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You idiots are literally the ones pushing the narrative here. Yasuke has always been an interesting historical figure. Hell, there was a Japanese historian (Yu Hirayama) just 5-7 days ago who came out saying that there's no doubt Yasuke was considered a samurai and that it was only his enemies who refused to accept it. But oh no. Let's have a heart attack over historical accuracy in my video game about psychic aliens.
I just don’t get it, even though he wasn’t a samurai, that doesn’t mean he didn’t succeed at life, he found himself in feudal Japan, an extremely xenophobic place in that time, Yasuke ended up carrying weapons for a samurai, he could’ve had it a lot worse.
Nobody would have cared if Yasuke was a character in game. Leonardo da Vinci is a classic AC character. The problem is (a) the inaccuracy of his position to promote an agenda, and (b) the fact that he's the main character. Not only was he not Japanese, as confirmed by pretty much every source and is undisputed, but AC main characters have *never* been real people. Ever.
Yeah, all of the AC protagonists have been people from the place the game is set in, I don't understand why they couldn't have the male MC also be a Japanese person.
@@drysoup3017it’s funny to because some people have tried using Edward as “gotcha” to that argument not realizing most pirates around that time period where in fact European.
Ubisoft literally said: "we can't relate to Japanese samurai, so when we found Yasuke, we found "OUR" samurai". Japan said "ok cool!! We can't relate to Black samurai, but it's fiction, so cool, cool!!". Then Ubisoft said: "As you know AC is famous for depicting accurate history, so shadows is no different, it will be historically accurate!!". Japan: "What ? no way it's historically accurate, are you trying to rewrite history !?", then, pissed off Japanese started noticing all the disrespectful things Ubisoft shows in the trailers. To Japan, it's never about Yasuke, it's about Ubisoft's attempt to rewrite Japanese history and sell it to the world as historical facts. This is cancer, you can say "It's a game", well, you know what ? Lies told often enough will become the truth, that's why lying politicians are so popular.
exactly. The problem isn't simply that Yasuke is a black character in a Japanese focused game. Yasuke has actually made apperances a few other times in games. But it was always as a supporting character where the depictions of EVERYONE was at best half accurate. Meaning the only things those games claimed was that Yasuke existed and possibly weilded a sword to some degree. but Ubisoft decided to grant stand and declare Shadows a well researched and historically accurate game and that changes things. Because now historical innacuracies in the game aren't just normal videogame flaws, it's out right lies about actual history. Not to mention they're putting specific emphasis on the parts of history involving Yasuke being historically accurate ... so if they're not then that's not funny. Also for anyone STILL trying to act like it's not a big deal ... Ubisoft's response to Japan taking issue was "We're sorry ... that you feel that way" it was the biggest F you of a response possible. ALso keep in mind the actual historical records of Yasuke are a couple sentences to a paragraph or two at best. Most of what AC: Shadows is using as source material is this one guy's book that has no reliable sources. They're claiming historical accuratacy based on one guy's book.
Yeah if they claimed it as fiction from beginning, sure there will still be some outrages but nowhere as big as now.. I mean there is already a black samurai character being created in an anime and game called Afro Samurai back then and people kinda like him because the story wasn't made to push some agenda, it's just some badass black samurai dude and on top of that he was voiced by a legend Samuel L. Jackson himself..
I was actually banned from AC subreddit when I questioned UBI's choice for the protagonist of the game. And it happened when this shit ain't blowing up to high heavens yet.
They aren't wrong. There's evidence for both sides and there are still plenty of actual historians who agree that Yasuke was considered a samurai. Snowflakes who are STILL whining about this months later are just annoying and pathetic. I'd want the subreddit to move on, too, if all these morons kept post the same stupid shit over and over again for the last 2 months.
"This is OKEY because its just a Video Game" this is the same people who berate and talk shit about Genshin Impact for not having a dark skin character on their current upcoming update next nation Natlan
These are the same people who campaigned to make Mighty No. 9 a girl and whenever someone disagreed they'd turn around and ask why they care what gender a robot is... as if their entire campaign wasn't about that.
The irony of that specific drama is that plenty of desert dwelling people in real life deserts are not in fact dark skinned. Like the inhabitants of the Gobi desert in China. Ironically they're being pretty racist and ignorant by just automatically assuming that desert dwellers all have dark skin.
@@ElliotKeaton actually the story behind that whole circus was ... a little different ... but still stupid. Okay so it all started with the English Community manager. Well it turned out she was a rather radical femanist, as if she vocally supported eliminating He and She in the English language and universally using They instead so make the two sexes equal. So people then immediately assumed she would use her position as translator for the English forums to LIE to the devs about what English audiences wanted and transform the game into an aggresively femanist game. What also didn't help was she posted some mediocre fan art of what was presumably herself in Beck's armor and this just convinced people even more she was trying to change the game. People then got REALLY aggresive demanding she be fired and claims were also made that she was dating one of the developers and that's how she got the job ... which of course added even more fuel to the fire. Anyway as with any controversy you'll have the counter push. So you had trolls, femanists, ect. All arguing for a femake Beck or just attacking those pushing back against the percieved Agenda Again it's worth repeating no such proof of an agenda had been shown. The only verifiable facts was the CM supported controversial femanist ideals, she made fan art, and was at least close to some of the devs. Eventually it became hard to tell who was even on what side of the argument as people just started verbally assaulting eachother, blaming the mods both for banning people and also not reigning people in at the same time, and just every other argument you could think of. Eventually it devolved into such absolute chaos that the forums became virtually unusable. So overall the issue about making Beck female or wether or not robots could be said to have a gender at all was a footnote in the entire mess. The larger issue was jsut a bunch of people going to war over a CM that ultiamtely didn't do anything. THe game was released and while it had plenty of flaws, a femanist agenda was not one of them and there is no indication that the war on the English forums had any effect on the game at all.
Then when all their sources came out to be some guy's fan fiction. They backtracked hard and said oh we never said it was historically accurate. No that’s exactly what you said at-least own up to your f-up.
Partly yes, I for one am more pissed off that we told them having a Japanese ninja protagonist is exactly what was in demand but no, let's put a giant black man who's not able to be stealthy whatsoever and throw in a female ninja for dei balance and woke points.
@@sophitia_agna I imagine they are absolutely hating the internet right now. A few years back they could've tried that and probably could've gotten away with it. But now we can pull up every word that has left their mouth.
@@sincerelynotme3522 You're talking about America actually. Where they tear down statues, burn down buildings and trying to get rid of holidays like Thanksgiving & Christmas. Because it "offends" them. 😎
@@sincerelynotme3522 that is what communists push... a Swedish airline ran an ad that said as much about Sweden complete with a very, very, very dark-skinned man saying, "our Viking ancestors"
Remember these are the same "muh representation" guys that downplayed the japanese gamers as "just white weebs pretending to be asians" just because they found 3 white guys expressing their support to japan.
When they say "representation", they're just talking about the blacks and browns. Fair-skinned Asians are considered "white adjacent" AKA the winners of history.
@DarkAdonisVyers nah they just talk about blacks. If thats your logic then italians who are darker skin are minorities😂 Also a lot of japanese have darker skin.
>downplayed the japanese gamers as "just white weebs pretending to be asians" With the implication being that complaints from white people inherently don't matter.
As Indonesian (South East Asian), who somehow often put in the same 'box' with East Asian when things like Covid happened, but also put in the same 'box' with West Asian (Middle Eastern) because our majority religion, but somehow a lot of these white saviours don't know where Indonesia on the map, although they holiday in Bali (yes, thing like this actually happened 😂😂, it's crazy). It's always baffled me how these kinda guy keep insisting to see or conditioning black people as victim. They make the Japanese and black people angry, and some of them still don't understand why, even mad about it. They're either helpless narcisstic stupid, or indeed having malicious intent from the start (and mad being caught). There's nothing in between.
Strange how the notice is posted by "AutoMod", which makes me think it's just a way so anything done/posted cannot be tied to a individuals reddit account.
That's exactly what this is. It has been a practice on Reddit for years now - any time Moderators bring up a controversial topic, that they don't want to associate with themself, they will use the Auto-Mod bot and simply feed it the whole post.
That's the fucking point, we don't know enough about it, so when Ubitrash comes up here trying to sell us "historical fact" the people who knows the real history will obviously be up in arms and defend the true history, not just because it's disrespectful to the history but also to the culture the history is connected to. People like you who just go "oh we don't know anything about it" are exactly the reason we don't know enough about it. Misinformation in history has straight up caused the story of entire events across time to be completely wrong in some places until someone corrected them, so shut your reddit mod ass up about shit you clearly don't know or care enough about.
"You aren't allowed to talk about historical accuracy on this subreddit" "Okay... choosing the lone 6 foot tall black man in feudal Japan as the playable character in a game about ASSASSINS is a really stupid move"
Just a reminder that Thomas Lockley, the person who invented the "Yasuke was a samurai" myth, is a quack historian who was fired from his job at a Japanese University over this. The black samurai this game is pushing as "equality" is based on a fanfic made by a white guy. If that doesn't scream revisionist history and cultural appropriation, I don't know what does. Also they made Yasuke gay in this game, so this was 100% a DEI choice even if he was a samurai.
I'm surprised the Assassin's Creed subreddit didn't already have the ever so popular and open-ended rule of "Don't be a dick". I've seen that rule on so many subreddits and they never explain what it means. Its always a "We'll ban you if we want!" rule mods exploit the hell out of.
r/Homeworld when you literally just say that Gearbox banning people for asking about DEI on the Steam forums is wrong (Not even stating anything further than a free speech argument for all discussion.)
What I don’t get is why he had to be a playable character. AC games have never had you directly play as a historical figure because the assassins are supposed to be hidden from sight and history. So having a pretty decently known historical figure be an assassin goes against everything the creed and the games has been about. It’s not that hard to make a game set in Japan about Japanese people, yasuke easily could’ve been a side character or a side mission but no, he’s gotta be front and center despite not having that much to him in real history
It's very clear why they did, they were looking for "their non-Japanese samurai." The goal from the start was always to have a black character in feudal Japan. They rightly surmised that if they made this character fictional, people would be asking "wtf" So instead, they said "Could we possibly find a single real black person in feudal Japan and somehow work that in to being our protagonist?" And here we are.
Simple DEI points, just look at Paris Olympics ceremony their studio came from the same place, they just like to disrespect everybody and slap their agenda on it.
@@brokentv1855 That's another thing, one of the Creed's rules is "Hide in plain sight" be inconspicuous, i can't think of nothing more conspicuous than being the only black man in japan
Actually a surname wasn’t particularly required during the sengoku period. In August 1567, Takeda Shingen ordered his clan, hereditary retainers, local lords, and vassals of local lords in Kai, Shinano, and western Kozuke to submit petitions. This is the famous "Ikushima Ashishima Shrine Petition" (Shimonogo Petition). Among them is a petition signed jointly by local lords Koizumi Kisensai Shigenaga and Koizumi Takumisuke Munemasa of Ogata County, Shinano, and a petition signed jointly by Koizumi's vassals. The petition, which has an invoice with the words "Kami Koizumi's vassals," is signed jointly by eight Koizumi vassals, but it is written "Heisuke (blood seal), Sojiro (blood seal), Shirouemon (blood seal), Yarokuro (blood seal), Fujiemon-no-jo (blood seal), Chusuke (blood seal), Fujizo (blood seal), and Han'emon-no-jo (blood seal)," and we can see that none of them have a family name or signature, and only a blood seal is affixed.
dammit, not even the reddit mods can pick a hill... they say "Yasuke, who is a samurai as confirmed..." but then go with the "we do not chase accuracy within this franchise". The only ones who seem to have a stuck with a hill are the clowns who constantly call others 'ists' and 'isms', not really a helpful hill for the game but it's something at least.
This has basically been an issue with those moderators for years now on just about every Ubisoft-related Subreddit. They are absolute shills that always defend Ubisoft no matter what - even when the company is in the wrong in just about every way. It went so far, that at this point a lot of people assume those Moderators are literally Ubisoft employees or contractors.
I think because they were getting some backlash for having a black main character in a Japanese AC as main protagonist and probably wanted to avoid the whole race swap talk maybe? That's why they wanted to shut ppl up by saying he was historically accurate but well..now that he turned out to be not so historically accurate as how they wanted to portray him is what's getting this whole backlash xD
It doesn’t matter if he’s a samurai or not. It’s the fact that out of thousands of Japanese samurai’s throught history, Ubisoft chose to represent a black guy in FUTILE Japan as a SAMURAI
Well, I suppose being partially correct is better than being 100% incorrect. They're correct about there being no debate about whether Yasuke was a samurai or not. Because he wasn't. There is absolutely zero evidence of his being a samurai, which means that he wasn't. These fools like to use the lack of evidence saying he wasn't a samurai as evidence that he was. But that's not how evidence works. There's also no evidence saying he wasn't a vampire, or a werewolf, or an alien. So according to their foolish notions one could claim Yasuke was obviously a vampiric alien with lycanthropy. 😂😂😂
Dude, chroniclers of late medieval era in my country('s history) wrote about "choral skinned men" and this guy was just some construction worker. Same chronicler also mentioned children were afraid of this men and run away from him, because they've never seen a black men so they thought he was a demon as they could not comprehend him being dark skinned. You would think Yaske being a black guy in feudal Japan would stand out, especially attaining the status of samurai, and some chroniclers would feel the need to write about such strange and unprecedented event.
@@njmfff Oda Nobunaga was a noble, nobles liked to collect rare and odd things. This guy was the same thing as the dwarfs and disfigured people in PT Barnum’s Carnival, more oddities of intrigue than a person.
@@gambitacio European courts did similar things. They would bring some random African to present to a monarch or noble as an oddity. They also did the same thing with exotic animals so it wasn't necessarily some badge of honor lol.
There's actually only one source on the myth of Yasuke being a samurai. It's all from Thomas Lockley. So all depictions of Yasuke have based their myth from this one guy.
@@chengda85They didn’t declare he wasn’t a samurai dafaq they said they same thing as ubishits that it’s unknown and up for debate lol They have a section for yasuke in Japan museum.. where u get that from Edit: The man who commented removed his comment so this is all irrelevant now :)
@@brokentv1855It was explicit said that being given a land a sword and couple money didn't make someone a samurai with hundred of example of people who were used as entertainment to feudal lords like Yasuke not becoming samurais after being given things. Straight as that.
Here's the issue. I don't really care whether Yasuke was a samurai or not. That shouldn't even be the issue. The issue is it's incredibly racist to set a game in feudal Japan, and make the main character...black. in evert other AC game, the protagonist has had some cultural connection with the location. In this case, for some reason, they decidee to set the game in Japan, and instead of having a Japanese protagonist, they have a black protagonist that all the Japanese people bow to. I'm not sure how anyone thought that wasn't racist as hell.
Programming common people to bow to yasuke is cringe. Dude wasn't a lord. Ubisoft also insulted the real Japanese Sengoku heroes by making "the AC legendary samurai" being Yasuke and not an actual Sengoku warlord like the living legend Uesugi Kenshin The Dragon of Echigo. This powerful daimyo should have been the legendary samurai MC male. By AC universe standard, Uesugi should definitely be some kind of demigod like Kassandra/Alexios or Eivor. Historically Uesugi was believed to be the avatar of Bishamonten. And his extraordinary feats and prowess on the battlefields as a military genius and war hero made his believers workshipped him as Kenshin the "God of War". This is real historical records about him.
dude it's not racist to have a black guy in Japan. how would that be racist? you don't even know what racism is. Stop and get some help from a family member or teacher. Don't call out racism any more; you are doing it completely wrong.
The worst part is, some AI scrapper will see this thread, will give it a high rating due to notoriety, and will start repeating the "there is no doubt this happened" rethoric over and over again all over the internet. People with "white savior complex" seem to love the phrase "Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth"... which was undoubtly written by one of their heroes.
They are only doing this cause Japan and Indie games have been carrying the industry lately. Nothing they release has been worth 10$. These Western Dev's are just salty and want to get the numbers Indie and Eastern games are doing.
Yeah, not hard to see. They've been trying to attack and rewrite Asian media for years now. And while they've had some successes, there's also been a lot of retaliation against them for trying to push various agendas and rewrite it. Hell, I remember when Japan essentially split from Twitter entirely because of the vitriol they continued to spit at them
I disagree I like red dead redemption 2 and god of war far more than any Japanese game that’s come out. Not to say that Japanese games aren’t good btw. I think a more accurate thing to say is Ubisoft is desperate, not “western devs” as some of the greatest games have come out of rockstar and Santa Monica and even Naughty Dog before they cocked that up
What made me laugh, was the combination that this post is. Starts the whole thing with "There is no debate" and then proceeds to bring up empty arguments, while also using questionable and unreliable sources as if they were a definitive fact. All this while actively ignoring actual facts and uncertansies, just because it doesn't fit their fantasy..
The craziest thing is that the guy trying to sell his Yasuke fanfiction has been doing this for a decade, and people, especially the JP bros, noticed just now, only because AC is so big. We should be thanking Ubisoft, for exposing a fraud motivated by personal gain.
His status isn’t up for debate, he WASNT a samurai. It’s entirely illogical that he would be and even more illogical to think he had that status but the Japanese wouldn’t have recorded that he was like they did with the other actual foreign men who earned samurai title.
he may have been a samurai on the basis that theres nothing that says he wasnt.... and george washington may have been a power ranger, because where does it say that he wasnt?
@@blahblahboii and really even if we accept that logic. it's not like EVERY SAMURAI was some grand war hero ... plenty were basically canon fodder and meat shields. Many of the Samurai were part of the ruling class and nobility but taht doesn't mean you automatically became equal to them just by being recognized as a samurai. So even if we gave the benefit of the doubt and assumed he gained some level of recognition ... so what? There is still no proof he was a notable part of any major historical events so while you could give a respectful nod for him achieving anything given where he started ... it's still a massive over statement to treat him like one of Japan's great histoical figures. Overall I'd say it's fine to assume he at least ... hung around Samurai and might have weilded a sword. But other foreigners were recognized for historic feats so there is no reason for there to be no information on his accomplishments if he actually had any.
He simply did not have the time to become a full fledged Samurai before Nobunaga's death. It's like calling yourself a marine if the President gets overthrown when you were only a private in boot camp.
As a long time student of history, I can confirm that 99% of your time is spent debating the veracity of cited evidence. If there is no debate or no citation then there is no history.
thomas lockley is not a historian- he was an english teacher. these political activists arent historians either. They only speak to push agendas, and censor anything that conflicts with their narrative.
Even then, why lie about the history? Why depict him that way? Why plagiarize? Why use ai art? They could have done the work but they couldn't be bothered to.
Reminds me of people getting mad when there aren’t enough POC in a game… based in medieval Europe and trying to be historically accurate… Suuuuuuuuuuure
@@Goiaba308 kingdom come deliverance I'd bet. People got very, very upset that they did not include pocs. In a game thats based on stuff happening in early 15th century europe.
I tried looking for these sources that "prove" Yasuke was a Samurai or something similar. What I found was a drawing of what might be Yasuke Wrestling with Nobunaga's retainers and an excerpt from a document from the 1500s detailing Yasuke was a French owned slave that was sold to Nobunaga. Everything else were French "history" books written from 2014 onwards calling him a sword holder, then a warrior, then a samurai. Given that Ubisoft is a French owned company, this is starting to look like a conspiracy from the French to rewrite Japanese History.
I've read quite a bit about Yasuke at this point and it seems he's surrounded by misunderstandings and deliberate misrepresentations by people who want to turn him into more than he actually was for the sake of turning him into a vehicle for certain political viewpoints. He came to Japan accompanying Jesuits, but some state that the Jesuits didn't commonly keep slaves and that Yasuke was most likely simply accompanying the monks rather than being kept as a slave, and Yasuke seems to have been mistakenly assumed to be a fellow monk by some. Furthermore, while some state that Yasuke was a tall man, I've read others who assert that the comments on size were directed at the Jesuit Yasuke was accompanying. There is disagreement on whether Yasuke spoke any Japanese at all when he came to Japan, but we know that he entertained Nobunaga with tricks and was spoken one-sidedly to by Nobunaga as he wasn't able to respond in Japanese to any comprehensive degree. Some state that Yasuke was given a stipend when he was named retainer, but others say that it was Nobunaga's nephew who gave him a handful of coins as a one-time payment as he mistakenly believed Yasuke to be a performer/entertainer upon first meeting him. I've read people state that the title given to Yasuke was that of "shikan", which roughly translates to government official. Some call him a retainer, but calling him a samurai implies a lot of things which definitely isn't true about him. Yasuke hiding Nobunaga's remains after the Honnoji incident seems to be a family story originating from a family claiming to be descendants of Nobunaga. There is no hard evidence of this happening. Yasuke appears to have been fighting at some point after the Honnoji incident, and was asked to surrender by Akechi Mitsuhide (or one of his men) in exchange for safe passage. The safe passage appears to have been justified on account of Yasuke being an outsider and a "beast which knows nothing" [and therefore isn't a threat]. Whether Yasuke was part of a larger group of rebels, acted in any leading capacity or was a skilled combatant or simply waved a pitchfork around isn't mentioned, but it's probably safest to assume the latter, especially considering his Japanese comprehension would've been limited. Allegedly Yasuke was allowed to return to a foreign monastery (I've read some say in India), but there's no later accounts of him, so whether he ever made it out of Japan or settled down somewhere else is lost to time.
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Not quite sure how it's now, but Mods of AC Reddit used to work along with Ubisoft Employees. They were actually really cool with arguments and debates related to the games back then, especially historical facts and accuracy in the series. It's possible that they've been swapped out or sunk into the abyss of DEI.
They were almost certainly swapped out, because they've basically been absolute shills, blindly defending anything Ubisoft does, for the last like 5-6 years.
Granted, the feudal Japanese considered renaming someone with a Japanese name a sign of great respect, so, differing cultural values. Only Yauske could say which name he prefered, and any records of that likely burned with Nobunaga.
@@MrSailing101 If a gaijin/foreigner is given a name, he is honored, but if a feudal lord acknowledges his original name then he is respected by the lord. And what man who was torn from his village would prefer an alien name over his birth-given name?
True, there is no debate. He wasn't a Samurai. End of story. He already had a ton of honor by becoming Bushi. Easiest way to shoot a hole in it? Samurai had a last name. He's also called a slave in historic documents. That's not a way to refer to the most honored of warriors. But being a foreigner of African decent with the rights of carrying a weapon and being close to Nobunaga isn't a small feat. They could have gone with that. They even could have gone with a fictional story about the character. Naaah of course they had to go with the most extreme version and call it historically accurate.
The problem is if they went with the real story is would involve him running away like a coward at his first real time to hold the swords on the field and then being given back to Jesuit slavery lol.
to keep the tension and plausibility up ubi could have speculated yasuke was on his way up to full samurai status. the simple fact is yasuke compared to verified foreign samurai didnt spend enough time in japan nor with nobunaga clan to achieve the rank.
The nail in the coffin for me was in Jesuit Society Annual Report: following Nobunaga death, Yasuke is made to surrender his weapon after one samurai refers to him as "an animal who knows nothing [of Japan] and therefore does't deserve to die". Those are not words you'd use to refer to a samurai that the warlord Nobunaga himself appointed. Even if they were to spare his life for being a stranger caught in something bigger than him, warriors would recognize another warrior as one, not an animal.
Hell, the fact he was alive for them to do that in and of itself is an issue. Samurai culture during the peak of samurai? Seppuku or fall in combat. There are no other options.
Why not create a fictional Japanese person as main character, similar to other Assassin's Creed games, and make Yasuke an important NPC? If they want a Black protagonist, maybe wait for a future Assassin's Creed game, perhaps titled "Assassin's Creed: Light," set in the Zulu Kingdom era in Africa.
Poor Yasuke. A mostly forgotten historical figure, resurrected like some kind of bizarre social/science experiment by Thomas Lockley, who should be properly scorned for his actions.
"historical accuracy" 🤣🤣 they took as truth a book written by an english teacher who edited yasuke's wikipedia page and use his own book as historical source. This period will be remembered for ages. Ages.
They're right. There is no debate. He wasn't and no actual historians believe he was as no documents show that he was ever anything more than an oddity that Nobunaga thought was interesting.
"Multiple historians" it's only two. Lockley and Hirayama. Neither of which are actually historians. Lockley is an English teacher at Nihon Academy, Hirayama has a Master's degree in healthcare. So, there are actually zero historians claiming Yasuke was a samurai.
@@kenshiku according to latest meaing that was added it use as an insult refer to the radical people or idelology that forcing leftist leaning agenda about sexual, racial, social into other people
Just this week had the British band "Prodigy" pop up in Viking age Essexe. Smack my bishop! This after I was done visiting Valhalla and Hel, having constant conversations with to Odin the Allfather, all the while I was riding on a white unicorn with a flame engulfed dragon/wyvern circling over me, skinning the deer I had shot in microseconds. But yeah it's so historically accurate and realistic to play Assasins' Creed games. That said, why on earth does Ubisoft think that making a Japanese AC means people want to play a black character based on some Jesuit dude who stumbled upon Japan and was given the "Samurai" title basically out of a rulers' curiosity towards his skin colour? 🤔
Disregarding whether Yasuke was really a samurai or not, I find it a very weird decision that they make a game set in historical Japan and choose an African man as a protagonist and call him a samurai instead of a Japanese man that has more connection to the land. I would've preferred to play as a Japanese samurai, as someone who was born and raised in Japan to really immerse myself into the culture. If you ask me, it's Ubisoft who's being racist against Japanese and their culture.
Whenever people or myself refer to Assassin's Creed as AC, I think about air conditioners. Jokes aside, I'm honestly not surprised about all this. These people have made a career about passing their delusions as fact.
This is Ubisoft speaking, behind the shadows. Their official narrative is they apologized to the Japanese, but at the same time unofficially they are doubling down. Because, of course.
Here's what is known: Yauske was in Japan before the word Samurai was even in the language. (True) Yauske was a Jesuit slave. (True) Yauske was trained in India and was most likely a bodyguard for the Jesuit priests. (That's a guess.) Yauske was 'given' to the local Japanese lord by the Jesuits. (Probably because he was a huge man and therefore a curiosity to the Japanese, but that's a guess.) Yauske had some land given to him. (True) Yauske wasn't asked to commit suicide when his Lord, (possibly owner) lost a battle because he wasn't Japanese. (True) (This is why most people are hung up about the whole Samurai thing. If he was part of that cast, then he'd have to kill himself like the rest of his lord's retainers. But he didn't. So he either broke his oath, or he never had made that oath.) And that's about it. The rest is conjecture.
The person that does deserve recognition is Toyotomi Hideyoshi who rose from PEASANT to become Samurai and Daimyo because he work himself to the top and not this random guy from overseas gain more favor from Oda Nobunaga somehow how and forgetting people like Hideyoshi or Mitsuhide who has more involvement with Oda Nobunaga.
I got banned for pointing out, politely, that moderators shouldn’t remove and ban all dissent. I told the mod that he just proved my point by doing this and he replied back taunting me, then muted me. The mod was Trevison.
They should have made it around that one Samurai that died standing up that would’ve been Badass or at least some important Japanese Historical figure I mean come on respect the culture dude
I said this before on a different video, but I’m going to say it again. This is why they should just create a fictional character for the main character like they did with every other assassin‘s creed game. It’s almost like whoever decided to use a real historical figure wanted to cause chaos
Reminds me a lot of the fuss and outrage over historical accuracy in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. A whole bunch of people were just foaming at the mouth in outrage over the fact that there wouldn't be any representation of this or that group, because the devs were making a game that was accurate to the time and place in as many details as possible.
Man you shot the hostage at the end! As for the mods, they essentially have their fingers plugging their ears and saying nope I'm not listening lalalalla
Yasuke was either a sword bearer or vassal, he was never a samurai. Like William Adams ( John "Anjin" Blackthorne in Shogun) was a vassal lord and allowed to wear his sword in public, but couldn't be called a samurai. Samurai were the ruling elite of Japan and only pure blooded nobles of Japan could become samurai especially after Hideyoshi Toyotomi forbade commoners the ability to become samurai like he did.
