I ANNIHILATED Ubisoft and They Deserved It

[@metatronyt]

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[@unusualaussie9606]

Was giving a male name to a female intentional? Take into account that she has male like face in 2024 and you have your answer.

[@bigpicklerick]

Hey I know you aren't that experienced with firearms if you would ever want training or information in general feel free to contact me on here. I've been handling firearms since I was nine, I've been training people since I was fifteen. Im a security specialist and a empty hand combatives and weapons instructor just let me know and if you just want to be pointed to more experienced teachers I can do that too. Great video keep up the good work.

[@loadshedding_]

​@@unusualaussie9606"male like face" bro what😭

[@GeneralPadron]

I am the 888th like...

[@MultiStendhal]

I appreciate you appreciation good sir

[@soknheith3259]

Shinobi village my ass! They didn't have any historians as advisors, they just rewatched Naruto.

[@BlueBD]

their Historian focuses on the BL and Yaoi of ancient Japan.

[@EverythingEverywhereAllOver]

They would have done better if they rewatched Naruto. Like Naruto ninja tactics and politics are top notch. You can learn how to rule a country from Naruto.

[@MazinGo-1972]

Ubisoft actually made a Naruto game. I doubt that has any baring on this one but they did do one over a decade ago.

[@incrediblehobson8479]

I think you give them too much credit

[@shreyway12]

@@BlueBDproof? You’re talking out of your ass just like everyone else in this thread.

[@paradisecityX0]

Ubisoft pretty much confirmed that they ARE Abstergo in Black Flag and Rogue

[@ShaiAmos]

*TRUE*

[@HansWurst1569]

Assassins creed 3 also kind of made that point in their multiplayer. Yes it had multiplayer.

[@xzxasxadxas]

@@HansWurst1569 yeah, loved the AC Brotherhood, Revelations, 3 and Black Flag multiplayer modes. Mostly played the AC3, most people were on there.

[@IsisNish]

Exactly this. Especially at the end of Rogue where Otso and team were all "join us or die".

[@juliusc.8711]

​@@xzxasxadxas I personally preferred the maps from revelations and the characters but i loved the "Haytham wanna be" with the serrated sword from 3.

[@rayvg7709]

Ghost of Tsushima handles the whole samurai/assassin thing incredibly well.

[@fattiger6957]

Rise of the Ronin also covers that with a ton of combat customization.

[@Eldiran1]

Along these great game, you even have the serie Shogun who have a powerfull and historicaly correct woman in it.

[@skitz-oh]

​@@fattiger6957 is Rise of the Ronin amy good?? Been debating on getting it but looks a bit shit

[@GothamThotSlayer]

​@skitz-oh It's a decent game but I would wait for a discount

[@fattiger6957]

@@skitz-oh It's really good. Not as cinematic as Ghost of Tsushima, but there is way more customization. You aren't locked to just Katana. There are a ton of weapons, each of which has multiple styles. It's kind of structured like a RDR2-style open world game. The marketing really failed it. I forgot about it until saw it on a Japanese history YT channel.

[@Skeety08]

ubislop: " we cannot really mix a samurai and shinobi together" Hattori Hanzo: "am I a joke to you"?

[@TheHiddenOne-l2x]

Fr why couldn’t they made him the main character in the game instead like we barely know anything about him and would be good to know about him

[@hesoyam881]

@@TheHiddenOne-l2x Hanzo Hattori was conventionally more of a Samurai but has been depicted in several works of fiction as being a shinobi/ninja. To be more historically accurate, one would depict Hanzo Hattori as a guerilla tactician and capable samurai general. He's less of an "assassin" ninja and more of a "strategist" ninja. He hails from a land where ninja are prominent and has trained in similar arts, but I doubt he is the kind to be parkouring from building to building while in the shadows

[@Tylerthephantom]

*Ghost of Tsushima has entered the chat.

[@Skeety08]

@@hesoyam881 still you gotta admit if they were choosing a historical figure for an AC game he would’ve been a good pick

[@hesoyam881]

@@Skeety08 AC protagonists have always been fictional blank slate characters. While Naoe carries on that ideology, idk why they chose to have Yasuke as a second protagonist as well. In which case, yeah Hanzo Hattori would have definitely fit in a lot better

[@heartache3711]

She said "stolen by the Portuguese", I think what she meant to say was sold by African slave traders to the Portuguese. We're keeping it historical after all.

[@30noir]

You can't have an evil african - are you racist?

[@titanscerw]

Kidnapped by African or arab machometan slavers, sold to Portuguese and saved from slavery by a Catholic Monk ... Also he was in Nippon all of 15 months we know of ... Unacceptable liars. +][+

[@arkaleon1551]

We keep the reciet ubisoft

[@joaofarinha551]

It's amazing how they try to push the idea that the Portuguese were somehow these great conquerors/slavers and yet we had little to no armies in comparison to other European nations. The reason we had slaves was because we bought and paid for them. Guess who was there to sell them to us?

[@johnyoung5392]

Eventually, someone will make a video game where Blacks enslave Whites in 1800 America, but ohhhh it's a "video game"

[@Shrapnel82]

“I’ve seen a cat slice one of those doors open, multiple times.” The notorious catana. Their claws are folded over 9,000 times.

[@Dowlphin]

This is how they came to rule over humankind. Superior genes.

[@kevinagney6158]

Cats are the reason that the earth is not flat. Smialadons would have pushed every thing off out of bordum.

[@billylee7398]

Ah yes. I used to wake up at 6 am. to catch this sound a channel that was competing with Fox and WB. The show was called Samurai Eastern Cats.

[@NotTheStinkyCheese]

Samurai pizza cats? They were amazing ​@@billylee7398

[@Kaijugan]

I mean, most doors were made of paper…

[@lainiwakura1776]

All I can hear is "we didn't do our research!"

[@samfire3067]

And "we called a Guy to Say Anything "

[@fhlostonparaphrase]

All I hear is "We don't care, but we're calling it historical regardless"

[@PyrrhicPax]

Y'all clearly didn't watch the video.

[@CallMeTeci]

The crazy thing is - they DO their research. Ubisofts teams for historic research know what they are doing. The problem is that they dont decide what gets into the game. Another example would be the Netflix series Barbarians, where the historic advisers quit in the making of Season 2 because it infuriated them so much how hard they were ignored and how much bs the directors threw into it anyway, against any advice. I wouldnt be surprised if many people left since the early years of AC, but i dont doubt it that they still KNOW what is correct and what not. Inserting agendas and slobbering investors coqs just has a higher priority, especially after "Vikings: The Game" was so successful.

[@thewanderer4336]

​@@CallMeTecikinda like amazon completely ignoring those tolkien lore experts, why hire them (and still pay them I assume) if they weren't going to listen to them anyways? It just makes you go wtf, wasting time and money

[@Shin-nl8oz]

Thank you from Japan. Btw, one thing ... regarding Kanetsugu Naoe, Naoe is a family name, so it could be both male name or female name☺

[@st.lucient4755]

Wouldn't the question shift to the weirdness of naming a girl with 2 family names, instead of one family name and one given name ? Like "Watanabe Yamada" ? Or "Satou Takeda" ?

[@Shin-nl8oz]

@@st.lucient4755 Well, it could be also a first name, and if it's a first name, it sounds more like a female than a male name.

[@st.lucient4755]

@@Shin-nl8oz wouldn't it be a really odd case, especially considering the Naoe clan was very much still present at the time period ? Along the same line as naming a son with "Takeda" or "Uesugi" for his first name would be weird ? Please correct me if I'm wrong but as I came to know, Japanese people prioritize what kanji they spell the name with before the vocal part of the name. So much that, in an introduction one needs to explain like "I'm *example name*, read as the flowing water that splits the mountains" What would the kanji of Naoe's name in this case even be

[@Shin-nl8oz]

@@st.lucient4755 I must say naming a son "Takeda" or "Uesugi" is quite strange, for these are 99.999999% family names. Naoe in this game is written as 奈緒江. Judging from the characters, it's a first name, I think. Actually, each character has several meanings depending on the context, and this comment space is not enough to explain all of those different meanings. 奈 is the same character used for Na in Nara city, the old capital of Japan ☺

[@sherylalto]

Naoe can be a surname or a name. It may look the same to people who speak english, but it can be written totally different in japanese kanji. Like 直江as surname or 奈緒江 as a female name. For people who use kanji would know the difference.

[@winj3r]

When you manage to upset the far-left and the far-right, at the same time, it becomes clear you are doing something very well.

[@IgnusIncubus]

Honest question: who in the far-right actually had a unjust problem with this game? I ask because I*am* far right and the problem o have with this game is not actually unjust (as I see it) and nothing that Metatron said till now pissed me off or anything like that

[@wolvenedvard3049]

Just like Israel lol.

[@admirekashiri9879]

Exactly this is why I love his work 😁

[@zameion90]

Or that you just complain all the time

[@Alte.Kameraden]

It is why I like Metatron. If you're getting attacked by the extremes you're doing something right. TIKhistory is also in the same boat.

[@pierluigiadreani2159]

Don't worry Raffaele, I spoke with Black Rock. One day we will make a videogame about Ghino di Tacco, and we will present him as he was: a proud indopacific woman on a wheelchair.

[@Extra_Onions]

did you just assume their pronons? shame on you ;)

[@KG-2137]

don't give the ideas, it might happen now kek ;D

[@soadbyc4]

surely, you must mean a proud genderfluid indopacific (woman?) on a wheelchair.

[@dominic.h.3363]

I mean, they could stick Stephen Hawking into an animus and you wouldn't notice any of it. They could have done it, they didn't. It's not their focus. Melanin content is all they care about.

[@daviddiggens8841]

Oh you mean the inventor of the first ever spaghetti taco delivered on a ramp. How could they forget it/why?

[@BleeDinglies]

It almost seems like they hire a historian who specializes in some obscure area that really has no relevance to the game. And then use the fact that they've hired this "historian" to give credibility to their idea's about how it should have been in history. Effectively rewriting history. Now, whether this is done just to cause controversy to get social media talking using the 'any publicity is good publicity' idea, I don't know.

[@Jebbreh]

Look at the background studies of their "historian". Lol.

[@digimon5433]

"rewiting history"? you do know this is a video game, right?

[@BleeDinglies]

@@Jebbreh I'm scared to lol, probably get flagged at work if I look it up. I heard that her book is about promoting the normalization of Buddhist monks doing bad things to kids in feudal Japan or some other degenerate behavior.

[@llama6394]

Doesn't it make sense to bring a historian who's researched gender in japanese literature when one of the protagonists is a woman?

[@BleeDinglies]

@@digimon5433 And we all know how people independently fact check when they're told that something is "historically accurate" right?

[@timou_93]

It would have been very interesting to see Yasuke as a perfectly trained bodyguard, fighting with European styles, and slowly evolving his kenjutsu skill tree with samurai trainers, including Japanese sword techniques. Having an hybrid and evolving skill. Instead of starting as a legendary samurai which is weird, and not really respectful of the time it takes to train another culture techniques.

[@inquisitive6786]

Why would a slave from africa be fighting with european styles lmao

[@j.avance9031]

It's a true shame that Ubisoft chose to go this route for their female character. Imagine if they did make a real Kunoichi. She could don a servants attire in order to use social stealth and slip into a place unnoticed before searching out her target and poisoning his meal and then slipping away into the night. It could've been super unique but no, she's a Shinobi with Hollywood level ninja attire that can take on three samurai at once.

[@jasonco2]

Yeah, leaning into the Hitman style of stealth and assassination (poison, social interaction, “accidents”) would have been great!

[@DmnHd81]

That's basically the gameplay of Assassin's Creed:Liberation which stars a mixed race black woman. She disguises as a slave, dresses as a noblewoman and wears combat attire normally.

[@somiplayerbee5425]

@@DmnHd81 Liberation is so underrated. I was really sad, that is never meant as a proper game but just on a small console/platform. :( It deserved much more.

[@blueboy9773]

So we'll have a dressing game to play :')) Gather outfits, select to wear something appropriate for the mission. Kill some dudes , sneak out. To be honest just give me a customizable character and let me play whatever i choose to, just add multiple ways to do a mission, sneak, disguise or going in with a bang.

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

@@DmnHd81 A black woman dressed as a noble in 18th century America, very stealthy and totally plausible.

[@James_Bee]

Taken as a child BY THE PORTUGUESE?! Yeah, no. They may have traded or bought him, but they weren't the ones going out and raiding tribes and abducting would be slaves.

[@BasedR0nin]

For real, he wasn’t taken by he was “sold” TO the Portuguese

[@thatoneLerrydude]

Rewriting history is all these hacks can do.

[@dominic.h.3363]

You can't possibly suggest they tell the truth that one black tribe sold off the other... that'd be... accurate. They hate that!

[@XarkoCZ]

You know damn well they tried to avoid saying he was sold a slave

[@iyaramonk]

The Portugese are the only European slave traders that also participated in raids. This is not hidden knowledge.

[@leburger5160]

Let's get this out of the way. That Sachi lady isn't a historian. They credited her as being one of the lead historians. but her entire academic background consists of nothing but writing about sexual interactions between Buddhist monks and other men in feudal Japan. Beyond that, she has done sweet f all that gives her any relevance to this era. That speaks volumes about what this game is gonna end up being, and it isn't good...

[@ruleoftwo6174]

and why you think she has her role in US academia? she's the last person any japanese would goto for general history, let alone any accuracy

[@Technoanima]

Basically she's a perv.😂

[@danielchettiar5670]

She favors the colourful flag. That all the current political environment/regime cares about, so she thrives

[@Xaa25]

She's a professor of litterature, you know the thing that conserved all the thoughts of an era befor internet existed.

[@dravenocklost4253]

​@Xaa25 Literature is not Historian. Literature is a broad term. Historiagraphy is not. Cope.

[@user-hy5xsai]

As someone mentioned, one way might be to omit the Japanese woman from the main character; UBI chose Yasuke instead of the Japanese samurai because he could not relate to the Japanese (a statement made in a deleted interview). A Japanese woman named Naoe was also provided, but the life of a female ninja is harsher than that of a samurai, and is rarely praised. She is a shadowy figure whose name is difficult even to leave in history, and her situation is always complicated. What is the contradiction that it is impossible to create a male Japanese samurai and possible to create a female ninja who is more difficult to portray? Frankly, I think they want to see an unrealistic black samurai in full armor wetting his cudgel with Japanese blood.

[@MetaGiga]

While native Japanese citizens lower than him bow because of his high ranking status…

[@josephjenott931]

Imagine if they had started off this game using a more established character who was both a Samurai and a Ninja. The best example that comes to mind is the famous Hanzo from the Hattori clan. Easily filling both roles and appreciating the Japanese culture more. I guess that's just too good to ask for.

[@digimon5433]

then it would be a GOT clone

[@thatoneLerrydude]

Different time periods, different context, different game.

[@llama6394]

That would be way too unoriginal and we wouldn't be able to use the kusarigama

[@NoahToledo-xo5pj]

@@thatoneLerrydude Hattori Hanzo existed at the same time as Nobunaga

[@titanscerw]

As well as Tokugawa and Hideoshi Toyotomi with Oda Nobunaga we would have 4 very famous and kinda pivotal historical characters in game, like in the original leaked script with player being shinto monk going to work as shinobi. Much better then whatever this trash is.

[@dawlben2247]

They didn't do historical figures as main characters, because they would have to break history. They used historical people as side characters to keep close to facts.

[@thatoneLerrydude]

Them why Yasuke?

[@Xinamon98]

@@thatoneLerrydude You know why.

[@llama6394]

They always broke history. They didn't make you a historical figure for immersion reasons and because they wanted to write their own characters.

[@Don9872]

@@llama6394 the assassins creed stories (the Desmond games at least) were written as if it could be a hidden history of human civilisation. They had (obviously fictional) tid bits from Adam and Eve all the way through to the WW1&2 sprinkled throughout the games. They always worked actual historical and mythological events into the story.

[@kaltaron1284]

To be fair we don't know much about Yasuke as a historical character but he still makes a poor choice for many reasons. And the stupid thing is there was nothing stopping them from including him as an important character. Just not as one of two playable ones.

[@analogbunny]

My favorite story about a Kunoichi based out of Kyoto who snuck into a regional warlord's local holdings disguised as a washerwoman. She then found the room of records and "cooked the books", and stole a small amount of gold each time. After a couple years of this she (or someone) sent a message to the Shogun that the regional warlord was skimming taxes. When the Shogun audited the local warlord, they found it to be "true", and the regional warlord was publicly beheaded for treason. I learned this story when visiting a museum on "ninja history" (and they openly admitted there was only so much they could know). They made a huge emphasis on the fact that although many shinobi were assassins, some of them specialized in using and manipulating the legal system to do the assassination for them. Even if the story isn't true per se, it was meant to convey the idea that the shinobi engaged in all kinds of complex statefare, espionage, book-keeping, eco terrorism... anything to complete their goals.

[@captainnyan-nyan2005]

Well it's falls under the subterfuge aspect of a Shinobi. Getting the job done

[@analogbunny]

@captainnyan-nyan2005 Sometimes the Shinobi made it very, very clear that this was an assassination. Gruesome poisons, beheading, ambushed, booby traps. Other times they made the death look natural. It depended on what they were trying to accomplish.

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

​@@analogbunnyIt's pure fiction though.

[@kendra_t]

I have no historical facts to base this off of for this but I suspect most if not all kunoichi assassination jobs would have been done via poisoning.

[@mdd4296]

Eco-terrorism? Did you mean they fight for the eco system or they terrorise using the environment (like setting a forest on fire)

[@kuro_kishi]

"Yah-soo-kay", The fact they continuously butcher his name shows how much Ubisoft knows about Japanese culture. 😂😂😂

[@mish375]

Yeah, in Japanese the "u" sound is reduced in the name Yasuke.

[@Seattletyy93]

It's just French being terrible as usual

[@ultracapitalistutopia3550]

@@mish375Precisely both vowels "u" and "i" are heavily reduced when they're not followed by a voiced consonant. That's why Japanese pronounce "desu" and "masu" as "des" and "mas" instead, since both are usually at the end of a sentence.

[@ultracapitalistutopia3550]

Also to be fair, the modern Japanese language romanization was built around modern English, so it's forgivable that non-native English speakers have even more trouble to deal with these romanized Japanese names/terms.

[@e0jay]

Ubisoft going off with their horseshit again. Sucker Punch managed to create a simultaneous Samurai and Shinobi character. My man Jin mastered both "different warrior classes" when he became the Ghost in Ghost of Tsushima 🤷‍♀

[@trvpmusic2569]

Well Jin technically in that game is the first Shinobu and existed like 400-500 years before Yasuke and Naoe ...so if Jin actually existed Naoe would probably be a descendant of his but she wouldn't be versed in modern samurai arts

[@ahmarelvirgio823]

I'm not even an expert of historian and development gaming work, but I feel like I'm smarter than those clowns

[@shunakiyama6275]

Yeah and the entire story of that game was how Jin couldn't be both and had to abandon being a samurai.

[@bimbiman8495]

​@@shunakiyama6275uh no, what he abandoned is the way of samurai, which absolutely priorities honor regardless if the enemies respect it or not, not his training/battle skill as samurai which is OP's point.

[@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180]

​@@bimbiman8495building on that, that's bushido, which not every samurai followed and many actively exploited. Out idea of honourable samurai is like the chivalrous knight: the code existed, their ideals existed, probably some followed it, but pop culture believes them the rule instead of the exception they were.

[@thel1355]

There is only one reason for Yasuke--they couldn't find any mention of a black woman in the histories.

[@Dowlphin]

No problem, just declare Yasuke a woman.

[@olafschmidt8437]

or: Yasuke is more an open book (read: more blank spaces which could be filled with the story of AC) than William Adams and can therefore be a better connection to the European (:=Templar ) side. I personally would have stayed away from Japan for AC completely. Or IF going there, than in the period after Matthew Perry came to japan (like "Last samurai type, but with the Assassins trying to fight the "new" corruption or something like that). Feudal Japan is so far removed from Europe influence (apart from the western enclave in Nagasaki).

[@matheusrhuzzo6115]

Okay? So?

[@YouTubeCensors]

😂 I'm sure they could find another Asian American woman willing to sell her Heritage for a few $$ and say Yasuke was a woman.

[@tompatompsson]

@@olafschmidt8437 Or just have the MC be a made up person like every single other AC game ever made?

[@badrequest5596]

saying every shinobi was an assassin is like saying every CIA agent is james bond or ethan hunt. most of them are just computer nerds looking through data or a million other different tasks to make things for agents in the field possible. wouldn't be much different with shinobi. some were warriors, others were just information gatherers, some had good fighting skills, others barely the basics and everything in between, just like today

[@kaltaron1284]

And Yasuke strolling around in full combat gear is like a US Marine in full kit going downtown. Or maybe that is normal where those devs live?

[@DushawnxDaisy]

@@kaltaron1284nah you’re reaching fam

[@MegaMerdeux]

​@@DushawnxDaisyit was a good analogy. Did you miss the entire video? "You wouldn't wear your combat gear downtown" metatron point it out 😂

[@kaltaron1284]

@@MegaMerdeux I don't even understand what Daisy is trying to say. And thank you.

[@HiragamaIkunai]

The number 1 way of assassination by kunoichi or shinobi was poisoning food /drink which requires no training beyond don't drink your own drugs ect, but no they didn't usually kill people as living lips are much looser than dead.

[@bmanichanh]

As an Asian, I'm mad because it's basically a hate crime simulator designed to humiliate Asians as much as possible

[@OwO377]

Realistic fact . They so call international is straight up blasphemy.

[@seangotti3]

But r u Japanese? If not ur opinion doesn't matter

[@drifter139]

you can take solace in the fact this game will bomb hard but it will be blamed on white men like me since apparently we are born racist and hate women. sooo good for you and bad for me lol

[@Kane.JimLahey.]

You truly believe this?

[@ChadKakashi]

I doubt that was the intention. It’s like saying Ghost of Tsushima is a “Mongol Hating Simulator”

[@minoru-kk]

As a Japanese Id like to thank Metatron for continuing to cover this topic. I wrote this using translation software. In addition to Yasuke issue, various art errors have been found in the trailers. We in Japan saw these stupid things and suspected that Ubisoft hadnt do any historical or cultural research, and it seems clear that this is the case from their interviews, as you explained in this video. Thanks for your commentary on such "historical" game in English

[@RisenOswald]

I'm sorry to hear, that they could not even do a bit of research of your culture :/

[@Thiccness_Is_Delicious]

​@@RisenOswaldwhich is extremely upsetting as asian culture is still to this day the most fascinating especially japan.

[@greyjedi1272]

You clearly aren’t Japanese, 1- Japanese media made Yasuke popular so that being an issue is laughable. 2- errors in media doesn’t mean Ubisoft didn’t do any research.

[@minoru-kk]

​@@greyjedi1272Is your JP media which unfaithful to historical sources the basis for labeling me a foreigner? THAT is laughable. If an average JPs watch the trailers or walkthroughs, theyd found easily that the historical research and art setting of this game is all nonsense, like I did. Thats definitely Ubis fault and Im pointing that out

[@MEDIAOFJUSTICE]

​@@greyjedi1272popular??😂 Yasuke is not popular. Yasuke is not a samurai.

[@sentinel-p5k]

「私は日本人です、というコメントのほとんどは日本人ではありません」 いやいや、本当に珍しいことだが今回ばかりは本当に日本人は怒っていますよ シャドウズのトレーラー発表を発端にしたwikipediaの弥助のページの編集によって歴史を改竄する動きが検知されてから、私たち日本人は本当に怒っています そしてUBIが歴史専門家を雇い、日本に現地取材をしたというのにも関わらず、低品質な歴史公証の産物が確認されたことにもあきれました さらに「アジア人視点のゲームでは感情移入できない」というコメントにも、「それならばどうして日本を題材にしたゲームなど作ろうとしたのだ」とさらなる批判を呼びました 滅多にこのようなケースで怒りの声を上げない日本人が、これほど大挙してコメントを残していく背景や理由をどうぞ考えてください

[@sentinel-p5k]

@@よしなが-s5s そうなんすよね この上の文章もグーグル翻訳考えなければもっとくだけた言い方もできるのに

[@alias-wave]

失礼な言い方になるかもしれませんが、あなたは同音異義語の変換ミスをしているので日本語話者であることは確実ですね。 ×「公証」〇「考証」

[@artnull13]

What do you think of the historian they hired? The Professor of fujoshi studies.

[@sentinel-p5k]

@@artnull13 ゲームに限らず、漫画やアニメ、映画、ドラマの背後で暗躍する活動家は人種を問わず全員嫌いです 日本人にも狂った活動家がいて大変迷惑しています

[@Nellielle007]

@@artnull13I'm a fujoshi and this is a big piece of agenda BS

[@tubeorip]

"She is following the footsteps of her" CUT CUT She is going to say her Dad we can't have that.

[@mad3271]

bruh

[@ci825]

Lmao nah fr… can’t depict a kind and benevolent man WITH power and capability to be our female protagonist’s role model and inspiration. That’s big no no

[@Firebacon1gg]

Wait thats a woman? I thought it was a male.😅 mm just like ubisoft diverse team of white women. U know that one picture that surfaced online of its diverse group. Anyways yeah thought it was a dude.

[@GnosisZX]

@@Firebacon1gg your not the only one an ai thought she was dude too

[@GuitarsRockForever]

​@@Firebacon1gg trans woman of color with disability.

[@guilhermearaujo1781]

Really sad that they don’t go after the specialist to them develop the game. They develop their own ideas and find someone that’s whiling to “validate” it for personal reasons.

[@drewtheunspoken3988]

There was an easy fix to this; all they had to say was that it was an historic fantasy inspired by a few documents. But they're doubling down on their deep historic research. Despite there being very little information, if any, related to their character choices.

[@digimon5433]

AC has always been historic fantasy

[@amicableenmity9820]

@@digimon5433 I agree. They have vikings (who should properly be called Norsemen unless their actual occupation is being a viking) riding deer and wolves. And being openly gay, which wouldn't happen in Norse society. And then there's the aliens from the second game, but no one seems to remember that. I appreciate Metatron telling us what the truth was, but AC has never ever been accurate.

[@thatoneLerrydude]

​@@digimon5433Yes, thing is they lie all the time that it isnt. AC is a historical as Game of Thrones, yet they go all day about "historical this historical that" like absolute lunatics.

[@revbladez5773]

@@digimon5433 Historical sci-fi, actually.

[@fattiger6957]

This is the issue here. Ubisoft could just say they take liberties with history to make their games fun and that you aren't supposed to take it too seriously. Yet the company constantly claims AC is historically accurate.

[@sentinel-p5k]

The commentary about Iga commented on by the owner of this video deserves a special mention. He really researches it well. Iga was a sphere of influence created by a group of people called “AKU-TOU（悪党）stray or Outcast（difficult to translate）” who gathered together in opposition to the power of the Samurai and ruled over a vast area of land as an independent council group. As this ruling system was established, they honed his own espionage skills and eventually came to serve Samurai rulers throughout Japan. Among these was one of the most famous ninja, Hattori Hanzo, who served the Tokugawa family. As you know, Hattori Hanzo was not only a samurai of the Tokugawa family, but also a chieftain of the ninja. Together with Momochi and Fujibayashi, they are known as the three great "high glade class ninja" of Iga. Iga was not a secret hiding place, but a strategic point of transportation in Japan. The Oda family sent an army to control the area, but they were resourceful enough to defeat the Oda forces on their own（First Tensho Iga Rebellion）. However, their rebellion incurred the wrath of Nobunaga, and the Iga were eventually destroyed in a terrible battle known as the Second Tensho Iga Rebellion. I'm really glad you're looking into this background properly. It doesn't seem like UBI did as much research as he did.

[@chrisjackson1215]

I could feel my braincells dying as the people from Ubisoft spoke.

[@Overlord99762]

They're French 🗿

[@beardedlonewolf7695]

@@Overlord99762 Canadian

[@NobleNemesis]

You could tell they wanted to look back at the camera and nervously ask "Right?!.. Right?"

[@musafirghayrmaeruf1]

​@@NobleNemesis"Please dont shoot"

[@stepsis8437]

💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@caliburn1123]

3:15 back in syndicate they paid enough attention to detail to include hidden weapons like the knuckles, cane swords and kukris because of the restrictions on wearing weapons visibly

[@daveorilian5100]

'we can't mix ninja and samurai together' ...... Ghost of Tsushima has entered the chat

[@revbladez5773]

Ninja were not a thing during that time but then again, having things that were not around in that time is something that game does quite a lot.

[@Beldhan]

hattori hanzo want a word with them.

[@shira_yone]

Sekiro even if they want Sengoku Jidai example

[@kaltaron1284]

@@revbladez5773 The first mention is from the late 8th century in poems in the Man'yōshū. There is literally no reason to believe that spying techniques didn't exist at the time. Of course in a different way than later and I agree that the game is quite anachronistic.

[@revbladez5773]

@@kaltaron1284 Spying techniques yes. But proper shinobi as we think of them were a Sengoku-period thing.

[@maximfyodorovich4489]

>One black man steps foot in feudal Japan >tHe JaPaNEsE cAMe FroM BlAck pEOpLE

[@reneallouis7748]

Jomos were not black, neither the ainu. Next question.

[@YarugumaSou]

As much of a joke as it is I've seen a dozen of delusional afrocentric facebook pages saying the same thing.

[@موسى_7]

Technically, all of humanity is from Ethiopia according to science

[@michelecastellotti9172]

​@@موسى_7and? Back then our skin was still white from the days we were covered in fur my guy, black people exist because they adapted to living in africa for who knows how many generations. They are born tanned is what i am saying.

[@reneallouis7748]

@@michelecastellotti9172 and thanks for giving the simple answer here. These ppl think they know evolution and science because they watch a tik tok short and never bother to research or think. Its just funny to watch them cook.

[@addictedtochocolate920]

I remember sprinting to the comments in the original video when the dev said "we cannot mix two fantasies" talking about the Samurai and Shinobi. They really did 0 research for this beyond watching Last Samurai, probably.

[@digimon5433]

do you think samurai would use peasant tools?

[@aj.j5833]

They didn't understand main character of The Last Samurai, Nathan Algren, does not drive the story or historical events, he is an observer, outsider looking in, not directly involved in local event and is dragged along by the real actors instigators of events, the native Japanese.

[@MegaMerdeux]

​@@digimon5433since samurai is a title. I don't see why they wouldn't use a pitchfork to defend themselves in a a given situation. Would a marine use a kitchen knife to fight someone? The answer is yes

[@varnix1006]

Because they don't need to mix the two fantasies. They just need to make a good stealth action game, but they won't cause they have to appear to have taken in a large audience by "diversifying".

[@aj.j5833]

@@varnix1006 In doing so made a very anti-Japanese and rey cyst game.

[@mm-qf9zb]

I can't forgive Thomas Lockley for using Yasuke to make money and get brownie points. No major Japanese game company will ever release a game with Yasuke as a samurai in the future.

[@Rajonas007]

The fact that in 2024 in the age of internet and how easy it is to connect to people who are genuinely interested in history is sad how they ignore everything for propaganda

[@exia7684]

"We cannot mix samurai and shinobi together" Sekiro and Jin Sakai: *wheezes in Japanese*

[@tatianaoliveira2191]

About that... Hattori Hanzō

[@godemperorofmankind5874]

Lol. These mfers are gonna flip their socks off when they see the mechanics of those games.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Proving that Ubisoft and Ass Creed are already a joke.

[@benjaminthibieroz4155]

Not sure about Sekiro. Owl is most likely a samuraï though

[@octogonSmuggler]

Neither of those games claim historical accuracy the way AC does, though.

[@sevenproxies4255]

Being able to destroy light sources to stay hidden in the shadows has been done as far back as Thief: The Dark Project back in the 90's though. So while the mechanic makes sense, I can't give Ubisoft any credit for implementing something you'd consider a bare minimum in a stealth game.

[@trvpmusic2569]

I've only seen that in Splinter Cell games

[@sevenproxies4255]

@@trvpmusic2569 Splinter Cell did it too. But Thief was the earliest example I could think of.

[@varnix1006]

I will always be surprised the team behind Assassin's Creed did not talk with the team behind Splinter Cell. Considering both are stealth action games.

[@sherry356]

@@varnix1006 This is Ubisoft we’re talking about though. I’d actually be surprised if they did do that.

[@Dowlphin]

How do you destroy a light source without the act drawing attention? That bit bothered me. I think the point is not, as claimed, to remain undetected, but to be able to attack from darkness.

[@AnOwlfie]

It sucks because in the back of my head is an AC Shadows where the male character was an actual Japanese samurai and the female character is an actual kunoichi. The potential for greatness is there. I know that the Ubisoft who made the early AC games could've done it. We were robbed.

[@Peteruspl]

Hiding in shadows and destroying lights - that's cool, but also not "modern". It was implemented in original Thief in 1998.

[@titovalasques]

God! I really wish Nightdive studios would remake Thief Gold and Thief II: The Metal Age.

[@john7649]

imagine if they made William Adams the other playable character instead. most people would still be upset, but a significant portion would be upset for very different reasons

[@fattiger6957]

I can attest to seeing a ton of people complain about that recent Shogun TV show because of the character based off of Adams.

[@trvpmusic2569]

​@@fattiger6957 yea but nothing like this lol and I think that's because of racist added on to it (NOT CALLING EVERYONE RACIST) but it's true you'd only have people who care about history complaining while with Yasuke it's People who care about history, people who care about political pandering, and racist so that's why it's so loud

[@bluetooth2677]

No, it's because you care about gaming more than TV shows. Trust me people were complaining about White people playing Egyptian movies recently. Even the last samurai had people complaining. I've seen very few racist people complaining. Just because you disagree, doesn't mean there a racist.

[@trvpmusic2569]

@@bluetooth2677 Yea The Last Samurai was the absolute worst I seen Japanese people react to something lol but it was no where near as bad as this because of western political sides fighting over this

[@bluetooth2677]

@@trvpmusic2569 Okay, I give you that. Western politics side fighting is crazy. Haha 😆

[@veronicatash777]

You are forgetting that 1) history is written by management; and 2) management is inept.

[@kregorovillupo3625]

and 3) you can't contraddict management or you're fired, or worse put in work hell.

[@brytonwallis4817]

I’d hate to be contrarian in woke work place Get unconsidered and have eyebrows raising as you say what may be more accurate

[@veronicatash777]

@@brytonwallis4817 You use that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means...

[@brytonwallis4817]

@@veronicatash777 does it not? You mean contrarian is what you call a person who says contradictions to what another person says?

[@veronicatash777]

@@brytonwallis4817 Woke means being aware of systemic injustices. You want your workplace to be oblivious to systemic injustice?

[@Sintrania]

The fact that even medieval fan are defending samurai history really show how f**ked up Ubisoft is.

[@blackscorpionstinger]

They could avoid all these issues just by saying, “This new entry is completely fictional, bro!”

[@bellatordei3440]

He is also an expert on japanese history

[@kidcthulhufortney1320]

Two words to debunk the hard samurai/shinobi divide: Hattori Hanzo

[@mylesdrake2949]

The absolute legend.

[@Direwolf13PS3]

The guy they skipped because he would be... 1. Male 2. Japanese 3. What people wanted

[@wasigupitobudiarto7767]

Why didn't they made story about Hattori Hanzo instead? according to AC Wikipedia he is an Assassin too

[@johansvensson833]

@@wasigupitobudiarto7767 becuse they got shot when they made washington a mad dictator

[@sean7082]

And he is a mentor of brotherhood of Assassin also from mobile assassin's creed.

[@shib5267]

can we talk about how their japanese history expert is a crazy shotacon fujoshi???

[@altechelghanforever9906]

Excuse me, what the fuck?

[@TheRealGeorgeSears]

The woman who wrote the book on how its alright to be a p3d0?

[@NE0N_ANGELUS]

Tf

[@Knoloaify]

Shota fujo isn't even the issue here. The issue is her glorifying pederastry in ancient Japan.

[@Frozenkex]

based?

[@cthomaspeasant3059]

It's funny how all of those titles are losing their meaning because the relevant tribes in question throw them around so haphazardly like a drunkard with too many grenades

[@MickSG.]

Agreed. I heard someone calling people who wanted to save endangered animals, woke. And I got called woke for being vegetarian. A straight friend of mine also got called a bigot, because she turned down a gay girl. Another got called racist for saying he wasn't going to buy this AC. I am honestly done with all of this culture war stuff. I just keep to myself now.

[@samfire3067]

Or like cod world at war does on veteran. Everyone IS stoping granades like it's candy

[@fredrickmansav6852]

@@MickSG. yeah but people who "save endangered" animals don't know when to stop, just look up polar bear overpopulation in Canada, and i doubt you were being a quiet conservative vegetarian but a loud annoying liberal vegetarian.

[@ayviondenar3461]

@@MickSG.True. All this baseless name-calling does nothing but polarize and villainize people; it doesn’t matter where you lie on the subjective spectrum of good or evil; once you get name-called, your character is immediately associated with all of the virtuous and/or nefarious traits of that name, irregardless of evidence. People are very quick to assume the worst of others, which only creates more division.

[@aj.j5833]

@@MickSG. Have you meet other vegetarians and spoken to them? Most of them are woke and annoying. Unfortunately for you thanks to them you have to prove you aren't like the other vegetarians. I don't blame people who question you for being vegetarian, when most of them are annoying woke fools and many people are rightfully done with their BS.

[@benitofranklyn4237]

A black guy attacking asians? You can't claim Ubisoft didn't try to make the most realistic game ever.

[@TheShogunate]

Thank you for the mention!!

[@metatronyt]

Any time! Keep up the good work

[@soragranda]

Thomas lockly lie... both of your videos are wrong, please, reconsider doing new ones. Please, don't lose what make us trust you guys...

[@reprobaterenegade2594]

Dude, the thing that is hardest to watch the most for me....the fucking wakizashi being ABOVE the katana when worn. You can tell Ubisoft made every effort NOT to consult someone with any kenjutsu experience

[@Ty-v6v-c4r]

Friendly reminder that Ubisoft has already attempted to feature Japanese culture in their games. In For Honor, the samurai wear wooden armor, of which one has spiked sode and is called ‘Supaiku’

[@reprobaterenegade2594]

@@Ty-v6v-c4r I haven't touched For Honor at all.

[@Ty-v6v-c4r]

@@reprobaterenegade2594 same. I took one look at that nonsense and decided the game was not for me. The same way I know I will not touch AC shadows

[@reprobaterenegade2594]

@@Ty-v6v-c4r At least Ghost of Tsushima pays respect to samurai culture even if the game has it's own historical inaccuracies.

[@Ty-v6v-c4r]

@@reprobaterenegade2594 ghost of tsushima has done their research. They are not faithful to history, and I don’t like the fact they promote certain myths that modern gamers will treat as facts, (visit the subreddit you will get what I mean), but damn did they pay homage to samurai films and japanese culture

[@rosmundsen]

I don't care what your teachers told you, my grandmother always told me that Metatron is a reasonable man.

[@موسى_7]

I agree

[@RisenOswald]

I thought she told you he was a 70 year old black women 😂

[@bellatordei3440]

Maybe he wanted to say that shinobi were mostly merchants, farmers and others who are not samurai

[@danielling5283]

I wouldn’t be surprised if they put in William Adams and make him to be the main bad guy.

[@metatronyt]

😂😂😂

[@poloshirtsamurai]

They'll anachronistically make him like a Gríma Wormtongue to Ieyasu.

[@Circurose]

With his yokai?

[@watchmehope6560]

​@@Circurosewhat yokai?? Nioh was fantasy based on a real man. This is fantasy trying to pass as history

[@facundomontivero2299]

Apparently Nobugana is gonna be the main bad guy.

[@NikosGirginoudis]

Guard- Hey citizen, did you see what the assassin looked like? Citizen- Yeah, he was a tall black man clad in samurai armor! Guard- Curses, there's literally thousands of people like that in Japan, I'll never find him! If only he stood out somehow...

[@llama6394]

He is not an assassin though...

[@kendra_t]

Citizen: well, there was a woman wearing a sword who walked down the street earlier..

[@unknown_spy_1984]

​@@llama6394 then the whole game is moot

[@kaustavdas436]

​@@llama6394but the game's name is assassins creed😭

[@llama6394]

@@kaustavdas436 yh that's why og fans had a lot of problems with odyssey and valhalla. At least we have Naoe this time thank god. Yasuke is literally just to please RPG fans who only like combat.

[@Andrew-gn9qp]

I am Asian, and I am very confused why Westerners are enforcing Black people and feminism in Asian culture. This is just not something Asian people bother with. We associate Black people with American entertainment, and feminism in an Asian context means equality before the law, not "bad ass warrior women."

[@GutsEnthusiast]

bruh... people only care about this are people infatuated by social politics. there are a shitload of anime from Japan where historical figures are gender swapped into women...

[@AtticusStount]

There was a black samurai insofar as he was adopted and married into the samurai class. But of course, they chose a black because they insist on 'blackwashing' history. Please try to adjust your language and thinking: it is not 'westerners' but rather a small group of people, this is not 'all westerners'. This group of malignant intellectuals could very well be funded by a rather powerful political system 🧸🐉

[@TheVisualDigitalArts]

Don’t worry as a black man I’m also confused, I don’t want to play as a black person in feudal Japan either.

[@VästerHöger]

The west is currently in a cultural 'war' between the conservatives who are proud of our culture and the progressives who think our culture is an evil force that must be destroyed.

[@NobleNemesis]

I think it's just subversive thought put into our education system to create discord in society, but that's just me. lol

[@marikothecheetah9342]

"We wanted to make it modern" - if I play a HISTORICAL game I don't need modern, I want HISTORICAL game. Cheesus. I think I'll need to play Age of Empires III now, to calm myself down. :/

[@Dreadwoof]

So what you're telling me is that they wasted money on DEI instead of hiring acual Japanese historians for this project? Typical ubisht.

[@PureMaddnessOne]

Apparently that sachi woman wrote a book aboot adult men doing unsavory things with young boys and she praises it (yeah she praised the pdf file stuff).

[@dondahighhh12]

ubisoft already has 2 studios in Japan, yall think they didnt fly over there and ask them?😂

[@Dreadwoof]

@@dondahighhh12 Considering how many Japanese people have voiced their distaste about this game and the blatant inconsistencies mentioned in this video, I'm gonna go ahead and say no. But go ahead and continue to support these shitty companies that don't care about you or me.

[@professr9343]

The Portuguese did due raids for slaves and the Portuguese also had Japanese slaves

[@Okita-tr1dh]

@@dondahighhh12yep, it’s only for marketing in Japan so nothing to do with game dev

[@jtorro]

Ubisoft really said ”Women are weaker than men so they need to tip toe and get the jump on dudes”. Are they based?

[@pIayingwithmahwii]

they really do need to do that xD tbh it is so annoying how games companies think women r strong when they r really weak (compared to men and non-human animals). i hate how games companies make their games nowadays for games journalists, who hate gamers and tend to automatically make bad choices when it comes not only to story and character, but also even the gameplay itself

[@MeanOldLady]

Of course we're weaker. That's why women assassinate stealthily or resort to social engineering to further their goals in warfare & espionage. Yuri Bezmenov also explains that "James Bond"-style of espionage, when trying to destroy a nation/group from within, is very limited compared to the grunt work of social engineering through propaganda. Look at how much propaganda is being pumped up today under dictatorships in the west & how little is about violence & assassinations.

[@AtticusStount]

'Based'? sorry, but could you write standard English? I don't understand what you are trying to say.

[@SlipknotPyro]

​@@AtticusStount pretending not to understand american slang to seem intelligent? Based.

[@DylanJo123]

​@@AtticusStountdoes the Google search bar not exist where you live?

[@procow2274]

Sees armor poking out from behind a bush: Must have been the wind

[@konnen7354]

They really said "we are not Japanese, but we're gonna make this game anyway" These are the same people who demonized Sucker Punch for Ghost of Tsushima. The hypocrisy is wild.

[@TetsuShima]

I just hope Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 will be as great and respectful to history as the first one. That's the only historical game franchise I have hope for at this point...

[@lonewulfmo9128]

Comparing assasins creed to kingdom come is like comparing grandtheft auto franchise to ARMA franchise. Why on earth would you make such a comparison bro? I say this as some one that likes both Kingdom come and assasins creed black flag, origins and odyssey. Those are not really simulation games or 'realistic' as kingdom is meant to be

[@zzodysseuszz]

@@lonewulfmo9128bc kingdom come has shit combat and some historical inaccuracies much like assassins creed used to be like.

[@Randomper279]

Ya I can’t wait for it as well.

[@TetsuShima]

​@@lonewulfmo9128 It's true AC isn't supposed to be as realistic as KCD. However, that's not an excuse to introduce political bias in your games, like the pacifist Karl Marx

[@lonewulfmo9128]

@@zzodysseuszz 🤣🤣 🤣 OK ill admit kingdoms combat is not perfect. My point is at least from my experience the two franchises are different genres.

[@raphaelmt1706]

Ubisoft is clearly guilty of cultural appropriation here

[@greyjedi1272]

You are a fool.

[@sande9182]

How?

[@greyjedi1272]

@@sande9182 it would seem these people are ok with devs making games from anywhere else but Japan is their golden cow for some reason.

[@The_sound_Of_Thunder]

For quite some time now

[@redcobra6016]

And Suckerpunch was falsely accused of that very thing with Ghost of Tsushima.

[@XarkoCZ]

So if I understand it correctly, taking the Shogun show as an example, the poor fisherman, later to be revealed as a spy, later to be revealed as a samurai is basically the perfect example of a historically accurate shinobi?

[@Luke1902]

Basically yes, although at the point he became a spy he wasn’t a samurai anymore as he was too old for that. So how do you use his experience and skill? Employ him as a shinobi. EZ

[@trvpmusic2569]

Shinobu were basically common everyday villagers who used farming equipment as weapons, some didn't even know martial arts they were simply spys who acted as regular passers-bys getting information from the rival clan and taking that information back to their group and sometimes selling it to another rival THATS IT! They weren't groups in all black who all have Katanas wearing mask and throwing ninja stars who were all absolutely perfect in martial arts, thats modern pop culture ideology lol

[@P.Whitestrake]

Yes. The actual shinobi/kunoichi on the daily didn't go around wearing ninja shit. They actually wore common clothes. They only wore black or dark outfits when they wenr out on a mission at night.

[@dauritas1460]

​@@Luke1902They didn't have their samurai status simply taken away because of old age, but I see where you are going. You could be warrior class, or even nobility, and still do shinobi line of work if you are clever and sneaky enough. You just don't go around bragging because in that case you are blowing your cover.

[@domingorubies656]

Indeed

[@Usagizaka46]

The name Naoe is actually a family name. Kanetsugu, (priorly, Higuchi Yoroku) adopted the name when he married into the family. Naoe as a female name isn’t odd and actually exists. Of course the kanji is different. Shadows is still a mess though lol. What a joke. “Samurai and Shinobi come from different social class.” Hattori Hanzo says what!???? Anyway, nice take on this. Fair and balanced.

[@ujiltromm7358]

When people are calling you all the names like they are completing a Pokédex, you know you're on target. In other news, this game will be romanticized revisionist history. I wonder who's the historian(s) they consulted, and if that or those persons have an agenda. Just asking questions, you know? Those 2 frames at 18:00 are golden.

[@sweethistortea]

“I wanna be the best, like no one ever was.”

[@lakshaykochhar6799]

​@@sweethistorteaTwo of you shut up, you're make me wake up my parents😂

[@IxchelsBrat]

their consultant is a shota/yaoi expert

[@chadfromchad4662]

When you mention anything historical, they call you a racist. They say its historical, and everything is supposed to be good. Then they will have the guts to say that it is a game and people overreact due to racism.

[@Frozenkex]

Great strawman

[@fredrickmansav6852]

@@Frozenkex literally not a strawman, leftists actually say everything is racist.

[@llama6394]

Only the racist people are being called racists.

[@pqlr8763]

@@Frozenkex Great meh-meh...

[@GothamThotSlayer]

​@Frozenkex you're part of the same problem

[@randomperson-up5vt]

It's only historical when ubisoft needs it to be and fiction when people get annoyed at something.

[@badrequest5596]

we already have a pretty good assassins creed in japan. it's called ghost of tsushima. and it is considerably more historically accurate than whatever this weabu thing ubisoft is trying to push

[@fattiger6957]

@@badrequest5596 Add Rise of the Ronin to that. Currently playing it and loving it.

[@yushayasad3676]

​@@badrequest5596now that's just false. Ghost of Tsushima is incredibly inaccurate. The only accurate part of the game is battle at Kamoda beach. Apart from that, the game is complete fiction along with inaccuracies like using 15th century armour and tools during the 12th century.

[@johansvensson833]

@@yushayasad3676 and also magic similar to the last ac game

[@terrencemoldern2756]

Ubisoft doesn’t seem to think there was such a thing as a MALE Asian individual these days... I mean seriously... at least in the Far East I can’t recall them EVER making a proper male Asian character. Only one that comes close is their India protagonist.

[@steelshanks1265]

Guess Ubisoft never heard of Hattori Hanzo...

[@moriken1234]

just a note, for Naoe Kanetsugu the name is Kanetsugu. Naoe is the family name. The province of Iga is much larger than that scenary shown in the trailer. It is surrounded by mountains, but the valley is very wide capable of holding a sizable city. I don't think they've actually visited the place...

[@NobleNemesis]

Probably just flew over it

[@meme-ij3gz]

Seriously????? I am Japanese but Naoe sounds like a female name and Kanetsugu sounds like a family name or male name. What is the source?

[@moriken1234]

@@meme-ij3gz 直江兼続で検索しなよ、普通にメジャーな武将なんだから

[@meme-ij3gz]

@@moriken1234 あ、そういうこと？動画流してみたから全部聞いてなくて、私はこの女キャラの名前がNaoe Kanetsuguで、Naoeは苗字はともかくこの子の名前はKanetsuguだったんかいって勘違いしたからびっくりしたよ。

[@Viper-dz2kw]

They probably did, it’s likely they just scaled it down for gameplay purposes . Think about it reasonably for a second, most game devs are just people who love making games, and if you were offered and all expenses paid trip to an exotic location would you say no? It’s extremely doubtful they were being sinister about it.

[@violet-trash]

I hope we get to play as the white Zulu chief in the next game, he was a very interesting historical figure.

[@buffaloalice8413]

Assassin’s Creed: Apartheid

[@yellow_flash813]

🤣🤣😭 as someone with zulu blood, that would be crazy

[@ericblackwell70]

Well you didn’t play as a Zulu chief but you definitely killed a a lot of them in resident evil 5 or did you all of a sudden forget that now?

[@The1337guy1]

@@ericblackwell70 And I'd do it again.

[@bellatordei3440]

Wtf, Yasuke was historical

[@ahadurrahman9451]

ghost of tsushima did the samurai and ninja/assassin moral code so nicely

[@stewie_]

Saying that they picked a black man (who we never knew for sure if he was a samurai or not) to represent the japanese samurai culture is so wrong, I can't wait for someone in Japan to sue them for all the things they will do wrong in this game. Historical representation my arse, this is Cleopatra was black all over again. What a bunch of idiots, I'm so glad I left Ubisoft.

[@Ktsjay187]

He literally existed, get over it.

[@priestofthighs3013]

@@Ktsjay187 thats not the issue, did you even read the comment

[@berserk1934]

@@Ktsjay187 He was a SLAVE not a SAMURAI!! Get over it!

[@billylee7398]

​@Ktsjay187 so did Jesus? So was Jesus black?

[@Ktsjay187]

@@berserk1934 nah he was a samurai. Take ur own advice

[@assaixfedajini]

Please never stop doing what you're doing Metatron :)

[@zameion90]

After looking at the comments I can see why he thinks a complaining rant is suitable for most of his videos.

[@Dr._Jazz]

3:54 - correction: Naoe is a FAMILY name. The Naoe family were an entire CLAN of samurai loyal to the Uesugi clan. No one would name their kid "Naoe," regardless of their sex. The man you refer to: Kanetsugu is his given name. Naoe is the family name. It would be like naming a girl "Smith" or "Johnson" in English.

[@atsukorichards1675]

By the way, nowadays Naoe (直江/直枝/なおえ) can be a girl's name. It also could be a boy's name with right Kanji.

[@troyrenlen6459]

You mean like Anderson Cooper? I always assumed he wasn't real.

[@christianvacchelli1953]

I bet they probably picked something that sounded female without looking to much into it

[@Reealos]

Japanese have the family name first then the given name. My country has the same thing.

[@akossz30]

@@Reealos Same in Hungary first is family name after the given one

[@Noirthodox]

Well said

[@wisecontragio172]

from 2007 to 2024 for them to implement a hide in the shadows mechanic, they literally have worse stealth than fallout

[@llama6394]

Stealth never was a big part of ac. People got tricked into thinking it was a stealth game because you have tools and a hood. Most of the games are spent fighting armies and running through explosions.

[@Imnot_abot]

@@llama6394 did you only play the RPG games?

[@varnix1006]

​​@@llama6394 you started from Valhalla? What a shame.

[@ciege7486]

​@@llama6394Ah, shame to see you were dropped on the head as a child, here's hoping you make a full recovery eventually.

[@llama6394]

@@Imnot_abot no lol, most of the games are completely full of action set pieces especially the ezio collection. When you play revelations, there's literally only 2 targets in the story that you can kill stealthily.

[@mooocowcowcowmooo]

The 2 women saying "Japanese people like Yasuke in this game" look so nervous. The Japanese lady is constantly looking at the white woman to make sure she is screwing the sloganeering up and the white woman looks terrified. That's the funniest bit for me.

[@buffaloalice8413]

The Japanese also do this thing where they will tip-toe around saying anything blatantly negative in order to help someone save face. For instance, if I made an origami crane that looked more like a drowned duck, the instructor might say, “oh that is very good, it reminds me of a swan”.

[@skybattle1184]

They do like yasuke he’s known and accepted in Japan incels 😭

[@mooocowcowcowmooo]

@@skybattle1184 Tell that to the Japanese's trailer likes to dislikes ratio bub.

[@skybattle1184]

@@mooocowcowcowmooo that’s because you colonizers are spammin the dislikes on Japanese videos y’all are not slick

[@skybattle1184]

Always trying to speak for someone else speak for your own race

[@WhiteUlv]

as what we heard from ppl "in the industry" all the incosistencies You noticed can be leftovers from original story that were cooked for "japanese Assassin's Creed". Not confused with AC Shadows. And all the bullshit from dev team is probably one of two (or both) things: "hollywood/gaming" as you Yourself stated and... that historians. Look at their work. They are more activists than real historians that know what they're talking about.

[@部甲]

The protagonist looks at the rice planting and whispers about a good harvest. A square tatami mat that was never supposed to be used for a castle. For some reason, the torii gate serves as the gate to the village. The way the helmet is worn and the way the sword is held are also different. There is no end to the list of strange depictions. If you do even a little research on Japan, you'll realize that all of this is wrong. This was just a lack of homework. Despite making it so sloppily, the developer says this: ``Yasuke is a great samurai'' ``Creation based on history''``I want people who are familiar with Japanese history to look forward to it.'' You're very good at jokes. That's probably what the developers thought.Samurai and ninja are popular, so let's make a game set in Japan. However, it's a pain to research, so I'll just make the atmosphere more Japanese-like. All you have to do is do a sloppy job. Creating a fictional myth of a great black samurai also ensures diversity. The concept art was completed by pasting the work of a Japanese creator without permission! Ah, This game is great in the sense that it makes Japanese people uncomfortable.

[@jorgeropero359]

TW: Shogun 2's geisha and Shadow Tactics: BotS's Aiko are better kunoichi than whatever Ubisoft is doing :c

[@JohnDoe-ug3su]

The devs that made Shadow Tactics closed after SBI consulted their latest game btw

[@Subutai_Khan]

The TV series Shogun showed a more believable interpretation of a female assassin too. For starters she looked like a mere servant so she was able to inflitrate the castle. She didn't fight with superhuman speed or anything and like any good assassin she avoided a head to head confrontation and used the environment to get an advantage in a split second against some of her unsuspecting victims. However, once she is fighting Torinaga in a fair fight and the samurai are alerted that there is an assassin and know her location, she is in a bad spot as any assassin would be. Not to mention that the story is better than any of the crap Ubisoft comes up with.

[@kaltaron1284]

The short video clips in both the first and the second one were great.

[@Cyrus_T_Laserpunch]

The geisha's assassination videos are brutal, she does not care how many people have to die in order to reach and kill her target.

[@plasticbazooka]

​@@JohnDoe-ug3suThat's a shame, I vaguely remember enjoying Shadow Tactics. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, I guess.

[@Filip_Agrippa]

In AC Odyssey, Kassandra is treated the same as a man, which doesn't make sense in Ancient Greece. And she is supposed to be a canonical MC, even though the story is a male Greek's story.

[@digimon5433]

kassandra was suppost to be the only character until a exec said "woman don't sell"

[@byletheisner5006]

​@@digimon5433Is this why they designed the Olympic games storylines to only fit a male character?

[@vodkavecz]

gameplay > history it's not that deep.

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

​@@vodkaveczyou're wasting the historical setting by not prioritising it then. If I wanted to play generic RPG, I'd find something else

[@vodkavecz]

@@bipstymcbipste5641 Sure. But AC is a huge franchise that is mainly for the general audience, not a niche for history fans. So in this case, then you picked the wrong game. AC games are historical fiction, they always were.

[@坂本琢磨-x4t]

It looks like AI was used in the concept art. Here's a list of reasons why: There are no monkeys with long tails in Japan. Japanese houses are made of wood, so if they were to grow moss like that, they would rot and collapse. That expression could only be possible with stone construction. The sliding doors have no rails. There are two sliding doors placed in the width of a single sliding door. One sliding door has a double layer in the middle. There are parts where the tatami floor is a different color, it's nonsense. It is obviously impossible for a house to have sliding doors on three sides. Japanese people take off their shoes at the entrance, so there should be a step between the floor and the ground, but there isn't one.

[@坂本琢磨-x4t]

If they chose our culture for fun, we'd be okay with some mistakes. But if their goal was to be woke or to take our culture, we'd fight back. And now, whether they intended it or not, they're using this game to be woke and to take our culture. That bothers us.

[@AmirDarkOne]

don't insult AI AI is much more competent .

[@موسى_7]

​@@AmirDarkOne you haven't seen AI art

[@luxda6]

I've seen some comments by the japanese, the houses looks like chinese architectures more than japanese itself.

[@astronotics531]

@@luxda6 It's normal, the Japanese don't know their own history: at that time, Japan's architecture was under Chinese influence.

[@silvastone1691]

I've never played an Assassin's Creed game. This could've been my first and I was lowkey interested when I heard the game was being worked on some time back. However with everything I know about the western game industry and how AAA games have been the past couple of years I've become distrustful of most big budget titles. When I saw the trailer I wanted to believe this to be a sincere game but I got weird vibes. Seeing this video and other things I've heard it confirmed my suspicions and I would sadly have to skip this one, but hey, money saved.

[@TheGhost-7002]

“Samurai and Shinobi are a different social class, so you can’t put them as one character.” (Paraphrased). I couldn’t believe what I was hearing the first time I heard this. I’m surprised you didn’t freak out as much about it either 😂. It shows how much “research” they have put into this game. Also they are acting like you can’t do both, (*cough* *cough*, Ghost of Tsushima, *cough* *cough*)

[@sx4mania35]

*ehem* Laughs in Hattori Hanzo (who actually appeared in Assassin's Creed Memories. When Ubisoft had good material in their hands but decided to throw them away)

[@MarcinSzyniszewski]

"For the first time since Syndicate, the game will feature 2 playable protagonists" - wut? Did they forget their own games?

[@drewtheunspoken3988]

They're rewriting everyone else's past, why not their own?

[@zzodysseuszz]

Tbh I would forget assassins creed odyssey as well. The game even disappointed and even angered ME, you’d think I would like the game judging by my name

[@thelordofcringe]

What game since syndicate had two protagonists? Every other game just had a gender choice, they didn't have two protagonists doing their own seperate stories that you swap between.

[@JohnGardounis]

I actually loved odyssey as much as black flag

[@das_III]

"we made games?"

[@fattiger6957]

I see Ubisoft defenders saying that AC games aren't historically accurate, but Ubisoft has always claimed the opposite. If Ubisoft wasn't constantly claiming their games are true to history, I don't think as many people would take issue with them. But the company constantly pretends to take the high-road, both intellectually and morally. There have been plenty of games set in a fantastical version of a historical setting, filled with a ton of goofy things. And people were okay with those games. But the developers weren't claiming that demons, monsters and robot arms are true to history. They just wanted to make a fun game that people aren't supposed to take too seriously.

[@hafirenggayuda]

Adding more. AC games also mostly use fictional people as MC/PC and historical person as NPC (Jack the Ripper appearance is heavily fictionalized, so not really count). Yet for some "unknown" reason, Yasuke become playable in this new AC game. It's clear what Ubisoft intention is

[@ZeroHxC07]

Man if this Ubisoft devs are experts it’s prettt laughable. Remember when Altair was going to have a crossbow and they took it off because it didn’t fit. Good times, good times.

[@ZeroHxC07]

Also when they say y asume was “stolen” by the Portuguese. I can bet my left testicle he was probably given to a church and he was taken in.

[@MrSpawn229]

They put wrong Nobunaga's crest in the trailer

[@chaosgyro]

Come on Metatron, these guys are French. If you go at them this hard, you might accidentally wind up in charge of the whole country!

[@RisenOswald]

They are french xD that explains so much

[@Weebash14886]

As a french, yeah sure, i take him over Macron, he can't do worse.

[@RisenOswald]

@fleurmaritime so you are not french if you live in France, only if you live in Paris? They are discount french.

[@RisenOswald]

@fleurmaritime did you miss my comment about discount french or what?

[@LaPtaVerdad]

Lets make a stealth game with 2 of the most outlandish and recognizable in mid day characters of whole history A giant afracan dude in Japan And a girl dressed as a dnd character

[@DanJuega]

Yasuke is not meant for stealth. And we could’ve been complaining about this since AC 1.

[@LaPtaVerdad]

@@DanJuega i know this is futile as you are most likely an npc but lets go: 1)then why put yasuke in an assassins fantasy oriented game all together?? For propaganda and hate watching 2)altair was exceptionally close to an actual hassassin as a melee mercenary which were extremely common in that day and age 3)altair had balls in a country in which was common to look at ball's users to walk around fully armed in an age of conflict even so you were questioned in various checkpoints as it should happen AND ATTACKED 4)wtf is assassin's Creed gone all together?? I stoped playing after the first trilogy where you were supposed to have the memory of that person in your dna to play them and altair and ezio were extremely distant relatives which is completely possible living in conflicting countries around the Mediterranean but wtf a japanese girl AND a guy from africa that lived in japan??? Even if not related to desmond makes 0 sense that they are somewhat related to a single present assassin(if they even exist in these new moneymakers) 5)i fcuking hate propaganda in escapism media-im here to see a magical or semi historical world take place not to be brain washed into the same trash i see in the news(and im not alone as most of those crap games are globally disliked)

[@DanJuega]

@@LaPtaVerdad 1) If you are asking in terms of mechanics, that would be because AC has become more combat oriented in the latests releases, so this was the compromise of having a combat oriented character and a stealth one. If your question is more broad, I don’t know why you guys act as if outsider stories are not some of the most popular in media. As if a foreigner becoming a samurai doesn’t elicit the response. Wow. How did that happen? I want to know that story. It’s not like we’re hurting for games with japanese samurai. 2/3) I very vividly remember that you could hide from guards in full gear by merely standing between monks with white robes. Because the protagonists have ALWAYS been the least inconspicuous mfs with their hoods and gear. They always looked like anime protagonists in a crowd of bland npc. But somehow those cases are played off as haha game logic, and this is a sin. You are the npc arguing in bad faith and regurgitating talking points that make no sense for someone that plays videogames. For all you know they also check you and attack you. You haven’t even played the game. 4) As far as I’m aware they dropped the Desmond story line after 4, which lets be honest it always was the weakest part of every AC game. I never cared for any modern stuff. 5) There is something very insidious about stating that you could never make a game about Yasuke without being propaganda. Like the mere existence of a minority is a politically motivated crime, rather than merely being a story that is objectively interesting to tell. And let’s remember, he was an historical figure. Same with the female shinobi. But no, every game has to cater to your every whim otherwise it’s propaganda. Like the political messages about freedom and what not aren’t propaganda but the black guy is. And even then AC has never been 100% historical as they always mess with stuff. Adam and eve, literal magic, a working prototype of a DaVinci flying machine, Templars being this undying organization that want to enslave humanity. But somehow we draw the line at the black guy that actually existed.

[@LaPtaVerdad]

@@DanJuega i knew it you were such an npc xD 1) yeah i also disliked the viking one like wtf has that to do with assassins?? FCUKING NOTHING is just a money making title at this point Also guess what vikings are white AND a minority but your brain runs so low on ram you think minorities are always black or related to the US dumbed down binary tribe politics btw wtf is "you guys" who are you allying me with you mindless zombie??? Also i highly doubt the game portrays about the intricacy of being a black dude in feudal japan (which would be cool and before you sprout a neuron depleting comment-the trailer would said something like: my name is yasuke and this is my story >:D) is just a random soul less samurai with a black skin (look at me im so tall and strong hoho so interesting character because thats modern liberalism the most racist shiet ever making sure you get the minority quota instead of an actual good story and character; simplification over all ethnicities at its best-thats what racism is btw) 2) yeah you could hide using a white hood in a group of white hooded indiviuals of your same size and close enought ethnic group (100% pausible although obviosly it was very exagerated in those games), but pls tell me how a 2m dude IN FULL ARMOR is gonna hide with 1.5m japanese farmer midgets around (oh also add up he is black and japan even today are so unused to black people that they will look at you as a circus freak) xD 4) that explains the absolute fcukfest that are the assassins creed games nowadays they got literally 0 essence just go play free fire at this point you never cared (because you got a superficial bland taste-same as with politics and culture) but it gave cohersion to the whole story 5) i never stated that you mindless monkey (thats what you want to read because it feeds you propaganda rotten brain) xD the fact that you are instantly victimizing yasuke as the "minority" (because you have 0 concept of what a minority means) is the fact that its propaganda when he should be extremely well off with a samurai status helping the imperialism of his shogun lord and no they were as much as a historical figure as ragnar lothbrok in vikings (which is an amazing show because guess what it focuses on the characters and not in the boom boom i can cut poeple in half im so cool haha-and you just add quota to make them "interesting" or at least tell people racist and such if they tell you your product sucks) and obsiously AC isnt historically accurate its a low fantasy setting after all (which is pretty cool) but that doesnt mean thats its immune to critical thinking over its suspension of disbelief Pd: sorry for calling you a monkey they are actually very intelligent and cute creatures

[@Jeremy-yp8eh]

​@@DanJuega Assassin's Creed is an extremely famous and popular IP, it's practically the Batman of video games (yes I know there are also Batman games don't be pedantic), so the first AC game being set in Japan was kind of a big deal given that in spite of the fantastical elements, the AC series has still traditionally paid attention to historical detail. After all this is the series that made a near 1:1 laser scan of the Notre Dame cathedral, which was consulted for the purpose of reconstruction after the fire. So for an insanely popular series made by Canadian devs (and Canadians are basically Americans as far as most of the world is concerned) to choose as its debut title in Japan the one black dude in their premodern history is absolutely political, because it's a statement from the American-ish (again Canada's just a de facto colony of the US) entertainment industry that Japan needs "diversity" in precisely the way that Americans understand "diversity." Yasuke would be perfect in a game like Nioh, but making him the face of the first AC game set in Japan is basically Ubisoft declaring him as the face of Japan itself. And considering that Rahm Emanuel and other DNC cronies are actively targeting Japan for their DEI crap, it's not just a matter of some devs thinking that Yasuke is just really cool.

[@Adam-wt5id]

I saved a old gameinformer magazine that had AC2 as the cover story. The entire article was about how Ubisoft went so extra hard to accurately recreate the cathedrals and landscapes of old Venice. Game was nominated for GoTY at the time. Now ubisoft just says fuck it and tosses out games like they are dealing playing cards

[@MR3DDev]

So Naoe will be the actual Assassin's Creed and Yasuke will be the RPG BS we had in Valhalla and Oddyssey

[@itay9345]

Yes

[@llama6394]

Yep they want to please the RPG fans and the OG fans at the same time with each character I think

[@MR3DDev]

@@llama6394 Thats not a bad idea.

[@Jazzafritsch]

​@@MR3DDevit's a terrible idea, trying to please everyone ends up pleasing no one

[@iyaramonk]

@@Jazzafritsch Pretty sure you can choose to only play as one if that's what you want.

[@mathewbowyer2221]

The whole point of the assassin's order is that they're sneaky, that they could be anyone. Altair looked like every other male between 15-50 in the Levant. Yasuke was the only black guy, and the only 7' tall guy, in Japan at the time. Literally the only one. The dumbest guards on the planet could keep this one guy from sneaking past, and could be pretty certain if he somehow did who it was who killed their boss. "Sarge, the suspect fled!" "Oh shit! It could be anyone!" "Actually, no. It was Yasuke?" "Literally the only 7' black dude in the country?" "Yeah, him." "Well shit, send the whole army to burn down his house I guess."

[@digimon5433]

and why does he need to sneak in?

[@llama6394]

This whole argument makes zero sense when you taken into account that Yasuke isn't an assassin, he's a samurai. Did you even play Odyssey and Valhalla?

[@Knoloaify]

​@digimon5433 Even if Altair doesn't sneak in it can be difficult to track him down because he's another local male, to the point that he can blend into the crowd. So the powers that be can't just go attack the assassins as retaliation. Meanwhile it's clear who Yasuke is. You can easily figure out where he lives because he's unique. If Yasuke was just participating in battles it wouldn't be an issue. But here he's doing assassinations, and that imply possible retaliation.

[@madjoe8622]

"Stop been logical" - Ubislop

[@llama6394]

@Drakaris-Og but the stealth in those games were minimal and nothing about it was social. Race doesn't matter when you're hiding in a bush and shooting arrows from a distance. Kassandra could've been indian and it wouldn't have affected clearing out camps at all.

[@trollking99]

The reason people get so riled up on both sides is that one side wants to preserve history as it was, while the other wants to change history to suit their narrative.

[@jonathanmaldonado7913]

*both sides are trying to change history to shape their narrative*

[@familygrobauskas4059]

@@jonathanmaldonado7913the difference is that one side wants to change it by reinforcing already existing common misconceptions and oversimplifications, whilst the other wants to pile on new, sometimes contradictory ones without removing the old, and to most this is much more noticeable.

[@pedromsampaio647]

Wait.... so i will not be able to choose a female yasuke???

[@dedokodo5]

Preserving history like saying the south was fighting for state rights only.

[@jenot7164]

Why is it so important to be historically accurate in video games? If I want facts I just read a history book and not play a game.

[@LB-yg2br]

Whoa you can destroy light to help hide? Whoa that’s crazy! No one has EVER done THAT before… Where is my copy of thief?

[@papabloodharvest9542]

Splinter Cell did it better

[@admirekashiri9879]

Oh oh let me get my popcorn 😂😂. I know Metatron is about to piss off a lot of folks. Finally someone is highlighting the problems with this character!

[@TheFranZone04]

Another video of Metatron destroying Ubisoft … getting out my popcorn and taking a seat 🗿🍿

[@sanchokihana6341]

Is actually Black Rock having some affairs with that?.. If yes, then it's even clearer what is happening since they got a notable share in Games Workshop who make Wh40k, and suddenly there ALWAYS WERE female Custodians

[@llama6394]

Black rock is intertwined with literally every media company no?