A black samurai is historically accurate there was one in 1579 in Edo Japan and his name was Yasuke. I appreciate everyone going to race it really shows how small minded you all are
And? Demographics prove majority of gamers are male, you trying tell Japanese males they are free game to be robbed of male representation in a game set in Japan in favour of a black dude who historically was ultra rare minoriry in area and only active for 18 months (which they could have added as DLC and none would have complained ) and point as excuse there is a female Japanese char option? Really?
@@galadballcrusher8182 I hope that no one of them was waiting for an assasin's creed game, and they are not underrepresented, many japanese games have japanese male protagonists. The games target audience is also not the japanese gamers but the western gamers
Bad comparison because Yasuke wasn't a colonizer you idiot besides they made a game where you were british in the carribean so they basically already made what you're talking about you just never realized it was messed up cause you're probably internally racist
@@asmara9779 it wouldnt be the first time at all lol and in Shadows we also have a female japanese character so... I dont even know what to say it s just dumb and if u dont like it just dont buy it why make it a big deal?
Prolly cause for Italy we had Italian, for greece we had greek, for Jerusalem we had an Iraqi, for a native a native American, for France we had a Frenchman, we had some Brits and Welshmen. We had am Egyptian at Egypt. We had a slave that became a self made man and a great assassin. So if i was Japanese i would want to play as a Japanese man in a game happening in Japan. Everything has its appropriate place. Thats why games made in Japan will always be better that the newer Western ones.
It’s because Asian MALES rarely gets representation from video games. The only outlier I can think of is Ghost of Tsushima. Essentially it is a black dude (yasuke) is taking a MAIN role away from an underrepresented demographic group (Asian man). Edit 1: Change “unrepresented” to “underrepresented”.
Japan is a big ass entertainment country (makes lots of video games and movies) Unless you’re playing 99% American games there should be a shit ton of Asian protagonist to play as😂
I want an Assassins Creed game set in Ethiopia where I play as a white Italian Assassin among African Assassins & just being the only white Assassin set in the 1800s Simply because there was a white man there historically during that time.
Yeah it’s weird. The only thing me personally I’m worried about is micro transactions and if the story/gameplay is dog shit. But guess what, we don’t know yet since all we got was a CINEMATIC TRAILER.
This is Last Samurai all over again. "Its historically accurate but we purposely chose this timeframe so that we can have a non-japanese male lead in a samurai story."
@@tutsandreacts8021 because 99% of samurai were Japanese men. They decided to give us 2 main characters in this game and chose to go with the 1% for both of them.
Representation matters right? So yes people are going to be upset. But I for one am tired of everything having to have a black character for the sake of inclusion. It’s a trope now and it’s getting old
Historical accuracy or not, if its going to be an assassin's creed game, then its going to suck major booty ass because the franchise has been dead since Revelations.
It's funny how people are entitled to different opinions here, but some say it like it's a fact, and then try to ridicule each other by being satirical.
I mean, it's like if you had a game about vikings and had some guy from mongolia was the one you played as for half the time. Or a game about Zulu warriors and the whitest man in history takes up half the game time. People saw a game about assassins in Japan and were expecting to play as Japanese people. People were upset when the movie Gods of Egypt had a cast of almost all white people, or any anime live action that casts non-japanese or asian people, so I'm not sure why you're surprised about this.
Half the game?? Yasuke will probably be mandatory for a few missions for story reasons, but do you honestly think that would cover half the game? In Syndicate I only played as Jacob for the mandatory missions and the rest was as Evie. Out of all those hours I put into that game I don't think my time as Jacob even covered 5%... And Shadows is going to have waaay more content than Syndicate.
@@halosaftthere’s only two playable characters in this game. So yeah it would only make sense that half of the game was from his point of view. Also the person you play as in the modern time has always had minimal play time in all of the creed games. Not sure how he relates to the two characters set in the past rather than the present.
@@Zown-ej3fl What are you even on about..? Who was talking about the modern world person? They're so irrelevant I don't even know who the modern world person is in any game after AC3... Jacob and Evie are the two twin assassin's in Syndicate that you can switch between during gameplay. Jacob is more melee combat focused and Evie is more stealth focused. And how does that make any sense at all? Sure, if it was a 100% story focused game with no exploration or side content what so ever, and the game has 2 protagonists then it would make sense to think that you'd spend 50% of the game with each of them. But the game isn't that. You know this is an open world game, right? And if it's anything like the previous titles it's going to have at *least* 120h of content. With only a few missions that require you to play as Yasuke for story reasons. How long could that reasonably take? 3-5h? Depending on how many missions are mandatory as Yasuke. How is that anywhere close to half the game?
Right I ion care as long as I get a bond with the character(s) with a good story with an amazing ending honestly but gameplay is a big part too and ubi has definitely went in some different direction
It’s bc ur missing the point. Yasuke was only picked bc he was black. Let’s be real the devs only did it to save face and look good since they could have picked any other Japanese figure for the role. I have no hate for black actors or characters but have a game set in Africa because they are taking roles away from Asian male actors. I’m Asian and it’s like saying a Chinese guy got full armour weapons and ended up fighting in like the Zulu wars as a Zulu. AND other races are not rlly shown that much in media. Like if the protagonist is white they are useless or weak. We also don’t really get to see much of other races as well in modern media as much as blacks. Edited to clarify. Also if u look at the list of assassins creed main characters there are 0 I mean 0 main main Asian male characters 3 women on that list 2 blacks cournign Yasuke(not counting spin offs) 2 Arab and 7 white.
People are happy with it, most people aren't so damn angry about playing as a minority or a woman suprise suprise. Not everyone is a white man or japanese man and people like to be represented from all walks of life
Supreme Commander Koxinga back in China 12th century, led his army of heavy Ming troops, Japanese ronins (and wakou), African and Portugese mercenaries fought against Dutch in Taiwan. Not sure about Japan, but black people had already been trader, doctor, even warrior in China since ancient time.
And the funny thing is I actually went to Japanese festival yesterday and asked around and yes they confirmed he was real and the Japanese are very excited to play the game
No its cuz every ac protag has been from there own country but as soon as its a japanese game its a black guy when we wanted to play as an japanese guy and girl plus yes ac has never been historrically accurate but now they are trying to say its historrically accurate when its not and there only adding it to be woke
@Justsomerandomdude397 It's pretty clear what I said lol. People wanna play as an actual Japanese Samurai, which is Asian in a game set in Japan. Every other AC has made the native protagonist of their country the main character.
Anddd Ubisoft apologizes i guess it was a pretty big deal to the Japanese and I guess historical accuracy did matter I little bit Especially considering a lot of info on yaskue is a lie thanks to Thomas lockley
@@silverking2181 they hide their racist views of black people behind bs talking points and dog whistles. If they have POC other than stereotypes or slaves then it's a problem with " realism ".
Ubisoft scoured all of Japanese history to find the one black man in all of their history who MIGHT have accomplished something beyond seeing the port and we all know why. To pander to you so you give them money for more lazy slop, and look at you, eating up that slop
No you are reaching. Y’all are complaining before seeing gameplay. It really makes yall look stupid. Idk about you but I play a game for the gameplay. What the character does matters. For example. The Witcher 3 to me is a terrible game. Not because of his culture or ethnicity. The protagonist is cool. But his fighting style is booty cheeks. He moves in a way that I find lukewarm. When you think of a samurai the first thing that comes to people minds isn’t the fact that whoever it is happens to be an Asian man. It’s the SWORD. So if that’s to be believed we can assume the most thing that should matter is how he wields the sword. AC is the most fictional history game ever. Name me a black protagonist driven game that you played that wasn’t miles morales.
The thing is, knowing ubisoft, they definately did this just to gain profit from forced diversity. Distracting players by causing a controversy is actually genius. But I don't think that would ever work now, since almost every assassins creed game after origins have been complete sh#t.
It actually makes it slightly more interesting if you really understand the sengoku era. The era with arguably the most bloodshed. The assassin being one of the famous warlords known across all Japan wouldn’t even make sense story wise. However AC hasn’t made sense really ever. It’s fiction. Yall want things to be accurate bcus the protagonist is black. Make em slave right? 😂 no room to make something fictional and maybe good? It’s a video game. Just don’t buy it
@MartyrOfNoir he was never a samurai doe the biggest reason their can't be a movie about him is the fact he was basically just the fact oda nobunaga used him as a jester in making him do tricks to entertain his guests its actually kinda fucked
@@walter2201He was a Koshō(bodyguard, attendant, or secretary), which was the status that was a level below a samurai, but a koshō was still a high rank of which eventually did become a samurai. Yasuke also did fight on the front lines side by side with Oda Nobunaga's son, Oda Nobutada. Is it possible that Yasuke later became a samurai by the time the Honnō-ji incident happened. A war of which they lost because of the betrayal of Mitsuhide Akechi or Hideoyoshi Toyotomi. But towards this the end of this time, his story becomes a bit murky. Even if he was a retainer, he would have fought since he came to Japan during the Sengoku era, which was a period of constant war, assassinations, betrayal, and corruption.
Be real, this was not a narrative choice. They choose a female and a black man to stick it to the chuds. Did anyone have a issue with GTA San Andreas? That was a narrative choice. If they wanted a black lead, do a black story. Seriously, pretty much no one outside Japan even knew who Yasuke was before this nonsense. It's offensive to Japanese and African culture. Pretty much saying they don't think a black historical story would sell. A black female and/or male trying to stop the slave trade in Africa in the 17 or 1800s sounds like a good story to me.
If anything. I'm waiting for release and see what the general audience thinks. I don't trust gamers on the internet anymore. They make real racist groups look calm and composed.
Hey buddy in 1579 in Edo Japan there was a black Samurai wanna know his name? Yasuke he was also known as the great unifier and not much is known about him according to popular lore his death was found out by his son when he opened a box with his head in it
Well maybe you would be upset when the first creed game based in your country is coming out soon and you find out the main character isn’t even from your country. Maybe y’all should read the comment section of the Japanese version of this trailer and come back to me trying defend this game. Every single comment I have read so far from Japan has been calling this game racist and cultural appropriation.
The japanese people who responded don't really have a problem With a black man being one of the protagonists So I really don't understand where the hate is coming from
In their defense, every medium of art, even AI, has tokenistic characters being inserted with no rhyme or reason than sanctimony. It's transparent, tired, and undermines the work. In this case however it's kinda sick cause he actually existed.
Imagine they made an assassins creed game in Africa but made the main character white or Asian. There would be so much more backlash and probably a canceled game. If the game is made to showcase Japanese people and culture, then the main character should reflect that
But it wasnt made to showcase to japanese ppl and culture its like all the other games. Meant to depict a hyperbolic story of assassins, the characters they choose are a product of the story they take from. This time it was the warring Sengoku period which was majorily Japanese
No it wouldn't be backlashed because everyone is just using this as a counter to the obvious fact they're racist. There was literally 0 backlash for Nioh 1 have a white protag or multiple other movies or shows like Shogun having a white protag, the problem is you hate black people. That's it
Yea but it was all good when they made a movie called “Last Samurai” starring Tom Cruise tho right? Foh, ive heard that same lame excuse about Assassins creed “Africa” so it must be making the rounds in 8chan 😂
And technically if u want to tally up which group has done the most culture appropriation in the last few decades, let alone centuries!….its largely the same “group” we have making these same asinine complaints about freakin fictional video games of all things (i doubt the Japanese are even complaining). Lets all thank Trump and his minions for collectively teaching these smooth brains to accuse everything they dont like as “woke” 😂 God help us all.
@Cuayo444 I know with the way they talk about the shadows system it definitely sounds like your going to want to bring the chick on some missions, and yeah I hope that mace can bash down doors to skip through some areas that would require stealth inviting a more intense mission. Either way, I just hope that the experience for each protagonist is more then a few states and more like choose between Basim and Evior totally different.
Problem is he was a sword holder...and was also a secretary he did not see any battle we have no records of it and if you say that there are records yet the wiki page had been edited to Oblivion and back. It is a culture war
Clearly you haven’t looked at the comment section in the Japanese trailer for this game. If every single creed fan in Japan is calling this racist and cultural appropriation then I’m gonna have to agree with them on it.
If Assassin's Creed fans wouldnt make stuff about race or gender every game, we'd be enjoying these a lot more. Yasuke was a real person, and a badass Kunoichi with a tiny sleeve katana going around slaughtering armies of samurai is awesome, get over it.
He was real, a real servant, that carried weapons and equipment, and hung out in the back of the army, since he couldn't speak japanese or hold a sword properly. He was a pack mule and a side show for them.
It's not that the historical accuracy matters, what matters is that Ubisoft made him (Yasake, who wasn't a samurai btw) into the main character solely because of his race and soley to push their woke ideology into the game.
Hasnt Assassin's creed taken liberties with historical figures since the beginning? Or did DaVinci really have an in with an assassin order during his life?
Sure a slave was given a samurai stipend from one of the most famous historical figures in Japanese history, his own house, and a sword but nah bro was a slave. Stop the bs do your own damn research instead of leaning on your personal bias because your comment as 0 historical fact and 100 personal opinion Yasuke was never proven as a Samurai and never was proven not one. There’s not enough evidence to support each side. End of story
@@tj7667the reason many are outraged is the prominent push of representation even when not needed which usually ends with the game being garbage or the character being a one note inclusivity write off
@@tj7667he was a retainer he was given armor and a sword as per tradition but he was never trained and never participated in any recorded battle but what was recorded was the fact oda nobunaga would use him to entertain guest by making him do tricks
@@tj7667 Oh stfu with this. Samuari are a ruling class in Japan. They are selected from core families and start their training at 7 years old. This pack mule your yapping about was given a sword, land, and a stipend, he was kept around because the lord found him amusing, he couldn't speak the language or even hold a sword properly. He carried the lords equipment and tools into battle like an animal.
It’s the same situation as Ezio in Istanbul, I believe. An Assassin traveling to a different part of the world for a couple years on a mission, only there temporarily. Yasuke in real life was only documented in Japan for fifteen months.
the Problem is, People wanted to Play a Male Japanese Samurai not some wanna be samurai who should rather have bin an NPC instead of the main Hero...And About Ezio, that is Historical Correct and Makes Sense, Istanbul Was the Main Trading Centrum of europe, Even the Vikings dit Trade there. so Ezio in that City was totaly Fair and Made sense and dit Take Nothing away, Playing a Black man in a Time where Japan was About to change feels od, instead of Playing a Japanese Samurai we get an Hip hop Parody of a Samurai
From what I’ve read it’s unknown if he was an escaped slave or not before he came to Japan. Once he met Nobugana he was shocked by the color of his skin. Over time he gained the position of weapon bearer which is a position of much respect. Even later he was given a sword I think and some people think he was given the title of samurai but there’s not a ton of evidence. I believe he also became a warrior at one point and was by his masters side protecting him till death. This is just a few minutes of research tho if I’m wrong pls correct me
It's never been stated he even wielded a blade or armour, as well as the fact due to the trailer His Wikipedia has been updated. So not everything may be fact
I knew of a black man in feudal Japan who was believed to be a samuraI. I assumed because he was most likely the only black person on the island, making him an exotic pet of sorts, he was given some of the duties of a samurai. After looking for more about it, I haven't found anything of significance aside from who he served, and surrendering rather than die in battle. I see why people are upset by this, he obviously isn't from the region like most characters are. Most main characters are usually nobodies who bump into historical figures. Had he been in game as a side character, this may not have been any issue.
@@LurkerBelowwell that's the point of having him as a main character. Because it give studio the free will to do what they want with the character. Like you said not much is documented which is perfect for making a main character
Honestly that's why im mad. I mean imagine an ac game set in your culture and your culture has many historical figure the game could use and they choose to you someone the barely mattered in your history ( real life yosuke was a slave bought by nobunaga because his skin color looked exotic, he didn't fight nor lead in battle however yosuke was appointed nobunaga sword barrier ( fancy word for living sword stand) most of the time he was entertaining nobunaga and the other lords (the title also gave rise to the myth that he was a samurai ) Honestly kinda racist. Im Filipino and it would be amazing to get an AC base on my homeland but Ubisoft choice to make one of their MC white because we had a white man in our history book that's fucked up cindering we have more well known figures. This is pandering at its finest.
I even said I would love to see the sengoku period in this game and I actually didn’t know who yasuke was until this is LITERALLY THE SENGOKU PERIOD!!!!!!!!
@@Cuayo444Don't see Hattori Hanzō or Yamauchi Taka the two main master Assassin's who actually were doing all the work.. but yeah clap like a seal while ubisoft retcons established lore to shoehorn these two people in.
@sailingadventurer I can see her, I'm saying there's already lore about this era, Yasuke was Lord Nobunaga sword retainer/ bodyguard.. so he rarely left his side, He would have witnessed the assassination of his master by the assassin Yamauchi Taka.. so I'm pretty sure he would be wanting revenge for that and put him down the path as an antagonist.. but judging by the trailer, they must be retconing the old lore to be able to make him an assassin.
Not that I care about the main assassin. I just think it's funny seeing the comments about playing a male Asian. I think the last time I played one was Sleeping Dogs or Ninja Gaiden lmmfao
This is classic. DEI bullshit from Ubisoft. If representation doesn't matter, then make an AC game set in India and make the main character Chinese see how that turns out.
@tj7667 There were lots of Chinese people that were in India in ancient times. But that's not the point. The point is we want Play as a Japanese samurai in a game set in Japan.
@@CloakRyznother than Odyssey. Assassin's Creed is a male mcs game. The fans have always leaned on the side of the male mcs. (Valhalla female Eivor is the canon but the trailers all use male Eivor for promotion). Make a female black mc and that would be okay with me
I don’t mind it at all And I’m definitely sold on it but they could’ve chosen countless other samurais to include instead. Imagine they focus on a random white guy in an Africa assassins creed hundreds of years ago.. it just seems like they tryna push a message.
I think fewer people have beef with this than the media makes it look. The ones that do seem to simply not appreciate the pervasive feeling of ideological/political interference. I don't remember any outrage from AC3 or Origins.
95% percent of the people who are shitting on Ubisoft and the game have literally never heard of him before they watched the trailer! Edit: I’m not trying to defend Ubisoft, I would have preferred him to be a Japanese samurai, but on the other hand it is not as big of a deal as people are making it out to be, it’s being blown way out of proportion!
yasuke is cool, definitely want him in the game, but i think he should've been like an npc just like the maharaja in syndicate. and if we ignoring the historical accuracy maybe make him some sort of mentor for the samurai protagonist
He wasn’t a real samurai y’all are shoving fake shit down people’s throats. And it’s not excuse of calling people racists or bigots. It’s just Ubisoft wants to shove diversity in people’s faces.
Smithsonian and Britancia cite him as a samurai. If you're using wiki as your source...kid just pipe down and sit down at your desk where you belong. I swear if you get back to me by citing wiki and not an actually credited institution than you lost and need to learn your place by keeping your mouth shut. So your turn punk. I gave you two sources that state with evidence that Yasuke was samurai. Your turn
Omg really that’s the best you got same old song jeez that many games with Japanese protagonist but now you choose to complain to suit your narrative if it was a white man you’d be like hmmm that’s interesting but it’s a black man fucken freak the fuck out your a fucken joke
There isn’t much documentation of his title but from how he was treated, it can be assumed he was either a kosho or bushi both of those titles are in the samurai category 😭
Both of those protagonists are questionable and I am aware very well female Shinobi existed. Yasuke was no samurai, most likely didn't consider himself one and what is clear wasn't considered to be one by his contemporaries. Further in sources he is referred to as bushi which is not synonymous with samurai. Every samurai is bushi but not every bushi is a samurai. Further just like in the case of Miura Anjin he would not possess swordsmanship skills equal to a samurai. The choice of the character is dictated purely to cause controversy in hope the game is not going to flop. Not to mention it is a shameless pandering towards targeted demographics in the US. Now what I recommend to the author of the short is to grab a book and learn how to address people in a polite way cause one thing is painfully obvious, his parents didn't teach him how to.
ikr all these losers crying about a game they never even wanted to play, how many of these losers like valhalla and odyssey? Barely any, they're hopping on the bandwagon of "I'm not racist" racism
I’m not even that deep in video games but I love this because it’s absolutely correct. Everyone is bitching about a black samurai like obviously that’s real but they’re trying to make history as real as possible for this next assassin‘s creed game didn’t all the other assassin’s creed games in the past show the knights be the bad guy
I don't care he is samurai or retainer. He was there in history, he is real, that's enough historical accurate for me. All I care are the story and the gameplay, oh wait this is a GAME, can you all just chill out and enjoy the GAME, I'm playing a GAME not LEARNING HISTORY CLASS
He was never a samurai. Ever. He was like a pet. They would even give the single black slave in medieval Prussia a sword just so he can become the MC for the next game lmao
@@alanmatkovic3221 here we go again, i don't give a fuk about that, you want to play as Japanese, bruh the japanese woman literally there, i'm sick of u all don't care about her and bias only on the dude. Oh btw, I'm Asian, i don't have any problem with this, only twittards and woking westerners cry about this dump things
@@alanmatkovic3221 I don't care, it's a game you can be anything, is not history class. U want to play as Japanese, bruh the japanese woman is literally there, don't ignore her
First off Yasuke wasnt a samurai he was a servant of Nobunaga but more importantly every other assassins creed game had a protagonist thats race matched up with where it was set such as the protagonist of Mirage being egyptian. So why is it that the first assassins creed game set in asia cant have an asian male protagonist
It has an Asian woman but I guess because it’s not a man it’s not good enough representation and Black Flag didn’t have the race match with game location if we’re gonna go there.
@@Cuayo444Because the theme was pirates, a multicultural Representation in that game made sense. Besides Black flag was amazing. and you can't use Naoe's gender as a deflection tool. Evie fry and Alexandra were done before this and Were accepted. Not to mention Alexandra is canon over the male option.
@Cuayo444 pirates were ethnically diverse criminal outlaws and violent gangs. They took in people from all over thr world as long as they were fit and mean enough
@@reaganmemes6510naoe is the protagonist not yasuke. Naoe is an assassin so clearly she is the real protagonist and yasuke is the deuteragonist. Gameplay wise Naoe is wise Naoe is going to play like every other assassin while yasuke offers a different playstyle
I'm sorry but people complaining about the MC are either racists or misogynistic Naoe is literally the main character of the strory not Yasuke so no one should complain about representation. If you don't like Yasuke just use her all through People must really hate playing as a woman or playing as a black dude
Completely agree. People who clearly know little to nothing of Assassin's Creed are shitting on Shadows for no good reason. Assassin's Creed has always been historical *fiction*, not showing our real life history but what the in-game lore calls real history. Yasuke was real and Ubisoft is fictionalising his life. Like they have fictionalised history in literally every AC game. It's that simple. And for those asking why Yasuke, I say why not?
Why is EVERYONE IGNORING NAOE? She's a Japanese shinobi to play as, right there. And everyone's pretending like she doesn't exist as a protagonist... wtf
@@Luis-rp2lm I know it seems woke as hell to choose Yasuke as the protagonist but it is well within Ubisoft's creative choice to do so. Because Yasuke was real. They're not just making shit up, he was a real black man in medieval Japan. So basically Ubisoft has the absolute right to create a protagonist more or less based on any real person who existed in Japan at that time and so Yasuke is a legitimate choice, cuz he was real. His ONLY difference from a Japanese samurai is his skin colour, so why the big hate? Assassin's Creed has always been about fictitious versions of real history and Shadows is a fictitious spin on the real Yasuke's life. It's solely an fear/anticipation of Ubisoft's wokeness that's causing this reaction. Literally nothing wrong with playing as Yasuke.
@@riffgrooveThey clearly specify That both are the protagonist. That's not an arguement. unless your saying the black character isn't an equal protagonist? 🧐
OK, let's have a game set in Africa to represent African Zulu culture, but make the protagonist a white non binary person. See how much sense that makes?
Yasuke is cool and was historically a samurai but should have been a third or side character, but I barely see any cool asian guys in video games, they are under-represented so badly.
Assassin's Creed set in France: Play a Frenchman Assassin's Creed set in England: Play an Englishman and woman Assassin's Creed set in America: Play a Native America Assassin's creed set in Japan: ...
@@gamerhex7335my point is they only chose yasuke because he's black, which they admitted. which is definitely racist. How would you feel if we went back to Africa in assassin's creed but instead of playing two African characters we play as two white guys and like the creative directors say they "Represent the culture"?
@@gamerhex7335Oh also the fact that neither are part of the order, The only thing that's assassin's creed in this game is the hidden blade. As well as Odyssey and Valhalla. Doesn't matter anyway, It's just going to be inferior ghosts of Tsushima.
@@reaganmemes6510 The game isn't even out yet 😂 we know nothing about the story yet you're making assumptions. And I'd LOVE to see where Ubi said they used Yasuke SPECIFICALLY because he's black, and not because his story is actually interesting and has fiction potential. Why would we play as a white guy in Africa at all? They were all pretty much slave traffickers. Nothing interesting about that. So what's your issue again? That we play as a black man? That we play as a Japanese woman? Pick a lane.
Black samurai did actually exist at least one did, don’t know why they would make him black though? But let’s all agree that a separate game playing as that dude would be sick
I don't want to play a samurai warrior in assassins creed game. I want to play as ninja. And an anonymous person that no body knows. Like in every assassins creed game you played someone you haven't learned about in history lessons or legends. Also theybreally missed an oportunity to make a tenchu like video game as assassins creed is kinda similar. Now they lost the opportunity with the japanese settings. It should be ninjas assassins against samurai templars. + This character they chose doesn't blend in. He cannot be an assassin. I think people wouldn't be mad if they made a stand alone game without using the brand "assassins creed" a story about the one black samurai. That would be different. If it's it's set in japan it should be a japanese protagonist.
Sword barrier ( basically a living sword stand) yosuke main duty was to carry nobunagas sword. Besides that's the main reason for his purchase was his skin. Yosuke's was rare( he had black skin which was unique and eye catching in Japan) Nobunaga liked collecting rare items and yosuke was certainly rare. Back then when nobunaga walked with yosuke it was akin to seeing a white tiger. Basically he was used as a symbol of nobunagas wealth and connection. No historical evidence show yosuke actually fought or lead in battle. Another thing is that samurai is akin to nobility. Not every japanese warrior was a samurai. You needed to be born in particular class to be one.
@@nilodelmundoSmithsonian and Britancia call him samurai with evidence and even link to Japanese museums for more evidence. If your source is wiki and UA-cam then keep your mouth shut and learn your place kid. I gave you two credited sources that can't be edited. Two of the best and biggest in academia. Your turn punk. Let's see what sites you source your info from. I'll wait
We got bamfs being slept on in the gaming industry. You want black representation AND a good game? Spawn, Blade, Afro Samurai, Static Shock and Black Dynamite. We got the characters made, GIVE THEM THE ATTENTION THE DESERVE
Yes, he was, he carried their weapons at first, then he became a samurai. I don't see ya complaining about shogun And there's a white person as the main character
@@DavidHolloman-ek4tihe was never a samurai. There’s literally almost nothing written about him or his life. He was in Japan for a few years and when his master died, all trace of his existence disappeared. White peoples are crazy for thinking that means he was a legendary samurai
And again I will say, im hearing a LOT about how theres this HUGE BACKLASH about Yasuke...im not seein it, im seeing virtue signal city on "WOW HOW COULD YOU GUYS NOT LIKE THIS?" but im thinkin yall got a big ol magnifying glass on a very small group of people here
I don’t want to play a poc samurai in one of the most racist times in one of the most racist nations. 😅 It would be great if they show the Japanese people like they were at this time period, by insulting and harassing the "black monster” 😅
I dont get it, throughout the recent modern day Assassins Creed games we went beyond the point of realism. In odyssey we got to fight Medusa, a Minotaur (however you spell it), and found the city of Atlantis In Valhalla we fought Fenrir, literally became odin and had a separate dlc game about ragnarok where shit got even more unrealistic In Mirage, Basim can teleport and is LITERALLY Loki But a black samurai who did, in fact, exist in history is where we draw the line?...
Exactly - 😅 Yasuke is the LEAST streaching of History Assassins creed has done 😂 and people are mad because there not getting - and i know some people are gonna dislike this - but there not getting Assassins creed Tsushima like they probably were expecting
"What if there was a French protagonist in an African setting" Pretty sure Afticans didnt invade & slaughter entire villages. Also, wasnt Edward Kenway a Yt Native American in the Americas setting...? & Didn't those same Yt invaders slaughter those Native American's? I know good & well you enjoyed that game just as much as i did & you didnt boycott Ubisoft 🤣😂😅 you people 🤡🤡🤡
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That awkward moment when a Japanese man isn't diverse enough for video game influencers
Asian men never are.
@@tchoythao1730uhh ghost of tsushima, mortal kombat, ninja gaiden, tenchu, tekken, sleeping dogs 😂
A black samurai is historically accurate there was one in 1579 in Edo Japan and his name was Yasuke. I appreciate everyone going to race it really shows how small minded you all are
@@Conner-r4wyasuk3 was never a samurai thats a title you earn and with his place in Japanese culture he was far from it
@@thesasquatch303 your right but your wrong he served the lord daimyo Oda Nobunaga in Japan and was the first foreigner to achieve Samurai status
Naoe is the best Assassin in history
She is so stealthy that people didn't even realize she's exist
And? Demographics prove majority of gamers are male, you trying tell Japanese males they are free game to be robbed of male representation in a game set in Japan in favour of a black dude who historically was ultra rare minoriry in area and only active for 18 months (which they could have added as DLC and none would have complained ) and point as excuse there is a female Japanese char option? Really?
@@galadballcrusher8182 I hope that no one of them was waiting for an assasin's creed game, and they are not underrepresented, many japanese games have japanese male protagonists. The games target audience is also not the japanese gamers but the western gamers
@@galadballcrusher8182trust me ,no japanese complaining about yasuke only white people😂🤣😂😂
HA! Nice
😂😂😂
I wish they made AC set in Africa with French protagonist
Unfortunately the French resent their own identity too much to to do that.😂
Bad comparison because Yasuke wasn't a colonizer you idiot besides they made a game where you were british in the carribean so they basically already made what you're talking about you just never realized it was messed up cause you're probably internally racist
Why not if its well done and writen
@@cap8588 I would love to see how the world react to that.😄
@@asmara9779 it wouldnt be the first time at all lol and in Shadows we also have a female japanese character so... I dont even know what to say it s just dumb and if u dont like it just dont buy it why make it a big deal?
Prolly cause for Italy we had Italian, for greece we had greek, for Jerusalem we had an Iraqi, for a native a native American, for France we had a Frenchman, we had some Brits and Welshmen. We had am Egyptian at Egypt. We had a slave that became a self made man and a great assassin. So if i was Japanese i would want to play as a Japanese man in a game happening in Japan. Everything has its appropriate place. Thats why games made in Japan will always be better that the newer Western ones.
There is a Japanese main character that you play as.
Just play Ghost of Tsushima. 👍
Okay what's wrong with changing it up. Why y'all crying 😭
That's false tho...Edward Kenway was a white guy...
@@FOE_AM talking bout adewale
Its the guy from skull and bones
It’s because Asian MALES rarely gets representation from video games. The only outlier I can think of is Ghost of Tsushima. Essentially it is a black dude (yasuke) is taking a MAIN role away from an underrepresented demographic group (Asian man).
Edit 1: Change “unrepresented” to “underrepresented”.
Exactly
Good point
Bro you clearly don't play enough games then
What about Nioh? Like a Dragon? Ghostwire? Final Fantasy? Rise of Ronin? Mortal Kombat? There's probably plenty more I haven't listed.
Japan is a big ass entertainment country (makes lots of video games and movies) Unless you’re playing 99% American games there should be a shit ton of Asian protagonist to play as😂
Everyone is forgetting that this is literally a VIDEO GAME
I want an Assassins Creed game set in Ethiopia where I play as a white Italian Assassin among African Assassins & just being the only white Assassin set in the 1800s
Simply because there was a white man there historically during that time.
Yeah it’s weird. The only thing me personally I’m worried about is micro transactions and if the story/gameplay is dog shit. But guess what, we don’t know yet since all we got was a CINEMATIC TRAILER.
If the gameplay is 🔥. I'm all in. Couldn't care less about the whole black samurai thing. 👍
"Why isnt there a japanese mc 😠"
Naoe who appeared in almost all of the fucking promotional content:😐
This is Last Samurai all over again. "Its historically accurate but we purposely chose this timeframe so that we can have a non-japanese male lead in a samurai story."
Why male?
@@tutsandreacts8021 because 99% of samurai were Japanese men. They decided to give us 2 main characters in this game and chose to go with the 1% for both of them.
@@JD10X and?
@@JD10X Almost like it's a videogame and not real life. 😱😱
Did you know the apples of eden are fake as well? 😱😱😱
@@xCaLLMeGHeTTo So you'd have no issues with an Asian protagonist in an African game?
The backlash is draining bruh. I’m honestly jus happy that we finally got an AC game set in Japan
Black people “That’s cultural appropriation to have dreadlocks”
Also black people “I WANT TO BE NINJA”
Source?
Apparently they were everywhere and everything all at once and lets not forget everybody was not striaght either as the story goes
We wuz kangs in sheit
And when did we ever said we wanted to become a ninja? Lmao this video proves the point
no we didnt say we wanted to we were
Representation matters right? So yes people are going to be upset. But I for one am tired of everything having to have a black character for the sake of inclusion. It’s a trope now and it’s getting old
Like what else does this?
Like all of Hollywood 🙄
No representation doesn’t matter as long as the story and gameplay is good I’m all in
Womp womp
We have plenty of representation of Asian men in video games. If you are so bothered by the fact Yasuke is black, don’t by the game, no one cares
Historical accuracy or not, if its going to be an assassin's creed game, then its going to suck major booty ass because the franchise has been dead since Revelations.
Lol. Ac started to peak after revelation. Ac3, 4,rogue were the best titles in the whole franchise
Facts
I think u mean origins an beyond I think it rlly started to go downhill for a lot of reasons
It's funny how people are entitled to different opinions here, but some say it like it's a fact, and then try to ridicule each other by being satirical.
I mean, it's like if you had a game about vikings and had some guy from mongolia was the one you played as for half the time. Or a game about Zulu warriors and the whitest man in history takes up half the game time. People saw a game about assassins in Japan and were expecting to play as Japanese people. People were upset when the movie Gods of Egypt had a cast of almost all white people, or any anime live action that casts non-japanese or asian people, so I'm not sure why you're surprised about this.
Half the game?? Yasuke will probably be mandatory for a few missions for story reasons, but do you honestly think that would cover half the game?
In Syndicate I only played as Jacob for the mandatory missions and the rest was as Evie. Out of all those hours I put into that game I don't think my time as Jacob even covered 5%... And Shadows is going to have waaay more content than Syndicate.
@@halosaftthere’s only two playable characters in this game. So yeah it would only make sense that half of the game was from his point of view. Also the person you play as in the modern time has always had minimal play time in all of the creed games. Not sure how he relates to the two characters set in the past rather than the present.
@@Zown-ej3fl What are you even on about..? Who was talking about the modern world person? They're so irrelevant I don't even know who the modern world person is in any game after AC3...
Jacob and Evie are the two twin assassin's in Syndicate that you can switch between during gameplay. Jacob is more melee combat focused and Evie is more stealth focused.
And how does that make any sense at all? Sure, if it was a 100% story focused game with no exploration or side content what so ever, and the game has 2 protagonists then it would make sense to think that you'd spend 50% of the game with each of them.
But the game isn't that. You know this is an open world game, right? And if it's anything like the previous titles it's going to have at *least* 120h of content. With only a few missions that require you to play as Yasuke for story reasons. How long could that reasonably take? 3-5h? Depending on how many missions are mandatory as Yasuke. How is that anywhere close to half the game?
Who cares it's a video game u dupes
Gamers dont care about the games . Gameplay and fun is far removed from modern gaming
Right I ion care as long as I get a bond with the character(s) with a good story with an amazing ending honestly but gameplay is a big part too and ubi has definitely went in some different direction
Mostly in western gaming, where they care about is “diversity and inclusivity” while stereotyping them.
Yasuke was never a samurai. Insted of making him an actual samurai, Ubisoft could've made him another assassin.
It’s bc ur missing the point. Yasuke was only picked bc he was black. Let’s be real the devs only did it to save face and look good since they could have picked any other Japanese figure for the role. I have no hate for black actors or characters but have a game set in Africa because they are taking roles away from Asian male actors. I’m Asian and it’s like saying a Chinese guy got full armour weapons and ended up fighting in like the Zulu wars as a Zulu. AND other races are not rlly shown that much in media. Like if the protagonist is white they are useless or weak. We also don’t really get to see much of other races as well in modern media as much as blacks. Edited to clarify. Also if u look at the list of assassins creed main characters there are 0 I mean 0 main main Asian male characters 3 women on that list 2 blacks cournign Yasuke(not counting spin offs) 2 Arab and 7 white.
People have been begging for media featuring Yasuke for YEARS what are you talking abt bro 😭
People are happy with it, most people aren't so damn angry about playing as a minority or a woman suprise suprise. Not everyone is a white man or japanese man and people like to be represented from all walks of life
@@beltsan then at least be real with it
@@Robo1332 Wdym bro Yasuke WAS real 😭😭😭😭
@@ivotedforbeanis8819 Accept this is a game set in Japan where 99% of samurai were male...
Supreme Commander Koxinga back in China 12th century, led his army of heavy Ming troops, Japanese ronins (and wakou), African and Portugese mercenaries fought against Dutch in Taiwan. Not sure about Japan, but black people had already been trader, doctor, even warrior in China since ancient time.
And the funny thing is I actually went to Japanese festival yesterday and asked around and yes they confirmed he was real and the Japanese are very excited to play the game
No its cuz every ac protag has been from there own country but as soon as its a japanese game its a black guy when we wanted to play as an japanese guy and girl plus yes ac has never been historrically accurate but now they are trying to say its historrically accurate when its not and there only adding it to be woke
Because people want to play as an actual Japanese samurai set in Japan.
Go play Ghost of Tsushima or Like a Dragon: Ishin.
@edwinseda897 It doesn't change my point, lol.
@@GhengisGoon it’s the same thing perhaps you should’ve elaborated more
@Justsomerandomdude397 It's pretty clear what I said lol. People wanna play as an actual Japanese Samurai, which is Asian in a game set in Japan. Every other AC has made the native protagonist of their country the main character.
@@GhengisGoonso Edward kenway was a native Caribbean?
Anddd Ubisoft apologizes i guess it was a pretty big deal to the Japanese and I guess historical accuracy did matter I little bit
Especially considering a lot of info on yaskue is a lie thanks to Thomas lockley
"Strong black character"??
dude was literally sold as a slave by an Italian missionary
And I believe it was cheaper than the game.
And how does that make him not strong ?
@@silverking2181 my bad, it's a game, yes, go be strong my black friends. Can't wait for you to free Japanese from oppression
@@silverking2181 they hide their racist views of black people behind bs talking points and dog whistles. If they have POC other than stereotypes or slaves then it's a problem with " realism ".
doesn’t that make him a stronger character? he was a slave and became a samurai that’s honestly as strong as it gets
Ubisoft pretty much have declared themselves racist because of this that why I mean ubisoft have literally committed seppuku and are now slowly dying
Ubisoft scoured all of Japanese history to find the one black man in all of their history who MIGHT have accomplished something beyond seeing the port and we all know why. To pander to you so you give them money for more lazy slop, and look at you, eating up that slop
counterpoint: the tale of Oda Nobunaga is one of the most adapted pieces of Japanese history, but hardly anyone includes Yauske
careful there you might strain your arm with all that reaching
No you are reaching. Y’all are complaining before seeing gameplay. It really makes yall look stupid. Idk about you but I play a game for the gameplay. What the character does matters. For example. The Witcher 3 to me is a terrible game. Not because of his culture or ethnicity. The protagonist is cool. But his fighting style is booty cheeks. He moves in a way that I find lukewarm. When you think of a samurai the first thing that comes to people minds isn’t the fact that whoever it is happens to be an Asian man. It’s the SWORD. So if that’s to be believed we can assume the most thing that should matter is how he wields the sword. AC is the most fictional history game ever. Name me a black protagonist driven game that you played that wasn’t miles morales.
He is part of the final years of the legendary Japanese figure Oda Nobunaga, dont have to look very far to find him
Stop crying
The thing is, knowing ubisoft, they definately did this just to gain profit from forced diversity.
Distracting players by causing a controversy is actually genius.
But I don't think that would ever work now, since almost every assassins creed game after origins have been complete sh#t.
Cause it’s literally JUST because he’s black they put him in the game no other reason lol
It actually makes it slightly more interesting if you really understand the sengoku era. The era with arguably the most bloodshed. The assassin being one of the famous warlords known across all Japan wouldn’t even make sense story wise. However AC hasn’t made sense really ever. It’s fiction. Yall want things to be accurate bcus the protagonist is black. Make em slave right? 😂 no room to make something fictional and maybe good? It’s a video game. Just don’t buy it
That’s dumb do you know how many mfs wanted a Yasuke game or movie?
@MartyrOfNoir he was never a samurai doe the biggest reason their can't be a movie about him is the fact he was basically just the fact oda nobunaga used him as a jester in making him do tricks to entertain his guests its actually kinda fucked
@@walter2201He was a Koshō(bodyguard, attendant, or secretary), which was the status that was a level below a samurai, but a koshō was still a high rank of which eventually did become a samurai. Yasuke also did fight on the front lines side by side with Oda Nobunaga's son, Oda Nobutada. Is it possible that Yasuke later became a samurai by the time the Honnō-ji incident happened. A war of which they lost because of the betrayal of Mitsuhide Akechi or Hideoyoshi Toyotomi. But towards this the end of this time, his story becomes a bit murky. Even if he was a retainer, he would have fought since he came to Japan during the Sengoku era, which was a period of constant war, assassinations, betrayal, and corruption.
Be real, this was not a narrative choice. They choose a female and a black man to stick it to the chuds. Did anyone have a issue with GTA San Andreas? That was a narrative choice. If they wanted a black lead, do a black story. Seriously, pretty much no one outside Japan even knew who Yasuke was before this nonsense. It's offensive to Japanese and African culture. Pretty much saying they don't think a black historical story would sell. A black female and/or male trying to stop the slave trade in Africa in the 17 or 1800s sounds like a good story to me.
Never let this guy cook again
If anything. I'm waiting for release and see what the general audience thinks. I don't trust gamers on the internet anymore. They make real racist groups look calm and composed.
😂😂😂 not saying you’re wrong but I guarantee most of the people making a big deal about it weren’t gonna play the game regardless
Right! The gaming community is very racist. Never been called so many N words in my life, only on playstation.
@K1n6r3d Facts, when you say something towards them back, they'll try to get your account BAN.
@@blacksamuraigod5095 Right!
Because I would like to be immersed in the world of feudal Japan. A 6 ft 3" black dude isn't going to do that for me.
people keep forgetting naoe exists
Who?
We don’t care about her. Male protagonist is the one who sales
@@khayree7929 I preordered for Naoe gameplay, not a knockoff Ghost of Tsushima lmao.
@@callmewhatever.7963 her stealth gameplay admittedly looked good
@@khayree7929 Yup, I've been wating for actual Assassin-type gameplay with complex environments since Unity.
Hey buddy in 1579 in Edo Japan there was a black Samurai wanna know his name? Yasuke he was also known as the great unifier and not much is known about him according to popular lore his death was found out by his son when he opened a box with his head in it
Well maybe you would be upset when the first creed game based in your country is coming out soon and you find out the main character isn’t even from your country. Maybe y’all should read the comment section of the Japanese version of this trailer and come back to me trying defend this game. Every single comment I have read so far from Japan has been calling this game racist and cultural appropriation.
He isn't even the only main character in the game xD
Naoe is not even exist at this point
Your just speaking out your ass because what I’ve seen is Japanese gamers don’t give af
And there’s Japanese ppl on TikTok & Twitter that love that Yasuke is one of the main characters because he’s a popular folklore. So what’s your point
The japanese people who responded don't really have a problem With a black man being one of the protagonists So I really don't understand where the hate is coming from
In their defense, every medium of art, even AI, has tokenistic characters being inserted with no rhyme or reason than sanctimony. It's transparent, tired, and undermines the work. In this case however it's kinda sick cause he actually existed.
Imagine they made an assassins creed game in Africa but made the main character white or Asian. There would be so much more backlash and probably a canceled game.
If the game is made to showcase Japanese people and culture, then the main character should reflect that
But it wasnt made to showcase to japanese ppl and culture its like all the other games. Meant to depict a hyperbolic story of assassins, the characters they choose are a product of the story they take from. This time it was the warring Sengoku period which was majorily Japanese
No it wouldn't be backlashed because everyone is just using this as a counter to the obvious fact they're racist. There was literally 0 backlash for Nioh 1 have a white protag or multiple other movies or shows like Shogun having a white protag, the problem is you hate black people. That's it
Yea but it was all good when they made a movie called “Last Samurai” starring Tom Cruise tho right? Foh, ive heard that same lame excuse about Assassins creed “Africa” so it must be making the rounds in 8chan 😂
And technically if u want to tally up which group has done the most culture appropriation in the last few decades, let alone centuries!….its largely the same “group” we have making these same asinine complaints about freakin fictional video games of all things (i doubt the Japanese are even complaining). Lets all thank Trump and his minions for collectively teaching these smooth brains to accuse everything they dont like as “woke” 😂 God help us all.
If it was a real historical figure than sure why not
The only valid criticism to this games is the bs price. I'm hyped to play as Yasuke dude looks badass as hell.
yo, this is actually kinda cool. I wonder if we'll get a hammer and scalpel gameplay dynamic if we get something like syndicate with two playable mcs
Couldn’t have put it any better, I hope for slightly destructive environments to really emphasis the difference between the two protags
@Cuayo444 I know with the way they talk about the shadows system it definitely sounds like your going to want to bring the chick on some missions, and yeah I hope that mace can bash down doors to skip through some areas that would require stealth inviting a more intense mission. Either way, I just hope that the experience for each protagonist is more then a few states and more like choose between Basim and Evior totally different.
Problem is he was a sword holder...and was also a secretary he did not see any battle we have no records of it and if you say that there are records yet the wiki page had been edited to Oblivion and back. It is a culture war
Pumping poison into a dead franchise’s veins
but they are earning well their most sold game is Valhalla which is most hated😂
@@quraishvlogs3471because Ubisoft figured out that marketing a game is more important than making it good to begin with
Thank you some one who finally speaks the truth people are being ridiculous about this
Clearly you haven’t looked at the comment section in the Japanese trailer for this game. If every single creed fan in Japan is calling this racist and cultural appropriation then I’m gonna have to agree with them on it.
If Assassin's Creed fans wouldnt make stuff about race or gender every game, we'd be enjoying these a lot more. Yasuke was a real person, and a badass Kunoichi with a tiny sleeve katana going around slaughtering armies of samurai is awesome, get over it.
The decision to use the one black guy in Asian history as the protag is kind of making it about race.
Have you not read any of the Japanese comments? Every creed fan in Japan is calling this racist.
He was real, a real servant, that carried weapons and equipment, and hung out in the back of the army, since he couldn't speak japanese or hold a sword properly. He was a pack mule and a side show for them.
A real slave, but never a samurai.
I’m sorry can’t take the truth. But it is what it is. THERE WAS NO BLACK SAMURAI IN THE FIRST PLACE!!🇯🇵
@@Maria-by8bwsure but in assassins creed shadows now we have a black samurai🤷🏽♂️it is what it is
It's not that the historical accuracy matters, what matters is that Ubisoft made him (Yasake, who wasn't a samurai btw) into the main character solely because of his race and soley to push their woke ideology into the game.
Hasnt Assassin's creed taken liberties with historical figures since the beginning? Or did DaVinci really have an in with an assassin order during his life?
Last I checked Ezio and Da Vinci are Italians in Italy
@@Penigale I see reading isn't a thing...
@@CryoJnik😂
He also was a hybrid isu 😂
@@Penigalelast i checked edward was posted up in cuba
Fans: It's not historically accurate!!!
Yasuke: Um..... I'm kinda real.
Yasuke was a literal slave. Quit pretending he was some historical samurai.
Sure a slave was given a samurai stipend from one of the most famous historical figures in Japanese history, his own house, and a sword but nah bro was a slave.
Stop the bs do your own damn research instead of leaning on your personal bias because your comment as 0 historical fact and 100 personal opinion
Yasuke was never proven as a Samurai and never was proven not one. There’s not enough evidence to support each side. End of story
@@tj7667the reason many are outraged is the prominent push of representation even when not needed which usually ends with the game being garbage or the character being a one note inclusivity write off
@@tj7667he was a retainer he was given armor and a sword as per tradition but he was never trained and never participated in any recorded battle but what was recorded was the fact oda nobunaga would use him to entertain guest by making him do tricks
It is a fucking game about aliens and time travel. Quit being a bitch
@@tj7667 Oh stfu with this. Samuari are a ruling class in Japan. They are selected from core families and start their training at 7 years old. This pack mule your yapping about was given a sword, land, and a stipend, he was kept around because the lord found him amusing, he couldn't speak the language or even hold a sword properly. He carried the lords equipment and tools into battle like an animal.
It’s the same situation as Ezio in Istanbul, I believe. An Assassin traveling to a different part of the world for a couple years on a mission, only there temporarily. Yasuke in real life was only documented in Japan for fifteen months.
the Problem is, People wanted to Play a Male Japanese Samurai not some wanna be samurai who should rather have bin an NPC instead of the main Hero...And About Ezio, that is Historical Correct and Makes Sense, Istanbul Was the Main Trading Centrum of europe, Even the Vikings dit Trade there. so Ezio in that City was totaly Fair and Made sense and dit Take Nothing away, Playing a Black man in a Time where Japan was About to change feels od, instead of Playing a Japanese Samurai we get an Hip hop Parody of a Samurai
@@TEXASAXE But there WAS a black person in Japan. Yasuke. He was a real person
From what I’ve read it’s unknown if he was an escaped slave or not before he came to Japan. Once he met Nobugana he was shocked by the color of his skin. Over time he gained the position of weapon bearer which is a position of much respect. Even later he was given a sword I think and some people think he was given the title of samurai but there’s not a ton of evidence. I believe he also became a warrior at one point and was by his masters side protecting him till death. This is just a few minutes of research tho if I’m wrong pls correct me
It's never been stated he even wielded a blade or armour, as well as the fact due to the trailer His Wikipedia has been updated. So not everything may be fact
I knew of a black man in feudal Japan who was believed to be a samuraI. I assumed because he was most likely the only black person on the island, making him an exotic pet of sorts, he was given some of the duties of a samurai.
After looking for more about it, I haven't found anything of significance aside from who he served, and surrendering rather than die in battle.
I see why people are upset by this, he obviously isn't from the region like most characters are.
Most main characters are usually nobodies who bump into historical figures. Had he been in game as a side character, this may not have been any issue.
@@LurkerBelowwell that's the point of having him as a main character. Because it give studio the free will to do what they want with the character. Like you said not much is documented which is perfect for making a main character
No your correct
@@reaganmemes6510yeah his wikipedia page has been absolutely destroyed and can't really be trusted anymore
There has already been a black Assassin's Creed protagonist but not a Japanese one so why don't you think representation matters?
There is a Japanese protagonist Naoe featured arguably more than Yasuke.
@@Cuayo444That's definitely an observation, but that still doesn't answer why both shouldn't be Japanese?
@@reaganmemes6510Because Yasuke's cool
@@reaganmemes6510 Because Yasuke is cool AF who hasn't been really represented in media
Honestly that's why im mad. I mean imagine an ac game set in your culture and your culture has many historical figure the game could use and they choose to you someone the barely mattered in your history ( real life yosuke was a slave bought by nobunaga because his skin color looked exotic, he didn't fight nor lead in battle however yosuke was appointed nobunaga sword barrier ( fancy word for living sword stand) most of the time he was entertaining nobunaga and the other lords (the title also gave rise to the myth that he was a samurai )
Honestly kinda racist. Im Filipino and it would be amazing to get an AC base on my homeland but Ubisoft choice to make one of their MC white because we had a white man in our history book that's fucked up cindering we have more well known figures.
This is pandering at its finest.
I even said I would love to see the sengoku period in this game and I actually didn’t know who yasuke was until this is LITERALLY THE SENGOKU PERIOD!!!!!!!!
Ubisoft just wanna play woke when a Japanese main character would've been better ☠️
There is one, she’s literally on the cover
@@Cuayo444you’re delusional if you think this isn’t a cash grab, but you also sound like you have low testosterone so that can explain it too
@@Cuayo444Don't see Hattori Hanzō or Yamauchi Taka the two main master Assassin's who actually were doing all the work.. but yeah clap like a seal while ubisoft retcons established lore to shoehorn these two people in.
@@jamiemcaloon5548 she's so stealthy that people aren't seeing her. Look carefully, Naoue is literally on the front cover and She's Japanese
@sailingadventurer I can see her, I'm saying there's already lore about this era, Yasuke was Lord Nobunaga sword retainer/ bodyguard.. so he rarely left his side, He would have witnessed the assassination of his master by the assassin Yamauchi Taka.. so I'm pretty sure he would be wanting revenge for that and put him down the path as an antagonist.. but judging by the trailer, they must be retconing the old lore to be able to make him an assassin.
Not that I care about the main assassin. I just think it's funny seeing the comments about playing a male Asian. I think the last time I played one was Sleeping Dogs or Ninja Gaiden lmmfao
This is classic. DEI bullshit from Ubisoft. If representation doesn't matter, then make an AC game set in India and make the main character Chinese see how that turns out.
Is there a Chinese person in India history that is famously known and recognized that I don’t know of?
@tj7667 There were lots of Chinese people that were in India in ancient times. But that's not the point. The point is we want Play as a Japanese samurai in a game set in Japan.
@@kirushanthkiri210You literally have another protagonist in the game who IS Japanese.
Wah Wah Wah
@@CloakRyznother than Odyssey. Assassin's Creed is a male mcs game. The fans have always leaned on the side of the male mcs. (Valhalla female Eivor is the canon but the trailers all use male Eivor for promotion). Make a female black mc and that would be okay with me
As long as he isnt fighting the Shinto gods or some other nonsense... I fuck with Yasuke being the protagonist.
I don’t mind it at all And I’m definitely sold on it but they could’ve chosen countless other samurais to include instead. Imagine they focus on a random white guy in an Africa assassins creed hundreds of years ago.. it just seems like they tryna push a message.
"I don't mind it at all but I do mind it"
@@gamerinatrance3618 Did I get your panties in a twist? I am still buying it and the arts literally in my pfp, so I don’t care.
I think fewer people have beef with this than the media makes it look. The ones that do seem to simply not appreciate the pervasive feeling of ideological/political interference.
I don't remember any outrage from AC3 or Origins.
95% percent of the people who are shitting on Ubisoft and the game have literally never heard of him before they watched the trailer!
Edit: I’m not trying to defend Ubisoft, I would have preferred him to be a Japanese samurai, but on the other hand it is not as big of a deal as people are making it out to be, it’s being blown way out of proportion!
Exactly.
The game looks cheap and tacky already
@@mikeo9074 it’s only a CGI trailer bro shush
I hate Ubisoft cause of the $130 price tag and micro transactions
@@Cuayo444if it's a CGI trailer and still looks tacky then that's even worse.
yasuke is cool, definitely want him in the game, but i think he should've been like an npc just like the maharaja in syndicate. and if we ignoring the historical accuracy maybe make him some sort of mentor for the samurai protagonist
In Short DEI
In short racism hidden behind acronyms that make you feel smart.
@@Cuayo444 says the guy being racist and trying desperately to act smart.
@@JeffreyjkKlein Sad white men never admit to being racist, you guy's are losers just like he said, I bet it feels bad to be such a whiny loser
@@Cuayo444 soyboy be like
@@Cuayo444 Said the black supremacist
The ninja Naoe is so good at her job that everyone can't notice her existing, best ninja ever hahaha.
He wasn’t a real samurai y’all are shoving fake shit down people’s throats. And it’s not excuse of calling people racists or bigots. It’s just Ubisoft wants to shove diversity in people’s faces.
Smithsonian and Britancia cite him as a samurai. If you're using wiki as your source...kid just pipe down and sit down at your desk where you belong. I swear if you get back to me by citing wiki and not an actually credited institution than you lost and need to learn your place by keeping your mouth shut. So your turn punk. I gave you two sources that state with evidence that Yasuke was samurai. Your turn
Omg really that’s the best you got same old song jeez that many games with Japanese protagonist but now you choose to complain to suit your narrative if it was a white man you’d be like hmmm that’s interesting but it’s a black man fucken freak the fuck out your a fucken joke
There isn’t much documentation of his title but from how he was treated, it can be assumed he was either a kosho or bushi
both of those titles are in the samurai category 😭
The only thing it makes sense to be pissed about is the price point.
I'm black and this game is already gonna be sh1t 😂😂
No one said cause your black you gotta like it, if you didn't like the other one's it's not gonna be that different, it's assassin's creed
Bottom line is mfs is racist , soon as they heard BLACK they freaked the fuck out lol
The past several games they've released have been shit
Things a black guy would never say for 100 😂
@@sensaiuriah5440 then what are they supposed to say 😂😂😂😂?
As long as we get a New Assassins Creed Game, i do not care, just take my boredom away.
The last 5 seconds fucking killed me lmao.
Internet's bitching about Yasuke, meanwhile I'm UwU-ing over Naoe lol XD
Both of those protagonists are questionable and I am aware very well female Shinobi existed. Yasuke was no samurai, most likely didn't consider himself one and what is clear wasn't considered to be one by his contemporaries. Further in sources he is referred to as bushi which is not synonymous with samurai. Every samurai is bushi but not every bushi is a samurai. Further just like in the case of Miura Anjin he would not possess swordsmanship skills equal to a samurai. The choice of the character is dictated purely to cause controversy in hope the game is not going to flop. Not to mention it is a shameless pandering towards targeted demographics in the US. Now what I recommend to the author of the short is to grab a book and learn how to address people in a polite way cause one thing is painfully obvious, his parents didn't teach him how to.
This guy missed the entire point 😂😂😂😂
what the point
And what exactly is the point
Whats the point genius 😂
Not in the Koryu community... mostly we're tired of the 80s ninja isms that aren't even close to truth. Iga were Samurai for starters
Finally someone has said what I’ve been saying
ikr all these losers crying about a game they never even wanted to play, how many of these losers like valhalla and odyssey? Barely any, they're hopping on the bandwagon of "I'm not racist" racism
So finally someone else has been lying like you?
Woke people “it’s cultural appropriation to wear dreads”
Also you “IM GONNA CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOW DOWN TAKE CHOW DOWN TO CHINA TOWN”
I’m not even that deep in video games but I love this because it’s absolutely correct. Everyone is bitching about a black samurai like obviously that’s real but they’re trying to make history as real as possible for this next assassin‘s creed game didn’t all the other assassin’s creed games in the past show the knights be the bad guy
I don't care he is samurai or retainer. He was there in history, he is real, that's enough historical accurate for me. All I care are the story and the gameplay, oh wait this is a GAME, can you all just chill out and enjoy the GAME, I'm playing a GAME not LEARNING HISTORY CLASS
Yeah DEI
Well spoken like a compliant shill who’ll consume anything and ask no questions.
He was never a samurai. Ever. He was like a pet. They would even give the single black slave in medieval Prussia a sword just so he can become the MC for the next game lmao
@@alanmatkovic3221 here we go again, i don't give a fuk about that, you want to play as Japanese, bruh the japanese woman literally there, i'm sick of u all don't care about her and bias only on the dude. Oh btw, I'm Asian, i don't have any problem with this, only twittards and woking westerners cry about this dump things
@@alanmatkovic3221 I don't care, it's a game you can be anything, is not history class. U want to play as Japanese, bruh the japanese woman is literally there, don't ignore her
I’m blk and even I’d prefer a Asian male character. Forget accuracy. Just more interesting playing as a actual member of there culture.
First off Yasuke wasnt a samurai he was a servant of Nobunaga but more importantly every other assassins creed game had a protagonist thats race matched up with where it was set such as the protagonist of Mirage being egyptian. So why is it that the first assassins creed game set in asia cant have an asian male protagonist
It has an Asian woman but I guess because it’s not a man it’s not good enough representation and Black Flag didn’t have the race match with game location if we’re gonna go there.
@@Cuayo444Because the theme was pirates, a multicultural Representation in that game made sense. Besides Black flag was amazing. and you can't use Naoe's gender as a deflection tool. Evie fry and Alexandra were done before this and Were accepted. Not to mention Alexandra is canon over the male option.
@Cuayo444 pirates were ethnically diverse criminal outlaws and violent gangs. They took in people from all over thr world as long as they were fit and mean enough
@@reaganmemes6510naoe is the protagonist not yasuke. Naoe is an assassin so clearly she is the real protagonist and yasuke is the deuteragonist. Gameplay wise Naoe is wise Naoe is going to play like every other assassin while yasuke offers a different playstyle
No, she's not yasuke the main character
I'm sorry but people complaining about the MC are either racists or misogynistic
Naoe is literally the main character of the strory not Yasuke so no one should complain about representation. If you don't like Yasuke just use her all through
People must really hate playing as a woman or playing as a black dude
Everyone’s going crazy over a real character that existed in the 1600’s ang hiding their racism behind “it’s not realistic” NONE OF THE GAMES ARE
people are angry the the mc does not match the region which the game takes place.
Imagine wanting to play a Japanese based game but hating the Japanese so much you don’t want them as the main characters
@@Luis-rp2lmwhy was ezio the protagonist in turkey when it should've been some prince (son of sultan) etc. Cause ezio doesn't belong to that region
@@Luis-rp2lmYou do realise there is a Japanese protagonist, right? She is right on the cover of the game.
@@CloakRyzn where’s the other
The comments on the trailer had me dying. People are already saying Ubisoft is gonna blow this game when we don’t even have gameplay yet🤦♂️
They will blow this game but it isn't yasukes fault
Yeah people are def tripping!! I’m excited for the game!!!
Backlash is not about gamplay and story because ubisoft showed us nothing and just set stupidly big prices xD
Completely agree. People who clearly know little to nothing of Assassin's Creed are shitting on Shadows for no good reason. Assassin's Creed has always been historical *fiction*, not showing our real life history but what the in-game lore calls real history. Yasuke was real and Ubisoft is fictionalising his life. Like they have fictionalised history in literally every AC game. It's that simple.
And for those asking why Yasuke, I say why not?
Because in a game centered around Japan people want to play a Japanese guy.
You take the Japanese culture for profit but don’t think they’re worth being the main characters. That’s crazy
Why is EVERYONE IGNORING NAOE? She's a Japanese shinobi to play as, right there. And everyone's pretending like she doesn't exist as a protagonist... wtf
@@kutticherrypaultomytomy7554 we know about her. We’re wondering where the second Japanese main character is
@@Luis-rp2lm I know it seems woke as hell to choose Yasuke as the protagonist but it is well within Ubisoft's creative choice to do so. Because Yasuke was real. They're not just making shit up, he was a real black man in medieval Japan. So basically Ubisoft has the absolute right to create a protagonist more or less based on any real person who existed in Japan at that time and so Yasuke is a legitimate choice, cuz he was real. His ONLY difference from a Japanese samurai is his skin colour, so why the big hate? Assassin's Creed has always been about fictitious versions of real history and Shadows is a fictitious spin on the real Yasuke's life.
It's solely an fear/anticipation of Ubisoft's wokeness that's causing this reaction. Literally nothing wrong with playing as Yasuke.
A black slave story is the best story of all time like it’s a from the bottom to the top kind of story everyone loves that shit
Lol... ONE Black dude in a game and all the fanboys start crying.
Then I expect the next Assassins creed game set in Africa to feature a Japanese man as a main protagonist. There is bound to be one somewhere.
@@nesrovlahsurvivalist8399 The main character in this one is Naoe.
@@nesrovlahsurvivalist8399 Africa is a continent, dumb ass.
@@riffgrooveThey clearly specify That both are the protagonist. That's not an arguement. unless your saying the black character isn't an equal protagonist? 🧐
OK, let's have a game set in Africa to represent African Zulu culture, but make the protagonist a white non binary person. See how much sense that makes?
Yasuke is cool and was historically a samurai but should have been a third or side character, but I barely see any cool asian guys in video games, they are under-represented so badly.
Assassin's Creed set in France: Play a Frenchman
Assassin's Creed set in England: Play an Englishman and woman
Assassin's Creed set in America: Play a Native America
Assassin's creed set in Japan: ...
Plays as a Japanese woman. Your point?
gives us two perspectives: one of an outsider, and one of a native. It's an interesting dynamic for the story.
@@gamerhex7335my point is they only chose yasuke because he's black, which they admitted. which is definitely racist. How would you feel if we went back to Africa in assassin's creed but instead of playing two African characters we play as two white guys and like the creative directors say they "Represent the culture"?
@@gamerhex7335Oh also the fact that neither are part of the order, The only thing that's assassin's creed in this game is the hidden blade. As well as Odyssey and Valhalla. Doesn't matter anyway, It's just going to be inferior ghosts of Tsushima.
@@reaganmemes6510 The game isn't even out yet 😂 we know nothing about the story yet you're making assumptions. And I'd LOVE to see where Ubi said they used Yasuke SPECIFICALLY because he's black, and not because his story is actually interesting and has fiction potential. Why would we play as a white guy in Africa at all? They were all pretty much slave traffickers. Nothing interesting about that. So what's your issue again? That we play as a black man? That we play as a Japanese woman? Pick a lane.
Black samurai did actually exist at least one did, don’t know why they would make him black though? But let’s all agree that a separate game playing as that dude would be sick
See and if they gave yasuke a game where he wasn’t in Japan and still was a samurai you guys would still throw a fit there is no winning with you mfs
Who is "y'all"? The people who are most upset about this are the Japanese who are having their culture appropriated
@@captainkidd22 By whom?
I don't want to play a samurai warrior in assassins creed game. I want to play as ninja. And an anonymous person that no body knows. Like in every assassins creed game you played someone you haven't learned about in history lessons or legends. Also theybreally missed an oportunity to make a tenchu like video game as assassins creed is kinda similar. Now they lost the opportunity with the japanese settings. It should be ninjas assassins against samurai templars. + This character they chose doesn't blend in. He cannot be an assassin. I think people wouldn't be mad if they made a stand alone game without using the brand "assassins creed" a story about the one black samurai. That would be different. If it's it's set in japan it should be a japanese protagonist.
Y’all people do know there was a black samurai right?
These people are dumb they don’t know history
Sword barrier ( basically a living sword stand) yosuke main duty was to carry nobunagas sword. Besides that's the main reason for his purchase was his skin. Yosuke's was rare( he had black skin which was unique and eye catching in Japan)
Nobunaga liked collecting rare items and yosuke was certainly rare. Back then when nobunaga walked with yosuke it was akin to seeing a white tiger. Basically he was used as a symbol of nobunagas wealth and connection.
No historical evidence show yosuke actually fought or lead in battle. Another thing is that samurai is akin to nobility. Not every japanese warrior was a samurai. You needed to be born in particular class to be one.
@@nilodelmundoSmithsonian and Britancia call him samurai with evidence and even link to Japanese museums for more evidence. If your source is wiki and UA-cam then keep your mouth shut and learn your place kid. I gave you two credited sources that can't be edited. Two of the best and biggest in academia. Your turn punk. Let's see what sites you source your info from. I'll wait
He was given a sword combat training, his own land and was at his sensei side till he died wtf more then a sword carrier if you ask me
@@machineferret3359what? He was in Japan for a short period of time and the was sent back
We got bamfs being slept on in the gaming industry. You want black representation AND a good game?
Spawn, Blade, Afro Samurai, Static
Shock and Black Dynamite. We got the characters made, GIVE THEM THE ATTENTION THE DESERVE
Do people forget yoskeai was real and was the first black samurai
They aint forget, you know why they acting like this.
He was never real samurai check your facts
Yes, he was, he carried their weapons at first, then he became a samurai.
I don't see ya complaining about shogun And there's a white person as the main character
@@DavidHolloman-ek4tihe was never a samurai. There’s literally almost nothing written about him or his life. He was in Japan for a few years and when his master died, all trace of his existence disappeared. White peoples are crazy for thinking that means he was a legendary samurai
So you saying japanese historians are wrong
And again I will say, im hearing a LOT about how theres this HUGE BACKLASH about Yasuke...im not seein it, im seeing virtue signal city on "WOW HOW COULD YOU GUYS NOT LIKE THIS?" but im thinkin yall got a big ol magnifying glass on a very small group of people here
if they wanted to have a black assassin in Assasins creed, why is this game not set on the east coast or west coast of Africa?...
I don’t want to play a poc samurai in one of the most racist times in one of the most racist nations. 😅
It would be great if they show the Japanese people like they were at this time period, by insulting and harassing the "black monster” 😅
There are other reasons to complain about this game, like how it's probably just gonna be Valhalla set in Japan.
I have to agree. Everyone is soo fed up for absolutely no reason
Say what you want, Ubisoft stock price just took a hit
I dont get it, throughout the recent modern day Assassins Creed games we went beyond the point of realism.
In odyssey we got to fight Medusa, a Minotaur (however you spell it), and found the city of Atlantis
In Valhalla we fought Fenrir, literally became odin and had a separate dlc game about ragnarok where shit got even more unrealistic
In Mirage, Basim can teleport and is LITERALLY Loki
But a black samurai who did, in fact, exist in history is where we draw the line?...
It’s just sad that the game is 70 bucks because I want to buy it but if I buy it then I’m reinforcing the that they can charge 70 bucks for a game
Exactly - 😅 Yasuke is the LEAST streaching of History Assassins creed has done 😂 and people are mad because there not getting - and i know some people are gonna dislike this - but there not getting Assassins creed Tsushima like they probably were expecting
"What if there was a French protagonist in an African setting"
Pretty sure Afticans didnt invade & slaughter entire villages.
Also, wasnt Edward Kenway a Yt Native American in the Americas setting...? & Didn't those same Yt invaders slaughter those Native American's? I know good & well you enjoyed that game just as much as i did & you didnt boycott Ubisoft 🤣😂😅 you people 🤡🤡🤡
Well the fact that you actually believe africans never invaded and slaughtered villages disqualifies your opinion
U don’t know wat ur talking about an it shows
If the story is that the white protagonist realised that slavery is bad and started fighting the slave traders and buyers nobody would complain