We need to talk about Assassin's Creed Shadows and Ubisoft
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It doesn't matter what other people say. Cleopatra was a samurai.
Mainstream media not gonna tell you this, but Shogun was black, one of natives of Japan.
Yeah, I’ve also read that the samurais were originated in Wakanda.
I bet grandma told you😂
Yeah, I’ve also read that the samurais were originated in Wakanda.
In fact, all of Asia was black!
There's a now deleted article(But the internet is forever!) where the devs admitted openly to looking for another ethnicity for their samurai for them to view that world through. They went looking for him and they quite literally shoehorned him in.
Is there an Internet archive link you could share?
Yasuke's known history: he arrived in japan as a slave from india owned by italian jesuit missionaries stays there for 2 years and then encounters Oda Nobunaga, when Oda saw him he took him as a curiosity, gave him a short sword and a house, and duties of taking care of his gear(meaning he was essentially a squire, nifty). After 15 months, Oda Nobunaga dies(betrayed by the vassal Akechi) and Yasuke surrenders his sword to an Akechi man and is then sent back to the missionaries from India, where he completely disappears from historical record. This is not an important historical character, but a footnote, a historical oddity at best and a very short one. Japanese history is full of much more interesting and colorful characters, ones with actual bearing on the stories they're involved in. That being said - I'd rather have a good Crusader game.
Two big red flags with making Yasuke a main character.
1. We have never had a historical figure or "anyone from history" as a main character in any Assassins Creed games. They are always the side characters you interact with. The main characters are original characters to their stories.
2. The main characters have always been from their setting, region, and culture. They are from the area. And if there are two main characters they BOTH are, not just one.
They broke both traditions in one game and quite frankly it is a middle finger to Japan. If you wanted a historical figure why not pick someone actually Japanese........like Oda? Sanada? Hanzo? Etc? And why in the world have one of the main characters not be from the region when we finally hit Japan? The game we have wanted for years.
While we're at it, if they REALLY wanted someone "historical," but allowed for leeway, there are actually a good few ninja who were fictional but treated as legendary figures nonetheless - Fuuma Kotaro, Sarutobi Sasuke, or Ishikawa Goemon for example.
Ezio was not from the Ottoman Empire in Revelations and Edward Kenway wasn't from the Caribbean in Black Flag, you damn franchise tourist.
@@mizu7662 Disingenuous. The height of piracy caused a common mix of cultures and peoples along the coasts. A lot of pirates in the Caribbean weren't from the Caribbean.
@@mizu7662 Ezio was an already established character the game followed to that location.
As for Kenway, are you saying there wasn't a huge English presence in the Caribbean?
What a lowest of the low "technically correct" stupid comment.
@@blobjorn3248 Moving the goal posts, and doing so fruitlessly since by your logic of 'but white people really went to the Caribbean!' African people really found themselves in Japan. You don't have a leg to stand on, you can't appeal to history because history says black people were actually in Japan and you can't appeal to franchise standards because franchise standards acknowledged the fact that people can travel away from their home country to go do things in other countries.
If they wanna make a game about a black assassin then just set the time period to present-day Chicago.
Or New York, Chicago, California, Portland, Western Europe etc.
@@MsDavid47 Sadly true, mate.
pick a more lethal city
Tbf the game isn't called Muggers Creed
They used the setting already with Watch_Dogs & one of the missions is has you shooting black people in the projects
"I remember my grandpa saying to me, I don't care what they tell you in Japanese school, Yasuke was a Samurai."
Ah yes, the tale of Yasuke from the fabled city of Blackinawa
What a typical, black-worshipping boomer-ism
Japan was an Africa
"You can't play a white guy in the Caribbean" you mean the Caribbean that was riddled with Portuguese, English and Spanish ships at that time? Kek.
dont forget about the French! theyre in it as well.
You do understand that this argument brings us back to you complaints about Yasuke being rooted in racism, right? Because he was absolutely in Japan just like Portuguese were in the Caribbean
Ugh, because of course.
Something something something. . . “The message”
While Yasuke existed, it's debatable if he was samurai, or even bushi (soldier) due to lack of evidence.
But we all know why Ubuysoft chose him as a protagonist.
I see you watch metatron as well. But yeah aren’t the assassins usually not part of history they do their cult crap from the shadows so you couldn’t prove their existence. That’s why in the games you could be part of historical events. He would be the first playable ac character that was in history
@@aceaj2620yea they're almost always fictional characters when it's the player character. The one exception being Jack the Ripper but he's basically a blank slate.
The word samurai didn't exist in this period. Only after Nobunaga's death the word samurai was created. The term bushi was used for both samurai and non-samurai warriors.
It's debatable if he was a samurai, but it is not debatable whether or not he was a bushi. He was without question.
@@aceaj2620 Buddy, Metatron's whole point was that Yasuke was, at the very least, a bushi.
A franchise about stealth and assassinations and the protagonist is based on that one guy in history that moved from his homeland and sticks out like a sore thumb. Makes perfect sense.
And instead of making him an Assassin fully covered in robes with a mask, they made him the most conspicuous person in the entire country. Because the one person who would make sense as the unknown Assassin is the big heavy warrior in full samurai armor so everyone knows who he is.
That's what they deviated from with Odyssey and Valhalla. Aside from the "wOkE" stuff, the franchise is never gonna be able to live up to the Ezio trilogy. It's the definitive assassin's creed experience imho.
@@James_Bee At least that's what they showed us in the codename red trailer.
@@rommelbengali ..no, that is what we were told by the devs.
@@notawehraboo6159 Really? But I only know from the reveal trailer.
Whether he was or wasn't this or that is a red herring, the bigger issue is this is the first ac MC to ever be a historical figure. Before they've all been fictionalized cultural composits to separate the fictional (all of history being driven by a war between two shadow organizations fighting over magic apples to control the world) from the historical backdrop (historical figures and events) in their historical fiction. Of course that's going to upset anyone that enjoys the historical aspect that you are now muddying the waters by making the fictitious assassin who drives the ahistorical aspects of the the series a historical figure. Why do that other than to justify black samurai in isolationist Japan? And to see wikipedia and even historica Britanica vigorously editing their articles on the subject to better reflect Unisofts identitarian fiction is disheartening, and obliterates any argument to me that this is anything other than modern identitarian nonsense. Stop Americanizing history.
Correct. You're not supposed to actually play as historic figures from the past in these games, you may interact with them, but by design your character is not in the history books. This also avoided Ubisoft having to paint a real figure life as some mass-murdering machine.
You were supposed to play an OC fictional character made and well written to be a character who belongs in a historical fictional story. Historical locations, figures and architectures. While having alot of fictional plots involved to make it make sense
And there's also 3 people that would make more sense to be playable if we really had to have a real person.
Akechi Mitsuhide, the man who betrayed Nobunaga
Hattori Hanzo, leader of the Iga Ninja
And William, the English Samurai.
And why I suggest William isn't racism, but Yasuke would be a Templar considering how close he is to Oda. Meanwhile William would definitely be aligned with the Assassin's
@Awaifn seriously, this comment I been telling people, but nah, too many dumb idiots just yell "incel! Racists!" At me just because I criticize ubisoft's stupidity at having yasuke as main protagonist.
I swear I have no hopes in today's society. They can't even bother to take criticism or opinions without yelling these things. It especially doesn't help when there's those people who just say "no big deal, it's a fuking video game."
When that's not even an argument. That's just plain delusion. Ac games has always had an touch of everything
Historical aspects that makes it feel like we are in history, fiction plots and aspects that made sure it wasn't entirely historical hence the disclaimer for inspired by historical events.
But still can be considered involved with historical assets and aspects cuz it's got locations, figures, time period, architecture.
But nope people just see any and every game as just a video game.
If it was so, no one would be bothering to push feminism or woke ideology or agendas to game.
Sweey baby Inc is even moving towards call of duty which is no surprise
Y’all claiming other people are soft but yall are bitching about a game yall won’t get
assassin's creed in japan came out years ago, its called Ghost of Tsushima
And it just released on pc too!
And it's amazing and is one of the best optimized game's in years it's exactly what you would expect a good AC game to be like.
Just started playing it. It almost brought me to tears how beautiful that game is.
Not just how pretty it looks, but how neatly crafted it is.
The guiding wind is just
😙👌 peak game design.
Whoever thought of that deserves a raise.
Looks better and feels alive than pretty much all the games ive played AND runs smoother.
Idek if I'll ever see a more beautiful game.
Ubisoft need to Get Outta Here! They finally pulled the card everybody has been asking, and now they try to pull a double whammy with having an inclusivity in secluded historic Japan. Now we know how fast and loose ubi plays history, and yes there was a story of yasuke, however it doesn't seem it's being done to stand on it's own merits, making him samurai.
What a fuster cluck.
You know Yasuke is an actual historical figure right? He was brought to Japan originally as a bodyguard by a Portuguese man and he did actually become a retainer samurai of Oda Nobunaga
@@hismajestylordsmenkhare5878 ok sheeitsk1n
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From what I’ve heard and understand Yasuke didn’t qualify as an actual samurai in the traditional sense if at all, he was closer to a servant/pet than a samurai. In order for him to have been an official samurai he would’ve had to have been a noble or a commoner of some significance, which apparently he was neither of according to most sources.
Imo having Yasuke of all people not only be an official samurai as shown in the trailers but also one of the 2 main characters is not only virtue signaling but also pretty much borders, if it wasn’t already, on racism given that samurais are an important part of historical Japanese culture and the devs seemed to have given it to the one foreigner over other Japanese figures or another original character if they wanted, it just feels like they went out of their way to chose Yasuke as a protagonist due to the color of his skin and cause of his vague mark on history with the other protagonist being in a similar situation being that of her gender. Still it’s not like my input matters anyway in the grand scheme of things 🤷♂️
Black Cleopatra.
Black vikings.
Black knights.
Black samurais.
What's next?
Your mom's boyfriend
In the movie The Last Samurai…Tom Cruise was not the last samurai it was Ken Watanabe and his clan as a collective whole
i hate that people are dragging this movie into it. they obviously never watched the movie.
@@nickfry7839 people also forget that its a period drama film, not claiming to be historically accurate and it the story of the movied happened in the 1870s which makes sense because at that point everyone in the fukin world are in the industrial age and trading with each other and the samurais are dying out HENCE the titicular title "Last Samurai".
I think it flew over a lot of people’s heads that the “Samurai” in the title of that film was intended to be plural, not singular. The title is literally referencing the fact that samurai were on their way out.
Still had a white dude co-leading the charge for the final battle of the Samurai against the government, so nice damage control.
@@MagcargoMan yep and its all recorded history with actual pictures of the character that tom cruise played. the movie also went to great lengths to have japanese input into the film, so as not to insult japanese people. this videogame contains chinese buildings in japan, so i doubt the same attempt to not insult the japanese was taken.
Meme: Why are you shitting on my plate?
- How do you know it's a shit? it isn't out yet.
It's like "Rings of Power" all over again, we just know.
"Well, you're sitting on the table in front of me, and you got your hairy ass taking up my entire field of vision and hanging over my plate. You're either gonna shit on my plate or give me the worst lap dance of my life."
So true, I usually like sticking by that saying don't judge a book by it's cover but nowadays there's an exception sometimes, like the new snow white Disney movie it seems to trample over the source material, I can't be bothered to watch the new snow white when there isn't even dwarves like what? 😵💫
@@WIld-cHILd-1273 Indeed
Can't wait to be called Racist for not buying a UBISOFT game, with that price gouging racket...
Oh! It would also have been nice to have a Japanese Samurai, in a game that takes place in Japan, during one of the most isolationist periods in Japan...
Yeah I’m passing on AC: We Wuz Samurais N Sheet.
They wanted to make a black AC protagonist? Set a game in Africa where it’d be more appropriate, but given all the RE5 remake BS they won’t….
"I learned this one unnotable white dude was in Africa during this time period, are you going to make him the protagonist of AC Africa?"
"No, that'd be acist to Africans."
"Oh really?"
África is lame, and even woke activists and black racist KNOW IT 😂😂
Or AC: Sister Wife
Or GTA: Trailer Edition
@@goatslayer3160 African here you assume a lot lol. let me tell you something about having culture. when a foreigner does it its wonderful. everybody walking around with traditional clothes here is fine , but when we see a white man or woman wearing our clothes and talking our language it is very much appreciated and interesting. that being said the japanese have made their fare share of samurai medias (and many of them included yasuke as a samurai, even characters inspired by yasuke are always in samurai gear) white people have also made their fare share of white man in japan, this year alone there was shogun and blue eye samurai both succesful shows. ubisoft might be woke but the disparity between all the media about white man in japan against yasuke is large so there really is no reason to hate on the character. or to say nonsensical stuff like assuming one man can represent what a samurai is
@@mouhaloshogun was an adaptation of a 1975 novel which was based on a real life man who did become an actual samurai where as the guy in ac specifically was only a retainer. And blue eyed samurai was about a half Asian/white woman so even then she is still Asian.
The issue is that every other AC game has had main characters basically from the place they are set in. Where as this game has gone out of their way to subvert that. Yasuke should have been in the game but not the main character. You also have the whole revisionist nature of the beast that's happening on Wikipedia and all over the web to support this fake narrative the game is portraying.
The problem is the Assassin's Creed game set in Japan DOES NOT feature a Japanese man as the main protagonist.
Don't be fooled by X/Twitter narratives.
@@noctotainlowry9246 youre right it doesnt count it has to be BOTH of the same area, this aint modern day america, this is Feudal Japan, last i checked
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@@noctotainlowry9246 snitch on yourself, please elaborate? Im south east asian so i dont understand why my answer is problematic ?
If this was GTA 8 set in modern day america and you play a black man and an asian woman as the lead role wouldnt have a problem, but this is feudal japan, right?
edit: typo
@@noctotainlowry9246 ok, but im not complaining about the woman, what i mean by BOTH is not because of the woman, the guy has to be asian as well
The last AC game I played was Origins. I enjoyed it a lot but it was definitely the start of the microtransaction deluge bs.
Also all of the main playable characters in AC are completely made up characters, so choosing Yasuke as a playable character just scream 'We did this because he's black and we can semi justify it because he was real, even though we're gonna make up a whole bunch of crap to add to his 'story'.
He should have been in the game, but like in Nioh where he's just an interesting side character.
Him being in Nioh still triggered righties though. Playing as a white dude of course didn't bother them.
@@MagcargoMan I don't recall a single 'triggered' person over Yasuke in Nioh.
@@RatchildUK I distinctly remember finding a "We Wuz" comment on a video of his boss fight that had many likes. I will even go try and find the video if you'd like to prove it to you.
@@MagcargoManone comment?? ON ONE VIDEO?? ARE FOR REAL??? 🤣🤣
@@MagcargoManYea people are going to make jokes and references to memes. Big deal.
Do you think this kind of false inclusivity, thats basically insulting to the culture and people, is going to make it better or worse?
Jasuke was born in to slavery and never got out of serving. It's worse he was a running gag for Nobunagas and he was never a Samurai.
Sad thing is, it's still a interesting character. If he actually existed. That's debatable. "There's artwork with him" is not proof.
Just like black knights in Europe. If they existed they would have very been rare, probably not living in England or Wales.
And most accounts are a story and nothing more.
@@James_Bee He was not given land, he was given a place to stay like many other of Nobunaga's servants did. He was just special, as he was tall compared to them and black.
You could show him off, you know how the Mountain in game of thrones always just stood there looking cool because he was a giant. That was Yasuke but a black giant, thats 2 things to show off
Were you there to see him born into slavery? The audacity!
There are a lot of videos in regards to this out there, which shouldn't come as a surprise, from *real* historians talking about it without any bias or political agendas in their mind.
Maurice, the German Black Knight vs Yasuke, the Japanese Black Samurai
He was brought to Japan as a body guard by a Portuguese merchant he wasn't a slave, well as a retainer for Oda Nobunaga he was then kinda a slave as absolute loyalty was demanded
It should also be noted that every AC title before Shadows had non-historical characters as protagonists. They were all made up so that no actual historical person was given ridiculous assassin roles that they never actually did. Can you imagine playing as George Washington in AC3 running along rooftops and dispatching British soldiers with hidden blades and doing parkour stunts? It wouldn’t have made any sense. It was imperative that the protagonists were part of the history and yet completely fictional to prevent the player from having to suspend too much disbelief.
Ive noticed wokes have given up pretending its accurate and now try to justify the game using Nioh , cause it had a white character..dont engage its a distraction technique, stick to ACS
More like they realized that debating chuds on if it is historically accurate is kind of a pointless waste of energy when this franchise has never been about historical accuracy so it doesn't matter much if he was really a samurai or not in our world. Its a fictional world that happens to greatly resemble our own, not actually our world.
But why was it okay when Nioh did it?
@@MagcargoMan Nioh was a Japanese game so if they decided to use a foreign character in their own history, it's up to them; also, William Adams was confirmed to be a samurai and there are far more sources about him. If we're being honest, Yasuke is little more than an historical novelty but they have hugely inflated his importance. It would have made more sense to have him as a side-character like the Indian in Assassin's Creed Syndicate, then nobody would have batted an eye.
@@TheLegendMaster So you just have an excuse, because that logic doesn't suddenly make William Adams a representative of the culture. You're just okay with it because he's white. Same reason you people don't cry about Japanese elements being put into blatantly western medieval fantasy settings while whining about American elements in them, because you all obsess over Japan to the point of worship. White and Japan good, everything else bad.
@@TheLegendMaster So you just have an excuse, because that logic doesn't suddenly make William Adams a representative of the culture. You're just okay with it because he's white. Same reason you people don't cry about Japanese elements being put into blatantly western medieval fantasy settings while whining about American elements in them, because you all obsess over Japan to the point of worship. White and Japan good, everything else bad.
They don't call themselves U-bi-soft for nothing.
Journos try to make it about racism, when it has nothing to do with that. No-one had a problem with the protagonist in AC3 being Native American - because it was in America, during the 1700s. No-one had an issue with the the skin colour of the protagonist in Freedom Cry either.
No one had an issue in freedom cry because it was all about slavery and freeing them, but different skin color for a Japanese game and everyone loses their mind because racism
No one had an issue because they are characters that made fuking sense of the time period.
Adewale, the protagonist of Freedom Cry, is one of the most beloved protagonists in the Franchise as far as I've seen but I think we're racist for not wanting to play with black people IN FUCKING FEUDAL JAPAN.
Those games came out before outrage culture decided that pretending to be fans of a franchise they knew nothing about was a great way to increase the number of things you could be outraged at. A lot of the people I have seen complaining are franchise tourists here on the guided outrage tour who fail basic info checks on things like the main characters of the games and the setting those games took place in. I have seen so many of them say 'you never had a PC go to a country that wasn't theirs before' even though Italian man Ezio and Welshman Edward Kenway both had games set outside their birth countries. Edwards trip over to the Caribbean was even one of the mainline numbered games!
@@mizu7662I'm sure that Ezio's first game (remembering that he has a trilogy) takes place in Italy but I didn't know that Edward was Welsh. His point is still valid anyway.
I just wanted the Protag of the Japanese AC to be a Japanese guy and now im being accused of hating black people. if he was white i would be just as disappointed, however at least in that case it wouldnt come across as more tokenism for DEI points which we are seeing a LOT of and im tired of people pretending thats not whats going on
exactly, people are quick to call the racist card, as a south east asian, why cant an asian AC have both asian MCs and not just DEI checkbox character just for the sake of inclusion
There are two protagonists. He's just one, the other is a legit shinobi/assassin.
So you hate Nioh and 47 Ronin, right?
@@MagcargoMan if i say yes then what?
SBI was previously identified as founded by former Ubisoft employees. It may even still say so on their wikipedia page.
Something I don't think anyone has picked up from this whole debarcle, Oda Nobunaga would NEVER have been an Assassin or affiliated with their organisation, he'd be more of a Templar by far, we could have had an Assassins Creed Japan game about a member of Japan's native people "The Ainu" whos goal it is to prevent the forceful merging of all these territories, sort of Similar to Connor in AC3, native battles Templar regime
Samurai are pretty much the opposite of Assassins.
This was like the perfect opportunity for a story of grey area between the assassins and templars. Like haytham and connor.
BUT HEY, samurai cool, people buy, more money. 🤑
That emoji should be Ubisoft's logo.
Can't wait for the Aztec mongol warrior
This DIE is out of control to the point it causing people overtly sensitive. But always looks on bright sight of the situation which means you shouldn't buy such products
Ubisoft basically made a game about "Da Samoorai" parody character in Samurai Jack 😂
I’d love a straight-up samurai jack game. That’s a palate cleanser
Revelations was the last good AC game. Black flag may have been okay, but it was more pirate than assassin game. Basically pirates in the AC universe. All games after that are just IP bloat.
This is typical Ubisoft Quebec historical revisionism. Unlike the other studios which stick to an amount of historical and cultural authenticity, this studio is known for not keeping to that and using their politics to reframe history. They did this with Syndicate, they did this with Odyssey, it's not surprising they are doing this Shadows.
The hell are you talking about? Assassin's Creed has always been 'historically inspired' instead of 'historically accurate'. Do you think the real Pope Alexander VI was part of a secret society that wanted to control the world using ancient magical technology left behind by a precursor race who made humanity in a lab only to have his dreams shattered when a dude named Ezio beat the shit out of him in a fist fight over control of a magic golden apple?
YT at it's best - "1 comment" - and this comment is deleted or shadow-banned :D
Check the “newest” tab, comments show up there more then the “Top” tab.
I don’t know why that is, it’s annoying AF, but that’s UA-cam for you.
Same has been happening to me since a few months ago.
this has been happening since tr ump won the first time.
Next up: Assassin's Creed - Nigeria where you play as an albino.
they honestly believe they have the moral high ground. It isn't hypocrisy, it's hierarchy.
Keep in mind, they could make a game set in Africa and add all the DEI they want there, but they never do.
Also, it's a trio of white women who are making this game's story to tell people how to minority:
-Brooke Davies - Known for her feminist take on Odyssey, including changes to the Olympics.
-Sachi Schmidt-Hori - Gender studies
-Alissa Ralph - Activist
You people wouldn't buy it even if you bought every other game in the series.
@@MagcargoManyeah. I wouldnt.
Even though Freedom Cry was one of my favourite "Game"s, and Adewale is one of my favourite, most badass characters, AND i enjoyed Aveline's story, even though the game couldve been better.
Go figure out why.
Ubisoft... why? There are only very small accounts of this man existing; his status or anything. You have a ton of historical Japanese figures to choose from. Actual Ninjas/assassins. Fuck me an unknown geisha what had been better. Id play an assassin geisha.
It should be said that the CEO of sweet baby started her gaming career working at Ubisoft as a community manager so that may explain the photo appearance.
I read that the photo is an older one from an international womens day some years ago. So the missing men in the picture don't mean that they don't exist.
Ubisoft is self destructive after all and I stopped after Black Flag(my all time favorite out of the AC games).
Weird trend of trying to make the samurai black, what could it mean?
So a black person cannot be a Samurai? It means what it means unless you have a problem with someone's race
@@Devinci297 historically, no.
@@Devinci297 factually no, unless you get literally even 10% of REAL japanese people to say that a black person can be a Samurai, because its their say, Im not gonna believe it from someone whos not from there, sorry
Yasuke should be better off as an NPC character and Japanese Samurai would have been a better character to play as..
Including playable as Oda Nobunaga.
I hope Japanese game studios should make video game with this period and humiliate Ubisoft.
Check out Ghost of Tsushima, I prefer it over all new AC games
I loved Assassins Creed 2, yes the one with Ezio Auditore da Firenze. And... that's about it, tried a few others but just left me with... meh.
Yeah, aside from all the "wOkE" stuff, the Ezio trilogy will never be beaten by anything new that comes out of the dumpster fire called Ubisoft.
I loved the Ezio trilogy and Black Flag was also incredible. I liked Origins and while many people hated on it, I actually enjoyed Odyssey (people would have loved the game if it didn’t have “Assassin’s Creed” in title).
I don't care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was a black samurai.
I think it's great that they show how D.E.I. is more important than quality. Now i know not to buy.
for the people dei represents, everything has to be authentic for them.but for whites and asians, they have to be replaced for diversity. its a hostile takeover.
Ubisoft: Forward at full power and aimed at a black hole.
A hairy black hole in this case
>Be Yasuke
> Be obtained from someone else like a possession and without any input of your own
> your service only ended upon your master's death
> in one of, if not The, only text that references your existence, you were explicitly referred to as a "black slave"
>Surrender the battle you're in
>flash forward multiple centuries later: black leftists literally celebrate your life as a slave and call people calling it out "racists"
OOF
Every other AC game: A native and culturally relevant protagonist.
AC Shadows: That one black guy in Japan at that one point in history...
We all see it.
The "diversity", the "representation", "the current thing", the timing of it all. It's in everything these days. This social contagion of the woke hivemind.
And we're getting tired of it.
"Every other"
I didn't know Wales was a Carribean island. Thanks for educating me!
There is ZERO evidence that Yasuke ever fought anyone in his entire life, let alone was a samurai who fought in wars.
I have a feeling that Ubisoft planned to have a Japanese Assassin as the main character for AC: Shadows, but then SBI swooped in, replaced the OG writer with the writer who subscribes to SBI’s ideology and replaced the proper Japanese main character with Yasuke, a supposed African man who may or not have existed depending on what you believe.
So you think Metatron is woke liar then? Because he's done two videos about Yasuke.
So he is the Black Gay Non-Binary Afro-Samurai.
I think we all can agree the most egregious thing is that they are using a Samurai in Assassins Creed and NOT a Ninja.
yeah if it was called "Samurai's Honor" id be down with that but as an MC in Assassins creed? questionable at best
The other character is an assassin though.
He's probably on the Templar's side at the beginning (I'm guessing Nobunaga is a Templar), but he'll probably switch sides in the game.
Those who become samurai are given a surname, but Yasuke does not have one. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a farmer, but when he became a samurai vassal to Oda Nobunaga, he was given the surname.
Most historians agree it was extremely likely yasuke was effectively a low ranking retainer who was even recorded as being oda's perosnal sword bearer at some point. Moreover, it should be clarified that there was really no one called a samurai from the period as that term came about later after oda's time.
So far every Assasins Creed game had their protagonist the ethnicity of that specific country where the game takes place. All of them were fictional characters that were behind the curtains affecting or meeting all sorts of historical figures.
AC set in MiddleEast - Altair, a MiddleEast character
AC set in renaissance Italy - Ezio, Italian character
AC set in American war for independence - Connor, part native Indian, part British
AC set in pirate Caribbean - Edward, rouge British pirate
AC set in revolutionary France - Arno, French guy
AC set in industrialized England - Jacob and Eve, British twins
AC set in ancient Egypt - Bayek, north Egyptian Medjay
AC set in ancient Greece - Alexios and Kassandra, Greece wariors
AC set in viking era - Eivor, Viking
Now Assassins Creed Shadows, a game set in feudal Japan, does not have fictional Japanese samurai, but rather this one black dude that every western activists is so obsessed with because he was the first black man to ever visit Japan. Yaees, lets make him our main protagonist and nobody could objectify to this because he was real historical figure. And if people are complaining, which includes the whole Japanese nation, well they are all simply a racist. How dare you to call us out and pointing the hypocrisy by replacing one minority for the other that we deemed more important.
You literally just contradicted yourself with Edward, lol.
Characters have always been a representative of that culture. I’m a white Christian yet I had no problem playing as Altair, a middle eastern man born a Muslim, back in 2007. It was my favorite series for a long time and featured a Native American and prominent side characters such as adawale. Saying fans are racist, especially since origins, mirage, freedom cry, and liberation have released is ridiculous.
Altiair looks super white for an ancient Arab, people complained about Origins and thought the protagonist was black when he wasn't, and Mirage didn't sell well. Freedom Cry wasn't even a mainline game and I'm pretty sure it wasn't big either.
@@MagcargoMan dude quit coping…
“Altair looks super white.” He’s under a hood the entire time so it wouldn’t much matter. Regardless it’s well known he was an Arab. If we were racist we would still have an issue with him. He came back in revelations as a fan favorite and still is.
The hypocrisy when you went to “origins main character looked black when he wasn’t,” right after that statement about Altair haha. You can’t say both. Regardless what you think bayek was, his skin tone was not white. A white racist would not like him. As it stands now, that game was well received and the best of the rpg ACs.
Nobody complained about bayeks skin tone. The complaints were about the gameplay shift and hidden ones implications. Similarly, Nobody complained about Connor’s race in 3 but the narrative itself. Just stop it.
Freedom cry wasn’t mainline. I never said it was. Does it matter? He’s a fan favorite in 4 so… so was Achilles for that matter…
Mirage released after the shit show that was Valhalla. I’m a fan of the series but that game was ass. Not interested in mirage continuing that story and its narrative was equally disappointing from what I’ve seen. Not for a moment did I consider the setting or the leads race as a negative. Stop pretending that’s why it sold poorly…
Do we know that "Yasuke" is the MC or will he be just a guiding NPC for the shinobi chick?
They're both protagonists. Ubisoft is doing another Jacob and Evie thing where you can swap at anytime.
Actually the samurai wore the very traditional Gundam mobile suits in battle, don't let fake/factual historians tell you otherwise.
I’ve been playing the Assassin’s Creed franchise literally since day one. I have all the games in the franchise up until now. This is the first one I’m not buying.
Here's my view. We've already got amazing games where you play as a samurai and a shinobi, Ghost of Tsushima and Sekiro Shadows Die Twice, respectively. If Ubislop is going to bastardize history and push agendas, then I'm going to go play a great game we already have.
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.
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.
Ubisoft is done. They abandoned the AC style for a reskinned GTA. That's what 90% of games are these days. None of them are half as good as GTA, and they lose their own identity completely.
If I was to guess, they chose a black lead to avoid being compared to Ghost of Tsushima.
I only like historical games that represent the time period. I'm definitely not playing this one, but really I've been sick of Ubisoft for a while now
It's like I said on another video on the subject. Shadows isn't Assassin's Creed. They need to go back to Altair and Ezio. Make it the stealth game it used to be. Samurai were not assassins. Ever. And to make an Assassin's Creed game about someone that could never have been an assassin shows just how far Ubisoft has fallen in pursuit of diversity. I will be skipping Shadows for a multitude of reasons, this being just one of the least. The garbage company that Ubisoft has become is the main one.
Me and my wallet had a conversation about it and it's staying closed.
This game will be 60% off three weeks after launch lol
I'm pretty sure that the disclaimer in the original AC game only said the team had various beliefs. They just keep adding crap to it, probably gaslighting themselves into believing they don't live in an echo chamber.
Another problem with the AC games, they are so expensive. I looked back to see how much the last few games have been for the uplay collectors edition that I have that don't seem to exist anymore.
Black flag was 150 AUD, unity 170, syndicate, 190, origins 220 (these were all the exclusive editions with bigger statues etc) then Odyssey 250 (the spartan edition) and Valhalla at 310 (the regular collectors with female Statue) and now the new one is 360... That's some crazy inflation.
It finally happened. Everyones a racist now. Everyone. It was only a matter of time 🤷♂
Here is the usual full support for channel growth.
hi there Shad, are you planning or doing a review for the new Kingdom Come II game trailer?
First game was a blast, I'm really looking foward what they can do now that they have the resources they didn't have 6 years ago....and there you have a great example of a game where the developers told people asking for representation to "f**k off"
Question do we even need this game we have allready the Ghost of Tsushima?
It’s funny seeing ppl call everyone else racist bc they wanted a Japanese male protagonist in a game set in Japan, even if the ppl who are disappointed as Asian themselves
There are a trillion samurai games featuring Japanese mc. AC isn’t the only one in the world and you aren’t forced to play it. It would seem plenty of these people who don’t like AC:S are posing as Japanese and are brigading to make it seem like they have this huge outrage about it in Japan.
@@johnjackson9751You have any proof about people posing as Japanese and complaining?
@@johnjackson9751 That's a reach even while disregarding that the Japanese ratio'd the trailer harder than the english community
One of the best things I like about you is that you stay honest to your true natural self and personality. If you know what I mean. That kind of men are not so many nowadays with that ... lets say freedom of modern propaganda of dehumanization.
I love how this is the one character in the assassin's Creed franchise that is not from the land where it takes place. This is definitely their attempt at diversity more so than giving us an interesting character. To be honest for me the last interesting character was Shay.
Ubisoft tries to get any kind of attention in hope of rising their stock prices. Their stock prices are so low now, if i wait a bit longer i can buy them with my hourly wage of 14€.
But White Samurai was an actual thing, William Adams, an English explorer was given the title of Samurai by that famous Lord Dokugawa for teaching him about the outside world and knowledge since Japan was very enclosed country during that Senkogu Era. Dokugawa greatly respected the man for his teaching and his council, so much so that he refused William's request to go back to England and tried to make him settle in Japan. Meanwhile, Yasuke was a slave that belonged to Italian missionary Alessandro Valignano and just happened to caught Lord Nobunaga's attention because of his appearance and was given as a gift. He wasn't treated as Samurai or given the title. More like close friend and a retainer to Nobunaga. The story of Yasuke being captured by Mistuhide after Nobunaga's death (The general that betrayed and assassinated Nobunaga) and not being executed because Mistuhide said Blacks aren't humans but animals and not worthy of noble death is well known in Asia. Just showing how he was really treated during that time and why Yasuke was so loyal to Nobunaga, since he treated him very differently.
So what about being teacher makes someone a warrior? William Adams slaying yokai in a game makes sense because he was given the title of Samurai for... educating an Emperor about the outside world? Also nice exposing your own racism by making up that quote about what that other guy said about Yasuke. How about you provide a source for it?
@@MagcargoMan Emperor? Dokugawa wasn't an Emperor. Nor Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who united Japan during feudal era, who afterwards invaded my country, Korea. Emperor is not even actual ruler of Japan, more of religious figure. And William wasn't a teacher, but a sailor from England. You don't seem to know anything about Asian history. Shouting racism for quoting historical figure, and asking for source without even trying to do any research on your own. Sounds like typical Western wokist. lol And source? Here they are.
信長公記 and 家忠日記.
@@magos3176 Sorry, I assumed Lord was another term for Emperor in Japan, given that Nobunaga was also known as a Lord. No need to get triggered over it. And a sailor, a sailor who got the title of Samurai for being knowledgable... how does that make Adams a true warrior now? And you posting some words in another language isn't a source. How would a Japanese person even say that when they don't even know black people are a race? Give me an actual source. Link me to a historical documentation of it.
@@MagcargoMan LOL they are the titles of historical documents from Japan. Like what more do you want? And Nobunaga being lord made you assume lord was another term for Emperor? Also Japanese people didn't know about Black people? Yasuke was captured after Nobunaga's death. How many years do you think have passed till then? You really have no idea or care about Japan's history nor about Nobunaga. And yet you are depending woke driven agenda Ubisoft pushes lol And Nioh is high fantasy setting game, not like Assassins creed, where they usually stayed as sci-fi and altered historical genre. Is Shadow another high fantasy game with Japanese yokais and gods? Nope. But they chose black dude that didn't had any influence in Japanese history or culture as the main, instead of actual Japanese people. William Adams even has a statue for his influence in Japanese history. I'm Korean, and if Ubisoft made game about Feudal Korea and had some random Arab dude (since we traded with them before West reached us) representing historic symbol of my country (in this case, it would be 화랑 or 무사 instead of Samurai), I would be pissed too.
@@magos3176 Maybe you should learn English outside of right-winger buzzwords you love spewing. I asked for the source of what you claimed that guy said about black people, not a source about title names. And not many years had passed at all, Yasuke was under Nobunaga's service for less of two years. Considering when he first saw Yasuke he was completely surprised that his skin was that colour and not covered in paint or ink or dirt, the likelihood of some other Japanese guy knowing there's entire lands of people that look like Yasuke is extremely unlikely. And nope triggered one, learn to read again. Nowhere did I defend Yasuke being playable in this game, all I did was point out that you're all hypocrites for being fine with a white sailor being the star of a Samurai action game when he was only given the title of Samurai for being knowledgable, not a warrior. And what impact did he have on Japan? Also are we pretending Assassin's Creed is realistic when we've had a highly-advanced precursor race that predates any real-world society and has borderline-magic technology? Wasn't there DLC in Valhalla about fighting Norse gods?
i am surprised shad didnt comment on the ridiculous black "vikings" in ac valhalla
Haven't played an assassin's creed in so many years, tried black flag way back and got nausea and had to stop playing. My problem is never the race of a character in a game but *why* these developers/publishers are doing it, that's my problem. If this was back in late 90's or early 00's I wouldn't have blinked an eye but now it's different because let's be real they don't care about any of this. It's just marketing, political agendas and what not, It's out of hand. The only thing missing now would be some angry tweets from the developers of the game unless they've already made those insulting the players.
If they want a historical figure as a main character, just imagine if they would choose Musashi or Hanzo or any other big name.
I think no one had any issue with Yasuke being in Assassins creed Shadows its the fact he's an main protagonist with very little historical information. At most he suits more of an side character type, compared to Ezio well written character from beginning to end in the Assassins creed 2, Brotherhood and Revelations.
And yes why the change from the consistency of having a character from the culture having always been the main protagonist.
If they wanted to deviate to try something new they should've made a seperate game about him.
And they definitely made Yasuke main protagonist for DEI.
And as an body shield for their absurd business.
I definitely gave up after Assassins creed unity
Bingo, we dont play historical figures. They help us with our story.
Ah yes, let’s compare one guy that has had three games of character development to one that hasn’t even been released yet.
@@shutit8949 doesn't matter take a look at the consistency of the games.
Assassins creed shadows will flop if you so happy to pay 130 bucks or 18 dollars a month. Go ahead keep feeding them more money. Sweet Baby Inc must be so amazing after suicide squad kill the justice league.
If your gonna not provide any good argument on my criticism and opinion then leave. Countless other youtubers has already talked about this game and already can tell the game isn't gonna perform well and they are influential people.
Yellow Flash 2, Hypnotic and others they podcast talk with.
@@shutit8949 nope, we know Yasuke was a servant and potentially a body guard and not a samurai
We already lost it
Ezio is a completely made up character and an Italian from Italy
@@koreancowboy42 You compared an established character with a character we know literally nothing about. That’s like me saying Ezio should’ve been a side character because Altair had all his character development over AC1. It’s a retarded argument.
I don’t think the game will be good; I’m not going to get it; they haven’t been good since AC 3, and I really don’t care if it will or will not perform well, although it is one of Ubisoft's most preordered games already.
My greatest problem is simple- HOW on Earth is a massive (compared to Japanise people of time) black man is supposed to be an Assassin in Sengoku Jidai Japan?! Last time I checked, assassins are supposed to be stealthy-blend with the crowd, kill so that nobody knows who is a murder, erase alert. Now, can anybody see Yasuke blending with the crowd? Seating unnoticed on bench? And how can ripping posters help, if all bad guys need to do is to warn all their minions to "sound alarm if you see massive Kuro Oni"? Not to mention that everybody would know who is the killer. Yasuke is likely THE ONLY black man in, for example, Kyoto or Owari or whenever they set the game! All would know that he works for Nobunaga?
That's why I like Yasuke in Nioh and Samurai Warriors. He is a warrior there and fights openly on the side of Nobunaga. But an assassin? Can you imagine spanish man as an assassin in Empire of Mali?
Metatron was wrong with his "maybe was a samurai, maybe wasn't" conclusion. No one becomes a samurai in 15 months which is how long Yasuke was with Oda Nobunaga.
oh Shad, your last point you should check who the history expert for AC Shadows is "Sachi Schmidt-Hori" is a gender studios expert who published a book about buddhist priests grooming boys, yep thats the person they got
9:35 They don't just make the Christians evil Templars, they made Christianity an "Apple of Eden" trick.
It's not like he can blend in to the crowd after a mass murder spree. The trouble with choosing a historical character is that they'll now be inserting their own "history" as to his participation in events we know he wasn't recorded to be in. He spent, at most, 3 years in Japan, and was only in service to Oda Nobunaga for a little over a year. I'm not aware of Ubisoft making changes to exact historical events or details we knew of the real-life characters in previous instalments, but they were adding layers to them by suggesting they were all part of a secret war, their contributions not held in records so they could take some liberties.
We have enough records, as written by people that were alive at that time, of how long Yasuke lived in Japan and what his role was in service to Lord Oda. Ubisoft, Wikipedia and Historica Britannica keep marketing him as a legendary warrior, but at the same time Ubisoft's reasoning for using him was that he is an enigma they know little of, and they could embellish and use him however they wish because of his lack of impact in Japanese history. It has created a large swathe of people arrogantly declaring him a true samurai, fighting in battles that he wasn't recorded in, and how other black people became samurai eventually too. None of these people can provide sources and instead resort to the R word, because having constructive criticism of false claims from people that learned history on the back of a cereal box is tantamount to committing a grave sin. I've even had someone argue with me that he was in manga, games and anime as a samurai, and apparently that's proof 🤦♂.
Their reasoning doesn't stand since if they used a fictional character then they would have even more freedom to do what they liked, and Yasuke could have been an NPC that was part of the Brotherhood somewhere in Africa before Jesuits (Templars) captured him and brought him to Japan to force him into helping locate a precursor relic. This could prompt a Dawn of Ragnarok style spin-off/expansion, with some liberties taken around areas not already on record. Filling in the blanks.
We know why they chose to use him, to create controversy. They manufactured this backlash because they knew it would appeal to those that love to just call people out and would buy the game because "muh black samurai", and now it's created a false representation of true history because there are those saying that AC has never been about true historical accuracy and at the same time pretending a historical character was more important than what he really was. Typical corporate BS, and what should enrage everyone, regardless of what side they are on, are the pricing and editions. Paying £/$/100+ for two of the three editions is ridiculous, and for all you get out of it too. Content (quests, armour, weapons etc.) should never be separated from the main game (outside of a later expansion) and then sold separately. That's just pure greed.
the problem is they want to throw stealth and parkour in this version using yasuke, it seems like it's what they've been wanting for since origins - valhalla
Wasnt there an ac game where you play an assassin that defect to the templar side ? I remember it being similar to black flag too.
It's AC: Rouge with Shay Cormac, if it's similar to Black Flag. Those have the same mechanics.
Placed in Japan, Shinobi literally come from Japan, play as a historically recorded foreigner instead.
I wouldn't mind if Yasuke was an important secondary character while we played as a nameless ninja with no historical significance, but you can tell why they did this and it's kinda sad.
Also the fact that people are at keyboard war over this choice while very few people are talking about their sales tactics for this game means Ubisoft's plan is working...
ok the guy existed. but he being Ninja. that is as stupid as use a bright Pink Dodge 1500 Ram as a car for a survileice unit. It´s not like you could spot it a mile away.
He’s not a Ninja
Right
Because assassins creed is famously known for its historical accuracy
Wonder if you guys are gonna have this same outrage if they make an AC about the Japanese samurai in Mexico
Odyssey was actually fun to play through, but still had a bit more grinding and monetized stuff than I want in a game. To me the best AC game was Rogue, which played very similarly to Black Flag with some additional features making it slightly better. You also play a turncoat former assassin instead of a pirate who's a wannabe assassin.
I remember trying to read an AC book about Ezio, and it was bland. Tensions come and are easily resolved, moral dilemmas encourage the wrong type of action, and Ezio always wins because he is Ezio.
I wouldn't have had so much of a problem with Yasuke being a samurai if he wasn't the male playable character. Make him a companion or something!
or make him his own game just not assassins creed
I enjoyed the AC franchise through Black Flag (minus AC3, I did not like the protagonist because he was so BORING). Ubisoft lost me with the Rogue/Unity release.
I didn't have next gen at the time so I got Rogue. For a kid who didn't tend to catch onto the reskin of graphics/mechanics it was so blatantly obvious that it was 1. A reskin of Black Flag and 2. A shorter game sold at full price.
Given what I heard about Unity being a buggy mess & my experience with Rogue, I wrote off the series. None of the games have appealed to me since they went the "RPG" route. I much preferred the story progression of the earlier games.
The drama surrounding Shadows is icing on the cake of why I havent bought an AC game since Rogue 😂
Judge Terpin said it best "Service them well and hold their custom, you will have none of mine."
Black flag was peak assassins creed
Metatron's video on Yaskue is very good.
While there is no doubt that the DEI agenda is at full play here the counterargument from the more extreme commentators on Twitter saying he was nothing more than a "shoeshinner" a "pet" and a "jester" with some claiming he downright didn't exist and he is a complete fabrication for the DEI agenda.
He was a real historical figure and by all accounts a warrior and bodyguard. A quite remarkable and interesting character.
If the main protagonist had been an Asian man and Yaskue featured within the narrative as an NPC that players could encounter, I think the majority of people would have been very happy with that and found it cool.
Couldnt agree more, great video!
Whether Yasuke was a samurai doesn't really matter. That fact is, he wasn't important to Japanese history, being more of an oddity than anyone impactful, and there is barely anything written about him and by all accounts, he only lived in Japan for a year or so - not a lot of time for samurai training when Japanese boys spent 8 years training. From an objective point of view, it doesn't make sense to make him the MC. It only makes sense as a decision to pander to DEI.