Japan really liked Ghost of Tsushima so much that they gave the developers of the game a special tour of the island. Now the opposite is happening to Assassin's Creed Shadows.
Because Sony's affiliate developers are very respectful companies! They work well with Sony and good relationship because they understand and respect other cultures.
There was a HUGE market there, they just need to make a "passable" AC game and they could have racked in a ton of money... but no... stupidity seems to overrule even greed.
Yes , so people can hate more the black man… it’s easy just do wrong and you will not get punished, the black community will, the hatred will only grow stronger, Asian countries already don’t like black, now that will be way worse, remember when they ad black peoples on the lgbtq flag ? They put black everywhere in a malicious way and racism is the fruit , just sit and watch, it’s literally a racial bait ! The usual man ! Just the usual, until you can not support to see black folks anymore, it’s working so far !
Japan, Korea and China we all single ETHNIC country AKA Monoethnicity Country! Injecting a random Black dude into our culture and humiliating us by saying its for greater good bull shit is Unfuckingacceptable! Stop spreading those American dudes DEI believes and Sweet baby disease into our culture!!!!!
Woke culture by it’s nature doesn’t respect cultures. It’s about race swapping white folk and what’s worse is they see Asians as white adjacent… then god forbid you are ginger… all gingers are replaced by black folk
Never gonna happen. Japan is not what it once was. The current Prime Minister has gone on camera begging for ESG funds, and large manga companies are going along with it as well. And his political competition is filled with feminists and half of them have studied in US universities. The woke have been trying to take over Japan for years, and now with Abe gone, it's happening. Our only hope to stop this is to tear it out at it's root, here, in the US.
Like, very wrong. You may do whatever in present times fantasy, but never in history unless one local said so. If it went wrong, then the first Japanese going to cancel is that local for giving misinformations, badly.
@@acedewlava2479Yasuke has been presented as a samurai in media as far back as the 60s and nobody had a problem before but because Ubisoft did it “oh it’s WOKE, it’s DEI,” as if no company ever has put Yasuke in the center of a story, oh wait, they HAVE been for 60 years at this point, and anyone who’s ever done marketing knows that using a character that has been proven to be highly marketable is just a basic no brainer decision. As far as actual history we know he was Bushi which hasn’t been considered distinct from samurai since the late 1500s, so it’s really just a game of semantics at that point. But we can bring that distinction back easily, just stop calling Miyamoto Musashi a samurai, he never held a noble station and aside from his duels, his actual military service only extends to 3 skirmishes, the same number of skirmishes Yasuke is confirmed at. Yasuke was actually given a HIGHER station than Musashi ever received, but it’s okay to call the vagabond a samurai, just not the black guy retainer.
Remember when this game IP was about ASSASSINS? They went to Japan, a place known for Shinobi, and went with a Foreign Swordsman who was never actually a swordsman. Imagine going to Victorian England and having the main character [insert some random Native American historical figure who live at that time], lets go with Touch The Clouds for this example. Then, portraying him as a stereotypical American Cowboy.
@@TsarBomba69420 I don't care about what the MC looks like or if they are a real person. I want an Assassins Creed about Assassins. Instead, we get Pirates, Viking warriors, and Spartans. All people who fight out in the open and that everyone knows. Do they even bother with the original Order anymore?
@@doomedbringer I was so done with it when I heard the hip hop beats. One can argue it's just a promotion and not the actual music. However, it's really just bad and tone deaf marketing if so.
@@Zoloft77 oh that was gameplay footage. That’s no marketing thing, given who they pandering to its most certainly in the final game… given this game is CLEARLY not for the Asian demographic
I get the hate but why are you never playing another Ubisoft game because of this? Do you think they care? Still a lot of mindless people who will buy this game. You're smart.
They gave Yasuke a modern hairstyle (there is no way he would have the tools to make modern looking dreads that well, especially not in 16th century Japan) and they mixed Japanese music... WITH MODERN RAP MUSIC CUZ HE'S BLACK. But we are the racists for pointing this crap out... yeah, eff Ubisoft.
You know. Every black character having killmonger hair and hip hop playing in the background is diverse and a grest representstion! Some idiot at DEISOFT
No, you're racists because you don't like black people in video games. You always go for the motte and bailey in these situations but others have woken up.
The fact that the « inclusive » people said that asian people have « enough » representation…in THEIR own culture, is actually despicable. Not only they butchered Japanese culture but they even added hip hop of all things because Yasuke happens to be black. How "progressive" of them.
When I heard that hip-hop music for Yasuke I cringed so hard. I don't understand how anyone can find AC Shadows not racist. It's not just absurdly racist to Japanese, it's absurdly racist to black people.
@@FookinIsh Regardless, it is racey to say that ANYWAY. ‚Ok so this ethnicity/nationality/demographic minority is preferable then the other‘ That‘s the impression we got and it tells already volumes of how fake these people are about ‚diversity‘. They cherry-pick whatever is more ‚trendy‘, that’s the truth
I remember when AC devs used to put love and care in the game, you can feel that in Ezio's trilogy, whatever happened to that? I hate this current timeline.
In the past lies would be easy to believe but youtube has a translate button on he comment now so we can all read what the Japanese are saying. Its not positive 😂
@@gravemind76 You can say that with any-game same with a book you can punlish a book and pay the new york times for a stamp of most selling book, same with Disney and them saying acolyte is the most viewed Star Wars series it's easy to inflate numbers like im not even gonna be surprised if they added other asian countries numbers to japan to make it look like "most pre-order" i dobt trust game journos and website.
@@gravemind76 As far as I can tell, that claim is outdated, from a couple days after the cinematic reveal trailer was dropped. Pretty sure you have to go quite far down the list now to find the game on Amazon's list.
@@gravemind76 I heard that was for the PS5, which apparently many Japanese people don't have. Other systems are more popular. All in all it was seemingly 16th overall.
Hundreds and thousands of Japanese heroes in Japan history (some even mentioned already in previous AC games), and of course they chose the one black guy who was in the country for 15 months, and not even a fighter at all. Now that's quite the "coincidence".
But guys we needed to find OUR assassin. Someone to be OUR EYES. Where was this mentality with the ac1 to Odyssey why when we get to Japan do y'all need a new perspective?
The thing is, Yasuke as a character in AC could work but used in the same way Leonardo Da Vinci was handled, as a secondary character that assist you in whatever your mission is, given Yasuke’s position even as a mere retainer for Nobunaga, the dude could’ve been a very crucial informant or something. The way Ubisoft is handling Yasuke is in very poor state while pretending to be historically accurate.. in a game series where you literally fought the pope
@@senatorarmstrong4662 Because according to the director behind this game, they "couldn't empathize with Japanese people". Crazy how there are still people defending the blatant racism in this game.
Better yet just keep Yasuke in, but keep his section of the game shorter, get rid of the DEI around him and make it three characters with one male Japanese protagonist, him having short samurai wandering sections, and Naoe. Have them represent the concepts behind "three faces".
@@bonelesschickennuggets1868 Not just fought the pope. You you *fist* fought the pope as the climactic ending to the game, and I think it might have even been on a giant elevator (I forgor💀). Either way, it was more ridiculous than it sounds
they are also trying to say its racist and cultural appropriation for non-Asians to like martials arts Asian culture in general.... but also, at the same time say Asians shouldn't do martial arts in games, movies, tv, comics, etc. Because it's a trope and a stereotype. Only certain people of color, gender and sexuality can do martials arts apparently. Not straight white or Asian men though. Thats toxic.
And the sad part is that those looking at the Yasuke character as a validation for their yearning for black representation may be further disappointed with how Ubisoft has handled him. The showrunner and writers are no one's friends.
@@Zoloft77 O i know they turned him into a mockery like they usually do in these cases, they are creatively bankrupt. also the whole we hate Yasuke is bs we all loved Afro Samurai.
@@Zoloft77 o ya damn good show one of my favorites. Shinichirō Watanabe did a good, entertaining and respectful job of incorporating Hip Hop references into Edo period Japan without it being pandering or lame. It can be done.
"A successful assassin can do their business and then just vanish into the crowd, indistinguishable from anyone else." "Hey, let's make the assassin in our next game the ONLY F***ING BLACK DUDE IN JAPAN."
I'm Japanese and I don't understand why Ubi Soft is inciting hatred. If they removed the advertising claims "faithful to historical facts" and "you can learn history through the game" on all language pages, the fire would be extinguished. If only the word "historical fact" were not used, the Japanese would have no grounds for criticism, because they would be free to create their own versions of Nobunaga Oda, for example, as a woman. There would be no problem with legendary samurai or other untruthful adaptations. Because it's fiction. Currently, dissenting opinions are blocked, and some sentences in Japanese have been amended, but other languages remain unchanged.
I feel an unconscious sense of discrimination that Asians are invisible. They're pouring their own fuel on it, but they're saying they're "confused by the negative opinions". It's beyond angry, it's hilarious.
I'm a lily white Midwesterner and I cannot stand this shit. But again it's the same condescending attitude we have historically seen the so called enlightened academics.
@@joeblow5214Not even actual academics either, the one they hired for this studies homosexual man-boy relationships in Buddhist temples and government. And also before you ask, yes, she does glorify it. The person they hired as a consultant on JAPANESE HISTORY glorifies PEDOPHILLIA.
They dont. I live in Japan and read the comments on the Japanese language trailer. Top comment was "I think its time ubisoft withdrew from Japan" basically "get out of our country" 😂
It's easy to inflate numbers i mean look at the acolyte pay a website to tell them what even you need to say, same with books want to sell pay the new york times for a stamp of "best seller".
@@tethys17I'm from Romania. They have a studio in our capital city. It's an important one working on almost every huge title. Seeing what they do to Japan I want them out and close the studio.
You know a game is racist when the Japanese call it racist after years of them laughing at Americans and other "advocates" for claiming that something is racist when it isn't. That being said, the only thing that can hurt the Ubisoft numbers is to boycott it with 2 easy steps: 1) have the game blacked in Japan. 2) have people who openly pirate games or use VPNs to get around these blocks refuse to touch this game.
And best thing can be that MC can't understand anyone in the game - cut cost of badly written AC:Gringo dialogues: Npc: "&*(Y"*(("£") 😁 &*%*&%*&^&*🤭*%*&%*&%"
I want an AC game set in medival Poland with BLCK protag called ,,Czorny Wungiel" (Black Coal in silesian dialect). This will be very representative and realistic. Who cares there are absolutely no records of african people being in Poland till like 19th century or something. ;)
Publishers, especially the western ones just cant get the idea of adequate time framing of games that are either based on history or folklore, they hated witcher 3 for it as it had no "diversity" but they're trying to pull of bs like this openly? What is so wrong about having a protagonist from the country the game is based on?
Bandai have done a "black samurai" game and it's quite good. Maybe they should learn from them. The game name is "Afro Samurai". It also have anime with Samuel l Jackson voice one of the character in it.
The Witcher 3 "diversity controversy" is a great example of how skin-deep western diversity is. Not only does W3 present several diverse cultures, the series as a whole has always tackled themes of racism, fighting against systemic opression and being "the othered". But because the targets of irracional hatered had pointy ears and short legs instead of non-white skin, the game wasn't "diverse enough". Complete lack of understanding of Slavic - especially Polish - cultural history. And here we are again, with a complete lack of understanding of Japanese cultural history. DEI is a but a tool of cultural imperialism, which progressives in North America claim to hate so much.
@@vojtechstepanek7145sad thing is that next witcher (if it even happens) will be DEIfied to the core. CD Project red basically has noone from old guard (and no Pole) working there nowdays and everything is moved to new HQ in Montreal. They just keep Polish one to say We ArE PoLiShhh AnD ShIeTzzzzZ!
Keep in mind that Tom Cruise's character in The Last Samurai learned to appreciate the ways of the warriors, but never became one of them despite training together. And yet, someone who was at best a sword holder gets treated like he's a shogun. If not intentionally racist, this is downright negligent for the "historical accuracy" Ubisoft claims to have. Oh wait, that's right, an actual historian helped create a feasible plot with an actual Japanese man, but SBI tossed that aside.
you never become japanese, no matter how much you learn their culture or how long you live there, they even treat half japanese people born and raised in japan like outsiders despite all their interesting history and contribution to media one of the most racist cultures on the planet
the funny thing was that Tom Cruise's character was not the titular "Last Samurai", he may have been given the honor to don the armor of the man whom he killed but we know who the true last samurai was, and he was the man whose sword Cruise offered to the Emperor.
@@Shiirow Tom Cruise's character, Nathan Algren, is the stand-in for the Frenchman who was at Saigo Takamori's (whom Ken Watanabe's character, Katsumoto was a stand-in for) side in the Boshin war.
Its a samurai boom this summer. Every game is getting a Japanese themed update or season. Would be the perfect time for an announcement trailer at least.
You really think Japan gives a crap about modern day California Sony? They also don't them after they abandoned the market and moved gaming HQ to America :-)
iirc Black flag was the good teams last game. Apparently the guy at the top touched a woman but now im beginning to think its all lies just to get him out of the way for a woke replacement
@@tethys17 did you play Watchdogs? The meta narrative in Black Flag and a mission in Watchdogs says that the head of the company was removed as part of the brotherhood infiltrating and taking over abstergo to spread chaos.
@@tethys17 Well, as much as one can believe the meta narrative in assassin's creed. If we were to believe everything then we're all in a simulation and the woke virus is some plot of Loki or some drek. But yeah, I think Rogue also hinted at a change in direction. There was the Miles era. The Black Flag era. And everything after.
If they wanted to do the Yasuke thing so badly, should've just made him a historical side character to 2 Japanese MCs and then made a whole DLC for him after he "disappeared" from history. Perfect set up, still respectful
The hip hop music and some buildings featured actually being Chinese in architecture were the final nails in the coffin that even normies could do naught but scoff at ...
@@thatHARVguy how ridiculous. I want to use certain words to describe that stupidity, but I worry I might get banned here lmao. Just want to say, if they're willing to go as far as to change the wiki, who knows what else they're capable of. Disgusting
You made me look it up, and oh my god you're right. O__o I knew about Yasuke for a long time ( i think the first time i saw him was in the anime Hyouge Mono?), and the article about him used to be very factual; Yasuke was an african slave given to nobunaga by a portugese, Nobunaga treated him well and was fond of him, Yasuke left japan after nobunaga's death and the rest of his life was unknown. That is in fact most of what is actually known about him. I think there are records of Nobunaga giving Yasuke a stipend, and that's mostly were all these rumors and... 'headcanons' about him being a samurai come from, which is really, REALLY unlikely (and if he was infact a samurai, it would have been documented.) Also just saw Wiki is using some weird authors' completely romanticized/fitionalized book as a source to completely alter any known facts about him...
This is frustrating to the black community too, because now we have even more stereotypes pushed (seriously? Does he HAVE to have hip hop playing? I don't even listen to hip hop...) But it's expected that all black people must support this game because "Look, there's a black guy! Gibe us moneh now!" No, screw that, if you're going to be placing a black dude in it, make it make sense! Like assassin's creed Egypt or something, and do NOT have the main character have hip hop as his background theme. There's more to black culture than hip hop!
Origins was set in Egypt and had a black man as a protagonist, it was considered a return to form for the series and even the lesbian couple of the modern world segments were thought to be interesting-until Ubisoft screwed them up on the very next installment anyways. Alas, ESG scores are a yearly thing, so they still had to make the Prince of Persia black with dreadlocks, and now rapping Yusuke in Japan.
If Assassin's Creed took place in the Old Wild West, having a black protagonist would not be out of place. Make him a bounty hunter former slave akin to the historical accounts as well as folklore of Bass Reeves. I'd have no problem playing as that. The problem is Ubisoft will make him gay or a lousy father because he's a strong traditional man.
Regarding points that have not been commented on much, ・we Japanese have a really strong obsession with "having things as accurate as possible" to the point that it even gets annoying to us ourselves. ・Japanese people generally put up with things they do not agree with and keep quiet, but if they go beyond that line they suddenly become very angry. "There is a line that must never be crossed." This is a line that is common to all Japanese people. ・The appearance of Ghost of Tsushima and Shogun has raised expectations for overseas productions of Japanese stage plays. ・Most Japanese people are non-religious, but they are raised from an early age to be told that everything around them has a god in it, so in reality it is "Shinto," and the depiction of the shrine and torii gates was perceived as disrespectful, leading to widespread criticism.
I feel like I have seen many japanese manga and animes that have taken place in a historical fictional Japan full of inaccurate things. Are they often also controversial or is the obsession with accuracy limited to certain aspects such as Shinto related things for example?
@@Shannon4710 I'm not sure which work you are referring to, so I apologize if this is not the answer you are looking for, but it's basically the same as what other people have said. They don't say that they made it "faithfully based on historical facts" and no one believes them. Or, even if they say that it was "based on historical facts," they don't try to change history by conveniently exaggerating the content. For example (as an example similar to this one), if you look at the Japanese work "Kingdom," which is set in China, and think, "Is this a work based on historical fact, even though real people appear in it?", and you research it or ask someone who knows more about it and find out that it's not, you can just accept it and end up with that. In the first place, in Japan, when it comes to creative works, the author's freedom of expression and the entertainment value of the work take precedence over accuracy. Anything is allowed.
@@Shannon4710 "Is the obsession with accuracy only shown when it comes to shrines and torii gates?" It's difficult to explain, and I'm not sure if this explanation is sufficient, but... Shinto has no founder or guru, and no scriptures or ideas of salvation. In Japan, about 70% of people say they don't believe in anything. (This is what I found out.) However, there are many people who visit shrines at turning points in life and during New Year's. The idea that "There are eight million gods in Japan, and gods reside in everything," and "If you do something wrong, the sun is watching you (the sea, mountains, rivers, sun... there are gods in nature, and they are always with you and watching you)" is widespread. ...It's strange, isn't it? In other words, rather than being angry because the way shrines and torii gates are described is "inaccurate and not like Japan," many people think that "making incorrect descriptions is disrespectful to the gods" and "it is not acceptable for incorrect descriptions of shrines to spread in the world." (This may have something to do with the current problem of many foreigners coming to Japanese shrines and temples, behaving rudely, and even when warned, many of them just run away without caring. Sorry if this was a translation issue (T_T)
Respectfully, the Japanese should understand that it isn’t “all Whites” who want to erase them, it has to do with politics/DEI not skin color. Many whites & people of color (Cyael & Saldinho) in the U.S. agree with their right to be angry at the misrepresentation of their culture & twisting/breaking of their history. Point your fire in the right direction, it has nothing to do with skin tone but political belief. Sadly Asians in the U.S. are perceived by the Left as an “inconvenient minority” because their success in the U.S. stands as a powerful counterfactual to the arguments of “systemic racism.”
@@MisterGreis Yes, the people doing this are brainwashed White liberal women, minority women, and Jewish folks. These groups' current favorite targets are Asians and White men.
@@MisterGreis Exactly. I think in this case it's more a case of Asian men being caught in the middle of something, to be honest. In the west, elevating black people above almost everyone else is something that gets enforced on basically everyone, hell Netflix did it to the Egyptians (and the Greeks) not long ago. The closest thing I could compare it to is a racial caste system, and blacks are close to the top. To refuse this group anything, even the outright theft of someone else's heritage, is considered overt and aggressive racism.
I knew from this discussion what "westerners ignorance" meant. One dude seriously said that Yasuke was an idol in Japan... never heard of that and the comments show it.
The thing that made me laugh the most recently about this game is that not only Japanese people, but also people from China, Korea, Taiwan, etc. are angry. It's a great achievement for UBI. It's the first time I've ever seen a Chinese person and a Taiwanese person not insulting each other. Sorry from Japan. P.S. I'm not an English speaker, so I'm using Google Translate. Sorry if it's hard to read.
1:00 I kinda get this part. No matter how many times you say this, some folks will still defend Assassin's Creed. "Oh, it's okay when Nioh does it". People don't like Assassin's Creed's depiction of Yasuke because it presents itself to be historically accurate. Nioh is a fantasy game so Yasuke being a Samurai (with a spirit bear) is generally accepted and he didn't overshadow any of the Japanese characters there.
I gotta respect Ubisoft's scumminess, they knew they couldn't get away with putting a fictional black guy in Japan, so they hide behind "it's a historical person" but then barely tell his real story
That's because his "real story" wouldn't have him being some badass that goes around kicking everybody's ass. It's an interesting tale, truth be told, but wouldn't fit the story they already wanted to tell lmao
@@directrulefromgamerchair3947 It isn't the original story they wanted to tell tho. Basically the original story would have be a monk turned assassin after nobunagas death trained by Hattori Hanzo(Probably the most badass man in Japan) which would've had you tracking down a Isu sword (Sort of a Excalibur type), and it was far enough that they had fully fleshed out characters, concept art and even the beginnings of a map. This is all from Chris Fisk who's one of the original designers
I'm just finding it hilarious how racist AC:Shadows is turning out to be when it's made by a dev team that brags about how inclusive it is. Seriously they got so much of the japanese stuff wrong and gave Yasuke a freaking hiphop battle theme.
It is also the same team who worked on Odyssey, and that one was very questionable too especially with how the Persians were portrayed. Those who tried complaining about that one were just told things like “it’s just a game”. Those people who complained about that one are owed an apology.
I have a burning hate for France because of my ethnicity but this just adds wood to the fire, I really love and appreciate the Japanese culture and seeing this disgraceful acts from Ubisoft is just disappointing
In the old games the animus would desynch if the player did something atypical of their character in the historical context. Like for with Altair it'd say: "Altair didn't kill innocents" or "Yeah nah Connor didn't waste food, so skin that rabbit yo" stuff like that. Now imagine if with this crappy game you start it up, load in as Yasuke, walk around Japan conspicuously, then the animus desynchs with the message: "Yasuke wasn't a Samurai, he didn't do any of this". Would be the funniest 4th wall break ever.
>Johnny Somali parachutes into Japan with beat box > Lands > Start grooving to Yasuke's track > Declare this as Yasuke zone > Police were prepared to apprehend him as this was a daily occurrence
I knew when they had the gaul to suggest in a trailer than the british being invaded by vikings in AC Valhalla were the bad guys. They had the nerve to make flipping Alfred the great a villian.
@@PJDAltamirus0425 Alfred wasn't the villain. In the end of the game, he explain to Eivor he was the leader of the Templar, but left because they change their way. Alfred also reveal to Eivor that he gave information to him before the end to find the last member of the organisation.
It's also really funny how there are still many people claiming that "Japanese gamers don't care lmao". Some of them even using that recent failed interview in Japan as proof. Like no sht it hasn't reached levels where the average citizen is aware of it. Same as any massive gaming controversy in the West, grab a random person off the street and ask their opinion on it, chances are they have no idea what you're talking about. Japanese youtube is absolutely unhappy with this game. You can find a little more positivity on Japanese twitter, but it's still majority negative. No matter how much the unpaid shills try to hide it.
It's extremely horrifying to imagine someone's ill intentions, but here's the theory I came up with. First of all, even before Assassin's Creed, the Prince of Persia series was often likened to "ninjas" because of its light and acrobatic action. Furthermore, in the first Assassin's Creed, stealth assassination situations were added to the acrobatic action, evolving it into a more "ninja"-like content. Then Assassin's Creed became a series and grew into a franchise in which players could play as assassins all over the world, but at a very early stage, users strongly requested that "we want a ninja assassin set in Japan." However, for the Assassin's Creed developers, a "ninja" was something they absolutely did not want to do. Not only would they feel like they had lost, but above all, their pride would not allow it. So in response to the request for a ninja assassin, they went so far as to say that "Japan is the worst choice for an Assassin's Creed setting." More than 10 years have passed since then, and Assassin's Creed has been gradually losing support from users due to its lazy game design and repetitive content. It is finally becoming a situation where we cannot help but feel a sense of crisis about the continuation of the franchise. The Ubi executives make the obvious suggestion that "Just compete with content that users want, set in Japan." But the pride of the development team would not allow it. "We absolutely do not want to make a ninja the main character. We do not want to make a Japanese main character." As they were worrying about this, Yasuke happened to be there. The developers jumped on it, saying, "This is it!!" "Naoe is Japanese, but she is a woman and not a ninja, so we can compromise." And so Assassin's Creed Shadows was born. This is merely a guess based on speculation, but I think it is a highly probable theory.
Isn’t Mark Grayson literally a asian kid? Shang chi full of asian men? And Samurai Jack?? Here’s the reality, The thing is about the “Asians men in western media” stuff is that there is obvious going to be limited characters due to Asians being a rather small part of the Western populations, Not saying they shouldn’t be represented it’s just the reality, This is like a black person complaing about anime having very little black characters…obviously that’s going to be the case because the location In which said anime was made in a area with barley any black people? It’s rather simple explanation, there is no secret plan to rid asian men.
A shame that people can't get the game in PC at Japan because of steam delisting games that requires a PSN account. (The ships has been sailed by now and I think Japan can get the game in PC by now.)
I had no idea Asian communities felt this disrespected and isolated, makes me feel awful for never seeing it that way. DEI tends to focus on one specific race (we all know which) for "diversity", while throwing in every sexuality they can think of. Never crossed my mind that in doing so, they essentially erased other communities as well, until now. My low opinion of this stuff has dropped even further. Disappointing.
Japan The literal birth place of the silent killer Ubisoft : Let's make the character of our known for stealth assassin game a giant barbarian of a fighter who can't hide
The difference between ghost of Tsushima and this garbage is that ghost of Tsushima actually respected the culture and represented it in a beautiful and creative story while assassins creed is clearly just trying to push an agenda
@@MisterGreis so? you act like they are an independent studio not beholden to the main ubisoft... thats not the way this works. there is a reason all the studios ubisoft bought up were rebranded to "ubisoft "
This is why doing your research is so vitally important when making a game revolving around a culture that isn't your own. You hear so much so often about dev teams taking trips around the world to get information about places and people that they're writing material for. I'm not saying that you need to actually visit a place to understand, but at least do -some- research, right?
The western depiction of asian immasculation has been pevalent for hundreds of years. Ubisoft and other western companies have called them outsiders, unrelatable, and ultimately unmarketable.
No surprise there. Considering that something similar happened when EA had Battlefield V have a Handicapped Female Soldier set in World War II to get Brownie Points for being "Inclusive", at the cost of being Historically Accurate, I guess Ubisoft would follow suit with their own Game, Assassin's Creed: Shadows. And like Battlefield V, the people behind Shadows getting salty at the people complaining about the Game. Why do Video Game Companies never learn? Needlessly shoehorning "Inclusivity" will NEVER make your Game good. Not to mention, getting angry at Gamers who call your Game out? Talk about pathetic.
@@acewalker After Sekiro, Ghost of Tsushima, even Dynasty Warriors, some people still want to be upset because there’s another game set in Japan without a Japanese male lead
so many japanese games made with white male main characters, plenty of those i loved playing growing up (final fantasy, resident evil, etc.) but now as a grown asian male, im sadden to see a big western gaming company like ubisoft never having portrayed an asian male as a protagonist especially in a game setting in an asian country. I have played the first 3 assassin creed games and loved them, but i will no longer support ubisoft. We definitely need more asian male representation in the west.
What's really stupid about this is that the game is named Assassins Creed...ASSASSINS!!!!! They actually had the gall to set the game in the culture where there existed the most famous and iconic society of assassins in human history and they made the main character an Non-Afro Non-Samurai. There are no middle fingers big enough.
As a South East Asian I already saw how terrible Disney try to pander so hard to ALL SEAsians with Raya and failed miserably. Now Japan understand how we felt as well. Raya is made to appease western audience, so do this AC. This is like they really want to rewrite history but for white kids so they will think Japan have black people in the ancient time. I'm worried that soon they will consider us South East Asians as black people as well just because we have darker complexion as well. This is pretty much colonizer attitude toward their occupied countries.
that wont happen dont worry but it will show more and more their hypocrisy bec this company cant changed what it is history already proven it and this is noting more but desperation
As a young girl and a fan of Japanese culture and being able to speak Japanese reading some of the comments coming out it's been hilarious ubi/sbi ac game is going to bomb so badly there it will be lucky to sell any copies
I loved the Assassin's Creed series in the past. For me that's the first four main games and Liberation. However no one that has kept up with the franchise and Ubisoft should be surprised of the direction they chose with this game. What surprises me is they ve held back from making their agenda/ideology being front and center vs the acutal game until now. They inserted it , if you'll forgive me, stealthily into the last three games or so games , but grown bold and decided to go all in now. I'm out, until such a time as we get back to what made the series great.
Kabrutus really inflicted some serious self damage by doing that street interview thinking Japanese people would be honest IRL, let alone with a gaijin.
Japanese people are quintessential passive aggressive, they will insult you politely, but if you dont understand subtlety or underlining meaning, you wont get it.
I truly hope that this "Assassin's Creed Tokens" will flop hard. It's completely disrespectful to japanese heritage and culture while putting in a stereotype token black dude complete with hiphop songs. It's not only offensive to all of Asia but all black people as well imo. Never bought any UbiSoft game and I never will (also because of their "you will own nothing" stance)
There are people denying that Japanese people have an issue with this game, saying they all love it or don't care. Absolutely wild. Imagine an Assassin's Creed that took place in Ireland but you played as an Englishman. What about an Assassin's Creed in Africa, but you play as a white man? It'd be pretty fucked up, right?
This kind of stuff just makes me sad. I say this as an American white man who hasn't been to Japan and really doesn't travel much, b it I was actually looking forward to a Japanese male lead. I even naively thought that they would have done something related to the existing Japanese guy they introduced with that Layla thing, Kiyoshi Takakura, and his Yakuza past. I'd assumed that he had ancestors who were also in the Yakuza due to how shame in Japan could be generational, leading to many people deciding there was no point clearing their name and just persisting in their "shameful" businesses like tannery or criminal enterprises. It could have been an opportunity to these leftist types to showcase that there are also poor and oppressed people in Japan who go unheard of in the media, perhaps even open up the can of worms regarding the Ainu people. But no, instead we get, for the first time ever, us playing as an actual historical character, in an incredibly non-historically accurate role. If they wanted to give us a black male lead, why set the game in Japan at all? They could set it in Kush or Ethiopia or something, which were historically well-off African countries, but I guess that requires more than a surface-level knowledge of the cultures you plan to appropriate. Besides, Ethiopia being a Christian kingdom for over a thousand years and regularly answering the Pope's calls to Crusades probably wouldn't fly with Ubisoft generally making Christianity bad too, or the fact that Ethiopia's current devastation was entirely caused by the communist Derg regime, since in Ubislop lore, Stalin was a fucking Assassin. The only thing I'm looking forward to for this Assassin's Creed title is watching how fast it takes for it to fail horribly. More entertainment than the game itself could ever provide.
"We need some uplifting messages for the special order boxes... Google how do you say "I am a strong independent woman who dont need no man" in japanese kanji?"
I love it when forums ban people from disagreeing with a stupid decision, as all that does is save $110 aud for the guy and gets rid of toxicity from their feed.
The last Assassin's Creed game I bought was Origins. After all of this, there is nothing they can do to earn enough of my respect back to get me to buy another game. I went into GameStop the other day to buy a game and before I could say a word they was trying to get me to reserve a copy of AC Shadows. When I said no the saleswoman tried to pretend that they didn't have the game that I was looking for. Took my business to another store. Beware of grifters at all levels of this.
@@doomedbringer it is a mixed bag experience outside of tourist spots. They don't mind you visiting as long as you don't pull a Johnny Somali or a Logan Paul.
@@zero1action27 nah, more stores and restaurants today are outright banning foreigners from going in. With good reasons, Americans have no respect for other cultures
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Japan really liked Ghost of Tsushima so much that they gave the developers of the game a special tour of the island. Now the opposite is happening to Assassin's Creed Shadows.
And made them ambassadors of said islands to
Persona non grata
Because Sony's affiliate developers are very respectful companies! They work well with Sony and good relationship because they understand and respect other cultures.
@@gamingtideXSony respecting anything is laughable.
And ghost of Tsushima devs are mostly white guys ..... They didn't consult that Jappy woman who writes BL fanfic into nonfic history
The Japanese have every right to be angry and roast this game. We wanted an AC game in Japan for years, and Ubisoft managed to screw that up with DEI.
Agreed.
One day, I will go to Japan. But first, I have to learn japanese.
What's dei?
There was a HUGE market there, they just need to make a "passable" AC game and they could have racked in a ton of money... but no... stupidity seems to overrule even greed.
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the classic tale of a company being racist in the name of anti-racism
Against Asians (as usual)
Woke SJWeirdos proving they're more racist than the racists.
Yup! Just check out The Pensuke Files instead!
Yes , so people can hate more the black man… it’s easy just do wrong and you will not get punished, the black community will, the hatred will only grow stronger, Asian countries already don’t like black, now that will be way worse, remember when they ad black peoples on the lgbtq flag ? They put black everywhere in a malicious way and racism is the fruit , just sit and watch, it’s literally a racial bait !
The usual man ! Just the usual, until you can not support to see black folks anymore, it’s working so far !
Japan, Korea and China we all single ETHNIC country AKA Monoethnicity Country! Injecting a random Black dude into our culture and humiliating us by saying its for greater good bull shit is Unfuckingacceptable! Stop spreading those American dudes DEI believes and Sweet baby disease into our culture!!!!!
Ubisoft needs to remember to respect the culture.
Woke culture by it’s nature doesn’t respect cultures. It’s about race swapping white folk and what’s worse is they see Asians as white adjacent… then god forbid you are ginger… all gingers are replaced by black folk
The definition of woke culture is to disrespect cultures
to be DEI is to do the exact opposite of such things
You'll really still going about the black samurai thing? Bro was a real person
I'm glad we got the Ezio trilogy before this woke nonsense was a thing.
Biggest flex will be for japan banning this game to be sold in their country
No I have something better, instead of banning it, they make fake ads replacing AC Shadows with Ghost of Tsushima.
Japan bans alot of games to it would be easy to do. Dead space, Mortal Kombat, even Helblade was banned until recently.
nah, just let it be a sales failure, no need to encourage censorship in Japan, though I admit it would be funny
Its much more humiliating to let it release in Japan and then watch it completely fail over there.
Never gonna happen. Japan is not what it once was. The current Prime Minister has gone on camera begging for ESG funds, and large manga companies are going along with it as well. And his political competition is filled with feminists and half of them have studied in US universities. The woke have been trying to take over Japan for years, and now with Abe gone, it's happening. Our only hope to stop this is to tear it out at it's root, here, in the US.
If you make a game set in Japan and the Japanese are telling you that you're wrong, then you're wrong.
Cleopatra all over again.
Like, very wrong.
You may do whatever in present times fantasy, but never in history unless one local said so. If it went wrong, then the first Japanese going to cancel is that local for giving misinformations, badly.
@@acedewlava2479Yasuke has been presented as a samurai in media as far back as the 60s and nobody had a problem before but because Ubisoft did it “oh it’s WOKE, it’s DEI,” as if no company ever has put Yasuke in the center of a story, oh wait, they HAVE been for 60 years at this point, and anyone who’s ever done marketing knows that using a character that has been proven to be highly marketable is just a basic no brainer decision. As far as actual history we know he was Bushi which hasn’t been considered distinct from samurai since the late 1500s, so it’s really just a game of semantics at that point. But we can bring that distinction back easily, just stop calling Miyamoto Musashi a samurai, he never held a noble station and aside from his duels, his actual military service only extends to 3 skirmishes, the same number of skirmishes Yasuke is confirmed at. Yasuke was actually given a HIGHER station than Musashi ever received, but it’s okay to call the vagabond a samurai, just not the black guy retainer.
@@stevenyee1055 I remember my grandmother saying to me: I don't care what they tell you in school. Yasuke was Samurai.
@@blumind_web2264 Ah, I understand 🤔😮
Remember when this game IP was about ASSASSINS? They went to Japan, a place known for Shinobi, and went with a Foreign Swordsman who was never actually a swordsman. Imagine going to Victorian England and having the main character [insert some random Native American historical figure who live at that time], lets go with Touch The Clouds for this example. Then, portraying him as a stereotypical American Cowboy.
Lots of these takes even in the Hero Hei comment sections are *this* close to being racist. But this comment is a good take.
@@TsarBomba69420 I don't care about what the MC looks like or if they are a real person. I want an Assassins Creed about Assassins. Instead, we get Pirates, Viking warriors, and Spartans. All people who fight out in the open and that everyone knows. Do they even bother with the original Order anymore?
@@TsarBomba69420 Racist? How so?
They could’ve used a ninja for this, but they had use a very little figure, all because he was black, and fits nicely in their agenda driven view.
Hey, he wielded an umbrella. It’s kind of the same lol
They made zero effort to be respectful. It seems like intentional racism. I will never play another Ubisoft game because of this.
Especially given he has a hip hop sound track in combat… that’s just offensive
@@doomedbringer I was so done with it when I heard the hip hop beats. One can argue it's just a promotion and not the actual music. However, it's really just bad and tone deaf marketing if so.
@@Zoloft77 oh that was gameplay footage. That’s no marketing thing, given who they pandering to its most certainly in the final game… given this game is CLEARLY not for the Asian demographic
@@doomedbringer I am still SMH. By the look of things, I won't be surprised if the developers made Yasuke perform finisher moves with a "swagger".
I get the hate but why are you never playing another Ubisoft game because of this? Do you think they care? Still a lot of mindless people who will buy this game. You're smart.
They gave Yasuke a modern hairstyle (there is no way he would have the tools to make modern looking dreads that well, especially not in 16th century Japan) and they mixed Japanese music... WITH MODERN RAP MUSIC CUZ HE'S BLACK. But we are the racists for pointing this crap out... yeah, eff Ubisoft.
I wonder when the woke level is so far off the charts maybe the devs are making fun of the movement and are actually not on board
You know. Every black character having killmonger hair and hip hop playing in the background is diverse and a grest representstion!
Some idiot at DEISOFT
The wewuzzwuzz, blacks blm
You mericans can't tell other countries what their history are.
There's no black samurais or black Cleopatra
No, you're racists because you don't like black people in video games. You always go for the motte and bailey in these situations but others have woken up.
But afro samurai has hip hop but it dosent feel racist
The fact that the « inclusive » people said that asian people have « enough » representation…in THEIR own culture, is actually despicable.
Not only they butchered Japanese culture but they even added hip hop of all things because Yasuke happens to be black. How "progressive" of them.
When I heard that hip-hop music for Yasuke I cringed so hard. I don't understand how anyone can find AC Shadows not racist. It's not just absurdly racist to Japanese, it's absurdly racist to black people.
Giving a hip hop soundtrack to Yasuke had to be the most obvious case of stereotyping I've ever seen
Asian people have enough representation? I've actually felt like they don't have enough recently, though it's not really my place to say that I guess.
@@FookinIsh Regardless, it is racey to say that ANYWAY.
‚Ok so this ethnicity/nationality/demographic minority is preferable then the other‘
That‘s the impression we got and it tells already volumes of how fake these people are about ‚diversity‘. They cherry-pick whatever is more ‚trendy‘, that’s the truth
@@Kanaleah Like you could’ve just played traditional Japanese music given the era… but of course not
I remember when AC devs used to put love and care in the game, you can feel that in Ezio's trilogy, whatever happened to that? I hate this current timeline.
Ubisoft drove out all the good devs to make room for the diversity hire political activists who couldn't code to save their lives.
I remember when they removed the crossbow for historical accuracy
@@doomedbringer And that was aaall the way back in Assassin's Creed 1...
I imagine most of those talented people left the company and got replaced by this new generation who values messaging over quality.
@@JJ18355 yes that’s the point. Now they hire companies like sweet baby to get them into the DEI side and token race swap
このゲームに怒ってくれてる海外の方が多くて少し驚いてる。10年前なら海外では何も問題視されなかっただろうし、日本国内でも諦めの声が上がる程度だったと思う。
There are people who are defending this game and claiming that the Japanese people love it. The delusion is strong with them.
In the past lies would be easy to believe but youtube has a translate button on he comment now so we can all read what the Japanese are saying. Its not positive 😂
I mean it's one of the highest pre-ordered games over there unless proven wrong then idk.
@@gravemind76 You can say that with any-game same with a book you can punlish a book and pay the new york times for a stamp of most selling book, same with Disney and them saying acolyte is the most viewed Star Wars series it's easy to inflate numbers like im not even gonna be surprised if they added other asian countries numbers to japan to make it look like "most pre-order" i dobt trust game journos and website.
@@gravemind76 As far as I can tell, that claim is outdated, from a couple days after the cinematic reveal trailer was dropped. Pretty sure you have to go quite far down the list now to find the game on Amazon's list.
@@gravemind76 I heard that was for the PS5, which apparently many Japanese people don't have. Other systems are more popular. All in all it was seemingly 16th overall.
Hundreds and thousands of Japanese heroes in Japan history (some even mentioned already in previous AC games), and of course they chose the one black guy who was in the country for 15 months, and not even a fighter at all. Now that's quite the "coincidence".
But guys we needed to find OUR assassin. Someone to be OUR EYES.
Where was this mentality with the ac1 to Odyssey why when we get to Japan do y'all need a new perspective?
The thing is, Yasuke as a character in AC could work but used in the same way Leonardo Da Vinci was handled, as a secondary character that assist you in whatever your mission is, given Yasuke’s position even as a mere retainer for Nobunaga, the dude could’ve been a very crucial informant or something.
The way Ubisoft is handling Yasuke is in very poor state while pretending to be historically accurate.. in a game series where you literally fought the pope
@@senatorarmstrong4662 Because according to the director behind this game, they "couldn't empathize with Japanese people". Crazy how there are still people defending the blatant racism in this game.
Better yet just keep Yasuke in, but keep his section of the game shorter, get rid of the DEI around him and make it three characters with one male Japanese protagonist, him having short samurai wandering sections, and Naoe. Have them represent the concepts behind "three faces".
@@bonelesschickennuggets1868 Not just fought the pope. You you *fist* fought the pope as the climactic ending to the game, and I think it might have even been on a giant elevator (I forgor💀). Either way, it was more ridiculous than it sounds
they are also trying to say its racist and cultural appropriation for non-Asians to like martials arts Asian culture in general.... but also, at the same time say Asians shouldn't do martial arts in games, movies, tv, comics, etc. Because it's a trope and a stereotype. Only certain people of color, gender and sexuality can do martials arts apparently. Not straight white or Asian men though. Thats toxic.
And the sad part is that those looking at the Yasuke character as a validation for their yearning for black representation may be further disappointed with how Ubisoft has handled him. The showrunner and writers are no one's friends.
@@Zoloft77 O i know they turned him into a mockery like they usually do in these cases, they are creatively bankrupt. also the whole we hate Yasuke is bs we all loved Afro Samurai.
@@beroyblinkins1621 or Samurai Champloo which is full of hip hop references.
@@Zoloft77 yup yup another good example, i might just go re watch that right now lol
@@Zoloft77 o ya damn good show one of my favorites. Shinichirō Watanabe did a good, entertaining and respectful job of incorporating Hip Hop references into Edo period Japan without it being pandering or lame. It can be done.
Just boycott that garbage.
"A successful assassin can do their business and then just vanish into the crowd, indistinguishable from anyone else."
"Hey, let's make the assassin in our next game the ONLY F***ING BLACK DUDE IN JAPAN."
Lets make him 6ft tall and have shiny gold armour 😂
I honestly struggle to compreend how the brain of this kind of people work.
@@Antithesismanifest let me explain, 1. White man bad. 2. Infiltrate their most loved fandoms and destroy them from the inside.
@@Antithesismanifestthey dont. Thats why a normal person cannot understand them
I'm Japanese and I don't understand why Ubi Soft is inciting hatred.
If they removed the advertising claims "faithful to historical facts" and "you can learn history through the game" on all language pages, the fire would be extinguished.
If only the word "historical fact" were not used, the Japanese would have no grounds for criticism, because they would be free to create their own versions of Nobunaga Oda, for example, as a woman.
There would be no problem with legendary samurai or other untruthful adaptations.
Because it's fiction.
Currently, dissenting opinions are blocked, and some sentences in Japanese have been amended, but other languages remain unchanged.
I feel an unconscious sense of discrimination that Asians are invisible.
They're pouring their own fuel on it, but they're saying they're "confused by the negative opinions".
It's beyond angry, it's hilarious.
I laughed when I saw Mr Cabbage in the video.
Thank you for introducing the views of us Japanese!
Hopefully those translated commenters understand that gamers in the west hate this, too.
I'm a lily white Midwesterner and I cannot stand this shit. But again it's the same condescending attitude we have historically seen the so called enlightened academics.
@@joeblow5214Not even actual academics either, the one they hired for this studies homosexual man-boy relationships in Buddhist temples and government.
And also before you ask, yes, she does glorify it.
The person they hired as a consultant on JAPANESE HISTORY glorifies PEDOPHILLIA.
Yet I'm being told by shills that Japan loves this game and Yasuke.
They dont. I live in Japan and read the comments on the Japanese language trailer.
Top comment was "I think its time ubisoft withdrew from Japan" basically "get out of our country" 😂
Sounds like a bunch of gaslighting coming from those shills.
It's easy to inflate numbers i mean look at the acolyte pay a website to tell them what even you need to say, same with books want to sell pay the new york times for a stamp of "best seller".
私は日本人です。
ほとんどの日本人は弥助を知りません。
何故なら、学校の教科書に織田信長と明智光秀は記載されていても、弥助は記載されていません。
勿論、歴史が好きな人は弥助を知っているとは思うが、『弥助は信長の召使いで武士ではなかった。』
これ以上でもこれ以下でなく、『弥助はただの召使い』でしかありません。
UBIが「弥助は伝説の侍でした。」と公言したのが許せないのです。
信長の死後、明智光秀に捕まった弥助は武士とは扱われなかったので殺されなかった。
もし、弥助が本当に武士ならば明智光秀は弥助を間違いなく殺していただろうと思います。
@@tethys17I'm from Romania. They have a studio in our capital city. It's an important one working on almost every huge title. Seeing what they do to Japan I want them out and close the studio.
You know a game is racist when the Japanese call it racist after years of them laughing at Americans and other "advocates" for claiming that something is racist when it isn't.
That being said, the only thing that can hurt the Ubisoft numbers is to boycott it with 2 easy steps:
1) have the game blacked in Japan.
2) have people who openly pirate games or use VPNs to get around these blocks refuse to touch this game.
wait how does piracy increase download counts...
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@@mmmmmmmmicrowave What does this comment mean? The first comment says nothing about download counts.
Have the game WHAT in Japan?
Oh buddy. Pirates have been refusing to touch an AC game since Valhalla. That's when trying to crack denuvo wasn't worth it.
I want an ac mexico where you play as a super white Mexican. They can call him El Blanco.
And best thing can be that MC can't understand anyone in the game - cut cost of badly written AC:Gringo dialogues:
Npc: "&*(Y"*(("£") 😁 &*%*&%*&^&*🤭*%*&%*&%"
I want AC Mexico where you play as slave from Africa brought by Spanish ,is that historical right? A game about Mexico with black MC
@@udaadi do the Spanish NPC get N-pass ? 😂😂😂
@@leobuana7430 yes for diversity you don't like it and then you are a rasist
I want an AC game set in medival Poland with BLCK protag called ,,Czorny Wungiel" (Black Coal in silesian dialect). This will be very representative and realistic. Who cares there are absolutely no records of african people being in Poland till like 19th century or something. ;)
Publishers, especially the western ones just cant get the idea of adequate time framing of games that are either based on history or folklore, they hated witcher 3 for it as it had no "diversity" but they're trying to pull of bs like this openly? What is so wrong about having a protagonist from the country the game is based on?
Bandai have done a "black samurai" game and it's quite good. Maybe they should learn from them.
The game name is "Afro Samurai". It also have anime with Samuel l Jackson voice one of the character in it.
The Witcher 3 "diversity controversy" is a great example of how skin-deep western diversity is. Not only does W3 present several diverse cultures, the series as a whole has always tackled themes of racism, fighting against systemic opression and being "the othered". But because the targets of irracional hatered had pointy ears and short legs instead of non-white skin, the game wasn't "diverse enough".
Complete lack of understanding of Slavic - especially Polish - cultural history.
And here we are again, with a complete lack of understanding of Japanese cultural history.
DEI is a but a tool of cultural imperialism, which progressives in North America claim to hate so much.
@@vojtechstepanek7145sad thing is that next witcher (if it even happens) will be DEIfied to the core. CD Project red basically has noone from old guard (and no Pole) working there nowdays and everything is moved to new HQ in Montreal. They just keep Polish one to say We ArE PoLiShhh AnD ShIeTzzzzZ!
Better yet, just use believable, appropriate fictional ones, like it did for so long
I'm surprised they didn't just add "Man's not hot" as a soundtrack whenever Yasuke fights lmao
Sounds like smth Ubisoft would do.
Or "Not Like Us" for extra cultural insensitivity.
DE TING GO SKRRRAAAAT *Yasuke pulls out Glock*
Keep in mind that Tom Cruise's character in The Last Samurai learned to appreciate the ways of the warriors, but never became one of them despite training together. And yet, someone who was at best a sword holder gets treated like he's a shogun. If not intentionally racist, this is downright negligent for the "historical accuracy" Ubisoft claims to have.
Oh wait, that's right, an actual historian helped create a feasible plot with an actual Japanese man, but SBI tossed that aside.
Instead send out a fujoshi to "guide" the story.
you never become japanese, no matter how much you learn their culture or how long you live there, they even treat half japanese people born and raised in japan like outsiders
despite all their interesting history and contribution to media one of the most racist cultures on the planet
Hollywood is not a piece of history
Just like random articles on the internet
the funny thing was that Tom Cruise's character was not the titular "Last Samurai", he may have been given the honor to don the armor of the man whom he killed but we know who the true last samurai was, and he was the man whose sword Cruise offered to the Emperor.
@@Shiirow Tom Cruise's character, Nathan Algren, is the stand-in for the Frenchman who was at Saigo Takamori's (whom Ken Watanabe's character, Katsumoto was a stand-in for) side in the Boshin war.
All Sony and Sucker Punch has to do is announce Ghost of Tsushima 2. This is THE opportune moment.
Its a samurai boom this summer. Every game is getting a Japanese themed update or season. Would be the perfect time for an announcement trailer at least.
Na drop the trailer and gameplay trailer the week of Ac shadows that would be such a flex and a massive middle finger to ubislop.
@@senatorarmstrong4662 Things have gotten alot worse since Tsushima came out. Here's hoping Tsushima 2 doesn't suffer the same woke fate.
You really think Japan gives a crap about modern day California Sony? They also don't them after they abandoned the market and moved gaming HQ to America :-)
Go play Way Of Samurai series,amazing games with lot of branching storyline
Everyone loved Adawale.
The people being racist are the folk at Ubisoft.
These are not the same people who started this series.
iirc Black flag was the good teams last game. Apparently the guy at the top touched a woman but now im beginning to think its all lies just to get him out of the way for a woke replacement
@@tethys17 did you play Watchdogs?
The meta narrative in Black Flag and a mission in Watchdogs says that the head of the company was removed as part of the brotherhood infiltrating and taking over abstergo to spread chaos.
@@Loreweavver never played watchdogs. So they told us their irl plans and we just watched while it happens?
@@tethys17 Well, as much as one can believe the meta narrative in assassin's creed.
If we were to believe everything then we're all in a simulation and the woke virus is some plot of Loki or some drek.
But yeah, I think Rogue also hinted at a change in direction.
There was the Miles era.
The Black Flag era.
And everything after.
If they wanted to do the Yasuke thing so badly, should've just made him a historical side character to 2 Japanese MCs and then made a whole DLC for him after he "disappeared" from history. Perfect set up, still respectful
The hip hop music and some buildings featured actually being Chinese in architecture were the final nails in the coffin that even normies could do naught but scoff at ...
BRAZIL MENTIONED, HERO HEI IS COMING TO BRAZIL
Is the battle of Yasuke's wiki still ongoing? I heard some idiot is altering it to fit Ubisoft's narrative
250+ changes in the first week last I heard.
@@thatHARVguy how ridiculous. I want to use certain words to describe that stupidity, but I worry I might get banned here lmao.
Just want to say, if they're willing to go as far as to change the wiki, who knows what else they're capable of. Disgusting
You made me look it up, and oh my god you're right. O__o
I knew about Yasuke for a long time ( i think the first time i saw him was in the anime Hyouge Mono?), and the article about him used to be very factual; Yasuke was an african slave given to nobunaga by a portugese, Nobunaga treated him well and was fond of him, Yasuke left japan after nobunaga's death and the rest of his life was unknown.
That is in fact most of what is actually known about him.
I think there are records of Nobunaga giving Yasuke a stipend, and that's mostly were all these rumors and... 'headcanons' about him being a samurai come from, which is really, REALLY unlikely (and if he was infact a samurai, it would have been documented.)
Also just saw Wiki is using some weird authors' completely romanticized/fitionalized book as a source to completely alter any known facts about him...
They are actually tryna rewrite history and records to validate Ubisoft? That's actually wild.
I just checked, the english version of the wiki says retainer, but quite a few other language say "samurai"
Lesson don’t buy ac shadows or the entire Assassins Creed Franchise
Easy for me I hate that franchise just a waste of a good concept
This is frustrating to the black community too, because now we have even more stereotypes pushed (seriously? Does he HAVE to have hip hop playing? I don't even listen to hip hop...)
But it's expected that all black people must support this game because "Look, there's a black guy! Gibe us moneh now!"
No, screw that, if you're going to be placing a black dude in it, make it make sense! Like assassin's creed Egypt or something, and do NOT have the main character have hip hop as his background theme. There's more to black culture than hip hop!
Origins was set in Egypt and had a black man as a protagonist, it was considered a return to form for the series and even the lesbian couple of the modern world segments were thought to be interesting-until Ubisoft screwed them up on the very next installment anyways.
Alas, ESG scores are a yearly thing, so they still had to make the Prince of Persia black with dreadlocks, and now rapping Yusuke in Japan.
If Assassin's Creed took place in the Old Wild West, having a black protagonist would not be out of place. Make him a bounty hunter former slave akin to the historical accounts as well as folklore of Bass Reeves. I'd have no problem playing as that.
The problem is Ubisoft will make him gay or a lousy father because he's a strong traditional man.
Now I want a neurodivent assassin if they want to be diverse
@@Zoloft77 I remember my grandma telling me, "I don't care what they tell you on Wikipedia, Yasuke was a bottom to Oda Nobunaga.".
@@Zoloft77 See, that right there sounds amzing.
Regarding points that have not been commented on much,
・we Japanese have a really strong obsession with "having things as accurate as possible" to the point that it even gets annoying to us ourselves. ・Japanese people generally put up with things they do not agree with and keep quiet, but if they go beyond that line they suddenly become very angry. "There is a line that must never be crossed." This is a line that is common to all Japanese people.
・The appearance of Ghost of Tsushima and Shogun has raised expectations for overseas productions of Japanese stage plays.
・Most Japanese people are non-religious, but they are raised from an early age to be told that everything around them has a god in it, so in reality it is "Shinto," and the depiction of the shrine and torii gates was perceived as disrespectful, leading to widespread criticism.
I feel like I have seen many japanese manga and animes that have taken place in a historical fictional Japan full of inaccurate things. Are they often also controversial or is the obsession with accuracy limited to certain aspects such as Shinto related things for example?
@@Shannon4710Name the "many Japanese manga and anime" you are referencing or we won't know the full context.
@@Shannon4710
貴方が言うようなアニメや漫画は自分たちの作品が史実だとは言ってないからです。
それさえ言わなければ間違った日本描写でも面白ければそれで良いんです。
今回のアサシンクリードの新作の件においても
UBIのコメントやwikipediaの改変による歴史修正の動きが無ければ静観する日本人が大半だったと思います。
@@Shannon4710 I'm not sure which work you are referring to, so I apologize if this is not the answer you are looking for, but it's basically the same as what other people have said. They don't say that they made it "faithfully based on historical facts" and no one believes them. Or, even if they say that it was "based on historical facts," they don't try to change history by conveniently exaggerating the content.
For example (as an example similar to this one), if you look at the Japanese work "Kingdom," which is set in China, and think, "Is this a work based on historical fact, even though real people appear in it?", and you research it or ask someone who knows more about it and find out that it's not, you can just accept it and end up with that.
In the first place, in Japan, when it comes to creative works, the author's freedom of expression and the entertainment value of the work take precedence over accuracy. Anything is allowed.
@@Shannon4710 "Is the obsession with accuracy only shown when it comes to shrines and torii gates?" It's difficult to explain, and I'm not sure if this explanation is sufficient, but... Shinto has no founder or guru, and no scriptures or ideas of salvation. In Japan, about 70% of people say they don't believe in anything. (This is what I found out.) However, there are many people who visit shrines at turning points in life and during New Year's. The idea that "There are eight million gods in Japan, and gods reside in everything," and "If you do something wrong, the sun is watching you (the sea, mountains, rivers, sun... there are gods in nature, and they are always with you and watching you)" is widespread. ...It's strange, isn't it? In other words, rather than being angry because the way shrines and torii gates are described is "inaccurate and not like Japan," many people think that "making incorrect descriptions is disrespectful to the gods" and "it is not acceptable for incorrect descriptions of shrines to spread in the world." (This may have something to do with the current problem of many foreigners coming to Japanese shrines and temples, behaving rudely, and even when warned, many of them just run away without caring. Sorry if this was a translation issue (T_T)
Respectfully, the Japanese should understand that it isn’t “all Whites” who want to erase them, it has to do with politics/DEI not skin color. Many whites & people of color (Cyael & Saldinho) in the U.S. agree with their right to be angry at the misrepresentation of their culture & twisting/breaking of their history. Point your fire in the right direction, it has nothing to do with skin tone but political belief. Sadly Asians in the U.S. are perceived by the Left as an “inconvenient minority” because their success in the U.S. stands as a powerful counterfactual to the arguments of “systemic racism.”
It's like they don't know white men are getting the same treatment in their own home countries.
@@MisterGreis Yes, the people doing this are brainwashed White liberal women, minority women, and Jewish folks.
These groups' current favorite targets are Asians and White men.
@@MisterGreis Exactly. I think in this case it's more a case of Asian men being caught in the middle of something, to be honest. In the west, elevating black people above almost everyone else is something that gets enforced on basically everyone, hell Netflix did it to the Egyptians (and the Greeks) not long ago. The closest thing I could compare it to is a racial caste system, and blacks are close to the top. To refuse this group anything, even the outright theft of someone else's heritage, is considered overt and aggressive racism.
I knew from this discussion what "westerners ignorance" meant. One dude seriously said that Yasuke was an idol in Japan... never heard of that and the comments show it.
The thing that made me laugh the most recently about this game is that not only Japanese people, but also people from China, Korea, Taiwan, etc. are angry. It's a great achievement for UBI. It's the first time I've ever seen a Chinese person and a Taiwanese person not insulting each other. Sorry from Japan. P.S. I'm not an English speaker, so I'm using Google Translate. Sorry if it's hard to read.
1:00 I kinda get this part. No matter how many times you say this, some folks will still defend Assassin's Creed. "Oh, it's okay when Nioh does it". People don't like Assassin's Creed's depiction of Yasuke because it presents itself to be historically accurate. Nioh is a fantasy game so Yasuke being a Samurai (with a spirit bear) is generally accepted and he didn't overshadow any of the Japanese characters there.
I gotta respect Ubisoft's scumminess, they knew they couldn't get away with putting a fictional black guy in Japan, so they hide behind "it's a historical person" but then barely tell his real story
That's because his "real story" wouldn't have him being some badass that goes around kicking everybody's ass. It's an interesting tale, truth be told, but wouldn't fit the story they already wanted to tell lmao
@@directrulefromgamerchair3947 It isn't the original story they wanted to tell tho. Basically the original story would have be a monk turned assassin after nobunagas death trained by Hattori Hanzo(Probably the most badass man in Japan) which would've had you tracking down a Isu sword (Sort of a Excalibur type), and it was far enough that they had fully fleshed out characters, concept art and even the beginnings of a map. This is all from Chris Fisk who's one of the original designers
some of them even sent complain email to the ministry of culture :p
If they also knew of the wiki war for the Yasuke wikipedia page too.
Some of them do know about it but they choose mostly to not focus on it
Even if they succeeded in changing the wiki page it still wouldn't change reality.
@@Lunk42 Keep doing it and it will be real, that's how indoctrination works. Just like how brainwashed westerners see Hamas as the good guys.
When morality wars cross into cultural appropriation boundaries.
Exactly! If they didnt say historically accurate, there wouldn’t be a problem. Its like saying history says cleopatra is black.
I'm just finding it hilarious how racist AC:Shadows is turning out to be when it's made by a dev team that brags about how inclusive it is. Seriously they got so much of the japanese stuff wrong and gave Yasuke a freaking hiphop battle theme.
It is also the same team who worked on Odyssey, and that one was very questionable too especially with how the Persians were portrayed.
Those who tried complaining about that one were just told things like “it’s just a game”. Those people who complained about that one are owed an apology.
I have a burning hate for France because of my ethnicity but this just adds wood to the fire, I really love and appreciate the Japanese culture and seeing this disgraceful acts from Ubisoft is just disappointing
Think it's the yank branch not the frog eating original
@@skootergirl22 ??
Weird question. Are you Asian or African? You said you have hate for France cos of your ethnicity.
@ADM.II. nope I am not
@@pyro7150 ok
In the old games the animus would desynch if the player did something atypical of their character in the historical context. Like for with Altair it'd say: "Altair didn't kill innocents" or "Yeah nah Connor didn't waste food, so skin that rabbit yo" stuff like that.
Now imagine if with this crappy game you start it up, load in as Yasuke, walk around Japan conspicuously, then the animus desynchs with the message:
"Yasuke wasn't a Samurai, he didn't do any of this". Would be the funniest 4th wall break ever.
Sorry, can't hear you over the Yasuke's hip hop soundtrack.
Let me bring the Samisen and teach you mfs what actual Japanese music sounds like
WHAT DID YOU SAY THE BLATANT PANDERING IS TOO LOUD!!?
>Johnny Somali parachutes into Japan with beat box
> Lands
> Start grooving to Yasuke's track
> Declare this as Yasuke zone
> Police were prepared to apprehend him as this was a daily occurrence
Good to see.
In other news, didn't know Ubisoft was a French company. learned something new today.
Yea like illuminations, both have annoying little creatures that spung of some what popular franchises
*checks Google*
Ah, Ubisoft is French. It's the Montreal (Canada) office that gets most of the press.
I knew when they had the gaul to suggest in a trailer than the british being invaded by vikings in AC Valhalla were the bad guys. They had the nerve to make flipping Alfred the great a villian.
@@PJDAltamirus0425 Alfred wasn't the villain. In the end of the game, he explain to Eivor he was the leader of the Templar, but left because they change their way.
Alfred also reveal to Eivor that he gave information to him before the end to find the last member of the organisation.
@@PJDAltamirus0425 did they have a British assassin?
It's also really funny how there are still many people claiming that "Japanese gamers don't care lmao". Some of them even using that recent failed interview in Japan as proof. Like no sht it hasn't reached levels where the average citizen is aware of it. Same as any massive gaming controversy in the West, grab a random person off the street and ask their opinion on it, chances are they have no idea what you're talking about.
Japanese youtube is absolutely unhappy with this game. You can find a little more positivity on Japanese twitter, but it's still majority negative. No matter how much the unpaid shills try to hide it.
It's extremely horrifying to imagine someone's ill intentions, but here's the theory I came up with.
First of all, even before Assassin's Creed, the Prince of Persia series was often likened to "ninjas" because of its light and acrobatic action.
Furthermore, in the first Assassin's Creed, stealth assassination situations were added to the acrobatic action, evolving it into a more "ninja"-like content.
Then Assassin's Creed became a series and grew into a franchise in which players could play as assassins all over the world, but at a very early stage, users strongly requested that "we want a ninja assassin set in Japan."
However, for the Assassin's Creed developers, a "ninja" was something they absolutely did not want to do.
Not only would they feel like they had lost, but above all, their pride would not allow it.
So in response to the request for a ninja assassin, they went so far as to say that "Japan is the worst choice for an Assassin's Creed setting."
More than 10 years have passed since then, and Assassin's Creed has been gradually losing support from users due to its lazy game design and repetitive content. It is finally becoming a situation where we cannot help but feel a sense of crisis about the continuation of the franchise.
The Ubi executives make the obvious suggestion that "Just compete with content that users want, set in Japan."
But the pride of the development team would not allow it. "We absolutely do not want to make a ninja the main character. We do not want to make a Japanese main character."
As they were worrying about this, Yasuke happened to be there.
The developers jumped on it, saying, "This is it!!"
"Naoe is Japanese, but she is a woman and not a ninja, so we can compromise."
And so Assassin's Creed Shadows was born.
This is merely a guess based on speculation, but I think it is a highly probable theory.
Now that I think of it, I can't recall a single Western game that had an Asian guy as the protagonist.
Edit: Same goes for movies.
Isn’t Mark Grayson literally a asian kid?
Shang chi full of asian men?
And Samurai Jack??
Here’s the reality,
The thing is about the “Asians men in western media” stuff is that there is obvious going to be limited characters due to Asians being a rather small part of the Western populations,
Not saying they shouldn’t be represented it’s just the reality,
This is like a black person complaing about anime having very little black characters…obviously that’s going to be the case because the location In which said anime was made in a area with barley any black people?
It’s rather simple explanation, there is no secret plan to rid asian men.
next thing is some DEI consultant will go and ask the developers why the game failed and go "they all claimed it wasn't DEI that made the game bad"
Real
忍者の系統には伊賀、甲賀、雑賀、柳生、根来と一杯存在し、アイデアの種なんて幾らでも有るのに、鼻から無視だもんな。
There have still been people saying that Japanese love Shadows and preodered is high in Japan, have yet to see proof of that.
We're with you japanese friends 🤝🏻🇯🇵
This game is great advertising for Ghost of Tsushima.
One of the Japanese comments on the racist offical video by ubisoft said play Tenchu, way of the samurai or tsushima instead.
Make sure you buy _Ghost of Tsushima_ if you haven't already, folks.
I want It but I’m pooor.
A shame that people can't get the game in PC at Japan because of steam delisting games that requires a PSN account. (The ships has been sailed by now and I think Japan can get the game in PC by now.)
Unironically an actual Assassin Creed Game in Japan
@@SweetBaby2GT only need psn acc for the multiplayer single player is fine
@@chrispalmer6804 This game doesn't have local multiplayer in that case. But yea, that was my main concern. Glad that it's not gated in single player.
I had no idea Asian communities felt this disrespected and isolated, makes me feel awful for never seeing it that way. DEI tends to focus on one specific race (we all know which) for "diversity", while throwing in every sexuality they can think of. Never crossed my mind that in doing so, they essentially erased other communities as well, until now. My low opinion of this stuff has dropped even further. Disappointing.
Japan
The literal birth place of the silent killer
Ubisoft : Let's make the character of our known for stealth assassin game a giant barbarian of a fighter who can't hide
Though I'm sure he would have an easier time pulling off assasinations at night.
@@brownsauce0921what? Cause he's black? Literally just cover yourself up in black and you still won't have to be a 6ft giant
The difference between ghost of Tsushima and this garbage is that ghost of Tsushima actually respected the culture and represented it in a beautiful and creative story while assassins creed is clearly just trying to push an agenda
Agenda and insulted
Pretending Japan is America is peak American imperialism
"You have some a dem saggin too, right, my aggin?"
The alphabet mafia absolutely HATES that japan refuses to bend the knee to their demands for DEI and tokenism… so they do petty jabs like this instead
4kids entered the chat
Dont lump us rational Americans with the morons who want to impose Post-Modernism on the world.
This game is primarily made in Montreal, though.
@@MisterGreis so? you act like they are an independent studio not beholden to the main ubisoft... thats not the way this works. there is a reason all the studios ubisoft bought up were rebranded to "ubisoft "
This is why doing your research is so vitally important when making a game revolving around a culture that isn't your own. You hear so much so often about dev teams taking trips around the world to get information about places and people that they're writing material for. I'm not saying that you need to actually visit a place to understand, but at least do -some- research, right?
The western depiction of asian immasculation has been pevalent for hundreds of years. Ubisoft and other western companies have called them outsiders, unrelatable, and ultimately unmarketable.
Outsiders? Henshin!
No surprise there.
Considering that something similar happened when EA had Battlefield V have a Handicapped Female Soldier set in World War II to get Brownie Points for being "Inclusive", at the cost of being Historically Accurate, I guess Ubisoft would follow suit with their own Game, Assassin's Creed: Shadows. And like Battlefield V, the people behind Shadows getting salty at the people complaining about the Game.
Why do Video Game Companies never learn? Needlessly shoehorning "Inclusivity" will NEVER make your Game good.
Not to mention, getting angry at Gamers who call your Game out? Talk about pathetic.
How do you screw up so monumentally that you manage to get the Japanese, the Chinese, and the Koreans to agree on something?
Remember how the Yakuza series shows that a game featuring an Asian male lead works? Ubisoft doesn't.
Japan needs to sue ubisoft
For what? Over a black man?
@@acewalker After Sekiro, Ghost of Tsushima, even Dynasty Warriors, some people still want to be upset because there’s another game set in Japan without a Japanese male lead
@@acewalker yes, coz it's dirt to their history.
?
Westerners and BLM have no rights to tell what the history of other nations are.
@@AttaBek1422Dynasty Warriors is not a Japanese blackguard game,it happened in China
@@acewalker for disrespecting Japanese culture
so many japanese games made with white male main characters, plenty of those i loved playing growing up (final fantasy, resident evil, etc.) but now as a grown asian male, im sadden to see a big western gaming company like ubisoft never having portrayed an asian male as a protagonist especially in a game setting in an asian country. I have played the first 3 assassin creed games and loved them, but i will no longer support ubisoft. We definitely need more asian male representation in the west.
Just consume more Asian media. Problem solved.
I don't want to see Asian people in GoT.
"as a japanese person" "proceeds to google translate" 🗿
Funny thing is the perpetrators behind all this was, to no ones surprise, Sweet Baby Inc.
Remember: they also made the combat music for the black samurai hip hop themed. And they call the critics racist.
What's really stupid about this is that the game is named Assassins Creed...ASSASSINS!!!!! They actually had the gall to set the game in the culture where there existed the most famous and iconic society of assassins in human history and they made the main character an Non-Afro Non-Samurai.
There are no middle fingers big enough.
As a South East Asian I already saw how terrible Disney try to pander so hard to ALL SEAsians with Raya and failed miserably. Now Japan understand how we felt as well. Raya is made to appease western audience, so do this AC. This is like they really want to rewrite history but for white kids so they will think Japan have black people in the ancient time.
I'm worried that soon they will consider us South East Asians as black people as well just because we have darker complexion as well. This is pretty much colonizer attitude toward their occupied countries.
that wont happen dont worry but it will show more and more their hypocrisy bec this company cant changed what it is history already proven it and this is noting more but desperation
Wouldn’t be surprised if the game gets banned in Japan
As a young girl and a fan of Japanese culture and being able to speak Japanese reading some of the comments coming out it's been hilarious ubi/sbi ac game is going to bomb so badly there it will be lucky to sell any copies
It'd AC game is gonna sell great. You lot are a echochamber. Thats all
I loved the Assassin's Creed series in the past. For me that's the first four main games and Liberation. However no one that has kept up with the franchise and Ubisoft should be surprised of the direction they chose with this game. What surprises me is they ve held back from making their agenda/ideology being front and center vs the acutal game until now. They inserted it , if you'll forgive me, stealthily into the last three games or so games , but grown bold and decided to go all in now. I'm out, until such a time as we get back to what made the series great.
Kabrutus really inflicted some serious self damage by doing that street interview thinking Japanese people would be honest IRL, let alone with a gaijin.
Japanese people are quintessential passive aggressive, they will insult you politely, but if you dont understand subtlety or underlining meaning, you wont get it.
UBIは、文化盗用をやめるべきだ。
I am just happy to see Railgun on the thumbnail.
I truly hope that this "Assassin's Creed Tokens" will flop hard. It's completely disrespectful to japanese heritage and culture while putting in a stereotype token black dude complete with hiphop songs. It's not only offensive to all of Asia but all black people as well imo.
Never bought any UbiSoft game and I never will (also because of their "you will own nothing" stance)
There are people denying that Japanese people have an issue with this game, saying they all love it or don't care. Absolutely wild.
Imagine an Assassin's Creed that took place in Ireland but you played as an Englishman. What about an Assassin's Creed in Africa, but you play as a white man? It'd be pretty fucked up, right?
You forgot to cover the AC shadows Ultimate edition box with all the mistakes and inaccuracies 😉
That is an unintentionally funny thumbnail
This kind of stuff just makes me sad. I say this as an American white man who hasn't been to Japan and really doesn't travel much, b it I was actually looking forward to a Japanese male lead. I even naively thought that they would have done something related to the existing Japanese guy they introduced with that Layla thing, Kiyoshi Takakura, and his Yakuza past. I'd assumed that he had ancestors who were also in the Yakuza due to how shame in Japan could be generational, leading to many people deciding there was no point clearing their name and just persisting in their "shameful" businesses like tannery or criminal enterprises. It could have been an opportunity to these leftist types to showcase that there are also poor and oppressed people in Japan who go unheard of in the media, perhaps even open up the can of worms regarding the Ainu people.
But no, instead we get, for the first time ever, us playing as an actual historical character, in an incredibly non-historically accurate role. If they wanted to give us a black male lead, why set the game in Japan at all? They could set it in Kush or Ethiopia or something, which were historically well-off African countries, but I guess that requires more than a surface-level knowledge of the cultures you plan to appropriate. Besides, Ethiopia being a Christian kingdom for over a thousand years and regularly answering the Pope's calls to Crusades probably wouldn't fly with Ubisoft generally making Christianity bad too, or the fact that Ethiopia's current devastation was entirely caused by the communist Derg regime, since in Ubislop lore, Stalin was a fucking Assassin.
The only thing I'm looking forward to for this Assassin's Creed title is watching how fast it takes for it to fail horribly. More entertainment than the game itself could ever provide.
They even messed up the Kanji on the special boxes they sent out
"We need some uplifting messages for the special order boxes... Google how do you say "I am a strong independent woman who dont need no man" in japanese kanji?"
We’ve been waiting for Assassin’s Creed in Japan since Revelations! *_THIS_* is what they decided to do?! 😡
It shoulf have come out after the ezio trilogy and it would have been legendary. They waited too long. Tsushima was the final nail in the coffin.
I love it when forums ban people from disagreeing with a stupid decision, as all that does is save $110 aud for the guy and gets rid of toxicity from their feed.
Didn’t know about this game but I’ll happily join fellow asians in roasting it.
"Strong Asian Men are a Contradiction amoung the People"
- Woke Western DIY Studio
Even I enjoy plenty of Japanese references in the Pokémon games set based on the Japanese regions.
The last Assassin's Creed game I bought was Origins. After all of this, there is nothing they can do to earn enough of my respect back to get me to buy another game.
I went into GameStop the other day to buy a game and before I could say a word they was trying to get me to reserve a copy of AC Shadows. When I said no the saleswoman tried to pretend that they didn't have the game that I was looking for. Took my business to another store.
Beware of grifters at all levels of this.
Your channel should be called “On today’s internet drama” 😂
And the same people that called Ghost Of Tsushima racist will be worshipping AC Shadows.
This game company is racist toward us Asians 😢
Asian men more specifically.
@@ncgzeal I think that's a femboy
Asians are literally called white passing. Remember next time you hate the yt man. These wokes are BlP0Cs who hate white-and-adjacent.
Imagine making a story about martin luther king except the main character is the immigrant worker at the lincoln memorial park
Making Japnese nov now down to Big Black Man is an attack on Miyazaki for his Elden Ring.
Japan should be openly hostile towards the gaijin. Stay cultured, Japan.
Should be? Where have you been, japan has always been like that and continues to be today. In the more tourist hot spots it does differ a lot though
@@doomedbringer it is a mixed bag experience outside of tourist spots. They don't mind you visiting as long as you don't pull a Johnny Somali or a Logan Paul.
@@zero1action27 nah, more stores and restaurants today are outright banning foreigners from going in. With good reasons, Americans have no respect for other cultures
"waitooo piguuuu go home"
@@FuhrerMiyu YANKI GO HOME!
Ubisoft have made a very poor choice in standing with DEI companies! Alienating markets you wish to sell a game is IDIOTIC and financially suicidal!
Martin Luther King Jr. is not happy with us right now.