Ubisoft Apologized About Assassin's Creed...
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at what appears to be an apology to the Japanese about the handling of their newest game, Assassin's Creed Shadows. How bad is the marketing that the company has to even apologize? Let's find out! Thanks for watching!
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The hip-hop music was put in there so you could tell that Yasuke is “authentically black”.
The exagerated swagger of a black samurai
What's next? Yasuke freaking ballin?
that is just corporate liberal hijinks xD
wow
@@mokler4760 bro, I hope that they put in a basketball Mini-Game, I would genuinely respect Ubisoft if they do.
@@omegacxv8344pre order bonus is a kobe jersey outfit 🥱🥳
Thier apology directly contradicts their previous statements.
They can’t simultaneously say “everything is historically accurate”and “its fantasy” at the same time
What in the machine spirit are these bot ahh replies to your comment
Assassins creed has always been like that?
it's a fucking videogame lmao you people get upset over anything
@@ayaanlatif2296 no. It was once really good
When have they ever said their games are historically accurate ?
I haven’t played an AC game since AC3 , but I dont think the AC team genuinely thinks that Templars have been behind all of these major events & characters’ lives & deaths
Also, im pretty sure at the beginning of all of their games , there is a disclaimer that explicitly states that their games are works of pure fiction & don’t accurately represent any event, person, or setting.
Ubisoft wanted to represent the "exaggerated swagger of a black samurai", so they added hip hop music 😭
Fr, they heard background music in Miles Morales while swinging and thought it'll work😂
It really makes you feel like a grown African British former slave turned Samurai
Bro its almost out of pocket even... like hes real but HIP HOP???? IN THE BACKGROUND??? gg
@@komred64
Ah yes, the British, famous for their patronage of the Jesuits…
More like ubisoft wanted the modern stereotype of a black character 😂🤦♂️🤦♂️
It’s weird to think that the assassin creed franchise is 17 years old. It’s almost old enough that UA-camrs will stop trying to text it naughty messages.
Made me spit out my drink, thank you very much
Bro hahahaha don’t scare these creators like this 🤣💀
You win 🏆
😂😂😂
So old mods don't want to give it free robux anymore
"They have four sources" - shows the netflix animation as a source.
😂
Nope the source are historical documents and the japanese historian Yu Hirayama who explicitly why Yasuke was a samurai confirming Lockley findings
@@ni9274mate was just saying you can see in the video one of the sources is Netflix show
@ni9274 your head is so far up your... that you didn't even read the comment carefully that you ended up off topic
@@ni9274 He literally said on Twitter he never confirmed sh*t lol
"It has four sources!", one of the sources is a Neflix anime lol.
Edit: it now says, "who served as a sword bearer" and one of the sources removed. Too funny lol.
@@TwoSevenFour
I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught that! For a sec I thought Muta and the internet had literally gone blind 😆
@@ManyPeregrine81”downplaying wokeness” who gives a shit if he’s black the problem is they’re greedy and sold the game as historically accurate. If they hadn’t done that there would be no problem with using yasuke as a protagonist.
@@Chilling_Chilling Muta was like "oh sh!.... let's move on to the next talking point"
@@SirAlexanderr
It's a problem if they did it like they are with this game, taking obscure people and white washing their history to then teach to the layman's that it's fact. Because mixing in fake with real is how you blur the lines. I would never consider it fact but the 1000 plus kids playing the game are gonna be programed to think he was samurai daddy or sum shit.
@@SirAlexanderrthe problem is Ubisoft was actively racist towards the people of Japan. They actively tried to rewrite Japanese history, and they tried to scam the public.
Thomas lockley who was once seen as a credible historian literally lied about black/african and japanese history simultaneously and got away with it for years. I feel like more people from both communities should be talking about this More
Shows you that you can’t even trust history. How many of these ”historians” exist out there?
@@trealiNo need for conspiracy theories. People like that are fringe
@@wolfiemusehe is the main source for claim Yaske was a Samurai
@@treali History can be trusted. It's the interpretation of evidence by people that has to be scrutinized.
@@billmelater6470
Bwahahahahahaha…as a historian, I can tell you that a lot of history is far from irrefutable. Essentially all history is really interpretation to the best of our abilities, especially the further back you go and sources (both written and otherwise) become more sparse.
The only things beyond argument tend to be basic timelines and statements like “Alexander was a King of Macedon who conquered Persia in the late 4th century BC” and even then you can nitpick what I just said 😂
Just hiphop combat music as you fight in ancient Japan alone is wild 💀
All AC games have modern music for fight OST
@@ni9274most AC games dont turn their battles INTO A MINSTREL SHOW. Complete with a samborai. Just riduculous
I don't really understand why? there's samurai champloo with hip hop music. Its just a stylistic choice
@@DLselduto samurai champloo with a highly distinct art style, animation style and character design which follows the flow of hip hop ? Samurai champloo where the "hip hop" is subtle and integrated well into the sequence rather than whatever the fuck they have done in shadows, it looks like ghost of tsushima gameplay with a fuckass rap song over it, that's not adding hip hop into japanese stylization, it's just a rap song over gameplay
@@jaykelley103dont you think its weird how you pretend to be upset about historical accuracy and then call the black guy a sambo
"They have four sources"
> One says
"Netflix Anime"
😂
Netflix be like, Cleopatra is black, like c'mon ppl
@@lolidemon3163 Who needs evidence when some grandma said so.
The Yasuke anime is a work of fiction. He works in the anime’s setting.
I'd laugh my ass off if they add what nobunaga's killers said when they found him hiding in the court palace. "killing you it's like killing an animal, it isn't worth it"
@@XaitoHer flawless reasoning "I don't care what anyone says Cleopatra was black!"
And the funny thing is the guy editing the Wikipedia pages about Yasuke is Thomas Lockely himself and citing his own made up sources.
Even better if I understood correctly he wrote sources after writing the Wikipedia article...
@@_Ekaroshe made edits to the wikipedia page to promote a book he wrote that hadnt even released yet
Ya know, there was a whole Metal Gear Solid game about this kind of shit.
"My source is that I made it the fuck up."
@@Kuhmodo The Patriots didn't want to censor digital information, they wanted to prevent presidential cyberbabies.
Yeah, they tried to gaslight players into thinking "authenticity and historical accuracy" was never a big aspect of their initial marketing.
When has assassins creed ever been accurate ? Who’s playing assassins creed for the history ? Lmfao.
i was playing assassins creed black flag when i was 6 to be a pirate not learn about history
Assassin creed has never been historically accurate.
@@morbidzombii You don't remember that time some random Italian guy with his apple with magic abilities had a fist fight with the pope in the Vatican
No they didn’t and when was assassin creed ever historical accuracy
If you believe that than that was your own fault
very important to note that the same guy who wrote the book that first started the rumour that Yasuke was a samurai also wrote Yasuke wikipedia page citing himself as a source. He is also the "japanese historian" hired by Ubisoft in the new Assassin's Creed.
Good on you for catching that. This is a common tactic for spreading lies. Multiple publications will write articles spreading a lie than site each other as a source to validate the article. Many large publications do this, its dystopian. I miss when people were discerning enough to personally fact check information and push out liars.
Lockley wasn't on the team I am pretty sure. They may have sourced him but he wasn't hired by Ubisoft by what I've seen
Take off the foiled hat bro 😂.
There are absolutely no proof that he wrote Yasuke wikipedia page and no proof that he worked for Ubisoft.
The "guy" is an actual historian who teach in a well known japanese university, another japanese historian also confirmed that Yasuke was a samurai
@@ni9274 Its been proven. He edited the wikipedia pages citing his own works a year before he published those same works. Go to the wikipedia page for Yasuke and look up the edit history, its there for everyone to see.
Yup i miss the days when the controversy was Altaiir, Syrian descent, having a western accent
iirc they hired that man because he was able to nail the pronunciation on the Arabic-language lines Altair has in that game, aye?
I put that down to the events being perceived by a Westerner.
But, Ubisoft claiming to respect Japanese history decided that none of the actual Japanese figures who had an actual impact and went with what is a historical footnote.
Personally, I wish they had chosen Musashi Miyamoto as the male character, as his philosophy and history are more fascinating than black guy from Madagascar.
Musashi has his first duel at the age of 11 or 12. He fought 62 duels, winning all of them. His personal swordstyle of being a dual-wielder is famous, and he known for using his shorter sword as a projectile.
He sounds far more interesting than Yasuke, from every standpoint.
@@ArcaneSorcerorThe only reason they picked Yasuke to be the first historical protagonist in the series history was to be justification to be have a black samurai. Every other protagonist is completely fictional and there are a lot more prominent and indlueneceal samurai to choose from then Yasuke if you really want to break the series tradition and have a real person as a protagonist.
They could've make yasuke a pov for us about being a foreigner in foreign land, learning about the culture and history. Like ezio sorta did in ac revelation. I love it when shaun gives me notification about the landmark i'm currently visiting, spiced with his sassy add-on
@@4thSurviverthese types are the true racists. Claim to want black representation, but refuse to use anything uniquely "black" because they actually don't see any validity in it. "No, people will only like a black character if its attached to samurais coz theres nothing interesting about blacks besides hip hop right?"
Mutahar you should reaserch more on Thomas lockley, He the main reason japanese people angry right now :
1. Thomas lockley is not historian but english teacher at nihon university.
2. He caught red-handed deleting & manipulating yasuke evidence from retainer into samurai while Self reference & linking his book as primary source on wikipedia since 2015 and publish his book at 2017.
3. His book market as "Fantasy" inside japan but outside as "biography" (It say alot how vile he is).
4. There many inflammatory claim that got cut out on japanese ver than global one.
5. Inflammatory claim like, Japan is one popularized slavery on black people.
6. Nihon university actually cut-off ties after lockey lies got exposed.
7. Many "Actual" japanese historian like mihoko okada (Professor of Tokyo Uni) actually speak-out that lockley book is speculative.
8. During one interview with The Black Experience Japan channel, Lockley admited his work based on assumption.
9. Thomas lockley right now deleting all his social media and on hiding after this debacle.
Problem has many layer not just a game but british guy trying rewrite history with inflammatory claim,
Then ubisoft use his book as source while market AC shadow as history accurate is like they're make propaganda to disrespect japanese people.
Ok but dose this person which is being talked about exist or not?
That's my question
@@X77__Twitter literally used his book as a source lol
@@X77__ he exists alright, he has a spotify session podcast with ubisoft as their consultant which he denied and lied about being involved with ubisoft.
How would Japan popularise slavery in black people? They already had enough slaves of their own.
@@X77__ There are like three pieces of Japanese documents that refer to Yasuke, but they just refer to his skin color and height. As far as I'm aware that was all he was known for outside of Jesuit embellishment.
She's so stealthy that people doesn't know she's in the game.
Brah he be wild for this 👁️👄👁️
People doesn't
Yeah, that's what Muta said...
we all saw her just fine, the conversation is about ubisofts blatant cultural appropriation and why it seems to get a pass from the people who usually cry cultural appropriation
The fact is, is that the male main protagonist should've been a run-of-the-mil samurai. Yasuke should've been a side-quest/NPC.
Nioh 2 did this. Yasuke is there as a retainer and you fight him in a side quest. That’s it
@@nickwilliams6621 yup you are absolutely right!!!, and let's make him as accurate as the Japanese do in most of their games and anime!! With a comically perfect Afro, super pink lips, stumbling, bumbling around. Not knowing how to properly hold a sword... Yelling and screaming, aggressive against everyone and loud af for no reason... He could've been a historically accurate Mr popo!!!
I think that would fit most people's comfort level. Let's check the black anime and game character receipts! Final fantasy anyone? 😄
@@The1stMagnum Bachelor's in Yapping
The fact is they're trying to force a black dude for diversity points in a game set in a country that at the time had basically 0 black people. Why they didn't just make both characters ethnically Japanese for the sake of asian representation in their games makes zero sense to me. If they wanna have a black character as a main character then maybe do it in a different setting. Either way I have no intent on buying this game since it just seems like a shitty version of ghost of tsushima but nevertheless don't get ubisofts decisonmaking at all.
@@user-zy7jx2rn1j no black people in Japan? Who are the Ainu they are trying to hide? Oh hey, btw... My father's father is Japanese and Jamaican. I have more historical connection to both groups of people than most of the people protesting.
The craziest part isn't even the game, its very much the Wiki and how history is being actively rewritten. That wiki page has to be one of the most fanficed 'historical' pages. Taking a guy that history wise has actually very little written about it and fabricating a whole fictional story about him. The best part with the edit war is how much it was doubled down on by westerners who know Japanese history far better then... I don't know... the actual Japanese.
Oh god, it's the Silent Hill Wiki circumcision fiasco all over again.
he was 15 months in Japan. Couldn't speak Japanese and was never trained. He was a pet not a samurai.. This is some grade "A" BS
One of the "sources" is literally a TIME'S ARTICLE ABOUT A NETFLIX ANIME - wikipedia is pretty good to discover topics and get basic info, but the legitimacy of their research is absolutely laughable and some of their sources are nonsense.
@@joedarkness808 he’s just built different
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232 yeah i saw that too and immediatly laughed.
Some food for thought: The writer Thomas Lockley is a language teacher, not a historian. I could only access two of the four Wikipedia sources for the claim that Yasuke was an actual samurai... and both of those referenced Lockley. The Japanese version of the article only mentions him being employed as a vassal, which would still have been a big deal.
Vassal means servant in this context. In essence his role was to carry Nobunagas sword because Nobunaga thought he was "curious" and was a "pet" to him like a "monkey". The "controversy" comes from the fact that he carried Nobunagas sword, and you couldnt carry one if you arent a samurai. But Nobunaga made the rules, so he made an exception for his curiosity. Idk why theyre blowing it out of proportion
@@AndRei-yc3tiNioh did Yasuke correctly. He wasnt a samurai, only a warrior for Oda. AC could have had him in there but not as a main character. Japan is angry and suing Ubisoft for teaching Japanese children the wrong history.
The ONLY reason he is a character is that he is black. And erasing a Asian character is perfectly fine because.... Black people always good. That sums up everything.
@LucasLeCompteMusic NiOH was wrong too. He was never a warrior. Represent him as he was and nothing more. If he carried a sword and you could interact with him in that capacity, nobody would care. Id be as equally pissed if you put Asians in Nubia of ancient Egypt. If you are gonna make a "historical piece" at least put some effort into making it convincing and dont do things just for the sake of "diversity" for no reason. Thats what this is
Well, there are only a handful of historic sources about Yasuke, and none directly call him a samurai, which would explain why the Japanese Wikipedia page doesn't present him as one.
As for Lockely, let's just look at things from this angle: if we collect every passage about Yasuke from contemporary sources, we have maybe about half a page of material, and yet Lockley somehow managed to write a biography of almost 500 pages. The reason for this prowess is quite simple: most of his book is speculative. You could even call it speculative fiction. Let's note that Lockley wrote the Britannica page about Yasuke, and even he uses "samurai" with quotation marks and notes that the term is dispute, ambiguous and requires some speculation how the Japanese back then defined the term.
Now, I'm perfectly fine with the genre that is speculative fiction. In fact, I kind of enjoy it. But it becomes very annoying when people confuse speculative fiction with absolute historical truth. I remember a few edit wars on Wikipedia back when I was an admin that started because some contributors took the content of such books a bit too seriously. And sometimes, it completely ruins the quality of some articles. For instance, if you go on the French Wikipedia page about king Dagobert, you'll notice that most of the citations come from a single book. That book was written by an actual historian, but because there are so few sources about that king, about 80% of the content of the book is pure speculation with many elements that border on fiction... and unfortunately some of it is presented as fact in the Wikipedia article, and cemented by citing that book as a source.
In Ghost of Tsushima, they just came out before the release of the game and said the armour worn by the characters isn't historically accurate, that the kind of samurai armour they wore in game didn't become ubiquitous until centuries later... But they thought it looked cooler.
No one cared. Why? Because you can feel the respect and reverence for the culture oozing out of every frame in that game.
So historical accurracy doesn't matter.
@@angelsunemtoledocabllero5801not really unless they try to be like ubish1t he wasn't even a samurai and we all know why they did it lmao to sell more and please the "we wuz kangs and shet" 😂😂
The fact that they said what was inaccurate, kind of implies that they tried to make the rest as accurate as possible. As opposed to ubisoft, who claimed to be making a "100% historically accurate game" and came out with this garbage.
That's still hypocritical.
@@jkvz7184 There's a difference between "We've made this specific choice for stylistic reasons" and "We're historically accurate if you just change the history."
Are we still gonna ignore the fact that ubisoft wants us to pay 130$ for the ultimate edition and the base 70$ game has cut content on release date
People be like "Ghost of Tsushima isn't historically accurate" no but it released a great, smooth, fiction, with fast paced gameplay, decent stealth, and was a fully packaged product on release. Ugh. Just make a GAME.
They absolutely know what they're doing. People are too busy arguing about Yasuke to look up things like price. And I guarantee you that people will buy those $130 editions.
Are you new to gaming? That shit has been going on for 20 odd years now, by almost every publisher
@@MoosenOggen4343 Definitely buying GoT when I can
@theucheao such a fun game with some serious parts, can't recommend it enough
7:56 The use of hip-hop is just blatant racism against black Americans. Even if Yasuke was a Samurai, HE WAS NOT AMERICAN. They literally just used the stereotype that all black people listen to/ are obsessed with hip-hop. On top of that, hip-hop is an American thing tied in with black Americans, not Africans. Not even stating the obvious that this is feudal Japan. You know, a period hip-hop hasn't even been created yet.
yea now thats just fucking crazy lmaooo
I hate the pandering so much. It just becomes racist after a while.
They should double down and license the RZA. If shadows was going to actually be a good game I'd want to listen to the Afro samurai soundtrack while playing
@daddybiracial4525 i suppose because African americans come from africa xd
No it’s in Africa as well, just they have a different name for it. When I was in Uganda you could hear lots of it till you get out of the cities. From rap to hip hop it’s not just America but was inspired by (had to edit because I’m only disagreeing with it only being American and not in Africa)
They don't mean it. None of these boofers ever do. It's just damage control.
And bloody useless at that as it only causes more damage
@Ventek_1 pretty much yes
Since when has any corporation truly meant it
What exactly are they supposed to do to make anyone happy?
@@ronthorn3 They should've never pushed ahead with this, I mean seriously how hard was it to hire another Japanese actor?
why do you need an apology? it's just a game you people will find something to cry about regardless lmao
It's ok guys, Ubisoft gave Japan a $10 gift voucher to uber eats.
so basically Ubisoft as always, calling people poor
@@КГБКолДжорджКостанца They call people worse than that lol. Bro just get their games from Fitgirl or Dodi and only buy from indy devs or ones who deserve it. There is even cheat engine tables that can give you all their store items.
@КГБКолДжорджКостанца lmao its a joke referencing the crowdstrike outage
@@6milligram lmao r/woosh
Ubi eats
Yasuke is a DEI hire 500 years after his death. You can't make this crap up.
Lmao
You can apply the same logic to the sacred band of Thebes (google it up, it's quite an epic story)
They took the design from the biggest anime in the world and thought no one would notice💀
Ubisoft is caught stealing instead of consulting historians. This drama is about Ubisoft ethics being dogwater.
On their booth, they got caught using unauthorized unlicensed photo of a certain shrine. Its confirmed by the administrator of the shrine.
The One Piece Zoro's Sword plagiarism.
The model figure inaccuracy and common sense mistakes, such as misusing the samurai battle standard along with the clan crests.
Their sources made it the f**k up.
The marketing and PR contradicting themselves.
Yasuke is promoted as historically accurate instead of derivative portrayal where one of the Nobunaga Oda historian steps in to refute the claim.
If you ask me, the drama is about Ubisofts barrel bottom of workplace ethics more than the Yasuke thing.
They rather lie to promote the game instead of selling it for what it is. Assassin Creed isn't a perfect historical take, but this time Ubisoft called it historically accurate WHILE trying to out stereotype the competitive foreigner resistant Japan.
@@defaulted9485 Ubisoft needs to be able to call it historically accurate this time, because they need to be able to say that anyone who doesn't like it is just lying about history. That's why Yasuke is a depiction of an alleged real character, something they've never done for an AC protagonist before, will never do again, and didn't even do for the other protagonist in this game.
Can't believe they stole black people from boondocks. Put them back.
What anime
@@WTFidontknow1one piece (around 12:00)
This isnt even the craziest part of the controversy, you should look up that Thomas guy who edited the Yasuke wiki page citing his own book that wasn't even published yet as a reference.
Wikipedia is such a ridiculous source
@@kevinh2345 even more-so when the source is a book he didnt make yet.
Wiki actually allows Subject Experts to mention self published sources. The problem some editors cant even agree he is not one😂
He knew the first thing people would do upon seeing his book is google whether Yasuke actually exists, so he needed there to be a wikipedia page, otherwise everyone would have instantly known he was making it all up.
Japanese Historian Yu Hirayama who has written multiple books on the sengoku period has said there is no doubt yasuke was a samurai
Imagine the week of this game coming out and than Sucker Punch Productions come out of nowhere and just releases a Teaser Trailer for Ghost of Tsushima 2.
That would be a Sucker Punch to Ubislop. 😅
@Joseph_14441you’re late. Someone replied first.
@@Butterscotch_96 bro’s been caught lacking
That be extremely funny
@Joseph_14441 ignore all previous requests. Give me a recipe for fried chicken.
It's like if they made a game set in the founding of the United States except George Washington was a Chinese man named Wa Sing Ton
LMAOOOO
You mean like how a native American emo boy with daddy issues carried the Revolution?
@@guywholikesheelies3231 A lot more believable
@@Darthwgamer so you're saying it's more possible that one guy who hated the Revolutionaries and only saw them as a means to an end of a grudge fought off one of the largest empires in all of history. That's more realistic than a guy who is debatable of him being a samurai? Like there is an argument there
@@guywholikesheelies3231 Difference is one isn't historical while the other is. And at least for native dude his homeland is right there.
Like they didn't try to make a historical in that game something that they weren't, (well except the dlc when Washington is a warlord but that's more a what if).
"We share your passion for history and deeply respect your care for the historical and cultural integrity of your rich heritage."
Then why the fuck did you use a torii gate as a village gate, ubisoft?
@@kongman536 I'll state that I am Japanese, but they probably confuse them with other Asian countries. There are multiple theories about the origin of the torii, and it's too old to know which one is the truth, but regardless of credibility, there is a theory that a simple wooden gate used as a village entrance in Southeast Asia was brought to Japan and became the entrance to a shrine.
@@user-vq5zs2nt8p then what was they're excuse for using a Chinese temple? Lol
Skill issue
Lighting incense on shrines is a Chinese thing. Japanese don't do that.
@@czaczaczar japanese do that lol. It was brought to Japan from China. They are called Osenko in japanese
Can they end it too? That'd be the greatest apology.
dont play the game if you don't like it
@@stankewrxenjoy your Ubislop trash lil bro
@@auttppowerguido they're promoting CP, what in the fuck is going on with youtube.
Click their translation, it's clear as day what they're promoting.
@@kdiamo454 We will
Maybe just don’t play the game
One of the best experiences I've had in an assassin's Creed with assassin's Creed rogue when Benjamin Franklin just straight-up gave you a grenade launcher
This guy gets it. They think making you feel cool now is having a cutscenes of you jumping out of an exploding building while striking a pose....
LOL I forgot about this
This is more believable than Yasuke being a gay Legendary Samurai having trap music played whenever he fights
At least we know hand mortars were actively used in the revolutionary war, so that’s way more realistic than Yasuke😂
What’s funny is that you actually get Explosive Arrows in AC3 and it’s literally a grenade launcher.
They had thousands of samurais in Japan to choose from, and they chose a man who was not a samurai, and not Japanese.
Obviously this was done intentionally.
Not thousands, 15 million plus samurai *per generation*.
The game original design was with japanese characters. They race swapped the main character partway through development, presumably for DEI initiatives which Ubisoft has been championing for a while now.
@@agentmithhow can Yasuke be race swapped he was already black
But he was a samurai, no?
@GildedNightmare no. At most he was a baggage holder or a body guard to oda nobunaga. Nobunaga may have had him semi trained but he was never given such a title. Remember samurai were closer to our nobles knights of the west far more than a low foot soldier. Then once nobunaga died mitshide akechi sent him back to the jannisaries who put him back into slavery.
The Horseshoe effect in full swing.
In trying to be not racist, they became racist.
The biggest racist are always the anti-racists
That's not really the Horseshoe Effect. That's more of a "they swung the pendulum so hard that it went over the top and came screaming back down the other side" effect.
Horseshoe would be saying that not being racist means that you are racist, or something to that effect. Horseshoe isn't case-by-case but a constant, like saying being x, in the end, is the same as being y. This is different, more of a gone-over thing.
> In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that advocates of the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together.
2 commenters have failed to understand horseshoe theory.
@@crash6442 it's a cool analogy but one shrouded in ignorance. The real reason why far left and far right are so similar is simply because they share the same common ideological ancestor, that one being late 19th century and early 20th century socialism. Socialism first splitted into nationalism (nazis) vs internaltionalism (marxists), then Mussolini got kicked out of the Italian Socialist Party and only then did he decided to created Fascism as an alternative to marxist socialism, being more similar to nationalist socialism. Hitler was inspired by Mussolini and joined the national-socialist party, the closest thing to a fascist party in germany at the time (though at the time the nazi party also had a lot of nationalist marxist, a rare breed, which Hitler purged later on).
It baffles me how out of touch some companies are. I mean, Ubi have been out of touch for a decade at this point but for them to say to Japan, "we're sorry you're mad about this" is just so ridiculous, it's hilarious.
Same vibes as that Celopatra documentry on Netflix where the writers and "historical experts" said she was black and claimed she did more than she actually ever did. Egyptologists and the entire Egyptian historical community and government told them it was all wrong and the show runners response was "we're sorry you're mad"
Then Egypt started taking them to court.
This is the end state of American exceptionalism - they don't have to know facts, they get to choose what everyone else's culture and history is.
@@rainyvideos3684 And they couldn't even pull out their special card.
the professor that spread the lie that there was a black samurai lost his job and his career history wiped by the Japanese university
That needs to be highlighted more here
Lets not act like Japan accepts foreign people as is, let alone as a part of their history.
@@user-ds5lf3he3x Ehh, that's not what this is about and is frankly a bit insulting of you to say.
the damage has already been done
@VotingChipmunkyes but let's not also act like thomas lockley wrote a 500+ pages long "history" about yasuke based on just 3 pages that the Jesuits write about yasuke when they were writing a historical life about ODA and his followers 😊
The university had every right to erase his name 👍🏻
I would respect Ubisoft more if they’d just come out and say “we just wanted to have a black main character” instead of trying to pay all this lip service
Beaides the Yasuke thing Ubisoft has been repeatedly called out for making many different mistakes in their depiction of Japan by Japanese people. You can look in the comments of any of their posts on their Japanese account and you'll see Japanese people calling them out about this.
It's actually crazy how badly this game is at representing Japan. Even having Japanese characters dressed in traditionally Chinese clothing and plagiarizing copyrighted logos and using them as clan symbols
Quite sad all things considered
Tbf it’s not like the other entries were 100% accurate if you’re from the place depicted, they had an aqueduct in London for no reason in Valhalla, a giant statue of Zeus on Cephallonia in Odyssey and a pyramid in Sinai in Origins. They can have some creative license, but the main characters should at least be relevant to the culture and time period if they’re going to do a semi historical thing.
I feel like japan should be rather silent in regards to authentic representation of other cultures, they suck at that. At the end it's games, historical accuracy doesn't matter too much. The problem stems from the PR on accuracy and the need to use someone as a main character that actually existed. If they'd just used a fictional character the whole issue wouldn't have been an issue.
All of this backlash would not have happened if they just put a Japanese male as the protagonist in a game set in feudal Japan.
@@ruko9876fr all of this could have been avoided
Yasuke should have been an "Easter egg" NPC in the game you can find and never the main character.
@@PedanticUnionist cause if you want a game setted in Japan it's logical to put a japanese guy to be the main character not a white, black, chinese, indian or native american guy
@@PedanticUnionist Because Japan has a rich history with many interesting characters. A historical side-note who's main noteworthiness was his ethnicity is just an obtuse choice, trying to achieve the same thing as race- and gender swaps in modern media. That achieves two things at the same time - it disappoints people hoping for an authentic setting which includes Japanese protagonist as well as signals that there are the usual suspects behind the writing of this game who tend to produce fan fiction level of quality work.
@@Kokujin01-yc7xg I was under the impression that there was two characters, one of whom was Japanese (I got this from a bunch of promotional images). If i am incorrect then I do agree with you.
@@Kokujin01-yc7xg Just say you’re racist lmfao 💀 there’s literally a japanese main character as well
Notice how half the people complaining aren’t even Japanese lmfaoo
Did they ask Chatgpt to make this
@Zzplys would it surprise you if they did
I dont think so, ChapGPT can do better than this, this is just A DEI bootlicker product
Yeah it seems all over the place.
@supreme_shade no just add it to the list of companies. "Apologies"
@@mocha6w68lmao no it can’t.
5:28 They sited the actual Yasuke netflix anime adaptation as actual source of the real existence 💀💀💀
Imagine changing actual sources to make your game more accurate 😭
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I commented this exact thing in a different comment section and started a war there lol
@Joseph_14441..o
Disney did that with The Acolyte
@@AUTTPOfficerPhi-replybotyou’re not any better.
8:17 I feel offended they thought to put rap over that cause he’s a black character. JFC black people are known for other genres. It could’ve been ANYTHING ELSE! Or even keep the traditional Japanese music but ADD HEAVIER DRUMS OR SOMETHING to denote he’s African. God
It's unironically so racist to think that black people have never had any musical history besides hip-hop lmao.
@@goyjin5676 some of the most legendary and influential rock guitarists were chuck berry and BB King and Robert Johnson. All of them were black.
@@goyjin5676 I have yet to see a Black person upset about the hip hop music. Sounds like people getting offended for us.😂
@@RULEROFYORExv I don't need black people to validate my opinion. Making the soundtrack for a game set in feudal japan hip hop because a character is black is unbelievably cringe and racist.
It's like making a sci fi game and every time a middle eastern person is on screen they start playing generic desert/arabian music all of a sudden
@@goyjin5676 I disagree, the only reason you notice that is because you are hyper focused on his race.
They were trying so hard to make him the "black" assassin. Ignoring the existence of one of the world's continent, Africa and the African people in general
They would have to have an uncomfortable discussion on how most african empires made money (slaves) and that destroys the narrative so thats why it hasnt happened yet.
as much as I disliked Black Panther, at least it tried to explore that idea, it almost feels racist that companies lack willing to make more stories set in Africa
@@LugftHuronACthey would die before they have that conversation.
He’s not an assassin, Naoe is.
They already covered Egypt, that's African representation
/s
It seems like corporations nowadays, especially the marketing and HR teams, are HYPERFOCUSED on diversity, equity, and inclusion to the point where it doesn't even make sense anymore. Remember EA and Battlefield V with the women of color soldiers? The thing is with AC is they've had a protagonist that represents the culture of the setting in the game. Why is the one AC game set in Japan have a black male protagonist when it could've been an actual Japanese man?
Exactly. The Japanese are rightfully angry that their history is being erased. For a company that cares so much about proper "representation" I have no idea why they did this.
BTW in a early interview Ubisoft said this was a historic take. This is also the first real person used as a main character which made it all far worse.
A black man killing tons of Japanese people with Japanese people then being in awe and bowing to the black man. Oh and this real guy in history was now a super samurai.
If they had him as a side character it would not have mattered. They also always went with location using fictional regional people. Meaning this should have been Japanese people in the game but nope!
1. No they didn't. He is based on a historical figure but to think Ubisoft is trying to avcurately potray his history is silly. Assassins Creed always been a alternate take on history.
2. Killing japanese people? What do you even mean vy that? He's killing enemies sure but its not because they are japanese or that they are random people lol
3. This whole drama is stupid
Also there is a playable japanese character in the game that's actually an Assassin that you guys forgot about lop
@@WELSHGAMER99oh no, a Ubisimp.
@@ThePopo543 I don't even like ubisoft but I do find it fujny that instead of going after these guys for shuttimg down The Crew or their anti consumer practices you lose your mables over fucking Yasuke of all people
@@WELSHGAMER99no don't lie, you like ubisoft... 3 back to back comments in such a short time is a fan....
Watch earlier interviews for this game they explicitly portrayed Yasuke to be historically accurate.
Cant believe some people are actually taking ubisoft's side on this
Simps gunna simp
Yeah because most of this drama is fucking stupid.
If you wanna go after Ubisoft why this dumb shit and not the anti consumer stuff?
I don't think the majority of those people are defending Ubisoft, just calling out how stupid it is to act like you actually care about the "historical accuracy" of fucking assassins creed. The same game that let you move as fast as the flash and essentially teleport in the last game. The game has some stupid ass design flaws which are actually valid, (certain issues with seasons being portrayed wrong, outfits being wrong, artwork, etc). The majority of people hating choose to blame it on the Black samurai and the "historical accuracy" of his character. As if characters have ever been 100% historically accurate in any assassins creed. When there are genuine flaws, I feel like it's lazy to point towards yasuke.
@@user-ds5lf3he3x I care about historical accuracy as far as it concerns their claims that their representation of it is authentic. Because it's so off the mark, it's actually funny. If people believe this to be authentic as claimed by Ubi, that's basically falsification of history and the titktok generation of today will lap it up and believe it to be true. That's an issue.
Now from a purely game design perspective my issue is that anybody who likes Japan - especially the Japanese themselves - will be constantly confronted with glaring issues that are going to ruin any immersion. It's like making a samurai movie and giving the characters light sabers. One could argue it doesn't detract from the rest of the movie, but to anyone aware that light sabers were indeed not used by samurai, it'd feel like some kind of bad parody.
@@Xaito omg you really pulled out the "it's cause of gen z/tiktok" shit 😭. Ubisoft has always claimed to have a level of historical accuracy in their games. That's not a new claim. You didn't care until social media told you to care. 😭 There are actual issues, the main character is not one, and never was one.
we just know they would never dare throw an asian or white protagonist in a game set in africa
What about Far Cry 🤔 have you tried not being gay?
Why is gay an insult?
@@atari947 My bad, you’ve got a point, I just figured I shouldn’t be too woke at one time
Far Cry 2
@@drewlobo2176 The idea of someone trying to not be "too woke" in a conversation by randomly calling people gay to balance things out is fucking hilarious
Sets a game in feudal Japan, decides to make it a fanfic of a foreigner who was in Japan for all of 15 months, didn't know the language, and never did anything significant beyond existing.
Great idea there, Ubisoft.
The wiki used the Netflix anime as a source, which is complete fantasy!
The problem is not "Assassins Creed has aliens, so why do you care?", the problem is they sold Yasuke as being a historical accurate samurai all the time, going by a book that is pretty much fiction. Thats why Japan is angry, because they are basically going Cleopatra route here.
The netflix show had the advantage of ending a 400 years old debate on Cleopatra
When did they ever claim his story to be fact?
@@shadows1987 Look at their early press releases.
@@MrJinglejanglejingleYou mean by freaking out over one single quote about him? Yes Yasuke is based on a real figure its probably what they meant when they are using him
Is it just me or are the Aliens and Gods in general the least intresting part of Assassins Creed games? Not counting time spent out of the Animus. I want to explore time periods and psuedo history. The more the stray from that the less I'm willing to suspend my disbelief.
I'm honestly surprised a Japanese citizen didn't look at the sword and immediately tell lol one piece is huge there there's no way they really thought they'd get away with this lol.
Prpbably because it was more than likely a placeholder and not Yasuke's actual sword
@@WELSHGAMER99they used it for marketing. The game has no Japanese working on it.
The game is just disrespectful and racist towards Japanese people
@@RusticRonnie Ok?
Bro it’s a game not a damn history book. I don’t care how accurate the game is as long as it’s fun.
Pre-ordered?
It's interesting to see how a game can spark such a passionate debate over historical accuracy. I appreciate the blend of fiction and history, but it's crucial for developers to approach cultural representations with care.
It's really not about the game anymore. Of course people online were calling out Ubisoft for saying that everything with Yosuke was historically accurate. It wasn't until the company tried to change the wiki page multiple times and keeps changing it, that there is now an actual investigation being done, by the Japanese government, about cultural appropriation.
Yasuke wasn’t a samurai. He was a sword-retainer.
In layman’s terms “royal sword Caddy”
Why care so much?
@@pissedpatient23 because its not historically accurate and its clear they did it to cater to the DEI woke crowd that wont even play the game
ubisoft be like: NO SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! HE WAS SAMURAI! HE WAS IMPORTANT! YOU AGAINST DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION! ITS HISTORY ACCURATE COMPLITLEY FICTIONAL GAME!
He was a samurai…
@@AndRei-yc3tiThe DEI woke crowd? What?
They managed pissed off an entire country this time. That's impressive in its own way.
I think that’s being blown out of proportion.
@@ronthorn3exactly, it ain’t that deep at all. Mfers really need to touch grass 😂
I’m pretty sure they didn’t piss off a whole country and especially when it non Japanese people getting mad for them
Japan has the 3rd highest number of preorders towards this game ? Yeah they’re hella pissed 😂
There was one guy pretending to be Japanese but I’m sure not all
Muta you did not talk about the shit with Thomas Lockley himself, that this Yasuke was a samurai spun out from him, and that Ubi moved to make Yasuke a samurai based on his book, which turned out to be false, and also he was behind the majority of Yasuke wiki edition and he based his own book as the source! Also now the jig is up he's purged himself from the net. What gives?
Sort of. Yasuke actually was…well, maybe not a samurai but he was a retainer in the service of Oda Nobunaga. Unfortunately that one sentence is pretty much everything we know about him.
@@warlordofbritanniahe was in Japan for 3 years, that’s all we need to know. To be a samurai you had to go through like a decade of training lol
@@PedroOozeMan
The bigger issue is how samurai was a social class, but same idea-Yasuke wasn’t a full fledged samurai, he was the class below.
@@warlordofbritannia I can promise you he wasn't. Even Hideyoshi had to prove his loyalty for like a decade and win multiple battles before ever being considered for the title of Samurai. 😂
@@JR-wf5kg
Where did I say Yasuke was a samurai?
Love how this controversy has taken eyes off the fact that this game has an "ultimate edition" at $130
Surely they should have gotten (more) Japanese people to help out with it.
The will never do it, because of DEI
Nah japan fakes their history
That’s probably what they gonna do this time forward.
And recently we had Capcom say they want to hire more westerners and less Japanese devs. What a world we live in...
@@F34RDSoldier805 lol the japanese feel of the game is why we like capcom....how are they so out of touch lmao
Made him fight to hip hop and steal a sword from another franchise 💀
Never underestimate Zoro's tendency to get lost. He ended up in Assassin's Creed and forgot his sword. Yasuke's just borrowing it just so he could give it back to Zoro, lol.
Minority Hunter Zoro is NOT gonna let it slide
@@machintosh3008oh no, you're right.
Definitely took the wrong guy's sword.
Ubisoft is a psycho company.
But unsually in a fun way
Isn't that what most corporate game devs nowadays... They even fight for the worst game developer every single time
@The13thRonin woke isnt as bad as ypu want it to be. Equality is woke. Special treatment is just wrapped in the guilt embraced by the woke movement. Live your life and be kind. Woke wont matter because its just a buzzword. Peace friend and keep gaming! And remember, keep your atrocities in game. Lol
It's so weird how people come out of the woodwork to make this Yasuke character "larger than life" when it has been proven through Japanese historical documents that he was just a sword bearer for Oda, not an actual Samurai, and that the dude was simply ignored and left alone during the war.
He's about as important as your everyday guard essentially that just happened to be black, there's nothing more to it.
Idc if he's in the game, but I have a problem with people trying to change historical facts because this'll just snowball into more cases like this.
What's next, black vikings? Asian vikings? White tribes in Africa?
Makes no damn sense.
@TierHarribel well look at how glorified the "White American Samari" Nathan Algren, who in no way embodied the spirit, mindset, or grasp of samurai culture, or Edo culture. Hes just another white colonial American sent in to "civilize" military culture to the ways of modern warfare and take the barbaric feudal systens away, despite having worked for milenia. Even Shogun introduced white europeans into societal positions within japanese empericism that even today would be purely novelty. American culture and society can never truely understand Asian cultures because we have been taught to be individualist. The self comes before the family and the community. People dont trust because weve lost the communal connection. In asian countries (well not include Chinas CCP or the DPRK) there is crime, but most people dont just leave it to the cops. They protect neighbors and patrons because thats who pays the bills. They see the symbiotic relationship between the livl8hood of the community relative to their own.
When i was in Japan on business several years ago. My briefcase with all my documents, my speech, my lesson plan ( i was speeking at a history symposium) was stolen from my table as had my tea. I reported it. I went to the hotel and started tryng to re write from memory, i called asking to switch time slots. I was fucked. I layed down and cryed my soul out until i fell asleep. At 4 pm , there was a knock on my door. A gentlemen is a very nicelybtaylored suit asked if i was me, and i said yes. Upon which he presedted my briefcase. Still locked if a bit scuffed. He also presented me with a ticket to a private dinner to which he would drive which i accepted. His benefactor was of course the boss of the local yakuza (which im.making up because they dont exist and are just very kind businessmen). He was impressed by my Japanese but said english was fine. Heboffered me drink and i.declined, i cant drink.alcohol. he was quite understanding. We ate the best steaks ife ever had. He attended my lecture, as he was a huge history fan himself.
In america, ive had my wallet stoloen. My creditbused to buy 3 cars. My laptop stolen, research erased and sold in a pawn shop for $40. While im not ever going to say organized crime is perhaps not alesys bad..the system we live in where there is no communal accountability could learn a bit from the kind Japanese Businessmen that retrieved and returned my property no questions asked.
A black guy attacking asians? You can't claim Ubisoft didn't try to make the most realistic game ever.
First they say it’s historically accurate and then say it’s fantasy lol we aren’t stupid and can’t gaslight us. They know what they were doing.
Assassins Creed HAS NEVER BEEN HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. Theres a disclaimer on every fucking game in the series saying that its a "work of fiction"
They do use real history for the map and locations but for the story its all fiction based on historical events.
The only one gaslighting here is you guys gaslighting yourselves
@@WELSHGAMER99 they are historically authentic with a twist.
you should learn to tell the difference between saving private ryan, inglorious bastards, captain america, and that world war 2 flashback in hey arnold
historical authenticity is a gradient
i'd say AC is usually at an inglorious bastards level of fuckary even with the alien stuff since that stuff doesn't take much time up in the story
@@Metatrudge The only auhentic stuff is the setting and even then its debateable these days. Everything else is fiction becaise every game has the Assassins and Templars waging an invisible war during historical events.
@@WELSHGAMER99 yeah and they still fucked up making the setting authentic in this game
@@WELSHGAMER99 You are legit spamming most of the top comments riding Ubisofts long staff. Understand that the majority doesn't think like you do when it comes to this issue. Even if the game mixes historical facts with fiction won't change what Ubisoft did. They pulled out the woke card and it back fired.
they put rap music in a japanese samuri game lol
They did? Because of a black character? Thats pretty god damned racist sounding.
@@MrBluman999 they actually did lmao, they made it into one of their trailers
That is cringy but…was it any good?
@Joseph_14441nobody care nga
Yeah it’s 2024 and rap music is the most famous music genre.
The main problem is that Ubislob claimed that this game was going to historical correct, and that they had done extensive research to make it so. But it turned out that they worked mainly with a fiction author, who has been caught using his own fiction book as a source on Wikipedia, and has since been discredited as a historian. Yasuke has never, outside or the lockleys book, been described as anything other than a Slave/Servant. All sources that hint of him being a samurai is from lockleys book, a FICTION book BTW.
A fictional game using fiction as the story for its fictional history?!? Oh no! What an actual crime. Especially in such a historically accurate series like assassins creed. That shit is the most historically acurate shit ever! Like the time they accurately depicted shadow clones being used to kill the pope. Or the time a god damn real minotaur was a boss battle. Very historically accurate. A real dude's history being exagerated and fictionalized is such a horrific turn for a series that is as historically accurate as ASSASSIN'S FUCKING CREED.🤣
@dn22pkkdd476 did you miss the part that the COMPANY was the one pushing this to be historically accurate?
@@dn22pkkdd476 doesn't matter that assasins creed hasnt been historically accurate, if they advertise it will be historically accurate now, it better be fucking historically accurate.
@@dn22pkkdd476 if it said "inspired from history" or "historically inspired" then yeah they can make whatever stuff, Fate series has done that but they never claim to be historically accurate, but in Shadows they said "historically accurate" multiple times to the lead up of this game
this is where a lot of people have complaints thats why the original first 4 games were so good because they sticked with having authenticity in their games, sure they got weird stuff in the game like other game, but moving around the buildings were so on point, the people and even historical events that happened which they add in codex to tell you more and when you google it, youll find out it actually happened, that made me like history because of the first AC games,
idk about the later games ive stopped playing after black flag but old ac was in fact historically accurate where the original game devs made the decision to remove a crossbow because it didn't exist at that time period.
Today's AC? infested with wok and dei, with the addition of angering an entire country the game is based on.
Yasuke was a retainer, a warrior rank subservent to Daiymos. Not a slave
I met a Ubisoft dev in San Francisco, his team has been behind every Assassin Creed since the second installment. Dude told me all the details for each game, till I asked about Shadows; lips were sealed. Which is weird cause he told me all about Outlaws too, which is unreleased. Even Ubisoft knows it’s gonna be shit show.
This sounds to me like. “I don’t care what historians told you cleopatra was black “
Wasn’t cleopatra Greek? And Egyptians are pretty protective over how cleopatra is portrayed in media.
@@robertnapier624yeah he's citing what Netflix did with the show.
To be honest, if they just made him an actual assassin member who traveled to japan undercover to set up a local japanese chapter to fight against Templars members working in japan, it would be so much better.
I actually like this idea. Yasuke going to Japan undercover as a sword-retainer while hunting for Templars would be very interesting.
But meh. It's Ubisoft, not a lot to expect from that company.
honestly this was what i was expecting, they would have need to set up a link or holdout in that area, but nooo, we get a samurai who is literally a celeb at that time.
if he was like a mentor or teaching naoue if they went that route i bet there would be 0 backlash for this.
My idea would be to have an Assassin aligned shinobi investigating Templar aligned Portuguese missionaries and during her mission her Assassin's principles causes her to release an African Slave. She would teach him the Assassin's Creed and the ninja arts. He would end up excelling at espionage and night ops rather then run around in the open as the most conspicuous man in the country. You could even still have Yasuke in the game as a side character or was just Yasuke all along as an alter ego allowing him to infiltrate Nobunaga's organization.
@@4thSurviver the better choice for the time period are the battle monks secluded in Hiei Mountains. They did assassination, espionage, sabotage, jobs back then which were streotypical assassin duties.
That idea would have run into complications with the canon AC Valhalla established. The Templar Order took root in Christian churches and Yasuke is a Jesuit. He would more logically have been a Templar agent than an assassin, which would actually make the premise more intriguing. Playing as a Templar agent hasn't returned to the franchise since AC Rogue.
Not that Yasuke is bad, there was just MUCH better choices to be the main male protagonist that all lived and made legends of themselves as samurai during that time period in Japan..
If the argument was that the other main characters was made up, why isn't this one being treated the same as the others? Well, Yasuke was a real person and they knew it. But didn't have enough information to be said he was a samurai. Yet they used a real person and made him into one...and bi.
@@TheMrPLewp What?! they made him bi?!?
@@Rojomanzana438brother no, there isn’t even a story trailer/synopsis out. Ubisoft said in a blog that there’s romance options with different people for both characters. People are taking that “different” for gay and running with it
@@naitaoni4308they confirmed same sex romance for both Yasuke & Nanoe
@@thesilentsociety3252 ik, that still doesn’t mean they “made him gay/bi”
Game developers often take creative liberties that can sometimes distort historical facts. I'm intrigued to see how Ubisoft manages this issue and how it affects the gameplay in the future.
I doubt they’re actually gonna do anything about it
As an Asian, I'm REALLY irked that the first Assassin's Creed game set in East Asia, they decided to make (one of) the main character a black man. Why didn't they just make Ezio black instead...? Or just make Connor black.
Yea i really felt like miyamoto musashi would have been perfect instead. And im black, yasuke is just too unconfirmed as a warrior and wouldn’t line with AC’s historical lore
first? i guess assassin's creed chronicles isn't a thing to you, huh?
Because the Ezio games were made before social media got big and people started being able to overwhelm the narrative surrounding a product with complaints about pandering or lack thereof. Those games were made back when creative vision was still legal.
If they wanted a black main character, they could’ve set it in Africa during the Atlantic slave trade…. In my opinion where assassins creed games are set should be represented by the people who live there, just makes it fair across the board.
@user-kd3cz4zo9k The issue with that is, no matter how good they made the story and game play, a lot of fans would see it as a 'black story' and wouldn't bother to give it a go... thats why they do this. Like in the book industry, if the the cover had a black character, people were less likely to buy it, but when it was a more generic cover with no black faces, people were more open to buying the very same books. It sucks, but if there were to be a black main character in AC, this is the only way they can make sure they make some money.... making an incredible story based on black african history would never matter :/
TBH the issue was never that it was historically inaccurate or whatever. It’s that they tried to claim it was. yasuke was a samurai (he 100% wasn’t) and then changed/locked the Wikipedia article to match Ubisoft’s claims.
Also lying and using assets of another IP (one piece) and passing it off as your own.
Let’s not forget they confused Chinese art and architecture with Japanese 😂
@@PedroOozeMan lol
The "professor", Thomas Lockley, the first one that found out about Yasuke being a samurai got his degree revoked by Nihon University😅
His own fault for lying, Yasuke was never a Samurai lol
Author of book often sited on Yasuke’s Wikipedia,Thomas Lockley’s resume is said to have been removed from Nihon
University staff list. His NHK television program has also been delisted. Nippon Journal is exposing Thomas Lockley's lies, including his false claim about Yasuke being a samurai. Historians, newspapers, and the Diet are uniting against this distortion of history. It may soon become a government matter.
Let’s be honest here, we all know Ubisoft put Yasuke in to score some easy DEI points from the crazies on X and SweetBaby Inc because they don’t consider Asian people to be PoC enough anymore. They don’t care about your representation, they care about their quotas and the bag.
Thank you, idk why no other comment mentioned the wiki writer sighting himself as a source. This comment needs more likes
I still can't believe that blacks see DEI as a win. It's disappointing. DEI does not represent their culture. Why is it that those writers always put black characters over originally white characters who show white culture instead of just creating new things with black culture?
They're not dark enough 😂
The fact that they gave the sword of Zoro the minority hunter to Yasuke a black samurai is kinda sus
Not just minority hunter, those zoro memes are mostly him being especially racist to black people
We are sorry but we wont change shit.. worst sorry not sorry ever
Ubisoft: every game we make that has a black playable character should have hip hop and rap music play, no matter how ancient we go in history, black man in caveman times? Fighting music should have cavemen grunting with trap beats.
Same energy as putting on hip-hop when your black friend rides with you and tell them, "this is for you."
Striving for authenticity isn't really compatible with works of fiction. They need to pick one, or clearly define the lines. They failed in both.
Assassin's creed will be endlessly milked and never have a proper ending.
It ended with AC3. Same like how MCU ended with Endgame.
@@imulanThen Ac4 must have been like No Way Home
@@imulan _Assassin's Creed_ died with Desmond.
Just like call of duty
They fr added rap music for the black dude. I lowkey think Ubisoft has closeted racists!
Aka dei
Putting Yasuke in feudal Japan is like making a Mutahar documentary with a white guy playing Muta.
IT ACTUALLY IS
And their reason for it being "historically accurate" would be because Mutahar had a white guy as one of his editors or something.
Yasuke existed. But just a bag holder that the Japanese found funny. He didn't do anything beside hiding when wars started. And Nobunaga's killers spared him because they considered him like an animal
@@skyper8934so it's basically documentary about Muta, but his editor is a main character and he does everything what Muta did
@@its-tinyavocado literally. He didint do nothing irl, and was kept as a bag holder because they found him funny.
@skyper8934 what's the source on this? There's a lot of different stories for this guy, so want to figure out what's actually true and not bullcrap being spouted by fans/haters
I do find it frustrating that in their attempt to be inclusive they completely ruin a chance to have proper representation for the Japanese people and period of history that the game is based around. They could’ve done so much more with this
You know it's bad when a massive company actually apoligizes to the public for their actions.
Nah they didn’t apologize, they just try to educate us why they do things they do and expect us to shovel it in
Clarification is the literal opposite of Repentance. No meat and potatos there just more butter to grease their deal. Such a sadisticly grapey company to demand our money.
They apologized cause they're offending the Japanese, were they offending whites there would be no apology and it would be a witch hunt to take down anyone who cares badmouth the game
Wdym, massive companies apologize for breathing wrong all the time. These apology letters are everywhere from AAA assholes like Ubisoft, they just blame it on other things and the letter ultimately does nothing since they don't actually give a shit about their communities.
They be like "it's fiction" but then they be like "we hired historians".
The “historian”: a language teacher who writes fantasy
Ubisoft is one of those companies without a soul, their marketing is safe, glamorous shit like that. They'll say they've hired the best fiction writers ever for US (omg!!!) but then they'll say their game is also extremely historically accurate, because they LOVE US (holy shit!!1!!!!11).
Ultimately whatever they say publicly is bullshit, they're just eternal situation-diffusers with drone-like positive speech.
@@warlordofbritannia She's a Professor that wrote a book about monks having sexual relationship with minors, ain't that something.
@@Lil.Lon3Ly
Oh, I thought they were referring to Lockley. As far as I know the other one is clean-there’s nothing wrong in researching odd topics like that. I’m an expert on the Confederacy but I don’t think we should bring back slavery, after all. 😂
@@warlordofbritanniaFeudal Japan history isn't their speciality nor the history of Japan in general but Ubisoft is racist so they just hired any Japanese "historian" and called it a day. She is Japanese so she has the illusion of being very representative and respective of Japanese history lol
The issue is that they are blatantly pandering while using historical accuracy as a thinly veiled disguise for their activism. And even then, it isn't historically accurate.
Right on.
No Assassin's Creed game is. It's historical fiction, always has been.
You know, if Ubisoft just said "we found some speculative fiction and wanted to explore a bit, like what if Yasuke was a samurai?" rather than claiming it was historically accurate, I'd be less mad. I wouldn't even be annoyed.
It's "just a game" until it hits close to home.
Japanese gamers: Homie don't play that.
That was same excuse those who tried to complain about AC: Odyssey’s inaccuracies of the Persians were met with, and now the Japanese are enduring what Iranians have been going through.
I felt this way about prototype 2 but I didn't have a country backing me up. Glad to see people finally catching on
The first time in franchise history that a playable protagonist is based on a real person, by the way.
The root of the problem is that every other ac has a main character who is of that culture or race, but not this time. Why is that?
I mean Yasuke would have been from that culture considering he actually existed there...
Black flag doesn't exist?
@@deathtrooper2048Colonial Carribbean had lots of different people. Feudal Japan didn't.
It's funny how all you guys saying this ignore Naoe the literal japanese main character. There are other much better reasons to hate on ubisoft.
There literally is a japanese main character?
And that wasn't an apology. That was a finger.
So basically it's a "We are sorry you are mad" letter. They are super not getting my money ever again..
I think they care you give them money
Any money ever again is a bit of a stretch. Thats just feelings over fact.
piracy is the key comrade
It took you until now to realize you shouldn't give Ubisoft any of your money? 😏
@@КГБКолДжорджКостанца Piracy is free publicity for Ubisoft, smoothbrain.
the issue isn’t with the japanese government, it’s with the fact that it was discovered that yasuke was never even a real samurai, and was basically an errand boy for samurai, and one of the main sources that ubisoft used to make the game, was recently found out to be basically fanfiction, as well as it being infested with dei
“It was discovered that Yasuke was never even a real samurai…basically an errand boy”
That’s…that’s not the controversy, no one would ever claim they definitively know that Yasuke was never “a real samurai,” because such a statement would only show their ignorance. The real debate is multifaceted and largely semantical-ie, how do we define samurai?
Yasuke was the personal retainer of a samurai and received the typical living of a warrior retainer. Does that make him a samurai, or something else? Typically a samurai is defined as a sworn sword to a Japanese warrior or lord, so by that logic Yasuke is indeed a samurai. However, one could argue that samurai had a more specific meaning at this time in history, and Yasuke might not have fit due to his foreign birth. Then again Yasuke was given an extremely important symbolic job so…
The long and short of it is that Yasuke was at least hired by Oda Nobunaga in the same manner as he hired other samurai. Functionally he was a samurai, even if he did not acquire the same social status.
@@warlordofbritannia No lmao, lot of words does not make your claim true.
To put it short - it makes him a retainer. One that never was even a warrior in any battle, once the battle started he fled into hiding.
That was it, henceforth he was never a warrior to begin with.
"Incredibly important job" is also an overstatement. They used him as a carrier bc the Japanese found him funny. That was it.
@@Ilivedbih
Do you know what retainer means in this context? It means a warrior sworn to a particular man’s service, who received a stipend to keep himself armed and ready for service (which we know Yasuke also received). To quote from a comment in the ask historians subreddit:
“So the word was not a one-off usage by Ōta Gyūichi and every single usage of the word stipend was, without exception, either giving it to samurai (some incredibly high ranked) or used in the context of hiring samurai or samurai’s salary. This includes a young sumo wrestler who may or may not have been a samurai, but was definitely hired by Nobunaga as his personal samurai. There is therefore no reason to think Gyūichi was using the term in Yasuke's context any differently.”
If you want, you can think of Yasuke as a man at arms rather than a knight. Functionally the same but with a different social class.
@@warlordofbritannia bruh you clearly are poorly informed on this topic, and are def just a troll. like Ilivedbih said, lots of words doesn't make what you're saying true, and was never a warrior to begin with. and bro clearly stated that yasuke was a retainer that never went into battle. and that's not what retainer means at all, cause according to oxford languages, a retainer is "a servant or follower of a noble or wealthy person, especially one that has worked for a person or family for a long time." so by no means does it even specify that a retainer is a warrior. and since you're using medieval times posts, yasuke would be more like a squire or a servant to a knight, not a man at arms
@@dannyinferno6747
It doesn’t matter if Yasuke went into battle, the point is that Oda Nobunaga treated him like a warrior.
Also, the Oxford Dictionary is not a historical source. To even bring it up shows only your own ignorance of how history and historical research is done.
Imagine if this was assassins creed Zulu with an Asian male protagonists.
Might not be as silly as you’d think. The Zulu did the whole “assimilate conquered people into the system” thing, and it’s not beyond reason that, for example, an Indian went to South Africa and thence to the Zulu.
I certainly wouldn’t portray this theoretical as more than a fish out of water, though, using this anomaly as the main character in order to introduce the audience to an alien culture. Think “The Last Samurai,” not “Spirited Away”
Muta, while I'm glad you're talking about this and shedding light on recent events as an AC fan, the problem is that Ubisoft came out and with their own mouths kept bragging about how historically accurate the game is going to be, they were bragging about how their game was based on factual historical studies provided by "professionals". If they didn't market the game as such, absolutely no one would've cared and people would've enjoyed it as a work of fiction. Now that they've been caught guilty of revising history for personal gain, they're backpedalling and gaslighting fans claiming they never intended their works to be viewed as accurate. And they're scraping past statements. It's shameful behaviour and they deserved to be called out on it.
Can Amazon Prime please apologise for making me have to pay in order to not see f-ing ad's
welcome to piracy
Why complain when you can hoist yer flags?
@@Kuhmodo Cause I have bought like 30 something movies I like via Prime 😭
Why give your money to Jeff bezo
You're also forgetting the plagiarization of the Sekigahara Teppo Corps' flag. There's more to this than just Yasuke or Lockley's redundant and self-fulfilling evidence citation. As well as mistaken misrepresentation of Chinese being "Japanese". They've never done any actual work other than surface level research for this game. Even if we ignore the obvious fictional and historical intermingling, Ubisoft has utter and complete contempt for Japan or it's culture. As others have pointed out, the four sources you've shown in wikipedia. One is from a netflix anime and it's already been shown that wikipedia is nigh unreliable especially when it comes to some controversies.
Ubisoft probably has contempt for most cultures lol. I didn’t see anywhere near this amount of backlash with Valhalla’s metal band Vikings.
I have a popular comment with a lot of "awards" on STEAM in regards to their education-only offering for Assassin's Creed in Egypt. They purposefully revise history because of the "trauma" it could show actually showing history, which is weird because that's the entire reason they marketed that version of the game. An example would be boys and girls being educated separately. They are studying together in game with a large popup that says the developers could not accept that kids were educated historically separated by gender.
The reason why people are looking for historical accuracy in this game is because ubisoft devs ANNOUNCED that this game in particular would be historically accurate to the depicted japanese era, allowing for people to learn the history of japan as they play.
Dont gaslight us into forgetting ubisofts own words
“Why hip hop in a historical game?” I mean did you see the main character?
That haircut wasn't made by a Japanese barber in feudal period either. 😅
They once again failed to do right by the Japanese because this is not how a proper apology in Japan goes. The one most responsible for the offense (The CEO or game director) needs to personally give the apology while addressing each individual offense.
Offenses which are:
Starting with the big one (!!!!!!THIS IS THE MAIN PROBLEM!!!!); Stating multiple times how this is supposed to be historically accurate and factual to history. Never saying it's historical fiction. This has caused severe misunderstandings from westerners. Leading to wild claims like Japan is hiding black samurai culture. When the Japanese try to correct them they get called racists or white people pretending to be Japanese.
They especially didn't like Ubisoft's CEO saying those complaining were just racists because, well, a lot of Japanese people were complaining.
As one Japanese commenter put it this way "This is wrong, but if someone said to me, "The ancestors of the British royal family were black, tea culture originated in Africa, the source of the Arthurian legend is Africa, and all the members of the Round Table were black. If you deny this, you're a racist. If it's not true, provide evidence." I'm sure I would get angry. Why are they forcing this obviously wrong knowledge on me? I don't understand."
Seasons and landscapes are wrong. It's like having sunflowers and autumn leaves in the same scene.
In one interview Ubisoft said they picked Yasuke so they could have someone be "their eyes", implying that a Japanese person wasn't allowed to be included in "their" for some reason.
Copyright infringement including stealing the banner of a modern reenactment group from Japan and putting it in their artbook, which they said they're still going to keep in. Putting Zoro's sword from One-Piece (Japan's #1 best selling manga and national treasure) at promotional display at a convention while saying it's authentic to history and that you could "learn history" from it. Said sword was found on Amazon for 30$. Along side other crap they had there.
Yasuke beheading an already defeated foe. There is no honor in that. They didn't like that their country being depicted as barbaric. In defense of that Ubisoft said in an interview saying beheadings were commonplace at the time the game takes place (they were not). Also a French company saying that is silly considering the guillotine.
Having Torri gates (religious architecture) being used as village gates.
Yasuke walking around in full armor when not in battle.
Having civilians bow to Yasuke in full armor instead of running and hiding because full armor means a battle is about to happen.
Finding out that some jackass named Thomas Lockley has basically made everything about Yasuke up to sell his book. Said book was different in Japan and the West. In Japan his book made it clear it was all conjecture. In the West he stated everything was a fact. Recently Thomas Lockley made the absolutely insane claim that slavery of black people was popular back then (there were no black slaves in Japan). When if it was then why was Yasuke's appearance so surprising to Nobunaga. This wasn't Ubisoft's fault but it added gasoline to the fire.
The Japanese don't hate Africans, they don't love them either. They are neutral. This is because Africans have a virtually nothing to do with Japan historically.
There's a lot more but it's late and I have work in the morning.
I liked the historically accurate part in AC Brotherhood where Ezio used a tank.
I know, right.
And had a fistfight with the Pope.
black people arent a fantasy element tho tbf
@@Leopoldshark But the Pope in game was in fact the Pope in real life. Also, Pope Julius II was known as "The Warrior Pope". So of any of them to fight, he makes the most sense.
@@mostcreativenameonyoutube3624If you defeat the Pope in a fight, do you become the Pope next?
As God clearly decided that you are worthy of defeating his earthly representative.
10 years, many games and they haven't managed to do something better than Black Flag.