Drinker's Chasers - The Nuclear Backlash Against Assassin's Creed Shadows

We really are reaching parody levels of The Message in videogames, and Assassin's Creed Shadows is a perfect example. In this case though, gamers were having none of it and the trailer quickly became the most disliked in series history.

[@dlxmarks]

I don't care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was a samurai.

[@RyuShinkuuHadoken]

A black trans activist samurai fighting against the patriarchy.

[@mikespike2099]

😂 😂 😂 … move an inch … lose a mile! 😅

[@aaronfarnsworth7653]

King Tut was a geisha. lol and his/her they/them's name was a typo one key off.

[@DeadPixel1105]

😂😂

[@guser7137]

the hue goes without saying

[@crimsonpotemkin]

"Stop asian hate" "Send in the black samurai."

[@StriderDSC]

Before it got deleted, a Reddit thread noted that this is the first time in Assassin's Creed history where the lead character was not representative of the culture and time period being portrayed in the game.

[@MagcargoMan]

Carribean culture is very Welsh indeed.

[@romainrondeau4242]

​@@MagcargoManYeah for sure we know that in the golden age of piracy every pirate was Caribbean...or maybe Edward was the only welsh in the whole region. However when you don't forget on purpose Freedom Cry and Liberation where you play Adewalé and Aveline we're in for another story.

[@StriderDSC]

​@@MagcargoMan Ask yourself, is it out of place for a Brit to be in the Caribbean in that time period given the setting and circumstances of the game?

[@MagcargoMan]

@@romainrondeau4242 You mean DLC, not the focus.

[@MagcargoMan]

@@StriderDSC Why are you shifting your goalposts? Tell me, is Carribean culture significantly Welsh?

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

Despite making up 13% of the population they make up 54% of the samurai

[@Butiguessilovememore]

We wuz samuraiz and sheeiittt. We wuz too buzy building all da other civilizationz and sheeiit we forgetz to build our own

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

Ninja please!

[@poiuyt975]

Good one. :D

[@parapoliticos52]

Cant breath from laughter. That was funny.

[@jonbaxter2254]

I don't care what they tell you in school. My gran says Samurai were black...

[@ericrose419]

"We don't accept hate, harassment, and other forms of abuse in any way" unless it involves calling people bigots, racists, homophobes, and Nazi's. We're all about doing that...

[@trvpmusic2569]

Yea why would they call people spamming the N word, making monkey memes, mocking slavery and saying "We Wuz Samurais And Sheeit" bigots and racist smh they're so woke lol

[@Nickle_King]

Don't forget women! Sexually harassing employees in Ubisoft just gets you a sweet retirement plan.

[@SuperDoggy99]

Don't forget: if you're a white male, you're "free game" to be made fun of, discriminated against, and called out for anything they want to call you out on, even if the transgression is completely fabricated. It's not unprofessional at all.

[@Thandi123]

Nobody mention Cécile Cornet, Yannis Mallat, Tommy François and Serge Hascoët.

[@e-moshe]

Let’s not overlook doxxing, swatting and smear campaigns. They’re suddenly fine when they’re done to the other side.

[@SchmokinJoe]

Ubisoft has no idea how to read the room...

[@katarhall3047]

Read the room? Ubisoft aren't even IN the room. They're in another building.

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

They have no idea how to read history either.

[@luisjones9523]

They just don't care.....yet.

[@RipaStar00]

​@@grandmufftwerkin9037cause every other AC is so historically accurate

[@spook407]

@@RipaStar00name one AC with a playable character based on a real person

[@maxbrazil3712]

Hollywood needs to casts Peter Dinklage as the next Black Panther

[@Rotom0479]

Peter Dinklage would work as Wonder Woman villain Dr. Psycho not gonna lie.

[@Cormano980]

Nah, as Conan the Barbarian

[@blackdynamite_5470]

Emma Watson should play Okoye

[@whitemiasma5288]

it 2024, its time.

[@cardassa]

Also Danny Devito as the new wolverine.

[@user-xu5rv6oe2s]

Ubisoft making a game about the only black man in Japan bring a hyper violent killer in the name of inclusion is so ironic😂

[@whitemiasma5288]

A bit of a "super samurai" if you will.

[@mapesdhs597]

@@whitemiasma5288 I see what you did there. :D

[@lukepensabene6086]

Who knew they were so unintentionally accurate

[@Theweouthereforrealclub-]

Remember the stop Asian hate campaign that died out because people found out who was assaulting Asians? This game will do well in that demographic

[@nyarlat2609]

The only reason it continued any further was because China wanted to claim it was racist to blame them for weaponizing and accidentally releasing COVID.

[@fobinc]

The irony is Yasuke would be the one getting hate crimed in that period of Japan.

[@Mlai00]

Yup, Asian Americans know who their allies are, and it's not the less successful minorities. It's the Caucasians and the more successful minorities.

[@rubbishopinions6468]

Always remember that in any given conflict of an ethnic nature the left will side with the blacker group regardless of context.

[@darianstarfrog]

​@fobinc hence why he lasted less than a year..

[@dafewger]

Japanese guard: Do you see who assassinated this person? Japanese Peasant: The only black guy in 16th Century Feudal Japan Japanese guard: Looks over at Yasuke Yasuke: I identify as a Japanese geisha. *Pulls hood over* Japanese guard: Sumimasen. Must have been the wind...

[@ZergS4uc3]

If they actually let us do that it would be game of the year, leaning into absurdity is the only way to save this series

[@schwarzflammenkaiser2347]

Tough job blending in with the crowd.

[@flesheater5712]

There's someone prowlin around here....

[@mikespike2099]

Rule 1 in the Book of Assassins: To be an effective Assassin you must be one with the world around you ……. Meanwhile …Yasuke a black giant in 16th Century Feudal Japan 😮😮😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@shadowking9739]

It'd be funny if there was an "Insta-Disguise Change" option and Yasuke suddenly appears in drag. "I'm just a friendly geisha, not a suspicious figure."

[@nyanko2077]

My grandma used to tell me: "Don't listen to what people say. Samurai were black"

[@blackdynamite_5470]

My grandma still tells me: "I don't care what they teach you in school. All black people are still Samurais"

[@ivandankob7112]

samurai samurai samurai samurai ... i'm one hundred percent samurai

[@RipaStar00]

is ur grandmother samurai aswell? if yeas she must be black aswell

[@robertmusil1107]

They'll rewrite history in the future. Suddenly you'll see Black people in medieval Europe sailing around the World and discovering things :D Newton? African. Galileo? African.

[@RipaStar00]

@@robertmusil1107 and youll be there to cry about that too

[@moenia9652]

Hello, my foreign friends. I am Japanese. This game has been a hot topic in Japan, but the contents are so messed up that many people are more confused than angry. Plants that bloom in spring and plants that bloom in fall at the same time, doors (shoji) that are too big, square floors (tatami), descriptions that do not understand the difference between shrines and temples, etc. There are many other things that surprised me, but what surprised me the most was that the main character is a gay black man dressed as a samurai. However much political correctness may have influenced the film, it is indeed crammed with too many things. It's a shame, because "Ghost of Tsushima" was fun and I was hoping that "Assassin's Creed" might surpass it. (I'm writing this from Google Translate, sorry).

[@heartysquid]

We all have been suffering from Ubisoft and other idiots like this. We can all sympathize with your pain.😔👍

[@whitemiasma5288]

A word of warning: There used to not be many samurai around here in America when our fathers were young, now there are ninjas everywhere.

[@cardassa]

Wait he os actually gay or people are projecting?😮

[@DarkSun123456789]

@@cardassa Did you not watch the video?

[@frenchfriedbagel7035]

Expecting Assassins creed to surpass anything is a pipe dream.

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

Ass-assin's Creed: Memoirs of a Gaysha .

[@parapoliticos52]

-memoirs- fantasies

[@granujja]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082]

Activist Creed.

[@tommymarco]

Ass ass in

[@rommelbengali]

Grandioso! 👏👏👏 Good one.

[@bollockjohnson6156]

All Yasuke Floyd had to do was use a real 20 Yen note and not overdose on opium. Now ninjas everywhere are raiding sandal shops and burning down pagodas.

[@conrad792]

😂

[@rallyfeind]

I Kanto breathe.

[@garethlewis1984]

20 yen note? That's like 15 cents :')

[@MagcargoMan]

I like how the pundit channels all cry about being called racists, yet you look at their comments section and the dregs of society like you frequent it and freely out yourselves as the things you deny being.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Fiery, but mostly peaceful war

[@eviljoshy3402]

I'm reminded of Chris Tucker's joke in Rush Hour 2 "What you mean blend in? Im 3 feet taller than everybody in here"

[@user-zi8io1qt8d]

Here’s something ridiculous about this: Japan has its own minorities, and we’re marginalizing them to impose our own minorities. They could have made him an Ainu, Okinawan or Burakumin to address Japanese minorities; or perhaps a Korean, Chinese or Filipino to get into East Asian tensions.

[@whisperienced]

once you go beyond US boundaries black people aren't a minority.

[@z-accountlogic8913]

If a minority is the main character, it should be entertainment, not politics. for example　 Golden Kamuy, the author succeeded by incorporating the Ainu's opinion that“Don’t portray us as victims.”

[@nyarlat2609]

​@@z-accountlogic8913a good read, that one is. I really like when authors treat groups fairly, while showing interesting things that people might not know about them.

[@ItsaKindOfMagic86]

how about no? and just use a japanese protagonist

[@SacClass650]

The convictions endorsed by Ubisoft include arguing that peoples should have their histories and cultures presented authentically, not subjected to western and "Eurocentric" sensibilities. And yet, Ubisoft is extrapolating from an exception that proves the rule an erroneous narrative of a Black samurai, and projecting onto Japanese history ...western sensibilities of diversity and inclusion!

[@jonbaxter2254]

Ubisoft knows an Sub-Saharan African setting wouldn't get the number or interest, so they had to inject it in an admittedly popular setting.

[@kieranelliott5607]

It's almost as though the goal is to advance a viewpoint not represent viewpoints, who could have seen that coming?

[@etantife]

Creed has never been historically accurate .... you literally fight the Pope in one game. I like how you people draw the line here.

[@SacClass650]

@@etantife Firstly, I don't understand what your reply has to do with my comment? And secondly, it is not the deviations from history that people are sensitive to and critical of _per_ _se_ - but rather the convictions behind them. (Out of curiosity, would you be OK if Ubisoft released an Assassin's Creed game set in the Sahel during the 11th century and made you play as a European?)

[@copperypuddle3858]

@@SacClass650He’d likely fill his diaper over that one because it would most certainly be (D)ifferent

[@paulthetexan]

Don't forget that it was written by a white woman. Who would know more about feudal Japan?

[@dantespimp]

Oh, you sweet summer child. This white woman based her history of Japan from the LGBT+ consultant Ubisoft ALSO hired for Shadows: a LGBT+ activist named Sachi Schmidt-Hori. Her credentials? She's written works on 'male love' in feudal Japan, specifically between priests and CHILDREN 🤢🤮Of course, this radical fujoshi refers to these 'relationships' as 'transgenerational sex' and totally ignores the grim reality of these kids being exploited by both the priests and their parents. But hey! LGBT+ history, right?!

[@giulizpaviz6381]

and the "historian" they picked is a fujoshi who wrote novels about priests having relationships with minors

[@rustyshackleford1062]

I mean there are white people who legitimately do know a lot about Japanese history and I'm sure there are Japanese people who don't care about it at all your genetics don't really qualify you either way in that regard but it is true that the incompetent who was given oversight is more of a historical fan-fiction writer than she is a historian and particularly has this weird fixation with rewriting abuses perpetrated on young initiate monks to supposedly celibate orders as some sort of LGB renaissance. I guess the only crime in the catholic church scandals was that they were catholic, because when similar religious orders do the same thing it is stunning and brave. We live in weird times.

[@zr9266]

​@@giulizpaviz6381 That's a very peak white Karen virtual signal moment

[@banhammer3904]

I have an Asian Studies degree so I'm inclined to believe that I know more than she does. Did she consult me? No, she did not.

[@Carolina-Ja]

Please say there's a portion with drive-by archery

[@dontshootmex5588]

Horse archery actually was a thing in Japan back then and still is, so probably yes

[@dantespimp]

🤣🤣🤣

[@AEB1066]

Only samurai to hold his bow sideways.

[@whitemiasma5288]

@@AEB1066 With an extendo quiver.

[@WarDaddy777]

The no one will be able to identify the only black guy in Japan remark got me good.

[@RambleOn07]

If the original plan of having the assassin be a Buddhist monk is what they went with, that would make a lot of sense and be super cool.

[@howardmurphy8019]

Much more effective cover.

[@Jedsa009]

During the Sengoku Era, there was the Ikkō-ikki, an autonomous group of priests, warrior monks, peasants, merchants, and local lords that opposed the rule of governors or daimyō. They fit well into the Assassin's Philosophy. Their conflict with Nobunaga and other daimyō can easily be reimagined as another cover for the Assassin-Templar war.

[@peteschaub7561]

Yeah it is kind of weird making a samurai be an assassin. I'm not an expert on Japanese history by any stretch, but isn't that like making a knight act as an assassin?

[@lachlank.8270]

Some Buddhist LOL

[@somechinesedude5466]

​@@peteschaub7561you're saying knights never been be an assasin? Off the record of course

[@AshPrimeDCFC]

They've always had you play as a fictional protagonist. They were so desperate to have a black man they could only justify it by finding the one historical black man in feudal Japan. Astonishing.

[@Sammo212]

which is weird given we've had at least two black protagonists in Assassins Creed already. The series is pretty diverse - arab - italian - native american - french - danish - black egyptian - freed black slave - white british - finnish - chinese - arab

[@diablows1909]

If they made him a prominent NPC figure related to the story it would have been perfectly fine and acceptable.

[@Blizzard-kf3qm]

@@Sammo212 Don't forget Welsh and Greek.

[@Fcker-oi8ex]

This is what the Japanese wanted. ​@@diablows1909

[@denov.96]

I don't care what they told you on school, Cleopatra was a samurai

[@Pyrate_Of_Las_Vegas]

"Did the Assassin have any identifying features?" "Uh....well...um...?"

[@fobinc]

Nappy hair, tall stature, unexplainable swag, and a side leaning walk. Either way, very Black. Guards: damn it Yasuke, now we have to inform Lord Nobunaga.

[@revolioclockman8090]

​@@fobincDon't foget that he's literally wearing Nobunagas crest out in public so he doesn't get attacked by random villagers all the time.

[@NucleaRaptor]

Exaggerated swagger of an afro samurai

[@Inastewpopotogo]

the assassin is actually the female

[@SqueakingLion]

They could have picked any of over a thousand ACTUALLY famous, historical Japanese samurai to be their new main character. But NOOOOOO... Ubisoft has an agenda to propagandize! That memo even specifically stated that "we believe that having a respectful and constructive dialogue is difficult - if not impossible - to achieve." and "we ask you not to engage in or interact with these conversations" So they're basically saying, "We're right, you're wrong, and if you dare to have an opinion outside of ours, we hate you." Yeah... because demanding that the "historically accurate" Assassin's Creed be actually accurate is clearly not a rational, respectful, or constructive topic of debate. This is racism, cultural appropriation, and yet more of the continuing "rewriting of history" that has become the AC franchise. At least the previous AC titles mostly got the race of the main characters right... mostly. I'm so sick of this sh!t.

[@noneyabizz8337]

It's shocking how much revision history is getting. What is known, he came to japan as a servant, possibly a slave. His skin color was thought of as dirty and they attempted to wash it off. His presence amused the ruling class. He carried weapons. He left after a little more than a year in Japan. Much of the rest is bunk.

[@TheodoreBotman]

He didnt just leave, Nobunaga was killed and they thought he wasnt even worth killing and sent him away to wherever. So unimportant his fates not even known.

[@FishAnvil]

He was sold into slavery as a child, yes, but by the time he went to Japan, he was working with a priest as a Jesuit warrior. He worked as Nobunaga's bodyguard for 15 months, but didn't need to fight or participate in any battles. He recieved the title of Bushi, but to put it simply, the title of Samurai didn't define a warrior class for about 20 years after Nobunaga's death. We'll straight up never know if he'd qualify as a Samurai by modern terms because no one wrote it down.

[@jonbaxter2254]

He was a toy or piece of interest for Nobunaga. Now they will make him his lover or something.

[@SPTX.]

@@jonbaxter2254 I really hope they'll go that far.

[@deenman23]

you mean the revisionist history EVERY AC GAME has?but oh no....the last straw just so happens to be the one about the blak man lol,you natzis rly wear it on your heart with pride

[@unversedhero6028]

Funny how this time they chose to make a real life person into the main character when historically every AssCreed MC has been someone who didn't exist... I wonder why they did that?🤔

[@bencarlson4300]

Yeah, I saw the justification that “Yasuke is a real historical person”… ok, and? If they made an AC in South America and made the main character a Spanish conquistador, that would be fine too, right? Or how about a British military officer in Jordan? A Belgian in the Congo? Those were all real people too.

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

DEI money and Black Rock.

[@kri249]

It gave them the excuse they were looking for to black wash the main character.

[@Rotom0479]

@unversedhero6028 I admit, it is a curious choice to make. My best guess is that they wanted to play with the formula this time around.

[@TheSergio1021]

This DEI main character is brought to you by Black Rock

[@adazukibeans3557]

Those defending Yasuke keep bringing up how he's a big part of Japan's history and saying how he has statues in museums in japan too, but they just show me the statues that are in California made by Nicola Roos. It just seemed obvious what Ubisoft is doing when they replaced a Japanese male(Taka) with Yasuke.

[@JuneA-lq6lq]

Ubisoft should have made Yoshitatsu Saito the giant tank samurai instead. He was described as a rare large man at the time, measuring over 6 shaku 5 sun (approximately 197 cm/6ft6). Obviously I would have prefer Taka Yamauchi the assassin-monk.

[@adazukibeans3557]

@@JuneA-lq6lq I like the idea of keeping a fictional character as the protagonist that meets famous historical figures. Naoe is fine, Ubisoft just made her look like Diego from FarCry.

[@ralphengland8559]

A katana bleed build in a Souls game is likely more authentic than an Ubisoft game.

[@malikbrewster6730]

Remember how they all bitched and moaned about Sucker Punch making Ghost of Tsushima? Now said development team is a cultural ambassador to the island for their faithful work. Funny how respecting source material and being faithful to the story works out.

[@bencarlson4300]

And just generally making a good product. Turns out that earns a lot of respect and goodwill, something Ubisoft has either forgotten or achieved long ago only by accident.

[@waynewayne8419]

@@bencarlson4300Ubisoft makes good product. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean they don’t. Their sales numbers prove so no matter how you guys keep coping.

[@AnAmericanMusician]

If only every game company was as mature and not nearly as narcissistic...

[@alphariusomegon4819]

Assassin's Creed is a science fiction game! And Yasuke being in the game is normal for the Japanese culture. He is already in tons of different media in Japan. The only people upset are white males from the west. There are children's stories written about Yasuke in Japan since the 1960s. And he has appeared in multiple video games created by Japanese developers. Nioh 1 and Nioh 2, and also Samurai Warriors 5. So what exactly are you talking about "respecting source material", the source material comes from Japan.

[@nobodyinterestingyou]

@@alphariusomegon4819 Stop gaslighting people. Assassins' creed always tried to make the era the games are In mostly historically accurate and normally our protagonists are always fictional people. Even going by your twisted standard, It makes no sense to play as him there. There's no real proof that he was ever a samurai; just him being a sword retainer for the Oda clan, treated like an exquisite pet because of his skin color, that was quickly deported after the fall of Nobunaga Oda. He should be a side character at most, not the focus of whole darn thing during one of the most interesting time In feudal Japan!

[@PsycoDwarf9]

Imagine just how funny this would be if Mel Brooks wrote it?

[@AshCosgrove]

I didn't get a harumph outta that guy!

[@user-tb8uo9lt2x]

@@AshCosgrove "Where da white women at?"

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

I would absolutely pay money for that!! 😂

[@kri249]

You can't make him a Samurai. He's a ni.......

[@newtpondskipper]

The assassin is a n(bell sound)! Yes, Gabby, the assassin is near.

[@thomasfucillo]

Having your secret assassin be the guy who can’t go anywhere in the entire country without being noticed is wild 😂

[@MagcargoMan]

He's not the assassin though, lol.

[@thomasfucillo]

@@MagcargoMan what’s the game called?

[@MagcargoMan]

@@thomasfucillo You know there's another playable character right? They are the assassin, not him. They even have the hidden blade, which he does not.

[@thomasfucillo]

@@MagcargoMan doesn’t even matter, nothing is going to save this racist trainwreck game Looking forward to watching it burn

[@doublep1980]

So.... Yasuke was not only a sword bearer but also a sword swallower, did I understand it right?

[@gamephreak5]

He "crossed swords" many times on the "battlefield"!

[@alejandrotorresriquelme8714]

​@@gamephreak5A proper samurai who uses his sword even in the bed. Wasn't he neutered?

[@blackdynamite_5470]

He was also stabbed many times

[@robertmusil1107]

Of course man. How do you check two ESG checkboxes at once? Make him black and gay.

[@FIGHTONnatties]

​@@blackdynamite_5470😂👊

[@kodypolitza8844]

Honestly, the premise of a Zulu assassin and the imperials sounds awesome. But they don't care about representation in the normal ssense. They need to project it into other cultures where it has no business being. That's their priority.

[@jonbaxter2254]

I would literally die for a Zulu set anything! SO much cool history. Or Axum if you want to go even further back!

[@NormanReaddis]

Can't portray historical black on black crime in a game.

[@BasementPepperoni]

Yeeeaaaaa, but making anything that makes sense or is even the slightest bit entertaining or fun completely goes against their agenda. Unless EVERY movie, show, game, sport, song, and art piece has hardcore xxx ghey sex being front and center, they'll never be satisfied.

[@alexm6715]

@@jonbaxter2254Axum would be amazing. Seeing an ancient Ethiopian Christian kingdom in a video game would be awesome

[@MagcargoMan]

Of course, another ignorant pundit channel user can only think of something tribal for Africa. Why are you types so predictable?

[@rexlumontad5644]

Gotta get back, back to the past! Samurai Jack!

[@SourRobo8364]

Greatest American cartoon next to Avatar: The Last Airbender.

[@jonbaxter2254]

@@SourRobo8364 Avatar did racism incredbily well, and something a modern setting would lose all nuance in.

[@parapoliticos52]

Samurai Dynamite Johnson

[@DustinDonald-cz9ot]

The Scotsman was so good in that show.

[@michaelmartin8337]

That Jack was like...

[@MikeB-ev4fh]

"It's part of our DNA and will remain that way regardless of external pressure" "Due to external financial pressure our company is now bankrupt"

[@Unethical.Dodgson]

If inclusion and representation was ACTUALLY important to Ubisoft and they weren't just playing the "we're the good guys" card: They would have made their protagonist and Ainu person. You know? The actual ethnic minority that got pretty much completely assimilated into the Yamato culture? I thought they cared about culture and shit... that was some actual JAPANESE shit they could have done. (Knowing them. They would make said Ainu character an African Black Man, regardless.) Edit: Also, everytime Babyface says a Japanese word or name: I cringe.

[@thehunzz]

Was thinking the same thing. Would at least be more believable.

[@Rekaert]

There's a lot of wishful thinking with promoting Yasuke as a Samurai. Nobunaga kept him essentially as a novelty, because he was intrigued by his skin, to the point where he didn't believe it was real, and had Yasuke scrub it to prove otherwise. He kept him as a weapon bearer for a time, until Nobunaga was forced into Seppuku, after which his enemies just sent Yasuke off to India, declaring him an animal, and not Japanese. There's no record of him fighting in war, no record of him receiving training, no record of him being a Samurai as the term is understood today. He was, essentially a curio that Nobunaga kept because he was a talking piece, and who surrendered and did not commit seppuku when his lord's enemies demand that he hand over his sword. Certainly an interesting person from history, but not what a lot of people are making him out to be. Edit: Removed a line of Nobunaga dialogue that was incorrect.

[@stephenkelley6268]

Correct, he was little more than a "pet". He wasn't even worth killing.

[@PeregrinTintenfish]

That is actually wrong. He may not be a samurai, but he did a lot of samurai things. He was a soldier or bodyguard for the Jesuits. In Japan he received a stipend and a house (things that samurai get) and had his own servants. He also carried his Lord's armour, which was an honorable task.

[@MagcargoMan]

Nice fiction there about claiming Nobunaga asked him to commit Seppuku. Where's your source for that? Meanwhile, actual Japanese documentation of him says he was found holding up with Nobunaga's son when Nobunaga was assassinated.

[@romainrondeau4242]

​@@MagcargoManso where are your sources? I'd like links if we're asking for solid stuff. Might be a good read.

[@Rekaert]

​@@MagcargoMan Interesting. From what I've read Nobunaga committed seppuku, and was not assassinated. What's your source that he was assassinated?

[@Johnnyboy000]

I'm racist for wanting to play a game with a story about Japan, located in Japan, as a Japanese man or woman.😂

[@jonbaxter2254]

To Ubisoft, yes you are.

[@brandonpick1486]

Not at all, but it's just ridiculous that anyone would be mad over a video game.

[@sianais]

​@brandonpick1486 It's not just a video game. If this sht wasn't pushed in every single form of media, nobody would be sensitive to it. And it's backed up by revisionist history. There are people out there legit trying to make English royalty black African decendants. Every man or woman with curly hair and established racial features is now "black." It's one thing to put a female black viking in a piece of media or as a goddess in a game, but it never stops there. Its followed by "proof" a race with no contact with folks darker than an Arabian or Indian would somehow actually have a secret society of Sub Saharan Africans living amongst them until they magically went poof and left not a single shred of DNA in the gene pool. The Wikipedia for Yasuke got edited so much after the game to prove he was a Samurai with a fiefdom and kids and other things that didn't happen, they had to lock it. I've seen countless spitting the fantasy around him as fact. Same happened with Queen Charlotte.

[@brandonpick1486]

@@sianais were not talking about black vikings or black English royalty. Or any of that bull shit that claims it to be historically accurate. We are talking about a Sci-Fi Historical fiction video game. That is set in Japan with a single black man. Who by the way was a real person. It's not like they're claiming this to be historical accurate. Like say the netflix Cleopatra bull shit. Hell the devs them self stated they knew he wasn't a real samurai. Hes just a cool ass character that has been in Japanese media since the 60's. So weather or not he was or wasn't an actual samurai is irrelevant. Because AC has never been Historically accurat. They make games set in historical settings. But beyond that, everything else is pure fiction.

[@Rotom0479]

There is going to be a Japanese woman as the other playable character though.

[@curtcoeurdelion]

Fun fact: Yasuke‘s origins are originally described as being from Wakanda in some of Oda Nobunagas later original hand writings.

[@Grenzkontrolli]

Ubisoft is also planning remakes of Sonic the Blackgehog and Super Mutombo Bros.

[@markbrowne181]

DEI kills everything

[@ImpKnt80]

Not if we kill dei first…

[@KiomonDuck]

​@@ImpKnt80you can't kill an idea you can only teach the people to come not to be stupid and to work hard for what they want.

[@ImpKnt80]

It has no value of its own, it has no life of its own. It can only be imposed from the top down using force. Take away that force and ban it in western nations and watch it crumble and burn into ashes and dust.

[@The.Nasty.]

@@KiomonDucklook at N Korea, you can absolutely kill an idea. It just takes a lot of pretty terrible things… to accomplish it. In my opinion.

[@KiomonDuck]

@@The.Nasty. it's still a country with a government,military and defined boarder. So at the moment its functioning. If anything an idea only gets replaced by a better one.

[@notYisan]

not enough with non Japanese black protagonist in historical Japanese setting with Chinese architecture, they have to make him gay checks all the DEI box

[@TaoScribble]

​@@Durzo1259 He wasn't a samurai, he was an attendant.

[@The.Nasty.]

@@Durzo1259that’s not true dude, he was a retainer who lived in Japan for like a year or something. You’re repeating already disproven lies.

[@waynewayne8419]

@@The.Nasty.what exactly do you think a retainer does lmfao

[@ghidorah4695]

​​​@@waynewayne8419A retainer is a non-domestic servant who attends to and wears their lord's livery, which essentially means their colours. Regardless of what it means, does it actually matter? It's still not a samurai.

[@maciekkowalczyk1366]

​@@waynewayne8419 about the same things as a squire, carry swords and other stuff, carry umbrellas(there is a painting that shows this) and be a mascot. He had a sword and armor, but the only time he tried to fight was when his master was assassinated and he lost

[@BonesTheCat]

He's a footnote in the space of 12 months in the history of THOUSANDS of years of a nation. But sure, a 6ft 2 Ethiopian certainly would make a discreet assassin in feudal Japan.

[@user-ii9bl6de2j]

Gundam with that smug ass background knows exactly what he is doing.

[@schiz0phren1c]

The banter between Gundam and Az is fuckin class!. don't forget that Japanese gamers have pointed out that the background aesthetics are Chinese, not Japanese as well!, Ah ubersoft!, doing ubersoft stuff!

[@kenjifox4264]

Speaks volumes of the lack of care they put into this game. To those racists China, Japan… what’s the difference? Same thing they say, same thing, who cares they say. This is basically a massive middle finger to Japan with each hand. One with the POC character, the second with the culture and architecture.

[@kri249]

Chinese, Japanese, what's the difference? They all look the same at Ubisoft.

[@Sentinel82]

The kicker....The Chinese are NOT friendly towards black people. 😂

[@scionofdorn9101]

@@kri249*simmers silently in Korean* 😝

[@Unethical.Dodgson]

@@scionofdorn9101 Ubisoft: Don't you mean "North China"?

[@ShakalakaKing]

I saw this behavior when I worked with Ubi. Also when I worked at Bungie. Legit got into an argument with someone that was trying to say Tolkien was racist. Glad I am no longer working with them.

[@daveeyes]

True leftists *hate* Tolkien. Tolkien was a Christian and converted C.S. Lewis to Christianity. He wrote many Christian themes into Lord of the Rings.

[@gamephreak5]

@@daveeyes Ah, actually, Tolkien was a Catholic who was trying to convert C.S. Lewis to Catholicism, but instead Lewis converted to Protestantism, which Tolkien was very dismayed by. They were still close friends though.

[@elblaise5618]

I wish less people worked for these companies, labor matters but people are scared to take a stand when there are consequences.

[@banhammer3904]

They had a big falling out and didn't speak or write for a decade.

[@aethersurfer6793]

@@gamephreak5if I remember correctly, that’s also why C S Lewis used Christian iconography and stories in his Narnia tales, is that right? If so, was Narnia written before his conversion? It’s also interesting the catholic Tolkien took Celtic and Norse mythology and used that for his story. I think he said England had lost so much of its own mythology through Roman and Saxon incursion he used LotR as a way of reimagining English mythology.

[@Izaiah.Jimenez]

Yaskue in history was the equivalent of a squire for Oda Nobunaga, and only knew Oda for close to a year.

[@EvilDoresh]

Not quite. Squires are basically apprentice knights. Yasuke was quite literally "just some guy".

[@Izaiah.Jimenez]

@@EvilDoresh I mean true … Oda only kept him around for his size and color. Oda supposedly kept Yasuke around to show off to others, because no one in Japan saw a black man before.

[@BadgerOff32]

Never a dull moment when Gundam is on lol

[@Teno2001]

Gotta love that Ubisoft D.E.I! Not getting the game.

[@kenjifox4264]

No one should be getting this game. They can keep it. I’m going back to retro-gaming. I’m fine with any game made in 2010 and every decade prior, on any gaming system.

[@Gonroamin]

*Original AC complaints* - 'Wow, how dumb, the guards don't notice the only dude hiding in the crowd armed to the teeth.' *AC Shadows* - 'How can we possibly make this even more stupid?.'

[@KiomonDuck]

I bet that his final armour will be bright gold or brightly colored with gold trim and will show enough skin to make him stand out like a floodlight in a dark room.

[@PeregrinTintenfish]

​@@KiomonDuck The armour in the trailer is especially extravagant, so he stands out even more.

[@KiomonDuck]

@@PeregrinTintenfish he will be a Lazer lightshow peacock by the end.

[@Hexensohn]

Not to mention a little hay saving you from a 100 foot drop off a rooftop.

[@RipaStar00]

@@Hexensohn and thats a problem only in this game

[@CookNut456]

After what Japan had to go through with Johnny Somali, the last thing Ubisoft needs is to remind them again by having Yusuke go on a rampage against the Japanese

[@KaspersDomain]

Oh yeah, good point.

[@bruhdon4748]

If this game came out over ten years ago when every assassins creed fan including myself was begging for them to do a feudal Japan setting this game would’ve been huge & really interesting, despite being alternate history games there was always a clear love for history in the earlier games & you could feel it, this game is over ten years too late & being made in the wrong year.

[@smallcd]

Ubisoft might as well put Rachel Zegler in AC Shadows at this point.

[@RambleOn07]

She could play a Portuguese missionary who is secretly a woman, but also transgender.

[@remuslazar2033]

Weird weird

[@parapoliticos52]

depends, is she a good kisser?

[@jonbaxter2254]

Let me guess, as a pale, Irish person no doubt?

[@ianhines2302]

I mean she is a cutie

[@redbearington3345]

Just checked it out and today Japan is 97.9% Japanese, 1% other Asians, so only 1.1% non Asian.

[@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845]

👍

[@LordNithilus]

"Disgusting, needs more diversity." -french gaming company

[@max7971]

And that’s a good thing.

[@fireironthesecond2909]

If Britain were more like that we would have parades supporting terrorists every week

[@Sentinel82]

And they have a wonderful culture because of it.

[@mafiotzi]

Yasuke was a man of African origin who served as a retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga for a period of 15 months between 1581 and 1582. A retainer was someone who carried the samurai's weapons. It is not a samurai. Why not make an Assassin's Creed based on African culture/history. Why the pandering? As you guys said, how is a black samurai supposed to blend in and pass unobserved? The same would apply to an European instead of the African. It just doesn't go well with the story and location.

[@nealefrancis9094]

I can’t wait for the remake of Zulu dawn cast full of Chinese Zulu characters

[@kbab679]

This ItsaGundam guy is pretty funny

[@mr.jayjay2401]

Nah

[@jonbaxter2254]

He's a right proper lad.

[@Butiguessilovememore]

Funnier than any of the efap fartknockers I have to endure on other better youtuber's streams 😢

[@brandonpick1486]

I don't like his veiw on games and movies. But he's fucking hilarious check out his older videos. KZbin has kind of forced him to be less funny recently than older stuff.

[@KiomonDuck]

Gundam likes to put on a show when pointing out the bs people and corporations do. But yeah he has had to tone it down for the Youtub gods.

[@oldgregg86.]

Wassup my ninjas.

[@robchuk4136]

Lol! underrated comment

[@bigbake132]

Lol

[@danjonmills]

BLM - Bushido Lives Matter

[@blackdynamite_5470]

I can't believe you used the hard J I'm so disgusted at this racism

[@neuclyadroid1357]

When You Embarrassed Of Your Own History You Tend To Lach On To Other People's History💀 The Main Character Syndrome At Its Fullest 🗿

[@Gaizure]

Ubibsoft saw Ghost of Tsushima was like “we want that kind of money” and then shit out the worst idea possible.

[@MrMoridinalthor]

So they had to Google the one black person in Imperial Japan, and then make him gay? They're not ESGing.

[@EvilDoresh]

_Certain_ people fetishize Yasuke to an absurd degree, turning him from Oda's circus attraction into the greatest samurai there ever was.

[@lewdendorff4120]

Not even imperial, but shogunate

[@Rotom0479]

@MrMoridinalthor They're making him gay? Are we sure about that and not just joking?

[@jagerblitzen4017]

No one ever said he was gay. Not from Ubisoft, anyways. That was some fearmongering made up by some bigot and than all you nerds panicked and believed it because it confirmed your pre-existing hate.

[@EvilDoresh]

@@Rotom0479 They hired someone for this _specializing_ in the history of gayness in Japan

[@kpsk8031]

Skull and Bones, Star Wars Game, Ass Creed - 2024 could be the year that breaks Ubisoft's back. Overdue and well-deserved.

[@CalebMay-bf1ci]

What about xdefiant?

[@77wolfblade]

@@CalebMay-bf1ci That's probably the only game in recent times that's doing decently okay for now. but how long will that last?

[@CyanRooper]

Don't forget the fact that they shut down the servers for The Crew 1 and removed the game files from the players' libraries to stop them from trying to revive the game. Imagine paying full price for a game only for the publisher to remove it from existence before it was even allowed to turn 10 years old.

[@kpsk8031]

@@CyanRooper right, in Ubisoft World every "purchase" is a limited rental.

[@cblifeform8535]

Here's hoping.

[@juriesjoerdstoutjesdijk1678]

Everybody know there is only 1 Great Black Ninja.. Chris Rock

[@tatianaoliveira2191]

▪︎ A.C. 1 - Masyaf (Syria) - Syrian protagonist ▪︎ A.C. 2 - Italy - Italian protagonist ▪︎ A.C. 3 - U.S.A. (18th cent.) - Native American protagonist ▪︎ A.C. 3 Liberation - New Orleans - American (African & French mix) protagonist * ▪︎ A.C. 4 Black Flag - West Indies - Welsh (pirate) protagonist ▪︎ A.C. 4 Freedom Cry - Haiti - Afro-Trinidadian (pirate) protagonist * ▪︎ A.C. Rogue - U.S.A. - Irish-American protagonist ▪︎ A.C. Unity - France - French protagonist ▪︎ A.C. Syndicate - England - English protagonists ▪︎ A.C. Chronicles: China - Chinese protagonist ▪︎ A.C. Chronicles: India - Indian protagonist ▪︎ A.C. Chronicles: Russia - Russian protagonist ▪︎ A.C. Origins - Egypt - Berber-Egyptian protagonist ▪︎ A.C. Odyssey - Greece - Greek protagonists ▪︎ A.C. Valhala - Viking Invasion of Britain - Norwegian viking protagonist ▪︎ A.C. Mirage - Baghdad (Iraq) - Iraqi protagonist --- ▪︎ A.C. Shadows - Japan (16th-century) - Black African (Mozambican) protagonist... Seems that Ubisoft thinks that Asian males don't deserve representation, even in their own culture.

[@billjacobs521]

More likely Sudanese, but otherwise, yes. It's so weird. This is a series that can be set anywhere and have protagonists of any race, so why this? It does seem like a weird hate boner for the Japanese.

[@tatianaoliveira2191]

​​​@@billjacobs521 It's very weird. In the whole franchise, every protagonist so far has reflected the demographic of the country the game is set. When the game is finally set in Japan, they chose to do this... it's weird. ... The architecture in the trailer is also Chinese instead of Japanese.

[@tatianaoliveira2191]

​@@billjacobs521He could be Sudanese indeed... but most sources point to Yasuke being probably from Mozambique (''probably'', there are no certainty) Who knows...

[@gabrielhersey5546]

Assassin’s creed in Japan should star a samurai girl who has geisha training Makes more sense for a spy assassin

[@nyarlat2609]

That would have legit opened the door to an examination of the conflict of gender and class within Japanese culture, and could both be historically accurate while satisfying the industry's woke DEI hunger. But nah, they had to go for broke, bet everything on maxing out ESG score, cuz WE WUZ SAMORAYE.

[@EvilDoresh]

Or a _proper_ ninja disguised as a simple peasant and/or wandering monk

[@rudacr]

You guys could work for Ubisoft yourselves with these plot idea's! Clearly watching too much anime (... if there is such a thing?) Pretty sure there weren't any 'Samurai Girls' in feudal Japan (or if there were, it was isolated 'Mulan'-style incidents), and Geisha's weren't around until the 18th century (and even then it was initially a male-dominated profession). But I do agree, a game about assassins set in feudal Japan should have a Japanese protagonist.

[@krauserjavsan4280]

Or musashi

[@EvilDoresh]

@@krauserjavsan4280 How about Ishikawa Goemon? An _actual_ ninja who allegedly tried to poison Oda.

[@rexlumontad5644]

The Sa-Moo-Rai in Assassin's Creed Shadows.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Assassins Creed Shieet

[@Becker89101]

Gundam bullying Az into doing what he wants is 👌

[@sakkra93]

Yasuke: Was a retainer William Adams: Was a fully-fledged Samurai, was Tokugawa Ieyasu's personal advisor on Western matters, personally oversaw the building of some of the first Western-style ships in Japan, had a direct influence on the introduction of Japan's isolationist policy in the 1630s, and was the first man to establish formal relations between England and Japan during the first decade of the 17th century. One of these men was an *actual* Samurai and had a rather lasting, if overlooked, impact on the history of feudal Japan. Can you guess which?

[@jonbaxter2254]

AC Brotherhood: Italian in Italy. AC Syndicate: Brit siblings in Britain AC Odyssey: Greek in Greece. AC Shadows. Black in Japan... of course.

[@user-tb8uo9lt2x]

Idiots will bring up Black Flag....except the majority of pirates were of European origin and there were a large amount of Welshmen in that group. So Kenway also fits. Of course such Nuance is lost on these idiots....

[@Fcker-oi8ex]

Origins: Egyptian Valhalla: white viking.

[@PeregrinTintenfish]

So basically, this game would have been okay if it wasn't AC? Arguably the female ninja is the Assassin and Yasuke is the playable side character. Female ninjas are ahistorical btw.

[@Fcker-oi8ex]

@@MagcargoMan pirates tended to yano... Sail around.

[@Fcker-oi8ex]

@@PeregrinTintenfish not really. The term "Ninja" wouldn't have been used in this time period so it will be interesting to see what they call her.

[@davidfrancisco3502]

Ubisoft ruined Assassin's Creed since Syndicate because they put a woke white woman in charge of the writing.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Hey now, Syndicate was pretty good and a really great represenation of London. Hell, they even had diversity right by having an Indian main NPC character, who was literally helping the Maharaja who was in London at the time.

[@daniellogan-scott5968]

Syndicate was the last true Assassin's Creed game. Origins destroyed the canon and Odyssey tried to fix it with the DLC but was otherwise a great ancient Greece game (but not AC). Did not even bother with Valhalla and won't will Shadows.

[@rogue_of_the_winds1286]

It died at Unity. A lot of us haven't come back since that disaster, just sat here and watched them turn it into a Witcher clone. Glad they're finally failing after also ruining FarCry, Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell too.

[@superjlk_9538]

@@daniellogan-scott5968I like Origins. They never should have kept going with the “ancient trilogy” or whatever they call it. If Origins is the starting of the Creed then WHY WOULD YOU GO FURTHER INTO THE PAST

[@superjlk_9538]

@@rogue_of_the_winds1286I played Origins, skipped Odyssey and played Valhalla because Cyberpunk got delayed that fall. Haven’t played the DLC or new game since

[@TheRedBeanPodcast]

I want the next Assassin Creed the West African Edition. The main character a pale white guy surrounded by black people. I am sure he will blend in with all the locals!

[@jasonthyrion9554]

Fact #1: Fifteen years ago, an Assassin's Creed game based upon the historical Yasuke would've been much more easily accepted by the gaming community. Fact #2: Fifteen years ago, that same game would've been written MUCH FUCKING BETTER.

[@wolfofwarframe3807]

And at least he would have looked like an assassin, instead of generic shinobi girl and generic samurai guy.

[@Nope_handlesaretrash]

Sometimes i love men "This is f*cking horrible. You gotta try this"

[@NoPantsBaby]

They made this game. They made their own character for the protagonist. The Ubisoft main studio hired some woke loser DEI company to come in and say "But have you thought about the TRILLIONS you could make if you made the main character black?" and they did. And they are finding out right now how stupid it is. They have never done this before. This is actually the first AC game where you are NOT playing an original character. Altair? OC. Ezio? OC. Connor? OC. Arno? OC! The entire list is ORIGINAL characters. Then there's Yasuke. A black man who was historically relevant to his proximity to Oda Nobunaga for an ENTIRE 15 months.

[@Rotom0479]

If I were being generous, my best guess would be that they're trying to do some experimentation and see how well they can pull it off. Whether they characterize Yasuke well or not, we'll just have to see.

[@GideonRavenor712]

Exactly. EVERY other character you play as in the entire series, is made up. They loosely fit within the setting or time period, but they are not actual figures. Which, story-wise it makes sense, it gives them freedom to do whatever they want with the character and have them do all of these different things and go to these places without being as tied to historical narrative as a known figure, and the games largely keep to the historical timeline of events. Most actual historical figures in the games are side characters, with maybe a couple liberties taken, but roughly matching what they are known to have done. I think the Borgias and most of the other Renaissance targets are the only time where they went explicitly historical with a set of specific antagonists, at least that I can recall. Here, not only did they go for a known historical figure for the male protagonist option (Which outside of making him Nobunaga's retainer briefly, I guarantee you they will ignore the actual history of him), they literally cherry-picked the ONLY named Black guy known to have existed in Feudal Japan, briefly. I think Yasuke could fit perfectly as a side character, maybe have him be the one who brings the Assassin Order to Japan if they wanted, because that wouldn't be out of place in their series . . . But no, that wouldn't be enough for their DIE consultants.

[@whitemiasma5288]

They don't hire anyone; they "hire" someone that wears a tiny hat because others that also wear tiny hats have collectivized their wealth (as those who wear tiny hats always have throughout history and been kick out of 109 different countries 1030+ different times, for this exact same thing, since the most high GOD (who warned us about them) walked the earth in the flesh) and bought enough stock to now start making demands. This is cultural marxism, just like every other thing in the media; which they own all of. Carl marx is the grandson of a rabi and he says he got marxism from the talmud. They are actively doing this same thing to warhammer40k right now. It takes almost no effort to see when - they - bought stock and, because - they - are in possession of all media, made that franchize very much more so popular; now they twist the knife. With these techniques (beer company a short while back), they degrade, destroy, and buy everything until they are the only ones that own anything. Where ever you live, look into who owns nearly every building downtown and most of the homes and suchforth round about.

[@robertmusil1107]

Young black dudes love Samurai and they thought it will help if they include a Black Samurai because they are racist. They don't understand black people just love Samurai. They don't give a shit about skin colour of the Samurai.

[@wolfofwarframe3807]

Yasuke as an NPC, an assassin ally, could be a good addition. Machiavelli was an assassin in AC2 and it worked well for the story, so Yasuke wouldnt be too far off.

[@gregory2421]

A simple remedy to this is to Boycott Ubisoft.

[@mohannadalshamrani199gmail]

It's the most logical solution, that's the language they understand Money Anything else is free publicity to these shameless "people" But it's easier said than done

[@trequor]

This is quite the juxtaposition with Blue Eyed Samurai, which was obviously fantastical, but inspired by real history.

[@Ob1sdarkside]

15 months in Japan, and he's a ninja samurai? Ffs Ubisoft, could we not have a Japanese samurai/ninja? Or is this cultural appropriation?

[@jonbaxter2254]

It took men their entire adult lives to be a Samurai, but he deals with it in less time it takes the seasons to repeat.

[@PineappleBaconPizza]

He couldn't even speak Japanese lol. The Jesuits used him to get closer to Nobunaga and always had their translator around to achieve that. He surrendered his sword in the one fight he was in and wasn't killed or committed seppuku because they didn't consider him a samurai. The general legit called him a "beast" and returned him to the Jesuits. When Nobunaga first saw him, he had Yasuke get buck naked and tried to rub off his skin color because he didn't think it was real.

[@ernestog9092]

Naoe, the other main character, is both Japanese and a ninja

[@banhammer3904]

Tacos and burritos are sandwiches now so we may as well have Eskimo samurai, too.

[@kotaroatani9800]

@@ernestog9092 the only good thing about the game, and she was raised as a Shinobi.

[@beartackle]

As an Asian American man, I'm tired of us not being represented, even if the movie/game is in Asia. I will boycott this game, and I hope all of you do the same!

[@ParallelUniversity]

Keep speaking up about it and convincing others to do the same. It will never change until people complain about it. People love to put Asian women in media, but Asian men are rarely represented, and if they are it is usually a martial arts based character or a gay character. Less than 100 years ago Japanese Americans were put in internment camps, and less than 150 years ago the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed. People only talk about the plight of black people, because black people have been consistently vocal about discrimination. Asian Americans generally don't complain, so most people don't see the problem.

[@sanjayraju988]

Yes, I will be boycotting this garbage. Ghost of Tsushima is now available on PC and PS5, you should play that, it is fantastic game and a brilliant representation of Asian culture.

[@SILOPshuvambanerjee]

As an Asian living in Asia I support you

[@user-tb7rb6lt3d]

I'm sick of this blackwashing of everyone's culture, i live in the uk and you never see white men in adverts, films etc, it's disgraceful

[@MagcargoMan]

Why would an Asian American be in Feudal Japan, lol?

[@bongo_baggins]

"We'll have Earth Mama's natural night camo." -Capt. Lincoln Osiris, Tropic Thunder.

[@benmiles00]

You may lose battles but you do not lose the war; not until you surrender. Never surrender, never give in.

[@slappynixon]

Samurai fun fact. That club is called a Kanabō and was a real weapon used by samurai.

[@georgeray1906]

Not to mention the weapon for Onis.

[@jonbaxter2254]

*Laughs in Shugoki*

[@canaldecasta]

Nabo is euphemism for PP too

[@max7971]

@@canaldecasta The kanabō (金砕棒) (literally "metal stick" or "metal club")

[@Knight_Kin]

Black Samurai blows loads into '96 Sonic Plushie.

[@chaostourist2951]

the meme magic of the "historical" inspiration being named YASuke is phenomenal.

[@JETBLACKPRIEST]

I think part of the reason the backlash is so severe is that fans of the assassins creed games have wanted japan for SO LONG. It's a shame they lost their identity before they got around to it, needed it right after black flag.

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

Please say there's a portion with drive-by archery.

[@RambleOn07]

With _Samurai's Paradise_ playing in the background.

[@GeneralKitten]

W comment

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

​@@RambleOn07 KREAM Koku Rules Everything Around Me

[@HahahMamaman]

There are guns and horses in the game.

[@parapoliticos52]

Why do you people always bring up the chicken

[@SandraPhillips-cb5og]

Enjoying your videos, keep them coming!

[@JohnB-nk8ze]

"I don't care what they taught you in school, Critical Drinker was a crackhead!" - Drinker's granny, probably.

[@joshuay5581]

I love how it seems that Gundam's avatar seems to be ogling Sydney Sweeney (not that I blame him).

[@starkiller1440]

Ubisoft: Why mad? Historically accurate. Also Ubisoft: AC was never historically correct, why mad?

[@Rotom0479]

TBF, Assassin's Creed has always sort of zigzagged back and forth from being accurate and inaccurate.

[@jagerblitzen4017]

The mix of real characters with exaggerated traits in this game is the exact same as all other AC games. Literally nothing has changed except for that shitting on blacks and (alleged) gays is now trendy so this was red meat for the anti-woke mob

[@Sentinel82]

​@@jagerblitzen4017 But what does being gay have to do with a game about assassination?

[@jagerblitzen4017]

@@Sentinel82 Nothing? So why do you give a shit? Ubisoft didn't even say he was gay. That's literally just something some rando on the internet made up

[@jagerblitzen4017]

@@Sentinel82 Nothing. Ubisoft never said anyone was gay. That's literally just something someone rando on the Internet made up

[@RambleOn07]

Educate yourself, Yasuke identifies as an underage boy who is in the care of a Buddhist monk. Get it right.

[@NormanReaddis]

Oh, Their historians personal taste.

[@PineappleBaconPizza]

And that person said, "People in Japan love this and Yasuke." 99.9% of Japanese have no idea who Yasuke was before this lmao

[@corysmith564]

Afro Samurai is the only black Samurai that exists and that matters

[@exilee1206]

The problem with me is not that he’s black, it’s the fact that in comparison to all of the other foreigners that came to japan he has the least historical significance. He was only in japan for a few years and was more of a fascination of Oda Nobunaga than anything. I also love the online black community that was cheering and defending this decision by Ubisoft is all the sudden quite when the rumor that he is also gay came out, Ubisoft really knows nothing about the people they preach to.

[@jagerblitzen4017]

LOL the "online black community" didn't go "sudden quite" over anything. The rumor that he's gay is just something some rando made up, nice attempt to paint the black community as a bunch of homophobes though

[@PompousPompadour]

Ubisoft = You be soft? Is this phrase apart of some kind of wizard's curse?

[@N0T1C3R0FtH1NGS]

Subversion detected

[@blackdynamite_5470]

Opinion rejected

[@Jadty]

Attributing homosexuality to a historical character that’s just a little more than a footnote in Japanese history, is a very bold move from Ubisoft. If the “””black community”””, whatever that means in [current year] is not taking offense to this, I don’t know what to say.

[@RickSanchez-ex7ym]

Designer 1: We could install the option to choose and modify your character by gender, race, hair, eyes, skin, and so much more. This will draw in so many more people to play! Designer 2: NO. They're gonna be a black, non binary hero. And if fans don't like our idea, they're racist.

[@troopcaptain]

Gundam is the gift that keeps on giving.

[@bigmanrobert3610]

we wuz samoo rye

[@Gonboo]

If they wanted to do a black assassin then the game should have been set in Ethiopia. You could do a Game of Thrones style show even given their fascinating history.

[@TheStigification]

Assassins creed has the most diverse main characters and when they were about to put an Asian man in it for the first time they decided it wasn’t diverse enough