They always target Japan because they knew Japanese people are polite. Watch if they target Southeast Asian Cultures, the result would be vastly different
they dont care, they only care about money, if they cared about the culture you wouldnt see a black man and a woman as playable characters and the figurine they gave to japanese content creators or selling? idfk but anyways it wasn't even a word they just made up random shit which was hilarious cause thats the ultimate insult
they're also vilifying all of Japanese history, nothing having any connotations to the 'illuminati or overlord corporations' of the previous games. it's just two characters blatantly disrespecting and rewriting history for western political/ideological correctness.
Yeah, and the whole idea of claiming Assassin's creed is historical is rather hilarious in the first place, I don't understand why they think that is a good idea. But this type of activists tend to edit history to fit their narrative. They are not the only ones who done that, there was this Italian leader with a funny hat who was all about that 90 years ago for instance but it isn't a good idea. It is too easy to fact check these things nowadays and when people are figuring out you are making things up you look like an idiot. Trying to block the people most likely to know you made it all up from your web site does not paint a great picture. They know it is fraudulent and are trying to hide the fact that they are lying.
@@esko911 Ubi Soft are French though and the main AC studio is in Montreal, Canada. While a lot of US companies do the same thing, they are not at fault in this specific case. I think France is the main villain in this case since all their other studios are doing similar things as well but Montreal is also the home of Sweet baby inc so they certainly deserve some of the blame too.
So they're telling japanese people their game is fiction while alson telling the rest of the world their game is based on real history, while also blocking japanese people from even checking that information? Dude this is scummy as hell...
@@sentinel-p5kUbisoft just need to stop man. Their original idea about the Japanese monk instead of yasuke would of been good, but Ubisoft just want to be woke and apparently the Japanese need to suffer diversity and can’t have a game just with Japanese people and culture.
More like Japan as a whole needs to lawsuit Ubisoft, Its not impossible as Egypt had done the same thing with the whole Cleopatra "documentary" on Netflix
According to Japanese Copyright law they can only force Ubi Soft to change it in the Japanese version though... I am actually wondering if they used googled "Japanese historical flags" and stole it, or if they used an AI for material like this. Either way, it is lazy and not asking at least is rude.
@@cntaasdd AI does comb the web after pictures for learning though but it shouldn't have stolen the picture straight off, it would be more likely to put random signs on a similar flag. In either case, it is them being lazy. They could have found a historical flag instead if they did more research then a simple Google picture search.
"unauthorized use of the flag" Ah yes, pirating games is bad, but Ubisoft and Adobe just taking assets from people without permission is perfectly okay. /s
Reminder that the PC version of many of their 2010 era games were cracked versions they used because their old DRM sucked that bad. At one point (and possibly still) ACII and Brotherhood contained files labeled with the crack file name.
I don't even want to play this game, but I actively pirate stuff like this just to share it with friends who do so companies like Ubisoft get less money. I bet I know at least 10 - 12 people who were going to buy this game I'll be stopping for sure XD Don't support racist companies like Ubisoft or SBI
Ofcourse we’re defending the black samurai HE WAS A REAL PERSON. He was a Bushi and last time I checked nobody has been making a distinction between Bushi and Samurai for quite a long time. It’s the SAME black guy, doing exactly what he’s been doing in media for 60 years now.
@@blumind_web2264 Let me break it down for you Nobunaga had a propensity for the unique, and he was particularly interested in all things foreign. Clearly he was fascinated by Yasuke, and this was documented to be to the chagrin of many of his top generals such as Akechi Mitsuhide. Yasuke was also mentioned in the prototype of Shinchō ki owned by Sonkeikaku Bunko , the archives of the Maeda clan. According to this, the black man named Yasuke was given his own residence and a short, ceremonial katana by Nobunaga. Nobunaga also assigned him the duty of weapon bearer. After the Battle of Tenmokuzan, Nobunaga led his force, including Yasuke, and inspected the former territory of the Takeda clan. So people make the assumption that Yasuke actually fought in this battle, and that he donned Samurai armor and fought valiantly as a samurai hero. Fact check: A sword bearer stays behind with the general camp, near to the lord, they don't go out on the battlefield, and there is absolutely no documentation that depicts him doing otherwise. There is also NO RECORD of Yasuke receiving martial arts training, or use of the Japanese sword, either when in the service of Nobunaga or the years prior. The truth is that his time with Nobunaga was limited, as they first met in 1581 and Oda Nobunaga was dead a year later. This is hardly enough time for Yasuke to be trained. Besides, if Yasuke was a samurai he would've been treated like one by Akechi and Mitsuhide, dude would've died in battle or committed seppuku for failing to save his master Oda Nobunaga in the Honnō-ji Incident. The fact that he was captured instead then let go is a testament to his non-combatant role. The only record of him ever fighting against other samurai was when a bit after the incident, he was confronted by the Akechi Forces while at the residence of Nobutada.
Id bet money it’s true, they are in full damage control. Not just ubi but those whole woke left wing demographic that’s obsessed with Yasuke to the point pseudohistorians have been complaining how the Japanese disregard their sources as unreliable or worthless they use to make up this black samurai fiction. The guy in this himself being translated himself says it’s considered myth in Japan.
The only one I heard was someone who tried to disguised themselves as a “Japanese Historian” and tried to make a big deal about Ubisoft blocking him (when it was later found out that he was blocked for making various hateful remarks towards Ubisoft and it reaching a point where people had receipts on the guy and how he was basically a fraud). And it didn’t take long for people to see how this “Japanese person” had a rather fun history bashing Xbox and Star Wars (alongside many other things), so it wasn’t like the guy had much of a case outside of a desperate attempt at doubling down. An attempt that got laughed off by many. Anything else beyond that would be news to me.
@@mas8705 kinda strange how Ubisoft having alot of people that "support" them, yet feels the need to block one person who is lying? When there are so many others who literally go against them at X/twitter. So unless you can show me where this happened surely the comments would still exist unless all the people who interacted with decided to conveniently delete their comments altogether then I doubt it. Quite curious really since you know about it in detail.
@welderscript9329 For sure. I don't have the full details, but I can do my best to explain what happened. Apologies for the wall of text. The User goes by "Samurai_KenjiYa" and he made a big deal over getting blocked because "he was trying to tell the truth" when in reality, people had receipts showing not only what he said, but other rather discolorful things (and how his "Japanese" was a google translate). Basically, if the guy was supposed to be a "Japanese Historian" as he claimed, he did a poor job in between throwing out so many insults that the twitter page deemed it right to block the guy. It was a fun day on the 17th of June and the best part was that the guy tried to double down saying, "He was pretending to be American" all this time and just came out as being Japanese right as this whole thing with Assassin's Creed Shadows happened. Of course, the guy has decided to set his tweets to private (because of course he did), and he did try to delete his tweets, but whatever attempt the guy was trying blew up in spectacular fashion (including people who previously backed the guy immediately having to double back because they got duped). That and how one funny tweet shows Grummz backing the guy when right under, you see this guy not only bad mouthing Joe Biden (I could care less about politics), calling him the p-word, and how he does say outright, "How is he our President?!?" Now to be clear: Ubisoft can be a poor company. This is by no means defending Ubisoft since those in Japan who may have their hate against them can be justified in their own right by all means. I just don't like the part where someone in the US decides to "magically" make himself Japanese in a half baked attempt to try and discredit Ubisoft because of blind hate. It would be nice to link, but youtube usually delete those comments so again, "Samurai_KenjiYa" on twitter and you can see the fun of one man's attempt at being relevant. Lots of fun receipts posted by various people.
The ACS's portrayal of Japan is very inaccurate. Yasuke is not a legendary samurai or anything like that (it is doubtful that he even attained the rank of samurai in the first place). It is also untrue that beheading was a common cause of death, as the producers have stated in interviews (beheadings were mainly carried out against enemy generals of high rank as a sign of defeat). The vegetation of plants, flowers and fruits is also false, and the architecture is inconsistent with the period. This is fantasy with a Japanese flavour. If it is fiction or fantasy, it does not matter whether Yasuke is the greatest swordsman in Japan, Nobunaga is a robot from the future or the Japanese eat potatoes instead of rice as their staple food. However, UBI announces that ACS is set in a very realistic Warring States period in Japan, based on historical facts. We have respect for our history and culture. Don't mock the Japanese people.
So outside of Japan, the game is based on a real person and we're all bigots and racist for questioning it. In Japan, it's a fictional game story that has nothing to do with real people from history. Double standards doesn't even begin to explain this amount of bs these woke game companies are trying to force down everyone's throats.
I'll keep it real with you chief. I don't see how "this is based on a real person." and "this story is fictional" contradict. Pope Alexander VI was a real person, somehow I doubt he fist fought an Italian noble for a magic golden staff made by aliens.
I actually looked deeper into the yasuke thing and I'm starting to have doubts that he ever saw combat. The whole yasuke was a samurai thing comes from two separate texts. One saying that yasuke was brought to nobunaga and that nobunaga liked him and turned him into a retainer (家来). then there is a separate text saying that the black slave(s) fought hard in battle. The issue that I found with combining these texts is specifically the attitudes towards black people and slaves that are expressed in other Japanese texts and the way that this person is referred to if we were to assume they are referring to the same person in the text in question. first off we are supposed to assume that yasuke was given some level of standing in society, he wasn't just a nobody he was directly working for the Lord. and a pretty powerful one at that. he was definitely somebody that should be worthy of some level of respect in society. so why is it in the text that refers to him fighting, they basically call him the n-word (黒奴)? we don't see black people get derogatory treatment in other Japanese texts either, so you can't apply an American lens of discrimination against them in this case. that doesn't really come until movies start being made and exported to Japan. in my opinion what actually happened in history, I would need to see European logs of the expedition though in order to confirm this and that's very hard to find, is that they brought some number of slaves with them, they presented all of them to nobunaga and he liked yasuke and freed him from slavery. he then separately kept a whole bunch of other black people as slaves and use them in battle. slavery in Japan was unusual but it was not unheard of, so this could be a valid theory, again, depending on European logs of the mission, which I don't think are available publicly.
just dont buy the game or any others from ubishart and pirate any you do want to play, and otherwise ignore them. What are they gonna do besides seethe on twitter? nothing. Let em go bankrupt. These companies continue to stay in business in part because people keep buying the slop they produce.
@@VydijaRuksana I'm not against black characters either. What I am against is people and companies rewriting history to push their politics and ideologies and attacking those that point out their falsehoods.
"Embarrasing" is wearing tuxedo inside out. They did theft and racism, and - oh irony - using black dude and rap music, as a poster for it. Ubisoft should stay true to their brand and appoint Johnny Somali as their spokeperson for Japan.
i love the same group who defended AC Sahdow now were saying the devs appropriating Japanese culture by making a samurai game. Sucker Punch Studios actually fly to japan to documented everything about the island and the famous Mongol invasion of Japan. Whole island is now basically a big attraction tour for the tourists who played the game.
The blacklisting in Japan tells me everything I need to know about the intentionality of these people. I don't accept that anything is done by accident or mistake. Money needs to be lost so the people greenlighting this behavior feel the pain and learn to not do it anymore. Or lose enough to be dropped from the process and let others who won't do it into their place.
本当に問題なのは主人公が黒人だからではなく歴史に基づいて作られていないからです。畳の形、田んぼについての発言、町に飾られている提灯、多くの日本人には中国のように見える景色‥他にも沢山あります‥ The real problem is not because the protagonist is black, but because it is not based on history. The shape of the tatami mats, the comments about rice paddies, the lanterns in the town, the scenery that looks like China to most Japanese people... and many more.
@@kimandre336 That is a big over generalization. You're basically denying cultural differences. Quite rude. In any case, Ubisoft should've said "a historical fantasy inspired by Japanese sengoku period" and everything would have been fine.
@@kimandre336 Yes, because telling Japanese people their culture is just 'wayward Chinese culture' will go over well. You realize the history between those two countries and how insulting that might sound to the Japanese, right?
@@kimandre336 They don't just differentiate between China and Japan, they also don't know the difference between other Asian countries. The shape of the rice fields and the fact that everyone wears hats are characteristics of Southeast Asia. In the concept art, it was said that the monkey was not a Japanese macaque but a Formosan macaque. 中国と日本の区別だけではなく、他のアジア諸国との区別もついてないよ 田んぼの形や皆が帽子を被ってるのは東南アジアの特徴 コンセプトアートでは猿はニホンザルではなくタイワンザルではないかと言われてた
@@Rat_Fบckeralso Sony. M$ is a W/L situation (althought more on L) and EA is a piece of dust compared to the rest nowdays. Cant wait for the industry crash...
people just need to stop buying their stuff, only way they'll ever learn. then again i suspect they won't learn and will just eventually cease to exist.
Considering Ubisoft put greater focus on having a Black protagonist rather than remaining authentic to the time and setting tells you all you need to about their 'cultural advisors'
if you look past Sweet baby inc and ignore their existence for a bit. the only japanese adviser on the game is a complete joke. now, put SBI back in the picture, and it makes the game a bigger joke.
Ubisoft: "oh no we're not racist to the Japanese, it's just fiction." Also Ubisoft: "Oh no it's not fiction, we're just taking _creative_ liberties with Japanese history and culture, by representing a black guy instead."
@@ghostsdragon9222Yasuke was real, he served Nobunaga, and he did fight at Honouji, and at Nijo (both battles taking place within hours of each other) what do you think of when you think of samurai (and don’t say Japanese plenty of non Japanese became ‘true’ samurai)
@@blumind_web2264no he did not he was a retainer but seeing the facts starting to believe he wasn’t real and Americans made him up. Since thats all the left is taking about and whatever they talk about is false.
The worst part about all this is the message it sends when people are saying “well you got one female Japanese main character so shut up and let black folks have some representation.” They’re literally telling Asians to just take the little crumb they so generously sprinkled on the floor for us and be grateful for it in a game where Asians should’ve been the focus in the first place. These people are so self absorbed in being “anti-racist” that they’re being racist to Asians by shoving them to the side to put another minority group in the limelight
Yasuke was in a one of the Bushi's job 'Kosho'(小姓), which is mainly, serve a military commander(将軍) and do miscellaneous work (like sword bearer). Kosho often young boys are in charge, Beautiful boys were often chosen and sometime became homosexuality(衆道). his record of he fighting is the only one, Honnoji Incident(本能寺の変), and that is writen in the books of the Jesuits who were not present that morment(not any japanese historical artical is written). if this is true(honnouji case which is written in Jesuits book is true), that book said Yasuke surrender and Handed over the sword to Mitsuhide(明智光秀)'s vassal(家臣), and Mitsuhide say 'This Black slave is an animal and knows nothing about it, and there are no Japanese, so I won't kill it.' and he send to nannban temple(南蛮寺) and after that there is nothing about him. if he is Samurai or Bushi which is inportant figure, he would be killed or taken prisoner and executed. but he didn't. And Bushi and Samurai is different, In sengoku period, Samurai is high rank Bushi who achieve great success in militaly conduct, which is not applicable for his case and we(japanese people) are really angry UBI such a dishornest behaviour day by day, more and more info about UBI's evil thing is appear, and more angly we are. if you think I am lying, please search in youtube "アサクリ 弥助". You will plenty find out of what japanese feel and think about this game and UBI even this search word itself dosen't contain negative word. Sorry my english is Bad, I'm a just japanese person ------ なんか「自分は日本人だよ」っていうとgoogle翻訳使ってるなりすまし日本人って言われるらしいので俺の原文も載せとくね。これを英語で翻訳かけてもう一度日本語に再翻訳してみて。全然違う意味の伝わらない文章になるから。 以下原文↓ 弥助が武士だった、というのは小姓という武士の職業だっという点においてそうだと思う。ただ小姓っていうのは主に将軍の身の回りの世話や雑務を行うのがメイン。よく美少年が選ばれたらしく、男色の対象になることも珍しくなかった(衆道) 彼が戦ったという記録は本能寺の変のみで、その本能寺の変の記憶はその場にはいなかったイエスズ会の本の中で書かれているもので、その場にいたどの日本人の日本史の記録にものこってないから客観性や信ぴょう性にかける。（実際、歴史研究家の間ではそれほど重要視されていないらしい 仮にそれが真実だったとしても、刀を差出せと言われてそれを差し出し、「黒奴は動物で何も知らず、また日本人でもない故、これを殺さず」「インドのパードレの聖堂に置け」と光秀がいって逃がし南蛮寺に預けられ、それ以降の足取りについては何も残っていない。 武士と侍は定義が異なり、戦国時代における侍は「戦で大きな武功を挙げた、武士の上位階級」で、この定義では彼は侍ではない。 で、これに私たち日本人はマジで怒ってる。UBIの不誠実かつ嘘つきな対応、言動、日を追うごとにどんどんひどいものばかり出てきてもはや"嫌悪"までいってる。 もし俺が嘘ついてると思うなら、「アサクリ 弥助」で検索してみて。めちゃくちゃ日本人の切れてる動画やコメントがみつかるから。検索ワードには何もネガティブな和戸を入れていないにもかかわらずね。
@@poma5969 調べてみたら、確かに小姓だったと明記されてる資料ないっぽいですね。刀持ちをしたこともあったとかの状況的なところから小姓が「当てはまるように見える」なぁ、という感じだったのか…彼の地位を指すのは扶持を与えたという家忠日記に書いてあるのがあるくらいなのかな。あ、でもこれも信長から給料もらってた、というだけで地位でもなんでもないか… となると武士ですら怪しいな…なんでこれで侍だとか言い出したんだ。ひでぇや。 教えてくれてありがとう！ Apperently iIwas wrong. He is not sure Kosho cause there is no historical fact. he did sword bearer sometime is a fact, and got 扶持 but that's it. not even sure if he is a Bushi or not, I really wander why they say he is a samurai...
@@poma5969 The only place where I can find that Yasuke was referenced by name was a book published in 2018, Sengoku Jidai Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu: Three Unifiers of Japan by Danny Chaplin. That book is a good read but it has about as much accuracy as using Romance of the Three Kingdoms to study the Ancient Han. His writing was very inconsistent because he kept calling Yasuke the black samurai but titled Yasuke as Nobunaga's page. Yasuke was never referenced by name in historical documents. Gyuichi Ota only recorded Yasuke being presented to Nobunaga along with his physical appearance and never referenced Yasuke's name. He then spent another paragraph praising Nobunaga. The letters from the missionaries also only mentioned Yasuke being summoned to see Nobunaga and the Japanese's reaction to seeing a black man. The 2019 book African Samurai The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Thomas Lockley & Geoffrey Girard is just plain rubbish. It is historical fiction being sold as an autobiography. The citation in Wikipedia that Gyuichi Ota's Shincho Koki mentions Yasuke being given a title, a name, a kodachi and a house came from a huffington post article. Truly, journalist are the worst.
I still haven't figured out why the first AC game set in Japan doesn't have a Japanese MC. I'm guessing when they set one in sub-Saharan Africa it'll have a Canadian lead.
because a strong black main character in a asian based setting is better than a strong asian male character in these rainbowed haired people's eyes but it's blatant racism & prejudice. just play Ghost of Tsushima which is leagues better this hot trash of a Ubisoft game & you get to play as one character instead of 2 with a better story than whatever Ubisoft comes up with.
There is another MC named Naoue and she is Japanese, i think but i do agree tho that the playable characters in an assassins creed should be from the country/area that is most representative of its culture. Not just a diversity sake and just a blatant obvious one at that as well..
The corporation being mad cause someone else wants to own their copy of the game: _Those nasty pirates wanting to legally purchase and own their copy of the game!_ The same corporation using an asset without permission: _Carry on, nothing to see here._
I actually got permabanned from a subreddit for 'white supremacy' due to this controversy. Being called that is extremely offensive to me because that is just not what I am. I refused to get in line with their agenda of 'if you don't like that the two character choice for AC Shadows is a black man and an Asian woman, you are a bigot'. I objectively explained my take on things, that shoe horning a black man into a Japanese (despite the fact that he existed, he was probably not a samurai) would be like shoe horning in a white guy to be a Zulu warrior, and I got permabanned for being a 'white supremacist'.
no worries, the very first mod will change Fentanyl-san into proper japanese man. And creator of that mod will be perma banned by leftist Nexus admins ;)
I hope Japan realizes a lot of us realize how stupid this is. I'm also black and angry at this BS. Full on disrespectful towards their culture. What's even more disgusting is it's a Japanese or Japanese descendent leading this crap. There's some interview of her.
...I hope Japan bans this game from their country... (It wouldn't be the most ridiculous reason to ban a game. There are some games that are outright banned or censored in places like Greece, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Australia, and China for even wilder reasons.)
@@NaisanSama I mean.. Kinda? But RE8 was still sold and played in Japan. I'm talking like outright "We will not sell it in our country because we found it too offensive." It would say a lot than a bunch of angry reviews from Westerners, when the main country it's set in doesn't want it to sell copies in it. It really shows just how badly they messed up.
@@ShahroozSmith SBI contributed with it if I remember, so that would also be the reason for it's terrible presentation and how they inaccurately portray Yosuke.
@@NaisanSama Oh for sure, and just from what they did with Yasuke shows that they don't seem to care what Japan's input is as they seem more interested in marketting to the West to push this message and rewrite history to fit their own warped false history. It's Netflix's Cleopatra all over again.
The fact that there's still people defending this game is funny to me. Like, Imagine defending a DEI-ified Game that only ticks boxes and uses Other Country's Culture to pander to a Minority in the U.S that has been given too much rights and special benefits. Couldn't be me, a Southeast Asian 😅
Man i haven't seen anyone defending this game. You have to actively search for that. Tbh this gives me who headache. Probally gonna buy the game when its on the grey market or something like that because you must be stupid to buy a game for 70 bucks
Unfortunately, officials would not be taking such drastic measures against a mere game. I do wish Japan as a people were a little bit more hot-headed, but I guess that's one of the reasons Ubisoft thought they can get away with re-writing history. I saw another concept art where there is this one town-folk who looks very much Black, just inserted non-nonchalantly among Japanese folks. I guess Ubisoft wants to fabricate history for Black folks for a time-period sicne they themselves had little recorded history in Africa.
I was very uncomfortable watching the Assassin's Creed Shadows PV. I now understand how Westerners see Japan. I understand what Hiroyuki Sanada meant when he filmed the Shogun, saying that he wanted to eliminate the misconceptions Westerners have about Japan. By the way, even if Yasuke had been a white character, the same problem would have arisen. That's because Assassin's Creed Shadows gives us a glimpse of the racist idea that Westerners unconsciously have, that we are the most intelligent and other races are inferior. I've heard that Chinese and Koreans feel the same way about Assassin's Creed Shadows and have criticized it. It's amazing that Japan, China, and Korea, who are usually not on good terms politically, can share the same opinion. I have no intention of playing this kind of game, but I'm looking forward to seeing what UBI will do about the unauthorized use of existing Japanese organization flags.
I wish more people would watch this video because it shows how cowardly and racist UBI Software is. And thank you for making this video. UBIソフトがいかに卑怯で差別主義者なのが分かるので、もっとたくさんの人にこの動画を見てほしい そしてこの動画を作ってくれてありがとうございます UBIマジ許せねえ
The game's not just racist toward Japanese people, it's overtly racist toward black people two. Literally putting hip hop as fight music for a black man that never set foot on the American continent is wild. Crazy how the people trying the hardest to not appear racist are the most racist of them all.
An Assassin's Creed game about ninjas was the freest 'W' since Disney bought itself a license to print money with the Star Wars IP. It seems like the leaders of the entertainment industry have mastered the art of seizing defeat from the jaws of victory.
The sad thing is that it will still make a lot pf money for them. I even know people who despite agreeing with the criticism of the game so far wants to buy it to see how bad it gets.
@@jakob3044 I know what you mean. The thing is you will still end up directly supporting all the other things they do as well. There is no avoiding that. Things like that gradually erode everything good as companies find out more and more how much they can get away with.
As a japanese person who haave been wanting an assassin creed in japan my whole life i feel violated ngl They took my culture and twisted it into their own virtue signalling money farm Im boycutting ubisoft and any youtuber covering ac from now on Ngl it hurts emotionally knowing ill never get a proper assassin creed game where i can play as a ninja And all because of virtue signalling Its getting to a point where it feels racist when they want diversity... And just because japan is a wealthy country people attack me for my opinion on assassin creed... But im pretty sure a game about african culture wouldnt let a yellow protagonist fly Racism seems to have come full circle Tbh im kinda glad im choosing to join club 27 cause with the way the world is going i honestly dont want to witness it.
Ubisoft probably took one look at the flag, not even bothering to translate what's written on it, coded it into the game and said "oh this looks Japanese enough. This'll do."
Lets be clear, if you are telling one group its fiction, but telling the other it's historical fact, is a sure fire way of saying "we are bullshitting both groups" because unfortunately, its a case of "you must be one or the other, you cannot be both in this regard". also, black listing the country and making it impossible for Japan to access the information is beyond scummy.
UBI may have used not only this flag but also photographs by "Kusakabe Kinbei" held by Nagasaki University Library without permission. The relevant images exist on a site called "Global Database of Old Japanese Photographs," and permission is definitely required for their use, as well as payment of usage fees. Additionally, the usage guidelines state that images must not be modified, but UBI has modified them in the concept art of a port town.
Even if the defenders said "it's to represent the historical battle" here's the funny thing: The game set in 1579. Sekigahara battle happened in 1600. They represent a battle that didn't happened 21 years later. The group with that flag were relatively new. I can't find the exact date because there's no archive about them before the twitter post, but apparently it's a reenactment group, so probably from mid 90s or late 2000s. So yeah, Ubisoft is basically stealing a trademarked name.
Moreover, why would a rifleman group likely sourced from further east or much further west name themselves after the battle site? And why would they name themselves after their battle site anyway. Everyone given guns in this period were samurai, not peasants who might care more about their hometown.
@@donutbevil9669 Ghost was pretty unfaithful in many respects, especially the original English script which is pretty tropey, what Japanese people fell in love with was a hyper localized version which changed the script to include period accurate terminology. (kinda reminds me of an anime called Romeo x Juliet that was dubbed into Shakespearean English) Also the Mongol Empire forces were very poorly represented, at best 'evoke' some of the aesthetics they had going on.
@@thexenoist3493 didn't matter. The japanese loved it so much, the local government actually made them ambassadors of Tsushima island and now the island is basically a big tour of the game's event.
Yasuke declares, "For justice!" As he shouts this, the place where he rampaged with brutal fighting was actually governed by the lord of Fukuchiyama Castle, who, according to historical records, was highly esteemed by the local residents for his good governance. To fabricate a stage for Yasuke to execute justice, UBI twisted historical facts, portraying the lord of Fukuchiyama Castle as imposing tyranny solely because of his association with the Akechi forces. He had to endure damage to his reputation for the sake of UBI's "correct history," which did not even undergo proper investigation. If Yasuke truly aimed to enforce justice, wouldn't it be against the Jesuit missionaries who enslaved him and brought him to Japan?
It looks like they didn't have any actual japanese experts and they resorted to " looks japanese enough to me " and they're just putting it in and securing it with duct tape and elmers glue. Reminds me of mechanics just banging on cars with hammers hoping no one notices they're not actually working.
Some foreigners say that the Japanese discriminate against blacks, but that is not the issue. They are making it an issue because they say Yasuke is a historical fact or faithful to the Samurai, for which there is no evidence. There was a white samurai movie but it was accepted because they didn't say it was historical fact. Japan made a movie called "Afro Samurai" and the main character of the popular Japanese robot anime series "Gundam" was a black man. They are just discriminating against those who are desperate to use black people and disrupt Japanese history and those who believe in the history created by video game companies.
Can we all just agree that the only reason they chose yasuke was to check the race and diversity box? Let's be real, that's what we're actually mad about.
Ubisoft: *sees current Japan things* Still Ubisoft: *Inserts current Japanese things in Feudal Japan* Also Ubisoft: This is historically accurate Japan
Also, hip-hop music is blended into traditional japanese music for its gameplay. A. hip hop music existed WAY LATER than the time period of Oda Nobunaga B. WTF?
@@TheHammerGuy94 Had to listen with combat music on previous titles specifically 1-4 It's traditional music of the specific location with modern twist. This breaks my immersion with this context. Atleast, they could've used WAGAKKI BAND-inspired music... But no...
The battle of Sekigahara that the group reenacts was in 1600, but the game is set on 1579. How can a riflemen squad of Sekigahara be a thing at all, before the battle itself? 🤣🤣
Presumably from sekigahara, but thats anachronistic too, since detachments of trained career soldiers wouldnt be celebrating their homeland in their banner. They'd be celebrating their house or lord.
People only cared because they tried to gaslight us into believing it was historical fact (look at the army of wiki editors for yasuke page and youtubers claiming this, he was not a samurai nor would any stretch of the imagination make it so, even including "social class" in the definition) and not to mention the obvious reasons why they were doing this.
I prophesy. It won't take 10 years for the Japanese to start saying, ``The Japanese have covered up their history, appropriated the samurai, a black culture, and made it their own.We need an apology and reparations.''
The moment i saw the trailer all hype died for me lol, you know you have dropped the bag when you offended the japanses even tho countless games are made with themes of japanese history, ubisoft is just allergic to success
its funny how they call us racist about the situation but even japan themselves doesnt like what they are doing with this game hmm pretty ironic that us normal thinking brain ppl can call out the dumb stuff in this game
The funny thing is: this is probably the result of bad research. Someone probably google image searched, found a historical reinactment and thought the banner designs were actually based off a historic design and therefore, public domain
@@wumpusrattheir japanese expert is literally nothing more than a DEI yaoi fangirl that conned a college degree out of trying to scour historical records for her homoerotic fantasies.
This is a very historical game when Ubisoft is accused of insulting Japanese culture and this is an obvious fiction when Ubisoft is pointed out to objective errors in the concept and writing.
Oh, it's very "historical" ...in a way they probably don't want it to be... with all the backlash and screwups that happened. Ideally, if this screws over certain DEI consultancies for *not doing their jobs properly* (and picking fights on the web and inserting racism into games instead) and opens those guys up for a lawsuit for damages... possibly even more 'historical' in a rather amusing manner
Japanese people are also finding out that Ubisoft used many early photos from Meiji-era Japan in another concept arts from AC Shadows. Many of these photos are properties of museums and probably needs citation at least... fyi Meiji-era is about 250~300 years later than the time when Yasuke was around. I'd post a link to the info, but apparently comments with url are blocked.
So they're bad at history, they're bad at translating stuff into Japanese, and they can't even be bothered to create original assets for their game. It's like they WANT this game to fail!
The really sad part about this is, Nioh 2 made a game involving Yasuke from the feudal era, and despite the game being completely fictional with the whole demon thing, they didn't proclaim that he was a samurai. It's even listed in his bio in the game that he was a retainer for Oda Nobunaga.
It's a different thing when it comes to sporting events or a country's anniversary to use a flag. This probably is a whole different thing altogether. Ubisoft shouldn't use the flag of a rifle corps without proper permissions. It's like using real logos in videogames and anime (Tiger and Bunny as a key example) and not being able to rerelease them without changing/removing said logos and whatnot for rereleases. Ubisoft needs to cut this crap out with their constant disrespect to Japan. I hope the Sekigahara Rifle Corps are able to remove their flag from the game altogether. Permissions are of great importance and should always be a key requirement.
I wonder if it’s a good story that a Japanese slave who went to the West on a historical drifting ship became the strongest knight of the legend, played a great role in the 100-year war, saved England and France, and became the foundation of the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. It’s not a historical fact? No, it doesn’t say anywhere that he’s not there, so he was there.
Use of the Sekigahara Rifle Corp flag with permission could have been an uplifting and respectful nod to Japanese culture. Not everything with a historical game has to be 100% accurate, and their flags being featured are an example of something that "could have been true". What's going on with Western Game Journos crapping all over Japan? Turns out that Westerners are fleeing western entertainment in droves, and picking up Japanese products instead. It's not enough for Marxism to infect the Western Entertainment, but it has to infect or destroy alternative media also.
i find it funny how so many corpo shills try so hard to say "well assassin's creed isn't known for it's historical accuracy" but the company behind it is telling everyone but japan that this is historically accurate. just another, out of many reasons to not buy the game
reminds me of a story a teacher told me when I was in school for game development. The studio he was working for used a picture in their game. A picture that just happened to belong to a friend of this teacher. Said teacher notified the correct team about how that picture wasn't open for general use and they blew him off. He told his friend and the friend sued the studio after the game released. No idea what happened after; can't remember. Most likely he won and they had to swap out the texture.
These are the same people who'd tweet something derogatory or racist and then private their accound because they wasn't praised as the messiaha who spoke the truth
That one JP guy gets it.. it's not because Yasuke is black.. it's because they market it as historically accurate.. yes Yasuke was briefly mentioned, but he's nothing more than just a background character..
Doing a AC for the first time in Japan and choosing to make the protagonist a black guy in this day & age/social climate is pretty on the nose and in your face, even for Ubisoft.
