Assassin's Creed Shadows - Who Are Naoe and Yasuke?

Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes place in 16th century Japan during the Azuchi-Momoyama era. Players will play as two distinct characters, a Japanese shinobi, Naoe, and - in a series first - a real-life historical samurai, Yasuke.
Game Director Charles Benoit and Associate Narrative Director Brooke Davies dive deep into who these characters are, how they differ from a gameplay and narrative perspective, and why they were the perfect fit for Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
In Assassin’s Creed Shadows, you will live the intertwined stories of Naoe, an adept shinobi Assassin from Iga Province, and Yasuke, the powerful African samurai of historical legend. Against the backdrop of the turbulent late Sengoku period, this remarkable duo will discover their common destiny as they usher in a new era for Japan.
From chaos to purpose, from darkness to light. A new Creed rises over Japan.

[@BitmapAxis]

Why can’t I play Japanese man in a game that happens in Japan?

[@matsta177]

Ubisoft Japan comments are worth a read, they are trashing this game. They find it discriminatory and racist AF what wokeasoft just did to them

[@ryanbaker5296]

Yasuke was a real person, he did exist, he was of African descent and he was put into the service of Oda Nobunaga. This is fact, and is not disputed. What is disputed are all the revisionist stories of Yasuke as a great warrior, as having been awarded Samurai status, and earning respect of the Japanese people and other Damiyo that he encountered in the service of the Oda... this is not fact

[@ghosthdizzle2846]

Finally, someone who gets it.

[@WolfMoon173]

In the end it doesn’t matter, it’s a game inspired by historical figures. They even said themselves they don’t have all the info, so let them put their own spin on Yasuke like they do with all their games.

[@ryanbaker5296]

@@ghosthdizzle2846 And look im fine if you want to go down this narrative in fiction that is absolutely fine but the amount of people who push this narrative as fact is honestly shocking

[@AntonioMannII]

When have these games ever been historically accurate? There have always been historical inaccuracies in all the games.

[@MasterBlade111]

Yes and no. Because there are far too little credible sources there have been a lot of inferences on exactly what his place was in Nobunagas service. In records he is described as a warrior, but never as a samurai. There is an argument to be made that because it was never stated he was a samurai, he wasn’t one. But at the same time he was a warrior housed and employed by the largest fudal lord during the sengoku era. Being so without being given the title of a samurai is rare. So 🤷🏻‍♂️ it really is up to historical debate

[@BilalMirza31656]

I won't pay for a ubisoft game after they stole my crew game. I might pirate it if it is a fun game. Probably will perform better too.

[@lagillas]

i never buy any software that is under government regulations it only works to persue taxation and fund a terrorist organization called government. i just buy certain kind of cryptocurrencies.

[@n.a.4292]

He wasn't a samurai, he was a "家臣団" (かしんだん: kashindan), servants of samurai or shogun. He became one among the many servants of Nobunaga, kept due to him being "exotic", nothing more. Edit: typos, English is not my first language

[@cj-fi4bo]

Ok? Assassin's Creed has never been 1 to 1 historically accurate lol

[@n.a.4292]

@@cj-fi4bo Can't wait too see what Japanese gamers think about their history...

[@OilFreeFeathers]

​@@cj-fi4boYou will never be a Kang.

[@Kornelius707]

​@@n.a.4292They probably think "oh no, the angry white gamers are going to be upset"

[@jelly.212]

​@@Kornelius707 We wuzzz

[@zurc_bot]

Why not Hattori Hanzo?

[@mniakan754]

Why not kawakami gensai? He was an actual assassin during the war in late Edo

[@joenappi8459]

Why not Yasuke the black samurai? You’re really self reporting here

[@McMintyMP]

​@@joenappi8459 because he wasn't a black samurai

[@sahabatbni5837]

​@@joenappi8459because he wasn't a samurai? hanzo is an actual assasin

[@joenappi8459]

@@McMintyMP oh you were there? what was his favorite color? since you knew him so well

[@yjiokhi4479]

"We cannot combine a samurai and a shinobi." Sucker Punch did. They put a samurai and shinoni into one character so well that it is one of Playstation's best exclusives

[@thetrasharoundmyplastic6342]

Sucker Punch wasn't making a game based on history either.

[@Krondon-SSR]

So you want them to just rip sucker punch off? Bet you would be real happy about it...

[@Jose-tv2pl]

bro those guys dont know nothing about Samurai or Shinobi they even started with the falacy saying a Samurai cant be a Shinobi, Shinobis are Samurai you even has the Shinobi families that are Samurai families who do Shinobi work , the only thing a Samurai can not be is a Thief because that would bring disgrace to his family, but a Shinobi someone who is basically a spy and a assassin for his daiymio everybody can be a Shinobi even a Samurai

[@thetrasharoundmyplastic6342]

@@Jose-tv2pl funny thing is you don't know that you don't know they're stating that because of the honor and philosophy which is why that cannot be. Which they're right. 😔 I can tell you that there's a difference in mindset and that was their point why don't you do some education before you come off like a know-it-all but don't know 💩

[@mirkoblaco812]

Not everything has to be like GoT, I love Ghost Of Tsushima, but let's not compare every game set in Japan to it.

[@Lancersilva]

“You can’t have be a shinobi and a samurai” Hatori Hanzo: *AHEM*

[@bugaj187]

Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with not getting my money.

[@Nube_Negrah]

Okay well I'll pay them for the both of us

[@plunemfg4509]

​​@@Nube_Negrah I hope you have enough money to pay them for me too lol

[@Nube_Negrah]

@@plunemfg4509 someone else does. You don't seem all that stacked

[@midnighteye2737]

Oh no! What will they do without your worthless money???! 🥲

[@MikeLitirous]

Ubisoft sure knows how to make a great Assassins Creed game….trailer!

[@Capsicum88]

Wait... I thought Yasuke was only a retainer, not a samurai.

[@dlastkatipunero2185]

He was never given a title or any recording of being a samurai by any scribe or military personnel but you know someone's grandma told em that they were black and samurai!!!!

[@shownon]

who wants to play a retainer the whole game bruh

[@lloydswaggedout]

A retainer refers to a vassal in feudal Japan, usually a samurai providing military services. In other words he was a samurai

[@Flowtactics]

There's are disputed stories of what he truly was. I think many agree that he was a weapons bearer and a bodyguard. And was a Samurai in everything but the title, and that he would achieved "actual" Samurai status if Oda didn't perish.

[@SonakaG]

Idk for sure, but what I DO know is that there's historical art of him with Samurai Armor, and there's a museum in Japan with a (wax?) figure of him inside in armor. For all I know tho, he could've been a retainer given armor and nothing more, but from what we do know, he fought in the final standoff for his lord at the castle and afterwards no one knows what happened to him/where he ended up. So idk, maybe they're placing the game's events being sometime after that? 🤷 Whatever it is, I'm excited to see what they do with him.

[@sassycaterpillar6631]

The last samurai, starring Michael B Jordan

[@The_RedVIII]

Is this really how you pronounce Yasuke's name? Isn't it more like "Yas-Kay", just like Sasuke is "Sas-Kay"?

[@spacedoge6540]

They're not exactly Japanese are they

[@PikachuPolice]

And they don't know japnese history as well.do they​@@spacedoge6540

[@HoV326]

It's been a while since I played an AC game. Are they no longer having original characters as leads anymore? I dropped out of the AC franchise a while back after Syndicate. So I'm mainly getting this because we've beek asking so long for one set in Japan and we're finally getting one.

[@cj-fi4bo]

Yasuke is the only protagonist that's an actual historical figure

[@TonyFontaine1988]

They didn't even choose a Japanese guy

[@bobthestinky7369]

I love how Ubisoft are saying they can't mix a shinobi and a samurai into one character because it wouldn't be accurate when we all know it's because Ghost of Tsushima did it first and far better than Ubisoft ever could.

[@a.i.privilege1233]

The sooner Ubisoft goes broke the better.

[@inkkid376]

I like people think its just yusake in the game like bro you play as a Japanese person too. Who's an actually assassin. Something most of us wanted back.

[@RazorNivekUltimate9000]

Missed opportunity

[@chancylvania]

You gonna qualify that statement?

[@JesusChristF0rever]

​@@chancylvania AC Japan was discussed around 8-10 years if not more, then SP released GOT and it's no sense to release this after their game

[@chancylvania]

@@JesusChristF0rever …I mean not really. They’re different games. We don’t even know how this will play yet. Does the fact that other companies have released great racing games mean that it makes no sense for any other company to release a racing game?

[@BitmapAxis]

I’ll tell you who they are - impostors!

[@Shiroya_Rumika]

Who's here that will only play Naoe 👇

[@nostalgicfanatic]

This better be good because I love anything to do with the samurai's

[@Double00Mk]

Me too

[@whatblick4764]

Yasuke isn't a samurai

[@Double00Mk]

@@whatblick4764 that’s true but he other for one as a retainer even if it was just to carry weapons a it’s not like he’d never been in battle

[@whatblick4764]

@@Double00Mk Any strong guy couldve have been a retainer Yasuke isnt even japanese we want to feel japanese culture playing a japanese game

[@leonli844]

​@@whatblick4764 what actual culture are you missing out on? He's still going to act and fight like a samurai, be in Feudal Japan, interact with the culture. And even if this wasn't the case, there's an entire other Japanese protagonist that you can play as if you wanted the 'culture' Regardless of what your opinion is on his inclusion, trying to justify it with 'I want to experience the culture' makes no sense

[@NewYorkNinja7]

So I wonder if we can only play as one, or we can switch between them Syndicate style

[@ReginaldSkulls]

You can play the whole game as one or switch between the two.

[@jacobdavis4905]

I never heard of yasuke before. I heard that he was a real life samurai but I never knew he was a real name.

[@XxDigitalDaftPunkxX]

You heard wrong, he was real but he wasn't a samurai. He was at best a servent.

[@teogonzalez7957]

@@XxDigitalDaftPunkxXhe was not a samurai but was a warrior

[@connorkirwon]

@@teogonzalez7957No, no he was not lol.

[@teogonzalez7957]

@@connorkirwon we know from first hand sources he was in the middle of battle when he surrendered, and from there he disappears from the record

[@arruhunahya7593]

@@teogonzalez7957 i don't know where you got that information, but there's no record of him going into the battle. In 1579, Yasuke arrived in Japan in the service of the Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, Visitor of Missions in the Indies, in India. Valignano had been appointed the Visitor (inspector) of the Jesuit missions in the Indies (which at that time meant East Africa, South, Southeast, and East Asia). Valignano's party spent the first two years of their stay in Japan, mainly in Kyushu. Entering 1581, Valignano decided to visit the capital as an envoy. He wanted to have an audience with Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful man in Japan, to ensure the Jesuits' missionary work before leaving Japan. These events are recorded in a 1581 letter of the Jesuit Luís Fróis to Lourenço Mexia, and in the 1582 Annual Report of the Jesuit Mission in Japan also by Fróis. These were published in Cartas que os padres e irmãos da Companhia de Jesus escreverão dos reynos de Japão e China II (1598), normally known simply as Cartas. On 27 March 1581, Valignano, together with Luís Fróis, who had arrived in Japan earlier, had an audience with Nobunaga, and Yasuke is said to have accompanied them as an attendant. Luís Fróis's Annual Report on Japan states that Nobunaga also longed to see a black man, and summoned him, and Fr. Organtino took him to him and that Nobunaga, seeing a black man for the first time, refused to believe that his skin colour was natural and not applied later, and made him remove his clothes from the belt upwards. Valignano describes how Nobunaga, thinking that he might have ink on his body, made him take off his clothes and wash his body, but the more he washed and scrubbed, the darker his skin became, Nobunaga took a great liking to him and asked Valignano to give him over. After becoming a vassal of the Oda clan, Yasuke followed Nobunaga to Azuchi in Omi Province, where he was appointed a koshō (小姓, page). Yasuke next appears in historical records on 11 May 1582. The Ietada Diary of Matsudaira Ietada, a vassal of Tokugawa Ieyasu, mentions that Yasuke accompanied Nobunaga on his inspection tour of the region after he destroyed his long-time arch-enemy, the Takeda clan of Kai. On 14 May, Yasuke departed for Echizen Province with Fróis and the other Christians. They returned to Kyoto on 30 May. His life in japan wasn't documented after this.

[@lotusinn3]

Might be a unpopular opinion, but I really enjoy these period-drama ACs starting with Origins, so this has me appropriately excited. Especially the time period of the Sengoku era and characters, both seem appropriately distinct and interesting.

[@otherprisma7354]

Can these guys show gameplay?!

[@gerrelsaunders]

They always reveal via cinematic trailers - gameplay would come soon enough. It comes out in November...gotta pace the marketing material out.

[@ps2progamer814]

First you make an unrealistic cinematic trailer, make pre orders available and then show gameplay

[@zarazzael7452]

just watch ac valhalla should be similar

[@gamerdragon4807]

June 10 at ubisoft forward they're be gameplay

[@Jose-tv2pl]

yeah in the first 3 minutes they really just said they studied nothing about samurai and Shinobi they where not social classes actually a Shinobi are a samurai that his job is to acquire information being a Samurai dont prohibit him to do shinobi work for his Daymio Iga was a province linked to Shinobi arts yes but they heavy missed the point of Shinobi or their study was made based on Wikipedia.

[@captainmercy87]

Can’t wait for this. I love this franchise. I know it has its flaws but the concept always interested me and games got me researching the historical events and characters they were portraying. So I got to learn a lot about different cultures because of these games.

[@franknitty79]

Before sekiro and ghost of tsushima, i would have been excited. Now idk.

[@niziu5470]

"Yasuke", who was a samurai porter all his life, is only active in the fantasy world. hahaha

[@matthewshiba3997]

So it was like Syndicate Protagonists.

[@TheSlyBadger66]

I was thinking the same thing, so like great I can hit LB and switch characters -_-

[@jasonthewatchmansson8873]

The story of the samurai is a story about black men and masculinized women.

[@nawab256]

I hope ac red is going to be a Japanese character. I get yasuke being popular in history but I feel like we get a lot of him lately especially with shows

[@ReginaldSkulls]

This is AC Red.

[@Sadlyevan]

You have a Japanese character , the girl that is a Shinobi

[@punchline1729]

GoT at home

[@Thatguyyoudontknow594]

Lol they made everyone make a samurai game

[@gamerdragon4807]

If you want to see gameplay we're going to have to wait to ubisoft forward

[@PhatNguyen-bh2eg]

Finally this should have came out sooner

[@user-Dragon-King740]

I’m so excited this looks amazing we finally getting a Samurai assassin’s creed 🔥🔥🔥

[@ernestw2474]

Ubisoft probably bought Ghost of Tsushima and used some of its elements as reference and inspiration.

[@ezmkmone53]

Yea john ubisoft said let me buy ghost of tsushima and play it so i can make one huh?

[@benmcneill1271]

God, I wish they'd cut the BS and just say "You know how in Ghost os Tsushima you could be a ninja and a samurai, we thought that was a great idea so we've done the same here but with two charactwrs instead, one stealth one heavy, like in AC Syndicate.'

[@NoWay-ky6wd]

At this point I think the more people whine, the more they double down on it. It’s all just make believe guys fyi

[@satotot3739]

As for Yasuke position... to put it plainly, I think he's more like a clown. That's why I feel uncomfortable when people call me a samurai.

[@user-zv1ew6bf8s]

Afro samurai 3........??

[@giantboneguyakaregulargum2934]

Wait… I thought they were working on that mirage game…?

[@rookiereviewer]

That came out last year

[@MasterBlade111]

It’s come out already

[@gibbysreactions8393]

Bout time for a new assassin creed

[@rookiereviewer]

One literally came out last year lol

[@SuperSky9]

Said no one ever.

[@codien192]

Cool🔥🔥🔥

[@abyss6176]

I though was asian male lead insted they put black man DEI😂

[@jcapo5]

Using a historical figure like Yusuke is a really cool idea. That's why I love these games. How they mix history is why i love this franchise

[@mizt3r_420]

No OTHER AC game has a MAIN character be “Historical”

[@jcapo5]

@@mizt3r_420 well sure it's mostly been all the secondary characters. But I think its smart because yasuke (i think) is from Africa. So he can have roots to the other assassins.

[@reezethevampire]

@@jcapo5 They literally have a token black man in their game; they picked the one historical figure they could to try and make a 'he's real and you're racist' defense against criticism. This is a purely malicious move from Ubisoft. You are congratulating them for racism.

[@TonyFontaine1988]

They should have chosen a Japanese man

[@XxDigitalDaftPunkxX]

"Historical Figure"

[@game14life46]

Nice

[@XVNRX]

I never played an AC game lol

[@26Blackshirt]

DEI continues to ruin anything it gets its cancerous claws on.

[@BrimstoneSociety-js6po]

Installing ghost of tsushima right now. I hope it will run on my computer.

[@HiddenGuitar103]

Please put multiplayer and I’ll buy 10 copies

[@SkankHunt007]

Reeks of DEI and sweet baby.

[@davemartinez5840]

If they are gonna split the characters gameplay that much between combat and stealth, I hope that it's not like Syndicate where you HAVE to switch between characters for missions. I'd prefer one single well balanced protagonist, but if I have to pick I'd want stealth for AC

[@TheRegold]

Awesome! Afro Samurai!

[@reezethevampire]

"Here at Ubisoft we will build our entire game and setting around ensuring that our lead cast has a black man so it meets DEI standards, then totally bastardize his life story for entertainment." The lack of self awareness is pretty astonishing.

[@GETSUZUGA7ZX]

How the stealth is gonna work on an armored samurai?

[@cj-fi4bo]

They said all that yasuke isn't designed for stealth, he's more for face to face combat, but can do stealth if you try. And the other one is the reverse

[@GETSUZUGA7ZX]

He is no assassin then.

[@joenappi8459]

Did you watch the video? The whole point of this was to tell you that one character is a stealthy ninja while the other is a bruiser samurai and that they have different play styles. Good lord these comments are obstinate and set on hating a game that has zero seconds of actual footage.

[@verde5738]

Diversity hires.

[@barbarianking82799]

could at least make Yasuke a standalone DLC like black flag, because hattori would make it more sense.

[@Pannicusthethird]

Or a made up character like In EVERY OTHER AC GAME

[@xindi232]

就让那些支持政治正确的家伙们买单吧。反正我是不可能买

[@DaRougaroux1]

This cultural appropriation at its most sinister while being dressed up to be inclusive and at the same time, insulting an entire country.

[@Pannicusthethird]

Suits are realising that race is the absolute best way to get people to immediately jump to their defense

[@Drakaris-Og]

The day I'm going to play as black samurai, doesn't exist. I know plenty of people feels same, just they are silent. I don't give a smack, I'm from Europe, and here few blacks that actually lives are silent, so who cares. For whom is this game for. What will be the next AC game. Latinos in Germany?

[@marcus1227]

Another samurai game 😢

[@silentstreets]

assassins creed shinobi, hugh YES! obunaga remind me of onimusha, please a demon oni expansion!

[@TheFirstCurse1]

I'm so glad that Naoe looks like an actual woman unlike the "female" characters in Odyssey and Valhalla.

[@joenappi8459]

Ubi hire-ups have been dead-set against female protagonists on AC games, I wouldn’t be surprised if Kassandra and Eivor’s models were rushed once they got permission to add women into history.

[@TheFirstCurse1]

@@joenappi8459 Probably LOL. At least Hexe will have a female protagonist.

[@velinfransiscahuang7033]

I need assassin's chinese edition!! 😁👊🏻

[@mmustafamalik84]

thats called project jade and is a mobile game

[@velinfransiscahuang7033]

@@mmustafamalik84 Woaw mobile game. Probably much Better with console version!! 🤔💡

[@MisoCat-bk7jh]

​@@velinfransiscahuang7033 there is assassin's creed china

[@velinfransiscahuang7033]

@@MisoCat-bk7jh Awesome right 😳👍🏻

[@MisoCat-bk7jh]

@@velinfransiscahuang7033 It's literally called assassin's creed China, it is pretty bad, but it still exists.

[@shifterzx]

It's weird how more people seem concerned about the colour of one protagonists skin than actual gameplay or story. Or BS like online only requirements. But this is the world we live in today I guess

[@draw2death421]

Yeah how dare people care about historical inacurasys. You remember the cleopatra backlash? Why did people care of that historical inacuracy instead of the other problems in the trailer?

[@Kornelius707]

It's becoming really predictable. Fictional or not, there's always an issue coming from certain types of people who are most vocal.

[@Kevin-mx4vm]

Because of people like you who push revisionist history and the message 🤡

[@MudHut67]

*BLACK*

[@FoxHowell]

A black historical figure as the lead in one of my favorite settings. This may be the first assassin's creed game i buy since the 2nd

[@SuperSky9]

If racism and skin color is all you care about then why don't ask them to make an assassin's creed in Africa?

[@FoxHowell]

@SuperSky9 wanting a black lead in an assassin's creed game isn't racist especially nost main characters have been white but saying the only one with a black lead has to be in Africa was racist..

[@wilkesmcdermid7906]

​would an East Asian male character as the main protaganist in a west African AC game be racist or wrong?

[@darrellwillingham1375]

For your information having an explorer thats asian or even a European like say Prince Henry being the MC of an african based AC game would be very​ interesting. AC since the 1st takes history and figuers and blends them into a great fictional story. The story of Yasuke is so shrouded in wonder and mystery even to this day yet people are still very invested in "who" this man actually was. Ubisoft was extremely reluctant to make an AC game set in Japan in the first place and for very good reason. The fact that they took a figure from history like Yasuke whom history doesnt have much detail on and make a game combining his life plus embellished fiction with the prominence of Oda Nobunaga very real japanese conquest we have the recipe for a strong Black character that doesn't feel forced at all.@wilkesmcdermid7906

[@SuperSky9]

@@wilkesmcdermid7906 Exactly!

[@ShadowDashh]

no thank you

[@Boba_Tourette]

So excited for this new Mulan game

[@MasterBlade111]

…not the lego kid being racist

[@wiseguy240Winston]

Mulan is in China 😂

[@Boba_Tourette]

@@wiseguy240Winston Is it really? Oh my god I forgot lol 😂

[@deanospimoniful]

And all the black weebs rejoiced.

[@marsper8692]

Istg I despise Ubisoft with passion.

[@nemesis7884]

no gameplay what a waste of everyones fing time for a game that will just end up a reskinned (Inserst AC of recent names in here) with 5000 busy work map markers and an item fomo cash shop... moving on

[@mohdsalmand1385]

Bro they literally wrote that this is a cinematic reveal trailer

[@hijous]

yawn. where's dafaq is the gameplay?

[@brucecampbellschin8632]

Yeah historical accuracy is the biggest problem with Ubisoft fuckfests that they call games.

[@cj-fi4bo]

If you complain about historical accuracy with these games, I hope you complain about it with every single game you play that tries to make some sort of historical claim, because only a select few are.

[@TonyFontaine1988]

​@@cj-fi4bowhy didn't they choose a Japanese man then?

[@MasterBlade111]

I usually don’t payout Ubisoft… but they might have me 😂

[@killshotz6747]

Lebron James

[@angrycharrua4999]

#cancelyasuke

[@markad1998]

Black samurai? Very accurate historically haha

[@rookiereviewer]

It is tho?

[@MasterBlade111]

Bro fell asleep in history class

[@mohdsalmand1385]

Bro you really need to read some history of this dude.

[@reis052]

Read a book

[@DgardsGaming]

@@rookiereviewer No, cause he wasn't officially a Samurai.

[@latinoheat612]

I skipped mirage, loved origins and odyssey, I will give this game a chance, I will spend 65 bucks just because we finally have a black afro protagonist on recent ac game, (I'm not black afro, but have blackxican relatives for sure)

[@BardicMadness]

Okay but like if we are in Africa now we need an Asian protag. I would have rather he be in Haiti, or the states, or lousianna since we didnt get a mainline game. Or legit any place where the representation didnt have to come at the expense of anothers

[@setokaiba1820]

Game will be probably be a full action RPG since generation TikTok cant play stealth game without shuting down their brains after 2 seconds but at least we got black jakob for the character diversity. i mean there were probably black people in the timeline of assassins creed 2 aswell but it wasnt nessecary to add them because it didnt influence game sells back then.

[@ThePomcio]

lol

[@krakesh5915]

Hopefully this is good

[@Bmxbandit261]

Course it's gonna be good honestly I don't think there's been a bad Assassins Creed game lol

[@kingofravens215]

@@Bmxbandit261Syndicate was pretty mid

[@MelchVagquest]

We asked for this years ago, around the time after Black Flag was released, and the Assassin’s Creed team denied us. I refuse to play this game on principle

[@YsgramorofAtmora]

Based.

[@duedecimal6622]

of courseeeeeeeeeee Yasuke is in it

[@AlexMuchacho]

Black Samurai! Awesomenes!!!!

[@bjrnhalfhand2258]

No thanks. I'd rather play as a real Samurai.

[@Higgs870]

So even if the gameplay of the game is perfect, you won't play it just because a black samurai is doing these moves lol

[@Cornholio-69]

Very... inclusive.

[@yungnaa]

Yess!! Can it wait! He was a black samurai. Stay true to history. If you don’t know read up on history. I’m excited for this game. 🔥🔥

[@wilkesmcdermid7906]

Retainer not Samurai.

[@XxDigitalDaftPunkxX]

Bot detected

[@justinpedro5560]

SCHOOL & CHURCH MARRIED!

[@cx3929]

Trying to re-write Asian history...The guy was only ever a servant/retainer and was never a samurai. Cleopatra is black, Queen Charlotte was black and there were black Vikings from your fake history or even a black ariel from a Danish fairytale.. Americans should just leave Asian and middle eastern history alone. Go do a show, anime or even a game about real black history or fairytale (Wakanda not included) and see how it will sell.

[@elianbogado6746]

Assassin's creed shawokes

[@mohdsalmand1385]

YASUKE was a real person in Japan bro

[@elianbogado6746]

@@mohdsalmand1385 I know, i only want to see what the people say

[@kellenlean2076]

A retainer IS A SAMURAI. Not ALL retainers ARE but MOST were. Facts.🤷🏻‍♂️

[@wilkesmcdermid7906]

He was just a weapons bearering retainer. Just held the items of Nobunaga.

[@victoralecu5512]

DEI AC

[@ahmerkhn844]

Ghost of tsushima on drugs

[@RCascade1996]

We wuz

[@Shiroya_Rumika]

For people saying *"And suddenly historical accuracy is a thing in AC 😂"* or *"Yasuke is a real person!"* or *"AC is a historical fictional game"* or *"Stop being racist, you guys are mad because the main character is black"* ​Yes but at least the other games choose fictional NATIVE characters in their regions AC 1 - Fictional SYRIAN man AC 2 - Fictional ITALIAN man AC 3 - Fictional MOHAWK man AC Liberation - Fictional BLACK woman AC 4 - Fictional WELSH man AC Freedom Cry - Fictional BLACK man AC Unity - Fictional FRENCH man AC Rogue - Fictional IRISH man AC Syndicate - Fictional ENGLISH man and woman AC Origins - Fictional EGYPTIAN man and woman AC Odyssey - Fictional GREEK man and woman AC Valhalla - Fictional NORSE man and woman AC Mirage - Fictional IRAQI man AC Chronicles China - Fictional CHINESE woman AC Chronicles India - Fictional INDIAN man AC Chronicles Russia - Fictional RUSSIAN man

[@knifeofdunwall]

Um, Black Flag is set in the Caribbean. Edward is not native to the Caribbean...

[@357tinman357]

Wow this will flop, watch and see 😅😂

[@Leo-pd4fc]

As a big fan and almost a nerd of Japan's History of Feudol-Times Samurais, i'm so excited there's coming a new Assassin's Creed game where you play as an assassin in Japan my all-time-favourite Country of the Rising Sun with Samurais, it's so nice the New Assassin is a beautiful and powerful Naoe and her friend is the Samurai Yasuke, game looks so cool, there's always coming new Assassin's Creed games what'll never dies! 🌏🌍🌎🌃🌄🗻⛩️🏯🌸🥷🏼

[@XxDigitalDaftPunkxX]

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[@williamparry6733]

I'm fine with Yasuke, i even think the concept is cool and all, but.... why risk that much to be diverse? The safe play would be to have a more ethnically generic lead character like Altair or Ezio to their respective cultures and nationalities, and most people would have been happy. It still looks good though, gonna sit on this until gameplay drops

[@leonli844]

Yeah I think it's really cool that both protagonists are people that would've been looked down upon in Feudal Japan, and that they also excel in what they do. I'm a real sucker for underdog stories I also agree on the fact that it was definitely not the safe move to include Yasuke, on Ubisoft's part it's very likely a large-company-pretending-to-care-for-diversity type thing Now that the choice is made though, pure intentions by the game Devs or not, people are far too stirred up by Yasuke's inclusion under the guise that they wanted a Japanese protagonist, irrespective of the fact that the other protagonist is Japanese