Japanese Analyze Ubisoft's Fauxpology

[@DashBlue]

Part 2 out now! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJOsimqPn8pneck

[@breloopharos1919]

Thanks for showcasing a different perspective!

[@DashBlue]

@@breloopharos1919 thank you for watching!

[@sangermain7264]

@@DashBlue But I kinda gotta defend the artist this part the visual team used a very common technique called "photobashing" which is basically to use "accessible materials" to photoshop out how the visual gonna be roughly for concepting. The point is to make fancy visuals in short time. BUT, if the conceptartists themselves CARE enough, they'd draw over some parts with potentially questionable stuff or at least try to understand what's on it (for example the flag). This must either been pushed on a very tight deadline or went on low budget, otherwise it means the art team don't give Japnese or any other Asian culture a fvck.😅

[@HI-cc6jf]

The story of Yasuke started with a false history book written by a university professor. He published the book as non-fiction, spreading the idea that Yasuke played an important role in Japanese history. This false narrative was recognized by Western audiences. Any derivative works using Yasuke's fabricated story contribute to the distortion of Japanese history, are discriminatory against Japanese people, and insult Japanese culture and the Japanese people.

[@zine_eddinex24]

keep up do analysis to ghost of yotei please 😅

[@_brutalista]

Wow. That gaslighting on the Japanese version of the "apology letter" is wild.

[@riloh58]

It does seem like Ubisoft are really trying hard to be the worst possible version of themselves.

[@DashBlue]

agreed, thank you for the comment!

[@paledrake]

I'm honestly impressed at how much they've changed since their last big AC game. Tbh maybe they've always been doing this shit, but no one was bothering to fact check them...

[@kurosan0079]

In short, their message is "I'm sorry you're offended, but it's actually your fault." Gee, I wonder why people hate them.

[@punishedbung4902]

Ubisoft walking up to Japan and says “kowabunga my fellow ninjas.”

[@Oh3PhowZei]

日本語のお気持ち表明文しか読んでませんが、懸念を生じさせたことについて”のみ”謝罪してて、一体何に謝罪してるんだい？って読み取れます。 ようは謝罪ではない

[@DashBlue]

コメントありがとうございます。 残念過ぎる声明文でした。出さない方がまだマシだとすら思います。

[@crocadillius6418]

They’re not sorry they did it, they’re sorry they got caught

[@PostrzelonaPL]

It's absolutely fascinating how the Japanese people can point out every inconsistencies with their culture. Your natural precision reminds me of wings, you do it with such ease ;). Inspiring

[@DashBlue]

thank you for your comment!

[@batatahigh382]

Hello my twin

[@clementpoon120]

the hypocrisy of trying to be diverse while nearly getting everything wrong and offending everyone in the process

[@viktoriyaserebryakov2755]

@@BonnieGruesome I can with an exaggerated Australian accent tell an American that I'm Austrian, and they have never called me out on it.

[@Wearywastrel]

​@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755considering that most of us in the US have never met an Aussie I'm not surprised. 15 years ago I met a Brit with an interesting accent I couldn't place. I probably drove him crazy trying to figure out why we only know about Cockney and RP. 😅

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

I hate all of this. I'm tired of game companies thinking they can get away with this..

[@DashBlue]

I'm right there with you thank you for your comment!

[@juanmd26121]

Best explanation. You deserve more attention

[@DashBlue]

thank you for the kind comment!

[@moriken1234]

街並みのコンセプトアートに使われている写真のほとんどは長崎大学図書館の「日本古写真グローバルデータベース」で見つかったはずです。ほとんど明治・大正時代のもので当然弥助のいた時代からは３００年ほど後のもの。明らかに時代考証なんてしてないですよねぇ・・・ あとこの写真、使うなら利用料払わないといけないはずだけど、問い合わせたところこれらの写真のコピーを持っているのは他にもあるので必ずしもここからの盗作とは言えない、とのこと。

[@DashBlue]

詳細なコメントありがとうございます。 出典元の詳細がわからなかったのですが、教えていただきありがとうございます。写真が残ってる時点で、けっこう後の時代だろうなとは思っていましたが。こんな時代考証でお金頂けるなんて、なんていい商売でしょうか！ お問い合わせ内容からすると、どこから盗作したにしろ、本元の許可はとってないということでしょうかね。著作権先進国の名が泣きますねぇ…

[@UP3UP]

普通に考えたら、コピーされたものの2次利用なんて、なおさらみとめるっておかしいけどね。 映画の海賊版がばらまかれて、その海賊版からさらに複製されたら、版元は、はいOKでーーーす！っていうのかな？あり得ないと思うけど。 その二次配布3次配布してるところに抗議して、止めさせると思うけどね。 明治の時代のものだとしても、それらを正確に保存する（物理的にもデータ的にも）義務があるとおもうんだけどね。 少なくとも、遺憾の意やみとめてないことくらいは、声明だすべきじゃないのかね。グルーバルってつけると、何かが劣化するのだろうか？ｗ 仮に「利用料はらったことがあるところ」があった場合は、逆に、その権利元を訴えていいと思うよｗ だれもがつかってるから、いらない！っていうのに、それで、て金とったら、嘘ついてたことになるしね。 オープンソースきどるなら、最初から規約取り払ってそう明記すべきだわ。真面目な人達が損するなんて論外。 仮に、助成金とか税金が入ってる団体だと、さらに問題だろうしね。 まぁUBIは、もうクリエイターとしてもうよべない「雑なコピペ反転トリミングアート集団」という認識はされるだろうけどね。 職務怠慢と海外忖度で、形骸化した法律とか仕組みが多いのも問題ですね。 がっつり旅券法違反の偽名記入とかも放置されたりするしね。犯罪にもつかわれるしねそういうの。それで犯罪者に国外逃亡とされてるわけで。

[@reef4519]

Because of this controversy, I would like to propose a new concept for an assassin's creed called "Assassin's Creed: Chained together" You will play as a white slave in the American civil war where you will be freeing slaves and become a hero while doing so

[@andresochoa540]

i mean there were white slaves

[@No_Fuse8771]

@@andresochoa540 Yes, that is true but they were called indentured servants. They were also, for the most part, treated better. They also could not be whipped in some states. Again, I am talking about indentured servants. I get the epic sarcasm of the OP as well. Ubiraciest I believe is trying to hit a hat trick and get to everyone with this franchise. AC Valhalla was way off on a lot of things. They also never said they were basing the game off of one person but kind of did. Kind of like Oprah, you get racism, you get racism, you get racism, and so on. I guess I'm lucky and got hit twice by them so far. Part Scottish and Norwegian.

[@declancampbell1277]

@@No_Fuse8771 debatable that they were treated better, at least at first. You only have an indentured servant for a specified amount of time, or until they pay you a specified amount. Many irish for example sold themselves into indentured servitude to escape famine, with the expectation they'd work off the debt to free themselves. If you only have a servant for a limited amount of time, there's no reason to be gentle with him, you dont get to keep him. So the irish were often worked to the bone or to death so that the people who held their contracts could get their monies worth. Slaves on the other hand were for life, still treated worse than a dog but there was a reasonable assumption you'd get your worth out of them over time. In the US it started to become very different when the attitudes changed from "slave", to "black slave" though. Most countries have the world have had slavery, but with the US racism became tied up with it very quickly. And when you view someone as lesser just for existing, then you can justify all sorts of horrible behaviour. TLDR: The first gen of african slaves were likely treated better than indentured servants, but every gen after that was treated as bad or worse.

[@LieshaCichol]

My favorite alternate title is AC: Johnny Somali

[@reef4519]

@@LieshaCichol This would have been more feasible

[@hihijetstar]

4:35 This is paid material. Please enlarge. They are using images with copy protection still on them.

[@Mirvra]

15:30 As a person from Sweden, I will point out that AC Valhalla regularly ruined my immersion with some of it's ''inaccuracies'' Though, I will admit that it's more difficult for Scandinavians to be offended by it, since most of our myths and culture from that time was basically lost to us during the christianization of the north, and what little we now try to remember is either hear-say, unreliable stories, or accounts made by people that were literally trying to rewrite our myths to ''be more Christian''

[@helmaschine1885]

There are some great critiques of Valhalla and the TV show Vikings here on KZbin by more educated people. ❤ Like by the Metatron , The Welsh Viking, Shadiversity and many others. Many regular educated historians like Viking history too, we're not completely forgotten ❤❤

[@Nataruma]

I think the thing for me is Eivor's male/female versions and Alexios and Kassandra weren't ethnically different from one another, I never played or know much about Origins but I am under the impression the protags in that were also ethnically suited to the story's setting. When the game was set in East Asia and specifically Japan, which is already an ethnicity that deserves to be featured on its own merits, it baffles and bothers me that Ubisoft decided to shoehorn this guy Yasuke in, when he really didn't need to be featured as the counterpart to Naoe and it makes little logical sense to me.

[@JZStudiosonline]

I'm not even european and it annoys me that people think Heilung is even remotely accurate to anything to do with historical anything. Somehow they're attributed with vikings despite having absolutely nothing to do with them. Also weird that vikings are now shown as ultra-pagan disgusting people when the rest of europe was butthurt about how clean and pretty they are and stealing all the girls.

[@largesmallworld]

You guys have a fun sense of humor. Very entertaining. Anyway, maybe there will be a maid cafe for Yasuke to visit in the game.

[@DashBlue]

oh man, imagine Ubi's version of a maid cafe.. thank you for watching!

[@danielaji1769]

​@@DashBluei can imagine what kind ubisoft maid cafe is. Super rude maid with blue hair, awkward tatoo and glass. Always gaslight you whenever you buy something and the price is over the top with bad omu rice.

[@JoeOvercoat]

@@DashBlueNot to worry: it will be staffed by boys.

[@kennethward4605]

Perfect description for this video is "Assassin's Greed said so sowwry guys"

[@DashBlue]

lol thank you for the comment!

[@kitapi1974]

この2人の異なる人種、言語でのやり取りに説得性があって大好きです。

[@DashBlue]

コメントありがとうございます。妻の方です。 酔ってる上に日本語と英語がごちゃ混ぜすぎて、見返すと恥ずかしいです…英語練習しなくては…

[@zsofinyecz]

I never would have thought that a KZbinr couple from Japan would end Ubisoft. I love your content guys, keep it coming. Congratulations.

[@kuu8225]

Sharing this with friends because you and your wife (especially your wife Imma be honest, she really stole the show from you and you put up a hell of a fight for it) are absolute treasures. Fantastic editing too, it's a delight. It's so funny how Ubisoft - after seeing Hoyoverse do it - are switching their defense to 'it's fiction!!' but have done nothing to refute ALL the marketing they've done for it so far. What a shitshow... Not this video though, this video is High Quality. 10/10

[@DashBlue]

thank you so much, hope to see you for part 2!

[@estevaoM524]

dude, i've been pretty much binge watching you assassins creed breakdowns, you and your wife have great chemistry, you guys are very funny. would love to see more from you 2 in contexts other than Ubisoft bad, because that is given

[@DashBlue]

Thank you for the kind comments! We're considering many things in terms of content right now

[@ETheeb]

Spread clips and refer to DashBlue people, spread the word!

[@DashBlue]

Thank you so much for the support!

[@solivagant907]

Seeing Ubisoft's slow-motion immolation is a balm for my soul.

[@LamiNalchor]

Again, love the detailed explanations. The laziness of the copypaste is, of course, annoying for such experts as those looking at the image in particular because of the copyright.

[@DashBlue]

Thank you for watching! Hope to see you for part 2, things get a little spicy

[@LamiNalchor]

@@DashBlue Absolutely! I enjoy your detailed descriptions very much. I just watched the end. It is quite bad how the letter was phrased. I am not at all part of this discussion, but this does not sound good. And the end is funny. The two of you got an amazing sense of humor.

[@kashashk]

The closing statement alone should've gotten this video recommended to everyone, regardless of where they stood on any matter at any time.

[@piplupcola]

As someone who works in the industry, the pictures you see in this video is made with a method called Photobashing, which like they say in the video, involves the person slapping multiple photos over each other and painting over it. It's frowned upon in the industry for its inaccuracy and used of copyrigjt photos but it is still used because of the speed it takes to whip them out easily for concept art. Its basiclaly the precursor to the garbage AI generative photos u see today.

[@Gekko008]

As a Japanese lefty, I can back you up, that you cannot do calligraphy with your left hand. It's not that it's "impossible" but it's nearly impossible. For example, the way a "hane" has a sharp tip, can only be achieved by pulling the brush, not pushing the brush, and you cannot "pull" the brush with your left hand. So when I was doing calligraphy, I found it easier to do it with my right hand, so I have this weird thing, where I use a pen/pencil with my left but use a brush in my right. Even when just painting a large surface. Also, I agree with the final comment about Yasuke not being a Samurai. Remember that a Samurai is a rank, a status that is passed down from your family or given by a lord. Though I do not have historical evidence, I suspect that Yasuke did exist, however, he was more of a very prized soldier. Think of "The Gladiator" where he had fame, but he was not a free men. One historical innacuracy (as far as I also understand) is the notion that Samurai was walking around in armor all the time. Those armors can weigh more than 30kg and it's also a source of pride. It's not something you wear and wear out by using it every day. It's something that' deified as it's passed down from your farther, his father and so on. So, to think that a) Oda Nobunaga has given any form of title to a foreigner (I am not saying he didn't possibly fight alongside, or was a trusted confidant) and b) that he would walk around in full armor is strange to me.

[@alphadragongamingFTW]

I hope you keep up with regular videos on stuff. I love the energy between you two and how you go about things. I think you guys have something real special here that could have the potential to really take off.

[@DashBlue]

Thank you so much! New video just released!

[@89TStefan]

Well, I have two theories about the apology letter and why the Japanese version is being written like that: Either they don't have any Japanese working for them, no Japanese being involved in the development process which would pretty well explain the overall tone of the letter or why they totally miss the 空気 ; or they have Japanese working for them who also happen to be pissed on them and that is their very own roundabout way of putting the company into shame after the company put them into shame and even without having to take personal responsibility others than just telling when asking that they translated literally (which would be hilarious).

[@DashBlue]

I vote second theory because that would be HILARIOUS Thank you for your comment! New video out now, come check it out!

[@stellviahohenheim]

@@DashBlue Honestly if someone disrespected my culture i'd be mad too

[@CyberLou]

For anyone that's confused why there's photographs in the concept art. This is actually a pretty common practice for concept art production nowadays. And I would know as im learning concept art. The main way that concept art is produced nowadays is that the scene/envirment is first created in a 3D software. Then exported and painted over in a software like photoshop. And while in photoshop it's also common to add elements from photographs to make the scene look more realistic. Such as these pictures. And normally for a game like this adding these immages would be ok. As Ubisoft games are historical fiction inspired by history and as such just need to replicate the "Feeling" of the era. Not the whole era itself. The Issue comes in when Ubisoft claimed the game seeks to be historically accurate, only then is taking elements from 300 years apart a problem. As the job is no longer to replicate the "Felling of the Era" but the era itself and portray it as accurately as possible.

[@Zanbatoss]

When I was learning digital art they teach us this technique too, I remember its called "matte painting". Saves alot of time actually.

[@crusaderACR]

The Japanese are extremely serious about copyright and their laws are really really strict. In this video you see that half of their outrage is the copyright infringement. They wouldn't tolerate such a technique unless you go pay usage fees to all of the owners of the pictures. Otherwise take them yourself.

[@scarlettlav]

Did you watch the video they took a copyrighted photo that belong specially to the group and threw it in, it’s not even generic Japanese photo, you can’t do that.

[@Epona5]

Yea...it's called "photo bashing" and is pretty much standard in the industry...it's all meant to remain internal to help devs visualize what the game will look like. Historical accuracy isn't the priority in this conceptualization stage. It's basically throwing ideas and visuals together, like brainstorming. unfortunate that these images became public somehow

[@deRNmEpRrMm]

The kinda funny thing is that many concepts (for known, big games) which are created like this are publicly available to see on sites like Artstation. But few gamers care or have time to learn about intricacies of gamedev and these just happened to get shared on a more accessible platform like Reddit and seen by people out of context.

[@senri-n7m]

しがらみの無い視点から問題点を指摘してくださってありがとうございます。

[@DashBlue]

コメントありがとうございます！

[@gaijinbeats]

"so it's near tokyo , ok so it's like an hour away , ok that's 3 hours away from tokyo " lol

[@DashBlue]

hey if you took a shinkansen I bet it'd have been closer to my guess! lol

[@stuka6176]

時代劇でたびたび登場する傘張り内職って徳川幕府が開府して戦乱がなくなり、お役目が減ったために扶持が減らされたり家が取り潰されるため、こんな仕事をしないと生活できなかった 戦国時代はあり得ない光景ですね。後、元禄時代の江戸の武士の副業って寺子屋の先生ってのも多かったそうです

[@senri-n7m]

生活のために素読と占いで生計を立てる武士は落語「井戸の茶碗」で知りました。 このゲームには教養があれば騙されないような嘘が多分に含まれています。

[@DashBlue]

コメントありがとうございます。 確かに、戦国時代なら戦ってて内職する暇なさそうですよね笑

[@stuka6176]

@@DashBlue 傘さしている間に切られて討たれそうｗやはり傘は基本ぜいたく品で天下太平の世でない限り無用の長物だったと思われます

[@lawn_grower1560]

This is such a good analysis. Thank you.

[@DashBlue]

thank you so much! more to come, stay tuned!

[@JoeOvercoat]

@@DashBlue The analysis is so good I have to ask: Is this your fifth time through this game? …to pick these things up so quickly or are you, and especially the woman, that quick on the uptake?

[@DashBlue]

I played through the game once and got the platinum trophy on PS4, but back then I just played for the fun of it and took a bunch of pictures I enjoy looking at fine details in everything, how they work, why it's that way, the colors, the accents, the sounds, the atmosphere, many things My wife is very knowledgeable in everything I'm bad at, and has an extremely sharp eye for detail. I'm more mechanical, and go by feel, and she's very logical and analytical Thank you for the comment!

[@畳は四角]

田舎だと50年、60年前までなら左利きを矯正する風習残ってたみたいですよ 私の親戚の叔母も左利きなのを矯正したと言ってました

[@DashBlue]

そんなに最近までそうだったのですね！ なるほど、勉強になりました、コメントありがとうございます！

[@uservl7di9ti5y]

@@DashBlue 私は左利きだったそうですが私が小さい時に親が矯正したと聞いてます 今は右のほうが慣れてるから便利ってかんじかな 初めて手に取るものは左手の方が扱いやすいですね 私としては小さい時に矯正してもらって感謝ですわ だって左利きは対応する道具をわざわざ探さなきゃだから不便だもん 個人的には矯正は個性を潰すんじゃなくてより対応できる幅を増やす選択肢だと思う 左も右も使えた方がお得ですよ

[@outerlast]

@@uservl7di9ti5y 両利きはいいこと

[@SS-summary-etc]

90年代生まれだけど利き手矯正されましたね〜　私は残念ながら両利きになるどころか、中途半端になって混乱の日々を過ごしていますw

[@hitoshitaira573]

10年かそこら前に、学校の書道部への入部を左利きを理由に認めてもらえなかった、という話を聞きました。 まあ伝統文化絡みはそういう事もあるかなと思いましたが、生徒数が少なくて、部活の定員ぎりぎりの学校だったらどうだっただろう、と考えたりもします。

[@u3210]

The more details I know about the game and how it was made, the worse UBI looks. Thank you for going into detail, all your videos on the accuracy topic (including the Ghost of Tsushima one) are VERY informative. And on top of that, it feels like both of you are just having fun, I like the chemistry, I like your sense of humour and I'm glad I found this channel!

[@ChemySh]

Not defending Ubishit, just wanna provide extra context for concept art workflows: copypasting (or kitbashing, to use the industry-specific term) and painting over/heavy editing is common practice for concept artists. The practice of kitbashing itself is not lazy. Us grunts just try to produce the best looking result within the timeframe allocated. As for the historical inaccuracies... yeah idk, youre gonna have to take that up with Ubishit's art director

[@DashBlue]

thank you for the extra context!

[@LeopoldoRamirez]

Roasting level: Japanese

[@calmomen6817]

Lmao why'd he go so hard on the subtitles

[@DashBlue]

hope you enjoyed lol

[@Parasiteve]

of course its a fake apology lmao. they're sorry they got caught, not sorry they're being POS

[@DashBlue]

Agreed lol Thank you for your comment! New video out now, come check it out!

[@Ailurus-Fulgens1858]

They better fix some of the problems like the small shrine doesn’t need to be there it adds nothing to the game so they could easily delete it w/ a good hunk of the other inaccuracy’s 3 more months for them to fix the inaccuracies that’s plenty of time

[@Ailurus-Fulgens1858]

*If I was Ubisoft (thank the gods I’m not) the way I would fix this is:* actually try to fix it what I would do is, release it to japan as demo for a couple days and have a website for feed back and then we look at said feed back after the game comes off its few day demo (also to avoid story leeks they could block off story missions or something for the demo) after seeing what’s wrong according to the need back they can fix said problems easily before the release, then much like CP77, they could take feedback while the game is out then after a few huge updates and a few years later AC shadows is finally at what it should have been, now I’m not saying get rid of Yasuke as a replayable character I just want them to allow us to make the option to have either Naoe or Yasuke as the playable character like in odyssey you could play the whole game as either character but both existed in the game but work like if you played Alexios you play through Demos and the cults story and if you play as Kassandra you play through the normal story, like I would have both characters completely separate and which you choose determine what the story will be like you choose Naoe you fallow the story of the assassins but if you play as Yasuke you play throw the 15 months Yasuke was with Oda the characters can still meet in the story and stuff, and so on, but I feel like separating their stories and making the story change depending on who you play as will also add to the replay ability

[@Nataruma]

@@Ailurus-Fulgens1858 Scrap the entire fucking thing and redo it with actual sources this time or just don't bother, or repackage it as inaccurate historical fantasy, don't try to have it both ways.

[@deRNmEpRrMm]

I hate to be "devil's advocate" and defend Ubisoft on this one, but those concept art pieces and the way they were created are very standard practice for early concepts of environments. They don't need to be historically accurate or completely hand painted, they just need to get an idea, say a vibe across. If these are genuine promotional images that'd be much more of a problem, but I don't see a problem with those concepts. of course this has little to do with the final quality of the game or Ubisofts marketing and game direction regarding historical accuracy.

[@helmaschine1885]

Problem is they seem to be included in the art book....which means they are profiting off other peoples property.

[@EvgeniBel]

As for the analysis of the picture. This is the most common process of creating key visuals. A picture of this kind is needed to convey the mood of the scene. They are usually made in a couple of hours. You need a lot of them and they are often edited. This is especially true for fantasy projects like AC. Although I agree, this is strange for such a large company. Most likely, these images were outsourced. In such a process, it is difficult to keep track of the rights to the images, because they could have been made in some Russian village)

[@ThePandafriend]

That's fine for INTERNAL stuff and only a first step. But they're literally selling those pictures as "concept art", which is an entirely different thing.

[@rarepepecombos8743]

I'm learning so much about Japan thanks to you. MORE VIDEOS NOW

[@zackmillers550]

The editing in you vids make the video 5x better! Imma sub

[@outerlast]

oh and the defenders, those who call japanese "racist", defend the "historical accuracy" that it's not the characters or story, but the setting of the era. when you list all the inaccuracies and fallacies in those settings, they defend with "oh so they can't be fixed? don't gaslight!". at that point, yo can shut them up with "show us proof that they're fixing it. fix the sekigahara teppotai problem first, and then we'll talk about the other inaccuracies." and, no more defense lol

[@rgenc42721]

they'll just call you racist and repeat it like an npc no matter your reply

[@DashBlue]

the people that act like that are NPCs, let them keep wandering their digital delusion thank you for the comment!

[@dbclass4075]

The Great Ace Attorney suffered a similar backlash due to a character using the old term for Japanese when it was localized. Didn't stop it from selling well for its niche genre, though.

[@masterseeker360]

Japs are the OG based racists sometimes yoy gotta defend yoyr bois still ofended that americans stole their land from the natives and act all rightious

[@saunorine]

Man i wish i could play rdr2 and see a modern monster truck going down the street

[@DashBlue]

That would really up the immersion Thank you for watching!

[@manaby-ki]

最後に大ウケ、納得。 英語版と日本語版の比較検討ありがとうございます。 UBIは英語版でも不誠実な姿勢だったのですね。予想通りとはいえうんざりさせられます。 ｢謝罪文｣とやらは日本語版を見ただけでも、日本人を煽る意図が存在することがわかりますよ。 日本においては黒人が主人公であることに異論を唱える人は案外少なく、むしろ主人公が名もなき現地人ではなく実在の人物であったことに不満を表明している既存のアサクリユーザーが目立ちますね。 日本から出る不満の多くは｢気軽で雑に｣オモチャにされたことであり、ロック･リー氏がフォーカスされてからは興味の中心はUBIから彼に移ってしまいました。もはやUBIはネット上で楽しく遊んでもいいオモチャでしかなく、黒人奴隷売買という遊びや冗談では済まされない歴史改竄や誹謗中傷についての怒りが中心となっているように思われます。

[@DashBlue]

コメントありがとうございます。 「謝罪文」の日英版を見比べるなんてこと、普通はしませんものね。平たく言うと四の五の言わずにゲーム買えよとしか読みとれませんでした。大きなゲーム会社なのに危機管理の部署の方とかいらっしゃらないのかしら。 おっしゃる通り、アサクリシリーズ通して架空の現地由来のキャラクターを期待していたユーザーのは余計失望したでしょう。著作権問題やそれらに対する対応の杜撰さも加わるというオマケ付き。ゲーム云々よりもUBIの言動が注目されてしまい、炎上型商法を疑ってしまいそうですね。日本だけでなく、どの国の人も自国を粗末に扱われたら不快だというのに。 日本人の怒りの矛先の主軸はアサクリ問題からロックリー氏の歴史改ざん云々に移っていると思われます。それらについては最新動画でコメントしておりますので、よろしければご覧ください。

[@FloatingOer]

I think copying old pictures, or paintings/buildings, from the time period is fine if it's so old there is no copyright. Just say it's an easter egg! Too bad they are also copying recent pictures and stuff without any permissions like the flag etc. and the placement seems too random like they just copy paste whatever they liked, peach blossom during harvest which you pointed out before. These people would solve a puzzle by gluing the pieces together and then act surprised when the image doesn't match the picture on the box

[@DashBlue]

Exactly, I totally agree thank you for your comment!

[@mitate2314]

2:07辺りの虎ロープと一緒に写ってる白っぽい紐みたいな物。 あれ、有刺鉄線ですよ。

[@lucaswood839]

Wait years for ac to go Japan but instead we got Chipan or jahina though the warped version of Thomas lockley japanese history i honest i thought my illness would have got worst before they made it but i get to live to see this😢. O well I'll wait for rise of ronin pc release

[@mitkoogrozev]

Taking photos and mixing them together in concept art pieces is a technique called "photobashing" and it's used since it's a lot faster to churn out many concept images that way, than someone drawing or modelling everything by themselves. And the concept art is meant to just give an overall art direction and 'feel', so they dont care how it's done and if the details contained are very accurate or not.

[@elysiaplushie]

This is probably the first time I've heard Japanglish in action and not someone meme-ing it.

[@xxiroel]

Ubisoft doing speedrun to get bankrupt

[@DashBlue]

They're on world record pace so far Thank you for watching!

[@Banzai431]

LOL yes there's no porn of it. Good point.

[@DashBlue]

coming up in part 2! thank you for watching till the end!

[@feerfree8986]

Compare Yasuke to Musashi, which one more worthy for the title Legendary.

[@DashBlue]

tough choice🤔 thank you for the comment!

[@feerfree8986]

@@DashBlue just got a dream that netflix release a new series about Musashi and the actor is black xD

[@มดบ้าเกมส์]

apologize? ubi are more like gaslighting that all i can say

[@Futurewaterbottle90]

Thanks for making this video. THEY ARE SO NASTY

[@Power2thePwnage]

I’d like to point out that grabbing photos off an image search and slapping them together is a normal thing for phase artists to do to help get an idea of what they want (a process called “photobashing.”) BUT those artists then make original artwork based on what they saw with whatever changes they or their director sees fit. What ISN’T normal (or acceptable) is publishing photobashes as completed key artwork to be printed and sold. Photobashing isn’t bad, but selling it as a completely original piece is bad.

[@XellosNi]

LEGENDARY GODLIKE CHAD Sigma Male (Gay?) Samurai

[@DashBlue]

love this comment lol

[@XellosNi]

@@DashBlue Well he can't be the Alpha. That's Nobunaga. :/

[@hildeboltvonberenreute5997]

I can imagine content creators making a documentary about the "Assassin's Creed: Shadows" controversy, like Internet Historians "The Fall of 76".

[@DashBlue]

yeah I think it's coming for sure lol new video out now, come check it out!

[@CasperFGhost]

Not being Japanese myself but having seen my own culture adopted, misused or appropriated Its cathartic hearing both your thought’s on all of this. For me, it’s never really been about Yasuke or the female assassin, but the detail and quality of which the era is delivered. I look back at the AC franchise and note the standouts as 2, Black Flag and Unity in that regard and was hoping for a return to that richness of history.

[@DanielMether]

If I was releasing a statement in multiple languages and I ACTUALLY cared, I would carefully word it so both languages have the same message and sentiment when translated both ways. This is a manipulative and just generally shitty way to go about an apology

[@farix1997]

the pre- realease apology jpg shows ubisoft can still innovate like nobody else.

[@LeanneKrv]

The end sentence is weirdly hilarious😭

[@hicepop3753]

Gosh man.... We used to learned some tech on doing matt painting for concepts. Where we do use parts of real photo and paint over. However, the material is always have to be " Free" or "Bought", so even a student can use them in project. And here is a professional company. There you go Ubi.

[@D123-f9k]

That last point makes a lot of sense

[@thetuerk]

16:02 SHE DIDN'T JUST DROP A TRUTH BOMB ON US LIKE THAT 😭

[@ravefritz2037]

Work kept me busy, time to chill

[@RogueSeraph]

1:46 the Japanese who did that should be the actual consultants instead of whoever the hell Ubisoft hired as a consulting company.

[@alexander1112000]

I’m starting to wonder how much of that picture is just AI “East Asia terrain” output

[@TheSpongyMallard]

Obviously there’s nothing wrong with having real buildings or other real things put in the game, but this is concept art. You’re not supposed to actually copy/paste artwork into it. I already knew they stole artwork for the concept art, but I didn’t know just how bad and hastily it was done. I wonder how much stuff was possibly stolen that’s actually in the game.

[@DashBlue]

I hope they badly paste some of the art into the backgrounds or something for the game, that would be HILARIOUS Thank you for watching! New video out now, come check it out!

[@GlennBulthuisVO]

I know hardly anything about Japanese history or how people have gone about recording it, but if in indeed Yasuke WAS a samurai in an official capacity, would that not have been a big enough deal for something to have ended up in the records? A quick google search says that not even 10 foreigners in history ever became samurai (or at least samurai as far as wikipedia is concerned, Yasuke included), so that seems like a pretty remarkable accomplishment.

[@Wh00Tub3]

Ubisoft’s Google Translate skills give them just enough ability to gaslight in English and in Japanese, what an insane, gaslight riddled apology that was from Ubisoft

[@johanesbpermadi2016]

Last paragraph on the Fauxpology: "we greatly value your feedback..." is a blatant lie. Ubisoft NEVER listens to criticism.

[@edenkingdom4353]

Her expression is so funny, "pls buy sake" is on point

[@ame-xl8ex]

the one liner at the ending caught me so off guard😳🤣

[@stuka6176]

ナオエという伊賀のくノ一ができたのも戦後「忍法帖シリーズ」でも「くノ一忍法帖」というポルノ映画が発祥で、間者や忍びはやはり武士の役目でした。 武田信玄が女の間者を使ったという記録が残ってはいますが、これは例外中の例外と言うべきでしょう

[@DashBlue]

コメントありがとうございます。 奈緒江が巫女のコスプレしていたなら…忍でアリかもですね！

[@matthewschoen9827]

So the only defencable thing in this video is that concept art is pretty routinely made using stock images that are copy, pasted, and kit bashed together. Not always to this degree...But that's not atypical.

[@Nataruma]

would you pay for it in an artbook?

[@Senshi00]

Does ubisoft even have permission to use these pictures?

[@DashBlue]

Probably not, they didn't have permission to use the pictures of the flag, I would assume they just took all the pictures without talking with anyone Thank you for watching!

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

Absolutely not LOL.

[@halogod666]

This is just too funny!

[@DashBlue]

thank you so much for watching! stay tuned for more!

[@notthemusewere]

So...the setting is Sengoku, but the concept artists worked mostly with old photographs -- photography, not invented for another 200 years or so. That is so, well, Industry. "We always do things this way" attitude.

[@TundraCrow]

I'd be interested as an America to see renditions of mashed together concept art of different periods of our history under the same efforts as these just for a good laugh.

[@ken-qg7bd]

まぁ、レイシズムという事にしようとしてますよね。 しかし、それを言うなら明らかに現代のアフリカ系アメリカンに改変して、推定東アフリカ近傍出身という出自を透明化しているお宅らの行為はなんなんやと。 明らかに西洋とは異なる民族的アイデンティティを持つ人物の背景を消すという行為が行われているんですが、それは差別ちゃうんかいと言って欲しいんですかねぇ。

[@DashBlue]

コメントありがとうございます。 UBIは自分たちの色眼鏡で物事を見てますから、自分たちに都合の悪いことは「見えない」んでしょうね。だから自分たちの行動に差別は存在しないし、崇高な文化（笑）を持つ自分たちに意見するなんては許されざることなんでしょうね。それを世間一般ではレイシズムと」呼ぶんですけど… 新しい動画もUpしましたので、ぜひご覧ください

[@Tasytot]

As someone who has taken art classes in college, both traditional art and graphic design, these concept images are big fat copyright violations. If I would've submitted an image like one of these and my professors found half as many copy+paste images in there, my ass would've been grass. Edit to note that that a professional digital artist sure as shit should know about these laws and the proper, legal and ethical methods for using an image so my assumption would lean toward them knowing what they're supposed to do, and making the intentional choice not to respect the copyright ownership of the original images.

[@frostydelusions3066]

Matte Paintings are usually just style over substance, their goal is to get a feeling/vague concept across usually with little to no research done by the artist who just photobashes a bunch of junk together. Not something you want to release to the public when everyone is complaining about the lack of authenticity in your game.

[@kouzuka]

No black samurai cos no porn depicting that from that era lol. Jokes aside, we are thankful to Mrs Dash for the nuances of the Japanese text. She sounds very knowledgable about the context of the period they were trying to depict, and kindly pointed out what it's from etc. We now understand that it's not the black Samurai issue. It's about the inaccuracies of the visuals while claiming accuracy as well as the backhanded gaslighting by ubi.

[@dagda1180]

The more I look at the images, the more I get an AI vibe.

[@zadyeDK]

The ubisoft L train is just insane

[@ginxxyami]

So effectively Ubisoft took zero responsibility. It's funny how they encourage our "respectful" feedback. How do they figure that we have any respect for them? Extreme level of delusion.

[@outerlast]

20/20 vision? no, that is microscopic vision lol

[@PabbyPabbles]

lololol "Except for the concept art book"

[@KiwiSpartan01]

I can't wait for only 100 copies will be sold. The misses still planned on buying this

[@johncarldelossantos7345]

Even Porn in Japanese should be Historical Accurate Ubisoft!!

[@KenzyYuuki]

In fact, the core members of Ubisuck were fired, now replaced by people who are supposed to change the Game industry, like SweetBaby Inc, whose core members were fired in 2020. So after 2020, Ubisuck's games went underground and the stock price plummeted. When AC Shadow released the trailer and gameplay, I couldn't believe this was a 2024 game, look at the games from before 2020, Ubisuck did much better.

[@KenzyYuuki]

I don't want to be racist but the problem SweetBaby is bringing up is not for gamers. Games are meant for gamers to use, and they are destroying the gaming industry.

[@moristar]

I really enjoy your dynamic :) Is it like the guy is a gaijin who knows Japanese, but not completely and the girl is a Japanese who knows English but not comfortable speaking it?

[@bradsmovies]

For stealing those images & the flag design, Ubi has three options: 1) Pay to remove all the artwork and republish everything that had those images in there - very expensive. (2) Pay the group some agreed amount and post another apology, but they'll go ahead and not only use what they already have, but anything else they can get from that NDA settlement agreement. Probably not as expensive as recalling all the media, redoing it & republishing everything again, but still expensive. Considering all the money they've burned so far, it kinda makes sense that they'll try keep on with what they're currently doing, which is (3) Take the risk that the group does not have the financial resources or support to force the issue in an international court - very risky, but if successful, all they have to do is ride out the bad press and it all gets lost down the memory hole. Much cheaper! But if the Japanese government chimed in on this clear infringement and continued violation of usage rights, well, then, they could pretty much own all of Ubi at the rate they're trading now.

[@lazerwaffle5863]

I'll just replay ghost of tsushima for the 4th time thank you

[@NoNameNoWhere]

Ubisoft apologists argue that the game is a work of fiction. They argue that it's odd how critics were okay with changes to history in past games, yet are not okay with changes in Shadows. The reason is because most of the past games took real characters in history and slightly altered their roles to fit AC. The assassins have always been fictional. Yasuke, is a real historical person. He was a retainer. It's a common myth that he was Samurai, and Ubisoft is further perpetuating that myth. It wouldn't be so bad if: A. They weren't perpetuating misinformation. B. It didn't come off as tokenism. Yasuke was only implemented to "empower" black people - that's very patronizing.

[@daruddock]

Genuinely, the tiny details on the concept art is completely a non-issue, but when there is an obvious lack of cultural consultancy going on it really irks for defenders to say 'you're just racist.'

[@kusi-maru]

定家中法度という資料があり、それが同時代資料であれば、頭を下げるのは明智家の者が弥助(織田家中の者)に頭を下げていたはず。 頭を下げる連中にアイムジャスティスはできないですよねw コンセプト崩壊しそう

[@Relorelo23]

16:08 she's on to something 🤣🤣🤣