The "Yasuke" Disaster - Ubisoft's Nightmare
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- "Yasuke" (the subject of Ubisofts latest Assassins Creed: Shadows game, has become the subject of controversy after Historian Thomas Lockleys work was called into question over the authenticity of portraying Japans "First African Samurai" as a Legendary Hero.
With the Japanese Government now involved, and a tapestry of shady circumstances on display, the situation is best described as a public relations disaster... for a game franchise that is now at the center of a debate regarding cultural appropriation, and invasion.
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Wow!!!!! Awesome research and reporting on this! Thanks for helping to bring out the truth!
The day you stop putting the giraffe. I'm out.
You had a slip of tongue and accidentally said that "Ghost of Tsushima" copied "AC: Shadows" which is chronologically impossible
The netflix series about Yasuke is great, partially because it doesn't pretend that he is the normal average samurai.
Imagine getting your ass exposed as a fraud by an Ubisoft game.
The sight of $$ and the thought he will be even more famous was too much for him to resist. He got the fame and the paint but not the kind he was dreaming of. No doubt he's counting his dollars and cents in his hidey hole and scheming how he can turn things around.
No one in Japan knew that Yasuke had been the focus of attention outside of Japan for several years.
Perhaps someone deliberately hid it from the Japanese.
They did not want it pointed out that Yasuke was not a samurai, but just a powerful scullery maid.
The Quebecois frauded too greedily and too deep
@@PsychoRavager A black samurai is unlikely for many reasons so it would require alot of evidence per basic logic. Williams Adams became a samurai and his wikipage is huge.
@@grahf6807 One would think the absence of the last name would be enough. All the knows peasant turned samurai took on a last name either from their liege lord or established their own (like Toyotomi).
This whole situation is the complete opposite of Ghost of Tsushima, where the creators were made ambassadors of Tsushima and invited to the island.
Such a good game... Ubisoft is sooo late to the party tbh
And its not even out yet 😂
This is not the only reason Ubisoft is getting hate. It’s because they are also closing down games people paid for, taking licenses away on digital games (see, The Crew) this company has gone downhill period. Let alone this nonsense.
@@porterde08
1. The company is not obligated to keep supporting the servers of a dead or unprofitable game. They can if they deem it fit shut the servers off on day 2 of a game's release and everyone who buys digital agreed with terms while doing so. It's a company after all and we're not running a socialism program over here.
2. The closing down games thing was blown way out of proportion and all they did was shut down random INACTIVE account that hadn't been used for a very long time. Again, it costs money to maintain them. But overall, I agree, they shouldn't be able to do this at least, even if people agreed to some vague terms.
@SmileyJesse of course ubi is free to shut down old games if they want to. It's still a good reason to stop supporting them as a company when you know they'll shut down your favourite game at nay moment
"My source is I made it the fuck up"
Appears so.
there are frightingly many people who find nothing wrong with that approach
Ubisoft:
"Imagine a world Raiden, free of cancel culture, where no one can call me out for my outlandish claims, a word where I can say the N-Word!"
Also, may I add that even though this is a meme, after this dialogue "collective unconscious" starts playing as a background music, a song that literally has in its lyrics this:
[Live in ignorance
And purchase your happiness
When blood and sweat is the real cost
Thinking ceases, the truth is lost
Don't you worry
You'll be told exactly what to do
I give my people the lives they need
The righteous will succeed]
It's...sad how parody becomes real life sometimes...
strange, thats the same source used by all woke studies graduates
Another important thing to note is that Thomas Lockley wrote in his book that "owning black slaves was a trend among daimyo (warlords) in feudal Japan" and even implied that Portugal was actually against it at the time. Never seen a more outrageous, baseless historical lie in my whole life.
What a Portuguese propaganda to demonize Japanese people
>Portugal against slavery
>Brazil being the last of America countries to abolish slavery because of portugal colonialists.
Stfu
Yeah like, wasn't Yasuke at least the only black guy in Japan?
You left out the reason why the hip-hop soundtrack for Yasuke was ridiculed: hes from Africa, *NOT* African American and these geniuses looked at him and went "well hes black so obviously we need a hip hop track!", he's the only character with a song like that in the game
It's not even 100% certain Yasuke was even African. All we know is he was a black skinned slave owned by Portuguese, he could have been a black skinned Indian just as well.
They're catering the game specifically to a small subset of the population of the united states' basically
He could have even been Papuan/Melanesian or Negrito from SE Asia.
@@Chestyfriend There are mentions of Yasuke's physique being large which was what garnered Nobunaga's interest in the first place, his brief description fits Africans more than other dark races in Asia who typically have the same sizes as Japanese.
@@madensmith7014that doesn't disprove him, men of large physique exist among every race.
A former Ubisoft employee leaked the original concept for Japanese AC game, in which you would play as a Japanese shinto monk turned ninja-assassin uncovering Jesuit conspiracy. It sounded much better than whatever this is.
That sounds so good considering the history Japan has with christianity.
But then Ghost Of Tsushima came out and it was too similiar to their story so they went with this dogwater
This would've made much more sense for the game seeing the templars would back the jesuits, it would've been the perfect setting.
Then a consultancy firm got involved, they put a chick in it, a black guy and made it gау. 😂😂😂
Damn, that sounds interesting compared to whatever the fuck they are doing with a rando female kunoichi and black samurai savior against....Japanese Templars or something (god, the marketing is so ass for this game)...
You know a AAA gaming company really screwed up when you make a country call out your game! It’s like NETFLIX got sued by EGYPT because of their portrayal of CLEOPATRA.
it's indeed a very similar story
ahem, you mean QUADRUPLE AAAA GAME COMPANY
I really wish western countries would stand up for themselves the same way Japan and Egypt have. It's depressing how people have been brainwashed to be ashamed of their own culture and how having any semblance of pride in their nations is seen as a bad thing.
@@qu1253because they blurred the lines between nationalism and patriotism
@@kanaria-cu3uvthey are aaaaa company after star wars outlaws 😂😂😂
The funniest part of this stupid controversy is defenders going from "Yasuke _was_ a samurai, learn your history!" to "It's historical fiction, not reality" the moment the validity of the claims was put in doubt.
It's the same every time. Nobody cares either way about truth. It's all about owning the opposition. They will move the goalposts at every chance.
You also dont care about the truth. Lots os blond, blue eyed samurai in video games and in movies and no one says anything.
We have been playing white caracters forever but god forbid you play a main caracter that is black.
@@carlosemanuelmartins1305Nobody wanted a white samurai. We want a Japanese samurai.
Outside of Yasuke, there is one thing people keep missing when comparing Shadows to Ghost of Tsusima. Shadows goes to the cliche Sengoku period, while Ghost takes place a few hundred years earlier, when the enemy is an outsider, Mongol Invasion. And your fighting for, essentially your homeland. Not to mention Ghost was made with utmost respect and knowledge, unlike Shadows.
Yasuke's inclusion in Shadows is a disgrace, but even looking past him, the game just looks like shit, imo. The combat, the animations, even the graphics; it all just looks mediocre at best, complete dogshit at worst. This is even more apparent when you consider this game's direct competition is Ghost of Tsushima.
Ironic when you consider which of the two games was accused for "cultural appropriation" by the Twitter mob.
@@Xazamas "It's alright when _we_ do it."
I'm glad Ghost of Tsusima exists in this world.
We now know how Assassin's Creed Shadows was created with a stupid policy.
@@darwinxavier3516We should change to qoute to "it's justified when we do it" because they aren't just doing it themselves they believe it's morally correct for them to "fill in the gaps".
I recall one comment that Ubisoft made. "We knew when we found Yasuke, we'd found *our* Samurai." And it was from that that I knew, they were not inspired by the story of Yasuke, but by his color, a perfect opportunity to inject diversity, and really nothing more than that. But yeah, I was never going to buy it anyway. I hate Ubisoft games.
And what kind of "diversity" is that, if it's disdainful of the Japanese in a game supposedly about Japan?
They only see Yasuke as a black, not even a human.
@@kuiluIt’s often the left that salivate and focus on color.
Unfortunately, quite true.
@@spookybukwas yasuke not japanese? also the second main character exists
The thing that was always well researched was the environment. Venice was almost museum worthy. In shadows, we see blooming cherries, green growing rice, and baskets of persimmons on the same screenshot. This is like 3 seasons at once. It's like someone just put anything japanese-y he could think, not caring that one grows in spring and the other in fraking fall. They just didn't care at all.
I actually didn’t know any of that about their growing seasons. Thank you!
Didn't they also just randomly toss in torii gates throughout the villages without a thought as to what they represent and how they are used?
@@TH3SHUR1F Not only that but seasons and their differences are actually REALLY important in japanese cultures. It is one of the pain points you can see a lot of japanese youtubers mention. I honestly don't think it it possible to be so blatantly inaccurate and ignorant as Ubisoft if you even just do some random google searches about japan. So no way they asked actual historians or even just actual japanese people with credibility.
@@headkicked Yep, they show a village and at the entrance to the village is a Torii gate. Torii gate are basically entrances to shrines/temples specifically and most definitely not a random "decor" for the entrance to a village.
I've been playing the Ezio Collection. What a sight it still is to go through AC2, Brotherhood and Revelations and see the detail and love put into the environments.
All three games still hold up just on the care put into the maps.
I know I make multi-hour critiques about Zelda games and anime, but IRL I'm a historian myself and so I want to give my two cents on this situation:
Thomas Lockley is honestly a symptom of the larger problem with most historians in the modern day. My time at University was honestly depressing, because I quickly came to realize that the majority of my professors were more interested in weaving narratives then they were about actually relating historical facts to the common man. I remember one book I read during my undergraduate years that irked me in particular; it claimed to be a historical telling of Native American life in northern California during the Gold Rush, but it made so many outlandish claims throughout its entirety without any substantial primary or even reputable secondary sources to back them up. The author's bibliography almost seemed to be deliberately written in such a way so as to make it impossible to fact check her sources. I did anyway, and found that she pulled most of her 'facts' out of thin air. This was an award-winning book, being taught at a UC... and it was completely unsubstantiated by real facts or sources.
Soon enough, I found that writing research papers which weaved social-positive narratives into the history awarded me with better grades than presenting actually useful research. I became so jaded, that I even wrote an entire piece about the historical diversity of our local city which completely contradicted the actual data I had on hand - and I got an A+ for it. Why? Because I weaved a narrative which championed historical diversity in a city that, frankly, was ethnically homogenous until the 1970's - facts be damned. In no way do I wish to disparage the intentions behind such narratives; it's good that people care about the plights of the little peoples of the world (as my favorite Professor would always say), and having Historians focus on telling those stories isn't by any means evil. But the modern University system is dominated by historians who have no qualm about twisting real facts if it means supporting their own socio-political cause.
So look at it from Lockley's point of view: you exist in a world where fact-based historians are labelled as "Imperialists" (real terminology one of my professors used, by the by), and where the only way to actually gain some academic recognition (at least in the west) is by presenting a topical story with a social-positive message. You're studying history in one of the most ethnically homogenous nations on the planet (Japan), so your options are limited. But one night, as you're pouring over a couple primary sources from the Sengoku era... you spot mention of a black man who served Oda Nobunaga as a retainer. No one's ever heard of this guy - and for good reason, as practically nothing was written about him. No one would know if you decided to just... add a couple details - stretch the term "retainer" to automatically mean "Samurai," throw in a few superfluous fluff pieces, and misrepresent a local's oral history as a reliable source (the oldest trick in the book; Herodotus himself used it all the time). How can anyone fact check you if nobody knows the facts? And to ensure his success: Lockley edits the bare-bones Wikipedia page on Yasuke just months before his first book's release date, completely covering his tracks until some soulless corporation decided to make a game about the guy ten years later.
It's actually genius - if I also had no conscious, I'm sure I could try to pull off a similar trick with Russian history (since that's my area of expertise, and the current War in Ukraine has made that topical enough to sell a few books). Alas - I chose to anonymously publish overly long Zelda reviews during my free time instead.
Good video, man: it was a really level-headed take and you presented the facts respectfully. That's hard to pull off when the subject matter is this topical.
Thanks for this insight!
This is a really good comment
based
Your confusion comes from believing that truth matters as much as ideology, it does not. Particularly it does not when concerning fanatical idealoges; AKA the only people allowed tenure in modern Academia
@@1dismantler Yeah, well: I was just a bright-eyed teenager when I first entered University, and I had a couple amazing educators back in high school who filled my head with hopes and dreams. I couldn't have known what the university system was actually like until I got experience in it.
It actually even more horrible. Japanese people are finding out stuff after digging, and one of those was the fact that Lockley's fictional "historic facts" are actually being taught and referenced as facts in Japanese school books for grades 5 or something (I forgot). And his "teachings" aren't even limited to just Yasuke. He has stuff like "The Pillow Book" of Sei Shonagon when the actual title is "Introductory Chapter" (from the Japanese words for Introductory Chapter which is "Makura Kotoba", which can also be translated to "Pillow" and "Word/Language"). Lockley has been using his connections to teach his version of history unto unsuspecting Japanese future generations, while the English version of his writings are portraying a different context and meaning which is blatantly Historical Revisionism and gaslighting using a two-faced manner via language barriers. It is not at all surprising that his defender is an actual Communist Party member in Japan, whose specialization is apparently related to historic revisionism.
Commies.
Why is it always commies?
At least one good thing has come out of this; the Japanese are finding out their history is being rewritten and subverted by an outsider and some of their own bad people. I think this may start a witch hunt on what else has been fabricated by outsiders and taught to Japanese students in the classrooms.
Ma-kura also able to be translated into 'Pitch Black'. Which is pretty much sth like Black words/language. wtf lol.
Something good has come out of this. The Japanese are finding out that outsiders are meddling with their history.
@@Mythriaz You are a genius.
Please refer Lockley, a seriously ill patient, to a reputable mental hospital.
Assassins Creed should NOT star a historical character, it should star a LOCAL that "works in the background like a shadow".
And that's the thing from beginning. Almost all assassinations target and every prominent NPC were actually historical figure.
But then, Syndicate introduced fictional assassinations target probably to not insult the British.
@@gilangadlisdastifa7464 _Syndicate_ was ground zero for the wokeification, right from when you boot it up.
@@jmal Plus it trying so hard to simplify Unity parkour mechanics it turn into miserable mess.
Also, Starrick kiss Jacob? You do know how little it narrows down.
Well that’s what the 2nd main character is
exactly, but using a real historical character was the only way to justify putting black people into feudal Japan.
From what I understand, the only actual evidence that Yasuke even existed was a single journal entry that mentioned him. Thomas Lockley wrote an entire book about Yasuke on nothing but a single journal entry that I believe is only one or two sentences long. It's completely fiction.
Yeah?
.....but what if?
Edit: apparently my sarcasm wasn't clear enough
He basically wrote and published an entire fanfiction where the prompt was a single journal entry.
No? Journals from Jesuits and odas own personal journals confirm he existed. He was a koshos( a page)
My man turned a historical foot note into his own historical fan fiction and passed it off as real.
HIS ENTIRE CAREER BUILT OFF IT.
LUL.
LMAO
@@TheOrangeRoad Yeah, not going to happen in feudal Japan. The Japanese of that time period viewed foreigners as savages. At best they would have tolerated him.
Sakura trees blooming next to farmers planting rice next to persimmon baskets (seasons are very important to the Japanese and these three things do not belong together), bamboo despawning, Yasuke LIFTING A SAMURAI ON HIS SWORD (would dull the blade and is wholly unrealistic), really badly choreographed katana fighting, samurai saying "I am Justice!", when Naoe assassinates the guy from out of the water, his body has to glitch into the correct position for the assassination animation to work, torii gates used as doorways to villages lel (extremely disrespectful), Chinese architecture, wrong Kanji used on promotional materials, buying a sword from One Piece and passing it off as Yasuke's sword at an in-person event, wrong flags in the backgrounds, stealing real world flags from real world reenactment groups, Yasuke having one sword when traditionally, samurai had two, the longer katana and the shorter wakizashi, wearing full samurai armor when in town (easily fixable, just have you hitch your horse upon entering a town, and take off the armor), Naoe openly carrying a sword (this is a no-go as 1. a shinobi and 2. as a woman who is not a onna-musha, i.e. a warrior woman of a clan; again, easily fixable, have you pick up your weapons hitman-style before you infiltrate somewhere and have all of her stuff happen at night), AND the preorder "bonuses" being Chinese in nature and definitively NOT Japanese (no dragons on heraldry in Japan and that horse armor is 100% Chinese).
We don't even need to talk about Yasuke anymore. THESE are the problems with this game.
Yeah lifting a man on a samurai sword took me out of it 🙄
@@Kevin-mx4vm Dude, I saw that in the trailer and I was drinking tea at the time and I almost died from the choking hazard that scene brought to me it was so bad. THEY thought it was so cool not only does he do it in the gameplay trailer, but he ALSO does it in the fully CG rendered cutscene in the AC Shadows main trailer. They think it's the most coolest thing evar.
Thank you for this in-depth breakdown. So many think that everyone just has a problem with yasuke and "oh you're just mad cause he's black" or "there's a Japanese protagonist already" when in reality it's much more than that. This is a direct insult to the Japanese culture, and now that the real history of yasuke is out, no one can argue that it's "racism". And yes AC isn't the most historically accurate game, but this is just downright terrible.
@@retro6309 Thank you for your kind words. A lot of the discourse surrounding this game is just people talking past each other without really understanding each other and its been rewarding to have people reach out and see the trees rather than the forest.
Aw who cares, nerd.
When James Clavell wrote Shogun he deliberately used different names to create a fictional parable to historical events while trying to stay cultural accurate. When Ghosts of Tsushima was made, they used fictional character and clans of a true historical event while staying cultural accurate. When Ubisoft created Shadows they declared a fictional samurai to be historical accurate and smashed random stuff together for the cultural part.
I am reading Shogun now and enjoying it immensley. True care went into the story
And don't forget - Shogun is a revered book in Japan. The Japanese people LOVE it
Most AC games also used that technic.
Againd, storical fiction is all well and good.
Fabricating story.. Not so much !
Don't forget Zoro's sword!
Zoro is so lost that he somehow went back in time to give his sword to Nobunaga! (And he probably forgot)
Yeah but in ac3 gorge washingmachine was there and wanted alien technology and so did the time travellers
Its kinda funny, in the mid to late 90s we had this phase in american pop-culture where suits would inject hip-hop culture into pretty much EVERYTHING in order to make it cool and appealing to kids, by the early 2000s this had become a cliche and was generally mocked and satirized mercilessly.
Seems its making a comeback now under the guise of "diversity".
2005: "Jesus Christ is my n---a" *hip hop music*
2020: "Jesus Christ is woke like me, reeee! Dat shit be fire, homie!" *hip hop music*
Rather it was done to be subversive to the main culture, and it worked.
People raising a bunch of oblivious ice cream brained kids right now
Into everything indeed in the 90s, hip hop merch using sesame st to iconic candy characters etc. Now these woke brainwashed mush heads have absolutely no idea they are manipulated. Even fighting for less freedom in their lives.
It was used to corrupt American culture and values
So this "fiction writer" is the embodiment of the Metal Gear Rising meme huh
"Nice argument, senator, why don't you back it up with a source?"
"The source is that I made it the fuck up."
As a Japanese, I thank you for this detailed and very accurate video. I hope the truth about this fraud reaches as many people as possible!
Good on the Japanese for standing up to Ubisoft
if they don't stop it now it will only get worse. they sent a clear signal to anybody basing media on their history
pretty cool that this whole debacle exposed two historical frauds who managed to hide themselves between the language barriers
This is more of a “frog in a boiling pot” situation, they’re trying to test what they can get away with. They’ll continue to do this in the future until they’ve finally gotten the people in the area to blindly accept foreign intervention in their country.
Yeah... "japanese"
If this was a european country or the united states , you would call them rac-ist...
@@dedmen9713it is quite literally being brought as an issue to the japanese government, shy are you putting japanese in quotes?
Same kind of scholarship that produced the black Cleopatra.
Hey, the Roman Empire was full of prominent black citizens! Oh wait, no it wasn't. But wait, Egypt is in Africa, therefore everyone there is black! Oh wait...
We wuz kangz
Thomas Lockhart’s grandmother?
@@thagomizer8485not every pharaoh was Egyptian though, Alexander the Great became a pharaoh when he conquered Egypt who was Greek and she stemmed from him
@@diongrant6717 he was actually Macedonian, but this changes nothing about what I said.
So this entire thing was sparked by someones fanfiction
He also probably had a case of "The Writer's Barely-Disguised Fetish"
This is 50 Shades of Gray (Or black if you will) level of stupidity.
@@DioTheGreatOne He is of the tribe that may not be named. I am quite certain of that. They LOVE to undermine nations' histories and push propaganda... and Ubisoft took that fiction and ran with it. Those who do that are very likely of the same tribe. Once you notice the patterns, there is no back.
Dan Brown's DaVinci's Code comes to mind.
Wouldn't be the first time
Anyone who maliciously changes the history of another country is unforgivable.
Its just a game. Its not changing history.
@@NPC.......... Thomas Lockley is not a game, he's a foreign agent attempting to subvert Japanese culture.
@@NPC..........To be honest both sides of the argument I totally understand. They should just completely remove Yasuke from the game and leave Naoe as the only main protagonist if people are really that pissed off lol.
They didn’t change nothing its a video game
Yasuke existed tho? I don't get it.
Imagine having Hattori Hanzo in your roster and not utilizing him in a game.
Or Miyamoto Musashi
Or Masamune Date, Yukimura Sanada, Ranmaru Mori, Maeda Keiji, Isumo no Okuni, Tachibana Ginchiyo. Or interacting with Nohime, Nobunaga's wife, or Oichi his sister. Or Saito Dosan. God, I could name SO MANY famous people from the Sengoku Jidai I'd love to interact with and follow around. Like not having a protagonist tied exclusively to the Oda clan and surrounding environs means you could have had a shinobi interacting with people from all over. Would have been fantastic.
kiryu Kazuma, majima, taejima,!
If they really wanted someone to be gay, RANMARU MORI is right there bending over!
Also Hanzo Hattori would had been the best to write around. Since whoever is head of the clan gets called Hanzo, kinda like Hassan. The famous Hanzo Hattori is actually the 2nd one.
@@KharaChmiel god this list hurts. They were great people. Some good some bad. But it would have been incredible to have a more reverential look at them as people for better or worse. Hell just the story of Hideoshi Toyotomi and Mitsuhide Akechi's time under Nobunaga Oda, thats the plot of an entire game or movie right there.
They have one job, ONE JOB. Make a game about samurai and shinobi, then apply Assassin Creed element in it, instant success easy money, easy lore, just slap the already made AC system from their previous game to this game, and hire JAPANESE artist to to make the game asset, heck you can search online and there will be a lot of Japanese prop from that era and etc.
Yet they fail it. And completely failed to do that. Incredible, I'm so amazed that a company and IP such as Ubisoft AC capable to destroy their company and IP so badly with this simple and easy formula.....
I guess it is worth it for them to sacrifice the great potential of this game for their diversity agenda...
NO, they had TWO jobs. To make a game, and to create hype surrounding it. This accomplishes both.
"hire JAPANESE"
Looks like they did, but the wrong persons (for the job).
I don't mind Shadow turns out to be BL as long as it's good. But apparently it's not.
@@ronarnold1507 This is hype?
This is burning down your house for warmth.
Because Brain Rot WokeMindVirus payload dropping turds unto the minds of society is top priority, over true art and cultural excellency.
It's honestly better that this was all brought to light so spectacularly, otherwise who knows how long this historical revisionism would've continued.
Agreed. It needs to be seen and purged.
Oh boy, you have no idea the magnitude of historical revisionism the West is afflicted by. And you complain about a single thing that sticks out like a sore thumb of a foreign country. I can't even overtly tell you what I mean because (automated) censorship is too high. And there are cases of shadow-removed comments too.
Just imagine the revisionism that's less obvious that they ARE getting away with ;)
@@RavenThePlayer Oh, I was just talking about how comments are shadow-deleted and how historical revisionism occurs even here. And lo and behold, my other comment is invisible.
It's scary, I think it's one of "their" attempts that got caught..
Ubisoft is dumb. Japanese history is pretty well documented and full of very unique warriors and leaders that stand out in history. And they choose a fictional non japanese person with a fictional story to be one their main characters? And no other playable male characters? And this is in a time when their culture wasnt that welcoming to outsiders, other than trade, and women had little to no voice in national affairs. Aside from some big events, theres no grounds for any accuracy.
Here in the west when it comes to race and women and LGBT stuff most people dont care about realism and historical accuracy anymore.
@@CyberLance26 I'm here in the west too but I care to a degree! I get AC is all about chasing alien relics through basically time travel but I still want there to be realism for the time period, location, and how others interact with my character. It's not the race, LGBT, or sex that bothers me IF it's relevant or fits the setting. I'm just not able to get lost in the story and history or connected to the character(s) if nearly every interaction between the character(s) and NPCs is falsified. It's basically rewriting history to an extent that it all becomes wrong.
He is real
@@rodrigopadilla2144 no he's not all the wiki are lies by thomas and the scroll paint that not even yasuke
So a Japanese game with no Japanese male protagonists. How about an Assassin's creed based in Africa with no black male protagonists? Would that float?
See the recent Genshin Impact controversy lmao
Course not.
It's the same with everything
Everything is being blackwashed, even historical figures (ann Boleyn FFS) yet if we had "white panther 3 " these cretins would lose their fucking minds.
That would unironically be easier to believe. That being said, next to no one wants to revive the era where africa was treated like a cake by europe.
3 words. Resident. Evil. 5.
@@InvokeZero What historical figures were Resident evil 5 based on?..
Broadway also hosts a “historically accurate” Super Samurai Yasuke play.
Apparently, Thomas Lockley's poisonous fangs have bitten deeper into the world than we could have ever imagined.
I'm dizzy...
Lockley is telling religious zealots what they want to hear. Which is the point of what he's doing. Like Michael Bellesile two decades back, it's such a _good_ story (that is, one they want to be true) that nobody bothered to check that all the fine sounding information was made up by one guy.
Agenda pandering in Broadway? Say it aint so.
If they change that name to “Super Fiction Yasuke,” we'll be forgiven.
super “some lie.”
Japan was/is the last "westernized" country that still somewhat opposes the woke agenda due to its homogenous population.
This is an issue for our "elites" who do not want Westerners to see examples of first world countries doing good or even better than the US or Europe without DEI, wokism, or mass migration.
Western "culture," under US dominion, has become a toxic mess.
We all know (((who))) is pushing for all of this, and why, but I won't go into further details about it in a simple youtube comment.
Not surprised when Prince of Persia features a black dude with a gen z haircut instead of an olive skinned persian. Apparently that's not "ethnic" enough
Granted that guy wasn't the Prince of Persia
The slave of Persia didn't have the same ring to it... because the ring was stolen
@@MilanDamjaniccrazy what you learn when you actually play the game lmao
As for the Gen Z haircut the entire character cast is exaggerated and cartoony in a very stylized Gen Z way. If anything, it’s consistent
YEAH that pissed me off. I've been asking for a POP game since forever and they come out with THIS? I boycotted it.
Furthermore, POP doesn't even need to be Persian, the 2008 game wasn't Persian but his design is awesome and it's my favorite. POP Two thrones took place in Arabia, you can mesh the entire middle east with that franchise. And yet they chose the worst design.
I'm a Japanese. There was a black man called Yasuke. This is a fact. However no black samurai nor female ninja existed in Japan. These are pure fantasy. And Thomas Lockley is not a historian, he is just a language teacher and his book is a novel. The biggest problem is that there are people who insist that all of this is true, and that is what the Japanese are angry about.
他のコメントを翻訳してみてから書いた方がいいですよ。
ここでコメントをしてる人たちはそれをとっくに認知してもっと突っ込んだ話をしてます。
Female ninja would have existed , you just wouldn't know because it's like a secret(ninja are meant to be mysterious, just like spies).
@rissikesthiyagarajah2205 True, they would have had one specific use, prostitutes to get close to targets and get info or assassinate them. Literally their only advantage.
@@rissikesthiyagarajah2205 True, they would have had one specific use, using sex to get close to targets and get info or assassinate them.
The fact that he went into hiding after what he’d done shows that even he realized that he’d faked everything regarding his work. If not, he would stand his ground and fight.
Imagine being this screwed (I think he got fired from the university) because of a stupid video game from an over the hill game publisher and series
Nah, it doesn't show it. He may just not be intested in discussing it with the twitter mob. Like, if he is a university professor argue with bunch of nobodies in the net. Unless there are peer reviewed articles which show he made it all up, he has bo reason to react or care
Doesn’t always have to be that extreme though. Most people won’t go step to step with people who criticize their work or even support it in this type of media. Sure they’ll make a statement or something to the masses but there’s not going to be a rebuttal for every criticism
@@iammicrochip156 except there would be if Japan actually investigate this and it turns out he faked information, his entire academic name is on the line here, the moment ANYONE investigates his prior academic works and sees false information or him pushing some bs narrative and misrepresenting the facts his entire set of works could be thrown out and bard as being "factual".
OP is right, the fact he went into hiding is proof, this isnt some mob crying at devs, this is a claimed historian who seemed to have studied in Japan at some point (so got a degree from there etc.) this could all be thrown out if they feel his work is misrepresenting the facts so he has every reason to make a statement and fight.
@@HonestShell WAS a university professor, the university he was working at deleted him.
I am Japanese. Thank you for bringing up the Thomas Lockley case.
Thomas Lockley is associated with refugee aid organizations. Additionally, this aid organization has ties to human trafficking, poverty businesses, and cults. Furthermore, Thomas Lockley is not a historian. I'm a scammer. This guy makes fun of black people the most. All works that Thomas Lockley was involved in must be corrected.
You're a scammer? What do you mean?
@@vincelupo8419 I'm using Google Translate. There was a mistranslation. To be exact, Thomas Lockley is a fraud.
@@vincelupo8419Most likely an error from a translation tool. In Japanese, if the subject of your sentence is a pronoun (I, He, They,...), it is almost always omitted and inferred from context by the listener so translators struggle with that and most of the time assume an "I" even when it is not the case. Here, he clearly meant "He is a scammer"
Lockley is Jewish - that explains ALL of his behavior. Watch out Japan... The civilizational virus is coming for you :(
Thomas Lockley is jewish, so that explains his association with "refugee aid organizations" with ties to human trafficking. (See HIAS for example) He is definitely a scammer.
国会や日本大学など場所はどこでもいいからトーマス・ロックリーは早く公の場に出て説明や質疑応答すべきだ。彼にはそれだけの責任があると思う。
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Or do the samurai thing.. you know 😂
@@TheWerelf 切腹の事言いたいんでしょうけど、切腹は自らの信念を曲げずに死ぬことを許された名誉有る死に方。
彼にそんな事許される筈もない。
Why, he is not a historian.
"Why would you choose the only example of a samurai that's not even agreed as being a samurai?"
Oh, my sweet summer child. You know why.
thomas lockley is not historian. his job is language teacher, nor history expert or history teacher. the best we can call him is history enthusiast and with the book, historical fiction author. and there are many in japan who's like him, one example is yoshikawa eiji, the author of musashi, a novel about the life of miyamoto musashi. and no one in japan would call yoshikawa "historian"
Honestly I’m not surprised that Ubisoft did this. They kind of pulled the same thing in the AC3 main story with George Washington. Saying that he burned down Connors village in the year 1761(intro of the story) but Washington wasn’t even in command in that year. He was at his house. My point is that Ubisoft has proven that they are lazy when it comes to history and they let their ridiculous agendas ruin stories.
You believe it's laziness and not deliberate woke revision of history? Please
@@BossHOF whoa, hold your horses. I never said that’s the main reason. Also “Woke & Lazy”, well, that’s the same thing in my opinion. These people that have a crazy leftist agenda, want to push their own unrealistic views instead of writing a good story.
@@BossHOF Dude chill. being woke and lazy is the same thing. That’s my point
@@Steel-101 Ok, just wanted to make sure
They did explicitly make the distinction in the AC3 George Washington DLC that it was an alternate reality/dream.
They however, are not doing that with Shadows and Yasuke...
Ubisoft unironically be like:
"If we find the one African guy in all of feudal Japan and we make him gay, no one will be able to resist buying this game! *That's all the historical accuracy we need."*
Apparently Kathleen Kennedy moved to Ubisoft from Disney lol
lol
He is not African,didn't you hear the hip hop music in the background 🤣
@@FoxyCAMTV to them, African and African-American are synonyms.
@@Modeus. Makes you wonder how they would handle a game featuring Shaka Zulu. I wonder if that will finally wake the normies up...
Fun fact: We don't even know if Yasuke was actually African. The Catholic Jesuits that he came with arrived from India.
For all we know, Yasuke could be a tall Indian man or someone like me. A Negrito from Southeast Asia. I myself am extremely tall and big for some reason.
Because you ate your soup and slept well.
Any people with darker skin colors can be considered “black” (African) now in this political correct, woke world😂
These left narcissists are so pathetic
I never thought a French company would be responsible for leading to the Japanese to refute some long-lost historical myth of their own country. I've heard of this character several times from several people and in a few bits of Japanese media, but I never would have guessed all of it stemmed from one white guy rewriting Japanese history...
You'd be amazed at how much revision there has been. Check out what REALLY happened to the Library of Alexandria, for example.
It's far less inflammatory and anti-European.
@@zalfirwhat’s your take on the library? My understanding is that it’s been destroyed multiple times. Romans, Mongols, Muslims. They all had a crack at it.
I find no bias in its destruction. War is war after-all. Knowledge and innocence are lambs to the slaughter.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 Its single biggest disaster was the slow migration of scholars away from it.
The Romans burned the docks to prevent Queen Cleopatra's (cousin?) from landing his ships, it may have destroyed at a maximum, 10,000 scrolls.
By the time the Muslims got there, it was a Ship of Theseus version of itself, if the Ship of Theseus was slowly converted into a canoe.
Many people believe the Christians destroyed its final colleges, when it was actually a Muslim leader who said "if they (the works) agree with the Qu'ran, we have no need of them. If they disagree, burn them."
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 I tried answering but YT del's my comments for no reason.
The older I get, the more I get why teachers hate wikipedia.
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I'd argue for any history, religious or political (and I guess science) topics, I wouldn't trust it. But for topics like games, movies, or just something on the lines like that, i'd give t a 50/50 shot of trusting it, keeping any open mind that it may or may not be 100% true....
Yup. Sometimes I see something that makes me raise an eyebrow, so I go to the reference and it either doesn't say what was posted at all or it goes into circular references where the source goes to another source that doesn't have an origin.
Yup, now I understand the look in their faces when I made half my homework citing that website.
"One is a fluke, two is a coincidence, three is a pattern." Wise words that should be remembered
A fluke? The wokekolonization is well underway. They plotted, planned and executed the deeply racist "yasuke offensive" knowing exactly what they where doing. "Diversity" is racism.
Funny how one single man’s fetishized fan fiction can create a worldwide DRAMA 😂
Fetish? Do we use the same definition of fetish? Because to me this wasnt sexual at all.
@@NPC.......... Fetish can also mean "an excessive and irrational devotion or commitment to a particular thing".
@@silverkingisley6438 ohh that makes sense. My bad
Regarding Yasuke being a blank slate, Ubisoft has always made the playable characters for these games as new original and fictional characters. Now, all of a sudden, they wanted players to play as a historical figure? And of all the Japanese history, it just so happens that it’s an African in Japan. Let’s cut the crap and say what this really is. It’s DEI.
Good point
I am all for diversity and representation in games. DEI is not diversity and representation. If Yasuke was real and not a fanfic based on a single journal entry, I'd have no issues.
@Cyntaria well, he was real. He was not a samurai, though.
DEI is literally racist doctrine.
They are misappropiating Japanese culture and history and misrepresenting Yasuke because of DEI quotas. Diversity is not something that should be focused on, it is totally irrelevant in Western society because Western society is as diverse as it can get.
Ubisoft is actually racist.
Thank you! Finally someone said it.
@@Cyntariayou do know diversity and representation just means "Not white men", right?
Well its just borderline absurdity, they literally want to make him gay too! How the hell is the only black dude in Japan gonna sleep with dudes in that time period? Like this is just extremely baffling how they went around to making this game.
From stolen cosplay banners, from using literal anime katana hilts, to the Chinese architecture... Like what in the actual hell.
Have you seen the deluxe edition costume or whatever? It is literally a Chinese Dragon. Utterly outrageous.
Samurai's could be bisexual and no one would bat an eye.
That being said I don't find it terribly interesting.
It's not really a story that NEEDS to be told.
Because yes we come to AC games for the romance./s
TBF. Homosexuality was pretty widespread among the samurai class. However, I don't really expect a nuanced depiction by ubisoft
the way of bushido is literally grooming a young boy and sharing the bed. they were sadly always gay.
@@KaufDirGeld Where does this information come from? I'm always skeptical when certain people claim that X ancient society practiced homosexuality.
Also... just for future reference, Bushido means "Warrior Path", or "Way of the Warrior", in a literal sense, so there's no need to say "way of the way of the warrior".
AC formula was simple: your character is fictional, other characters are real, story is filling out the missing parts of history.
Ubi had to fuck it up
Yeah they could have had the player character meet Yasuke on a mission or something, then Yasuke wouldn't even need to be a samurai, could make him as accurate as they'd like.
He was a samurai@@Trazynn
@@BeepBoop2221no evidence for it
@@Trazynnyasuke had so much potential for historical fiction
Such as how he feels about nobunaga and all of that
@isauldron4337 yes there is, there are accounts from the period that he was the sword carrier for nobunaga and was given a pair of swords.
Born and bred in Japan here. TL;DR: Yasuke as a samurai only exists in Lockley's head, period😑
Yeah but dont be racist against my ppl they didnt make the game when something in history is change concerning them its always just get over it
Between this, Star Wars Outlaws and Skull and Bones, Ubisoft is having its worst year.
Let's hope 2025 is the worst, they shut down
Not bad enough probably
I want the Tom Clancy ip out of their hands
No one has actually been able to give any reasons why outlaws is a bad game, they just seem desperate for it to fail because "hurr durr woman be ugly", i absolutely despise all this woke nonsense but a lot of the anti woke crowd has become so reactionary to the point gameplay, graphics and story are being ignored because a female character is a bit potato faced.
@@mikeallan7740i am curious, did u already see the gameplay trailer ? It looks like a ps2 graphic. Sorry for my broken english. English is not my first languange.
@ 4:30 - the music isn't even the most egregious part here....
- The bountiful amount of food clearly shows there was recently a harvest.
- The cherry blossoms are in full bloom.
The former only happened in Fall/Autumn
The latter only happens in March/April.
Literal cheap fan service over objective historical reality.
UE being oddly soft about the direction of the game and believing the game will still sell well. We'll see in time how it goes...
@@sirgoreth9176Based on his comment about his personal opinion of Assassin's Creed, I don't find it odd but more misinformed. I don't entirely blame him either the AC community has started gaslighting people about the series to defend this game and he said he's not much of a fan.
@@65firered In the end it's all up to the normies. The diehard fans will buy it anyway, and detractors were never going to buy it. If it looks appealing enough for those in the middle to buy into it it'll have its success.
Now you know how I felt about Orgins.
Storks & herons only appear during the pre-winter season.
'Lockley says that Yasuke changed Japanese history', sounds like the only one that changed Japanese history was Thomas Lockley.
I actually had someone tell me that editing Wikipedia wasn't a big deal not too long ago. This is why I have a big problem with Wikipedia. It is not a trustworthy website, in my opinion. I know teachers who won't allow their students to use Wikipedia as a source for their book reports.
Indeed. the only real benefit of Wikipedia is you can check out the sources that are linked in the wikipedia page yourself and then use those sources- so long as you research them to make sure the person who linked to that source wasn't grossly exaggerating the text ofc.
@@stormsand9 Or they're the one actually writing the books on the sources lmao
@@kuraiaku2997 in that case you need to research the authors too
@@stormsand9 Good point, all of this won't happen if people researched who the author actually is.
トーマス・ロックリー氏は自身が注目を集めている現状にもかかわらず、ブリタニカの記事の書き換えを行ったようです。
……彼は泳ぎ続けないと呼吸が出来ない、サメか何かの仲間なのでしょうか？
The saddest part is this really could have been the greatest game in the AC franchise. It was literally a perfect condition to do Feudal Japan, and they completly shit the bed due to ideology.....
I could write a book about how Yasuke was actually a japanese guy who ran out of the burning building with Oda's head, covered in burned wood, coal and ash, and got the nickname "black samurai" because of it. And if anyone finds that offensive, I can call them ableist and burn-victim-phobic.
I will post the sources when I have some time :^)
Keep us updated XD
Godspeed.
I was looking for this.
thats offensive
Inb4 the sources are Lockley's book.
They really F'ed up. The games have always created fictional main characters, who would then interact with the historical ones and that was one of the things that always made the games appealing. The historical characters would speak and act like they probably would very loosely based on our understanding of them. Historical setting including basing the map on real locations was a hallmark of the franchise. However this time they tried to push that the main character was the _real_ character based on very little/no evidence and expected us to just accept it, like every other current day developer/producer/business/etc has. I'm glad this is blowing up in their faces.
funny enough Assassin's Creed historical accuracy was pretty high usually.
funny that UEG mentioned assassin's creed 3. i played that game with Wikipedia/the computer open and almost fact checked everything. and that was way before the misinfo craze, just because i was curious about the accuracy. i actually learned a lot about the revolution through a lot of trivia.
how george was a poor general but the best choice around, being very enthusiastic and passionate. how his life got saved by one of his commanding soldiers casimir pulaski, a Pole. about the hessians/ hessian marksmen.
what Ubisoft basically always did, is read Wikipedia and adapt that into fiction. except this time they fell prey to a grifter.
@@leoSaunders they fell prey to ideology. If Yasuke was another side character, no one would've cared if he was given the rank of samurai or not.
If everything about him was true, people still wouldn't be happy playing "asian-hate simulator 2024".
People want fantasy to escape the current day. The fantasy of being a samurai/ninja, not being the first and only black samurai in the entire country. Who is also gay.
@@jeronimo196 yes, it is really not a good look to make the MC black and have him walk around slaughtering native japanese people.
When stopasianhate happened, it got shut down quickly, when everyone realized that the majority of violent (hate) crimes that happened against asians were not done by whites, asians or latinos, but by predominantly black people.
I don't think I've met any Native American that was happy with their depiction in media except for a few exceptions. Good for the Japanese speaking up
I wonder what they thought about AC 3
@@panzer00 my buddy that plays games just finds it funny, he didn't care much about it. Asked him about Nightwolf too from mortal kombat. He just said they misrepresent us all the time so what's one more lol
@OrvilleWorrell the rational take is to not be offended by it tbh. People being offended by dumb bullshit is why this started happening
What are the few exceptions out of interest? Windtalkers? Last of the Mohicans?
@@artnull13Dances with wolves
I am half Japanese and half black and in all my years of going to visit my grandparents and family in Tokyo or learning Japanese history Yasuke has been nothing more than a minor footnote in history. This is a woke move and completely unnecessary by Ubisoft. I swear they are just trying to force feed us DEI in every damn aspect of life now
Riiight
Uh.......
Thomas Lockley have more than just promoting Yasuke as Legendary Samurai, As people found out Thomas Lockley apparently accused Japanese to participate with Trans-Atlantic slavery trade thanks to Yasuke popularity in Japan at the time
Which understandably caused outrage in Japan. There is speculation that since AC:Shadow is going to use Thomas Lockley book as inspiration that Ubisoft will be using these statement as plot point in game. Funny enough Ubisoft apology tweet came out right after Japanese found out about those accusation and become a hot topic on X as Japanese started to pointed finger at Lockley and his associate like David Attkinson(who challenge Japanese to prove Lockley statement false).
It looks like character creation someone made Shaq from the NBA
Haha. More like african-american than an african people in feudal Japan. I think Netflix is the culprit regarding Yasuke's design
Tbh if they had just made the MC a fictional character in Shaq's likeness and had Shaq play him it'd be kinda fun lol
Even better: the character is literally Shaq by means of time travel. Going that far, it would probably be better just to make a game about Shaq going on crazy adventures.
I guess Satoshi got his 30 coins of Western Silver.
They call them >Shekels
@@WeeG-bwc77it's ridiculous what they are doing to the world, can't tell if it's all a big joke or whether they're serious about all the woke stuff. I imagine it's just a joke to make people embarrass themselves
@@BossHOF its both. the seriousness is derived from the end goal, and the joke is just the consolation along the way for d3m0r4l1z4t10n
This form of history revision is pretty disgusting and disturbing
If I remember correctly, Ubisoft is also accused of using assets in the game without licence.
And some commentators pointed out that the architecture shown is only in part Japanese. Ubisoft went from building the most accurate 3d-model of Notre Dame (in use for reconstruction) to slapdash representation of an entire culture with the focus on an outsider.
Image the outcry of the media if they had used a white outsider in Japan as the main character. And there were some, much better documented than Yasuke.
”The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia” - Yves Guillemont, CEO of Ubisoft, 1984
How fitting for today’s society. Gorge Orwell truly did spell out a dark future for us.
I am genuinely worried for the next couple decades when it comes to the rewriting of history. We laugh at the prospect but I believe that in a couple years made up bullshit for political reasons will be viewed as factual. Look at how they defend AC shadows, the blacking of Hannibal of Carthage, constant display of medieval Europe as a backwater pit.
I made a Twitter thread compliling all the things (so far) Japanese hate about this game:
1. Thomas Lockley faked most of the history regarding Yasuke, even caught citing his own not-yet-published work as source, the edit was made in 2015, but the cited source was published in 2016
2. Not only was the katana displayed in the Paris Expo a One Piece's sword, the other attraction displayed was also from Amazon
3. Despite Western media kept saying the game isn't meant to be historically accurate, tons of articles all "educate" people on the history of Yasuke, to a point the Embassy of Brazil in Japan tweeted a fake history about Yasuke as well, calling him the "legendary samurai"
4. Samurai is a high rank of bushi, so calling this nobody is a samurai is an insult to the title, like calling a random priest a bishop
5. Ubisoft apologized and admitted using the flag of The Sekigahara Teppo-tai without their permission, but said it'll still be in the art book. The Japanese are upset because only Ubisoft Japan apologized, as if they're trying to keep it quiet in the West
6. More stolen images were exposed, including historical images such as Genpoyoka and Todaiji Temple, which led to Japanese believe Ubisoft used AI for a lot of the designs. They even stole and changed historical art piece like Matsutaka-zu (Hawk and Pine Tree)
7. Japanese are furious Western medias are pretending all the outrage from Japan came from white people, especially the petition, which didn't gain attention from the West until it already went viral in Japan
8. The petition went so far, there's a petition started by an American to stop the petition, but it's closed with only 596 supporters
9. A diss track on this game made by a Japanese channel went insanely viral, even inspired Western audiences making English covers
10. Japanese care a lot about historical reenactment, so they're very offended by all the inaccurate details in the background, like the landscapes, buildings, props, and environments, such as square tatami and vertical scrolls
11. Japanese are shocked and super pissed when they're called racist by Western medias, which seriously escalated this whole drama, because they don't like a bunch of Westerners lecturing them on their own history
12. Ubisoft's UA-cam channel posted a Japanese video for the Japanese, yet the subtitles were Chinese, which sparked an outrage in Japan because it feels like racism towards Asian, the video has been privated
13. The fake history has gotten so out of hand, there are now Japanese textbook including these "fictions" as real history
14. Out-of-touch Japanese medias that can't even read English like Abema still don't understand what the issues Japanese have with the game, and criticized gamers for "not understanding this game is fiction"
15. A Japanese user told me the opening sentence of the introduction article for Assassin's Creed Shadows on Xbox was "You can learn about feudal Japan by playing the game because we made it faithful to the history!” I can't confirm this since I don't know which article it was
@@jassykat I read Japanese
The Japanese are racist and xenophobic and there is nothing wrong with that
The diss track had over 1mil views, that's when I knew the Japs were mad
You know Yasuke being a black samurai wasn't something Thomas made right? It's been a thing that was talked about long before he was born
thanks red keroro
The fact that Yasuke was never even a real samurai and people ignore that is crazy...
He is real
@@rodrigopadilla2144 A real person - not a real samurai
"Forget everything you know about history!" -UbiSoft 2024
History isn't diVeRse enough. -"Progressives" 2024
“Forget everything you know about YOUR history” -Ubi’s message to the Japanese market
It's incredibly weird to me that Yasuke got blown up so much in the media. In actual historical documents from Japan at the time. There's about 2 pages worth of information on him in total. Which mainly mention him being big and black and more or less an exotic curiosity. Even his arrival in Japan is a matter of some debate. Some saying he was property of a Jesuit missionary and gifted to Nobunaga. Or that a Portuguese slave trader brought him in as a gift. Even his time there is incredibly poorly documented and given that a huge black man towering over most of the population, because he would've been about 20+ centimetres taller than the average Japanese person at the time. Is probably hard to miss. It's likely he didn't do anything of note. What is known is that after Nobunaga's passing, Yasuke was sold/returned depending on what version of the story you go with.
I think most of the outrage comes from the fact Ubisoft took the one hint of there maybe being a black man in Japan somewhere during a historically important period and decided to not only make him the main character, but that they pretended he was some big historical figure that changed the history of Japan. If the man did anything that important, you'd think people at the time would've written it down.
Edit: It appears I made a mistake regarding Oda's Stint in charge, he was never officially given the title of Shogun, though he didn't really care because in his mind and also in reality, power legitimises authority. So for all the lack of official title, he did not lack practical power.
i like how the cope to that right now in this very comment section is "the japanese were racist and hid the evidence"
almost like there's a narrative being push
a much better fit to make something that fits better is to have him be an personal assassin. he would be more suspected as a noverty than a person who has a major purpose. its an alt type history which is generally fitting.
@@GALA89 There is. That doesn't make the glow up campaign any less weird to me.
Some of these comments here seem really weird but this puts it in a nice perspective without the main focus being his race.
If he was so poorly documented, wouldn’t it have been better to have him be the assassin? It would tie into the theme of the assassins being people who lurk in the background of history, never to be fully known by the public. It sounds like he fits the bill but afaik he’s only a samurai in the game.
Amazing that the smithsonian used a fictional book as their base for yasukes history
Look at the author and you'll see why
If you know the Smithsonian’s biggest investors and their history of cover-ups this wouldn’t surprise you in the least.
Sadly, it's not surprising. Every institution infected by wokeness ends up the same way.
Japan should sue Ubisoft and charge Thomas Lockley with fraud.
Just when I thought Ubisoft couldn't get any lower
If the bar is on the ground, Ubisoft will start tunneling.
Even as a black person, I think what they did is unfair and wrong. 😂
I'm sure if the roles were reversed, they would have shot the idea down in seconds.
I'm waiting for the 2025 remake of Roots with Kunta Kinte as a white dude.
As black man I find their depiction of Yasuke.... interesting. Very much the uhh... Silicon Valley perspective... From a Canadian studio.
@@TanukiDigitalthat’s so offensive! My grandmother told me that Kunta was a Peruvian llama herder from Kathmandu, save your whitewashed history you supremacisst!
I agree. Im wondering where they are getting these concepts from. Are they getting these ideas from Africans / African Americans? Or people of color in general? If so, I wasnt aware that we held this much influence in this space. Is this DEI? A product of "woke" culture? Its very interesting indeed.
@KickinUpDust024 it's mostly white people trying to pander for diversity points. Google Ubisoft staff and look the images.
The moment I heard about this game and it’s protagonist I knew it was to score diversity points and this would not go by smoothly.
“ an African samurai? Did one actually exist? *google search finds inconclusive evidence* oh yeah this is a diversity cop-out.”
And who could have ever guessed that they’d throw gasoline on the fire . If I facepalmed myself as hard as I want to, the universe would implode 🤦♀️
The surface thinkers all think it's just about historical accuracy.
ubisoft can use a random japanese samurai as a main character and make yasuke as an ally to avoid this mess altogether
Smart but the damage is already done.
EXACTLY like have him interact with the character and we can learn from him? Like give him some side missions you do for him and MAYBE teach him blade work. Seems like a win win
Problem is: Yasuke is just the tip of the iceberg, at first you look at it and think "well, that's some weird protagonism in a japanese story", and then other japanese start finding out even crazier stuff, japanese game full of historical issues, wrong seasons, wrong architecture, even chinese ideograms in a JAPANESE SETTING. So yeah, Yasuke is the most evident issue, but it's by far the smallest.
Meanwhile they love The Last Samurai which does something similar but was made with respect.
how he is the smallest? he is black guy that was never a samurai in game centered in japan. Ppl there at the time would just show him around as circus attratcion but now he is a samurai?
the blacklashing is sickening.
I will never buy game from woke company and I will never purchase a game with black overrepresentation.
@@emberfist8347 and The Last Samurai wasn't referencing the white guy, it was the Japanese guy. Can't remember the name off the top of my head. Ken Watanabe's character.
@@KharaChmiel I know.
I was there @@emberfist8347. Just as much BS outragr then as now.
Finally, someone points out just how many western history sites cite Lockley's work. Reputable ones too. It's crazy to see. It feels to me like actual cultural colonialism.
Also, the games are "historical fiction". There are implications when the series, including shadows, is called Historical Fiction. Yes, there is crazy magic stuff that happens in the series, but the games and character backdrops are based on a foundation of historical accuracy. The fiction starts when characters get involved with the creed and the templars, and the story unravels. People keep pointing out strawmans that "oh there was magic in AC so why are you complaining about historical accuracy", which is completely disengenuous to what this franchise has always been. The backdrop and foundation that the game's stories were set on were always based on a good amount of historical accuracy. This includes the setting and characters. This is the truth.
George Washington was still the first president, Socrates was still a Philosopher, Leonardo was still a painter, engineer, architect, ect, Black Beard was still a legendary Pirate, and you can go on and on. Again, the fiction came when the Assassin's Creed and the Templars came into the equation in the story. The game's story was literally based on this concept. Going into the animus to go back and experience the lives of the PC's ancestors to uncover the secrets of the AC and Templars. The world in the "present" in the games, have the same history told to them as we do irl, as the all traces of AC and Templars were erased from history outside of the organizations still chasing the secrets. They moved away from animus more and more because players hated those scenerios, but the concept was always carried through. I wish people were more honest about the games... And Ubisoft 100% knows what they're doing by continuing to call it "historical fiction" instead of just straight up fiction or fantasy. Because players do have that expectation from the franchise, even if so many don't want to admit the games were always foundationed on a good level of historical accuracy. There's a reason why they changes a equipment models in the past for the sake of historical accuracy, Why the notre dame model in the game is so accurate, that they want to use it to rebuld the one irl. The reason we get articles like "Assassin's Creed Mirage's recreation of 9th Century Baghdad is so accurate it made a historian cry". Let's be real here. AC was always like this.
True. When I played Odyssey Ubisoft even put out a video where you can watch where actual historians talk about how historically accurate the game is, even down to the painted statues. I don't know how many of the current devs worked on the previous games, but historical accuracy used to be something that Ubisoft used to promote these games.
This, is the very thing i have been trying to say to anyone who argues that AC is ficiton because nuh uh magic. Thank you.
This deserves to be top comment.
These people are playing both sides. Saying “it’s not historically accurate, it doesn’t matter” but also that “Yasuke is a historical figure and it’s accurate he’s in”. Not to mention they got into a tizzy when one Euro game didn’t have black people because it was trying to be historically accurate for that time period. Does it matter or not?
@@mrshmuga9 Kingdom Come Deliverance and Witcher, yes those two got hit back before. God bless those developers.
Imagine setting your game in the most notorious isolasionist country in history and trying to add diversity to it. No wonder people are pissed off.
I mean do I need to point out that North Korea exists? I don't know if even Sengoku Japan is "the most notorious isolationist country in history".
I mean he existed though how is that adding diversity?
@@boggart159 he prolly mean that there's a ton more interesting topic to be use as a protagonist of this game being set in Japan,why pick this character of all people?
@@dojelnotmyrealname4018 ughh.. Hey everyone, it's 'that' guy..
@@dojelnotmyrealname4018 North Korea is not really on the list with possible settings for an AC game. You know this.
I think it's blatant that Ubisoft chose Yasuke to create some controversy for the game and with that get some clicks, 'cause picking a non japanese main character for the long awaited AC in japan, and not only that but picking him as the first historical figure as a playable character instead of making him an NPC like they always done (and had they used him as an NPC all this would've been avoided), I think it was as deliberate choice that blew back on their faces, so I think they are only getting what they deserve
Sorta like when WotC made Aragon from LotR black. Just for controversy and because consultants said to. Unfortunately, WotC got away with it
It's possible. But- I think it's less that and more of them being addicted to signalling to the world their "virtues." "Look how progressive we are," "We are making a difference," "We are on the right side of history," "We aren't afraid of having a black main protagonist," and so on. It's why people are upset, it's not because Yasuke is the protagonist, but because it feels disingenuous coming from them.
Yeah, I think no one reasonable would have batted an eyelash if he were an NPC, or heck, even a prominent NPC with story focus.
Have they not heard of go woke go broke?
I mean I get tired of hearing that crap all the time but this is actually the embodiment of both Get Woke Go Broke and Play Stupid Games Win Stupid Prizes
@@Drako9823I mean it takes place during the warring states period having yasuke in the game makes sense.
I don't care what schools say about feudal Japanese history. My grandma said Japanese listened to rap.
@@triton5336his skin was dark and had dreds, was made for the west
I've known about Yasuke for years and I vehemently remember that for a really long time he was seen and accepted as some random guy who Oda Nobunaga kept around because he had an unusual skin colour and that he was likely a servant who was only with Nobunaga a year before Nobunaga was assassinated. There was no evidence he was a Samurai at all.
There is a distinct difference between keeping someone around for their unusual skin color and having someone seated next to you for nearly every meal. Yasuke was almost certainly acting a personal bodyguard/valet for Nobunaga, which was what Yasuke had been doing for years under Valignano prior to coming to Japan with the Portuguese Jesuits. All of the accounts that exist paint a picture of him as a personal bodyguard. He was always in very close proximity to Nobunaga and he was armed with a sword.
Also, people seem to forget that this all happened during the Sengoku Period. "Samurai" wasn't a defined social or political class in the Sengoku Period. There were people who were referred to a samurai, but their background and roles weren't particularly codified or structured. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a peasant that started off as Oda Nobunaga's Sandal-Bearer (the person who literally carried his sandals for him). Hideyoshi eventually became the second "Great Unifier" of Japan and one of the most powerful people in all of Japan. The Sengoku Period was simply chaotic and the power structures of the era were constantly changing. "Samurai" wasn't so rigidly defined as to be able to say whether or not Yasuke would have been considered one or not. The little surviving historical record we have certainly indicates a status higher than just some sideshow "pet" like a bunch of people are wanting to try to paint him as. He was part of Nobunaga's personal entourage, was given a house/stipend by Nobunaga, and carried swords. At the least, we can say that he was most likely Nobunaga's bodyguard. Now, would a Bodyguard have been considered a Samurai within the Sengoku Period? Probably. Does that carry with it the same meaning as a Samurai of the Edo Period? No, not even remotely. But that is because in the Edo Period, status as a Samurai became a hereditary political/social class that carried with it a lot more meaning and power. But that isn't what "samurai" were during the Sengoku Period.
You are lying the summary has that always been that he was Samurai
@@rulerofkripsy9143 he has been depicted as a Samurai in Japanese media for decades, it's funny seeing people mainly in the west kick up a fuss.
But my girl Naoe just being comepletely forgotten 😭 She's been front and centre in all the promos.
@@D4C_LoveTrain1 I seen decent amount Japanese chuds Too now . their was a 1968 Japanese children book called yasuke the black samurai . Where they draw him like mister popo . And yet still consider him a samurai . These people are worse then Japanese in the late 60s 💀
@@D4C_LoveTrain1 Naoe IS an afterthought since the problems this game has are so overwhelming that who cares about a Kunoichi. I'm not even talking about Yasuke. Sakura trees blooming next to farmers planting rice next to persimmon baskets (seasons are very important to the Japanese and these three things do not belong together), bamboo despawning, Yasuke LIFTING A SAMURAI ON HIS SWORD (would dull the blade and is wholly unrealistic), really badly choreographed katana fighting, samurai saying "I am Justice!", when Naoe assassinates the guy from out of the water, his body has to glitch into the correct position for the assassination animation to work, torii gates used as doorways to villages lel (extremely disrespectful), Chinese architecture, wrong Kanji used on promotional materials, buying a sword from One Piece and passing it off as Yasuke's sword at an in-person event, wrong flags in the backgrounds, stealing real world flags from real world reenactment groups, Yasuke having one sword when traditionally, samurai had two, the longer katana and the shorter wakizashi, wearing full samurai armor when in town (easily fixable, just have you hitch your horse upon entering a town, and take off the armor), Naoe openly carrying a sword (this is a no-go as 1. a shinobi and 2. as a woman who is not a onna-musha, i.e. a warrior woman of a clan; again, easily fixable, have you pick up your weapons hitman-style before you infiltrate somewhere and have all of her stuff happen at night), AND the preorder "bonuses" being Chinese in nature and definitively NOT Japanese (no dragons on heraldry in Japan and that horse armor is 100% Chinese).
I could go on, but I'm sure you'll dismiss all of this as me nitpicking. I can tell you, all the environment stuff is extremely important for the Japanese. They aren't nitpicks. And all the technical stuff is important because those are all either bugs OR poor decisions that need changing.
Ohhhh this is wonderful. Especially when all those media outlets were defending Shadows and claiming that if you didn’t like it you were a racist. No, we just recognize how absurd this decision is on multiple levels.
Lockley said in a interview with japanesse refugee organization that japan should take more refugees and his grandfather was jewish and he knew what was that like.
HUH,
EVERY
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WITHOUT FAIL.
Stop noticing!!
Every Single Time
Can you please explain to me how is it beneficial for JWs to have the countries that support them being overrun by muslim degenerates, who will turn these countries against them as we have seen in recent times. What is the point? I honestly am trying to understand the point.
Also why does Israel encourage migration and open borders to other countries, but not their own?
Can you please explain to me how is it beneficial for JWs to have the countries that support them being overrun by refugees, who will turn these countries against them as we have seen in recent times. What is the point? I honestly am trying to understand the point.
Also why does Israel encourage that and open borders to other countries, but not their own?
@@-Siknakaliux-II there was a rabbi who talked to keith woods who explained they do that so no one can attack them because its so multicultural that everyone focuses on all the other groups that look more foreign and they are not discouraged from attacking because no historic event has led to their deaths making it taboo to criticize them.
The whole yasuke debacle aside, the game seems to be filled with almost comical mistakes like sakura blossoming (mid spring) at the same time as peasants visibly are planting rice (late spring), while talking about harvesting it (autumn).
Ubi claims deep research, meanwhile the game looks more like designers looked up japan on google images and just made a facsimile of the first few results.
All they had to say was that it was fictional and not pretend that any of it is even remotely real. Go full Onimusha with demon Nobunaga being the reason why Honnoji Temple even happened and no one would care.
I think it would have left a sour taste in everyone's mouth, anyhow. Like UE said, this appears to be the first time Ubisoft didn't use a setting native as the main character. Resentful minorities, self-hating whites push these narratives. And it wouldn't surprise me if this historian had a revealing early life" section on wikipedia, assuming he has an entry. Not saying he does, just saying it wouldn't surprise me.
AC is a series about a millenia old conspiracy involving space aliens who created Adam and Eve.
It never claimed to be remotely real.
Imagine having the unmitigated arrogance to tell a deeply culturally-based country that they don't know their own history...
No Upper, these games selling big is no longer a guarantee. We have a laundry list already of games that have used the same playbook and are failing hard. The success of these games is entirely in our hands and people are proving it.
Yes and these games are so expensive that they have to break a million sales just to make a profit.
"The biggest companies in the world are often the most immoral ones, and there is a reason for that. It's because people don't really care about where they get their products from."
I half-agree. I think AC Shadows will probably have good initial sales from the casuals and hardcore fans but overall over time, I think they'll sink. Much like what happened to TLOU2, I also think the media and a bunch of shill and fanboy creators will create a prevailing false narrative that doesn't truly reflect reality and we're already seeing that happen this time. Bonus points if this game appears at TGA at any point.
"The biggest companies in the world are often the most immoral ones, and there is a reason for that. It's because people don't really care about where they get their products from."
"The biggest companies in the world are often the most immoral ones, and there is a reason for that. It's because people don't really care about where they get their products from."
The most ridiculous thing about this issue is that all of this could have been avoided if they just used a japanese male protagonist. That's all they had to do.
What about the female Japanese protagonist in the game
@@cynicalia In addition to the Male one, yes. No one has any issue with the female protagonist. 1 male and 1 female protagonist from the region who interacts with actual historical figures. That's all they needed to do.
@@cynicalia excuse.
@@cynicalia The female isn't a samurai, she's a shinobi.
It's funny reading through the discourse about this cause people who supported Yasuke and initially believed Ubisofts claim of him being a real samurai are now suddenly saying "It's a fictional game, they're allowed to have fictional characters" as if they weren't just screaming at the top of their lungs that Yasuke was a real black samurai who existed and anyone who doesn't agree is a racist
This 100%
At least theres one consistent thing about these redditors. They dont care if its Japanese people saying it, they are all racist!!
Screenshot and record everything people.
This guy himself uses the argument "Oh AC was never real alien objects blah blah blah"
Which doesn't work, at all, when Ubisoft explicitly claims Yasuke was a real-life historical samurai.
@Claudekr Agreed, it's an appeal to increduality. We know that AC has a fictional element to it. Ubisoft, however, were very proud of their historical accuracy so much that they bragged about it, regardless of the secret societies and alien technology within the story.
Every AC game to date has always has the player take on the role as a fictive person, with any actual historical figures cast as NPCs either as quest givers or Antagonists. It would have been real easy to have just held to that formula, yet Ubisoft hear of Yasuke from this one Book and go all in on him for DEI Clout making him the first historical Protag in the series history ever, without even bothering to carry out any degree of due diligence when it come to the validity and veracity of Lockleys 'Historal account'.
The thing that annoys me about this assassin's creed in particular:
They say that they go for an immersive and respectful representation of the specific setting. And they more or less did with the previous ones.
For this one they decided that an "immersive" representation of Feudal Japan is the singular black guy, that basically was Nobunaga's pet for a year, as a protagonist. Hanzi and Chinese architecture. Hiphop ost. Wrong flora/state of flora for different seasons. Etc.
So it's basically a fuck up in all visible aspects so far except for the second protagonist...
Mixing up Japan and China just feels extra stupid and offensive, considering what the Japanese put the Chinese people through for like the first half of the 20th century. It is not that hard to tell two very distinct cultures apart!
Yasuke would have made an incredible side character and the subject of a quest. Such a waste.
great point
Yasuke SHOULD have been a side character. AC games have always had histocial people show up as side characters and its always fucking cool. They could have done SO MUCH with him and they fucked it all up.
They could've made him just like Adewale in Black Flag, then if they really want that DEI checkmark, make a spinoff like in Freedom Cry.
Why not just have a playable Japanese male character as well?
Doesn't follow their racist agenda. No negro main means the project doesnt exist.
Because Ubisoft is Ubisoft, and using a 'gay' black checks at least two diversity boxes.
Because ubi wanted to tick more DEI boxes I suppose.
現在は削除されたゲーム雑誌に掲載された、UBI関係者のインタビュー記事によれば、日本人では「私達の目」には成れないからだそうです。
The same reason they made Yasuke a samurai and bi.
Editing wikipedia and lisiting your book as a source is a new level of petty lmao
Ezio Auditore isn’t the main character of the first three, it was Altaïr in the first game.
First off, the guys book is fanfiction going off less than a page from Nobunaga’s journal, with Yasuke being mentioned once. That’s already a red flag.
Let’s mention that samurai at this point in history were land lords, no? They weren’t soldiers. Zero chance a black man was helping an old Japanese dude rule his territory.
He was a retainer. Period. That’s what the Japanese word used in the text translates to
and retainers did latrine duty
...and being given a pieace of land makes you what?
@@spiderlily723There were tons of Japanese people during that time that owned land and carried swords and yet were not samurai.
Hell, a MASSIVE chunk of the Japanese nobility owned lands, but were not samurai.
@@spiderlily723 It is claimed that Yasuke was given a "stipend" and a "house". What's more likely is that Oda provided housing for Yasuke and the Jesuit missionary's he served, while also giving them money for their daily expenses. Think about it, why would the Lord of Japan give land to some random outsider?
@@Knoloaify ...which is why we also look at Yasuke being his retainer, being given land and less reliably, a sword.
Yasuke was a slave and nothing more pretending otherwise is silly.
Yet people are still saying he's a samurai. So which is it? Can any Japanese person confirm or deny Yasuke was a samurai at all?
@@Ad1tputra they could go as far as to call him a "retainer" but the dude was pretty much a servant
I heard somewhere that they dressed him up in armour as a joke because he was so big and whatnot
A white liberal professor in a university in Tokyo does the same thing that he would do in university of California or London or Paris.
ubisoft makes worst game ever, asked to leave japan
It's cultural appropriation, and this is done as an insult to their culture by saying "your culture is bad, we're going to fix it by adding diversity and reflecting the world we live in today".
Regardless of whether or not it's true (it's really inarguable that Japan isn't ra¢ist, but most countries are like that. It's really only the West that's more accepting, so not exactly a valid counter-argument), you have to respect the culture by representing it how they know it and how it was. If someone put a random white guy in a story about an African tribe of warriors back in the 12th-century, it's disrespectful to that culture even if you can argue that Europeans could have been there and probably were.
Japan isn’t racist. Don’t talk about my country if you don’t live here. You don’t interact with any Japanese people let alone on a daily basis. God dude wtf
Yasuke existed though? How is that adding diversity
@@boggart159cause he was a glorified servant at best and Ubisoft was pretending he was a real samurai to virtue signal to people like you
@@no5544 I didnt realize AC was historically accurate🤣 have you played any of the games before?
@@no5544 the reason he was chosen because he is a blank slate
These people thought Japan would roll over and take the cultural grape like every Western country has. Oops! Turns out stealing culture and history is looked down on by people who respect themselves.
Said from a person whose culture only stole culture and history and created the Western cultural "grape" but fair enough. 😅 and who is "These people" you referring or is UbiSoft from the hood now?😅😅
@feodiente9460 I got news for you man, the rich progressives I'm referring to aren't really your allies. They're just using your support to install their goofy ass broken ideology. Google "useful idiot". Don't be their fool anymore.
Asmon sent me here. THIS is games journalism. Great work UE.