The Controversial Twist In The New Assassin's Creed Game
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- The new Assassin's Creed game is set in feudal Japan and features a Black samurai protagonist. As expected, this has sparked a large debate among fans online. Let's get into it.
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“We hide in the shadows”
Says the only 6 foot 5 inch black man in feudal Japan
He can blend in
I’m black it ain’t racist
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@kylemwenda1574 Bro... lmao
@@kylemwenda1574 Same :)
@@kylemwenda1574 I went to China and i gotta say everyone there was 4ft tall, me and my friend were hand signalling each other with 100 people between us, literally felt like a snowplough walking through crowds there, I cant wait to see this black guy blend in to crowds
I like how the woke tries to call me a bigot for wanting an Asian in a feudal Japan game and I’m not black or Asian.
@@xandercruz900you might make his brain explode if you make him think beyond the terms “woke”
You can play as a Japanese female ninja dude but I guess ignore that part
@@xandercruz900you’re a bigger clown than the guys at Ubisoft.
@@devilslayer3548
Idgaf. I don't want to play as a black dude or a woman. Literally everyone prefers to play with the one that is alike. They are literally cutting off their majority.
@@peacem8574 are you crying like in your pfp? It’s a game, youre whining because a sidekick character is black. Might as well turn into a snowflake liberal, I don’t see a difference 😂
The fact that the main character is a samurai and not a ninja shows that assassin's creed isn't the same series it once was.
You right, we focused on the Samurai and not on the real questions.
Or maybe you will realize the women is a ninja
@@Shadow-ot4gsmaybe they’ll also realize there are two main characters…just maybe 🤷♂️
Yes, the creed was always intended to be stealthy
Hard (and therefore rare) to be a stealthy puppet-master if you're a BRUTE
Pathetic non-gamer executives always ruin great game concepts SOONER OR LATER!!
But he is a ninja 😂😂😂
Um. Yasuke was never a Samurai, he was a retainer. He was only in Japan for barely 36 months. Samurai's train their whole life to become Samurai
Yasuke was a Samurai, and he was the first foreigner to achieve samurai status serving Daimyo Oda Nobunaga. He served him as a retainer or bodyguard for 15 months until Nobunaga’s death. Afterwards he was sent back to the Portuguese Jesuits
@@chriswilliams6896 Okay, what evidence is there Yasuke was a Samurai. A retainer is " group (retinue) of (usually) men whom a lord gathered around himself in his service; it has been described by one modern historian as "the servants, retainers, and other followers of a lord". In History of Japan, most retainer were in fact samurai but not every retainer was a samurai. The first foreigner to achieve samurai status? You have to many years of training and there's no record Yasuke trained in art of samurai.
@@chriswilliams6896 Wikipedia entries don’t count as evidence either
@@chriswilliams6896 Retainer’s aren’t Samurai’s.
@@chriswilliams6896 No he wasn't. Retainers in history are known as servant status of a normal soldier. Samurais are hereditary high ranking military nobilities and officials. You can't just be a samurai. lmao Please read history about samurais.
Black Samurai, black Cleopatra, Black medieval English queens. It is all just woke nonsense.
He is a real person who was a bodyguard or servant who learn to use a sword and it a game
I guess Afro samurai anime didn’t exist before
mate im all against woke bull%$# but that was real he was the first black samurai and he has a cool story, so im not saying that it will be good but give it a chance bc AT LEAST this is real
What a coincidence out of all the historical figures of feudal Japan. The millions of potential stories to tell that have historical meaning... They chose a black dude...🤔 I'm sure it was just random chance.
@@devilslayer3548Came here to say this. Read an excellent biography about him pre-pandemic, and if some people actually took the time to open their minds and eyes, that would realize what an excellent choice this game made.
@@Rlyeh_The_Dead Of course it wasn't random. I know you're being sarcastic but that just makes your comment even more ridiculous. The African Samurai is an epic story, why not make a game out of it? Your objection is suspect.
If Yasuke was just an important NPC, there would be no controversy.
Why?
@@aloneandthinking Connor from AC 3 made sense as the theme fit his character. Everbody loved him. A native American stuck between a conflict between two powers that does not care for him. Yasuke as main Character for Japan AC does NOT make sense.
It's because of the straight up cultural app-ropriation@@kylemwenda1574
@@aloneandthinking It's actually always been common for the protagonist of an AC game to interact with major historical figures of the time. Ezio in AC2 had a ton of interactions with a young Leonardo Da Vinci, Connor in AC interacts with many figures of the American Revolution. Edward Kenway in Black Flag interacts with Blackbeard and others from the golden age of Piracy, etc.
Bringing attention to Yasuke would have been cool and given more visibility to a historical figure. PLAYING as a historical figure is a bad choice because the game is supposed to be your story as the player. Yasuke's history is already set.
@@MalcrowAlogoranhalf Native American
hah, Im a game developer, and I remember after releasing one of our RTS we got viciously attacked that it is TOO WHITE, no blacks, no female warrior squads. It was an RTS game about MEDIEVAL POLAND XD
Bro it's fucking insane how people want diversity in their way of thinking and seeing things which crazy and they act bratty when they don't get their way.
You have it rough, the games industry has gone to shit.
Bet the game sucks
black/african vikings also exist. They should have done it also in AC Valhalla.
@@Katniss0000 Ah, no they don't.
In Japan, instead of differences in race, people point out the oddities in things like building structures being significantly wrong or the usage of emblems being different, which create a sense of dissonance in the world. Since UBI is lamenting their mistakes, let's pretend they've been "to be isekai'd" into a wrongly depicted version of Japan. (lol)
Burning incense at Shinto shrines and
(Burning incense is Buddhist)
Port towns have a Chinese style.
The position of people in the hall is unbelievable.
Yasuke wears general-class armour.
Fantasy Japan.
If it was a fantasy like Niou, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
@@user-et6qr7im9e For example, the size and arrangement of tatami mats are often wrong. In reality, the place where the powerful Nobunaga would sit should be on tatami, while the places for his retainers should be on wooden floors. However, in the footage, it is the opposite. The Oda family's banner should depict "永楽通宝,"(Eiraku Tsuho) which signifies money, emphasizing the importance of the economy. Yet, in the footage, the banner only shows the Oda family crest. The flag attached to the Yasuke doll, a purchase bonus, actually bears the crest of Nobunaga’s retainer, Hideyoshi.
UBI should have used shadow clans like the Imbe clan, the Kamo clan, or the Hata clan rather than Yasuke, for the assassin. The theory that the Hata clan are ancient Israelites is perfect for Assassin's Creed and ties in with the story of Assassin's Creed1! I don't think UBI knows that Nobunaga is connected to the Imbe clan. Japanese shrines retain many influences from ancient Israelites and Persians. Many clans fled from the volcanic eruption in Japan around 7,500 years ago, moved to the area around Egypt, and then returned to Japan after many generations.
ua-cam.com/video/llAL_X8foDg/v-deo.htmlsi=kdCgOAtR80MJOaT1
This video is an edited TV program, so it is exaggerated, but it's easy to understand, so you can watch it with the understanding that it's half true. When you mention Israel or Jews, some people immediately think of conspiracy theories, but I am not talking about modern Israel or Jews. I'm referring to much older times. What I'm saying is that there were indeed people with roots in Israel, Egypt, and the Arab regions who came to Japan. This migration happened over many generations, not just over a month or a year. They came not only for trade but also to escape many wars.
One thing not mentioned that I think deserves to be mentioned is the fact that the architecture in the game is noted by both Japanese and Chinese audiences as being distinctly CHINESE, and not Japanese. Ubisoft didn't even get the setting right...
And the tatami in that one scene is weirdly in the shape of square panels instead of rectangles. It was very baffling. I could also complain about the hairdo, but it's a bit minor compared to some of the other bad visual designs.
That's weird because ubisoft usually gets the architecture right for these games
@MadfireMonkey exactly!
I bet theyre reusing assets from the mobile game set in China
@@jorgecasanova1999No one cares because the wokies code Asians as white-adjacent. And many Hispanics.
How will he blend into crowds of Japanese people?
He’s gonna be a combat based character. Blending in with crowds will be more of a Naoe thing since she’s the he stealth character
He probably won't, his play style seems like a brute. While the other lead playable character (Japanese female) which they forget about for being sexist lol. She will be the silent assassin.
The same way Ezio dodges guards by hiding in stacks of hay. Come on stop acting like Assassins Creed is hyper realistic.
@@lexsteele2218 they need to shut up and wait to see if his story is good. I bet half of the people haven't played the last 3 games.
@@Saint_VickThey haven't. They just like crying woke every 5 minutes
Based on Fiction story. Historically, Yasuke was a servant not a samurai
He was a servant to his master “oda” that granted him the rank of samurai for as long as he serve him, and yasuke was loyal to oda and after oda’s demise yasuke continues to serve oda’s son.
The approach to the representation in this new Assassin's Creed game is more of checking a box rather than creating an authentic and historically accurate character. Authenticity is key in storytelling, without it, things just seem off.
It crazy too because the fan base of Assassin's Creed has been BEGGING for a game in Japan for years, and on delivery, the devs f**ed up
That seems to be pretty par for the course with Ubisoft.
it almost seems spiteful
I was waiting for this till I saw that , I was like come on , if I had just to interact with Yasuke okay but Him as an Assassin is weird
It's funny how most of yall decided to forget about the ninja which is Japanese and seems to be the main protagonist. If yall wanna play a native Japanese samurai so bad then there's Ghost Of Tshushima. Whether Ubisoft f**ked up or not is highly dependent on the game's gameplay
10+ years 😂😂
Altair - Syrian
Ezio - Italian
Connor - Native American
Arno - French
Edward - Welsh
Eivor - Viking
Kassandra/Alexios - Greek
Bayek - Egyptian
Jacob and Evie - English
It seems like having the main character be from the location of the game is already pretty diverse...
Edward was a Welsh man and his location was in the Caribbean... Why do you have no issue there but an issue with Yasuke? Hmmm
Bayek was Nubian.
@SpiritGunman it was a game about pirates. Most pirates in the caribbean were from Europe. The caribbean has long been colonized by European powers so seeing white and black guys like Adewale makes sense. Shadows they pick the one and only black guy that history knows very little about and spent a few short years on the island.
It would have made more sense making the protagonist in origins a white Roman or Greek but people wouldn't have liked that either.
@@SpiritGunman majority of pirates in the Caribbean were white because of colonization while Yasuke was the only 1 black guy in all of Japan. Yasuke should have been an easter egg but got promoted to MC because of sweet baby inc.
Eivor is taking over England
Brett mispronouncing Nobunaga to Nobu Ganda cracks me tf up lmaoooo
I really hope this puts the final nail in Ubisoft’s long awaited coffin.
In all likelyhood the game will sell more copies in it's first months than Ghost of Tsuhima as sold in its entire life time. Ubisoft has struggled trying to chase trends, but AC is to them what COD has been for Activision.
Considering the fact that there are, and I'm being serious about this, $280 versions of the game that are already sold out and all these people have seen are a 3 minute cinematic trailer, no it won't be
Assassin’s Creed keeps increasing in sales with each release other than Mirage but that’s a given since it was a side project
@@Lilpiktdude Yeah, that and the game didn't go far enough to please the old fans who wanted a game that played like classic AC.
But not like they are lacking in interest. Since all their games has that Ubisoft account feature. They have been able to track that the total franchise of Assassin's creed has had 30 million players playing various titles just this year alone.
That being said. Shadows is obviously in the RPG genre. It would be nice considering they have two teams that alternate. One team could make games for the people who prefer the RPG, and the other the more action adventure route it started out as.
I remember my grandmother telling me, "I don't care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra and the samurai in feudal Japan were black"
I love this 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂
They werent, cleopatra was a greek and Yasuke was the only ever recorded black samurai
@@notmesuueman726he is trying to be slick
@notmesuueman726 that's the point, they made Cleópatra black on a movie or whatever and pushed that narrative with bs like a video of a black woman saying : " I remember my grandmother telling me, don't matter what they taught you in school, Cleópatra was balck" as if someone grandma saying something dumb actually changes reality agreed by every single historian and archeologist who ever studied Cleópatra 🤣🤣 and the guy Yasuke is based on there's 0 proof that he was ever even an actual Samurai but the wokes went on a war trying to say otherwise on social media, Wikipedia and Britannica as if that will change the historical evidence whatsoever , just because it fits their narrative so they can call everyone a racist
As a black gamer this is SO insulting. The only reason UBI put a black person as the main character, is not to uplift black people or black voices, but to check off a box. Thats whats so offensive. Im just a checkbox to them.🤦🏾♂️
Edit: for the people saying I’m not black, please grow up, it’s very childish to be acting this way.
Oh and Yasuke just became GAY too.
You're not black. And if you're, you don't speak for all. There are plenty of black folks already excited for this game.
Never has historic accuracy been in issue in Creed series with all the changes it has done in history. Pope who can fight, Da Vinci making flying machines, evil George Washington with apple of Eden, and many more. Never been an issue. Yasuke is consistent with what's been done before. No complaints when a white dude was protagonist in Carribbean a black land in Black Flag. This is no issue.
@@masibee Right. All this bitching for nothing. 😂
@@masibeehe was a pirate and who where the majority of pirate in history? a lot of white people
The Caribbean, by the time of Black flag, was home to many races. In fact, a common thing brought up in the game is colonialism.
Shadows is set in 16th century Japan and only included Yasuke to pander @masibee
The only thing really bothering me is that Ubisoft has butchered the original Assassin's Creed spirit.
Why not publish this game as "The legend of Yasuke" instead of even further destroying the franchise with public shitstorms...
I hate the direction the series has gone it, for very different reasons. It's like how I hate that Zelda mainline titles is forever going to be Breath of the Wild clones. But I can't say that it's destroyed the franchise when Valhalla sold over double the amount of Ghost of Tsuhima despite being an inferior game. I didn't get this next part too deep but remember eading something about thanks to how Ubisoft has their own software that's used on all systems showing as a whole had 30 million people were still playing the ancient trilogy. It's why they are pressing so hard for this game to be the first that will eventually connect to Assassin's Creed Infinity.
ありがとう、いち日本人としてあなたの意見にとても共感しました。私自身が思っていることを言ってくれて嬉しかった。
Thank you, as a Japan person, I sympathized with your opinion very much. I was glad that he said what he thought.
Yeah, you’re not a Japanese person. Nice google translate though.
And it just came out recently that Yasuke is apparently gay in this AC entry. Western developers are beyond parody at this point
now thats a problem i dont mind him being black since he is a real person but gay?????
Not just Yasuke. Even the female ninja is gay too lmao
@@Uranium_muncher Brother, the problem is they are just doing this fucking shit to check boxes off for fucking ESG and DEI funding. Its absolutely garbage.
@@Uranium_muncherBro, all they had to do was make another character, an asian male
@@shadowkinggamerart7960 to be honest his design is cool but they could’ve just made him Asian
I find it ironic that the same kind of people who are praising the inclusion of Yasuke simultaneously hated the Nathan Algren character in The Last Samurai even though he too was inspired by a real person. It's hypocritical to hate one while openly praising the other. Its either all fair game or none of it is.
Yeah but yasuke wasn’t a samurai he was a page boy aka basically carrying around swords for real samurai they dressed him up like a samurai because they thought it was funny he was not a peer
People that criticise The Last Samurai as having a white saviour story clearly didn't watch the film. AFAIK Algren is an amalgamation of several real life people that the Meiji government recruited from abroad in order to modernise Japan. He isn't based off one person per se
Well it was much more likely to find a white man in Japan, because of Christianity and business. Not to mention, Japanese, Korean, Chinese are were EXTREMELY racist with eachother and others especially back then.
EXACTLY. PEOPLE JUST LIKE TO SCREAM WOKE. EVERYONE IS CRITICAL DRINKER FANS
So yasuke never fought in any war? He never carried a sword to slay their lord's enemy, so why was he famous if he just carries sword up and down I don't get it. @@justinleonard6183
Yasuke wasn’t even a Samurai. He was a mercenary turned servant - Bodyguard.
He was, there aren’t much documents on Yasuke but it’s stated in Japanese history he was either a Kosho or Bushi which are both Samurai roles
@@Chillchildren999 There are no such historical documents in Japan.
Yasuke was a real man but he wasn't a samurai, he was a servant.
Yall need to watch the video the metatron did about the shadows trailer...
Actually you're wrong Yasuke, also known as the Black Samurai or the African Samurai, is widely considered to be the first Black samurai in Japan. He was an enslaved man of African origin who arrived in Japan in the late 16th century and served as a retainer to the Japanese feudal lord Oda Nobunaga from 1581-1582.
He was a retainer which is a samurai for military purposes. Stop reading whitewashed history books. I learned all of this while stationed in Okinawa Japan when I was in the Navy.
And he can't be a samurai in a world where there's an entire new race of humans with technology so advanced they created mythological creatures and an apple that can change the world? and Da Vinci make real tanks, the Borgias batshit crazy, and the assassin created in Egypt instead of Iran, to name a few?
@@treychatman6996 being a retainer isn't the same as being a samurai, which is a class of *hereditary* nobility. Come on.
Miyamoto Musashi would’ve been a better choice: not much is known about about his past, double wields swords, one of the greatest dualists, a ronin, and so much more
He wasn’t doing fucking parkour if u want a game like that play ghost of Tsushima idk ppl are getting mad at this game
@twinuzis117 I just started playing that and at least so far there's not a lot of parkour. (Nothing against that game, i've been enjoying it) Also, following your argument, does that mean that Yasuke was doing a lot of parkour?
Unless you were saying play ghosts for more realistic playstyle. If so, ignore that first part of the comment 😊
@@silver9wolf6 Also to support your argument: Assassins creed is a historical fiction game. There are going to be things that didn’t happen in real life-like I’m sure Leonardo Da Vinci didn’t help a man named Ezio. Following Brett’s video-Atleast Miyamoto Musashi is a Japanese man with an incredible background that would be perfect for an Assassin creed game. Yasuke is there not for the sake of representing history but for the sake of having a black character
Musashi is the isolationist and shares no traits with assassins
The fact that Ubisoft chose someone who was considered to be a pet by the emperor over an actual authentic Samurai from that time period in Japanese history just goes to show how obtuse and out of touch they really are.
What source says he was just a pet?
@@jamesdaniels8007 he was basically treated as such cuz of his skin color. a party piece to entertain guests.
@@jamesdaniels8007 Japanese historians
@@jamesdaniels8007 in his head so he has a reason to be mad
Nobunaga was not the emperor. He was the Shogun the military leader. Ogimachi was the emperor.
As a Japanese, I am outraged that UBI did not have Japanese experts supervise the project and failed to conduct historical research, that Yasuke, who was only a slave, became a samurai, and that they confused shrines and temples. In particular, to confuse shrines and temples is not only an insult to all Japanese people living in Japan, but also disrespectful of Japanese culture and traditions. I would call it a game of racism.
As a Japanese, I condemn UBI's attitude.
Ubisoft Tokyo helped in making this game
@@khaoss4024 That's why the accusations are pouring in. Nevertheless, we should also put into perspective the statement made in a Japanese magazine interview that the developers at Ubisoft headquarters used a black man because they couldn't empathize with the Japanese people
@@user-nr4wm4dd7u We’ll see what happens when the gameplay trailer drops
@@user-nr4wm4dd7u Did they really say that??? That's stupid on so many levels and kinda racist.
@@observerf-03p.d39 Unfortunately, it is true. However, as soon as the online article was criticized by the Japanese, he retracted his statement, but still no apology.
how am i the only one who noticed the genius editing when knuckles pops out at @2:29 when Brett says "Nobuganda" instead of Nobunaga lolol I'm dying
Yasuke was a black man in Japan during the 1500s, brought over by an Italian envoy. Nobunaga was a daimyo, this was during the Sengoku period. He noticed the skin tone of Yasuke and hired him from the envoy. He carried tools for him and would do tricks for the townspeople. He later made him a retainer, he could not be a Samurai. Not possible given that you are born, bred, and raised to be a Samurai. There's a reason it carries honor. Nobunaga was later forced to commit Seppuku in a betrayal from one of his vassals known as Akechi Mitsuhide. He went to the residence of Oda Nobutada, the son of Nobunaga, and attempted to engage with Akechi forces where he was captured. The vassal that captured him asked Akechi Mitsuhide what to do with him and he was told, "A black slave is an animal and knows nothing, nor is he Japanese, so do not kill him, and place him in the custody at the cathedral of Padre in India." He survived his injuries, but there are few sources for what happened in the following months and he all but disappears after his recounts with the missionaries, making me personally believe he was attached to another envoy and left the country. The people pushing for him to be something he isn't, is going to create backlash. They're then going to call the backlash, that is pushing for factual information, racism. I also just received news that he may be made gay. As far as everything I've studied about him, he wasn't.
He also wasn't killed after Nobunaga died because he was considered to be sub-human and not worthy of death.
There is likely not one Japanese person that gives a flying f*ck. The dude has appeared in Manga published there, so those people dont really need white dudes in America to be offended on their behalf.
Nobunaga was not an emperor
@@sweetrolldealer Thanks, I fixed it.
Nah it is Racism. The Assassins Creed games have never gone for full historical accuracy. The game is literally about Assassins using old articles like apples to full on Sci Fi wipe them
Yasuke is indeed an interesting historical person... but he wasn't a samurai, he was a sword retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga.
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▪︎ He served Nobunaga as a 'Koshō', which is the equivalent to a ''page''.
▪︎ Yasuke was only given a 'Wakizashi'
▪︎ Samurai carry two swords (a 'Katana' and a 'Wakizashi')
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Japanese historians have said that.
▪︎ They also said/wrote that not all retainers were Samurai.
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Samurai were trained since their childhood.
▪︎ Yasuke was around 25 years old when he arrived to Japan; and he was only for 15 months in Japan (he didn't even speak Japanese).
▪︎ You don't become a Samurai in 15 months.
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He didn't even committed seppuku when Nobunaga was defeated.
▪︎ If he was a Samurai, he would have done it.
▪︎ Instead, he was sold back to the Jesuits.
Lol. Sold? Still threated like a slave?
Lucky it's a video game and not a documentary
"sold back to the Jesuits." Lol after all what Oda Nobunaga did for him as a pet or maid he is still treated like a slave. Tsk tsk
@typhoonf6 Stop worshipping black people, weirdo. It's historically inaccurate (assassin's creed is supposed to be at least somewhat accurate) and disrespectful.
@@shadowlancer45The guy is spreading false information, yasuke was in Japan for 3 years and witnessed Oda Nobunaga’s death
The thing about yasuke is that though he was the first recorded black man in Japan,not much was known about him there's no clear documentation of where he originated from and how he was in battle if he even was in the battle battlefield,the only source I found was that he was never heard of again after he lost a battle and even that was speculation.
An assassin's creed focused on fighting the slave trade would not only give these companies the brownie points they need while also bringing the franchise back to the original games' styles. But instead, they just want us pissed off and fighting over stupid shit.
They already made a game like that although it was more like a dlc to a bigger game, it was alright I guess. But it really feels like they included this character simply to create petty drama online and get people to talk about their upcoming boring ass game. I bet the character itself will have little to nothing interesting about him just like the rest of the game, and I won't care because I will be too busy playing the hell out of gta 6 to remember Assassin's Creed is even a thing.
Freedom cry
Main characters in every Assassin's Creed game have always been fictional characters based on their country of origin. Any historical figure has always been a side character or supporting character. Now, they have made an exception for this game to be based on a real person, an African man in a Japanese land setting, as their main character. They claim he was a historical legendary samurai. who was only in Japan for 13 months, without any surname or wars and battles to his name. He was only a retainer or helper for Oda Nobunaga because of his unique skin at that time. If you say all AC games are fiction, then why make a real person the main character and change history ? Why can't we have both characters be Japanese ?
Tell me more about how Kenway was born and raised in Antigua, Nassau where historically, black people have always been.....
@@kmdreacts What bullshit are you talking about? Bernard was born in Manchester , Edward was born in Swansea , Haytham was born in London , Connor was born in Kanatahséton, Mohawk Valley . So which parallel version of Kenway is born in Antigua? Unless you're pulling stuff out of the ass
@@kmdreactshe wasn’t but that was a pirate game set in the Caribbean, where the point was to play as a pirate, and in that region and at that time, pirates there were pretty much all white; ac freedom cry came out round the same time, 0 ppl complained about playing as adewale, cus he was a great character who made sense with the story and setting. 0 complaints about, Altair, basim, bayek and Connor Kenway, whose stories and settings also matched them. The issue is consistency and things making sense; the shadows choice doesn’t.
He was a samurai for 15 months. Not 13. At the end of the day he was an actual samurai
Assassin's Creed has featured a number of famous historical figures, but Yasuke is the only one that has caused a Wikipedia edit war.
UBI insists that it is only a fictional game, but it is frightening that people are being born who want to revise history.
I'm black and the whole Yasuke debacle is ridiculous. So glad that the trailer got mass downvoted to hell and back.
Looking for acceptance eh? Lol kind of pathetic smh
You're not black 😅. So many black folks excited for this game. Great content creators making great vids easily refuting the hypocrisy from antiwoke crowd.
@@masibeenope. Im black and im buying ghosts of Tsushima instead now. Thanks for finally convincing me to get it sooner. Doesn’t matter how you spin it, a non Japanese samurai will ALWAYS look weird to me.
@@masibee Wow, denying what race someone is just because they don't share the same opinion as you. How low can you go?
@@thedrunkronin4550person is a troll. Anytime someone says their black, he responds with the copy and paste comment
As a Japanese gamer who loves the franchise, I was blown away when they announced the new game set in Japan, I could not be more happier. The fact that I will now have to be playing a black person instead of a character more similar to myself as Japan is a homogenous country anyways, this pissed me off. I doubt any black person would typically want to play some random Japanese dude in an Assassin's Creed game featured in an African country. It's like Japanese people aren't even a race at this point. It's even worse because not only do progressives want to earn "brownie points" they think that Japanese people are completely racist anyways, not just white people.
Yasuke is one of two possible protagonists. If you want to play as an Asian character, just pick the other one. You are literally complaining about nothing
@@denzellmovies Yea, its so much nothing when they also make them both LGBTQ (wtf are they using this terminology for in ancient history).
@@JayceCH. It's an RPG. So they are only gay if you want them to be. And who says they will use that terminology? That claim is based on absolutely nothing
@@denzellmovies Why would even support this??
@@_haneda why would even oppose it?
4:54 NO WAY, you guys used a Maxorz Metal Gear Rising reference! That was beautiful, love to see it. I always like the editing and jokes in the videos you and your team produce but this deserves a shoutout for me.
Ubisoft, a french company, couldn't even get french accents in their french revolution game. Sadly assassin's creed, a game series that helped me ace some history tests in high school, is an extremely sad husk of what it used to be. I replayed the old Ezio games recently and they still hold up amazingly.
Did you play the game with the french dialogue? Because it was pretty fucking amazing and using an accent in a dub is fucking stupid ngl
it's not French it's canadian from montreal
@@crissdace8358How is it stupid? Do you think French people don't sound French anymore when they speak English?
I feel bad gamers just wanna enjoy a good game
Ghost Of Tsushima has us covered. If only there was more of it.
So because the character is black it means that people can't enjoy the game? Is that not racist?
Lollll. The full game costs 130 dollars, it ain’t gonna be a good game
someone gets it🫶
And gamers don't care about race.
"This game is inspired by historical events and characters. It's a work of fiction" Literally at the very beginning of the games this pops up.
Exactly and what is worse is that these ppl don't know history at all
Yeah but I'm pretty sure that if George Washington was fighting for the British in AC3, that would have felt a bit off, no?
@@NPC-vg8kx no not really as there's literally a dlc where he gets corrupted by the apple of Eden.
@@DarksideGmss0513 That's part of the fictional story telling, not the historical presentation. Try again.
They should have done what they did in previous games and just made Yasuke a historical figure you interact with throughout the game. Could have been an interesting and unique character for the story. They could have even built him up for a DLC afterwards like Adewale in AC4. But making him one of the two initial protagonists was asking for trouble.
As an asian man, i am offended by this cultural appropriation and inaccuracy of history.
Have you ever played assassins creed
@@khaoss4024never 100% accurate. Ubisoft likes to fill in gaps with it's own story and make slight changes here and there
@@batalorian7997 like Leonardo Davinci creating a tank that you teach yourself to use, or George Washington turning evil. Edward Kenway traversed the carribeans with colonizers
@@khaoss4024 1) evil Washington was a fantasy created by the Apple 2) driving a renaissance tank around is cool and varies the gameplay.
What’s the reason for an African Samuri?
@@Dennis-nc3vw So creative liberties is fine in other games but exploring a lesser known character isn’t? You understand the whole reason Assassins creed goes to the time periods they go to is because they are generally lesser known. We have at this point at least 5 different games exploring the samurai/assassin concept over and over and over again which is why they decided to make it different by splitting the playstyles into 2 different characters, and since Yasuke has gotten more buzz in the last 6 years, he was a good concept for the combat focused playstyle. Nobody was built like him
OK, forget the embellishing of his role in history. Tell me how a game about stealth and assassinations are supposed to "hide among the shadows", and blend in killing nobles from village to village and castle to castle" He'd literally be the only person out of place!
You forget this is a 2 protagonist game. Yasuke is the brute force protagonist and Naoe is the stealthy assassin protagonist
@@HahahMamamanso he is not going to be an assasin. Fucking dammit
@@HahahMamamanmake it about Naoe then
There have been a couple of Assasins Creed games where you dont actually play as an assasin youre late to the party on that front
@@HahahMamamana woman with a katana strapped to her back is just as good at blending in the crowd as Yasuke.
It's insane, we are all being called ists or bigot's for wanting a JAPANESE Samurai in a game set in Japan. Stinks of sweet baby inc. most of the buildings and back grounds look like China to
There’s a Japanese woman in there. You are racist. It’s okay though you got friends.
If they are going to feature an assassin, they should use hidden clans like the Imbe clan, Kamo clan, or Hata clan rather than Yasuke. The theory that the Hata clan are ancient Israelites fits perfectly with Assassin's Creed and ties in with the story of Assassin's Creed 1!
Given that Nobunaga is connected to the Imbe clan, it would make sense if they based the story on that.
That book is a fiction based on 'two lines' from a historical text.
It's a fanfic.
And now it's considered 'history'
Just like the mythology of the civil war reasons
You can fight a minotaur and medusa in odyssey
Forgot to mention that outrageous price if you want to get the full game experience.
Probably because they didn't actually do research
How much is it like omg 😂
@@crispbacon8155 to get the uncompleted game it costs 100 USD
I honestly think they would've been better off having a Japanese character as the protagonist and having the Japanese character maybe do a tutorial or a quest with Yasuke. Staying in line with the culture and setting, but still being inclusive about another race they are so fixated on. Also, this isn't going to be their first game where a Black is the main character (Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry). I think that if they wanted to have someone who is Black be the main character then they should do a game where the setting is in Africa. This way it's more respectful because they aren't pushing other cultures aside, but rather they're showing and teaching people who play the game the culture that they did/do in Africa.
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The Metatron, a well known historical UA-camr, actually says this was debatable. Yasuke may have been armed, but it says no where in any historical texts that he was a samurai, but then again it never said he wasn't one which is why it's debatable. I think at the very least, Yasuke was just a retainer of the Oda clan, but never mentioned as a samurai. I believe Oda Nobunaga was known to partake and collect exotic things, and Yasuke was the epitome of that.
If you make a series known for historical fiction, where every protagonist has been entirely fictional and the only historical figures you meet are NPCs, but then suddenly turn around and make a character who was REAL and make THEM your protagonist, all whilst actively not making them a native of the cultural setting you put them in and instead use a different minority whose presence in that cultural setting and time period is barely able to be ascertained objectively; then you are pandering. Plain and simple. Ubisoft isn't known for great decisions, but they knew what they were doing when they decided on this. They were trying to pander.
ALSO THEY WANT YOU TO PAY OVER $100 FOR THE COMPLETE EDITION, WHAT DRUGS ARE THESE EXECUTIVES ON???
I read somewhere on twitter that Ubisoft employees even had artwork and plans for a japanese assassin but that Ubi themselves scrapped the idea because of Yasuke.
There's 2 playable characters Naoe is a Japanese woman that's more stealth oriented and then Yasuke that's more combat foused
The original premise goes back around over a decade ago. The plan originally was going to involve the “sword of Eden” which is how that master of Yakusa got so much power. You would’ve played as a monk turned assassin who tries to the recover the sword but it would have been lost at sea to Jesuit missionaries who turned out to be templars. You can find the artwork for it online as the original writer or illustrator decided to put it out.
Are you blind? The girl is the assassin not Yasuke... Typical 14 year old comment
@@MadfireMonkeyAnd she's gay. So you should be DOUBLY happy.
DEI
I'm sure this lady was also fuming when AC oddesey had people like Archidamos and Socrates' live along side Medusa and a minotaur. Or Borgia being a evil templar, or Blackbeard being friends with a guy who was looking for the apple of eden ...
Wait what? Someone who doesnt know anything about the Franchise is outraged because of a black character? If only we knew why!?!???!
Exactly my point. And she knows what she is doing and used a black sellout to talk for her bs and pretending to care about japanese culture yet telling an Asian man who is calling her out for being wrong to shut up
@@kuggacouragegx6093 exactly she dont even kno nothing about the series jumped her dumb ass in just to yap
Blu-eyed Samurai was a very close representation of feudal Japan. During that era, NO NON japanese person was legal to be on the mainland. Even having Blue eyes was a death sentence.
Ah yes. No one would blend into a crowd more inconspicuously than a black man in Japan in the 1580s.
Who cares? It's a video game
@@TVClaireBear
Clearly, quite a lot of people, lol.
@@marhier there's bigger issues to worry about and you chose a video game character🤣
@@TVClaireBear
Be that as it may... Brett cared enough to make a video, and you cared enough to watch it.
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@@marhier its fun to watch conservatives make fools of themselves.😏
They could've made him a protagonist type character when it wasn't "the cool thing to do", but they decided to do it now
I would think from a game design perspective it makes sense to have Yasuke in the game as he is discovering Japan in a similar way that the player does.
If you like it buy it, if you don’t like it don’t buy it, strange how that works out
He was basically a bodyguard/servant for Oda Nobunaga (leader of japan) he was not an actual samurai
A pet of his
he liked people with unusual traits, also he wasnt the leader, there were 3 warlords at that time
@@farmerpandasyoutube4800unifier of Japan*
He was a squire lol. bodyguard is a hilarious stretch. He is the classic example of a dei history character who did nothing similar to how they are depicted in modern times. Same with Joan of Arc who never lead forces into battle like they try to depict today.
@@Winterfellen Joan of Arc did lead forces to battle, but she was more like a military strategist and helped with the moral by being a flagbearer and helping with artillery positioning. What she never did was have an actual head on fight. Heck an important part of her trial for heresy is that everyone claimed she never used a sword or killed anyone directly.
He was only there 15 months. Ohh and they made it worse.. they made them both Gay.
We don't get to play how we want?
Wait what? I literally just commented defending that this game was the one instance where it wasn't being woke. Are you serious about them both being gay?
What????
@@sageoffire3964 It think it's rumors. People love rage baiting and benefitting from a culture war. Just wait and see.
@@sageoffire3964 Yes. The dev said they're LGBTQ.
Not to mention there were people rewriting the wiki page for Yasuke to try to fit the narrative. And the cofounder (co-ceo?) of Sweet Baby Inc was found in an image of the dev team...
I feel second hand embarrassment for these people on UA-cam who seems to be hating on the game before any gameplay has been revealed. All we saw was a simple trailer and people lose their shit. It's honestly pathetic and childish, it's embarrassing.
He wasn't even a Samurai in real life. He was what they would consider a squire. The lord he served considered him an exotic guest. He is the classic example of a dei history character who did nothing similar to how they are depicted in modern times. Same with Joan of Arc who never lead forces into battle like they try to depict today.
Did contemporary sources say that he was actually from Africa? Or did they just use the Japanese term for "dark-skinned," which could be just about anyone from the Pacific Islands or Indian subcontinent?
@@cmc5394oparva he was brought to Japan by Portuguese missioneers from modern territory of Mozambique
Joa of Arc most certainly did command some troops. She wasn't a soldier but she had command and rights to command from the French King.. there's many accounts..
So no she didn't fight in the front ranks but was a legitimate commander of the armies of the French, with the kings blessings. There's lots of examples of interesting people in different worlds then they are used to.
Look at Queen Boudica for example, she was a real queen who after her husband's death and betrayal of Rome, lead the Iceni of Brittany in a murderous rampage through Roman-Britian defeating many armies and even burning down a large city...
But I agree DEI is how we get stupid stories like the black samurai who wasn't even a real samurai.
Except that there is no such thing as a "Squire" class. He was a bodyguard and servant, as a retainer to his master, and was expected to be trained in military warfare, which is the role of the samurai.
Dude its a GAME. Assasins creed games always embelish the more exciting parts of history to make their games sell this is no different
My wife loves the Assasins Creed games she's also Japanese and a direct descendant of Samurai and she isnt happy about this at all. That dude wasnt even a Samurai he was a retainer.
as the asian wife who's played every game since the series' inception; me too... i think this is officially the first one i pass on which is sad because the series was sooo good
Assassin’s creed Valhalla was based on Vikings, Assasins creed odyssey was based on Egypt so the main character was Egyptian which makes complete sense and yet some how Assasins creed Shadow “Samurai” is based on some black guy who wasn’t even a samurai. Out of all the characters in Japanese history they could’ve picked they chose a guy who wasn’t even a samurai. I’m angry for my Japanese brothers man🤦🏾♂️
Origins was based in Egypt, Odyssey was based in Greece and the Greek Islands.
@@Holycurative9610 yeah your right I meant origins
Japanese Samurai: Hattori Hanzō 1542 - 1597.
Brett watching shogun is the greatest moment in this episode
I did watch Shogun. tbh, it was a slow burn. lots of talking and whispering in the show.
barely anything interesting happened.
also, because the TV show is foreign and characters talked in Japanese, I wasn't as invested in secondary characters at all.
the evil rival Torunaga and that woman, the wife if the dead shogun were boring as hell to watch.
@@LevisH21I haven’t watched it but I’ve heard from bill burr Joe Rogan and now Brett cooper that it’s good
Same goes for Brett watching anime and doing anime reactions
Why? The new shogun series is pretty bad making changes to the female characters until they are boderline unrecognizable and downgrading blackthorn to the point he's kind of a putz.
The 80s verion Is so much better its absurd
I like how they glorified Yasuke this much when in reality he was considered an oddity at best
Then explain the warriors stipend please?
@@user-ok7kz8ru2q stipend is rice. He was feed.
Did you want one in lead of the movie Shogun too? Or because that was a white dude in a beard, THAT wasn't considered "woke"?
@@bukhariapdelahi7072William Adams was actually a major advisor to the Shogun and helped turn the Shogunate against the Catholic church.
In other words he changed human history in a major way.
Why wouldn't they glorify him? All Assasins Creed game twist history to make it more exciting and easier to sell, this is no different
So we not gonna talk abt Naoe? The other female Japanese protagonist the players can choose to play as?
Samurai does mean to serve in japanese however in yasuke's case all he ever did was serve he was never an actual samurai there is no actual record yasuke being a real samurai
The Kingdom of Mali would make a fantastic location for an Assassin's Creed game. There's some amazing legendary history to work with there
But the main character needs to be white or asian
@@lottoo5693 nah, it's just RDJ in blackface from Tropic Thunder, except he's trans.
The lost knowledge of Timbuktu is such a great stepping stone for Assassin's Creed/Serious Sam/Indiana Jones plot.
@@lottoo5693I'd like to add.
I should add that we adopted a white or Asian person to be our point of view.
If Egypt can sue Netflix, then Japan should sue Ubisoft
Why would they sue them?Cause they use a real story about a real people? WHY DOES EVERYBODY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS SHII?
Unlike in the case of Egypt this one is not a documentary. Technically it is a mere fictitious game. Japanese kind of forgiving though. It is like a slap in their face but nah it is just a game my Japanese coworker said. But they're still disappointed AF.
@@zsombor9775this real person wasnt a samurai.
@@lottoo5693he actually was😂 woke people are only and you non-wokes are just back tracking racist type💀🙏
They failed to mention that you play as a Japanese assassin woman and Yasuke
also there was an article during the original announcement last year that they were going to use yasuke as the main male protagonist and no one said anything
Wouldn't be interesting if the main character of Shadows was ronin, failing to save his lord at the beginning of the game at the hands of the Templars. He then Joins the assassin's, learns how to become an assassin and kill those responsible and avenging his lord and clan.
That would be a good premise.
I mean that’s the basic premise of Ghost of Tsushima without the Assassin’s Creed factions.
@@daRealB-Rex well you got me there. Ghost was a great game!
@@brokengiblet7271 oh for sure. I loved it, really hoping the rumored sequel comes out this year too so it can put Shadows in its place 😆
@daRealB-Rex OH same here friend. I'd love a sequel and would interested what they would tell! Would they canonize one of the endings or leave it ambiguous? And yes, to watch it destroy shadows. I do wanna see how Shadows gameplay will be.
This re-writing of history is pissing me off
boy I wonder if you played any other assassin's creed game, every SINGLE one of them rewrites history.
None of them are historically accurate so why get pissed off at this one?
@@abak3d_potato498 as little as possible and that was part of their appeal. For example the creators bragged about how all nine targets you killed in the first game actually died in 1191. Stop these mind games. Assassin’s Creed is not like Prey 2017. Now THAT’S a game that rewrites history.
@@crashcooper2330 stop these mind games, they obviously go to great lengths to be historically accurate. Why do you think you nonsensically spare the Pope in AC2? Because he didn’t die that year.
@@Dennis-nc3vwYeah but it's work of fiction
Yasuke was a real man but his story has been inaccurately told to make him more interesting. With that being said why do African Americans want to be everything but African?😭
I guess they're embarrassed by their own culture? I still love African history tho
@@NetBattleryall be dickriding us so bad 😂
This ain’t got NOTHING to do with African Americans 😂😂 living in yall head rent free
Yasuke is not a samurai. He’s a retainer.
Yes he was. And stupid do u even know what a retainer is
What's your point? It's a FICTIONAL GAME
@@Zelinkondorf We want to make every Assassins Creed game historically accurate… Sound familiar? It should.
@SomeBlankBullets show me the real Altair. Show me the real Ezio. Show me the real Connor etc.
@@Zelinkondorf You are mentally unstable… I’ll let you be.
Yasuke was never a samurai though. We only know about him because of two sentences in a diary or journal.
He was described as being ordered to carry Nobunaga's tools and to perform tricks for Nobunaga's guests. He was never in battle, he was never given a clan name, he never held land. It's like claiming a medieval jester was the equivalent to a Baron or Count.
The man was a jester but white westerners go, 'OOOOOH SAMURAI!" You guys need to cover the Wiki edit war over whether or not Yasuke was a samurai.
FFS we've already had a black samurai in media, "Afro Samurai"
Your wrong. He did own land. He had his own servants. He fought in 2 battles. He had a warriors stipend, which were only given to samurai. Nobunaga considered him a close friend inviting Yasuke to dine with him and allowed him to enter his private quarters. Everything I just said couldn’t apply to a servant or jester. Especially the warriors stipend. That alone is proof that he was a samurai
Except he was a samurai
Still not japanese.
@@HahahMamaman Nobunaga in his journals never mentioned Yasuke. I doubt he was that significant part of Nobunagas life. There is only one battle that people are sure Yasuke was a part of the Hanno-ji battle were he surrendered. He was also asked to dance the make Nobunaga and his guests laugh while serving them.
if Yasuke was a samurai his name would be well documented just like William Adams. He didn't own land, only house, he was not a samurai, Yasuke contributed nothing to the Japanese. Use your common sense guys.
That entire book is based of half a paragraph from one guys journal, in which Yasuke is never described as a Samurai. The book might as well be fiction.
It is fiction 😂
I’m not sure which journal you are referring to, but in a Japanese lords journal he states that Yasuke received a warriors stipend, which were only given to samurai.
@HahahMamaman He was the equivalent of a national guardsman. A reserve soldier who would don the title of a samurai when needed to aid in protecting the kingdom. So, technically he was a samurai and technically he wasn't.
@@kingcold5252 why do always whites complain?? when did japan become white
i bet you are pale mayo skin type
I'm more surprised people are still giving Ubisoft money after the downfall of the quality of their games, the aggressive microtransactions, and the anti consumer mindset that gamers "will never own the games they buy".
Its really not that deep, so many people are getting so touched by this when the real problem is the stupidity of the price.
For real people are talking about a 130 version but there's also a 280 version and it's already sold out in some places. 280 bucks and all these people have seen is a 3 minute cinematic trailer
As a gamer I personally don't care about the gender/color of the protagonist I play, just the story and the gameplay. But choosing someone who would stand out in a assassins creed game out of all things is kinda an odd choice.
Also Yasuke needs his own movie/video game/tv series, he just sounds so badass.
He already has more media about him than any real samurai.
Netflix did a yasuke anime, it was pretty cool tbh, but having him in a ac game as a samurai when you could have chosen miyamoto musashi would’ve been so much cooler
"Cultural appropriation" for thee, but not for me!
every race appropriates culture
But it's only racist if white people play non-white characters
@@clw9680they especially appropriate black culture the most 🤣🤣
@@fruke2629 i know right..... black culture is the most appropriated by every race.
Its okay if its black.
They already made an assassins creed game in Africa, it was called assassins creed origin and took place in the country of Egypt, Africa
There actually was an assassins creed game in Egypt, and I’m pretty sure there have been at least 3 black protagonists in the assassins creed games
You're correct
▪︎ Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (Aveline de Grandpré)
▪︎ Assassin's Creed: Black Flag - Freedom Cry (Adéwalé)
▪︎ Assassin's Creed: Origins (Bayek)
@@tatianaoliveira2191those are dlcs lol there's only one and even that mc got backlash.
@@crissdace8358 and there isn’t an Asian man assassin playable in AC AAA game.
@@snowshock8958 the Japanese protagonist doesn't count because she's a woman? That's ignoring the other Asian mc who's Chinese. That's two it's funny because Asians and black people are the most represented in AC. people just wanted a big title set in Japan a Japanese assassin was technically optional they honestly could've made the assasin literally any race. The people complaining about diversity are the same people advocating for it kinda funny ngl.
@@crissdace8358 Yes she count but she isn’t a man. So it is fine for east Asian people to only get female representation in AC? Unless you insinuate east Asian men and female are the same… lol that doesn’t look good for you. You know just like how we had counterparts for the canon heroine Kassandra and Eivor or even Evie. Then explained to me why aren’t they the only playable character? Come on give me an answer. I will know if you dodge/avoid it.
I will never forgive brett for reading TRIPLE A as ''AAA''
Maybe it’s a joke about why it’s AAA.
It’s no longer so good, it’s graded as a triple A. They now push what they want “A [race],” with a certain gameplay style “A [type],” with either an overcharged price or a ton of loot boxes and pay-to-win “A check.”
弥助はただの召使。侍じゃない。妄想すごいですね
Their two main characters one Japanese and they're so late to the party with the setting. With other game that have already been made like a ghost , ronin, nioh and sekiro. People have been asking for a game set in Japan for years. They came late to the party and now they have to make their game stand out more than the others that came before it. as it will become paired with
Yasuke wasn’t a warrior, he was Oda Nobunaga’s attendant and sword bearer. He was enlisted in Nobunaga’s army, but I haven’t seen anything that says he was a renowned warrior. He wasn’t in Nobunaga’s company for very long either, and his life after his service is completely unknown.
We wuz samurai n sheit
we wuz white and got trigged for other people, pale people are so cringe cry harder
Really? That's your best impression? 😂
Bix Nood
The music you listen to was made by black people
@@fruke2629 Frank and Dean weren't black. I listen to Sammy, but he was a Jew like me.
There are literally 3 AC games with black leads that I can think of on the top of my head…
1. Assassins Creed 3 Liberation
2. Assassins Creed 4 Freedom Cry
3. Assassins Creed Origins
Wait till she realizes Afro Samurai is a popular anime...
Always entertained by your content, it's awesome!
As someone who knows japan history and Japanese people, there is NO WAY yasuke was samurai!!!! They bought him as a slave because they thought he is interesting thing, they even washed him so hard to turn Waite because they couldn’t believe that is his actual skin color!! An a non black person I found this so disrespectful to him and Japanese people!!! But to be honest im not surprised
Then why does it say that he was a samurai everywhere? Do I believe random in UA-cam comments or multiple sources? Hmmm
@@endubless it doesn't say he's say samurai everywhere ,its an assumption at most and in stories they take liberties to make it sound cool . There's no concrete proof he's a samurai because how poorly stuff are documented about him . He's what you call a retainer the European equivalent of that would be Squire
@@endublessbelieve what the Japanese say about it, not Wikipedia. Nobunaga wanted to keep him close because he was unique so he gave him the title but no property. So he may have been samurai in name only, if he was called a samurai at all.
@@BullyMaguireTheAbsolute retainers can be samurai too though to be fair
more likely he was a jester
The reason this is so obviously a DEI case that no one has brought up is that in previous Assassin's Creed titles we have *never* played as a real known historical figure. The player has always interacted with historical figures and such, but never actually been a historical figure. And secondly, the fact that Sasuke himself either can't do or has very limited stealth capabilities, even according to the developers themselves. What is the point of having a character in a stealth title that only has a limited capability to do stealth? It is ridiculous.
If they wanted to use Yasuke, he should have been a supporting character, not a main character. Maybe he could have an amicable relationship with the player character and their different strengths could contrast, since the player character would be operating in the shadows while Yasuke in the service of his lord was an extremely public figure. Perhaps during a major event in the game, Oba Nobunaga would send Yasuke and a team of samurai to aid the player. Yasuke, using his impressive strength would be able to ostensibly shift a lot of attention away from the player, allowing them to focus on their main objective.
But no, that would require competent storytelling, instead they are shoving him in the game for diversity brownie points.
So if they did a game about Sub Sahara African combat will they put in Philippinos?
If it was a real person that was in that area, no problem. The argument falls apart when you find he was a historical figure.
@@williamherring2349Who was also a pet, not a samurai and was considered sub-human. Also, you say this but then have no problem when they blackwash historical white people.
They could have used many other japanese males who were historical figures for that era in a game where the big selling point and hype was finally getting an ac game based on asian culture themes and aesthetic.Yet they went with the one african who at the time only amounted to really being just a footnote in history. People would have also felt wrong about it if it was a white guy too btw. Bottomline should have had an asian male lead as well as they are under represented and if Yasuke was a side character that had his own full length dlc nobody would have batted an eye and probably even embraced his character as well.@williamherring2349
@@williamherring2349 actually ubisoft just now announced that the black samurai and his companion are lgbtq2s
@@williamherring2349he wasnt an samurai tho.
Love your style, keep rocking it!
If Ubisoft really want black representation, it seems like they forget 2 main black protagonists: Adewale (AC Freedom Cry) and Aveline (ACIII Liberation). I get it, their games are not mainstream but still they already existed with other black characters (like Baptiste and maybe Achilles)
I'm a huge AC fan from South East Asia, and I never cry nor care about the fact that there is no SEA characters (yet) in an AC game. It's really ironic that AC Mirage kind of returned to their roots because of fans' criticisms... then about a year later this thing happens. AC games used to be interesting by giving twists to historical figures and events, now they are inserting their politics.
people are almost marching for this topic, let videogames be videogames and complain about the real issue, that they are charging over 100 usd for the special edition
I didn’t know that I needed to see Brett talk about assassin’s Creed. This literally made my day.🤣🤣🤣
I would not recommend that book. It is western fiction about a person that was nothing more than a foot note in history. He was a retainer he carried Nobunaga sword. He was given a house, and when he first met the Lord, he was asked to strip down in the street and wash his skin, because they had never seen anyone like him in 1500 Japan to Nobunaga he was a novelty. He was a pet.