Remember journalists called Ghost of Tsuhsima cultural appropriation but the Japanese loved it. But this Ubislop crap comes out and Journalists praise it but the Japanese hate it.
Ghost of Tsushima had a lot of inaccuracies as well but the game was not advertised as Historical Accurate and not even trying hard to convince people unlike what Ubisoft and Journalist did which is why Ghost of Tsushima was well appreciated.
Maybe promoting the title by showcasing gameplay where a 6'8 foreign invader marches into a village and slaughters innocent Japanese farmers, while hip-hop music played in the background, was a bad idea?
Exactly. Thousands of legendary Japanese samurai they could have based this off but they go with the one black dude as the representative of the image of a Samurai 💀
@@JohnSyzlack if anything, he should have been a shinobi (assassin?) Because if how little is actually known about the guy. If he HAD to be in the game.
@@pittland44It stopped when it was shown that black people were the overwhelming majority that were harassing Asian people. Then it just vanished with little to no traces 🤣
At least he has been ousted from his university position and had his teaching credentials revoked now. Unfortunately he went as long as he did because even Japanese universities tend to be leftist gathering points.
I am Japanese. Thomas Lockley makes me angry, and many other Japanese people are also angry. We believe that we have the right to defend our history and culture. We don't have any problem with Yasuke being a black person or Yasuke being in the game; this is not about race. We are angry because Thomas Lockley and Ubisoft have been trying to change our history. By the way, Thomas Lockley is NOT an associate professor of history or even law. He is an assistant professor who specializes in language. He is an associate professor of English teaching law students English. There is so little record of Yasuke and no concrete evidence that Yasuke was a heroic, legendary samurai. Some people claim that Yasuke was a samurai since he was given a place to live, a stipend, and a sword (a short sword more like a dagger). However, there is only one version of "Shincho Koki" (Nobunaga Chronicle), known as "Shincho Koki Sonkeikaku bon", that contains the information that Yasuke was given a place to live, a stipend, and a short sword. Since it is the only version of Shincho Koki that contains this information, experts such as Yūichi Goza (a Japanese historian) suggest that the information about Yasuke might have been added on and needs to be considered carefully because of the uncertainty of authenticity. Because Yasuke was a foreigner who served Oda Nobunaga for only 15 months, it would have been impossible for him to be a high-ranking samurai, the way people in the West think of him. If Yasuke were a samurai, he would have been a low-ranking one, not a legendary and heroic one. For someone to be a high-ranking samurai, he must have a last name, and Yasuke didn't have a last name. The idea of samurai in the West significantly differs from the definition of samurai in Japan. In the Azuchimomoyama era, when Oda Nobunaga was a daimyo, samurai were not the only ones given a home, money, and swords. There is a record of farmers, merchants, and even sumo wrestlers being given a home, money, and swords as rewards by Oda Nobunaga. It was quite common for farmers to possess swords in the Sengoku period since many of them were recruited as "ashigaru" to fight in battles until Toyotomi Hideyoshi's sword-hunting order in 1588. Asgugaru were foot soldiers allowed to carry and use swords, but that did not make them samurai.
"We need a black character. We need to make him not be a joke to racist stereotypes....so we need him to be the violent combat character who fights to hip-hop" Ubisoft devs
Recently, the Sekigahara Gun Corps, which suffered copyright infringement from UBI, received a response from UBI. The content of the response was that since the materials had already been printed, they would not make any corrections. It seems they will push forward with sales, finding it too troublesome to remove the parts infringing copyright, without offering an apology for the infringement. According to UBI's reasoning, if their characters were already printed and infringed upon, they wouldn't be able to criticize it. It seems UBI is declaring their own works copyright-free. LOL
Im rolling in laughter at how Ubisoft has inadvertently vindicated school teachers everywhere about using Wikipedia as a source being the worst sin possible.
I want to shadow high school "research studies" classes now and see the amount of yelling about "DON'T USE WIKIPEDIA AS A SOURCE, I WILL DISQUALIFY YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHY!" and how anime-esque the ensuring chaos will be . . . .
I had a teacher who admitted she and her friends used to mess with wiki pages for fun back when they were students themselves. Wikipedia should not be trusted.
@@rozu7772 you shouldn't hold any one single place as a "trusted" source. Almost every page is written with mild bias, omission or downplaying of the facts. English wikipedia is nowhere near as bad as, like, Japanese wikipedia, where they will use "mild words" to phrase the facts of something so as to appear less extreme. Chinese wikipedia has outright nonsense; anything that would make Chinese people look bad is downplayed in some way lol. just like u don't read a book from one historian and take it as fact, right? you see where/who they were educated by and you read another historian with a different view. you can still pretty reliably use wikipedia for anything that isn't political: if u wanna know how to represent methyl groups in chemistry, wikipedia is 100% reliable.
The dumbest part of this whole thing is that we have all of this evidence that most of the events surrounding Yasuke were entirely invented by one dude with no support to make his book more interesting but we all know that a year from now Wikipedia will still say he was a samurai. There's a reason there was almost nothing about him for 400 years and in the last decade he's been featured in over a dozen things.
And it's even funnier that this one dude is a gay guy with a fetish for black guys, so he just wrote a whole bunch of fanfiction about a "strapping black man" being so superior and impressive to the Japanese. It's like, dude, just go move to Michigan and you can have a bunch of "superior specimens" conquer you, free of charge. And none of you will have to come out of the closet.
@@kman9884 I didn't see it. Actually I didn't know it even existed until all this Ass Creed stuff came up. I did watch Blue Eye Samurai which was good but it's hilarious that Netflix has made two different animated samurai shows, one featuring a black man and one featuring a hafu woman. Gotta check those boxes!
12:46 Wow, that's disturbing. Roughly translated, it's saying 'Those selfish Asian people have kept their history and culture to themselves for way too long now, it's about time those bigots shut up and started letting us revise it and make it more 'diverse'.'
They’re doing the same thing with countries like Uganda in Africa; like trying to shame them into accepting the LGHDTV program. Fortunately it hasn’t worked, but unfortunately they get punished by vvestern powers with sanctions which stifles their countries ability to become properly industrialized. That and they don’t comply with the cIimate aIarmists.
@@viktorgabriel2554 they can't be racists if they call somebody else as racists. ... huh that does sound like a valid strategy. By calling somebody else racist, they hide their own issues and can reword it on their own terms. Damn disturbing tactic.
The scariest aspect of the whole thing is the information warfare, especially on wiki. Gamergate was quite similar, if you look at the complete timeline of it on wiki. References to articles which self-reference to the wiki, completely obscuring and brute forcing history. Very scary.
What's more scary is that pool by Meta engineers show that 73% of people believe anything they see in internet without checking it, so what people read on wiki...
I know how the Japanese feel because in my country the BBC try to lie about Celtic history by saying they were black Celtic but anyone who knows about Celtic history will know there is no such thing as black Celtic.
Red hair and freckles are African Phenotypes proven by European science…so yea there were Africans with Celtics at some point whether you want to admit it or not…
Yeah these woke really insisting to put and conditioning black people as victim, against everybody. While destroying everybody. And that odd belief that they're doing good and 'helping', they're either narcisstic idiot, or having malicious intention from the start. Or both.
@@justinvasquez8034 their source for it all is black boy aka that random black guy that played the trumpet for one of the king henry's which means all of britain was founded by black slaves somehow.
Which is ironic because another American company made another samurai game that was loved by Japan so much the Japanese government made the developers official ambassadors of the island the game is based in. The difference between the two companies/games? The first didn’t try to be woke, nor did they say that it was going to be historically accurate, and it only cared about telling a good story through a good game
Apparently Akechi Mitsuhide/明智光秀 is Yasuke's enemy in the game? Furthermore, Yasuke's role is to save the Japanese people from oppression. But Akechi Mitsuhide is considered the benefactor of Fukuchiyama/福知山 and worshipped as a god in Goryo Jinja/御霊神社. It's disrespectful to steal the achievements of a god and belittle him as an oppressor. Is Ubi making fun of Japanese religion?
Honestly, DSP has more claim to the title since he was actually at tournaments back in the day and participated. The only official documentation we know about Yasuke says he fled the battlefield.
why is he wearing full armor at all times? why does everyone line up and bow to him for no reason in the trailer? why is there Torii Gates at the entrance to the village?
@@ApsmneShsbshu all of thé past assassin Creed charachter are both stealth and have good fighting abilities but that one there are no stealth WE talk about assassin Creed not warriors creed
@@stillcantbesilencedevennow Caucasians and Asians both have been the victims of State-mandated discrimination along racial lines ("""affirmative action""").
I can’t remember the last time I bought a “AAA” game. I’ve just been replaying old favorites since everything coming out recently is either a broken mess on launch, a money vacuum, or SBI propaganda piece.
I bet Ubisoft didn't expect the internet to see trough the wikipedia manipulation that happened around yasuke page and expected everyone to just accept the made up lie that he was a samurai.
@@ApsmneShsbshu Damn, its not just ubisoft dabbing in historical revisionism, it's their fanboys too now it seem. Ubisoft started to promote their game by heavily leaning on the fact Yasuke was "totally a real character that totally existed", and all the low IQ chills (like you) jumped on their defence quoting the edited wikipedia. I never said they edited the wiki tho, but you already knew that.
I like how the entire mythology of Yasuke just materialized in real time from people posting made up stuff on Wikipedia and it being immediately accepted. It’s like they re-did tve entire history of the made-up “Jesus in India” legend as a speedrun.
My grandmother told me the feudal Japan was made and created by all women feminist samurai group with colur full hair without them Japan wouldn't be what it is today
Considering Japanese folks were able to find out that the contents of Lockley's books are being taught and referenced in actual school books, It'd say it's historical revisionism. It's not a concerted effort or some huge villainous plan. But rather multiple waves, layers, and types of slowly trying to revise history going on behind the scenes for a long time now. Their cumulative result was ACS. And so when people dug up the corpse, the rot was deeper than everybody thought it would be. It's like how one lie, when spread out by multiple mouths eventually becomes truth several generations later.
I'll point this out. There is no evidence that Yasuke was a samurai. He did serve Oda Nobunaga, had a house, et cetera. However, that is not unusual for valued servants. William Adams (who was the inspiration for John Blackthorne in James Clavell's Shogun) was a retainer for Tokugawa Ieyasu for several years before he was given the honor of being a samurai. Which goes to a different point. Japan was very meticulous about its records in this time. They had detailed records to make sure people where who they claimed to be. For example, there is a record that William Adams and his shipmate Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn were made a samurai and there is a record of that happening. There is no record of Yasuke becoming a samurai. Lastly, Yasuke was not treated like a samurai. When Oda Nobunaga was killed, based on what we know, Yasuke was just let go. He literally disappears from history after this. He goes with some Jesuit Missionaries and is gone. A high ranking samurai would have either been taken prisoner, killed or committed seppuku. If the samurai refused to commit seppuku, he would be tortured. That is not how they treated Yasuke. He was simply let go.
People do also misunderstand what 'servant' means here though. A retainer served a master, but they weren't necessarily a serf, a peasant, a slave. A retainer was a position of some elevation. It could even come with some degree of authority. But it also didn't imply nobility, or being a saumurai. Your influence and position was tied to the success of your master, the one you served. There's a bit more historical and cultural nuance to this than either side of this stupid internet slapfight seems willing to actually bother engaging with.
Yasuke was bought by oda becouse of his skin colour. and was order to bath in the present of oda samurai, just to proof he wasnt paint in ink. and yasuke got no last name, people living in japen that time without a last name means only one thing, he was of the lower caste not a samurai.
The guy spent 15 months in Japan but we are going to talk about that 15 months of his life more than Nobunaga himself... the most researched individual in Japanese history.
@@thegatorhator6822 lol nobunaga gave house and other things becouse yasuke hasn't NOTHING becouse he was sl〇ve of jesuit Nobunaga treated as human and nothing more
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I live in China, (I know not the same) but a black would stick out and get attention even in modern day. So they’re telling me a black guy in 1400 Japan, (where Oda tried to scrub him clean because he didn’t know black people were a thing) just fits in and would make a good assassin and get no attention I also love the part where they said he was “stolen” by the Portuguese and not, sold to them
The myth of slaves being mostly "stolen" from Africa has been pervasive for decades now, I remember being taught it in middle school which was the early to mid 2000s for me.
@@acat6145 It's a myth in that it's lying by omission, they never mentioned the fact that African tribes sold slaves to traders when I was at school, we were fed a narrative that all African slaves were abducted.
We Japanese have always loved the culture of "If" since ancient times. We often created works with settings that differed from reality, such as imagining if animals behaved like humans or if historical figures had a different gender. This is because our culture has a long-standing tradition of embracing imaginative scenarios. Such "Japanese IF" concepts from overseas are culturally accepted and welcomed. If Yasuke were imagined as a samurai or an emperor, we would enjoy it. However, the UBI case is clearly different. There were delusional people who padded hundreds of pages with facts that are not even 10 pages of historical data, and what is worse, they claimed it as fact without any permission. Some of them even maliciously post on social networking sites about non-existent black samurai as if they were facts, not as a hypothetical "IF." This is nothing but an insult. Take a cue from Ghost of Tsushima, which has done a very good job of incorporating fact and IF while respecting Japanese culture.
"Shreksuke, a tall swamp man, arrived in Japan in 1579 and made history as the first foreign-born man to become a samurai warrior. Shreksuke was originally an orge from forbidden swamp and was brought to Japan by knights. The powerful Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga was fascinated by Shreksuke's tall stature and green skin, and upon seeing him, ordered his servants to try and rub the "green ink" off his skin. Despite this strange encounter, Nobunaga took Shreksuke into his service, granting him a sum of money, a house, and a katana. From then on, Shreksuke loyally served Nobunaga as a honored samurai, fighting alongside him in fierce battles. He went from being a swamp thing to a member of the Japanese elite." - Thomas "Cruise" Lockley
...I can already TELL this is B.S. because they don't even mention Donkey-San & COMPLETELY omitted Shreksuke's p**sy...which was honourable & imbued with a warrior's spirit - as well as the most bushi of ALL the "kitty-kata" in the land, some may even say (which is obvs why we depicted it with dreadlocks)...
I love the second book with Taiko the handsome and the evil Onibaba Godmother. The historical accuracy really had me yodelling in traditional samurai manner.
My favorite fact is people are just now finding that "African" doesnt automatically mean "black". they forget Moroccans, Tunisians, Arabians, and many other ethnic groups that aren't black and instead more olive-skinned, exist. and they hate it.....
Some hate that fact so much they constantly play it down. I.E. Today's Egyptians aren't the same as back then, they're now Arab. Nubians and Egyptians were 50/50 intermingling. Unfounded claims about Cleopatra's skin colour/origins and on and on. What I haven't missed though is it all comes from Americans and sadly we've seen enough examples out of the US that the general public as a rule knows little to nothing of the world outside the US except maybe Paris is in France and there's an Italy. (I know there's exceptions).
One embarrassing moment I had was sitting near a white guy and Japanese guy at a Vietnamese eatery speaking to each other in Japanese, so I remarked to the white guy "Oh wow, your Japanese is really good!", to which he responded "well, I am Japanese". Learnt a lesson that day that I've never forgotten. Skin colour =/= country of origin (look at Autotrader presenter Rory Ried; he's black but is as British as tea and scones).
You know these people hate Japan and the japanese culture with all their hearts. But they have to use it because it's in demand and there are many fans passionate about it. Imagine if there were people that actually loved it instead of hating it, it would've been a great game.
I think they like it enough, plenty of weeb devs and hypocrite far leftist in the dev pool, the problem is that they hate gamers, its pretty clear because gamers and fans of the series just wanted to play a Japanese samurai, and once again they go the anti-fan route by trying to find the 1 obscure anomaly in history that also goes against the series. I'm actually even sure they know Thomas was a con artist and his version of Yasuke is basically a fantasy story, but they still went with it because it would 'upset the raysist gaymers' .
@@frostreaper1607 I got to agree with you. These game devs hate gamers a lot more than they hate the Japanese culture. It's more like they simply see the culture as a tool to use in order to progress their own agenda. Although they did play hip hop music during Yasuke's fight scene in the trailer so I could be super wrong. It's difficult to differentiate stupidity and racisms when we're talking about Ubisoft.
We have that game. It's called Tenchu. It's called Way of the Samurai. Hell, Ghost of Tsushima (while not being overly accurate) is a better Japanese AC than AC Shadows will be.
What's funny is there have been legends of female Japanese warriors, mostly wives avenging their fallen husbands, who they could have focused on for those DEI points, but the found the idea of an African samurai so much more appealing that they ignored those women for a foreigner those life under Nobunaga isn't as documented as these brave wives. Not to mention that the whole reason why in Japan it is popular with women to practice fencing with naginata is because back in the day, it was mostly up to the women to defend themselves and their town while the men were at war, and the naginata was a popular weapon for women to use
A movie about widows didn't make 1.4 billion dollars in 2018. Every AAA game that started development between 2018 and 2021 are all going to have a common theme like that. Don't believe me? Just wait until Bethesda releases Elder Scrolls 6: Hammerfell Forever
dude a female assassin avenging the life of her dead husband would go crazy hard, what if he was killed by templars and she gets wrapped up in this crazy conspiracy and has to become an assassin herself?
Cos it wasn't a strong independent woman being obsessed with self-advancement, but a widow in exercise of fidelity to her husband by taking his sword. These people can't fathom fulfillment in someone other than themselves, and they don't wanna be reminded of that.
I'm pretty sure photography didn't exist back in that time in Japan. But that's before Wikipedia retconned historical truth. Now, Zendaya invented photography in the 4th century. Oh, and she's immortal too, ya bgiots.
@@technicalleon these are the same ppl who gave us skull and bones after a decade when all we wanted was black flag w/o the assassin story. Ubisoft would go on a transatlantic trip to avoid an opportunity next door.
they could've also had the whole japan game, be ninja themed, and have the samurai, be the right hand men of the templars. you know, ninjas, which are japans ASSASSINS, vs samurai, which are equatable to knights, like in, knights templar? the chinese 100% also had a more hidden blade cast, dunno about the koreans, as i quite franky, don't know anything about korea. another knowledge gap, which i plan of filling. they could've even made the japanese AC game, possible to be played in co op. have yaoes father also survive the raid, but nobody else, which prompted him to teach his daughter, shinobi, on top of kunoichi tactivs. you know, to remove the jaring part of, why would this man break tradition. but knowing modern ubi, yaoe is probably going to learn it all on her own, like a proper girlboss. i'm disapointment.
They keep 'missing' opportunities. Happens so often, almost seems intentional except there's no profit to it. It's not very hard, I really don't understand why they do what they do. I personally think AC has always had the most extreme potential of any game I've ever played. They can literally go anywhere and do anything whilst following the eden story in the background. They go can to any time and any place. With the abstergo devices they've created literal infinite potential. You can connect any character in any non-sensical way. Let them meer historical figures in historal places. If AC goes interdimensional it's probaly in reach of the lore. Modern day shooter? Lore accurate. Medieval knights? Lore accurate. The fall of easter island? Can be easily made lore accurate. And yes! With AC origins/odyssee/valhalla and their history exploration stuff, I *absolutely* loved it. Get kids gaming and get gamers learning history. Keep those bits factual and you've not just made a game, you've made the most high quality interactive history simulator. In a game series with near infinite potential, barely can't do wrong as long as you're commited... how can they make these kinds of 'mistakes'?
Requires intelligent people and they all expired decades ago. The people now that are against this crap are just the condemned souls sentenced to watch this world burn around them.
Being a black dude is cool. I'm sorry these companies keep throwing dark people up as shields. Just know. I don't hate you brother. I just want everyone to have fun, not be arguing. Ubisoft are the racists, not us.
@@Leon-kt4cl Who are whose people? I'm white as a sheet, but I wouldn't consider, say, Piers Morgan to be one of my people. I still see him as a filthy European, and myself as an American. Sure, we can agree on some things, but his hardcore gun control fetish will make it to where I could never share an environment with him.
People should realize the Olympics is a scam if you look at Russia they’re banned for defending Russian people , Israel can invade 5 different countries though and they get preferential treatment
If there's one thing I know about DEI Activists, is that they're so hellbent on authentic portrayals. But by authentic portrayals, they usually mean their own culture. DEI Activists will literally continue portraying foreign cultures from a Western point of view, instead of actually putting the research into it. So much for breaking stereotypes, when the only stereotypes they're asking to be broken, is the stereotypes related to their culture.
The IGN article gets even crazier. Not only is the author upset that Asians are "forced" to be in expected roles, like being people from Asia- but the Korean American author is also pissed that cool samurai and ninja characters are always only ever Japanese. It's hilarious
Crazy how people scream Cultural Appropriation when a white person wears Traditional Japanese Clothing... But when someone is deliberately revising history and using a historical black man in order to insert a present day stereotypical black person with hip hop music every journalist is silent.
The AC producers seemed to make a point of not doing any research and disrespecting Japanese culture as much as possible. The Shinobi were neither their own fighter class nor were their deeds deemed lower than the one's of a Samurai as they claim in the trailer. Samurai was a rank, Shinobi was a job (different types of spy work, not a trained fighter class) done by ambassadors, messengers, servants or geishas for example. Samurai sometimes also did assassinations or spy work, therefore they took on the job of a Shinobi. So exactly the opposite of what the AC producers are claiming. A Samurai wouldn't walk through town in his battlefield armor, like he does during the whole game. Also Iga wasn't a secret, hidden village in the mountains, but an important and well known center of commerce with a lot of trade routes. There were no secret Ninja training facilities in the mountains, that's from Batman for heaven's sake. They show cherry blossoms (Sakura) and silver grass (Suzuki) right in the opening sequence together, but the first only appears in spring and the second only in fall, they refused to do any research or even just talk to one Japanese person.
The hive mind of Ubisoft fandom and others who can’t count to 5, endlessly parroting, "It's a video game, not a documentary, so just ignore it," as if it's some profound wisdom. They conveniently overlook that these so called "video game inaccuracies" aren't the starting seeds of larger misconceptions. Once these distortions are repeated enough, they become part of the accepted narrative. Fast forward a few decades and, surprise! Those "harmless" errors make their way into history books, documentaries, and even statues. Cleopatra, anyone? This is the exact fate being crafted for Japan’s culture and history. They start by falsely elevating Yusuke from a servant to a Samurai in games and movies because, after all, "it's not a documentary." But when the Japanese community dismisses these distortions as trivial, they risk waking up one day to find their accurate history erased and replaced with Western fantasies. Not to mention, the same folks endlessly chanting, "It's just a video game," would have an absolute meltdown and scream about systemic racism if, say, tomorrow Ubisoft released a game set in Africa featuring a European or Asian protagonist who’s magically presented as a Zulu warrior or some historical African king. Suddenly, the "it's just a video game" mantra would vanish into thin air, as if it never existed. They’d be up in arms, flooding forums and social media platforms with outrage and condemnation. The double standards would be on full display, and their hypocrisy would shine brightly for all to see. When it’s their cultural icons and historical accuracy on the line, "it's just a video game so who cares" would conveniently become irrelevant.
If you get your history from a video game, YOUR the problem. And the majority of people saying “it’s just a game” would be just as happy with a European in Africa. I definitely would.
Just look at gamer gate. "journalists" are still complaining about it to this day. If you ever wanted a perfect example of wiki misinformation, you can't find a better one
@@ApsmneShsbshu Oh, really? So, please enlighten me on why the "majority of people" throw a tantrum when someone tired of blackwashing dares to suggest a Nordic Black Panther.
The same people defending Ubisoft are now mad because Genshin Impact new nation (that is based on pre-colombian and african civilization) have the characters with pale skin and accuse Hoyoverse of "whitewashing". Let's that sink in...
There's a line from The Blackening stating the blackest thing you can do is show up when you're not invited. Blackety black, they said. Cleopatra wasn't black, neither was Queen Charlotte or Anne Boleyn. No black samurai, no black vikings. Don't come if you're not invited.
It's disrespectful not only to the culture but also blacks themselves. They use blacks as pawns to get money without showing BLACK CULTURE. They show white/japanese/any other culture EXCEPT BLACK. What's the point of showing black skin only?!
Imagine being a black AC fan, waiting for a game set in sub-Saharan Africa, with a black African protagonist. But, when the game finally comes, you have to play as a white man...
Now he deleted all SNS then hid in his house. We never forgive this evil , asking him for stopping lies then saying truth to the world. For most of us Japanese it is the first time we see the unforgivable malice of the woke leftists trying to destroy other culture and history. Then I saw the worst Paris Olympic polluted with DEI, I truly found lefty white activists are cancers.
Assassins Creed Shadows could've been so good if the devs just decided to make an actually Japanese protagonist and have them meet Yasuke on an optional quest as a cool side character. Thats ALL Ubisoft had to do... and they still failed.
Yasuke historically had a sword. Ubisoft: he's samurai then. But, he was spending his time in Japan as servant and never trained as samur- Unisoft: nope, he's samurai
@@Ktsjay187there's not enough evidence to support the claim either way. If Ubisoft had said the game was complete fiction and/or used a fictional character as they normally do, this wouldn't be an issue.
@@tyler1768 i think he had his own sword for protection and he likely had some training. but yea he was a servant mostly. still implications are there was aconsiderable amuont of trust going on. you don't jsut hand anyone your sword to carry.
@@Ktsjay187 No, he was a slave. Every single piece of contemporary, primary source Japanese literature that references him specifically calls him a slave. Before, during, and after his service to Nobunaga.
@@Ktsjay187 at the specific time, you literally had to be _born into the caste_. they didn't elevate anyone to it. nobunaga kept him, effectively, as a 'pet'. even the people who followed the man, still largely considered him... touched. very good at matters of state and war, but touched none the less. and as crappy as it was for this sort of thing to occur to start with, 'pets' do not get to be samurai. and if he had elevated some random foreigner with no skills, no training, and no ties to japan or the bushi or buke castes, nobunaga would have faced outright revolt for slighting his actual samurai with such a bald faced and outright offensive move. it would, almost literally, have been like spitting in each of their faces and telling them they weren't as worthy as this random nobody from another land who had nothing but a name that nobunaga himself had changed (at least for the duration of his stay). the loss of face would have forced their hand, and giri would have required them to rectify the issue. had this actually occurred, nobunaga would likely have not lived past the declaration. no revolt occurred, and it was a specific man that assassinated nobunaga. one who had long had contention with how nobunaga had run things. this discontent having started well before yasuke even came on the scene. one whose ploy to take over, ultimately failed. so this idea that yasuke could have been 'samurai' utterly ignores the reality of the era, the castes, and the basic concept behind the japanese social structure itself, even aside from the castes. sorry, western logic doesn't apply to the japanese mindset or social structure. the concept of face is .. poorly understood most of the time, giri is essentially an alien concept i've yet to hear anyone in the western world even scratch the surface of properly. yaskua was a slave, kept as a curiosity, a pet, given a role as close to the man as could be given without angering his troops and nobles. in western terms, he would have been a page, or squire (at best) and nothing more. and even that would have been in name only. to give any credence to this abomination of a butchering of history this fool 'author' has promoted is.. ludicrous beyond measure.
One comment I saw stuck with me: "The fact that the music that plays with him sounds like hip hop music trying to mutilate Japanese techno is hilariously ironic."
The funny thing is there actually was a white samurai who did so much for Japan that his Ancestors are still respected and have his armor & estate everything! It’s really cool meanwhile this black guy has no ancestors, no armor, NOTHING to his name yet they expect us to think he was this great hero 😅
William Adams. Became a retainer to Ieyasu Tokugawa and several YEARS later was recognized as a samurai, with extensive historical records about him. Unlike Yasuke, who has about 3 sentences to his name and bailed with some missionaries after 15 months.
@@Gilroysmash86 William Adams Nioh game Protag was inspired by him also, the Gajin character in the shogun show he was made a samurai AFTER helping Tokugawa annihilated christians in japan Japan closed it nation at the time, and he was forced to stay in japan until his dead so, he be like "F it, i abandoned my old family and get all these japanese pussy" im not joking
As a black man, I am furious about this. Not just because it was completely unnecessary. But because of the trap background music they put in the game. It's like they think we are monkeys that can't help but dance when they play "sick beats"for us. I couldn't even finish the trailer after that. They are the ONLY racists in this situation.
Hell, i wouldnt be upset if he was a major npc even, just not one of the protags because ubisoft is literally breaking the mold to have the 1 black guy in japan be playable
Yasuke.. my house ninja, hasn't returned from his task of emptying of chamber pot waste. Successfully investigate the piss boys whereabouts and I will give you more vital tasks.
Imagine having an Assassins Creed: Mali Empire game where it’s based during Mansa Musas reign of the empire, but you play as his one white guard instead of the thousands of black warriors you could have chosen.
@@ShadowRulah if it is up to the sweet baby and Blackrock/Vanguard boot lickers yes. They do see that as a problem because it "reinforces gender stereotypes" so they must force behaviors that change that. But it won't work. It never works. They have been trying for almost 100 years.
I, as a female gamer, have absolutely no issue with that. My dad introduced me to video games, my mom never plays them. My older sister was an avid gamer as a kid, but she outgrew it for other hobbies as a woman. I keep playing them (though I’d never pretend I’m a good gamer 😅). It’s a hobby I share with my dad, my brother, and my younger sister. We have a great time, my mom and older sister have other interests. I don’t understand why it’s an issue.
@@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBroIt shouldn't be. But sadly, there are people, often in corporate, who insist that gaming being largely certain demographics is a catastrophic display of bigotry, and there are idiots out there who actually don't want gaming to appeal to various demographics as a way to vet the community They'd deserve each other, but this fight influences how developers behave and make/release their games and this has ruined things for us all
@@AquaticIdealist oh yeah. Reality is they wanna vilify said minorities to make them look like bad racist people. Because that is the only outcome they will get with this culture war. They are the real evil racists. Before they came along, no one cared about minorities and women in videogames. They made it a big deal like gamers were all bigots and cared enough to gatekeep other communities from it. We never cared. We just don't want their disgusting politics in it.
The best part is that woke people can't say it's white dudes that hate minorities or something and just wanna play as generic white character (i say this as a Hispanic). No, it's not that people dont wanna play as a black guy, people just wanna be immersed in a thematic correct era, playing as a Japanese dude, in a fuckin Japanese setting. Obviously creative liberties have to be taken, but when it's such a forced inclusion it leaves people with a bad taste. If yasuke was some historical character like davinci or others in the previous AC games, nobody would care.
I wonder if you will have this same mentality if/when they make a game about the Japanese Samurai who visited Mexico in the 1600s. If they become Cowboys or Conquistadors or whatever is the equivalent at the time, will there be an upset? Will you be saying "Of course, they found the one Asian in a country of Latinos"? Would you be saying things like "They are disrespecting the people of Mexico!!!" Will you be saying it is forced inclusion? I'm just curious.
Ubisoft: Let's take this footnote of Japanese history and make him the figurehead of an entire time period solely because he's black. _Everyone disliked that_
Yasuke is still being used by White People after his passing. Thomas Lockley, Qubec Ubisoft division. It is a sad they still profiting off the poor man.
You know, Ubisoft could have made an Assassin's Creed game about Zulu if they wanted a black protagonist. AND THESE PEOPLE NEED TO STOP GIVING BLACK PEOPLE DREADLOCKS.
Everything I've seen about this game reeks of having been thrown together in a hurry. Almost like this wasn't the original intention for the game. It would not surprise me if ACShadows was a completely different game a year or two ago. Possibly a setting where the protagonist wouldn't have been so out of place.
Anjirō would have been a good choice for the main character. He fled overseas for murder, met missionaries there, became the first Japanese Christian, returned to Japan with the missionary Francis Xavier, and worked as an interpreter for his missionary work in japan. I think it's a very good base for the main character of Assassin's Creed.
Even that wouldn't have worked with the traditional Assassin Creed's formula. The entire point of the games is a nobody who's manipulating history from the shadows. By that end, they can't really be historical characters.
Lockley lied about Yasuke’s story and U B SOFT went ahead and put in as much DEI nonsense as possible. Even before its release later this year, Japan has already rejected it and so has many vocal gamers.
If they wanted to include characters who were non-japanese around the time at which the Portuguese started arriving in Japan, then surely the outsider should be... Portuguese, right?
We need to start referring to DEI as DIE because it is killing artistic expression and I say this in protest against being pandered to by devs like Ubi-SBI.
For people saying this isn’t a big deal imagine if they made an assassins creed in Africa and the only playable characters were an Asian man and a woman.
"We think there are too many games about samurai, we want to make a narrative about cultural clash during turbulent times in Japan." *proceeds to not set the game in the Bakumatsu period*
The period it’s set in is one of the most important periods in Japanese history. Even if they used a different protagonist, they would have to use this period.
@@ApsmneShsbshu It is the most popular period of Japanese history but not the only time stuff was happening and in the context of if someone wanted the contrast between Japanese and Western culture to be specifically a part of the game's narrative it makes far more sense to set it in the time period where Westernization was actually a thing. Many extremely high-profile Japanese games in a semi-historical setting like Ghost of Tsushima, Nioh and Like a Dragon Isshin don't take place in the Sengoku period. Hell, in Japan the Bakumatsu period is arguably AS popular as the Sengoku period. The Shinsengumi are oftentimes more popular than Sengoku warlords.
@@Zetact_ it might be as popular, but it’s less important. The European merchants during this time laid the groundwork for future westernization. They played an important role. Aside from ww2 it’s also probably the most important time period.
@@ApsmneShsbshu It's irrelevant. A lot of AC games happen during "not as important" time periods in history. Acting like them picking the Sengoku Era over any other era as being "obvious" is really dumb. Furthermore the goal is to keep people interested in the 'narrative' (such that AC games have anymore) but at the end of the day they just wanted to use Nobunaga's name when there are time periods all over Japanese history rife with well known figures they could have done the exact same thing with. At the end of the day the entire game was built on a stupid idea, and it's just a matter of time before the game (like this year's Olympics) will be remembered for what they are: trash.
Why is is so difficult for AAA game corporations to hate on everything that male and fit generally whites are hated but every race at this point is targeted
Because now they have a narrative everyone has to be gay everyone can't be white or straight or be a good father figure. So if it doesn't fit the narrative it won't get into the game. That's what DEI did
I think it's funny how there's so many Asian games out there, Perfect World for an example, was the largest Asian MMO decades ago, and had so many materials for western companies to use and create games out of it, but no. For some reason our cultures and way of life is no different from each other in the eyes of those who are trying to virtue signal. As much as they try to say they are not racist, it is in fact very racist to misconstrue Chinese, Japanese and Korean culture, lump them into one and call it a day. Yes, I acknowledge that our cultures stem from the heart of China and branched out into our very own cultures during the Qin Dynasty, and do share similarities with each other, but ultimately we have our own cultures, designs, dances, music etc respectively.
@@Goiaba308 people have there opinions and what they think just let them be they heard you and don’t listen either way this is a video game anyway is posible since it’s a video game
The worst part is that not only it could've tied to a China based AC but it could also tie to an Africa/Portugal one using Yasuke. They could've made him a NPC tied to an AC brotherhood in Africa infiltrated into a Portugal based Templar chapter
Assassins Creed: Victoria. You play as a white man conquering all of Africa, just wiping out the natives easily and constantly. Yeah, that's never gonna happen.
The year is 3678. A prominent “historian” into pre-second Civil War America is in hot water for depicting Darksydephil as a serious fighting game competitor in a partly fictional book. UBIActivisionEA stands behind their latest game called “Assassin’s Creed: Syde” and its depiction of the main character. 🎩 🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
Remember journalists called Ghost of Tsuhsima cultural appropriation but the Japanese loved it. But this Ubislop crap comes out and Journalists praise it but the Japanese hate it.
Its cause for some reason woke western people just hate japan for whatever reason
It's the same dynamic as the rotten tomatoes critics vs audience scores.
Because GoT did not have all the woke BS that this AC game has. Same thing is hapenning with the Wukong game that is coming soon.
@@near--zeroThat’s an easy fix - Ubisoft just has to pay the audience reviewers for good reviews like they pay the critics for good reviews.
Ghost of Tsushima had a lot of inaccuracies as well but the game was not advertised as Historical Accurate and not even trying hard to convince people unlike what Ubisoft and Journalist did which is why Ghost of Tsushima was well appreciated.
Maybe promoting the title by showcasing gameplay where a 6'8 foreign invader marches into a village and slaughters innocent Japanese farmers, while hip-hop music played in the background, was a bad idea?
It was corrupt and murderous samurai. Not farmers.
So it's okay to show a monkey killing native?
@@ApsmneShsbshu sure Ubi shill
@@ApsmneShsbshuyou defending what ubisoft did?
@@FaithChrist7 what did they do?
What should bother all of us is they looked for the single possible POC in medieval Japan. That tells you a lot about their thought process.
Exactly. Thousands of legendary Japanese samurai they could have based this off but they go with the one black dude as the representative of the image of a Samurai 💀
What happened to "stop Asian hate?" I wonder. 🤔🤔🤔
@@JuMa-m9i I just said POC. There is no evidence he was a samurai. He was just...... there and they took that fact and ran with it.
@@JohnSyzlack if anything, he should have been a shinobi (assassin?) Because if how little is actually known about the guy. If he HAD to be in the game.
@@pittland44It stopped when it was shown that black people were the overwhelming majority that were harassing Asian people. Then it just vanished with little to no traces 🤣
I mean, we the Japanese history nerds knew about Thomas Lockley's fraud, and were warning you all for years. But now it's news.
🤓
At least he has been ousted from his university position and had his teaching credentials revoked now. Unfortunately he went as long as he did because even Japanese universities tend to be leftist gathering points.
@@PeanutTerror Nice selfie.
I am Japanese. Thomas Lockley makes me angry, and many other Japanese people are also angry. We believe that we have the right to defend our history and culture. We don't have any problem with Yasuke being a black person or Yasuke being in the game; this is not about race. We are angry because Thomas Lockley and Ubisoft have been trying to change our history. By the way, Thomas Lockley is NOT an associate professor of history or even law. He is an assistant professor who specializes in language. He is an associate professor of English teaching law students English.
There is so little record of Yasuke and no concrete evidence that Yasuke was a heroic, legendary samurai. Some people claim that Yasuke was a samurai since he was given a place to live, a stipend, and a sword (a short sword more like a dagger). However, there is only one version of "Shincho Koki" (Nobunaga Chronicle), known as "Shincho Koki Sonkeikaku bon", that contains the information that Yasuke was given a place to live, a stipend, and a short sword. Since it is the only version of Shincho Koki that contains this information, experts such as Yūichi Goza (a Japanese historian) suggest that the information about Yasuke might have been added on and needs to be considered carefully because of the uncertainty of authenticity.
Because Yasuke was a foreigner who served Oda Nobunaga for only 15 months, it would have been impossible for him to be a high-ranking samurai, the way people in the West think of him. If Yasuke were a samurai, he would have been a low-ranking one, not a legendary and heroic one. For someone to be a high-ranking samurai, he must have a last name, and Yasuke didn't have a last name.
The idea of samurai in the West significantly differs from the definition of samurai in Japan. In the Azuchimomoyama era, when Oda Nobunaga was a daimyo, samurai were not the only ones given a home, money, and swords. There is a record of farmers, merchants, and even sumo wrestlers being given a home, money, and swords as rewards by Oda Nobunaga. It was quite common for farmers to possess swords in the Sengoku period since many of them were recruited as "ashigaru" to fight in battles until Toyotomi Hideyoshi's sword-hunting order in 1588. Asgugaru were foot soldiers allowed to carry and use swords, but that did not make them samurai.
Very well said
Thank you, that was interesting.
It's useless stating facts, woke doesn't care for true, they are here to make their crazy narrative true by any means necessary.
15 months is not enough time to become a sword master. Even basic critical thinking refutes this stupid idea that was put into the AC game.
Nice larp
i love the fact they added rap music when he's fighting in a trailer, its so fuckin funny
"We need a black character. We need to make him not be a joke to racist stereotypes....so we need him to be the violent combat character who fights to hip-hop"
Ubisoft devs
Right? LOL!
@@littlehorror1057 south park episode come to life
Hes African. Where is the traditional African music?
exaggerated swagger of a gay black samurai
Wokeists: "Why does it matter?"
Japanese: "Um, cultural appropriation?"
LOL
Only counts when its white people doing it (sarcasm)
The woke I trying to colonize japan 😱
The left: “Cultural imperialism is bad, except when we do it, in which case it’s a moral imperative”.
The woke don't care. They said it themselves. They view Asians as white adjacent.
Recently, the Sekigahara Gun Corps, which suffered copyright infringement from UBI, received a response from UBI. The content of the response was that since the materials had already been printed, they would not make any corrections. It seems they will push forward with sales, finding it too troublesome to remove the parts infringing copyright, without offering an apology for the infringement. According to UBI's reasoning, if their characters were already printed and infringed upon, they wouldn't be able to criticize it. It seems UBI is declaring their own works copyright-free. LOL
sounds like an easy case for sekigahara corps
>big very conspicuous Black man in full Samurai armor murders like, 3 people in a public area
>"Must've been the wind."
Ironic how they would throw a fit if it was a white man killing black people, but are fine with the one black man killing many Japanese people
Its like the news media when a crime is committed. 😂
>with a gigantic hammer
@@DaddyDumptruckDeluxe can't touch him
That's the RUUUUULES
kick streamer simulation 2024 😅
They played rap music when the black character was fighting in the trailer💀
Truly representative of the time period 😂
But Gladiator 2 also did that and it went so well for them too....
Just like how they have rap in Gladiator 2 now. With Denzel playing Denzel as himself being a pimp. XD
Even worse, rap with Japanese-sounding undertones, cause they needed to be racist against BOTH races.
My jaw dropped the first time I saw that promotion.
Glad to see Ubisoft FINALLY getting a proper slap back.
Ubisoft gonna get it uber hard!
UBISOFT can get used to not getting ANY of my money!
Not enough, they will still laughing at their office. And Ubisoft diehard fans will still buy the game and shills hard for it like a bch.
That's Grade-A Karma effect for killing The Crew
One should ask, why would a limey semite like "Thomas" lie like this, seemingly for an agenda... Big Hmmmmm
Messing up Assassin's Creed shadows is like going bowling with the lane assists on and still getting a gutter ball cause you went to the wrong lane.
Underrated comment
Im rolling in laughter at how Ubisoft has inadvertently vindicated school teachers everywhere about using Wikipedia as a source being the worst sin possible.
I want to shadow high school "research studies" classes now and see the amount of yelling about "DON'T USE WIKIPEDIA AS A SOURCE, I WILL DISQUALIFY YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHY!" and how anime-esque the ensuring chaos will be . . . .
Everyone knows you find the sources the people on Wikipedia used for your work
I had a teacher who admitted she and her friends used to mess with wiki pages for fun back when they were students themselves. Wikipedia should not be trusted.
wikipedia itself is pretty woke so the teachers were cooking all this time
@@rozu7772 you shouldn't hold any one single place as a "trusted" source. Almost every page is written with mild bias, omission or downplaying of the facts.
English wikipedia is nowhere near as bad as, like, Japanese wikipedia, where they will use "mild words" to phrase the facts of something so as to appear less extreme. Chinese wikipedia has outright nonsense; anything that would make Chinese people look bad is downplayed in some way lol.
just like u don't read a book from one historian and take it as fact, right? you see where/who they were educated by and you read another historian with a different view.
you can still pretty reliably use wikipedia for anything that isn't political: if u wanna know how to represent methyl groups in chemistry, wikipedia is 100% reliable.
The dumbest part of this whole thing is that we have all of this evidence that most of the events surrounding Yasuke were entirely invented by one dude with no support to make his book more interesting but we all know that a year from now Wikipedia will still say he was a samurai. There's a reason there was almost nothing about him for 400 years and in the last decade he's been featured in over a dozen things.
Yeah but that Netflix anime was pretty hype
And it's even funnier that this one dude is a gay guy with a fetish for black guys, so he just wrote a whole bunch of fanfiction about a "strapping black man" being so superior and impressive to the Japanese.
It's like, dude, just go move to Michigan and you can have a bunch of "superior specimens" conquer you, free of charge. And none of you will have to come out of the closet.
@@kman9884 i dont think media involving yusuke is bad, as long as they acknowledge that they are taking great creative liberties with it.
@@kman9884 I didn't see it. Actually I didn't know it even existed until all this Ass Creed stuff came up. I did watch Blue Eye Samurai which was good but it's hilarious that Netflix has made two different animated samurai shows, one featuring a black man and one featuring a hafu woman. Gotta check those boxes!
Wikipedia will never be a trustworthy source of information because the editors are mostly anonymous, not authoritative or qualified
12:46 Wow, that's disturbing. Roughly translated, it's saying 'Those selfish Asian people have kept their history and culture to themselves for way too long now, it's about time those bigots shut up and started letting us revise it and make it more 'diverse'.'
That's fucking creepy and terrible asf
"we could not make a game with samurai that didn't look like slop so we put black people and DEI in our slop to make it even more slop"
and i am called the racists
They’re doing the same thing with countries like Uganda in Africa; like trying to shame them into accepting the LGHDTV program. Fortunately it hasn’t worked, but unfortunately they get punished by vvestern powers with sanctions which stifles their countries ability to become properly industrialized. That and they don’t comply with the cIimate aIarmists.
@@viktorgabriel2554 they can't be racists if they call somebody else as racists.
... huh that does sound like a valid strategy. By calling somebody else racist, they hide their own issues and can reword it on their own terms. Damn disturbing tactic.
The scariest aspect of the whole thing is the information warfare, especially on wiki. Gamergate was quite similar, if you look at the complete timeline of it on wiki. References to articles which self-reference to the wiki, completely obscuring and brute forcing history. Very scary.
Its called historical revisionism and yes, it is terrifying to witness.
What's more scary is that pool by Meta engineers show that 73% of people believe anything they see in internet without checking it, so what people read on wiki...
That’s what happens when someone fights for *their* truth instead of *the* truth
Despite making up 13% of thr population they make up 50% of samurai sword related attacks.
cmooon LOL
@@osakeleto 50% is way too low... You must be getting your stats from UBNBC
It’s now 14% and 88%.
@@heathclark318 shogun data from the same guys that want to ban automatic bows
50%? Try 90% of crime
I know how the Japanese feel because in my country the BBC try to lie about Celtic history by saying they were black Celtic but anyone who knows about Celtic history will know there is no such thing as black Celtic.
Red hair and freckles are African Phenotypes proven by European science…so yea there were Africans with Celtics at some point whether you want to admit it or not…
They really misunderstood the phrase black Irish.
Yeah these woke really insisting to put and conditioning black people as victim, against everybody. While destroying everybody.
And that odd belief that they're doing good and 'helping', they're either narcisstic idiot, or having malicious intention from the start. Or both.
お気持ちお察しします。
WokeやDEIは邪悪です。
他人の歴史や文化を全て盗もうとします。
@@justinvasquez8034 their source for it all is black boy aka that random black guy that played the trumpet for one of the king henry's which means all of britain was founded by black slaves somehow.
A group of only white people from Europe making a Japanese themed game with Chinese aesthetics staring a black man is definitely 2024 in a nutshell.
I am also like 70% sure that the female is going to be a trans. Because she has a dudes name and Ubisoft is super dupper woke.
@@9usuck0 bruvski uses "woke" unironically
Which is ironic because another American company made another samurai game that was loved by Japan so much the Japanese government made the developers official ambassadors of the island the game is based in.
The difference between the two companies/games? The first didn’t try to be woke, nor did they say that it was going to be historically accurate, and it only cared about telling a good story through a good game
@@TheKarenWarsCanada is still considered European.
@@moongoalie2410 in what parallel universe?
Apparently Akechi Mitsuhide/明智光秀 is Yasuke's enemy in the game?
Furthermore, Yasuke's role is to save the Japanese people from oppression.
But Akechi Mitsuhide is considered the benefactor of Fukuchiyama/福知山 and worshipped as a god in Goryo Jinja/御霊神社.
It's disrespectful to steal the achievements of a god and belittle him as an oppressor.
Is Ubi making fun of Japanese religion?
Knowing it's a French studio probably yes
Calling Yasuke a samurai is like calling DSP a pro fighting game player.
And that guy hasn't participated in a tournament in damn near 20 years😂
Honestly, DSP has more claim to the title since he was actually at tournaments back in the day and participated. The only official documentation we know about Yasuke says he fled the battlefield.
😂😂😂
@@WhiteManOnCampus LMAO! "Fled the battlefield" is his historical note. 😆
@@WhiteManOnCampus Some samurai he is that instead of protecting his lord, he fled. What an ABSOLUTE LEGEND!!!
Remember when the woke people were upset about Scarlet Johansson, a white woman, being in ghost in the shell? How times have changed
And they didn't get that Major's body is artificial, she looks the way she does because she chooses to.
@Ihavethetouch
Not only that
In the source material it's implied that her body is a mas production model with no clear ethnicity or nationality
Cuz she’s huwite and they are all devils
She was fine as hell in that movie as Kusanagi❤
I mean...the character was a Japanese woman, so I still think it's kind of dumb.
the most ridiculous thing of all this is how is a 6ft black samurai supposed to blend into a crowd of 5ft Japanese people? 😂
why is he wearing full armor at all times? why does everyone line up and bow to him for no reason in the trailer? why is there Torii Gates at the entrance to the village?
@@keithfilibeck2390 right? idk how they thought they would get away with this, i mean they're literally editing history, its nuts.
He’s not the stealth character. That’s Naoes job.
"I'm sick of being social engineered, it's not funny"
-AJ
@@ApsmneShsbshu all of thé past assassin Creed charachter are both stealth and have good fighting abilities but that one there are no stealth WE talk about assassin Creed not warriors creed
My Grandmother told me, "I don't care what anybody says Oba Nobinaga was a black woman"
Lmao nice reference
In the war between StopAsianHate and BlackLivesMatter, there was a very clear winner
I keep suggesting that we do like the Russians and ally with the asians, but with unity instead of division. White and yellow make em bellow? Lol
Everyone is equal, some are just more equal than others
The Hacker Known as 4Chan.
@@stillcantbesilencedevennow Caucasians and Asians both have been the victims of State-mandated discrimination along racial lines ("""affirmative action""").
And even in the discussion of Yasuke being a Samurai, its clear which side is which..
It’s actually more terrifying that these Ubisoft ppl can’t prounounce his name properly
But if you pronounce Shaniqua or Ladarius wrong you're a number 1 racist. 😂😂
Gundam: "finally, we're gonna be ninjas"
Ubisoft:"actually, you're gonna be ni..."
And Naoe?
And gay as well 😂
I lost it on that one LUL
Black Dynamite was ahead of time.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Can’t wait for Assassins Creed Mexico where the main protagonist is a Chinese Woman that fights alongside Pancho Villa.😂
The hell who taught you those lies, Chinese woman will be Pancho she identified as man
I'd watch that 😂
Wth my comment was deleted / wrote yesterday that Chinese woman would be Pancho
@@Guest-iv4qo It happens, UA-cam be protecting 🌈 people and removing random comments.
Welcome to modern gaming where the shitshow is always more entertaining than the actual game
Real af.
I only ever play indies these years.
Honestly? I'm not tempted to buy those major games in the slightest
Indie games are better than ever while I've had literally zero interest in any triple-A game in years.
lmaoooo basically
I can’t remember the last time I bought a “AAA” game. I’ve just been replaying old favorites since everything coming out recently is either a broken mess on launch, a money vacuum, or SBI propaganda piece.
I bet Ubisoft didn't expect the internet to see trough the wikipedia manipulation that happened around yasuke page and expected everyone to just accept the made up lie that he was a samurai.
Ubisoft didn’t edit Wikipedia, and they said they made up his story.
I doubt that was uni, that was the Twitter critters and reddit dwellers. Terminally online woke warriors
Believe it or not there are still a handful of crack-nuts out there that believe the Wikipedia and still spreading Yasuke was a Legendary samurai.
@@ApsmneShsbshu Damn, its not just ubisoft dabbing in historical revisionism, it's their fanboys too now it seem.
Ubisoft started to promote their game by heavily leaning on the fact Yasuke was "totally a real character that totally existed", and all the low IQ chills (like you) jumped on their defence quoting the edited wikipedia.
I never said they edited the wiki tho, but you already knew that.
@@ApsmneShsbshuIt was Lockley. And they only started backpedaling after getting called out hard.
"A black samurai?!"
_"Why not? It worked in Blazing Saddles."_
I wonder if that was actually said in one of their meetings
@@Jim87_36I would be surprised if it wasn't
What Ubisoft forgot was that the Sheriff is a *DONNNNNGGGGGG*
thing is there were a lot of black cow boys too. so its double dump
They're really the salt of the earth in today's day and age.
I like how the entire mythology of Yasuke just materialized in real time from people posting made up stuff on Wikipedia and it being immediately accepted. It’s like they re-did tve entire history of the made-up “Jesus in India” legend as a speedrun.
I remember my grandmother saying to me: I don’t care what they tell you in school, Yasuke built the Great Wall of China.
In a cave... With a bunch of scraps!
It's like telling everyone that Steven Seagal is a true sensei.
My grandmother told me the
feudal Japan was made and created by all women feminist samurai group with colur full hair without them Japan wouldn't be what it is today
I think it's really a shame that some kids never had the experience of finding out that your parents are people too and they can be wrong.
With cleopatra
Considering Japanese folks were able to find out that the contents of Lockley's books are being taught and referenced in actual school books, It'd say it's historical revisionism. It's not a concerted effort or some huge villainous plan. But rather multiple waves, layers, and types of slowly trying to revise history going on behind the scenes for a long time now. Their cumulative result was ACS. And so when people dug up the corpse, the rot was deeper than everybody thought it would be. It's like how one lie, when spread out by multiple mouths eventually becomes truth several generations later.
Yeah, think it was formalised as a method (Big Lie theory/method) by Goebbels for his leader though likely existed in some form prior to that.
This is why the history field is a joke now
I'll point this out. There is no evidence that Yasuke was a samurai. He did serve Oda Nobunaga, had a house, et cetera. However, that is not unusual for valued servants. William Adams (who was the inspiration for John Blackthorne in James Clavell's Shogun) was a retainer for Tokugawa Ieyasu for several years before he was given the honor of being a samurai.
Which goes to a different point. Japan was very meticulous about its records in this time. They had detailed records to make sure people where who they claimed to be. For example, there is a record that William Adams and his shipmate Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn were made a samurai and there is a record of that happening. There is no record of Yasuke becoming a samurai.
Lastly, Yasuke was not treated like a samurai. When Oda Nobunaga was killed, based on what we know, Yasuke was just let go. He literally disappears from history after this. He goes with some Jesuit Missionaries and is gone.
A high ranking samurai would have either been taken prisoner, killed or committed seppuku. If the samurai refused to commit seppuku, he would be tortured. That is not how they treated Yasuke. He was simply let go.
Dude yasuke refused to do harakiri instead of being racist look at some primary sources?
@@Younghoulhead What a good argument bro, you called him names and poisoned the well. Good job.
People do also misunderstand what 'servant' means here though. A retainer served a master, but they weren't necessarily a serf, a peasant, a slave. A retainer was a position of some elevation. It could even come with some degree of authority. But it also didn't imply nobility, or being a saumurai. Your influence and position was tied to the success of your master, the one you served. There's a bit more historical and cultural nuance to this than either side of this stupid internet slapfight seems willing to actually bother engaging with.
Mr.KnowItAll 😂
wow that some nice racism you've got their, must be nice to be dumb!
Yasuke was bought by oda becouse of his skin colour. and was order to bath in the present of oda samurai, just to proof he wasnt paint in ink. and yasuke got no last name, people living in japen that time without a last name means only one thing, he was of the lower caste not a samurai.
The guy spent 15 months in Japan but we are going to talk about that 15 months of his life more than Nobunaga himself... the most researched individual in Japanese history.
??where?? Is there mandalorian here??
BRO HE WAS GIVEN A
H O U S E
TO LIVE IN HE MUST HAVE BEEN A SAMURAI BRO
@@thegatorhator6822 He was given a house and a salary, he must be a samurai
@@thegatorhator6822 Even that's historical bullshit.
@@thegatorhator6822 lol nobunaga gave house and other things becouse yasuke hasn't NOTHING becouse he was sl〇ve of jesuit
Nobunaga treated as human and nothing more
"it was later discovered Yu had ties to Blackrock, Vanguard, and Goldman-Sachs"
every
fucking
time
Every. Fucking. Time.
I HATE Blackrock.
@@matthewalves3855
Need to nuke em like Arasaka.
When, long ago,
the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image
Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts
were next designed;
Yet they were too remote
from humankind.
To fill the gap,
and join the rest of Man,
Th'Olympian host
conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought,
in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and
called the thing a Κіkе.
Oh those jews of mine.
I live in China, (I know not the same) but a black would stick out and get attention even in modern day.
So they’re telling me a black guy in 1400 Japan, (where Oda tried to scrub him clean because he didn’t know black people were a thing) just fits in and would make a good assassin and get no attention
I also love the part where they said he was “stolen” by the Portuguese and not, sold to them
The myth of slaves being mostly "stolen" from Africa has been pervasive for decades now, I remember being taught it in middle school which was the early to mid 2000s for me.
@@captainweekend5276It’s not necessarily a myth because some were kidnapped but most were sold
@@acat6145 It's a myth in that it's lying by omission, they never mentioned the fact that African tribes sold slaves to traders when I was at school, we were fed a narrative that all African slaves were abducted.
We Japanese have always loved the culture of "If" since ancient times. We often created works with settings that differed from reality, such as imagining if animals behaved like humans or if historical figures had a different gender. This is because our culture has a long-standing tradition of embracing imaginative scenarios. Such "Japanese IF" concepts from overseas are culturally accepted and welcomed.
If Yasuke were imagined as a samurai or an emperor, we would enjoy it. However, the UBI case is clearly different. There were delusional people who padded hundreds of pages with facts that are not even 10 pages of historical data, and what is worse, they claimed it as fact without any permission. Some of them even maliciously post on social networking sites about non-existent black samurai as if they were facts, not as a hypothetical "IF."
This is nothing but an insult. Take a cue from Ghost of Tsushima, which has done a very good job of incorporating fact and IF while respecting Japanese culture.
Yo thanks for using my clip!!
We cannot let this happen to Japan!!!!
Kino
Wtf is your pfp
This entire video is basically "Okay Ubisoft say less you don't need to convince me further not to buy your terrible game" and they just keep going.
"Shreksuke, a tall swamp man, arrived in Japan in 1579 and made history as the first foreign-born man to become a samurai warrior. Shreksuke was originally an orge from forbidden swamp and was brought to Japan by knights. The powerful Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga was fascinated by Shreksuke's tall stature and green skin, and upon seeing him, ordered his servants to try and rub the "green ink" off his skin. Despite this strange encounter, Nobunaga took Shreksuke into his service, granting him a sum of money, a house, and a katana. From then on, Shreksuke loyally served Nobunaga as a honored samurai, fighting alongside him in fierce battles. He went from being a swamp thing to a member of the Japanese elite."
- Thomas "Cruise" Lockley
"Shrek is love, Shrek is life."- Shogun LGBTBBC Yasuke
...I can already TELL this is B.S. because they don't even mention Donkey-San & COMPLETELY omitted Shreksuke's p**sy...which was honourable & imbued with a warrior's spirit - as well as the most bushi of ALL the "kitty-kata" in the land, some may even say (which is obvs why we depicted it with dreadlocks)...
Ironically the Shreksuke version is less offensive. But unironically all Shreksuke mods will be banned.
I don't care what they tell you, but my grandmama told me shreksuke was green
I love the second book with Taiko the handsome and the evil Onibaba Godmother.
The historical accuracy really had me yodelling in traditional samurai manner.
I still feel like it should have been based on Hanzo Hattori or Fuma
Thomas Lockleys next book will be about how sasuke finally attained super saiyan 2.
“As Yasuke the ‘legendary’ black ‘samurai’ laid bloody and beaten he finally unlocked his true form
Super saiyan noir”
My favorite fact is people are just now finding that "African" doesnt automatically mean "black". they forget Moroccans, Tunisians, Arabians, and many other ethnic groups that aren't black and instead more olive-skinned, exist. and they hate it.....
lol bless your hateful confused heart 😂😂😂😂
Some hate that fact so much they constantly play it down. I.E. Today's Egyptians aren't the same as back then, they're now Arab. Nubians and Egyptians were 50/50 intermingling. Unfounded claims about Cleopatra's skin colour/origins and on and on. What I haven't missed though is it all comes from Americans and sadly we've seen enough examples out of the US that the general public as a rule knows little to nothing of the world outside the US except maybe Paris is in France and there's an Italy. (I know there's exceptions).
@@tkps i once heard of a place called germany in europe, is that town still around?
One embarrassing moment I had was sitting near a white guy and Japanese guy at a Vietnamese eatery speaking to each other in Japanese, so I remarked to the white guy "Oh wow, your Japanese is really good!", to which he responded "well, I am Japanese".
Learnt a lesson that day that I've never forgotten. Skin colour =/= country of origin (look at Autotrader presenter Rory Ried; he's black but is as British as tea and scones).
@@tkps All comes from Americans huh? UK universities are saying the Celts were black. know your place serf
You know these people hate Japan and the japanese culture with all their hearts. But they have to use it because it's in demand and there are many fans passionate about it. Imagine if there were people that actually loved it instead of hating it, it would've been a great game.
I think they like it enough, plenty of weeb devs and hypocrite far leftist in the dev pool, the problem is that they hate gamers, its pretty clear because gamers and fans of the series just wanted to play a Japanese samurai, and once again they go the anti-fan route by trying to find the 1 obscure anomaly in history that also goes against the series. I'm actually even sure they know Thomas was a con artist and his version of Yasuke is basically a fantasy story, but they still went with it because it would 'upset the raysist gaymers' .
@@frostreaper1607 I got to agree with you. These game devs hate gamers a lot more than they hate the Japanese culture. It's more like they simply see the culture as a tool to use in order to progress their own agenda.
Although they did play hip hop music during Yasuke's fight scene in the trailer so I could be super wrong. It's difficult to differentiate stupidity and racisms when we're talking about Ubisoft.
I'm glad mexican culture outside of food gets ignored by the mainstream. Taco bell is culturally respectful compared to this trash
That's some crazy circular thinking you got there. I agree with the sentiment but you seriously need to phrase that better.
We have that game. It's called Tenchu. It's called Way of the Samurai.
Hell, Ghost of Tsushima (while not being overly accurate) is a better Japanese AC than AC Shadows will be.
2:59 ah yes , the Japanese had a photo camera in the late 1500's apparently.
Can't believe they actually made the female look ''black''
What's funny is there have been legends of female Japanese warriors, mostly wives avenging their fallen husbands, who they could have focused on for those DEI points, but the found the idea of an African samurai so much more appealing that they ignored those women for a foreigner those life under Nobunaga isn't as documented as these brave wives. Not to mention that the whole reason why in Japan it is popular with women to practice fencing with naginata is because back in the day, it was mostly up to the women to defend themselves and their town while the men were at war, and the naginata was a popular weapon for women to use
Because "what is a woman?"
A movie about widows didn't make 1.4 billion dollars in 2018. Every AAA game that started development between 2018 and 2021 are all going to have a common theme like that. Don't believe me? Just wait until Bethesda releases Elder Scrolls 6: Hammerfell Forever
See? how hard was that Ubi?
dude a female assassin avenging the life of her dead husband would go crazy hard, what if he was killed by templars and she gets wrapped up in this crazy conspiracy and has to become an assassin herself?
Cos it wasn't a strong independent woman being obsessed with self-advancement, but a widow in exercise of fidelity to her husband by taking his sword.
These people can't fathom fulfillment in someone other than themselves, and they don't wanna be reminded of that.
I'm pretty sure photography didn't exist back in that time in Japan. But that's before Wikipedia retconned historical truth. Now, Zendaya invented photography in the 4th century. Oh, and she's immortal too, ya bgiots.
You forgot Alyssa dancing the tandava in order to remake everyone into being woke
A trilogy of AC games around Japan, Korea and China in the same time period would've been amazing! Truly a missed opportunity...
@@technicalleon these are the same ppl who gave us skull and bones after a decade when all we wanted was black flag w/o the assassin story. Ubisoft would go on a transatlantic trip to avoid an opportunity next door.
The AC games never existing again would be an amazing opportunity.
they could've also had the whole japan game, be ninja themed, and have the samurai, be the right hand men of the templars.
you know, ninjas, which are japans ASSASSINS, vs samurai, which are equatable to knights, like in, knights templar?
the chinese 100% also had a more hidden blade cast, dunno about the koreans, as i quite franky, don't know anything about korea. another knowledge gap, which i plan of filling.
they could've even made the japanese AC game, possible to be played in co op.
have yaoes father also survive the raid, but nobody else, which prompted him to teach his daughter, shinobi, on top of kunoichi tactivs. you know, to remove the jaring part of, why would this man break tradition.
but knowing modern ubi, yaoe is probably going to learn it all on her own, like a proper girlboss.
i'm disapointment.
They keep 'missing' opportunities. Happens so often, almost seems intentional except there's no profit to it.
It's not very hard, I really don't understand why they do what they do. I personally think AC has always had the most extreme potential of any game I've ever played. They can literally go anywhere and do anything whilst following the eden story in the background. They go can to any time and any place. With the abstergo devices they've created literal infinite potential. You can connect any character in any non-sensical way. Let them meer historical figures in historal places. If AC goes interdimensional it's probaly in reach of the lore. Modern day shooter? Lore accurate. Medieval knights? Lore accurate. The fall of easter island? Can be easily made lore accurate.
And yes! With AC origins/odyssee/valhalla and their history exploration stuff, I *absolutely* loved it. Get kids gaming and get gamers learning history. Keep those bits factual and you've not just made a game, you've made the most high quality interactive history simulator.
In a game series with near infinite potential, barely can't do wrong as long as you're commited... how can they make these kinds of 'mistakes'?
Requires intelligent people and they all expired decades ago. The people now that are against this crap are just the condemned souls sentenced to watch this world burn around them.
Imagine making a game so bad you potentially cause diplomatic tensions and piss of an entire country.
Saying Asian Samurai are an overused trope is like saying showing Black Zulu warriors is too generic and already done…
Please name one black Zulu warrior game or movie that’s know ever??lol
@@caseybarthell7632there isn’t because they’re too busy ruining everyone else‘s history
@@caseybarthell7632the zulu movie???
@@def3ndr887 lol so now black people have the power to change or ruin history??I didn’t know we were colonizing the world for the last 2000 years lol
@@coldfrost5 please give me the link to this movie cause I know the world would like to watch it…I’m guessing the director was black right 😂
As a black guy, Itsagundam, your videos are great. Truly a man of wisdom and humor
Being a black dude is cool. I'm sorry these companies keep throwing dark people up as shields.
Just know. I don't hate you brother. I just want everyone to have fun, not be arguing.
Ubisoft are the racists, not us.
Bruh @@Leon-kt4cl
@@Leon-kt4clOh jeeeez
@@Leon-kt4cl Who are whose people? I'm white as a sheet, but I wouldn't consider, say, Piers Morgan to be one of my people. I still see him as a filthy European, and myself as an American. Sure, we can agree on some things, but his hardcore gun control fetish will make it to where I could never share an environment with him.
As a ginger, good for you
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is a good example of what those guys are trying to promote.
the olympics isnt in paris. we skipped that for the first time in 200 years. dont let that shitshow they are calling the olypics get away with it.
As a french, I am so sorry for my governement's poor choice
Fogs
Fogs EVERYWHERE
People should realize the Olympics is a scam if you look at Russia they’re banned for defending Russian people , Israel can invade 5 different countries though and they get preferential treatment
@@luxterna1106As an American, I understand that our governments’ ideologies rarely represent the people. No apology needed
If there's one thing I know about DEI Activists, is that they're so hellbent on authentic portrayals. But by authentic portrayals, they usually mean their own culture.
DEI Activists will literally continue portraying foreign cultures from a Western point of view, instead of actually putting the research into it. So much for breaking stereotypes, when the only stereotypes they're asking to be broken, is the stereotypes related to their culture.
The IGN article gets even crazier. Not only is the author upset that Asians are "forced" to be in expected roles, like being people from Asia- but the Korean American author is also pissed that cool samurai and ninja characters are always only ever Japanese. It's hilarious
Oh. KOREAN-American. Well that explains their hostility towards Japan...
Totally no ulterior cultural "hay"tred towards the japanese at all in there.
Crazy how people scream Cultural Appropriation when a white person wears Traditional Japanese Clothing... But when someone is deliberately revising history and using a historical black man in order to insert a present day stereotypical black person with hip hop music every journalist is silent.
The AC producers seemed to make a point of not doing any research and disrespecting Japanese culture as much as possible. The Shinobi were neither their own fighter class nor were their deeds deemed lower than the one's of a Samurai as they claim in the trailer. Samurai was a rank, Shinobi was a job (different types of spy work, not a trained fighter class) done by ambassadors, messengers, servants or geishas for example. Samurai sometimes also did assassinations or spy work, therefore they took on the job of a Shinobi. So exactly the opposite of what the AC producers are claiming. A Samurai wouldn't walk through town in his battlefield armor, like he does during the whole game. Also Iga wasn't a secret, hidden village in the mountains, but an important and well known center of commerce with a lot of trade routes. There were no secret Ninja training facilities in the mountains, that's from Batman for heaven's sake. They show cherry blossoms (Sakura) and silver grass (Suzuki) right in the opening sequence together, but the first only appears in spring and the second only in fall, they refused to do any research or even just talk to one Japanese person.
@@sheikyerbouti39Well yes any history research would justify that hostility
The hive mind of Ubisoft fandom and others who can’t count to 5, endlessly parroting, "It's a video game, not a documentary, so just ignore it," as if it's some profound wisdom.
They conveniently overlook that these so called "video game inaccuracies" aren't the starting seeds of larger misconceptions. Once these distortions are repeated enough, they become part of the accepted narrative. Fast forward a few decades and, surprise! Those "harmless" errors make their way into history books, documentaries, and even statues. Cleopatra, anyone?
This is the exact fate being crafted for Japan’s culture and history. They start by falsely elevating Yusuke from a servant to a Samurai in games and movies because, after all, "it's not a documentary." But when the Japanese community dismisses these distortions as trivial, they risk waking up one day to find their accurate history erased and replaced with Western fantasies.
Not to mention, the same folks endlessly chanting, "It's just a video game," would have an absolute meltdown and scream about systemic racism if, say, tomorrow Ubisoft released a game set in Africa featuring a European or Asian protagonist who’s magically presented as a Zulu warrior or some historical African king. Suddenly, the "it's just a video game" mantra would vanish into thin air, as if it never existed. They’d be up in arms, flooding forums and social media platforms with outrage and condemnation. The double standards would be on full display, and their hypocrisy would shine brightly for all to see. When it’s their cultural icons and historical accuracy on the line, "it's just a video game so who cares" would conveniently become irrelevant.
If you get your history from a video game, YOUR the problem. And the majority of people saying “it’s just a game” would be just as happy with a European in Africa. I definitely would.
Just look at gamer gate. "journalists" are still complaining about it to this day.
If you ever wanted a perfect example of wiki misinformation, you can't find a better one
@@ApsmneShsbshu
Oh, really? So, please enlighten me on why the "majority of people" throw a tantrum when someone tired of blackwashing dares to suggest a Nordic Black Panther.
@@ApsmneShsbshuI absolutely wouldn't and when the wokies called you a racist I wouldn't disagree with them.
The same people defending Ubisoft are now mad because Genshin Impact new nation (that is based on pre-colombian and african civilization) have the characters with pale skin and accuse Hoyoverse of "whitewashing". Let's that sink in...
There's a line from The Blackening stating the blackest thing you can do is show up when you're not invited. Blackety black, they said.
Cleopatra wasn't black, neither was Queen Charlotte or Anne Boleyn. No black samurai, no black vikings. Don't come if you're not invited.
It's disrespectful not only to the culture but also blacks themselves. They use blacks as pawns to get money without showing BLACK CULTURE. They show white/japanese/any other culture EXCEPT BLACK. What's the point of showing black skin only?!
W is being erased from Earth
Not for long.
start telling your fellow white counterparts to stop then its your people with the power, your people are making these decisions lmfao
Offended by everything. Ashamed of nothing.
They really liked Afro Samurai so much that they took the concept.
Imagine being Black and growing up praying for an AC game set in Japan and this is what you get...
Black weebs be crying right now
Imagine being a black AC fan, waiting for a game set in sub-Saharan Africa, with a black African protagonist. But, when the game finally comes, you have to play as a white man...
@@FilipeLeviSilvathey already got an African ac game.
@@ApsmneShsbshu "sub-Saharan African"
@@FilipeLeviSilvahuh? Which AC game is set in sub Saharan Africa?
Funny thing is everything about Yasuke was written by some white guy name Thomas Lockley lying to sell his book🤣🤣
Now he deleted all SNS then hid in his house. We never forgive this evil , asking him for stopping lies then saying truth to the world.
For most of us Japanese it is the first time we see the unforgivable malice of the woke leftists trying to destroy other culture and history.
Then I saw the worst Paris Olympic polluted with DEI, I truly found lefty white activists are cancers.
So hyped you covered this cus I was not paying attention to the bs since it was all over my algorithm 😭
I lost two weeks of my life on this.
@@ItsAGundam We shall not let your sacrifice be in vain.
"The hardest sacrifices, require the strongest of wills" @@ItsAGundam
Lol@@ItsAGundam
Assassins Creed Shadows could've been so good if the devs just decided to make an actually Japanese protagonist and have them meet Yasuke on an optional quest as a cool side character. Thats ALL Ubisoft had to do... and they still failed.
My favorite Yasuke story is that when he first met Nobunaga, he had never seen a black man and asked why he wasn't bathed before meeting the warlord.
“Why are you still black” -Oda Nobunaga
@@Cody-5501 ''Let's throw a party!'' -Oda Nobunaga
@@Cody-5501"So who is black?"
Yasuke historically had a sword.
Ubisoft: he's samurai then.
But, he was spending his time in Japan as servant and never trained as samur-
Unisoft: nope, he's samurai
He was a servant a retainer the basically the dude to carry his master's sword , the sword he carried wasn't his
@@Ktsjay187there's not enough evidence to support the claim either way.
If Ubisoft had said the game was complete fiction and/or used a fictional character as they normally do, this wouldn't be an issue.
@@tyler1768 i think he had his own sword for protection and he likely had some training. but yea he was a servant mostly.
still implications are there was aconsiderable amuont of trust going on. you don't jsut hand anyone your sword to carry.
@@Ktsjay187 No, he was a slave. Every single piece of contemporary, primary source Japanese literature that references him specifically calls him a slave. Before, during, and after his service to Nobunaga.
@@Ktsjay187 at the specific time, you literally had to be _born into the caste_. they didn't elevate anyone to it. nobunaga kept him, effectively, as a 'pet'.
even the people who followed the man, still largely considered him... touched. very good at matters of state and war, but touched none the less.
and as crappy as it was for this sort of thing to occur to start with, 'pets' do not get to be samurai. and if he had elevated some random foreigner with no skills, no training, and no ties to japan or the bushi or buke castes, nobunaga would have faced outright revolt for slighting his actual samurai with such a bald faced and outright offensive move.
it would, almost literally, have been like spitting in each of their faces and telling them they weren't as worthy as this random nobody from another land who had nothing but a name that nobunaga himself had changed (at least for the duration of his stay). the loss of face would have forced their hand, and giri would have required them to rectify the issue. had this actually occurred, nobunaga would likely have not lived past the declaration.
no revolt occurred, and it was a specific man that assassinated nobunaga. one who had long had contention with how nobunaga had run things. this discontent having started well before yasuke even came on the scene. one whose ploy to take over, ultimately failed.
so this idea that yasuke could have been 'samurai' utterly ignores the reality of the era, the castes, and the basic concept behind the japanese social structure itself, even aside from the castes.
sorry, western logic doesn't apply to the japanese mindset or social structure. the concept of face is .. poorly understood most of the time, giri is essentially an alien concept i've yet to hear anyone in the western world even scratch the surface of properly.
yaskua was a slave, kept as a curiosity, a pet, given a role as close to the man as could be given without angering his troops and nobles.
in western terms, he would have been a page, or squire (at best) and nothing more. and even that would have been in name only.
to give any credence to this abomination of a butchering of history this fool 'author' has promoted is.. ludicrous beyond measure.
One comment I saw stuck with me: "The fact that the music that plays with him sounds like hip hop music trying to mutilate Japanese techno is hilariously ironic."
It's just a continuation of the Japanese trying to make techno and failing at it.
@@rh906 you know there's a difference between "hot takes" and "bad takes" right?
yeah, you're the latter.
This game is going to crash and burn and I’m going to enjoy every minute of it.
The funny thing is there actually was a white samurai who did so much for Japan that his Ancestors are still respected and have his armor & estate everything! It’s really cool meanwhile this black guy has no ancestors, no armor, NOTHING to his name yet they expect us to think he was this great hero 😅
Who was that? Sounds interesting and want to look it up
Who?
@@Gilroysmash86 William Adams presumably
William Adams. Became a retainer to Ieyasu Tokugawa and several YEARS later was recognized as a samurai, with extensive historical records about him.
Unlike Yasuke, who has about 3 sentences to his name and bailed with some missionaries after 15 months.
@@Gilroysmash86 William Adams
Nioh game Protag was inspired by him
also, the Gajin character in the shogun show
he was made a samurai AFTER helping Tokugawa annihilated christians in japan
Japan closed it nation at the time, and he was forced to stay in japan until his dead
so, he be like "F it, i abandoned my old family and get all these japanese pussy"
im not joking
As a black man, I am furious about this.
Not just because it was completely unnecessary.
But because of the trap background music they put in the game.
It's like they think we are monkeys that can't help but dance when they play "sick beats"for us. I couldn't even finish the trailer after that.
They are the ONLY racists in this situation.
As an African person (white, though), I agree with you
Exactly what I'm saying
Tbh, dunno how black folks don't get mad AF with the way the lefties treat em. It's like the most racist kid gloves I've ever seen.
You can tell that it was made by the whitest people you could imagine.
No black people in sight.
I'm surprised they didn't claim the Japanese originally created basketball.
I’m sure people wouldn’t be so mad if they just stuck with an actual Japanese Samurai and just use Yuske as an NPC and some side quest
Hell, i wouldnt be upset if he was a major npc even, just not one of the protags because ubisoft is literally breaking the mold to have the 1 black guy in japan be playable
Yasuke.. my house ninja, hasn't returned from his task of emptying of chamber pot waste.
Successfully investigate the piss boys whereabouts and I will give you more vital tasks.
What's crazy to me is that they said that the samurai trope is tired, but then went on to name a list of hit games lol
Imagine having an Assassins Creed: Mali Empire game where it’s based during Mansa Musas reign of the empire, but you play as his one white guard instead of the thousands of black warriors you could have chosen.
My Grandmother always told me. No matter what the others are telling you but Mansa Musa was Whiter than White and was shining in the Sun of Mali
White guy flippin bricks for Mansa Musa, before y'all became type 1 civilization
They did that with all of Northern Africa but the hate in your heart will stop you from learning real history lol
@@caseybarthell7632 You are ignorant.
@@caseybarthell7632what?
Don't let anyone tell you different, Abe Lincoln was a vampiter hunter
Let's not forget the Capcom survey and investigation that shows 85+% of gamers are still men
It's tragic how people tend to have different hobbies, definitely a toxic problem that needs to be solved and not just completely normal.
@@ShadowRulah if it is up to the sweet baby and Blackrock/Vanguard boot lickers yes. They do see that as a problem because it "reinforces gender stereotypes" so they must force behaviors that change that. But it won't work. It never works. They have been trying for almost 100 years.
I, as a female gamer, have absolutely no issue with that. My dad introduced me to video games, my mom never plays them. My older sister was an avid gamer as a kid, but she outgrew it for other hobbies as a woman. I keep playing them (though I’d never pretend I’m a good gamer 😅). It’s a hobby I share with my dad, my brother, and my younger sister. We have a great time, my mom and older sister have other interests. I don’t understand why it’s an issue.
@@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBroIt shouldn't be. But sadly, there are people, often in corporate, who insist that gaming being largely certain demographics is a catastrophic display of bigotry, and there are idiots out there who actually don't want gaming to appeal to various demographics as a way to vet the community
They'd deserve each other, but this fight influences how developers behave and make/release their games and this has ruined things for us all
@@AquaticIdealist oh yeah. Reality is they wanna vilify said minorities to make them look like bad racist people. Because that is the only outcome they will get with this culture war. They are the real evil racists. Before they came along, no one cared about minorities and women in videogames. They made it a big deal like gamers were all bigots and cared enough to gatekeep other communities from it. We never cared. We just don't want their disgusting politics in it.
The best part is that woke people can't say it's white dudes that hate minorities or something and just wanna play as generic white character (i say this as a Hispanic). No, it's not that people dont wanna play as a black guy, people just wanna be immersed in a thematic correct era, playing as a Japanese dude, in a fuckin Japanese setting.
Obviously creative liberties have to be taken, but when it's such a forced inclusion it leaves people with a bad taste. If yasuke was some historical character like davinci or others in the previous AC games, nobody would care.
Perhaps, but what they CAN do is accuse the Japanese people of racism and bigotry.
@@christopherbravo1813I love the irony of a bunch of white people telling Asians what to think about their own culture
I wonder if you will have this same mentality if/when they make a game about the Japanese Samurai who visited Mexico in the 1600s. If they become Cowboys or Conquistadors or whatever is the equivalent at the time, will there be an upset? Will you be saying "Of course, they found the one Asian in a country of Latinos"? Would you be saying things like "They are disrespecting the people of Mexico!!!" Will you be saying it is forced inclusion? I'm just curious.
Ubisoft: Let's take this footnote of Japanese history and make him the figurehead of an entire time period solely because he's black.
_Everyone disliked that_
Yasuke is still being used by White People after his passing. Thomas Lockley, Qubec Ubisoft division. It is a sad they still profiting off the poor man.
There’s an age old saying for this
It’s called
“Having your cake, and eating it too.”
Yasuke still being exploited as a slave for others profit. Ubi and Lockley should be ashame of themselves.
You know, Ubisoft could have made an Assassin's Creed game about Zulu if they wanted a black protagonist.
AND THESE PEOPLE NEED TO STOP GIVING BLACK PEOPLE DREADLOCKS.
Everything I've seen about this game reeks of having been thrown together in a hurry. Almost like this wasn't the original intention for the game.
It would not surprise me if ACShadows was a completely different game a year or two ago. Possibly a setting where the protagonist wouldn't have been so out of place.
What! And show how bloody the African kingdoms were and not their utopian kumbaya fantasy? They could never do that 😂
They don't need to stop period but they need to stop making it the only style, especially when it wouldn't be in every area black people come from.
@@christophermorris4658 what other hairstyles are there? Cornrows? Flat top? The killmonger?
Time for me to pen a story about the Chinese Zulu warrior... 😎
Anjirō would have been a good choice for the main character.
He fled overseas for murder, met missionaries there, became the first Japanese Christian, returned to Japan with the missionary Francis Xavier, and worked as an interpreter for his missionary work in japan.
I think it's a very good base for the main character of Assassin's Creed.
Nah...you know they'd never go for that!
A Christian being a hero in 2024? No way in hell would that happen.
Even that wouldn't have worked with the traditional Assassin Creed's formula. The entire point of the games is a nobody who's manipulating history from the shadows. By that end, they can't really be historical characters.
Nah, he should have been the mentor. The main character should never be a real historical figure.
Unfortunately Ubishit are French (worse, Parisian) so you’re more likely to get a vile mockery of such a man than anything positive lmao
Holy moly the "original" plot would have been sick as hell.
the only black guy in japan is a assassin. ill be so surprised no one caught on
There not big brain enough to see it light
What do you mean. He’s not an assassin. That’s Naoe.
@@ApsmneShsbshuthé game called assassin Creed not yasuke thé samurai
@@adamb.m4844that’s why Naoe is the focus of the game.
The "unintentional" racism in this game is wild, glad to see Ubisoft get some pushback!
The 'racism' is only one of the many problems with the game.
Lockley lied about Yasuke’s story and U B SOFT went ahead and put in as much DEI nonsense as possible. Even before its release later this year, Japan has already rejected it and so has many vocal gamers.
LOL that AI/photoshoip pic of Mike Stoklasa and Rich Evans is killing me
Are you telling me Red letter media aren't samurais? I feel betrayed
@@koddaszol Well, they're as legitimate samurai as much as Yasuke is...
If they wanted to include characters who were non-japanese around the time at which the Portuguese started arriving in Japan, then surely the outsider should be... Portuguese, right?
We need to start referring to DEI as DIE because it is killing artistic expression and I say this in protest against being pandered to by devs like Ubi-SBI.
It was originally die but they saw that would look bad and swapped the letters.
No, I think it's pretty accurate. They picked DEI because "dei" means "of God." They're showing us what their religion values.
For people saying this isn’t a big deal imagine if they made an assassins creed in Africa and the only playable characters were an Asian man and a woman.
I guess that JP lady aint going back to JP anytime soon after saying what she said in that interview
"We think there are too many games about samurai, we want to make a narrative about cultural clash during turbulent times in Japan." *proceeds to not set the game in the Bakumatsu period*
The period it’s set in is one of the most important periods in Japanese history. Even if they used a different protagonist, they would have to use this period.
@@ApsmneShsbshu It is the most popular period of Japanese history but not the only time stuff was happening and in the context of if someone wanted the contrast between Japanese and Western culture to be specifically a part of the game's narrative it makes far more sense to set it in the time period where Westernization was actually a thing.
Many extremely high-profile Japanese games in a semi-historical setting like Ghost of Tsushima, Nioh and Like a Dragon Isshin don't take place in the Sengoku period.
Hell, in Japan the Bakumatsu period is arguably AS popular as the Sengoku period. The Shinsengumi are oftentimes more popular than Sengoku warlords.
@@Zetact_ it might be as popular, but it’s less important. The European merchants during this time laid the groundwork for future westernization. They played an important role. Aside from ww2 it’s also probably the most important time period.
@@Zetact_literally the Boshin War would’ve made more sense to have a black dude in there and that’s still a stretch
@@ApsmneShsbshu It's irrelevant. A lot of AC games happen during "not as important" time periods in history. Acting like them picking the Sengoku Era over any other era as being "obvious" is really dumb.
Furthermore the goal is to keep people interested in the 'narrative' (such that AC games have anymore) but at the end of the day they just wanted to use Nobunaga's name when there are time periods all over Japanese history rife with well known figures they could have done the exact same thing with.
At the end of the day the entire game was built on a stupid idea, and it's just a matter of time before the game (like this year's Olympics) will be remembered for what they are: trash.
Why is it so difficult for AAA game corporations to respect Japanese culture and history?
WE WUZZZZ KAAAAAANGS
Why is is so difficult for AAA game corporations to hate on everything that male and fit generally whites are hated but every race at this point is targeted
Because now they have a narrative everyone has to be gay everyone can't be white or straight or be a good father figure. So if it doesn't fit the narrative it won't get into the game. That's what DEI did
Because Japan makes better AAA games than them, and the envy consumes them.
hi tutle
I think it's funny how there's so many Asian games out there, Perfect World for an example, was the largest Asian MMO decades ago, and had so many materials for western companies to use and create games out of it, but no. For some reason our cultures and way of life is no different from each other in the eyes of those who are trying to virtue signal. As much as they try to say they are not racist, it is in fact very racist to misconstrue Chinese, Japanese and Korean culture, lump them into one and call it a day. Yes, I acknowledge that our cultures stem from the heart of China and branched out into our very own cultures during the Qin Dynasty, and do share similarities with each other, but ultimately we have our own cultures, designs, dances, music etc respectively.
Yasuke was a mostly peaceful Samurai warrior... that's why he walks around everywhere in his full battle armor.
@@gibster9624 he was mostly peaceful
@@VnVnV-893 100% of the time he wasn't aggresive, he was not aggresive.
@@YawnMK1 that is 13% true, 52% of the time
A gay black samurai. Nice one Ubisoft. No agenda being pushed there at all. SMFH
It’s just a game no one would believe this as historical fact when the AC games warn u its not real
Bro he’s not gay. It’s the players choice. Since when has more player freedom been a bad thing?
@@heroicsquirrel3195 Likely not. But why not claim he is for these kind of video's Outrage is the point afther all.
Are you aware that there's a big discussion about yasuke being a samurai? There are people believing he was a samurai. @@SSFX111
@@Goiaba308 people have there opinions and what they think just let them be they heard you and don’t listen either way this is a video game anyway is posible since it’s a video game
The only thing this game has shown is how the left love and praise a historical figure that was little more than a pet.
That's what DEI is. You are not your achievements, talents, or beliefs. You are your race.
Didn't Earn It
The worst part is that not only it could've tied to a China based AC but it could also tie to an Africa/Portugal one using Yasuke. They could've made him a NPC tied to an AC brotherhood in Africa infiltrated into a Portugal based Templar chapter
Tried to tell someone about this and they just kept the npc brain. "Nah you just dont like black ppl protags " 🙄
Rip man
And thats when you hit them with the counter point of great black characters like Cole Train, Sheva, Marlo Briggs, Seargent Johnson, Sazh Katzroy etc.
That's when you hit them back with an over the top "I definitely don't like them but what does yasuke have to do with that?"
Yes, I'm tired of Blacks and I'm tired of pretending not
I really wouldnt mind a yusuke game, if it wasnt an AC game that broke the protag mold just to have you play the 1 black guy in japan
I love it how UA-cam recommended me this video but not the one with FLUFFY, uploaded simultaneously 😧😨😰😢😭
Luckily I got both! It’s a Christmas miracle from Team UA-cam
Imagine the outcry if the first AC game set in Sub-Saharan Africa featured an Asian or *gasp* white lead.
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they will burn down the streets to protest or just because they are bored.
Assassins Creed: Victoria. You play as a white man conquering all of Africa, just wiping out the natives easily and constantly. Yeah, that's never gonna happen.
Imagine one set in Egypt with a black lead character.... Oh wait they already did that
@@MidlifeCrisisJoe i dont care, id play it 🤣 more fun to play as an unironic villain these days
There seems to be an ongoing effort to change a world history by raceswapping or inserting characters.
The year is 3678.
A prominent “historian” into pre-second Civil War America is in hot water for depicting Darksydephil as a serious fighting game competitor in a partly fictional book.
UBIActivisionEA stands behind their latest game called “Assassin’s Creed: Syde” and its depiction of the main character.
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🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
Banned, banned, banned! 😆