italian Jesuit kinda just ditched Yasuke in Japan once his mission was over. Him being handed over to different jesuits is a possibility but we have no records of it
I don't care that he's black, I'm black, I care that it's Yasuke.
Like you seriously expect me to believe that the one time we can play as a historical figure you chose a footnote like Yasuke over NOBUNAGA.
Thats wild.
The thing I love most about the “modern” games industry is that I’m finally making a dent in my back catalog. So many great games that came out over the past few decades that I’ve finally been about to dust off and play.
"We were first looking for 'our Samurai'....." Is that their excuse for pandering to DEI?
Duh blackrock and vanguard 🙄
I find it interesting that the edit war on wikipedia is now extending to William Adams and the other confirmed western samurai
Further proof that Wiki is not a trustworthy source of information.
Oh my gods... sigh.
Any site that keeps the facts are accurate as possible? I know it not be reliable, but it sure as heck be more creditable than Wikipedia at this point.
We know more about William Adams though and it seems like he was respected by the Japanese. While Yasuke doesn't even have a 2nd name. Probably in the Japanese historical records there are like 5 lines in total about him.
One of the founders of wikipedia said it was overtaken by ideologues years ago.
WHAT they now attacking William Adams???
it doesn't help that they revealed this game the same day that Ghost Of Tsushima came out on PC....... So a very good, and extremely well received game about ancient Japan came out the same day this sh** was revealed.
Why would a black guy be an effective assassin for Nobunaga? There is literally ONE black dude in the whole country, he’s probably a head taller than 75% of the population, and everyone knows exactly who he works for! And every disguise would require full body covering; you’d think at some point some plucky guard would ask “why are you wearing gloves in high summer?”
Sweet Baby Inc is a part of this game, so that explains a lot.
And just like that this game went from a ehhhhhh maybe when it’s discounted to a IM WOULDNT GET IT EVEN IF IT WAS FREE.
Yasuke wasn't a samurai. The most realistic depiction of him you'll get is from Hyouge Mono which is a great read. It's not realistic, it's got a lot of exaggeration and twisting of historic facts, but his purpose in that story is subtle and perfectly executed. Use the groundswell of this debacle of shame to prop up actual, worthy media for others.
DaVinci didn't create 007 weapons either yet yall were fine then
The only way to send a message that they hired badly in trying to appease the shareholders who don't know what they are talking about and chasing a DEI agenda is by letting this game fall. This is supposed to a Japanese male only protagonist. Zero female ninjas. Zero black samurais. Just what we asked for. It's crazy how that works in you'll make boatloads of money by not being woke.
Honestly the solution to this is just don’t. Don’t give Ubisoft, EA, Activision, Microsoft, and Sony money. ESG money has dried up, triple a is now on life support.
Cultural appropriation for thee, but not for me!
It hasn't been assassin's creed for years now and adding dei bull just makes it even less assassin's creed....it's slay queen creed
Adding dei bs 😂😂 Leonardo da vinci was gay in Ac 2, waaaay before this whole SBI brain rot of yours, they were always diverse, and you a pathetic tourist.
To me, Ghost of Tsushima proved UbiSoft isn't untouchable, planning to take AC all-online proved UbiSoft had lost the plot, and Skull & Bones proved UbiSoft had forgotten how to make games. AC Shadows is just more insanity. No more of my money is going to UbiSoft.... and until the last few years I was a pretty big fan.
And Watch Dogs Legion & FarCry 6 proved they can't write for shit
They made the Legion's Bloodline DLC more engaging than the actual main story.... HOW????
@@kizoaoy7423dude bloodline was more enjoyable than the base game and to be frank playing as wrench and Aiden made the base game less annoying.
You can tell this was a DEI decision. Every other game in AC had a character matching each region. They picked the solo black dude in the entire Feudal Japan.
The Viking game had a Viking in England instead of a native Anglo Saxon. That’s the same as this.
@@holdenmuganda97 As if Anglo Saxon dont have viking blood in them or werent attacked by vikings? and are you saying Africa invaded Japan? 😅🤣
@@holdenmuganda97 You mean the viking raider was raiding as a viking? Preposterous.
@@summer7603 the point is you played non-natives in another cultures “native” land (since the angles and saxons weren’t native either). So Yasuke being the protagonist while not being native isn’t unprecedented. And Africa didn’t need to invade Japan for Yasuke to be there. So depicting him in a country where he actually was at the time is correct.
@@wrongthinker843 you mean Yasuke the black man in Japan at the time was a black man in Japan at the time? Preposterous that we’d have him there when he was there. The nerve of Nobunaga founding DEI.
Wikipedia can be very BIASED on contentious topics (e.g., history, politics) and mislead the readers. So, I try NOT to use Wikipedia.
Agreed. I only use it for extremely basic facts or things like sports scores and animal facts because the people whom care about those as a whole tend to favor accuracy.
This may sound crazy but... wiki is controlled by progressive communists specially the editors. They edit and manipulate more than just this game in terms of historical facts.
they only use secondary sources, so anything remotely controversial will be entirely biased based on the interpretation of the sources they choose to cite.
It's not that, it's that they are literally trying to rewrite history for the sake of an agenda currently. In general you're supposed to cross reference information and not be a retard about accepting things at face value. That's a given rule on the internet.
Yasuke is only a retainer in Japan for about 16 months. That is not being a samurai.
Well what many are not saying is that retainers still wore armor like samurai, the only difference was that retainers were warriors who fought for food instead of land and weren't acknowledged as nobility, it wouldn't be hard for them to have kept the story the same with him just as a retainer since it would basically be the same, however people would still complain and I do believe most complaints is about his race not his statues
@@etherealdragon207 he didn't become a slave again, he was bought by a missionary to be a guard and the information after he was banished from Japan says he returned to the missionary to be his guard again, he was free and went to work for his old boss who doesn't seem like he was a bad guy, nevertheless he was free and made the choice
@@asidionprimus1226 A retainer was anyone in service of a lord, including house keepers. Yasuke was likely an odoke or a sort of jester (watch Akira Kurosawa's Ran if you want an example of an odoke.) The only battle he is recorded to have fought in, he was captured soon after the start and brought before Akechi Mitsuhide who declared him as "not a threat" even though he was armed and sent along his way. Afterward Yasuke disappeared from history.
The ultimate proof that Yasuke was not a samurai is the fact he never had a surname. A name that was often chosen during one's ceremony to become a samurai.
@@asidionprimus1226the main thing is why!? Why pick this one miniscule story of a man in history and put it in a game centered around Japanese culture, history, and heritage!? They didn't do this for any of the other games. It's obvious to all of those not woke that it's just another push for their "dei/intersectional/Marxist" agenda!
This is like me working for Google, Microsoft or Apple as a Tech Engineer for a year and a half and suddenly being promoted to Senior Development Management to make the software decisions.
Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has already been invented by the forces of good.
The problem isn't even with historical accuracy.
The main problem is that, _we know why they are doing this._
And the reason is _purely_ ideological.
Also isn't Ubisoft affiliated with the Japanese' rival country? So as I've been saying, this is a way to humiliate their rivals by inserting a person into the game who would be considered "lesser" in both countries, at one time.
i.e. the equivelent of a k k member making a video game where his enemy's daughter marries a b guy.
From HIS perspective, it's a diss.
Japan is also mad about the Pokémon SV characters being ugly and androgynous, rather than being like anime characters.
Shall we even mention what happened to Pokemon Go?
@@WildZephyrThat too. Anything iconic to a country should have never been changed up into what it is not.
Pokémon SV characters look like anime characters, it’s just that they changed the art style to try to mimic Studio Ghibli’s characters instead of sticking with the traditional Pokémon art style. Pokémon Go’s characters have always looked like western imitations of anime characters.
I bet liberals will call japanese "incel neckbeards"
@@cathygrandstaff1957 At least until Pokemon Go did the recent update where now the female characters look like men, and not in the handsome enough that if you put them in boys clothes they look like highly effeminate men way like in anime.
Don't care. Not paying Ubisoft a penny.
“Go woke, go broke” When will they realise that this isn’t just a slogan? It’s an experience!
Assassin's Creed up to this point has featured FICTIONAL CHARACTERS as the playable protagonists, the fact Ubisoft broke that tradition in order to make Yasuke the protagonist of the warring states Assassin's Creed is really telling about their priorities these days, it feels exploitable and gross for them to hone in on the sole black man of any historical record in that era and say 'yes, we will do this instead of what we've normally done for these games', I'm sure the Japanese fanbase feels incredibly insulted that everyone ELSE gets one of their countrymen as the protagonist except them.
Bro it was the Japanese who Created the name Yasuke dummy.........wtf are you talking about?? It's part of their history not ours.
dude, you need to work on your reading comprehension. 🙄@10dev785
Even the people they are tryna pander to see what they’re doing.
...and NOBODY involved told these people that this was going to be the result?
Nobody in charge realized that this was a bad idea?
Nobody in any kind of authority who said "this is a disaster waiting to happen"?
Of course not, because it hit every single correct DEI button and they would rather spend tens of millions on trying to defend this than the "mere" millions to deal with the DEI commissars.
Who cares when you can use Yasuke as a shield and say you hate this came cause you’re racist.
He wasn’t a samurai he was basically a glorified jester for Oda Nobunaga
He only spent about a year in Japan because when Oda was killed the ruling daimyos gave him back to the priests that brought him to Japan as a slave
He arrived in Japan as a slave
He was Odas jester slave
He left Japan as a slave
He was a slave not a samurai
You don't know what tf a Samurai is. Yasuke was Nobunaga's bodyguard. BUSHI
@@PhthaloGreenskin No, revisionist trash
@@PhthaloGreenskin kosho, bodyguard is still debatable and neither is samurai. Heee was recognized as a bushi because he could fight but not samurai. He still failed his lord and ended up surrendering which if he was true samurai he wouldve commited seppuku right then and there. But he was given back to the jesuits, and then no records after.
He was strong that is recorded
There was really no writings on him ever fighting. I don’t remember the exact term they called him but he was only given the loose term samurai by Oda because he wanted to keep him around since he liked to collect strange and foreign items. Well a black guy in 15th century Japan was pretty dam strange!
He was a retainer for Oda meaning he held his swords. Basically he was a 15th century golf caddy and no there’s no recorded events of him ever fighting and I’m willing to bet he knew Jack shot about how to use the sword.
He was really only in Japan for only a year before Oda is killed. That isn’t enough time to be trained in the way of bushido or learning the language or culture all that well.
All in all again he was just some token black guy in feudal Japan that did nothing to change history or even effect it besides a few foot notes and being one of the first Africans in Japan
I wonder if Ubisoft will ever learn that the people they are pandering to with clunky DEI nonsense can’t even afford to buy their $130 games.
My favorite part is Yasuke did no fighting at all and was definitely not samurai. Yet in game they made him some samurai. He was an attendant along with white Christians in Oda's court who were trying to convert him to Christianity. He would carry around stuff like the white Christians did that were there for missionary purposes.
If Ubisoft wants to get money. Why don't they simply make something that people actually want? It's really that easy.
Can’t Waite for the black wafen SS assassins creed charater
Nobunaga? Nah.
Hijikata? Nah.
The message? Oh the modern audience will love this.
Once again, using Wikipedia as a source for anything has been proven fraught with activism of all sorts of weird stuff.
Yet this game is worth $130... That is a discomforting amount for any videogame, let alone an Ubisoft game.
It's clear that everything is depending on this game, but once again Ubisoft mismanagement and greed prove to got the worst of them once again.
Ubisoft games are only worth $15 at best.
And don’t forget the thing they’re practically begging you to purchase the monthly subscription. 😂
Why don't everyone bring up the ownership when it comes to ubislop?
This is not how the true Yasuke was like.
I know. Him And his descendants will be pissed
@@TreyeParker The big question is where are his descendants?
If Europeans and Japanese were so racist to Africans, wouldn't one of the first things they do is to castrate male slaves?
Wouldn't they want to reduce the slave population?
So what it's a fictional story
@@revilloteoj1934 yeah... I'm only outrageous because there's 10 people saying that he's going to be the main villain.
@@TreyeParker even worse they're gonna " Yassify" him.
Can we please stop " YAASSUKE" him?
Let's consider this; if there were a black samurai, the Shogunate he served definitely would have made a record of it.
There's something frustrating with how the IGN article says Samurai Warriors - a game franchise developed by Japanese developers with the intention of sharing dramaticised-yet-grounded stories of actual historical events - is an example of why Japanese games shouldn't have more samurai heroes, especially asian ones.
the fact of being $70-$180 dallhairs is inexucable
Even I have seen Rainbow Cotton going for maybe $25. Not an Ubisoft game, but it is based on a Dreamcast game. Even that game is more pretty than what Ubisoft make these days.
Interestingly enough, people in twitter keep saying that ac fans disliking ac shadows because the main character is black and not white. Which is weird because many of the fans are fond of Adewale, Bayek and Connor.
Even funnier because they want a Japanese main, not a white one.
"You just want all protagonists to be straight white men!" is their goto accusation, even if it makes absolutely zero sense in context.
They don't even think about it, they just parrot it.
Westerners have a personal problem with white people,your own people lol
And don’t forget Aveline although I don’t hear people talking about liberation much. What’s even more funny is those characters are one of my favorites I even want a continuation of Connor’s story. Also people that say that are missing the point it’s not cause hes black it’s cause HES NOT JAPANESE mc could’ve Been any race aside from Japanese and we’d still be pissed.
@@Desu-Desu-Chan-San oh that's simple, for a lot of them, Asian may as well be white.
If Ubisoft had said "we came across this yasuke guy. Not much is known about him aside he was a black man in feudal Japan, so we were inspired to create a story around him fighting aside the Japanese daimyo" I think it would not have been this big deal. Eye roll cause of DEI but not more than that. The changing of history and stating things of him as facts is the problem. Sure there is media with him being portraided as a samurai, but that's media, just like ninjas that were not historical figures but media created.
This is like making a African Assassins creed game in 500 AC and making the main player white lmao.
I maintain at the controversy around this is partially manufactured and 100% being dragged out in order to distract us from the fact that they're charging $130 for it
That makes no sense. Under that logic it would be the gaming company manufacturing the controversy. If that's the case then why would they not just lower the price of the game!? Now with the controversy they created under your logic they have now cemented that at least half of their fans will most definitely not buy this product. Which means they lose more money in the end this way.
They prescribe to the idea that all press is good press.
They definitely know what they're doing
Both issues are being discussed and criticized online though, a lot of people are aware of the egregious pricing and questionable character choices.
@@bluelunarmonkeytarot8533have you been awake this past decade. Companies will literally call a black man racist and wonder why he isn't jumping at the bit to buy their garbage products.
If there were African people living in Japan during the Sengoku, they would've been eliminated the moment someone spotted them. You want racism? Go to feudal Japan.
Just imagine this...... Your a 6foot2 black man and you are trying to go around the city doing "stealthy" things and "blend in to the crowds" no one is going to notice the big BLACK guy
I don't think whoever they had on this game understands or has any interest in stealth or deception- particularly in an assassin game.
Yasuke- genuinely the easiest guy to find in the Entire Nation
Naoe- described as "wears her heart on her sleeve" by her creative
None of that makes sense with the tone- that's the direct opposite of a functional assassin and about as "stealthy" as the $100+ Price