I laughed so hard, but a part of me died inside as I begun to understand that they did even worse than I originally believed haha Its so painful... haha
It is so insulting to japan too like not only are we making a game about historic japanese lore it is going to be a made up black guy that slaughter resemblances of your ancestors. Like wtf
Star wars outlaws : can't become outlaw Shadows : male protag is non japanese black Skull and bones ( a fuckin pirate game ) : can't swim Bravo Ubislop
Assassins Creed : Makes pirate game. I knew the franchise was cooked when the second game came out, and it was heralded as the second coming of christ in the gaming industry. Its the game that taught me not to get excited for sequels.
When designing the 2 male n female main characters, they Force a African man in the role within a Asian setting. Players have been asking for a samurai setting and they use a non Japanese person to represent the pride of Japan’s medieval identity. Smh
Isn’t there shit tone of media like this? Game looks like crap, but I actually think Yasuke is a very creative choice for the game. It’s interesting and adds more writing potential. AC was never a documentary level history game. Also in ACR we played as Italian in Turkey and nobody seemed to care and it actually gave more vibe to the game cuz Istanbul throughout the history was both under Roman Empire and Ottoman Empire, so seeing ‘end of era’ of Ezio, was also linked to end of era of Roman Constantinople. So here you have similar idea, you’ll discover Japan as a foreigner both as a player and as a protagonist. Unlucky game is low quality rpg grind ass pain.
Idk if you are familiar with Eichiro Oda, author of One Piece, the best selling manga of all time. But if i had to guess id say you are familiar, ill see you at the One Piece nakama
Fun fact: The most famous modern day confirmed direct Oda descendant who can actually trace his lineage to Nobunaga himself is an Olympic level figure skater. The Japanese warlord who has one of his most famous traits being his love of dancing has a modern day descendant who basically just dances but on ice. 😂
It's funny because I can remember since basically the beginning of the Assassin's Creed franchise that people would always say how Japan would be the perfect setting for this game - then they go and do it and screw it up royally lmao
Got no idea what y'all are talking about, I just started to play AC Shadows and it's amazing. It's about a Japanese samurai named Jin on a quest to protect the island of Tsushima from the Mongols.
Funny thing is Mao is an upgraded version of Hit ler and theirs policies are almost the same, All lands belong to the State, Companies would be taken over if products not made for the State.
I'm gonna call it. Rather than responding to the design errors shown in this video. I bet they rather hatefully respond to the dev's nose-bullying in the last minutes of the video
It's actually 0% because Yasuke wasn't and could never have been a samurai. He was a pet, probably barely spoke Japanese, if at all, and would never have been trusted with a blade beyond carrying it for his master like a golf caddie.
Commoners cannot be made Samurai except for extraordinary circumstances. Samurais all had their own lineage and they were basically a class of nobles. There is no way a black slave or any slave for that matter can be made a Samurai.
@@jfelton3583 downright howling with laughter, how do you get beat by a brit to be a non-japanese samurai?! William Adam had "Yasuke" completely beat black and blue.
It’s just Hilarious that out of almost 700 years the samurai have been around and predominantly JAPANESE MEN they pick the 1 black guy that may or may not have been a samurai and a girl. They are always reaching for the exception it’s ridiculous.
Imagine have culture with so many great talent people, but the developer pick some woke dude in the past who people dont even care if they exist or not.. The direspect is masive to japan
@@jackbower9087 More like a Honorary Samurai but not having all the thing that makes him a full on Samurai, so more like a Bushi or even Ashigaru(?) as some Daimyo from that era would have some trusted Ashigaru Commoner amongst the Hatamoto(Samurai Bodyguards) as their bodyguards, Especially since we only know him as Yasuke without any clan name, even Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a Peasant who's named Tokichiro, before becoming a samurai where his name changed to Kinoshita Tokichiro before changing again to Hashiba Hideyoshi. Like how some Fantasy portray every soldiers as Knights, not knowing that Knights are retinue soldiery where they're given lands to manage, but in reality those Fantasy Knights are basically "Man-at-Arms".
I hate when some people says "who cares?" If we shouldn't cares they would never be in the game in the first place the fact they put it in the game it means the devs want players to see it Really shows those people are the one who follow "stop asking questions just consume product and get excited for new product"
Wukong developers literally scanned real life places to make the game feel hyper real and it's beautiful. Ubisoft copy pasted some generic Japanese structures, landscapes and cherry blossom trees and thought they were done.
@@Vss077Damn bro, how much is the CCP paying you to peddle that "Our 4000 years of history came first" BS like Japan didn't have its own fully distinct culture by this point in history?
They even did mocap with cats to get the tiger boss right. That takes dedication. I imagined they would have done one with a real tiger if they were allowed do so safely and affordably.
i mean they didnt bother to research or ask historians in japan at all. they expert is a british dude that wrote a fanfic about yasuke and a asian canadian that write underage yaoi porn fiction as a living as their experts.
Listening to this Japanese lady not just dismantle inaccuracies in terms of world design, armor etc, but also spotting every technical error from the snow/armor interaction to the sword not sheathing and the door not actually reaching the floor is pure entertainment. It's not just seeing a game dev being dismantled for all its cultural inaccuracies, but also them being blasted for horrendous technical faults in what's supposed to be a vertical slice of their game, i.e. their metaphorical "best foot forward". Maybe don't take that second step, Ubisoft.
That's what makes me laugh 😂 Like Ubisoft pioneered the fake gameplay/trailer marketing strategy, yet it's like they became so lazy they couldn't even be bothered to do that anymore.
I personal thought the whole video was pointless. Assassins Creed Has never been historically accurate. It is always loosely based on a time period, then everyone is completely different. I personally don't remember Girolamo Savonarola getting assassinated or Cesare Borgia being pushed off a castle wall. I also don't remember a Templar or assassin order existing. Point is its never been historically accurate.
@@Nib_Nob-t7x SO why did they keep claiming it was historically accurate till lockey was so utterly discredited and the Japanese government was threatening an inquiry. This argument that it doesn't matter ring untrue when UBIsoft tried for month to gaslight the entirely of japan over ubisoft's racism.
@@Nib_Nob-t7xFake argument that's been countered a hundred times by now. They literally advertised Shadows as being historically accurate. It doesn't matter if they didn't claim the previous games were, they claimed _this one_ was. The previous games were also pretty accurate in all the ways that mattered. Shadows doesn't even get basic cultural details right. I'm pretty fucking sure they didn't do anything as stupid as putting architecture from the wrong culture in any of their previous games.
How the fuck would Yasuke be able to write in Japanese (even if its butchered, its still better than what most learning it would do today) when he was in Japan for like 16 months and was little more than a sword bearer for Nobunaga (which is a high honor in Japanese society as well)? You need someone to teach you it and its impossible to learn a language without a frame of reference accurately. Plus, he was never a samurai: He was not born into status (this is needed), he did not receive good training in less than 16 months (samurai are born into the lifestyle and honed through their entire childhood), and he was a terrible fighter that lost every fight he has been in and was only given his status due to his stature. Yasuke in history is a side character at best and a footnote at worst, no where near enough to write a story without making wild claims and embellishing. To put him right next to people like Miyamoto Musashi is so god damn disrespectful because he is not well known at all or any kind of legend who accomplished great feats in his lifetime. Yasuke was basically Nobunaga's exotic pet and when he died (Yasuke turned coward as well during this), he was captured and sold to another country and that was his story.
The amount of disrespect and laziness this "game" shows towards japanese culture is so noticeable it genuinely feels weirdly, unnecessarily malicious. Pinnacle of "it's fine when WE do it" from the "virtuous" people. I'm sure this racist DEI trash will save ubisoft! Perhaps they should feel comfortable losing money.
You nailed it on the head. Each of snafu's are really minor. However, the fact that it is error after error after error just makes the entire project seem like it is intentionally just crapping all over the setting and history. No one forced them to just trash World Heritage sights by including them in their game and immediately screwing it up.
"Thomas Lockley, the author who created the 'Yasuke was a legendary Samurai' myth from his book in 2019 deletes all his social media accounts after Japanese gamers and Japanese historians call out his historical fabrication. LOL. Well done to Japanese gamers and Japanese historians. This guy is essentially the godfather and chief architect of the 'Yasuke was a legendary Samurai' myth. 5 years ago he found a few vague paragraphs referring to Yasuke in the historical record and somehow managed to write an entire 400 page book based on these few references. He himself admits that he had to 'fill in the blanks'. But writing 400 pages of conjecture, guess work, assumptions and 'filling in the blanks' is not history. It becomes historical fan fiction and fantasy literature. “A lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.” Unfortunately the damage has already been done. He was the first to write such a book on Yasuke and market it on Amazon as 'historical fact'. Outlets like CNN, Time Magazine, BBC, Wikipedia, then used it as their primary source for Yasuke articles, which then spread into mainstream pop culture leading to the mess we are in today. Ubisoft, every video game website, social media supporters, all reference these as their 'original sources.' All the Yasuke video games, TV shows, anime, comics etc all traced back to this one book. Thankfully Japanese gamers and Japanese historians finally had enough, and flooded the social media accounts of Thomas Lockley with counter sources and fact checks exposing his work as a fraud and fabrication. Leading him to delete all his social media accounts as a result of this backlash. LOL. Quite possibly one of the greatest historical frauds in modern times. All traced back to the fantasy of one man. "Thomas Lockley lied to the entire world and presented his fan fiction as historical fact and edited wikipedia for ten years and tried to hide what he was doing. He blames Assassin's Creed for the 'hate mail' when really he's only mad that he got caught." "To Yasuke-warrior believers who can't read Japanese. Thomas Lockley wrote a 400+ page fantasy novel out of 15 lines of obscure historical record. Problem is that he presented it as an academic book and many major foreign media & academic believed the fraud." " [from Reddit]
It must of been the major milestone of his design when his work was used for a project like AC Shadows. It was practically designed to be used as bait for the creative directors to fit their requirements for a "Japan" title as it's been documented that there have been conflict between then management and the execs about female protagonists, so it isnt much of a stretch that yasuke as a protag was quintessential (to the younger management) to have a game set in japan in the first place. Its just too easy to be true and everyone smelled a rat.
@@rainbowprism6242 the smoking gun that this was about activism and not historical integrity. Unfortunately if it was genuine, then we would already have praised him a decade before his works.
I mean, he was a slave owned by the clan. I guess Ubisoft is trying to say the slaves loved whoever owned them. Nice job ubisoft. Very progressive messaging.
@@littlehorror1057 Slave-master relationship truly is progressive. Master sees slave as member of their own family while slave sees master with loving eyes.
@littlehorror1057 You are absolutely correct. Yasuke would have been a novelty at that time, owned by his master to show off to the nobility. He was not a free man, and could not travel freely or leave Japan if he wanted to, unless his master sold him.
Many old Japanese tales, stories and manga well before ths debacle have him as a Samurai directly under Oda. Why is it devoid of respect here when Japanese scholars and writers agree he very well could have been a Samurai?
It would be the most ironic thing ever if Ubisoft had to permanently shut down after this. Imagine them fucking up so badly that when they try to give the people what they’ve been asking for for 20 years, they drop the ball so hard it sinks the entire ship!
Did the same with Skull and Bones, they had it all there, the formula, the people that made the recipee, all they had to do, was crack the eggs, and they managed to fuck it up. So nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to Ubisoft.
I heard Yasuke's Sword and physical Promo Sword is just a replica of Zaro's sword from One Piece. People believe they just bought a bunch of swords from Aliexpress not realising it was a unlicensed One Piece replica.
This game is about an African drifter who arrives in Japan during the Oda Nobunaga era, wears samurai armor, and slaughters Japanese warriors and samurai while receiving bows from Japanese commoners. And then they say, “This is just a game, what’s the problem?” This level of disregard for Asians is astonishing. I wonder what kind of reviews would be received if a game was made where an Asian drifter arrives in France, wears knight armor, and slaughters white people. Could this also be said to be a character that can help us better understand Europe from an Asian perspective?
Because they've literally been doing it to European history, and nobody said a word. So why wouldn't they think they couldn't get away with it with someone else's history...
@@RAdubya494 it's always been the thing westerners love doing to Asian stories, they will replace the hero with a foreigner so they can "see themselves" rescuing the Asian people and get the Asian girl
@RAdubya494 You're completely wrong. You did not even understand that movie(did you even watch it or read the book it was based on?)... Tom Cruise wasn't The Last Samurai, It was referring to the fact that it was the end of the samurai era Because they were moving into more modern warfare. The last samurai were the group of japanese That tom cruise ended up siding with.
they had one Japanese expert her specialty was priests having a good time with young boys so you know she contribute a lot to the authenticity of this game
yes as an Asian I would happily to play him in a DLC or a side quest. But the major character in the game? and faked his profile to be a Samuri? Nope I am good
The fact that Ubisoft doesn't even get the distinction between a "shinobi" and a "kunoichi" is enough to tell me it'll be full of errors. There's no way people would refer to her as a shinobi back then because...shinobi were ONLY MEN.
Yasuke, teaching historical Japanese how to racial profile. "Who killed this man?" "It was the only black guy in the country." "Ok, we will keep an eye out for him."
@@cobrakingofeart Showing disapproval or criticism of "hard work" is a form of prejudice and can be misconstrued as violence. You would know this if you worked with a modern dev studio.
If normal Japanese people can point out countless mistakes back to back every few seconds, that means Ubisoft didn't consult even a SINGLE AVERAGE JAPANESE CITIZEN
That's exactly right. Already pointed this out in another trailer. If you put cherry blossoms and rice harvesting side by side, even a 10-year-old child will say to his mother, “It's funny, it's spring but they're harvesting rice!" They set the story in Japan, but thoroughly try to erase the Japanese point of view. I can even sense hatred there. まさにその通りです 桜と稲刈りの風景が並べば、10歳の子供でも母親に言います、おかしいね春なのに稲刈りしている！と 日本を舞台にしたのに、徹底して日本人の視点を抹殺しようとする、そこには憎しみすら感じられる
@@MhxAir Assassin’s Creed is French equivalent of Fate franchise in Japan. This whole outrage about Assassin’s Creed 13 seems blown out of proportion, by rage-bait youtubers. Chill out snowflakes! Stop being offended for other people.
@kurenai-7743 to translate that to american. Its like seeing fall trees and not even fully grown corn. Or spring flowers and corn fully grown.. or spring time and pumpkins... basically, shit doesnt make sense.
to clarify, the level cap in black myth isn't how many years he lived. it's how old he was when the scratched his name off the ledgers of life and death in hell, effectively making him immortal. which is why at the beginning of the game you don't have a health bar. it's not just a learning mechanic, as sun wukong, you are immortal. after scratching his name off the ledgers, he was imprisoned under a mountain for 500 years and only then did he go on the journey to the west. so he lived far more than 342 years.
Yeah, they just went for inclusion points with Yasuke and it's not even deniable. The game straight up feels MADE for Naoe's playstyle, and Yasuke's more of an afterthought. Kinda sad, because he could be a pretty interesting character if done right, with the whole foreigner in new land concept. But we're talking about Ubi here, so lmao
@@ahmedibrahem5181 Nah, he did exist, but fairly little is known about him. What IS known points to Nobunaga favoring him a bit, possibly because he saw him as a bit of a curiosity. He was made a retainer and possibly even given a bit of land to rule. No actual sources ever mention him supposedly being made a Samurai, however, that is entirely made up. Either way, they set the game in the very rich history and culture of another land, and purposely pick the ONLY black guy they can find in the entire history of Japan as their main character, because of course they do. Can't have an actual japanese main character, gotta fit a black guy in there somehow. It just makes no sense whatsoever.
@@matiasblanco2029 I agree. They should've made him part of the storyline but not playable, there is a LOT they could've done with this. But that would require that they treat the culture and history with a degree of respect that modern day american writers and "creatives" just don't seem to possess any more, be it for fictional source material or actual historical record.
Ubisoft's problem is pretty obvious. Around 2018 or so they were hit with controversies and lawsuits for having a "frat house" like work environment. They responded by firing all the people who made good games, replacing them with diversity hires, and creating a never-ending stream of DEI courses, programs, initiatives, etc. People who are good, with a good reputation, who are known for success and know they can work anywhere in the industry left for better jobs with fewer Karens. The quality of games immediately fell off, but they were able to keep going thanks to the pandemic and a massive infusion of Tencent cash. The pandemic is over. Their games suck. Their company culture sucks. Everything about them is shit.
Absolutely. They complain about frat house culture, but it's the guys hanging out with other guys that create the best stuff. Frat house culture is the backbone of quality products
@@Barbarossa_Fno it’s not the backbone for quality product also it’s not guys hanging out with other guys it’s a workplace environment with employees many of which are women you need to have a safe and professional workplace it’s not a frat house it’s a fucking game developing studio
"Star wars: Outlaws" but you don't play as an outlaw "Assassin's creed Shadows" (in Japan) but you don't play as a Japanese person What's next? The Crew 3 without cars!?😂
“if they can’t line up a door, what are the odds they can line up a sword fight?” That’s a pretty easy way to sum up the development of AC Shadows. If they’re having this much trouble advertising and accurately portraying the era they’re going with. What are the odds the game will be okay in the first place?
Didn't notice Naoe and Yasuke are fighting different people Naoe: HEAVY ARMORED MACE GUY Yasuke: Lightly armored defenseless man DON'T WANT NO TROUBLE!
Yasuke wasn't a samurai. William Adams was a samurai. How would you know that, you ask? William Adams was given a fief, land, titles, serfs to work the land, house servants. What did Yasuke get from Oda again?
William even has children till this day , his house in Japan is now a museum of his life , and there's also his gravestone , both of which are tourist attraction . What does Yasuke have again ? A few lines in 3 letters and one book or sth ?
Yeah, but if you see what William Adams looked like, then see how Yasuke looked like. You’d see why it would be impossible for Ubisoft to make a game about the former.
Ghost of Tsushima did this right years ago, being praised by Japanese and even devs being recognized as ambassadors of Tsushima. Now this ac, will do opposite lol
it was also because the fans collected money and gifted it to a temple there, that had one of its torii gates damaged by a typhoon storm. There is an engraving at the foot of the gate, something along the lines of "thanks to the studio sucker punch and its fans for donating the money to replace the torii gate"
The game that completely mischaracterised samurai as bull-headed morons who'd rather die than adopt stealth tactics, had the main character demonised for using fear as a weapon when even The Last Samurai got the samurai's use of fear right, and included weapons and armor from the wrong time period?
@@TamagoSenshi If you do Yuriko's quest, she actually tells you the uncle's ideology isn't agreed by the protagonist's father, and you see how brutal his dad gets in the DLC. While this is my reading of the situation, I don't beleive the Shogun actually prosecutes the protagonist for being the Ghost. It's more about the fact that the Ghost has the ability to rally people and exists outside of the power structure under the Shogun, so the Shogun sees that as a threat and demands him to renounce the Ghost. I agree the game can give off the impression you describe, but it's not like that if you look closer.
Even total war got It right and They did 3 time periods of Japan. "The begining of The samurai" "The unification of Japan" "and The FALL of The samurai (modern period, Gun pownder and gatlinguns)".
Oda Nobunaga is the most famous general for beating traditional cavalry charge. Before Nobunaga ,Shinegen Takeda once was the most closest to conquer Japanese mainland and becoming official guardian with his invincible cavalry and his famous commanders, but Nobunaga responded with combination gunman line for Takeda’s cavalry and changed war once and for all.
AC Shadows is so disrespectful to Japanese history and culture. The Oda family claims lineage from the Fujiwara Clan. The Fujiwara Clan is a powerful clan that has historical influence and maternal ties to the Imperial family. The fact these fucking clowns at Ubisoft is just slapping that crest on their make believe Samurai is insane.
If I remember right even Team Ninja asked permission to include crests of families that were still living and was given the green light for use in Nioh 2
@@Sargaxiist2022 Yeah. These crests and families are significant part of Japanese history and culture. This is why no one should randomly pride the family symbol around like its a joke. The fact they used the Oda clan symbol on their fake Samurai near damn well pretty much implies this Black guy is part of the Fujiwara Clan and has ties with the Imperial family. The Imperial family of Japan is the longest living dynasty in the world and it should not be disrespected like this.
@@NissanSkylineVR30 it also shows that they did zero research for this game. If they had, they would have very quickly realized that they needed permission.
1. Have the first Assassin’s Creed game set in feudal Japan feature none other than a black guy 2. Boast historical accuracy while having countless historical inaccuracies while also making your main character one of the most historically contended figures in Japan 3. Preach diversity and inclusion, but only consult a white Japanese historical expert and make sure the game is made by exclusively white people I don’t think you could make it more ironic if you tried.
As an pretty ordinary old Japanese man I didn't really get the concept of cultural appropriation but thanks to AC Shadow I now understand it as if I had known it since I was born.
These people completely misrepresent what cultural appropriation is too. They think its racist and cultural appropriation if you wear cultural clothing like a kimono or yukata as a foreigner at a japanese festival, but are completely fine with butchering the culture and history of a foreign country. The first is a celebration and respect of Japanese culture, and i would hope most japanese would see it that way from a foreign tourist. The latter is true cultural appropriation, misrepresenting a culture for financial gains and having no respect for it.
When this docu came out where will smiths owner tried to act like cleopatra was black was just so historically wrong and to me it was so absurd to not know that she was a white greek woman that after this docu nothing shocked me anymore. These ppl are literally less educated then i was as an 8 year old i mean how could you possibly take them serious. I personally treat them the same way i tread mentally disabled ppl. I will still respect them as humans but at the same time knowing that thinking can be harder for them sometimes
@@declancampbell1277 It's the whole "mimicry is the greatest form of flattery" thing. Dressing like another culture and making a genuine effort of it is flattery. Making a game in historical times, inserting a totally awesome and respected OC of another race and having them murder the locals because they're so smart and great and strong and respected and skilled and just better than the locals isn't mimicry or flattery, it's an insult.
Japanese people tearing this game down is always very funny. This game is the equivalent of "I watch a ton of anime, I'm somewhat of an expert on Japan culture."
@@SlimeWithGlasses Japanese people complaining about historical accuracy of Assassin’s Creed is like British people complaining that in Fate franchise.
@@def3ndr887 And AC2 had flying machines in 1450 Venice. But back then gamers complained about bugs and glitches, not historical accuracy. This whole social justice crusade for representation of Japan in unreleased AC game seems like rage-bait for sake of drama.
@@3rdHalf1 because AC knew what it was which was a game where you go around stabbing people no questions asked. But for some reason they got stupid and started bringing in people from history such as Alfred the Great and portray him in such a insulting manner. I cannot stress this enough Alfred. The. Great what part of great did they contrive as tyrannical and corrupt as the character we got from Valhalla. Lately it’s also becoming a projection for their hatred of Christians.
@@blakecampbell-taylor2865 not to mention 50% of enemies were literally women. I just couldn't play the game after being forced to roleplay as a dude in ancient Greece brutally murdering camps of women
tbh it looks like they were pressed to release a trailer before even remotely getting to polish the game, probably because of time constraints due to dead lines of other projects
It would be awesome if they could get the Oda clan to make a statement on how their crest was used without permission, and that they want it and Yasuka removed entirely.
I've lived in Japan for 5 years and yes, they don't make rice fields close to a fucking river there, not a single one.. So Ubslop really has no idea what the fuck they are doing.
That's not true. Rice specificaly is one of the few plants often grown in shallow water. Next to a river especially in a era where pumps don't exist is the ideal spot.
It's even worse. You CANNOT be a samurai without a family/clan name. There's records of Yasuke existing in Japan, but he never was given a family/clan name. He was just a servant to Oda Nobunaga.
The funny thing about this is that every criticism for AC: Shadows about stuff on the history it was based on, the references that probably needed permission for use, the buildings, weather, etc. .... it makes you think of how much trouble and care Ghost of Tsushima went through.
@@TamagoSenshiGhost of Tsushima was never meant to be accurate though. A studio representative called it a "cheeseburger samurai"(comparing it to a spaghetti western) game, where the Samurai/Shinobi fantasy took priority.
But Tsushima was handled with way more care by Sucker Punch than this, honestly. Every open world made by Ubi since and including Origins is full of reused assets and weird architecture. Even Origins' box art is a mish mash of everything in Egypt, put together in a 20 meter radius just to look cool. It's not a big deal since it's a cover art and it's supposed to sell, but still. Ever since they moved away from city maps to full on country-sized behemoths of open worlds, their quality and attention to detail have been declining exponentially.
@@TamagoSenshi except the lead developer always stated they weren't going for historical accuracy but going for a more chanbara cinema style (they even gave a chanbara film camera filter). So yes they used warring states armour and they give them daisho but they did give you access to a Kamakura-era armour and a tachi so you could choose to be more historically accurate if you wanted.
@@TamagoSenshi like those who previously responded you. At least Suckerpunch didnt promote itself by saying it was historically accurate "experience Japan". It's an example of how to respect the culture, not appropriate it. Not to mention, Ghost of Tsushima is a game the Japanese really liked.
Shows tunnel vision of the management that there are a lot of other problems in the trailer. Makes me think the Quality Assurance for this game is more mythical than this Yasuke at this point.
As a French gamer I reiterate that we are sorry about Ubisoft existing at this point. This company started to die 11 years ago and died definitely 6 years ago. I'm ashamed for real in front on my screen right now.
Thanks for your valuable input. When many Japanese got to know UBI, we wondered what France was like, where the company is located. Soon we understood it by the Paris Olympics. We saw how they insulted religion, had no respect for history, stole culture in the name of art, and were shamelessly proud of it. And they dismissed their critics as racists. That was exactly what UBI did. I just hope your thoughts are protected. 貴重な意見をありがとう。大勢の日本人がUBIを知って会社があるフランスがどんなところか知りたいと考えた すぐにパリオリンピックを見て、彼らが宗教を侮辱し、歴史に敬意を払わず、芸術の名のもとに文化を盗んで恥を知らず誇っていることを知った そして批判に対しては差別主義者として排除する、まさにUBIがやったことだった。ただ、あなたの考えを尊重したいと思う
@@kurenai-7743 Seriously your Comment is a Piece of Art. Not only is your English freaking perfect, even the translated Text is absolutely flawless. Is there anything you Asians are not perfect at? 😂😭
I have this feeling that ubi can't even sell the game in japan due to all the copyright issues with clan emblems, crests, locations and art work And just because it's public domain in everywhere else in the world doesn't mean the law is the same in Japan
They made the black guy blinged out in the most golden ornate Kabuto ever to assert his value over everyone, because Black Lives Matter Meanwhile they made the woman as plain clothed and covered up as possible because her body should be in no way a focal point in her design. This is some Anitaa Sarkeesian mental gymnastic design
Ubi team is littery 70% female. And no im not talking about the talented based 1 in a 10 women, im talking about the other 9 in a 10 women, those are the one making all the shots.
@@Vss077these same two people who made this video made the same kind of video for Ghost of Tsushima, they actually praised the historical authenticity and technical competency of that game compared to Shadows. It's not just because it's Ubisoft, it's because this game sucks compared to GoT since Sucker Punch actually cared about their setting, gameplay and immersion, unlike Ubisoft.
Defenders probably don't understand this, but saying "UBI's Yasuke is a historical figure" is the same as saying "Netflix's Cleopatra is a historical figure." Naturally, the Egyptians Greeks and Japanese would protest, saying, "That's a lie." What they have in common is that if everything except the name is a lie, then they can't be called historical figures.and The act of claiming that they are historical figures is extremely political. In this case, "it's just a fiction" and "it's just a game" don't cut it. Because If there was no political intent, they have made them fictional characters from the start.
While the whole historical debate is definitely interesting, it doesn't change my opinion of the game at all. Who cares if he was a Samurai or not. Picking the only notable black man in the country, as the protagonist of an AC game set in Japan, is an insult, and obviously was done for the usual, predictable reasons. Screw that.
They could've even gotten away with it if they hadn't used the term "historically accurate" as a selling point. Your protagonist is as historically inaccurate as it gets, and you say that? You're just lying now, man. You said this was accurate to the Sengoku period and you do this from the start? At least plenty of other media set in this time and place don't use "historically accurate" as a descriptor, let alone a selling point
The problem with Yasuke is that every other AC protagonist was an original character that obviously didnt exist so they stood in that Gray Area where you could make believe that maaaybe they existed but theres just no records of them. With Yasuke, we know he was around but by that we know he couldnt be a higher-up warrior, otherwise it would be recorded, so the make believe zone is out of the paper window.
And the argument that "oh you all hate it because its a black person" is complete bull. We had Bayek in Origins and he is definitely one of the best protagonists in AC.
It literally makes no sense to not have a Japanese samurai as one of the main characters. Like bro every assassins creed game has had the character be from the region they operate in
@d-boi9785 History dork here. The Caribbean was a MAJOR area for a huge amount of countries to go to. Think of it like this: Newly discovered areas of land are roadkill and the superpowers of old are buzzards. They want to get in there to colonize/eat up that roadkill immediately. And Britain is meme’d about for having gone crazy with colonialism, so…
this couldn't be any funnier, a perfect analogy: "look how smart he is" and he's sitting on the floor trying to read a book that he's holding upside down
reminds me of that dude from Office Space who was laid off 5 years ago but kept getting paid because of a glitch in payroll lol. I bet if we audit Ubisoft we'll find a few of those.
Its crazy how right Ghost of Tsushima got it that the island of Tsushima made a monument in the game's honor of respect and is beloved in Japan. Then you see the opposite side with Assassins Creed and it looks like a slap to the face at almost each frame.
Its crazy Ubisoft didn't even understand how the Japanese language was written before showing a character writing Japanese in a story game set in yk... Japan
Man I really hope this happens: 1. Japan is currently gathering information on everything 2. Ubi releases the game as trash as it's advertised 3. They go lose money to an insane degree due to low sales 4. They get get sued for the many, many legit reasons
They won't lose money because AC is massive on casuals. I know many people at work who don't know about this drama and even after knowing they don't care, but at Ubi they're likely not going to make as much as they need to calm their allegedly angry investors. If the flagship title doesn't become a massive success they're in trouble.
@@mahuk.They are gonna lose alot of money on this, if u account that sony and steam takes 30% of all sales with how negative the casual player base is ubi might not even break even on production cost.
@@mahuk. They lost money with Star Wars outlaw. Mirage wasn't exactly a success either, it just did ok. Ubisofts IP has been on the downward spiral for a while now.
@@mahuk.Usually true, AC has too many fanatical followers that will just consume whatever it is with AC logo slapped on it, no matter how bad it is. But hey, we are in the times when big AAA budget games fail hard like concord or even outlaw, who knows what will happen at this point Also if the stock can work as somekind of parameter, id say this time it mostlikely gonna have different outcome than the usual
@@mahuk. You could say the same thing about star wars, since there are star wars fans, but without the trying to calm angry investors at star wars time of production. Look where it is now.
1. Samurai were originally archers, hence they had armour bits that were relevant for archers. He's saying that at this point in time the samurai were using guns and thus had no need for those archer-related armour pieces. Not that there were no archers left in general. 2. The problem with the guard's spear is how intricately it is carved and detailed. It is a show piece, whereas in reality a basic guard would have had a cheap spear, a spearhead on the end of a pole, no frills. I think the bullets frozen in time is probably the most egregious because they're just floating there in like 3 shots in a row, and this is their best foot forward. Even if the other things are historical nitpicks, that one thing alone just shows there's no attention being paid and the people putting this together had no time.
@@OdaManjiro Yup. The Japanese in general are VERY protective of Cultural Properties like Family Crests of Daimyo or Temple/Shrine specific items or architectures or hell, even specific ways (literal schools) of forging katana are protected under Japanese Law so that they aren't abused. Or, like we see with the Buddhist Statue pointed out in the video, aren't used at all due to religious reasons. If you can, I implore you to search up the National Treasures of Japan to give you an idea of how seriously they take this.
@@Tsurf Wow. Koei and Capcom must have all the old families set for an email blast whenever they're about to do a Basara or Nobunaga no Yabou or whatever.
@@BigUpsWingBoy4000 No shit. When did I disagree? Funnily enough it wasn't always that way; that's why Lupin III exists. Some Japanese games in the past have used texture and sound libraries (standard industry practice for a long time) without permission so I figured I'd ask out of curiosity.
I love how they made Yasuke basically a white guy with brown skin and dreads. They couldn't have given him any phenotypical traits that are normally associated with africans, because it would have been "racist".
We wuz samurai. We wuz Cleopatra. We wuz Ariel. We wuz viking queens. We wuz green knight. We wuz english queen. We wuz Napoleon. We wuz scandinavian gods. We wuz dwarves and elves. We wuz slavic characters in Witcher. Only thing we not wuz is African.
That assasin creed jump into haystack is the most iconic game thing. It doesn't need to be logical since that itself is what made that game so unique and iconic.
Japanese appreciated their history and culture prob more than anyone on this planet and ubi has some balls to ruined it AND say that japanese shouldnt talk about it because they know better than the natives, the audacity is off the roof
Watching Ubisoft evolve on AC Shadows from the first trailer to now has been kinda amazing, when the first trailer hit the messaging was “the black samurai is 100% historically accurate, anyone who says otherwise is a racist” and now we are at “guys, assassins creed has never been historically accurate, chill. Preorder the game plz”
Heres me thinking, I've never played Assassin's Creed before, oh its set in Japan, cool, maybe I'll start here. (Why start with an earlier game?, better quality, apparently) Thank you, UA-cam algorithm, for your recommendations and saving my wallet from crippling depression.
I remember when the first game came out when I was in middle school. It was super repetitive, but you could tell it was the start of something special. I let go at Unity, and it seems like Ubisoft did too.
For people thinking that a lot of the things shown are minor and don't really affect the game, I think there's a bigger over encompassing issue here. As someone that's been involved in the trailer creation process, these things are interally scrutinised, frame-by-frame, and any issues are removed. Even for gameplay trailers, specific builds or scenes are created to be absolutely perfect. So what's happened here? Are they so rushed that the didn't have time to properly clean up their big trailer? And keep in mind the marketing schedule would've been written up, confirmed, and shared way in advance, so they knew ages ago this has to be made. Or, has this trailer actually been fully scrutinised? And they've fixed a whole heap of issues, and removed shocking bugs, changed certain angles of things to make things look good, made specific demo builds for individual fights scenes, etc. And these are the bugs that STILL remain? This lack of quality control for a promotional piece is shocking and indicitive of much bigger issues in the game (and company) itself.
It's simple shoddy craftsmanship. When little things show up, like doors not bothering to line up with stairs, or swords poking through sheaths, you just know there is no passion with the game dev team overall. This game could completely sink Ubi. But I'm ready to be entertained by it (only on UA-cam though lol)
ACSについて動画を作ってくれて、ありがとうございます。 日本についての真偽を確かめようと、このゲームに注目してくれる人が多いようで、日本人としてとっても嬉しいです。 Thank you for making the video about ACS. As a Japanese, I am very happy to see that so many people are paying attention to this game to see the truth about Japan.
Thank you so much for reacting to our video!
We have many more to come, hope you guys enjoy!
It's him, it's the lad!
Congrats on getting noticed by Asmondgold. :D
So happy more people get to see it! :D
Super good video, I had hoped Asmon would react to it.
Also please play it and make videos further criticizing it. Your takes were very informative!
when this game comes out, pirate it and rip it to shreds.
I laughed so hard, but a part of me died inside as I begun to understand that they did even worse than I originally believed haha Its so painful... haha
“No matter what anyone tells you, Ancient Japanese Samurai were Black Gay African warriors who loved American hip-hop” - some random grandma
grandma should stop doing drugs
Only those of us who have been following get exactly what you mean. Awesome comment.
@@dasbroiskushe should go to sleep
Grandma isn't wrong tho lol. Yasuke was African and a samurai.
@@stephaniemagendans8830 did Wikipedia confirm that for you?
"No Japanese were consulted during the making of this game"
I mean do you think they got like Norwegian consultants when they made Valhalla? Yeah I doubt they consulted Japanese people.
@@JimpanectYou should share your story about how you found the joke. If you make a video about it ill subscribe
And to think all they had to do was put a disclaimer up that said it wasn't based off real events, but instead did the opposite.
WRONG they asked a random chef wearing a Japanese garb his opinion as he clearly was a historian by how he dressed.
It is so insulting to japan too like not only are we making a game about historic japanese lore it is going to be a made up black guy that slaughter resemblances of your ancestors. Like wtf
Star wars outlaws : can't become outlaw
Shadows : male protag is non japanese black
Skull and bones ( a fuckin pirate game ) : can't swim
Bravo Ubislop
If they aren't trying to collapse, I don't know what they are doing.
Assassins Creed : Makes pirate game.
I knew the franchise was cooked when the second game came out, and it was heralded as the second coming of christ in the gaming industry. Its the game that taught me not to get excited for sequels.
To be fair most real pirates couldn't swim
But EVERYTHING ELSE WHAT IS UBISOFT ON
Wow , the first time you actually proved Ubi knows history better than you). Google black samurai rn
suicidesquad server down after one year
xdeviant server down after one year
assassins creed 20 titel in 6 years
end of story ubisoft
When designing the 2 male n female main characters, they Force a African man in the role within a Asian setting. Players have been asking for a samurai setting and they use a non Japanese person to represent the pride of Japan’s medieval identity. Smh
You know exactly what they were trying to accomplish.
@@ulvetid.01 Radical Equity.
@@formes2388 its cultural erasure actually, they dont care about stuff like equality its about destroying what was there before
@@formes2388 replacement.
Isn’t there shit tone of media like this? Game looks like crap, but I actually think Yasuke is a very creative choice for the game. It’s interesting and adds more writing potential. AC was never a documentary level history game. Also in ACR we played as Italian in Turkey and nobody seemed to care and it actually gave more vibe to the game cuz Istanbul throughout the history was both under Roman Empire and Ottoman Empire, so seeing ‘end of era’ of Ezio, was also linked to end of era of Roman Constantinople.
So here you have similar idea, you’ll discover Japan as a foreigner both as a player and as a protagonist.
Unlucky game is low quality rpg grind ass pain.
"I wonder if the Oda clan are okay with this..."
When the reality sinks in that these families are still around hundreds of years later.
Idk if you are familiar with Eichiro Oda, author of One Piece, the best selling manga of all time. But if i had to guess id say you are familiar, ill see you at the One Piece nakama
Yeah every one’s family is. That's how families work. If your alive your family has existed for thousands of years.
@@Nib_Nob-t7xna not yours, you're the end of your bloodline
@@ru2225 imagine wanting to bring a child into a world that is about to spawn literal f**king terminators.
Fun fact: The most famous modern day confirmed direct Oda descendant who can actually trace his lineage to Nobunaga himself is an Olympic level figure skater. The Japanese warlord who has one of his most famous traits being his love of dancing has a modern day descendant who basically just dances but on ice. 😂
It's funny because I can remember since basically the beginning of the Assassin's Creed franchise that people would always say how Japan would be the perfect setting for this game - then they go and do it and screw it up royally lmao
It's too late, they would never even come near to Ghost of Tsushima, if you take in account the latest installments of Ubisoft.
Yeah it's really sad. Either Japan or Aztec themed would have been amazing, but this feels nice and squandered
they were waiting for just the right time to mess it up *chef kiss=-
Assassin Creed has always been a trash game since it was released. Poor mans Prince of Persia
its already been done. and its far better than Ubisoft could ever dream of producing. just play Ghost.
Got no idea what y'all are talking about, I just started to play AC Shadows and it's amazing. It's about a Japanese samurai named Jin on a quest to protect the island of Tsushima from the Mongols.
Good one haha :D Ghost of tsushima was a really good game
Lol
Good joke😂
Paid shill😂
Ghost of tsushima was Perfect in every way i hope they gonna make part 2
"100 million Japanese became racist Nazis when we were making our game."
Ubisoft.
Oh no not the 1945
back to the 30's and 40's it is.
Funny thing is Mao is an upgraded version of Hit ler and theirs policies are almost the same, All lands belong to the State, Companies would be taken over if products not made for the State.
I'm gonna call it. Rather than responding to the design errors shown in this video. I bet they rather hatefully respond to the dev's nose-bullying in the last minutes of the video
@@johnwong5317isn’t mao Chinese?
The odds of a Samurai chosen at random being black was 0.0002%. The odds of Ubisoft picking a black Samurai was 100%
It's actually 0% because Yasuke wasn't and could never have been a samurai. He was a pet, probably barely spoke Japanese, if at all, and would never have been trusted with a blade beyond carrying it for his master like a golf caddie.
Commoners cannot be made Samurai except for extraordinary circumstances. Samurais all had their own lineage and they were basically a class of nobles. There is no way a black slave or any slave for that matter can be made a Samurai.
弥助が選ばれる確率は、パリ五輪のリネール確定ガチャと同じでした。
Lmao CRY HARDER 🤣😂🤣
@@jfelton3583 downright howling with laughter, how do you get beat by a brit to be a non-japanese samurai?! William Adam had "Yasuke" completely beat black and blue.
It’s just Hilarious that out of almost 700 years the samurai have been around and predominantly JAPANESE MEN they pick the 1 black guy that may or may not have been a samurai and a girl. They are always reaching for the exception it’s ridiculous.
There’s no may or may not, we know for sure he was not a samurai
So you want a Japanese Samurai? How the hell is a Japanese Samurai going to fight to hip-hop music? That would be ridiculous. Think before you post!
Don’t mind the girl but they obviously picked him because he’s black 💯
Imagine have culture with so many great talent people, but the developer pick some woke dude in the past who people dont even care if they exist or not.. The direspect is masive to japan
@@jackbower9087 More like a Honorary Samurai but not having all the thing that makes him a full on Samurai, so more like a Bushi or even Ashigaru(?) as some Daimyo from that era would have some trusted Ashigaru Commoner amongst the Hatamoto(Samurai Bodyguards) as their bodyguards, Especially since we only know him as Yasuke without any clan name, even Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a Peasant who's named Tokichiro, before becoming a samurai where his name changed to Kinoshita Tokichiro before changing again to Hashiba Hideyoshi.
Like how some Fantasy portray every soldiers as Knights, not knowing that Knights are retinue soldiery where they're given lands to manage, but in reality those Fantasy Knights are basically "Man-at-Arms".
I hate when some people says "who cares?"
If we shouldn't cares they would never be in the game in the first place the fact they put it in the game it means the devs want players to see it
Really shows those people are the one who follow "stop asking questions just consume product and get excited for new product"
If we don't care, in no time we get games for 150$ and more which be a bunch of nonsense.
Wukong developers literally scanned real life places to make the game feel hyper real and it's beautiful. Ubisoft copy pasted some generic Japanese structures, landscapes and cherry blossom trees and thought they were done.
Also Chinese structures.
@@Vss077I mean thats not wrong but clearly there is enough difference between the 2 at this era where ppl from the country pointed it out instantly.
@@Vss077so 17th century Japan was nothing but Chinese architecture?😂
@@Vss077Damn bro, how much is the CCP paying you to peddle that "Our 4000 years of history came first" BS like Japan didn't have its own fully distinct culture by this point in history?
They even did mocap with cats to get the tiger boss right. That takes dedication. I imagined they would have done one with a real tiger if they were allowed do so safely and affordably.
A drunk Japanese girl on UA-cam has way way more attention to detail than the entire Ubisoft development team.
i mean they didnt bother to research or ask historians in japan at all. they expert is a british dude that wrote a fanfic about yasuke and a asian canadian that write underage yaoi porn fiction as a living as their experts.
They probably saw that fanfic writer as the most stUnNinG and BrAve they could ask for
Japan knows more about own culture than a bunch of hacks at Ubisoft focused on checkboxes who would have thought lol. Glad the company is crashing.
idk why, I laughed for a straight five minutes. The way you worded just cracked me up. "drunk Japanese girl"
@@abicrystalwing1543 I mean, the original video was indeed titled Drunk Japanese Hyper Analyzed Assassin's Creed Shadows Trailer lol.
Listening to this Japanese lady not just dismantle inaccuracies in terms of world design, armor etc, but also spotting every technical error from the snow/armor interaction to the sword not sheathing and the door not actually reaching the floor is pure entertainment. It's not just seeing a game dev being dismantled for all its cultural inaccuracies, but also them being blasted for horrendous technical faults in what's supposed to be a vertical slice of their game, i.e. their metaphorical "best foot forward".
Maybe don't take that second step, Ubisoft.
tbh most people are fixated on the mc not being Japanese lol
That's what makes me laugh 😂 Like Ubisoft pioneered the fake gameplay/trailer marketing strategy, yet it's like they became so lazy they couldn't even be bothered to do that anymore.
I personal thought the whole video was pointless. Assassins Creed Has never been historically accurate. It is always loosely based on a time period, then everyone is completely different. I personally don't remember Girolamo Savonarola getting assassinated or Cesare Borgia being pushed off a castle wall. I also don't remember a Templar or assassin order existing. Point is its never been historically accurate.
@@Nib_Nob-t7x SO why did they keep claiming it was historically accurate till lockey was so utterly discredited and the Japanese government was threatening an inquiry. This argument that it doesn't matter ring untrue when UBIsoft tried for month to gaslight the entirely of japan over ubisoft's racism.
@@Nib_Nob-t7xFake argument that's been countered a hundred times by now. They literally advertised Shadows as being historically accurate. It doesn't matter if they didn't claim the previous games were, they claimed _this one_ was. The previous games were also pretty accurate in all the ways that mattered. Shadows doesn't even get basic cultural details right. I'm pretty fucking sure they didn't do anything as stupid as putting architecture from the wrong culture in any of their previous games.
このクオリティで「戦国時代の日本が学べます！」と売り出した愚かなUBI、、、。
How the fuck would Yasuke be able to write in Japanese (even if its butchered, its still better than what most learning it would do today) when he was in Japan for like 16 months and was little more than a sword bearer for Nobunaga (which is a high honor in Japanese society as well)? You need someone to teach you it and its impossible to learn a language without a frame of reference accurately. Plus, he was never a samurai: He was not born into status (this is needed), he did not receive good training in less than 16 months (samurai are born into the lifestyle and honed through their entire childhood), and he was a terrible fighter that lost every fight he has been in and was only given his status due to his stature. Yasuke in history is a side character at best and a footnote at worst, no where near enough to write a story without making wild claims and embellishing. To put him right next to people like Miyamoto Musashi is so god damn disrespectful because he is not well known at all or any kind of legend who accomplished great feats in his lifetime. Yasuke was basically Nobunaga's exotic pet and when he died (Yasuke turned coward as well during this), he was captured and sold to another country and that was his story.
This should have more likes
you know what the dev said, he is historically very genius
Careful throwing too much truth out there
I'm Japanese. I'm so happy that foreigners other than the shitty UBI employees are trying to learn accurate history. thank you
As someone else said, you're forgetting that Yasuke was a genius. He didn't need to be taught Japanese, he knew it from birth.
Imagine a Black panther game, all black cast,
and the main character is a blonde hair blue eyed white man
There would be uprisings and cars burned down on the streets
@@cloudsRniceC0M3 Imagine Fate franchise, where King Arthur is portrayed as a girl.
@@3rdHalf1 Eh... that's an anime gender-bent waifu. Hardly the same thing.
Ryan Gosling
The aryan panther
The amount of disrespect and laziness this "game" shows towards japanese culture is so noticeable it genuinely feels weirdly, unnecessarily malicious. Pinnacle of "it's fine when WE do it" from the "virtuous" people.
I'm sure this racist DEI trash will save ubisoft!
Perhaps they should feel comfortable losing money.
Not even mentioning all the npcs and characters just speaking in engrish instead of japanese. 😅
DEI = DOA
yeah but japan was founded by and later discovered by black people, soooo.....HISTORY.
You nailed it on the head. Each of snafu's are really minor. However, the fact that it is error after error after error just makes the entire project seem like it is intentionally just crapping all over the setting and history. No one forced them to just trash World Heritage sights by including them in their game and immediately screwing it up.
remember when the locals of Tsushima honored the devs of Ghost of Tsushima?
Ubisoft: "We give you choice, accept when we don't"
"Thomas Lockley, the author who created the 'Yasuke was a legendary Samurai' myth from his book in 2019 deletes all his social media accounts after Japanese gamers and Japanese historians call out his historical fabrication. LOL.
Well done to Japanese gamers and Japanese historians.
This guy is essentially the godfather and chief architect of the 'Yasuke was a legendary Samurai' myth.
5 years ago he found a few vague paragraphs referring to Yasuke in the historical record and somehow managed to write an entire 400 page book based on these few references. He himself admits that he had to 'fill in the blanks'.
But writing 400 pages of conjecture, guess work, assumptions and 'filling in the blanks' is not history. It becomes historical fan fiction and fantasy literature.
“A lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.”
Unfortunately the damage has already been done. He was the first to write such a book on Yasuke and market it on Amazon as 'historical fact'.
Outlets like CNN, Time Magazine, BBC, Wikipedia, then used it as their primary source for Yasuke articles, which then spread into mainstream pop culture leading to the mess we are in today.
Ubisoft, every video game website, social media supporters, all reference these as their 'original sources.'
All the Yasuke video games, TV shows, anime, comics etc all traced back to this one book.
Thankfully Japanese gamers and Japanese historians finally had enough, and flooded the social media accounts of Thomas Lockley with counter sources and fact checks exposing his work as a fraud and fabrication. Leading him to delete all his social media accounts as a result of this backlash. LOL.
Quite possibly one of the greatest historical frauds in modern times. All traced back to the fantasy of one man.
"Thomas Lockley lied to the entire world and presented his fan fiction as historical fact and edited wikipedia for ten years and tried to hide what he was doing. He blames Assassin's Creed for the 'hate mail' when really he's only mad that he got caught."
"To Yasuke-warrior believers who can't read Japanese. Thomas Lockley wrote a 400+ page fantasy novel out of 15 lines of obscure historical record. Problem is that he presented it as an academic book and many major foreign media & academic believed the fraud." "
[from Reddit]
It must of been the major milestone of his design when his work was used for a project like AC Shadows.
It was practically designed to be used as bait for the creative directors to fit their requirements for a "Japan" title as it's been documented that there have been conflict between then management and the execs about female protagonists, so it isnt much of a stretch that yasuke as a protag was quintessential (to the younger management) to have a game set in japan in the first place.
Its just too easy to be true and everyone smelled a rat.
Worse, he hid it from Japan by writing completely different thing in Japanese translation.
@@rainbowprism6242 the smoking gun that this was about activism and not historical integrity.
Unfortunately if it was genuine, then we would already have praised him a decade before his works.
Says Reddit 😂
Tbh they lost me. After their initial point. They kept going, much like Lockley.
Yasuke wearing Oda clan symbol is void of any common sense. I guess Ubisoft doesn't have respect for japanese clan names as well
I mean, he was a slave owned by the clan. I guess Ubisoft is trying to say the slaves loved whoever owned them. Nice job ubisoft. Very progressive messaging.
@@littlehorror1057 Slave-master relationship truly is progressive. Master sees slave as member of their own family while slave sees master with loving eyes.
@littlehorror1057 You are absolutely correct. Yasuke would have been a novelty at that time, owned by his master to show off to the nobility. He was not a free man, and could not travel freely or leave Japan if he wanted to, unless his master sold him.
@@littlehorror1057that doesn’t mean he’s in the clan tho😂
Many old Japanese tales, stories and manga well before ths debacle have him as a Samurai directly under Oda. Why is it devoid of respect here when Japanese scholars and writers agree he very well could have been a Samurai?
"Lets finally give the people what they want A JAPANESE AC!" *fumbles the bag so hard its honestly impressive*
It would be the most ironic thing ever if Ubisoft had to permanently shut down after this.
Imagine them fucking up so badly that when they try to give the people what they’ve been asking for for 20 years, they drop the ball so hard it sinks the entire ship!
Japanese AC was a grandslam opportunity, how could they have whiffed so hard goddamn
THIS, thanks. Dream situation, easiest job ever, best AC ever. Nah, let's hire my aunt, she likes origami.
Did the same with Skull and Bones, they had it all there, the formula, the people that made the recipee, all they had to do, was crack the eggs, and they managed to fuck it up. So nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to Ubisoft.
Ghost of Tsushima & Sekiro:
:o
I heard Yasuke's Sword and physical Promo Sword is just a replica of Zaro's sword from One Piece. People believe they just bought a bunch of swords from Aliexpress not realising it was a unlicensed One Piece replica.
His name is zoro. 😢
This game is about an African drifter who arrives in Japan during the Oda Nobunaga era, wears samurai armor, and slaughters Japanese warriors and samurai while receiving bows from Japanese commoners. And then they say, “This is just a game, what’s the problem?” This level of disregard for Asians is astonishing. I wonder what kind of reviews would be received if a game was made where an Asian drifter arrives in France, wears knight armor, and slaughters white people. Could this also be said to be a character that can help us better understand Europe from an Asian perspective?
Have you ever seen the movie the Last Samurai with Tom Cruise?? Lmao same thing with a white dude
Because they've literally been doing it to European history, and nobody said a word. So why wouldn't they think they couldn't get away with it with someone else's history...
@@RAdubya494 it's always been the thing westerners love doing to Asian stories, they will replace the hero with a foreigner so they can "see themselves" rescuing the Asian people and get the Asian girl
@RAdubya494 You're completely wrong. You did not even understand that movie(did you even watch it or read the book it was based on?)... Tom Cruise wasn't The Last Samurai, It was referring to the fact that it was the end of the samurai era Because they were moving into more modern warfare. The last samurai were the group of japanese That tom cruise ended up siding with.
@@RAdubya494 Tom Cruise is not the samurai
Don't worry Asmon, the Experts at UbiSoft arent Japanese either
they had one Japanese expert her specialty was priests having a good time with young boys so you know she contribute a lot to the authenticity of this game
@@sword4005 hearing that's her expertise will never not be funny.
@@igortubeIts because you know the hiring was intentional
or experts
@@sword4005 The expert is a fujoshi who writes historical fanfics💀
Ya know. All they had to do was make this guy a side character and no one would complain
Most relevant comment bro
Actually so true, like no one cared about DaVinci, but if he was the assasin then maybe it would have been recieved worse.
That would make too much sense for Ubisoft at this point. Gotta commit to full woke, full broke.
Nah, no one would give a crap. This is only an issue because nowadays there exists a culture war.@@Slyslug
yes as an Asian I would happily to play him in a DLC or a side quest. But the major character in the game? and faked his profile to be a Samuri? Nope I am good
18:45 it’s the the engineering triangle. On a well run team there’s speed, quality, and low cost; you can only have 2
The fact that Ubisoft doesn't even get the distinction between a "shinobi" and a "kunoichi" is enough to tell me it'll be full of errors. There's no way people would refer to her as a shinobi back then because...shinobi were ONLY MEN.
a kunoichi is a female shinobi
@@meowlink7673 yes, I read the comment too.
I bet you a fat stack of cash that they knowingly did that as a way to "rebuff" "gendered language".
@@meowlink7673 however correct, they wouldnt have been called a shinobi, but a kunoichi.. because thats the term
Thats where you wrong, biologically you can refers him as kunoichi but in lore he identified as shinobi!
Ubisoft got you good there!
Yasuke, teaching historical Japanese how to racial profile. "Who killed this man?" "It was the only black guy in the country." "Ok, we will keep an eye out for him."
"It must Bean The Wind"
Despite being 0.00001% of the population, Yasuke was responsible for 10% of all murders in Japan.
unfortunately yasuke is a beast and armies of men couldnt take him down.. hes like lone wolf and cub like that...
@@gerryilu851 pretty realistic then
@@samfire3067"It must be the shadows"
That girl has an EYE. Picking up every graphic clip in the trailer, man. Ubi should've hired her as QC.
she probably would've gotten fired for being too critical of the work the diverse hires were doing
@@cobrakingofeart Showing disapproval or criticism of "hard work" is a form of prejudice and can be misconstrued as violence. You would know this if you worked with a modern dev studio.
@@wickian9571rip
Why bother hiring a QC when you can market your buggy game as "early access" and charge your customers to test your game
@@wickian9571that's why they produce trash every year
If you really want to play an assassin game taken place in feudal japan, play Tenchu
If normal Japanese people can point out countless mistakes back to back every few seconds, that means Ubisoft didn't consult even a SINGLE AVERAGE JAPANESE CITIZEN
That's exactly right. Already pointed this out in another trailer. If you put cherry blossoms and rice harvesting side by side, even a 10-year-old child will say to his mother, “It's funny, it's spring but they're harvesting rice!" They set the story in Japan, but thoroughly try to erase the Japanese point of view. I can even sense hatred there.
まさにその通りです
桜と稲刈りの風景が並べば、10歳の子供でも母親に言います、おかしいね春なのに稲刈りしている！と
日本を舞台にしたのに、徹底して日本人の視点を抹殺しようとする、そこには憎しみすら感じられる
Of course they didn't, that'd mean the culture they're appropriating would know better than them. That's too tough a blow to their ego.
@@MhxAir Assassin’s Creed is French equivalent of Fate franchise in Japan.
This whole outrage about Assassin’s Creed 13 seems blown out of proportion, by rage-bait youtubers. Chill out snowflakes! Stop being offended for other people.
@kurenai-7743 to translate that to american. Its like seeing fall trees and not even fully grown corn. Or spring flowers and corn fully grown.. or spring time and pumpkins... basically, shit doesnt make sense.
to clarify, the level cap in black myth isn't how many years he lived. it's how old he was when the scratched his name off the ledgers of life and death in hell, effectively making him immortal. which is why at the beginning of the game you don't have a health bar. it's not just a learning mechanic, as sun wukong, you are immortal. after scratching his name off the ledgers, he was imprisoned under a mountain for 500 years and only then did he go on the journey to the west. so he lived far more than 342 years.
He gained immortality like 7 times over tho right? Can’t remember for sure, just that Sun Wukong was completely op 😂
@@Nunya310Wukong is the original anime protagonist. 😂
And then he went on to live forever in our hearts.
Jk Wukong is based immortal
@@henrikaugustsson4041 facts
@@Nunya310 He ate all the peaches of immortality, and basically downed all Laozi's pills of immortality (Essentially elixir's of life).
Out of all Japanese historical figures they get one random who did nothing significant and wasn't an actual samurai
man he wasn't even a real character .. its made up character made by someone trying 2 sell his book
Yeah, they just went for inclusion points with Yasuke and it's not even deniable. The game straight up feels MADE for Naoe's playstyle, and Yasuke's more of an afterthought. Kinda sad, because he could be a pretty interesting character if done right, with the whole foreigner in new land concept. But we're talking about Ubi here, so lmao
@@ahmedibrahem5181 yasuke was a real person, his story was simply embellished/exaggerated.
@@ahmedibrahem5181 Nah, he did exist, but fairly little is known about him. What IS known points to Nobunaga favoring him a bit, possibly because he saw him as a bit of a curiosity. He was made a retainer and possibly even given a bit of land to rule. No actual sources ever mention him supposedly being made a Samurai, however, that is entirely made up.
Either way, they set the game in the very rich history and culture of another land, and purposely pick the ONLY black guy they can find in the entire history of Japan as their main character, because of course they do. Can't have an actual japanese main character, gotta fit a black guy in there somehow. It just makes no sense whatsoever.
@@matiasblanco2029 I agree. They should've made him part of the storyline but not playable, there is a LOT they could've done with this. But that would require that they treat the culture and history with a degree of respect that modern day american writers and "creatives" just don't seem to possess any more, be it for fictional source material or actual historical record.
If you want a stealth samurai game, Ghost of Tsushima exists and is amazing
Even sekiro has better stealth 😂😂😂
Ubisoft's problem is pretty obvious.
Around 2018 or so they were hit with controversies and lawsuits for having a "frat house" like work environment.
They responded by firing all the people who made good games, replacing them with diversity hires, and creating a never-ending stream of DEI courses, programs, initiatives, etc.
People who are good, with a good reputation, who are known for success and know they can work anywhere in the industry left for better jobs with fewer Karens.
The quality of games immediately fell off, but they were able to keep going thanks to the pandemic and a massive infusion of Tencent cash.
The pandemic is over. Their games suck. Their company culture sucks. Everything about them is shit.
Absolutely. They complain about frat house culture, but it's the guys hanging out with other guys that create the best stuff. Frat house culture is the backbone of quality products
@@Barbarossa_Fno it’s not the backbone for quality product also it’s not guys hanging out with other guys it’s a workplace environment with employees many of which are women you need to have a safe and professional workplace it’s not a frat house it’s a fucking game developing studio
Except the quality of AC had already been declining before then so what excuse did they have before DEI hiring?
@@gameoveror7970 idk it was clearly working
@@gameoveror7970whamen can't make good games. They don't know what guys want and hardly any whamen play video games.
My grandma always told me, "I don't care what anyone tells you, the Japanese are black."
LMAO, great reference!😂😂😂😂
I Saw a Guy One time saying Asians were Black then they became "Yellow" and The way he Said was Very racist
IT'S THE TRUTH!!!
That Cleopatra grandma needs to sleep😂😂
"Star wars: Outlaws" but you don't play as an outlaw
"Assassin's creed Shadows" (in Japan) but you don't play as a Japanese person
What's next? The Crew 3 without cars!?😂
You forgot buying without owning
Crew 3 already exists though
It'd be Crew 4.
Well, they do force you to play as a shadow...
Shhhhhh, don’t give them ideas
Thought you were gonna say assassin's creed shadows but you don't play as a shadow
“if they can’t line up a door, what are the odds they can line up a sword fight?” That’s a pretty easy way to sum up the development of AC Shadows. If they’re having this much trouble advertising and accurately portraying the era they’re going with. What are the odds the game will be okay in the first place?
The woman in the video notices EVERYTHING.
And she's DRUNK!
@@ED-gw9rg then what the hell was Ubishit devs on while making this?
Didn't notice Naoe and Yasuke are fighting different people
Naoe: HEAVY ARMORED MACE GUY
Yasuke: Lightly armored defenseless man DON'T WANT NO TROUBLE!
@@xero5727Crystalized ego, tainted with meth. Bought with woke cash.
She’s well on her way to being a fierce tiger mom 😂😂
Yasuke wasn't a samurai. William Adams was a samurai. How would you know that, you ask? William Adams was given a fief, land, titles, serfs to work the land, house servants. What did Yasuke get from Oda again?
Ebt card?
William even has children till this day , his house in Japan is now a museum of his life , and there's also his gravestone , both of which are tourist attraction .
What does Yasuke have again ? A few lines in 3 letters and one book or sth ?
Yeah, but if you see what William Adams looked like, then see how Yasuke looked like. You’d see why it would be impossible for Ubisoft to make a game about the former.
surely there must be a family name for the one name man, surely!
prolly gave him some cats
Ghost of Tsushima did this right years ago, being praised by Japanese and even devs being recognized as ambassadors of Tsushima. Now this ac, will do opposite lol
yet it did the same "mistakes" that called out here. soo idk bout that. they just did a better job hiding it, yet they are pretty obvious
@@Vss077 Did they say that The Ghost of Tsushima was historically accurate?
@@Vss077Which is???😊
@@Vss077What were they?
@@Vss077GoT maincharacter was a Black samurai ninja ? Im truely learning something new every day
They weren't even all petty issues, there's even major cultural issues, beyond mere inconsistencies.
remember when the locals of Tsushima honored Sucker Punch, the developers of Ghost of Tsushima, for the studio's respect & authenticity?
it was also because the fans collected money and gifted it to a temple there, that had one of its torii gates damaged by a typhoon storm. There is an engraving at the foot of the gate, something along the lines of "thanks to the studio sucker punch and its fans for donating the money to replace the torii gate"
The game that completely mischaracterised samurai as bull-headed morons who'd rather die than adopt stealth tactics, had the main character demonised for using fear as a weapon when even The Last Samurai got the samurai's use of fear right, and included weapons and armor from the wrong time period?
@@TamagoSenshi his dads personal believes about samurai on a single island, plenty of the other masters in the game were happy to help him out
@@TamagoSenshi yeah the one that still made a shit ton less mistakes than this piece of shit
@@TamagoSenshi If you do Yuriko's quest, she actually tells you the uncle's ideology isn't agreed by the protagonist's father, and you see how brutal his dad gets in the DLC. While this is my reading of the situation, I don't beleive the Shogun actually prosecutes the protagonist for being the Ghost. It's more about the fact that the Ghost has the ability to rally people and exists outside of the power structure under the Shogun, so the Shogun sees that as a threat and demands him to renounce the Ghost.
I agree the game can give off the impression you describe, but it's not like that if you look closer.
Bro's like "this man will continue Nobunaga's legacy!"
And she just "he has a son..."
Perfect tsukkomi.
How i wish more westerners learn the concept of Tsukkomi-Boke duo comedy.
If you screw up assassins in japan, a clear silver platter, you've got some agenda/bs you're trying to pedal.
Or you're just really bad at your job. Like, legendarily bad.
I really don't think ubi has any competent designers left at the company.
Even total war got It right and They did 3 time periods of Japan. "The begining of The samurai" "The unification of Japan" "and The FALL of The samurai (modern period, Gun pownder and gatlinguns)".
Oda Nobunaga is the most famous general for beating traditional cavalry charge.
Before Nobunaga ,Shinegen
Takeda once was the most closest to conquer Japanese mainland and becoming official guardian with his invincible cavalry and his famous commanders, but Nobunaga responded with combination gunman line for Takeda’s cavalry and changed war once and for all.
AC Shadows is so disrespectful to Japanese history and culture. The Oda family claims lineage from the Fujiwara Clan. The Fujiwara Clan is a powerful clan that has historical influence and maternal ties to the Imperial family. The fact these fucking clowns at Ubisoft is just slapping that crest on their make believe Samurai is insane.
If I remember right even Team Ninja asked permission to include crests of families that were still living and was given the green light for use in Nioh 2
@@Sargaxiist2022 Yeah. These crests and families are significant part of Japanese history and culture. This is why no one should randomly pride the family symbol around like its a joke. The fact they used the Oda clan symbol on their fake Samurai near damn well pretty much implies this Black guy is part of the Fujiwara Clan and has ties with the Imperial family. The Imperial family of Japan is the longest living dynasty in the world and it should not be disrespected like this.
@@NissanSkylineVR30 yeah it's actually crazy. Especially using religious monuments that are strictly forbidden to be used in media
@@NissanSkylineVR30 it also shows that they did zero research for this game. If they had, they would have very quickly realized that they needed permission.
@@Sargaxiist2022 I'm a bit confused by this bc isn't religious Buddha statues also in wukong and even more so
1. Have the first Assassin’s Creed game set in feudal Japan feature none other than a black guy
2. Boast historical accuracy while having countless historical inaccuracies while also making your main character one of the most historically contended figures in Japan
3. Preach diversity and inclusion, but only consult a white Japanese historical expert and make sure the game is made by exclusively white people
I don’t think you could make it more ironic if you tried.
Also they picked a Japanese woman as a cultural expert whose experience consist of writing novels consisting underage boys.
@@ArvPal1no one cares it’s video game bruh
"It's just a door, bro" Yeah. So it should be incredibly easy to fix. Appeals to triviality work both ways.
Doors are actually one of the hardest things to code and develop in games but nevertheless an actually competent team could do that
bro yasuke is breaking the door to show off the exaggerated swagger of a black samurai
As an pretty ordinary old Japanese man I didn't really get the concept of cultural appropriation but thanks to AC Shadow I now understand it as if I had known it since I was born.
These people completely misrepresent what cultural appropriation is too. They think its racist and cultural appropriation if you wear cultural clothing like a kimono or yukata as a foreigner at a japanese festival, but are completely fine with butchering the culture and history of a foreign country.
The first is a celebration and respect of Japanese culture, and i would hope most japanese would see it that way from a foreign tourist. The latter is true cultural appropriation, misrepresenting a culture for financial gains and having no respect for it.
@@declancampbell1277 Yeah, they fail to see the difference between cultural appreciation and appropriation.
When this docu came out where will smiths owner tried to act like cleopatra was black was just so historically wrong and to me it was so absurd to not know that she was a white greek woman that after this docu nothing shocked me anymore. These ppl are literally less educated then i was as an 8 year old i mean how could you possibly take them serious. I personally treat them the same way i tread mentally disabled ppl. I will still respect them as humans but at the same time knowing that thinking can be harder for them sometimes
Well said. And also, I can relate.
@@declancampbell1277 It's the whole "mimicry is the greatest form of flattery" thing. Dressing like another culture and making a genuine effort of it is flattery. Making a game in historical times, inserting a totally awesome and respected OC of another race and having them murder the locals because they're so smart and great and strong and respected and skilled and just better than the locals isn't mimicry or flattery, it's an insult.
My grandmother used to tell me, "I don't care what they tell you, the Japanese...were black."
Netflix’s Cleopatra catching stray bullets 😭 That thing is an abomination
Her name? Rosa Parks.
Blackanese.
Black Myth YouWrong
Dude, no way, my grandma told me the same exact thing! And she was white and was born during the Great Depression. This many people can NOT be wrong.
Japanese people tearing this game down is always very funny. This game is the equivalent of "I watch a ton of anime, I'm somewhat of an expert on Japan culture."
@@SlimeWithGlasses Japanese people complaining about historical accuracy of Assassin’s Creed is like British people complaining that in Fate franchise.
@@3rdHalf1 Valhalla is an insult to English history as well.
@@def3ndr887 And AC2 had flying machines in 1450 Venice. But back then gamers complained about bugs and glitches, not historical accuracy.
This whole social justice crusade for representation of Japan in unreleased AC game seems like rage-bait for sake of drama.
@@3rdHalf1 you didnt even watch this video didnt you 😂😂😂
@@3rdHalf1 because AC knew what it was which was a game where you go around stabbing people no questions asked. But for some reason they got stupid and started bringing in people from history such as Alfred the Great and portray him in such a insulting manner. I cannot stress this enough Alfred. The. Great what part of great did they contrive as tyrannical and corrupt as the character we got from Valhalla. Lately it’s also becoming a projection for their hatred of Christians.
Would be funny if Assassin's Creed Shadows is banned to play in Japan
Sucker Punch were a white team, but at least they consulted with actual Japanese people for accuracy.
The Japanese adored GOT too. SP showed respect.
But ubisoft did consult with at least one Japanese person, its just that the person they did talk to was a yaoi fanfic writer.
@@rebeltheharem7028 pdf yaoi fanfic* 😅
@@rebeltheharem7028 And is probably like a 4th-5th gen Japanese never having stepped foot on Japanese soil lol
They were even made as ambassadors to the area cus they did such a good job
I can't understand how it got that bad.
Actual historians in ancient greek history were amazed about the detail in AC Odyssey.
That was nearly a decade ago when they would've been working on pre production for it, a lot has changed since then.
Didn’t that game get a lot of things wrong too?
@@blakecampbell-taylor2865 not to mention 50% of enemies were literally women. I just couldn't play the game after being forced to roleplay as a dude in ancient Greece brutally murdering camps of women
当時のスタッフはほとんど残っていないからです😅
tbh it looks like they were pressed to release a trailer before even remotely getting to polish the game, probably because of time constraints due to dead lines of other projects
I love when Yaskue looked dead at the camera and said "It's Yasuke-in' time" 10/10 I cried
Timestamp?
My credit score will reach the heavens!
@@johnniepeters2717Watch the video, it's there.
@@johnniepeters2717 45:03
It would be awesome if they could get the Oda clan to make a statement on how their crest was used without permission, and that they want it and Yasuka removed entirely.
Can't wait for the African Assassin's Creed with an Irish ginger guy as the protagonist.
That's actually what's gonna happen lol
That would never happen. A white character will never take a black characters role, only vice versa.
Isn't this just skull and bones at this point though.
Sheamus O'maley defends his land and takes back Rhodesia
You mean Japanese
I'm black and even I wanted This game to feature a Japanese male protagonist. But saying that makes me one of the "Chuds" 🤪
Internalised racism, obviously
Don't worry dude. Being called a Chud is a badge of honor.
isnt that called internalised racism or oppression or something?? uknow what the good ppl of the modern audience would call u
Same here man. Like, I don't have a huge problem with Yasuke as a playable character, but I would much rather have a Japanese male character instead.
@Jack-cc3qm
Chud pride world wide :D
I've lived in Japan for 5 years and yes, they don't make rice fields close to a fucking river there, not a single one.. So Ubslop really has no idea what the fuck they are doing.
If I just google "rice fields", though, there are an awful lot of pics of rice fields along rivers. Must be ok sometimes. 🤷♂
@@brandonholt6717they are alongside creeks and not rivers , creeks are much more stable and slower flowing and so not disrupt the plants
dude....i fucking peruvian and we dont plant potatoes near the river either.....IT S COMMON SENSE.
That's not true. Rice specificaly is one of the few plants often grown in shallow water. Next to a river especially in a era where pumps don't exist is the ideal spot.
But thomas lockley said they do 😮
It's even worse. You CANNOT be a samurai without a family/clan name. There's records of Yasuke existing in Japan, but he never was given a family/clan name. He was just a servant to Oda Nobunaga.
The funny thing about this is that every criticism for AC: Shadows about stuff on the history it was based on, the references that probably needed permission for use, the buildings, weather, etc.
.... it makes you think of how much trouble and care Ghost of Tsushima went through.
Like weapons from 400 years in the future and the samurai not acting anything like historical samurai?
@@TamagoSenshiGhost of Tsushima was never meant to be accurate though. A studio representative called it a "cheeseburger samurai"(comparing it to a spaghetti western) game, where the Samurai/Shinobi fantasy took priority.
But Tsushima was handled with way more care by Sucker Punch than this, honestly. Every open world made by Ubi since and including Origins is full of reused assets and weird architecture. Even Origins' box art is a mish mash of everything in Egypt, put together in a 20 meter radius just to look cool. It's not a big deal since it's a cover art and it's supposed to sell, but still. Ever since they moved away from city maps to full on country-sized behemoths of open worlds, their quality and attention to detail have been declining exponentially.
@@TamagoSenshi except the lead developer always stated they weren't going for historical accuracy but going for a more chanbara cinema style (they even gave a chanbara film camera filter). So yes they used warring states armour and they give them daisho but they did give you access to a Kamakura-era armour and a tachi so you could choose to be more historically accurate if you wanted.
@@TamagoSenshi like those who previously responded you. At least Suckerpunch didnt promote itself by saying it was historically accurate "experience Japan". It's an example of how to respect the culture, not appropriate it.
Not to mention, Ghost of Tsushima is a game the Japanese really liked.
"Player fantasy..."
Always fantasized about being a non japanese samurai. Real immersive.
Shows tunnel vision of the management that there are a lot of other problems in the trailer. Makes me think the Quality Assurance for this game is more mythical than this Yasuke at this point.
As a French gamer I reiterate that we are sorry about Ubisoft existing at this point. This company started to die 11 years ago and died definitely 6 years ago.
I'm ashamed for real in front on my screen right now.
Thanks for your valuable input. When many Japanese got to know UBI, we wondered what France was like, where the company is located. Soon we understood it by the Paris Olympics. We saw how they insulted religion, had no respect for history, stole culture in the name of art, and were shamelessly proud of it. And they dismissed their critics as racists. That was exactly what UBI did. I just hope your thoughts are protected.
貴重な意見をありがとう。大勢の日本人がUBIを知って会社があるフランスがどんなところか知りたいと考えた
すぐにパリオリンピックを見て、彼らが宗教を侮辱し、歴史に敬意を払わず、芸術の名のもとに文化を盗んで恥を知らず誇っていることを知った
そして批判に対しては差別主義者として排除する、まさにUBIがやったことだった。ただ、あなたの考えを尊重したいと思う
@@kurenai-7743 ありがとうございました。
あなたの国を守ってください。
@@kurenai-7743 Seriously your Comment is a Piece of Art. Not only is your English freaking perfect, even the translated Text is absolutely flawless.
Is there anything you Asians are not perfect at? 😂😭
They made Alfred the Great a ignorant tyrant in Valhalla, what were we expecting from these idiots.
@@ahabduennschitz7670mfer stop the glazing💀
I have this feeling that ubi can't even sell the game in japan due to all the copyright issues with clan emblems, crests, locations and art work
And just because it's public domain in everywhere else in the world doesn't mean the law is the same in Japan
What's crazy is how they taught they could disrespect an entire nation and get away with it.
What's crazy is how TurtleChad thought they could copy and paste comments and get away with it
@@RGisOnlinehe did lol
@@RGisOnlineBut he gets away with it all the time
Of course they thought so, they disrespect America all the time
@@RGisOnline”get away with it”?
Wdym?
What should the punishment be?
They made the black guy blinged out in the most golden ornate Kabuto ever to assert his value over everyone, because Black Lives Matter
Meanwhile they made the woman as plain clothed and covered up as possible because her body should be in no way a focal point in her design.
This is some Anitaa Sarkeesian mental gymnastic design
because we wuz samurai n' sheeit.
@@AysarAburrub br0 i tried to comment this and youtube keeps deleting my shit 😂
Gold armor combines with American rap Japanese Battle music broooo
@@j0hndeeyou’ve been put in time out. Gotta say everything in code round here
@@AysarAburrubcause dem zamurais n sheet loved bling bling since the beginning of humankind😂
Ubisoft either needs to
A.Hire better game developers
B.Hire a better editing team
C.Sell the company or something
Ubi team is littery 70% female. And no im not talking about the talented based 1 in a 10 women, im talking about the other 9 in a 10 women, those are the one making all the shots.
D. Hire some better goddamn writers because good lord that dialogue in the gameplay showcase was awful
For me it looks like they destroy the company on purpose 😅
D. Divorce ALL interaction with Sweet Baby Inc. That group is literally video game Poison.
They need to fire everyone first
Onimusha was more historically accurate than Assassin's Creed.
The fact that it took TWO drunk people to catch all of their mistakes while a whole corporation didn't?!?!?
now compare Ghosts of Tsushima that had basically the same issues nobody even complained about.... nvm its not from ubisoft.
@@Vss077did it now?
Those drinks must've buffed their focus
A lot of this is kind of knit picking.
@@Vss077these same two people who made this video made the same kind of video for Ghost of Tsushima, they actually praised the historical authenticity and technical competency of that game compared to Shadows.
It's not just because it's Ubisoft, it's because this game sucks compared to GoT since Sucker Punch actually cared about their setting, gameplay and immersion, unlike Ubisoft.
Defenders probably don't understand this, but saying "UBI's Yasuke is a historical figure" is the same as saying "Netflix's Cleopatra is a historical figure."
Naturally, the Egyptians Greeks and Japanese would protest, saying, "That's a lie."
What they have in common is that if everything except the name is a lie, then they can't be called historical figures.and The act of claiming that they are historical figures is extremely political.
In this case, "it's just a fiction" and "it's just a game" don't cut it.
Because If there was no political intent, they have made them fictional characters from the start.
No one cares. Buy it or don't.
While the whole historical debate is definitely interesting, it doesn't change my opinion of the game at all.
Who cares if he was a Samurai or not. Picking the only notable black man in the country, as the protagonist of an AC game set in Japan, is an insult, and obviously was done for the usual, predictable reasons. Screw that.
@@jfelton3583 the higher dislikes on the trailers would beg to differ 🤣
They could've even gotten away with it if they hadn't used the term "historically accurate" as a selling point. Your protagonist is as historically inaccurate as it gets, and you say that?
You're just lying now, man. You said this was accurate to the Sengoku period and you do this from the start?
At least plenty of other media set in this time and place don't use "historically accurate" as a descriptor, let alone a selling point
@@Forbidden_Chocolate no one cares about y'all crying. there's thousands of pre orders right now fkn the dislikes
Quadruple A Game Features :
1) Sword That goes into your skin
2) Anti-Snow Armor
3) Globally Warmed Head that prevents snow falling on your head
4) Convenient moldy trapdoor in roof that leaks rain
5) UbiTech™ : Floating Japanese slide doors for rats and air
6) Convenient laid out Maps that are top secret
7) Ink that never dry
8) Bamboo sword from future
9) AI Generated Hands
10) Anti-snow roof
11) Yasuke has a DmC Mindset now
12) Invincible hips
13) Seaths are broken cuz why not
14) Yasuke stole Oda's sword (confirmed by our japanese cultural consultant)
15) The only game where you will find this specific religious statue
16) Player choices matter? Well yes, but actually no
17) Floating bullets (©X-files)
18) Asymmetrical alignment of door and stairs
19) Surprise make out session before killing an enemy.
20) When you thrust your blade in enemy's neck, blood comes out from stomach.
21) Ubitech™ : Wood platforms turns into bamboo
22) Highly accurate seasons system according to our trustworthy and legit japanese cultural consultant.
Extras :
1) Moonwalking horse
2) Metal Gear Rising Raiden's sword technique
All enhanced by Cyberpunk ahh bugs™ (©CDprojectred)
And Japan have only 2 seasons: A mix of spring, summer and autmn, and the other one is winter.
19) surprise make out session before killing an enemy
You missed, wood platform turns to bamboo.
@@GuessWho115 Added all
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Not only did Oda have a son. Yasuke's only documented combat encounter was trying to defend him.
The problem with Yasuke is that every other AC protagonist was an original character that obviously didnt exist so they stood in that Gray Area where you could make believe that maaaybe they existed but theres just no records of them. With Yasuke, we know he was around but by that we know he couldnt be a higher-up warrior, otherwise it would be recorded, so the make believe zone is out of the paper window.
And the argument that "oh you all hate it because its a black person" is complete bull. We had Bayek in Origins and he is definitely one of the best protagonists in AC.
It literally makes no sense to not have a Japanese samurai as one of the main characters. Like bro every assassins creed game has had the character be from the region they operate in
Wasn’t the black flag protagonist British despite that game taking place in the carribean
@@d-boi9785 Welsh, I think. But it took place at a time when lots of people were sailing the world, so it made sense there.
@d-boi9785 History dork here. The Caribbean was a MAJOR area for a huge amount of countries to go to. Think of it like this: Newly discovered areas of land are roadkill and the superpowers of old are buzzards. They want to get in there to colonize/eat up that roadkill immediately. And Britain is meme’d about for having gone crazy with colonialism, so…
Beware of troll.
@d-boi9785 Yes. Because it's a sailing game and that was the ethnicity of a significant group of the sailors there
The girl Japanese commenting on the video has an astonishing amount of attention to detail. She's looking at details I didn't even consider
Non gamer perspective
Please we need a full playthrough of this absolute masterpiece
this couldn't be any funnier, a perfect analogy: "look how smart he is" and he's sitting on the floor trying to read a book that he's holding upside down
Ubisoft really hired a staff of "I just work here" kind of people.
A lot of companies are turning into this. Not just game studios. DEI literally ruins everything it touches.
reminds me of that dude from Office Space who was laid off 5 years ago but kept getting paid because of a glitch in payroll lol. I bet if we audit Ubisoft we'll find a few of those.
Its crazy how right Ghost of Tsushima got it that the island of Tsushima made a monument in the game's honor of respect and is beloved in Japan. Then you see the opposite side with Assassins Creed and it looks like a slap to the face at almost each frame.
I love how she spots all the discrepancies immediately
Its crazy Ubisoft didn't even understand how the Japanese language was written before showing a character writing Japanese in a story game set in yk... Japan
Man I really hope this happens:
1. Japan is currently gathering information on everything
2. Ubi releases the game as trash as it's advertised
3. They go lose money to an insane degree due to low sales
4. They get get sued for the many, many legit reasons
They won't lose money because AC is massive on casuals. I know many people at work who don't know about this drama and even after knowing they don't care, but at Ubi they're likely not going to make as much as they need to calm their allegedly angry investors. If the flagship title doesn't become a massive success they're in trouble.
@@mahuk.They are gonna lose alot of money on this, if u account that sony and steam takes 30% of all sales with how negative the casual player base is ubi might not even break even on production cost.
@@mahuk. They lost money with Star Wars outlaw. Mirage wasn't exactly a success either, it just did ok. Ubisofts IP has been on the downward spiral for a while now.
@@mahuk.Usually true, AC has too many fanatical followers that will just consume whatever it is with AC logo slapped on it, no matter how bad it is.
But hey, we are in the times when big AAA budget games fail hard like concord or even outlaw, who knows what will happen at this point
Also if the stock can work as somekind of parameter, id say this time it mostlikely gonna have different outcome than the usual
@@mahuk. You could say the same thing about star wars, since there are star wars fans, but without the trying to calm angry investors at star wars time of production. Look where it is now.
1. Samurai were originally archers, hence they had armour bits that were relevant for archers. He's saying that at this point in time the samurai were using guns and thus had no need for those archer-related armour pieces. Not that there were no archers left in general.
2. The problem with the guard's spear is how intricately it is carved and detailed. It is a show piece, whereas in reality a basic guard would have had a cheap spear, a spearhead on the end of a pole, no frills.
I think the bullets frozen in time is probably the most egregious because they're just floating there in like 3 shots in a row, and this is their best foot forward. Even if the other things are historical nitpicks, that one thing alone just shows there's no attention being paid and the people putting this together had no time.
The family behind the emblem indeed have pointed out Ubisoft has no permission to use it
Interesting, have all Sengoku games been asking perms all this time?
@@OdaManjiro Yup. The Japanese in general are VERY protective of Cultural Properties like Family Crests of Daimyo or Temple/Shrine specific items or architectures or hell, even specific ways (literal schools) of forging katana are protected under Japanese Law so that they aren't abused. Or, like we see with the Buddhist Statue pointed out in the video, aren't used at all due to religious reasons.
If you can, I implore you to search up the National Treasures of Japan to give you an idea of how seriously they take this.
@@Tsurf Wow. Koei and Capcom must have all the old families set for an email blast whenever they're about to do a Basara or Nobunaga no Yabou or whatever.
@@OdaManjiro japan has some of the most strict copyright laws you midwit
@@BigUpsWingBoy4000 No shit. When did I disagree? Funnily enough it wasn't always that way; that's why Lupin III exists.
Some Japanese games in the past have used texture and sound libraries (standard industry practice for a long time) without permission so I figured I'd ask out of curiosity.
I love how they made Yasuke basically a white guy with brown skin and dreads. They couldn't have given him any phenotypical traits that are normally associated with africans, because it would have been "racist".
Ok, but he is East African and they tend to look alot more European. See Obama.
@@thesenate5956 people were blacker century ago.
@@thesenate5956you are a bit rtrded lol Obama is mixed like most African Americans
@@thesenate5956 Obama is half-white, genius.
@@exu7325he's right that east africans (at least somalis/ethiopians) have some more "caucasoidal" features.
We wuz samurai. We wuz Cleopatra. We wuz Ariel. We wuz viking queens. We wuz green knight. We wuz english queen. We wuz Napoleon. We wuz scandinavian gods. We wuz dwarves and elves. We wuz slavic characters in Witcher. Only thing we not wuz is African.
I would like to see black people in cinema about WW2 as a german nazi. I would watch it.
@@thomasgrey9121at least there were some black africans in the north africa corps.
@@thomasgrey9121 That's the only time you'll ever get to see the Nazis portrayed as good guys
@@thomasgrey9121 nah, only blue eyed demons are allowed to be cast as nazis - hollywood probably
@@thomasgrey9121 Black nazis existed, bud.
That assasin creed jump into haystack is the most iconic game thing. It doesn't need to be logical since that itself is what made that game so unique and iconic.
Japanese appreciated their history and culture prob more than anyone on this planet and ubi has some balls to ruined it AND say that japanese shouldnt talk about it because they know better than the natives, the audacity is off the roof
Except for 1930-1945
I think it's funny too because Ghost of Tsushima got THRASHED and it's so reverent and respectful of culture.
@@TheRetrostorianonly got attacked by the "inclusive" crowd. Japanese people loved it, even made the creators ambassadors. And so did everyone else.
Watching Ubisoft evolve on AC Shadows from the first trailer to now has been kinda amazing, when the first trailer hit the messaging was “the black samurai is 100% historically accurate, anyone who says otherwise is a racist” and now we are at “guys, assassins creed has never been historically accurate, chill. Preorder the game plz”
gaslighting in it's final form
The very smart black samurai writing a single giant word THE WRONG WAY.
Just... what?
Heres me thinking, I've never played Assassin's Creed before, oh its set in Japan, cool, maybe I'll start here.
(Why start with an earlier game?, better quality, apparently)
Thank you, UA-cam algorithm, for your recommendations and saving my wallet from crippling depression.
I remember when the first game came out when I was in middle school. It was super repetitive, but you could tell it was the start of something special. I let go at Unity, and it seems like Ubisoft did too.
For people thinking that a lot of the things shown are minor and don't really affect the game, I think there's a bigger over encompassing issue here.
As someone that's been involved in the trailer creation process, these things are interally scrutinised, frame-by-frame, and any issues are removed. Even for gameplay trailers, specific builds or scenes are created to be absolutely perfect.
So what's happened here?
Are they so rushed that the didn't have time to properly clean up their big trailer? And keep in mind the marketing schedule would've been written up, confirmed, and shared way in advance, so they knew ages ago this has to be made.
Or, has this trailer actually been fully scrutinised? And they've fixed a whole heap of issues, and removed shocking bugs, changed certain angles of things to make things look good, made specific demo builds for individual fights scenes, etc. And these are the bugs that STILL remain?
This lack of quality control for a promotional piece is shocking and indicitive of much bigger issues in the game (and company) itself.
It's simple shoddy craftsmanship. When little things show up, like doors not bothering to line up with stairs, or swords poking through sheaths, you just know there is no passion with the game dev team overall. This game could completely sink Ubi. But I'm ready to be entertained by it (only on UA-cam though lol)
Ubisoft: "We care about culture" just not Japanese culture
*"East Asian culture nor their men". There fixed it for you.
Nothing like a Quebecois frenchie talking about historic Japan and its artistic history like they didnt get everything from google.
And mixing chinese cuz they cant tell them apart
Plz dont put all of us in the same basket because that game is a disgrace and even as a Quebecois theres no way im buying that piece of garbage
As a Brit, hating the French is a rich part of our cultural history. Its a fun, enjoyable and worthwhile past-time.
They are from France.
@@robr135 You are obviously clueless about accents from Quebec and those from France. Those people are 100% Quebecers.
ACSについて動画を作ってくれて、ありがとうございます。
日本についての真偽を確かめようと、このゲームに注目してくれる人が多いようで、日本人としてとっても嬉しいです。
Thank you for making the video about ACS.
As a Japanese, I am very happy to see that so many people are paying attention to this game to see the truth about Japan.
"If hes so damn smart then why is he writing at the end of the scroll?" 😂😂😂 God that killed me 😂 still laughing, it was just so fitting
Cause he was smartest of 'em all 😂