The DUMBEST Gaming Drama 

As a Japanese person with knowledge of Japanese history the sadist part of this whole controversy is that people are still giving Ubisoft money.

As a white man, I just want to welcome all the Japanese men to the club.

My grandmother always told me, "Don't matter what anyone tells you, Mussolini was an African Lesbian."

White Samurai: *RAGE* Black Samurai: IF YOU RAGE U R RACIST !

The same journalists defending Yasuke are the same people that attacked Capcom because Chris Redfield shot black zombies

Having a 90% dislike ratio isn't a "division" it's a shit idea

The biggest issue is that this is the first AC where you play as a real historical figure. It eliminates the suspension of disbelief that comes with all AC games where they can stretch the true events and blend them with the fiction they create where you play as a fictional character interacting with those examples of real people. There is no way to do that here because there IS historical evidence and written documents regarding Yasuke. He is really important part of black history for a lot of people, but the truth is that he didn't really do all that much. He was simply a retainer and bodyguard for Oda Nobunaga. He liked the fact that this foreigner was tall and had dark skin, and wanted to keep him around. He quickly befriended Yasuke despite Yasuke not being anything close to fluent in Japanese, but the guy never became an official samurai, despite what people on Twitter might say. I think Yasuke is a cool piece of history that should be adapted properly, but in the case of AC he's a terrible fit.

From Culture-wars to People pre-ordering games just to play early.. What a truly sad time we live in.

Fanbase: "We want an Assassina Creed set in Sengoku Japan!" Ubisoft: "What's that? Out of hundreds of thousands of Samurai and Daimyo, you want to play the only black guy? Because our ESG score says you do!" 🙄

There are 3 problems: Firstly, every single Assasins Creed game had protagonists that were specifically native to the region. A Middle Eastern man in the Middle East, an Italian in Italy, a half Native American, half white person in colonial America, a Norseman in Scandinavia, etc. Now they're in Japan and the protagonist wasn't even native to the region or an important character that had an impact on the region. He was taken as a slave, given to the Jesuits, who gave him to the Japanese at the age of 27 or 28, where he became a glorified swordbearer and was then exiled from because his lord died. He may have been a samurai or he may not have been. One could also argue the only reason he wasn't used as a slave or adjacent was because his skin colour made him a status symbol for his lord. He was big and strong and black - obviously he stood out and obviously his lord wanted to utilize that. Secondly, Ubisoft has never used actual real life people from history as protagonists in the Assassins Creed games and now, in order to have any retort when people have a problem with a black samurai, they use the ONLY black person that was ever mentioned as (maybe) attaining that position....as a main protagonist. Thirdly, we all know WHY they did it. They don't give a damn about their own consumers - the people that make them who they are as a company. And that's what pisses people off the most. That Ubisoft would think we're all either stupid enough to accept them rewriting history in order to make extra profits. And personally, as an addendum: I don't really give a damn about the skin colour of a fictional character in a game. But that is where the problem lies for me: the character isn't fictional. I love history and I love truth. I love knowing what ACTUALLY happened. I'm a huge history nerd. That is why what they are doing makes me mad.

no ones saying Yasuke isnt real. What doesnt make any sense is how hes a main character thats a samarai in this time period. He feels completely out of place in the setting just so Ubisoft can check a box.

The fact that woke snowflakes all over are scrambling to try and justify the choice of a black samurai ("there was this anime and also this one film and I don't know history, but I'll just make it up" or whatever) is enough evidence this was not a good choice and yet another sign of the damage shitty DEI companies like Sweet Baby Inc. have been doing to games and other entertainment media. DO NOT SPONSOR THEIR CRAP. Let money do the talking.

Probably the funniest thing about this for me is that there are still people who say, "We haven't even seen any gameplay yet." On a Ubisoft game.

> Make MC a Japanese samurai fighting alongside the female shinobi > Make Yasuke as an ally or put him in his own DLC/spin-off game ala Adewale > Remove the season pass (impossible) > Players get their Japanese samurai, Ubi gets their "representation" > Profit How could they fumble this? edit: I just put the "remove the season pass" because I hate the idea of buying a game only for them to charge you more money for content that should've been in the base game in the first place. It's just wishful thinking, we all know companies will never do that.

I want an Asian guy as the hero in an African setting now.

The real problem with AC: Shadows is Ubisoft's pricing structure.

Calling your game "Shadows" and having a black guy as a protagonist is kinda funny

The people claiming that the Yasuke “haters” are racist, also REEE over the white miss Zimbabwe

i dont care what anyone says, George Washington was a samurai

Listen, I like Asmon, but can we really ignore the fact that he complained about ugly women in games while he tells us to shut up about race swapping because it doesn't affect the gameplay?

It doesn't really matter who is right in this. What matters is that in a Japanese setting people want to play a Japanese character. End of story.

Just dont buy it. Problem solved.

Asmon is basing the piracy issue entirely on his experience. As it turns out, he isn't entirely wrong. Pirating games used to be big 10 or 15 years ago, and it is still huge outside of America. What you need to understand is that "always online" does not stop games from being pirated. All it does is stop online services on the pirated copy. Only games that require server services like mmorpg and survival games Rust and such can't be pirated. The reason that pirating is lower in America is because today, if you pirate games, your ISP will cut off your internet connection,call you and ask you to stop. Otherwise, they will report you for it. How to avoid this? VPN. Did you notice how VPN was on the rise about a decade ago? It was because of pirating, not security.

The thing that matters to me is that: They would NEVER put a white or japanese man as the protagonist of an AC set in an african country. Therefore they also should't do it the other way around.

samurai is a social class. westerners associate the word "samurai" with armour wearing sword swinging warriors. yasuke was neither.

Remember when these companies promised us the price increase from $60 to $70 games would provide us with MORE content and better games? Here is what they really wanted. Gaming A La Carte

Keanu Reeves never time travelled to 2077.

It's another example of Asmon not knowing what he's talking about. If a non-AC game does this then most people wouldn't mind. But as an AC game, there are two established relevant expectations: 1) The protag is fictional, and 2) the protag is native to the society of the game world. Yasuke breaks both expectations, which makes many series' fans feel betrayed, *ESPECIALLY* Japanese fans. I think anyone (Asmon included) can tell that the decision to feature a real historical person as protag is *VERY* intentional, and *VERY* convenient as an excuse to exclude a Japanese male protag. This is about racial representation within the AC series, NOT games that take place in feudal Japan in general. Also, literally no one says Yasuke ruins the gameplay. On minor points: While I agree that the historical accuracy isn't the point here, Asmon's argument for it is garbageーthat nobody really knows about the past, and history is just opinions. History isn't completely objective and it's not above criticism but this is just anti-intellectualism. Another point is about cultural sensitivity. Asmon understands why the Japanese are upset, and he doesn't care. Fine. But would he be ok if Ezio gets swapped with an Asian? Would you be ok with that? Remember we're only talking about racial representation here, historical accuracy is irrelevant. EDIT: One more thing, "wanting to force a black protag" is a charitable read. The less charitable read is that ubisoft wants to fetishize massacring Japanese/Asians as a black man.

It’s simple, vote with your wallet. Just don’t buy the game and companies will learn not to do it anymore. But like what asmon always says gamers have no self-control, when they are handed a piece of shit, they will eat it and say it’s chocolate.

The Last Samurai starring Will Smith

As a Black man I just want to say sorry to the pancake society for cleopatra being a viking during the gulf war. I cant believe people would pay extra to eat waffles 3 days early

The black samurai aspect is a distraction from the greater controversy of the selling model that Ubisoft seems determined to impose.

The important part about Yasuke is that he was not an important figure in Japanese history. Ubisoft could have chosen from many renowned samurai at the time. They only chose him because he's black and they want to push their DEI agenda. That's racist and cultural appropriation.

I find it funny, "AC has never been historically accurate" while at the same time "Yasuke is based on a real historical figure so he should be the MC".

it is not about what it's true or not , this is about ALWAYS using a damn POC as main characters in a setting which has nothing to do with it. it's like turning all street fighters characters black or turning all tekken characters or dragon ball characters black . i don't want to see only POC main characters i want different characters in different colors with different designs. we don't care about representation , we want to see different things . This is freaking japan not africa and people want to see a japanese dude obviously not an african dude. and the thing is why are they doing this right now? why not way before with the first AC games? it is because of the woke agenda , simple as that .

It’s not really matter if he’s a samurai or not, it’s a game, it’s partially fictional already. But for me, it’s “do I really have to play a black person in Japanese chapter of AC?” and “are they really going to sell at these prices?”. Geez, I’m not being racist but do we got to play black persons everywhere, even for a story from 400-500 years ago Japan? Why is a male JAPANESE samurai a worse choice?

I don't think this is a "bold choice", seems more like a cowardly choice to appease the woke crowd.

4:30 "This dude being black is not even going to be in it's top 10 problems." Nope. But he will be the top 1 thing Ubisoft uses to defend the game. ANY complaint about the pricing or gameplay or story is going to be spun as ism. EDIT for quote clarity

Thanks to companies like Sweet Baby Inc for this garbage.

Speaking as a Filipino looking at all this drama, I think everyone involved in it is blowing a small issue out of proportion. A lot of stories based on history will always use either a completely fictional character or an obscure IRL individual with creative liberties that fits in with the historical inspired plot, I will use Ghost of Tsushima as an example. Jin Sakai, Lord Shimura, and Khotun Khan from the top of my head are purely fictional characters with probably some inspiration from true to life individuals. However, regardless of their status of reality, they still served their purposes as the driving forces of the game's plot surrounding the Mongol invasion of Japan. Khotun Khan as the main leading figure behind the Mongol army, Lord Shimura being the representative of the few samurai that resisted the invasion, and Jin Sakai metaphorically being the "Storm" that drove the Mongol army away. If these fictional characters were able to serve well as the main driving forces of Ghost of Tsushima, why not obscure characters taken with creative liberties? Yasuke has that obscure connection to the Sengoku period, and I can at least commend Ubisoft for actually taking advantage of that to create another angle to view the unification wars of that time. Though, only time will tell if the character itself will fit in to the story they will tell. As it was with previous AC titles, and all of them utilized historical events that they modified to better fit in the main driving forces of AC which are the Assassins and the Templar, from 1 to Black Flag, we were told of their Earth's history through the lens of completely fictional characters, and it was fine for us. But now that Ubisoft is going to use an obscure African man in Japan is when we should take issue of it? Sure, almost every AC title had a protagonist that had a race and identity that originates from the countries where the games take place, but not all of them, take Edward from Black Flag for example. He was not Carribean is he? But he is one of the privateers who then turned into a pirate and then became an Assassin, he is closely tied to the "Golden Age of Piracy" for sure, but definitely he is not a Carribean man in race or identity. Besides, it's not like Yasuke is the sole protagonist of the game, Naoe is there too to provide contrast to him I imagine, since one is a kunoichi/ninja and another is a samurai. All in all, you guys need to chill with Yasuke, ya'll made his presence in the game a bigger issue than it should've been considering the game isn't out yet so we still don't truly know about how his character will act in AC Shadow's plot. If anything, I agree with Asmon in so far as the pricing of the game is concerned. Great triple AAA games were cheaper than this, 70 dollars for a game? Ghost of Tsushima's release price was 60 dollars and still, I waited for a year for that price to eventually go down and thank God I did because the Director's Cut was released so I experienced the game in it's full potential for cheaper. And the fact that there's an option for a subscription instead, that's a possible steppingstone for a potential future where we don't truly own the games we play, and it's saddening.

People dont realize just how destructive dei is to storytelling. It destroys potential plots lines, it doesn't allow any risque moments and it forces a political message into it. There is a ton of restrictions and censorship that comes with it. You want to know why some games have bad stories or cringy dialogues? It's because of consulting firms that a lot of entertainment media has to go through! Story telling is super important to people it's why some of the best and most popular games have great story telling, some people view it as more important than game play just look at the walking dead games. And dei is just ruining it more than people realize and it's really sad and thats why i know thats why ubisoft made this character not for narrative but for money and for me thats really sad.

Here's my take on why this part isn't actually isn't stupid drama. The video game industry made us care about this stuff. The games media made us care about this stuff. Ten years ago, no one would have cared about this use of the figure... but we have been forced to think about this kind of stuff because of how the game creators and media act; and now that we are noticing what they wanted us to, we're called bigots for it. Gamers cannot win. Ever. They will always take whatever chance they have to try to insult us.

Michael Jackson was a samurai. Also, despite samurais being only 13% of the population, 52% of them were samurais.

I love how everyone suddenly became phd in a Japan history.

You mention how AC has historical context but not historical accuracy. One of the ways they achieved this is by making all members of the Brotherhood completely fictional. The Brotherhood is supposed to be a shadowy organisation that works behind the scenes. That was one of their design elements that separated the historical context & accuracy. If we were to implement the traditional design elements of an AC game, Yasuke would've been a side character that interacted with the Brotherhood.

It’s not dumb. Why can’t we have a male Japanese protagonist. I just watched videos of yours on the Witcher talking about Europe fantasy being all white because it creates a sense of realism which helps with immersion for escapism. These protagonists are not realistic. They’re dumb. And we AC fan which have been wanting Feudal Japan for a lonnnnnng time have a right to be angry. We already have had 2 black male protagonists that are well liked.

i thought Assassins Creed was a single player game? what the fuck is a Season Pass for?

The problem is that when someone wants to watch or play a "samurai" game or movie; they almost always mean traditional samurai which is Japanese men. While, yes, it's probably technically true non-traditional samurai existed throughout history they were far and away the exception and not the rule. It's disingenuous to suggest this is what people want when they mention the genre. While I've generally been quite happy with more recent portrayals of black samurai in anime (they've all been quite good in my opinion and not at all focused on being DEI or having political language) I've been less thrilled with the female depictions. Why? Because for me it's USUALLY immersion-breaking when a female is taking on men head-to-head and winning contests of brute strength and viciousness. Women are usually depicted as being equally strong as men and tossing them around like rag dolls all while having a 115lb physique. I mean, these aren't even butch huge women we're seeing as the characters; they're princess build. Women can absolutely be portrayed in a believable manner (in the same way a smaller man can be) but we're usually seeing overt political messaging designed to fool us into thinking women are equally as strong and brutal as men. For me, this is immersion-breaking and I don't like it. I don't even think most women like it; even if they're saying they want more of it, it's just based on feminist principles and is not something they genuinely want to watch.

Personally, the « samurai or retainer » debate is irrelevant to me since the game wouldn’t have been THAT historically accurate anyway. But can we please stop pretending that out of ALL the historical figures (which weren’t actually playable before by the way) available in japan , going out of your way to pick the ONE black guy (who’s been in japan for 15 whole months) as a protagonist instead of having him be a character you encounter along the way isn’t blatantly shallow (yes even with Naoe)? Especially coming from Ubisoft?

If the skin colour doesn't matter, I have a proposal: Let's make a game about slaves in the 1800, in South Carolina, you can play as a black woman and the second character is a white male, as there were white slaves. Let's see how the representation crowd reacts to that and then tell me, why we should be fine to have a MC who was very insignificant to feudal Japan.

Controversy aside, going with Yasuke as a main character just does not work in this game because it breaks your suspension of disbelief. This is a stealth game set in ancient Japan and you're playing as a 6'2 black man who towers over the population by a foot and we're that is supposed to believe he can easily blend-in with the crowd and do everything unnoticed? Asmongold himself said that there is no way to get immersed in this game because Yasuke is so glaringly out of place that your attention is constantly drawn to it.

Borderlands came out and had no "CD-Key", allowing all of your friends to install the game and play with you, all from one CD. It sold millions and we all bought our copy soon or later, just because it was that good of a game. Gaming history has shown many times, way before crowdfunding was a thing, that piracy and profit aren't opposites. Consumer friendly marketing works best, except when the game is sh*t and you obviously have to rely on a (legal?) form of scamming to make profit. Radiohead did something similar in 2007, back when every day, commercials would bully you into believing piracy kills artists. They released their album "In Rainbows" free for download with a "pay what you want" policy, which made the whole industry furious. What kills companies are bad products (here bad = target people don't like it). It has NEVER been consumer friendly monetisation.

Dude was the first black man in Japan and now he’s a historical figure there is barely any info on the man it’s fucking quota garbage from Ubisoft. Is it crazy to want to play as a Japanese man lol dude the moment they showed him they lost a lot of sales. Period

They only picked a historical character as an excuse to shoehorn a non-Japanese male lead and make their fanbase mad

imagine if you go buy a car that you like and they sell it to you at 70k and they locked the 4th and 5th gear, but if you buy the luxury trim at 110k they will unlock the 4th gear, and if you on top of that you buy it at the motor show before the car hit the market at 130k they will gift you with all 5 gears functioning. now, if you are willing to accept something like that, then you will also be ok with Ubisoft pricing.

The only thing that makes me crazy is: people be like "why him? Theres lots of natives" but no one says "that specific native samurai of that Era suits better"... I mean how can you be that sensitive if you never curious about this subject enough to wiki search this Era? Idk

The bottom line is it doesn't matter who/what Yasuke was, except that he was a real historical figure. Why did they find the one black guy in Japanese history to put in the game as a main character? We've never had a real person as a main character because the entire point of Assassins is that they're cloaked figures in history. He should be a side character. And we all know why he isn't.

It matters because they'll turn it into a flag to wave and a shield to hide behind. No matter how bad the game is, they'll claim it was all only because gamers are racist.

A retainer; to be retained simply means you were hired. Every single person who signed up when a daimyo and received compensation for work they did is considered a retainer When you hire a lawyer you now have that lawyer on retainment they are not your employee per se but they still do 'work' for you when you ask and you pay them for that work In regards to Japanese history a retainer was anyone who agreed and did/ would do work for a speficic lord of the time and place. This could mean you were retained as anything from a combatant warrior or a delivery man In the case of yasuke the only certain documented work he did was as a page and that wasn't even for nobunaga it was a different daimyo all together so yes he was under retainer for two superstructure lords but there is bit a single record of him being retained as a samurai and the closest thing to combat he ever was documented engaging in was when akechi clan rebelled yasuke basically got jumped have up his sword and the vassal to akechi clan in which this hairbrush is noted as saying 'he is not even worthy of death' they captured him and sent him to India where his story ended The fact that the vassal to akechi clan was not even willing to kill yasuke means he was absolutely not a warrior by any means

For me I'm over debating if he's a samurai, retainer, etc. I just don't like people constantly buying into obvious pandering attempts. One thing that's a huge issue in what's left of the black community in North America, is how politicians and companies don't take us seriously and just resort to pandering to gain our approval. I agree, they should be taking us seriously. But when people act like sliced bread was invented because a black character is in a form of media in the year 2024, can you really blame them for not changing their strategy? I find it ironic and hypocritical that the same people calling those critical of the choice racist, are the same ones hooting and hollering because they think a black character makes something good or means they have to support it. It's the same thing that happened with Obama. A lot of people mainly or only cared that he could be the first black president and that's all they needed to vote for him and unfortunately I was part of that crowd. Of course there's racist people on both sides in the discourse, but society needs to do better when there's criticism surrounding someone who isn't white, male, christian, heterosexual, etc instead of immediately calling the critics bigots.

"AC has never been historically accurate why are you expecting accuracy?" also "Yasuke is a real historically accurate figure why are you complaining about him?"

Meanwhile the trailer on the Ubisoft Japan channel: likes: 3771 < dislikes: 36840.

Did this happen because of a bizarre double-bluff 4D-chess 6000IQ conversation in a meeting where someone argued that the game having Japanese characters act in historically accurate way would be feeding stereotypes or be racist? If I buy a game about assassins set in Japan I kind of want to be a ninja or a samurai or a ronin.

Imagine Ubisoft gives an official statement in line with how they are aware that there are conflicting, misleading information about Yasuke. Much is not known about him and that is ok since he is an assassin… You are not supposed to know.

The question is not whether he was a samurai or not. None of the other MC were based on real historical figures. Except this one.

the japanese comments in the JP trailer said that ''retainers'' referred to gardeners, cleaners, cooks, basically employees and while samurais were retainers(employee), not all retainers were samurai

The last time I checked for the survey it says that 35% of gamers have pirated games. The issue is that the amount of games they pirated, when compared to the amount they played is tiny and very often includes games that are no longer available for sale.

All samurai are retainers, but not all retainers are samurai. A retainer is simply someone in the service of a noble lord.

I studied a bit of Japanese history at University, but mostly for the purposes of dealing with International negotiations. As for the argument regarding retainers being Samurai, yes Samurai were retainers who pledged to a lord in exchange for land. Samurai's started training at the age of 10, learning to fight on horseback as well as how to manage land. They were expected to bring equipment with them, because they were, generally, sons of nobles. This is in contrast to bushi who were warriors that directly served the daimyo, often elevated from the ashigaru (peasant soldiers). Oda Nobunaga, changed this structure a bit, he created a class of full time soldiers and a mercenary corp that served only him. Yasuke, came to Japan for roughly 3 years and served as a koshō (page or squire), under Oda. Our records of Yasuke come from Jesuit priests who visited Japan and were fascinated to find a dark skinned man. They said Yasuke spoke little to no Japanese and he was seen as object of fascination. People attempted to wash the "ink" off his skin and were amazed it couldn't be removed. His name Yasuke was given by Oda himself, who gave him a house, sword and stipend to live off of. He travelled for a time with Oda, carrying his gear and seemed to have a close relationship with him despite the language barrier. After Oda's seppuku, he appears to have continued fighting however he couldn't find a place in society without Oda. There are some unkind words from the lord, who captures him, regarding his status as a human. Rather than killing him he is sent with the Jesuit priests when they leave Japan, and it is believed he departed from them in India. Was he a Samurai? In a strict sense no. There is a lot of confusion over him being a retainer, which is an English term. There were two types of warriors who directly served a daimyo, Samuari and Bushi. While the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, Yasuke would have been classified a bushi or warrior. A Samurai is a titled noble who can pass down his land and title, a bushi cannot. Oda, clearly valued him as a bushi and there is mention in the Jesuit notes that Oda might grant him land, but this never happens. When he is captured, following Oda's death, it is clearly stated his a man without land or status in that society, hence the decision to have him leave with the priests rather than execute him or demand seppuku.

They could have made Yasuke into an NPC who starts as a retainer, then later trains and becomes a Samurai due to the conflict within the story and everyone would have loved it. Basis of the character would have been historically accurate, but events in the game would lead to character growth and a different path for Yasuke. But saying "You're racist if you have a problem with playing a black character" & "Yasuke was a Samurai, this is historically accurate" are just the most bizarre strawman arguments to defend.

I think the dumbest part about the black main character in Japan is that it's in assasins creed of all games. A game with a heavy stealth element that has you tailing people and blending into crowds. How does a 6+ft black man blend into a crowd in feudal Japan? He doesn't whatsoever. Shit a 6ft black man is a head turner in Japan in the modern day.

Yasuke was a pet cause he looked weird. Once Nobunaga was done with him he was sold to someone else and vanished from history. He's not the main character.

😊No one actually cares if he's a samurai or not. The point is the writers specifically chose a black character and a fictional female character instead of a native Japanese character as the one you play. And it got pointed out that they scrapped the original direction of the project to do this. Had Yasuke simply been an NPC, or even the secondary playable character to a Japanese male ninja, it would be way less controversial. Aside the price point, people are tired of the blatant virtue signaling and the cancel mob whenever they complain about or point it out. The price is definitely going to put people off, but this new PR move toward attacking people who complain and calling everyone right wing bigots and extremists will lose them any goodwill they may have had left.

I wouldn't be surprised if Yasuke also is gay for those Extra DEI / ESG double combo score points.

I bet that most of the "how dare you put a black samurai in this video game" "controversy" is actually Ubisoft trying to obfuscate their game's blatant anti-consumer price gouging.

7:35 people are being taught from a young age to believe diversity is good without understanding why homogeneous society is important. While gameplay matters most in games, its still going to remove immersion from the game when someone has taken an spit on it. Even in the past people knew this stuff was stupid, but there were no places to vent about this stuff because society was conditioned in to multiculturalism. Boomers couldn't understand critical thinking and often went with "my feels" rather than rational thinking when it came to controversial topics, atleast today all that suppressed resentment is seeping through to criticize the establishment and private companies. The only way to escape this is to make our own entertainment and don't lets these corrupt corps get hold of it.

The main protagonists in ALL AC games allways had two things in common: - They were allways people from the region the games is set in. - They were NEVER a historical figure.

To all the people that says the race doesn’t matter, why does race matter enough to you to not want a Japanese man represent Japanese history ?

during 90s i used msdos while playing games. remember downloading it and zipping into 20+ big and small floppy discs as it got smaller. my first PC i didn't even want window because I didn't know what it was as a kid. lol

I mean crying about a game being unrealistic when, for the first time, it uses a real figure as a main character and has as a franchise had aliens in its story, and constant retcons and hiatorical contradictions is laughable. If you want a historically "accurate" samurai game that plays like ac, play ghost of tsushima.

Is it too much to ask for a japanese protagonist in a game in historical japanese setting?

For the record Yasuke WAS just a slave who was gifted to Nobunaga, who then took a liking to him. His title was an honorary one, he was never known to have ever participated in any battle. After Nobunaga's death Yasuke was sold back to the European traders who brought him to Japan in the first place and never heard of again. He wasn't a major figure in that period despite what some activists are trying to claim. He was simply famous for being the first black person anyone in Japan had ever seen. Every historically accurate piece of writing about Nobunaga's reign that even mentions Yasuke goes against the claims of that "consultant" Ubisoft hired

500k preorders times $130 is $65 MILLION 😭

He was paraded around as Oda's conversation piece. The ONE time where it's written that he was involved in a fight they got their asses beat, and Oda was forced to X himself. Their enemy did not take Yasuke to be a serious opponent, and spared his life by just handing him back over to the Jesuits. He was in Japan for 3 years. You'll never convince me that this dude, even if he WAS a warrior of some kind, fought like a Japanese Samurai, ESPECIALLY so if he was already trained before he got there. It's a terrible choice to make him a main character. Obviously, it's their choice to make, it is what it is, that's the end of it. I'm more disappointed that there's no Japanese man to play as. That's the true let down to me.

We'll they did a good job at rewriting history online. For This One Video Game! Literally rewrote history. However they can't rewrite one fact. 15 months. That is the total of the amount of time of his recorded history in Japan. Hardly enough time to become a Samurai.

2:30 Samurai were nobility, its very similar to a knight. Picking up a sword doesnt make you a knight, being knighted or a birthright makes you a knight. If he was a samurai there would be records of it. We dont even know if he learned to use a sword, he likely did not

Piss off half the people that would have played, get the other half to defend the game with their lives and purchase the highest priced option. You make 100% possible still. Kind of genius

After Nobunaga was killed, Yasuke was forced out of the country. Shows you how important he wasn't.

If anything, Captain David Fagan is a way better black historical figure in Asia than Yasuke with a lot more historical records. A black freedom fighter who defects from the US government and becomes a tagalog speaking general in the Phillippines after witnessing the treatment of Filipinos similar to what he seen back in America, Frees local slaves, and lives a happy ending, marrying a Filipina while avoiding assassination attempts from the US. It's a dope story. He's a mythical figure in the Phillippines and that's not debatable.

The reason people are fed up with it is because we all know why they picked Yasuke as a protagonist and it has nothing to do with him just being an interesting person and has everything to do with Ubisoft's diversity mandates.

Marketing FOMO to increase preorders for a game makes me believe it’s going to be a trash game because they’re afraid once the game has released no one will want to buy it so you have to get as many orders in advance as possible.

The real crazy thing is that you have to wait 3 days to play if you *only* paid 70.

Ubisoft stock dropped 15% when they announced this game 💀

but wasn't he SOLD out of japan after a SINGLE year in japan? so why is he even there? there is no chance he learned Japanese gained some merit of importance and learned reasonable swordsmanship in a single year EDIT- samurai also needed to be well versed in a single form of art of some kind e.g poetry, art, ect

Assassins Creed has always embellished history. They made Leonardo Davinci part of a random revolution that didn't happen.

I don’t know. I think it’s suspicious that after all the AC games, now they decide to use a historical figure as the main character. Furthermore, instead of using a Japanese character, of which there is an abundance of historical figures in Japan, they choose the one African who barely left a spec on human history. It’s just very suspicious to me.

yeah the main thing is that got people mad is its set in japan and they wanted a Japanese main guy and choosing the one black guy out of millions of Japanese people to be the lead is a kick to the face and lets not forget people are already beyond sick and tired of this woke crap how you expect people to react to this lol i wonder if they did this in Africa or any black nation and then choose someone of another race as lead would we get the same reaction or worse lol

It's only dumb because a Japanese assassin's creed game with an authentic Japanese experience would be extremely successful, but ubisoft just couldn't help themselves with identity politics. It was a no brainer easy peasy money machine and they just couldn't help it lol.

there are paintings of him holding an umbrella for nobunaga. while they were walking in the streets. he was not a samurai but he still was not your average servant. to be able to get close to the emperor himself means he is not average. and just because a person is not a samurai, it doesn't mean he cannot use a katana, spear or any weapon when there is a life and death situation.

People who pirate games were never going to buy the game to begin with in most cases. So by a business standpoint you were never a sale to begin with