YASUKE - Ubisoft Assassins Creed Controversy
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- Опубліковано 18 тра 2024
- People are up in arms about Assassin’s Creed being based in Japan and then not using a Japanese male protagonist and instead using the more obscure Yasuke samurai figure.
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10:08 I'm pretty that the female character was already in the game before they decided to add Yasuke. Not sure if there was meant to be a main Japanese character. It just feels like she has been shooved aside. I don't mind Yasuke being a main character. Truth be told, I think ubiosft has a lot to play with in regards to his story since much is unknown. I just hope they are respectful to the time period and the culture.
Agreed. They're using yasuke to market the game very heavily because of his significance. But then people that actually want him to be the main character or want to play as him might be let down too if they discover he is not a main character.
@Alteori I also think it might have to do with ghost of tsunami. Wanting to make it stand out.
@@GamersDogmaThat's possible too.
@@Alteori I don’t believe yasuke is woke marketing. This game could never have a male Japanese protagonist be a use it would have to compete with an entire roster of other Japanese male samurai like gin Sakai who is amazing.
Yasuke solely exists to be unique, he is an identifying factor completely different from other games (hence why we’re talking about him rn)
yasuke in fiction has always been badass black samurai, it’s insane that people are so obsessed with his real life historical character.
Assassins creed has always been fiction, there is nothing wrong with using a real person as a foundation. < this is literally what every manga and anime about yasuke has done, why is it an issue now?
If you wanna be a Japanese dude then play ghost of Tsushima, it’s a much better game anyways lmao.
I agree, even in the trailer she felt more significant than yasuke. I believe the story revolves around her and yasuke is a playable supporting character.
Similar to how gta 5 franklin is the true protagonist of the game, and Micheal and Trevor are playable characters he associates with.
Hence why one of the two can be killed off at the end of the game.
Don't let the Yasuke outrage distract from the use of Chinese architecture in a Japanese setting, the outrageous prices (Standard Edition: $70USD/$90CAD, Gold: $100/$145, Ultimate: $130/$170, Collector's: $280/$370), and the bs to come in their trash cash shop in a game we won't own.
Yh Ubisoft are getting ridiculous with these prices.
The price is just basic Ubicrap.
Chinese Architecture during the Sengoku Jidai? That's dirty.
I wonder if Chinese architecture is a result of DEI. Afaik previous AC games were pretty authentic in that regard.
@@no2war274 Naw, I'd say they googled asian architecture and went with what they thought fits, what they know from Chinese restaurants. After all, Asians are as bad as white people, so why bother conmsulting about that? WE HAVE THE BLACK GUY!!!
Honestly as a Black man, I think people have a romanticized image of Yasuke in their head as this bad ass black samurai when he was in reality a retainer and just a guy that made Nobunaga thought, "Huh. Darker skin tones exist. ....neat."
EDIT: HOLY SHIT. I just gave my two cents before I started work this morning. I didn't mean to cause a fucking war...
As a black man play myself I think this whole drama is really stupid because if people didn't have a problem with the anime now they have a problem with the video game? I'm sorry but people have lost their minds
Real talk man, Nobunaga literally saw him as an exotic trophy due to the color of his skin. Bro wasn't even the main character even in his own life💀
But what I'm trying to figure out is... Who cares? Assassin's Creed is historical fiction. It doesn't matter what the guy ACTUALLY was.
Retainers were still samurai
A retainer is a samurai/ronin lmao learn the facts
Ubisoft says we should get comfortable with not owning games well I think they should get comfortable with not owning our money.
I wish gamers were as smart as you believe them to be.
Fuck UA-cam
Democrats are treasonous
Just play Ghost of Tsukushima instead. Ubisoft is going to be fuming when Japan refuses to make them honorary ambassadors like they did SuckerPunch.
You spelled TSUSHIMA
Or Rise of the Ronin
Ah yes,one of the only black people in Japan.
Kinda breaks the stealth immersion.
“Hello towering black man,have you seen the only towering black man in the whole of Japan…No? Alright,have a great day”
He's not the assassin of the two characters you can play as.
Doesn't matter, the fact is he will also be assisting in taking out people which makes it easy to get caught when you are the only 6 ft tall black man in the country. There is a scene in the trailer where Naoe passes him a note of their next mission and he sticks out like a sore thumb.
@maubraymzoma6616 Meanwhile, Edward Kenway walking freely around colonies wearing a fucking pirate cloak...
@@cancerconnoisseur Not canon. Canon Kenway wears Duncan's adjusted assassin outfit, which helps him look like both a normal seafarer and an assassin.
They probably use the N-word considering how racist Japanese back in the days.
As an asian guy and who's part japanese samurai are like the one historical cool masculine thing you're allowed to enjoy. Europeans have their whole history of fighting one another to pick, the US has slices of their history guys have been told they're allowd to enjoy. Having that thing thats supposed to be quintessentially yours taken and given to someone else is just a dick move.
As an asian guy myself, it doesn't bother me; "cultural appropriation" is the nonsensical term used by politicized lunatics. The problem is that it's just those kinds of lunatics doing this for virtue signalling brownie points from their fellow freaks instead of people who are genuinely interested in Yasuke's remarkable story.
What?
what's worse is when you realize they could have very easily and very thematically put a black guy in the pirates game or the civil war game. instead they force him into the samurai game. am honestly kinda surprised they didn't also force him into the viking game
Damn man Europeans and westerners always have a beef with Asian in general
Well, at least you still have Godzilla.
Them making the playable character be a real historic person breaks the rule of the franchise, i always see the reason why the character we play are fiction is mostly bcs they're supposed to be a ghost in the history like an assassin,
Fair point, yasuke kinda fits this tho, cause like we didn't know where he went after the incident that killed nobunaga
But there's a lot of fictionalized real historic figures from history in Assassin's Creed...
@@defineanime5549 yeah, Yasuke is almost a ghost in historical records. The only thing we know about him fits a page, and nothing else after Nobunaga fell.
@@cancerconnoisseur the difference is we interact with the the "real" figures. They do the history and will be remembered while we as the player stay in the background
Ezio and the Medice family were real, they were a banking family, but the events Ezio took part in are fictional, the events themselves were real but Ezio's involvement were fictional.
I see this argument about the main character always being fictional but its untrue, they're usually based on a name which is a footnote on a greater event
I think you should know Alteori that when this trailer hit, a LOT of people (mostly Afrocentrists) immediately hit Wikipedia and started rewriting and revising Yasuke's history on his page. I'm talking MULTIPLE HUNDREDS of edits in the past 3 days. And each of those editors are calling other editors bigots and racists...
I can believe that as when I was attempting to research prior to making the video, ALL immediate sources had recently been edited. I find that highly disconcerting.
@@Alteori Oh yeah you're telling me. I've also seen a lot of false AI generated images of black societies in ancient Japan created by "historical" sociopolitical activists who are saying that those pictures are real, all over Facebook... It's insane how far activist revisionism will go
@@Alteori Hence why you should not use wikipedia for research.
Yes, it’s all updated and rewritten history. He was a retainer, aka a servant to a samurai. I’m black and lived in Japan, if there was an actual black samurai, trust me….i would have heard of it 😂. Also, you don’t become a samurai in one year. He was only there a year. Asian culture is a closed culture, it’s not like the west. So good luck finding a western Samurai or shinobi. Lol
Pretty common behavior. I don't trust anything that 1) isn't in print, and 2) wasn't written before 1960.
History doesn't change. Period.
There are two things I've been waiting for; a predator movie set in feudal japan and an assassin's creed set in feudal Japan. Both of those had me imagining a Japanese lead. I are dissapoint. Especially now that i imagine the lead in my predator movie is going to be a dyslexic inuit or something.
Naw, black lesbian - for reason BECAUSE!
Abandon both. Prey was fucking awful and indicative of how far that franchise has fallen. This is just evidence Ubisoft can’t be trusted with traditions and ethnic cultures
To be fair, an inuit (or any native american for that matter) is genetically closer to japanese people than a black african guy.
@@dorderre If you listen to some of these hucksters - in publications, so called documentaries or "historical" YT channels, basically all of mediterranian Europe was black. Greeks, Romans, all in truth black origin.
Oh, and Japan was also black, of course.
Sooooo ... we're the racist ones?
@@bladerunner3314WE WAZ KANGS AND SHIT!!!
Yasuke is a first name. If Yasuke had been elevated to samurai by Oda Nobunaga, then he would have been given a family name as an indication of his rise in status. Commoners had only one name, while samurai and nobles had two names. William Adams was made a samurai by Tokugawa Ieyasu and given the full name Miura Anjin. My wife, who is Japanese, had heard of Yasuke, but here in Japan he is considered as Nobunaga's servant who Nobunaga kept around mainly for his curiosity value.
There different time periods id1ot most of you basement dwellers don’t read book. Stop acting like you do
Nobody cares and nobody should care, like seriously...when was the last time Assassin's Creed has actually been historically accurate? They decided to have their own spin on Yasuke's untold tale, it's a video game, y'all need to get a grip
Japanese historians say hes a samurai, your argument also is inconsistent because Lodensteyn, another foreign samurai wasnt given a surname, he fit every other requirement, so him lacking a surname isnt a valid counterpoint due to it not always being required, william adamns was really high rank, it would make sense to receive one, especially when he is more involved in their politics, yasuke was simply a warrior, and retainer, things that are enough to show hes a samurai, that isnt even counting the other evidence
@@macvadda2318Sachi whatever her name is is NOT A HISTORIAN!
@@KeirnothVT who was talking about them
What annoys me the most and I feel most people as well is the hypocrisy of those who say games such as Resident Evil 5 “cannot be remade” because a white man killing the natives of West Africa is somehow “problematic” but where is their energy where a black man is killing the natives of Japan?
No we get applause and defence from those same people, even attempts to revise history.
I personally don’t care what Ubisoft did with Yasuke, just don’t revise history written in encloypedias and don’t pretend this is any different than the Resident Evil 5 issue.
Either both "fictions" are okay or neither are.
they hate us whites and asians
all these DEI stuff is just racism against whites
That is absolutely so freaking true no one has brought that up yet
If you learnt anything from George Floyd and the blm riots, it’s that they cannot hold black people accountable and will actually lie to prevent them from even needing to do so.
If you learnt anything from George Floyd, it’s that these people lie to avoid holding poc’s accountable for anything.
The same people cheering for Yasuke being the main character in the new AC game would have a complete meltdown if you had an AC game set in Africa and the main character wasn't black.
The Japanese are quite upset over the recent historical revisionism about Yasuke's career (he was a retainer not a samurai) and being represented by a character who very clearly isn't Japanese and it's hard to blame them. But personally I want to add, I really don't understand why we're playing as a samurai in the first place when we really should be playing as shinobi. You know... ASSASSINS! I know that woman is supposed to be one but the male character should've been the same thing.
Why would they make two characters who play the same? The reason only one of them is stealthy and is a more conventional assassin is gameplay diversity.
I call bull. Show me the Japanese article in a respectable publication where it states that this is the consensus of the Japanese people.
@@insertedgynamehere Because last time I checked, Assassin's Creed is a game about assassins... Shinobi are assassins. Playing as a 6 ft 5 African man in plate armor in a country filled with 5 ft 8 average height people, doesn't really make a lot of sense
@@dynastyfamily00 Gee, I don't know maybe refer to all the Japanese people voicing their outrage on social media. You actually demanding for a "respectable" source like Vaush or Destiny is kinda cringe bro.
@@FrostbiteDigital I don't know who either of those people you mentioned are.
But on your "Japanese people on social media"... Again, give me a credible source. We all know outrage on social media is false and often inflated beyond it's true scope.
The Britannica is in no way a historical record of anything, even in Japan there is next to no historical records of Yasuke having ever existed, it's not something you will hear from in our history class in school, and what little there is of him says that he was Oda Nobunaga's retainer, which to put into perspective, that was to a Daimyo the equivalent of what a caddy is to a golfer today, the person who carried his stuff, and that he served in that position for anywhere between 1 to 5 years (accounts also differ heavily on this) and was eventually sold back to the same Jesuits that he was bought from, I wouldn't have played the game regardless because I think all AC games have been mediocre at best since Black Flag, but the fact is Yasuke was as much a great Samurai as the character from The Woman King was a great liberator for African people.
The recent edit made me reconsider Britannica, so what are some good sources? Britannica used to be good compared to Wikipedia.
@@the11382 there is no legitimate english sources, even the info from brittannica and wikipedia before the games was release came from 1 book called African samurai, which also have no sources to prove the part of him being samurai.... however there new sources starting to pop up but due to the situation it's a bit doubtful.
i guess all we can do is wait for a japanese expert to authenticate what's real and what's not.
@@Arez-oh5ou The only real info we have on Yasuke comes from the shincho-koki a history compiled and written by one of Nobunaga's vassals.
And that info doesn't even come from the Japanese themselves but is just a few sentences from a jesuit missionaries letter.
Next to nothing is known about him, he's barely even a footnote in history.
@@newhope33 that's what I just said no legitimate English sources.
However there are new research regarding the matter that are appearing... majority are garbage research however there are a few of them that are very well written and are even citing legitimate sources.
Said sources cited by this new research that are appearing, are japanese material...hence the reason I'm doubtful whether the new info are real or fake.
Can only wait for a legitimate japanese expert to authenticate said new information popping out.
No, they do NOT say that he was a retainer. The fact of the matter is, there is not enough evidence in either direction.
I like that they used a real black person from history but i cant stop and think about a comm i saw on instagram " Oh yea such a stealthy assasin the only black guy in feudal japan"
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2 meters tall only black guy in all of Japan.
He also has a modern day haircut.
@@jedipenguin2641 dreads are an ancient style for many cultures
Out of all the non historical and high fantasy elements throughout the Assassin's Creeds games, "Yasuke was not a real samurai," they choose to get outraged this???
I was born in Japan. I find Unisoft twisting historical facts about Yasuke very disrespectful of the culture I grew up in. Yasuke was not a samurai. He wasn't even in Japan long enough to train to become a samurai. He was Nobunaga's retainer.
I think it would have made sense to make Yasuke a side character that the main character, who should be a Japanese samurai, meets during missions.
He IS a side character. You can play as Naoe who is the lady Shinobi in the Trailer. She also seems to be more in line with AC's signature stealth mechanic. She is more the lead than he is.
Nothing about AC Franchise is historically accurate to reality so I don't see how this is disrespectful. It's disappointing for some to not play as a historical Japanese samurai but that's about it. If we are upset about games not being historically accurate then 90% games should get the same amount of outrage but don't. At the end of the day if you don't like what Ubisoft is doing then don't play the game. Story seems interesting enough so I could care less about something being historically accurate I just want a good game.
@@innerguardianXIII HOW is he a side character when you are able to play as him? . The game has dual protagonists
@@dazronrichard5331 Not your culture so ofcourse you would give zero Fs
@@BullyMaguireTheAbsolute you're right I don't care because it's fictional game set in a loose historical setting of time in Japan. Nothing about this game takes away from japanese culture.
Every year I'm more and more convinced 1984 is the most important book people need to read or watch a video to find out what it is about.
There’s a reason why they are now saying that whoever is reading it is a “right wing extremist”.
Don't forget Brave New World.
It all part of the brainwashing. I am so glad I am no longer a blind sheep.
EXCELLENT WORK. AITEORI ❤ 😊❤
Because a video game with a black protagonist came out?
the most interesting thing is, that the media claimed Ghost of Tsushima was bad cause of things like "cultural appropriation", whilst Japan (especially the people actually living in Tsushima) loved it. Meanwhile the media is saying how great Shadows is with Yasuke whilst Japanese players who have watched the trailer are criticizing it for using Yasuke as a Samurai, for using Chinese Architecture, not using any of the historically legendary/mythological shinobi from the time setting as playable characters whilst also creating a fictional daughter of one of the Legendary Shinobi that he never had.
What would've been more interesting is if you had a Male and female Japanese Shinobi that you had to switch between each with their own play styles, this is because male and female shinobi's had different roles and way of their job... the men would be quick in and out infiltration for securing intel/assassinations, whilst female shinobi were long term infiltrators who would get into the hose hold of the target usually by marriage/as a concubine, pass on a constant stream of intel until (usually) years later assassinating the target.
That would be really interesting!!
Interestingly that is possibly the reason why female shinobi arent recorded. Most often the reason we have recorded shinobi is that they got caught or were actual clan leaders. So while kunoichi being a thing are debatable, it is highly probable that it worked that way. The female shinobi were just so effective that they never got caught.
Yasuke wasn't a samurai. He was a retainer who carried around Oda sword. Also the only reason Oda took a liking to him is because seeing someone naturally black was baffling and kind of impossible to him.
If they wanted to actually do the Stanger in a strange land type of Story, William Addams was actually a Samurai. Yasuke couldn't even speak Japanese.
The fact that we are getting the first AC game in Japan, and instead of going with someone Japanese or even legends like Musashi, Honda or Yukimura we get a guy who wasn't even a Samurai just because he is black.
What's next ? A AC title in 16th Century India with a Brazilian MC that happens to be a Peshwa ?
Can I ask you a question how do you know he wasn't a samurai because as far as I can tell there's not enough information about this guy
@@animezilla4486 Easy, if you are not sure he is a samurai or not, just don't say he is a Samurai. Just like you don't know whether I'm an actor for sure, you can not claim I am a actor. It's just as simple as that.
@@animezilla4486 I can answer. They don't and this was pulled from their rear.
@@animezilla4486 Samurai wasn`t just something that you could easily be, its was a very specific honor granted to few. The bulk of the armies of the feudal japanese were not Samurai.
There is no more reason to assume this guy was a Samurai as we have for assuming there is an alien civilization around Alpha Centaury, and considering the mindset of the Japanese, the latter is more likely as Oda Nobunaga making a politically controversial move like granting an outsider the rank of Samurai, let alone someone who only got thier job as a sword bearer because of their looks.
@@animezilla4486here's the thing, Samurai is smth like a noble knight, and Sengoku era wouldn't just dangling that title to anyone much less a foreigner. And guess what, that's one reason why samurai history will be well preserved in japanese bc they r important figure.
Fun fact Yasuke is an obsure figure in Japanese history, his name wouldn't came out in hisory lesson. Ppl who know him are people who learn history in college. Even then every documentary he has only said that he's only a retainer to Oda Nobunaga. Retainer =/= Samurai, retainer came in many form a soldier, cook, weapon holder, heck even gardener still count.
If this still doesn't sit well with you then sure, but the fact is Japanese people hate this. Just go to Japanese trailer and look at the comment there. Why they hate this? They loved Ghost of Tsushima, they made Nioh, but why they hate this one? Doesn't that means that this is offensive to their culture and history? Food for thought.
What irks me most is that instead of focusing on one of the thousands of japanese samurai that actually did exist, they chose to pick that one foreigner that maybe existed, to get some literal brownie points from a very niche audience that probably wouldn't buy nor play the game anyway.
The fuck is wrong with you. It’s just a video game lmao.
MAIN PROBLEM: o.o Japanese players have been waitin for AC in Japan for 15 years to play as a Japanese Assassin MC Male.
Greece & Egypt had their own ethnic Male & Female MCs, what was the problem here? Why replace the JAPANESE MALE MC with BLACK MALE MC??? White Leftoyd DEI Nonsense. Now, when does Japan get another AC game in Japan where they play as JAPANESE MALE MC???
The closest Japan will ever get is Ghost of Tsushima, unfortunately, because Ubisoft is too leftwing at this point to change.
They can play as a Japanese shinobi…Why is everyone ignoring the Japanese woman in front of Yasuke?
@@chey6073 why do you not want a Japanese MALE MC when the game is set in Japan? o.o so rite bac at ya
@@chey6073Syndicate had English assassins who were both male and female as relatives. So options for both of the region were there. Who the fuck asked for a black main character for Japan? Not even an assassin
Samurai and Shinobi are different play styles in game.
Japanese men, the demographic where vast majority of the samurai belong to cannot immerse or be represented in a game that monetized the culture that their ancestors built. Yeah it is understandable people are upset.
They skipped countless japanese men in order to unfairly favor Yasuke and choose him to be mc. About the samurai bit, were there any samurai without a last name? There were none.
Exactly. No records of a family name exists. I can’t find records of his last name, but without sources, Wikipedia in Japanese says a black person by his name may’ve become a sumo wrestler. Maybe Yasuke was a stereotypical name given to men of African descent, maybe it’s the same guy, or maybe the story is fiction. Either way, he wasn’t considered a threat for revenge after Nobunaga was assassinated and was allowed to live accordingly. If he was seen as especially smart, strong, intelligent, or otherwise feared, they wouldn’t have been so lenient or would have hired him for the novelty, but no such records exist.
Not only that, but the main protags where always some random person who was a shadow in history
yo remember when anti sjws said "representation is not important"? guess they were fucking lying lmao
@@chamuuemura5314 iirc akechi gave him to the jesuits *cause he wasnt japanese*, that's it, the little that is said about him is that he was black, was tall af and "had the strength of ten men"
wether he, historically, was something that was defined as a samurai at the time is such a red herring, if ac shadows had him as a main character but didnt call him a samurai in marketing, people would still be crying throwing up and pissing themselves in outrage
if the non japanese mc was william adams, less people would be crying throwing up and pissing themselves in outrage
it's 75% cause hes black
Back
To back Japanese games and pc is literally getting ghost of tushima just say you hate seeing black people in your make believe game
I mean the problem is they would never do this to any african based location. There is no way in hell they would make a secondary white protagonist if it was, no matter how many historical figures there were. It's obvious why they did it. Its awful because only dark skinned characters get this treatment. Asians are all lumped together under the "asian" label (they are radically different cultures to the point of war and fueds that last to this day) and for diversity purposes are considered "white". I wish we could have games set in africa etc where their "no whitey" makes sense and no one would have a problem with it.
I agree that's why we need to make more games based on African settings that way nobody can complain about it
Was there a game based in egypt?
That's in Africa?
@@obrienjackson6907 Central to southern Africa is where they mean, based on darker skinned African ethnicities, countries such as Tanzania or Democratic Republic of Congo
Ha. I’m laughing because even if they did set it in Africa, they would in no way be able to resist making white people the quintessential antagonists in the most unsubtle hamfisted manner because white man bad black man good. I wish we could see a self-contained African story, but there’s no way we’re getting that any time soon.
Ubisoft can still save Assassin Creed Shadows
o.o They just need to replace Yusuke with Johny Somali who will shout the line "HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI" at every NPC he meets. This is the only way they save this game.
It to late. Plus they are woke. It never going happen. The game already trash. It going cost $130
To save this game Ubisoft has to do a few things
1:get rid of their board
2:get rid of their consulting company they rely on
3: hire proper people who know how to make a game instead of make a political piece first and a game second
1. No historical mentions exist of yusuke being a samurai
2. No historical mentions that he fought
3. The devs did not include him in the game because he’s a real person, they included him because he’s black. And we all know that him being a real person is nothing more than just the most convenient excuse for the devs
4. Jesus is not debatable, he’s been thoroughly proven by historians to the point of having no room left for skepticism.
5. The only thing known about yusuke before Japan was that in India he learnt to fight and then was sold off to Japan to be a servant.
Metatron has insanely good videos on both Jesus and yusuke
Where did you learn your history ............ because ........... Yasuke has been taught about in Japanese history books .....
First, who cars whether he was or wasn't? Japanese pop culture portrays him as a Samurai so why care now?
Second, it's not whether or not Jesus was real but was he the son of God.
Third, if they want to make a game with a black protag why is that an issue?
@@SciCombathahaha. Literally no. Ever. Period. Silly
@@kap1618literally they don't.. 😂😂😂😂 silly
@@kap1618the Japanese really hate this game. The trailer in Japan has more dislikes.
My problem is this guy is a retainer not a samurai.
Edit: Britannica is a joke
You ever play the Nio or Samurai Warrior games? Cause he’s a samurai there. The Japanese don’t have a problem making him a samurai
at the time, all samurai were retainers ( but not all retainers were samurai )
apparently people are mixing up "samurai" in the edo period with "samurai" in the sengoku period, but im not an expert
The Sengoku period "Samurai Registry" does not list the man, he wasn't a samurai end of story.
Most AC main characters are native to their country and fictional, except this one, I wonder why...
Like the Turkish Ezio and Jamaican Edward.
@@optick3554Ezio trilogy and Edward as a pirate who were predominantly European....
@optick3554 Ezio's trilogy starts in Italy and he is the main character through all 3 of them. And on his journey he travels, and Turkey is like a week or so travel.
And the age of pirates had a lot of different groups involved in it, especially Europeans.
That argument falls through, try again.
@@optick3554Revelations was part of his trilogy story and he wasn’t solely painted as a savior to their society , also in the era that Caribbean Sea indeed was dominated by the British French and Spanish ,just like AC3 has natives ,British and Connor was mix-raced growing up with the local native tribe. China had a trader who traveled to Africa 2000 years ago ,imagine they make a game Assassin’s creed Africa then you play as a Chinese man as a main character ~~That’s equally frustrating.
cause they wanted a fish out of water storyline, and they used a historical figure to have a better excuse
this is such a dumb argument, do you think people wouldve reacted better if their non native mc didnt exist historically?
Another thing that makes people rage about Yasuke is, it's an Assassin's Creed game, the instant someone gets assassinated, the guards will look for anyone that seems out of the ordinary.
Something tells me they're going to notice a 6ft2 black guy, armoured or not.
bro, the japanese shinobi is probably going to be doing the assassin stuff, they're doing the stealth/aggressive split they tried in syndicate but for real this time
dont complain about gameplay you have not seen
@@francisxavier8374 They'll be travelling together, which means people will notice he just happens to arrive in a town/city shortly before someone gets killed.
The syndicate stealth/aggressive split was two different kinds of assassin, not an assassin and a warrior.
Use common sense… there’s a samurai and a ninja for a reason 🤡
And for people who think this was not intentionally done for sole DEI is easy to prove, all AC protagonists are fictional characters, created so they can be molded into history, what are the odds that the one time they do not follow that pattern, they choose a extremly specific character.
Ezio was real, his story was fictional. Simple.
They could have still done this but made him one of many ancient historical figures you come across. Even if it was an elaborate optional or mainline story plot. It could have added to the game experience rather than become a controvertial focus of the entire game. By making it the main focus, it tends to lean hard into the writing direction of current activist writers that have destroyed many games/tvshows/movies.
@@lordgrub12345that's objectively false, he was never a real person. All sources alluding to him being real stem from the in game databases or misconceptions and this has been debunked over a decade ago.
@@lordgrub12345Ezio isn't a historical character dude.
@@nikkfrostt Yeah there would have been no issue if they took some creative liberties with that, i mean look at AC2, Da Vinci was used to enhance gameplay and add diversity to them, by using some of his machines despite them not have actually been created, but its a believable extention, with Yasuke ubisoft taking a character who apparently has not seen any actual combat, and make him a major fighter, this is beyond beliable liberties. I also dont trust modern Ubisoft to not fuck this up, their current writers seem to lack the tact and quality of their older ones.
Sweet Baby is just pure cancer to ruin games, Ubisoft is among those who has fallen as a gaming studio, and the entertainment industry in the west is yet to pull their head outta their assess and get with the times. People wanna be entertained, the customer is always right.
i dislike how Ubisoft did Yasuke instead of his own spinoff they make him a MC instead of Noue.
i dislike the price.
i like Pirate.
Yar har fiddle dee dee.
Naoe IS an MC. She's the Canon assassin to the game.
it is irrelevant of he was a samurai or just nobonaga's pet.
we know the only reason they picked him, was color of his skin.
characters in ac games were always fictional , with historical characters around them.
but they choose yasuke , because they unironically are racist and they can't see anything beyond skin color.
as a side character, he could have been an outsider
he was a warrior in India before going with missionaries to Japan.
they could have shown him as African warrior or Indian warrior in feudal japan .
they could have shown his African culture, (or Indian) , but nahhhh
that's not good enough, he must be samurai.
Blaxploitation is back again!
@@AmirDarkOneoh okay so you have proof that they did this just because the color of his skin correct?
They chose him because he stands out among the countless Asian protag that’s almost always a samurai or ninja type. Asians are allowed to be more and black men can be a gateway to allowing more diverse races to exist.
@@redninja3056 Yes. Just check the backgrounds and social media posts of the devs, as well as their past history. You clearly have been in a cave in the Amazon for the past 10 years.
First, I didn't play any Assassin's Creed games.
One thing, from what I've heard, is that previous games had a protagonist from the country the game was taking place in and suddenly they decide to make this game take place in Japan and the protagonist is African. I can understand how people would be annoyed by that. Also, almost nothing is known about Yasuke, it's very hard to find anything conclusive about him. But it is weird they chose this fringe and barely known person, that is not Japanese, as a protagonist to represent Japan.
What proves that if the main character was Japanese I guarantee you they wouldn't be no backlash at all
Remember DEI sees Asian and white like how people would see poop on the street
Disgusted
black flag's main protagonist also wasnt native
Ignoring the Japanese assassin MC?
@@thetrashcanman7537yeah they removed an asian man and put an asian woman there to appeal to the asian woman fetishes because they don't like asian men, you think we don't realize what you are doing?
Yasuke : when you lie on your resume that you're a samurai
Honestly a lot of articles gp into "the roles of a samurai" and how Yasuke "could have been" in all these situations. How there's not a hint of implication that their closeness at honnouji could indicate he was nothing more than a slave. It just sounds like a lot of post-facto justification for overhyping this man so "black history" can just have another entry.
I hate that I've been taught to think this way but judging by corporate response how there's wnough Asian Samurai and no black ones (and that's bad?) just means they were better off using a no name freed slave girl for a shinobi or something.
They came out that historical accuracy isn't their concern and their entire game may as well be fantasy, but even if they we're making up nonsense along the way, entirely shattering any doubt as to their stance does remove a lot of the appeal to people that used this as a medium to get interested in history.
The execution undermines the premise. "We can increase our diversity by highlighting a black fictional character as our main protagonist." Lying about a historical figure will attract attention allowing people to call bs.
They get what they deserve, I guess.
That doesn't make any sense how do you lie about someone when you don't know anything about it
People just don't want to admit that Yasuke was basically just Nobunaga's pet. An exotic animal he kept around because he was big and intimidating and had stories from another world. He was only made a retainer because it was "unseemly" for Nobunaga to be hanging around with someone of no status. He was certainly no samurai, more like a servant or at best -- a "squire" of sorts.
There's actually no evidence for that, though it's a definite possibility.
Not enough information to determine that's true or not
@@varanid9 The evidence of his status is fragmentary but what we know from the Shinchō Kōki (official Nobunaga Chonicle) is that Yasuke was made an official retainer and that he was allowed to carry a wakizashi but not a katana. This would put him around the level of a Kosho -- a personal attendant with some martial skill who had extra privileges and responsibilities like acting as a human shield for his master.
As for their personal relationship, that's all speculative sure, but given the rigid social structures of feudal Japan it's _probably_ safe to assume certain things.
He was definitely more than a pet
@@crossfire4691a glorified pet. Same what ubisoft is doing now. Using him again as a political pet. Poor dude, being resurrected to be used for the same thing
Pictures...200 years before pictures existed. No.
Shit, so I guess I just imagined all of the art made before photographs.
Absolute brainlet.
@@TheDapperDragon She said pictures, dolt. Like all the fake ones floating around X. *Nsheeeit.
@@judesheckelberg5135 So, paintings aren't pictures?
I think the word you're looking for is photographs
@@TheDapperDragon Do you really think she was talking about paintings?
The issue is that most AC fans expected a story about shinobi involved in the war of the assassins and the templars in Japan but instead we get this 🤷🏾♂️. Honestly, I don't know what Ubisoft is doing these days maybe that is no longer the focus.
Another thing is AC main characters are fictional characters that during their missions intermingle with historical figures, but this time Yasuke an actual historical figure has been set up as a MC, which is weird. Why are they changing this rule now??? He could have been an important character (like the other historical figures in oast games) in the story or have a dlc storyline for him but noooooo.... They need to insert that chocolate in Japan.
It's just sad.... These two will most likely have to carryout missions from assassinations to all out battles whereby Yasuke will be so easily identified which puts a target on his back which in turn jeopardizes their efforts 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️. It's one thing if he is fighting for current regime since he will have a lot of allies but that defeats the purpose if he is part of the bloody resistance!
I am just fed up now😅, out here complicating simple matters. They should have just been a Japanese man n woman.
There’s a Shinobi on the front cover in front of Yasuke. Why are people ignoring her???
Watch Metatron's video about this, he goes into this in depth. It's not impossible that Yasuke was a Samurai, as this term was not in common usage at the time, so the fact that he is never referred to as such is meaningless. According to Metatron, there is evidence that Yasuke received warrior training before (if I recall correctly) he went to Japan. Metatron also points out that, even if he wasn't Samurai, he still could have been Bushi (warrior class) as, though all Samurai were Bushi, not all Bushi were Samurai. As for Alteori's reading from Britannica, I strongly suspect that it was written by a DEI fanboy "historian", as it's making assertions that lack evidence. Yasuke's story would definitely make the subject for a great game, just not an Assassin's Creed game.
Yasuke would be great in a Japan set AC story, but I don't think it makes sense to break the pattern of ethnically native main characters for the geography they're in.
Yasuke could have been an epic side character/DLC character and it would have recieved way less criticism.
Also we need to talk about whether or not Naoe can be a worthy successor to the other male AC main characters.
@@RellikanAs DLC or an NPC that helped you I would've been cool with that as well.
Yasuke has been a part of Japanese stories for a long time. He’s been in animes, stories, books, and other adaptations. He was even in one of the most recent game Samurai Warriors 5, which is made by a Japanese company.
And that's not enough yasuke for you? You still want more,more more?
The war on Wikipedia is wild, you have the mods fighting both the people that believe Yasuke was a samurai and the ones who doubt that Yasuke was a samurai and believe he was a retainer, like it said originally before this whole thing started.
Dude was nothing more but a court jester, he was never a Samurai.
He was a retainer, a Kosho. So basically he was like a man at arms who served as personal attendant. But he did not carry a Katana, only a Wakizashi, so he was not a Samurai.
@@TheStraightestWhitest Still a pretty big deal to be employed by the #1 guy in Japan at the time but yeah, not a Samurai.
"They want authenticity not tokenism." The core of the controversy.
The issue is that people say that but don't mean it. Explain the difference in your words to me.
It’s not tokenism if he’s literally the ONLY black guy found in historical records during that time 🤦🏾♀️
@@chey6073Except it is. They picked the one black guy on purpose. That is exactly what tokenism is you cod.
If the guys who did ghost of tsushima were making a game with yasuke as the protagonist I'd be like "ok, lets see where they go with this" but the fact thats its ubislop making the game lets me know for a fact they are going to fuck it up. "Oh we're such big fans of diversity and inclusion!" If thats they case then why were they fucking around all the Singaporean guys working on the skull and bones game, not promoting them and treating the whole thing like an extended holiday? They can say these things all they want but all you have to do is see how they actually treat people to see how little they actually care and that they just use you like a shield.
The problem with the main character is that likely that person never existed and was something made up and written into the internet for some reason. The problem is though that because there is no historical evidence he kinda is a "urban myth". Now it's possible that he could have existed but outside anecdotal evidence it's kinda "we don't really know" kinda thing. Remember all the pictures shown online aren't from that era because cameras wouldn't exist for over 200 years. Though at the end of the day it's that they choice to have a black character real or not, when there are thousands of famous real Japanese samurai.
Pictures from cameras weren't invented until 1822. So we only relied on artist illustrations for centuries.
Those writing “I don’t have a problem with it”, well it’s not your culture being appropriated. And those writing “if it was a Japanese guy in Africa I wouldn’t have a problem with it as long is the game is good”, you’re a liar and you know it. How about exploring the Actual Continent of Africa. There’s the Zulu Empire, Kingdom of Aksum, The Kindom of Mali etc if these companies truly want “diversity” then they should actually highlight a history that hasn’t been explored before and showing many Black Americans true representation from THEIR history and from THEIR culture.
Honestly, I have a feeling the reason they don't base anything in Africa and on central and south African kingdoms is because it raises uncomfortable questions about the role Africans played in establishing and perpetuating slavery in Africa even before any European contact. Don't think they want another repeat of "The Woman King," and the Dohomey controversy again.
@@Wyqno This. Yes, Africa has a rich history, but exploring it means addressing human sacrifice, cannibalism, and the original perpetration of slavery. They're perfectly okay to showcase all flaws in European cultures, but always veer away from doing it with African ones. And so they can't make games based in Africa without making it extremely inauthentic.
@@Wyqno but ALL civilizations either conquered or enslaved other tribes. Its was a normal human thing in Ancient times. People need to stop denying their own history and simply embrace it. Not all were perfect, but that shouldn’t take away their achievements and discoveries.
@@TheStraightestWhitest Because even then, there would still be complaints. My guy, you quite literally have people complaining about people being stereotypically black or not being black enough. It's a lose-lose situation no matter how you see it. You can't win everyone.
How it appropriated if he actually existed?
As a greek person I understand where some people are coming from because for some reason people think of us and represent us as black (btw you can very easily have a black character in a greek setting because we had a very good relationship with Egyptians) and if you are an asian and you wanted to be asian in an assassins creed game well you can't
He wasn't even a samurai. Articles such as the Britannica one conveniently skip over the whole "became a samurai" part without so much as offering any evidence. In some articles, the cited proof that he became a samurai are just hyperlinks going to other articles with the same information. They're copying each other.
In all of Japanese history, there have been, like, 5 or 6 non-Japanese samurai, and the vast majority of them married into the class. Only one or two men, both white, received the title due to their skill, but it was still something of an honorary thing.
Let's be real, Yasuke is a slave that Nobunaga likes to show off to his friends. It is like showing off your exotic pet to your class to look cool in school.
Personally I’m interested in an assassin’s creed game that does have Yasuke as a Maine character given how obscure he is in history. For the problems I’ve been hearing about:
“Assassin’s creed should be historically accurate.”
Right, the same game series that hade alien technology, men fighting gods in the Egypt one, fighting several kinds of Greek monsters in the other, ect.
“Why they gotta have the black man playing the assassin when he’s obviously going to stand out.”
Missing the fact that the other characters is the kunoichi so she’s the one playing the stealth one, while Yasuke is the one who plays the straight forward samurai. Just like they did in ghost of Tsushima. Were you can ether fight as a ninja, or a samurai.
“He wasn’t a samurai, he was just a retainer.”
You realize you can be both. Ranmaru was also a retainer who is also depicted as a samurai. Hedioushi, started out as just the guy who held Nobunaga’s sandals before being made a samurai, and then a daimyo as well. So why couldn’t Yasuke be the same?
Now personally I’d have more of a problem with the high price tag it looks like the game will have. Instead of the hair trigger “woke,” issues. Though I do get the fact that allot of diversity has been used in so much stuff but in a token way. This I feel is not that.
They’ll never admit this cause they see black and women and just think woke
Historically there is no truth behind him being a samurai he did not have a last name or any of the stuff that is given to a samurai to show rank. Secondly the problem is that they clearly chose him because he is black and that’s a big fuck you to Japan and to black people. If you want to tell a black story there is tonnes of history in Africa. Imagine if marvel decided to change black panther to a white actor people would not be happy or if the new blade remake was a white actor it’s the same. People give it a pass cause it’s black person but if it was the other way round people would be fuming at the mouth and this hypocrisy is the exact problem. I am saying this as a black man who grew up in Africa which says a lot
I mean Yasuke appeared on Nioh where you play as a British guy and god damn ge was a beast
Remember that documentary of Cleopatra where they made her black. Once again it was label as a documentary. As in fact. This is why people have a problem with it
Ubisoft: We should make a game set in modern Africa. Who should the main protag be?
Writers: Elon Musk.
Elon musk is African American. he was born in Africa so I don't see your point.
Black Flag was set in the Caribbean and the protag was Welsh.
Nioh has a white samurai.
@@kdel4272 there were plenty of Europeans in the Caribbean at the time, from settlers and merchants to pirates.
@@camil3545 Just like Yasuke existed at this time of history in Japan. Lol.
why not, i'll put this here too. it's a comment from native people there:
"I am Japanese, I am writing this using a translator, please listen to me. First, I would like to talk about how Yasuke was treated in Japan. Yasuke's name does not appear in most history books, and for this reason he is treated as a fictitious entity that never existed.
He does not appear in history textbooks for elementary, junior high, and high school students, and only those who have studied history at universities have heard of him. Even in the few history books that mention his name, it only says that he "served as a peasant and carried baggage. Everything about him is a fiction. He was tall, muscular, and strong, and Nobunaga, suspicious of whether his skin was his own, had his men wipe it to make sure.
All of them are outright lies. And it is not even known if the Yasuke in the history books was a black Yasuke, because the name "Yasuke" is like John, a name that can be found anywhere in Japan! Also, Yasu came to Japan one year before Nobunaga died, Nobunaga had already almost unified Japan, how could he be a samurai without a war?
And even a 10 year old Japanese could tell that he was not a samurai, because he had no family name. When we Japanese introduce ourselves, we say our family name and then our first name. This is because until the Meiji period (1868-1912), when equality among the four peoples was introduced, ordinary people were not allowed to have family names. In fact, some ordinary people have become samurai or feudal lords, such as Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who achieved greatness after Nobunaga, who rose from a mere peasant Tokichirou with his intelligence and courage to finally become Hideyoshi Toyotomi.
And you foreigners often use the word "retainer", which is a mistranslation of the Japanese word "KASHIN". the original meaning of "KASHIN", is all those who work for the samurai family. A cook, a gardener, a maid, etc. are all KASHIN (retainers). In other words, those who support Yasuke are making a fuss based on a source of lies written by a black supremacist who cannot even read Japanese properly. Ridiculous.
Yasuke was in the service of Nobunaga, so he fits the definition of KASHIN, and Samurai are KASHIN because they also serve Nobunaga, but that doesn't mean Yasuke is a Samurai! The reality is that Yasuke was like Nobunaga's pet or maid!
We Japanese people will never forgive ubisoft's foolishness. Please let those who read this know how we feel."
whether the points above are true or not, please verify them with real native japanese, ask them point per point.
I don't know if you would read this but should be pointed out since its another thing I dont see posted on JP channels
The Person Ubisoft hired as a Japanese History Consultant, is a Western Literacy Professor who's only credit is study in Western Social Studies and the study of BL(Boi's Love) and Yaoi of Medieval Japan. She quite literally wrote a book on it.
@@BlueBD...So she knows jack-all about Japanese history outside of yaoi? ...wow.
@@BlueBD yes the title of her book is:
TALES OF IDOLIZED BOYS: MALE-MALE LOVE IN MEDIEVAL JAPANESE BUDDHIST NARRATIVES
@@Devilsblight86 This is the paragraph of her profile at dartmouth college
"I am interested in investigating how gender, sexuality, corporeality, and power are represented and negotiated in pre-seventeenth-century Japanese narratives and illustrations. My first book, Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Narratives (University of Hawai`i Press, 2021) is on medieval chigo monogatari (Buddhist acolyte tales), which often depict romantic relationships between Buddhist priests and adolescent boys. These tales challenge a host of normative and moral standards we (academics, especially) internalize, including such ideas as "sexual orientation," "transgenerational sex," and "sexual agency."
My current project is on the literary representations of "milk kinships" in pre-seventeenth Japanese tales, in cluding the Tale of Ochikubo, the Tale of Genji, the Tales of the Heike."
Any history she works on is tangential to her actual efforts, just due to the nature of what she's looking for.
1) Yasuke is in the Nio and Samurai Warrior games. He’s depicted as a samurai there. The Japanese don’t have a problem making him a samurai.
2) there were PLENTY of battles during and after Oda Nobunaga was alive. Japan was not peaceful, quite the opposite actually. If Japan was peaceful, Oda Nobunaga would never have been forced to commit suicide and the Battle of Sekigahara never would have happened. Peace came to Japan over 20 years after Nobunaga’s assassination, when the Tokugawa Shogunate took over
If I only Nue was the only protagonist it'll be fine, but they just had to they just had to. They really couldn't hold themselves
It's the point of bringing Yasuke into the Assassin Order (or whatever the Assassins called themselves in Japan at the time) which would pull kind of a Haytham and Edward Kenway situation. No, Yasuke isn't the son of Nobunaga (Yasuke's historical Shogun/Daimyo) but him turning on Nobunaga for the Assassins unless Nobunaga is part of the Order would be like how Haytham is an Assassin-born Templar. Yasuke would be the reverse essentially. And this isn't like Syndicate, reportedly. Yasuke and the other girl are both playable for their own things but not to the point of switching freely between the two. At least from what I've heard. This game reminds me a lot of the Young Samurai/Ninja book sagas, Yasuke is like the main character who first gets Samurai training (pre AC Shadows plotline) before the Uprising happened and saw the Samurai destroyed (scene where Yasuke meets the Assassin girl) and then gets trained by a secret Ninja village while still being on the run from the Shogunate or whatever the ruling power was (only got to the end of Ring of Water (I believe, may have been fire that came first as the Ninja half of books were named after the five elements) which was book one of five there) because he (the MC) is a white, Christian teenager.
No they’d have a problem if it was only Naoe because she’s a woman. She’d be targeted by the whole “oh its woke and DEI nonsense” complaints too.
@@chey6073 doubt, Stellar Blade got the opposite treatment and Hellblade isn't even talked about. Plus Japan isn't a stranger to females taking center stage or having more female characters in their media, anime for one has more female characters than males in general.
It probably will trigger some people, but not to the extent of what it is now. More will be in the position of "it's okay if she's written well". In my humblest of opinions.
@chey6073 we've had a solo female assassin MC before, though, and to top it off, she was black (but actually lived in a location where there was a sizable black population).
@@55rz55 Im already seeing people complaining about Naoe in this comment section and on twitter. They’re saying she’s too “androgynous”. Idk if you’ve noticed this trend, but there is a growing number of male gamers claiming Western gaming companied are making their female characters unattractive and masculine. Had Yasuke not been in this game, the biggest controversy would have been about Naoe’s looks.
The wiki was heavily edited in the last few days to say that Yasuke was a samurai, even when they had no proof that he was one, at most just a servant because his skin color was new to Nobunaga
It's not like you can edit these pages which this UA-camr showed
I don't get this drama, since when Assassin's Creed was even historically accurate in this story???
I actually like yasuke the way he pops in Neoh, and the yasuke anime
It’s wild to me that this part of the drama could’ve been avoided if you just had 3 playable characters
2 Japanese, female and male and then Yasuke
He has no business being a main character comlared to the numerous Japanese figures. He could be a cool side story, but nothing more. There's so little information on him that any and all fictional depictions are embellished to the levels of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Metatron has an expert’s take on this.
Remember: This is the same series that Removed the crossbow from the first AC game for historical accuracy.
Also, I don't like that they put a (potentially) Real person as the MC. Because that means that whenever you steal something, kill a guard just for fun or "accidentally" blow up civilians, that would be something that "The Real Yasuke" would have done. With a fictional character, you can do whatever you want, but a real person does have some historical records.
And unlike real people as NPC's you can't just make the arguement, that this would be something that was scratched from historical records. Like "Rodrigo Borgia" (The pope in AC2) being a member of the Templer order.
Assassin's Creed back then: blend into the crowd and become invisible.
Assassin's Creed now: er... never mind. Our ESG score is all that matters.
Britannica information are based on novel, part fiction books. One source claim he had a family which was a fantasy.
I swear there is way less controversy from nioh having william being deemed a samurai without being in battle vs a man that was reported to be involved in certain battles and we truly having a debate.
A samurai based off of Yasuke was also in Nioh… where are the pitch forks for that guy and William?
@@chey6073Nioh never claimed to be historically accurate. Try harder.
The most recxognizable person in the entire country, working as an Assassin
A profession that requires stealth and unrecognizability
Someone really didn't think that through
nobody is going to talk about how Ubisoft just cut out some quests from the standard version, forcing you into buying at least Gold Edition for full experience
Yasuke was not a Samurai. That's the main issue.
Definitely enlighten me😂
@@dangelobarton8164 How he was not a Samurai? Yasuke was a Kosho, a retainer who bore only a Wakizashi and not a Katana. This means he was not a Samurai. He was essentially Nobunaga's pet. Only reason he was upped to what is the equivalent of a personal attendant at all is that a Lord does not keep commoners in his entourage.
The correct answer actually is "we don't know for sure".
And templars and assassins never existed whats your point?
@@lazysnorlax3015 Yasuke is a historical protagonist. That's why it's an issue. It's a rewrite of history.
I like the idea of yasuke in japan, but when a triple AAA company does it in practice it feels like an old boomer saying rizz Infront of me, let japanese people make the game, it would probably have better storytelling and yasuke would probably be a badass(like rodan in Bayonetta)
I appreciate you speaking on black men and masculinity, your awareness doesn’t go unnoticed. Thanks!
Hey Alteori... fave feather fox, now cute ear fox... what is the game in the background of your video? The one showing Sung Jinwoo?
天正9年2月、信長は弥助の存在を知って宴を開き、そこへヴァリニャーノとともに弥助を呼んだ。やがて弥助を小姓として召し抱えることになった。
This is the original text and history about Yasuke that mental illness people never can revise. 小姓 means Child in 漢字. They do underwork for a samurai. NOT a Samurai 100%🫡
-> "In Feb. of Tensho 9, Nobunaga learned of Yasuke's existence and held a banquet to which he and Valignano invited Yasuke. Eventually, he took Yasuke into his service as a 小姓."
Doesn't really bother me. Remember when everyone was upset there weren't black people in the Shogun show? That was dumb because there weren't any records of black people being there besides Yasuke who died before William Adams showed up. If Ubisoft wants to do a game heavily based on Yasuke go for it, however it reeks of virtue signaling
Heavily based on Yasuke ? There is nothing based on Yasuke aside from name and skin color. He wasn't a samurai, he was pretty much a pet for Oda who kept him around because he looked Unique.
@@Agent-57 sure, so if I understood correctly it's the historical inaccuracy that's bothering you? What if unisont justa camr out and said "yes, we know it's different from the other games and that it's not true to history, we just thought this would be a cool character and story to do", would that make the situation better?
Of course you don’t have a problem, it’s not your culture being appropriated.
@@yassinsuleiman655 The problem isn't the game, it's the motivation of the developers for doing this which is a CONSTANT problem and people are justifiably sick of it. But if you're fine being told what to think, then, don't worry about it. If their heavy handed virtue signalling doesn't bother you, then don't get bothered because others are, it doesn't make you "above it all".
I wouldn''t say "EVERYONE was upset there weren't black people in the Shogun show". It was really more of the WOKE NUTS being upset. I would say they should be happy now that Ubisoft has granted their wish, but last I heard, woke nuts are NEVER happy. They complain all the time, always asking for more with a frown on their face because they never feel satisfied.
A cliff notes for anyone willing to educate themselves a bit more.
1. Yasuke and Oda lived during the Sengoku Period, specifically the Azuchi-Momoyama Period (near the tale end of the Sengoku Period).
2. While Samurai were Retainers, not all Retainers were Samurai. They were separated between Civil Officers and Military Commanders, the latter being Samurai.
3. Foreigners during the Azuchi-Momoyama Period and before were unable to be promoted beyond a certain point. Kosho was the highest rank they could achieve.
*4. The Edo Period (1603-1868) is when the last two points change. To maintain loyalty, the Kashindan which is the institution of Retainers began to settle Samurai into the role of Civil Officers, this is how it later is discretely raised to generally being synonymous with Samurai. Kosho were also raised during this time as Toyotomi and Tokugawa recruited the sons of Samurai families, in part as political hostages to maintain the Samurai families loyalty to not have a repeat of Akechi who betrayed Oda Nobunaga. Also it was during this time that foreigners started being raised to Samurai Status. Almost back to back three Korean men were promoted to Samurai. The first even becoming the Comissioner of Kanazawa City.
5. Yasuke while having participated in battle, was sent back to the Jesuits who originally *gifted* him to Oda, by Akechi.
While there isn't much written about Yasuke, there is a lot about the Sengoku Period that can be used to fill in certain gaps in the story. Now possibly as a sign of respect the Japanese looked back and honored him with Samurai Status post-mortem, but had he been 20 years late getting to Japan he maybe could've gotten the honor to truly achieve that status in his lifetime. His story is really something of a tragedy.
As a black person...This was well spoken and thought out. I completely agree
I have seen plenty of videos discussing this right now, and I can totally understand why this has people upset and rightfully so. They took a person who may or may not have actually existed to turn into a main character in a game that made it clear they did care about trying to make things historical accurate when they removed crossbows because they weren't accurate to the time period. This was about feudal Japan, and they used a side character who, if they actually existed, could not be a samurai because he wasn't noble blood. Maybe if this had just been another NPC in the game people might have looked past this, but it's fact that this was pandering and insulting to do to the Japanese history for a poor conceived desire for DEI woke points. No matter what sales will suffer from this as people are tired of all this pandering in games, and this has absolutely nothing to do with anything towards racism. That's a weak and poor argument to make when this was never needed in any of the previous games in the series. I served with plenty of Latinos who love everything about the Japanese culture and will also feel the same about this.
He was never a samurai. He was a bearer
and this is a fanstasy game
@@atlantah5496 And? He wasn't a samurai
@@FrostbiteDigital still a fantasy games, but I've seen quite a few Japanese people refute this stand point showing that he was a slave warrior who was the title of samurai,
@@defineanime5549 Ok, than why use Yasuke, it's a fantasy game.
@atlantah5496 a fantasy game that, for the entirety of its existence from the first game, has had a strict formula when it comes to characters. Even in its RPG days, they used non-historicaal fictional characters as the playable character. This is the first time they are using a real historical person, which goes against the identity of the franchise AS WELL as create a dynamic where their character cannot blend into crowds, another integral part of the formula.
They should have made him am Easter egg and kept Naoe as the only protagonist, since she follows the formula (so far)
All I'm going to say is, IMAGINE if Assassin's Creed: Zulu or some such thing came out and the protagonist was some regular white dude who happened to show up in one or two historical documents at some point in history.
Somehow, I think a few people would be slightly mad about that
It's like Syndicate. The Female and the guy is main characters. But the Woman is the Assassin based on she has the Assassin Knife not Yasake. So she is the main and Yasake is the CoStar.
I'm a black guy, but it's clear as day what Ubisoft is doing. They saw a chance to pander, and took it. With that said, im still gonna play it.
I'm still going to buy it but like all Ubisoft games I'm going to wait for it to be on sale.
Pander? or maybe they are just tired of making another Last Samurai. I am for any game where for once not some white trash is hoarding all the glory.
Have fun paying twice for the game. Ubi is in love with keeping the whole game behind a paywall.
We literally have Bayek of Siwa, imagine.. this is the Ubisoft first take on a main AC game that is set in an Asian country and making the asian protagonist share the spotlight kinda feels off..
Well I'm a black guy and calling something "pandering" when placing an actual historical figure in a video game depicting the times he actually lived, is stupidity.
If they want to make Yasuke, don't fuck my man up. He's someone I always wanted to be adapted in a game.
And we’re not even going to get into how dirty he was dealt in his *own titular anime*
Yeh, netflix screwed up that one, especially with making oda gay even though he had a son and wife that he convinced her to side with him over her father.
@@obrienjackson6907 Bisexuality in Japan was common before the Meiji Restoration. Mori Ranmaru was often depicted as Nobunaga’s lover in the Edo period
@@chey6073 seen that hard if this was love novel or facts but I'll accept either way
This is the first video I've ever seen of yours but I gotta say you nailed it with this take on this game 👍
I loved you take on it. Sharing this with some others. My wife too. Because she will like hearing a view of someone who doesn't play the games and even you came to the same conclusion as some of my other UA-camrs I watch. 😁👍
Will you do some special when you hit 600,000 subscribers
Um. I never thought about it
@@Alteori that ok if you want to
I think they should've gone with a different, far more prominent figure then Yasuke. Though due to the ambiguity & how little we actually know for certain, it could make for a very interesting story. A slave from a distant land brought to Japan, being sold to Oda Nobunaga, who turns out to be a Templar. Yasuke serving Nobunaga while being looked down upon & even mistreated by many around him, eventually joining the Brotherhood & leaving Japan. I have doubts about them making a good story though, unfortunately
That's what I thought also, they could've done dlc with him if they wanted to include him, and if you look at it from a historical lense yasuke sort of just disappeared after the death of nobunaga, and if this is set after that it does make of interesting
@@defineanime5549at the end of the day it's still just a video game so there's no reason for people to get upset about it
@@animezilla4486 I mean I agree, but people will still complain and in some case on other peoples behalf
Curious, what is that mobile game you're playing? Looks fun.
Wild because we did have an African assassin in AC Freedom Cry. Long before AC Shadows was in development.
Sources argue, if he was a swordsbearer, a bushi of any other kind or a samurai.
That said, each and every AC game had a protagonist fitting for that period in that area ... just with japan, these nitwits had to dig up the black guy instead of magking him an NPC.
"With women who are stromg" And straight? Because I twell you, Ubicrap's Star Wars game, that woman is bound to be lesbian with that black bounty hunter chick.
DEI has told us, for women to be strong, they either have to be lesbian or trans.
As a fan of samurai warriors and one that quite likes yasuke,i think its fine and he looks badass.
He was a novel porter and manservant. If social protocol is a sensitive topic in Japan now, it was moreso in feudal Japan. Yasuke had no known fiefs or any holdings traditionally given to Samurai. He could not have been trained as a Samurai as his tenure in Japan was too short.
What ubisoft could've done was introduce him as a character in a dlc similar to black flag or introduce more well-known Japanese samurai in a future dlc
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He was a retainer NOT a samurai..
I have a sword.. doesn't make me a samurai..
If they want to an Assassin's creed video set in japan I wish they would have went with Toyotomi Hideyoshi he was a great Samurai did a lot for japan, there is a lot about him that we know or at least put both Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Kamikaze in the game. I think they were a live at the same time, if I remember correctly. You nailed it btw the most all these forms of Entertainment shoe-hornig things is divideing us when 15 years ago we were in a better place, it's just sad.
The hatered in these comments even the passive aggressive ones are a joke. All this for a video game character? Mad when it was mafia 3, but its cool if youre a gangbanger in LA? Yall did this same thing when the Harlem Hellfighters came to battlefield, but you dont want anyone to say the R word?
Oda Nobunaga and all his posse said this guy was real. I can appreciate the commentary about the guy being an assassin, but the idea that Oda Nobunaga and his surrounding council lied about there being a giant black dude that was HIS BEST FRIEND is a stretch. The biggest speculation is what happened to him after the betrayal at the Honnō-ji Incident, with that being said, your not wrong at thinking UBISOFT sucks, just don't deny reality that black people were everywhere, don't deny that the first person killed in the revolutionary war was a guy called Crispus Attuks, learn your history and respect it. - Danky Wilson
To play Assassin's Creed you need at least some suspension if disbelief. You do usually walk around in your assassin's garb in open daylight after all.
But even a native Japanese man that tall would be remembered. The only black man in all of Japan? That's not someone anyone will forget. But him being an assassin?
He also walks around in full armour that would only be worn on the battlefield? Every law enforcement would stop that person or at the very least keep a close eye on that one.
All that stretches it a bit far me.
I should add that I have only played one Assassin's Creed game that came free with a magazine and discovered, while fun, it games like that aren't for me, so I'm not a loss for Ubi Soft. But stuff like this doesn't endear me to become a customer even if they one day have a game I would like to play.
YES! bless you! You said the name correctly. You are 2 out of hundreds. I subscribed just for that
*Yasuke was a black Samurai*
You can close that page after reading that sentence because there you know it's bullshit.. he never was a Samurai or had any military ranks..
Metatron did a video on Yasuke and he’s a very reliable source of historical information. The only factual conclusion is that there isn’t any evidence that confirms or denies he was a samurai. It’s inconclusive.
So AC, a franchise that does historic fiction, wants to depict as a samurai. It really isn’t that big of a deal. It’s a fair interpretation that even some historians believe
@@CarnageTrooperx wrong, it's a very big of a deal, especially for the Japanese people who are mad at Ubisoft because they put a black man in it.. Every AC game had a protagonist suiting to the region to represent it properly. Yes they have a Japanese girl in it, but let be honest, most of the dudes play as dudes.. I understand they are pissed off.. Ubisoft just sucks balls right now, they just can't please the fans and on top of that they go crazy with monetization.. not a smart move at all..
Japanese who who we aren't mad we're just disgusted that you weebs keep on pretending to be us while using Google translate, learn a third language dumbfuck