Assassin's Creed Shadows trailer - TheMythologyGuy reacts

[@TheBigFormerlyPurpleT]

The worst part about this game is the fact that it took them 17 years to have a game about ninjas. When people think "Hidden group of assassins in the shadows" the first thought is always ninjas.

[@Darth_Moraband]

As I understand it, that's why they waited so long. If I remember correctly, they admitted once that they simply did not feel inspired by the concept of making an AC game in Japan due to media being so oversaturated with ninjas. It sucked for players, but I'm glad they waited for inspiration to come rather than making a game that's completely soulless a decade ago (at least, I hope they found some inspiration).

[@raiderking7310]

Better to hav it now then to never get it

[@blacksheep6415]

People haven’t been asking for any longer than a decade

[@Donovarkhallum]

And it's more samurai than ninja. You don't even get the ninja fantasy. Action RPG bs

[@Verezen]

@@Darth_Moraband not really, media is oversaturated with samurai but not ninjas and shinobi. I can't think of any popular good game about ninjas

[@darcidious99]

Reminder This is the compamy that says "gamers should get used to not owning their games". Do not support the game, pirate it. If buying isnt owning, piracy isnt theft.

[@gilgameshthetreasurehunter2750]

yohoho

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

​​​@@gilgameshthetreasurehunter2750YO HO HO HO! We'll all make a mighty fine... *skeleton crew!* YO HO HO HO HO HOOOOO!

[@Verezen]

how do you pirate it?

[@Himiko89723]

I don’t care that the guys black. I care about how damn expensive the game is.

[@sakkoyaba4482]

U should actually cause blackwashing is creating hate against black peep who don't even wanna be a part of it

[@seanmalloy0528]

Go for the standard edition then

[@Jetstreamsamsbiggestglazer]

​@@seanmalloy0528 THATS STILL 70 QUID

[@seanmalloy0528]

@@Jetstreamsamsbiggestglazer check for sales

[@CruiserDynasty]

If you want a good game then you should pay full price. Its like people spend 60$ then complain when the game is only half as good as it could be. Yes the games have been pretty average lately, but the only defence ill give them is since the ps4 games have been more expensive to make while also being cheaper to sell.honestly tho if they make another game like brotherhood it'll sell like crazy. Who wouldent want to command 100 assassin's and fight hords of bad guys or be stealthy, its obvious that they know it works but they just dont want to commit to the idea

[@Jean-hb8jq]

The major problems with AC Shadows are as follows: 1. The protagonists of Assassin's Creed were always fictional, they didn't exist historically speaking, while the characters that did exist were always secondary characters that you help and/or who help you here and there. You see that with Marquis de Sade (I don't know if I wrote it right, the guy from Unity that helps Arno two/three times in the whole game), George Washington, Robespierre, Thomas Edson, Charles Darwin, Napoleon, so on and so forth. And now all of a sudden, they want to get a character who is historically real and put him as a main character. People would most likely not mind if Yasuke was a secondary character like the ones mentioned above. Maybe we could have a mission where we recue him after his master's defeat and then he joins the Creed. Explaining why there wasn't many information about what happened to him after his master was defeated. 2. The protagonists were always either natives from the region the games takes place, or were greatly related to that region in some way. Connor is a native american in America, Arno is a native french man in France, Bayek is an egyptian in Egypt, so on and so forth. People in Japan, who are getting upset over Yasuke, most likely wanted to see a japanese-looking protagonist. And if they wanted to make a male and female protagonist, the japanese would want both of them to physically resemble japanese people. Since it takes place in Japan. But no, you got one japanese-looking women and a not-japanese-looking man. Just imagine, waiting so much for a game that takes place in your home and the male protagonist doesn't even look japanese. Of course they are mad, I don't blame them. People wouldn't complain if Yasuke was instead a guy who had a japanese physical appearence. 3. The Sengoku Period (when the game takes place) was apparently extremely important for Japan and had other really important characters in that time. But instead, they go with a guy who some people aren't even 100% sure was even a samurai. And even then, he served for less than a year, in other words he was irrelevant in the greater picture. If they picked a historical character more important to the era, people most likely wouldn't mind that much. In other words: Yasuke shouldn't have been the male protagonist. It should have been someone who was fictional. And if you wanted a historical figure, grab someone who looks japanese and had more relevance in that extremely important historical period, you know, for the game taking place in Japan. Like I said previously, Yasuke would be fine as a secondary character, but not a protagonist. Because he doesn't look like a japanese, he wasn't relevant in that historical period and he is a historical figure (those shouldn't be MCs in AC). The reason they did this is most likely do signal "virtue" (even though there is nothing virtuous about this). To please the woke people who whine and complain about: how much they are against the "big scary R", even though their ideas that you should shove characters with a certain skin color as much as you can in every single place, even at the expense of other cultures, is extremely "big scary R". And don't even get me started on the japanese female being able to push a guy double her size with her noodle-looking arms. And taking down four (or more) samurais from the front. Even though they are all trained soldiers double her size, and she was supposed to focus more on stealth. The trailer should have portraid her seducing a target and then ending him, because apparently that's what kunoichis did. You would have an element of a historical ninja and someone of the Creed (since ninjas were more like: information gatherers and didn't really finish anyone off unless necessary). It would be cool to see her take some samurais down stealthly, but then she gets spotted, surrounded and then she whistles (or something like that) and her ally samurai shows up to defend her, since she is not good at open combat. And then she climbs a wall and starts using bow and arrow to help him, or something like that. And also, apparently people went on Wikipedia and tried to rewrite his relevance after the trailer was released. Which (if true) is disgusting. Do you understand why people are mad now?

[@captainnyan-nyan2005]

So... With the 'Modern' standard. They made Naoe. The female ninja look masculine.... I would bet. IGN, Ubisoft and these journalists would make naoe a transgender. They are already making yasuke and naoe bisexual in the game by having romance options

[@HerMi.T]

​@@captainnyan-nyan2005 romance options always work like that in rpg where you have multiple options to date anyone you want. It is not deep and I don't think it is wrong to make them like that in a fictional story. Also what is this trans logic. I don't see modern shows with trans characters. Trans character is probably the most uncommon character in the media. Also they didn't make them trans in the first place. What is this weird attack on trans people? What if they have a fictional character who is trans and japanese? Would that be fine?

[@HerMi.T]

Oh god, no. The problem is the character doesn't look like Japanese for japanese people. That's all. Why can't they use a historical figure with very little information and construct their own character through those interpretations? It is a very common thing known as historical fiction. Assassin creed is always a historical fiction not a fully fictional story. It's a whole schtick is the history which is hidden from you. Why can't it use historical characters and bend them to create their own version of character? That's what they already did multiple times. Something like where they can take yasuke and create their own version of character like this version of yasuke is an actual samurai not just a retainer or this yasuke is actually born in Japan. That's called historical fiction. So your logic is pretty stupid and very restrictive for any media creators. Also about your female logic. This type of thing is common where a weaker character can flip a person with a proper technique. This type of troupe is common. Now this is a problem for you too.

[@Jean-hb8jq]

@@HerMi.T 1. Because all other protagonists of the main games were fictional, therefore, the two in Shadows should also be like this. Gives them even more creative freedom than a real historical person. 2. They CAN do it, as long as they do it the way they were already doing, making historical figures secondary characters that help you here and there, NOT as the protagonist. 3. According to the information available he most likely wasn't a samurai. It would make more sense to have him as a secondary character that you rescue and then joins the Creed. They don't just twist things as they wish, they justify history as we know. That thing that happened in Portugal, happened because Shay got the artifact. As far as public knowledge here and in their universe goes...that would be possible. However: they do those things in the shadows. The historical figures only do things that their history doesn't tell us when no one is watching. There is a difference between: Napoleon meeting Arno where both are alone in the room and then escaping without anyone seeing. and: Yasuke going after the guys from the front, being exposed in the way he is. Yeah, there is historical fiction, but that's not how they have always been doing it. 4. Restrictive you say? Ok, why not go further? Why not give a magical wand to Musashi Miyamoto and allow him do walk around in the open casting spells? That's right, because it's not consistent with the premise they always had brought in all those games. There is a thing called internal consistency: A piece of fiction must follow the rules established internally by it. If the rules are: "This is basically our world, but we tell the story of what happened in the shadows, this way it remains consistent with what we know about history in our world." Then you can't have a real life human being going in the open to do this thing. Specially when you take into consideration that his height and different appearence CALLS A LOT OF ATTENTION AND WOULD CHANGE HISTORY AS WE KNOW IT IF HE WENT AROUND DOING THE STUFF HE IS GOING TO DO IN THE GAME, RIGHT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE!!! 5. Just because it's common, doesn't mean it's good and it doesn't mean that it can't receive scrutiny. Again: AC world is OUR world. The way physics work should be the same. The only "mystical" elements are actually just highly advanced technology. She most likely doesn't have that, which means that: she shouldn't be able to do it. Not only that, but the problem is not that she managed to push/defeat the guys. The problem is her APPROACH. You talk about technique, but she just used physical strength, not stealth and dexterity; at least not in the moments I talked about.

[@Anonymous-vr6ph]

Stop whining dude. It’s a game and they have never been historically accurate. And saying it’s not like the other games in certain aspects makes it seem like making changes to your formula is inherently bad. Oh no you play an actual historic character (with a little creative liberty) unlike in the other games where you only help/ do whatever with them. These games have had time travel bro. Just be honest and say you are racist, homophobic, sexist and transphobic. I like about Fox News that they at least are honest in their bigotry. But cloaking your bigotry under the guise of historical accuracy and outrage from Japanese people???

[@jojo0169]

My man is spitting facts here. Ubisoft better make a coneback with this game

[@chrisdiokno5600]

Nice to see your take on this. Speaking of, Yasuke is one of the MCs of the game. A LOT of people have been debating whether or not he was a Samurai, or even real, etc etc, and its just a bit tiring.

[@joeramsay6269]

Imo if he says Yasuke was a samurai then yasuke was a samurai 🤷‍♂️

[@chrisdiokno5600]

@@joeramsay6269 Even quite a few Japanese KZbinrs, people I know, and some Japanese historians have said there's SOME evidence pointing to him being samurai

[@chibipotate]

​​@@chrisdiokno5600 The problem is the most wide branching estimate makes him one for like a week before losing that status and fading from the histotical record, So having him represent the samurai in their entirety, Who was only one for like a week, And whos entire reason for being a retainer was the fact he was special and unique by not being like samurai or anyone japanese, **Is** weird... Especially with their shinobi gaslighting stuff, Saying its two completely different lifestyles... When its not, Only samurai could afford to be shinobi, And also... Having half their trailer be about Oda... Attacking Shinobi? The guy who was apart of the faction of clans that practically turned every major shinobi family against their clans... Ubis just weird and incompetent, Especially with having him not be the assassin when hes literally from the continent where assassins originated and moved to japan at a point in time when they had the nost foreign powers trying to influence them

[@chrisdiokno5600]

@@chibipotate Um, the Assassins originated technically in the Middle East. Also ninja only rarely did assassinations. Also not all shinobi were samurai. Theres a reason most of their weapons are repurposed farm tools. Also Oda was in talks of an Alliance witj the Brotherhood, before an Assassin killed him

[@chibipotate]

@@chrisdiokno5600 In Ubisofts new Lore the Assassins originate in Egypt... Which is on the same Continent as the most commonly believed birthplace of Yasuke, Additionally the reason why many farm tools are found in their references to equipment IS BECAUSE CARRYING AROUND A THOUSAND SWORDS IS BLOODY SUSPICIOUS, This is true in any Stealthy Job Role in all of history, You dont commission super obvious, super unique, super suspicious special spy tools, You grab stuff thats easy to explain and easy to find alternative uses for. You dont need a sword to kill a enemy lord, Just something sharp to their throat while they sleep, You dont need a elaborate alchemy set to poison some grain, Just a bag of rats to throw in with it, You dont need a special explosive to blow up a gate, Just something to burn it with like pitch. The idea of Peasant Shinobi is frankly ridiculous, A Population paid in rice and spent every day Farming, Hunting or Fishing, and any deviation from that being killed or being recruited as ashigaru to go fight, Do not have the Funds to do any of this. Shinobi required specialty schools, specialty mentors, specialty after specialty, Which is not cheap and requires a long time to learn how to make work, let alone the experience to teach it, Generations of farmers cant do that, Generations of Warriors who have already done this type of sabotage and destruction and jobs, But now can just do it from behind enemy lines? Thats something they could very much afford and did. Just look at Odas bloodbrothers clan, Half of its achievements was only possible because of how many Samurai Families who specialised in Espionage thus becoming Shinobi.

[@blacksheep6415]

It’s Ubisoft tradition to drop a cinematic trailer to build hype for the games and they are always well made so I don’t have a complaint. They usually don’t tell you too much about gameplay but this one actually shows you a lot of what you would have access to in the game. For example the pivot style hidden blade making a return and shurikens being the new throwable instead of knives and a grappling hook.

[@edmardisla8492]

130.

[@Leonidas1]

The dislike ratio is because people don't like that Yasuke is one of the MC instead of one of the NPC's. People wanted to play two Japanese characters

[@Leonidas1]

And Ubisoft is calling Yasuke as Legendary Samurai when he was just Nobunaga's Retainer so there's that

[@Dctctx]

It’s because it’s Ubisoft. Has nothing to do with his race

[@Leonidas1]

@@Dctctx Japanese players expressed they wanted to play as a japanese man and the other half are excited to play as Yasuke but either way, game's gonna flop cuz it's Ubisoft

[@BobTheReaper]

​@@Leonidas1they also made George Washington a world conquering Templar. Them Yauske a Samurai cannot be any much of a leap like let's be real

[@CosmicGameMaster]

@@Leonidas1 fam we dont know if he was or wasnt

[@The-KS]

i was replaying one of the old games and the puppeteer system was just a fantastic, and exiting story wise and gameplay wise. Its was a time wen ubi actually had good writers and ideas.

[@Welshman336]

Dang i got AC: Valhalla for my ps5 recently because it was on sale. Will I regret it?

[@tanaykothapalli9870]

Yeah Probably

[@blessedwolfNotAFurry]

depends. it was definitely overhyped but i still enjoyed it.

[@LordStarkillerII]

I had fun playing it but it's definitely not a great game, imo good but not great.

[@JKBlackClover]

I really enjoyed my time with it but I still haven’t beaten it. And I got it the day it came out. 😂

[@raiden9468]

For how much?

[@CICellDirectorCairmann]

my problem is that out of literally hundreds of influential and historically signifigant japanese people they chose a dude who wasnt even a samurai and was more so treated as a party gimmick by nobunaga yes the dude was given a katana and a suit of armor but theres no record of him ever using it and no record of him ever going into battle yasuke is literally the worst person they could have used as a character

[@raiderking7310]

I mean to say he is the worst is a bit too much. Sure you may say he didnt go throught battles which dosent make to why he has battle armour, but rven by japanese now and back then, yasuke was considered a legend even with obanaga, in fact historical records describe people rushing to know who he is even noba, the most fearsome tyrant, saw yasuka as a friend and def did not treat him as a slave

[@JoeBuchanan1346]

A. He was a samurai and B. He’s a unique experience in the world of Japan during the Sengoku Jidai

[@koalatysleep]

@@raiderking7310 Considering how many historically figures/shinobi they could have used lets not pretend Ubisoft wokenesshad no part in it aye?

[@JustaDislikeButton]

He has been in many stories and games before now (including games made in Japan), where his character was not accurate at all to his real person. This game is just doing the same thing.

[@ikhlasulamal8067]

​@@JustaDislikeButtonThat's because most of them from film/anime that are fiction and in samurai warriors yasuke is just side characters. Ac is fiction. But every other ac games we play as someone who native in that region. I am fine if yasuke is a playable mc in dlc or an npc. Why do they suddenly make real historical figures as one of the mc. I know why because he's black. I am fine if it was a real japanese samurai but they decided yasuke who's not samurai(there's no documents that says he is samurai) and achieved NOTHING in his entire life. He has 1 battle and he lost. And his life not even worth of killing instead he get sold back to jesuit.

[@lordreptilestormblade1749]

Out of curiosity I looked it up, and, yes, the Kunoichi (female ninja) is the main protagonist. Yasuke might be an optional one unless they canonize him to somehow.

[@lordreptilestormblade1749]

Supposedly her name is Naoe.

[@vixvox7948]

cinematic trailers are more to bring awareness to the game and generate hype before releasing a gameplay trailer

[@luishernandezsoto]

Exactly I been thinking as well.

[@johnynoway9127]

you dont NEED cinematic trailers. Look at Hades 2. It had a gameplay trailer. Cinematic trailers are bs all of em. Dont represent the game and cherry pick some out of context scenes that look EPIC when in the game they are really tame. And side note Hades 1 had a cinematic trailer yes but coupled with gameplay. It wasnt just the cartoon and it actually showed you all the main characters in a concise way and what the plot is. This trailer shows you nothing at all except mc's fight style and some basic backstory gou can pull out of your arse in 3 seconds "Oh traumatic past boohoo" its so overdone its annoying at this point.

[@projectinfinity566]

the only reason they're releasing this trailer is because Ghost of Tsushima 2 has been revealed to exsist

[@AnvilPictures]

The cinematic trailers do tell you about the gameplay or at least elements that will be included from the trailer. Example being Valhalla having Evior duel welding weapons

[@MJBrozek-z9e]

Great content mythology guy. Keep the great content up

[@GMYSTERYICTNF]

Whys the video in 360p?

[@edmardisla8492]

Hasn't finished rendering most likely.

[@rpgislife]

I found it funny how they stated that they couldn't combine the playstyles of the samurai and the shinobi, when Ghost of Tsushima exists.

[@TypeORT]

So, they are right? GoT doesn't offer the Shinobi experience at all.

[@rpgislife]

@@TypeORT You can be stealthy, and that's what a Shinobi does, right?

[@asuraofwrath]

@@TypeORT except it kinda dose you can play both like a traditional samurai or a stealty shinobi with the ghost persona being basically just a straight up shinobi (you can sneak around and assanate targets you can use quite a few different posions not to mention the ghost armor is pretty damn close to what ninjas wore for armor at least in its lv 1 appearance i forget what its other levels look like you have smoke bombs and kunai which is actulla use how its supposed a quick distraction to open an opponent up to attack at close range although he still throws them) there probably way more info look up gajin goomba which ninja video on jin for more info

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

​@@TypeORTa shinobi isn't a Hollywood ninja în black and mask like you see în movies. Jim does act like a shinobi after The second arc, using dirty tactics and stealth.

[@TheMeta141]

whilst there is proof Yasuke was a real person there are no texts or proof that he was SAMURAI. he SERVED a Samurai but he himself was not Samurai. the reason everyone is pissed is multi fold. 1 Valhalla DEI with black and asian Vikings. 2. the actual Wiki page for Yasuke was altered right after this trailer dropped. 3. Ubisoft's price after telling gamers they don't own their games.

[@AbsoleteAim]

Being a Daimyo's retainer makes you samurai by default. I don't get the hate for that part. Everything else is warranted, though.

[@MinhNguyen-pk9qk]

​@AbsoleteAim Because out of all of the most famous japanese samurais during this time period, why this dude? Yes, he is a retainer, but there is no evidence of him actually fighting or participating in any battles. Yukimura Sanada is far more significant than Ysuke

[@AbsoleteAim]

@@MinhNguyen-pk9qk I agree with that also. I just don't understand some of the backlash. It probably should've just been an OC realistically.

[@MinhNguyen-pk9qk]

@@AbsoleteAim Because Ubisoft fucked up on this one.

[@eatinganemone89]

The Shincho Kochi is a document from one of Oda Nobunaga’s chroniclers. In that text, Yasuke is called a samurai several times, and it’s mentioned that he fought alongside Nobunaga’s son, Nobutada.

[@KingNazaru]

Originally this game was going to be about a Japanese monk named Yamauchi Taka. The main conflict would be about how Oda Nobunaga had a Japanese equivalent to Excalibur, giving him an unfair advantage. After Hattori Hanzo takes out Nobunaga, Taka would be trained into the Brotherhood. Taka would be tasked with retrieving the sword after Hanzo’s death. But Ubisoft changed it to be about Yasuke and that Japanese girl. Iirc, Yasuke was a retainer, not a samurai. Nobunaga was surprised that a black person could exist, and even tried washing him because he couldn’t believe someone could have black skin. He kept him out of novelty. Long story short, I’m fairly certain Ubisoft changed the story to be about Yasuke for woke points. Wouldn’t surprise me if Sweet Baby Inc was involved as well.

[@briansanders8122]

Apparently, they were.

[@dariusporter358]

Who gives a d*mn that Yasuke was a retainer. Da Vinci wasn’t a weapons dealer. Napoleon didn’t conquer France with a magical artifact. Ubisoft changes history all the time in these games. It wasn’t a problem then. Why is it a problem now.

[@KingNazaru]

@@briansanders8122 Where did you hear Sweet Baby Inc was involved?

[@KingNazaru]

@@dariusporter358 Because previously the intent was just entertainment. People know now these changes are being done to push a political agenda.

[@dariusporter358]

@@KingNazaru That doesn’t make any sense but if that’s the excuse you wanna go with, go with it. All I know is that y’all didn’t have a problem with it then but now that Yasuke is involved all of a sudden it’s this big issue. I wonder why.🙄🙄🙄

[@runningthemeta5570]

The game sounds fairly interesting to me. Because based on a video I saw you get to play as both Yasuke and Naoe. But the gameplay focus will be split between them. Yasuke will be more combat heavy and Naoe will be more stealth based.

[@zerotalent297]

Great idea to use Yasuke as one of the protags, great character, although never confirmed in history to have actually be samurai (which is just a soldier rank in jp army) he was a slave who became Nobunagas trusted retainer winning him over with his jokes. Because the history on him is vague it lends itself nicely to fantasy setting of AC. Lady ive no idea who she is, but its weird they didnt pick someone like Hattori Hanzo to be "ninja" main lead, and I agree she looks nothing like any depiction of ninjas nor those she act like one in cut scenes, she seems more like one of the assassins from the first 2 games.

[@pozytywnawibracja17]

Yasuke was a retainer, bushi at best, bodyguard, he may been given a weapon and armor by great Oda, but never used them, hell some records said he was given some land too, but reading many of these comments many people gloss major thing. YASUKE WAS IN JAPAN FOR 3 YEARS! First half of that time he was slave to jesuits and other half was Oda retainer until Oda's death in 1582. After that he return to jesuits, put on the ship and sailed to...... nobody knows.

[@phelopatirabdel-malak554]

History question. Was Yasuke actually a samurai? I’ve been looking it up and found 2 opposing answers. Some people say Yasuke was a retainer for Nobunaga, not a samurai; others believe he was which has left me confused.

[@Sssssss553]

Will already know about him before that drama start it like that: he wasn't samurai but something like fighter class oda give him wife and nice house and teach him language and fighting and he stayed loyal until to oda until oda died them went to oda son but he was too late so he left and no one knows what happened to him after that he still got honour rank and fought for oda

[@captainnyan-nyan2005]

15 months is unlikely to gain the title of Samurai. When Samurai are historically born into the class and trained their whole lives to become samurai. To any culture. There's always that path to become a man or woman in their respective culture. This isn't any different. When the trailer dropped. Wikipedia and other sites had been 'quietly', being revised to fit the narrative. In the Japanese version of the trailer. It was about 90% dislikes to like ratio. The Japanese people is not happy about not able to play Japanese main characters in a setting set in old Japan. The kunoichi is being ignored because she is Japanese. The spotlight and eyes are on Yasuke.

[@redrob3140]

Now look up what a retainer is

[@ak-nt2tr]

​@@redrob3140a retainer, or Kosho in the first hand account is like a squire.

[@joeramsay6269]

When the guy who’s entire schtick is mythology and history says that Yasuke is a samurai, I’m gonna believe him over anyone else

[@ReOnion]

have you checked the pre-order price/editions ? its on their site and its rather ... big

[@mikehoffler4097]

My mother is Japanese, my father white. My mother's grandfather had ancestral swords, which were returned to Japan from Hawaii after he died. There is still a marker which her brothers sent pictures of, with the family mon (crest) in black and gold marble. I look more white than anything, I'm American, but this is nevertheless part of my heritage. It's annoying to see any culture marketed and sold. If they were to one day make an AC game following Mansa Musa's entourage from Mali to Egypt, I would expect the protagonist to be African and would readily play, learning lore and history stemming from that culture. I hear the term cultural appropriation thrown around a lot, and this seems a clear example.

[@mathewwilliams6801]

What are your thoughts on Nioh

[@emmarod8746]

Yasuke was a person who actually existed in Japan so idk how this is culturally appropriation.

[@mikehoffler4097]

@@emmarod8746 I know exactly who Yasuke was, and did so well before this game. It's set in Japan, in the sengoku jidai, and should feature people of that culture most prominently. It's being primarily sold and marketed...to who? Perhaps I wasn't clear enough: of all the samurai who existed throughout history, to select the one that may reflect possible customers isn't meant for anything but the pursuit of money. This is *not* about black, yellow, brown, or white skin color. This is about green...backs.

[@mikehoffler4097]

@@mathewwilliams6801 Ah, I suppose that's a gotcha. I didn't even know that existed until you mentioned. But if you want to know, just read my previous answer. Or go with your assumptions, since I said something that courted controversy

[@mathewwilliams6801]

@@mikehoffler4097 Not trying to get ya I was curious if your sentiments applied to Nioh Cuz that game didnt get the backlash this one is

[@DanielQualls-7777]

Im glad to see hes not mad about Yasuke the Black Samurai being in the game like some of the lefties are, since he WAS a historical figure, and honestly, we havent had a black Assassin since Bayek in AC Origins, which, IN MY OPINION, was the best AC game.

[@QuicklyFreeze]

bayek is north African

[@joshuafrimpong244]

​@@QuicklyFreezehe was voiced by a black man, interestingly

[@joshuafrimpong244]

​@@QuicklyFreezealso he is nubian

[@oscarshedwick4862]

I've not seen any leftists get mad at this xD Like I've only seen right wingers get really mad at Yasuke and I wonder why they don't want to play him or try to discredit him as a samurai

[@vinroycrossman-walker6465]

@@oscarshedwick4862 Cause he wasn't one historically? Not to mention this is a setting in Japan.

[@Echo5197]

People need to grow up and quit disliking other people's videos because others make a video about a game I'm adding a like just because for his content not for the game he's viewing.

[@thisguy1141]

The discourse around this game, is part the fact that the priceing is absurd and also around the historical inaccuracies around Yasuke himself. Since he was never really a "Samurai" and never really saw any battles himself. I'd rather them make an OC of a black samurai than, romanticizing a historical figure that was very underwhelming to say the least into this battle-hardend warrior. (and not too mention the amount of edits Yasuke's wiki got since this trailer dropped, we talking like 50 edits a min.) (so any actual historical data around him can only be trusted if you got an archived version before this trailer had dropped)

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

Wait, is it 50 edits on Assassins Creed wiki, or on Wikipedia itself?

[@laap007l8]

​@@addison_v_ertisement1678 The main wiki page of yasuke. People are trying to revision history to turn the dude into a proper samurai which he wasn't confirmed to be. It was a whole war going down there. Its locked now.

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

@@laap007l8 In the great words of Joseph Joestar, "Holy shit!" That is even worse then the Femstodes.

[@laap007l8]

@@addison_v_ertisement1678 oh believe me, the situation is absolute mess and even the Japanese people don't like this at all. Anyone with a brain knows why they did this and broke their rule of not using historical figures as MC just for this. Ubisoft stocks even crashed by 15% of something from what I have heard.

[@deer3481]

Damn which assassin's creed is historical 💀

[@JKBlackClover]

I won’t get my hopes up too high but I am looking forward to this. Also I agree I hate cinematic trailers. They’re pointless. Maybe they’re cool to hype up the game a few days before release but as a reveal trailer? Naw.

[@briansanders8122]

Let's not pretend that they added a black protagonist for the right reasons.

[@koalatysleep]

I think that was half the problem my guy. Ubisoft had good trailers even if their games flopped most of the time. I personally think their music for the trailer was their weakest yet. Kind of easy to why fans are mad, too many reasons to list why, 0 game play with some outrageous pricing.

[@jmalfonso7]

To be honest, I used to fall in love with the Assassin's Creed Lore up until AC# with Connor Kenway. It was my least interesting game in terms of story telling, because I was hoping both the British and the Founding Fathers of America like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin would be the Templars or antagonists against the Assassin Order.

[@AbsoleteAim]

You completely missed what AC3 tried to portray if that's the case. George and the colonists weren't exactly seen as the "good guys" from Connor's view after helping them. His character development is underrated and arguably should've been fleshed out in another game. Also, was the Haytham turn not good? Literally, nobody, when they first played, expected it.

[@OMG_TheRealZeus]

11:46 pay 100 plus dollars and you get 5 skill points btw

[@blakewalker94]

One of the main reasons for the backlash is because of their statement that this game is historically accurate enough that you CAN LEARN JAPANESE HISTORY by playing the game and then the trialer goes on to show that Ubisoft is blatantly inaccurately showing Japanese culture. They have Chinese architecture, there's some instances of family crests being upside down (which is akin and as appalling as having the Cross upside down to anyone that has faith in God), and there's so much more. I don't think I even need to mention the whole shitstorm unfolding with Yasuke as well.

[@PureMaddnessOne]

Metatron did a great vid aboot yasuke with a nuanced take, looking through text back than in their historical context. BTW how we see Samurai these days wasn't 100% same as back when. FWY Metatron have done a few vids on myth stuff like Gilgamesh, a collab between Mythology guy and Metatron would be fun. Still found it interesting that Japan hated the trailer, they r even mocking the ppl heavily defending the game. I doubt it, but it could be that they wanted a stealth character and blund force type character.

[@BloodSlinga]

I'm feeling very comfortable not owning Ubisoft games... Cuz I'm not buying any Ubisoft games.

[@brawler554]

I rember that in the live chat in the world primer the people were chanting black samurai

[@MatPgame67]

Here's a fact about Assassin's Creed Mythology guy, the first assassin's Creed in asian territory was Assassin's Creed Chronicles China, where we follow the life of Ayano or whoever the assasin was called (there's so many in the saga is hard to remember all of em) that had to kill some Chinese templars called Tiger Legion to get revenge and Ezio's Box (which had the Apple of Eden) Also THANKS you get it man, you get that people got mad because of Yasuke

[@starkiller1440]

If AC Japanese samurai main is a common occurrence, then there wouldn't be as much complaints.

[@JustaDislikeButton]

The part I care about are the main characters writing. I don't care that one is black. I don't care if Yasuke was never actually a Samurai, this game is all about them changing history anyway. At the very least one of the main characters being Yasuke helps separate it from other games set in Japan.

[@dauntlesstark9850]

Isn't just me... or is the max resolution 360p? Why?

[@luishernandezsoto]

You're not the only one.

[@caetanoverdeselva4400]

I like odissey and im proud, also i love two things Greece and japan so i have hie hopes

[@kamazuki2us]

OKAY JUST IN CASE YOU GOT TO KNOW THE NAMES THE SAMURAIS NAME IS YASUKE DOES THE NAME OF THE SAMURAI/THE NAME OF THE FEMALE ASSASSIN IS NAOE THAT IS THE NAME OF THE FEMALE ASSASSIN

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

Next time, turn your caps lock off.

[@joeramsay6269]

Why are you yelling 🤨

[@LordStarkillerII]

I really hope this game is good cause it's a cool concept and some of the mechanics they talk about seems cool but I don't expect it to be good sadly.

[@wakkablockablaw6025]

Definitely part of the problem is the protagonist. No one has faith that Ubisoft chose Yasuke because they believe he can tell a better Japanese story than any other historical Japanese figure from that time period. It's just more pandering to the 'modern audience'. Not gamers. Also, I heard Sweet Baby Inc. might be involved so that is reason enough to boycott.

[@billsx8851]

Can’t boycott cause I’m buying🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

[@wakkablockablaw6025]

@@billsx8851 Whatever boot-licker.

[@wakkablockablaw6025]

@@billsx8851 Whatever boot licker

[@wakkablockablaw6025]

@@billsx8851 Whatever. Tell someone else about your bootlicking fetish

[@wakkablockablaw6025]

@@billsx8851 Whatever bewt-licker

[@harryharper5358]

Can't wait for u to play the early access of Hades 2

[@TheMythologyGuy1]

I’ll play the game when it’s finished

[@darkwoods97]

It is said that Yasuke stood way taller than the people back then so he'd make a shitty assassin. "A giant black dude killed someone, where did he go?"

[@onzasyne]

Maybe one day we’ll get Assassin’s Creed Babylon

[@VonOutlaw]

Why is your video only standard resolution and not HD, it's only doing 360 p so everything looks pixelated.

[@SchizoDoll]

I will get the game for sure. But when it gets cheaper

[@BlackOpMercyGaming]

I loved Assassin’s Creed so much that I’ve got the symbol tattooed on my spine…. Ubisoft is so awful that I stopped playing them after AC3. Ubisoft IS Satan

[@Sin_Shadow_Fox]

It is important to note that despite popular myth and modern depictions there are no historical writings nor evidence that Yasuke was ever granted the rank or title of samurai, he was never given a fief nor referred to as one in any writings. Most of our knowledge of his life comes from messages written by missionaries and locals.

[@순양경]

i love the take you took on this; but also I disagree with the thought on Ubisoft's cinematic trailers, that's primarily what's so unique to Ubisoft and despite their games lacking the kind of spark they might've had back with AC 1-3 up until probably Unity, i'd love if they actually made both a cinematic and gameplay trailers, because personally, I wished Odyssey had their own cinematic trailer too, it could've had a lot of potential. Overall, it is a game, and would've definitely pre-ordered if there was a gameplay trailer to be amused by.

[@BobTheReaper]

God man all this discourse for a game thats probably gonna be mid asf. Yasuke looks sick asf i love his design but this game probably is finna be crap seeing as theres a 130 DOLLAR EDITION! Plz nobody preorder

[@emmarod8746]

I hope its good for all this crazy discourse it’s causing for having a woman shinobi and a black samurai as the main characters!

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

​@@emmarod8746We both know that's not the actual reason.

[@65firered]

​@@addison_v_ertisement1678Well, the Japanese audience has completely turned against this game, which isn't exactly a great sign.

[@emmarod8746]

@@addison_v_ertisement1678 The pricing for the deluxe editions are crazy and pretty much everyone agrees on that, so I’m not sure what else the discourse could be about other then the main characters.

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

@@65firered Probably because they know the history better than anyone else.

[@prabhanjantelang509]

why only 360p??

[@TheMythologyGuy1]

Idk honestly. The video quality was way better on my pc before I uploaded it. KZbin is weird sometimes

[@SaneAcorn2389]

If you want a video about some fun not about accuracy just fun pirate games there is one by stellar jay about the topic in general and he names the games

[@moonbeam9142]

the cartoon series Class of the Titans would be awesome for a review

[@PriscillaLang-ps5uw]

Have you ever decided to do an inaccuracy video on Lore Olympus?

[@LoganCarswell]

At least we’re getting doom Dark ages

[@polterghost_]

Odyssey is the best AC since Black Flag

[@Darth_Moraband]

To be fair, if they didn't do a cinematic trailer first, many people would immediately dismiss the game as a cheap, low-effort spin-off they're rushing out half-finished. Cinematic trailers are a tradition in this series, so people expect them. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Many people will complain either way, so why not just do the cinematic trailer? At least that way the people who are actually going to consider buying the game instead of just mocking it or getting outraged over nothing (Seriously, why is anyone surprised anymore that the series which turned some random French silversmith into an evil Templar mastermind takes some creative liberties with history?) will be more excited. And so we're clear, I don't blame people for mocking or being pessimistic about Ubisoft games. After the spectacle that was Skull and Bones, the world's first "quadruple A" game, it makes sense to doubt them, and they deserve to be clowned on. Still, most of the people ranting so furiously about this trailer and the characters likely wouldn't buy the game regardless, so there's no point in Ubisoft catering to them. Personally, I'm somewhat hopeful for this game, seeing as it is being made by the same people who made Syndicate, my third favorite in the series, but I'm certainly not pre-ordering it after experiencing the transcendantly mediocre disappointment that was AC Mirage. And seeing as I don't have a PS5, I'll probably have to wait for the PC version to get patched months after release, so I'll have plenty of time to decide.

[@nightengalenorth6881]

Naw, there's definitely people out there that are not happy with this game trailer that would have bought the game if it looked like it had been made in good faith. I'm one of them.

[@itsmilz7743]

How do you check the amount of dislikes?

[@thelittleal1212]

at first thought they are gonna make yasuke a villain, which I wouldn’t say I was disappointed that they didn’t, but I thought it would be interesting, since Yasuke is quite a popular character, so it would be an interesting take, even if people be mad about making a black person an antagonist

[@Donovarkhallum]

Nah shits pandering

[@seanmalloy0528]

Some sources say that Yasuke was more a retainer than samurai. What would you think of Assassin's Creed during WWI, WWII, or during The Cold War. If Metatron looks like Alan Rickman, I am so outta here.

[@azraelwolfsblood2902]

It’s pronounced Yah-skay, not yeahsooke

[@yankan3109]

Can you please talk about journey to the west and how powerful sun wukong is

[@BradLad56]

I think he might do that when Black Myth comes out.

[@Run1tBackTV]

Ubisoft is more cancerous than Bloodbourne Cinematic trailers are not bad the purpose is to get casuals and newbies intrested into meeting the characters or checking out the gameplay trailer. alot these games would be so good without the Assassin's Creed ip but everytime the slap on the ip it feels lazy and your doing it for the cash grab

[@171QA]

Great reaction.

[@briansanders8122]

If Ubisoft had added William Adams to this game, even as just an NPC, these Yasuke worshippers would be rioting in the streets.

[@deirakos]

"there were black samurai" please show your sources on that. As other comments have said, yasuke is never credited to have been a samurai (even though wikipedia changed his article)

[@Dinosaursrecycle]

African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan this is one book That I have read that said that nobunaga made him a samurai

[@deirakos]

@@Dinosaursrecycle does the book provide historical sources? If so, which source says that he became a Samurai? Also note that I am "complaining" about the plural use of black samurai in the video.

[@Dinosaursrecycle]

@@deirakos It was a book I borrowed from a library and it has been some time so I unfortunately can't remember the sources and I can't check. I am curious how we are defining samurai. I would describe one as a warrior in the employ of a lord. I could also after a bit of quick googleing find "The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga" a book written by a follower of nobunaga from 1610 that mentions Yasuke as being in the employ of Nobunaga as a member of his army. and about plural use, I agree that it would be a slight overreach to claim there were multiple when we only know of one.

[@deniswais6912]

@@deirakos The original wikipedia article on Yasuke said he was a samurai and it has been recently changed about 50 times by people brigading his wiki page. Japan wiki says he's a samurai as well.

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

@Dinosaursrecycle You know, cultures actually have definitions to words, in case you didn't know.

[@FinleyWarden-fy7bc]

I love your content! Keep up the great work! Still asking for a magnus chase book review

[@DanTheMan-ck4vh]

There is an actual SHOP and SEASON PASS you know in a SINGLE PLAYER GAME THAT COST FROM 70 to A HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLARS

[@johnynoway9127]

you are so insensitive. The devs worked so hard on this game. They couldnt rest,eat,sleep,take a sht just so you can play this game. How DARE you question the price tag of the game when you dont know what its like to build a huge sprawling world with 10 leap of faiths to uncover a map and useless collectables that only give you a cosmetic for accompliahing such a brave act. And how DARE YOU QUESTION THE SHOP!? Its like tipping at a restaurant. We got to pay our staff somehow.

[@DanTheMan-ck4vh]

@@johnynoway9127 im not blaming the devs im blaming the suits behind the devs tha overwork them dont give them enough time and resources to actually finish a game and assign it a high price tag and make them add a season shop and battle pass to an already expensive game (also i cant tell if this is satire not trying to be confrontational)

[@johnynoway9127]

@@DanTheMan-ck4vh man... i tried being sarcastic....

[@DanTheMan-ck4vh]

@@johnynoway9127 yeah it was kinda funny just hard to distinguish

[@captainnyan-nyan2005]

​@@DanTheMan-ck4vh yeah. I fell for it as well. Hard to distinguish tone when looking at a bunch of letters and words

[@HansNathanielCebel]

Yasuke is cool The historical figure and “probably” the game character why do people hate to see a black samurai ?

[@vexxtreme]

Because the long awaited ac Japanese game isn't your traditional character it's a niche move they pulled over one guy

[@MrBlonde19]

Forget about that sht, just focus on GOW norse saga inaccuracies

[@kieranstander921]

Honestly,I love the cinematic trailers. I was pretty sad when odyssey didn't have one.

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

Meh

[@slasher1563]

On one hand people are way too hard on what ubisoft actually does, like literal over dramatic tantrums HOWEVER I think it works out because if people weren't over dramatic they might actually try it lol

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

No, they are not overdramatic.

[@slasher1563]

@@addison_v_ertisement1678 Great comment

[@barnabystg5289]

I fw you heavy vro, so glad you’re not one those stupid bigots losing their minds over this game

[@Cryptic141]

not hearing "Get over here" in the trailer is a missed opportunity imo lol

[@OMG_TheRealZeus]

He was never a samurai can't become one in 3 years ridiculous ignorance these days

[@luishernandezsoto]

5:00 A bunch of people actually cared for Assassin's Creed Cinematic Trailers; you'll be surprised about it.

[@kareemdavis4068]

Ubisoft doing Cinematic trailers is one thing but for games in general I love them. Like with Spider-Man 2 the Cinematic trailer was hype af!

[@goopmallow3960]

They made the spiderman 2 trailer?

[@kareemdavis4068]

@@goopmallow3960 no I don't think they did but that's not what I was saying. I was saying U isoft doing cinematic trailers and over hyping is one thing. But Cinematic trailers as a whole are cool. For example Spider-Man 2 which I'm assuming was made by Insomniac

[@goopmallow3960]

@@kareemdavis4068 oh ok, I get what you were saying now.

[@blessedwolfNotAFurry]

i plan to get ac hexe

[@tanaykothapalli9870]

Same it just seems more interesting

[@joeramsay6269]

I plan to get both 🤷‍♂️

[@Zaynyak51]

If you want to play a really good pirate game just play sea of thieves

[@Redhood889]

Hey

[@AkutagawaSan]

Yasuke was not a samurai. That term is something that was used later on. He was koshou, a retainer. Also watch japanese video and see the reactions.

[@VonOutlaw]

Just so you know that particular character was actually never a samurai he served one, he was front to parties to dance and to entertain and he would serve his Samurai master. And if you go to the video for the Japanese trailer of it you can read all their comments on how they even State the same as well as how they strongly disagree with the fact that they have to play as that character and not a Japanese man.

[@ahmadmunir170]

People gonna be staunch defenders of "Yasuke was a Samurai" or "Cleopatra was black". Wasting your breath,mate. Nobody listens to facts no more.

[@nightengalenorth6881]

@@ahmadmunir170 There are a few who do. Unfortunately, we tend to be called ista-phobic bigots when we express our opinions. Though it does seems like the quiet protestors may be starting to come around a bit to being more vocal, but that's just from what I've seen around and may be more a reflection of the YT content I consume

[@deniswais6912]

He was a samurai and he not only fought in 3 battles (the last one he got captured), he was trusted and loyal retainer to Nobugana. I dont know where you got that he only "danced" and "entertained" people like he was some sort of jester. Lastly, I wouldn't trust the Ubisoft Japan video considering anyone can downvote and make accounts pretending to be Japanese. Japanese twitter literally did not care about Yaskue being the main character, and some popular Japan tweets even mocked Westerners for making this a controversy.

[@VonOutlaw]

He never fought in any battles he carried the stuff for a samurai he never fought all documentation States otherwise. So much so that the side that saying that he was a samurai went after Wikipedia to have it removed where it says that he was never a samurai. There was such a fight on them trying to change the history that they had to lock the page so people couldn't keep changing it. When actual historians State the opposite of what you're stating. On top of that the hypocrisy where I thought it was extremely racist for us to redo Resident Evil 5 because it's a white man taking out a virus that happens to have taken hosts of African descent. And you have to fight your way out to survive by stopping the virus. Yet with AC Shadows having a black man take out Japanese people is not interesting. And there's no virus with the Japanese people very interesting

[@VonOutlaw]

​@deniswais6912 on top of the second message that I sent out a lot of the architectural designs are of Chinese, not Japanese so the supposed historian that they had couldn't even get the architecture correct

[@geniusgamerr4517]

Hey mythology guy I respect you but maybe you should double check your facts on Yasuke now that Thomas Lockleys novel is full of fabricate lies, and he was one of the few that changed the Wikipedia page.

[@Ssrijon]

wth is this 360p shit

[@dededenova4098]

a thang :c

[@Notaripoffbruh]

Wow I’m earkyy

[@polterghost_]

The real problem with this is that nobody wants to play as a black guy in Feudal Japan. Everything else is secondary.

[@AbsoleteAim]

No, it's the pricing first, Ubisoft being Ubisoft 2nd.

[@polterghost_]

@@AbsoleteAim I dont give the fuck about the price if the game is not worth buying in the first place.

[@AbsoleteAim]

@@polterghost_ So... you're agreeing with me, you alright?

[@polterghost_]

@@AbsoleteAim No, pricing is not first.

[@AbsoleteAim]

@@polterghost_ Pricing is still an Ubisoft issue. They're pretty much interchangeable.

[@azraelwolfsblood2902]

Even if he wasn’t a real person in history, who gives a fuck what the samurai’s skin color is in a game about the church versus assassins fighting over magic fruit or whatever the fuck the games are about nowadays

[@vexxtreme]

Immersion

[@captainnyan-nyan2005]

You most likely don't even play videogames. So stfu about things you don't know

[@elvisbesho5649]

A woman and a black guy. Hmm..