So... They did ZERO research to make sure this game was historically or culturally accurate, 90% of the characters depicted are blatant stereotypes, and the devs vowed that if anyone gets upset about it, they're not take any responsibility for it. So basically: This is the ANTI-DEI game. Edit: I know a lot of people are suggesting that the game is well researched because of all the pop cultures references. That could be true, but the claims that they didn't do any research comes from an interview with the developers, stating that everything in the game was based on their own nostalgic memories as they grew up. If any "real" research was done, it would like to think it was probably nothing more than a 10 second search on Baidu or Bilibili just to confirm what some references to their memories. Other than that: Some of "you people" in the comments need to take a chill pill. Not every disagreement needs to turn into a fight or a struggle session.
Some quote from the dev in an interview recently: “All the scenes here are drawn entirely from the creators’ minds and memories, without a trace of factual accuracy. As some casual viewers might put it, this is a full-blown display of ‘pure stereotypes.’” “If we can’t satisfy all the perfectionists, then let’s make sure none of them are satisfied.”
I was very close to breaking out to tears watching this because this just made remember a time where game developers just didn't give a fuck and just thought "imagine if we did this ridiculous thing, wouldn't it be insane?" and just rolled with it.
There are many games like this now days, you just don't care if they are not popular, stop crying and search for that type of games instead if you actually care
Some references: 0:26 EVA 0:42 Rush'n Attack (1985) 1:29 Kamen Rider bike 2:00 Gurren Lagann / Dragon Ball 2:31 New Tokyo-3 City (EVA) 2:36 Astro Boy 2:39 Cat's Eye (manga) 2:41 Magic mirror truck 2:57 Kill la Kill / Gurren Lagann 4:14 Fist of the North Star 4:30 Ninja Gaiden 5:28 Dinosaur Corps Koseidon
Chinese developers have the right idea. Make interesting games about whatever you want, don't worry about offending anyone or avoiding stereotypes. Just make games that will sell well.
This is shitposting of THE HIGHEST QUALITY. The chinese imagining what the japanese imagine the US to be. This is fucking glorious. The memes alone make this worth it.
Did something recently happen that has to do with what it feels like a sudden boost of high-quality games featured in the USA? Of course, I know there have always been good games from China or Japan, but it feels like a ban has been lifted or something lol
Cultural appropriation? No, this is cultural abdication, American culture must be distorted, reformed, and distorted again into whatever the world thinks that the world years ago think the Americans are, and its hilarious
I never thought Chinese are this open, this is like the combination of Gin Tama and Scary Movie in a surprising way. Over decades it was said they just borrow/copy/learn from US and Japan, they actually got the spirit. There is love and soul here, which haven't been seen in years.
At least 70% impression of "Chinese are not open" was fake and western media wants you to believe that China is like Soviet Union or N.Korea. Censorship is more,it is true. But in many ways Chinese people are more open, like in gay things, we chinese just don't think it's wrong, expecially in my city, which is known to be the capital of Gays in China.
China's coastal metropolises, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc., have already reached the level of developed countries in terms of economy and education. This game was also made by this group of genZ
they actually did better history research than the assassin's creed. since most chinese game developer grow up watching japanese anime, manga, and porn. as a matter of fact, most japanese in their 30s can probably recognize 90% of the references. talking about respecting history and culture, theyt obviously did better than Ubi.
Yeah I mean, yasuke was at best a servant that served nobunaga for like a year, but since he's black, let's just get him behind all different historical events that happened in Japan at the time.
To be honest us Chinese millennials grew up watching showa TV shows such as Ultraman, Kamen rider and others. Not to mention the anime. Sure we watched it long after it came out but for me, and ALOT of others this is part of our childhood. I fucking love Showa era shows and anime man.
Japanese mangaka was inspired from grow up watching Chinese movie and tv show such as Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdom, Nezha, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, etc. Now Chinese dev was inspired from Japanese manga dan video game. They both inspired each other
This is the most based game I've ever seen. It's silly as fuck. It leans hard into stereotypes and memes. No political pandering. Just a dumb concept made into a fun game. I'm sold.
It seemed like Asmongold initially didn't get the premise of this game in the beginning? This is set in a parallel world, set in an imaginary 66th year of Emperor Showa's reign (he actually died in year 64 of his reign, so there was never a year of Showa 66) or a parallel 1991. In this parallel world, the US had been largely or entirely bought and colonized by Japan during its bubble economy period where it was said that just the real estate in Tokyo was worth more than all the real estates in the US combined. But 10 years prior to the event of the story, a zombie apocalypse hit the US. The main character's sister disappeared and she set out on a road trip to look for her.
The entire game is based on a meme: "The economic bubble in the Showa era in Japan was so massive that if you sold all the property in Tokyo, you'd have enough money to buy all of America."
true, we had an hyperinflation crisis at the end of the 80's in argentina we sold our embassy in Tokyo for an amount equivalent to the reserves we had in our plummeted central bank 400usd millon (2.000usd of today) 🤣🤣
And as a white man, I approve of your approval. According to the left, I'm required to say this out loud....since only our approval means anything or something I guess. 🤷♂
Chinese game developers are cooking right now. Wukong then this is gonna drop. Sure some terrible games come out every year, but so do the bangers. This looks like a Chinese Saints Row and I'm so here for it.
They're stereotypes, but they were made with so much love and happiness and coolness that people would legit try to live up to them! Who wouldn't want to be able to pull off that bison-horn spandex strong-man wielding a giant tire-hammer look? 😍
A Chinese made American-Japanese story, which were purely fabricated using stereotypes, has been praised as being more aligned with Japanese culture than the "historically accurate game" Assassin's Creed: Shadow. How absurd and surreal it is.
That is actually the perfect description of this game It is the Chinese notion of how they think Japan is obsessed with America The Chinese stereotype of Japan's idealised fantasy of America.
though the devs claimed that they were only setting the background story with stereotypes fpr fun, Showa American Story is still far more authentic then Ubi's assasins creed XD
yes, now even Final Fantasy become an apologist Game, like they felt shameful about their own game, they probably got bullied by Bethesda back in 2012 or something, for making a nonsense fantasy game that had nothing to do with medieval, dragon and other generic medieval fantasy stuff
Because It is a work of a Chinese company. that's why so crazy. If it were a Japanese company, they would definitely not have the courage to do it like this. I'll give you an example. In 2021, South Korea made a film that depicted South Korea becoming a major player in space exploration, ranking second in the world, just behind the United States. Even in their wildest dreams, they wouldn't dare put themselves in first place, but instead put the United States in first
This is gaming culture getting back to a fun place rather than some omega try hard GOTY bs that always falls flat, Space Marine 2 and this game are giving me hope for the future.
This is some stupid bullshit like metal wolf chaos and fuck it I'm starved for it. Give me twenty I haven't seen a stupid game that made me feel like this with pure bs nonsense since chaos reigns
@@PHILF-pv9dythis is a Chinese game. And there are still quite a lot of non woke western studios. You just have to look at indie to AA and avoid most AAA
@@PHILF-pv9dy chinese dev and china has been consistent with its media. the stories they have been releasing have been good. they have seriously eased up on censorship and have been releasing very good media lately. from manhua to donghua to games. they dont shy away from blood or villainry and rarely pander. some of the most popular donghua have villains that r%%e and kill and the MC has to slaughter his entire bloodline for revenge. they see the wests downfall and are hungry.
Sadly Japanese game companies themselves are infected by the same stuff the west is too. It's why most Japanese games are toothless and heavily censored lately. The same people pushing DEI in the west are pushing it in Japan. Chinese devs are under no such limitations, though. They have their own CCP-mandated limitations, which in many ways aren't as strict as in the west. I hate this timeline.
@@Kanaleah Nah, CCP also has very weird ultra strict limitations, just not the ones we are used to. They have the most random limitations like "no bones"
@@diablo.the.cheater They do, but they've been getting somewhat better about it recently. A lot of the restrictions on sexualized content got scaled back recently. The CCP is still a huge issue, but I think even with the CCP censoring Chinese games, they'll still be better products than anything in Japan because of how captured Japan is by ESG now.
@@Kanaleah To be fair, the CCP isn't really the problem. You'd be surprised how lenient the Chinese censorship board actually is outside of clearly political stuff. The real problem is that in China there is a national association of moms (yes, I kid you not) that has a direct line to the Chinese government through the petition system, and they're behind the crazy stuff we see like the old ban on game consoles and the censorship of blood and boobs from anime. The irony here is that, while the PRC does have an authoritarian government, they do still have to listen to public opinion to maintain stability, and because they have no democratic channels to understand public opinion, public pressure associations have a disproportionate weight in influencing public policy.
@@Kanaleahas Chinese I can give you a bit more the context here. The CCP is heavily censoring games published and released in China, which requires every game to acquire a censorship certificate to be able to sold. Now here's the thing, Steam or other online platforms are technically in the grey areas, which means "yes they're not legal but nobody is taking care of it", and China has a HUGE amount of these grey areas in any aspect. So the game will never be openly sold in China even it's a Chinese game, so no sales in the game stores or so, but since there were so little games available back then, everyone just downloaded pirated versions, then Steam came out, so people moved to Steam. So to summarize, this is a game that people in China can openly talk about (because it's not offending CCP), not-so-openly play, but nobody is getting caught for. That's the real CCP standards on gaming, they care but they also don't care
As a chinese born in the 80s, this game makes me both laugh and cry. It reminds me of the scorching summer when I was 12, lying in bed all day with nothing to do, listening to the creaking of an old electric fan. My mind was filled with the wildest and most chaotic daydreams, a mix of all the Japanese anime and American movies I had seen, along with a naive teenager's most wild and ridiculous imaginations of Japan and America, places I had never been. Historical accuracy? I don't know. But I assure you, this game is 100% love and respect for both Japan and America.
@@blcheah2672 I don't think so? I am as lefty as I can be, and this seems a much better game that the slop that we have been having recently. It is not like it is non diverse and the protagonist IS a woman. The only difference between this and the slop is that this game has soul instead of corporate bullshit.
Fyi on the tokyos: There was Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Then it was bombed in the 1980s. Then there was NEO-Tokyo, the. It was bombed (again) by Akira. Then there was Tokyo-3. And it was Bombed by Evangelion. Now we have NEO-Tokyo-4? ... makes sense.
Seeing how PV 1 (from 2yrs ago) referenced Gundam's space colony drop, safe to say that we are dropping a satellite on the great Texas some point in the game.
@@沙桐-f7t relax bro, i am quoting ezio auditore from assasins creed as a joke. Chinese devs are good with their game recently and i'm totally supporting them to continue making good game.
The 2022 trailer of this game had a sign with Make America Great Again. Pretty sure IGN will give it a 1/10 for being too racist, sexist and encouraging fascism.
2:15 桑港 Sōkō Japanese Name of San Francisco. "49" - NFL team San Francisco 49ers. 2:36 Japanese Traditional Story - Which Axe you drop in the lake - Golden or Sliver 2:16 金門 Lamp means "Golden Gate" reference is Kinryū-zan Sensō-ji (金龍山浅草寺) The Kaminarimon (雷門, "Thunder Gate") 4:38 Fist of Northern Star - Nishin Fūraiken (二神風雷拳, "Dual Gods Wind Thunder Fist") by The gatekeepers of Cassandra, Raiga and Fūga 0:46 NES game Rush'n Attack, also known as Green Beret in Japan
Actually we do saving the AAA together, I’m still expecting to play western games like Skyrim, like OW in 2016, like COD5. So please get rid of the fxxking WOKE, it’s your own journey, by your own effort.
Maybe, I'm talking about a great possibility. In the near future, most good games will be made in China. Perhaps, you should get used to entering the century of China. Whether you like it or not.
The ideological constraints of traditional developed countries are too heavy, and the average third world country does not have the ability to make such a large investment.
@@DR.Don1899 That's not easy to do, the Chinese gaming industry invests too much in handheld games and the return on handheld games is too high, which makes a lot of Chinese capital not too willing to invest in the traditional gaming industry, but Black Myth Wukong is a good place to start.
China media is actually amazing, so many good webnovels that are S tier, their Manhua is mogging manga hard as well, Donghua is coming up too and catching up to Japanese Anime standards. its all coming together. China is Japanese media in the 80's right now, only up from here
I think having the Game Science devs just push forward and ignore all the Western journalist bs helped give them confidence, as well as showing that Chinese games can sell well in the West, no matter how much their devs get smeared.
How do you manage to reference both Dragon Ball and Gurren Lagan in a single scene, holy... And then there's not-Raoh mounting a giraffe-headed Kokuoh. CINEMA.
100%. They are behind all this but are making themselves look like the good guy. Its wild how many are falling for it. The WEF openly say theyre copying the chinese model over the whole world. Wef created DEI and ESG...@@spacejunk2186
BTW... 2025 is actually Showa 100... Which is when the story in the game happens... So game release in 2025 = game released at the very same year the story in the game happens!!
According to the developers, it was supposed to be released last year or so, but their contracted outsourcing studio was hired by another project, and this project had to be delayed. Guess who hired the studio? Black Myth: Wukong.
This comes from a meme. In Japanese, "馬鹿 (baka)" means "stupid." When you split the two kanji characters, they become "馬 (uma)," meaning horse, and "鹿 (shika)," meaning deer. Therefore, a giraffe dyed in the colors of a wild horse is used here to recreate this meme.
"Hey remember when the Americans were all panicking because they thought the Japanese were going to buy their country out from under them? What if that, and two decades worth of batshit insane memes and tropes from the 80's & 90's, cranked up to 11?" "Sir, I think you need more sleep, and less caffeine, and less booze. Or possibly more booze, I'm not really really sure how it works with you, but you are definitely not consuming the correct amount of booze at this time."
This game awakened an emotion in me completely alien to human psychology. I have no idea how to process or what I should call it. It's like the director had a lucid fever dream and managed to express it in its truest form. He doesn't forget his dreams. He writes them down in chapters. He is utterly inhuman.
This game hits every trope I grew up with as a consumer of anime/manga and Japanese gaming in the 90's. As a Gen Xer from America I feel this game speaks to me. I AM the target audience.
"Here we have the rare Xer in the wild. See how he displays his plumage to attract other Xers..." Yeah, this game is an easy pick. Another good one this year or next will be that "army of the damned" style game where you take your buick and your shotgun back to mideval times. Western AAA gaming is a mess but meanwhile, in the east...
So western studio decided to crap on Japan with their black samurai, then eastern studio retaliated by crapping all over America with their weeb powers)) Btw as an old anime fan some of the songs/music really hit me with nostalgia of 80-90s anime.....
The song is called "Soregadaiji" , It has a Cantonese version from HK which was very famous earlier in 90s, so the music sure brings back nostalgia, only Eastern studio can make something so fun these days
I was so surprised when I heard this tune. Growing up in a cantonese speaking family, I have always heard the cantonese version. I never knew it was originally Japanese.
@@DarkSol16 back in 70s to 90s Japanese do have many talented music creators. Yet due to the way Japanese language pronounced, the lyric is usually weak (not saying the language is bad, just how it works). So many HK singers would use the melody of Japanese songs (authorized of course), adding Chinese (Cantonese) lyrics, which makes the songs much more catchy. Like my favorite song 夕烧けの歌, by Japanese singer Kondou Masahiko (近藤真彦), was remade into 夕阳之歌 and 千千阙歌, 2 Cantonese songs, also a mandarin song 风中的承诺. 🎉🎉
Now this is the type of diversity and culture I want in a game! So happy I now know about this. Money will go towards this rather than Dragon Age: The Transitioning.
The Chinese do have a whole bunch of Party policing, but apparently they have managed to frame fandom as faceslapping. However, fandom for anime occasionally gets harshly punished in China, so hopefully this gaming company has somebody protecting the devs.
@@suburbanbanshee you dont get it though. for most part in China, as long as you are not talking anything related to the party or China, you are free to make whatever game you want, as ridiculer as you want. offending American or Japanese? good, they actually encourage you to do it.
You got to love how when we're bombarded as an audience with bullshit, out of nowhere like Gandalf and the riders of Rohan some bullshit like this masterpiece comes out that makes gaming all worth it again. I love you Showa American Story. In a sea of disappointment, I'm human again.
They understand Japanese culture properly, respect it, and express it in a funny way. From a Japanese perspective, the expression of the Showa era in this game is overwhelming. Even though it is a Chinese game, Japanese people feel nostalgic. It's like the good old SEGA. UBI, this is what true respect and games are. Those are things that ACS does not have.
I think it's bcos people tend to only think of freedom of speech as a legal matter, when it's also a matter of culture. Left-wing and right-wing culture in America for example will tolerate different things when it comes to speech/expression.
Have you ever thought that the idea, or the definition of “freedom” might be different as you know? Or let’s say the definition of “freedom” might be manipulated in the “free” countries
“A bland, insensitive, and repetitive slog through offensive scene after another; showa American story is a messy unoriginal post apocalyptic mess” 3/10 IGN
Stereotyping actually makes charactors distinctive. In game design, it helps players to understand the scene quickly and easily. Most games with string style use stereo type in their work. The western developers are trying to do the oppisite atm tho. That's sad, the talents in the indistry is still good but the storywriting...
Doctor: "I have some news about your baby." Parents: "Don't tell us the gender, we want to keep it a surprise." Doctor: "Oh I get it, you're those type of people. Okay, well IT is not breathing."
Things like this give me hope that in 20 years when the older generations pass on obsessed with cutting the other down, Chinese and Americans are going to get along. There's way too much similarities in the culturally amongst the "average person" and in terms of mentality between us in desires and what both enjoy.
I feel like while geopolitics are always going to be at each others' throats, when you zoom down to the average gamer, the objective is simple regardless of race and culture, just...want fun games? imo
@@winghong3 Its things like this were you see unfiltered "fun" that you have hope that things will be okay in the future. Not even the great firewall can contain goodnatured humor.
A game that took place in America, filled to the brim with japanese memes, made by chinese devs, peak diversity.
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just waiting for that's Racist comments, i wonder how long it will take :D :D
Dude really just copy and pasted a comment from the original video lol
The West : Would you like more pronouns?
The East : Would you like to have fun?
YES, YES ,YES !!!
The west just don't know how to have fun anymore
Ain't that the truth!!!
Until the fix the Cindy POV in FFXV nothing is forgiven and everything will not be forgotten.
@dindunuphenwong brotha, you know hentai exist, right? And no, I'm not saying fo for it. I'm just saying lo
Western game : I am gay also lesbian and pansexual
East game : I am American cowboy and also Japanese samurai I am GOKOU
A Texas Governor
@@rpamungkas13 this got to be a new meme in game industry
😂😂😂😂
@@ojisama1510 you forgot the self reported ADHD/Autism diagnoses
wukong
Name of the song :
1. わらべ - もしも明日が
2. 大事MANブラザーズバンド - それが大事
The second song was really popular in the Chinese community because it's covered by Hacken Lee (李克勤) as the song Red Sun《红日》.
Yeah but the original song was sung in japanese so we gotta appreciate it
Do youknow the ending credits song too? The one started at 5:28?
@@Vaelastrasz1 Name of the song :
大事MANブラザーズバンド - それが大事
@@pjac1185yes😊，i am surprise about American know 李克勤😂，as a Chinese
So... They did ZERO research to make sure this game was historically or culturally accurate, 90% of the characters depicted are blatant stereotypes, and the devs vowed that if anyone gets upset about it, they're not take any responsibility for it. So basically: This is the ANTI-DEI game.
Edit: I know a lot of people are suggesting that the game is well researched because of all the pop cultures references. That could be true, but the claims that they didn't do any research comes from an interview with the developers, stating that everything in the game was based on their own nostalgic memories as they grew up. If any "real" research was done, it would like to think it was probably nothing more than a 10 second search on Baidu or Bilibili just to confirm what some references to their memories.
Other than that: Some of "you people" in the comments need to take a chill pill. Not every disagreement needs to turn into a fight or a struggle session.
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🔥
I'm buying it and I won't play a second of it because of my time constraints.
Where do I pre-order?
You people are so weird lol.
@@jackreacher4547 Easily bothered
Japan made Metal Wolf Chaos, the U.S. made Ghost of Tsushima, and now China has made Showa American Story
Video game diplomacy
Metal gear would be the better japanese example, after all, they made THE senator.
Don’t forget Japan also made Dynasty Warriors
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA IS MADE BY JAPANEESE
Dynasty warrior 😹😹😹
I was also thinking samurai western for ps2.
Some quote from the dev in an interview recently:
“All the scenes here are drawn entirely from the creators’ minds and memories, without a trace of factual accuracy. As some casual viewers might put it, this is a full-blown display of ‘pure stereotypes.’”
“If we can’t satisfy all the perfectionists, then let’s make sure none of them are satisfied.”
Based
literally says it in the video 😴
@@josepedrofariasguimaraes7139 HELLA based
You copy-pasted this comment from the original video. Asmon even reads it at 7:41. Way to be original bud lol
try watching the video first bud
Chinese: Don't tell me you don't like the art of offending now🤣🤣🤣🤣
Laugh cry😂
hahahahahaha
The thing is, its just like american humor from the 80ies and 90ies.
点了😂
The American interpretation of japanese culture has never been accurate or even close at all@@currywurst2434
I was very close to breaking out to tears watching this because this just made remember a time where game developers just didn't give a fuck and just thought "imagine if we did this ridiculous thing, wouldn't it be insane?" and just rolled with it.
I miss this times. Some franchises did forget their roots, did they? *Looks at Saints Row*
Exactly!
There are many games like this now days, you just don't care if they are not popular, stop crying and search for that type of games instead if you actually care
Basically, any Suda51 game.
This is very true! 30+ will straight away agree with you about this without even blinking
Some references:
0:26 EVA
0:42 Rush'n Attack (1985)
1:29 Kamen Rider bike
2:00 Gurren Lagann / Dragon Ball
2:31 New Tokyo-3 City (EVA)
2:36 Astro Boy
2:39 Cat's Eye (manga)
2:41 Magic mirror truck
2:57 Kill la Kill / Gurren Lagann
4:14 Fist of the North Star
4:30 Ninja Gaiden
5:28 Dinosaur Corps Koseidon
4:40 Voltron
@@Котик_Подвальныйi think it's a one piece docking reference
@@Котик_Подвальный or super sentai.
That magic mirror truck, u know if u know😂 those JAV fans out there😂
more accurate than assassin creed shadows
"he's a cowboy and a samurai"
while we learned pronouns, he studied the gun and the blade. the fastest quickdraw in the west and the east.
Hahaha
so he can finally be worthy of the legendary gunblade katana.
In fact, it's a parody of Goku from the Dragon Ball Z saying, "I am a Saiyan and also an Earthling”😂
check the names of both😲
😔"... His name?"
🙂↕️
🥹"...it was Gokou."
REWARD
Gokou: "I am American cowboy and also Japanese samurai"
Me: "Ni-howdy"
Konichi-howdy!
Ko-Ni-Howdy
How-nichiwa
Chinese developers have the right idea. Make interesting games about whatever you want, don't worry about offending anyone or avoiding stereotypes. Just make games that will sell well.
agree
it's hard to make everyone satisfied, but it's super easy to get everyone offended!😂
@@yichenyin7138 that's exactly why new games cater to the majority of people who spend all of their awake time on twitter, truly a financial move.
honestly thats mindset i can respect.
The South Park of gaming.
This is shitposting of THE HIGHEST QUALITY.
The chinese imagining what the japanese imagine the US to be. This is fucking glorious. The memes alone make this worth it.
The chinese imagining what the japanese imagine the US to be...in the 80's.
Did something recently happen that has to do with what it feels like a sudden boost of high-quality games featured in the USA?
Of course, I know there have always been good games from China or Japan, but it feels like a ban has been lifted or something lol
80’s America seen through the lens of Japanese culture seen through the lens of Chinese culture, WAS NOT on my bingo card
@@devonwilliams2423 Not really. Even if it did, games like this take 4-5 years to make at the very least, so it'd be something from around 2020…
@@devonwilliams2423 It's just that China's post-80s grew up
This is the single greatest argument in favor of cultural appropriation ever invented.
Be the American that the Japanese think you are
@@bronzin1445no no,
Be the American that the Chinese think the Japanese think you are!
@@bronzin1445Richard!
@@user-rg9co7dk2rlol gurren lagann shit 🤣, dont believe in yourselfie believe in me who believe in yourselfie
Cultural appropriation? No, this is cultural abdication, American culture must be distorted, reformed, and distorted again into whatever the world thinks that the world years ago think the Americans are, and its hilarious
I never thought Chinese are this open, this is like the combination of Gin Tama and Scary Movie in a surprising way.
Over decades it was said they just borrow/copy/learn from US and Japan, they actually got the spirit. There is love and soul here, which haven't been seen in years.
bro got a lot to learn😂
At least 70% impression of "Chinese are not open" was fake and western media wants you to believe that China is like Soviet Union or N.Korea. Censorship is more,it is true. But in many ways Chinese people are more open, like in gay things, we chinese just don't think it's wrong, expecially in my city, which is known to be the capital of Gays in China.
bro time is changing
in china, you are free to critize US gov but not chinese gov. haha, no problem, that's what US need and let's import it.
China's coastal metropolises, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc., have already reached the level of developed countries in terms of economy and education. This game was also made by this group of genZ
they actually did better history research than the assassin's creed. since most chinese game developer grow up watching japanese anime, manga, and porn.
as a matter of fact, most japanese in their 30s can probably recognize 90% of the references. talking about respecting history and culture, theyt obviously did better than Ubi.
Yeah I mean, yasuke was at best a servant that served nobunaga for like a year, but since he's black, let's just get him behind all different historical events that happened in Japan at the time.
This would be the Kung Fury of video games, if it was actually made by Japanese.
其实真的不用怎么考据，这些元素就是我们印象中的日本有的东西，我们生活的那个年代就是接触的这些东西，只不过我们那里开始流行的时间可能比他真正热门的时候晚个几年。我认为游戏里只是将印象里的元素实体化的时候做了一些溯源
To be honest us Chinese millennials grew up watching showa TV shows such as Ultraman, Kamen rider and others. Not to mention the anime. Sure we watched it long after it came out but for me, and ALOT of others this is part of our childhood. I fucking love Showa era shows and anime man.
Japanese mangaka was inspired from grow up watching Chinese movie and tv show such as Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdom, Nezha, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, etc.
Now Chinese dev was inspired from Japanese manga dan video game.
They both inspired each other
HR is in the room, tied up and gagged up with eyes taped wide open
HR's stuck in that clockwork orange scene
The epidome of "im not stuck in here with you, you are stuck in here with me"
HR is definitely in on it lol
As it should be, there is no place for insecure mentally ill people in the entertainment industry.
No, they definitely got buried alive making this.
This is the most based game I've ever seen. It's silly as fuck. It leans hard into stereotypes and memes. No political pandering. Just a dumb concept made into a fun game.
I'm sold.
Metal Gear Solid Revengeance vibes
😂
imagine they release as same date of that garbage assassin's Creed
the power move when Ubisoft lose to this meme game 😎
This is the next yakuza
Easy Goty
It seemed like Asmongold initially didn't get the premise of this game in the beginning?
This is set in a parallel world, set in an imaginary 66th year of Emperor Showa's reign (he actually died in year 64 of his reign, so there was never a year of Showa 66) or a parallel 1991.
In this parallel world, the US had been largely or entirely bought and colonized by Japan during its bubble economy period where it was said that just the real estate in Tokyo was worth more than all the real estates in the US combined. But 10 years prior to the event of the story, a zombie apocalypse hit the US. The main character's sister disappeared and she set out on a road trip to look for her.
Interesting so the Gokou character might be the villain then
So the US sold All of America to Japan and the US got all of Tokyo in exchange?
Literally wolfenstein
@@prisoner817final boss possibly
So basically Heisei 2?
The entire game is based on a meme: "The economic bubble in the Showa era in Japan was so massive that if you sold all the property in Tokyo, you'd have enough money to buy all of America."
Also it wasn't an entirely outrageous nutcase idea at the time lol Also the story of this game began in year Showa 66, but the Showa era ended at 65
What if it was America that bought all the property?
What if America bought the property, the it would be swappsies
true, we had an hyperinflation crisis at the end of the 80's in argentina we sold our embassy in Tokyo for an amount equivalent to the reserves we had in our plummeted central bank 400usd millon (2.000usd of today) 🤣🤣
@@Dwyane1st And 2025 is Showa 100
As a Texan, I will play the living fuck out of this game.
Referendum to recreate parts of the game in texas 😂
My cheeks hurt from smiling 😁 through the whole video.
as a norwegian , i will too^^
Neo Tokyo 4 = Texas Austin
U got a weeb cowboy for a governor in the future. 💀💀
IGN JP: 10/10
IGN CN: 100/10
IGN US: 0/10
You get +1 social credit score.
"7, not diverse enough"
Fr
do you honestly believe that IGN USA will go below a 7?
All player 1000/10🤣
This is a love letter to anime fans from the 80s/90s
As a Japanese American that has been studying in China for decades, I APPROVE OF THIS GAME!
And as a white man, I approve of your approval. According to the left, I'm required to say this out loud....since only our approval means anything or something I guess. 🤷♂
Studying for decades? Time to try something else bruh
Decades?
Could be from kindergarten to college. But what are you still studying to take decades.
Chinese game developers are cooking right now. Wukong then this is gonna drop. Sure some terrible games come out every year, but so do the bangers. This looks like a Chinese Saints Row and I'm so here for it.
@@kibathefang6022 Maybe he meant that he is Japanese American but he studied and grew up in China.
3:28 I know these characters are made as a joke but.. they look better than anything Concord could come up with.
5 seconds after that spot they put the quanon shaman that stormed the capital 😂😂😂😂 these devs know what they doing
Actually this is not a joke, try google X JAPAN, a band. I guess they combined Japanese rock culture and American dance aerobics culture.
These are some famous 80~90s Japanese metal band make up and outfit.
They are not a stereotype. But a reference to the 1980s and 1990s.
Japan always had its crazy bands that took weird stuff from the Americans.
They're stereotypes, but they were made with so much love and happiness and coolness that people would legit try to live up to them!
Who wouldn't want to be able to pull off that bison-horn spandex strong-man wielding a giant tire-hammer look? 😍
cant believe they made a more historically accurate america, than ubisoft's AC shadow's japan
The chinese revenge to Ubisoft betrayal
Idk how its possible given the context that this game is literally meant to be a joke but you're right lmfao 😂
Almost as historically accurate as Metal Wolf Chaos.
They did Murica justice while Ubi disrespected them
@@ArbiterJuice Its possible because in order to make memes that hit this hard you need to be highly accurate in how you depict/frame everything.
A Chinese made American-Japanese story, which were purely fabricated using stereotypes, has been praised as being more aligned with Japanese culture than the "historically accurate game" Assassin's Creed: Shadow. How absurd and surreal it is.
hahaha,just fun,let's go
"Be the American the chinese imagine that Japanese think you are" That's Legendary! I Love the "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" Graphitti
That is actually the perfect description of this game
It is the Chinese notion of how they think Japan is obsessed with America
The Chinese stereotype of Japan's idealised fantasy of America.
make japan great again 😂
@@shint9711 Nay, Make America Japan Again
MAJA!
@@shint9711hahahahahaha
Ubisoft did so badly with their jp version of assasins creed that they had to sell texas to japan
what a time to be alive
Japan pulled a: two can play this game.
Japan win
though the devs claimed that they were only setting the background story with stereotypes fpr fun, Showa American Story is still far more authentic then Ubi's assasins creed XD
@@fan_of_meiyeah
And the fact that Ubisoft is a Canadian company somehow made this even funnier.
This is the kind of game that everybody in US/JP want,but no US/JP studios have the balls to make.
Surprise it's China,wtf😂😂😂btw,that 6pm watching anime it's our asian childhood memory😂
@@angchianming 6:30 confirms it is a china 1980s thing ;)
It’s time to grow a pair and join our Chinese brothers
@@flowerbloom5782 we are inevitable, resistance is futile XDDD
True
看了一堆评论，我算是明白这个游戏究竟是什么了。作为一个童年成长在90年代的中国人，这的确是我们对美国和日本的刻板印象，相信我，这游戏跟日本和美国无关，纯粹是85-95年代的时候中国小孩子脑袋里面的日本和美国。
It’s a beautiful depiction.
It just peak!
Thanks for the summary
It's really peak for the that kind of stereotype
玩个梗这么上纲上线，你好啊反思怪
@@bbking304 他反思啥了，具体哪部分触发了你的关键词审核机制，非常好奇
This is how you make world peace. You don't attack people over stereotypes, you laugh them off.
I cannot wait to see this game outsell all of the DEI slop we've been getting.
They will make so much money... That they might actually be able recreate the situation the actual game is about XD (without the zombies)
@@Apostate_ofmind Dawg, the game journos will BE the zombies 😂
put together
It is a dei game…
When Ubisoft did this but it was a black person, you all cried.
This game gives me early 2000 nostalgia vibes, when games were just fun and did not give a F8rck what others say.
90s and early 2000s were peak gaming, now companies are a just bunch of whiny pronoun warriors.
yes, now even Final Fantasy become an apologist Game, like they felt shameful about their own game,
they probably got bullied by Bethesda back in 2012 or something,
for making a nonsense fantasy game that had nothing to do with medieval, dragon and other generic medieval fantasy stuff
showa is 1926 - 1989. all the references are from the 80s japan.
The music is done really well, as if it's should remind me of a nostalgic 2000s game.
Looks alot like the yakuza games
Because It is a work of a Chinese company. that's why so crazy. If it were a Japanese company, they would definitely not have the courage to do it like this. I'll give you an example. In 2021, South Korea made a film that depicted South Korea becoming a major player in space exploration, ranking second in the world, just behind the United States. Even in their wildest dreams, they wouldn't dare put themselves in first place, but instead put the United States in first
This is gaming culture getting back to a fun place rather than some omega try hard GOTY bs that always falls flat, Space Marine 2 and this game are giving me hope for the future.
This is some stupid bullshit like metal wolf chaos and fuck it I'm starved for it. Give me twenty I haven't seen a stupid game that made me feel like this with pure bs nonsense since chaos reigns
If japan wasn't there everything would be woke.
@@PHILF-pv9dythis is a Chinese game. And there are still quite a lot of non woke western studios. You just have to look at indie to AA and avoid most AAA
@@PHILF-pv9dy chinese dev and china has been consistent with its media. the stories they have been releasing have been good. they have seriously eased up on censorship and have been releasing very good media lately. from manhua to donghua to games. they dont shy away from blood or villainry and rarely pander. some of the most popular donghua have villains that r%%e and kill and the MC has to slaughter his entire bloodline for revenge. they see the wests downfall and are hungry.
Eastern devs once again demonstrating their ability to elevate any concept into a masterpiece by making it unapologetically deranged.
Sadly Japanese game companies themselves are infected by the same stuff the west is too. It's why most Japanese games are toothless and heavily censored lately. The same people pushing DEI in the west are pushing it in Japan. Chinese devs are under no such limitations, though. They have their own CCP-mandated limitations, which in many ways aren't as strict as in the west.
I hate this timeline.
@@Kanaleah Nah, CCP also has very weird ultra strict limitations, just not the ones we are used to. They have the most random limitations like "no bones"
@@diablo.the.cheater They do, but they've been getting somewhat better about it recently. A lot of the restrictions on sexualized content got scaled back recently.
The CCP is still a huge issue, but I think even with the CCP censoring Chinese games, they'll still be better products than anything in Japan because of how captured Japan is by ESG now.
@@Kanaleah To be fair, the CCP isn't really the problem. You'd be surprised how lenient the Chinese censorship board actually is outside of clearly political stuff. The real problem is that in China there is a national association of moms (yes, I kid you not) that has a direct line to the Chinese government through the petition system, and they're behind the crazy stuff we see like the old ban on game consoles and the censorship of blood and boobs from anime. The irony here is that, while the PRC does have an authoritarian government, they do still have to listen to public opinion to maintain stability, and because they have no democratic channels to understand public opinion, public pressure associations have a disproportionate weight in influencing public policy.
@@Kanaleahas Chinese I can give you a bit more the context here. The CCP is heavily censoring games published and released in China, which requires every game to acquire a censorship certificate to be able to sold. Now here's the thing, Steam or other online platforms are technically in the grey areas, which means "yes they're not legal but nobody is taking care of it", and China has a HUGE amount of these grey areas in any aspect. So the game will never be openly sold in China even it's a Chinese game, so no sales in the game stores or so, but since there were so little games available back then, everyone just downloaded pirated versions, then Steam came out, so people moved to Steam. So to summarize, this is a game that people in China can openly talk about (because it's not offending CCP), not-so-openly play, but nobody is getting caught for. That's the real CCP standards on gaming, they care but they also don't care
Chinese developers cooked more cultural accurate than assassin creed shadow
Of course they do, they are closer geographically and their cultures came from the same root.
@@None38389 Asian Culture Rocks!
@@None38389 you do realize that he is talking about the accuracy of the america shown in this trailer right?
Or it somehow fly past your head
What's the character on your pfp?
@@69_Amogus_420 donno his name but from genshin impact
As a chinese born in the 80s, this game makes me both laugh and cry. It reminds me of the scorching summer when I was 12, lying in bed all day with nothing to do, listening to the creaking of an old electric fan. My mind was filled with the wildest and most chaotic daydreams, a mix of all the Japanese anime and American movies I had seen, along with a naive teenager's most wild and ridiculous imaginations of Japan and America, places I had never been.
Historical accuracy? I don't know. But I assure you, this game is 100% love and respect for both Japan and America.
It's accurate historicaly
This is more respectful of American history & culture than most US college students.
I imagine the college students will be demonstrating against this game and demanding to cancel it very soon.
@@blcheah2672 I don't think so? I am as lefty as I can be, and this seems a much better game that the slop that we have been having recently. It is not like it is non diverse and the protagonist IS a woman. The only difference between this and the slop is that this game has soul instead of corporate bullshit.
Fyi on the tokyos:
There was Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Then it was bombed in the 1980s.
Then there was NEO-Tokyo, the. It was bombed (again) by Akira.
Then there was Tokyo-3. And it was Bombed by Evangelion.
Now we have NEO-Tokyo-4?
... makes sense.
it's safe to assume tokyo-4 might meet a similar fate
@@MrTom23 Sure, but doesn't matter, it's merely an anime reference.
Wait, shouldn't godzilla get one? 😁
NEO TOKYO-4 was Austin
Seeing how PV 1 (from 2yrs ago) referenced Gundam's space colony drop, safe to say that we are dropping a satellite on the great Texas some point in the game.
Be the Japanese the Chinese think the Japanese think that Americans think that Japanese think the Chinese think how American's think they are.
Absolute cinema😎
I read this for over 2 minutes and I made it click. You are more genius than you think you are
While the Koreans watch lonely from the side
You just short circuited my brain.
what😂😂😂
I'm seeing too much reference for 90's. The good old time cd case, water ring toss game, casette, space invader desk. That is such a good old time.
The fact that san Francisco looks better in a post apocalyptic game then it does right now is too funny
Nah bro, this San Francisco in pre-apocalypse days before the weirdos and brainrot didn't takeover due to the weebofication of Anime and God.
😂
Well japan probably bought it before it got worse in this parallel world. XDD
Thats why its a meme xD
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted"
- some chinese devs apparently
Because this is a game
@@沙桐-f7t relax bro, i am quoting ezio auditore from assasins creed as a joke. Chinese devs are good with their game recently and i'm totally supporting them to continue making good game.
"Its not inclusive enough. 6/10" - IGN
"This doesn't pander to my mental illness" 2/10 - IGN
@@Kage_1831 I noticed this trailer is curiously absent on IGN’s channel…I wonder why
Dock another point because "pretty girls"
5/10
Not sure how much water there was though.....
The 2022 trailer of this game had a sign with Make America Great Again. Pretty sure IGN will give it a 1/10 for being too racist, sexist and encouraging fascism.
@@bronzin1445 Yeah. I just saw the reveal trailer on their channel from 2 years ago. And their logo is in this video, too, though :D
2:15 桑港 Sōkō Japanese Name of San Francisco. "49" - NFL team San Francisco 49ers.
2:36 Japanese Traditional Story - Which Axe you drop in the lake - Golden or Sliver
2:16 金門 Lamp means "Golden Gate" reference is Kinryū-zan Sensō-ji (金龍山浅草寺) The Kaminarimon (雷門, "Thunder Gate")
4:38 Fist of Northern Star - Nishin Fūraiken (二神風雷拳, "Dual Gods Wind Thunder Fist") by The gatekeepers of Cassandra, Raiga and Fūga
0:46 NES game Rush'n Attack, also known as Green Beret in Japan
I thought 金門 just is a reference to the Golden Gate Bridge.
@@Xerxezkov yes, it is actually a double ref meme.
CHINESE story
日本人の私が言わせていただきます
この世界観は私の60歳の両親の子供の頃の世界観そのままで
アサシンクリードシャドウズよりも遥かに歴史考証がしっかりしています
Much more accurate than assassin's creed shadows. Good job on the dev for being accurate.
It really gives goofy old school animation&suit action vibes with all that characters XD
Bahahahaahaa
开发者说没有研究过历史，全是刻板印象🤣
不得不說第二首歌還真好聽
Games used to be like these back in the days, crazy creative with no social poundering. Well then, I am going to focus more on eastern games again.
That was a good time, one marval after another.
Ironically, I think this is the actual "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" ~ The Game
Gold lmao
The theme song was an anthem throughout Asia in the 90s. Still one of the most popular songs today in multiple Asian languages
The contrast between eastern and western gaming companies is huge.
If western game developer made this game it would be cancelled by its fellow western developers and publishers.
This is besicaly Dead Rising if it was made by Yakuza devs wtf
So Yakuza Dead Souls
made by Chinese funs of Yakuza devs
I was thinking more Saints Row. Yakuza typically has a more serious core story - all the crazy stuff is side missions.
More like by that guy who made Killer 7.
@@АлександрМиранович-п9с Honestly it's amazing Suda51 ISN'T tied to this FAIK.
Dustborn: Who are you?
Showa American Story: I'm you, but _a thousand times_ better.
infinity times better
Make it infinitely better 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It’s an insult to even put them in the same sentence. Showa America all the way.
I don't know how many people got this reference, but the Caravan at 2:40 is notable for filiming a shit ton of JAV in the 90s and early 2000s.
they still using it nowadays! Oh shit, a ffffffriendddd told me about this~~~
A friend appearing out of nowhere
I didn't know that's related to JAV too😂
yap, sadly i got the reference right away 🥲
我有一个朋友系列:-）
China truly saving AAA games.
It's an indie game though.
This is made by a small indie team (
Actually we do saving the AAA together, I’m still expecting to play western games like Skyrim, like OW in 2016, like COD5. So please get rid of the fxxking WOKE, it’s your own journey, by your own effort.
他拯救了最近愚蠢的游戏风气😂
Well, I'll be damned. No wonder it's actually creative. 😂
This one is for you Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Racoon!
RIP Peanut and Fred...
Who's?
Look it up bro. Its crazy @@eldasd.4631
I am sad.
@@eldasd.4631two patriots just ended by the Dems in NY...
80〜90年代を知るものとして…
バカバカしさが最高すぎる（笑）
この映像にこの音楽、たまらんぞ！天才かよ（笑）
それを中国で作られたってことが、今のゲーム業界への皮肉よな。
とにかく…このバカバカしさに最上級の賛辞を！
同意する
Maybe, I'm talking about a great possibility. In the near future, most good games will be made in China. Perhaps, you should get used to entering the century of China. Whether you like it or not.
The ideological constraints of traditional developed countries are too heavy, and the average third world country does not have the ability to make such a large investment.
@@DR.Don1899 That's not easy to do, the Chinese gaming industry invests too much in handheld games and the return on handheld games is too high, which makes a lot of Chinese capital not too willing to invest in the traditional gaming industry, but Black Myth Wukong is a good place to start.
@@DR.Don1899 not really going to happen, almost all Chinese game companies are really rotten😅
Western developers: avoid offensive content.
Eastern developers: include ALL the stereotypes.
"Games are made just to be fun", this game, literally, no thoughts needed, just have fun
This game is what I call TRUE ART. It takes every single joke and amplify it to make it fun.
China is on the rise after Wukong released, they seem to have more confidence because of its success
This was already teased a year before Wukong released, so more like a simultaneous like-minded renaissance.
China media is actually amazing, so many good webnovels that are S tier, their Manhua is mogging manga hard as well, Donghua is coming up too and catching up to Japanese Anime standards. its all coming together. China is Japanese media in the 80's right now, only up from here
@@vaporsaver The first teaser was released almost 3 years ago, but yeah, you're right.
@bjni
Donghua will catch up when they stop using CGI
I think having the Game Science devs just push forward and ignore all the Western journalist bs helped give them confidence, as well as showing that Chinese games can sell well in the West, no matter how much their devs get smeared.
For anyone interested, the Showa period in Japan lasted until 1989, all the way from before WW2; so essentially this is 80's nostalgia, but Japanese.
How do you manage to reference both Dragon Ball and Gurren Lagan in a single scene, holy...
And then there's not-Raoh mounting a giraffe-headed Kokuoh. CINEMA.
I didn't have China saves gaming on my 2024 bingo card, but here we are
The east been saving gaming for decades already.
I did. China has been putting out some heaters lately tbh
China is investing big in ESG. I wonder why.
100%. They are behind all this but are making themselves look like the good guy. Its wild how many are falling for it. The WEF openly say theyre copying the chinese model over the whole world. Wef created DEI and ESG...@@spacejunk2186
Japan has already been carrying the industry with MonHunt and Kojimbo
Post-Apocalyptic Romance RPG Alternate History Ensemble Period Drama? I feel like i need this in my life
BTW... 2025 is actually Showa 100... Which is when the story in the game happens... So game release in 2025 = game released at the very same year the story in the game happens!!
I think this game takes place in Showa 66 which is 1991
wait, doesn't the story start at Showa 76
@@shangj1026 start at 66
According to the developers, it was supposed to be released last year or so, but their contracted outsourcing studio was hired by another project, and this project had to be delayed.
Guess who hired the studio? Black Myth: Wukong.
I wonder if you could meet Hirohito(Showa emperor)in this game...
Dude would be old af lol
Buuuuuut...not to be that guy, but 2025 is Reiwa 6 haha
Texas cowboys, grab your samurai swords😂😂😂
歴史的な正確性もなければ時代考証も全くないステレオタイプなのに日本文化への解像度がとても高い｡
興味深い事に日本国内よりも中国の方がサブカルチャーの熱量が高い｡
ゼンレスゾーンゼロとか2000年代の秋葉原の雰囲気がセンス良く表現されている｡
Don't worry, we like it a lot.
Because China and Japan had a friendship in last centery while Japanese culture mushrooms in China but now it no longer exists
中国が参考にしているのって、欧米のDEIに侵食される前の日本だからなあ
今後の行く末によっては日本人すら日本のゲームをプレイしなくなってしまう。そうなる前にメーカーはDEIを脱却してほしい
mihoyo 株式会社😅
genshit
*Blood, zombies, titties, japanese song*
Asmon : “OMFG I LOVE THIS “
Excuse me, that's just a Japanese cover of a Chinese song.
Uhm.. PS Japanese cover of a Chinese song
@@RovinTan shut up ling ling
@@RovinTan The Japanese one came first but HK version became more iconic
@@RovinTan The origin of that song is Japan, title "それが大事" , from year 1991, Next year, 1992, Mr Li made a Chinese version.
4:13 thats not a horse but a giraffe XD
Its literally a giraffe painted black to look like a mustang 😂😂😂
I think that's the joke.
这个源自于一个梗。日语中“马鹿（stupid）”是傻子的意思， 把“马鹿”这两个汉字拆开，就是“马（horse）”和“鹿（deer）”。 所以这里用了一个染成野马颜色的长颈鹿来还原这个梗。
This comes from a meme. In Japanese, "馬鹿 (baka)" means "stupid." When you split the two kanji characters, they become "馬 (uma)," meaning horse, and "鹿 (shika)," meaning deer. Therefore, a giraffe dyed in the colors of a wild horse is used here to recreate this meme.
Meme: A photo but the rider is too small than horse's head, which means distance between horse's head and rider is huge. So that's still a horse.
My parents lived through the Showa era. From now on, I will respect them from the bottom of my heart.
"Hey remember when the Americans were all panicking because they thought the Japanese were going to buy their country out from under them? What if that, and two decades worth of batshit insane memes and tropes from the 80's & 90's, cranked up to 11?"
"Sir, I think you need more sleep, and less caffeine, and less booze. Or possibly more booze, I'm not really really sure how it works with you, but you are definitely not consuming the correct amount of booze at this time."
😂😂😂
"F*** that noise, get this man a budget"
Chinese-imagined Japanese-flavored Americana. It's a total fever dream and I'm here for it.
I have zero clue what is happening in this trailer.
And I fucking love it
As a Texan, I approve of being a part of Japan instead of the USA... lol
This game awakened an emotion in me completely alien to human psychology. I have no idea how to process or what I should call it. It's like the director had a lucid fever dream and managed to express it in its truest form. He doesn't forget his dreams. He writes them down in chapters. He is utterly inhuman.
Welcome to Nirvana
Same, was dosing off in my canapé when I saw it and woke up lucid as fk 🤣🤣🤣🤣👍❤️
鬼畜
这就是人们为什么会有一些不真实的想法
I experienced this long ago. The game was called Godhand.
This game hits every trope I grew up with as a consumer of anime/manga and Japanese gaming in the 90's. As a Gen Xer from America I feel this game speaks to me. I AM the target audience.
"Here we have the rare Xer in the wild. See how he displays his plumage to attract other Xers..."
Yeah, this game is an easy pick. Another good one this year or next will be that "army of the damned" style game where you take your buick and your shotgun back to mideval times.
Western AAA gaming is a mess but meanwhile, in the east...
This is a game full of DEI elements, but DEI supporters will be extremely uncomfortable. Love it.
比他们更深刻地理解DEI，然后把我们对DEI的理解拉出来再喂给他们
DEI Activists are offended,
this is too much diversity and inclusion!
for those to understand why 6:30 , in hk, china and japan we play anime around at 6:30 on tv
So western studio decided to crap on Japan with their black samurai, then eastern studio retaliated by crapping all over America with their weeb powers))
Btw as an old anime fan some of the songs/music really hit me with nostalgia of 80-90s anime.....
this needs more upvote the war is ON!
I’ll take this America over AC:Shadows Japan any day.
Crappy all over America? Well, I guess if you're one of those overtly progressive types.
Everyone else are just getting a good laugh out of this.
fun fact: the first trailer of the game was released 2 years ago, long before ac:shadow’s first trailer.
The difference is that the western studio is telling us they are historically accurate ,while the eastern is saying they are stereotyping
The song is called "Soregadaiji" , It has a Cantonese version from HK which was very famous earlier in 90s, so the music sure brings back nostalgia, only Eastern studio can make something so fun these days
Still popular because I just saw someone on the street singing the song with a portable karaoke machine this morning 😂
I was so surprised when I heard this tune. Growing up in a cantonese speaking family, I have always heard the cantonese version. I never knew it was originally Japanese.
@@tony18mo wow really ?
@@DarkSol16 I think i heard Japanese version many years ago. Forgot about it until this come out
@@DarkSol16 back in 70s to 90s Japanese do have many talented music creators. Yet due to the way Japanese language pronounced, the lyric is usually weak (not saying the language is bad, just how it works). So many HK singers would use the melody of Japanese songs (authorized of course), adding Chinese (Cantonese) lyrics, which makes the songs much more catchy. Like my favorite song 夕烧けの歌, by Japanese singer Kondou Masahiko (近藤真彦), was remade into 夕阳之歌 and 千千阙歌, 2 Cantonese songs, also a mandarin song 风中的承诺. 🎉🎉
As an American I can confirm this is all 100% true
Here's the problem: Nowadays, so many companies are trying to make you pay instead of making you laugh.
Game is called game when it is fun!
Now this is the type of diversity and culture I want in a game! So happy I now know about this. Money will go towards this rather than Dragon Age: The Transitioning.
Now this is when people are able to practice art and creativity without an inquisition looking over their shoulder at any moment in time
Funny enough, this is made in a country where they said have no freedom or whatsoever.
The Chinese do have a whole bunch of Party policing, but apparently they have managed to frame fandom as faceslapping.
However, fandom for anime occasionally gets harshly punished in China, so hopefully this gaming company has somebody protecting the devs.
@@suburbanbanshee你说的很前后冲突，是刻板映像吗？
@@suburbanbanshee you dont get it though. for most part in China, as long as you are not talking anything related to the party or China, you are free to make whatever game you want, as ridiculer as you want. offending American or Japanese? good, they actually encourage you to do it.
It’s 2am and I’m about to fall asleep. I’ll have to rewatch this in the morning to know if what I think I just watched was real.
fucking same! im all hyped now 2.30 am#
Everything you watched is a dream.....AND real!!
damn china has been cooking up some real good shit recently with black myth wukong, once human and now this shit
cook shit😂😂
You got to love how when we're bombarded as an audience with bullshit, out of nowhere like Gandalf and the riders of Rohan some bullshit like this masterpiece comes out that makes gaming all worth it again. I love you Showa American Story. In a sea of disappointment, I'm human again.
Man, this is an IGN 7/10 in the making
4:52 American cowboy, japanese Samurai, hacker, video game maker, and runs a ferret rescue.
He reminds me more of Maxdood than Pirate honestly.
The pirate man
They understand Japanese culture properly, respect it, and express it in a funny way. From a Japanese perspective, the expression of the Showa era in this game is overwhelming. Even though it is a Chinese game, Japanese people feel nostalgic. It's like the good old SEGA. UBI, this is what true respect and games are. Those are things that ACS does not have.
ironically, it feels like peoples in big Chinese studio have more creative freedom than in a big studio in the freedom country
They'd probably be executed if they mocked the CCP though, least in the us you'd just have people who would probably never buy their game boycott it.
I think it's bcos people tend to only think of freedom of speech as a legal matter, when it's also a matter of culture.
Left-wing and right-wing culture in America for example will tolerate different things when it comes to speech/expression.
@@BicheTordue UA-cam deleted my comment but yea ccp not to be messed with very nice people.
Have you ever thought that the idea, or the definition of “freedom” might be different as you know? Or let’s say the definition of “freedom” might be manipulated in the “free” countries
it is from an indie dev team, actually
“A bland, insensitive, and repetitive slog through offensive scene after another; showa American story is a messy unoriginal post apocalyptic mess” 3/10 IGN
Some "journos" always need to feel offended for other culture
Is that real ? IGN said that ?
@ noooo jkjk
@@julianstar2431not yet
3/10? Too high for ign😂. They might score 1 or 2 cause SAS has not enough diversity🎉🎉🎉
2:42 they made AV in that car.
in the early preview trailer they had the AV pool in there, i guess they took it out this time and replaced with the car/van
@@Rin-ix9dlIt's possible both are in the game they just didn't want to flood the trailer with JAV callbacks.
and that pool
@@Rin-ix9dl The UI sugest that there is an "underground filming site" collection, I think there will be lots of those famous scenes to be visited
Stereotyping actually makes charactors distinctive.
In game design, it helps players to understand the scene quickly and easily.
Most games with string style use stereo type in their work.
The western developers are trying to do the oppisite atm tho.
That's sad, the talents in the indistry is still good but the storywriting...
7:28 Famous bald streamer read my quote, I'm famous now
lmao
Very hard boiled
It was a kickass comment man. Have a good day.
😂 hahahahaha
lmao
Doctor: "I have some news about your baby."
Parents: "Don't tell us the gender, we want to keep it a surprise."
Doctor: "Oh I get it, you're those type of people. Okay, well IT is not breathing."
ahhh good ol' family guy
In response to Assassin's Creed Shadows, China presents "America according to Japan" and it looks amazing.
Things like this give me hope that in 20 years when the older generations pass on obsessed with cutting the other down, Chinese and Americans are going to get along. There's way too much similarities in the culturally amongst the "average person" and in terms of mentality between us in desires and what both enjoy.
I feel like while geopolitics are always going to be at each others' throats, when you zoom down to the average gamer, the objective is simple regardless of race and culture, just...want fun games? imo
@@winghong3 Its things like this were you see unfiltered "fun" that you have hope that things will be okay in the future. Not even the great firewall can contain goodnatured humor.
@@WIGutie Agreed. Hoping for that future as well, cheers.