Ubisoft Rewrites Japanese History (AGAIN) Proving Assassin's Creed Shadows Is For "Modern Audiences"

Art book for Assassin's Creed Shadows proves Ubisoft once again tried to rewrite Japanese history. It also introduced non-binary samurais...
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[@Atrus999]

This reminds me of when Netflix tried to convince us the Cleopatra "documentary" was historically accurate. 🤣

[@michaelmoore2679]

My Nana told me, “I don’t care what you learned in school, Ieyasu Tokugawa was black!”

[@josueveguilla9069]

I know, right. LOL. Same.

[@unknownmxn7683]

​@@michaelmoore2679since when😂

[@khmayu2377]

@@michaelmoore2679 "And I don’t care what you learned in school, Oda nobunaga is a gender liquid they/them - attack helicopter individual"

[@Demon_Tiem]

@@unknownmxn7683 lol Its a meme from the Cleo documentary

[@True-Sea-Turtle]

The same people who complained about "culture appropriation" all those years are now tainting Japan's culture and history

[@Theprince034]

Because it’s okay when they do it or it’s because Japan is one of the bad countries and its history needed fixing remember some members of the ideology are quite discriminatory towards Asians

[@josueveguilla9069]

Exactly.

[@AnUserWhoIsCulturedForFun]

@@True-Sea-Turtle Yeah

[@VladtheDragon-v4c]

They race swapped the entire cast of Hamilton. They never cared about the action, they only cared about who was doing it to who. Without double standards the woke would have no standards at all.

[@Corrderio]

"It's okay when we do it"

[@aj.j5833]

They managed to even get me a Korean offended over what they doing to Japanese. You Be Soft has actually united Koreans, Chinese and Japanese over this. So they doing it for world peace?

[@bustergundo516]

A sacrifice must be made I guess.

[@falcongamer58]

Garou approach

[@KaguroDraven]

You could say they created an East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere.

[@CottidaeSEA]

If they are willing to ridicule Japan to this extent, just imagine what they'd do to Korea.

[@aj.j5833]

@@CottidaeSEA No kidding. They already did it to Norse in Valhalla and now to the Japanese.

[@SammEater]

The "experts" of AC Shadows: 1. Thomas Lockley: the guy who told two very different versions of the Yasuke tale to westerners and japanese people and he HOPED that both sides would never switch notes and realize he was fooling both. 2.: A lady who does nothing but write about monks loving little boys a little bit too much. Total professional historians, am I right?

[@NotsilYmerej]

I think that lady might be inserting her kink about Catholic priests wherever it may fit, whether it’s accurate or otherwise

[@Stevexupen]

the woke leftists' obsessions with kids are very concerning.

[@benschultz1784]

So their "Japanese history experts" are an Afrocentrist and a fujoshi.

[@panlemur]

Both those "experts" should be fired, one is just competitive gaslighter and second is just... diabolical they should be never seen in any company that creates games. and its no suprise to me at this point executives of ubisoft forgot that only winning leaders can change history, but not companies all is left to see that giant as he falls and make fun out of it What is more worse that halo can be next :(

[@benschultz1784]

@SammEater Their experts are an apologist afro centrist and a fujoshi

[@arcanask]

16:45 that is incredible. A Korean is defending Japan(if you a little history that's pretty interesting) and some tourist is calling him a racist.

[@reaperzx6970]

That's exactly what I was thinking lol

[@yunseaweed]

same guy who made the san franciso comment that made rev giggle last time lol, i love kangmin oppa

[@Ilive_420]

That reply is genuinely insane. He's calling him a little bitch, that he has a superiority complex and that he's screeching like a worm (how does a worm screech btw?), there is no self awareness and maximum hypocrisy lol. I know I'm playing armchair psychologist, but this screams of narcissistic disorder... Whatever it is, the internet really doesn't help these people.

[@Mayoegg]

anime shows with blonde busty samurai girls deflecting bullets in midair are more historically accurate than this game

[@unknownmxn7683]

A zom100 reference I seel

[@Trehlas]

Still better story than ACS

[@idemonicat]

@@unknownmxn7683 goated show fr, still waitin for s2

[@Rogue-a-Pogue]

Somehow genderfluid Nobunaga from FGO is more historically accurate than this game. I didn't even know that was possible.

[@GodOfDestructionCarlos]

i detect no lies about big tiddy samurai anime girls being more historically accurate than ubislop.

[@crisr.8280]

The absolute disrespect. To be inclusive, Ubisoft went full racist, sexist, classist, elitist, all the "ists".

[@Azelarc]

Went all that by hiring these narcissists.

[@nobody4y]

​@@AzelarcHR hires

[@Volyren]

Samurai: 🤚😤 Samantharai: 😌👍

[@Asriel_Cypher]

@@Volyren "Shame-murai"

[@thealmightypuht.a.p.]

And then they call us the “Ist’s” and “Phobe’s” Can’t make this shit up 🤦‍♂️

[@sora3]

As a Chinese, this is just the lowest of low. It is akin to stating one of Cao Cao's servants in the Three Kingdoms is black and was important to influence events. Ubisoft, you'd better prepare your lawyers as the JP government will be coming down on your backside.

[@AsSa-mo8fx]

Even the Chinese support and hate ubisoft you know how cooked ubisoft is

[@AsSa-mo8fx]

And also the game look more Chinese than Japanese suck ubisoft

[@ootdega]

🚨INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT: JAPAN VS. FRANCE🚨 🚨BEGIN OPERATION REMOVE BAGUETTE🚨

[@BaneofGods]

Not just that one of his servants was actually black and a major actor in Cao Cao's story, but that that he would have been involved in Cao Cao's death in a way that greatly humiliated him

[@TeleologicalConsistency]

Don't worry you'll get your turn next when they adapt Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I bet Lu Bu will be black or something.

[@mr.animefan8920]

As a black person, I'm well aware that Yasuke was a retainer and not a samurai. Building a false narrative at the expense of one culture to benefit another culture only serves to negatively impact them both. But I enjoy the collective roasting of Ubisoft as catharsis.

[@nnnneeeeuuuu]

for people with LA brain rot, the only kind of black people that exist is an specific African American ideal that only listens to hip hop

[@vespasianflavius2766]

@@mr.animefan8920 did you have the same problem with AC Valhalla?

[@snowshock8958]

@@vespasianflavius2766 We have male Eivor and female Eivor. The black Viking was a NPC merchant. So Yasuke should have been a NPC companion like Yaya the female sumo.

[@mr.animefan8920]

@@vespasianflavius2766 I couldn't say since I am speaking as someone who has the unfortunate displeasure of being associated with these virtue-signaling types because they think they are doing people like me a favor when the fact that I and many others can see how this is counterproductive to their so-called crusade for diversity (forced with a side of historical revisionism, which makes it even worse).

[@mr.animefan8920]

@@vespasianflavius2766 Also, I've never played the Assassin's Creed series but I would wholeheartedly support calling out Ubisoft and any other developer for historical inaccuracies regardless of skin color.

[@maverickckj]

White people wearing kimonos or yukata : Omg cultural appropriation. That’s so offensive, stop stealing their culture! Black people wearing samurai armor: omg so brave and strong

[@MarkDeSade100]

GOLD samurai armor, cuz he got to have that bling bling.

[@gbalfour9618]

@markDeSade100 You know they’d give his armor mask gold teeth if they could and not be called out for it

[@papabones8753]

"They act like being Japanese is an exclusive status" WHAT THE ACTUAL? You are either born Japanese or you're not, it's pretty exclusive, no?

[@DarkCT]

not to "people of the world" types.

[@ShaggyRogers1]

It is the same people that claim to be proud of their "African heritage", even though they literally know nothing about Africa, and at most would visit to treat the continent like a theme park resort.

[@JVCS-b6z]

Nothing to see here, Just their usual mental gymnastics to distort reality to their liking

[@FeixiaoWaiter]

mfers actually think people born in subsaharan africa can just claim to be Japanese, walk right in to Japan with no paperwork and expect the government to list them to be citizens. peak delusional

[@edwardsutherland8240]

Its better than being a dumb american who thinks american law applies to a country they are visiting.

[@rons.6429]

You know... The woke community is really big on the whole "don't culture appropriate", but they sure do love doing it themselves

[@vespasianflavius2766]

It's only a bad thing when successful people "do it"

[@AstriaTVTruthExposed]

Those "people" always follow the rules for thee but not for me motto ... They are braindead

[@oag2167]

Oh make no mistake, they wholeheartedly believe in appropriation, just so long as it's against Asians, Whites, or gender-bending.

[@bronze6877]

@@AstriaTVTruthExposed what's the old quote? "If they did not have double standards, they would not have any standards at all."

[@glawenclattuc3127]

@@vespasianflavius2766Is “successful” a euphemism for ‘white’?

[@espio87]

Holy shit, that Nobunaga seppuku thing! That's like rewriting French history and saying Phillip the Fair yielded to the Templars and gave them his crown!

[@BaneofGods]

Or abdicated and let his secret sister rule in his place

[@LegulasRS]

@@BaneofGods it's happening in the game right so does it matter whether it was yasuke or another person.

[@BaneofGods]

@ It matters because of the cultural significance of the seppuku ritual at that point in japanese history as well as the incredible historic significance of Oda Nobunaga. As they've done it as was mentioned in the video they've essentially had it where it will be seen as Oda Nobunaga, one of the most famous japanese people in their history, having been executed and slain with dishonor by a foreigner who has also been killing many other Japanese people including civilians. If they absolutely *had* to have Yasuke there for some strange reason they should have had him be a witness to it rather than be the second and actually part of the ritual

[@BlueBD]

@@BaneofGods According to one of the only mentions of Yasuke we have it was mention that he "Ran Away" before his seppuku and was captured outside. If they wanted to match all they really had todo was give him a reason to well, not be there. which is very easy thing todo when your dealing with Assassin's creed. There are Many Many reasons why player characters could simply not be at a said historical location at any given time. Say he was told to leave by Nobunaga to assist is someone else's escape, and his capture was meant as a distraction to ensure it. They just wanted the drama. which again Is the main reason why you should not play as historical people in assassins creed and why we typically only play as fictional. Because its just easier to Exclude said person from a Historically significant event where they played no part because they don't exist.

[@LegulasRS]

​@in this game, yasuke is portrayed as a samurai so him doing it would be still seen as honorable. in real life, yasuke might not have been a samurai but other foreigners have been samurai. Yasuke doing it brings more gravity to his character since he involved in a important part of the story. Would it not be cool as the mc to perform an important ritual as seppuku. Also he is seen as skilled enough since you fight other samurai and guards in the game. you can also choose to not kill civilians if you don't want to in the game.

[@youtubeisapublisher6407]

If there was no named second, it wouldn't really be an issue, but the fact that they replaced a historical one with their fanfiction version of yasuke is immensely insulting to the historical second. Maybe not a big deal to modern westerners who by and large have no respect for their own or anyone else's history even when it's documented, but they should've known better than to do it with the Japanese.

[@Speedy-Aussie]

Sucker Punch received a congratulations from Japan for Ghost of Tsushima. Ubisoft is gonna receive a Cease and Desist letter.

[@HenshinFanatic]

Harakiri order

[@gbalfour9618]

Wait till then next game and all that will be gone

[@MedalionDS9]

Well I mean... don't forget that Jada Smith tried to claim Egyptian Culture as belonging to Black people

[@AndroidRetroGamer95]

Jada Smith needs to shut up and give us GI Jane 2, as Chris Rock leaked years ago

[@BrotherHood-xh9sg]

She wasn't alone in that. The left followed her down that path of revisionism.

[@Taiyo_Jingu]

*Copts have left the chat.* In all seriousness, yes that is pretty gnarly.

[@midnightwaves1372]

I heard some say they are the real vikings, Native American, Hawaiian, etc

[@azaril7780]

iirc, when yasuke got captured, they didnt even give him the option to commit sepuku to retain his honor, they sent him back to the jesuits off the island, this would mean the enemy didnt even have any respect for him

[@DeshraD]

Mitsuhide-sama even referred to Yasuke as a "beast". Not as in referring to him as strong, but as a mindless animal in his eyes.

[@SilentGlaceon94]

That's what I heard as well. I also heard that the Jesuits initially gave Yasuke as a gift to Nobunaga as a slave. And after his death, Yasuke likely returned to Europe as a slave. While it is unfortunate that he was given back, it does not justify rewriting history just for brownie points for a group of people who don't care about Japanese history and culture.

[@ElFreakinCid]

Pretty much. They told him they'd spare him if he gave up his weapon, which he immediately did, Mitsuhide outright declared him a weak creature not even worth killing, and he was handed off to the Portuguese Jesuits and shipped out of Japan when they next left.

[@lordgenerias]

Ubisoft _does_ understand Japanese culture. But, they don't like the parts that don't _perfectly_ align with their personal ideologies and agenda, so they ignore those parts, substitute their ideologies and agenda, and call it "historically accurate".

[@dimetime35c]

Its time ubisoft just comes out and says it. Thier DEI hires wanted to make a tribute to Saint George the Patron Saint of Fentynal and so they took this much anticipated game and turned it into that tribute. This game is 100% going to be the FINAL nail in the coffin of ubisoft!!!

[@ElFreakinCid]

Kinda funny how the drug George Floyd was supposedly loaded with that apparently justifies murdering him changes every year. First he was totes high off his ass on weed, now five years later we're up to fentanyl because its the current hot-button issue.

[@Gojiradogzillagodzilla]

Getting more and more info about AC Shadow was like: "It cant get worse than that, can it?" "It cant get worse than that, can it?" "It cant get worse than that, can it?" "It... WILL get worse than that, wont it?"

[@officerbucktuddrussel394]

15:45 "They act like being Japanese is some exclusive status while ignoring the uglier parts of their history." Oh so you mean like a lot of indigenous groups around the world?

[@arkbien9303]

The Japanese have a rich heritage of ab using ansd mistreating their own indigenous people. They also had an untouchable class that still has issues to this day.

[@vukkulvar9769]

"Black people never did anything wrong!" ~ Ubisoft

[@ArariaKAgelessTraveller]

It's even funnier that French treat their colony quite harsh compared to what Japanese done in WW2

[@NeoBluereaper]

​@@vukkulvar9769 They certainly weren't the ones to set up a slave trade with America!

[@liloni444]

being japanese is an exclusive status, you have to have japanese genetics to enjoy it. period.

[@Mike_stuy]

They really keep flip-flopping. One minute, they say the game is not supposed to be historically accurate, and the next minute, they say they are making it as historically accurate as possible

[@Rogue-a-Pogue]

I miss when it was just GIANT ENEMY CRABS we had to worry about in supposedly 'historically accurate' games set in japan.

[@youravghuman5231]

They are not making historically accurate. They CLAIM they are historically accurate. They couldn't even bother to make tatami right

[@daviddave5092]

Then some Ubi defenders will say "It's just a game" when people call out Ubi's BS claims

[@KaiNLinda]

They will say anything to fit their narrative. As a villain once said, "the truth is what i say it is!"

[@nobody4y]

​@@KaiNLinda"Reality is what I want it to be"

[@tk8-d32]

Did you think that was the bottom? NO, another one has come, they used photos of temples crashed down due to earthquakes in 2016 and 2018 in Japan to create their concept art.

[@daze4135]

13:54 bro that comment has to be a troll. There's no way

[@yozen1995]

at least it seems they missed wakashuu. Knowing ubisoft they'd take historical japanese femboy geisha and try to claim it was some trans stuff.

[@bustergundo516]

Dont give them more ideas please.

[@yozen1995]

@@bustergundo516 Fair, though they got less than two months left at least so if they focused on that, at least we'll know it'll be a broken mess.

[@ShahroozSmith]

@@bustergundo516 I agree, but I also want them to do it to see if they take the bait and ruin their company even further.

[@DMAN99]

“They were forced by society to play a role but ending up finding their true selves” - Ubisoft Writer

[@1stCallipostle]

I'm surprised they aren't trying to normalize touching young boys with this. I do recall reading about Samurai doing that, and I wouldn't put it past Ubisoft to try and appeal to the Diddy crowd

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

Wow. The Honnoji Temple incident is an extremely important event in Japanese history. Kids study it in school. They literally couldn't have picked a worse way to disrespect Japanese history and culture.

[@asdfbeau]

At this point, there's no way it's not an intentional attempt to influence history. Just like people used Lockley's fiction to justify this game, people will use this game's fiction to justify the next anti-Japanese thing. Propaganda is a multi-generational thing, and propagandists will take any small victory that they can, because they understand that small victories lead to big ones.

[@zaskiaalsakila7248]

@@asdfbeau Most likely Japan will be in a few years be like Russia. Every historical event in Russian history have been skewed and warped so bad. That numbers and definitions and dates doesn't matter anymore. Its now "Russia" helped us win the war, instead of the Soviet Union being invaded by Nutzee Germany and its allies. As in the "Russia" doesn't existed at that time. The invasion has been "deleted" by them. Even now, KZbin Historians making up many myths and histories. Italians, Romanians, Hungarians, French, Czechs, Finland, Spainish invaded USSR too, but all we heard are Wehrmacht and the Mustached man.

[@Kumire_921]

Which is wierd because they always tried to be accurate in past games, well "accurate" as much as a game mixing fiction with history can be. I can imagine if instead of Ezio we used a foreigner that came to Italy and messed with our art and historical events lol, i hope Japan sues their asses and Ubisoft shuts down for good.

[@gbalfour9618]

And yet they topped it with the use of the broken torii gate

[@plumaDshinigami]

"Represent me! I demand to be seen everywhere and praised for it! You must make me feel appreciated!" - chronically miserable narcissists.

[@OneOkRockSamurai]

"We wuz the samurai and shit" no rev sadly it isnt a Joke. According to The black conspiracy, we wuz everythang and shit. Romans were black, indians was black, Spaniards was Black, Chinese Emperors was black, and Samurais was black.

[@joogled1839]

the slave owners was black too

[@REALFrancoStudios]

That feel when you make a game that you hate Japanese or Asians so much, you think they're all the same... Yeah this has to be Ubisoft's final game to close down once and for all!

[@cytorakdemon]

"This character identifies as non-binary." What a coincidence, I also identify as non-buy-nary,

[@kendra_t]

It's ridiculous that "non-binary" became a thing that the real world takes seriously.

[@weebmaster]

I feel like it’s fine to have a non-binary character in a game but this game? Lmao that’s hilarious 😂

[@mrrooter601]

@@weebmaster if it was an otokonoko or something to that effect it would be fine, but nope, full on modern audience mode.

[@typeOwagner]

Dude, sorry but this "They" story is made up maybe u read it yourself: "They" were really well trained, stands clearly for the ronins or clan from the sentence before and what is wrong with that "they are making that up and hurting us! I am fully on our side but this i can not tolerate, and i'm really sorry to say that but this is BS

[@LegendaryFenrir]

Ubisoft: "Rock bottom? You haven't seen rock bottom!" _holds up shovel_

[@khoinguyen5004]

Shovel? Ladies and gents, let us introduce you to the industrial drill - Ubisuck

[@bobbombar6711]

Are you shure it was a change of t.n.t & a plunger wlie e. Coyote style?

[@gbalfour9618]

Apparently rock bottom has a basement

[@LuxiBelle]

Some actually trying to pull the "We wuz samurice and sheeit" card?

[@vidyagaems4063]

Ninja plz

[@gaijinph]

both this comment and the reply...got me laughing XD

[@notnoaintno5134]

We Japanese ninjas now nsheit

[@xenopsychologist4943]

@@vidyagaems4063 amazing. you are a hero of our time.

[@Cbd_7ohm]

The people making the game are white. Stop trying to blame black people for everything.

[@kurogems8607]

1:30 FYI, that website has no intentional 'preview' cover and has big tags that show which types of the 'story' it is, like CGI or Doujins including Non-H, so sometimes you can actually be in the clear entering the site. As long as you don't hover your mouse on that link.

[@elitedestroyer0083]

You know a game is cooked when everyone is getting entertained by roasting rather than playing the game.

[@benetx]

PLEASE PEOPLE, WE NEED MORE HELP EDITING WIKIPEDIA'S Yasuke page, as they insist on destroying Japan history

[@genradiata1723]

Nothing can be done, shit is protected from all edits.

[@aclevername7613]

Honestly anyone who would site wikipedia as a legitamite source of info shows they are idiots then and there. Nobody with any sense would use it as some historical factual source.

[@DestroyerJamie]

We'll All dogs go to heaven 2 it, until it sticks as it should be

[@griffinarcher2911]

Wikipedia telling only one biased side of a story. It must be a day that ends in 'y'

[@MrMariosonicman]

@@genradiata1723 if someone can convince trump the Wiki team is purposefully rewriting history to be DEI friendly mabey he can do something about it. there has to be some way to stick it to the wiki team.

[@ven7165]

A while ago Wikipedia asked me to donate I enjoyed the information they provided me. I emailed them asking why I should donate if they can't even guarantee the information is correct--citing the AC Shadows incident. They told me they aren't in charge of what information is posted nor responsible for making sure the information is correct. I asked myself why the fuck they are asking me to donate for information Wikipedia supposedly provided me when they also claim they are not responsible for controlling or creating any of the information.

[@ShaggyRogers1]

Because they would have to admit that over 80% of wikipedia edits and moderating power is held by a handful of power users. Whether or not those power users are directly employed by Wikipedia or do it as a side hobby is irrelevant. You could be the actual person involved in a wikipedia article and attempt to correct obvious misinformation, and see your edit reverted due to "lack of citation".

[@Another_El_User]

And then, I, discovered that, Wikipedia, wasn't indeed a reliable source. My teachers over all these years were right...

[@disalazarg]

They're asking for you to donate so they can donate it to far-left ONGs of their choice; Wikipedia costs so little to run each month that the money they had until last year could last them until well past 2040 without another dime in donations.

[@wildbrick142]

​@@ShaggyRogers1 and then even if you do cite an article, they'll still revert it because it's not from what they personally deem a "reliable source" - aka strongly left-leaning mainstream media.

[@shinami3758]

​@@Another_El_User How to deduce if a source is trustworthy was one of the very first things I was taught in during English and History courses at college. Is the information presented in an unbiased manner? Is the source citing sources of their own or providing physical evidence? For internet sources, is the site most likely owned by a person or an organization? I recall there being even more general guidelines for judging a source than that when I had to conduct research for writing assignments.

[@scribblerjones]

6:25 - *OH HEYULL NAH.* "Transgenerational love"? My PDF detector just went crazy when I saw that. So on top of gross historical revisionism, now we got *this* on top of it? Gonna be frank, AC Shadows doesn't merely deserve to fail. It *needs* to fail if this is what they're about now.

[@1stCallipostle]

Nah it kinda did happen back then, unfortunately I forget the name but the functional squires of the time got "used" a lot when they were young and ripe It was considered normal ish bonding I guess

[@alexk9295]

​@@1stCallipostleyes, it happened and everywhere, Japan, Ancient Greece, Rome.

[@kendra_t]

It happened back then, but as with Rome, it was an abse of power between mentors and their young students. The fact that she tries to paint it as a "relationship" is disgusting. A Japanese commenter on a Yasuke shitpost video referred to her as the "Professor of Yaoi" and I wouldn't be surprised if that's what started her interest in her "studies".

[@1stCallipostle]

@@kendra_t I'm just saying that, while gross, it's one of the few things here that ISN'T revisionist

[@wrongthinker843]

@@1stCallipostle It is revisionist. This thing tries to push it as normal. It was not normal, it was severely looked down upon. Greeks and Romans similarly had great distaste for such things. They weren't all insecure sexpests, so there were no undertones to male skinship. In fact, similar to the words of C.S. Lewis, applying eros to the idea would be seen as insulting to everyone involved and their culture.

[@JoobyMcGee]

18:22 shot themselves in the foot?! Bro, they didn't just shoot themselves in the foot, they pulled the pin on a grenade, fumbled it, and it dropped at their feet and then fell face first into a landmine, they planted earlier which then blew up and launched them into a spike pit that they also dug earlier. This is a comedy of errors that would make a looney tunes character blush.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Surprised that Ubisoft didn't just make Yasuke the new Daimyo. Hell, the new Emperor of Japan... Must've taken a lot of restraint from them...

[@unsatisfiedfans7422]

I... i don't think the term "non-binary" exists during Feudal Japan era...

[@TheEmperorHyperion]

That Tumblr nonsense didn't exist until 10 years ago. *ON TUMBLR.*

[@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad]

it doesn't, it's not even a real thing my guy plus it's exist since 2014

[@Zygarde-50Meme-Forme]

@@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad To my knowledge, it may have existed earlier because of a Furaffinity profile I encountered, but definitely got it from Tumblr.

[@1stCallipostle]

​@@TheEmperorHyperionIt was that long ago? I feel like it wasn't until post 2016 meltdowns that I ever heard about it

[@NeoBluereaper]

Dunno if it even exists in modern Japan even.

[@monsterbuster1]

Who is yasuke? Deepseek: man of African origin who served as a retainer and weapon-bearer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga during the late 16th century. ChatGPT: african samurai😂

[@bluebeginning4046]

That's true, I just ask Gpt and tried to straighten his "facts" but still keeps calling the "monkey" a samurai.

[@CrimsonKage]

Man, is this the timeline where some historical facts are more correctly-represented by China? That's pretty nuts.

[@CrimsonKage]

@@bluebeginning4046 That sounds like it could be getting confused tbh, because monkey is 'Saru', and Saru was the nickname of Toyotomi Hideyoshi when he was a retainer for Oda Nobunaga because he supposedly looked like a monkey? I dunno what you read or in what context, but it's weird if they are using 'monkey' so nearby Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

[@riddif]

@@CrimsonKage Well in that context, if i remember correctly, that Saru title, is a gift title of an achivements.

[@familhagaudir8561]

''So this weird guy I paraded as a curiosity for a few months was carrying my baggage.'' Reddit and apparently Ubisoft : ''Black Samurai''.

[@weirdkross9632]

Not intentional? Always Not intentional? Are you kidding me? Millions of fund for this game and there is a lack of research? Dude if I am the boss of these developers are will fire these guys with a NOTICE to other studios or company not to hire them.

[@greyrifterrellik5837]

Never underestimate the sheer incompetence of a detatched corporate.

[@Azelarc]

They stopped doing their due diligence in researching like they used to in their older games. What happened now? Why suddenly stop hiring proper history and cultural experts and doing proper research? Well, actual experts and not that "trust me bro" fanfiction writer.

[@M3.Skyline]

​@@greyrifterrellik5837Never underestimate a 🏳️‍⚧️ / freak on a malding spree on how they/them characters are not allowed in history.

[@ShaggyRogers1]

@@Azelarc It is because the staff working on Shadows is overwhelmingly made up of rookies, and they don't know how to actually judge a proper "expert" consultant. The old staff would contact universities and archaeologists in order to get the most accurate version of the setting that they could. The current staff thought that their love of "anime" and East Asian media would somehow mean that they could skip asking actual historical experts. You can see it in their blatant confusion between Chinese and Japanese traditions and architecture, and complete "Hollywood" take on the setting. One glance at their promo concept artwork, and it clearly becomes obvious that an art intern was just handed a stack of reference photos before being told to copy them into the concept art. The problem there is that you can see copyrighted art references and locations all over the place. The simple inclusion of World Heritage Sites that the Japanese government has a zero allowance for commercial reproduction is going to be enough to see the company sued and sanctioned in Japan. It hasn't been that visual in the outcry, so I doubt that they have bothered to remove any of them before launch.

[@azervakmonocasco4092]

@@AzelarcDEI happened

[@tangroro]

12:33 To be fair, Yaya sounds more like a Chinese name than a Japanese name, so either she's Chinese, or Ubisoft just can't tell the different between Chinese and Japanese

[@eke6116]

5:09 I felt it was this at first too, until I continued a bit and arrive at "but always felt constrained by strict rules". This doesn't refer to the clan, but Ibuki itself otherwise you meant to say the whole clan cannot follow the rules and went ronin?. So yeah, Ubi use "They" referring to Ibuki only.

[@kendra_t]

Same

[@cookiecreep9204]

And to think that years ago I thought that assassin's creed in Japan would basically automatically make money. Ubislop is doing all it can to defy the impossible.

[@1stCallipostle]

Someone else beat them to the punch. And then those same people are doing a follow up... And horribly self sabotaged it already. Maybe the concept is just cursed

[@AhmadAbib]

Just imagine at the meeting board around 2020, the "consultants" threw the male native protagonist outside the window, and replace him with a "legendary black samurai" that nobody actually knows, and open wikipedia page edited by Lockley-sama as source... . And nobody dare to speak

[@MarkDeSade100]

It could have been a huge success, if they had just done the obvious. Make the male protagonist a badass Japanese guy and the female protagonist a sexy babe. No LGHDTV stuff and hire a historical expert who is actually a historical expert. But they had to go woke instead...

[@RinaRetro]

*Don’t ever mess with my country!* 🇯🇵

[@unknownmxn7683]

I apologize, on their behalf

[@RinaRetro]

@@unknownmxn7683 Aww you don’t have to do that. Don’t apologize for the actions of others. You’re only responsible for your own individual self 😊

[@omegarathalos6046]

While I'm not into the political side of things, disrespecting the culture is something I can not vibe with at all. Japan is a great country to visit if I was able to. Let this games failure demonstrate why pandering to the so called *Modern Audience* and blatant disrespecting of a countries culture/history is bad for the industry.

[@1stCallipostle]

​@@unknownmxn7683Frenchie spotted?

[@WildArmACF]

As someone who loves learning about history and a fan of many things from japan. Ubisoft just needs to colapse and rewriting history needs to be stopped without just openly saying "we arent being accurate at all" i cant say im a master of japanese history (tons to learn) but i wouldnt mind learning a lot more

[@StoryGirl83]

2:23 So what they are saying is that the historical accuracy of previous games was extremely bad and we really need to take a deeper look at what they did to those games, because if this is the best researched they’ve got, there are bound to be problems with those as well. Alternate theory, they researched specifically to make sure they got it wrong.

[@dansmith1661]

No one blinked when they had an alt take of Austrian escaping Germany to Argentina and getting got.

[@makination1000]

At this point Pokemon Conquest was probably more historically accurate than this shit will be.

[@S3nCh4n]

Sorry rev but when you realised Junjiro is a boy can u say "he" instead of they and they're at 6:10 , it's so fucking confusing like are you talking about just him or him and someone else??? This is why I hate the they/them fad because it's also super confusing when referring to a person or people.

[@BloodwyrmWildheart]

"We've doubled, if not tripled, the effort to make sure we had thorough understanding of the Japanese culture of this time period." ...Greece AC was full of inaccuracies; Egypt AC was full of inaccuracies; Now Japan AC is full of inaccuracies. It's apparent to me that Ubisoft don't know a lick about history. Unsurprising, considering the type of people currently working there are always trying to rewrite it.

[@cammyshill3099]

It just took a black protagonist for these people to realize Ubi has been making slop for a very, very long time.

[@natchu96]

Well, you see Triple of zero is still zero. Hell, triple of negative is an even greater negative, which is practically the case here. They went out of their way to be extra disrespectfully inaccurate, and started bragging about it instead of hoping nobody would notice or care like usual.

[@mr.melancholy4973]

If Ubislop wants to bend over backwards for modern audience then they can have modern audience financial returns. Ubislop's ship is sinking.

[@crane8819]

The defense for the game is that AC has never been historically accurate meanwhile Ubisoft keeps going on about how historically accurate the game is. They can't keep the narrative straight with this one and as someone who has hated Ubisoft for a long time I love to see it. 😆

[@bobbombar6711]

Have Japan proper sue them for about 3trillion euros . For the repeated cultural vandalism & harassment.

[@gaikichipinfiri]

The British who wrote a book of YASUKE does not understand even a modern simple Japanese short email.

[@GrayGecko22]

15:10 so its bad to have that as an option, but its okay too make Henry gay in KCD2 cause its "optional" makes no sense, they're both woke

[@evillair-yj5bf]

Just so you know, even Concord was able to muster almost 400k views on a trailer in a week.

[@CottidaeSEA]

Concord seemed like a good but unappealing game, I'm not surprised if their videos performed better.

[@GameFuMaster]

@@CottidaeSEA Concord didn't even look good from gameplay. Slow movement combined with very long kill times.

[@mattjohnson8585]

In fairness, I prefer that over the twitching headshots of other games

[@r99azm80]

Bold if you think that was not bot viewers.

[@CrimsonKage]

@@GameFuMaster To be fair, that sounds like something the average person wouldn't even catch onto, I certainly wouldn't, but then again, I've only played CoD once (and didn't like it, cuz the kill times were too fast). The gameplay may well have suited some people, but who was gonna try it if there wasn't a single character they could enjoy playing as? The first decision in that game would have been 'which character to try first', and all you had were several Buffet-cleaners, snot-green alien, the assassin dressed like a blind mage and ostensibly a catgirl that was intentionally furry-fied so she wouldn't accidentally be attractive, and then give them all a nice coat of ammo-case green. Character shooters need characters, and gameplay couldn't save that whether the kill times were short or long.

[@zenothing5068]

They see Japanese as a toy.

[@jerromynolting1139]

As a american/westerner i feel great shame from this AC shadow. I'm so sorry that japan has to deal with the lies of ubisoft an the idiots that follow. it's a horrible that people believe these lies, how people are treating japanese culture, history, religion with misinformation like this. i can't apologize hard enough for this. I wish japan the best of luck in stopping Ubisoft's lie, disrespect it has shown to japan.

[@kingofmonsters14]

and just a few years earlier, we proved that we can treat it with respect: Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima. in the end, this is all Ubisoft's doing

[@jerromynolting1139]

@@kingofmonsters14 ubisoft just make me physically sick watching the level of dishonor and disrespect.

[@PABCOM1]

Your statement only shows how f up Ubisoft really is, even their own people despise them. Too bad they only listen to their boots crawlers and dismiss those that don't shine their shoes as "hateful"

[@dimasfmw]

Actually, the "they" pronoun could be valid. Not in a "there could be non-binary people then" way but instead a female samurai who disguises as a male, like Japanese Mulan. It's very much a cliche in anime, after all. "They" might not mean non-binary, but just to be all mysterious for a hint of a later reveal. You know, the previous use of singular "they" before all of these DEI nonsense. Although with Ubisoft being what they are, I pretty much doubt it.

[@Kangiru_Noah]

Bruh, and some people still think ac shadow doesnt disrespect japan??

[@ricardohoang8452]

Probably modern ubikidsy

[@bzs187]

You know, iTs JuST a GAmE. What would they say if they did similar thing with a western setting.

[@aj.j5833]

Even US Koreans and even the Chinese are clear on how offensive and insulting it is to Japanese. They went to far even for us and we love to insult and rage on Japanese.

[@melantharosewood]

Some people are just assuming or insinuating it’s a bunch of racists that hate black people when in actuality, Ubisoft has been continuously disrespecting Japanese gamers and Japanese historians by not being accurate to history or being ignorant about it.

[@acuilnos]

Only people who don't care about Japan or its culture, which tends to be obvious with how quickly they go mask off.

[@BoxheadCat]

Me: The controversy can't get any worse... Ubisoft: Hold my beer.

[@darkrabbit4287]

Yeah pretty much Ubisoft at this point took away the crew 1 pumping out crappy games and now as they couldn't sink any lower they've/then started to sink through the center of the earth coming out the opposite end by making and doing this.

[@利ゅ位置山崎]

"There is a point where we needed to stop and we have clearly passed it but let's keep going and see what happens"

[@astolfo_1god]

They really don't want ranmaru anywhere near nobunaga

[@aerinsoleris]

which is weird given that this was a perfect opportunity to be historically "inclusive"

[@achmedycreedo]

@@aerinsoleris Not inclusive enough it seems.

[@corycianangel6321]

It’s honestly a shame

[@raze2469]

70$ for a piece of shit game is crazy

[@RyanPhilip-w6d]

It confuses me on how racist Ubisoft is being, while trying to not seem racist to black people. It's like someone mentioned Yasuke and said they should include him so Journalist don't make articles about them ignoring him just like other games set in Japan. They also can't help themselves from trying to "fix" Japan's past because it makes todays man children upset.

[@niconepni1821]

For how historically accurate this game is gonna be, it better have the giant enemy crab, especially with a weak point you can attack for massive damage

[@BaneofGods]

I mean, AC Origins had the giant Animus Anomaly bonus bosses that were gigantic avatars of Egyptian gods, so it wouldn't really be that far fetched for there to be giant enemy boss battles in AC Shadows too

[@Aufsammelkabbler]

@@BaneofGods As long as it is some kind of tech anomaly I don't think anyone in japan would care about that. What they actually did was much worse.

[@BaneofGods]

@ Yeah, the Animus Anomaly bosses were pretty fun to fight in AC Origins and them being framed as computer glitches meaning they're strictly noncanon helps ease any issues that might arise from their potential presence. Perhaps a more relevant comparison would be them butchering Cleopatra, Caesar, and Mark Antony and acting liking nothing is wrong

[@wildansaladin8728]

And the game that have that giant crab, was more historically accurate than AC Shadows. lol

[@smollestyaeka]

@@BaneofGods It better be a giant enemy Gundam.

[@thsudy]

They seriously made “Body type 3” in the game

[@dkm312]

After that, Ubisoft lost any credibility about their "historical accuracy".

[@CPPpotkustartti]

But... Japan has gender-neutral way to reference of someone. They don't really have need for they/them etc.

[@Is_This_Really_Necessary]

Ubisoft is akin to the Simpsons episode where Homer accidentally jumps a canyon in Barts place and end up battered after tumbling down the rock faces the canyon. They can also be likened to a ship sinking into the ocean depths, coming to a stop on a ledge, only to fall even further to another ledge, then another, etc.

[@nagisa3523]

can we just go back to guys being manly and badass and women being cool mysterious and badass

[@unknownmxn7683]

Ooooh I love me a mysterious beauty

[@aydencahoon6557]

Resident evil did women justice Be more like capcom

[@mastrsonic375]

Hopefully

[@RaNgErs_Rep]

and hot

[@Trehlas]

I love how "modern" characters are always joyous and happy. Even though the modern audience is chronically ill-tempered.

[@chavito808]

At this point, why can't they just cancel this game entirely and use all the money made from development as a tax write off

[@bustergundo516]

No no. Let it come out and stain them so that they can't memory hole it later.

[@Theprince034]

Because that’d be the smart answer to their problem but they’re allergic to those kinds of answers

[@Asertix357]

Because we don' want our tax dollars going to make up for their bad decisions.

[@juliusc.8711]

Let them crash so that someone that actually cares or can do better than them buys the IP.

[@IsoKoala-g3l]

Because they have already burnt their so called tax write offs. You need to have revenue to put failed projects into write offs. When theyre on negative numbers, you cant put everything in write off. Alllthough, probably they actually do so, now that I the game comes out in March. But they still need to release something with revenue to do so.

[@kylepeters8690]

You know, it's depressing to think that fate samurai, a game about mages summoning famed heroes throughout history and mythology and do battle with Joan of ark, Gilgamesh, cu chualin in a franchise where oda nobunaga is a goofball and woman is still somehow more historically accurate than the game trying to claim its historically accurate

[@luxeadawnlight]

You know, at least nasu doesn't tell the audience that king arthur was historically female or even real, or that okita was actually a woman, or that gilgamesh was blonde historically (irl mesopotamian gods were said to have lapis lazuli for hair i once read). lmao

[@khoinguyen5004]

The thing about FGO, is that each character are actually based on real myth, not some made up stuff from some dudes

[@mangetsunouta781]

Who would've thought king Arthur is such a mukbang cutie

[@Krankunee34]

They are stating openly that characters are not related to the real ones. AC Shadows and woke people didn't.

[@luxeadawnlight]

@ some are made up. like Emiya -- both the father and the son. but again, the writer acknowledges that they took some liberties and this is a fictional timeline based on reality. they dont hire a fake academic to go tell people "oh yeah this guy or girl or whatever i hired says he's an expert on british history and king arthur was real! for real! and arthur was a woman! trust me bro!" or that "emiya was totally real! forreal forreal! trust me bro!" xD

[@prn_Melatonin]

In a wired interview with a real life actual samurai historian, the historian plainly mentioned that Yasuke is NOT a samurai.

[@LovesandCuddles]

Assassin's Creed Shadows is the Snow White of video games

[@arkbien9303]

At least Snow White has Gal Godot for eye candy.....

[@LovesandCuddles]

@@arkbien9303 That is a good point!

[@michakasprzak6869]

They hit rock bottom when we saw Yasuke reveal. Since that time, they've been digging. Oh boy were they digging. They're about to punch through China's soil.

[@Aufsammelkabbler]

After they passed the earth core they are at least closer to japan than their "historians"

[@aj.j5833]

Those pre-order numbers telling me PS5 gamers are the dumbest gamers.

[@ilikecerealprawns]

Any site for those pre order numbers? Because some shill was gloating on how it is #1 on preorders in ‘most parts of the world’ but I couldn’t find any site showing those numbers

[@aj.j5833]

@@ilikecerealprawns Rev show numbers he got from Stuttering Craig. I can't think of any official sites don't have over inflated numbers.

[@hayato1886]

Well I mean, when most of your playerbase are either playing trash like Fifa or waiting for GTA 6 because they have like 4 exclusives, you'd start to lose braincells as well.

[@TuanLe-gl4yt]

When no number is highly scamed... They then to count within a week or even days.

[@LokiOfNorse]

I refuse to ever play this game even if it was offered on a silver platter for free.

[@dragosdoreldumitru6633]

Japan should file a lawsuit against Ubisoft demanding 2bilion dollars for each ehm "mistake" and lawsuits against things like the Assassin's creed insider demanding at least one milion....

[@core7330]

Sigh.....( certain people in ubisoft studios) showing no respect to Japanese culture and people. Thinking it's okay to overwrite history and sell this garbage to us. Pretty sure this won't be sold in Japan and imagine ubisoft disrespecting ur country you'll be pissed too.

[@Cer1ph]

Man....flat earthers make more sense than the people defending this games historical accuracy.

[@ThieflyChap]

You know it's bad when even the flerfs start making sense.

[@jedrzejkoszewski4342]

e-hentai is perfect for finding leaked artbooks (and some other things)

[@arkoftruth5583]

Seriously?

[@DMAN99]

Unironically a great place for finding obscure old Japanese magazines, game manuals, fan books, etc.

[@DMAN99]

@@arkoftruth5583Yeah, besides the monumental amount of H, people also upload a lot of non-H content like full original game manuals, fanzines, etc.

[@gibmeaway100]

​​@@arkoftruth5583if they add some special tags like the forbidden 4 letter word, most people wouldn't be able to find it without a sad panda in the way. But yes, there's lots of non H art books there

[@dansmith1661]

@@arkoftruth5583 Just turn off your gooning options.

[@HGuardians]

Ok ok back to Wikipedia, of to see the thousands of changes in japanese history in the last 5 days.

[@rflett5797]

Newsbusters published an article yesterday about a Media Reserach Center Free Speech America study that found on Wikipedia 100% of "right leaning" media sources are blacklisted while only 15% of "left leaning" media sources are blocked. This is very concerning as government agents cite it as a valid source of information.

[@TerrorENVtuber]

What that savvy person is indicating is definitely a nothing burger, the word "they" (if one understands how descriptions work) is used in a 2nd person context similar to saying "they went to the store" or "they have undergone intense training". Real shame how basic context is being seen as gender bs

[@kathrineici9811]

“They” means multiple people. If it’s a singular person “he” or “she” went to the store.

[@realah3001]

A Scottish samurai would be more accurate XP

[@nz7974]

At this point even a most stereotypical weeaboo -(derogatory)- would make a more faithful depiction of Japan.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Metallica fans never wish to be called that, even if James Hetfield seems to say "weeb lash" in 'Whiplash'. Metallica already made a Japanese girl cry, but that barely counts.

[@BQD_Central]

weeabos love Japan. Ubisoft hates it.

[@josueveguilla9069]

"I'm shocked. SHOCKED! Well, not that shocked." - Philip J. Fry (Futurama) (20th Century Fox) (The Walt Disney Company)

[@durandus676]

4:39 JAPANESE FLUID ANDROGENY has existed in Japanese literature and art for hundreds of years!? Why didn’t they just use Japanese ideas of expression and not just cram in western slop!?

[@notnoaintno5134]

Not really

[@Dozarman]

Because japanese ideas aren't "progressive" enough. Wrong, even, so they need constant "fixing".

[@givmi_more_w9251]

What exactly? That female roles in Kabuki were played by men, and very skillfully at that?

[@Dozarman]

@@givmi_more_w9251 that doesn't suddenly turn them into women.

[@dickysatria7268]

12:10 nah , that thing ate ration from 5 villages

[@RedHoodRubyRose]

Imagine removing Ranmaru Mori, one of the Oda Nobunaga most trusted retainers to rewrite history that instead it was Yosuke who was Nobunaga's most trusted Retainers ... But of course not, who cares about Japanese history, it's all about agendas. It would make so much more sense to make Ranmaru Mori the second playable character and it would actually even fit representing younger man that looked more feminine, since Ranmaru Mori was known to be mistaken for a woman in some cases because of his looks. But you know, those people can't even think for 5 seconds.

[@guanglaikangyi6054]

About the destructible temple thing. Reminds me of when TLoU 2 wouldn't let you shoot the Torah. I think restricting the ability to do it raises more questions than if you treated it like any other part of the game. I wouldn't even have thought of trying it if that wasn't brought up.

[@Aufsammelkabbler]

Nah, I think it is showing some kind of respect to the culture they used to make their game. There are just things that are sacriliegious in other cultures that we as foreigners wouldn't notice.

[@AhmadAbib]

They should keep the desync warning from older titles, if the players did something the characters aren't supposed to be doing.

[@natchu96]

@@AhmadAbib Back then, never mind attacking civilians...even getting hit in battle was desync (as was the case with AC1). Now even the protagonist's gender, their love life, and the life and death of their whole families, all very significant parts of anyone's life, are somehow a player choice variable. The series hasn't respected its own premise in a _long_ time now.

[@wildansaladin8728]

In AC Mirage, we can't enter a mosque at all in the game, despite it being exist. It is simple to put some restrictions. Ubisoft had done it before. It just that Ubisoft doesn't have enough care for the Japanese culture, to do a proper research. If they really care, they would know that Chinese and Japanese letters are different. I mean, that was the most basic of the basics when learning about a foreign culture. They even failed at basic things.

[@kurisu1608]

Speedrunning bankruptcy

[@Kreceir]

''We respect the Japanese culture!'' *Does everything to spit and disrespect said Japanese culture'*

[@Sorain1]

The Tori gate was kind of the point I couldn't see any possible explanation for it not being malicious.

[@BlueUnlost]

they know the game will fail so they quite literally just said, "frick it let's just do what concord did". they're in a state of emergency now and chose to just pander to the "modern" audience instead of the real gamers

[@Nagalior]

There were no pronouns back then, but Shudō was a thing. It could be platonic or physical.

[@Zer0LifeNegi]

I am aware of one, ONE, historical Japanese figure that is disputed or questioned, about being male or female. Uesugi Kenshin / Nagao Kagetora. He was a Sengoku Jidai (Warring States Era) warlord who defeated Oda Nobunaga in their only battle, and because of the oddities surrounding his history, it is questioned on if he was actually a woman being portrayed in artwork as a man. The historical record features campaigns planned around monthly cycles due to stomach cramps, and that he was allowed access to women-only areas, among other evidence. His body was not cremated but due to reverence, the family has not allowed any academic research to inspect the remains. Also that @arnoldbrensen dude is literally a trolling account, if you bothered to look at his account.

[@BQD_Central]

That also sounds like something that would happen anywhere else to have a figurehead in power without exposing them as unfit due to various reasons.

[@TerryB01]

This games has 0 chance of doing well. Its the game version of the Captain America 4 movie.

[@DMAN99]

It’s going to sell, just nowhere close to the numbers Ubisoft want. Normies still buy every single AC game and You know the fact that it has a black samurai is going to attract people who salivate over any and all black characters.

[@1stCallipostle]

​@@DMAN99The later camp is mostly an audience that claps but doesn't play games And I don't know for sure, but I think even normies are getting burnt out after... 17 years is it?

[@DMAN99]

@@1stCallipostle you’d think that but remember, people keep buying EA slop year after year, they keep buying the latest CoD year after year. Even when they vocally hate on it and it goes over terribly, they keep buying it.

[@1stCallipostle]

@@DMAN99 CoD at least remains actually fun. Less polished than it should be, but the recycled format works for a grind game. I buy in every 3 years or so. EA sports though? I feel like they're just surving on whales buying $250 worth of premium currency every week. Point is, I feel like a purely single player story game like AC is more burnout susceptible and less recurringly monetizable. Though when it did have multiplayer in 3 it was low key fun as hell

[@mjetektman9313]

​@@DMAN99afaik sports gamers are also getting fed up of EA slop, EA sports revenue actually had a decrease, and EA stock prices plummeted 20%

[@TheYukiTsuki]

As this artbook proves, Ubisoft did 'three' google searches and called it a day. There is no way a samurai would be a "they/them" as the samurai are about honer and are only male. I cannot wait for the Japanese government to hit Ubisoft hard when this shit launches.

[@Ciel8000]

Just a light correction: Samurai was about social status and land. "Bushido" was more propaganda than anything. Also there were famous women that had the title of Samurai and some women, even if not samurai, were still trained in the use of Naginata(a type of spear). But "they then" samurai/ronin is unheard off, simply because "non-binary" is a modern american concept. There were some men that used feminine clothes or makeover but they were just considered "feminine men", nothing more.

[@BlueBD]

@@Ciel8000 Isn't that Kabuki. Also they really like to hire prostitutes so much that the government tried to get to stop and their respond was "Lol Lmao, no" also Crossdressing was not uncommon in history. Does that mean it was accepted? hell no. But people would do it anyway and receive scorn if discovered for being "Weird"

[@Ixar900]

I’m waiting for when they start identify their characters as animals when will the furies be in the games 😂

[@akanomamushi15]

@@Ciel8000 Naginata is a polearm, Yari is the spear. There are onnamusha and many women in samurai households are taught to use the naginata and other weapons so they can hold the fort when the men go to battle.

[@natchu96]

Even if I humor them and accept the nonzero possibility that someone from that era could've mentally felt that way about themselves, the term and idea itself would've been so unheard of at the time that they would've just accepted their biological sex and lived with it to either misery or mild discomfort.

[@JtDrake372]

It's times like these I appreciate playing older games more than the newer flops.

[@nipunjamewar8731]

I remember when the first trailer came out Yasuke was not a Samurai in his Wikipedia article. Now I check his Wikipedia article and he's a Samurai.

[@Asubatsu]

Whats wrong Rev? Click the link. You're not chicken, are ya?

[@asuraofwrath]

remember how most people defending this games main argument was "but assassins creed was never historically accurate" thats out the window now

[@SSJ3CyLink]

There was that fire or something and they literally used Assasin's creed rendering or i forget words to help rebuild the famous place. which i think was before any shadows news i could be wrong- if thats not historically accurate then i don't know what is.

[@BQD_Central]

That was a lie, AC was always proud if their historical setpieces.

[@TheNinjaSpoons]

Right, fist fighting the the pope was real

[@xandernat2071]

13:01 Bro not only is that image AI-generated, look at the name they gave the "shogun" in the photo!!! How there are people who unironically don't see it is INSANE

[@dickysatria7268]

You overestimate their intelligent