I ANNIHILATED Ubisoft and They Deserved It

On this video we are watching and reacting to the trailer of Assassin's Creed Shadows. This trailer has created a lot of controversy and backlash with people attacking and insulting each other over the protagonist being a Black African man. What is the real history about this? Let's talk about it.
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Many people are getting really upset about this game, particularly in Japan as Japanese gamers are feeling left out when compared to previous Assassin's Creed games which always features a protagonist from the same are as the setting.
Even though these feeling as absolutely justified, it's also important to not overswing and reach incorrect conclusions such as some people mentioning that there was never a Black African man in Feudal Japan, which is historically incorrect.
Let's talk about Yasuke, let's watch the trailer and see if the way they represented him in this game is in any way coherent with the historical record and most importantly let's ask the hardest question of all...Was Yasuke a samurai?
然に彼黒坊被成御扶持、名をハ号弥助と、さや巻之のし付幷私宅等迄被仰付、依時御道具なともたさせられ候、
This black man called Yasuke was given a stipend, a private residence, etc., and was given a short sword with a decorative sheath. He is sometimes seen in the role of weapon bearer.
Shiba Yoshikane in 1553 - son of the previous and soon to be the next de jure lord of Owari, before Nobunaga ran him out of town.
若武衛様は川狩より直にゆかたひらのあたてにて信長を御憑み候て那古野へ御出すなはち貳百人扶持被仰付天王坊に置申され候
Lord Buei the Younger fled directly from his fishing spot on the river to Nagoya, dressed only in a bathrobe, to call on Nobunaga’s help. Accordingly, Nobunaga assigned him a stipend sufficient to maintain a retinue of two hundred men and installed him in the Tennōbō temple.
Saitō Dōsan. Recent research suggest this story is inaccurate, but I’m just demonstrating how Ōta Gyūichi uses the word.
斎藤山城道三は元來山城國西岡の松波と云者也一年下國候て美濃國長井藤左衛門を憑み扶持を請余力をも付られ候
The original family name of Saitō Yamashiro Dōsan was Matsunami. He was a native of the Western Hills of Yamashiro Province. One year, he left the Kyoto area for the provinces and called on the help of Nagai Tōzaemon of Mino, who granted him a stipend and assigned auxiliaries to him.
Nobunaga remonstrating Ashikaga Yoshiaki in 1573 for not giving out stipend properly.
一 諸侯の衆方々御届申忠節無踈略輩には似相の御恩賞不被宛行今々の指者にもあらさるには被加御扶持候さ樣に候ては忠不忠も不入に罷成候諸人のおもはく不可然事
Item [3] You have failed to make appropriate awards to a number of lords who have attended you faithfully and have never been remiss in their loyal service to you. Instead, you have awarded stipends to newcomers with nothing much to their credit. That being so, the distinction between loyal and disloyal becomes irrelevant. In people’s opinion, this is improper.
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一 無恙致奉公何の科も御座候はね共不被加御扶助京都の堪忍不屆者共信長にたより歎申候定て私言上候はゝ何そ御憐も可在之かと存候ての事候間且は不便に存知且は公儀御爲と存候て御扶持の義申上候ヘ共一人も無御許容候餘文緊なる御諚共候間其身に對しても無面目存候勸(觀歟)世與左衛門古田可兵衛上野紀伊守類の事
Item [7] Men who have given you steadfast and blameless service but have not been awarded a stipend by you find themselves in dire need in Kyoto. They turned to Nobunaga with a heavy heart. If I were to say a few words in their behalf, they assumed, then surely you would take pity on them. On the one hand, I felt sorry for them; on the other, I thought it would be in the interest of the public authority (kōgi no ontame; sc., to your benefit). So I put the matter of their stipends before you, but you did not assent in even one case. Your hard-heartedness, excessive as it is, puts me out of countenance before these men. I refer to the likes of Kanze Yozaemon [Kunihiro], Furuta Kahyōe, and Ueno Kii no Kami [Hidetame].
Nobunaga to his own "companions" (think of Alexander’s foot and horse companions) in 1575 because he was feeling generous that day and had just given a bunch of cloth to a beggar and then felt like also rewarding his men who were supposedly moved to tears by the former act of generosity.
御伴之上下皆落淚也御伴衆何れも々々被加御扶持難有仕合無申計樣体也如此御慈悲深き故に諸天の有御冥利而御家門長久にに御座候と感申也
All of Nobunaga’s companions, those of high as of low rank, also shed tears. Each and every one of his companions had his stipend increased, and it goes without saying that they felt fortunate and thankful. It is because Nobunaga was so compassionate, everyone felt, that the heavens shed their blessings upon him and that the fortunes of his house would long endure.
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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]

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[@loadshedding_]

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

[@GeneralPadron]

I am the 888th like...

[@MultiStendhal]

I appreciate you appreciation good sir

[@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.

[@1lham_edits]

@@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]

​@@1lham_edits I personally preferred the maps from revelations and the characters but i loved the "Haytham wanna be" with the serrated sword from 3.

[@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"

[@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

[@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…

[@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.

[@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.

[@kozhcaelum8495]

​@@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]

​@@kozhcaelum8495building 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.

[@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”

[@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.

[@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?

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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)

[@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…

[@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]

💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@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

[@PervyAutomaton]

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

[@Thiccness_Is_Delicious]

​@@PervyAutomatonwhich 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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@benitofranklyn4237]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@Sephirothisbae]

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?😂

[@Sephirothisbae]

@@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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?

[@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.

[@dannypqliar8763]

@@Frozenkex Great meh-meh...

[@GothamThotSlayer]

​@Frozenkex you're part of the same problem

[@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.

[@keyser021]

Japanese men, you've brought all of this upon yourselves. Stand up for yourselves.

[@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.

[@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)

[@ahadurrahman9451]

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

[@procow2274]

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

[@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.

[@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...

[@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?"

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@velevvasiliev1936]

"Everything woke turns to shit"

[@olafschmidt8437]

u..hu... like voting rights for women? non-segregated schools? keep in mind, what we take for granted now might have been "woke" a century ago or even less.

[@greyjedi1272]

You don’t even know what woke means. And anyone crying over history in a game that doesn’t use history on a 1 to 1 bases is a hack.

[@gravemind76]

Then why is x men so good?

[@MinhNguyen-pk9qk]

​@@gravemind76 The acolyte is shit.😊

[@The_Kronicus]

​@@gravemind76Because X Men was made to actually tell a good story with lessons we could learn. Not just to virtue signal to all Stan Lee's friends about how accepting he is.

[@MrSpawn229]

They put wrong Nobunaga's crest in the trailer

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@chrisb8918]

The part where they claim the Portuguese took him from Mozambique is also incorrect. As far as we know the Portuguese hired him in India for a body guard position. But prior to that the slave trade and people traveling to India was conducted by arabs, south asians, and east African nations during this time period. We really don't know much about how he got to India as a kid.

[@TheFranZone04]

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

[@jdizzle1337]

When you hear an Ubisoft interview and remember they are all French, and then everything just makes so much more sense 🤣👌

[@koikoi1116]

First of all, in Japanese history, Yasuke was a man who only existed to carry the sword of the Shogun he served. Even if it is fiction, don't twist the history of Japan! The person who is most inconvenienced by this is Yasuke himself, whose name remains in history! Is UBI such an idiot that he doesn't understand that?

[@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.

[@Nugnugnug]

As a Neanderthal specimen, I find the comparison rude.

[@MAGICCOFFEY]

I hate the dismissiveness of people who say it's just a game relax. No! if you don't push back and correct people they'll continue to push the false information.

[@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?

[@harya7517]

"Ninja and Samurai are different, We can't mix them together." Laugh in Jin Sakai

[@bellator2391]

Dude, I would have loved to play a game as a Samurai that moonlights as a Ninja. That would be awesome.

[@bellator2391]

@sonofgod2600 Thanks, might have to check that out.

[@QuickSh0t]

Amaterasu is not a warrior in any way. In her most well know myth she hides in a cave when she gets upset. Not warlike at all...

[@robocoastie]

Guess this game doesn’t know that sword was last resort. Spear naganata and bow were main weapons

[@blooperman1997]

Who cares. The wild west also was a pretty boring place. Nobody would complain about all the blasting Arthur and John do.

[@TT09B5]

@@blooperman1997 You cared enough to make a cringe comment.

[@blooperman1997]

@@TT09B5 You misunderstood. I wasnt actually asking who cares. See, "who cares" is a literary device used to denote that the matter in question is completely inconsequential. Very easy to get confused here, so I don't blame you.

[@pilotmanpaul]

@@blooperman1997 Geez bro. You really care don't you?

[@llama6394]

You can see in the trailer that the samurai that Naoe fights at the start use the yari spear which is pretty cool

[@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.

[@Noneyo-Bidness]

Sucker Punch : Makes brilliant and inspired samurai/ninja game beloved across the world, including Japan. Ubisoft : "Hold my beer..." (Takes three steps, trips, falls face first into dog crap covered broken bottle, cries... Then blames everyone around for their F up...)

[@luisoncpp]

The most laughting "stealth" that I remember was Ezio wearing a bear skin surrounded by courtesans in the middle of Constantinople's streets and he was supposed to be stealthy.

[@zex69]

There are no historians working on this game

[@LuxBellator92]

I don't know why Ubisoft even bothered with this game. We already had the perfect Samurai Assassins Creed game, and it was called Ghost of Tsushima.

[@stoutjudas9868]

Amen

[@Daseril]

You literally had Hattori Hanzo, a samurai general working for Tokugawa and also the leader of the Iga ninja. I took less than a minute of googling for me to find this. The guy was our equivalent of a spy master.

[@valekofastora1027]

Centrist here. You know you are doing something right when both sides hate you. Please never change.

[@ErisFrance0]

Aside from the historic accuracy they proclaim, can we also call them out on lying about "destroying the ambient around you" being treated like a new thing in gaming? The Thief game allowed you to destroy light sources in order to sneak around and blend in the shadows too, and it came out 10 years ago. It was the main core of the whole gameplay... Not to mention several games have allowed for stuff around you to be destroyed if you ran into or smash it on purpose for years.... theres nothing new about it!

[@generalfire4280]

Yaskue is like footprints on a beach, whatever he left behind is the only thing we remember about him. Everything else has been washed up by time

[@DccAnh]

@@trvpmusic2569 purposely ? Lmao there's nothing about him worth noting, like give me proof this guy was anything more than a court jester.

[@godemperorofmankind5874]

@@trvpmusic2569 nothing about him is important cause he just served for a year and a half as like a court jester. Sword bearer to be more respectable.

[@trvpmusic2569]

@@DccAnh Yasuke or what we know of him was a man born in 1553 Mozambique, Africa who was captured and taken as a slave to India, fortunately he broke free and became a mercenary within the Habshi or Siddis in India and was well trained. He was 6'2 (which was gigantic at the time) and very muscular, Alessandro Valignano hired him (Yasuke) at 26 years old as a Bodyguard in 1579 because jesuits were known to travel and with them have several bodyguards at a time. They traveled to Japan and upon arrival (1581) people immediately rushed them to see this big tall black man with dreadlocks, to them he was something out of a fantasy novel it was like seeing a Unicorn, he became so famed word reached the royal castle and Oda Nobunaga, he immediately rushed down to see about this famed man, when he reached Yasuke he was immediately fascinated by his skin shocked that the rumors were true, he immediately asked that he be washed clean in disbelief that it was his skin and not Ink when he realized it was not ink he was truly amazed, he asked the man (not Alessandro Valignano because he was just a employer) if he wanted to come under his service and work for him as he would be promised a House and a short sword for protection, the man accepted Oda Nobunaga’s proposal and began service under him, in the book The Chronicles Of Nobunaga a book written by one of Odas followers he describes Yasuke as Looking more so robust with a good demeanor and having the strength to surpass 10 men, how he tested this theory is unknown. Other Chronicles describe him as intelligent and intimidating proclaiming he was already well trained but still under gone Martial Arts under the training of Oda Nobunaga himself (who only trainned his strongest warriors) he then made Yasuke a Kosho/Bushi (whom were usually the sons of famed samurai given to the lord to train under and help protect the lord until they themselves became official Samurai example being Ghost Of Tsushima Jin Sakai trainingunder his uncle was actually Kosho) he was given land and even servants, Yasuke worked under Nobunaga for a year and a half before Akechi Mitsuhide betrayed Nobunaga in 1582, he surrounded Kyoto with 13,000 men while Oda had around only 30 they were all quickly slaughtered, Oda, Yasuke and Mori Ranmaru (believed to be Odas lover at the time) retreated to the Odas chambers, Oda committed Seppuku and Mori quickly followed after asking Yasuke to behead him, Oda and Mori died in the Chambers and Yasuke escaped with Odas head so that Akechi could not display it in victory, he then returns to Oda Nobunaga’s son Oda Nobutada and goes under his command who launched a immediate attack against Akechi and was quickly defeated, Yasuke defeated and surrounded was asked by Akechi to give up his sword because he didn't deserve to die as a traditional samurai because he was not Japanese and compared him to a Beast/Monster, Yasuke gave up his sword and the story goes in 2 ways which neither are confirmed, he ran away from Akechi and his men into the Forrest and was never seen again or he was apprehended by Akechi and his man was returned back to the Jesuits and kicked out of Japan by Akechi, from then on no one knows what happen to Yasuke which is the perfect plot and set for a assassian

[@trvpmusic2569]

@@DccAnh how did you make it to this channel who has 3 videos on this man and come up with "court jester" lol unless you just came from wh- i mean right wing twitter lol

[@trvpmusic2569]

@@godemperorofmankind5874 Yasuke or what we know of him was a man born in 1553 Mozambique, Africa who was captured and taken as a slave to India, fortunately he broke free and became a mercenary within the Habshi or Siddis in India and was well trained. He was 6'2 (which was gigantic at the time) and very muscular, Alessandro Valignano hired him (Yasuke) at 26 years old as a Bodyguard in 1579 because jesuits were known to travel and with them have several bodyguards at a time. They traveled to Japan and upon arrival (1581) people immediately rushed them to see this big tall black man with dreadlocks, to them he was something out of a fantasy novel it was like seeing a Unicorn, he became so famed word reached the royal castle and Oda Nobunaga, he immediately rushed down to see about this famed man, when he reached Yasuke he was immediately fascinated by his skin shocked that the rumors were true, he immediately asked that he be washed clean in disbelief that it was his skin and not Ink when he realized it was not ink he was truly amazed, he asked the man (not Alessandro Valignano because he was just a employer) if he wanted to come under his service and work for him as he would be promised a House and a short sword for protection, the man accepted Oda Nobunaga’s proposal and began service under him, in the book The Chronicles Of Nobunaga a book written by one of Odas followers he describes Yasuke as Looking more so robust with a good demeanor and having the strength to surpass 10 men, how he tested this theory is unknown. Other Chronicles describe him as intelligent and intimidating proclaiming he was already well trained but still under gone Martial Arts under the training of Oda Nobunaga himself (who only trainned his strongest warriors) he then made Yasuke a Kosho/Bushi (whom were usually the sons of famed samurai given to the lord to train under and help protect the lord until they themselves became official Samurai example being Ghost Of Tsushima Jin Sakai trainingunder his uncle was actually Kosho) he was given land and even servants, Yasuke worked under Nobunaga for a year and a half before Akechi Mitsuhide betrayed Nobunaga in 1582, he surrounded Kyoto with 13,000 men while Oda had around only 30 they were all quickly slaughtered, Oda, Yasuke and Mori Ranmaru (believed to be Odas lover at the time) retreated to the Odas chambers, Oda committed Seppuku and Mori quickly followed after asking Yasuke to behead him, Oda and Mori died in the Chambers and Yasuke escaped with Odas head so that Akechi could not display it in victory, he then returns to Oda Nobunaga’s son Oda Nobutada and goes under his command who launched a immediate attack against Akechi and was quickly defeated, Yasuke defeated and surrounded was asked by Akechi to give up his sword because he didn't deserve to die as a traditional samurai because he was not Japanese and compared him to a Beast/Monster, Yasuke gave up his sword and the story goes in 2 ways which neither are confirmed, he ran away from Akechi and his men into the Forrest and was never seen again or he was apprehended by Akechi and his man was returned back to the Jesuits and kicked out of Japan by Akechi, from then on no one knows what happen to Yasuke which is the perfect plot and set for a assassian

[@asya2510]

A thought crossed my mind some time ago that it would be more fun to make Yasuke a boss to fight rather than a playable character if we are talking about adding him to a game no matter what. I still find it so stupid tho, to make a point out of having a black person in every possible scenario of any game in the west lately. It is unnecessary and I am sure there are smarter ways to go about it. Rather, I wish they would put the same amount of effort into gameplay. Also, damn, those pots are awesome, I want one.

[@NoahToledo-xo5pj]

Play Nioh then, he is a boss fight in that and he is really cool.

[@asya2510]

@@NoahToledo-xo5pj oooh, looks good, another one to check out when I get my PC, thanks)

[@trvpmusic2569]

I mean I can't name a single western game without a white person tbh even games based in Africa Resident Evil 5, Uncharted 4, Far Cry 2, Call Of Duty 2, Sniper Elite 3 protagonist have always been white I don't get the point of having a white person in every single form of media in the west atleast with Japan or eastern places they can make games and movies with the people of that general area

[@trvpmusic2569]

I'm not on either political side cause both sides are outright stupid I'm just saying it goes both ways I mean how many protagonist games in Africa or the Caribbeans are African and how many protagonist in Europe are European 🤷🏻 this is why I say both sides are stupid

[@danshakuimo]

Still waiting for a game or show to actually be set in Africa lol

[@darkshao51]

Hi Metatron! I really enjoy your videos and was wondering if it would be possible to do a video on the history of the term “racism”. I think it would be very interesting to learn more about this subject. Because a lot of people today have a misconception of the term. And I think that as a black person, it hurts my community as much as anyone else. Today, some people in America think that you simply can't be racist towards a certain category of people (we all know why), and I find that a very dangerous way of thinking. Thanks again for your quality videos

[@lasselen9448]

I second that, racism throughout history would be very interesting. Because the ways various categories of people (sane vs extremists) approach it today already differ a lot, it was likely already different 100 years ago, and a whole other thing during the middle ages, antiquity and so on. Not even "what discrimination was fashionable back then", just "how race differences were perceived".

[@amicableenmity9820]

He did have an older video on black legionaries in the Roman army, but idk if he still has it up.

[@vinylwubs6987]

it's always been strange to me in the assassin's creed games how everyone treats the incredibly well armed man as normal. they did it well in syndicate, concealed weapons like knuckledusters in a coat pocket or a canesword, but like walking around paris with a zweihander on my back and nobody batting an eye was unusual.

[@DanielSza11]

Good Afternoon. I found your channel a while ago and love the content you make, I have always loved learning more about history, no matter the time, culture or region. Since I am not American, I find it incredible how some people can be so fixated with politics concerning the wieldest's topics, especially video-games. The first time I learned there was a supposed famous black african warrior in japanese history was when I played NIOH, where there is a boss fight against a "Obsidian Samurai" whom was affiliated with Oda Nobunaga, found that interesting and assumed he must have been real, that was it. Through the years since, I learned a bit about Nobunaga and the fact that found things that came from other parts of the world fascinating, so I remembered that boss fight and found it cool that he seems to have existed and Nobunaga's fascination played a important role to his presence in Japan. When the trailer dropped for AC:Shadows, I wasnt surprised to see Yasuke (didnt even know his name at the time kkk) and figured they were using his presence has an excuse to push diversity. Thanks to your video explaining the historical records about him, I feel more informed about the subject. Thank you for the great informative and unbaias content, hopefully this entire situation dies down and we can all just wait until the game comes out to see what they will actually do. PS: I am Brazillian, so I might have butchered a few sentences here and there, my apologies. PS:PS: We have our own bullshit about people putting politics in everything, but the degree is much more beareble than in the US, hope people calm down and we can go back to being history nerds.

[@davidsztrik5060]

He was likely "Stolen" as a child? Really? They think slaves has been stolen from Africa? This is just sooo stupid what ubisotf is doing.

[@iro6758]

I cancelled my Ubi-sub after that game came out, because of how blatantly immature, disingenuous and irresponsible it is. They sent me an e-mail last week inviting me to a survey to explain why I cancelled, and it had many questions about their service. When I checked that the service was too costly, as one of the reasons I cancelled, they had the gall to ask me why I "feel" that way. To be clear: That service has the fewest number of available games, the fewest number of concurrent players, *and* the highest cost - anywhere. (That I've ever heard of) So, neither the creative teams nor the business/management people at that company have a meaningful understanding of: 1. Their competition's offerings 2. Their industry's supply/demand (pricing/value) 3. The *concept* of historical significance 4. Morality, OR, professionalism TLDR That company is wholly indefensible. The people working there _would_ be ashamed of themselves, had their parents cared enough to bother raising/nurturing/educating (Read: PARENTING) their children.

[@TT09B5]

Yup, Ubi is terrible no matter how you view them. I don't see anything redeemable about them.

[@lasselen9448]

Some people in power at Ubisoft are incompetent/uncaring, just like in most big companies, and that results in games (and ""services"") being broken in multiple ways. It doesn't mean every single employee is trash. You're the one lacking education for insulting people you know nothing about. Otherwise I agree and I hope you put all that in the survey so a random exec can use it to wipe him/herself with. Because that has to be what they do with player feedback.

[@llama6394]

Dude if you don't like the company, why are filling out surveys for them them lmao?

[@fattiger6957]

Ubisoft has always been the most incompetent of the big developers. But now they are trying to take the title of the most scummy and greediest from the like of Activision, EA and Take2. It's no surprise Ubisoft is in a financial nosedive and desperately searching for a buyer to bail them out.

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

I wonder why you didn't do that already when they released the viking game? It wasn't different in this regard. Not even a little bit. Did you feel cool running around with a woman's name in that game? Eivor is a woman's name, still used in our age. You might as well have been named Olivia. I'm truly interested in why you were ok with bastardizing Scandinavian culture, but not japanese?

[@NicknLex]

The Ubisoft guys all talk like they're being held at gunpoint by sweet baby inc haha.

[@addictedtochocolate920]

It's so hilarious how being objective and pragmatic makes everyone hate you. Goes to show how there are few people in either side of the political spectrum willing to compromise and learn what they need to improve.

[@mat3714]

I feel that they should just quit trying to be accurate while obviously trying to appeal to a demographic they don't milk nearly enough....just be a video game with 2 play styles and stop peddling myths like their legit.

[@fattiger6957]

Exactly. If Ubisoft would stop claiming historical accuracy, there wouldn't be an issue. There have been manga and anime where Nobunaga was a demon lord who commanded a army of monsters. And no one had a problem with that because they weren't supposed to take it seriously. Ubisoft should just be honest and say their games are fantasy loosely inspired by history. That way they can do whatever goofy things they want and people can just accept it as pure fantasy.

[@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. :/

[@NeoN-PeoN]

If they really wanted to make this historically accurate, when your Yasuke, the only thing people would be asking you is "where's your master? What are you doing here? Why are you here? You have to leave".

[@digimon5433]

and when was AC ever "Historically accurate"?

[@Tuberculosis_Man]

@digimon5433 When Ubisoft removed the crossbow from ac1 because "it wasn't historically accurate."

[@NoahToledo-xo5pj]

@@digimon5433 there is literal reenactments of historical events down to the words spoken but now we gonna pretend the whole selling point of the franchise wasn't the historical events and that all the alien sci fi shit was just fluff.

[@pilotmanpaul]

@@digimon5433 My man. There's been literal moments that is a full blown recreation of battles long ago to even words spoken by historical figures. That is how they keep the story grounded and believable.

[@jaz4742]

​@digimon5433 youre the dumbest one in the room. Delete blackwashing.

[@ThePressurizer]

Ah, I hate the ‘It’s just a video game, relax’ argument, too. Countless adults who have grown up with video games still play them. And if you make a video game for adults (and AC isn’t really for children), you can be expected to do some historical research. If I pay 70€ for a product, I demand a bit more depth than from a Saturday morning cartoon.

[@vincentthendean7713]

11:09 This is something you can do in the original Thief game *26 years* ago.