The Absolute Disaster Of Assassin's Creed Shadows

[@stonemorris5356]

Being the only black man in Japan might be a bit of a hindrance if you're an assassin trying not to be noticed.

[@eukariootti1]

Even more difficult when you're 7 ft black man.

[@Artekai]

Specially if you're wearing a shiny ceremonial armor.

[@Ya_Mosura]

He does have natural +10 to stealth in the dark tho.

[@jamieedwards3629]

@@Artekaiand look about 6ft 5 inches tall.

[@dandavis5533]

@@Ya_Mosura As long as he doesn't smile.

[@justneedaname]

Shogun: “Who attacked you guys?” Survivor: “I dunno. He wasn’t Japanese though.” Shogun: “Hmmm. Could be anyone.”

[@MEXICANMAU19]

"i dont know, i dont see color"

[@RealTanku]

It was a they/them, can't tell you their color, gender, sexual orientation or anything about them, my lord! It may or may not have even been the single most obvious man in the entire shogunate!

[@redforest3740]

@@RealTanku LMFAO

[@rayfish007]

Survivor: It was a black guy. Shogun: you are racist, you will die for your ignorance.

[@Krasses]

​@@rayfish007 Shogun: Oh you mean a shadow? Is that it? Am I right?

[@yargum69]

They easily could have made over a billion dollars on this title. All they needed to do was make the game absolutely everyone wanted since AC1.

[@MegamanXfan21xx]

They could have avoided a lot of trouble if they had just stuck with having both player characters being Japanese... but then the one-legged Torii gate would have lit a fire under their asses anyway.

[@Dat_Jonx]

​@@MegamanXfan21xxwhy do you even need second protagonist? Just stick to shinobi/kunoichi.

[@neonsheep3358]

Early on into the AC series, they said they didn't want to make a Japanese game because it'd be too easy. Let that sink in.

[@asdfgangsta5]

@@yargum69 A Japan setting could have easily been a trilogy like Ezio and gain a massive foreign playerbase

[@JustiniZHere]

@@neonsheep3358 yeah I remember them saying this over a decade plus ago, and somehow in 2024 they managed to fuck up the "too easy" setting. It really shows how far Ubisoft has fallen.

[@cokeXnail-ml2vc]

AC Valhalla was just as horrendous with historical inaccuracies. gay Vikings, “shield maidens” and my personal favorite: black Vikings with Norwegian accents

[@emilie5492]

As a norwegian, I would say AC Valhalla was not as bad as this abomination. I actually thought it was quite good except the obvious woke inaccuracies

[@therealonex1]

Shieldmaden is part of Norse mythology

[@cokeXnail-ml2vc]

@@therealonex1​​⁠and is not backed up by historical evidence, specifically the idea of a warrior caste called shield maidens is not based in reality. not to mention the Anglo-Saxon women warriors, they didn’t exist. just like there’s endless characters and creatures in mythology that don’t exist in real life. mythology obviously plays a huge role in the game, but shield maidens aren’t presented in that context in the game. They’re presented as the norm in early medieval Scandinavian society which is wildly inaccurate. can’t have a game based on historical events and then wonder why people educated in that history point out inaccuracies, just like this newest game

[@cokeXnail-ml2vc]

@@emilie5492I enjoyed it for what it was, but those inaccuracies are what bothered me

[@Aleks_Ovski416]

you're really under the impression there would be no vikings who were attracted to the same sex? Like literally?

[@deadlyrobot5179]

Ubisoft: Get comfortable with not owning games Gamers: I hear you loud and clear Ubisoft: not like that, NOT LIKE THAT

[@WesleyVlaeminck]

they were right.. Gaming will be all digital in the future. What will you all say when PS6 comes without the option for a disc drive? Gamers are so dumb nowadays

[@blazzmatazz9051]

Pirating media last longer than physical media.

[@76marex]

@@WesleyVlaeminck and? not buying games, problem fixed

[@akavhille4036]

@@WesleyVlaeminckyes and you’re incredibly smart and we should look up to you and your wisdom. I am on my knees for you sir, what is your next request

[@brainrot4919]

​​@@WesleyVlaeminckYou can still legally own something that's digital dumbass. Ubisoft wanted to make it so you don't even own their games digitally.

[@jonathanyaloussa]

The irony is that there are millions upon millions of Black people who've always enjoyed Eastern culture as it was. We grew up with Kung Fu movies, Anime, Manga, and video games without ever thinking the characters needed to look like us.

[@draatrom]

the left-wingers are doing no one a favour by always bringing up racism and all the other stuff. instead they pour oil into the fire and setting people up against each other. they are the ones who engage in hate speech this way

[@iliilliliiliilliliiliillil9137]

It's also not like they couldn't have made a legit semi-historically accurate African AC game - there's tons of content to choose from. So much so that it's crazy that this even has to be said. It's bizarre that they chose to do this

[@rodrigobogado8756]

But that's racist! you have to only look up to people that look exactly like you! Because judging people by the content of their character it's bad now and segregation it's good and progressive somehow

[@fenrifegads5571]

The real irony is that there aren't millions of people who enjoy african culture. Because there's only so much cannibalism you can do before you get bored and want a change.

[@draatrom]

@@rodrigobogado8756 also got your comment deleted by KZbin? I'm getting tired of this. I don't even get what they are looking for...

[@snapturtle3253]

my game idea. white man become african noble warrior and african people bow to him as he walk by the streets

[@Rogue-a-Pogue]

Fight starts - country music starts playing.

[@DemBigOlEyes]

@@Rogue-a-Pogue White man also yodels everytime he kills a zulu warlord.

[@ethanfreeman1106]

Lol this might actually be genius as a parody game. The game would actually be more well done too since the people making it do actually know and care, they're just doing it for the lulz.

[@ivanjuric6979]

Assassin's Creed: Rhodesia "Play as assassin Johan Van Zant a white African defending his homeland against invasion from murderous warlords supported by USSR and Templars. It will be up to you to decide the fate of Rhodesia."

[@ArnoldJudasRimmer..]

AC: Adonbelivit

[@Szefcio]

Please.. just please.. have some dignity and dont buy it guys. Teach them a lesson. I know you can resist spending money this time. Do it!

[@ogrimcc8579]

Go woke go broke. I second that!!

[@hyperion3135]

I'm the biggest assassins creed fan and ubisoft finally pushed me away from the series. It breaks my heart tho because growing up the assassins creed series had a huge impact on me as a person and stepping away from it feels like letting a part of me die.

[@teddytemple4038]

Too late, big suge already preordered it

[@BlackPapito]

I'm black and I'm gonna enjoy this game 😂

[@teddytemple4038]

@@BlackPapito me too, fuck what they talking about

[@HowToChangeName]

Netflix: "we offended Egyptian so much we got sued" Ubisoft: "Hold my beer"

[@markusfreund6961]

More like "hold my vegan, gluten-free soy latte" but yes.

[@Andrew___P]

You can bet your ass the beer Ubisoft would drink would be Bud Light too. 😂

[@CMc-v7z]

Nah, non alcoholic IPA. ​@@Andrew___P

[@Swarmah]

@@Andrew___P any murican garbage beer :D They all are pisswasser :D

[@bobbyhill3323]

"Hold my queer vegan BIPOC-made grape sake"

[@baldstevegames9080]

Watching a gigantic black dude strolling around feudal Japan like it was perfectly normal is peak unintentional comedy.

[@tacitus6384]

And having the Japanese bow to him.

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

Reminds me of that video of a black guy in like korea taking off his halloween mask and scaring little grandmas with just his actual face. Or that Thai laundry commercial where the woman shoves a black guy into her laundry machine so he can come out clean and Thai lol.

[@AcanthaDante]

It's easy to see why Nobunaga liked having Yasuke around, he was an imposing guy thanks to his height and dark complexion. But it doesn't work for an assassin. You need someone who blends in much like real life shinobi did.

[@johnboylan3832]

A gigantic African dude, with an American hip hop backing track to boot! All blacks are African-American to these racists.

[@haroldb1856]

It would make a great exploitation parody. A time travel story about Shaft in Feudal Japan has potential.

[@blaisebaileyfinnegan8202]

Historical revisionism and outright lying is okay when they do it.

[@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5]

It's not ok no matter who does it, left-wing clowns or right-wing clowns

[@ohnosmoarlulcatz]

Not to mention the erasure of Asian men in western media is something that has been around for 80 years and they're happily continuing the tradition.

[@andrewthomas695]

​@@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5💯

[@ewanski0848]

Rewriting history to suit their agenda.

[@cmdrreggit]

@@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 That's the thing though isn't it? Right-wing clowns tend to be reading established history out of a textbook... While left-wing clowns just make it up as they go along.

[@reanaa]

I will admit, having a black protagonist in a video game set in feudal Japan is a rather mind-blowing decision. Imagine an entire company agreeing that that was the best choice.

[@cosygoose1813]

They don't all agree they just get told to make it. And hate the higher ups.

[@doodskie999]

Jin Sakai: Who attacked you? What does the enemy look like? Peasant: uhm, he was big and uhm.. Jin Sakai: Can you be more specific, like what color, race, clan? Peasant: You know what, I am actually fine, I don't mind my family being murdered, I'd rather not be cancelled

[@DeepEnglishEd]

Best comment 😂

[@adamfowler350]

@doodskie999 underrated comment right there LOL

[@DS-tr6xn]

Black. Bitch was black ingame Lol

[@jez76]

Jin: At least tell me their pronouns!!!

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

StopAsianHate lore:

[@gunnarnorris4138]

The problem isn’t that Yasuke is in the game, it’s WHY he’s in the game! AC has always interacted with historical figures, but they’ve always been side characters so they can stay true to their place in history (for the most part). If they wanted a game with a black protagonist, do something like the Belgian Congo or Ancient Carthage! Edit: Ok, I get it. Ancient Carthage wasn’t primarily black. I’m just saying at least it wouldn’t be totally outta place for black men to be among them! At least they’re on the same continent.

[@kudraabdulaziz3096]

Belgian Congo would be an awesome concept by the way.

[@TheBackseaterYT]

TBF, there have been moments in Assassin's Creed where you briefly played as a historical character. (Syndicate briefly let you play as Jack the Ripper for its DLC, and the opening to Odyssey had you play as Leonidas.) I'm not opposed to having an AssCreed game having a real world character as the playable protag, but yeah, Yasuke was not a good pick for this game.

[@JohnDoe-wd5ij]

Yes, cameos of historical characters are in the DNA of AC. They could have done that with Yasuke, too, and nobody would have complained. But they decided the worst.

[@TheDarthwario]

The conflict between Carthage and Rome would be an awesome backdrop for an AC game.

[@h3II0MN123]

Also the MSM was disingenuous and tried to frame the issue most people have with it that Yasuke wasn't real. Most people just have the issue of not being able to play as a Japanese Samurai.

[@yargum69]

The one legged Torii Gate is the most egregious offense to me. That would be like a Saudi game dev making an advertisement with cute characters dancing on the collapsing twin towers. How did none of Ubisoft's "historical and cultural experts" notice this? It's just bizarre.

[@JohnDoe-wd5ij]

Sadly the only culture they care for is social media activist subculture.

[@TheBackseaterYT]

@@yargum69 I mean, that kind of scene could work in a comedic sort of "Crossing the Line Twice" kind of way.

[@luisnunes3863]

They have no cultural experts, they have only experts in falsified woke history.

[@magmos6346]

The only expert they've mentioned only focused on the man love antics Japan has had in it's history.

[@flampagan1994]

Maybe its a power move

[@N1lav]

I am an Ubisoft employee. The thing about the HR is absolutely spot on. We have a dedicated department in HQ called DEI, Diversity, Equality, and Inclusivity. All company policy and creative ideas has to pass through them. Without the department's go ahead, nothing gets done. Now the company is promoting women across the board to roles they are unfit, unqualified and undeserving off just to maintain the golden ratio. Being a good game developer or tester is of no merit in Ubisoft. You just need to have a Vagina, or both, to hit the holy trifecta of DEI

[@TheVirginian2005]

I wish you the best of luck. Thank you for exposing this. If Ubisoft finds out about your comment. You may get fired. Hopefully not. No wonder Ubisoft has gone to shit.

[@ThePr0ducer]

DEI is the death of all that is quality.

[@TheVirginian2005]

@ThePr0ducer . Exactly! I work at my local Food Lion in Virginia. DEI rules with an iron fist at the company, too. Of course, in my hometown. There's a lot of Trump supporters shopping there, and they just deal with them. And some work with me. Not too many, though. But they already tried to sack me once over my political opinion, which I voiced on my county's Facebook community group over county government DEI policy with a local progressive woman. I was pulled aside after I got to work that day a few months ago, early Aprl of '24. I was brought before the head manager of the store Kelly. Who I personally know and I went to school with her daughter. I'm a known Trump supporter, and I'm not shy about it. But I simply disassociate my Facebook profile from my workplace so it doesn't reflect on the company. But yes, I got a "strike" because of that. A fellow coworker of mine in the produce department, who is also a Trump supporter, talked to me about it and said, "What you went through about that woman on Facebook was bullshit. That's your personal opinion and your 1st Amendment right to free speech. Kelly has no business putting you on the spot because of that." Kelly was, however, respectful of me as I am towards her. And that's because I maintain a reputation of respect at work, and thus, people trust me. Some regardless of my politics, which is as it should be.

[@devinortiz8798]

@@TheVirginian2005 They’re pro inclusivity and diversity until they find out you’re a Trump supporter. Democrats contradict themselves on a daily basis, it baffles me how people willingly vote for such a twisted party. Hopefully, these brutal last 4 years woke some people up as I am starting to see more Trump sign even in my far blue state.

[@itsdabees]

I'd be more likely to believe this if your ability to spell didn't dissolve at the end there.

[@ToddyPoddy-fy5dc]

They literally wanted feudal Japan to bow down to a black man. What horrible directors

[@Knight_Kin]

Bow down to the black man, peasants!

[@YodaSama0]

Bro it’s just a game 😭😭 I understand the complaints but it’s a piece of FICTION for a reason 💀💀

[@Hubgaming27]

You clearly don't play Ubisoft games, we hate because all their recent games are trash, badly designed and sometimes so buggy just a cash grab. Gamers are tired of these especially the overpricing

[@endersgameover]

In fairness, they want everyone that is white or, my favorite, “white adjacent,” to bow down in a similar manner so it’s not that surprising

[@danielwolf6477]

@@YodaSama0 You dont get the larger picture here, if this was one intance, then no one would bat an eye.... but this woke nonsense is going on for years, demons like SBI destroy games left and right with their woke shit, making woman extremly ugly in games, putting diversity hires left and right even if it does not fit at all, imagine a white guy put in AC namibia, before whites even went there.. makes sense, no? ofc not but honestly im 10000000% sure they would NEVER do that, because white males are the source of all evil! And we are fighting back, we are tired of beeing canceled and bullied by those wokes!!! So yeah, its not just a game, its a point where we say "NO MORE"... just look what they did to our girl mary jane in spiderman 2, to alloy in horizon 2 even if its not that radical like MJ, then look at the tomb raider trilogy, lara went a little bit uglier every game and her breasts smaller... they censor remakes, they change remakes to fit the "modern audience" even when apparently there is no modern audience or rather they dont care to buy games, just look at those woke games dustshit and stillborn... They stole so many franchises wich were build on man, like that batwoman show wich flopped HARD, ghostbusters (honestly i liked that movie), now they talk about a female bond, they put a black gay dr who, they killed off our boy joel just to make place for ellie wich is... ofc gay... oh and btw, alloy is gay as well.. in a game (forgot its name) they put even breast scars you can add to your char... and there are so many other instances, like that woke suicide sqad game ect.... list is long!!! SO yeah, its not just a game, its ALOT of games and movies, and shows they destroyed!!! I already dropped most US movies and shows because of all that woke nonsense and now i watch korean, japanese and even some russian shows, movies... wich are SOOOOO much better without all that wokeness!!!! Hope you get it now! GO WOKE GO BROKE!!!

[@alexanderdeguzman8575]

"Hide in plain sight" but every npc looks at you when you play as Yasuke.

[@alibryant749]

Yasuke clearly isnt' the shadow Naoe is

[@dewdesi]

There's 2 characters for a reason for 2 different play styles

[@qwikitty]

Giant foreign guy in samurai armor with a sword. If he wasn't well known, he'd be arrested and executed by the shogunate for impersonating nobility. It's questionable whether or not other samurais would accept his position without some serious pushback. Nobunaga's favor or not.

[@stinky1426]

they flippin' BOW AT HIM. he clearly isn't "staying under the radar"

[@neonsamurai1348]

Best part is good ol Ubisoft is functionally doing colonization of Japanese history, the level of racism on display in the game is also just chef's kiss bad.

[@adidas8287]

Lol just like the French lol

[@sakkra93]

Doing what the Allies wisely decided would be a terrible idea after WWII. The Allies didn't try to impose their culture and ideas too strongly on Japan for a reason, because those of the Yamato Race are fiercely proud of their culture, heritage and country. This is going to end badly for Ubisoft.

[@KopperNeoman]

@@sakkra93 By the Leftist definition, what Ubi are doing is DEcolonisation. Tearing down civilisation in order to protect savagery. What happened after WWII was a soft-touch colonialism that allowed Japan to keep the more noble parts of its history whilst washing away the ignoble - contrast places like Haiti and Rwanda who had no noble parts.

[@KopperNeoman]

DEcolonization. Words have specific Leftist definitions that we must learn and be able to counter.

[@andrewthomas695]

​@@KopperNeomanSure thing, comrade.

[@winoodlesnoodles1984]

Salute to Japan for standing their ground.

[@nandinhocunha440]

Of course, it's their history and I know some people (reddit) are saying the black dude is a samurai and meanwhile Japan is saying he ain't

[@staticshocker69]

@@nandinhocunha440 I wonder they feel about their love for their history when it comes to Nanjing 1937. (Guess what? It never happened according to them.)

[@nandinhocunha440]

@@staticshocker69 but this is feudal Japan

[@staticshocker69]

@@nandinhocunha440 So? This is our story. Just because it's based on old Japan doesn't change the fact that it's a fictional western written story for western audiences. There is no need to bow to Japanese pressure and hinder our right to write whatever stories we want. Unless you are one of those 'cultural appropriation' snowflakes.

[@staticshocker69]

@@nandinhocunha440 lmao did the owner of this video take down my reply? I will repeat my last reply again. It doesn't matter if it's set in Japan, this is game is a fictional story written by western creators for western audiences. There is no need to bow down to Japanese pressure unless you are one of those "muh cultural appropriation!" snowflakes.

[@iandavidson6208]

As a person who grew up in Japan, I’ve waited ages for an assassins creed game set in Japan. Other than the stupid misinterpretations of historical facts and the blatant usurpation of a role for Japanese people , the absolute disrespect of the half tori gates is really the salt on the wound for Japanese people.

[@wp2746]

Indeed

[@NexusKin]

At least we'll always have Sekiro Shadows Die Twice, Ghosts Of Tsushima, and a whole bunch of other previous historical Japan-based games.

[@ananomaloussmell5043]

Well spoken, well said.

[@Outmind01]

@@NexusKin I'm not sure that 50m-long albino snakes and octogenarians with semi-automatic flintlock pistols offer a historically accurate portrayal of feudal Japan, but I get where you're coming from ;-).

[@demonpride1975]

lets make ac origins with an Egyptian at the center, that works great, what next. ac odyssey with Greek protagonists, perfect, soooo what can we do next. how about we go to japan and call it ac shadow, ok who will be the lead character. well a black man of course who was never a samurai but we will tell the Japanese people he was. and the board is like that's perfect. later on oh the gamers and Japanese don't like it. what are they racist.

[@cyin974]

Ubisoft literally picked Yasuke because of his skin color, not backstory. That's not trying to represent anyone, that's just an insult to History and Japan culture for injecting your own agenda into a foreign culture.

[@blackscorpionstinger]

Funny how an actual racist is the loudest to call other people racist

[@califilipino]

DEI protagonist created by DEI employees.

[@BiriBiri925]

They even admitted to it. In one of their videos, they said, “when we saw him, we knew he was our samurai”. French-Canadian racist clowns.

[@SpartasEdge]

And a female Ninja, purely because of her gender.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

With every main character being intentionally fictional up to now, making it a real person is absolutely sus.

[@tangocharlie9291]

Saying “Yasuke was a ninja” is like saying “Sir” Elton John is an actual, horse-riding, sword-fighting (ok, I’ll give you that one), battle-hardened (there I go again) “Knight”.

[@Biglad0464]

You made me chuckle.

[@Baber509]

underated comment

[@ashleyjuantan4129]

And it's the Gamer's fault for not buying our game -CEO of Ubisoft

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

This out of context interpretation is amusing because Guillemot talked so much crap through the years, he became a easy target, a meme machine (similar to Todd Howard). In the end, his response reminds me a great quote, Peter Moore said this "There are no bad games, there are just bad price points" and I agree with that sentiment, if AC Shadows promoted itself as a fantasy game (make it even more blatant, not many people know Assassins Creed went crazy with the super powers, Odin and Loki showed up, Zeus, etc.. the alien stuff escalated. I and many other stopped playing ever since Black Flag, at that period AC was not as crazy as it is nowadays) AND, the most important, readjust the price to $50 or $40, instead of charging full price at launch, that would improve it's PR a lot. You can't really criticize Yasuke not only because of the classic stunt of using "minorities" as a shield, there's also the fantasy factor, so who cares about history (no one will scrutinize the historical elements of the upcoming Indiana Jones for this same exact reason)... and if the game looks subpar and not as polished, whatever, it's 40 bucks at launch, why not give it a chance? But here we are, Ubisoft sells fast food at premium prices and the marketing is disastrous, what do you expect Guillemot?

[@spankie7728]

Ofc its the gamers Fault .... they are using there brain ... WE CANT HAVE THAT!!!! :o xD

[@Godlage]

their*

[@revanvonheaven8270]

Ubisoft is known for trolling everyone and I love them for it hahahahaha

[@tjp353]

​@@RRRRRRRRR33 Assassins Creed and Farcry went downhill a long time ago. I only buy Ubisoft games pre-owned on console. Their pre-owned value quickly drops like a stone. That way I can test whatever mediocre shite they've churned out without feeling stung and Ubisoft don't get a penny from me.

[@Grissbane]

Assassins creed 1: we removed crossbows cause they were historically inaccurate Asscreed Shitshows: Yaaaasssgay was A SAmOOraI!

[@xtremescript]

Shit, thit message gave me cancer. Do better man.

[@WesleyVlaeminck]

people act like they were there.. He actually lived there so not so inaccurate as people say. People only need to see the UBI logo and bash it ;)

[@Herr_Affe]

​Does that excuse the black Vikings in Valhalla as well?​@@WesleyVlaeminck

[@jackmesrel4933]

I mean, homosexual relationships were relatively common in Japan, but it's a complicated thing to show on media, hence why most historical japanese shows don't bother with it, but Ubislop being Ubislop, they just saw an excuse for """""representation""""", same with turning Yasuke into a samurai when, at most, he would a be a low level retainer, just to excuse having him as a playable character. Edit: complicated as in the relationships themselves are complicated to show since they have a lot of nuance to display if they want to show them properly

[@totallynuts7595]

AC1 could have had crossbows, they were around for a good while... and hidden blades are even more inaccurate than crossbows.

[@sirsancti5504]

I can't wait for AC:Africa!!! (Featuring a trans filipino ladyboy - historically accurate, I swear guys! - in 1347 b.C.)

[@sirsancti5504]

Oh, which misses one leg and 3 fingers!

[@GemmaLB]

Nobody tell Ubislop about the Castrato, that will be their trans character sorted.

[@rodrigobogado8756]

​@@sirsancti5504and has white stains around her body and acts like an average american city dweller

[@Garrus1995]

We already got Egypt in Origins. And I don’t know if you could consider Bayek to be Black (his VA was) but he was a person of color and that game got a lot of love from critics and regular gamers for mixing up the series’ formula while also telling a decent story. But hey, according to Ubisoft we’re all “bigots” for not wanting to support their current year idiocy.

[@Kiro_Khajiit]

@@Garrus1995 I’m still pissed at Ubisoft for making Odyssey instead of a sequel with Aya & Bayek.

[@DavidDuchov]

"I don’t care what they teach you in schools, samouraï were black." Ubisoft’s grand-ma, probably

[@CleverHandichamp]

WE WUZ SAMURAI

[@littleluxia]

Alright grandma, let's get you to bed

[@ilikeeverybody7581]

We wuz ninjas n shee

[@ladistar]

@@ilikeeverybody7581HAHAHHAHAHA damn lmaooo

[@YOUR_neighbor25]

Well this one was do your research smh

[@notKevinFeige]

Ubisoft dying to become a statement of how DEI can kill your a company (making others drop it all together) is the most win win situation i can think of

[@johnpajestka5022]

DEI is definitely a large component of it but making the same games for 20+ years has to factor in as well. I just think people are tired of these franchises.

[@CErra310]

yes it's definitely the inclusion of minorities and not the fact that their games are shit. please stop.

[@CptVein]

DEI has absolutely nothing to do with why Ubisoft is failing, and saying is does is a huge dogwhistle.

[@takemeseriouslyplx2124]

Too bad we had to lose so many years of bad Assassin's Creed, Star Wars and other big IPs to this shit before they realized, tho!

[@ethanfreeman1106]

​@@CptVeinyou're so ignorant it's almost funny

[@stprGG]

The same people blaming kids for "cultural appropriation" when they dress up as natives during carnival season have no problem with putting a black man in feudal Japan.

[@JM-sp2iu]

Wild isn't it....

[@angrydachshund]

If you allow even a single w0ke person to infiltrate your org, he will sacrifice it on the altar of his religion. Once all your customer goodwill is ashes, he will move on.

[@TommasoPrevedello]

you are a bit confused on what is "cultural appropriation"

[@n.7388]

​@@TommasoPrevedelloA black guy larping as a samurai isn't cultural appropriation? My culture isn't your Halloween costume as the saying goes.

[@TommasoPrevedello]

@@n.7388 he lived in japan and was invested with the title of samurai not the same mate

[@Jordabrz]

all they had to do was make the main character just the female ninja, and keep yasuke out of the story completely. he was an irrelevant slave in reality. nothing he did had any impact or influence on anything that ever happened in japan. Ubisoft is cooked.

[@blacksheep6415]

Why are we lying?

[@Jordabrz]

@blacksheep6415 Nothing but truth in my comment

[@blacksheep6415]

@ there’s nothing by delusion in your comment. Naoe is the main character you hate yasuke so much you don’t even pay attention to the actual main character of the game who has more promotional material about them. Yasuke was a given land and a sword when in Japan and worked under nobunaga so the statement that he was an irrelevant slave is historical inaccurate. Not saying he was a samurai but he basically had everything you needed to be one and definitely had an impact on Japan history considering they are still confused and interested in black peoples and their different skin and hair textures.

[@Jordabrz]

@blacksheep6415 dude no matter what you say to me I am not going to play this game or watch it at all. I am done with ubisoft

[@blacksheep6415]

@ then why are you here?

[@TheMC1102]

You can't spell "Assassin's Creed" without "Ass". Twice.

[@SLU75888]

😂

[@jayb2705]

Ass ass in

[@romibengali]

Sad, but true.

[@ananomaloussmell5043]

hehe

[@aristophanes5261]

Just read this with the voice of the AVGN in my head😂

[@antoniomargallo5317]

I'm Portuguese, son of an History teacher. People don't want to acknowledge that Yasuke was just a slave from Angola, that Jesuits brought to Japan. To Nobunaga he was just some exotic pet to flaunt about. A black slave being a samurai is ... an insult, really. As I always say "Carrying pianos doesn't make me a pianist but a mule", it's the same with Yasuke, he might've even carried a katana, but he wouldn't own a single straw in feudal Japan.

[@mojoneko8303]

"Carrying pianos doesn't make me a pianist but a mule" That's pretty funny. I'm going to remember that, it could come in handy some day. 🙂 Is that a common Portuguese saying?

[@quezcatol]

@@mojoneko8303 It is because Mozart literally had a man hired who carried his Piano which was portable with its legs (a smaller one) and yeah, that guy wasnt mozart nor a pianist because he carried one around. And when Yasuke was in battle, a real samurai came up to him and told him to surrender, and he did, and told him to give up his sword, and he did, and then said Yasuke was an animal and didnt know what he was doing, and needed to go back to the portugese were he belonged - which he did. That doesnt sound like a "Legendary warrior" or a "samurai" fighting for his lord. no, sound more like an armed guard to me who wasnt trained for battle or war.

[@antoniomargallo5317]

@@mojoneko8303 No, it's something I caught in a diner with a judge, he had been demoted, and him telling me "he used to play the piano but now he just carries them". And after some THC, the crystalization of thought, I came up with that one.

[@michellestr8998]

I feel bad for Yasuke. he was treated like a curiosity when he was alive, and then sent back to slavery, and now, it's being done to him again. The guy is being used now like he was in life. This isnt respect.

[@darkside791]

Tell that to the "we wuzz kangzz!" tribe, my friend. They think they made the human history 😂

[@Moshugaani]

I remember when people used to be excited about the possibility of an Assassin's Creed game set in Japan. Good times.

[@jesterday2222]

😢

[@volmaaraldovahkiin5346]

Oh, we still are. It's just called Ghost of Tsushima, and soon Ghost of Yotei. Pity we don't get a hidden blade, but that's about it.

[@ianthrasher471]

Ghost of Tsushima totally stole their thunder. They delivered what everyone was wanting, but way better than Ubisoft would've delivered.

[@niro6492]

They ruined it. Ir just reflects how bad american society is. These wokesters ruin every good thing.

[@LoversPosse]

exactly, we didnt lose completely, we just cheated on Ubi with it, we have needs.

[@antoxa.310]

Putting a black guy in the role of a Japanese assassin in feudal Japan was truly the most idiotic decision ever made by a gaming company. What could have been an amazing game turned to woke garbage that is plain for everyone to see and simply pissed off a lot of the core audience. What they need to do is add a third character option (male Japanese) so that the players can choose and play what they want.

[@imanalius7691]

But the hip hop soundtrack makes him blend.

[@luks2404]

yasuke really existed, he was a samurai in japan. they did nothing wrong there lol

[@mr.c8682]

@@luks2404 He was a bodyguard, and not a samurai. Anything that says he was a samurai is completely false

[@RobertStoll-dv1ql]

Sakanoue no tamuramaro was a black African warrior who became a prominent general in early Japan and the first person to hold the title SEI-I-TAI-SHOGUN Barbarian subduing generalissimo. Anthropologist Ronald b. Dixon noted that the earliest populations of Japan were a mix of proto-australiod and proto-negroid types, with physical characteristics that can still be seen in some of the population today.

[@blacksheep6415]

@@mr.c8682how would he be a bodyguard if he wasn’t a samurai?

[@ElderGamerX]

Man, the DEI tidal wave that started rumbling through the gaming ocean in 2020 is really crashing right into the toilet in 2024. Hope investors hate money!

[@StUCaboose]

Samurai Jack would have been a more historically accurate figure than Yasuke

[@MouthBreatherGaming]

You muh muh muh make me huh huh huh Hattori Hanzō katana!

[@margarethmichelina5146]

And ironically, Samurai Jack is voiced by Phil Lamar who is a black man, and if you watched Pulp Fiction, he's Marvin , the guy who got shot in the face at the car by Vincent.

[@sitaro1207]

​@@margarethmichelina5146 Marvin is Samurai Jack 😂

[@anon17472]

@@margarethmichelina5146 Wait Marvin is Phil Lamar? He's a lot more than just Jack

[@Theravan223]

@@anon17472 if you want to make it even more trippy bender from futurama is the scotsman from samurai jack and Phil Lamar is Hermes

[@CanadaPlus]

Don't worry about the details in this game, now buy a PS5 pro so you can see all of them in 4K!

[@wrmusic8736]

In 4K upscaled from 1080p instead of 800p!

[@riftshredder5438]

It's 8K now lol

[@dmytrosoboliev935]

8к 120 fps 🤓👍

[@steven2809]

@@riftshredder5438except it's not....🙄

[@riftshredder5438]

@@steven2809 I know, I'm just repeating what they are saying

[@avizare]

Honestly... I'm not upset with the Yasuke situation. It wouldn't be the first time that Ubisoft has taken some extreme liberties with historical figures and, if Yasuke joined the Assassins, it would make sense for his lore (within the game ofc) to be scrubbed away. As for his lack of subtlety... well, that is literally the point of his character. Naoe is the stealthy Assassin, and Yasuke is the brutish warrior, breaking bones and environmental objects in equal measure. He's supposed to be big, loud and imposing. Naoe is the low profile; Yasuke is the high profile. But then, I guess I don't have to care all too much, anyway, seeing as I'll be playing the Assassin character in my Assassin game. Their stuff-ups on the Japanese-cultural-side are, to me, much more significant issues. Though from what I can tell, it seems to mainly be issues on the design front, which can be easily fixed.

[@mrcat3493]

Just play Ghost of Tsushima and forget this nonsense from Ubisoft.

[@Dandoskyballer]

Nah. I deleted it. If suckerpunch wants to throw it in the trash, so will I.

[@mrcat3493]

@@Dandoskyballer um, what?

[@devinortiz8798]

@@DandoskyballerHow did sucker punch throw Ghost of Tsushima in the trash?? They’re making a sequel

[@logan0087]

@@devinortiz8798I think they’re mad about the main protagonist in the sequel being a female. But I don’t see why because half the main cast in the original game were strong female characters too

[@devinortiz8798]

⁠@@logan0087that’s the problem. Every female is a “strong female character.” Who do they think the majority of their fan base is? Women? I’ve played as a girl too many times since 2020. Farcry 6, Ac odyssey, ac Valhalla’s cannon protagonists are women. starwars outlaws you can only play as a girl. Ubisoft is getting too woke and it’s effecting their numbers. Enough “inclusivity” and “diversity.” I’m tired of seeing a woman mow down armies of men.

[@krampus9983]

This is the culmination of the “we wuz kings” meme taken to its hilarious zenith.

[@vjbd2757]

We Wuz Samurai

[@carbonjohnson6414]

Only a descendant of Yakub would say this.

[@thatonefpsgamer1339]

Yep, seeing as drinkers fanbase are right wing bootlickers I'm not suprised y'all say this

[@fenrifegads5571]

Without cultural appropriation they would still be living in mud huts cannibalising each other.

[@scatteredtothewinds6662]

@@vjbd2757 We wuz Shogun, yo.

[@虎瀬野]

the world is already diverse...not every places, lore, universe should resemble america...

[@Korn1holio]

yeah, Netflix's "diversity" basically means non-diversity. Every setup is the same - a multicultural team of (black) gay man and (semi-black) lesbian save the world.

[@napoleonwilson3912]

America doesn't resemble America anymore.

[@fenrifegads5571]

@@Korn1holio Netflix's "diversity" is just nuspeak for "anti-white." That's it. It doesn't mean anything else. It's not about "multicultural" or anything like that. It's just an attack on western europeans, their nations, their people, their culture, and their history. In the same vein "feminism" is just nuspeak for anti-men. "trans" is nuspeak for "anti normal." And "ewJs" is a synonym for anti-human.

[@rodrigobogado8756]

That's their definition of "diversity" they hate that different races came from different places and cultures, everything needs to feel like an american city. But also people for different races cannot enjoy other races cultures unless they are black

[@brainrot4919]

They claim they're pro diversity but they're absolutely the opposite. They're pro diversity but only the diversity they want, and they're also incredibly racist too by excluding cultures and races they don't like. Hypocrites of the highest order.

[@robertsprinke5336]

I don't know if the creator doesn't know about it, or if he don't want to know because of his own personal agenda: Yasuke isn't a "samurai". First when I heard you will play a tall african samurai, I was shocked too. But the developers did a good job: Yasuke isn't about hiding at all. He's the exotic character that comes in with pure strength and draws attention like a big fucking rainbow elephant everywhere he goes. It's even shown in the video you use, that people stop whatever they do and look sceptical, or even run away in panic. Naoe will be the shinobi like character that's about hiding and you will be able play one character, with the other one being only a side-character. That's a cool concept and reminds me of Assassins Creed Syndicate with Jacob and Evie. Japanese people are very protective about their culture and traditions, but the also now that it's a game for entertainment purpose. It is really more about small traditional things ubisoft is fucking up and refuse to check by experts first.

[@georgestafylopatis8938]

You know it takes a fair amount of skill to fuck up an Assassins Creed game in a setting everyone was begging for a decade and at the same time also fuck up this badly a Star Wars game that everyone was getting hyped before we saw the trailer

[@transmissions-p1g]

Facts!

[@lajeandom]

Is it crazy that, I almost sent an email to Ubisoft HR a few days ago, to tell them that I could turn around Skull and Bones if they let me work on it. I told them in that email that I had a plan, I could show them that plan in a powerpoint or something. I think I could actually turn around that star wars game as well lol. Seriously the base is there, it just needs to be reworked and retaught from the ground up but the assets and programming are there. I don't know wtf they are doing??! It's like they make a game, spend millions on it and then ''oups, it's garbage, alright, let's forget it and move on!'' XD It's like the game designers working on these games are having a hard time picturing a final product or something? If I was working on the Skull and Bones I could have told you 1 million years ago that it was shit and it would have not sell well, and everybody knew about Outlaws, the AI is poor, the gameplay sucks, the hero has am ugly face like why not change her face a little bit?! Argg it's so frutrating How little changes like that would go a long way but they just don't do anything.

[@BlorbusUnimax]

dont you get it, they have a secondary stream of income they are not reporting that is demanding these woke games be wrought. Blackrock CEO larry fink is in control of federal ppt funds which are basically unlimited and unaudited as they come from the fed. Somehow blackrock shistered this from the fed, larry fink and the fed share the same ethnicity. To wage war on whites he said he will use unlimited funds of the fed to social engineer and destroy white civilization. resist.

[@haroldb1856]

With enough DEI money, anything is possible.

[@michellestr8998]

@@haroldb1856 100%

[@OccasionallyAPrincess]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="47">0:47</a> ‘In 16th century Japan, which wasn’t exactly known for being a multi-cultural melting pot’ it still isn’t lmao

[@jonbaxter2254]

Lowest crime rate in the world too, just adding...

[@IK_MK]

​@@jonbaxter2254 mono ethnicity ≠ no crime🤦🏾‍♂️ Proper policies = no crime

[@wheeliebin18]

​@jonbaxter2254 Who could have possibly foreseen that a homogenous, hard working, family orientated, religious and deeply traditional culture would have so little crime, huh Kamala?!

[@Sylmarys24]

99% homogenous, yeah it kinda is lol, and that is NOT a bad thing.

[@pockypurse]

@@wheeliebin18 (They also have a very high suicide rate and rampant misogyny and sexual harassment, but...)

[@skyemperor4230]

This game feels like an elaborate scam to promote the new Ghost of Tsushima sequel EDIT: I understand why people are pessimistic about Ghost of Yotei, but I for one, am going to reserve judgment until we get more concrete information about the gameplay and story itself. Hopefully it isn't a another casualty of THE MESSAGE

[@dreamer8448]

who would be woke driven like outlaw... but with better grafic?

[@optimal9094]

Which is shaping up to be another woke flop with the portagonist actor exposed as an alphabet activist.

[@LuckyLuc_YT]

That would be the most expensive marketing campaign in history.

[@thomask5434]

There is a high woke warning attached to Ghost of Yhotei looking alone at the voice "actress" of the main char.

[@Alex-bw3jj]

Ghost of wokei

[@salvadorrivera7741]

Since when do we care about historical accuracy in assassins creed? Isn’t there literal GODS and ancient pre historic civilizations?

[@Larry]

Don't forget, Ubisoft already had a bomb earlier this year with Skull and Bones!

[@christophersmith8316]

How can you mess up Pirates?

[@ShinraSavage]

They could of simply followed the same formula from black flag and mmrpg it but they fall Soo short every time i dont remember the last time i played a good Ubisoft game since origins hope these flops re-evaluates they’re whole pandering inclusive agenda just like the new devs for ghost of Tsushima sequel 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

A downgrade over the 2013 AC Black Flag from what I've seen

[@TravisHi_YT]

It's ok, it'll be 2025's Ubiflop after they announced the "delays" 😂

[@ianthrasher471]

Don't forget star wars outlaws too

[@mikeclarke6000]

Ubisoft boss: “fuckin….find me a 16th century Japanese black guy. NOW!” Ubisoft Staff: “sir we can’t find anything” 8 months later Ubisoft staff: “sir we think we’ve found something. But really he wasn’t a proper sam.. Ubisoft boss: “that’ll do” Ubisoft Staff: “but sir, he really wasn’t a…” Ubisoft boss: “THAT….will do 😑”

[@sandervanderlinden7268]

"Sir"? Did you just assume someone preferred gender?!

[@xymos7807]

"The Japanese are xenaphobic!" Yeah...and? That's a feature, not a bug.

[@voyagersmarch8776]

they are lessening potential knee / grow crimes

[@blackscorpionstinger]

And Americans owned slaves in the past, British colonised the East and killed everyone opposing them. That’s part of the past history and we should learn not to repeat them, not wipe it and deny it out of existence. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

[@andrewpellet6971]

@@voyagersmarch8776 not anymore their knees are growing really fast now

[@finfrog3237]

Japan is/was... smart.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

"You vill vatch the foreigners stab your people and be happy."

[@StormyAfterDark]

Thanks for this video. I won't be playing this game now. A black protagonist doesn't belong in this game. As long as Ubisoft continues identity politics and woke games, they will no longer get my money.

[@EastyyBlogspot]

Can you imagine how these people would have reacted if William Adams was put in as a main playable character......he was a samurai in the 1600s...but he was from England and white...and i bet you all the money in the world the people saying for inclusivity would not accept that. Thing is the whole outsider coming in has been done to death and i would much rather play a native japanese samurai to get the true feeling

[@TheBackseaterYT]

TBF, there have been previous Assassin's Creed games where the playable character wasn't a native of the region. (Revelations, Black Flag and Valhalla, specifically) And as Ariqsyafwan pointed out, those games had more of a narrative justification for why they were the protags of their games.

[@StrongDreamsWaitHere]

Just because the guy is black doesn’t mean it’s not just the old white savior trope all over again. Imagine making a game about a heroic native American warrior, defending his tribe against incursions from white settlers, and then making the hero that one historical white guy who joined a native tribe in the 1870s.

[@Rogue-a-Pogue]

That was basically the Nioh series. Although there wasn't much focus on historical accuracy due to all the supernatural elements. Also, they changed Adams to be irish for some reason.

[@armandolimon7465]

Can you imagine in Japan that Pearl Harbor magically happened...no history...and you're the victim of "random" atomic bombings? That's Japanese history in Japan. And don't forget one central issue that led up to Pearl Harbor was Japanese decade long war in China from 1931? But that didn't happen. Revisionists fighting revisionists.

[@DemBigOlEyes]

Its Ancient Japan... during the reign of Nobunaga... We could LITERALLY have played as Hanzo Hattori, a famous shinobi title afforded to the Tokugawa right-hand assassin, but instead we get black dude who wasn't a samurai, and a random kunoichi. If Ubisoft wanted to respect historical accuracy so much, they had the pick of the litter and STILL chose poorly. Goemon, Kazumasu Takigawa, etc, a bunch of other notable shinobi that actually has some historical significance, but no, pick the DEI selection.

[@TheDarthwario]

I appreciate that Japan is still protecting their culture since Western nations are no longer protecting ours. Maybe it can inspire us to have a backbone?

[@thatonefpsgamer1339]

Nice strawman.

[@Stephen64138]

Maybe because we are ruled by people that are NOT part of our people?

[@RaymondSwanson-u9y]

@@thatonefpsgamer1339 How is that a strawman? We are losing western culture. It's called white supremacy now. Systemic racism. Right wing extremism. All in an attempt to remove it.

[@lquaky2j]

​@@thatonefpsgamer1339What are you talking about? Clarify what you think the strawman is in that statement.

[@turtlefrog369]

personally i protect my European heritage, i have often been called things and get banned from social media.

[@drewscott8377]

I'm from Africa and i can't imagine how we would feel if they made a game about Shaka Zulu and the protagonist was Japanese 😅

[@davidcox3076]

Please, don't give them any ideas.

[@TruthMatters9674]

@@davidcox3076 Don't worry, they respect African culture and wouldn't dare do that.

[@thediner8929]

Good analysis.

[@Dudldom]

@@TruthMatters9674 To be honest I don't think they respect any history at all. Cleopatra, that movie about the female warlord, the glorification of Black Panther. They "respect" only their ideology which they will put onto everything that doesn't fit into their narrative. And in that regard they don't care if they butcher European, American, Japanese or even African history. They just cut out the awkward parts instead of showing history like it was: brutal and bloody on all sides.

[@patriciaclarke6759]

Haha I still think that yasuke looks cool with that sword I hope the facts are right and there really was a African samurai because he looks like one mean mother #££&& haha

[@josephgroenewegen1721]

Surely we’re not getting upset that an assassins creed game stretches the truth on a few details…. It’s a game .

[@MrDaveinnocent]

You must be completely out of touch to think making an Assassin's Creed game set in Japan and then forcing a black and female lead was a good idea. Ninjas in Japan-that's all you needed. The formula was right there! You could’ve focused on story and gameplay, giving us iconic weapons like katanas, kunais, throwing stars, poison, or even claws. But no, you had to shoehorn in your DEI agenda and wreck it. Nice job, Ubisoft-epic fail!

[@le_fancy_squid]

I don't know who you think you are to tell Ubisoft this...could you imagine the backlash they would have gotten if the 15 people on Twitter they were trying to appease got upset? They can't just put a normal Japanese character in a Japanese game, are you that shallow?! Are you crazy?! Did you even take one second to think about how the game journalists would feel?! Look at Space Marine 2, it's a massive failure with only a few million players. It's ratings are so poor only at 'Very Positive', and it's because they focused on the gameplay... Ubisoft can't afford a failure like that, so they did what they had to do.

[@sulphurous2656]

There is a very clear pattern with who is pushing these BMWF/BMAF pairings in media. Just saying, it's not organic or natural.

[@TheGreatPooyah]

I find it quite suspicious that the game is now delayed to black history month.. could this be so they can scream racism at any and all criticism? Probably

[@rodrigobogado8756]

That won't save their sales, they probably did it so their stock doesn't drop more before the end of year

[@DanielGarcia-rx3kt]

It's a French developer. February doesn't mean the same thing to them as it does the US.

[@pawsomelabrastead9244]

Don't forget the stacked month with huge titles already scheduled then too, so they can scream oversaturation or like you said racism cause all those titles have White/Asian Protagonists: Civilization 7, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Avowed, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Monster Hunter Wilds

[@TheGreatPooyah]

@@DanielGarcia-rx3kt I see what you’re saying, but after seeing interviews like the ones with with the Dragon Quest 3 devs, it appears that many companies are being forced to implement these DEI requirements whether they like to or not.. this is because of Western Culture specifically in the US… so sick of it

[@themarvelouschester3587]

​@@DanielGarcia-rx3kt I guarantee you that they are keenly aware that February is black history month so they can deflect criticism by crying racism when the game fails

[@pipwolverine]

All they had to do was make an AC game set in Africa, where their black protagonist would have made sense.

[@cjoyce4818]

Adewale was from Africa, he was the main character in the black flag dlc

[@bercalziner7675]

@@cjoyce4818 Because it wasn't abnormal for an African man to be in the Carribean during that time period. Especially in a story revolving around freeing Africans. ESPECIALLY with a fictional character.

[@Hooliman434]

Does AC Origins count?

[@WarpChaos]

They've had 3 Black protagonists. Adewale in Freedom Cry, Aveline in Liberation, and Bayek in Origins.

[@AlexFireflyer]

@@WarpChaos 2. Bayek was not black (aka sub-Saharan, although the actor who gave him his voice and motion capture was). Bayek was Egyptian. African does not equal to black. That just a stupid US thing.

[@harrysteedparry3773]

Very well made video though mate, thanks for the update 🙏🏼

[@valenciasainz]

New game idea. White man travels to Africa and becomes Africa's king where every tribe bows to him.

[@cal31BRIAN23]

There are plenty of movies like that already. Tarzan comes to mind immediately, you fuc--king racist buffoon.

[@TheStoicNinja]

As a black dude who obviously loves ninjas I'm quite disappointed

[@koopa5504]

You quite obviously like ninjas yes

[@blitzgerald]

thanks for the input StoicNinja

[@zalezluciano2899]

It's crazy how blatantly they usurp any ethnicities, colors, races, cultures and everything else they can think of for their own profit under the thinly veiled guise of "good intentions"

[@bigman88george3]

DO NOT be fooled, my dude. A white guy would have been A-OK with everyone. And you have to realize despite our people's love for Japanese culture and stuff, they _do not_ like us that much. East Asians have an aversion to dark skin, man. They don't like it very much. But they do have a deep history with Europeans and their culture.

[@phatlewt2932]

ninjas wilding these days

[@Deverud]

Yasuke looks like a bloody Space Marine compared to all the Japanese people around him...

[@HannibalKing-e7e]

It's only white males who aren't allowed to look imposing anymore.

[@ryanbarker5217]

i noticed that, too.

[@PhattyBolger]

"Hide in plain sight"

[@chrisdonahue524]

The Emperor protects...

[@zahylon5993]

peak comedy because if Yasuke was a slave brought from Angola, he would have been like 1.60m~ , Sub-Saharan africans weren't as tall as NBA players, let alone a slave; who would have been fed just enough to perform duty. But devs made him a colossus for THE MESSAGE.

[@beprf]

AC in Middle East gets a Middle Eastern protagonist. AC in Italy, gets an Italian/ white European protagonist. AC in Northern Europe gets a Northern European protagonist. AC in Japan gets a black protagonist. Makes total sense.

[@TheBackseaterYT]

@@beprf TBF, there have been games in the series where you didn't play as a local to the region. In Revelations, Ezio wasn't an Ottoman, In Black Flag, Edward wasn't Caribbean, and in Valhalla, Eivor wasn't Anglo-Saxon

[@ThatOtherGuyOverThere]

​@@TheBackseaterYT In Revelations, Ezio is one of TWO italian characters in Istanbul, while everyone else was Ottoman, and had a distinct, explained and lore-based reason to be there. Him being an outsider was a core part of that game's story. In Black Flag, the game takes places in the West Indies, the EUROPEAN colonies of the Caribbean, and there's an entire section that has the natives as the predominant population. Edward being a Welsh pirate that sought a better life for himself makes perfect sense in that setting. And Valhalla literally starts in Scandinavia, and a great deal of the game takes place in Nodric-dominated areas of England, so Eivor isn't out of place. Stop defending corporations that don't give a shit about you.

[@PabloLpH]

@@TheBackseaterYT But Revelations is the third installment in the story of Ezio, same protagonist, just in a different setting, following his travels. Makes sense. Black Flag, Edward was English, like many privateers and sailors in that part of the world at the time. Same thing with Eivor, he is probably a Jute because he is from Norway. He is pillaging the Anglo-Saxons, invading their land, makes sense for historical reasons as well.

[@TheBackseaterYT]

@@ThatOtherGuyOverThere I'm not defending this game, I'm just saying this isn't a new phenomenon for the series. And yes, I know of the lore reasons for those games.

[@fenrifegads5571]

@@TheBackseaterYT You are confusing "lore reasons" with "rational logical explanations." You can write into the lore of hte next AC game that all the non-assassins have really been terminators from the future all along. It doesn't make any rational or logical sense though. So it's a crap explanation. The reasons why the characters are non-native has been explained and it's historically, logically, and rationally fine. We all know why this character is an african and it's just pure ewJishness. No rationalisations can hide it. No excuses can make it tolerable. N-fatigue is real. And it's growing exponentially.

[@singularitymc]

being upset about a black character in a game about a shadow organization full of assasins meddling in historical events and sometimes interacting with down right mythical artifacts with supernatural properties is actually so sad

[@stfuyoutube3505]

Misappropriation of an entire culture and a blatant disregard for history just so execs can jerk to having a black protag in fuckin Japan lol

[@jcjcmhk4059]

@@stfuyoutube3505 since when where ac games historically accurate??

[@blank557]

Egyptians didn't like Cleopatra portrayed as a Black woman. I'm sure the Scandinavia folk didn't appreciate a Black woman portrayed as a Viking royalty. Now Japan. Tell me, how would Africa fell if Shaka Zulu was portrayed by a white woman? Or Rosa Parks by a Latino man?

[@TruthMatters9674]

It's clearly an attack on everything "Western". I though at least the Asians had a "pass", but apparently they don't.

[@PurooRoy]

Shakira Zulu

[@BetterWarrior]

Cleopatra wasn't white

[@claudiuskeat8336]

@@BetterWarrior Just because she's not white, doesn't mean she's black. She's Macedonian.

[@claudiuskeat8336]

I always said, they would never portray Matin Luther King jr. as a Chinese Transgender woman. So, that's their hypocrisy front and center.

[@TheMasterGamer94Meck]

They could have, I don't know, hired some ACTUAL japanese historians for the game?? Crazy idea, I know

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

I don't think people even care, they could've just made a game about Japanese people and no one would've really cared. They could've messed up everything else and people would've whined a little on the internet but that's it.

[@PerkulatorBenny]

That would have worked out about the same as when Rings of Power hired Tom Shippey, probably the foremost Tolkien scholar in the world. He was fired after two episodes because he kept saying no to their ideas as they didn't fit with the established lore, and replaced with someone less knowledgable but who backed The Message. ...Allegedly. As far as the reasoning, at least, not the result.

[@Biergood-rg1fb]

I hear you. But they would've been fired within a couple of weeks in that toxic woke company.

[@Deadsea_1993]

The problem is the people in charge are the ones always "right" about their beliefs and everyone else is wrong. The Bully popular kids from school are now the Bully adults making games. 20+ and 30+ years ago, nerds banded together and made some awesome and fun games with little thoughts about making billion dollar games. They all got pushed out in favor of tapes like snake oil sales people and shareholders. The political charged people are the current trend and so they are in the game sphere

[@drakewilliams6069]

Ubisoft is the Disney of the video game industry!

[@TheBelrick]

I like how they successfully removed w-males from western culture so thought that they could easily remove japanese from japanese culture. So how about we in the west react just as aggressively to our own erasure? Boycott all j-n-s

[@dearself2726]

😂😂😂

[@streetsiswatching9660]

💀

[@AmazingManJr]

I find it crazy that in a game that features time travel (time is a theory) with superpowers but you main concern is the black slave character cope

[@SheldonAdama17]

Ubisoft: “Nah it’ll be fine” Japanese: “No it WON’T be fine!!!”

[@maxjones9112]

Twitter users and journalists like Paul Tassi who support this game and mock people who want historical accuracy are the same people who supported Battlefield V, black cleopatra, black anne Boleyn, and woman king then turn around and whine about the Florida government changing the public school curriculum and accuse them of teaching false information to kids. I just don’t understand why companies want to choose the path of most resistance and do stuff they know would piss off gamers. If diversity is so important to them and they really wanted to make a game about a black protagonist, they could’ve shelved shadows and made a game in an African, North and South American, Middle Eastern and maybe even in a European setting, ie places that historically interacted with Africa a lot because of trade and that other *reason* countries were visiting Africa a lot. Instead they’re too lazy and they just wanted the social media brownie points without putting in real effort for diversity You know the situation is dire when Ubisoft delayed the game to polish it when they usually couldn’t give less of a fuck and just release it in a buggy mess.

[@publicprivateer]

The fact that they never choose to make cool stories about original or historically accurate black people and always choose to swap them in to places they don't fit is not an accident. It shows their priorities are not to build up "marginalized people" but to tear down "oppressors".

[@Barbarossa_F]

Same people who think men can be women and it should be pushed on children

[@StevenLewis-y3q]

​@@publicprivateerto tear down society whilst claiming to help build it.

[@Deadsea_1993]

But we've already gotten a Black protagonist and it was also a woman. Aveline lived during the time of Connor during the Revolutionary War. She was also half French American and half Black American. She was a free woman and looked at the slaves in her southern America with pity and she wanted to rescue them. Then we had a dlc to Black Flag where you played as a Black man that wanted to liberate slavery in the times when Connor's grandfather was a young man. So it's like we've actually already gotten that to a degree and those stories weren't pandering either.

[@BVargas78]

They need to be bold and remove Yasuke as a playable character, own up that it was a bad idea by activists who infiltrated the company, and were chasing trends. Replace Yasuke with a Japanese warrior who is native to the culture being represented. It will cause scathing attacks from the left but you have to calmly stand your ground and give your reasons for why the decision was ultimately made. This will save Ubisoft and would finally put them back in gamers good graces again.

[@Crook3d_GT]

I give that about a 1% chance of happening. I don't think it would help much, it's not like people would just forget what ubisoft tried to do.

[@MegamanXfan21xx]

Unfortunately, Ubisoft is overwhelmingly infested with people who would rather keep him in at all costs.

[@torakazu2269]

That would be impossible to accomplish as it would require new modeling and rigging, an entirely new script, and a new voice actor + numerous others for localization all in the timeframe of a few months.

[@HelghastStalker]

@@torakazu2269 Unfortunately you're right. They'd have to effectively remake the game and they've already spent way too much money on what they've got.

[@DemBigOlEyes]

@@torakazu2269 Not really. If its true that they already had designs for the character to be japanese way back when, it shouldn't take too long to model it in 3D. They can also use the same rigging, since movements arent race-specific. The script, voice acting, and localization will definitely be the problematic issue, tho. You're right about that. Not to mention having to rewrite many interactions and portions of the game to erase the whole black samurai nonsense.

[@juriaanoussoren]

There was a black samurai...... Its so weird this game, It was to hard for them and release this as content download

[@allmightysenator]

Dude was never a Samurai He trained with them he was basically a water/towel boy

[@johnboylan3832]

He was a spectacle, and completely dehumanised at that. He wasn't a homosexual samurai.

[@Hungabrigoo]

There are zero historical sources about his exact role though.

[@bad-people6510]

@@Hungabrigoo Which itself suggests he didn't really have one.

[@Deadsea_1993]

​@@Hungabrigoo​​. And yet we have an extensive historical record on actual warriors in history such as Augustus Caesar that lived far before 1600 AD. So something isn't adding up here. What's worse is that Japan has countless preserved records regarding their history and this is double so with Samurai. Samurai were regarded as carriers of the entirety of Japan on their shoulders and so they weren't treated like celebrities or whatever. They were regarded with the utmost respect and so someone that became a Samurai had an extensive record to show for it and their history was preserved. Critical is correct with his analysis of Yusuke. There's 0 evidence, none, that he ever faced battle or that he was ever a Samurai at all. Well trained Japanese historians have even gone back to the records to double check due to the controversy of this game and they've found nothing. Even Ubisoft have blocked them when they've tried to tell people that Ubisoft were not telling the truth.

[@benjamin1720]

This black worship is getting rather irritating

[@FireRising86]

Racist! I kid 😅

[@Sergeant_Fury]

What is there to worship?

[@TheMemeMachineMatt]

Why are you acting like it's only getting irritating now?

[@ashyslashy5722]

@@Sergeant_Fury‘they wuz suffering in the 18th century n shiiieeet, gotta bow down n kiss dey feet now n shiieet’

[@christophersmith8316]

Note that it doesn't go as far as to give us a real Sub Saharan African in his own land, teaching us his own history and culture, and having adventures suitable to his people in the time it was set. I read a lot of history but I have run across very little from this area.

[@jacksmack6956]

I thought assassins creed was about assassins blending in, so why is the main character of this game a 12ft tall black man in Japan?

[@WarWisdomHistory]

haha

[@teddytemple4038]

Because it’s cool, can’t wait to buy it

[@patrickprevenas1867]

I’m continually stunned that someone at Ubisoft actually looked at 16th century Japan and seriously said, “It needs more diversity!”

[@lovecraftscat2420]

“Yasuke! What are you doing with my bike?!

[@blackscorpionstinger]

“Ahh shit! Here we go again!” - Yasuke

[@Vasiliy9hells]

"You picked the wrong dojo, fool!" Oda Nobunaga probably

[@personmcpersonperson2893]

Ninja stole my bike

[@Deadsea_1993]

​@@Vasiliy9hells. I read this in Big Smoke's voice and it made my day. Maybe I'll start up another playthrough of San Andreas this time on the Switch !

[@Vasiliy9hells]

@@Deadsea_1993 Good for you, man :) One of the best games of my childhood, it's well worth to play it again!

[@ErnestJay88]

You know, Ubisof messed up so bad, *even Korean and Chinese DEFEND Japanese History*

[@guitarhamster102]

Racism against asian men is an attack on all of us

[@le_fancy_squid]

The one thing that could bring them together was their hatred of western games. It's beautiful.

[@HangMrH]

Only this company can do that, make three countries which are mortal enemies to unite together. Also if this were China, ubisoft will close their shanghai studio, bc black protagonist killing their people with American rap music, just wow

[@finfrog3237]

@@HangMrH they should probably hang up their hatred already. It's like the clowns in the US that hate white men, because some owned a few slaves over a hundred years ago.

[@littleluxia]

This is how WWIII really begins. The east Asian Alliance vs France and Canada.

[@L1L0]

So black crime in the US influenced a game set in Japan... the butterfly effect

[@nikobellic8002]

It was a plan all along

[@niemand4126]

Since when do people care about how historically accurate an Assassins Creed game is? I understand the point that the main character might not fit into the real story, but it is still a fictional game that is only inspired by real stories. Criticizing a fictional story for its inaccuracy makes no sense in my eyes. And besides, it is already too late for that in a game like Assassins Creed. After all, the assassins themselves never existed in the form in which they are shown in the series

[@cosygoose1813]

No, the games have always prided themselves on historical accuracy there's an entire thing about it in orgins. But they always include the fantasy aspects aka the assassin's. The thing is when it comes to history they literally are changing sources to help themselves. Literally check Wikipedias logs they literally changed and added that he was assassin after the games reveal.

[@cosygoose1813]

It also comes off as racist especially when he's basically the only black man in Japan.

[@jcjcmhk4059]

@@cosygoose1813 No, Yasuke was not the only Black person in Japan, but he is the most famous historically recorded Black person in Japan, especially in the 16th century.

[@cosygoose1813]

@@jcjcmhk4059 Its rumoured he may have never existed so there's a huge red flag.

[@h2ohero739]

Based on what's happening with Ubisoft's stock price, I imagine AC Shadows has to release in February no matter what and they are just praying the negativity dies down and their casual audience saves them. Of course they are dropping the game on Valentine's day in the middle of about 5 other anticipated games so I don't think that's a guarantee either

[@pedrorosa9893]

They want to fail in silence 😊

[@Daniel_C_Griffin]

Releasing in the same month as the new Monster Hunter is not a smart move.

[@admiralandy1983]

Also helps that it's Black History month.

[@DemBigOlEyes]

They're also releasing it during Black History month, which is a smarmy move from them.

[@gehtdichnichtsan2418]

Literally two weeks after AC Shadows is Monster Hunter WIlds release, probably one of the most anticipated Games next to GTA. I hope they fumble out of existence.

[@BlackHei711]

I like how they point out how important Yasuke was for being accepted by Oda Nobunaga, despite the fact, by thier standards, Nobudaga would be considered a war tyrant.

[@flampagan1994]

kind of like saying ''Well Hitler said he was a cool dude, so who am I to argue?..

[@xenomorph733]

and there wasn't even like he liked him he was a novelty to show off to the other Lords

[@snowshock8958]

Siege of Mount Hei, to name just one.

[@DemBigOlEyes]

@@snowshock8958 Lets not forget the massacre of the Ikko rebels.

[@WolfHeathen]

He wasn't accepted either. He was a freak show novelty that Oda used as a status symbol.

[@micahthomas705]

I miss Ezio. Remember that protagonist? Why do they keep making cheap copies of the Witcher in different locations?

[@Korn1holio]

Ezio was quite one-dimensional, I basically don't remember any of his lines or plot choices. If one had to choose from Ubi-created characters, Jade from Beyond Good and Evil is much more memorable.

[@toke2042]

Such a good protagonist

[@ArcticVXR1]

Copies of the Witcher? what? if that was the case, every Ubi game would be a masterpiece. What a weird comparison. No, they make the same game with a different name. Far Cry, Assassin's and Tom Clancy games, all the same. Nothing even remotely close to the Witcher.

[@glennpaulo7157]

​@@Korn1holio Hwaaaaaat? One dimensional? Oh booyyy remember his line from revelations?

[@hillehai]

@@Korn1holio ... Said no-one ever. What on Earth are you on about?

[@conradchitty7145]

Yet literally ezio walka about in the white robes and armor and stands out too.

[@ZaneSilver-f6v]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="243">4:03</a> if you’re writing a story about Japan, you don’t look to America to get inspiration for a Japanese world

[@gamesgamesgames4637]

The sad thing is we are never going to see a proper AC set in Japan anymore

[@hoochymamma87]

You already have a proper AC set in japan - go play Ghost of Tsushima

[@alexw1698]

Why need this when I've got a perfectly good Sekiro to play

[@qaddaffiuzumaki9333]

It must taste sooo good in yo mouth

[@CalebSpears1]

They could’ve just made him a character that you can meet in game. Maybe even a trusted ally and friend of the main character. I think that would’ve gone over much better.

[@Deadsea_1993]

No one would have had an issue with this at all. Real historical figures were already placed in various AC games such as the Ezio games and of course AC3

[@kawabatayuri]

Legit every single AC have done this, Da Vinci, Washington brothers, Blackbeard, Bonaparte, Karl Marx, Caesar. All of them are just supporting characters who will help/fight the fictional main characters that we play as

[@DMonZ1988]

wishing you a speedy recovery and relief from your hernia and the rocks you're passing.

[@qanh96]

The fact they pushed the release date to Black History month of 2025 surely shows they got their priorities straight

[@JoeLeBron23]

This! Wow didn’t even realise that!

[@vesrra8185]

It's so disgusting, this companies are pretending to be the protectors of African history yet they have realeased 0 games about proper african history

[@nikobellic8002]

They learned nothing

[@thesomethingthatisntathing514]

*sigh*

[@rmcnabb]

OMG, of course, that explains the Feb 25 release!

[@ghostprojekt]

While I agree with Drinker's video overall I must correct him in one thing: Yasuke was never a samurai, he was Oda Nobunaga's retainer, essentially a bit more than a walking loot chest for his stuff.

[@morganb6717]

you may want to rewatch that portion of the video; Drinker wasn't making that claim, he was speaking from Ubisoft's point of view.

[@adam-k]

It is not known whether he was a samurai or not. The primary sources mentioned that people talked about that Nobunaga might make him a "lord". There is no record that he was made into one though.

[@westerncivilization]

You spelled b1tch wrong

[@gavinbissell8847]

​@adam-k can you train and become a proper samurai in less than a year? I doubt it

[@ohpeep3723]

​@@adam-kIt is known that Yasuke was not a samurai, he didn't even have sir name. Go watch video made by Japanese fans.

[@pilotmanpaul]

It still amazes me that Thomas Lockley managed to write an *ENTIRE NOVEL* on a person whose entire mentioning can be collected into *1 and a half or 2 pages.* (If you really push it and add the later Jesuit reports on him) Yet we have Musashi or even Akechi who has hundreds of thousands written about them or better yet, why not just have a Japanese Ninja who is part of the Assassin Brotherhood's Asian contingent?

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

Because then they wouldn't get ESG loans.

[@SammaclauseGamgee]

Are the protags of AC games even members of the brotherhood anymore? I stopped playing them after Black Flag, cuz everything seemed kinda boring after being a pirate and sailing around the sunny Carribean with my mates

[@nautdead3197]

​@@SammaclauseGamgeeac:rogue is basically black flag 2

[@Blox117]

not enough meh luh nen

[@eamonia]

'The Critical _Gamer?_' Ha! I had to see this. I'm in, dude. Love your stuff, mate. Rock on...

[@diel6755]

Remember, they tried to advertise Yusuke's katana as historically immersive merchandise, while in actuality it's a shameless copy of a sword from an Anime. And they wonder why the Japanese are upset.

[@lol_histicall4289]

Lol which anime btw?

[@Sandal-z5b]

​@@lol_histicall4289 roronoa zoro sword, one piece

[@TheBackseaterYT]

You know what the truly dumb part of all this is? Ubisoft not using their in game lore to try and remedy the situation. Here's the thing about Assassin's Creed lore. Since the Templars basically control the world in the present day, they've basically rewritten history to downplay/exclude all accomplishments the Assassins have made throughout the centuries. If Ubisoft just came forth and said "Yeah, Yasuke wasn't a legit samurai IRL, but in the AssCreed universe, he was and the historical records got distorted" they could've salvaged this somewhat. But no, they had to double down on their inaccuracies, arrogantly asserting the inaccuracies are facts, and now they're in a huge ass shit storm they made. Time will tell if it's their bed or their grave. For shame Ubisoft, for shame.

[@BG24551]

Don't be giving them free ideas now lol xD

[@PabloLpH]

They can't fix it because most people in the company, starting with their CEO (who has been pretty much insulting everyone's intelligence in the last days with his declarations), are woke-minded and DEI people who are there because of their ideology and not because of their competence. So, they can't fix sh*t. The only way to fix the company is to fire every last one of them and start hiring people by only looking at their resumés and previous accomplishments. And also, by making absurd HR complaints a valid reason for losing your job.

[@ariqsyafwan4987]

^^THISSS!!!! honestly... there are so many seemingly obvious ways Ubisoft could've handled all the backlash when the game first got criticized that not only would've soften the blow, but also added to the overall lore of the AC universe... but it's more then clear that their intentions with Yasuke was never about anything more than an agenda... stupid one at that

[@snowshock8958]

Yasuke front and center is Ubi's virtue signaling and more. Don't gave excuses why yasuke didn't have any accomplishment historically. That he did nothing of noteworthy. I mean just look at Hattori Hanzo the demon. He is a master Assassin in AC universe. Yasuke is made into a samurai in golden armor that stand out a lot. Fight in the open, day etc. I mean why didn't the Templars rewrite and distort the records of the real Sengoku samurai. Especially the one that worked with the Assassins. Yasuke was just the worse and strangest choice ever.

[@TheBackseaterYT]

@@snowshock8958 I'm not trying to excuse Ubisoft for any of this. I'm just pointing out how they could've handled the situation better.

[@Mark73]

For years they said they would never do an Assassin's Creed set in Japan because centering a game around ninjas would be "cliche". They should have stuck to their guns.

[@ebd8733]

Let go down memory lane: AC1: Middle East, Syrian Protagonist AC2/B/R: Italy, Ottoman Empire, Italian Protagonist AC3: USA, Native American protagonist AC4: Caribbean Islands, English protagonist ACU: France, French protagonist ACS: England, English protagonists ACO: Egypt, Egyptian protagonist ACOD: Greece, Greek protagonists ACV: Anglo-Saxon England, Nordic protagonist. ACM: Caliphate Iraq, Arab (?) protagonist Gee, I wonder why the fans are so pissed off about the next one 🧐

[@GSGNightCrawler]

Ah yes, the historical accurate hip hop music that plays during combat sequences.

[@tubetorpedo]

Wait till you see Yasuke munching down watermelons and chicken while waiting for a mark. 😄

[@Fernybun]

​@@tubetorpedoSHIEEEEEEEEET

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

Yasuke's scores on the Scholastic Assassin's Test were 50 points lower than most of the potential Japanese assassins, but he got a spot anyways because of Assassin Affirmative Action.

[@kirishima638]

Last time I checked, no music plays during real world combat, historical or not.

[@hustensaftvernichter3785]

@@kirishima638 Depends on if you are playing any.

[@eduardopazhurtado3882]

I didn't knew the Japanese consultant that Ubisoft used to prove Yasuke's "samurai condition", was actually an employee of Sweet Baby Inc. The plot thickens.

[@benchartrand3014]

The ceo said they weren't trying to push an agenda. I just found out yesterday that they had a japanese protagonist. But they changed it because of St. Floyd and the summer of love. Yep! Definitely no agendas to see here....🙄

[@MrCrazyrob666]

They should've just called the character George-San

[@richtes]

@@MrCrazyrob666Fentanyl-San?

[@aysn2277]

iCantBreathe-san?!

[@finfrog3237]

To be fair, the guy is probably French Canadian. He's a little baguette-y

[@benchartrand3014]

@finfrog3237 I'm from Alberta, aka anglophone. But I can assure you the clowns at ubisoft don't speak for us. I think it was that video talking about how all games are gay now. But I believe they showed a picture of the ubisoft dev team. It was all liberal white women. I watched another vid yesterday talking about how the gen z gender divide is almost total. All the guys are based, and all the girls are trapped in a leftist ouroboros. The entire west needs to figure what to do about the fact that women are easily porpagandized and not so good at practical decision making.

[@100mangalover]

Because of all the hate I will buy Shadows even more.

[@henrikaugustsson4041]

The fact that they chose to make the player character Black because of St Floyd of Fentanyl is just…. WTH, Ubisoft!?!

[@SteamvilleQuintet]

The democrat uplift black program has gone way off the rails. Next up Disney will be telling us blacks BUILT Japan.

[@thatfirstone]

Lol, you racist people are the saddest bunch, honestly 😂. Imagine living your entire life, hating someone because of the color of the skin, and to the point that you'll deny history. Lmao.