so not only they decided to butcher japanese culture but also decided to add hip hop because Yasuke happens to be black? how "inclusive" and "progressive" of them!
Yup, it's almost like these people are too bigotéd to know the difference, who would of thought that the people that are râcist against whité men are also râcist against other races.
@@cohenvale6342well the speculation is that he was from Mozambique, but there’s no way to know for sure, the first ever recorded mention of Yasuke isn’t even by name (another thing we’ll never know about him) in the Jesuit Missionary reports of Alessandro Valignano in 1579 when he first arrived in Japan, and the next mention is nearly a year and a half later in 1581 in the Shinchu Koki “on the 23rd day of the 2nd month, a black Paige came from the Christian Countries, he appears to be about 26 or 27, roughly 7’ tall, with skin as black as an ox, and possessing the strength of 10 men,” the Maeda clan Archives expand on this meeting saying “the black man was taken into lord Nobunaga’s service. He was given a home, a short sword, and Vassalage,” after that he’s only spotted at 3 skirmishes over the next year or so Tenmokuzan, Honouji, and Yamazaki, after being “returned” to the Jesuits he disappears from history, I say returned because there’s no confirmation he was a slave in 1579 and likely wouldn’t have been treated as one in 1582. He may have started as a slave but based on the vague implications in Valignano’s reports, it’s possible he was already a freedman hired on as a type of mercenary body guard. Beyond that we really know next to nothing about him
I will *" NEVER "* allow any racist "blackwashing" of either japanese Character *OR* of actually real historical, japanese People who actually existed. 100.000% Boycot.
To quote fallout 3: "You have lost Karma" To quote Fallout New Vegas: "For your overwhelmingly monstrous behavior, you have become vilified by the community."
@@Dorian_Scott dude! Or dudette! Gotta sit down and play it… you won’t be disappointed… I’d recommend getting Fallout 3 off Steam if you got a PC or perhaps play it through either of the console passes that let ya access older games
Thats what most likely going to happened. Thats what happened when a bunch of racist people trying to preach others about diversity and not being a racist.
I will *" NEVER "* allow any racist "blackwashing" of either japanese Character *OR* of actually real historical, japanese People who actually existed. 100.000% Boycot.
@@AszkalonOfVerra like how I'm writing a story about a Kunoichi and her younger brother who are survivors of their Ninja Clan that gets destroyed by the enemy Shadow Ninja Clan. And it they're all fictional
If they wanted to make a game that takes place in Japan, they should have gotten… y’know… actual Japanese people that know their culture to help make it as accurate as possible?
I am so sad by how this assassins creed game is turning out. This could have been the best assassins creed yet but then Ubisoft had to muck it up with virtue signaling bullshit.
@silverrider99 you can put thr game on a lower difficulty and use in game items to either just take hits or make parrying easier you can also play stealthy as well as make use of stsnces and items to not need to parry or counter at all
Well they refused to make one set in Japan despite fans asking since AC1. And now that they do it's kind of sloppy. Makes you wonder what they think about Japan.
Ghost of Tsushima was attacked becuase it was racist to make a game Japanese people approved of, and AC will be defended by those same people despite the displeasure.
They were pissed off that a white guy was playing a traditional flute and say that it was cultural appropriation, when in reality he is a person that is more diverse in Japanese culture.
It's not about principles but power to these people. "Their people" can make anything as racist as possible, but _you_ better stay in your lane, or else.
This game was mishandled so much all in the name of representation and inclusivity. People claiming they're doing good while doing bad. Holy shit Elone Muskibidi was right.
Just like progressives of 100 years ago such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, she talked often of how awful slavery was yet simultaneously argued that black people should be conscripted... to be forced to work in state-organized agriculture programs. Which is just slavery but for different reasons.
And people dare blame US for complaining about it. I get the point of inclusivity (don't necessarily fully agree with it) but too much is too much. Didn't see a transgender asian guy in Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
He's not meant to hide in plain sight dummy. There's two different play styles. If you want the traditional assassin play style you play as Naoe, if you want to play as a Samurai you play as Yasuke.
Ubisoft is trying to implement the dual protagonists in this game like in Syndicate which is cool. Despite that, the marketing team is just pure racist for thinking, "Yeah, let's put hip-hop song to 'appropriately' portrays the black people
@@DarksideGmss0513 I guess it's too much to expect the protagonists of an Assassin's Creed game to be sneaky like Assassins. Just like it's too much to expect the only black man in the country to not have a hip-hop jingle
It's arguable, there's a study done from the history university of tokyo, one of the most prestigious institute in history research in japan, and it proves yasuke was kind of a samurai, it's too detailed just search it up, if you need i'll send source
@@MarcoFi-uy8hv During the Azuchi-Momoyama period, Japanese samurai had surnames, but those of lower rank did not. In other words, Yasuke was probably not of a rank that could be called a samurai. Translated by Google.
@@Nekodesu8885 my bad i didn't see the "read more" anyway the name of the professor is Kaneko Hiraku, 然に彼黒坊被成御扶持、名をハ号弥助と、さや巻之のし付幷私宅等迄被仰付、依時御道具なともたさせられ候、 This black man called Yasuke was given a stipend, a private residence, etc., and was given a short sword with a decorative sheath. He is sometimes seen in the role of weapon bearer. People usually argue about the fact that a stipend was given to anyone, but in the Chronicles of Ota Gyuichi, the word stipend was without any exception given to a samurai. By this information we can deduce that he was a koshō, which although they were only weapon carrier they were still samurai, he was also given a residence and followed nobunaga in the Takeda campaign and fought w a katana at Nijō
@@xyz-ml9ff Yeah but one of the things they cared about was slotting AC into history as if it could have happened. For instance in AC1 the targets you go after were real and all disappeared or died with no record of how it happened, so as to say "oh yeah the assassin did it!" just little touches like that. Famously also you couldn't swim since apparently back then no one knew how, again little touches. But suddenly they decide to use an actual historical person as the player character but completely butcher it.
It doesn’t make sense.. it’s the FIRST time commoners ever seen a. Giant.. let alone a black guy.. There is a reason why white and black people were called white guy. Black guy. Ghost.. like litearl translation.. Montreal is such a racist place.
@@spitz6784 The word that translates to retainer means anyone under someone. Gardener, cleaner, housemaid. You can't use a translated word to argue something if you don't know the meaning and explain it.
Maybe next game will be in Somalia.... with Japanese protagonist lol. Or maybe an European, there were 1000s Europeans in African history, all of them 1000 times more important and relevant than 'yasuke' in Japan. But that would be 'racist' eh
I’m getting Black Panther flashbacks, a story supposedly all about actual Africans dropping hip hop in there because how else are African Americans gonna feel all proud and shit?
And the movie was given awards and one of the highest revenue movies of the year so what's your point that you hate on popular entertainment because yeah I see that 😂
@@toasterowens8916 African American is not African, they’re two completely separate cultures. Hip Hop and Rap is specifically African American. Not African. So playing hip hop for African’s is like saying that you should play the Star Spangled Banner for the British, one culture came from the other but they’re completely different. Which means the only reasons you’d use rap for an African is either A. You think all Black people are same (but specifically you think they’re all African American) or B. You’re ignoring the actual culture of Africa because the game is made for the socially inept political activist types who whine about “muh representation” and since their world view is entirely America centric, Black people = Rap
Truth is: none of these 'afrocentric' black racists from Merica, don't care about Africa at all.. most of them can't find Africa on the map.... or the map. But they are always first to defend every Woke cult bs, simply because they are the worst racists in existence...
besides Yasuke himself, there's so many details wrong about their depiction of Japan in pretty much every single scene, I'd imagine they didn't do any homework themselves and simply relied on AI with little supervision. I mean, some people in Japan were talking about; 1) how they even got the letter for Yasuke (弥助) wrong, 2) on Yasuke's armor (which is weird to see Yasuke wearing outside of battle field, on many levels) there was symbol for Oda clan but upside down, an offense that can be more than enough for Oda Nobunaga to have Yasuke beheaded.... 3) there's matchlock gunners carrying banner with 関ヶ原鉄砲隊, which is a name of a group of modern historical re-enactment.... 4) burning incense in Shinto Shrine (burning incense is for Buddhist temple) 5) Torii gate at an entrance of a village with no Shrine in sight
The story of Yasuke is probably not so cool, from the little we know about him he was just a slave owned by a Portuguese sailor sold Yasuke in Japan to continue to work as a servant. There's really nothing to say he had any sort of armed combatant role. This is the overwhelming way that black people ended up on Portuguese ships in that time period.
he was a servant of nobunaga, who liked different things, beyond having him as one of his guards, his sole role was to return nobunaga head to his family, thats it, other things beyond that are pure fanfiction
@@15rafabor what's your source on that head factoid? from what i recall, Nobunaga's head was never recovered, but Yasuke was known to have been captured by Mitsuhide after Honnoji (which is where history gets iffy on his fate of either being killed or sold/kicked out of Japan), if he had the head them Mitsuhide would have gotten it at that point.
@@15rafaborthat’s the sad part about yasuke. There is so little information about him that making any thing historically accurate about him will barely give you any content to create. There is a reason why all of his depictions and adaptations of him are pure fiction.
They made him bathe to show that his color couldn’t be washed off. How the hell are you going to think Nobunaga was some amazing progressive mind this long ago and cry racism in modern day America. Ubisoft chose the backdrop of a country with so many great historical figures, and they literally picked the only black dude in the country with no real recorded history. He was a glorified sword caddy and dick washer.
The problem with this game is that it advertises it as historical fact. If it had been promoted on the premise that it was a completely fictional story, this wouldn't have been an issue. Nobunaga freed him from slavery and hired him, but he was not given a surname. If he could fight, why did he not do anything when Nobunaga was killed? The samurai who found him after the war thought that Yasuke had nothing to do with the battle between the samurai. Therefore, Yasuke was let go and his whereabouts are unknown. The problems with this game are as follows: "Martin Luther King Jr was merely a portable shrine held up by a powerful white man with a good heart. This is a historical fact." "Edison was not a great inventor, but a simple businessman who collected ideas from his talented black subordinates and made them into a business." "Haiti gained independence in 1804 thanks to the efforts of those with white blood, and black people alone could not have done such a thing." Japanese people feel discriminated against because the creators of this game think it is okay to treat Japanese history in this way. In fact, some people have fabricated proverbs that do not exist in Japan, such as the following, in relation to the drama "Shogun." 「There's a Japanese proverb that says for a Samurai tobe brave, he must have abit of Black blood. (William Spivey, Mar 8, 2024)」
Stop being a hypocrite. By your logic the white team who made Ghost of Tushima are pandering and terrible people too. The picture doesn't mean anything. I think if white people want to make a game about Japan or what not, they should. No different from any other race or culture. Make a better argument.
I will *" NEVER "* allow any racist "blackwashing" of either japanese Character *OR* of actually real historical, japanese People who actually existed. 100.000% Boycot.
@@AszkalonOfVerra Yasuke was a lesser known, genuine African samurai in Japanese history, so I'll give you a pass on not knowing that. Calling this "blackwashing" is crazy. Having an in-game hiphop battle theme is also crazy. (edit) My crazy theory, Ubisoft is using modern Internet discourse to both promote the game and distract from the ridiculous price tag.
@@vanderin I give You a fair Fifty-Fifty Chance of that being the Truth. That being said : i won't believe it anytime soon before i didn't found legit Scources confirming the Existence of a "black" Samurai. Next You are telling me there were black Nobles in Europe in the Fourteenth Century or something.
As a Japanese, I'd like to play a Far Cry game set in a Japanese remote island dominated by fanatical and militant shinto sect who think the Pacific War is not over and consider us mainlanders degenerates. Gotta be more hilarious than AC Shadows.
@@Steelhart69420 Of course but unlike Assassin's Creed, Far Cry has interesting villains, crooked humor, enjoyable exploration and combat, good playlist for in-game radio...the gameplay can become repetitive though.
Journos were crying r*cism against Ghosts of Tsushima, but had the audacity to insult an entire country's history for a delusion... Did Ubisoft and SBI learn anything from Netflix and their Cleopatra fiasco?
@@alvinjan3486 If people who would have bought it, aren't, then it isn't selling well. Corpos are greedy trolls, they don't care about making money, only about making MORE money. Make the Line go up, and all that. If Corpos could force everyone to buy a copy, even if they would never play it, they would.
@@alvinjan3486Because the brainrot people are buying it. I don’t mind what games you play, you can play them, but it’s not gonna stop me from making fun of you for your garbage taste.
yep will definitely buy it because only negative thing i see is the black guy as a samurai i cant believe so many racist people accuse ubisoft of racism while theyre clearly racist themself, literally most japanese are racist thats just a fact, even as an anime fan i cannot deny that fact, its just cringe how people think theres a culture on this world that is entirely perfect
@@stiegelzeine2186 that's a dumb argument you have there. It's also just not Yasuke that Japan is complaining about. But regardless the backlash or complains we've seen, pretty sure the game will still sell well because its an AC game.
Ubislop couldn't find any Asian instruments played by Asian music artists for their game trailer of an Asian based game? Tell us you don't give two (2) sh!ts about another country's culture without telling us you don't give two (2) $]-[1tz
Sounds a BIT like there's a shamishen in there, but yeah- hip hop, instead of something more traditional or authentic. The influx of "ninja" movies in the 80s is starting to feel more genuine.
Now we’re angry mainly because they put Chinese subs on the trailer for Japan, and now they’re saying Japanese people who are accusing assassin’s creed shadows are the racists! WTF! They don’t even realize what they’re doing lol
@@emodante1084 Pre-orders are strong and Japan was #1 for multiple days. You people are in a echo chamber. As you said, It's Assassins Creed and a majority of people just like games and aren't seething online.
Lol, Assassin Creed is the strongest game for Ubisoft. Most, if not all, AC games do well. You guys live in an echo chamber. Chances are the game will do good because most people don't care about the nonsense you guys keep saying lmao. Personal opinion, AC shadows will probably be average. That really depends on the combat. I hate the new hack and slash combat. So maybe the new combat will be better.
Most gamers are 9-5 normies who just buy whatever game looks cool to play after they come how. They don't know about the controversy. All they care about is "oh, a new game from a franchise I know of is out" and need nothing more. I'm quite envious of them tbh. Ignorance is bliss. I miss the times where I was less critical and just enjoyed what I had :/
Hopefully the next Yakuza game'll be set in Paris (with Ubisoft's HQ spawning the "game dev" and "reddit mod" factions), and with it the local stereotypes we all know and love -- including the lovely people checking people's luggage at CDG.
Yasuke would have made a great NPC, seeing as how he's an actual famous figure. Making him the main character opens up the narrative to a ton of historical conflicts and runs the risk of him devolving into the infamous "murder hobo" trope when in actual gameplay. The main character NEEDS to be an unsung nobody specifically to prevent these conflicts.
Choosing Yasuke to represent the japanese samurai in AC is like combing nigerian history for one white person of note, then making them an MC in a game loosely based on Nigerian history.
I've thought recently, Shadows won't even stand a chance with the progressive audience it tries so hard to appeal to once progressives have had a chance to stew on it for longer. A game called "Shadows," about an African man, has the same energy as Bem from HP and the prisoner of Azkaban saying shit like "Black could be anywhere" or "it's like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands." Now they're marketing the game by showing the African man wantonly decapitating Asians. Not only that, but the majority of the player base will likely be white progressives controlling the African man who is wantonly decapitating Asians. Who tf is this game even for???
Nobody. Or rather clueless investors who understand nothing about gaming culture and even less on diversity and equality, but only on paper because they would probably never actually play the thing
If Yasuke were truly an important figure, he would have appeared in Japanese games and anime at least 50 times by now-40 times as a muscular great hero and 10 times as a super beautiful girl.
He has appeared in multiple Japanese games. Nioh and Dynasty warriors. There’s black samurai characters based around him like Nagoryuki from guilty gear. He just had a (terrible) anime.
From my understanding historically samurai could kill civilians if they felt like their honour was being questioned or insulted but Ubisoft seems to have dailed it up to 11 and basically made a mockery out of it
Also what I didnt understand is that you have a local samurai who should be the owner or a very highly esteemed person and then you have a random samurai of Nobunaga who just wents in and murders a group of samurai just because someone was hungry...
@@jirdan4870 the best modern example is a another country's/state's police officer trying to enforce a search warrant out of their jurisdiction. But Hidden Ones making Yasuke the public face or openly known enforcer of Oda Nobunaga warring against the Templar faction or aligned Lords
That's more a defense in court than a strict "I can summarily execute you for insulting me" it's a severe provocation that may - MAY - be excused if they lash out in retaliation. It's a bit like the old stories "medieval men used to sell their wives at the local market" yes, kinda, but it's not the way you think.
Im so disappointed… i’ve always wanted an assassin creed game based in east asia as i find east asian culture so interesting and beautiful and thought it would be amazing to explore ancient east asia as an assassin! Ive waited YEARS for this… only to realise how badly they’ve butchered this opportunity.
I’m Japanese.🇯🇵 It's strange that Yasuke is a samurai. He is no more than a servant. Explain the historical background of Japan and the existence of materials. A time when farmers and merchants carried swords, and there was no definition of samurai. It would be unreasonable to define him as a samurai just by holding a sword, and in the first place there is no material that treats him as a samurai. Regarding materials related to Yasuke, the only primary source is the Jesuit Japan Annual Report, which may have been written in later years, and the Ietada Diary, Nobunaga Ki, and Nobunaga Kouki are considered secondary sources. And there is no information that Yasuke was a samurai. Moreover, one year after he served Nobunaga, the Honnoji Incident occurred and he was returned to the missionaries, so he had no time to learn about culture and political strategy. Even if he were given a position, he would not be a samurai who would wear armor and fight or participate in politics. I want you to stop bullshit…..!!!
As a assassin's creed fan genuinely hate what they are doing an there were so many cool Japanese assassin's in history they could have used an didn't I think I'll just out right skip this game even tho I have been begging for a game set their for years but the fact that they haven't even been using Japanese architecture but Chinese is just plain disrespectful at least be accurate to the region you are portraying......
The setting of the AC games have always served to celebrate a certain place and its culture at a particular time in history and the main character is usually a native of that location because it serves as a motive to rid it of evil but now with this game they’ve gone out of their way to find a non Japanese protagonist and essentially made all of Japan into a virtual effigy by having him hack and slash its people.
@l0sts0ul89 No what you just said is a lie. Not EVERY other dual protag game has it. So you are wrong there. But even if it wasnt. Why is it important in a fictional world?
@@norlout The other character doesn’t even matter at this point. The reality is that Yasuke has now been made the face of “Assassin’s Creed in Japan” which just does not sound right. Ubisoft should’ve known better. They knew what the fans wanted. It was simple and easy. A layup. The whole reason we’ve been asking for AC in Japan for over a decade is because it just makes sense to have a shinobi as a member of the creed. What doesn’t make sense is to spotlight a guy who was famous for being a black samurai. Yasuke would’ve worked fine as a side character but Ubisoft just had to subvert our expectations. They knew it would be outrageous. They’re obviously convinced that a game won’t sell if it’s not controversial. No such thing as bad publicity and all that.
Their "diversity" is a myth I'm a mix of Indian, Malay, Spanish, Chinese, and West African, basically a living manifestation of diversity, and I like the things white people like.
I am going to make a game set during the Zulu Wars and have an Irish man be the main protagonist and whenever he fights tribesmen, U2 is going to be layered into the African music.
Well, definitely more Irish people lived in Africa in late 19th century than Africans in Japan in 16th century. So yeah, your game would be 100x more accurate 😀
Considering the lenght the AC Mirage team went through to faithfully restore Baghdad and it's culture, it must be awful to see how another team just tramples over another culture.
well we know ubisoft isn't. Also, If ubisoft truly cared, they would've done japan a long time ago. They are only doing it because ghost of tsushima did amazing and just like how witcher 3 sold well also is another reason why the games were lukewarm rpgs.
@@atomic747exactly!! They even said at one point that they'd rather do some other lesser known settings before ever doing japan. Guess what, that was before GHOST!! ITS F-KIN LAME
Wasn't some people who were Shilling for the game said that Japanese people liked the game and only racists hate it? Guess they were lying after all...
Exception: Have a AC game that takes place in Japan with an accurate feel Reality: Ubisoft sold their soul to Toxic Baby Inc and ruined the Japanese culture
Umm you're just wrong, where did you even got that info? He was a weapon carrier for Oda Nabunaga and basically a samurai (even though he was not one officially he was de-facto one)
@@Kyojironaxx Um, tf are you smoking, you believing blatant lie by that guy? Check video from japanese youtuber Shogo about foreign samurais where he talked about Yasuke as well. He wasn't a "court clown" by any means i wonder where OP took that info from if not from his head.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 I get that but it's not related to CERO and applies to all their media. Cannot show very specific body parts without some censorship, even in explicitly R18 content. Not in videos, not in manga, not in standalone pictures on the internet.
@@MrOrdosanThey are not Japan has recently relaxed immigration laws the first time it has done this in decades since Japan cannot replace its aging population.
Kinda like when a lot of Egyptians, or maybe it was the country sued Netflix for their Cleopatra show…I remember reading about it a few years ago, not sure of the outcome
@@colinayre2109It hasn’t come to anything yet. There is a lawsuit but there is no new news on the case so either the Egypt law firm dropped it or the case has not been brought to court or settled yet.
Like in Nioh? honestly yeah it would be minimal backlash. because A. this is the first time playing a actual person in AC from a different history that is set in 1500's japan. B. There might be something worthwhile with that said character being DLC. maybe a separate side story. But i guess Ubi isn't gonna do that nor plan to because of today's direction in games nowadays.
Yasuke has been loved by Japanese, you can see him as a playable character in other Japanese games, too. But "thanks to" Ubisoft, now he became an ironic symbol of racism and discrimination by "woke" people. But they also mocks Yasuke, portraying him like a brutal "oni" demon with his iron club, slaughtering citizens in town, that's not samurai but just an oni ogre.
Ubisoft unironically mocked Africans from Africa and Japanese from Japan simultaneously to appease woke Americans from North America. 💀 This is hilarious
How to fix all of this. For those of you who played Odyssea, who was your favorite character, and why was it Brasidas? Brasidas was your ride or die bro from the very beginning. He was likeable, supportive, loyal, a complete bada**. They could have done the same with Yasuke. Historically, he was a bodyguard to Nobunaga and was very close to him. Boom, you have an ally who's close to the higher-ups of the time period and can give you tips and information. He can even assist you in several situations, saving you from ambushes or uneven fights. You get a likeable character who's put in a positive light and don't take away from the Japanese aspect of the game. "But we get an insight into Japanese culture as an outsider" Literally, every assassins creed character (except maybe 1) was a native to the setting the game was in. Why is that suddenly a selling point?
Spot on, subtle propaganda is always the best propaganda.... But it wasn't enough for them, Woke-cult corpo-globalists always trying to push their agenda further and further every time: every new game, every new year, it must be more Woke than the previous one. They don't want subtle indoctrination anymore, they want it open and brutal. Because they feel they can enforce whatever they want....
Several Japanese game companies have featured Yasuke in their games. However, they are completely fictional and do not claim to be faithful to history or to have filled in historical gaps. This game is a typical pseudo-Japanese work created by a Westerner who misunderstands Japan and has many details about Japan wrong.
I got news for you, Yasuke wasn't "successful" he was the equivalent of a Paige and Nobunaga almost certainly only kept him around as an amusing oddity.
Umm no? You're just dead wrong? He was a weapon carrier and he was promoted to "Kosho" which is not exactly "Samurai" but in terms of privileges and status it's basically it.
@@alexeystarkov7504 "Umm no? You're just dead wrong?" Don't tell people they are dead wrong when you have no idea what you're talking about. Kosho is literally the equivalent of a page/squire. Kosho is the rank of a child who will become a Samurai when they reach adulthood. For a full grown adult to have the rank of Kosho is practically an insult, showing that they did not believe he deserve to be considered a full fledged warrior. He had to have a rank in order to serve in Nobunaga's court in any capacity so they gave him a rank that came with absolutely no real power or privilege within the court it's self. Considering how xenophobic/racist Sengoku era Japanese were it is almost certain that Yasuke was little more than a gofer and like I said probably kept around strictly as an amusing oddity/curiosity.
Yeah the crush in the head thing really threw me off because anyone who lives in Japan and who has to deal with the culture like yosuke would have to destroying the head is a way to make their souls haunt the world until the ends of time it is very disrespectful even most bad guys didn't do it they resorted to severing the heads and putting them on pikes so that their souls would be unrested until the end of war in which they buried the heads so that the phone samurai could move on even bad guys didn't destroy the heads it was considered something so demonic that the only person that would ever dare to do it would be nobunaga Oda The demon King
@sincerelynotme3522 As an Asian, I can definitely say: Yes.. Yes it does.. Much Better and *ahem... *MORE RESPECTFUL* towards the culture that the media is trying to portray to..
The problem is not race. The problem is that while they claim that the content is "true to history," they broadcast impossible events in the video, such as "beheadings were common in Japan," "Yasuke was a samurai," "Samurai brutally kill people in the streets even though there is no war," and "Japanese people bow to cruel murderers.
I've been waiting forever for Creed in Asia setting, really hope they do the culture justice... I was so close to visiting Japan at one point. I had experience with modeling and in late 2015 I was in contact with Capcom about the facial likeness role of Leon for the Resident Evil 2 Remake. I failed to mention I also have a voice acting background, in the end I lost the part and I can't forgive myself for wasting such an opportunity to visit Asia. Great video, as always.
@@NetBattler Hi, yeah, I was only considered for his facial likeness, the part that went to a Romanian model Eduard Badalauta. Still hurts :) There's a video on my channel that got Capcom interested.
@@zacatkinson3926 They didn't make him gay. Those articles just rage baited you. What they did was allow both characters to have all romance options. No different than Odyssey or Valhalla. Sadly people felled for the rage bait.
If they want to make a game about yasuke it should not be an assassin creed game, and it should be more realistic to the era, where ever he go he will be the center of attention, i dont think he stayed long after the fall of nobunaga
A Japanese UA-camr said that it is not known as a historical fact whether Yasuke was a samurai or not. Originally, there seemed to be only a few pages of literature about Yasuke. That's why Japanese people are making a fuss about changing history.
More annoying i find is that people will use this against me and other black people to say that we asked for this shit. I certainly didn't. But nothing we can do besides just not buying the game which i won't.
some times I think white boys and some black people are trying to sow discord among the other races and black by disrespecting other cultures with black culture.
Honestly thats the part I am least puzzled by. Kanabo is a great weapon against armor ideal for those with sheer physical strength. Plus he has a full arsenal of weapons.
To quote Naoe from the trailer "Our people deserves to be free of our Oppressors grasp" Dude Japan was in a civil war. What Oppressors are they talking about? Other Japanese people?
The music issue is actually pretty relevant, they had a great opportunity to do an African/Japanese music combination to identify his foreigner status and his current situation as a samurai to Nobunaga, but they seemingly did just do a checklist and say "Well he's black right? What music do black people like?" When Africans and African Americans have vastly different cultures.
I believe developers should have the right to make whatever they want, so long as it entertains their users. As long as it entertains their users. All that should be left to UBI developers is the right to disembowel themselves.
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You can really tell that people that hate Japanese culture made this game.
Pathetic Ubisoft, really pathetic.
"Japanese people bowing to everyone they meet". Hmm for people screaming for equality and diversity they sure do like stereotyping
It's either that or they're so so SO out of touch.
I don’t think it necessarily shows they hate Japanese culture, more that they wholly misunderstood.
They also haye wh yte people culture. Have you been asleep? Any wh yte passing country will be marxist CRT DEI/ESG-fied.
The game looked stale either way
so not only they decided to butcher japanese culture but also decided to add hip hop because Yasuke happens to be black? how "inclusive" and "progressive" of them!
That sounds like samurai champloo if it was made by SJW's
It is funny how racist can voke people can be while triing to be inclusive and progressive.
They also made Yaskue Gay apparently
Exaggerated swagger of a black samurai!
*Rapping Thor*
It was a What If, I think?
To be honest, as a japanese person, I feel angry towards Ubisoft.
they want "diversity" so they add a woman and a black man lmao
Pfp checks out
Ubisoft is uniting the entire world...in anger towards Ubisoft.
Ubisoft? More like ubidumb, or ubish*t
very based
Yasuke was an African, not African American
Yea, telling us that and getting us to understand, aint easy. Even when i tell em we from West Africa, and he from Mozambique (Eastern Africa)
These DEI people don't care. They see blacks all the same.
Yup, it's almost like these people are too bigotéd to know the difference, who would of thought that the people that are râcist against whité men are also râcist against other races.
@@cohenvale6342well the speculation is that he was from Mozambique, but there’s no way to know for sure, the first ever recorded mention of Yasuke isn’t even by name (another thing we’ll never know about him) in the Jesuit Missionary reports of Alessandro Valignano in 1579 when he first arrived in Japan, and the next mention is nearly a year and a half later in 1581 in the Shinchu Koki “on the 23rd day of the 2nd month, a black Paige came from the Christian Countries, he appears to be about 26 or 27, roughly 7’ tall, with skin as black as an ox, and possessing the strength of 10 men,” the Maeda clan Archives expand on this meeting saying “the black man was taken into lord Nobunaga’s service. He was given a home, a short sword, and Vassalage,” after that he’s only spotted at 3 skirmishes over the next year or so Tenmokuzan, Honouji, and Yamazaki, after being “returned” to the Jesuits he disappears from history, I say returned because there’s no confirmation he was a slave in 1579 and likely wouldn’t have been treated as one in 1582. He may have started as a slave but based on the vague implications in Valignano’s reports, it’s possible he was already a freedman hired on as a type of mercenary body guard. Beyond that we really know next to nothing about him
Just read the Wikipedia about him...
Ubisoft: _"This is not about race!"_
( *Proceeds to make it about race via the inclusion of hip-hop music* )
The sad part is that the song actually slaps, but will forever be ruined by its portrayal.
I will *" NEVER "* allow any racist "blackwashing" of either japanese Character *OR* of actually real historical, japanese People who actually existed.
100.000% Boycot.
@@ca_kay It would work in a samurai champloo game, since that was the style of that anime.
@@atomic747 Legit. Champloo was awesome!
@@AszkalonOfVerra Dude stop spamming this comment. .
To quote Fallout 4
_Everybody disliked that_
To quote fallout 3: "You have lost Karma"
To quote Fallout New Vegas: "For your overwhelmingly monstrous behavior, you have become vilified by the community."
Ooh thats a good one@@amannamedsquid313
*_That's_* where that quote comes from? (Never played a single Fallout game before)
@@amannamedsquid313 And to quote fallout 2: "That must be your IQ on your jumpsuit."
@@Dorian_Scott dude! Or dudette! Gotta sit down and play it… you won’t be disappointed… I’d recommend getting Fallout 3 off Steam if you got a PC or perhaps play it through either of the console passes that let ya access older games
Imagine Ubisoft makes a game about Japan, and it gets banned in Japan.
Not surprised if they do it lol
Would be funny if Ubislop outright got banned from Japan not just this game. Maybe we could all copy this and ban this outright shitty ages.
Thats what most likely going to happened. Thats what happened when a bunch of racist people trying to preach others about diversity and not being a racist.
It's actually selling rather well right now. Topping the charts.
Wont be suprised with how shitsoft do with game they gonna make it with their "historical accurate"
Frankly, I'm more surprised they didn't depict the Japanese like the anti-propaganda pieces from WW2, complete with buck teeth and accent.
Why not go a step further and have him call them yellows?
Or make all japanese people black. I mean voke idiots do say that in UK lived black people before white sooooooo.
I will *" NEVER "* allow any racist "blackwashing" of either japanese Character *OR* of actually real historical, japanese People who actually existed.
100.000% Boycot.
@@AszkalonOfVerra like how I'm writing a story about a Kunoichi and her younger brother who are survivors of their Ninja Clan that gets destroyed by the enemy Shadow Ninja Clan. And it they're all fictional
@@MrCjosue24 As long as it's not Eminence in Shadows, this sounds cool. lol
If they wanted to make a game that takes place in Japan, they should have gotten… y’know… actual Japanese people that know their culture to help make it as accurate as possible?
I am so sad by how this assassins creed game is turning out. This could have been the best assassins creed yet but then Ubisoft had to muck it up with virtue signaling bullshit.
@@piggerGg I wanna play it but I suck at parrying and counters which makes up a lot of the combat from what I understand
@silverrider99 you can put thr game on a lower difficulty and use in game items to either just take hits or make parrying easier you can also play stealthy as well as make use of stsnces and items to not need to parry or counter at all
Well they refused to make one set in Japan despite fans asking since AC1. And now that they do it's kind of sloppy. Makes you wonder what they think about Japan.
@@piggerGgyet it's the most pre ordered in Japan. Looks to me that they do not care.
@@EnraiChannel "sloppy" is the understatement of the century.
Ghost of Tsushima was attacked becuase it was racist to make a game Japanese people approved of, and AC will be defended by those same people despite the displeasure.
They were pissed off that a white guy was playing a traditional flute and say that it was cultural appropriation, when in reality he is a person that is more diverse in Japanese culture.
It's not about principles but power to these people. "Their people" can make anything as racist as possible, but _you_ better stay in your lane, or else.
same with Kingdom Come: Deliverance
"There nu black peoples, reeeeeeee" was their statement
in 15th century eastern europe...
@@Bedrici remember that he is probably the only master of that instrument so there is that
To be fair, they called it racist because it was made by an American studio. And they were probably salty it was liked better than Last of Us 2.
This game was mishandled so much all in the name of representation and inclusivity. People claiming they're doing good while doing bad. Holy shit Elone Muskibidi was right.
They also made Yaskue Gay apparently
Just like progressives of 100 years ago such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, she talked often of how awful slavery was yet simultaneously argued that black people should be conscripted... to be forced to work in state-organized agriculture programs. Which is just slavery but for different reasons.
And people dare blame US for complaining about it. I get the point of inclusivity (don't necessarily fully agree with it) but too much is too much.
Didn't see a transgender asian guy in Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
@@NetBattler Blame "us" in capitals for emphasis, not "US" as USA.
@@zacatkinson3926His master would of made him commit seppuko
I'm just imagining the idiocy of him trying to hide in plain sight when he's literally the only black guy in the entire nation
Yasuke : "Aigh't Imma blend in.." *blend in with the crowd wearing the most drip swagger people in that nation ever seen
thats why he isnt the assassin 🤦♂️
He's not meant to hide in plain sight dummy. There's two different play styles. If you want the traditional assassin play style you play as Naoe, if you want to play as a Samurai you play as Yasuke.
Ubisoft is trying to implement the dual protagonists in this game like in Syndicate which is cool. Despite that, the marketing team is just pure racist for thinking, "Yeah, let's put hip-hop song to 'appropriately' portrays the black people
@@DarksideGmss0513 I guess it's too much to expect the protagonists of an Assassin's Creed game to be sneaky like Assassins. Just like it's too much to expect the only black man in the country to not have a hip-hop jingle
Real life yasuke wasn’t even samurai.
It's arguable, there's a study done from the history university of tokyo, one of the most prestigious institute in history research in japan, and it proves yasuke was kind of a samurai, it's too detailed just search it up, if you need i'll send source
@@MarcoFi-uy8hv During the Azuchi-Momoyama period, Japanese samurai had surnames, but those of lower rank did not.
In other words, Yasuke was probably not of a rank that could be called a samurai.
Translated by Google.
@@Nekodesu8885 my bad i didn't see the "read more" anyway the name of the professor is Kaneko Hiraku, 然に彼黒坊被成御扶持、名をハ号弥助と、さや巻之のし付幷私宅等迄被仰付、依時御道具なともたさせられ候、
This black man called Yasuke was given a stipend, a private residence, etc., and was given a short sword with a decorative sheath. He is sometimes seen in the role of weapon bearer. People usually argue about the fact that a stipend was given to anyone, but in the Chronicles of Ota Gyuichi, the word stipend was without any exception given to a samurai. By this information we can deduce that he was a koshō, which although they were only weapon carrier they were still samurai, he was also given a residence and followed nobunaga in the Takeda campaign and fought w a katana at Nijō
@@MarcoFi-uy8hv あなたは日本語の史料読めるの？彼を武士と証明する史料は一つもない。
さや巻（腰刀の一種）を与えられ、時には道具持ちをしていたという記述がある。実際に戦闘に参加したという記述もない。
さや巻を持たされたからそれで武士の身分ということにはならない。事実当時は農民でも武器を持つことが出来た。しかし農民は農民である。
@@MarcoFi-uy8hv そもそもつばもない短刀でどうやって戦うのかw
Remember when Assasin's Creed was about recreating historical enviroment and culture? It's been a while, but feels like yesterday.
*Laying AC to rest on the floor* Requiescat in pace
Historical landscapes sure, the game was never realistic. The whole thing is a simulation through a computer lol
@@xyz-ml9ff Yeah but one of the things they cared about was slotting AC into history as if it could have happened.
For instance in AC1 the targets you go after were real and all disappeared or died with no record of how it happened, so as to say "oh yeah the assassin did it!" just little touches like that.
Famously also you couldn't swim since apparently back then no one knew how, again little touches.
But suddenly they decide to use an actual historical person as the player character but completely butcher it.
@LeeONardo The reason why you couldn't swim is because the animus couldn't handle it. Not because people didn't know how to swim.
The difference is that the original trilogy presented a fiction based on history, while these modern games present a "history" based on fiction.
When they made all the Japanese villagers bow to him, even I was shocked by their gall. Disgusting to see their true intensions on full displace.
That sickened me to death!
It doesn’t make sense.. it’s the FIRST time commoners ever seen a. Giant.. let alone a black guy..
There is a reason why white and black people were called white guy. Black guy. Ghost.. like litearl translation..
Montreal is such a racist place.
@@spitz6784 he wasn't a samurai. He was a court pet, his only duties were to carry swords and entertain people.
@@spitz6784 The word that translates to retainer means anyone under someone. Gardener, cleaner, housemaid. You can't use a translated word to argue something if you don't know the meaning and explain it.
@@spitz6784you do realize everyone in every corner of the world is racist at that time
I never thought we would get a JOhny Somali videogame so soon.
Maybe next game will be in Somalia.... with Japanese protagonist lol. Or maybe an European, there were 1000s Europeans in African history, all of them 1000 times more important and relevant than 'yasuke' in Japan.
But that would be 'racist' eh
Hip hop in a goddamn japanese game... They straight up associate black skin with specifically new york it seems...
SF6?
@@KevinGsWK I guess he wants to say hip-hop in feudal Japan setting.
Motherfuckers forget the genius that is Sanurai Champloo so quickly smfh
It’s not hip hop.
@@KevinGsWK Huh!?
the trap in the fight scene gives me the stereotype of "give the black person some custom sneakers they'll love it"
should have fight taunt from Yasuke, "Watchu gonna do, dawg?" or.. "Get that Ye~ Yee~ S haircut out of my sight~~"
Miles Morales
Don't forget the exaggerated swagger
Don't forget the N word at the end of every sentence.
Yasuke fails mission *
Enemy Samurai :- "everyone before you kill him.. take away his Jordans "
しかも無断使用に関しては「関ヶ原鉄砲隊」だけではないようです。
Xには明治時代（安土桃山時代の約300年後）以降に撮影された画像や有料サイトのデータをコンセプトアートに盛り込んでいる事を指摘している方がいました。
I’m getting Black Panther flashbacks, a story supposedly all about actual Africans dropping hip hop in there because how else are African Americans gonna feel all proud and shit?
And the movie was given awards and one of the highest revenue movies of the year so what's your point that you hate on popular entertainment because yeah I see that 😂
This feels completely irrelevant
@@toasterowens8916 African American is not African, they’re two completely separate cultures. Hip Hop and Rap is specifically African American. Not African. So playing hip hop for African’s is like saying that you should play the Star Spangled Banner for the British, one culture came from the other but they’re completely different. Which means the only reasons you’d use rap for an African is either A. You think all Black people are same (but specifically you think they’re all African American) or B. You’re ignoring the actual culture of Africa because the game is made for the socially inept political activist types who whine about “muh representation” and since their world view is entirely America centric, Black people = Rap
@@DMAN99 no shit. Your comment is still irrelevant to the topic at hand
Truth is: none of these 'afrocentric' black racists from Merica, don't care about Africa at all.. most of them can't find Africa on the map.... or the map.
But they are always first to defend every Woke cult bs, simply because they are the worst racists in existence...
besides Yasuke himself, there's so many details wrong about their depiction of Japan in pretty much every single scene, I'd imagine they didn't do any homework themselves and simply relied on AI with little supervision.
I mean, some people in Japan were talking about;
1) how they even got the letter for Yasuke (弥助) wrong,
2) on Yasuke's armor (which is weird to see Yasuke wearing outside of battle field, on many levels) there was symbol for Oda clan but upside down, an offense that can be more than enough for Oda Nobunaga to have Yasuke beheaded....
3) there's matchlock gunners carrying banner with 関ヶ原鉄砲隊, which is a name of a group of modern historical re-enactment....
4) burning incense in Shinto Shrine (burning incense is for Buddhist temple)
5) Torii gate at an entrance of a village with no Shrine in sight
Its almost like that they pulled this out of their ass and didnt do any research at all. They just wanted to do obligatory black man game, thats all.
I am Japanese, but I have never seen a large square tatami mat. This game lawn dog is also 1.5 times bigger and thicker than usual.
Right! And the long tailed monkeys that never inhabited in Japan❗️
アフリカのゲームの主人公がアジア人だったら人種差別と怒るに違いない。
アジア人はこれからも黒人を満足させるために差別されつづけるんだろうね。
白人ですらアジア人に対してそういう扱いだと思う
彼らは脳みそが足りてないんですよ。だから差別するし、論点をずらす
彼らはオツムが足りてないんですよ。だから差別するし、論点ずらす話し方しかできない。
So they got everything wrong, from the architecture, to the seating positions of the ppl, to even the fucking music
...and that was their entire JOB!!!!! AAUUUUUGHGHHGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
And religion.... they obviously don't know the difference between Shinto and Buddhism.
And animals like monkeys with long tails that never inhabited in Japan.
The story of Yasuke is probably not so cool, from the little we know about him he was just a slave owned by a Portuguese sailor sold Yasuke in Japan to continue to work as a servant. There's really nothing to say he had any sort of armed combatant role. This is the overwhelming way that black people ended up on Portuguese ships in that time period.
It's uninteresting but his story is definitely full of sadness.
he was a servant of nobunaga, who liked different things, beyond having him as one of his guards, his sole role was to return nobunaga head to his family, thats it, other things beyond that are pure fanfiction
@@15rafabor what's your source on that head factoid? from what i recall, Nobunaga's head was never recovered, but Yasuke was known to have been captured by Mitsuhide after Honnoji (which is where history gets iffy on his fate of either being killed or sold/kicked out of Japan), if he had the head them Mitsuhide would have gotten it at that point.
@@15rafaborthat’s the sad part about yasuke. There is so little information about him that making any thing historically accurate about him will barely give you any content to create. There is a reason why all of his depictions and adaptations of him are pure fiction.
They made him bathe to show that his color couldn’t be washed off. How the hell are you going to think Nobunaga was some amazing progressive mind this long ago and cry racism in modern day America.
Ubisoft chose the backdrop of a country with so many great historical figures, and they literally picked the only black dude in the country with no real recorded history. He was a glorified sword caddy and dick washer.
The problem with this game is that it advertises it as historical fact.
If it had been promoted on the premise that it was a completely fictional story, this wouldn't have been an issue.
Nobunaga freed him from slavery and hired him, but he was not given a surname. If he could fight, why did he not do anything when Nobunaga was killed?
The samurai who found him after the war thought that Yasuke had nothing to do with the battle between the samurai. Therefore, Yasuke was let go and his whereabouts are unknown.
The problems with this game are as follows:
"Martin Luther King Jr was merely a portable shrine held up by a powerful white man with a good heart. This is a historical fact."
"Edison was not a great inventor, but a simple businessman who collected ideas from his talented black subordinates and made them into a business."
"Haiti gained independence in 1804 thanks to the efforts of those with white blood, and black people alone could not have done such a thing."
Japanese people feel discriminated against because the creators of this game think it is okay to treat Japanese history in this way.
In fact, some people have fabricated proverbs that do not exist in Japan, such as the following, in relation to the drama "Shogun."
「There's a Japanese proverb that says for a Samurai tobe brave, he must have abit of Black blood. (William Spivey, Mar 8, 2024)」
The Ubisoft staff's photo speaks volumes about who is making this piece of "art"
They also made Yaskue Gay apparently
Stop being a hypocrite. By your logic the white team who made Ghost of Tushima are pandering and terrible people too. The picture doesn't mean anything. I think if white people want to make a game about Japan or what not, they should. No different from any other race or culture. Make a better argument.
I will *" NEVER "* allow any racist "blackwashing" of either japanese Character *OR* of actually real historical, japanese People who actually existed.
100.000% Boycot.
@@AszkalonOfVerra Yasuke was a lesser known, genuine African samurai in Japanese history, so I'll give you a pass on not knowing that.
Calling this "blackwashing" is crazy.
Having an in-game hiphop battle theme is also crazy.
(edit) My crazy theory, Ubisoft is using modern Internet discourse to both promote the game and distract from the ridiculous price tag.
@@vanderin I give You a fair Fifty-Fifty Chance of that being the Truth. That being said : i won't believe it anytime soon before i didn't found legit Scources confirming the Existence of a "black" Samurai.
Next You are telling me there were black Nobles in Europe in the Fourteenth Century or something.
As a Japanese, I'd like to play a Far Cry game set in a Japanese remote island dominated by fanatical and militant shinto sect who think the Pacific War is not over and consider us mainlanders degenerates. Gotta be more hilarious than AC Shadows.
Great idea!
おもろそう
A shame that Far Cry is also developed by Ubisoft...
@@Steelhart69420
Of course but unlike Assassin's Creed, Far Cry has interesting villains, crooked humor, enjoyable exploration and combat, good playlist for in-game radio...the gameplay can become repetitive though.
Journos were crying r*cism against Ghosts of Tsushima, but had the audacity to insult an entire country's history for a delusion...
Did Ubisoft and SBI learn anything from Netflix and their Cleopatra fiasco?
" When I watched the introductory video for this game, I felt that it showed that the creators had deep contempt for Asians and had no questions.
Ubisoft is making fun of Japan , with their Chinese architecture and Black Samurai in feudal Japan. Hope players vote with their wallet!
It's selling well :v
@@alvinjan3486 If people who would have bought it, aren't, then it isn't selling well.
Corpos are greedy trolls, they don't care about making money, only about making MORE money. Make the Line go up, and all that. If Corpos could force everyone to buy a copy, even if they would never play it, they would.
@@alvinjan3486Because the brainrot people are buying it. I don’t mind what games you play, you can play them, but it’s not gonna stop me from making fun of you for your garbage taste.
yep will definitely buy it because only negative thing i see is the black guy as a samurai
i cant believe so many racist people accuse ubisoft of racism while theyre clearly racist themself, literally most japanese are racist thats just a fact, even as an anime fan i cannot deny that fact, its just cringe how people think theres a culture on this world that is entirely perfect
@@stiegelzeine2186 that's a dumb argument you have there. It's also just not Yasuke that Japan is complaining about.
But regardless the backlash or complains we've seen, pretty sure the game will still sell well because its an AC game.
Ubislop couldn't find any Asian instruments played by Asian music artists for their game trailer of an Asian based game?
Tell us you don't give two (2) sh!ts about another country's culture without telling us you don't give two (2) $]-[1tz
You know full well that the people defending this decide to shit all over GI's fictional countries.
Sounds a BIT like there's a shamishen in there, but yeah- hip hop, instead of something more traditional or authentic. The influx of "ninja" movies in the 80s is starting to feel more genuine.
That’s a fast paced Japanese song played by Japanese instruments.
Asian. This game is set in Japan . Asia is a continent. By that logic the last game AC mirage was also an Asian based game
@@Physicalchemistry15151Semantics, really? He's obviously saying EAST Asian, genius.
Now we’re angry mainly because they put Chinese subs on the trailer for Japan, and now they’re saying Japanese people who are accusing assassin’s creed shadows are the racists! WTF!
They don’t even realize what they’re doing lol
Color me shocked. Not surprised by this at all. I hope it flops as badly as that suicide squad title.
It'll probably sell well due to brand recognition but I hope I'm wrong.
@@emodante1084 Pre-orders are strong and Japan was #1 for multiple days. You people are in a echo chamber.
As you said, It's Assassins Creed and a majority of people just like games and aren't seething online.
Lol, Assassin Creed is the strongest game for Ubisoft. Most, if not all, AC games do well. You guys live in an echo chamber. Chances are the game will do good because most people don't care about the nonsense you guys keep saying lmao. Personal opinion, AC shadows will probably be average. That really depends on the combat. I hate the new hack and slash combat. So maybe the new combat will be better.
Most gamers are 9-5 normies who just buy whatever game looks cool to play after they come how. They don't know about the controversy. All they care about is "oh, a new game from a franchise I know of is out" and need nothing more.
I'm quite envious of them tbh. Ignorance is bliss. I miss the times where I was less critical and just enjoyed what I had :/
Hopefully the next Yakuza game'll be set in Paris (with Ubisoft's HQ spawning the "game dev" and "reddit mod" factions), and with it the local stereotypes we all know and love -- including the lovely people checking people's luggage at CDG.
Now Ubisoft will make Assassin's Creed Cowboy themed and the main character will be a Chinese cowboy.
here’s the funny thing. there’s actually a chinese cowboy. lmao look it up on youtube. he learned the accent from watching duck dinasty.
Yasuke would have made a great NPC, seeing as how he's an actual famous figure. Making him the main character opens up the narrative to a ton of historical conflicts and runs the risk of him devolving into the infamous "murder hobo" trope when in actual gameplay. The main character NEEDS to be an unsung nobody specifically to prevent these conflicts.
What about the other character you play as? Why not just have her be the sole main character?
@@theotherky Because Ubisoft is afraid of women single protagonists.
@@paulmayson3129you probably still would have complained
@FF8IrvineFan that doesn’t make sense
@FF8IrvineFan so you?
Choosing Yasuke to represent the japanese samurai in AC is like combing nigerian history for one white person of note, then making them an MC in a game loosely based on Nigerian history.
I've thought recently, Shadows won't even stand a chance with the progressive audience it tries so hard to appeal to once progressives have had a chance to stew on it for longer.
A game called "Shadows," about an African man, has the same energy as Bem from HP and the prisoner of Azkaban saying shit like "Black could be anywhere" or "it's like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands."
Now they're marketing the game by showing the African man wantonly decapitating Asians. Not only that, but the majority of the player base will likely be white progressives controlling the African man who is wantonly decapitating Asians.
Who tf is this game even for???
The "progressives" _hate_ Japanese people and _worship_ black people so they'll gladly buy it.
Nobody. Or rather clueless investors who understand nothing about gaming culture and even less on diversity and equality, but only on paper because they would probably never actually play the thing
If Yasuke were truly an important figure, he would have appeared in Japanese games and anime at least 50 times by now-40 times as a muscular great hero and 10 times as a super beautiful girl.
He has appeared in multiple Japanese games.
Nioh and Dynasty warriors.
There’s black samurai characters based around him like Nagoryuki from guilty gear.
He just had a (terrible) anime.
Imagine what the real Yasuke would say about this game.
I'd imagine, it wouldn't be flattering.
歴史改変しようとしてたのは笑うしかないし、日本向けのトレーラーの字幕が中国語になってたのには笑うしかない
結局ろくに調べずに作ってたらしい
雑な仕事はそもそも日本人に受け入れられることはありませんよね😂
If I were Ubisoft, I would've made Yasuke the character the player goes to for Side Quests and Rewards (Weapons, Tools etc.)
That's how Ubisoft used to do it.
You weren't a historical figure but you would interact with historical figures.
You dare use my own spells against me, Potter?
From my understanding historically samurai could kill civilians if they felt like their honour was being questioned or insulted but Ubisoft seems to have dailed it up to 11 and basically made a mockery out of it
Also what I didnt understand is that you have a local samurai who should be the owner or a very highly esteemed person and then you have a random samurai of Nobunaga who just wents in and murders a group of samurai just because someone was hungry...
@@jirdan4870 the best modern example is a another country's/state's police officer trying to enforce a search warrant out of their jurisdiction. But Hidden Ones making Yasuke the public face or openly known enforcer of Oda Nobunaga warring against the Templar faction or aligned Lords
Samurai as a separate class with legal privileges where not a thing yet in this period iirc
That's more a defense in court than a strict "I can summarily execute you for insulting me" it's a severe provocation that may - MAY - be excused if they lash out in retaliation.
It's a bit like the old stories "medieval men used to sell their wives at the local market" yes, kinda, but it's not the way you think.
Ubisoft went full Crime R.
Im so disappointed… i’ve always wanted an assassin creed game based in east asia as i find east asian culture so interesting and beautiful and thought it would be amazing to explore ancient east asia as an assassin! Ive waited YEARS for this… only to realise how badly they’ve butchered this opportunity.
I’m Japanese.🇯🇵
It's strange that Yasuke is a samurai. He is no more than a servant. Explain the historical background of Japan and the existence of materials.
A time when farmers and merchants carried swords, and there was no definition of samurai.
It would be unreasonable to define him as a samurai just by holding a sword, and in the first place there is no material that treats him as a samurai.
Regarding materials related to Yasuke, the only primary source is the Jesuit Japan Annual Report, which may have been written in later years, and the Ietada Diary, Nobunaga Ki, and Nobunaga Kouki are considered secondary sources.
And there is no information that Yasuke was a samurai.
Moreover, one year after he served Nobunaga, the Honnoji Incident occurred and he was returned to the missionaries, so he had no time to learn about culture and political strategy.
Even if he were given a position, he would not be a samurai who would wear armor and fight or participate in politics.
I want you to stop bullshit…..!!!
日本もナポレオンを女の子にしたりしてるから主人公が黒人であることには少しの疑問もあるけど受け入れようと思う。
問題はそれを「歴史的事実に基づいている」とUBIが発表していることだと思う。
弥助は侍じゃない
侍は鎧を着て城下を徘徊しない
畳は正方形ではない
ゲームの最初に「このゲームはフィクションです」と表記して欲しい
As a assassin's creed fan genuinely hate what they are doing an there were so many cool Japanese assassin's in history they could have used an didn't I think I'll just out right skip this game even tho I have been begging for a game set their for years but the fact that they haven't even been using Japanese architecture but Chinese is just plain disrespectful at least be accurate to the region you are portraying......
The setting of the AC games have always served to celebrate a certain place and its culture at a particular time in history and the main character is usually a native of that location because it serves as a motive to rid it of evil but now with this game they’ve gone out of their way to find a non Japanese protagonist and essentially made all of Japan into a virtual effigy by having him hack and slash its people.
@@norlout every other duel protag game had matching culture/ethnic protags....
@l0sts0ul89 No what you just said is a lie. Not EVERY other dual protag game has it. So you are wrong there. But even if it wasnt. Why is it important in a fictional world?
@@norlout
- British protags, British game
- Greek? protags Greek game
- Evior could be male or female
@@l0sts0ul89 you are making no sense what are you even talking about? British protag British game? Evior male or female??
Or are just just trolling
@@norlout The other character doesn’t even matter at this point. The reality is that Yasuke has now been made the face of “Assassin’s Creed in Japan” which just does not sound right. Ubisoft should’ve known better. They knew what the fans wanted. It was simple and easy. A layup. The whole reason we’ve been asking for AC in Japan for over a decade is because it just makes sense to have a shinobi as a member of the creed. What doesn’t make sense is to spotlight a guy who was famous for being a black samurai. Yasuke would’ve worked fine as a side character but Ubisoft just had to subvert our expectations. They knew it would be outrageous. They’re obviously convinced that a game won’t sell if it’s not controversial. No such thing as bad publicity and all that.
Their "diversity" is a myth
I'm a mix of Indian, Malay, Spanish, Chinese, and West African, basically a living manifestation of diversity, and I like the things white people like.
Woke is not really about diversity, it's a hateful corpo-globalists cult aimed to destroy traditional values, culture and civilization.
I am going to make a game set during the Zulu Wars and have an Irish man be the main protagonist and whenever he fights tribesmen, U2 is going to be layered into the African music.
Well, definitely more Irish people lived in Africa in late 19th century than Africans in Japan in 16th century. So yeah, your game would be 100x more accurate 😀
Make him a redhead as well, with gratuitous jokes and references to how much he loves potatos
Considering the lenght the AC Mirage team went through to faithfully restore Baghdad and it's culture, it must be awful to see how another team just tramples over another culture.
contrast this to ghost of tushima, so respectful to Japanese culture the dev team got made official ambassador of the island
I think this should get all Ubisoft employees, including the SBI involvement, permanently banned from Japan.
well we know ubisoft isn't. Also, If ubisoft truly cared, they would've done japan a long time ago. They are only doing it because ghost of tsushima did amazing and just like how witcher 3 sold well also is another reason why the games were lukewarm rpgs.
@@atomic747exactly!! They even said at one point that they'd rather do some other lesser known settings before ever doing japan.
Guess what, that was before GHOST!!
ITS F-KIN LAME
Wasn't some people who were Shilling for the game said that Japanese people liked the game and only racists hate it?
Guess they were lying after all...
If seen first comment was Japanese man didn’t want black in Japanese game
Exception: Have a AC game that takes place in Japan with an accurate feel
Reality: Ubisoft sold their soul to Toxic Baby Inc and ruined the Japanese culture
The Hip-Hop scene of the 1580s has yet to be surpassed!
Not defending the game, but honestly, hip hop and samurai stuff goes surprisingly well, happens in anime, as well as samurai jack.
@@ElasticGoblin True. In fact, you just reminded me that Samurai Champloo exists. Time for another rewatch.
yasuke didn't find success, he was a court clown that was just a slave passed around by his owners.
Umm you're just wrong, where did you even got that info? He was a weapon carrier for Oda Nabunaga and basically a samurai (even though he was not one officially he was de-facto one)
@@alexeystarkov7504 What did you smoke to be this high ?
@@Kyojironaxx Um, tf are you smoking, you believing blatant lie by that guy? Check video from japanese youtuber Shogo about foreign samurais where he talked about Yasuke as well. He wasn't a "court clown" by any means i wonder where OP took that info from if not from his head.
@@alexeystarkov7504 shogo? He didn't claim that yasuke was a samurai,it was his take.
@@alexeystarkov7504You're literally a communist russian get lost
Japan needs to abolish the CERO, and the artistic freedom and sales will be skyrocketing.
CERO only applies to consoles, if devs want to release a game on PC they can do whatever the hell they want. As evidenced by countless visual novels.
@@Claudekr No, PCs are also censored. I have seen some censored PC games. Yes, pixels on top of anime art is censorship.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 I get that but it's not related to CERO and applies to all their media. Cannot show very specific body parts without some censorship, even in explicitly R18 content. Not in videos, not in manga, not in standalone pictures on the internet.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 Entirely separate issue, but still stupid.
Am I the only one who thinks of Bleach when hearing about CERO?
bro, i'm pretty sure this game can be filled by the Japanese as a fucking hate crime... like, wtf is ubisoft thinking?
and we wonder why they are slowly moving back to being an isolationist country.
@@MrOrdosanThey are not Japan has recently relaxed immigration laws the first time it has done this in decades since Japan cannot replace its aging population.
Kinda like when a lot of Egyptians, or maybe it was the country sued Netflix for their Cleopatra show…I remember reading about it a few years ago, not sure of the outcome
@@colinayre2109It hasn’t come to anything yet. There is a lawsuit but there is no new news on the case so either the Egypt law firm dropped it or the case has not been brought to court or settled yet.
@@Helania12 Thank you, I knew it was a thing, jus dont remeber how far it went, I appreciate you, internet stranger!
Well, they actually managed to make the game inclusive - it’s disliked by everyone
Yasuke had potential... but as a side character and/or with a DLC. It was the japanese's turn to be represented in an Assassins Creed
そもそも、弥助が主人公であることが問題なのではなく、日本の世界観を間違えていることが問題。
日本文化や日本の歴史に対する敬意が感じられないから、批判が批判を呼ぶ状況になっている。
ただただ、極めて野蛮で前時代的なアジアの小国で、歴史的に卑下されてきた人種が活躍するゲームを作ろうとしたとしか思えない。
If Yasuke was a DLC character, there would be significantly less backlash.
Sadly he is a DEI character full price😂
"Significantly less BlackSlash" - Fixed it for you
hmm
Like in Nioh? honestly yeah it would be minimal backlash. because
A. this is the first time playing a actual person in AC from a different history that is set in 1500's japan.
B. There might be something worthwhile with that said character being DLC. maybe a separate side story.
But i guess Ubi isn't gonna do that nor plan to because of today's direction in games nowadays.
Tbh if Ubisoft had done a "What if" dlc story like what they did for AC3 then perhaps it wouldn't be bad. But no.
Yasuke has been loved by Japanese, you can see him as a playable character in other Japanese games, too.
But "thanks to" Ubisoft, now he became an ironic symbol of racism and discrimination by "woke" people.
But they also mocks Yasuke, portraying him like a brutal "oni" demon with his iron club, slaughtering citizens in town, that's not samurai but just an oni ogre.
the moment they added the hiphop beat for yasuke it pretty much explained it all.
Ubisoft unironically mocked Africans from Africa and Japanese from Japan simultaneously to appease woke Americans from North America. 💀 This is hilarious
They could have made the setting modern New York with a black man attacking asians 😂
How to fix all of this.
For those of you who played Odyssea, who was your favorite character, and why was it Brasidas? Brasidas was your ride or die bro from the very beginning. He was likeable, supportive, loyal, a complete bada**.
They could have done the same with Yasuke. Historically, he was a bodyguard to Nobunaga and was very close to him. Boom, you have an ally who's close to the higher-ups of the time period and can give you tips and information. He can even assist you in several situations, saving you from ambushes or uneven fights. You get a likeable character who's put in a positive light and don't take away from the Japanese aspect of the game.
"But we get an insight into Japanese culture as an outsider"
Literally, every assassins creed character (except maybe 1) was a native to the setting the game was in. Why is that suddenly a selling point?
Spot on, subtle propaganda is always the best propaganda....
But it wasn't enough for them, Woke-cult corpo-globalists always trying to push their agenda further and further every time: every new game, every new year, it must be more Woke than the previous one. They don't want subtle indoctrination anymore, they want it open and brutal. Because they feel they can enforce whatever they want....
Several Japanese game companies have featured Yasuke in their games.
However, they are completely fictional and do not claim to be faithful to history or to have filled in historical gaps.
This game is a typical pseudo-Japanese work created by a Westerner who misunderstands Japan and has many details about Japan wrong.
I got news for you, Yasuke wasn't "successful" he was the equivalent of a Paige and Nobunaga almost certainly only kept him around as an amusing oddity.
Umm no? You're just dead wrong? He was a weapon carrier and he was promoted to "Kosho" which is not exactly "Samurai" but in terms of privileges and status it's basically it.
@@alexeystarkov7504 "Umm no? You're just dead wrong?"
Don't tell people they are dead wrong when you have no idea what you're talking about. Kosho is literally the equivalent of a page/squire. Kosho is the rank of a child who will become a Samurai when they reach adulthood. For a full grown adult to have the rank of Kosho is practically an insult, showing that they did not believe he deserve to be considered a full fledged warrior. He had to have a rank in order to serve in Nobunaga's court in any capacity so they gave him a rank that came with absolutely no real power or privilege within the court it's self.
Considering how xenophobic/racist Sengoku era Japanese were it is almost certain that Yasuke was little more than a gofer and like I said probably kept around strictly as an amusing oddity/curiosity.
Ubisoft thinks they can disrespect an entire culture without any backlash 😂
Ubisoft succeeded at disrespecting both Yasuke AND the Japanese.
All for the sake of championing black people...
@@NetBattler Woke-cult corpo-globalists don't give a flying fk for black people, or any people. They just use them as a useful tool.
Yeah the crush in the head thing really threw me off because anyone who lives in Japan and who has to deal with the culture like yosuke would have to destroying the head is a way to make their souls haunt the world until the ends of time it is very disrespectful even most bad guys didn't do it they resorted to severing the heads and putting them on pikes so that their souls would be unrested until the end of war in which they buried the heads so that the phone samurai could move on even bad guys didn't destroy the heads it was considered something so demonic that the only person that would ever dare to do it would be nobunaga Oda The demon King
Very of ubislop gathering us to hate on them 😂
Which is why Ghost of Tsushima is much better
Ghost Of Tsushima Still Sweeps 🚶♂️➡️
As a whole I disagree.
@sincerelynotme3522
As an Asian, I can definitely say:
Yes.. Yes it does.. Much Better and *ahem... *MORE RESPECTFUL* towards the culture that the media is trying to portray to..
@@akanesakamoto8041 I disagree, better games out there.
@@sincerelynotme3522 No one asked. dogshit ass opinion aswell. Manlet
@@sincerelynotme3522 it's you against everyone then, go keep playing candy crush or pokemon if that's what you like then
The devs think they have the right to determine what is Japanese, not the Japanese people.
We wuz samurai and shieeet gang
shieeeet we wuz evryyyyythan but blackzzz cuhh
Literal redditor.
What has the IAC become
We da real kaaaangzzz
@@winterlantern5695 Vikangz!
Cringe Internet racist, attacking black people instead of the company of mostly white developers who made a black man the main character
The problem is not race. The problem is that while they claim that the content is "true to history," they broadcast impossible events in the video, such as "beheadings were common in Japan," "Yasuke was a samurai," "Samurai brutally kill people in the streets even though there is no war," and "Japanese people bow to cruel murderers.
I've been waiting forever for Creed in Asia setting, really hope they do the culture justice... I was so close to visiting Japan at one point. I had experience with modeling and in late 2015 I was in contact with Capcom about the facial likeness role of Leon for the Resident Evil 2 Remake. I failed to mention I also have a voice acting background, in the end I lost the part and I can't forgive myself for wasting such an opportunity to visit Asia. Great video, as always.
Wait is this true? Sorry because I'm more of a Megaman fan so I have no idea about the cast behind RE remakes
@@NetBattler Hi, yeah, I was only considered for his facial likeness, the part that went to a Romanian model Eduard Badalauta. Still hurts :) There's a video on my channel that got Capcom interested.
They also made Yaskue Gay apparently
@@AnxMa that's still amazing achievement tbh.
@@zacatkinson3926 They didn't make him gay. Those articles just rage baited you. What they did was allow both characters to have all romance options. No different than Odyssey or Valhalla. Sadly people felled for the rage bait.
Needlessly aggressive, rude, and overall unlikable is the DEI version of a strong character.
If they want to make a game about yasuke it should not be an assassin creed game, and it should be more realistic to the era, where ever he go he will be the center of attention, i dont think he stayed long after the fall of nobunaga
A Japanese UA-camr said that it is not known as a historical fact whether Yasuke was a samurai or not. Originally, there seemed to be only a few pages of literature about Yasuke. That's why Japanese people are making a fuss about changing history.
0:25 crushing the head of a fallen asian... wasn't there a racial slur against asian people based on this kind of thing..
ah yes the ancient feudal japanese hiphop soundtrack
More annoying i find is that people will use this against me and other black people to say that we asked for this shit. I certainly didn't. But nothing we can do besides just not buying the game which i won't.
some times I think white boys and some black people are trying to sow discord among the other races and black by disrespecting other cultures with black culture.
good job ubisoft for angering a whole freaking country. I can't wait for Ubisoft to go under.
UBIsoftは日本の文化に興味があります。しかし、彼らには日本の文化に対する敬意が全くありません。
And of course they make him a brutish power character wielding a club. Surprised they didn't make the club out of bone.
Honestly thats the part I am least puzzled by. Kanabo is a great weapon against armor ideal for those with sheer physical strength.
Plus he has a full arsenal of weapons.
You suggesting this is the reason for him using a real weapon is ironically more racist
@@Sarge327 Why? When you measure 182 cms and are shown to be larger and stronger than the others. How is that racist?
It's kanabo
@@jirdan4870 Suggesting that someone is using a big weapon because of their race is racist, also my reply has nothing to do with you
To quote Naoe from the trailer "Our people deserves to be free of our Oppressors grasp" Dude Japan was in a civil war. What Oppressors are they talking about? Other Japanese people?
Asian game devs should make more Asian Male White Female games to piss off those Baizuo
0:34 There it is. This sums it up perfectly.
This was a lot of Japanese peoples’ introduction to the DEI stuff western devs kept pushing which is hilarious
Random insertion of "dei" makes no sense here
@@toasterowens8916Then you obviously have your head buried under the sand.
@@レッド-h1i what a rebuttal
@@レッド-h1i what a rebuttal
Yasuke was carrying Nobunaga's luggage, it's like a pet for Nobunaga. I was never treated the same as other samurai.
I understand the Anger of Japnese people against this Game.
With Nordic roots I would be pissed too If they Had Put a black Dude in AC Valhalla .
ただの物持ちだった弥助を日本では高貴だった侍として描いているのは本当に不快
The music issue is actually pretty relevant, they had a great opportunity to do an African/Japanese music combination to identify his foreigner status and his current situation as a samurai to Nobunaga, but they seemingly did just do a checklist and say "Well he's black right? What music do black people like?" When Africans and African Americans have vastly different cultures.
Next you'll tell me that Ubisoft is going to make it so that Yasuke introduces Fried Chicken to Japan and inadvertently invents Karaage.
I believe developers should have the right to make whatever they want, so long as it entertains their users. As long as it entertains their users.
All that should be left to UBI developers is the right to disembowel themselves.
Hip hop-pin to enforce bad behavior and make people mad