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The black character is just a meatshield for Ubisoft, watch, every criticism will be shot down with "you're just a racist"
Then call Dirty Harry. He is no racist, he equally hates everyone. And does his job as a police officer.
It is for marketing because the controversy gives them free publicity and because blacks and Latinos are a large market. Many Latinos, whether you believe it or not, feel identified with blacks.
@@juan-fl6vq aint no fucking way black market bigger than white
@@juan-fl6vq Which is dumb because they have about as much in common as the Chinese and Swedes
Well they aint white are they 😂@@juan-fl6vq
Why in God’s green Earth would anybody spend $130 on a game that hasn’t even showed any gameplay yet???
idiots
sheeple
They think cutscenes are gameplay. I've already seen a ton of people saying "the gameplay looks good"
Meth is a hell of a drug.
its assassins creed all have similar gameplay lol
It’s actually concerning there’s an edit war at Wikipedia over this, like: this game coming out and how Ubi positions this character for marketing is affecting what is _supposed to be_ an encyclopedia
this is exactly what we said would happen to wikipedia, decades ago, and why we told people that they shouldn't use it as a source.
nowadays kids can't tell the difference...and that was the plan all along. We've got kids in here SURE that Yasuke was a Samurai, with english references as their only sources. They actually think they know Japanese history better than the Japanese, because of fking wikipedia.
Every day we move closer and closer to 1984
Wikipedia is pure garbage. Constant E begging for people to write fan fiction history.
I honestly think this game is perfect marketing for Ghost of Tsushima
A few years ago, the guy who created the website straight up said you couldn’t trust it anymore. This is exactly why
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it's quite impressive how we went from "gamers are shutin nerds" to "they are racists that failed middle school classes" in two decades
gamers are truly most opressed and most evil thing that happened to our world (i think this is fucking stupid, that normies find gamers "evil")
gamers are whatever horrible stereotype they need to be to push their narrative, even if the stereotypes are complete opposites.
Someone gotta paint Mt. Rushmore black one day. If it were to be restored, then it's racist.
@@onebear6504 the same Rushmore that was taken from the Sioux tribe even though it was a place of spiritual importance for them? The layers of irony are too deep 😂
@@onebear6504 I call painting Lincoln's face then!
They turned black on Asian violence into a video game 😭
Is Yasuke gonna push Japanese people onto train tracks?
Rooftop Japanese time
then they will blame white people for it just like they do in the news.
Yasuke gonna be looting Asian stores
@@Poisonedblade The problem is that the only thing that will be historically correct about Yasuke is his skin color everything else will be hot garbage made up all they did was give him his name and skin color and called it a historical character, it has nothing to do with actual history of the historical figure.
Tons of people will still buy it, allowing devs to keep selling garbage at over $100
A lot of people I know are immediately interested in the game and have no understanding of Ubisoft as a company..
as they should
Won’t be my money.
Stop using the word 'devs' when you're talking about f*cking exectutives
Devs dont earn shit from this. Pathetic CEO's are the ones that earn the money. Stop blaming the wrong people.
Of ALL famous historical figures in Sengoku period, BOOM Yasuke got picked. How convenient.
SO MANY GREAT STORIES
Ubisoft: Leeeeeets go with the black guy
There are no AC games where someone actually known to history is the MC. So yes the Yasuke thing seems like an excuse. I'm actually wondering if he'll even be playable since no gameplay was shown and there's a ninja lady also on the cover. Putting a huge promo focus on him could literally be just an appeal to crowds.
@@KazumiKigumawhich crowds though? The japanese hate this, the western audiences are either the woke ones who love the idea but don’t actually buy games or dislike it, the chinese don’t like it in fact i’m pretty sure they’ll censor his face like the black panther, the middle eastern audience i’m unsure about but i doubt they see that as a reason to buy the game, i’d wager a guess they just don’t care so i really don’t see the benefit here
@@Philip7710 The ESG Blackrock crowds. Customers are absolutely tired of this identitarian garbage.
All the interns there worked overtime to find SOMEONE so they can scratch the diversity itch.
Yasuke being the main character isn't the problem. It's why they chose Yasuke rather than Hattori Hanzo, or any other Japanese character, or even invent one like they did before with all the other protagonists.
It's made by a Western studio with an apparent woke agenda and (from what I heard) ties to Sweet Baby Inc.
They chose Yasuke because of DEI and to have black representation in their game rather than for the character itself. That is the real issue here.
To this day, i wonder why there's so little Miyamoto Mushashi games if at all. I know Miyamoto is the most generic samurai character you can put in anything but he's still a very legendary figure and having a game based on him is 100% better than what they did here. I'd rather take generic but familiar characters than whatever the hell they're doing rn
*Can people stop blaming "the West" or "Western CEOs"* for DEI, Mass Immigration, and the Genocide of Palestine? The people forcing all of these things down our throats, do not identify as "Western" - all of their loyalty and allegiance is to Israeli Supremacism (aka Zionism).
it's clear they tried to change the controversial things we had 6-8 years ago. how many people hated studios cuz they were "racist" not implementing certain characters cuz they didn't fit obv. but still got massive hate for it. now they are doing it or changing it and it's still wrong. that's why u don't listen to the customers, because the customer doesn't even know what they want. personally I don't care if it's historical inaccurate like c'mon it's a game and we all know no matter what it's not 100% accurate anyway. games are supposed to enjoy & have fun. and not getting me a master degree in Japan history.
Absolutely correct. They can gaslight however they want. Their main goal first, was having a black character in Feudal Japan. The fact that there was really a black dude serving a wealthy japanese family for 15 months is a weak excuse. They know what they are doing and we know as well.
The problem is that he is black
As usual they will use the "diversity" as a shield against any criticism.
DEI Ghost of Tsushima
Well, it has proven to work for pr purposes many times... Quality-wise tho idk
Why do you care so much that a black person is in a fictional game that takes place in Japan. It’s assasins creed not a documentary. It’s been very loosely based in reality for the majority of its games.
Tbf, Asmon fell for the trap in reacting to the black guy before reacting to the pricing. It's a distraction, plain and simple. And people are falling for it hook, line, and sinker.
@@hivemind8817 because most weebs are white not black so it's weird for them to cater to an audience thats non existent!
Westerners are canceling Eastern culture, this is crazy.
this has to be some kind of psyop
Israel is more central really
Meanwhile in China
@@lIlIlIll-kg2cmthat's leftism for you. A giant psyop.
@@lIlIlIll-kg2cm how so? US is allies with Japan.
I'd be pretty dissapointed if the main character in AC Valhalla wasn't a Scandinaviaen.
Almost as disappointed as I am in your spelling ability 😂
Oh wow. No other language than english exist in the world. Everyone types on a version of youtube that isn't notorious for minute long lag on comments and with a perfect mechanical keyboard on a pc.
No such thing as quickly typing on mobile and then not gaf.
Fucking americans man.
Meanwhile, Ghosts of Tsushima is just standing over there shaking it's head.
Rewriting a Wikipedia article over and over again to change history to market a game is appalling.
Yea witnessing that made me cancel my wiki donations thought I was donating for freely accessible information not freely accessible propaganda. Apparently Wikipedia must have stopped caring about just giving the facts and began deciding it was going to omit things that go against a desired narrative and I didn't get the memo.
pretty sure anyone can change the wikipedia, and change the wikipedia back. Pretty sure it has nothing to do with Ubisoft.
@@Xorn4359 dude you werent aware that wikipedia admins are woke?
@TempoTune956 nah I was watching as it was being hashed out in edits live it did get admin locked with the final point being that yes in fictional works yasuke has been depicted as a samurai and no there is no historical evidence of him actually being a samurai. Then another admin came and removed that part to create the desired impression for future readers I have since started looking into other instances of this and found out this is hardly the first time that they have done this kind of thing and that they quite literally got rid of the requirement to be unbiased it was a rule they had in the 2000s but apparently they got rid of it at some point. Can't trust shit it seems it's kind of disappointing ngl.
@karlhans6678 I don't care about someone's personal viewpoints on equity if the company they work for ensures that they keep it separate from their work. Wiki stopped doing that.
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain
yeah thats pretty much what it all boils down to these days. who's faster, the information or the misinformation. fostered our egos and general vanity to the point that something as simple as changing your mind when something makes more sense to you makes you a crazy person
See: Every MAGA person.
That's this comment section in a nutshell. Everyone is saying "they'll use the black guy as a shield" while the majority of their attention is on the black guy rather than the pricing. It's hilarious.
@@KevinG9012 says the guy that wishes death on other in this comment section.
glad ubisoft revealed so much racism with just a trailer
To those who would want to know who Yasuke actually was, go read non-English sources. English Wikipedia may have been ruined but Japanese Wikipedia still has all the correct data on Yasuke with sources. Terminally online americans can't ruin that one, because they only speak English.
70 bucks for the "base" version is INSANE
It'll be 80 in another 1-3 years.
not really. games get bigger, better, the budget is huge, take more time develop, and there's also inflation, etc. Gamers want to pay the least possible, but ask for more. So no, it's not insane. Nes and snes games would also be $70. I'm not saying it's not expensive.
Corpo Simp keep throwing away your Money.
@@MuggleKarp| The way we're headed, AAA will crash first.
Elden Ring was 60 dollars, bro. I hate how expensive games are nowadays but every fcking game is expensive now, why you all crying over this one with a black character? or the other one with a girl character?
you see the problem with this isnt the fact the main character is a black samurai, the problem is we all know WHY the main character is a black samurai. DEI, it has to stop.
Yeah, people mostly have no problem when the Japanese dev make Yasuke as their characters. With Ubisoft case and current race climate in western countries, people know and annoyed with Ubi's reason
@@hafirenggayuda The Japanese are literally the only people in the world who don't know Yasuke.
And yet, they study Adam William, Jules Brunet, etc. while having festivals in their honor, and statues, buildings, gardens, etc. bearing their name.
It is disingenuous and disgusting. DEI is the only reason
Yeah it's an anti pandering, anti fake white people pretending they've done something, anti activists thing. Not an anti black thing. It's insulting period. Stupidly people then defend the studio and the fake bs and the activists who don't care about gamers.
it'll stop once conservatives come up with a new bogey word to scare dumb people. Let's see, we had antifa, crt, then woke and now DEI. Maybe next year we get a new one again
I live in Japan. I think the most ridiculous thing is the dude just casually walks around in full ceremonial armor that was only for military leaders and generals during a battle. The aesthetic is just atrocious. It's the most unsubtle thing you can do in feudal japan.
u do not care about this stop lying
@@joustingknight2088 you don't know this guy so stop assuming things
@@joustingknight2088 I care about arrows being able to puncture armour in Lords of the Rings. Plenty of people are passionate over matters you wouldn't even think about.
@@joustingknight2088 The game trailer has more dislikes than likes. The people seem to care.
@@joustingknight2088 actual bot
The issue here is that it’s an incredibly controversial decision that should have erred on the side of immersion and authenticity like previous AC games have done.
Yasuke as a side character or DLC would have been way more appropriate than one of two main protagonists (the other being a female) for a game taking place in FEUDAL JAPAN, and the first Japanese AC game that fans have been clamoring to get for ages.
By themselves, this wouldn’t be much of an issue, but it’s *very* obviously done for the sake of “diversity” which is beyond disingenuous.
Why not save a black protagonist for an AC game that takes place in Africa involving authentic African legends/folklore?
Why must they always get the sloppy seconds of more popular countries’ folklore?
Are African stories not worth telling/making?
It’s really not that hard a concept, yet so many people are being intentionally obtuse…
Because everybody knows africa history is not going to sell anything.
Like what do you want to do with that ? There is nothing there. They just got fucked by everyone and sold their own child to become slaves. What a game. Reality would be disapointing that's why they aren't making a game that takes places in africa and rather use historical figures from anywhere else
It's really ironic how "diversity" insults both the source culture by not taking it any seriously and black culture, by never chosing it as the source.
You know what's funny? They did exactly this with Black Flag: Freedom Cry DLC, and the character you play as is solid as well.
Black Supremacists and their Inferiority Complex being Exploited by the Woke Mob. It's really simple. Quite sad really.
yeah they can literally make an AC game that is set in the dahomey kingdom but instead of changing shit like they did with the movie ''the woman king'' ,actually make it as accurate as possible and add a fictional character that is inspired by the people that were enslaved by the dahomey (king ghezo)
These are the same people who tried to cancel Ghost of Tsushima for literally nothing and the Japanese actors had to come to Sucker Punch's defense...
The funniest part is.. if you go to Japanese websites, they are confused as to why there is a Yasuke game instead of a Japanese person
Nobody cares because it's never been about the person or the identity, just the virtue of pretending that it is.
Can you show me these websites?
The Westard never care about Asians in the first place, they care about Black people because they’re always the one complain most and loudest out of other races.
The Japanese are literally the only people in the world who don't know Yasuke.
And yet, they study Adam William, Jules Brunet, etc. while having festivals in their honor, and statues, buildings, gardens, etc. bearing their name.
William Adams (Miura Anjin) was better imo. He was never a servant like Yasuke, he was knighted a Samurai and the first white man ever in history to do so. He started a whole new life and a whole new family in Japan. There are statues of him there, he was highly respected. But no one ever talks about him cause "white man bad" apparently.
the attempts to edit the wiki page is amusing.
now I understand when teachers said Wikipedia can't be the main source 7 years out of school lol
Back then it was more reliable, and less left leaning. Now it's a propaganda site.
@TheUltimateBastich not really a propaganda site. Only in places political. You could still look up mitochondria and not see anything political.
Now Wikipedia asks for donations when you go on there, as it turns out when you let activists who want to change history go ahead and write any old nonsense, people are much less likely to look things up there, and revenue goes down. Who'd a thunk.
@@jackhardin6864 Yeah but these twats are too stupid to know the difference.
@@jackhardin6864 you mean the one that is the powerhouse of the cell? Not really a reason to search that, not again!
Its not even about the race. Its about the agenda being pushed down on us. Game studios need millions of dollars to develop a game, but they prefer to borrow that money from cheap sources like ESG companies. ESG companies are something like banks, but their interest rate is very low, BUT in order to get a loan from them and have your interest rate so low, your inclusivity in your game needs to be high. Thats why Sweet Baby Inc. companies exist, because companies like ESG ones employ them in order to make sure that the inclusivity is present in the game upon release. Its twisted, but game studios still undergo this procedure as it is still profitable.
Reminder:
If you buy the $70 version, you are *not* protesting against having a $130 option.
You are in fact *supporting* having a $130 option, by saying you are perfectly fine with it.
You encourage companies to do this to more games, because they still get your $70 anyway, while also getting the $130 from the people they can get the $130 from.
Same with for example waiting until the game goes on sale and you can get the $130 option for a normal price. You still encourage the company to start with releasing it for $130.
Same if you play a P2W game while "only" buying the Battle Pass because you're fine with a Battle Pass. You are not protesting against P2W, you are encouraging it by saying you are okay with it.
The only way to protest against shit like this, is to not play the game.
So true, unfortunatly people are stupid and will buy it just like they did. with 250 Dollar eft Beta edition.
I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm tired of following the crowd, and I will buy the game if it's good and not if it's bad
I couldn’t give less of a shit. If I want to play a game, I’m gonna play it.
If it looks good and the reception is generally positive, I'm picking up the standard edition. I think that's the mindset of most.
Oy vey! Shut it goyim. You are lowering our sales with your facts and logic!
Assassin's Creed: "Noble Black Slave and Strong Woman vs the Japanese Patriarchy - Cultural Appropriation Edition"
Yet nobody complained about shoguns inaccuracies. Look it would be one thing if assasins creed was meant to be based off in reality. But it hasent for the vast majority of its games, it’s just extremely loosely based off of some myth most of the time.
@@hivemind8817 Will it be realistic or unrealistic if Yasuke can't swim in the game? We have any idea if he could swim in real life, any historical mentions on the topic? I know it's racist but I would find it absolutely hilarious if Yasuke can't swim in the game but has increased movement speed, and the Japanese woman does more damage with throwable weapons but makes more noise when sneaking.
This is why I've been rooting for the templars since assassins creed 4 lmfao, they're correct
So the other female protagonist is also an issue?
@@hivemind8817 We are not talking about shoguns are we? Nice strawman you got there.
Also people can tell which is DEI pandering and what is simply bad media.
*AC 1:* Middle Eastern with an arab protagonist
*AC 2-AC Revelations:* Italy & Ottoman Empire with an italian protagonist, solid turkish & greek side characters
*AC 3:* America with a half-british & native protagonist
*AC4 BlackFlag:* Caribbean with a welsh protagonist roaming the seas
*AC Unity:* French Revolution with (who would've thought...) a french protagonist
*AC Syndicate:* Victorian London with english twins as the protagonists
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etc.
*AC Shadows:* Feudal Japan...with an african samurai as the protagonist...
if woke people are so concerned about representation, shouldnt they have more Asian men characters? I mean theres what, shang chi....and.....that's literally it??? and why is it that every asian man is either a kung fu guy or some kinda clown?
I'm guessing you had a big problem with all of the assassin's creed characters that didn't exist or had historical inaccuracies right...
Bet you were PISSED when Leonardo da Vinci was working on assassin weapons...
@@chengda85because woke people are saying nowadays that all Asians (they only refer to east asians) are variants of white anyway.
So for a lot of people it's okay to replace them just as long as it's black.
Didn't the Egypt game have a black MC? I haven't played it.
@@ObiVEVOStrawman
The historically accurate telling of Yasuke... He was like the daimyo's Butler. Never was givin the rank of samuria. In fact if he ever handled a sword he would have been killed on sight
He was a Retainer, meaning he was permitted to carry a short blade for self-defense and as a status symbol.
@@acceptablecasualty5319 yea but still no samurai. Japanese law at that time stated only Japanese can be considered eligible to receive the Samurai status
he used to be hired as a literal body guard ☠️🫵🏾
@@richarddo7881except nobunaga took him in and taught him their ways
@@ZEN03_ keep coping. Official title does not elevate him to Samurai status lmao. Sorry to hurt your feeling but in the Japanese eye he was just a pet to show off to other warlord
Not only they're defending, they removed the part which confirmed that Yasuke wasn't recorded as a samurai or a warrior in japanese historical records
That wikipedia edit war is amazing. It's several guys editing and undoing edits over and over and over
it's actually scary how some people are desperately trying to rewrite history. wiki has been compromised for the longest time though.
@@onetrueloli Remember when school told us Wikipedia isn't a reliable source? Now you get laughed at for being anti science if you don't use it as a reliable source.
@@onetrueloli Because some people don't have cool history so they feel the need to retcon their ancestors to have better history and architecture.
Well when I used the wayback machine it clearly stated that there is no definitive proof of him being a samurai after the controversy it suddenly vanished man history is being rewritten in front of our own eyes
they really thing "edit" button is a fckin GMC Delorean 🤣🤣🤣
the three problems of the game:
1 the price
2 the recycled gameplay without innovations and very watered down
3 why Ubisoft chose that specific historical character instead of the other 500 much more interesting ones
they did that for more then decade i bet
He's not even a historical character. Yasuke was nothing more than a slave brought by the Portugese, he wasn't some mythical samurai warrior like these people make him out to be.
@@mvximus3188 He was a retainer of actual samurai.
@@mvximus3188 This is the Game equivalent of "My Grandma says cleopatra was black..." XD
@@SeddyAm but thats the thing, thats all we hear about him, "he was a retainer of an actual samurai, and thus was considered a samurai himself", but...thats about it, ive not heard yet what else he ever did, how many battles did he fight? how many duels did he have and won? did he lead any army? the only thing ive read so far was that he fought in the battle where nobunaga was betrayed, lost was exiled to somewhere and then he faded into obscurity, he did nothing else?
dont get me wrong, it was cool to find about him in nioh 2, but, theres nothing more beyond that
A game based in Japan about samurai and the main character is black... Yes, I know the history and he wasn't a samurai.
He was never a samurai, a samurai is a person that is military nobility he was a retainer/servant
Who cares
AC is not even historical accurate
Boohoo
@@runescape9812"Who cares?"
*a hundred wikipedia edits later*
Definitely nobody.
@@Gerald-of-Riviera who cares, AC is not historical accurate rofl
Boohoo
@@runescape9812 *Who cares* 🥸🤓
@@Gerald-of-Riviera “waah!! waah!! mah historical accurate!!”
A bunch of us were begging to be a cool japanese assassin dude in an AC game ever since the first one.
Feels like missed opportunity for obvious brownie points.
You can be the frumpiest kunoichi instead.
if woke people are so concerned about representation, shouldnt they have more Asian men characters? I mean theres what, shang chi....and.....that's literally it??? and why is it that every asian man is either a kung fu guy or some kinda clown?
@chengda85 There are many who think asians are excluded from the DEI and aren't "oppressed."
@@chucklebouf5379 lmao wtf
Just play Sekiro and Ghost of Tsushima. These two games are far better than all the AC games put together.
After this, I won't tollerate A SINGLE COMPLAINT from these clowns if Capcom decides to actually remake Resident Evil 5.
I just choked on my drink.
omg racism black zombies in africa
I hope they do, after Veronica X
@@PoisonedbladeI just choked on my boyfriends meat
THIS.
Now that I think about it, have any gameplay been shown on this game yet?
isnt assasins main thing stealth and hiding in plain sight, i dont think black man in feudal japan is really stealthy and quite conspicuous
Maybe his speciality is hiding in the dark lol
The last game was about a viking tribe. The stealth part of AC was long gone before this
The Last Samurai is a bad example because the white dude is not the eponymous Last Samurai.
The literal poster boy teaches the Samurai how to use the rifles they purchased and are unfamiliar with how to use.
He befreinds them and they all die horrible deaths on a devestating loss but the MC goes to their Lord to testify on their behalf so they will recieve honorable burials and their families will be taken care of.
The guy on the right iirc is supposed to be Lois Frouis a portguese missionary whose name I am certain I have butchered, apologies, but he is actually an influential person at that time. Admittedly, he was far more important to the Portugese than to the Japanese.
Yasuke on the other hand was a retainer and was in Japan for only a year.
That said, I dont have a problem with Assassins Creed, whose tagline is literally "history is our playground", taking liberties and doing more with Yasuke than actually was.
I do have a problem that both the characters on Greece were Greek, both characters in valhalla were nordic, but now that we finally get the Sengoku Japan Assasins game they shaft Japanese Men out of the spotlight in their own country in favor of the one named Black guy in their entire history until WW2.
But all of that, all of that pales in comparison to thise fucking prices holy shit dude. Fuck Ubisoft.
EDIT: Unironically, GREECE would have made a million times more sense to have playable Black Assassin's given that Athens had MANY slaves as well as the surrounding Grecian society and they had multiple trade routes with Kush and Aksom (aethiopiea at the time unless I have my timeline fucked) as well as Egypt and through both access to Sub Saharan Africa.
It also would have given them an excuse to constantly spoonfeed the player info like Ubisoft games love to do.
Yea, Tom Cruise's character is basically a survivor/ story teller in that movie. Last Samurai is actually for Watanabe characters, who fight to preserve Samurai tradition
@@hafirenggayudatom cruise = Jules Brunet.
It was a way to open up the Samurai genre in the US, so they had a huge star in it, he was white, it also launched the careers of Ken Watanabe and Hiroyoki Sinada in the US. It wasn't done for pandering or inclusion just profit. It's blatantly obvious since George Floyd self loathing white people want to "make amends" and inclusion is the laziest and easiest way to pretend they've done something big
they shaft japanese men out of the spotlight? bro you're talking like the japanese are under represented and are thirsty for representation. I'm gonna tell you, they don't care. it's another company's work of fiction. the japanese have their own media to care about. even the japanese make media with westerners as main characters. hello, spike spiegel, afro samurai..list goes on. it's fiction. they won't care. us asians aren't snowflakes like white people. you're making up an excuse to get angry about a black guy being one of the main characters. but also fuck ubisoft. and please stop being angry for asians. i'm assuming you are white cause your rant sounded white as hell. we are capable of being angry ourselves if we see it fit.
@@hafirenggayuda also from what I found out the film followed most of what really did happen, only different I remember is they don't know what happened to him in the end, he either returned home or went back to the village, but they also believed he died on the trip back as his injuries were bad.
Can't wait for Ryan Gosling to play Black Panther.
You do know Yasuke was actually black right? lmao
I want Forest Whittaker to play Joe Biden.
@@Omegeddon black panther is a title, which implies anyone can hold it. It would be racist if your skin color mattered for the title. For the sake of diversity let them cast a white man in the middle of wakanda! What are you, racist?
remember
when someone plays this game and complain about being mocked
just tell them they couldnt have played it in the first place if they didnt want to get mocked
Physicians everywhere coming to defend this
😂
That's good lore
Prepare for the startling influx of Physicians and blue-hairs that are suddenly experts in Japanese history.
glad ubisoft revealed so much racism with just a trailer
Imagine caring so much about the skin color of someone in a video game.
Honestly, the Wikipedia editing that happened after the backlash to falsify Yasuke & make it out like he was a Samurai & more than he was before they attempted to lock the page is something that pissed me off.
It should piss you off, people are literally rewriting history to suit their agenda and that's not okay.
Never got to see what happened, but I did see a comment saying that the information definitely changed on the page
"The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
-George Orwell
@@rando105 I copied this from wikipedia earlier today to post on another video, "It is important to note that despite popular myth and modern depictions there are no historical writings nor evidence that Yasuke was ever granted the rank or title of samurai, he was never given a fief nor referred to as one in any writings." And they removed it.
This is how wikipedia works nowdays. The sad part is thay allow websites articles (like Kotaku) as resources. Half of articles about modern stuff are just propaganda and misleading...
Yasuke is cool af but I kinda wanted him to be a side character rather than a playable one. Or have one mission where you fight as him in a big ass battlefield
Yasuke was never a samurai and there's nothing people can do about that.
sadly, the next generation of kids are going to believe it, because kids these days do less research
No, he was. Except he got that titel since he became a retainer, not because of his skills. But because of the western view of samurai, all of them are supposed to have godly skills with a sword, while the truth is quite the opposite.
@@SuddenReal Retainer doesn't mean samurai. In japanese history he was never a samurai.
@@SuddenReal Retainer and Samurai are two extremely different things. Yasuke was a pet, kept because he was a curiosity.
@@macdaddymario What I've learned from getting banned from the Wheel of Time subreddit is that they hate it when you focus on the correct thing. The issue here is not if he was a retainer or a samurai, but that he wasn't a warrior. So, stop focussing on that, and keep reminding people he was a curiousity rather than a fighter.
Remember guys,
regarding Yasuke, you can just check Japanese people reaction and opinion in the JP trailer version.
They know their own history better than us.
They actually dont, Ive spoken with japanese people who have not heard of the nanking incident.
@@m.j.e.5245 Very nice. Bringing up a horrible massacre to argue against JP doesn't know history that predated it. So what you are really saying is the west needs to tell Japan what their actual history is right?
@@m.j.e.5245 Ok Racist
@@yummychips_ They're not a westerner, they're probably a Chinese, or some western-born Chinese. EDIT: Oh... nevermind. Yet again we have one of God's chosen people trying to teach the world true history for them. I guess they have a bone to pick because Japan doesn't like Jews.
very bold statement considering the knowledge of average japanese about ww2
I want to see a Japanese actor get casted to play Tupac in a movie.
MLK JR was actually white.
Rupac
@@ashplattsii1fan92 They can pronounce 't'.
@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 idc it's funny
I wanna sew tom cruise play black panther
*looks at MC*
"I now know why the subtitle is 'Shadows' "
"Aww Shinto, here we go again"
Funny how none of the people defending the DEI replacement of a Japanese male MC with the only black man in thousands of years of Japanese history is actually a native Japanese person themselves.
DOntcha know? Asians are "white adjacent" now and are no longer deemed an "ally".
Clown world...
I've seen a couple White guys pretend to be Asian, that was cool lol.
Self Hatred in Japan is just as bad as it is in the US. It's just a lot more muted. People forget that Japan went through a lot of the same culture revolutions we did around the same times. Just under a drastically different cultural context. A lot of the same movements exist in Japan or even originate from Japan.
Of course not, because these people that are defending Ubisoft take potshots at Japan all the same.
- Funny how the people defending this game are the ones that complain about japanese media (anime/manga) on a daily basis
- Funny how the people defending the game never cared about Japan's history until it became a matter of diversity
- Funny how it's the same people that believe on "cultural appropriation" but this time they don't see anything wrong with what they are doing
The list just goes on and on...
Choosing the random black guy over 1000s of Japanese guys was obviously done for pandering and representation reasons .Calling out a lazy and shallow decision by a game studio so they can pat themselves on the back and act like they're playing their part, isn't racist. Plenty of black gamers have said similar. It's always the self righteous do gooders who have to cry racists.
I mean Hanzo Hattori was right there.
Also the loosening of immigration laws in japan and the flooding of young black men into japan...
and the massive increase of mixed race couples in ads and media kind of stinks.
like done in the us and europe.
or even better- like in sweden.
where we went from light skin, blond people to mostly arab and blqlack people, with the occasional blond girl seeking the "diversity adventure", until she is crushed by rocks (obvious hint to the one girl).
and now it's swedistan in less then 2 generations.
2050 will be japanistan, with new timbuktu as the capital, instead of tokyo 🙄
@@Skyte100 That's actually the one thing I was mad about. It's not as if we don't already have a legendary ninja to play the part of your framework Assassin in the Assassin game. Yasuke as a character in the story wouldn't be an issue, but opting to use a loyal retainer as the protagonist of the free-moving assassin game is already weird, using an actual historical figure instead of some generic dude like in previous games is weirder, and choosing a historical figure who wasn't ultimately relevant in the events of Sengoku-era Japan to be the protagonist is bordering on obsession.
@@donovangrant424 One the thing I like in those games is the world and I can play as one of the people in that world, like I can play as a greek guy in ancient greece and I don't even like assassin creed games.
I like being french in the French Revolution or english in the industrial London, it is just fun.
@@donovangrant424 Great argument. I only wish everyone else complaining about his use as a protagonist had as good reasons as you
The price is the real problem. Vote with your wallet!
I don't mind the price... I mind the quality its 10x shittier than the last decade and double the cost for similar content quantity a decade ago.
Ubisoft casts DEI shield
It's super effective!
racist
@@dontspikemydrink9382 I don't know if it's a matter of racism, but people do think that the American DEI thing is more prevalent than it actually is. They're seriously overestimating its importance. I'm European (like Ubisoft who are French) and the only things related to DEI that I've ever seen, even working for an American company, were a few emails that I and everyone around me ignored. I've never had any DEI training and if I didn't watch US news and if I weren't aware of Americanisms (aka culture war stuff), I wouldn't even know what DEI meant. People do assume before they check or think and what's worse, they think they know, that their assumptions are the same thing as knowledge.
Yasuke the first diversity hire
@@octavianpopescu4776cry about it
"Remember when Yasuke taught Musashi Miyamoto how to use a sword?" - Commies after reading the Wiki's 40,000th edit.
"wow he ushed in the reiwa period AMAZING!" I shit you not i have seen this said already.
Sounds almost like Warhammer 40.000 :D
@@user-ni6ej2jl2h
"Yasuke always been Musashi's master"
@@kyodarkness9243 Reminds of a picture: Black Master :)
There's the famous quote of when Yasuka went "It's samurai time!" and samuraid all over the place. Let me just fix that in the wiki.
Can anyone tell me what was that classic music in the video?
I thought the point of showing all these cultures was to actually experience them as faithfully as possible. Showing the one black samurai who barely got to hold a sword instead of using the setting to maybe showcase how a woman and a man in feudal japan could interact in an assassin order finally without the restrictions of their culture or maybe WITH those restrictions would be wayy more interesting imo. I wouldnt mind Yasuke being a secondary character later with our japanese protagonists being the only ones that wouldnt treat him like a pet/slave. A nice way to send their message and maybe make a cheaper Yasuke game later on while reusing this games files.
Imagine being a japanese fan of the series, waiting impatiently for the game, just to realise that the main character isn't even japanese.
Imagine being a norse fan of the series and waiting for Valhalla, and seeing that your Viking Village is only 25% white dudes.
Really? Thats ridiculous. @@Poisonedblade
Somehow I see more americans "offended" for japanese
@@Poisonedbladewhat else you want them to be ? They were Nordic ?
@@emsiskills235you should try reading that again
People defending $130 game then complaint about "corproate greed"
Yes it really does take two to tango
"Just on the anti capitalism march before I go back to my huge house and play my $130 game on my $2000 gaming PC" Hasan Piker
@@Adam-sd2ow Piker is a millionaire grifter.
@@Adam-sd2ow Hasan Piker is a terrorist. There is people like vaush that are just losers but arent dangerous to society. Hasan incites to terrorism ever day.
You can defend some aspect of the game and criticize others...also, we always had multiple versions like this at launch, why people are freaking out now? Literally any aaa game in the last 15 years had a standard version and a gold/deluxe one
Same people that complain about companies abusing artists and workers, then grab their chicken nuggies to go watch their hyper sweat-shop produced anime.
They did this for Magic the Gathering in the Lord of the Rings set - made Aragorn and some of the Rohirrim black for no good reason. Then distracted us with the one-of-one $2Mill One Ring.
Not to mention, you can not get the full game at the base price. There are a couple of missions locked behind a pay wall
If people did research into Yasuke, they'll find out pretty quick he never held a significant rank or office and was enslaved most of his life.
Trying to make him something into something he wasn't is disingenuous.
you don't need to hold a rank or office to be a samurai
@@niox1920 Doesn't matter. He wasn't held to any esteem.
@@niox1920 Um... the title of samurai *IS* a rank of office. It was a hereditary title of the military nobility.
guessing this is the first time you're realizing games not meant to be historically accurate is not historically accurate. Slowly learning one step at a time.
If people did research into Hitler they'll find out pretty quick Henry Ford didn't give him a magic mind control device either. George Washington didn't attempt to become king of america either. This is the series where Adam and Eve were parkouring thru the garden of eden. Historical accuracy has long been an afterhought in AC
Isn’t it fascinating how EVERY game before had a character that was representative of the areas they were from but Japan is just not allowed the same treatment? Yasuke could’ve been a character you run into but that’s not enough apparently. How « inclusive »!
They're 'honourary white' you see...
Yeah makes sense adewale in freedom cry was cool i liked origins with bayek but all of a sudden if i say i want to play as a Japanese person in a game set in japan im racist
What about the girl ? Dude I agreed choosing Yashuke might not be the best choice, but simply ignore other character just to push your point is pity
Ezio in Turkey : "Buongiorno !"
Of course you would ignore the Japanese female.............................................
actually I don't really care if the main character is women or black character.
For me, it just a waste opportunity that legendary Shinobi such as Hanzo Hattori is not the main character
I have to say Asmondgold called it.
Reading these comments and seeing he was 100% correct.
Everyone is focused on Yasuke and no one cares about the pricing.
Because nobody in their right mind would ever consider buying an AC game after they realized how bad the first one was.
Fun fact: The black Samurai was dressed in armor as a joke, instantly surrendered without fighting, and was enslaved again. Not once did he actually fight anyone.
If he even existed. Nobunaga was a prolific writer but never once mentioned him. The texts that mention Yasuke also have a lot of other debatable wacky stuff in it.
Well, japaneses scribes back in the day would tell otherwise based on their writing.
@@kaiserstritz136LOL show me this original "Japaneses scribes writing"
@@kaiserstritz136
"Fróis wrote in the annual report of the Jesuits:
The black man understood a little Japanese, and Nobunaga never tired of talking with him. And because he was strong and could do a few tricks, Nobunaga took great pleasure in protecting him and had him roam around the city of Kyoto with an attendant. Some people in the town thought that Nobunaga might make him as tono ("lord")
A black man whom the visitor [Valignano] sent to Nobunaga went to the house of Nobunaga's son after his death and was fighting for quite a long time, when a vassal of Akechi approached him and said, 'Do not be afraid, give me that sword', so he gave him the sword. The vassal asked Akechi what should be done with the black man, and he said, 'A black slave is an animal (bestial) and knows nothing, nor is he Japanese, so do not kill him, and place him in the custody at the cathedral of Padre in Portugal."
This is history. Nothing more, nothing less. And its true that Yasuke would not know how to speak Japanese.
He wasn't even in the country long enough to learn the language.
He run away leaving his master to die. Well that is a disgrace for samurai
The fact that no one seems to know "retainer" means every, single, kind of servant of a household even when the word is a rare case of it being almost perfectly translated is just sad. Hell, even the wet nurse would be considered a retainer.
And am I the only one who is going to point out that no matter how you want to spin it, the guy was just under Nobunaga's protection for roughly a year, that's not enough time to make someone learn martial arts. You'd have more success putting a backstory with him being a former warrior and having a native African battle style than a Samurai!
became known in history for being Nobunaga's retainer... that he lost interest in
pfffffft hahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact, in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Sir Hanush's retainer was killed during a bandit raid.
His job? He bred and kept horses for him.
Yasuke was a samurai in every single way other than being directly stated to be. While retainer can refer to every servant of a household, he literally wasn't. He wasn't paid the wage of a servant, he was a warrior employed by Nobunaga as one of his personal guard, his job was to be Nobunaga's personal spear-bearer. He received everything all other samurai of the time had, a sword, a stipend, a job, and a house. The only reason he only served under Nobunaga for 15 months is because Nobunaga fucking died.
@@niox1920 What you just described is him being a Samurai IN NAME ONLY at best (if he even existed). A cosplayer Samurai perhaps, if he had any value as a guard, it would've been as a meat shield due to his physique but nothing more. In that year he would've taken months to graduate from "exotic pet" to "hey would you like to learn how Japanese martial arts?", and even if he was allowed to train at that point, he wouldn't have made it far before falling back to a slave and be forgotten in history.
Again, if you want to say he was a "legendary warrior", you'd need to paint his backstory as being formerly a warrior, using his native weapons and fighting style, not, as a Samurai. In modern martial arts terms, he barely would've graduated from white belt, mind you.
@@niox1920only to tickle his master ego more. He was not a warrior, and his place has given him quite a lot of protection *within* Nobunaga house and in his domain.
He was a toy and a funny possession for eccentric noble.
There are few actual white samurais Japanese even built statues for and have festivals in their name. Actual samurais that learned language, participated in campaigns and battles, got families.
These are cool. Not Yasuke
Solve: Stop buying them.
I really liked the Idea of playing as Yasuke, but once again, its a Buggisoft game so I will wait a few years and then use the Black Flag method (If it is even worth to do so)
I don't think people would mind a game that has Yasuke as a main character with a more historical focus. The issue is the climate we currently live in and the motives behind the choice of Yasuke.
Are you really going to tell me, out of the choice of thousands of actual Japanese samurai, they chose to have the one black samurai for a non-diversity based reason? Even in Nioh, i thought it was an odd choice to have a white Samurai as the protagonist; though I know he was a historical figure as well. That was made by a Japanese studio though, so it was their decision. I think the controversy is more related to the time we're in as opposed to telling a story about a black samurai, because I don't think there was as much controversy with Nioh coming out. I think people are just sick of forced inclusion; black Anne Boleyn, black Cleopatra, black vikings, black Achilles, I'm sure there are more examples. Could we get a story that focuses on African history and mythos instead of appropriating other cultures? Like a game about Shaka Zulu or something?
The difference would be because Nioh was made because the Japanese thought it was interesting and aren't pushing some weird erasure agenda. Ubisoft is. They don't have an earnest interest in putting Yasuke here, they knew they could just make waves and check their boxes by doing so.
I think the opposite. The less historical focus the less they'll care about Yasuke. They could've made it entirely about demons and Yasuke could've been a demon hunter with skills from the church and shinto shrine due to his unique background and ppl would've loved it. They could've made it a steampunk samurai robot thing and people would've thought it was cool. Unless you mean a historical game specifically and entirely devoted to him as a standalone IP then yeah they wouldn't mind as much unless it was telling lies while focusing on being historically accurate. The issue is that ppl have wanted a Samurai AC game. Then they choose one of the most famous Japanese eras and culturally important times where Japan was distinctly unique and isolated. Then they choose the foreign black guy whose claim to fame is being an oddity who wasn't an actual samurai and some made up Japanese woman who still isn't a samurai. Neither being a great representation for the era outside of being an easy gateway to talking about western values around racism and sexism, which is boring.
Unlike Yasuke who had extremely very little written about him. Pilot William Adams has records upon records of his battles and achievements under the Tokugawa.
He is not some nobody, the guy fought and earned Fiefdom and the rightful title of Samurai as he got his own land, servants, and house.
@@chucklebouf5379 Mind read much?
@@chucklebouf5379 It's just such a waste. If they wanted to use a historical figure for once there are SO many more interesting options. Like imagine a Musashi AC game? That could be awesome(if they put actual effort into it). But no. They pick a generic G-Boss character and the most token token historical figure they could possibly pick. So dull.
You should take a look at Ubisoft Japan for the trailer. Currently 2500 likes to 23000 dislikes and quite the number of Japanese comments showing how upset they are and of course the people who are defending what Ubisoft are doing are calling the Japanese fans a bunch of racists because apparently wanting accurate representation like all the past AC games got is somehow being a racist.
This. I'd rather leave the opinion to the japanese audience, and for that matter, to the black folks already calling out the blatant tokenism.
Remember when "people" were "outraged" that Mario Odyssey came out with a world heavily influenced with mexican culture... and actual Mexicans were actually hyped for it? I say, let the people who's culture is being used voice their opinion about it.
@@thisisfyne Exactly and seeing how this game is set in feudal Japan then it should be those who live in Japan and are of Japanese blood of which the amount minimum should be at least a quarter Japanese. Anything less and you might as well be one of those people who pull the "I'm 1/365th this so I have a say on the matter" like come on, that's sad and trying to one up someone who is leagues ahead of the gene pool is disrespectful.
@@thisisfyne I have a right to complain, because now I can't by the game because of their pandering. Also, the price.
@@thisisfyne
I see it as the same as when Egyptian people were disappointed with Egypts depiction in WonderWoman and the blatant white washing of Egyptian gods in "Gods of Egypt"
It's French and western audiences saying "it's better this way" to people they're trying to "accurately" depict. I remember seeing the trailer for "the woman king" and a basic Google search sees that these people got f-ed up. But all they saw was a bs empowerment message.
This was the entire point.
Japan is the latest battleground in the culture war.
An entire generation is being propagandized to hate the cleanest, safest place on the planet.
If Ghost of Tsushima 2 gets touched by the ESG virus I swear I am done with Sony
Sorta did, wasn't there a bisexual gramda in Ghost of Tsushima 1 ( Lady Masako)
I think the idea of this games story being basing off of Yasuke is a cool idea since the concept of him is fascinating
Even if there is no historical evidence of him being a samurai
My biggest issue with the character is the hair. There's no fking way anyone had dreadlocks in feudal Japan.
Dreadlocks are easy to make. Vikings had them and theyre several hundred years older
He didn’t have it, he came to Japan with it.
@@angellara7040 It's not about how hard or easy it is to make. It is the fact that people in different regions have different standards for what your hair should look like. You wouldn't expect an honorable samurai to have dreadlocks. There are just traditions you must follow unless you want to be humiliated. You have to remember that this is the Feudal era and not the modern time, people weren't open minded in that era.
@@danielantony1882 How do you know he had dreadlocks? Most likely he had completely normal black hair, without any styling.
@@Selendeki Yeah, probably. I was just trying to be neutral on Ubisoft. I’m still going to be, ’till gameplay is revealed; but yeah, your guys’ suspicions are just as valid as any other.
Saying they made the character to attract attention and distract from the pricing scheme is giving them far too much credit
You underestimate Oobisoft's willingness to 1) comply to "insert current trend" and 2) design any and all ploys allowing them to maximise profits off minimal new creative endeavor
It's so typical Asmongold to avoid take a position on a controversial matters by pointing to the "real issues".
Well yea these editions are nothing new lol, they been doing those for more then a decade already lol. Its insane ppl act like they are some new invention.
Can someone tell the uneducated me why the Yasuke-Defense is not valid? I did see the Edit of the Wikipedia Article at the End, but that didn't really help me understand. I'm a bit confused now whether they *do* have a Point or not.
Wikipedia can be edited by anyone. It's not really credible.
why do people conveniently forget there is literally a japanese woman as the other main character, even if there wasn’t, who gives a shit? It’s not meant to be historically accurate, the pope didn’t fist fight an italian dude, ancient egyptians didn’t ride chocobos, there has been so many variants of “white man becomes samurai!” in media that this honestly isn’t even that big of a deal, if the story is done in an interesting way that is all that should matter
Yasuke was a slave, oda thought he was funny, dressed him up like a samurai, made him carry shit, he never fought in a single battle.
Its just sad how black americans have no history of their own to be proud if so they have to steal others. And White liberals will just play along.
Never trained in anything. You don't learn sword, bow, and Japanese military customs as a slave in a year.
@@ayanithtalreign ubisoft is giving "i dont care what they tell you in school the samurai was black" energy
Yasuke was a retainer. Not a slave. He was treated well, and was even paid. He was given a house and a sword, and was eventually made a page. He was not a samurai, and was not a slave of Oda's. He did in fact fight at least once, after oda died if we're to believe Luis Frois's account.
@@anon1403
But he never fought battles in WAR. Which this game is clearly getting wrong.
The ending 💀
Literally perfect, lmao
The way Yasuke is described, he was more of a squire than any kind of warrior.
When I was younger, 40€ for a Nintendo Game was insane to me.
Even now, I can‘t grasp the fact that their now exists games that sell for about three times the amount of that, that is crazy!
I love how they treat this "Yusuke" character as if it weren't a non-obscure super fictionalized real life person. So little is known about Yusuke that most of the wikipedia article is fiction.
There are only two known facts, Oda owned him for less than a year and failed to teach him anything tot he point everyone started to think of... them... as cowardly animals. and that after Nobnaga died he was sent back to portugal after the retainers recovered him after he fled Oda before his death.
Literally that is ALL that we have on this guy. We have folk lore of Oda dressing him up in full samurai garb and yasuke surrendering instantly in a mock duel. That and he was seen as extremely dull with only party tricks as a skill. That and working shafts.
Nioh: Makes Yauske the "Obsidian Samurai", and everyone loves it.
AC Shadows: Makes the main samurai character Yauske, and everyone hates it.
You know what the difference is? Intention. Nioh made Yauske a samurai because it fits the entire over the top historical fantasy setting of the game. Its much cooler seeing a giant black guy in samurai armor smashing Yokai with a massive axe, than simply serving as a sword bearer for Nobunaga like he probably did in reality. Nioh is filled with exaggerated versions of legendary people from Japanese history. None of them are particularly accurate to the real historical accounts, because that wouldn't make for nearly as fun a game. Plus, the game is full of Yokai, which also don't really exist.
But its clear that Ubisoft only made the main player character a black samurai because of modern day politics. Not because its historically accurate, or because it makes the story more interesting, or anything like that. Because if they wanted that, there are a million actual Japanese characters they could have chosen as their main character. But instead, they chose the ONE black guy that MIGHT have been a samurai. Plus, according to people that worked on the game, the main character was originally going to be Japanese, and it wasn't until very recently that they changed him to Yauske. That makes their intentions INCREDIBLY suspicious.
And, just like with the little Black Mermaid, and all the other race swaps over the lest few years, the criticism deflection effect is a very nice bonus. Because no one can hear you complain about the real problems when everyone else is screaming about racism.
I saw a post of r/askhistorians where someone listed when Yasuke was written to have gotten boons like a samurai and had the strength of ten men. With context, it honestly means nothing because oda was also described to be generous and loved wrestling so Yasuke could've just participated in that. What scriptures say "he was loyal and a retainer" if a historian who tried to argue he was a samurai can't find this infor.ation to back it up, where tf are all of these people getting it from?
This
It's also because he is not the MAIN focal point. Like he wasn't cherry picked specifically to make political statements either.
There is *literally* no difference between Nioh and AC Shadows here. Neither game is intended to be seen as historical accuracy, after all, that's why Ubisoft designed an entirely separate mode in the latest games for people who want that sort of thing.
If you want to be mad at Ubisoft, there are plenty of other valid reasons to do so. This isn't one of them.
Um. In NIOH first of all nobody "loved" him. Second, he was just a minor character, an extremely easy boss. MAIN character was a white guy. So how about they go and make a white guy (William Adams or w/e) a main hero instead? That'd be much more welcome, I don't think even Japanese would object.
As for your suspicions of agenda... LOL. Yeah, it's painfully obvious.
0:30 What the F even is that thing? You gonna quote me on saying something is "cool" when I never even seen it my entire life?
AC is a fantasy game with some historical accuracies. People going crazy over this is hilarious.
I just love how they went on going "unracist" to straight forward, back to racism. It really kills me, its gotten to a point where it is just funny.
Japan setting, one black person in that time recorded Ubisoft: "do the black one!"
Legendary how they bend their minds
You could use that same logic on Shogun, but nobody did, for reason it seems to only become forced diversity and bad when it’s a black character.
so how does this singular black assassin blend in around all the much shorter and much fairer skinned peoples of japan? its ok, check out this assassins creed eagle dive!
@hivemind8817
Yes. So?
@@hivemind8817 No we can't. Because the context is completely different, time period is completely different and so is the argument, also acting like DEI applies to white people when it doesn't and thinking people are stupid enough to not notice, nice try but it won't work.
@@hivemind8817 there are people who are literally just being racist, I'm more pissed because it's obvious what ubisoft are doing here. we've seen it everywhere lately with people including people of colour, lgbtq people etc etc. Ubisoft and other companies will add them not because they care but because they want to include them for the sake of looking more inclusive and such.
Redditors will see one art piece of Asia with a dark person and draw an entire reality from it
Wouldn't that be Twitter?
Isn't Reddit the polar opposite? Where they're all a bunch of racists and incels?
They can also just race swap too.
And only Americans would make a big deal of it.
@@cardassa I take it you haven't actually gotten any other perspectives on this and are very American yourself, would explain why you said this.
@@acewmd. This is very much an American (and Canadian) thing. Sorry
Also using the last samurai as an example just doesnt work since its actually based on a true story
I honestly dont care who the MC is, because whether hes japanese or not, making a game loosely based around history's only black samurair sounds pretty dope.
Not worth that absurb price tag though. I was interested in this game before, but not anymore.
An african being in Japan is of no significance but for some reason "we wuz here" is their entire identity and apparently their history, too. Guess we'll never get a zulu game because jumping off of 20-ft mud huts doesn't sound fun.
Yusuke was a curiosity to Nobunaga. Nothing else. They didn't even gave him a surname like all samurai and Ubisoft is painting Yusuke like a extremely honorable samurai.
The worst part is that I would love to play a game about Yusuke with some "romantic touch" to his history to make him more interesting, but not this ideology garbage.
While Yasuke treated like vassal and accompany Nobunaga everywhere, he likely not allowed to participate in direct battles. Not because he's weak, but more because Nobu don't want to risk losing him
Historical fiction is cool but when they make it so that you cant tell which parts are history and which parts are fiction then thats definitely a problem
Ex.) George washington (history) fighting vampires (fiction)
@@hafirenggayuda yeah, he was probably stronger than most average japanese men, but it was more like he didn't want to risk losing his "curious item" that could do chores, in my opinion.
@@dethaw6926 I rly don't care. I would probably like to play a Yusuke like the one they're doing, but knowing why Yusuke is being used as a character ruins everything.
It's basically a ideological slave that they can use as they want, just like slave owners did in the past. Ironicly.
Why does everyone always mention him but never William Adams?
So, I guess that part from the Assassin's creed:
"Hide in plain sight, be one with the crowd."
Is merely a suggestion. Pretty sure a 6'+ tall black samurai will have some challenge to hide in plain sight.
Especially in a series of games that always chose a native to respect this creed.
Tbf a guy wearing a hooded white robe with an obvious contraption on his arm isn't exactly subtle either but this is Assassin's Creed after all. I wouldn't put it past them to come up with an excuse for a black man to "hide in plain sight"
@@TheCheeseMovesSideways That's quite true for the first games, but most of the games from the series were more subtle with the attire. The first game took place during the crusade in the Holy Land, we could argue that a white and red robe could blend around Crusader Knights in a much more religious setting. Brotherhood took place in Italy during the Renaissance. Not totally out of place either.
And then, from AC3, the attire combines the recognizable hood with clothes that blend quite well.
We are far from a black guy 3 heads taller than the rest of the people in a feudal Japan. I mean, Nobunaga kept Yasuke BECAUSE he was a curiosity.
To be fair, at least he's a samurai and not an assassin. That would go against his entire code.
@@TheCheeseMovesSidewaysthe first games assassins were so drippy they blinded others 🔥🔥🔥
there are 2 playable characters that you can switch from, yasuke the samurai, and naoe the shinobi. So your wrong, get your facts straight buddy.
Yasuke... Really it's like taking french Samurai... And Im French and I think this would be stupid as well doesn't matter that he is black, he is not Japanese that's it
I would’ve loved Yasuke as a supporting character/best friend character…but being the MC…feels weird…like why is the MC an actual person historically? Just feels odd
Especially as I doubt Ubisoft will properly depict the discrimination he faced. (When he first arrived in Nobanaga’s court he was bathed and scrubbed for several hours because they thought he was just reaaaaly dirty ) Japan has no frame of reference for what he is and was a extremely xenophobic nation…I doubt they’ll have the balls to
The funny thing is, the whole idea that he was a samurai only came from later depictions of him, which were heavily romanticised. In reality, he was a serf and Nobunaga basically kept him as a joke. His whole job was carrying things for actual fighters. They only dressed him up in samurai armour because they thought it was FUNNY. The only time he was in a battle, he surrendered immediately and was effectively banished from Japan, so he was enslaved again.
you're not going to see that on wikipedia lmao
@@kdesikdosi5900 What they do have is pretty funny in and of itself
"A black man whom the visitor [Valignano] sent to Nobunaga went to the house of Nobunaga's son after his death and was fighting for quite a long time, when a vassal of Akechi approached him and said, 'Do not be afraid, give me that sword', so he gave him the sword. The vassal asked Akechi what should be done with the black man, and he said, 'A black slave is an animal (bestial) and knows nothing, nor is he Japanese, so do not kill him, and place him in the custody at the cathedral of Padre in India"
@@kdesikdosi5900 well, not anymore due to the edit war happening
u say that but what u just said has no evidence
@@shimazmunshi6595 actually, there is evidence for this.
In actual historical writings by one of the Jesuits who actually brought him to Japan, it clearly details everything about him. Hell, prior to the announcement of the ass creed game, it said that it's important to note that Yasuke was NEVER a samurai, according to historical sources, and that came from romanticised accounts from after his death.
People thinking Tom Cruise character is portrayed as Western samurai in The Last Samurai, clearly never watch the movie. He never a Samurai, but a witness, a story teller.
And more importantly a mega star used to open up the Samurai genre to US audiences and launching two very successful careers in the US for two of the Japanese stars of the film, who weren't known in the US at that time. So basically done for money and marketing, not diversity and Inclusion. Money and marketing being the main focus of movies for years.
He wasn’t a samurai officially, but are we going to act like they didn’t accept him in that film, and that he didn’t fight alongside the samurai as one of them?
@@johnjackson9751 I never felt like he's a white savior in the movie. Just an outcast that have to prove himself and face the resentment of the family of the man he killed. It was a great movie. He fought alongside them but throughout the movie he just acts as a mediator
It's astonishing to learn, how many people never understood that movie.
@@johnjackson9751 An outsider becoming a respected part of another group should be the holy grail of culture exchange. So what's your point about Cruise fighting with the samurai?
It's weird, but I have to admit, for once I agree with the deranged things that inhabit Twitter, there is no reason to hate on Yasuke being shown as a samurai.
1- You shouldn't expect historical accuracy from a game about reliving the past through a machine and DNA.
2 - assassin's creed series was never one to respect historical fact, like middle east themed assassin in 1800s London?
3- You still get to play as a samurai (which was what everyone one wanted)
4 - Yasuke did exist and serve Nobunaga so him being a samurai is still within the realm of possibilities that COULD have happened.
As asmongold predicted, gamers are hating on the game (rightfully so) FOR THE WRONG REASONS.
130$ That's crazy, I could almost get 5 other game for the same price, heck during summer sales that are coming I could get 10 other games for that price, monster hunter is 9.99$ on sales that's 13 games... '
If the game was sold 50 or 60$ it would have been possible for me to think about buying it.
Regardless of DEI garbage, I can mod it out if needed.
They get their quotas, we get a good game, all is fine, but damn 130$ is crazy, ubisoft made the Mc black to make you swallow the pill of the price.
Headlines are gonna be talking about gamers being racist instead of ubisoft scamming the customers.
Y'all got obviously hard baited and you still bit the effing bait.
I don’t have a problem at all with his race but the pricing is insane and has always been insane since they did this with Star Wars outlaws
Finally represent an Asian country in a triple a assassin's creed game and they put a black man as one of it's protagonist instead of a Japanese man. A historical character too,considering that all previous assassin's creed protagonists were not based on historical characters,that's what gave it away that this is nothing more than a checkbox
Yeah, dunno why he's not just a relevant NPC like DaVinci. If you want to use him for something, just do that.
@chucklebouf5379 exactly if he was a major character that was a close friend of the main character id love that make him in every mission thats fine but id prefer the main character to be someone not actually real
Guess what! You get to play as JAPANESE WOMAN as well. There you go. You definitely not gonna have a problem with the game now…..🙂
Not to defend this controversy or anything but I think Ninjas and Samurais were much more popular on mainstream media than AC. They are.not hurting for representation.
@@simonealcazar816 You can only play as ONE Japanese woman, not several.
What do you expect from people who have used a black and white photo to “prove” that Yasuke was a real samurai… Like there were cameras in 16th century feudal Japan…
Having a photo of someone living more than 200 years before the first camera was invented and using it as proof he was a samurai... Those people probably have some real photos of dinosaurs in their collection, too.
He was real. But he was NOT a samurai. He met Nobunaga in 1581 and Oda Nobunaga died in 1582. There is no way he could have become a famous samurai and advisor to Nobunaga in less than a year. That's just wishful thinking.
@@TastyTardisDude, you know very well that the main reason for choosing the color of the man and his position was not for historical accuracy. 😂
Historians think he was. In fact he received private residence and samurai quality sword. So he had essentially land and sword no Ashigaru could use. He was samurai.
But why we even care? This is Ubisoft smoke screen from those crazy prices.
Guys, you are latching on to the wrong thing here. All the historians agree that he was indeed a Samurai you’re embarrassing yourselves
Asmon has a way of turning his community on itself. Ive never seen so many extremes on both sides. Its fucking crazy.
Couldn't care less about the drama around the character, not one for social issues, still gonna buy the game as someone who still enjoys AC gameplay.