We in Brazil have always asked for an AC game set in Brazil. There is a movie called Besouro from 2009 about a slave capoeira fighter, that would be such a great background for the story.
Now imagine, the main character was a chinese man. How would you brazilians feel? The problem isnt that Yasuke is in the game. The problem is that they made him a main character. If I was japanese, i would be pissed as well. The main character of every AC game should be someone of that culture. People think we are complaining just because he's black. But everyone loves Bayek from origins. Who was complaining because he's black? Apart from Ezio, Bayek is one of the most loved AC protagonist. This just feels like forced diversity. We know it when we see it. Whether or not the man was a sumurai or not is a non issue for me. This is a AC game first of all. Game should be about stealth. Playing as a big black samurai in japan is not what AC is about.
@@whysosrs5534 I think that every big media company is trying to be more diverse, to different degrees of success. Although i do believe that sometimes it can be either "forced or preachy our maybe phoned in", i also believe that this push to see more varied people in media, will have a good result. I just think that Ubisoft saw the oportunity to have an interesting character. I mean, how many triple A games do you believe would have come out with a black samurai as a protagonist? Also don't forget about Naoe, the japanese ninja that is ALSO a main character. In the last few years we had Both Ghost of Tsushima and Rise of the Ronin with Japanese protagonists, it's not like they are in dire need of representation of their own culture at the moment.
Loved the video, thanks for sharing your perspective Kenny. I was already on team Yasuke, but your story further bolstered my opinion and opened my view on just how important his story is.
I just wanted to touch on the quick issue you touched on too. Most Conservatives call themselves “Christians” that doesn’t mean they actually are Christian. Being a Christian is about belief in the finished works of Jesus. Not standing against certain political groups. This “where was God during slavery” is something I’ve heard often, but our people are no longer slaves. It took good Christian, God fearing people to allow slaves to hide in their homes when they were hunted. It took actual Christian people to aid in the abolishment of slavery. God touched their hearts and used them for our ancestors’ benefit. That’s where God was. God doesn’t just immediately destroy evil, he gives them plenty of time to repent before they pass away. If they don’t, they surely won’t see Heaven. Think about these things.
God allows slavery and all of the evil to take place. He doesn't allow people to repent, they never had a choice, their lives are mapped out before an all knowing God. If you're religious fine, and or simply have a belief in a higher power then fine, but don't pretend that any of it is nothing less than illogical.
I’m not a believer, an atheist actually. But doesn’t this all seem mighty convenient? God never shows up, but he’s all powerful and all knowing. Doesn’t show up for slavery, doesn’t show up for children with cancer, doesn’t show up for the kids dealing with famine. It’s all convenient, because there is no god. I’m not even trying to be disrespectful here. I hate to say it, but you’re no different than 90% of religious folk. It’s all just indoctrination. I’ve seen horrors beyond imagination with what’s happening to those poor Palestinian children, miss me with God watching it all happen. Please.
@@doctordoom1851 2 Peter Chpt 3 verse 9: 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
When I searched, “what is a Japanese retainer” this is what popped up… “A retainer refers to a vassal in feudal Japan, usually a samurai providing military services.”
It’s so silly how simply doing a google search would prove the people wrong. It’s like they looked it up, saw it said that and then continued to dig deeper just to find someplace where that wasn’t a definition and said “YES MY RACISM AND HATE IS VALIDATED” like it’s so obvious with some of the comments
Yeah, there are so many comments where people have said, “oh no, he was just a retainer” or “he was only a vassal” but they didn’t read the rest. That literally meant Yasuke was a samurai. They’re even going as far as changing Yasuke’s Wikipedia page (since Wikipedia is open to the public anyways) and changing the history.
@@ZaccaeusMaximos1217 that’s like asking them to show them video footage of god. Like bro what? I just had some guy tell me that all the dislikes on the trailer are all the Japanese player base. Like I don’t believe for a second that every Japanese person hates that Yasuke is in it.
Yeah, I wasn’t a big fan of Mirage but I’ve liked pretty much all of them, it’s annoying to see when people are like oh there people go just buying slop I’m like you don’t even know if the game is good or not, and even if it was good you’d just say it was bad lol 😂
@@hotcoldman77 oh nice! I hope you enjoy! For me well i just wasn’t a big fan of the way they decided to do some things in it, like how they chose to execute prioritizing stealth, making combat feel bad, it feels like your hitting enemies with a feather, and idk I just felt like that’s an odd way to prioritize stealth. I don’t want to spoil the game for you, so I’ll just say there was story stuff that I just wasnt too enamored with, things not being as fleshed out or as impactful as they could have been if more attention had been given to it. Personally feel like a lot of the characters are quite forgetable, Stuff like that, overall it’s still good and I like a lot of individual things in it, but it really does feel like a repurposed DLC to me, which stinks because it originally was that and then they opted to make it a full game. What’s cool is that it made me at least change my opinion on Basim. In Valhalla I didn’t like him too much he felt off and his whole scheme to kill Eivor and Sigurd rubbed me the wrong way. Seeing him younger and how he started out, seeing his growth, really made me like the character a lot more so that’s a plus! And with alot mechanics they introduced I found interesting. So overall for me it was a 7/10, it was okay, not the best and for me left a lot to be desired but over all an enjoyable experience nonetheless I hope you enjoy when you get to play!
Have you ever played Assassin’s creed freedom cry I know it’s short and a DLC for AC black flag but I say it’s worth a try it has a really good story and if you enjoyed liberation give it a try I’m also really exited for Assassin’s creed Shadows can’t wait
I TRULY appreciate you and this video. Spot on with every word. I can feel the exhaustion bro. You aren’t alone family. People could never imagine the burden we deal with. Much love, honor and respect to our ancestors. Love you King. 🐐👑
I'm just disappointed they missed the opportunity to make Hanzo Hattori one of the main characters in an AC game. 🙃 I also hope Ubi won't change the idea of Yasuke being close to Oda or them making a curve ball where Yasuke kills Oda. I want to see Yasuke being one of the few people who Oda trusted the most.
@@shimik11 that's why I said "I hope Ubi doesn't change it" that much. I'm inhaling huge amounts of copium that he won't stab Oda in the back or vice versa.
Hi! I just wanted to say that did we forget that their were more samurai that weren’t all Asian? In fact there was a black samurai named yasuke as well as a British, a french, and a Spaniard as well I believe… so if this is taking in the place of the story of yasuke, then I’d like to see which pieces that they’re going to adapt into this narrative.
Thank you Kenny for being strong enough to stand on your own beliefs and speak your true feelings about this game. Even when many chose to bandwagon and hate the game before it even released a gameplay trailer. This was bold, honest, and true. Awesome video. A breath of fresh air. Thank you.
It is a Ubisoft game, so the gameplay and loot will be the same as Egypt, Greek and Viking one. It's funny they knew Japanese would not like this game so they threw in the black dude.
@@SyLuX636 What??? You sound stupid. Is that what you said about GTA? Or all Elden ring? You guy's are full of yourselves if you don't like the character because of his skin color keep your hate to yourself. Go in a corner and cry about it while we all play the new awesome assassin's creed in Japan with the cool samurai and ninja. Go play fortnight. Or knit a sweater what year are we in and people acting like slavery ended yesterday. When people start acting like this we should just post a picture of Martin Luther King Jr.
AC fans are aware that the games have been adding the discovery mode where you can learn about the actual history of the world and characters and still enjoy the fantasy.
Isn't it weird how the same people chirping over the claimed "historical inaccuracy" of the AC game said nothing about the innaccuaracies in the movies 47 Ronin or the last samurai?
I saw asmongold say it was UNREALISTIC to see a woman beat three men or more as if it’s just as realistic for Ezio to beat an entire army with no help.
Asmongold's enlighten centrist schtick has him say some of the dumbest shit. Just a modicum of critical thinking will make you realize just how dumb his statements are . its terrifying that the current generation of kids are growing up as fans of his.
That’s like when that one guy was making a big deal about a woman beating a man in a sword fight…. In the Witcher. You know the show with gouls and wraiths and magic, yeah. Sorry fiction is fiction and can do whatever they feel like
What a stupid take though. It's a VIDEO GAME. The things happening in them are not real and the world, characters and stories are fictional. EVEN if those things are based off something in the real world, it still isn't the real world. People screaming shit like 'that's not realistic' need to take a step back and look at what it is they are analyzing, lol. I'm playing video games to escape reality, not the other way around. Who cares about realism? Pull your heads outta your asses people. This social media, culture war crap has got to stop.
@@fisheatingjoeI do not see what is wrong with his perspective? If people feel its forced, that is just their opinion. I also do not see an issue with “who cares, as long its a good game” either. Its not like Grummz who’s been radicalizing those ideals of “THEY VIOLATING OUR GAMES WITH DIVERSITY, GET THEM!”
The first AC I'll purchase in a long time. This era of Japan was wild, can't wait to see the vibes of how they'll play with the history and assassin's spin
How they'll tie All the crazy AC lore of space gods/Isu + religion + mythology, science fiction, modern day... Gonna be wild. Will we see Amaterasu, Susanoo, Orochi etc etc? Can't wait
As long as the person is being added naturally then it's all good. Hell someone can mod in Afro Samurai which would be dope as hell. Perfect example Afro Samurai and Marvel movies Samuel Jackson did the role right and was written well enough to be a real person. Samuel Jackson in Star Wars Prequels though was to get black people to see Star Wars not for the story but number must go up but Samuel Jackson was a bad fit for the movie. Though the tactic worked on my dad who didn't care for star wars liked Jackson. While I was already hooked on lightsabers). In the end George, Ubisoft, hell even your grocery store owner is running a business and its up to the consumer to choose if it's acceptable or not in the end.
I'd love a game or even just a movie/mini series surrounding the Maroons in the Caribbean. A group of escaped slaves living in Jamaica having the European colonizers at their mercy for 100+ years before their eventual defeat makes for a great narrative. They were on some gangsta shit ✊🏽
kenny, everybody knows leonardo davinci is known for inventing the wrist pistol and helping an organization of assassins to kill the borgias and was always historically accurate..... /s cant wait for this game ngl...
I am gonna take moderate stance on this so just listen to me a bit. I understand the representation aspect and why to some people making a game about this kind of character is important. There is though this flipside that Yasuke was a Retainer/Samurai/Bodyguard/Goon of Oda Nobunaga and to Japanese people Nobunaga well... He is not really a nice dood. You could say he is a bit bad i would say. He is always shown as a "demon lord" with guns, because he bought guns from the westerners to win the war. So his retainers like Yasuke and Ranmaru Mori are not seen too good light there. There has been some positive representations of Yasuke and some negative, because in the end that is what fiction does, but he was still you know killing people to a person who is an equivalent to some hated dictators in Europe that well are not seen in good light either. So making him a hero of a game... Well it might rub people a wrong way. I understand it is a fiction, but you know. I think if this would have been some random new dood it would have been mostly fine to people, but using this historical character who was Nobunagas samurai again Nobunaga is deemed as an really evil person so that is a bit odd to people who has roots from those families who fought against him. i also understand this game will be fiction so he probably will not remain as Nobunagas goon and probably even joins forces with Akechi Mitsuhide to take him down. I understand the both sides of the argument and well it is kinda hard to talk about it, because nobody likes moderate takes, because it is either you are with me or against me these days. I hope the game is fun and people who want this kind of characters get more of these kind of characters. I also understand the culture erasing aspect, because we just found out recently as Finnish people that we where half- Asians, because our root comes from Mongolia and all our culture was erased by Swedish kingdom who forced us the bible. So i understand why people would be pissed about that, but to me it is in the past. Thank you for bearing with me and i hope you enjoy the game.
Their asking full price with heavy day one dlc and mtx added. Online required functions for a single player game. Along with a cool 100+ HOURS of forced game time that can be quickened for mtx.
Nope they confirmed it's completely playable offline from start to finish. It's probably digital only like Alan Wake 2 which is why internet is required just to download the dang thing.
Some of the assassin creed games been fun. Putting their own spin on the historic history of the human race from the ancient pyramids of Egypt to the Greco Roman Colosseum of Greece and the beautiful mountain landscapes of Norway with the mighty Vikings. So for them to do a samurai kind of style for assassins Creed especially with ninjas added onto it as well would be a very cool take for the series.
if people are upset about having real black character Yasuke set in feudal Japan in a game thats literally about aliens and pre history civilisation and make excuse with historical accuracy then surely they should be upset having white character like Williams Adam set in feudal Japan being samurai in Nioh but they aren't obviously!!!
The Japanese audience mostly mad about a game claiming historical accuracy set in their respective area and representation of the title Samurai. William Adams was a real officially titled samurai and Nioh was made by Japanese people inspired by that historical tale. Yasuke wasn’t actually given the title of samurai because it was a ruling title at the time. He had no land nor family nor anything to rule over including no ceremonial samurai armor. They feel the franchise claiming to use historical accuracy in their games has misrepresented their culture and that is what they’re angry about.
So can I be a Christian conservative white dude and be excited for Yasuke as a playable assassin samurai? Cause I am stoked 😊! Nioh 1 and 2 you play white guy in Japan....was that one divisive? I'm just going to ignore the culture dudes and know that the guy did exist, and it'll be a cool story.
Cool and people can disagree and prefer they had Japanese protagonists. I’m a Christian conservative black dude. I guess I don’t base how I will enjoy something on color like you seem to do. If I was making a game like this I would’ve just had Japanese protagonists and you can still have Yasuke in the game. Considering the way changed the game for this, it’s hard for me to believe this was some organic idea
@@larosha1 Have you ever stopped to think that maybe what attracts people to a game or movie is a "new thing"? Apart from the fact that it is a fictional work we are talking about here and this gives them greater freedom to innovate with something, in this case Yasuke. So think with me, Yasuke's choice was certainly not random, it was made to bring something different to the game. Something that doesn't make it another generic game in stores or within the franchise itself, in addition to just changing the location in the world where the game's story takes place.
I think Ubisoft knew this would happen the way Square Enix knew it would for Forspoken. When I seen people typing "No foreigner could ever attain thy Title Samaurai. Williams Adams in Nioh was different then Yusuke because he was a British man and thy Highest ranking Samurai who actually existed." I knew exactly what kinda of party this was 🤣.
I'm glad you addressed the grifters as I used to follow Tyrone it's sad to see people who usually have a leveled mindset when it comes to social issues become completely tone deaf
Grifter meaning someone who doesn’t agree with you? So people aren’t allowed opinions? I mean if you just clap like a seal about any new game everyone else should?
@larosha1 No one gave a damn when he was in all those other games developed by Eastern studios hell he was even in SAMURAI WARRIOS 5 where was all this woke DEI stuff then
Black Flag was always my fav AC game. And its dlc Freedom Cry is no joke one of the greatest dlcs in video games. Adewale was super fun to play. At the end of the day i just want to play a fun video game. Im excited to play as both of these characters. More so Yasuke surprisingly cause i LOVE stealth in video games. Amd hes definitely not stealthy lol. Hes a big guy and i wanna mess up enemies with him
We had Nioh and Nioh 2, theres nothing wrong with historical fiction. the reason i dont like the new AC is because they were 10 years too late to finally release the Ninja Japan Assassin's Creed ive wanted since i was 14 years old. so many better alternatives in gaming have come out in the past years since, and now suddenly Ubisoft thinks they can come in and wow me with nothing on the table. it is a blatant marketing tactic to say " oh look, black people, you can be Yasuke, hes in the game!" the same way I was excited to be a White Germanic looking Samurai in Nioh 1. Now granted, we know Ubisoft did with the intention of DEI shoving their heel into their balls, but Koei Tecmo is just as guilty, they did it knowing a white guy would be more interested in playing Nioh as a white samurai. but this isnt entirely true of a tactic anymore, as Sekiro and Tsushima both have you play very tradtional and generic japanese men as Ninjas, and yet people still loved the game just as much. Yasuke feels a bit forced, like, his plot isnt entirely central to the core plot of AC because AC story, mission by mission, doesnt exist. the biggest problem we have is that we know Ubisoft is not by any stretch of the imagination genuine. the only thing Genuine in Ubisoft is their enslaved devs and their passion for history, architecture or culture. now personally, I would have done the new AC differently, I would have had Yasuke as a Samurai like right now, but have more appealing options, they shot themselves in the foot by making woman a generic Ninja. She should have been a Ninja who acted as a prostitute or concubine during day, and moonlighted as a Ninja, and she was very good with disguises and could get into a lot of locations, and then add Somebody like William Adams, who does a mix of Ninja Gameplay and Samurai Gameplay, where hes Samurai on paper and will do Samurai things, but moonlights also as a Ninja throwing a Coupe. sadly we dont even know if Yasuke is fully playable, he could just be in the story and you only play as the girl.
Most logical answer here People can be mad at this game for various reasons. Yasuke isn't one of them If you're gonna be mad, I agree that it should be because AC Japan now is too little too late
Great video, Kenny. If you want a taste of what the modern Assassin's Creed combat feels like, Origins is a good game to check out. That's when they overhauled all the combat to feel more like an action rpg style compared to the older AC games.
Honestly, the biggest complaint I've heard from Japanese fans is that the trailer showcased environments based on Chinese architecture instead of Japanese ones, lol. Honestly, I don't think the Japanese particularly care about the portrayal of Yasuke. There is barely any historical records of the guy to begin with, with the only objective fact about him being that he did exist. And really, this is Japan. The same country who created the Fate franchise. If they don't mind having Miyamoto Musashi turned into an anime waifu, I don't think they particularly care about Yasuke having heightened importance in a video game narrative. Japan knows the difference between historical fact and historical fantasy. Yasuke's portrayal is about as egregious as William Adams' portrayal in the first Nioh game, IMO, in which while I'd prefer playing as a native Japanese character in a Japanese setting, it's nothing to cry over.
@pilot8220 Leonardo Da Vinci also wasn't a secret equipment supplier for a murder cult obsessed with hoods in real life. That's where the historical fantasy part comes in. Same goes for Yasuke and the details of his portrayal in the game. I'm unsure why I need to point this out.
Greetings and salutations from Brazil, Kenny! There are many silly things hovering around the issues of minorities being represented in media, especially as main characters. I won't go into the silliness of expecting an artistic media to be completely historically accurate, Saving Private Ryan is not a documentary, you know? The way I take it is that there are two types of people surrounding this topic as "an issue": - There are the people that turning this into a problem, that reinforce ideologically this reactionary way of thinking about representation of identities they do not identify as, and this is how they make their bread. Be it politics or conservative content creators, honestly to me it doesn't matter if they actually buy into what they're talking about, their interest is to make this a problem. - And there are people that doesn't understand the importance of representation, but feel uneasy and buy into this ideology. And the funny part is: this uneasiness comes from a place of wanting ANOTHER form of representation, even if it is straight cis-male white men or hot women. In the end of the day, we deserve a society that celebrates diversity. We deserve better games and better main characters. Conservatives often forget that minorities grow up loving main characters that does not necessarily represent their gender, their ethnicity, whatever. And some have interest in promoting this "culture war" to gain something from it. This representation is not something new i pop culture, and it's not the first time this was brought up as a "problem". Which is tragically comical. Feeling that you are into diasporic african content, I invite you to learn a bit of cool historic figures that contributed a lot to black people across the world. Check out a little bit about Luis Gama, brazilian abolitionist lawyer. He was born in 1830, and slavery was only abolished in Brazil in 1888(last country to abolish slavery in the american continent, Brazil brought 5.5 million slaves from africa) Or maybe Frantz Fanon, black psychiatrist born in 1920 - an intellectual from Martinique that wrote about black existentialism, and the condition of black people throughout the century. - - - Also this is more of a personal share I'm not sure if you're into react content or whatever haha but there's this youtuber called Goony Googles which mostly has been reacting to Brazilian music, mostly brazilian hip-hop and long story short he's living in Brazil now him talking about diasporic african thinking and hip-hop amazed me because it hits me with this international connection with people from other places of the world and sometimes we're so inside our cultural bubble that we can't see that not only our problems but our desires are so alike if it weren't for these thin language barriers. czcams.com/video/4Ew85F7es1c/video.html&ab_channel=GoonyGoogles I'll just leave this here to check it out IF you want to. Love you, keep up with the amazing content.
Yasuke immediately gained Nobunaga’s favour. Historians assume that Yasuke knew Japanese well enough to have conversations with Nobunaga, and they also believe that he quickly proved to Nobunaga his skills as a soldier. Soon after their first meeting, Nobunaga granted Yasuke his Japanese name, accepted him into his service, and made him the first recorded foreigner to receive the title of samurai. Yasuke was also one of the few people who dined with Nobunaga, which demonstrated the closeness of their relationship.
@@heavymetaltarzan3709not every Samurai at same rank. Some samurai didn't own any clan, some samurai such as Daimyo not only owned a clan, but many family and clan serve under him. while samurai such as Shogun, rule entire country military. Yasuke serve under Daimyo, given home (land), stipend and sword. That basically made him a samurai.
i can see both sides to this i am an black american really i want a movie about yasuka but i rather not ubisoft do this story man cause they gone fuck it up. Also if yasuka was introduced 15 years before their prob won't have a negative response but in today climate yasuka was introduce way to late. I still want a movie about his life hell i still waiting on a harlem hellfighter movie nobody talks about them and its a damn shame because those men are heroes.
Thats some selective victimization right here. I thought that the reason even Japanese people who this story is based of are mad for 2 things: 1. Yasuke was not a samurai but a retainer. Wikipedia has been edited to try and cover for this without having any real source about it. There is no source indincating that Yasuke was ever a samurai. Literally from the horse's mouth. The Japanese. 2. The aesthetics of the game are CHINESE and not JAPANESE in a game set on Japan! Main writer is a white liberal woman as per usual when it comes to these things. I thought that the real victims here are the JAPANESE which are being culturally disrespected. That's crazy that you think that being a black person is the problem. As per usual. This must be what happens in the liberal sphere. No real information gets in.
kenny love you as a content creator and really i would love to hear your story about your saperation from god. I am a christan black man and i would like to say not all christan are the same man and not all christians are conservative . i would like to hear your story.
well i mean yea there's 100% some over-reaction but the main point wasn't addressed which is why did they have to make a game in Japan about someone who's not from there, i mean if they made a Game about assassins in Africa and the main character was an Asian dude, would that sit right with people ? i mean what if Assassins Creed what was it... the one made in Egypt "origins" the protag was someone from Asia, people from more progressive backgrounds would not bat an eye ? i mean i can see the situation from both points of view and i can say with confidence if the tables were turned i don't know if the community that is opposed to the ones criticizing this game would not have the same over reaction on the other side, we've reached a point where it's either "woke" or it's "pandering to the conservatives" bs and you can say whatever you want but the main issue is people not finding the middle ground, and that means making compromises and talking it out, if all both sides are doing is just throwing shit and telling the other side how stupid they are this will never end
Yup. I don't know why people scream racism so quickly. I'm sure SOME people who are making a fuss absolutely are racially motivated. People really brush with broad strokes.
It's funny how much we start to teach people about history when it's literal history. You can look up yourself but the ignorant people love explanations from others.
People just don't want another Cleopatra was black situation were people were gaslighted that she was actually black. Nobunaga having a black slave has a body guard cause he was paranoid of betrayal, is not enough to call him a samurai.
@SyLuX636 japanese are roasting yall people all over this game. They are even saying and I quote "crazy how nobody ever cared about asian culture until the new character in acs. That's bs and you know it."
@SyLuX636 He went from being a slave and then he was Given to nobunaga who was interested in him and then he gave him the status bushi aka Samurai...like bro...
Don’t think the game’s is gunna have a good story tbh. 😕 Unfortunately Ubisoft is to focused on “the message” for the soul purpose of Getting a good ESG score. Also the controversy with ZAU was due to the game needing approval from “SBI” a consulting firm. where people were asking why does a native African man need to seek approval from a consultation firm? I feel like both sides have valid arguments and it’s important to find common ground.
I think its silly to sum it up as a culture war thing most of the criticism I've seen us fron the Japanese community who are upset they finally got a game to represent their culture and the main male samurai is someone who wasnt actually even a samurai imagine if they made an african themed assassin's creed game based far in the past with a white lead lets not pretend that would he ok we'd all make fun of that rightfully so
not brought a assassins creed game for a very long since black flag time but this game looks class somthing abit different for a change , but they have been alot of samurai games of late but i will get it but i will wait for reviews first .
I mean it's Assassin's Creed which is already janky and Ubisoft so it's already loss realism because they're in charge. If it was Naughty Dog or Santa Monica I would be more intrigued and quite terrified because of how violent it could be. Plus the story would be incredible storytelling.
You gotta actually research articles, not videos They're plenty of records that show he was a Samurai Although some people keep saying he was a retainer Which is hilarious to me.Because a retainer is A samurai.... People want to keep calling him a servant Show me one servant that wear samurai armor.. He has a statue in Japan.I believe they put it up within the last four or five years... Also show me a picture of a mother servant sitting next to oda and his son.... People are doing all their research from wikipedia and youtube videos..... There's only reason People have a problem with this... But the real problem is normally they could hide what that truth is this time they can't
I want good story & good gameplay. Corporate diverse is bad. But if devs want it to be a diverse with good story. Then I be fine. I liked AC 4: Black Flag DLC Freedom Cry feature black man assassin. Also I loved Afro Samurai & Samurai Champloo. I don't trust "Ubisoft" to tell a good Yasuke & Naoe story because modern Ubisoft is trash. Also their UI, prices & always connect to online for single player game is wild. Ubisoft is worse than EA.
The problem is Ubisoft, if not most western game companies have lost trust to not soapboxing at the audience with modern politics. Yasuke has been done better in Japanese developed sengoku period fiction games, and the fact that he in overly adorned armor compared to Nobunaga and other key figures in this trailer is telling.
When they had a blue eyed blonde hair white guy in the game nioh in samurai culture, they were reaching, justifying, and doing mental gymnastics to prove why he belonged in there. But now that its a black guy in samurai culture, they're doing the opposite, now They're reaching, justifying, and doing mental gymnastics to prove why he doesn't belong in there. lmfao, how can you tell me this isn't some hilarious shit? Their hypocrisy, bias, favoritism, and racism are all over their lips and face, but somehow they still think they're fooling everybody.
And see your only specifically talking about certain games bc that had dark skin characters how about talk about all the other characters besides the ones you where talking about And yeah no ones talking about the girl bc everyone knows she's a proper assassin's creed character that fits with the other past assassin's
Tbh sometimes i get it this one is literally just silly. Like it isnt even a historical. Yasuke is a real person this is no different then making it so da vinci upgraded the assaasin blade. It would make sense for this pretty important historical to be a a member of the assassins.
For real. I had someone try to argue with me about it, and they said to me “well I would love to have seen your reaction to if they made Leonardo a playable assassin” and I was like bro… if that’s what they did then that’s what it would have been. We have a movie where president Lincoln is a vampire Hunter why would that matter in fiction
for me, I don't really care about Yasuke being in a game made by Ubisoft. We need to stop talking about social things. We need to start talking about the monetization of games. the game cost 130$ bucks is gonna have even more monetization ingame season passes, battle pass, exp boost, etc. we need to stop buying these games that are from companies that they dont really care about games, they dont care about the message of the game, they only care is to milk people dry and push more way to do so. please stop giving them what they want. vote with your wallet, and remember you dont own your games with ubisoft.
These "fans" are always outraged in regards to black/African culture in entertainment. MKXI Jax goes back in time to liberate slaves with *time travel power* oh well that's not realistic. Yasuke wasn't a samurai in Japan but now I'm hearing other AC games have mystical elements.
I have to say, I was expecting a Japanese man in a feudal Japan setting considering this is Assassins Creed (known to prioritize historical accuracy), but either way, I know Yasuke wasn’t really a samurai but still, I will give this game a go, it might be fun, it all comes down to gameplay
I quit assassins creed after origins since the the more RPG gameplay wasn’t really my thing but I won’t lie this game has me a little excited. Maybe it’s because I’ve wanted a AC game set in Japan since 201 when I first discovered the series, maybe because they showed the pivot blade from AC3 (which was my favorite AC game) and maybe it’s because the concept of Yasuke just sounds really cool
Question: Why is it we are looked at as racist to want a all Japanese cast in a AC Japan but we get the "you atleast got a Japanese ninja" bit? Yusuke has been around Japan for 2 years and we skip any badass samurai that's wildly known and we get "you got a Japanese why are you mad?"
And why is it you can kill slave owners as a black woman but they can kill evil warlords as a Japanese samurai? Ah that's right "you already got a japanese"
Let's be real, if the game was made by a japanese studio, these same people who are complaining about yasuke being in the game would be saying, "the west got to them" or some dumb crap like that. They'll always find things to complain about. I pity narrow-minded people like that.
Honestly the Yasuke part got me interested. I had 0 interest in this before the reveal. I thought we already had the perfect Assassin's Creed Japan with Ghost of Tsushima, why even bother with another? But this is an interesting angle. The whole culture war is such a dumpster fire. If you're not happy with the story direction, just move on. There will be tons of samurai games to come in the future.
My first thought when I saw that there'd be two playable protagonists was, "Oh, I hope they finally bring back co-op!" Like AC Syndicate should have had, or any other AC title with at least two playable characters (Origins and Odyssey could have had such, too). I have no problem with who will be playable as I know that the series has always been based on real history, but having plenty of creative liberties to have its own fiction of the Templars, Assassins and the First Civilization. I'm looking forward to Shadows as I have for nearly every mainline AC game, and I appreciated being given the choice of playing as Alexios in Odyssey, even as I accept that Kassandra is the canonical protag. Same for Valhalla, I prefer playing a male character, so I'm perfectly fine with Eivor Varinsdottir being canonically female, but was glad to have the choice since the Animus is a simulation and can work in reasonable excuses for allowing us to stray from what is canon or historically accurate. I'm glad that they could draw from an actual historical figure, and it does encourage me to want to learn more about Yasuke, at the very least through his portrayal in the game, if not through a possible discovery mode.
I am so happy the black people are unapologetically speaking their minds about this topic. The truth is that these types of people just don't want to see us dignified in their precious media that they escape to every day. I guarantee you we would not even be having this conversation if Yasuke was a caucasion.🙄
No one complaining or asking for Japanese as main character in Nioh. Even though William Adams is real historical figure and was Samurai. But he is mostly navigator, merchant and shipbuilder, and not known as bushi or great fighter. But it seems like white men singlehandedly defeating majority of great samurai in Sengoku Period didn't bother people too much to turn Nioh into Culture Wars.
Look kenny I get what your saying but just saying people are racist bc they don't want a black samurai That's not the case for one this game is overpriced 130 dollars and you can make your character red is just dumb Also the whole thing with yasuke the reality of it is all he was is a servant someone who just held nobunagas sword he was never a samurai but every piece of media keeps making him be one And there's nothing wrong with black samurai characters we got afro, nagoriuki, the difference with them is they are fantasy but are still cool samurai yasuke really wasn't one Plus it's assassin's creed not samurai creed the girl is the proper main character bc she's an acutal fictional assassin like other ones in previous games we don't wanna play historical characters we play fictional ones interacting with historical figures Just bc someone has an opinion about it and questions it doesn't make them racist dude don't be that guy being involved in this crap bc how your coming about this makes ya think your sounding reasonable when it's not.
if you seen the culture wars about this game in social media. Its not only people didn't want black samurai and want Japanese main character, but they go as far as mocking and insult at Yasuke. And even post picture monkey wearing samurai armor and refer it as Yasuke. As for Yasuke itself, he is not only a servant that carry sword, but he is a Kashin (retainer) that serve under Nobunaga Oda (Daimyo). A retainer that serve under high ranked Samurai such as Daimyo in Sengoku Period, and also given his own house, stipend and sword. That basically made him a Samurai. We can argue about evidence of him being officially made Samurai day and night, but saying Yasuke is just a slave carrying sword is not right. Beside, even Japanese dev themselves made Yasuke a samurai
I thought we were past this shit. He wasn't a Samurai but who the fk cares if he is in Assassin's Creed? It's 2024. If people play AC for their historical accuracy I have something to tell you..
Megatron is way too bias You can give him evidence against his argument. He's gonna call you a AfroCentric This man still thinks ancient egyptians We're not african He was retainer but that still is a Samurai.
Retainers in that era were a type of samurai as far as I'm aware, so records and historical accounts referring to Yasuke as a retainer doesn't necessarily mean he wasn't samurai. We just don't know for sure. But the thing for me has always been that AC is not historically accurate at all so he can totally be a samurai in the game, seeing as shinobi didn't actually exist as we normally see them depicted in pop culture at all, but people are fine with considering "ninja" as accurate. Also, seeing a Metatron video in one of Kenny's videos was not on my bingo card lol.
Yall know why theres is no Africa based games? Cuz no one is interested in that and the developers know that. so they have to insert them black peeps in other cultures
Nobody said anything about Scarlett Johansson playing the main character in The Ghost in the Shell movie or a WHITE MAN playing Goku in the Dragon ball z movie Tom Cruise in the Last Samurai ,Wasn't the main character in Nioh white also?Don't forget about all the biblical movies with White people..The passion of Christ...Jesus was A BLACK MAN
Unrooolie, this is exactly the same Ubisoft that did the first Assassin’s Creed. The only tiny little difference is that Yasuke was a samurai before, which he really wasn’t, and now a ninja, which he also wasn’t, if this even is Yasuke. He was a slave then and people grew to understand that black people were sold in Japan, but Yasuke was well known as he was there with Oda Nobunaga when he died. But what people don’t want to hear in general is history that is “not American”. Meaning even European, or Australian, or South American or any other North American country that is not the US of A is “WOKE”. And that being educated and learning about our heritage’s outside of America that connects even to our melting pot country we know and love today, “is a direct attack on the American people”.
yasuke should have been some freedom cry dlc with a different playstyle, and the main character should have been an interchangeable ninja. and it would have been okay
I think, Yasuke its great inspiration for something more original, we have a lot of asian samurai guys, its interesting to see a black samurai aside from Afro Samurai...the only issue I have is......UBISOFT......and that´s a big problem.
I don't know man this sounds like a bad take getting upset for an actual real person who is a retainer. I think the one thing people should be proud of about this guy is he served under the most badass Japanese leader of all time. But there was other people in Japan that we don't have games about who actually made an impact in Japanese history. What Ubisoft is doing is the exact same thing that people complain about cultural appropriation also this game is written by a white woman who really doesn't really care about history.
it was made out of force tokenism, and it does matter. if it's not genuine diversity. no one is crying for no reason Kenny; I want you to come down a notch and at least try to understand the other side. by labeling a group of folks upset as a grifters or a racist conservative is just like the new wave feminist way of saying "you're a fascist". Imo, we need are own shit period in our own culture. what AAA games do we have that represent Africa and have an African can protagonist none that I know of, does slapping a black character in Japanese setting is that great for deal us?
We in Brazil have always asked for an AC game set in Brazil. There is a movie called Besouro from 2009 about a slave capoeira fighter, that would be such a great background for the story.
Bruh!!!!! I was just thinking that!!
I have that movie and love it. If they set AC in Brazil, with that base for the story, the haters will eat own mothers in a fit of rage.
Now imagine, the main character was a chinese man. How would you brazilians feel? The problem isnt that Yasuke is in the game. The problem is that they made him a main character. If I was japanese, i would be pissed as well. The main character of every AC game should be someone of that culture. People think we are complaining just because he's black. But everyone loves Bayek from origins. Who was complaining because he's black? Apart from Ezio, Bayek is one of the most loved AC protagonist. This just feels like forced diversity. We know it when we see it. Whether or not the man was a sumurai or not is a non issue for me. This is a AC game first of all. Game should be about stealth. Playing as a big black samurai in japan is not what AC is about.
@@whysosrs5534 I think that every big media company is trying to be more diverse, to different degrees of success. Although i do believe that sometimes it can be either "forced or preachy our maybe phoned in", i also believe that this push to see more varied people in media, will have a good result. I just think that Ubisoft saw the oportunity to have an interesting character. I mean, how many triple A games do you believe would have come out with a black samurai as a protagonist? Also don't forget about Naoe, the japanese ninja that is ALSO a main character. In the last few years we had Both Ghost of Tsushima and Rise of the Ronin with Japanese protagonists, it's not like they are in dire need of representation of their own culture at the moment.
Loved the video, thanks for sharing your perspective Kenny. I was already on team Yasuke, but your story further bolstered my opinion and opened my view on just how important his story is.
You are so real for this. My respect for you and the crew is 10,000k higher for this.
I just wanted to touch on the quick issue you touched on too. Most Conservatives call themselves “Christians” that doesn’t mean they actually are Christian.
Being a Christian is about belief in the finished works of Jesus. Not standing against certain political groups.
This “where was God during slavery” is something I’ve heard often, but our people are no longer slaves.
It took good Christian, God fearing people to allow slaves to hide in their homes when they were hunted. It took actual Christian people to aid in the abolishment of slavery. God touched their hearts and used them for our ancestors’ benefit. That’s where God was.
God doesn’t just immediately destroy evil, he gives them plenty of time to repent before they pass away. If they don’t, they surely won’t see Heaven. Think about these things.
They aren’t
Exactly.✝️👍🏿
God allows slavery and all of the evil to take place. He doesn't allow people to repent, they never had a choice, their lives are mapped out before an all knowing God. If you're religious fine, and or simply have a belief in a higher power then fine, but don't pretend that any of it is nothing less than illogical.
I’m not a believer, an atheist actually. But doesn’t this all seem mighty convenient? God never shows up, but he’s all powerful and all knowing. Doesn’t show up for slavery, doesn’t show up for children with cancer, doesn’t show up for the kids dealing with famine. It’s all convenient, because there is no god. I’m not even trying to be disrespectful here. I hate to say it, but you’re no different than 90% of religious folk. It’s all just indoctrination. I’ve seen horrors beyond imagination with what’s happening to those poor Palestinian children, miss me with God watching it all happen. Please.
@@doctordoom1851 2 Peter Chpt 3 verse 9: 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Let ‘em’ know Kenny
In majority of the media that depicts Yasuke, they have him as a samurai. People just look for a reason to be angry.
you know why they don't like it
They didn’t historically represent their culture and their title of samurai
And what's funny is is all the all that media that he's in is Japanese made.
Thanks to you, i will try to keep an eye on this game. I'm interested in seeing how his story plays out in this game.
Great video
When I searched, “what is a Japanese retainer” this is what popped up…
“A retainer refers to a vassal in feudal Japan, usually a samurai providing military services.”
It’s so silly how simply doing a google search would prove the people wrong. It’s like they looked it up, saw it said that and then continued to dig deeper just to find someplace where that wasn’t a definition and said “YES MY RACISM AND HATE IS VALIDATED” like it’s so obvious with some of the comments
Yeah, there are so many comments where people have said, “oh no, he was just a retainer” or “he was only a vassal” but they didn’t read the rest. That literally meant Yasuke was a samurai.
They’re even going as far as changing Yasuke’s Wikipedia page (since Wikipedia is open to the public anyways) and changing the history.
@@justingabriel1765 One response I’ve seen recently is “show me actually old Japanese text stating he was a samurai”. Like really??
@@ZaccaeusMaximos1217 that’s like asking them to show them video footage of god. Like bro what? I just had some guy tell me that all the dislikes on the trailer are all the Japanese player base. Like I don’t believe for a second that every Japanese person hates that Yasuke is in it.
@@justingabriel1765 Japanese Twitter did speak out on it actually. Something along the lines of pretty much what the Americans were saying
I’m probably the few that still enjoy every single AC and hell yea I’m stoked for this
I'm with you, brother.
Yeah, I wasn’t a big fan of Mirage but I’ve liked pretty much all of them, it’s annoying to see when people are like oh there people go just buying slop I’m like you don’t even know if the game is good or not, and even if it was good you’d just say it was bad lol 😂
I'm literally about to get Mirage. Love the setting and all (I'm muslim). Why didn't you like it?
@@hotcoldman77 oh nice! I hope you enjoy! For me well i just wasn’t a big fan of the way they decided to do some things in it, like how they chose to execute prioritizing stealth, making combat feel bad, it feels like your hitting enemies with a feather, and idk I just felt like that’s an odd way to prioritize stealth.
I don’t want to spoil the game for you, so I’ll just say there was story stuff that I just wasnt too enamored with, things not being as fleshed out or as impactful as they could have been if more attention had been given to it. Personally feel like a lot of the characters are quite forgetable, Stuff like that, overall it’s still good and I like a lot of individual things in it, but it really does feel like a repurposed DLC to me, which stinks because it originally was that and then they opted to make it a full game.
What’s cool is that it made me at least change my opinion on Basim. In Valhalla I didn’t like him too much he felt off and his whole scheme to kill Eivor and Sigurd rubbed me the wrong way. Seeing him younger and how he started out, seeing his growth, really made me like the character a lot more so that’s a plus! And with alot mechanics they introduced I found interesting. So overall for me it was a 7/10, it was okay, not the best and for me left a lot to be desired but over all an enjoyable experience nonetheless
I hope you enjoy when you get to play!
Have you ever played Assassin’s creed freedom cry I know it’s short and a DLC for AC black flag but I say it’s worth a try it has a really good story and if you enjoyed liberation give it a try I’m also really exited for Assassin’s creed Shadows can’t wait
Thank you Kenny. I share many of the sentiments that you expressed here. Again, thank you for saying what I believe needed to be said.
I TRULY appreciate you and this video. Spot on with every word. I can feel the exhaustion bro. You aren’t alone family. People could never imagine the burden we deal with. Much love, honor and respect to our ancestors. Love you King. 🐐👑
thats why kenneth is the goat
Stand on your shit buddy. Im with you 💪🏾
I'm just disappointed they missed the opportunity to make Hanzo Hattori one of the main characters in an AC game. 🙃
I also hope Ubi won't change the idea of Yasuke being close to Oda or them making a curve ball where Yasuke kills Oda.
I want to see Yasuke being one of the few people who Oda trusted the most.
Hoping that Hanzo is the Grandmaster of Naoe and Yasuke.
There is Hanzo Hattori that is canon in AC.
At least it was considered canon at the time, I don’t know if it still is. Comes from AC Memories.
he already says he disagrees with how nobunaga does things in the trailer, thats the whole reason why he teams up with Naoe (the female protag)
@@shimik11 that's why I said "I hope Ubi doesn't change it" that much.
I'm inhaling huge amounts of copium that he won't stab Oda in the back or vice versa.
Hi! I just wanted to say that did we forget that their were more samurai that weren’t all Asian? In fact there was a black samurai named yasuke as well as a British, a french, and a Spaniard as well I believe… so if this is taking in the place of the story of yasuke, then I’d like to see which pieces that they’re going to adapt into this narrative.
Thank you Kenny for being strong enough to stand on your own beliefs and speak your true feelings about this game. Even when many chose to bandwagon and hate the game before it even released a gameplay trailer. This was bold, honest, and true. Awesome video. A breath of fresh air. Thank you.
It is a Ubisoft game, so the gameplay and loot will be the same as Egypt, Greek and Viking one. It's funny they knew Japanese would not like this game so they threw in the black dude.
@@SyLuX636 What??? You sound stupid. Is that what you said about GTA? Or all Elden ring? You guy's are full of yourselves if you don't like the character because of his skin color keep your hate to yourself. Go in a corner and cry about it while we all play the new awesome assassin's creed in Japan with the cool samurai and ninja. Go play fortnight. Or knit a sweater what year are we in and people acting like slavery ended yesterday. When people start acting like this we should just post a picture of Martin Luther King Jr.
i'm just pissed they didn't give him the killmonger cut
😂😂😂
That's going to be dlc $5.99.
*stop*
@@Fyrijou nah
Oh they were thinking about it.
🤣🤣🤣
Love that Lupe dropped Samurai like right after this reveal 😂
AC fans are aware that the games have been adding the discovery mode where you can learn about the actual history of the world and characters and still enjoy the fantasy.
Isn't it weird how the same people chirping over the claimed "historical inaccuracy" of the AC game said nothing about the innaccuaracies in the movies 47 Ronin or the last samurai?
Or any movie with yt Egyptians
historical accuracy my ass they have magic and alt history with a race of people who were our gods
I saw asmongold say it was UNREALISTIC to see a woman beat three men or more as if it’s just as realistic for Ezio to beat an entire army with no help.
Asmongold's enlighten centrist schtick has him say some of the dumbest shit. Just a modicum of critical thinking will make you realize just how dumb his statements are . its terrifying that the current generation of kids are growing up as fans of his.
That’s like when that one guy was making a big deal about a woman beating a man in a sword fight…. In the Witcher. You know the show with gouls and wraiths and magic, yeah. Sorry fiction is fiction and can do whatever they feel like
What a stupid take though. It's a VIDEO GAME. The things happening in them are not real and the world, characters and stories are fictional. EVEN if those things are based off something in the real world, it still isn't the real world. People screaming shit like 'that's not realistic' need to take a step back and look at what it is they are analyzing, lol. I'm playing video games to escape reality, not the other way around. Who cares about realism? Pull your heads outta your asses people. This social media, culture war crap has got to stop.
@@fisheatingjoeI do not see what is wrong with his perspective? If people feel its forced, that is just their opinion. I also do not see an issue with “who cares, as long its a good game” either. Its not like Grummz who’s been radicalizing those ideals of “THEY VIOLATING OUR GAMES WITH DIVERSITY, GET THEM!”
@@AzuriCAW well in that case, people in the comments of Asmon’s video act like Grummz
The first AC I'll purchase in a long time. This era of Japan was wild, can't wait to see the vibes of how they'll play with the history and assassin's spin
How they'll tie All the crazy AC lore of space gods/Isu + religion + mythology, science fiction, modern day... Gonna be wild. Will we see Amaterasu, Susanoo, Orochi etc etc? Can't wait
As long as the person is being added naturally then it's all good. Hell someone can mod in Afro Samurai which would be dope as hell.
Perfect example Afro Samurai and Marvel movies Samuel Jackson did the role right and was written well enough to be a real person.
Samuel Jackson in Star Wars Prequels though was to get black people to see Star Wars not for the story but number must go up but Samuel Jackson was a bad fit for the movie. Though the tactic worked on my dad who didn't care for star wars liked Jackson. While I was already hooked on lightsabers).
In the end George, Ubisoft, hell even your grocery store owner is running a business and its up to the consumer to choose if it's acceptable or not in the end.
I'd love a game or even just a movie/mini series surrounding the Maroons in the Caribbean. A group of escaped slaves living in Jamaica having the European colonizers at their mercy for 100+ years before their eventual defeat makes for a great narrative. They were on some gangsta shit ✊🏽
kenny, everybody knows leonardo davinci is known for inventing the wrist pistol and helping an organization of assassins to kill the borgias and was always historically accurate..... /s
cant wait for this game ngl...
I am gonna take moderate stance on this so just listen to me a bit. I understand the representation aspect and why to some people making a game about this kind of character is important. There is though this flipside that Yasuke was a Retainer/Samurai/Bodyguard/Goon of Oda Nobunaga and to Japanese people Nobunaga well... He is not really a nice dood. You could say he is a bit bad i would say. He is always shown as a "demon lord" with guns, because he bought guns from the westerners to win the war. So his retainers like Yasuke and Ranmaru Mori are not seen too good light there.
There has been some positive representations of Yasuke and some negative, because in the end that is what fiction does, but he was still you know killing people to a person who is an equivalent to some hated dictators in Europe that well are not seen in good light either. So making him a hero of a game... Well it might rub people a wrong way. I understand it is a fiction, but you know.
I think if this would have been some random new dood it would have been mostly fine to people, but using this historical character who was Nobunagas samurai again Nobunaga is deemed as an really evil person so that is a bit odd to people who has roots from those families who fought against him. i also understand this game will be fiction so he probably will not remain as Nobunagas goon and probably even joins forces with Akechi Mitsuhide to take him down.
I understand the both sides of the argument and well it is kinda hard to talk about it, because nobody likes moderate takes, because it is either you are with me or against me these days. I hope the game is fun and people who want this kind of characters get more of these kind of characters. I also understand the culture erasing aspect, because we just found out recently as Finnish people that we where half- Asians, because our root comes from Mongolia and all our culture was erased by Swedish kingdom who forced us the bible. So i understand why people would be pissed about that, but to me it is in the past.
Thank you for bearing with me and i hope you enjoy the game.
I agree with you
we have a black samurai !!!!
Can we just enjoy video games.
All i want its gameplay, if its suck i can complain
Gotta make nerds mad for cash 😆
not if the main character is a black male, duh.
@@zelvanyan and gay now, i guess
@@methiou what isn't gay these days lol
This gotten way out of proportion. I just excited to play the game I been waiting for long feudal Japan adventure for assassin's Creed good video ♥️♥️
Their asking full price with heavy day one dlc and mtx added. Online required functions for a single player game. Along with a cool 100+ HOURS of forced game time that can be quickened for mtx.
Nope they confirmed it's completely playable offline from start to finish. It's probably digital only like Alan Wake 2 which is why internet is required just to download the dang thing.
@@ShadowW0lf1 Don't think the game will be fully playable offline but I hope so for the future player's.
Some of the assassin creed games been fun. Putting their own spin on the historic history of the human race from the ancient pyramids of Egypt to the Greco Roman Colosseum of Greece and the beautiful mountain landscapes of Norway with the mighty Vikings. So for them to do a samurai kind of style for assassins Creed especially with ninjas added onto it as well would be a very cool take for the series.
"Yasuke wasn't even a samurai! So he can't be one in this fictional game!" "It's inaccurate!"
Please don't let these people watch/play STRIVE.
if people are upset about having real black character Yasuke set in feudal Japan in a game thats literally about aliens and pre history civilisation and make excuse with historical accuracy then surely they should be upset having white character like Williams Adam set in feudal Japan being samurai in Nioh but they aren't obviously!!!
The Japanese audience mostly mad about a game claiming historical accuracy set in their respective area and representation of the title Samurai. William Adams was a real officially titled samurai and Nioh was made by Japanese people inspired by that historical tale. Yasuke wasn’t actually given the title of samurai because it was a ruling title at the time. He had no land nor family nor anything to rule over including no ceremonial samurai armor. They feel the franchise claiming to use historical accuracy in their games has misrepresented their culture and that is what they’re angry about.
I bet you not even half of the people crying about this game were ever intending to buy an AssCreed/Ubi game to begin with anyway
Kenny's wild!
So can I be a Christian conservative white dude and be excited for Yasuke as a playable assassin samurai? Cause I am stoked 😊! Nioh 1 and 2 you play white guy in Japan....was that one divisive? I'm just going to ignore the culture dudes and know that the guy did exist, and it'll be a cool story.
Cool and people can disagree and prefer they had Japanese protagonists. I’m a Christian conservative black dude. I guess I don’t base how I will enjoy something on color like you seem to do. If I was making a game like this I would’ve just had Japanese protagonists and you can still have Yasuke in the game. Considering the way changed the game for this, it’s hard for me to believe this was some organic idea
@@larosha1 Have you ever stopped to think that maybe what attracts people to a game or movie is a "new thing"? Apart from the fact that it is a fictional work we are talking about here and this gives them greater freedom to innovate with something, in this case Yasuke. So think with me, Yasuke's choice was certainly not random, it was made to bring something different to the game. Something that doesn't make it another generic game in stores or within the franchise itself, in addition to just changing the location in the world where the game's story takes place.
Absolutely fam. Welcome to da team homie!
I think Ubisoft knew this would happen the way Square Enix knew it would for Forspoken.
When I seen people typing "No foreigner could ever attain thy Title Samaurai. Williams Adams in Nioh was different then Yusuke because he was a British man and thy Highest ranking Samurai who actually existed."
I knew exactly what kinda of party this was 🤣.
I'm glad you addressed the grifters as I used to follow Tyrone it's sad to see people who usually have a leveled mindset when it comes to social issues become completely tone deaf
Grifter meaning someone who doesn’t agree with you? So people aren’t allowed opinions? I mean if you just clap like a seal about any new game everyone else should?
@@larosha1 disagreements and being tone deaf are not the same thing
@larosha1 No one gave a damn when he was in all those other games developed by Eastern studios hell he was even in SAMURAI WARRIOS 5 where was all this woke DEI stuff then
Black Flag was always my fav AC game. And its dlc Freedom Cry is no joke one of the greatest dlcs in video games. Adewale was super fun to play. At the end of the day i just want to play a fun video game. Im excited to play as both of these characters. More so Yasuke surprisingly cause i LOVE stealth in video games. Amd hes definitely not stealthy lol. Hes a big guy and i wanna mess up enemies with him
We wuz samurais 🗣💯🔥
We had Nioh and Nioh 2, theres nothing wrong with historical fiction.
the reason i dont like the new AC
is because they were 10 years too late to finally release the Ninja Japan Assassin's Creed ive wanted since i was 14 years old.
so many better alternatives in gaming have come out in the past years since, and now suddenly Ubisoft thinks they can come in and wow me with nothing on the table.
it is a blatant marketing tactic to say " oh look, black people, you can be Yasuke, hes in the game!" the same way I was excited to be a White Germanic looking Samurai in Nioh 1.
Now granted, we know Ubisoft did with the intention of DEI shoving their heel into their balls, but Koei Tecmo is just as guilty, they did it knowing a white guy would be more interested in playing Nioh as a white samurai. but this isnt entirely true of a tactic anymore, as Sekiro and Tsushima both have you play very tradtional and generic japanese men as Ninjas, and yet people still loved the game just as much.
Yasuke feels a bit forced, like, his plot isnt entirely central to the core plot of AC because AC story, mission by mission, doesnt exist.
the biggest problem we have is that we know Ubisoft is not by any stretch of the imagination genuine.
the only thing Genuine in Ubisoft is their enslaved devs and their passion for history, architecture or culture.
now personally, I would have done the new AC differently, I would have had Yasuke as a Samurai like right now, but have more appealing options, they shot themselves in the foot by making woman a generic Ninja. She should have been a Ninja who acted as a prostitute or concubine during day, and moonlighted as a Ninja, and she was very good with disguises and could get into a lot of locations, and then add Somebody like William Adams, who does a mix of Ninja Gameplay and Samurai Gameplay, where hes Samurai on paper and will do Samurai things, but moonlights also as a Ninja throwing a Coupe.
sadly we dont even know if Yasuke is fully playable, he could just be in the story and you only play as the girl.
Most logical answer here
People can be mad at this game for various reasons. Yasuke isn't one of them
If you're gonna be mad, I agree that it should be because AC Japan now is too little too late
Great video, Kenny. If you want a taste of what the modern Assassin's Creed combat feels like, Origins is a good game to check out. That's when they overhauled all the combat to feel more like an action rpg style compared to the older AC games.
I never got into Assassins Creed but this trailer looked awesome. It even got me to learn more about Yasuke as a historical figure.
Liberation is about what now? PLS let it be on PS5 or Steam
Honestly, the biggest complaint I've heard from Japanese fans is that the trailer showcased environments based on Chinese architecture instead of Japanese ones, lol.
Honestly, I don't think the Japanese particularly care about the portrayal of Yasuke. There is barely any historical records of the guy to begin with, with the only objective fact about him being that he did exist. And really, this is Japan. The same country who created the Fate franchise. If they don't mind having Miyamoto Musashi turned into an anime waifu, I don't think they particularly care about Yasuke having heightened importance in a video game narrative. Japan knows the difference between historical fact and historical fantasy. Yasuke's portrayal is about as egregious as William Adams' portrayal in the first Nioh game, IMO, in which while I'd prefer playing as a native Japanese character in a Japanese setting, it's nothing to cry over.
Yasuke wasn't fantasy though, he was reality, dumaz
@pilot8220 Leonardo Da Vinci also wasn't a secret equipment supplier for a murder cult obsessed with hoods in real life. That's where the historical fantasy part comes in. Same goes for Yasuke and the details of his portrayal in the game. I'm unsure why I need to point this out.
Greetings and salutations from Brazil, Kenny!
There are many silly things hovering around the issues of minorities being represented in media, especially as main characters. I won't go into the silliness of expecting an artistic media to be completely historically accurate, Saving Private Ryan is not a documentary, you know?
The way I take it is that there are two types of people surrounding this topic as "an issue":
- There are the people that turning this into a problem, that reinforce ideologically this reactionary way of thinking about representation of identities they do not identify as, and this is how they make their bread. Be it politics or conservative content creators, honestly to me it doesn't matter if they actually buy into what they're talking about, their interest is to make this a problem.
- And there are people that doesn't understand the importance of representation, but feel uneasy and buy into this ideology. And the funny part is: this uneasiness comes from a place of wanting ANOTHER form of representation, even if it is straight cis-male white men or hot women.
In the end of the day, we deserve a society that celebrates diversity. We deserve better games and better main characters. Conservatives often forget that minorities grow up loving main characters that does not necessarily represent their gender, their ethnicity, whatever. And some have interest in promoting this "culture war" to gain something from it. This representation is not something new i pop culture, and it's not the first time this was brought up as a "problem". Which is tragically comical.
Feeling that you are into diasporic african content, I invite you to learn a bit of cool historic figures that contributed a lot to black people across the world. Check out a little bit about Luis Gama, brazilian abolitionist lawyer. He was born in 1830, and slavery was only abolished in Brazil in 1888(last country to abolish slavery in the american continent, Brazil brought 5.5 million slaves from africa)
Or maybe Frantz Fanon, black psychiatrist born in 1920 - an intellectual from Martinique that wrote about black existentialism, and the condition of black people throughout the century.
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Also this is more of a personal share I'm not sure if you're into react content or whatever haha but there's this youtuber called Goony Googles which mostly has been reacting to Brazilian music, mostly brazilian hip-hop and long story short he's living in Brazil now him talking about diasporic african thinking and hip-hop amazed me because it hits me with this international connection with people from other places of the world and sometimes we're so inside our cultural bubble that we can't see that not only our problems but our desires are so alike if it weren't for these thin language barriers.
czcams.com/video/4Ew85F7es1c/video.html&ab_channel=GoonyGoogles I'll just leave this here to check it out IF you want to.
Love you, keep up with the amazing content.
Yasuke immediately gained Nobunaga’s favour. Historians assume that Yasuke knew Japanese well enough to have conversations with Nobunaga, and they also believe that he quickly proved to Nobunaga his skills as a soldier. Soon after their first meeting, Nobunaga granted Yasuke his Japanese name, accepted him into his service, and made him the first recorded foreigner to receive the title of samurai. Yasuke was also one of the few people who dined with Nobunaga, which demonstrated the closeness of their relationship.
Samurai at the time was a ruling title, yasuke had no family nor land to rule over
@@heavymetaltarzan3709not every Samurai at same rank. Some samurai didn't own any clan, some samurai such as Daimyo not only owned a clan, but many family and clan serve under him. while samurai such as Shogun, rule entire country military.
Yasuke serve under Daimyo, given home (land), stipend and sword.
That basically made him a samurai.
i can see both sides to this i am an black american really i want a movie about yasuka but i rather not ubisoft do this story man cause they gone fuck it up. Also if yasuka was introduced 15 years before their prob won't have a negative response but in today climate yasuka was introduce way to late. I still want a movie about his life hell i still waiting on a harlem hellfighter movie nobody talks about them and its a damn shame because those men are heroes.
“Why is it a problem for some people?”
BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK.
If he was white there wouldn't be a problem.. Bottom line..
I'm buying this GAME!!
Thats some selective victimization right here. I thought that the reason even Japanese people who this story is based of are mad for 2 things: 1. Yasuke was not a samurai but a retainer. Wikipedia has been edited to try and cover for this without having any real source about it. There is no source indincating that Yasuke was ever a samurai. Literally from the horse's mouth. The Japanese. 2. The aesthetics of the game are CHINESE and not JAPANESE in a game set on Japan! Main writer is a white liberal woman as per usual when it comes to these things. I thought that the real victims here are the JAPANESE which are being culturally disrespected. That's crazy that you think that being a black person is the problem. As per usual. This must be what happens in the liberal sphere. No real information gets in.
@@terrancecooks5000 oh they already had that game it was called nioh. They didnt have an issue with that whyte man in a Japanese game
With a Japanese woman
Also don't buy the state one don't give ubisoft all that money bc you don't know if it'll be good or not
kenny love you as a content creator and really i would love to hear your story about your saperation from god. I am a christan black man and i would like to say not all christan are the same man and not all christians are conservative . i would like to hear your story.
Tell 'em bruh
well i mean yea there's 100% some over-reaction but the main point wasn't addressed which is why did they have to make a game in Japan about someone who's not from there, i mean if they made a Game about assassins in Africa and the main character was an Asian dude, would that sit right with people ? i mean what if Assassins Creed what was it... the one made in Egypt "origins" the protag was someone from Asia, people from more progressive backgrounds would not bat an eye ? i mean i can see the situation from both points of view and i can say with confidence if the tables were turned i don't know if the community that is opposed to the ones criticizing this game would not have the same over reaction on the other side, we've reached a point where it's either "woke" or it's "pandering to the conservatives" bs and you can say whatever you want but the main issue is people not finding the middle ground, and that means making compromises and talking it out, if all both sides are doing is just throwing shit and telling the other side how stupid they are this will never end
Yup. I don't know why people scream racism so quickly. I'm sure SOME people who are making a fuss absolutely are racially motivated. People really brush with broad strokes.
i hope people have that same energy on Nioh
@@kleberson777 not at all the same thing .. keep trying
Thank U for being real
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😂good luck there is going to be alot of refunds
It's funny how much we start to teach people about history when it's literal history. You can look up yourself but the ignorant people love explanations from others.
People just don't want another Cleopatra was black situation were people were gaslighted that she was actually black. Nobunaga having a black slave has a body guard cause he was paranoid of betrayal, is not enough to call him a samurai.
@SyLuX636 japanese are roasting yall people all over this game. They are even saying and I quote "crazy how nobody ever cared about asian culture until the new character in acs. That's bs and you know it."
@SyLuX636 He went from being a slave and then he was Given to nobunaga who was interested in him and then he gave him the status bushi aka Samurai...like bro...
Don’t think the game’s is gunna have a good story tbh. 😕
Unfortunately Ubisoft is to focused on “the message” for the soul purpose of Getting a good ESG score.
Also the controversy with ZAU was due to the game needing approval from “SBI” a consulting firm. where people were asking why does a native African man need to seek approval from a consultation firm?
I feel like both sides have valid arguments and it’s important to find common ground.
I think its silly to sum it up as a culture war thing most of the criticism I've seen us fron the Japanese community who are upset they finally got a game to represent their culture and the main male samurai is someone who wasnt actually even a samurai imagine if they made an african themed assassin's creed game based far in the past with a white lead lets not pretend that would he ok we'd all make fun of that rightfully so
not brought a assassins creed game for a very long since black flag time but this game looks class somthing abit different for a change , but they have been alot of samurai games of late but i will get it but i will wait for reviews first .
I mean it's Assassin's Creed which is already janky and Ubisoft so it's already loss realism because they're in charge. If it was Naughty Dog or Santa Monica I would be more intrigued and quite terrified because of how violent it could be. Plus the story would be incredible storytelling.
You gotta actually research articles, not videos They're plenty of records that show he was a Samurai Although some people keep saying he was a retainer Which is hilarious to me.Because a retainer is A samurai.... People want to keep calling him a servant Show me one servant that wear samurai armor.. He has a statue in Japan.I believe they put it up within the last four or five years... Also show me a picture of a mother servant sitting next to oda and his son.... People are doing all their research from wikipedia and youtube videos..... There's only reason People have a problem with this... But the real problem is normally they could hide what that truth is this time they can't
I want good story & good gameplay.
Corporate diverse is bad. But if devs want it to be a diverse with good story. Then I be fine.
I liked AC 4: Black Flag DLC Freedom Cry feature black man assassin. Also I loved Afro Samurai & Samurai Champloo.
I don't trust "Ubisoft" to tell a good Yasuke & Naoe story because modern Ubisoft is trash.
Also their UI, prices & always connect to online for single player game is wild. Ubisoft is worse than EA.
The problem is Ubisoft, if not most western game companies have lost trust to not soapboxing at the audience with modern politics. Yasuke has been done better in Japanese developed sengoku period fiction games, and the fact that he in overly adorned armor compared to Nobunaga and other key figures in this trailer is telling.
When they had a blue eyed blonde hair white guy in the game nioh in samurai culture, they were reaching, justifying, and doing mental gymnastics to prove why he belonged in there.
But now that its a black guy in samurai culture, they're doing the opposite, now They're reaching, justifying, and doing mental gymnastics to prove why he doesn't belong in there. lmfao, how can you tell me this isn't some hilarious shit?
Their hypocrisy, bias, favoritism, and racism are all over their lips and face, but somehow they still think they're fooling everybody.
I'm still baffled that people are considering buying a Ubisoft game in current year 😂😂😂
And see your only specifically talking about certain games bc that had dark skin characters how about talk about all the other characters besides the ones you where talking about
And yeah no ones talking about the girl bc everyone knows she's a proper assassin's creed character that fits with the other past assassin's
Tbh sometimes i get it this one is literally just silly. Like it isnt even a historical. Yasuke is a real person this is no different then making it so da vinci upgraded the assaasin blade. It would make sense for this pretty important historical to be a a member of the assassins.
For real. I had someone try to argue with me about it, and they said to me “well I would love to have seen your reaction to if they made Leonardo a playable assassin” and I was like bro… if that’s what they did then that’s what it would have been. We have a movie where president Lincoln is a vampire Hunter why would that matter in fiction
for me, I don't really care about Yasuke being in a game made by Ubisoft. We need to stop talking about social things. We need to start talking about the monetization of games. the game cost 130$ bucks is gonna have even more monetization ingame season passes, battle pass, exp boost, etc. we need to stop buying these games that are from companies that they dont really care about games, they dont care about the message of the game, they only care is to milk people dry and push more way to do so. please stop giving them what they want. vote with your wallet, and remember you dont own your games with ubisoft.
Metatron really bruh😂😂 I’m out
Theres no historical proof of ninjas why doesn't anyone complain about that?
Japanese don't like western games, but the Japanese admitted that mortal Kombat XL was better Street Fighter 5
These "fans" are always outraged in regards to black/African culture in entertainment. MKXI Jax goes back in time to liberate slaves with *time travel power* oh well that's not realistic. Yasuke wasn't a samurai in Japan but now I'm hearing other AC games have mystical elements.
I have to say, I was expecting a Japanese man in a feudal Japan setting considering this is Assassins Creed (known to prioritize historical accuracy), but either way, I know Yasuke wasn’t really a samurai but still, I will give this game a go, it might be fun, it all comes down to gameplay
I quit assassins creed after origins since the the more RPG gameplay wasn’t really my thing but I won’t lie this game has me a little excited.
Maybe it’s because I’ve wanted a AC game set in Japan since 201 when I first discovered the series, maybe because they showed the pivot blade from AC3 (which was my favorite AC game) and maybe it’s because the concept of Yasuke just sounds really cool
This has got to be the very first Assassins Creed game that I’m excited for.
Completely agree 100% Kenny.
Question: Why is it we are looked at as racist to want a all Japanese cast in a AC Japan but we get the "you atleast got a Japanese ninja" bit? Yusuke has been around Japan for 2 years and we skip any badass samurai that's wildly known and we get "you got a Japanese why are you mad?"
And why is it you can kill slave owners as a black woman but they can kill evil warlords as a Japanese samurai? Ah that's right "you already got a japanese"
Yes he was a samurai, retainers are samurais
every soldier in humanity history is a retainer.
Let's be real, if the game was made by a japanese studio, these same people who are complaining about yasuke being in the game would be saying, "the west got to them" or some dumb crap like that. They'll always find things to complain about. I pity narrow-minded people like that.
Nobody Japanese has a problem with this. We know who are the one's that's bitching...
Honestly the Yasuke part got me interested. I had 0 interest in this before the reveal. I thought we already had the perfect Assassin's Creed Japan with Ghost of Tsushima, why even bother with another? But this is an interesting angle. The whole culture war is such a dumpster fire. If you're not happy with the story direction, just move on. There will be tons of samurai games to come in the future.
My first thought when I saw that there'd be two playable protagonists was, "Oh, I hope they finally bring back co-op!" Like AC Syndicate should have had, or any other AC title with at least two playable characters (Origins and Odyssey could have had such, too). I have no problem with who will be playable as I know that the series has always been based on real history, but having plenty of creative liberties to have its own fiction of the Templars, Assassins and the First Civilization.
I'm looking forward to Shadows as I have for nearly every mainline AC game, and I appreciated being given the choice of playing as Alexios in Odyssey, even as I accept that Kassandra is the canonical protag. Same for Valhalla, I prefer playing a male character, so I'm perfectly fine with Eivor Varinsdottir being canonically female, but was glad to have the choice since the Animus is a simulation and can work in reasonable excuses for allowing us to stray from what is canon or historically accurate. I'm glad that they could draw from an actual historical figure, and it does encourage me to want to learn more about Yasuke, at the very least through his portrayal in the game, if not through a possible discovery mode.
I am so happy the black people are unapologetically speaking their minds about this topic. The truth is that these types of people just don't want to see us dignified in their precious media that they escape to every day. I guarantee you we would not even be having this conversation if Yasuke was a caucasion.🙄
Funny enough, we probably would.
No one complaining or asking for Japanese as main character in Nioh.
Even though William Adams is real historical figure and was Samurai.
But he is mostly navigator, merchant and shipbuilder, and not known as bushi or great fighter.
But it seems like white men singlehandedly defeating majority of great samurai in Sengoku Period didn't bother people too much to turn Nioh into Culture Wars.
I can wait to play this game its about time we have a African American in another assassins creed game 100 percent to get it day one !!!!
Look kenny I get what your saying but just saying people are racist bc they don't want a black samurai
That's not the case for one this game is overpriced 130 dollars and you can make your character red is just dumb
Also the whole thing with yasuke the reality of it is all he was is a servant someone who just held nobunagas sword he was never a samurai but every piece of media keeps making him be one
And there's nothing wrong with black samurai characters we got afro, nagoriuki, the difference with them is they are fantasy but are still cool samurai yasuke really wasn't one
Plus it's assassin's creed not samurai creed the girl is the proper main character bc she's an acutal fictional assassin like other ones in previous games we don't wanna play historical characters we play fictional ones interacting with historical figures
Just bc someone has an opinion about it and questions it doesn't make them racist dude don't be that guy being involved in this crap bc how your coming about this makes ya think your sounding reasonable when it's not.
if you seen the culture wars about this game in social media.
Its not only people didn't want black samurai and want Japanese main character, but they go as far as mocking and insult at Yasuke. And even post picture monkey wearing samurai armor and refer it as Yasuke.
As for Yasuke itself, he is not only a servant that carry sword, but he is a Kashin (retainer) that serve under Nobunaga Oda (Daimyo).
A retainer that serve under high ranked Samurai such as Daimyo in Sengoku Period, and also given his own house, stipend and sword.
That basically made him a Samurai.
We can argue about evidence of him being officially made Samurai day and night, but saying Yasuke is just a slave carrying sword is not right.
Beside, even Japanese dev themselves made Yasuke a samurai
I thought we were past this shit.
He wasn't a Samurai but who the fk cares if he is in Assassin's Creed? It's 2024.
If people play AC for their historical accuracy I have something to tell you..
Megatron is way too bias You can give him evidence against his argument.
He's gonna call you a AfroCentric This man still thinks ancient egyptians We're not african He was retainer but that still is a Samurai.
Retainers in that era were a type of samurai as far as I'm aware, so records and historical accounts referring to Yasuke as a retainer doesn't necessarily mean he wasn't samurai. We just don't know for sure.
But the thing for me has always been that AC is not historically accurate at all so he can totally be a samurai in the game, seeing as shinobi didn't actually exist as we normally see them depicted in pop culture at all, but people are fine with considering "ninja" as accurate.
Also, seeing a Metatron video in one of Kenny's videos was not on my bingo card lol.
Yall know why theres is no Africa based games? Cuz no one is interested in that and the developers know that. so they have to insert them black peeps in other cultures
It's crazy how many racists are just outing themselves since the release of this trailer. Thanks for this vid dude. Loved to hear it!
Nobody said anything about Scarlett Johansson playing the main character in The Ghost in the Shell movie or a WHITE MAN playing Goku in the Dragon ball z movie Tom Cruise in the Last Samurai ,Wasn't the main character in Nioh white also?Don't forget about all the biblical movies with White people..The passion of Christ...Jesus was A BLACK MAN
🤫🤫🤫 Too much truth.
Notice no selective outrage or online historians coming out on William Adams in Nioh...
Unrooolie, this is exactly the same Ubisoft that did the first Assassin’s Creed. The only tiny little difference is that Yasuke was a samurai before, which he really wasn’t, and now a ninja, which he also wasn’t, if this even is Yasuke. He was a slave then and people grew to understand that black people were sold in Japan, but Yasuke was well known as he was there with Oda Nobunaga when he died.
But what people don’t want to hear in general is history that is “not American”. Meaning even European, or Australian, or South American or any other North American country that is not the US of A is “WOKE”. And that being educated and learning about our heritage’s outside of America that connects even to our melting pot country we know and love today, “is a direct attack on the American people”.
yasuke should have been some freedom cry dlc with a different playstyle, and the main character should have been an interchangeable ninja. and it would have been okay
I think, Yasuke its great inspiration for something more original, we have a lot of asian samurai guys, its interesting to see a black samurai aside from Afro Samurai...the only issue I have is......UBISOFT......and that´s a big problem.
I don't know man this sounds like a bad take getting upset for an actual real person who is a retainer. I think the one thing people should be proud of about this guy is he served under the most badass Japanese leader of all time. But there was other people in Japan that we don't have games about who actually made an impact in Japanese history. What Ubisoft is doing is the exact same thing that people complain about cultural appropriation also this game is written by a white woman who really doesn't really care about history.
it was made out of force tokenism, and it does matter. if it's not genuine diversity. no one is crying for no reason Kenny; I want you to come down a notch and at least try to understand the other side. by labeling a group of folks upset as a grifters or a racist conservative is just like the new wave feminist way of saying "you're a fascist". Imo, we need are own shit period in our own culture. what AAA games do we have that represent Africa and have an African can protagonist none that I know of, does slapping a black character in Japanese setting is that great for deal us?