Re-writing history to defend assassin's creed?
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He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
- The Ministry of Truth
And he who controls the spice, controls the universe...wait
LMAO! Are you seriously comparing edit wars on Wikipedia to 1984? Jesus Christ you guys are grasping at straws to be victims. How does it feel to know that most sane people now consider people like you to be just as big as a joke as those wokesters that you hate so much?
Satan is the god of this world. A fallen angel runs this prison planet. The humans just make deals with him for fame, fortune and world domination. The hints are in all american pop songs, rapper's lyrics and music videos. Christians have warned you this for years. Time to grow up, accept it's a fallen world, and game the system like Neo in the Matrix movies. (don't trust government, don't trust corpos and only believe what you can prove yourself) These techniques help you call out the BS and then get you targeted by the devil. (which is a sign of masculinity and deserving of respect in God's Eyes because you are giving the Devil the middle finger by rejecting offers)
I am Irish and I was so offended by the blatant anti Irish bigotry that I almost spilled my whiskey 😉😂🤣😂
He's a jammy son isn't he?
🤣🤣
Drinking early today, lol.
If you were really Irish, you would have nearly spilled your Guinness!
With the tears in my eyes, I can barely peel this potato
Hey there mate, cool video! Also thanks for the mention and for watching my content on this. What a mess this whole situation has been. I'm not even nearly done with this topic. You'll see 😅 PS: A part from it all, Assassin's Creed and what not, hell fire should be upon Ubisoft for what they have done to Heroes of Might and Magic anyways. No mercy
Milk that black man, milk him. He is LGBTQ+ after all.😈
Ubisoft was ruining Might and Magic before they bought it! The French translations of the early games (translated and published by them) couldn't be completed because they never could manage to make the text parser riddles work. Once they forgot to change the answer from English, then the next they made it require the French answer but the player couldn't actually accept the accented character and it was totally impossible.
@@kanrakucheese WTF. What a mess. Now I'm curious what excuses they used to that debacle. Is there an in-community nickname for the whole thing? Riddle-gate? 😂
Notice that once again Wikipedia only uses second hand sources to justify the edits. Not a single one of the historical counts being used, just recent articles from literally the same day as the articles being mentioned.
It's not even subtle.
It even has (incorrect) quotes attributed to the wrong source.
e.g. A quote from Lorenzo Mesia attributed to Luis Frois or even Ietada's diary.
And a blatant lie, they say the following is written in the Shincho Koki: "A black man was taken on as a vassal by Nobunaga-sama and received a stipend. His name was decided to be Yasuke. He was also given a short sword and a house. He was sometimes made to carry Nobunaga-sama's tools."
But it is not in the Shincho Koki and the link the article has for the source is just some HuffingtonPost article. I think it's supposed to the Matsudaira Ietada revealing Yasuke's name in his diary but he never said that stuff about a sword or house. Or carrying tools.
@@MustardSkaven you know, I would really like to know were their favourite quote (not) from the Shincho Koki actually came from
@@MustardSkaven I'm Japanese and read the primary sources. There is no words such as vassal 家臣 or retainer 家来.
So English Wikipedia on Yasuke is intentionally misleading. I think the "vassal" word is used by Lockley in his book? He is the culprit of falsifying our history.
@@applesoda6308 Basically most of these false claims all go back to Lockley one way or another.
Everyone referencing Lockley is basically saying "It's not in any primary source but this guy called Lockley does think it's a fact despite the lack of evidence, so we should pretend it's a fact".
@@MustardSkaven didn't lockley himself admitted that there are some parts of his book that were made up by him because there wasn't much info around?
The funniest thing about this whole debacle is that Ubisoft are putting gay romance options back into the series after taking it out for the game set in an Islamic country...
What did Ubisoft mean by this? 🤔
The muslim would have minecrafted them.
You have to ask? Can't offend Islam by implying they would have gay folk.
@@Filthee_casual which gets more fun when looking into how Saudi Arabia is, apparently if men and women aren't able to intermingle, men will turn to other men for gratification... despite it being a death penalty over there.
@@Raximus3000 peacefully, of course
Its also based on which team made what, there are over 4 all rotating to keep the yearly schedule up. This is the team that made odyssey so ya, same bullcrap. Ubi Quebec. Ubi Montreal and Bordeaux make better games, but as a whole the entire company is still going downhill. Same politics, same jank, same microtransactions in SINGLE PLAYER games.
Viking and samurai aren't assassins. The games have fallen so far from the original concept it's sad really
Neither were spartans. At this point they are just using the name.
My brother in Christ there were games about Atlantis and Spartans. But now they go to a time period to show a black guy in Oda Nobunaga’s timeline and this is where y’all draw the line? Assassin’s Creed isn’t some 1 to 1 analogue with history. No one batted an eye at the historical inaccuracies in the movie 300 because it’s not supposed to accurate it’s supposed to be entertaining. Judge the game off the gameplay and if the writing is coherent enough to be enjoyable.
Dude it's called ASSASSINS creed. Not talking about historical accuracies or inaccuracies. You should be playing a rogue type class, not a samurai who fought in the open. They are different disciplines.
@@reallycantwheelie way different considering samurais had no agency cannon fodder for wars nothing more, people mistake them for rogues they were not and 1 word from someone above them and they were finished...it's really not someone I would want to be like at all cool armor and gear yes...everything else no thanks it would be like saying "i really want to be a soldier in the vietnam war" do you really ?
@@reallycantwheelie Many samurai did not fight in open battles. Ninjas were just samurai who were trained in spying. Take Ghost of tsushima protagonist as an example. MAny samurai would just atttack the mongols at night(surprise attack). That was common. The assassin is the female "ninja" but she is pure fantasy with no male counterpart.
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. William Adams was given the surname Miura when he was granted samurai status. Position of samurai existed in the 8th century, and samurai were called bushi, mononofu, saburai, and samorafu.
That is not a 100% thing. There were several samurai that were of lower social status that didn't have surnames.
So after William became a Samurai, his name became William Miura?
They try tk re-write history
Greeks: first time?...
Were greeks really that gay?
@@silverhawkscape2677 NOOOO! JESUS! Quite the opposite in fact, there were insults, hell even nowadays there are or even that is being used as an insult ( it's the equivalent of a white man call a black one the N word)
In fact in places such ancient Athens they might have turned blind eye (rare) and not mock you but in city states like Sparta you would have been executed for treason amongst other reasons (but mainly treason)
Treason because if you were gay you lower the chances of reproduction therefore you conspire against the state by not making more soldiers (men) or women that can make soldiers.
The only ones who support that fictional shit of us being gays are the gays themselves in the hope that other gays form abroad come and find them which never happens, that or because we don't want to be called bigots (and shit like that, personally i don't give a shit)
If nothing else that misinformation from the wokesters cause us problems cause they don't take no for an answer when they come for vacation and hit on men and result to other kind of assaults and the security services and cops are left to do a shit ton of job because of it.
(10+ security services here).
If you ever come to Greece don't ask them if they're gay, you'll most likely wake up like the elder scrolls "oh you're awake" with a black eye.
The only place in Greece that has a lot of gays at modern times and not ancient is Mykonos and that's mostly because the majority is people from abroad
@@silverhawkscape2677 I tried to reply but doesn't appear (as always when I go against the propagandas)
no, not even close.
in fact there were insults about the ancient gay Greeks and in modern day Greece is considered an insult of it's own to be called one (it's like a white guy calls a black guy the N word).
There are very very very few people who might support it and it's either the gays themselves in the hopes someone from abroad comes here and meet them (which never happens) or some people who fear to be called bigots and follow the woke mainstream.
To make things worse it make our jobs (security services and cops) harder because they romanticize those misinformation and propaganda and when they come here and get rejected they don't take it well which results to sexual misconducts.
In ancient Greece in places like Athens you might have been mocked or best case scenario the Athenians would have avoiding you to some extent but in places like Sparta you would be executed for treasons (amongst other things but mainly treason) cause if you were gay you would have lower chances to reproduce, therefore you won't make men (soldiers) or women who would make men (soldiers).
So no, just like Ovid spread lies and ruined our original Greek mythology and turned the Gods into weaklings abominations that commit atrocious acts because he was exiled by the Romans and denied entry by the Greeks, the same thing the LGB or whatever is being called is doing to our history.
My problem with Assassin's Creed is not that it's a black character in a Japanese setting. My problem is that we all know exactly why they picked that character in particular. I'm tired of the hypocrisy and the sheer blatant racism.
Supposedly, insiders to Ubisoft reported that they went out of their way to ensure that they did not have a male Japanese Samurai, so it's very very blatant.
"He who controls the Source controls the universe."--(not) Frank Herbert
"..we work in the shadows" yeah, how does one hide a 5'9" black man in a crowd of 5'5" Japanese? It defeats the purpose of the creed!
the gameplay actually shows that he doesn't its pretty clear that there is supposed to be a big juxtaposition between the stealthy ninja girl and him being a brash samurai
the idea of being bodyguard is also... every high lord would have 10 bodyguards around him. Loyal, trained, have a local knowledge etc.
most likely he was just an attraction with some ceremonial role. I wouldnt be surprised if they gave him a sword and he just looked imposing next to the real rich and powerfull man. it happens atm a lot
The whole bodyguard thing is highly disregarded among actual historians anyways. He was a slave.
Well, we HAVE written documents where it is expressly stated that he received a stipendium.
So he definitly WAS important and influential.
Does that equals him being a Samurai?
No.
And it is documented that he was a retainer, that was NOT the position of a slave. They came from influential families and often became Samurai themselves.
Again: That does NOT equals him being a Samurai.
But it is profen beyond the shadow of a doubt, that he was recognized as a not unimportant figure.
He definitly was NOT just a slave (like the first response stated).
Metatron made two good videos about this topic.
Personally I think he was NOT a Samurai, because the giving of a sword is documented (but the giving of armor is missing, and IMO it would have been there as well if he HAD received armor).
And he survived the betrayal and killing of his master - which is in conflict with the Samurai code.
You are right. Yasuke was by his lord, Nobunaga's side, but he couldn't stop his lord from dying. Nobunaga was abruptly attacked by Akechi's army, and even though the "legendary samurai" was by his side, he had no choice but to kill himself at the burning Honnoji Temple. The "legendary samurai" went to Nobutada's side at Nijo Imperial Palace, but he was unable to protect Nobutada there either, and Nobutada had no choice but to kill himself. The "legendary samurai" was unable to protect anyone, but he disarmed himself, surrendered, and survived. If he had been a Japanese samurai, he would have either killed himself along with his lord, or charged forward with a cheer, prepared to die together. He was not a samurai in the true sense (mentally).
@@wedgeantilles8575 "Important and influential" implies he did something worth recording, though. "Noteworthy" can be said, but "important"? What did he do? "Influential"? What influence did he have? You could write the entire narrative of the Sengoku era, start to finish, explaining every single aspect of every political interaction and every battle that occurred on the entire island and the most you'd get out of Yasuke was, "He was present in one battle, after Nobunaga's defeat." That doesn't strike me as important or influential.
@@Zetact_ Important in the meaning that he got a pension and he got mentioned in surviving historical documents at all.
Which is more than 99,99% of all the people that lived (back then or today) can say and which make him by definition kind of important.
Not important in the sense of "he shaped the world" of course.
My point is: He was not just a slave - which is a spin a lot of people like to tell.
We have 2 categories of people:
One that make him a Samurai
And one that make him a mere slave.
Neither is backed by the historical sources.
3 liberal white women are writing this game with their Sweet Baby Inc. standards to tell everyone how to minority. However, if some white dudes who love Japanese movies make Ghost of Tsushima with great detail and effort...
To add to the three liberal white women, Wasn't there also one liberal historian working on it who specialized in the relationships between Buddhist monks and little boys.... yea...
@@DoomsdayR3sistance She was a Japanese professor, yes. Really twisted stuff
(((white)))
Are they _really_ h00w!te though? Or are they of the tr!be we are not allowed to criticize?
The majority of people know it comes from a place of terrible insecurity.
When you have no culture to pull from, you take somebody else. I'm just surprised it's now Japan that is the next target.
It's not taking culture, it's destroying it. It's why no matter what it is, no matter where it's from, it must be subverted for the message.
It's not even true they have no culture to pull from. There's lot they could do with actual african culture. It's just that they would be uncomfortable trying to be authentic with african culture while being "respectful" of their cherished minority
Probably demand for an assassin's creed game, Japan has it's culture of Assassins and Ninjas to pull from after all. But DEI activists couldn't give the Japanese a decent male Japanese protag, wasn't "progressive" enough for them, so they had to re-write history instead.
So Black people have no culture to pull from?
They've been going after Japan for a long time since they hate successful homogenous cultures.
Anyone willing to rewrite well-established history to meet an agenda should never be trusted. Keep up the good work guys!
reminds me of a line that was going around before. "Don't listen to what they teach you in school, Cleopatra was an Indian man wearing a sombrero"... or it was something absurd like that, which instantly should be dismissed out of hand.
And before anybody comments on it, yes, I know it was "black."
A black man widely used in media and other games that was in Japan got 3 years of training under the nobunaga clan then disappeared to do God knows what since all sources are pure speculation after that and doing a game on that subject is rewriting history ok what ever floats your boat bud 😂
@JoshuaVaughan-pi1sn 15 months. 15 months is the amount of time he was with Oda Nobunaga. He was in Japan for a total of 3 years, with a lot of that being with the Jesuits prior to being introduced to Oda Nobunaga.
Yes, Yasuke is in modern anime and manga, and the occasional children's book... but that's heavily romanticised fiction that's happened over the past 40 or more years. Japanese people still know that he historically was nothing more than footnote in Oda Nobunaga's story.
@@JoshuaVaughan-pi1sn18 months* You've seen the make this 3 you mistake a lot so I thought I'll come in and correct you whenever I see it
Thats basically every victorious faction ever. Yes, even the allies that won WW2. Do you really think they told us the truth about the other side?
Metatron made a great video about Yasuke. Also I think people focus too much on the black samurai and too little on it's another cash grab attempt by Ubisoft.
Yeah well I don't want to be lied to and have my face spit in while my pocket is getting picked.
Or the fact that every single AC protagonist was part of the culture that the game was set in.
I don't have a problem that they picked Yasuke. I have a problem with why they picked him. They will trash history to make themselves out to be heros, while bashing a country's history.
@@Shiftinggers Every single AC game has a completely fictional protagonist. Relegating the actual historical figures as either important characters in the plot (Richard The Lionheart, Leonardo Da Vinci, Goerge Washington, etc) or as cool side characters that add to the culture and history a game is set in portrayed.
Yasuke being playable in a _supposedly_ grounded historical fiction that largely adheres to historical events doesn't sound like a good idea.
@@DJWeapon8 That too. Thanks for pointing it out
Ubisoft basically made a game about "Da Samoorai" parody character in Samurai Jack, then made him a Black Flag without the L. 😂
Foreigners who get Japanese citizenship or mixed race Japanese people aren't and won't ever be truly considered Japanese by Japanese people TODAY, and the left think that Japanese people would accept and do the equivalence of knighting a black person in the mid 1500's (allow him to be a Samurai)? Insanity. There's evidence he was a retainer to Oda Nobunaga, but that in no way means he was a Samurai, or filled any combat role. He could have been anything from a military advisor to a court jester. What's really telling is that despite his completely unique appearance for the time and place, there's almost no records of him other than confirmation that he existed. That alone should tell you he was nothing particularly special other than the novelty of his race, and did nothing in particular to stand out as a retainer to Nobunaga.
But they did make foreigners samurai, not often but it did happen, also Oda Nobunaga was a xenophile and known to not care for tradition. That being said him being a samurai while not impossible is neither proven nor incredibly likely. I think however there are a lot worse and more telling issues with the promotional material.
@@merlinmarten162 foreign samurai are incredibly and extremely rare.
Considering this is a man that expend a ton of time with Nobunaga, that Nobunaga was anything but traditional, that retainer was anything but a 'jester' because being a sword holder was a position of honor, and that yosuke was given land by Nobunaga, this information seems flawed.
@@merlinmarten162 He was made samurai in the same manner as some royals give their dogs titles. Obunaga wanted this curiosity around and with that he might as well do something useful, like carry his arms. But to be retainer for someone as high status like Obunga, you could not be a commoner, so there you go, Yasuke was made samurai. He had nothing else associated with title, like lands or castle, it was purely nominal title.
@@andresf.7563 We don't know how much time he spent with Nobunaga. We don't know anything about him, and even if we did know for a fact that he 'spent a lot of time with him' also tells us nothing about who he was or what his role was.
Rewriting the history to promote corporation merchandise sounds like top Dystopian Cyberpunk.
Imagine using a random black guy as a means for freedom of writing, as opposed too...
Just making a new character with unlimited freedom of writing?
You mean the thing they did with every Assassin's Creed protagonist up until this one? Which begs further questions...
Why the change?
They did write a new character that has unlimited freedom for writing , lmao there are 2 main characters
But it's a woman so it doesn't matter @@zayhardison2697
@@zayhardison2697 Which still begs the same questions, why are they using a historical figure for an MC when they haven't done that before in any AC game.
Sad part is before this, the protagonist was going to be a monk turned assassin, that could've been their chance to go back to the whole assassin part of the game.
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The issue is, Yasuke was there during the Sengoku Jidai when Western Influences were invited to gain advantages in war. Christianity and weaponry. As such Nobunaga may have been actually more open to him. How this translates beyond retainership is another question.
The massive backlash and end to the open Japan policy of Nobunaga began with the pro-Buddhist stance after his death and the later isolation after Hideyoshi died under Tokugawa.
Whatever "supremacy" build towards the Meiji restoration and WW II has nothing to do with the Sengoku Jidai.
We don't argue that Magdeburg 1619 was "racist" and had to be purged by the church for German warcrimes 1940. That's weird.
Technically the Irish were not considered white until the early/mid 20th century. Passenger manifest as late as the late 1800s show Irish listed as “colored” as they were not considered Caucasian because they were not Anglo/Saxon, Nordic or Western European derived Brits.
Wikipedia before editing said he was a Samurai! I read it there around 2-3 years ago when first learning about Yesuke! It was then edited to say he wasn’t Samurai, then edited back!
It’s really irrelevant because the word Samurai isn’t even used often in 15-16 century Japan!
If Yasuke were a Samurai, he would have been obligated to commit seppuku with the rest of them. The mercy he was granted a Samurai would never be insulted with. A Samurai would just as soon die than surrender his sword. Yasuke spent less than two years of his life in Japan. He was banished because they deemed him like an animal and not Japanese which in their words basically means subhuman
yeah you do know that those groups are the villains in the game right?
are you trying to argue that being evil racists is considered a good thing?
Yasuke is literally fighting against the shogunate how can you be this dense?
this is like saying the slave holders in Roots where correct about treating africans as cattle. what the hell is wrong with you dude
So Greeks wanna have a talk?
I can just imagine all the Japanese people lining up to touch Yasukes hair😂
"ooh, its so curly"
Yasuke was involved in one (1) battle and surrendered.
Ubisoft: "LEGENDARY SAMURAI, SAVIOR OF JAPAN"
yeah thats literally how assassins creed always worked. remember when Leonardo made literal fucking working tanks? or how Ezio punched the real historical pope half to death after he used the magic future staff?
@@joedatius The difference here is Ezio isn't based on a real person. No Assassins Creed main character is. Da Vinci was a minor character in the game and an inventor in real life so some liberties being taken for gameplay reasons is ok.
The only reason Yasuke has 3 sentences about him in history is because of his skin color. He did nothing of note and surrendered in disgrace in his only battle. He wasn't even deemed worthy of being given an honorable death so he was shipped to India instead.
It would be like if in AC3 instead of Connor they made a real person the MC. In real life this person contributed in no way to the war but in game he was made the legendary savior of America during the revolutionary war. It would be stupid to rewrite history that way, just like Ubisoft is doing with Shadows rewriting a disgraced loser as a legendary warrior who saved Japan.
It's also funny seeing as how #stopasianhate was predominantly from Asians randomly being assaulted by black people and they have Yasuke slaughtering the Japanese(to save them, apparently), and even gave Yasuke a stereotypical hip-hop theme. This is probably the most racist AAA game in recent memory.
@@ZeredHeizien Da Vinci is a real person so why is it okay to make up fake stories about him? or you know literally ALL OF THE HISTORICAL CHARACTERS IN THE SERIES.
have you ever even played the games? last i checked the pope never used a magic space staff
Oz should call it ROMANCING sheep
I do like how Shad keeps point to Metatron, because there's a lot of people in comment sections pretending to be historians, when Metatron actually is one.
Greetings from germany, Shad and friends:
I find it interesting that in the german wikipededia there is no mention of the word Samourai im combination with Yasuke himself. Meaning the article does not even ask the question weather he was a Samorai or not. It is not even mentioned that he might have/could have been one. It just sais "Gefolgsmann" (retainer) or "Waffenträger" (weapos carrier). No mention of Samorai what so ever!
there are only 2 known documents that "mention" yasuke, these are not documents "about" him, literally he was mentioned in 2 documents, and the only sources these woke mob are sourcing are a 400 page fictitious novel written by a white guy. from what these real documents say we can gather that yasuke was bassically a bit taller than japanese people, and nobunaga only kept him around because he thought someone with black skin was hilarious
edit: and yes, the motivation nobunaga had to keep yasuke around was actually racist, he was seen as a novelty by nobunaga, something to show off and chuckle at,these woke people really latch on to current ideologies but the reality is yasuke was a glorified sideshow exhibit
what is your point? he's still a historical figure. AC have literally always been about taking historical figures and changing them to fit the story.
do you think the apple of eden is real?
there are literally in game explanations how history in the AC series is covered up and what they do in game is the "real events"
its called fiction dude.
not only that but if Yasuke was just so unimportant then why is he in so many actual Japanese games? and anime, and manga, and tv shows.
he was in fucking Nioh 2 for gods sake that was just a few years ago so why where you not crying then?
@@joedatius true, but the reality is, how the fuck is the only black guy in japan going to be stealthy, hes literally the most noticeable person in the country
@@kevinmorrice by not being stealthy? the entire point of the game is that Yasuke is not stealthy and is the combat focus character while the other character is the stealthy one.
like the game literally answers this question in the first gameplay trailer that shows that Yusuke is easily spotted in public due to being black
@@joedatius ah yes, a combat heavy focus in a game series with a focus on stealth and thinking
Nioh already did Yasuke better: He's just a random boss who came back to Japan in the employ of the guy trying to resurrect Nobunaga because Nobunaga treated him relatively decently and he's still loyal to that. He comes "back" in 2 (it's a prequel) where he's just a guy you duel as an optional boss because Nobunaga thinks it would be cool to see his giant black guy henchman fight his half demon henchman.
its so fun catching people in absurd lies. nice try but in the cutscene its explicitly said that Nobunaga in Nioh 2 freed Yusuke and that he fights the protag AFTER Nobunaga died. there is literally NOTHING implying it had anything to do with wanting to see a giant black guy fight someone.
why did you lie about that? are you just racist or something?
"We wuz micks"
Is the correct term for mocking the Irish.
Ahh yes assasins creed the historically accurate story where YOU HAVE A MAGIC FIGHT WITH THE POPE AND LEONARDO DA VINCI MAKES WEAPONS FOR U
They are probably pushing it so hard because William Adams aka Miura Anjin was actually made a samurai and it makes them feel insecure.
I'll say this because no one else would all of this started when some white guy(Thomas lockley) wrote a book and now everyone on every historical channel on UA-cam treats it like historical facts when it was only based on three to four lines in a actually historic record
We've seen Ubisoft's approach to history. Whatever the truth is with Yasuke, they'll get it wrong on purpose.
Yasuke was a slave who was killed for raping a child. This is fact.
Haven't watched you guys in a month or so and Holy shit! OZ!! Great to see you my dude!! Glad you're back!!
Yall didn't play nioh 2 did ya? I know they aren't a historical lyrics accurate series but in that game yasuke was odas bodyguard. It's been done before! 😂😂
There is that one shot in the trailer with the little kid staring at Yasuke in awe in the street. I think that's the only shot where Yasuke is just chilling, actually; every other shot he's either in battle or having a conversation/showdown of some kind. Not that that makes any of this better or ok, but I just had to be fair and point out that they DO, in fact, show people staring at him at one point 🤷♂.
Yasuke, Nobunaga's sword-bearer, much like how "Saru" Toyotomi Hideyoshi was his sandal-bearer. The former seems to not have carved his name onto the violent history of Japan, while the latter has gone up to even being Imperial Regent.
Hoplite, Viking, and now Samurai. All we're missing are a Roman Legionary and knight, but washed with divestity all over them...
Yeah, a few years back I studied in Tokyo, the metropolis of Japan with the highest percentage of foreigners and guess what - I was still a unicorn, being a pale ginger and taller than half the Japanese. People, especially children, were staring a lot out of curiosity and some people even avoided me (2 or 3 elder folks). :D In no universe would a black lad in Japan be just overlooked like that, particularly in that time period. :D
One of the the biggest complaint from assassin's creeds longtime fans is that whenever historical character appeared in the game they were always a companion side character who may have helped your story go along but they were never the main character.
And it was a clever choice, that allowed them to play with these character reputation and linked their scenarios with History without contradict it.
Even if we know very little about Yasuke (probably because he never did meaningfull thing while he served Nobunaga), their scenario will surelly contradict the sources and the assumptions we can make with them.
Wether he was a simple exotic curiosity or a samurai of Nobunaga, he wouldn't have the liberty to do half of what the scenario of ACS has planned.
The thing about Historical Characters is that they are well known, Yasuke is barely a footnote on the actual historical character, that being Nobunaga.
@morgancallewaert6165 You still missed the entire point. None of the AC's main playable characters have been historical in any way whatsoever. There would have been minimal problems if he were a primary side character.
That has never been a complaint.
It worked to the game's ADVANTAGE. I've literally never heard anyone complain the main character wasn't a real person.
@haku8135 I think you misunderstood what I said. The complaint right now for AC Shadows is that it is a major departure from that practice. Even in the other games, when you came across an obscure historical figure, they still kept them to companions or a one off cameo.
I do think it is funny that jazza took a sponsorship for AC: shadows
To be fair, China was pretty awful to Japan in the past. It doesn't excuse Unit 731 at Nanjing, but to say this was an isolated incident would be to excuse humans being humans in historical conflict.
Aussie stereotypes, they seem to like their Armour.
If they made William Adam’s a samurai then It’s possible.
I'd bet he doesn't even appear in this entire game. They probably credit his accomplishments to Yasuke actually.
@@haku8135 Yasuke waS there before Adams, so I'd be surprised.
▪︎ Yasuke was in Japan for 15 months
▪︎ William Adams was in Japan for 20 years
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▪︎ Yasuke:
• Didn't speak Japanese
• served Nobunaga as a 'Koshō', which is the equivalent to a ''page''
• sold back to the Jesuits, after Nobunaga 's death
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▪︎ William Adams (Miura Anjin)
• Spoke fluent Japanese
• Became a Samurai in 1604 (arrived on Japan in 1600)
• Was also given the title of 'Jikatatori Hatamoto'
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▪︎ I read this info. in books and articles about Samurai (& Japan's history)... also saw a few documentaries.
▪︎ Unless you're going to accuse Japanese people of being liars.
@@tatianaoliveira2191 William and Yasukes situations are in no way comparable. William was a diplomat who never saw combat and who's major roll was that of a businessman.
Yasuke was in the service of a lord during a short period and actually fought in combat. also he was sent back to the Jesuits he was never "sold" to them.
Yasuke also never had to chance to learn much Japanese but he could speak some of it. can you speak fluent Japanese if you only lived there for a year?
Ac2 and black flag were amazing to play. I miss those games.
Dammit, I love that end so much. “Wakanda sounds like a Japanese weapon”, hard cuts “stay on watch”. 😂
In yesterday's video Metatron started saying that Oda Nobunaga was a free thinker, an anti-traditionalist, so he could have made Yasuke a samurai if he wanted to, despite the xenophobia of his people. Even though in another video on Yasuke from a long time ago Metatron stated that "samurai" as a title wasn't even used at that time and became a thing only 20 years later. So even Metatron can't maintain consistency in this debate, while trying to appear neutral.
He also mentioned that in his video 10 days prior when going over the trailer. Also explaining why he continued using Samurai as a term after. Did you watch that video?
@@justadude3789 Probably, as well as many other videos on this topic, but I can't recall rn if and how he explained using it. Maybe it's legit and I'm wrong.
But there's another inconsistency in yesterday's video which can't be explained by "convenient terminology" or smth. Metatron addressed the point about surname and stated that it was not a necessary attribute, and there were many unimportant, not-powerful, low-ranking members of samurai class without one (unfortunately, no examples from any source, but let's not doubt him there).
Then he talks about how Nobunaga was likely friends with Yasuke, and definitely enjoyed his company and had long conversations.
Now, Japanese people in the comments regularly point out at Toyotomi Hideyoshi in this regard. Who was a lowborn person, became Nobunaga's retainer and the carrier of sandals, then got elevated to samurai rank and was given a surname.
So, the implication here is that Nobunaga, who gave such an important status symbol as a surname to a former peasant, the carrier of sandals, at the same time demonstratively left his good friend Yasuke, the weapon carrier, supposedly so much admired by Nobunaga for his unrivaled strength, uniqueness and conversationalist skills that he (allegedly) got elevated to samurai within a year after their meeting, without a surname? Even though it would mean treating Yasuke as some washed-up, low-rank, penniless samurai, or even a simple bushi?
I mean, who knows, but if you're to provide more ground to the woke mob's talking points (when applied to Yasuke specifically and not in general), you gotta give some explanation to the logic behind such an obvious mismatch.
Apologies for lotsa text.
@@Tallorian it's alright, got to substantiate what you say means you can be long winded sometimes I get it.
Here's the thing I'm no expert so I'll just ask. Did the sandal carrier turned samurai automatically get a surname with the position?
Do you not have to further earn it afterwards?
If that is the case would Yusuke have had the time to prove himself before Nobu died.
If not who says Nobu didn't want to give Yusuke a surname but a number of factors got in the way. Like the decision to make him a samurai already being controversial so Nobu had to diplomatically go for a middle ground approach.
There are many reasons why Nobu might've given one "knighted" servant a surname and not another.
Again I'm not an expert or even particularly knowledgeable on the subject these are just questions I'm asking to dig a bit.
And as for Metatron I truly think he puts the truth above supporting one side over another. And I think he'd agree that he could've qualified that statement you pointed out better.
@@justadude3789 That's exactly my point - I'm also no expert, and despite some surface knowledge of Japanese language and history I'm not qualified to make any statements on this topic. Therefore, I also have to rely on others in bringing to light authentic Japanese sources and finding examples supporting one theory or another. And I would love to see Metatron dig much deeper than he did.
But I'm afraid Metatron is losing it, either because he doesn't want to go in too hard fearing demonetization once again, or because in his quest for neutrality and impartiality he forwent his own methods. Remember, in the video on "black Cleopatra" he said that even when there's no 100% material evidence of some fact, the next most academic thing would be to use Occam's Razor to remove the less likely assumptions and embrace the remaining one as "most likely the truth" (until some new evidence emerges).
Thus, it's not like "oh, we don't have any explicit mention of Yasuke being or not being a samurai, so it's 50/50 probability of either". And using Metatron's own previous example, I think in this case he should have examined what is more likely:
- that in less than 15 months or so after meeting Nobunaga this foreigner Yasuke impressed everyone/proven himself so much that he was elevated to the top of social hierarchy of Japan; or that he was given a stipend because he had no income of his own, and as a retainer at ruler's court had to maintain certain quality of life?
- that he was given samurai rank because he was so much liked and admired by Nobunaga, yet did not receive a surname, even though Nobunaga is known to give surnames to other promotees (as was the one who gave the name "Yasuke" to begin with); or that he wasn't promoted at all?
- that he was recognized as a warrior and went to battlefields as a fully armored and armed combatant despite the lack of evidence about him being trained in Japanese warfare in that very short time he spent at Nobunaga's court; or that he wasn't seen as a full-fledged warrior, being granted kosho title as a justification for his closeness to Nobunaga, and perhaps in recognition of his raw physical strength?
etc. etc.
Unfortunately, not only these probabilities were left not analyzed by Metatron, but many other deep-dive questions remained unanswered (e.g. are there examples of the stipend sometimes being granted to non-samurai - kosho or bushi or any other?). And that indeed includes your question of how the "surname matter" was normally handled for retainers who got elevated personally by their lord - I'd also like to know if Toyotomi Hideyoshi's case (a really famous figure in Japan btw) was an exception or a norm, because it would bring us closer to the truth.
And I'm not saying that Nobunaga couldn't have had intentions to make Yasuke a proper noble warrior and vassal lord over time. Maybe if he lived for longer we'd see Yasuke getting a surname, and a castle, and a family, and making a name for himself in the battlefield. But Nobunaga died too soon, so those things are in the realm of "what if...".
One might say, Metatron's giving too much leeway in this topic because it's just a work of fiction, unlike the Cleopatra "documentary". But the problem with this work of fiction is that it tries to use "historical accuracy" as a shield against criticism for their choice of protagonist; and that supporters of this choice are actively trying to re-write the actual history. And as someone from a country whose history is frequently re-written, twisted and lied about in the West for political and ideological reasons, I very much relate to the Japanese who get upset with what is going on.
Anyway, thank you for the conversation, I really appreciate your thoughtful contribution. Many people don't have the patience to read, think carefully about or ask keen questions when it comes to history. But it's something you can't TL;DR in search for quick and simple answers.
@@Tallorian the only part I think I really disagree with you here is Metatron "losing it" in fear of demonetization or trying to be fully neutral. Neutral in the sense he doesn't want to pick sides. Instead I honestly think he presented the truth as he sees it. Giving his reasoning and evidence no matter which side it helps or harms.
And with your point on his position on Occams razor I thought he pointed out his use of "indicators" and it's use in history as evidence. In the Cleopatra debacle there wasn't a shred of evidence (such as indicators) that that was the case. The best "evidence" being speculation on a part of her ancestry. However we literally have no way to prove or disprove it thus we go with Occums Razor.
With Yasuke however, though not explicitly stated that he absolutely is or isn't a Samurai there are multiple indicators that point to both. In that case Occums Razor doesn't really apply, as depending on the persons "simplest answer" we would get people saying either "he most likely was, so we'll say he is" or "he most likely wasn't so we'll say he wasn't." Really at this point the most honest answer is "we don't know" which is a perfectly fine conclusion to come to in the sciences/intellectual studies.
They're trying to make a claim due to absent information. When they say, "Nothing says he wasn't a samurai" is a stupid notion because why would you ever specifically say some foreigner was never part of a prestigious social class? That would be redundant and it's kind of obvious that a foreigner wouldn't be one. If he actually was made a samurai, it would have been recorded down and they would have made a big deal of it, but they didn't because it didn't happen.
Could've made a game set in Ethiopia. Such an overlooked historical country.
They’d boycott it too! It would be seen as pandering. They should just leave black characters and histories to us Africans.
Even if Yasuke was a Samurai, he wasn't Japans top Samurai. I believe that Honour belongs to Musashi Miyamoto.
Yasuke was sort of like a squire (sword bearer for Nobunaga), so if our western understanding of samurai means "knight", then no.
Oh boy. here we go. For one no history is not actively being changed to where Yasuke existed, there is Evidence but its very scant. but as a japanese historian there was a 50/50 chance he really did exist.
I think it's less his existence that bothers, more that they're taking a guy who's life was mostly an interesting footnote and blowing it into he's a major historical figure and hero.
@@amyb.6368 ohhhhh, thank you I see that is a little off, but its fiction so hey who cares I say
@@amyb.6368 in what way is that a bad thing? AC does that with countless characters.
4:46 They get the bad rap because they're the manliest of them all.
Having a fist fight with the Pope: passes the historically accurate test
Having a black samurai who may or may have not been a samurai in resl life: wooo dAtS wOuKe
😂😂😂😂
Sad that wikipedia became woke, hope it will heal some day.... it was never perfect but it was still awesome imo, in the past
They did the meme. Ubisoft did the meme.
Does assassins creed revelations count as having a chracter of the same culture?
Ubisoft stop caring about historic autenticity by the Time of Valhalla, I dont understand why people are so surprise now.
I am surprised Shad didn’t also mention the rumour that he will also be depicted as being gay as well. Imagine that a 6 foot tall black gay samurai in 16th century Japan… makes total sense 🥴🤣
Yasuke's achievements:
■ When the Akechi forces attacked Honnoji Temple, he ran to Nijo Imperial Palace to inform them of the Akechi attack (Oda Nobunaga took his own life at Honnoji).
■ He defended Nijo Imperial Palace against the Akechi forces but was defeated (Oda Nobunaga's legitimate son, Oda Nobutada, took his own life).
■ Surrendering his weapons to the Akechi forces, he voluntarily surrendered and was captured, then released without being "treated as a human."
Despite being by the side of the lord and his heir, he couldn't protect both. He was released by the enemy without being treated as a samurai, yet he faded away without avenging his lord. Such a shameless legend of a samurai! He couldn't protect the lord and the heir he served by their side. A true samurai would have cut his belly and died. Since he didn't commit seppuku, he wasn't a samurai. He was just a "foreign guest" with no surname, territory, or vassals.
how the hell was he supposed to protect Nobunaga from an entire army? also he wasn't his sole protector in any way.
this is like saying Hannibal was a "shameless legend" because he couldn't magically fight all of Rome on his own. what type of mindset are you even on?
also he was just a retainer why would he have territory? literally none of this is about Yasuke being this overlord super samurai.
@@joedatius
1......The Samurai View of Life and Death
The loyalty of the Samurai is quite different and alien to that of the West.
They serve their lord and die for him.
Since their lord's position guarantees the position of themselves and their family (clan), it is their mission to protect their lord at the risk of their lives. It is not your life alone.
If the mission was not fulfilled, the samurai would have suffered great shame. The shame could only be resolved by death. There was certainly a terrible sense of ethics in those days. We can find many such records in the Warring States period.
a) Sample 1: Drama SHOGUN
Have you seen the drama SHOGUN? That drama was somewhat exaggerated, but this time Hiroyuki Sanada's supervision made the representation relatively close to the actual samurai image.
There is a scene at the beginning of the first episode in which Ishidou, a sworn enemy throughout the series, tries to humiliate Toranaga, one of the main characters. Toranaga was suspected of rebellion by the Dairōshū, who held the real power of rule, and was being questioned in public in the audience chamber. Unable to bear such a situation, a samurai vassal of Toranaga drew his sword and attempted to slay Ishidoh in protest. But his protest was a big problem. It was absolutely unacceptable for him to interrupt a conversation between two senior Grand Elders of far superior rank, break the silence of the audience hall, and point out Ishidō's actions as a mistake. When he was rebuked by his lord Toranaga, he admitted his guilt and personally offered to commit seppuku and sever his family.
As a result, the samurai was punished by having his entire house (clan) erased. He committed seppuku (suicide) and his son and heir, a baby, were also executed together. This kind of punishment is called "O-Ie-Toritubushi (clan annihilation). This is a harsh punishment in which the children of the clan's heirs are also executed, making it impossible for the clan itself to continue to maintain its existence. This may sound insane to modern people, but this was indeed the practice in samurai society.
b) Sample 2: Ako Ronin
Even in the Edo period, this "O-Ie-Toritubushi" occurred. The famous historical story of the 47 Ako Ronin in Japan is also about samurai who were dissatisfied with the Ako clan's "O-Ie-Toritubushi" punishment and sought revenge against the feudal lord who had caused this situation. Incidentally, the lord of the Ako clan committed seppuku on the same day the incident that triggered it occurred.
2……Was Yasuke shameless in?
The point you're making is this:
'You condemn him as shameless simply because he couldn't fight an entire enemy army by himself?'
My response to that is this:
'If Yasuke were a samurai, then he would indeed be a shameless person.'"
As I have already explained, there is no life for a samurai or a clan without the life of the lord.
If a samurai is truly loyal (yes, if he is a samurai), he is expected to protect, fight, and die for his lord on the spot, using his own life as a shield.
Is it insane? Indeed. It is an insane, barbaric, and crazy thing to do. However, the warring states period of that time was dominated by such an insane ethic. As a matter of fact, the same ethics prevailed even after the war ended in the Edo period.
At the Nijo New Palace, where Yasuke is said to have stayed, Nobutada Nobunaga's heir was present. He too was the target of an attack by the Akechi forces, who holed up in the Nijo New Palace to intercept the rebel army. However, the battle was poorly fought, and defeat was inevitable. Nobutada chose to die, and some of the Oda samurai who had followed him also committed suicide.
The samurai who followed him were ashamed of their failure to protect their lord's trueborn son, and took responsibility for it. Many others fought and died to the last, even though they knew that resistance was futile. At Honnoji, Mori Ranmaru, Oda Nobunaga's minor retainer (a follower but also officially a samurai), fought and died at the age of 18 against Akechi's forces to shield Nobunaga. 18-year-olds fought and died with such determination.
On the other hand, what happened to the black man, estimated to be 25-26 years old and said to be of strong physique, who is referred to as a "legendary samurai" in Lockley's book? He laid down his arms and surrendered.
He was captured by Mitsuhide Akechi and sent to the Jesuit Temple as "not worth killing. He was saved because he was not treated as a samurai.
3...... Were there Samurai who did not have a fiefdom?
Simply put, they existed. They are called Go-ke-nin.
You can understand it to mean something like "one who can be used by the family".
The reason why I mentioned the presence or absence of Yasuke's fiefdom is because it was easier to understand compared to the example of Anjin Miura (William Adams). He was taken in by Tokugawa Ieyasu as a Hatamoto (a samurai directly under his command) and given a fiefdom and its people. I often use this example because it provides a very clear contrast when explaining what a samurai is.
There is no official record of Yasuke being called as a go-ke-nin.
This point of whether or not Yasuke was given a fief is of little significance, but conversely, if there had been a record of Yasuke receiving a fief, it would have been strong evidence that Yasuke was a samurai. "
Postscript:
Paradoxically, he could not die protecting Hidetada at the Nijo New Palace. That is why I am saying that Yasuke was not a samurai.
You are right, a person with very ordinary Western ethics would fight to protect himself, but when his life was in absolute danger, it was a rational decision to lay down his arms and surrender on his own. Even I would do so. But if he had been a samurai loyal to the Oda family, he would never have done such a thing.
He was just a civilian who got involved.
Personally, I consider him a very pitiful person.
Such communist action on behalf of a video game. How about that.
Haha😂 the sober viking joke was great
we invented sushi and sheeeeeeit. And the DEI black wash continues.
It's true! Vikings get a bad rap because of all the kiIIing and graping and pillaging, but it's only because we were so good at it 😞
Thanks for speaking up for the marginalized and silenced voices.
- best regards, a Dane
Wait.. changing history? It very weird.. most places i look in America show that he was 5 ft 9.. there was a Japanese scholar and a European scholar.. both saying he was 7 ft tall. The European scholar mentioned in a book. So the question is which one is true and which one is false... Who's changing history really... The more I read this book.. it starts to seem like someone change history from back then ..
I share the exact same pedigree as Shad although more Scottish. Can confirm very white.
a Fake Artist discussing a Fake Game... oh the times we live in
We Wuz Samurai's
Yasuke isn't just black he's gay and black. Black gay samurai, virtue signal overload.
Honestly, Yasuke being in Shadows isn't the issue, it is the fact that he is one of the two playable characters. Not only due to the cultural thing like you mentioned, but also because the Assassins are supposed to be generally inconspicuous people, which Yasuke is not. In fact, the developers even said that he doesn't have access to some of the stealth mechanics and is more combat focused, which raises questions about how the game is actually going to play.
Are they going to the use the RPG style gameplay that they've been doing for the last 7 years that the fans have complained about or are they actually listening to the fans and going back to the old mechanics like Mirage did? Because if it's the latter, they will have to have a combat system that makes sense for Yasuke rather than the standard combat system, and if it is the former, then they are just proving that they don't give a crap about the fanbase and that Mirage was an exception.
*Puts down my beer to furiously type how offended I am about what you say about the irish* 🤣
He historically has a wife and kid.
😀So in Assassins Creed Japan I get to play as a Ninja? 🥷🏿
👩🏽💼No, you play as a Samurai,
😕Huh?
👩🏽💼Who is also Black,
🤨Whut?
👩🏽💼AND GAY!
🙄Wait, why am I not playing as a Ninja? Shouldn't the Samurais be the Templars instead of the Assassins?
If so historically accurate they are, why filled with historic discrepancies?
Wait a minute. Hol up. They called the Assassin’s Creed game about a nog Shadows?! Bruh. Homey. How is that okay?
We wuz kangz n sheit my dawg.
If you're black in Japan TODAY people stare at you. We had a field trip from NZ when I was a teenager and there were heads sticking out of every window. Im not even black black, I'm Maori lol
the biggest issue for the IP is the fact that this is the only time the protagonist, or one of them, has been a historical figure. every other time, it's been someone of historical fiction so they can write them however they want to make a historical fiction story of them interacting with some real people and some that are just as fictional as they are. this time, they went woke and took a person from Japanese history that did very little and chose to make him way more important in their story. i'd have been totally fine with this character as an NPC that assists you in a quest line or something. then you have the gender bent ninja, who is the fictional daughter of who people will actually care about just so he can say she's basically better than him. not to mention, these two working together is um a bit odd since Nobunaga was the one who slaughtered this clan, in history, so her working with his um jester turned murder samurai is dumb. the funniest thing Ubisoft is getting wrong is like the architecture and the seating arrangements in ceremonial settings, like the architecture is more like China or mainlandy and Yasuke being where he was would not happen in that meeting if he's a samurai. the level of historical inaccuracy is silly, they decided they needed some diversity Sweet Baby Inc consulting but didn't need actual Japanese cultural/history experts and they refused to take a payed vacation to Japan for more research.
Tom Cruise was "The Last Samurai" (Japan) Matt Damon offended China.
Shad, please react to Elder Scrolls Online High Isle trailer. We need a breakdown of the Nameless Knight's fighting style! Pleasee...! 🥺
I have watched so many fan videos of that trailer with different music haha.
Favourite one is freebird
Make bets people, which of these two characters is going to make people mad because they have kids?
I love your videos very good
Here is the usual full support/engagement.
I’m just happy it’s being talk about after they disrespected the Greeks and then my Scandinavian culture completely shat on I’m done with assassin creed I’m play kingdom come
Surprisedly right now I’m playing an arch where I have to pretend to live as a monk as I try to figure out who I’m supposed to kill and live a day to day life as a monk with a set schedule while trying to find things in the monastery to do it with and as I’m sitting here as I play why
Why can’t assassin creed do this I swear if they wanted to do rpg more of that
Here's an Irish joke for you
An Irishman walks out of a bar...
What they should have done if they want to include Yasuke is something like the following...
Yasuke is an assassin from Africa who travels to Japan to thwart a Templar plot. He has been in Japan training the main character to be an assassin for almost a year. Teh game opens with the battle that Yasuke was present for in a cut scene. The first "training mission" ends with Yasuke being captured. The next few are the main character trying to free him and when he gets to Yasuke he is told that he knows all he needs to know to take up the mandle of the Assassins and battle the Templars, he is needed elsewhere and will be departing Japan soon. The story then goes on from there.
Done well people would have loved him being included in that way
Yasuke was very likely a slave that was brought to Japan and sold to a Daimyo who kept him as an attraction. The records are scarce, but that's pretty likely.
A better story would be the Samurai main character, Japanese because duh, sees the potential of him and decides to recruit him into the fold. So he becomes a member of the order, works to pass you useful information and maybe help get you into places, maybe helping the kunoichi character infiltrate somewhere he's visiting.
They could make some really interesting stories around Yasuke if they worked with logic and creativity. Instead he's just black jesus.
I had very similar thoughts, the story could have been that it was Yasuke who assassinated Nobunaga, because the latter was opening his country to the Templars and had some shady dealings with them behind the scene. So he used contacts among Jesuits to bring him to the country under the guise of a slave and an oddity, to win interest of daimyo and get close to him. Which would "explain" his speedy departure and disappearance soon after Nobunaga's death.
And it could have encompassed Africa, India and Japan (and then back to India etc), with many great and exotic locations. Ofc it would still be alternative history fiction, but in an entertaining way, pretty much in line with the old AC storylines.
As an East Asian myself, I am okay with they Yasuke as a main character. The issue here is their propaganda. The way of saying things is annoying. They literally said "We wanted to use our samurai". That really sounds like they never plan to use Japanese samurai in the beginning.
They introduced Yasuke as a legendary samurai who liberated Japanese people from oppressor and tried everything to make people believe that Yasuke was indeed a samurai. The funny thing is that the whole Samurai rank is the biggest oppressor group in Japanese history. Seeing Yasuke who wears a set of Damiyo Armor and describing him as a liberator of Japanese is very ironic.
its not ironic thats literally the basic concept of the character. a character who goes against a force they used to be a part of is just a basic character triat.
Ghost of Tsushima literally does the exact same thing.
hell even past AC games have similar stuff
@joedatius defending samurai's honor is a different concept from liberating Japan. Yasuke doesn't sound convincing with a full set of Damiyo Armor which he is not qualified for.
Shad you slay giant spiders that scare the kiwi over there on your left. You are pretty much pure Australian. :p
"We wuz potato farmers" - Oz 😂
At this point I want to see an AC game in 1700s Europe, and you play as the black classical composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George.
By day you perform music with quick time events, and play gay dating sim, and by night you run around Assassining like a goof ball.
Always love Oz jokes 😂
While a missionary in the Philippines, locals kept touching my wife’s skin, amazed by her white skin. She was considered a great being by the rural natives by virtue of hey pale skin
By woke standards it’s cultural appropriation.
It wasn't *just* the fact that they believed themselves to be superior even if that *was* the case Shad; the whole reason Japan was so isolationist for most of its history was because literally *every* encounter they've had with foreigners throughout history has gone really *bad* for them. & even *worse* is that foreigners historically *forced* Japan to open its borders, especially *westerners* , & western foreigners *forced* a lot of *their* cultural standards onto the Japanese; that's the *dark* side of the Meiji reformation that no-one in the west is taught about, just as no-one in the west is taught about how *America provoked* Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor, & then the government straight up *lied* to the people by calling it an "unprovoked" attack to get them to join the war.
The Japanese & the Jews unfortunately have something in common, that something being that outsiders seem to wanna *destroy* them & their culture; I kid you not, there's even a mentality called *anti-Japaneseism* that's unfortunately *extremely* popular in certain parts of the world right now!
What absolute apologist bull crap is that. The Japanese were the most evil people during ww2 and that was partly to do with them seeing themselves as superior Asians than the rest.
They went out of their way to find the only black guy about that time and it didn't do much of anything lost the battle was a bodyguard at best was not a samurai was not there for very long what was he there about 5 years if that seriously we're going with that
I think we need to remember this game series portrayed the evil Greeks in Origins as pale skinned, but then in Odyssey the Greeks were tanned or darker complected. Wouldn't Greeks in Egypt be tanned? It's clear the company is infected with Woke.
So, all samurai were supposed to be able to fight. How well?
How well does have a town administrator have to fight? He might have the title of Samurai and he might have some combat training, but how much? He is mostly an administrator, a bureaucrat.
Even the daimyo. Sure they could fight, but where they master swordsmen? They needed diplomacy, strategy and tactics more than they needed to be able to fight. If they were that good, why would they even need bodyguards? You could even argue that if they had to draw their sword, they made a big mistake somewhere.
Maybe Yasuke got the title of samurai, but in the end, what did that mean?
Just hypothetically speaking, he might have gotten the title just so he could be around Oda Nobunaga. Otherwise some samurai could have taken offence just by his presence and killed him without knowing that Nobunage liked that stranger. Seeing someone the size of Yasuke wearing the swords would make most people pause. How well he could use the sword wouldn't even matter.
And that's just the maybe.
I dont think you understand. Nobunaga personally kept Yasuke close to him because he liked his company and found him interesting which is why he was given his weapon and allowed to fight.
He even fought in battle in Nobunagas name. no matter what he was called officially he was a samurai in practice.