Assassins Creed Shadows Is Giving The Woke A Brain Meltdown! Pissing Of Blacks AND Asians

[@im5tylinOnu2489]

Always remember the “stop asian hate” trend was caused and perpetrated by one major race 🤣

[@samfisherxboxog8925]

And disappeared at light speed when it came to light who the main perpetrators were

[@user-hb3fi3vn2w]

13/52

[@rahn45]

To be fair, I bet the writers wanted to make him Oda's secret lover.

[@ferdgerbeler8494]

@@user-hb3fi3vn2w 12/60 now.. they've gotten significantly worse since the Ferguson effect took over.

[@lunatic447]

@@rahn45 hes gonna ntr nobunaga and make ranmaru sad holy shit

[@killjoy00001]

The worst part is that the woman isn't even a historian, she is an "academic."

[@Spartan135]

This only shows how far the west has fallen into the dephts of insanity...

[@Duck_Norris]

A yes Gender Studies

[@Ozzystrayroo]

Academic of useless academia pursuit

[@Lonovavir]

So, a modern "expert"? Cue the my grandmother told I don't care what they tell you in school meme.

[@Alastorm8]

Trust Ubisoft to hire a weird fujoshi historian to be their Japanese history expert. Outstanding.

[@jerzyksudak945]

My younger brother used to love Assassins Creed but stopped playing and when I asked him what was the reason he said " this franchise turned into garbage pile after they killed Desmond and stopped being accurate with history".

[@Riley_Mundt]

It limped along for a little while after that, but after they retconned the actual origins of the franchise with AC "Origins" it finally died.

[@CommanderRedEXE]

​@@Riley_Mundt At least origins was still mostly grounded and mostly accurate itself. Should have been the last game honestly.

[@PyromancerRift]

AKA when they hired more women

[@PRODAt3]

To be honest, it did have science fiction elements from the start

[@arkgaharandan5881]

yeah, people are like "black flag is the best" as someone who does not like pirates and loved the art of ac2 and loved climbing buildings, its ac3 and blackflag that made me stop playing the series.

[@bernardrednix756]

putting the racial controversy aside, that 130$ price tag is insane

[@SplendidFactor]

It's 170 bucks for us Canadians... I wish I was kidding.

[@bernardrednix756]

@@SplendidFactor i could buy a new couch with that price

[@Ozzystrayroo]

200$ AUD

[@shawnm1902]

When a company goes so far out of it's way to tell the customer base to not buy something, the customers should listen.

[@bernardrednix756]

@@Ozzystrayroo i swear there's a gaming chair cost less than that

[@NightFire2100]

Ubisoft's CEO did tell us to get used to not owning games, so he shouldn't be surprised we stop buying them.

[@Shadowclaw25]

yeah..until all the fools pre ordered that shit show

[@dannyblitz2122]

CEOs better get used to not owning culture.

[@chrispalmer6804]

@@Shadowclaw25 what i wanna know wtf pre-orders this shit when NO gameplay has been shown yet? i hope this game flops so hard i'll be there lmfao at ubislop and all the idiots that pre-ordered this trash🤣

[@Solon_The_Lich]

You Will Own Nothing (from Ubishit) And Be Happy

[@Solon_The_Lich]

You Will Own Nothing (from Ubishit) And Be Happy

[@RogueFox2185]

“We can’t have a RE5 remake, it’ll be problematic by today’s standards!” (Those very same people…) “The way Yasuke leaps off the rooftop and slices his way through hordes of Japanese mercenaries, gives off the exaggerated swagger of a Black Samurai and it gives me goosebumps every time he does it!”

[@NotDr.Evil137]

This company of Frogs acts like a company of Frogs, wouldn't you say?

[@GibsMeMunny]

Safe edgy. It's like the BG3 bear-sex crap. Zoophilia? All fine and good, groundbreaking even. Nude or scantly-dressed attractive women? Male gaze.

[@Spongemonkey26]

Their hypocrisy knows no bounds when it favors the approved demographic.

[@qwads]

They are the same ones who screeched at Ghost of Tsushima being made by non-Japanese but Japan liked it very much because it was respectful, fun and tasteful. Why aren't they hating Buttcreed Black Jogger edition because it's also a game set in Japan made by non-Japanese?

[@TheWarriors1515]

No way you threw a Spider-Man review quote in there 😂 that was great

[@deens51]

The funniest thing about this whole controversy has to be the, what can only described as, fan fiction about Yasuke where leftists make up the most blatantly stupid lies and try to past it off as fact. It’s reached black Cleopatra levels of revisionism.

[@iller3]

It's the same exact situation they've been doing to Black people all this time: Treat them as a Novelty, give them a fancy Title, but never give them any actual estate or self determined production capabilities that feudal Nobles had in that period

[@GROGU123]

They don’t even know if he’s black. He’s just dark skin, could just as easily be from bangladesh or somewhere else.

[@aj.j5833]

My favorite is they saying he was in Samurai Shodown. Yes and Samurai Shodown also literally had a character who's name is a pun on Kimchi in it as well.

[@aj.j5833]

@@GROGU123 We know he was in India before ending up in Japan and that is all.

[@gustialdi584]

Kinda funny when these people and the claimed "Japanese" people get upset about Yasuke depiction as a samurai when there are books such as "Kuro-suke", authored by a native Japanese Kurusu Yoshio that was published in 1968 or "Yasuke: The True Story of the Legendary African Samurai" published in 2019, authored by Thomas Lockley, an Associate Professor at Nihon University College of Law in Tokyo, where he teaches courses about the international and multicultural history of Japan and East Asia along with Geoffrey Girard, also an author and teaches about nonfiction, thrillers, historicals, and speculative fiction. Animes such as "Yasuke", a Japanese-American original net animation (ONA) series and animated by Japanese own animation studio MAPPA aired in 2021. Or games such as "Nioh 2" or "Samurai Warriors 5" developed by Japanese own Koei Tecma and released in 2020 and 2021 respectably; In which ALL of them depicted Yasuke as a Samurai either as an MC, secondary character or NPC and was released BEFORE AC Shadows but NOBODY get upset about those materials at all... 😅😅

[@LetholdusKaspyr]

The Japanese can't be represented by samurai for the same reason the Norse can't be represented by vikings - the creative team HAS to race swap the lead character.

[@SpartanTrigger]

As a Greek , I can’t wait for some Chinese Spartans 😂

[@Lonovavir]

Are Ninja Druid Polish resistance fighters an option?

[@SpartanTrigger]

@@Lonovavir probably

[@USS1SWAT]

@@Lonovavir polish don't count as diverse for them

[@qwads]

Be serious, Chinese are also honorary white. They would probably be Nigerians or from Congo, they will say that the Spartans didn't clash shields to make sounds it was them talking in *clicking noises* because they were African!

[@arkgaharandan5881]

they gonna be black.

[@cousinzeke4888]

Why would a game called ASSASSINS creed have you play as a samurai instead of a ninja?

[@marcogenovesi8570]

The girl is a ninja, and probably the actual main character

[@distortedsoul27]

​@marcogenovesi8570 And yet, the girl shouldn't be a ninja (shinobi). She should be a kunoichi. Heck, if any soldier saw a woman with a sword on her back, they'd stop her immediately. That's how poorly they researched this game. Heck, the architecture is Chinese instead of Japanese. So, not only are Ubisoft making her feminine, but also masculine by changing her into a shinobi. They've literally said that they're basically making her a boss bitch. It's a Western company, pilfering another country's culture and history to suit their narrative. Many people are simply calling them out on it.

[@annoymous88]

to be fair, there's nothing saying that a samurai can't also be a ninja as well. ... which means you could have been playing with the legendary Hattori Hanzo but instead given Yasuke.

[@GibsMeMunny]

"Assassin" means nothing. Hasn't in a while. Nowadays, the franchise is basically "good guys good because they're good, bad guys (templars) bad because they're bad." Trying to read into and find logic in it is completely pointless. Especially with the bad writing. They're just making generic open world action-adventure games and using AC for name value, since it's a recognizable franchise.

[@aj.j5833]

Samurai also engaged in espionage and assassinations as well. Ninjas are fictional.

[@kaspi001]

*Something bad happens* Progressives: 'Somehow it's whitey's fault.'

[@mikzpwnz_3199]

"How dare they just want to play an Asian in a game set in Japan! They just hate black people!" - progressives

[@60sSam]

You have summed up several thousand academic papers in two lines.

[@richardhockey8442]

@@60sSam we could probably send another manned mission to the moon on the money spent on spurious academic 'research'

[@60sSam]

@@richardhockey8442 Only one?

[@classicfrog80]

These days game trailers are more of a customer warning service.

[@richardhockey8442]

'and our next AAAAAA blockbuster includes the following unique 'selling' points: a) absurd identity politics inserted into a historical setting in which such ideas did not exist b) main characters who do not represent the setting in any way, shape or form - they are there because our investors wanted them there c) the plot: poorly written reddit level fanfiction author self-inserts d) another means for ACME-mega-game-corp to extract as much money as possible from their customers with an array of different DLCs and pre-order bonuses that would require an american tax accountant to unravel, combined with micro-transactions: $5 to unlock the view controls and another $5 to unlock the movement controls

[@gallendugall8913]

To help with Black representation they should make a game about African Slavers - they were all Black.

[@qwads]

Nah, then they would have to show who fought to end slavery in Africa and that wouldn't fit the narrative at all.

[@jojoswawa1524]

The secondary character, should be the small hats they sold them to.

[@EB-jf5oi]

And put a spin on it that Europeans actually rescued them from African slavers 😂😂 I could just imagine the meltdown and it would be hilarious

[@shibernyan2009]

@@EB-jf5oi Wait until they find out that's basically what actually happened and that they've been largely lied to their entire lives. But sshhhh, we're not allowed to know that.🤫

[@ImperialGit]

I said this recently: make a game set in Africa, where the African protagonist is fighting against other tribes that enslave and Arabs that drag their victims through horrible conditions; I'd play that.

[@SilverSidedSquirrel]

someone should put a 50ft billboard ad for Ghost Of Tsushima across the street from Ubisoft HQ

[@tomaszwota1465]

I've not wanted for console games on my PC, but at this point I might just get it as a "voting with my wallet" thing.

[@simonnachreiner8380]

To bad people in the long list of countries that can't make sony accounts won't be buying it.

[@aj.j5833]

@@tomaszwota1465 Don't buy it because you will be supporting Sony who just as bad as UBI.

[@Katniss0000]

Ghost of tsushima just become the best selling Single player game of Playstation beating God of War despite being already released 4 years ago. AC shadow trailer is a marketing boost for GOT. I hope they release Ghost of Tsushima 2 at the same time as AC shadow. It will break records.

[@aj.j5833]

@@Katniss0000 I can't bring myself to support Soyny.

[@okairo]

You don't piss off the Japanese. That tends to have bad effects. One of the best ways to piss off the Japanese is to touch upon the Emperor, the Samurai and if you start going fucky-wucky with their history and culture. They will let some things slide in movies and games, if it is in good faith, but when it is a blatant kick to their face... not so much.

[@Daralyndk]

They should sue Ubisoft just like Egypt did fir black Cleopatra

[@avariciousgaming1695]

Netflix got sued, because they claimed it was true as a "documentary". This is clearly fictional although I wonder if anything could be done about Wikipedia creating fake history.

[@phoenix211245]

Worse, they used CHINESE ARCHITECTURE for the game😂 I'd bet that will go over very well in Japan....

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

the last smuri did super well

[@oblongbox5110]

So why weren't you crying when The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise? Or William Adams being a European Samurai in video games and Comics? Where was the hatred from the Japanese people then that you seem to be running off at your little fingertips about?

[@vaultlegend101]

The savory irony that Ubisoft learns how to commit economic Seppuku should not be lost on us.

[@Azraiel213]

Oh I'm stealing that one 😆

[@60sSam]

Their free trial of capitalism has expired.

[@FairPlayGaming]

People seem to hyper-fixate on Ubisoft's recent drop in their stock price. They have lost 80% of their company's total value since 2018. EIGHTY PERCENT. That 15% is nothing compared to the overall drop.

[@nadrewod999]

So the entire company has gone downhill ever since AC4 came out...

[@vahlen5281]

@@nadrewod999 Which is not at all surprising, considering that every game Ubisoft shit out since AC4 was generic AAA slop, which, despite their ridiculous price tags, were filled to the brim with microtransactions.

[@erenarslan3087]

@@nadrewod999 the last good ac was unity and then it was still a downgrade in story, combat (kinda) and characters and the worst part of it all, we were made to play as a fr#nch.

[@Ashkihyena]

Woke on woke crime pleases me. “REEEEEsetEra is having a meltdown” Good.

[@HiddenEvilStudios]

I've been treating Ubisoft games the same way I've treated EA games for ages now: I don't buy them. At all. I'm glad there are so few franchises of anything I genuinely care about, makes it easier to weed out the parasites.

[@Tekzel]

Why would i care about layoffs in the video game industry? I'm a straight white man, it's been made abundantly clear that games aren't being made for me. So, I'll spend my money elsewhere.

[@ChimpFromSpace]

I'm about 20 hours into Ghost of Tsushima, and never once did I say to myself "I would like this game more if I could play as a white guy..." Yet somehow, we're supposed to be the racists.

[@jojoswawa1524]

I beat the game, and now on new game+ Never once did I feel I was missing out for having a non-white protagonist.

[@ALUCARDTWILLIGHT]

Right I was so lost in the story, it did exactly what it was suppose to do make me feel like a samurai. Tho I suppose a fallen one

[@matthewbeach2669]

The changing of an Asain to black really highlights how all American none white racial Minorities are diverse. But some are more diverse then others.

[@markcarpenter6020]

To the woke Asian is honorary white

[@gerhardswihla1099]

Just look at the victim pyramid scheme take into account whom UBI-Soft did hire for the consultants job and everthing falls into place.

[@michaelomahony1225]

I can't wait for Star wars outlaws and Assassin's creed shadows to fail. Ubisoft needs to bleed money. Don't buy and NEVER preorder! I wonder if they looked at hate crime for black on Asians when making the trailer..

[@BloodnSteel]

"We wuz Samureye!" - Looks like this latest controversy is only continuing to erode Ubisoft, good.

[@NeoN-PeoN]

Yasuke lived in Japan for 3 years... he was allowed to be paraded around by Oda for fun. Even if you believe the sparse evidence that he was a warrior, he was clearly not trained in Japanese martial arts. The one time where it is expressly said that he did fight, they got their asses beat, and Oda was forced to kill himself. Their opponent did not take Yasuke to be a serious adversary, and spared his life. He was handed back over to the Jesuits, ending his EXTREMELY SHORT adventure in Japan. You're never going to convince me that it was a "good idea" to romanticize Yasuke into some badass Samurai warrior.

[@phoenix211245]

Basically, he was an exotic pet for Oda to show around as a status symbol, if you want to call things by their real names.

[@markcarpenter6020]

His position was probably similar to Pocahontas's in the English court. A curiosity/freak show.

[@rahn45]

He was the equivalent of Hollywood celebs adopting children from specific places in the world.

[@user-tz8gx7mx3h]

Been saying this same thing since the "Yasuke" meme began. Rulers often kept people as "retainers" because they were a novelty... Either for amusement, oddity, or to simply flex/flaunt their status.

[@yahudaputy875]

But the MADE UP white dude in Assasin Creed who was fighting in the Caribean where native americans and Afro Caribean lived is GOOD RIGHT??

[@lowdistortion]

They finally made a game with a Japanese setting, only to go and pull this... Lmao incredible

[@koreancowboy42]

Not like these people had any brains, they had the chance to be an competitor to ghost of Tsushima

[@PerfectionHunter]

It's actually Chinese architecture (something that pissed off the Japanese to no end). SO now you have Japanese and African people... in China? This game is just pure shit, just like the people who made it.

[@PerfectionHunter]

The Architecture is actually Chinese (which pissed off the Japanese to no end), so it's basically Japanese people and an African... in China.

[@PerfectionHunter]

The Architecture is actually Chinese so it's basically Japanese people and an African... in China.

[@CommanderRedEXE]

​@@PerfectionHunter This makes it even worse.

[@Snootenhoff]

When the victim role becomes more important than everything else...

[@nullbubble791]

I can't wait for Yasuke to look at Naoe and then the camera and say "ACAB"

[@Katniss0000]

or "Once you go black, you can never go back"

[@Boodoo4You]

I was a play tester. He actually says "ayo we chopping these foos up FR!" then he steals a bike and escapes from his kid.

[@mercaius]

Twice as funny from a samurai's mouth.

[@60sSam]

"You want some BBC?"

[@frustratedplayer]

@@Boodoo4Youwomp womp lil whitey.

[@kamuireina9868]

Yasuke is the equivalent to Miles Morales, they like the "Idea" of a black samurai and black spider man.

[@enoughothis]

AC has committed seppuku

[@r3dp9]

This comment is in english, but google has added a translate to english option. That's not concerning...

[@enoughothis]

@@r3dp9, the Japanese word is triggering the Google Algorithms

[@brianlinden3042]

Unlike Yasuke, which you'd think he would have done when his Daimyo was killed, if he were really a Samurai...

[@simonnachreiner8380]

That implies an honorable death. Ac died dishonorably shitting itself

[@aj.j5833]

@@enoughothis I even see this for English internet Jargon as well. STFU - Translate to English. No I know what that means thank you I speak English.

[@user-tb8uo9lt2x]

I can't believe they hired Professor Fujoshi who's degree is in Shotocon. I also can't believe that's actually not much of an exaggeration. Holy shit.

[@Sorain1]

Yeah. It really comes across as what used to be a parody, a 'it'll never get this dumb so people will laugh when we do it here' situation. Only, reality always has greater idiots.

[@iller3]

The prices they're asking for it is where the real Insanity comes in

[@jamesneese7663]

Especially when the ppl this is pandering to steal everything anyway.

[@shawnm1902]

Nah that just part and parcel with everything else, especially in DLC land pushing stuff well close or over $1,000 in a single title. The fact that they're front loading it more seems to be the only honest element to everything playing out so far. Should thank them for that, because the sticker shock if nothing else will drive off more casual or impulse purchases.

[@Rorschach1998]

$130 for one awful game OR $130 to spend during a steam summer sale.

[@akumaking1]

There goes yet another franchise/company into the woke graveyard.

[@Raximus3000]

It already was.

[@koreancowboy42]

I mean they were asking for this to happen to them

[@AkiSan0]

did you snort crack the last decade? ubisoft was done 10 years ago. they just accelerated their death

[@imlivingunderyourbed7845]

Assassin's Creed already started going downhill after Unity, and that was before they added in woke stuff.

[@gavinfreenone6626]

They were one of the first few to add the "body type" stupidity to replace gender in their games. Even went out of their way to remove gender from for honor which had gender selection since it's release 😂

[@Thedude4777-gh1lj]

I’m not playing assassins creed until you get to play in Arabia with the Waabists where Muhammad is your sidekick.

[@liquidgoose1518]

And he is white

[@Thedude4777-gh1lj]

@@liquidgoose1518 Shhhhhhhhhhh we want ubi soft to fall for the DEI trap.

[@dandolanphotography8983]

We need a Ginger Shaka Zulu Assassin too.

[@Adrenalin844]

@@liquidgoose1518 starring a dozen goats as moral support.

[@commisaryarreck3974]

​@@Adrenalin844 Ah the 12 virgins that were promised. Good idea

[@thegentlemanfish7504]

Me, the white guy sitting in the corner: Laughs Maniacally

[@balazsfoldes4700]

This is just a massive L. The joke on the interwebs is that Ubisoft considered the black-on-asian hate crime statistics and thought slaughtering Asians as a BIPOC would appeal to and expand interest in the BIPOC gaming community.

[@lobaoguara2332]

BIPOC gaming community shouldn't exist, there should just be a gaming community... These separations by color, sex, etc. bother me a lot. We should unite for the love of video games and we don't separate them by things that aren't video games.

[@jman140692]

If they focused on hate crimes against Asians and wanted to pick a race to represent that and just hate crime statistics in general as the main character then according to the data from US department of Justice and the University of Maryland, the main character would be white. KZbin doesn't allow links so I can't post them

[@kronosbot5]

Somehow, somebody pitched this in a meeting and wasn't fired for it... What the fuck?

[@Ozzystrayroo]

Worse, the person would have a promotion by now

[@elysiankentarchy1531]

They got a raise and a promotion for being so stunning and brave.

[@60sSam]

Woke. It's what gets promotions.

[@richardhockey8442]

the meeting where the ESG investors are sitting at the back of the board room on thrones made of solid gold:'hmmm, I don;t think feudal japan is diverse enough for our purposes... Maybe you need to do something about that, then we will consider investing in this idea'

[@08Jonnyreb]

Fun fact! Yasuke was actually executed when one night Nobunagas bike went missing! "I Dinduna Nuffingane sama"

[@naingaung2748]

Blm vs stop asian hate

[@khimeraQ]

The concept of Yasuke has been bastardized by Westerns to basically be "look, it's me! I'm the cool samurai! I don't need to relate to an authentic japanese character cause look it's me!"

[@MogMonster87]

We’ve already got William Adams for that who genuinely earned a samurai lordship

[@aj.j5833]

@@MogMonster87 William Adams is different. He is what would felt like if we visited Japan during that era and was looking in as outsider, not look at me I'm a cool samurai. There is a world of difference.

[@MogMonster87]

@@aj.j5833 I just meant if you are going to go down that route of cool samurai from the west Adams became a legit samurai and he was an actual westerner too but I agree he was always seen as an outsider looking into the culture which is the most respectable thing to do. They could have had a Japanese protagonist who is mentored by the legendary Hattori Hanzo

[@xIxAmxKh2xI]

i.e. a token black

[@khimeraQ]

@@MogMonster87 Also the difference is Nioh was made by Koei Tecmo, a very B movie style Japanese company.

[@jamesneese7663]

Even worse, it is wasted effort because the ppl this game is pandering to are not gonna spend $130 on ultimate edition. The ppl demanding more representation never actually ever pay for it. Weve seen this in comics that representation titles never last a year. We seen this in movie theaters, where were all the pro representation for The new Little Mermaid or The Marvels or Secret Invasion? The woke want representation but never want to pay for it or watch it or anything but will be first to complain when canceling comes. It is about "owning the chuds" for the activists.

[@Azraiel213]

The goal is to inflict their deranged politics on everyone, everywhere, constantly. It's called Active Measures.

[@ErtaiCZ]

Viking samurai might be interesting :D Let her fight the white zulu!

[@shawnm1902]

Let's get some innuit Landsknecht up in here to really get frisky.

[@mistydolphin2524]

Watch them call Japan racist for not accepting their revisionist fanfiction version of history.

[@notsae66]

Here's the difference; Japan _IS_ racist, and they won't put up with this BS because of it. They still have a spine, and enough pieces of brain matter to form cohetent thoughts, and thus will not take this lying down.

[@shipmcgree6367]

Ubisoft basically made a game about "Da Samoorai" parody character in Samurai Jack 😂

[@terrymoose7273]

Shamefur Dispray

[@Sorain1]

Now there's a classic reference that fits.

[@tjweber9883]

As a straight white man I only have one thing to say to everyone: I CAST HATE BEAM!!!!

[@amargasaurus5337]

Just in case any yournalist happens upon this (doubtful, but infinitesimally possible): If you're being laid off because nobody wants to buy your stuff, then that shows that you're benefiting nobody with your work while costing people their hard earned work's worth. Being laid off in such a case is simply the result of society saying with their wallets "no, we're not willing to sustain your selfish waste of resources, go do something that actually provides people with something they want" Capitalism is a wonderful system built upon helping others, so much so that people who don't help others rarely find themselves able to make a living.

[@simonnachreiner8380]

Bankruptcy is the flow of unproductive capital to more productive hands. Anything unnaturally preventing that is like preventing a blaze in a fire ecology. Making the inevitable wildfire worse than ever.

[@koreancowboy42]

😂😂 they kinda were asking for their stocks to plummet anyways.

[@Ozzystrayroo]

Yeah, i was wondering if this was another ploy to devalue their company so it can be easier to be acquisitioned by bigger company

[@Lonovavir]

Perhaps they're trying to get people to sell their shares so they can buy them at a discount?

[@LegacyNovus]

Ladies and Gentlemen it would seem that we are in for one hell of a show.

[@Blue_Jasmin]

"Somehere, there is a white man emanating hate" [hate beam noises] You joke, but I've met people that unironically believe this.

[@DavidTMSN]

Hate beam noises? What... Never heard that one before.

[@richardhockey8442]

@@DavidTMSN a low pitched rumbling noise, like the 'paranormal entity' films so you know something spooky is about to happen'

[@khorneflakes2175]

I've read up on the scholars who've written about Yasuke and there isn't a single mention of him as a respected man, much less a samurai, there isn't a single recorded feat of arms or honor deed. Considering this concerns the 1st recorded black man in Japan's history, that caught the eye of NOBUNAGA, in a well documented period of Japan's history and most importantly of all that if there was a single credible historical source describing Yasuke as a samurai it would be absolutely everywhere then the only conclusion is that this is actual rewriting of history, actual racial political propaganda. We wuz kangz, pharoz, vhikingz and sumuraiz and shitz.

[@yahudaputy875]

Now go read about Connor from black flag if he existed as a white guy fighting in the Caribean where Native and Afro Caribean lived!!

[@khorneflakes2175]

@@yahudaputy875 Don't give a single fuck about this situation.

[@internetzenmaster8952]

@@yahudaputy875 During the golden age of piracy the Caribbean was basically 'Piratelandia' territory, and the majority of pirates during that era were Dutch, Welsh, English and French. So yeah, a white guy fighting in the Caribbean during that time period isn't just plausible, it's historically accurate to boot!

[@starbound100]

​@@yahudaputy875I'm Just gonna say that Henry Morgan, to this day considered with the epitheth "King of the Pirates" was Welsh, and was even Governor of Jamaica at one point. This shows how much you care about the shit you say. Need more names? Blackbeard was english. Stede Bonnet was an englishman as well. They ALL operated in those waters. Hell, one of the very few female pirate captains, Anne Bonny, was Irish. Don't you DARE try to use pirate history for your bullshit, or I WILL call you out. Also, the black flag protag Is Edward Kenway, who the hell Is Connor? Yep, you sure convinced me that you like pirates and are not just using the subject to have your propaganda fix.

[@Claudekr]

@@yahudaputy875 Who knows? Ubisoft didn't claim he really existed. They did claim Yasuke was a real life historical samurai though.

[@bombvoyage5686]

You know, this entire fire would have been avoided if they had either just the female ninja or an Asian Samurai. While Yasuke plays an important part of the plot as an NPC

[@Halfort57]

Ehh. It would have still been an case of an attempt at historical revisionism. But you're right. Right now there would be no backlash at all.

[@felipeignacioavilapizarro3698]

Adewale functioned beautifully in AC 4

[@davethewave62]

I’d rather Godzilla be the sidekick👍

[@rayberto1826]

​@@felipeignacioavilapizarro3698 yep. I remember going online and looking to buy the head wrap that he wore. Lol

[@aj.j5833]

Female Ninja wouldn't be received well anymore. The made her a man.

[@Marinealver]

and is now Gay I mean what can we expect from a company that calls Samurai the Assassins and not Ninjas who were historically the Assassins. What else can you expect from a Chinese "expert" on Japanese History.

[@Sorain1]

Honestly, I'd have advised them to have fun with the historical reality that the majority of 'ninjas' were just Samurai and/or retainers doing something dishonorable while hiding their identity. Something like having 'ninjas' showing up as a recurring enemy type, with a few actual proper spies showing up on occasion and the Assassins taking huge advantage of this situation to get their work done without it being traceable to them. So at random in a group of 'ninjas' you'll run into someone with actual Assassin training that's effectively a mini-boss fight to deal with... or potentially can turn on their 'allies' to help you clean house the moment they recognize you as one of their own. Or they could play up the mythic image and occasionally have random peasants along the road side with farming implements turn out to be Ninjas and jump you. No different model or anything to set them out until they attack you. Same with servants or any other background NPC type. Go for the whole Kabuki theater 'Ninja dressed as stage hand' thing. (heck, have that be a thing in a scene of the game just for fun!)

[@Chickenbowser]

Just a reminder that there is zero evidence Yasuke was a samurai and "African Samurai" is little better than historical fiction and the mental gymnastics the author goes through to justify it is astounding.

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

"trans gernational sex? somthing tels me shes not baning 90 year olds

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

or 50 year olds

[@JFKxprinc]

Ghost of Tsushima is the real assassin's creed shadows - can't change my mind

[@bommander]

Black on White Adjacent violence.

[@Ozzystrayroo]

The meme associated with this controversy has more entertaintment value than some of the last Asassin creed titles

[@lobaoguara2332]

I don't know how the hell anyone can be excited for the next AC after the mediocrity that was Mirage.

[@oteris2924]

I'm still waiting for The Last...Black Man on Earth, Staring Tom Hanks. RIP Paul.

[@CHESTNUT246]

i just cant wait for mongolian aztecs or russian ancient egyptians

[@shawnm1902]

Some Mayan Celtic warriors with nice blue ink. They'd fit right in.

[@Lezarddd]

Why don't they just make an AC game in Africa? Genuinely a Nubian assassin, or maybe one in the western side perhaps fighting for or against great figures like Mancha Pusa... Not only would this be great fun, but very instructive to a lot of people! But no, instead we just blackwash some other already very popular piece of history. I hate it, but I hate the missed opportunities even more.

[@Halfort57]

Becaue then they would need to address some... Uncomfortable historical truths. (that the african people were enslaving each other long, long before the White Devils showed up)

[@aswediefaster]

Because that would require actual creativity

[@partialbullet2215]

Is the reason why we can't have any more Japanes Samurais is because Samurais have a morals and a Code of Honor?

[@Live4Gunz]

Really missing the era of Assassin's Creed characters feeling authentic (Altair, Ezio, Conway, etc) and actually assassinating people instead of stabbing a sleeping guard in the throat with a spear and he wakes up unhappy with you.

[@sparkeykills1]

7:30 arch casually describing how everything would be better if everyone just had a "Great book of Grudges" and whoever has the most wins 😂😂😂 i love it 😀

[@lepr7706]

A character creator would solve this. To bad they were removed for "representation"

[@rishnix]

Woah there partner! If people could create their own characters, they might create ones that aren't black and we can't have that in current year +8.

[@lobaoguara2332]

Not God! All I want less about AC is less liniarity. According to AC logic, it makes no sense to create characters, choices, etc.

[@qwads]

No it wouldn't. It would be just as disrespectful, how would sneak about as a non-Japanese in a country in an era where if you merely arrived by accident in Japan you would be executed.

[@aj.j5833]

character creator don't belong in games like AC.

[@lepr7706]

@qwads "disrespectful" Let me play what I want. You play what you want then we all play... now I won't touch it. Tired of "disrespectful"

[@Bailonus]

They have clearly paid their 'expert' enough money, to tell them exactly what they wanted to hear. Helped that their expert is more invested into study monk on shota action; instead of the Inner working of Oda Nobunaga's Court. I wonder if there will be any mission that focus on her area of "expertise."

[@octapusxft]

I hope this will have the wonderful side effect of making more Japanese normies aware of the wokeness issue

[@maicoxmauler2825]

It's your first night shift on the imperial guard, and your rice bowl is clattering on the desk as the THUNK THUNK of slave-retainer Yasuke's golden boots clamber stealthily across the roof. "Nani?!" You sputter as you pathfind your way outside, a slave yourself to Ubisoft's patented AAAAI algorithms. You squint up, unable to find the protagonist standing in front of you, thanks to his natural shadowmeld. Then he smiles; A Cheshire cat grin in gilded horns floating 6 feet above the ground. "Oma-ii wa! Mou shin-day hu!" His non-rhotic singsong battlecry rumbles through your 5ft frame. The spirits of your ancient Japanese warrior ancestors evacuate your corporeal vessel as Nobunaga-sama's vassal steps forth in his chinkless samurai suit; His comically oversized katana ready to slice through your midsection and disembowel you of your last meal. Before your world fades to black you stare into his eyes, your mouth flopping open like an already dead fish. It's the last pair of eyes you will ever see, in addition to the first.

[@Aikurisu]

I'm still surprised Yasuke doesn't look like Johnny Somali. Heck, would have been even funnier if he had the likeness of a certain drug addict that couldn't breathe...

[@Belial1125]

Progressivism used confusion, it back fired, confusion was super effective, progressivism hurt itself in its confusion!

[@pkeod]

Wait until black people find out that in the game Yasuke has a gay romance plotline.

[@TruckingShooter]

We wuz samurais n sheeeeeit

[@NagaTales]

The funny part is that if they made Yasuke a major NPC character that you interact with throughout the story, like you can with historical figures in ACs of the past, while playing a Japanese main character, very few, if any, people would be mad. He did exist at this period in time, and he could play a key part in the story, like Leonardo Da Vinci, Machiavelli, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Teach, Herodotus, and et cetera all did. He never had to be a playable character to be a cool inclusion. But no. The African man by proxy of Portugal, who arrived in Japan the same year the game takes place, must be billed as a playable """Legendary Samurai""" out to """Liberate Japan""" despite having functionally no training, no knowledge of the culture, and only existing as a footnote in Oda Nobunaga's legacy. How... 'progressive'. EVEN IF he was officially recognized as a "Samurai" by Nobunaga, the man had none of the training, experience, or knowledge to stand alongside the likes of Hattori Hanzo, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Takeda Shingen, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, or any other notable Madness. Of course these are the same people thinking you should pay over $100 for the game, so maybe Madness is their stock and trade at this point. Very disappointing as an in-at-day-one Assassin's Creed fan. I'll be picking up Ghost of Tsushima instead.

[@SachinJames89]

If a persons day-to-day job is to chop fruits for the shogun does that make him a fruit ninja!? 😂😂

[@Michellex1]

These woke people are genuinely insane. Luckily this made me remember I had an old Ubisoft account years ago. I just requested to delete it entirely. Ubisoft is making me wait 30 days before they will remove.

[@aj.j5833]

You know you royally screwed up when you got Koreans and Chinese also taking Japanese side and defending them as well.

[@Zambobazle]

We see it for what is it. We live in a time where dei really runs a lot of things and we see all of this the audience is not stupid WE SEE EVERYTHING. So it blows my mind when they add an obvious black man in an assassins creed game in japan and expect us to not see the pandering going on? SINCE WHEN WAS ASSASSINS CREED HISTORICALLY ACCURATE?!!! NOW THEY WANT TO BE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE BECAUSE THERES A BLACK MAN NOW?!! UBISOFT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED!!!

[@wildansaladin8728]

Plus one South East Asian/Malayan, here.

[@realah3001]

I’d never thought I’d see the day Japanese and Koreans work together

[@Sorain1]

Oh man, that takes some major F-up, those are some LONG standing blood feuds.

[@nickolauscantor1572]

It's almost like when you create an ideology based around hating people because of race, gender, and sexuality, once you remove the unifing enemy, the ideology will immediately turn on itself seeking new 'others'. What was that quote about Arch said in his VtM2 Brujah lore: me against my brothers, my brothers and I against our cousins, my cousins and I against the world.

[@Blackdawn1975]

the layoffs are the best thing happening to gaming right now and sadly it's not happening more

[@royzgaming441]

Evil can't create, it can only corrupt J.R.R. Tolkien

[@Dimrim1]

If they made Steve harvey into this samurai, I'd be okay with it

[@MogMonster87]

“We gotta dooz what? We gotta take Osaka castle? Oh lawd have mercy”

[@LunaProtege]

The talk about the list of grievances makes me imagine a D&D campaign to burn the book of grudges, and the moment it catches fire some fey-creature screams "THE SACRED TEXTS!"

[@gidi3250]

10:40 the white Zulu thing can actually work, there has historically been 2 white Zulus, (white men recognised as white Zulu by the Zulu themselves) 1 was a missionary who became a Zulu leader following the British toppling of the Zulu kingdom during the Anglo Zulu war, the British devided the kingdom amongst Zulu princes/chiefs and one of them was the white British missionary who would then fight the others for more control in the region, even got British help as some of the other chiefs got Boer kommandos (Boer milita) to fight for them. The other more famous one in the modern day would by musician Jesse Clegg who was a famous white anti apartheid musician who would post apartheid continue to make English and Zulu songs to try and close the racial gap apartheid had created, the Zulu king at the time (named Goodwill) dubbed him the white Zulu and he was amoung Nelson Mandela's favourite artists. Although knowing modern day video game creators they'll make it woke, lame, female and gay somehow.

[@GummiArms]

I'm not touching this game with a ten foot pole. I have to stand by my Asian contemporaries. Because I know what it's like to have your culture and race assailed and replaced by progressives. I only hope that their higher position in the progressive stack allows them some measure of pushback.

[@Keglanek]

* Plays flute in Ghost Of Tsushima *

[@Kameolontti]

The plan is in motion. The avalanche has started and the pebbles cannot vote.

[@harmlessratz7151]

this makes me appreciate Ghost of Tsushima even more.

[@RavensEagle]

I am 100% convinced they put a black man as a MC as revenge for Resident Evil 5, remember people raging about that couple months ago, even when it came out

[@ComposedSage75]

The trailer was a telling sign for folks to know Ubisoft was going all in on the wokeness. Their AC games are known to be historically inaccurate but this was a blatant retconning of the original story for Yasuke.

[@AE-ud6mn]

All the other games have fictional protagonists who would encounter known historical figures. I don't understand why there isn't a fictional Japanese Male protagonist that could encounter Yasuke.

[@Zetact_]

A lot of the minutia that people will be in dispute over has very quickly gotten droll. A major thing is that they're talking about things like the formalization of samurai that occurred under the Tokugawa or the nuance between bushi and samurai but that's all really showing how it's missing the forest for the trees. The implication of saying, "He was a samurai" is obvious. It's implying a level of prestige, of accomplishment, of responsibility - that Yasuke simply did not have. It's the same as how when someone says, "Yasuke was a retainer" they're saying, "Uh, a retainer technically should be counted as a samurai" - if that's the case, why take Umbridge with someone pointing out that he was a retainer? It's obviously because the implication - the more accurate implication - of saying 'retainer' - is not something they want.

[@shawnm1902]

It would be roughly equivalent to call him a castrated slave traded on a whim. There's really no conversation to be had with those starting out in such bad faith.

[@DavidTMSN]

@@shawnm1902 Doesn't fit their narrative. They support 'the message.' Very bath faith and quite cognitively dissonant.

[@Ronin8509]

In spite of their cowardly attempts to have their cake and eat it too by canonizing the female leads in their last two games, but still maintaining a male option. UBIs on internal player data has shown that the male option was overwhelmingly preferred, so what did Ubi mean by doing this in this region?

[@user-dh9mw8mh3t]

I was curious and I couldn't find any sources confirming or denying that he was a samurai. Because every search result is from 2020 onward and all of it is blatant propaganda. But then I started thinking. 2024 Japan is still very xenophobic. Now let's go back 500 years and try to extrapolate. Why yes of course they would let a black dude become a samurai.

[@magnemoe1]

But an black guy would be an novelty. On the other hand samurai is an noble title pretty similar to knight, its not an easy thing to get, worse for an foreigner. Now I assume Japan had men of arms, professional soldiers in the employee of an lord but this tend to require decent combat training if not experience.

[@Sorain1]

Yeah, I ran into those sources via Wikipedia about ten years back or so. (I didn't believe a trivia question's answer) And they weren't a good place for sources even then.

[@JaimieSch]

With regards to the guy moaning about people not caring about lay offs, I think Razorfist said it best: "It's called the games industry, not games welfare." If you don't want to get fired, don't make bad games, and definitely don't insult your audience for pointing out that they're bad.

[@whiskeyhound]

People often gonna get fired regardless of how well a game does, what's the point of getting upset about people getting fired when they chose an industry where permanent employment barely exists?

[@Neil.02]

Personally, the « samurai or retainer » debate is irrelevant to me since the game wouldn’t have been THAT historically accurate anyway. But can we please stop pretending that out of ALL the historical figures (which weren’t actually playable before by the way) available in japan , going out of your way to pick the ONE black guy (who’s been in japan for 15 whole months) as a protagonist instead of having him be a character you encounter along the way isn’t blatantly shallow (yes even with Naoe)? Especially coming from Ubisoft?

[@Halfort57]

Being all historical fiction the game is gonna play the story with all the seriousness of a Steven Spielberg drama. Just like Battlefield V did

[@riptide1ful]

Haven't touched AC since BF.

[@Knoloaify]

About the whole homosexuality thing, in pre-modern Japan a form of pederasty was practiced both among monks and samurai, and we do know that a few samurai practiced it. However the practice seems to have become really popular during the Edo period, with an entire genre of literature being created around it. In it, it's common to attribute such a "romance" to Oda Nobunaga and Mori Ranmaru (who both lived during the Sengoku period). However, no period source confirms it, it's Edo period erotic fanfiction.

[@internetzenmaster8952]

Given Oda was on the losing side of the Sengoku Jidai, I wonder if the literature claiming Oda and Mori were 'romantically involved' wasn't "romance" so much as one extra way to tarnish Oda's legacy.

[@Knoloaify]

@@internetzenmaster8952 Oda was on the winning side of the Sengoku Jidai, he's still known to this day as one of the 3 great unifiers of the country. Nobunaga is the guy who unified half of Japan, he was only stopped by one of his vassals betraying him by attacking him when he was at Honnoji (with Yasuke). Also Nobunaga doesn't need that to tarnish his legacy, the guy straight up won the title of "Demon King of the Sixth Heaven" during his lifetime, and he eagerly accepted the title. No, Edo samurai were just extremely horny for boys, as I've said their erotic literature touched on more historical figures than Nobunaga. The point wasn't to besmirch him, but to fantasize about his "supposed" relationship with Ranmaru. It's erotic fiction, not propaganda.

[@internetzenmaster8952]

@@KnoloaifyI guess I should clarify what I meant by "losing side": Oda wasn't around to enjoy the fruits of a unified Japan because he got stabbed in the back by a vassal near the very end (Mitsuhide pulling a fucking Starscream for no apparent reason like an asshole iirc), unlike Hideyoshi and Ieyasu, who finished what Oda started. As for 'doesn't need that to tarnish his legacy'... during the Edo period the Confucian scholars helping shape Japan's fundamental value system back then had a negative view of Nobunaga (they hated his 'subdue through force/trickery' method for keeping people in line), so it is not beyond the realm of possibility there was an attempt by the Confucians to 'spit on Oda's grave'... only to completely backfire given Edo samurai were a bunch of horny men. On the other hand, given this is the same Edo period that produced 'The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife' a little over 200-ish years later... yeah, I could see it simply being case of writers being too horny for their own good. The fact the ubisoft's 'historical expert' entire background is about the 'idealization of boys and male/male love in feudal Japan' proves that there's enough historical literature to justify a historical degree if nothing else.

[@Goddamnitiwantaname]

Considering I grew up with The Fresh Prince, Everbody hates Chris, My Wife and Kids, The Cosby Show, Family Matters, The Jeffersons and many more black lead shows, it is rather hilarious that I am now at a point where I skip everything that has a black person on the cover by default. Good job, Progressives.

[@georgedavidson957]

perhaps this would be a good time to push my historical investigation into the ginger Irishman who fought with shaka zulu ..... patrick o'zulu who brought the zulu battle drink guiness back to ireland. why do you think its so black!

[@NeoN-PeoN]

I remember him! He was the single-most impressive warrior the continent of Africa had ever seen! Even to this day!

[@Ozzystrayroo]

Don't forget his zany frenchman sidekick Francoise d'Zulu who specifically traveled to Zululand to kill some British soldiers

[@shawnm1902]

​@@Ozzystrayroowait, wasn't that also the guy that helped fight off the dahomey and freeing the bantu before joining the Zulu? Such a legend that one is.

[@wildansaladin8728]

Don't forget an Italian named Gianfranco Zulu who fought with a blue and blue armor on the bridge in a vast green field.

[@Schniedragon88]

Alongside his kinsman, the illustrious Frederick von Zulu!

[@GHOSTSTALKER90]

Can't wait for Doogle Mcloud, king of Africa.

[@victorrosenheart8036]

Arch, you are correct, this maybe one of the last bullshit Woke games ever.