Assassin's Creed Shadows Defenders DEMAND Japan SIT DOWN & SHUT UP + Yasuke Debate Goes NUCLEAR
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2025
- Terminally online people are claiming the backlash is fabricated, that Japanese people are wrong & they need to stay in their lane, so let me explain to you why Assassin's Creed Shadows nonsense needs to be addressed
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Stop using chatGPT to write your videos. UNGODLY amount of water. You can condense it in a short
Japan has seen a significant increase in the number of foreign tourists, but I am always fed up with the bad manners of foreign tourists. I am sick of it in real life, but I can't stand to see such vandalism in the game.
ジョニーソマリみたいな奴とか、電車内で踊ったりするやつとか、鳥居でダンスしたり懸垂したりするやつとか、神社に落書きするやつとか、入るなって注意書き無視して写真撮る奴とか、現実世界で散々外国人に嫌な思いさせられてるのに、ゲーム内でも同じようなことされて黙ってられるか。
"unless something egregious happens" , see you tomorrow
@@nekozaemon3803 stop hatewatching
you should’ve concluded cod vanguard zombies in your video as example because there was a backlash from Muslim gamers for ripping the pages of the Quran/ holy book of Muslim.and you can find the pages everywhere from the nazi scientist office from one of the zombie map. and because of it the developers were apologising to the Muslim gamers . And I think to this day they still mad about it I don’t know
Funny how foreigners think that they know better about Japans history than japanese people themselves
True
I think they do know their history and rape it the fuck off on purpose. Black vagrant "legend" retainer beating the Japanese in the game like abused kids, female sumo wrestler because rape the fuck out of those sacred traditions, the broken torii gates, the blatant Chinese architecture; it's almost like it's on purpose. 😂
A lot of times your average dork on the internet does know more about x countries history than the majority of the populace.
Bunch or racist Canadians in Ubisoft hate Japan.
After getting the architecture, the food for the seasons, the written language, traditions, and culture COMPLETELY wrong, they still have the nerve to claim to know better.
Woke devs - "How dare you tell us how to run your culture!"
Exactly this
Same way they ruined the spanish language in Spiderman 2's dub. They're literally the ones that culturally appropriate, but then again sjws/wokes and hypocrisy go hand in hand
how is that a surprise? they've been doing the same thing for decades, remember the latino/latinX stupidity?
Precisely
@Walamonga1313 right. It's so funny the ones claiming to be not the racists are in fact the racists. Or the most tolerant 😂 you know as long as you don't have an opinion other than theirs
Japan should sue Ubisoft for Racial Discrimination and Slander of their Culture and History.
you overreact as hell just as everyone else, no one said that it will be 100% like it was in real life.
and if thats the case, years ago when ac2 released, it had incest with borgia family, which is actually more insultin than this with japan, and no one back then said a word you hypocrites
Same as Egypt did to Netflix
@@nixad4248 That's not how hypocrisy works
@@nixad4248dude, they’re fucking with Japanese history to the extreme. Female sumo wrestlers, Yasuke, the direct insults with the AC merch, and completely ignoring the Japanese community/outright disrespecting them. Trust me, this is a lot worse than one issue with AC2
It worked for Egypt against Netflix.
Why do I get the feeling these shills are the same type to treat Japan like a theme park when they visit?
Oh God, these Westerners, they claim Japan is their "virtual playground", these people remind me of one Johnny Somali.
The Japanese refuse to bow to the people who altered their history in the name of DEI propaganda.
Gonna bet these Are the monkeys depicted in that Japanese Poster . If you know y'know
💯🎯
Because they are
You hit the nail on the head. I was stationed in Japan for 5 years, and the amount of disrespect I've seen from foreigners visiting there is insane. It's goes beyond disrespect for individuals, it is more like a general disdain for the culture as a whole. The thing that ticks off most liberals to hear is that primary offenders are basketball americans.
Japan has the right to defend it's traditions and culture from being tarnished
And so does Europeans. We stand with you.
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Japan will NEVER bow down to Ubisoft's sins of creating Assassin's Creed Shadows.
It's easier if we just rewrite Japanese history instead of admitting a mistake
Dont hold your breath
nor will real gamers
@@WeirdLookingRabbit the Japanese will hold the line.
goddamn why are you all so stupid??
you are all acting hypocritical as hell.
AC2 had more historical innacuracy than shadows.
AC2 literally had cesare borgia having incest with his sister, and all of you were fine with that, not to mention how you all bragged that its the best game in the whole franchise,and now when it comes to japan you are out of nowhere "insulted".
stop being hypocritical and get real for once.
you are all so goddamn pathetic
The Japanese are very proud of their culture
Its never good to fight against them on that
more that it's stupid of people to try and correct people on any culture that's not their own. basically don't try and be Y and lecture X on what the history and culture of X 'actually' is.
Good part is that many outsiders join forces and back up Japan on this matter, faking and lying about ones own culture and history that spilled a lot of blood it totaly wrong.
@@thetiredbiker3652 These are the same people who get offended when a white dude wears a sombrero and poncho but they have no problem literally rewriting another culture entirely.
Assassin's Creed WW2 Axis of Evil would have been cool! Make the main character a Nasi. Stick to true history.
@exposingthetruth3821 true and they'd just have to find a way to blend Watch Dogs and AC mechanics since they'd have machine guns
The other thing is this: why are there no guards attacking you for attacking a sacred temple?
Good question
Because Ubisoft never cared about the cultural sensitivity since the historian they hire only educated on gender indentities
This shrine is an old one, founded in 564, and is still loved by the locals today. Even in feudal times, no one used to riot here because it was a very peaceful place. That's why they didn't need guards...
@@roll-panna leave it to the "tourist" to disturb the peace ;)
Because black lives matter
Japan should sue Ubisoft for cultural appropriation and slander.
It's surreal, man. I used to be a big Ubisoft fan growing up. Now, I can't wait to see them close down. Jeezuz, what an absolute disgrace to their legacy.
Oh, mad respect to you for admitting your mistake with Kingdom comes Deliverance, bro.
Me too bro. Honestly was m favourite game franchise for most of my life, sad to see ya heroes become wokey brokey blue haired villains.
Stagnation leads to rot and decay
Ubisoft shows such an excessive disrespect towards Japanese culture, I wouldn't be surprised if the entire studio was banned from selling their products in Japan.
It would even be perfectly reasonable.
Cry jap anime
I agree
It would make perfect sense, hell it would be even better if a lot of countries friendly with Japan would join the ban in solidarity.
@ u guys are crazy. It’s a game. Go cry
@@EasterlySumo868 Silence, npc
These people (ubi) don’t understand that they are not in a position to demand anything at all.
What are they demanding?
Your money.
Compliance, or if you prefer forced acceptance to their own hypocrisy.
@@gerald5175 to be ignorant of their unintelligence, greed, and incredibly poor decision making.
When the game was first revealed, shills were out in their numbers talking about the game's "historical accuracy". Flash forward to now, they are all quiet about it now 😂
They even deny they ever said that lol
It's more accurate to say they went from raving about the game's historical accuracy to talking about how it's "historical fiction" so any parts that insults Japan's history and culture aren't a big deal. Though I do believe that there might be a few "special" cases who still take the words of Temu Tom Cruise the fake Japanese historian as 100% fact.
Or worse doing a complete 180 and trying to claim it is only a game and thus don't have to be accurate.
Always stealing something these types
The trailer still wants to sell the game as the player being transported back to historic Japan and you can learn about Japanese history.
Seriously tired of black supremacists. Never have i seen a more flagrant display of unwarranted self-importance.
black supremacists and the white saviors who simp for them. Both need to be cast out of entertainment overall.
I'm tired as well. I'm neither murican or black, so I have no eggs in this basket but it is quite clearly an agenda for blacks. How come every single race swap works one way only? It's so clear for anyone to see
yes racism against white people is accepted thing nowadays and its the norm by woke people
I thought the word Racism lost all it's meaning?
@@verygoofyalligatorwithshades
You're a liberal aren't you.
Can smell the BS from you a mile away.
Fkoff
As a Westerner who has no biological connection to Japan, I am still... befuddled by why this is so hard for other Westerners to understand. Cultures are different from one another, and its a beautiful thing to understand, respect, and celebrate said cultures in their own way so long as said cultures do not run entirely antithetical to your own... "if you know, you know."
Japan is not one of those cultures, however, as its cultural leanings bend to a couple of key tenants. Honor, respect for your ancestors living and dead, upholding your word, and respect for those in higher positions to yourself for whome their word is law. Once you place yourself, mentally, in this position, it's very easy to navigate the dos and don'ts, and it mystifies to me why people do not see the extreme disrespect this game represents.
Japan is not a theme park to destroy for money. Its a beautiful culture that still takes itself seriously, and you should too.
I've found the younger generation largely has completely lost the ability to put themselves in someone else's shoes. They largely can't even entertain the merits of an idea different from their own without adopting it, the concept seems alien to them. We've completely f-ed people's ability to think in order to make them more receptive to certain "messages", its truly a tragedy and part of the decline of our society.
Dude defend your own European ancestry. Why are you shilling for Japanese’s?
@@alex434343 im a gen z and believe many of the things the top comment does, most of my friends around my age mid 20-30 believe it's nonsense as well.
i will not tolerate being lumped in the same group of terminally online twitter users. people of all ages have misrepresented an entire culture. should i bring up the "redskin savages" moment of history in america?
"Putting yourself in their position" aka empathy is lost on a lot of people these days sadly. Not even the American occupiers after the war desecrated temples...and that was a brutal war and surely plenty of people wanted revenge.
Let alone in the 16th century as a foreigner.
Modern society, especially social media, has warped their perception of the world and their understanding of cultural boundaries. They act like the world is taking place in the same patch of land when there is literally a night and day distance between them.
The problem is that they initially tried to pretend their character was historically accurate even when Japanese natives and historians tried to correct them. Once they figured they were wrong, and got a lot of other things wrong, they started going "yeah, well, we weren't trying to be historically accurate anyway". But they had already given everyone a free pass to criticize their game based on their accuracy and authenticity. This is a problem of their own making, and people aren't going to forget it that easily...
The funniest part is people trying to defend Shadows by trying to act like the series was never about historical accuracy. Meanwhile they ignore all of the things that are literally just the devs patting themselves on the back on how historically accurate they tried to be. e.g. the animus notes and standalone Discovery Tours.
Japan, need to stand up against this BS.
They already are
They need to reject it in real life as well. The same shit that is happening all over the west has been going on in Japan now.
they just gonna ignore you as always
@@TallulahSoiethey have. The government even got involved.
@@solarydays
日本の外務省はモザンビークに向けたリップサービス、「伝説の黒人侍」について「いかなる見解も支持しない」と撤回したよ。
いちおう日本人はできる範囲で動いている（もっとも軋轢を嫌う日本人なのでたいしたことはしていないが）。
The Black Hokage needs to take the Hokage out of his name.
and maybe replace it with "loser"
Say no to ASS Creed.
As a fan of the series this game hurts me cause why would they do this man
@@EndymionTv I will never forget my times as Ezio!
@@EndymionTvASs creed has been trash since origins. Nothing of value is lost
@@KongDonkey1412I enjoyed Odyssey but it was still a VERY forgettable game.
The shills defending the game don't even support the company
The shills if you look into them are WOKE activists by in large, not gamers, they are just out for the cause. And the woke have been after japan for years.
They can demand all they want, doesn't mean people will listen.
True. Most gamers just want to play games regardless.
Black Hoekage is just mad people not supporting yasuke, but the point is his portrayal is false in so many levels. he was not a samurai, he was a slave and never saved japan but those group love to take credits for everything. it is like saying george floyd the criminal, is an activist
Who ever called George Floyd an activist? As a black man I’ve never heard another black person call him that. It was still unjust how we was killed by the police and is a symbol of all the other countless black people who have been abused by police. We don’t think he’s an “activist”.
Oh fuck. Black Hokage is being a bitch about this game? That sucks. I like him.
This is honestly a breath of fresh air, Ubisoft has had this failure coming to them
Woke need to be illegal
woke is something else, making up obscure genders, black washing white characters, and now disrespecting Japanese culture just to make their bIack guy look good
soy should be a class a controled substance
At this point Japan needs to stop being too kind and polite with those people. Sue the Assassin Creed: Shadows for what they are doing to Japan history, not only that but for how they just keep insulting Japan in general. And I had people comparing this game for likes of GTA or Saints Row, which is just sad. A great example of Japanese would be games like Way of the Samurai, or even Nioh, even Ghost of Tsushima, and I can say for sure the Rise of Ronin will take more care in representing Western people then Western people themselves.
Wasn’t yasuke in both niohs and in nioh 1 you played as a white man not a Japanese protagonist?
Unfortunately the country itself is yet to do anything, but the general sentiment amongst japanese internet users, especially the gamers amongst them are understandably extremely negative towards Ubisoft, so who knows, maybe eventually it reaches a level of outrage that politicans in japan will start to take notice.
They'll do what they've always done: compartmentalize it, and turn it into something Japanese.
re: external cultural influence: this isn't their first rodeo
The Valhalla comment really irks me because, yes, as a Christian, I *did* find doing stuff like raiding churches to loot them uncomfortable. But that's also what actually happened in that time period and what Eivor, as a viking, would have done. But I know full well that complaining about something like that is not going to get anywheres, especially since we're talking about Christian stuff here and these people seem to relish insulting Christianity and then hiding behind arguments of 'free speech' or 'historical accuracy'. So why bother with a fight I know is going to get nowhere and just cause a lot of people to get upset and accomplish nothing? Yet when people criticize them for not being historically accurate, they try to shut down any criticism and accuse them of all the worst things. They only care to defile, twist, and destroy. I would say this is a sign of evil and corruption.
I agree with you, But in AC Mirage didnt do anything to piss of muslims or islamists. I wonder why they made sure to bend over backwards for them
Their argument is basically that wrecking shrines is not a big deal, because you were allowed to do sacrilegious acts in previous games.
Also. I'm a fan of Norse culture and the way Valhalla depicted it irked me in a similar way.
@@ChiroTheHero the islamic are known for slaughtering people who disrespect their religion and culture, sooo...
They made you a nice viking in Valhalla realistically every monastery would’ve been purged with none left behind except a few.
You are not alone in thinking like that
Didnt IGN said that Resident evil 5 should not be remade because it was offensive having a white character killing africans?
yeah
never played resident evil, this comment with no context is an experience
@@thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755 😂
"Rules for these but not for me"
-IGN
We literally have an example in Sekiro where Wolf puts away his sword in temples..... You also can't destroy anything there so there is a example of a dev not letting you dedicate a sacred place.
Did you mean ‘desecrate’
How about the shills be the one to sit down and shut up?!
Wouldn't that be nice.
Put simply, Yasuke would've been executed if he desecrated Japanese shrines.
That's why the ability to do so is ridiculous for a game set in feudal Japan.
What's hilarious is the Streisand effect that was created with Ubisoft insisting on pushing this woke narrative with Yasuke. If they had just had a real Japanese ninja of any kind--male, female, whatever--the initial pushback would not have been as hard, and the gripes about misrepresenting Japanese history could have been corrected with relative decorum. But the scrutiny ramped up to "11" the second people realized that Ubisoft was pushing this mythical "african samurai" narrative onto a region of the planet that has been waiting for an Assassin's Creed game for decades.
This, in turn, led immediately to investigating "what else has Ubisoft messed up?" The sheer hubris required to force false narratives and invented histories onto a people and/or culture is staggering. We saw this with the "black Cleopatra" Netflix farce, as well as the "african" Jarls in Vikings. But that's a western world overreach--an overreach that people are starting to realize needs to stop--and in the far east, this is tantamount to genuine effrontery.
Ubisoft keeps on showing their "true colors" with this ongoing Shadows drama. What a despicable company, full of DEI-appointed activists and dumb-f*ck "narrative designers" who have no business working in game development. I'm sorry, but you can't just invent history, push nonsensical woke mythology, and then tell the country you're pissing off to just "accept it"--not if you don't want to go bankrupt. Here's hoping that people vote with their wallets and Ubisoft learns a valuable lesson in humility.
2:00 It could be that Black Hokage was speaking generally--meaning that, in AC2, the pope is killed--why no outrage over the death of the pope? He may have simply had a poor choice of words by adding "You". That said, I would argue that the "church" has done more on its own to besmirch its reputation that anyone in gaming, to the point that many people in the Western World have a great deal of cognitive dissonance: Catholicism is their religion, yet they know all about the questionable behavior/cover ups that have gone on with regard to young boys. In other words, the "pope" is hardly the pristine figure many believers want him to be, and the whole enterprise, as such, is open for criticism, satire, and polemic, even in games.
The other part is the historical context, so popes have been assassinated before throughout history (minimum 7), it was as much a Theocratic position as it was a Political position, that's how they held their power stranglehold over Europe for so long and still to this day exist as a standalone entity within Italy. The response in game should be similar, the church bells, the excommunications, etc. Same with Valhalla, Vikingr raided churches, it's a historical fact, nobody got their nose out of joint because in history it was believable to happen.
Now Yasuke was already on tenuous waters, with the whole Afro Samurai protagonist, but the casual disrespect of things that are sacrosanct within the culture that Yasuke is supposed to be entrenched in enough to *BE* a samurai is where the dissonance occurs. A tasteful way to handle this would be to mark areas as protected within the game with the whole "Yasuke didn't destroy shrines" much like the "Yasuke didn't kill civilians" disconnect message, and lift that protection when the mission calls for it.
The funny thing is, if Yasuke was akin to Da Vinchi in his use within the game (an NPC that the player used to talk to Oda Nobunaga or provided a non-native perspective on Japanese politics of the time) he would have been an amazing character, but the outsized role for what is effectively a historical bit player would be like claiming a Rus cobbler who made a shoe for Ghengis Khan is what helped the Golden Horde take Hungary by picking up a short bow and riding beside him.
Lets take this back a second and just think for a moment.
The "Pope" in question in Assassin's Creed 2 was no mere pope, no simple figure whose name was small in the history books. The Pope of Assassin's Creed 2 was *Pope Alexander the 6th, Rodrigo fucking Borgia.*
Being mad that people allowed you to kill Rodrigo in effigy? You might as well ask every German in the 21st century why they don't weep when Hitler is killed in effigy.
Hokage's comments are slathered in superb, far reaching ignorance.
What I don’t get is that Ubisoft literally had a golden goose. All they had to do was make a Japanese MC and most of us probably would’ve bought the game.
Yves is going to lose the company he and his family built for 20 years, and he deserves to.
As a life long gamer who started on Nintendo and super Nintendo I think the industry overall needs to fail so it can start over. These big companies who bought the studios ruined gaming. Downloadable content and season passes, pay to win, buggy launches and unfinished games. Not even mentioning d.e.i.
I can't stand that games like dragon age origins, fable, morrowind, and countless others did better things 15 years ago then games do now. We have gone backwards, letting cooperate boardrooms design games and it's time to let it go.
Hope this rant made sense lol
The image of Yasuke beheading unarmed native Japanese women is insane. They shouldn’t let you do that without getting some kind of evil reputation
Their fantasy porn
I wouldn't be surprised if that beheaded woman bows to yasuke before finishing her death ragdoll.
I've never like assassins creed or ubisoft in general so this game just adds to the dumpster fire
Then you must love this lol
i mean last decade ac are actually cool cus they was adventure story driven games with complex concept topics throughout the story.
I'm not tryna sell you this gam but I'm just sharing that ac was the first game that made me realise and then only saw it in other games there is no good side and bad side in war life situations in most of these story cus if u lose everything to gain that one thing all it leaves you is pain filled legacy that yes is legendary but leaves you with less in soul than when u started...
good examples of this : ac series, far cry 3, sleeping dogs, gta 4 damn even for honor story line.
the Black hokage need to change his name if he disrespect Japanese culture
Ubisoft had a system in previous Assassin's Creed games that prevented players from killing innocent people or else they'd get "desynchronized" (aka game over).
The warning would say something like "Ezio did not kill innocent people" (AC Revelations).
Why not adapt and implement this system in Shadows?
They can extend it to prevent destroying the environment within holy grounds, and making temples a prohibited zone where you'd be chased out by guards if detected.
It's very easy to fix these issues, I'm baffled by how Ubisoft keeps resisting and pushing back for no good reason.
Make Yasuke a supporting character; remove his samurai status and rework him into the story as a supporting npc.
Hire me Ubisoft.
They're intentionally misunderstanding the issue. It isn't that the player shouldn't be able to do those things ingame, the issue is what happens when he makes the choice.
@@raics101 Exactly, so when the player chooses to murder innocent civilians, they'd get a warning then get desynchronized. If they choose to trespass on holy grounds, they'd get chased by guards.
The action is still there, but now there are consequences. This makes the game a lot more conscious of and respectful towards the culture.
I'm pretty sure this system existed since AC1 but off the top of my head I vividly remember it in Revelations and that game came out 14 years ago.
Why are we moving backwards?
@ We really are, it's the same as being able to wave a gun around in Starfield as much as you want but the guards would notice it in Skyrim.
It's happening probably because they're making games only to the point where less critical audience would buy it. Kinda like classes nowadays being tailored to the dumbest kid in class instead of to the level of reasonable expectancy.
There has been a lot of encroachment on Japan recently and I hope the people fight back.
VISAカードがあらゆるオタク系商品の決済を拒否し続けています。
日本のレトロ漫画を収蔵した漫画図書館Zもサービスを停止せざるを得ませんでした。
何が起こってるんです？
I find it funny how the guy who downplaying the disrespect of Shadows is using the term/title of "Hokage" in his name. While using a title famously used in Naruto and placing his race/skin color with it, and putting himself higher than others, even the country that made the anime he is bitting off of.
Should change his name, remove hokage at least
We wuz Hokage and shieeeet
ubi would never let the player desecrate any mosque that for sure
Islam has a much better PR team. They also have darker skin according to the liberal scale. I'm technically more of a victim in the summer because I wear long sleeves shirts in the winter
8:54 missed opportunity to call out Black Hokage because he's sure as hell neven been a Hokage.
Imagine having such a bad take on a thing, in this case a setting and time period, that you have to gaslight and blame the entire nation and culture you are "trying" to "represent"
Why is this the first game where you can freely murder civilians without getting desyncronized.
why do i feel like that choice is very deliberate in some way...
tl;dr You aren't an assassin so you have no creed to desynch from....
I asked my sister who actually plays, and refuses to cancel her shadows pre-order, every AC game. And she said the games since like odyssey removed the desynch feature when killing Innocents because you're not assassins anymore. Valhalla, I played a little and I think I attacked a crowd and they ran away, wasn't an assassin. And that's the only game I've played a tiny bit of in recent AC releases lol...
Also, Ubisoft allows the destruction of shrines and Japanese people, but not Portuguese merchants. That is the part I find baffling, and damage the argument "If you don't like it don't do it". Why allow one and not the other?
*Ubisoft*
“My ideology is more important than your culture/beliefs/traditions”
All this crapstorm could have been avoided totally if they chose a Japanese protagonist. I am sure that things would have not been so scrutinized and that they could escape with the excuse of it being a work of fiction. But no, they had to put DEI and to double down saying that they are the ones actually respecting history. Unbelievable
I know it’s been a few months, but the reason people harped on historical accuracy is because UBISOFT bragged about it before being scrubbed from the internet. They first said he was a real samurai and people were mad because this is the first “real” historical figure we play as yet it’s a black man in Japan. No one went into dispute anything over his legitimacy at first, they were just mad how they went about doing it. Even the Japanese didn’t care all too much at first.
After people called that out though they doubled down saying he was real and that they could do a fish out of water story with him as opposed to literally anyone else like a Japanese man finding his way back to Japan. In a later interview they said they took longer to develop this game than most other ACs because they wanted to be as HISTORICALLY ACCURATE as possible. Articles were even made as auxiliaries talking about how accurate the settings usually are in AC. This is what opened the can of worms and was brought to the attention of the Japanese who really like AC. They literally made a statement about housing and architecture just for them to be using Chinese architecture and then it was all down hill from there. The nitpicking started literally because Ubisoft kept doubling down on this being realistic and matching the history of it all.
I’m pretty sure you made that video which led to the backlash and them pivoting saying it was always reimaginings removing all of the posts about accuracy. Don’t let yourself be gaslit, even if a thousand people say the sky is green it’s still blue. Ubisoft started this argument over their games being historically accurate, don’t let this be some petty victory. Also going into older articles you can really see Yasuke was in fact the main character with the other playable character that is in fact made crazy how they can do, seems more like a side character. Like when games like Sly cooper had levels for his team.
Yea. Many moving wheels went wrong, but least for one part-If they didnt go push Yasuke as some King-Arthur-level samurai, there would have been less trouble. There’s very little accounts of him, and like any ole AC game, it would have been good historical flexibility for the fun
Even at the other extreme, just looking at some neutral accounts, Yasuke wasnt some pauper, as he was taken into Nobunaga’s entourage and maybe promised gifts. He was probably one the level of a western medieval man-at-arms or a hireling knight errant of a noble house. Half-samurai, i’ve heard it be called. It’s just today’s pop connotation is much more … majestic?
But like you said, the makers dropped all flexibility at first and wrote their PR in stone
Go woke - go broke
Goodbye Ubi
No one will miss You
That was their decision; now Tencent will buy them for peanuts and make more logical ones
Everything Yasuke does is against the code of Bushido.
One thing I haven't heard anybody else point out is that in every single other assassin's Creed game did you kill any non-target innocent people you immediately get a warning and if you do it again you get desynchronized .
Japan is not kneeling to Ubisoft's twisted deceptions.
This game is a hate crime
"Assassin's Creed Shadows Defenders"
All 6 of They/Them
I feel Sweet Baby Inc. being exposed working with companies like Ubisoft caused all this. I couldn't be happier. Gamers have spoken. We don't want DEI in our games.
SBI is literally inside Ubi... It's like an incestuous cult. Also they go by different names, slightly, which clearly shows they are hiding
Kim Bellaire had her credits as "Kimberly" or similar. But everywhere else her credits only say Kim. I'm no sleuth but I'm sure we will see videos highlighting every single one.
Also needless to say SBI and ubi's main office are spitting distance from each other up in the shit hole of Canada.
(No hate to most Canadians... I'm sure y'all are nice, but you have a city where all drugs are legal and it turned out how everyone expected...)
The dude who burned the quran was an ex muslim, and he got gunned down in his own home... This happened in Sweden...
In sweden? Zamn
10:31 it's the same reason you can't kill kids in Skyrim... they didn't program you to be able to... all they needed to do was either make shrine non combat areas or just make it impossible to enter
Rdr2 has the same mechanic as well where kids cannot be killed, but you could tackle one down during a mission because he stole your/Arthur’s satchel.
This is going to be the most delicious train wreck, ready to point and laugh!
yea can't guess this or new snow white, which will be that largest fail
*Ubisoft walks by*
Me: OH LOOK, AN IDIOT. Let’s point… AND LAUGH.
Can't wait the game to comes out. It's gonna be fun on YT!
Yeah, that's what I said... the lack of outcry before shows more a lack of concern for culture and tradition from previous AC locations, but not that they target a country that actually cares everyone's losing their minds that Japan dares ask a game company saying their game is based on historical roots stop lying. There are literally people now who believe Yasuke was an actual samurai. No one is saying this game is a historical documentary, but the bits and pieces it DOES use as history it portrays as such proudly without any warnings or context even though it's wrong. I'd be pissed too. Just reinforce that Yasuke wasn't really a samurai or a historical person beyond being a slave we barely know anything about and people would care a lot less because you'd then OBJECTIVELY shove him into the realm of fantasy. But they didn't. Why?
No BUY!
Ubisoft needs to get used to not getting Japanese and player money
"You literally control the buttons you press" mfs all stay silent when game devs literally control what you can interact with and what not.
2:11 Oh please like you people EVER care what happens to Christians.
They literally walk in sin and Christianity is attacked daily by the MSM and entertainment industry.
There's an important fact you missed Endymion.
IF Yasuke were actually trained as a Bushi, he would have been taught shinto beliefs. Bushi and shintoism were intertwined. Bushi looked to the kami for spiritual guidance in life and battle.
What this means is that he would have NEVER even thought about destroying a temple.
Which to compare this with "killing the pope" or to Viking raids on churches is laughable, it's an apples to oranges comparison.
Bushi were taught to respect the temples, were the assassins taught to respect the catholic church? were vikings taught to respect christian churches?
They could have simply made the temples "immortal objects" code wise so that it couldn't be destroyed.
Rodrigo Borgia was killed by Cesare in brotherhood if our memory is correct so did this guy even play the game ?? Ezio refuse's to kill him at the end of AC 2 and that's what set's up the start of Brotherhood so he is dead wrong.
"Black Hokage" sure doesn't act like what a hokage is supposed to stand for.
It’s Ironic that the people defending Asscreed Shadows are the same people who attack games like Stellar Blade for attractive women having unrealistic body’s
The sheer amount of high-handed arrogance and dismissive attitude towards Japan and its culture displayed by Ubisoft and their shills is breathtaking.
This is beyond tone deaf. It is being deliberately obtuse and hurtful.
The Japanese historian Hirayama Yuu stated that "Yasuke was a samurai," but the basis for this claim comes from the manuscript of the Shinchōkōki known as the "Sonkeikaku-bon" (尊教閣本). This particular manuscript is the only one out of 72 known copies that includes such a description, making it the least reliable version of the Shinchōkōki.
Kaneko Hiraku, who studied the Sonkeikaku-bon, has pointed out its questionable credibility and explicitly stated that "one should not use this book as a basis to make definitive claims about Yasuke's status."
Hirayama Yuu has also faced criticism from Japanese netizens, who argue that "Thomas Lockley fabricated the fictional 'legendary Black samurai Yasuke,' and Hirayama is one of its defenders." In response, Hirayama angrily declared, "I have never glorified Yasuke as some legendary samurai. I will sue for defamation."
Additionally, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs once made a statement to Mozambique, saying, "Yasuke, who came from your country, became a samurai in ours." However, this remark was clearly influenced by Thomas Lockley’s narrative. After opposition lawmakers questioned the ministry following the controversy surrounding Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, the government retracted this statement, later clarifying that "Japan does not take a specific position on Yasuke’s status."
The "Legendary Black Samurai Yasuke" believers heavily rely on Hirayama Yuu's opinion, but his views are not absolute within Japan’s historical academia. Particularly in the discussion about Yasuke, his perspective is merely that of one researcher, and he has not published any official academic papers on the subject. Many Japanese people have pointed out flaws in his claims.
The Yasuke myth supporters, driven by authoritarian bias, simply cherry-pick the opinions of people with prestigious titles without actually referencing Japanese-language historical sources themselves. It is extremely frustrating to see such harmful misinformation being spread.
As a massive assassins creed fan… hearing about this game always makes me depressed because I wanted a good AC game in Japan but they threw it away for ESG black rock points it’s wild. What a waste of a historical settings. THIS COULDVE BROUGHT AC BACK IF THEY DID IT PROPERLY. Ubisoft needs to end for its heresy
Same here sad to see this franchise fall but hopefully it will be the last of Yves Guillermo destroying the company as it will go bankrupt and sold off hopefully to a company that respects the fans and the ips
When you dont cut the rot from the company.. the rest goes to spoil. These karens they've hired for years now think they know better than the fans, and other countries.
thanks for the credit at the beginning!
AAA Studios exist for the sheer purpose of comedy these days. If it's not the occasional Resident Evil remake, I will deliberately avoid anything that is AAA related, I won't even watch gameplay trailers anymore. I automatically know what your characters are going to be like and how your stories will play out before you even show anything. They don't relate to me in any way, shape or form, so there's basically no point in watching anything.
Imagine telling that to Muslims when making of mirage.
That would NOT fly I guarantee
People nowadays only seem to understand respect when they are personally disrespected or they are pushing an agenda.
You have such a wonderful way of explaining things. Thanks for this!
Shrines being destroyed isn’t something to be upset about it happens
I hated Valhalla. Didn't like the combat, didn't like the story. Not of fan of the liberties that they took with the setting. Felt like i was playing a beta viking.
They tried to pull a For Honor x Assassin's Creed... and it didn't work too well
It’s incredible how out of touch with reality places like Ubislop. The historical inaccuracies are expected from the franchise but defending the mess this game is shows how foolish their thinking is.
Shadows and Ubislop just keep taking L after L and I love to see it.
Hate the game for it's mediocre state, for it's wokeness, for the word of the developers I share that but hating it for the overglazing of japanese culture, hell nah, cancel gta for there is killing and all lives must be respected, cancel mass effect for the literal "option" to extint a specie, cancel resident evil because you kill zombies on mass and they are living beings and have right, cancel fishing games because it's overfishing, imagine if one day someone makes a game in Nort Korea and you have to vow to every sing of their leaders or you could remove it causing a spit on the face of their culture, I'll happilly play a japanese game making fun or disrespecting other countries and cultures because it's a fictional scenario and yes, real life historical characters can be giving different traits, powers and moral compasses in a FICTIONAL scenario, take the chinese historical characters in Dynasty warriors, take the count vlad tepes in the castlevania games/series and hellsing (anime), take all the examples you want to but me personally I won't share the opinion on this video.
This game became disgusting
always has been
And this is not even main problem.
JP is very lenient with any theme if context is right. They had Yasuke in Nioh but nobody shout from the roof that this is historically accurate.
They had many temple destruction and plundering but not by supposed heroes and "samurai".
Cotext is inportant and woke can't get it even when it hit them in the face.
Honestly i was just playing the game not really thinking other than the gameplay 🙃 the controversy clip was from 50 minute video
So if GTA 6 put barriers that prevent you to run over with a truck a LGBT parade, its gonna be ok?
no
Even if there wasn't any of this Japan controversy, still wouldn't play this game because they turned AC into a bloated grindy mess of a so called rpg, all the way down to the level scaling, and mundane loot grinding..if I wanted busy work I'd replay A Realm Reborn from FF14
Ah Ubisoft they even had the chance to read off of Ghost of Tsushima's paper and still failed...
This video is so inspiring! Can't wait to see what’s next.
i remember when everyone i knew who was into history learned a crap ton of it from old AC games. RIP Historically accurate video games i guess. we had a good run
Damn, I used to watch TheBlackHokage back when he was known as ModernWarNegro. He's a complete shell of his former self. He used to be funny as hell on his "Black Guys Trolls" Call of Duty videos. His videos were a prime example of the tomfoolery that often occurred in old CoD lobbies that everyone's reminiscin' about these days. He'd often resort to racist jokes and stereotypes in those videos, an' they were hilarious. No one was spared, not even women. He took those videos down years ago and changed his name to TheBlackHokage. It's sad how drastically a person can change just when they start getting a little clout.
What the developers of this game should do is make Yasuke an NPC that helps out the main character from time to time, and is also part of the story somehow. But this game should have a Japanese player character as the protagonist, end of story. It goes with the territory, and everyone knows it. Not sure why they're going down this road. It won't end well for them
Out of respect for Japan and their culture, having visited them several times and being treated very respectfully, I'm 100% refusing to play this game until the writers and executives who decided these atrocities are fired and sued into welfare. I've played every AC, every DLC & spent plenty on outfits. I will not play this, not even if they paid me millions.
日本もいろいろ問題の多い国だけど、好きになってくれたらこれほどうれしいことはないよ。
1:11 they didn't let you do that to mosques in previous games! Why do you think?!
First comment. You're doing God's work, Endymion. Keep it up.
The fact that you can't attack the Portuguese trader while you can thrash around in a Shrine where most games based around in Japan wouldn't even allow for a conflict or drawing a weapon is baffling to me
According to my daughter thier was only one recorded foreigner who was given the title of samurai who was William Adam's
Yes. He's the protagonist of Nioh. Which the woke accuse us as racist coz we're okay with a white guy but not a black guy as the protagonist.
@hitmonkey4726 Nioh was a great game I played it with my daughter and we loved Williams guardian spirit saorie
Shogun's Blackthorne character is inspired by William Adams too, FYI. Historically there is only Williams who is a foreigner turned samurai. Ubisoft is clearly fabricating Yasuke's history, especially as they sell him as the "legendary" black samurai, which is a term coined by Thomas Lockley who is proven by japanese historians as fake
Using Valhalla as a defense against shadows is hilarious since Valhalla is shit too
If it remains in a fictional item, like a game, it literally doesn't matter. Keep reality and fiction separate. That said... if a product is deemed offensive to the customer than it is well within their right to voice complaints and refuse to buy the product.
Japan will boycott Ubisoft. Egypt successfully boycotted Netflix.
Question how is all these controversy are going to help assassin's creed shadows sales because it been controversy after controversy with barley any postive news what so ever if anything all it doing is making people not want to buy assassin's creed shadows at all
This will only encourage other countries to join "the wrong side."