Dude seriously. Wait till the game comes out. You pay them they bank the money and make interest, then the game comes out and perhaps totally stinks. I never understood preorder, like they will run out? Especially now when even game consoles you just download and install it? I like physical copies personally. I really hope consoles at least continue to use physical media. Unfortunately those days may be over. Such a shame. I still like using CD for music or Blu-ray for movies.
Don't get me wrong, I hate this and ubisoft but Netflix labeled there's as a documentary and this clearly a sci-fi fantasy game that is loosely based on history. Plus Netflix is based in US I believe where anyone can sue for almost anything and ubisoft is based in France where laws regarding lawsuits are more strict
I am Japanese. Yasuke was not samurai since only upper bushi 武士 was called samurai 侍 before Edo period. Becoming bushi 武士 was easier but becoming samurai 侍 was not in Sengoku era the warring period compared to the peaceful Edo period. Yasuke had only a shortest katana for himself, no long katana, no middle katana and he had no surname. Samurai had official surname and long/middle Katana around his waist. And Yasuke was a stuff carrier for one year, and he was never a warrior samurai in real history.
I knew there was a black man in the history of japan who was pretty strong but I honestly thought he was a samurai which is why I was wondering what's going on when I saw this video but I didn't know that Yasuke was never a samurai but thanks for explaining that part of history and correcting my incorrect knowledge😅
@@ericb-amuur9897 not true. False information. The site you look at gave false information. I bet you also saw the documentary that said Cleopatra was Black.
@@ericb-amuur9897Lmao he was a American slave that ended up in Japan he is not “black Japanese” and he is the only recorded black in Japanese history, there was also a English samurai doesn’t mean we center a game about Japan on a English guy just cuz at one point he was there, ps not everything you google is true, history content is full of lies even more if it involves blacks, looking up black Japanese on Google is not actually evidence of anything besides your misunderstanding of what evidence is. I bet you don’t even know what androvono culture is but think history is white washed, or what a indo European language is
Yasuke (弥助 or 弥介) was a man, likely of African origin, who served as a servant and retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga in 1581-1582, during the Sengoku period. He was retained by the daimyō as a koshō (小姓, page) for a period of 15 months until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident. And Yasuke was the only African and first non-Japanese samurai. His story began around 1579 in Edo Japan. Not much is known about his life before arriving in Japan. Some say he was from the country of Mozambique and came to Japan on a ship with an Italian missionary named Alessandro Valignano on an inspection tour. These are the most common ones you'll find about him. 🤷
And that's exactly what it is white liberals who hate their own race doing this shit they also consider Asians as white so go figure that they do this to them.
@@mangostickyrice9781 actually you can, and it would be more interesting. Imagine your character is fighting back against the slave traders within his own tribe, or an opposing tribe...and then he has to make deals with the British Navy to help free slaves.
I had know idea that the only thing black people want, is to be white people or Japanese or Egyptian Etc. Of course it isn't black people that are saying it. It's privileged white women, usually
@@DeuceGod Slavery is fine as long as it isn't white people participating in it. Will you be purchasing the $70 version or the $2,000 day one edition that let's you play as a "Black Samurai" 15 minutes early?
@@DeuceGod The reference to him in historical records doesn't even say he's african. The reference apparently is so vague that the man is likely actually Indian or even Ainu (and they were very racist back then, too).
WHAT THE PHUCK??!! I can see Rick Moranis & his 2nd in command from “Spaceballs” talking about this: “Preparing to lose money, sir!” “Why are you always ‘preparing’ just GO.”
Actually, you're not far off. Ive seen the term "white adjacent" cropping up more and more. Asians are being left out of the diversity umbrella more and more often. I strongly believe this is due to their success when they immigrate to other countries. They don't fit the narrative of some vague systematic racism that keeps POC down. They also tend to have very conservative views in a lot of Asian countries.
they try to cancel everything that is homogeneus. Look at Kingdom Come Deliverence were they were outraged that only whites are in the game. Demanded it has to be changed before it was released
@@CommanderRedEXE then clearly you dont read on IGN or other woke game sites, well done, yeah they came out said it was cultural appropriation, racist etc, meanwhile japan loved it so much they made sucker punch official ambassadors to the tsushima island
Yeah while the audience praised Ghost of Tsushima, games media like kotaku and ign claimed it was racist and cultural appropriation that a western studio made it. Because of course they did
SPOILER WHY THIS WRITING SUCH BAD AND I HATE IT just look for the doctor who is the source of these assassins shadow and you will be surprised at what ubislop did, she made a book about monks from feudal Japan who raped small children, especially boys. WHY UBISLOP WHY YOU HIRE THIS TYPE OF PERSON
diversity only means black people. Because talking only abt black people get them donations and funding from soros foundation. Just like Qatar donations make them protest against Israel !!
Sail the high seas or if you absolutely must, wait for 90% discounts a few years down the road. Just the sail the high seas and save your money for companies who don't hate you.
Yasuke was never a samurai; he was merely a retainer (ie. squire) with no swordfighting capabilities and they just kept him around because he was a curiosity. Also, having such an easily recognizable person as an assassin is just laughable.
Same thing for William Adams who was a glorified adviser for the Shogun. Despite the movie The Last Samurai, William Adams never fought on the battlefield or trained as a Samurai.
@@Bird-Birdy-Love William Adams never fought on the battlefield, nor was he ever trained as a Samurai. William Adams was a glorified adviser. Calling him a Samurai is the equivalent of calling Elton John a real Knight. Lol William Adams bio: "Ieyasu made William Adams an official adviser. Over the next few years, Adams helped Ieyasu modernize his fleet by building Western-style ships. In return, Adams was given a rich estate in Japan along with two swords, the traditional badge of rank for a samurai. The samurai were a class of warriors in Japan similar to European knights. They pledged their loyalty to a lord and fought for him in battle in exchange for his protection. But there was a more mundane side to the samurai as well. During the 17th century, the samurai gradually became bureaucrats who handled the day-to-day management of the country. This was closer to Adams’ role as the first English samurai. After all, it’s unlikely he would have fared well on the battlefield at a time when the average samurai trained for years to master the complex skills of archery, horsemanship, and swordsmanship that Japanese warfare required."
I am a retired historian. 25 years ago a black woman who claimed to be a professor wrote to me and asked me to tell her more about black Vikings. I have a bit of an expert on Vikings I've written a couple books on the subject. I read back to her that I did not know of any black Vikings assuming she meant African. She said that it was absolutely true that blacks from Africa used to go on Viking raids with Viking ships rather frequently and it was common knowledge. I asked her to give me an example and she'd give me some black historian who in my opinion made this up. I told her after looking in all my books I could find no reference to a black African who was a Viking. Anywhere in the history. I did say I did find it one Arab who went up to the Viking lands in the 10th century and he observed a Viking funeral and wrote about it. It was a rather famous extract. She never wrote back but now here we are 25 years later and they're putting into practice their bogus theories of blacks being Japanese Vikings Europeans and every other culture they're trying to supplant us for some reason.
it's what you get by just ignoring everything and let people shout ' it's just a game ' , rewriting of history should never be allowed no matter the medium
@@Streetrocker28That's a bit hyperbolic. You're pretty much stating that historical fiction shouldn't exist as a genre. I don't care if Yokai don't exist, I still want to have the right to play a game like Nioh. I can't help if some kid plays Nioh and thinks Japan was plagued by demonic monsters.
Ive been arguing with normies who continuously claim a "retainer" is a "Samurai" and that Yasuke was a warrior before comming to japan and fought many battles in the 3 yrs he was in japan and even more after leaving japan. I just laugh cause litetally none of that is accurate.
If you look up retainer for the use in japanese. It says: “ a retainer a vassal in feudal Japan, usually a samurai providing military services.” He also received a stipend, swords, and a home. Which what a samurai vassal has. I wish white people would stop crying about knowing history more than the actual Japanese who have confirmed he existed and aren’t mad. Could they have had a Japanese MC yes, but to just say this man didn’t exist because he’s black is asinine.
@jc7850 key word there being usually a Samurai, thing is Japanese people arnt on board with this game at all, while yes they acknowledge "Yasuke" exsisted and he was made a "retainer" by Nobunaga and was given a "short sword" not the traditional 3 swords and he was given the name "Yasuke" which means "peaceful helper" but what he wasnt given was a Surname so therfore he was definitely not a Samurai because no Samurai, retainer or not, has ever exsisted without a surname. Yasuke was a slave sold to Nobunaga by the Jesuits because Nobunaga had never seen a black person before and loved to collect "odities" which to him a 6 foot tall black man was a very great Odity that Nobunaga loved to parade around having Yasuke carry his tools for him. The only reason yasuke was made retainer was because as Lord, Nobunaga couldnt be seen spending so much time with a low ranked slave. Yasuke is such a footnote in japanese history we dont even know his name and wouldnt even know he exsisted at all except for a few mentions in Nobunaga's journal, to which nothing mentions yasuke as being anymore than entertainment for Nobunaga.
I'm honestly shocked they even went with Yasuke and didn't just make their own character. That said, stopped caring for AC after Origins came out for many reasons, so this doesn't surprise or affect me anyway.
And either way, since when do we play as the historical character in AC games, instead of someone else who is surrounded by actual historical figures? Out of all the millions of people in Japan at the time, they chose to have a main character who was literally one in over 10 million, and who most likely indeed was not a samurai at all.
Yup, he's a real dude but literally was just a slave who happened to be good at fighting and learned how to use a Japanese fighting style while under the tutelage of one of the best minds of his time in Oda Nobunaga.
@@JonySmith-bb4gx we have never once played as an actual historical figure before always a fictional character, why are they changing it now? Also alienating their entire Japanese audience, my friends I have spoken to in Japan find it very racist that of all the incredible Japanese historical figures they chose someone not Japanese in their game based in Japan.
Yasuke's life: After the death of his lord, Nobunaga, he was the first to surrender to the enemy, and was spared execution because he was not a samurai. He left Japan with missionaries and returned to the path of slavery.
vote with your wallet after all the shareholders care about money and not dei. they think dei will boost sales when these dei plebs are less than 20%. great strategy to alienate 80% of your customer base. let them fail, who cares.
Husband has some very long-time friends in Japan, bor-raised-live there. One has parents who are HISTORIANS. There's NO such thing as a 'black samurai', there never was. There was an african male, a Eunuch, who was made a low ranking retainer by one of the Feudal lords, but there's so little about and NO genuinely solid info that this 'yasuke' even existed. NO grave, NO records of substance. This is just more Black Supremacist fascist Bs.
See my problem isn’t with yasuke..my problem is they went to Japan which is a country that has thousands of years of history , we went to Egypt we got ane Egyptian character , we went to Italy we got an Italian ,we go to Japan to tell a story about japan and get a black dude …make it make sense yasuke wasn’t even an actual samurai, they have made that man seem bigger than he actually was cause he’s black
@@Shhadow023They managed to sneak in a BM/AF pairing into feudal Japanese history, which is saying a lot. I'd love to see them try to do that to Chinese history, but the woke never dare to offend China.
All AC main was fictional character who interact with historical figures. Only in Japan they use the Only Black Man in there at that time, who stay only short period of time as caddy & court jester for Oda Nobunaga the full blown Samurai MC. If they really want use historical character, why not Hattori Hanzo, He legendary Samurai/Ninja at that timeline but they won't because he not fit for Agenda.
Jesus is a Jew. Skin color was probably tan/brown since they were outdoors and he traveled so much. Black fatigue is real. They’re worshipped these days.
@@natemyers4946 Everyone but you knows he was a semite. Have you seen pictures of semites - they look like tanned white people. Another semite; Muhammed was described as having skin as white as the moon.
By biggest, I'm assuming he was referring to the production cost:presumed lack of sales ratio. I still love playing the AC games despite the cringe. I'm old though, I wait until they're free on PS Plus. I no longer need games to be brand new, they just need to be new to me. The extreme stagnation in graphics improvement makes it pretty easy...
I see so many people arguing over whether he was a retainer or a samurai. IT DOES NOT MATTER. He is there as a token to score points, just like they have made the female character look like a man with a flat chest, huge jawline, small eyes, etc. The motives were toxic so whether he was a samurai in real life is irrelevant. Even as funny as it is for them to think a xenophobic feudal Japan lord would ever have made a black foreigner a samurai.
Someone Posted this in another comment section and I just wanted to paste this to show JUST HOW WOKE of a decision this was... "the "Japanese Historical Expert" that they hired for this game, Sachi Schmidt-Hori and who IGN interviewed in their puff piece about this game, is an expert in gender studies investigating romantic relationships with adolescent boys. No I am not kidding, she studies "investigating how gender, sexuality, corporeality and power are represented and negotiated in pre seventeenth century Japanese narratives and illustrations". These are not my words, this is what is written on her university page. Edit: She wrote a book called 'Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives'. So yeah, here's your Japanese expert."
the "adolescents" in those historical documents were often 19 year old men finishing up there training to become samurai and actual evidence suggests it was often a reciprocated relationship when one did happen
Ghost of Tsushima sold like crazy and was even praised by the COUNTRY of JAPAN for how good it was. This game will bomb and Ubi will be like.......WHY? Their game sold, why didn't ours? What was different? LET IT BURN. And for all of you who are going to play it "for free" when it hits PS PLUS, well, YOU'RE STILL SUPPORTING THEM. They still make money when people play the games and they still get all of the playtime hours from all you "renegades" who don't like it enough to pay for it but will play it for free because you just can't say no and play something else. You're still helping them and you're still making them think that people WANT this trash because, "look at all these hours played!" You're not accomplishing anything if you give in at the end and play it anyway. Free or otherwise. Either stand for your principles or shut up and nuzzle at the teet of the message. You can't do both.
Well he was likely kept as a bodyguard because of how giant he was. There is no evidence that suggests he was a samurai, though there is no evidence he was not either
@@theredknight9314 he wasnt even a bodyguard, its documented that he only really carried nobunagas weapons, menaing he was a personal delivery boy at best
@@bigfrankfraser1391 At most, he was supposed to withhold Nobunaga's weapons from anyone but Nobunaga himself. He would have been forced to kill anyone who tried to take the weapons, or die trying to stop them. A guard dog.
@@bigfrankfraser1391 now thats false. We know from the Jesuits accounts, he was regarded by nobunaga as stronger then 10 men and travelled with him everywhere as a form of protection.
what this game is, an excellent example of cultural appropriation. 1) yaskue was from 1800s japan, the story takes place in the 1400s, when he would have been killed due to japan's xenophobia. 2) he was a retainer for a samurai, not a samurai in his own right. so they got his story wrong. 3) they gave him "dreadlocks", which originated in germania or austria region, then migrated to nordic countries, and is now called the "dutch braid". it traveled to africa via nordic raids on the african coast.
I have been WAITING for a Japanese set Assassin's Creed game for SO LONG. Now I'm not going to play this. This is insane. I love Japanese culture. Now it's just gone and jumped off the woke cliff. I'm out ubisoft
@Particle_Ghost already played it. Sekiro is great. I want more Samurai/ ninja games. What's wrong with that? I want the games to feature the people of that culture and to represent that era, especially if it is supposed to be "historic." This is a huge fail.
I played most AC games up to this point. I waited more than a decade for a Japan setting. Ghost of Tsushima was amazing. I won't be buying any more Ubisoft games ever after they make the protagonist a black fake samurai.
thats because the devs of tsushima were fans of akira kurosawa movies and wanted to make a game that had kurosawas essence in it, meaning tsushima is way better because the devs wanted to make a good game for people to enjoy
The question people need to ask is: why? What would destroying these companies accomplish in the long-term? This isn't a matter of incompetence, but of something much bigger and darker. What will this lead to?
@@thatsoab2545 The long term consequence will be the total collapse of white owned entertainment media and subsequent subversion of it. For the interests of those who want to erradicate whites from the planet. We are already seeing how all of these same profile sub-people infiltrate companies and put their own in places of power. We already saw it in Russia with the Commies, specially the Majorist-Minorist marxist feud.
That's the exact opposite of how esg works. They'll be fine, and you'll ask the clouds 'why do they keep doing this? Do they hate money? When will they go bankrupt'? Lol
@@stinkfinga4918they are falling but slowly. There are still morons who will buy their games and keep them alive for a while but definetly falling apart slowly.
oh man, a fictional game about travelling back in time through genetic memories is taking artistic liberties!? stop the presses! People complaining about this are soft. as. fuck.
Assassin's Creed is supposed to be a game where you sneak around and blend in with crowds to kill the bad guys. How is a tall black man supposed to blend in with a bunch of Japanese people? It makes no sense at all.
Yeah, samurai (even though Yasuke isn't one, historically) is not the same as ninja (Japanese Assassin) from the "titled" game though. I thought I'm the only one who noticed it considering the iterations from previous installments of the game's series.
*Investigator runs into the scene right after the attack, and stops to question a witness* Investigator: "Can you describe the attacker?" Witness: "Yes. He was a tall black man." Investigator: "Did you see his face?" Witness: "Sorry. I didn't get a good look at his face." *Investigator scans the crowd, spotting 1 tall black male amongst the sea of shorter Japanese men.* Investigator: "I can't pick him out in this crowd, but he couldn't have gotten far."
The issue with paying the $17.99 once is that after you don't pay it, your access to the library goes away. Even if you download the games, you can't play them. I accidentally let my PlayStation Premium lapse and couldn't play anything I had downloaded for "free".
@@kirgan1000 people watching the Quarterpounder shouldn't be expected to have the capacity to research stuff like that. Imagine them finding out that Japanese uses an old Chinese writing system, most of their martial arts came from China and then were adapted over time for their own needs and that literally most of Japanese Art and Mythology came from China and then again developed further. It's as if cultures evolve over time and have common ancestors.
@@ThareldisAlthough Japanese architecture is influenced by Chinese, it is very distinct. Plus if you watched the video the person who commented that the architecture are Chinese rather than Japanese is Japanese. Surely a citizen of Japan knows the difference from Chinese and their own architecture styles.
@@Thareldisas someone who’s studied Japanese language and culture that’s is such a misleading statement. Sad u think u sound smart stating bs like it’s facts
Then why is it okay for Japanese creators to portray him as one? Noone, absolutely noone was bitching about the Anime, Books written about him and him being portrayed as one ins everal modern games, but when Ubisoft does it every fucking grifter in existence is trying to milk the self made controversy, while not giving a flying fuck about the stuff they are complaining about.
@@Thareldis Ubisoft isnt Japanese, they didn't have a japanese culture advisor. Why couldnt ehy have a portrayal pf two Japanese people? Instead they go put of there way to pander to people. Frankly, I am tired of beimg pandered too. You think you beong inclusive when your just trying to buy game copies. Assassin's Creed is Pseudo history, but everyone gets there time to shine. Persians, Arabs, Americans, English, Pirates ( of many ethnicities ), French, Irish, Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Russian, Indian, Chinese. But the one time thr Japanese get a game, they choose to focus on Yosuke and Japanese woman. Even though it is Pseudo-History, it still tries to explain within the world why these things happen, amd also how a secret war between Assassins and Templars are secret agaismt the background of real events. Kind of hard for anyone other than Japanese people to blend in with other Japanese. Too conspicuous.
well he was a warrior of sorts but historical texts didn't also indicate that he wasn't samurai. you could say he briefly served as one but wasn't officialy appointed as one.
@@Thareldis The difference is intent, The Japanese are doing it for fun. The West is doing it for an Agenda and basing the entire history of the era around an irrelevant person. I mean read comments talking about him people have rewrote the entire period of the history with people seriously saying Yasuke was the strongest samurai and fought in many battles.
Checked the Ubisoft+ rules and the $18 idea won't work. You drop your sub, you lose the games you haven't bought outright. They thought of that loophole.
This feels like Yasuke started out as the protagonist of the DLC series associated with AC Shadows. Some DEI consultants saw this and advised Ubisoft to bump the original Japanese main character and crowbar Yasuke into the main game.
No, he was. If you are allowed to carry two swords, then you're part of the buke. There's a statue of him in Japan. All that said? Ubisoft could screw up a one-car funeral...
I tried looking for said statue and I only got 2 statues that were made way past the edo period in Zambia and Mozambique i.e. in Africa. The only pieces of period work depicting him I saw were 3 paintings and none of them were sporting armor.
Yusuke was a retainer which is nothing but a squire. He wouldn't have been allowed to wear samurai gear he would have carried their gear & supplies that's it that's all. They can't even put a black man on a poster for a movie in Asia what makes them think that a black samurai was going to be okay 😂😂😂
@@SoundwaveSinus9 His backstory sounds like the perfect Assassin's creed character then. One the Templar's certainly would have erased to make sure nobody knew of his deeds.
@@SoundwaveSinus9 People in Japan made fucking Statues of him, made Anime and Games where he is portrayed as and called a Samurai and they like those stories. Even if he never existed, which we know he did, people in Japan are telling and retelling his story. That's not exactly "vanished into history" and neither would him never really existing making it an affront to Japanese culture, if they are telling stories about him themselves already.
@@Thareldis he litteraly vanished after 1.5 years and nothing is known after...what Japanese make out of it is their thing but in the end its fantasy just like afro samurai. A game series that claimed to be accurate to some degree about history goes full fantasy should be critizised
there are plenty of dumb woke people than u think !! ... wait and see the sales of this garbage game ! ... All i can do is not waste my money on ubisoft's woke trash.
You said it best, they found on black guy and made him the main character. These people are beyond pathetic and I’ll be encouraging everyone I know not to spend money with this failed company
They are constantly updating wiki trying to change history to fit the narrative, when in actual fact this "samuarai" was just a bus boy kept as an oddity by his master
The same is true of merriam webster and oxford dictionaries. They rewrite them constantly digitally to change the definitions to fit their agenda and narrative. Its disgusting.
Good on you for pointing it out. I used to try to tell people when they changed the definition of racism, vaccine, and woman on Webster and Wikipedia (to support political movements), but nobody would listen to me then.
Ubisoft is off my game list permanently. That includes my family, friends, their families and friends, and their families and friends and so on. Never going to near this game, even for free. Keep boycotting this woke crap in gaming and let them lose a ton of money. Keep us informed on how this is doing.
This will be the 4th black character in the series. No one talks about this. Or the forced inclusion in Egypt. African and what Egyptians consider Egyptians isn't Bayak or Aya (the only ones in that game that are that dark). This falls directly in line with what Netflix did with their horrendous Cleopatra propaganda
Yeah you're right.. nothing in Japan was ever actually either from China to begin with, nor ever imported as a trend in periods where Japan and China had trade and relations with one another. The Japanese started out as Chinese settlers, who intermingled with the local native populations for crying out loud.
“Remember, don’t pre-order…”
Eff that. Dont buy it; period.
That’s what I’m thinking too
100th Like. 😊
Dude seriously. Wait till the game comes out. You pay them they bank the money and make interest, then the game comes out and perhaps totally stinks. I never understood preorder, like they will run out? Especially now when even game consoles you just download and install it? I like physical copies personally. I really hope consoles at least continue to use physical media. Unfortunately those days may be over. Such a shame. I still like using CD for music or Blu-ray for movies.
Ubisoft should get comftorable of us not spending any money on their "games".
@@rexrocker1268 Dude, I've never considered the fact that the copies won't run out because they are digital. It's literally theft for early access.
Ubisoft surpassed EA for being the worst gaming company ever
EA and Ubisoft are tied now for worst game publisher IMO.
Im so used to terrible gaming decisions now days that im just wondering who's gonna one up them next week
Yeah I mean, even EA isn't this stupid.
Fat gal was looking for a date when defending Ubi's decision.
They're the same company :)
If Egypt can sue Netflix for bastardizing history, why can't Japan sue Ubisoft?
Don't get me wrong, I hate this and ubisoft but Netflix labeled there's as a documentary and this clearly a sci-fi fantasy game that is loosely based on history. Plus Netflix is based in US I believe where anyone can sue for almost anything and ubisoft is based in France where laws regarding lawsuits are more strict
@@zora_1314oh my
there’s no reason to believe japan is actually upset about it, i’ve only seen that white nerds complaining
Why they didn't sue the guy who made afro samurai? Why didn't Egypt sue Ubisoft for a guy who is riding a flaming horse?
They won’t cause it’s historically accurate there was a Black Slave who became a Samurai in the 1600s.
I am Japanese. Yasuke was not samurai since only upper bushi 武士 was called samurai 侍 before Edo period. Becoming bushi 武士 was easier but becoming samurai 侍 was not in Sengoku era the warring period compared to the peaceful Edo period. Yasuke had only a shortest katana for himself, no long katana, no middle katana and he had no surname. Samurai had official surname and long/middle Katana around his waist. And Yasuke was a stuff carrier for one year, and he was never a warrior samurai in real history.
Ni de coña eres japonés, el niño
I knew there was a black man in the history of japan who was pretty strong but I honestly thought he was a samurai which is why I was wondering what's going on when I saw this video but I didn't know that Yasuke was never a samurai but thanks for explaining that part of history and correcting my incorrect knowledge😅
You are not japanese
Ya, he was the weapons barrier for Oda Nobunaga who was a powerful warlord during that period
You're not japanese
these woke activist cried that RE5 had black zombies when the story was set in Africa, but they are fine with a black Samurai in Japan.
Yasuke was a black samurai. Do an internet search for black japanese. There were a lot more of them in the past and there are now
@@ericb-amuur9897He wasn't a samurai stop listening to fake made up history and Wikipedia with their blatant changing of history edits
@@ericb-amuur9897 not true. False information. The site you look at gave false information. I bet you also saw the documentary that said Cleopatra was Black.
@@ericb-amuur9897Lmao he was a American slave that ended up in Japan he is not “black Japanese” and he is the only recorded black in Japanese history, there was also a English samurai doesn’t mean we center a game about Japan on a English guy just cuz at one point he was there, ps not everything you google is true, history content is full of lies even more if it involves blacks, looking up black Japanese on Google is not actually evidence of anything besides your misunderstanding of what evidence is. I bet you don’t even know what androvono culture is but think history is white washed, or what a indo European language is
Yasuke (弥助 or 弥介) was a man, likely of African origin, who served as a servant and retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga in 1581-1582, during the Sengoku period. He was retained by the daimyō as a koshō (小姓, page) for a period of 15 months until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident.
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Yasuke was the only African and first non-Japanese samurai. His story began around 1579 in Edo Japan. Not much is known about his life before arriving in Japan. Some say he was from the country of Mozambique and came to Japan on a ship with an Italian missionary named Alessandro Valignano on an inspection tour. These are the most common ones you'll find about him. 🤷
White Liberal women have a lot to answer for not just gaming.
Your the same person who piss themselves over a black/female protagonist freaking pathetic and sad
And that's exactly what it is white liberals who hate their own race doing this shit they also consider Asians as white so go figure that they do this to them.
True. But, ALL liberals have a lot to answer for and many of them aren't white or women.
100% true. The ONLY thing women should have creative control over at these companies is the sandwiches for the men making the game.
I swear since they've gotten the right to vote its gone straight to their heads. Dumb sheep the majority.
“If black history is boring, just make it up or steal someone else’s history!!!” - Woke RTDs.
👏👏👏👏👏
Can't be making a game of people enslaving their own peoples.
@@mangostickyrice9781 actually you can, and it would be more interesting. Imagine your character is fighting back against the slave traders within his own tribe, or an opposing tribe...and then he has to make deals with the British Navy to help free slaves.
@@mangostickyrice9781heck it's still going on in the motherland where it started to begin with.
The character is based on a real person though...
My last straw was like almost a decade ago. I play old games, watch old movies, basically don't consume anything new.
Blackwashing Japan!
I had know idea that the only thing black people want, is to be white people or Japanese or Egyptian Etc.
Of course it isn't black people that are saying it. It's privileged white women, usually
He was a circus clown in the real samurai's court. He wasn't a samurai himself. @@DeuceGod
You would literally have to be mentally ill to consider buying this. It because of people like you is why we cant have nice things.@@DeuceGod
@@DeuceGod Slavery is fine as long as it isn't white people participating in it. Will you be purchasing the $70 version or the $2,000 day one edition that let's you play as a "Black Samurai" 15 minutes early?
@@DeuceGod The reference to him in historical records doesn't even say he's african. The reference apparently is so vague that the man is likely actually Indian or even Ainu (and they were very racist back then, too).
I think Asmongold was right. They added a black guy to distract from the $129.99 price tag.
Are you serious? That is ridiculous
At least that makes more sense.
Why would anybody pay that for this game? Lol people need to get a brain. Paying 50 pounds more for a different outfit or weapon. It’s nonsense.
WHAT THE PHUCK??!! I can see Rick Moranis & his 2nd in command from “Spaceballs” talking about this: “Preparing to lose money, sir!” “Why are you always ‘preparing’ just GO.”
@@jimijames6449 the worst is that you still dont own the game
No one was demanding a white male protagonist unless they view Japanese men as white men now
"Unless they view Japanese men as white men now"
You're gonna laugh.
They view Asians as "white adjacents".
Actually, you're not far off. Ive seen the term "white adjacent" cropping up more and more. Asians are being left out of the diversity umbrella more and more often. I strongly believe this is due to their success when they immigrate to other countries. They don't fit the narrative of some vague systematic racism that keeps POC down. They also tend to have very conservative views in a lot of Asian countries.
It’s not Ubisoft anymore, now it’s “you be soft ™️”
you be gay
😂😂😂
@@ecommax02weak.
Remember when sucker punch was racist for Ghost of Tsushima? Pepperage Farms remember….
I don't remember any of that. Infact all I recall is them being paraded for their accuracy.
That pepperage farm bit is still great
they try to cancel everything that is homogeneus. Look at Kingdom Come Deliverence were they were outraged that only whites are in the game. Demanded it has to be changed before it was released
@@CommanderRedEXE then clearly you dont read on IGN or other woke game sites, well done, yeah they came out said it was cultural appropriation, racist etc, meanwhile japan loved it so much they made sucker punch official ambassadors to the tsushima island
Yeah while the audience praised Ghost of Tsushima, games media like kotaku and ign claimed it was racist and cultural appropriation that a western studio made it. Because of course they did
Boycott this shit. We have to budlight ubisoft
People buy Ubisoft games ?
I love how the people defending this nonsense somehow turn " Black slave spends year in Japan" into "There were lots of Black samurai"
Japan is pissed, as well they should be.
The only black guy in a hoody jumping around in feudal Japan won't look suspicious at all.
Even funnier, Yasuke was pretty tall and the japanese were very small back then. He would have been absolutely towering over almost everyone.
A 6 foot tall dude with huge feet and hands the size of the average natives upper torso....invisible.
Yep...with Zimmerman-san hot on his Skittles trail no less. ;)
SPOILER WHY THIS WRITING SUCH BAD AND I HATE IT
just look for the doctor who is the source of these assassins shadow and you will be surprised at what ubislop did, she made a book about monks from feudal Japan who raped small children, especially boys.
WHY UBISLOP WHY YOU HIRE THIS TYPE OF PERSON
Oh, you think he will be the only black guy? I can almost guarantee that half the NPCs will be black too, and heaps of women in positions of power.
It's Asian heritage month too. What a slap in the face to them. If it wasn't so infuriating it would be laughable.
diversity only means black people. Because talking only abt black people get them donations and funding from soros foundation. Just like Qatar donations make them protest against Israel !!
Japanese people are chill with this because Yasuke is a real figure apart of their culture. It’s only white Americans complaining and we all know why.
Japan doesn't have asian heritage month 😂
@@bhministry didn't say they do... but in America, it is
@@bhministryendia isn't considered Asian in America tho 😂
Not giving Ubisoft any money. Screw them!
Sail the high seas or if you absolutely must, wait for 90% discounts a few years down the road. Just the sail the high seas and save your money for companies who don't hate you.
Not worth of pirating their cr34p
@@stlawstlaw7585 exactly, if I'm gonna pirate, it's gotta actually be worth it
Nothing says stealth like a tall black man in Japan. Fits right in!
Yasuke was never a samurai; he was merely a retainer (ie. squire) with no swordfighting capabilities and they just kept him around because he was a curiosity. Also, having such an easily recognizable person as an assassin is just laughable.
He is a perfect fit for night attacks, though. I just highly doubt he should wear full samurai attire shown in the trailer.
Same thing for William Adams who was a glorified adviser for the Shogun. Despite the movie The Last Samurai, William Adams never fought on the battlefield or trained as a Samurai.
@@doubledown8229 William adams was a samurai as was another Joosten, Yasuke never was he was just a retainer.
@@Bird-Birdy-Love William Adams never fought on the battlefield, nor was he ever trained as a Samurai.
William Adams was a glorified adviser. Calling him a Samurai is the equivalent of calling Elton John a real Knight. Lol
William Adams bio:
"Ieyasu made William Adams an official adviser. Over the next few years, Adams helped Ieyasu modernize his fleet by building Western-style ships. In return, Adams was given a rich estate in Japan along with two swords, the traditional badge of rank for a samurai.
The samurai were a class of warriors in Japan similar to European knights. They pledged their loyalty to a lord and fought for him in battle in exchange for his protection.
But there was a more mundane side to the samurai as well. During the 17th century, the samurai gradually became bureaucrats who handled the day-to-day management of the country. This was closer to Adams’ role as the first English samurai.
After all, it’s unlikely he would have fared well on the battlefield at a time when the average samurai trained for years to master the complex skills of archery, horsemanship, and swordsmanship that Japanese warfare required."
The Last Samurai was about the Satsuma rebellion, it has literally nothing to do with William Adams, who died like 200 years before.
I am a retired historian. 25 years ago a black woman who claimed to be a professor wrote to me and asked me to tell her more about black Vikings. I have a bit of an expert on Vikings I've written a couple books on the subject. I read back to her that I did not know of any black Vikings assuming she meant African. She said that it was absolutely true that blacks from Africa used to go on Viking raids with Viking ships rather frequently and it was common knowledge. I asked her to give me an example and she'd give me some black historian who in my opinion made this up. I told her after looking in all my books I could find no reference to a black African who was a Viking. Anywhere in the history. I did say I did find it one Arab who went up to the Viking lands in the 10th century and he observed a Viking funeral and wrote about it. It was a rather famous extract. She never wrote back but now here we are 25 years later and they're putting into practice their bogus theories of blacks being Japanese Vikings Europeans and every other culture they're trying to supplant us for some reason.
it's what you get by just ignoring everything and let people shout ' it's just a game ' , rewriting of history should never be allowed no matter the medium
It's almost like their race is trying to appropriate anything and everything any other rave has ever done.
@@Streetrocker28That's a bit hyperbolic. You're pretty much stating that historical fiction shouldn't exist as a genre. I don't care if Yokai don't exist, I still want to have the right to play a game like Nioh. I can't help if some kid plays Nioh and thinks Japan was plagued by demonic monsters.
They already crowbar them into every commercial.
Was this Arab gentleman who witnessed the funeral named Basim?
Studying medieval Japan is my hobby. And Yasuke wasn't a fucking samurai
Google and Wikipedia says otherwise....plus it's number 1 pre order in Japan, cry harder real people in the world don't care. Hard truth
Ive been arguing with normies who continuously claim a "retainer" is a "Samurai" and that Yasuke was a warrior before comming to japan and fought many battles in the 3 yrs he was in japan and even more after leaving japan. I just laugh cause litetally none of that is accurate.
Hey, a fat white chick wrote it, so you MUST be wrong…..
If you look up retainer for the use in japanese. It says: “ a retainer a vassal in feudal Japan, usually a samurai providing military services.”
He also received a stipend, swords, and a home. Which what a samurai vassal has. I wish white people would stop crying about knowing history more than the actual Japanese who have confirmed he existed and aren’t mad. Could they have had a Japanese MC yes, but to just say this man didn’t exist because he’s black is asinine.
@jc7850 key word there being usually a Samurai, thing is Japanese people arnt on board with this game at all, while yes they acknowledge "Yasuke" exsisted and he was made a "retainer" by Nobunaga and was given a "short sword" not the traditional 3 swords and he was given the name "Yasuke" which means "peaceful helper" but what he wasnt given was a Surname so therfore he was definitely not a Samurai because no Samurai, retainer or not, has ever exsisted without a surname. Yasuke was a slave sold to Nobunaga by the Jesuits because Nobunaga had never seen a black person before and loved to collect "odities" which to him a 6 foot tall black man was a very great Odity that Nobunaga loved to parade around having Yasuke carry his tools for him. The only reason yasuke was made retainer was because as Lord, Nobunaga couldnt be seen spending so much time with a low ranked slave. Yasuke is such a footnote in japanese history we dont even know his name and wouldnt even know he exsisted at all except for a few mentions in Nobunaga's journal, to which nothing mentions yasuke as being anymore than entertainment for Nobunaga.
If it were a white samurai, they would be screaming about how its racist and cultural appropriation.
No they wouldn't. They'd actually like it 😂😂
i don't want a white Samuri either Ubisoft had 1 thing to do here make a game in Japan with a Japanese Samuri. that's it.
Worked in The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai exists . And yasuke was a real person. Just say y’all are racist
@@Trelitty11 but Yasuke is slave not samurai 😂 (You are racist.)
The fact they called this “Shadows” is peak racism.
They're monsters..... cancel em
It's like making a Son Wu Kong game, and making him black.
I heard he's gonna do Japanese face to blend in with the locals.
Pretty sure that's a reference to ninjas, cuz that was their thing
@anthonywynn1812 no it's like making Son Wu Song not a anthropomorphic monkey but some other animal, hell and maybe white.
Yasuke was a retainer and IGN are clowns
A retainer is still a samarai. Ur a clowm
I'm honestly shocked they even went with Yasuke and didn't just make their own character.
That said, stopped caring for AC after Origins came out for many reasons, so this doesn't surprise or affect me anyway.
And either way, since when do we play as the historical character in AC games, instead of someone else who is surrounded by actual historical figures? Out of all the millions of people in Japan at the time, they chose to have a main character who was literally one in over 10 million, and who most likely indeed was not a samurai at all.
source?
it's called a video game
Yasuke was as important to Japanese history as Wakanda is to Africa’s GDP
Yup, he's a real dude but literally was just a slave who happened to be good at fighting and learned how to use a Japanese fighting style while under the tutelage of one of the best minds of his time in Oda Nobunaga.
@@Sepricotakuand that's why he is best to be assassin's
@@JonySmith-bb4gxMiyamoto Musashi
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@@Sepricotaku they made him dress as a samurai only to make fun of him💀
07:05 also yasuke hammer lookin fire💀
@@JonySmith-bb4gx we have never once played as an actual historical figure before always a fictional character, why are they changing it now? Also alienating their entire Japanese audience, my friends I have spoken to in Japan find it very racist that of all the incredible Japanese historical figures they chose someone not Japanese in their game based in Japan.
Yasuke's life: After the death of his lord, Nobunaga, he was the first to surrender to the enemy, and was spared execution because he was not a samurai. He left Japan with missionaries and returned to the path of slavery.
Western game industry is braindead...
Completely true
Activision adding a DEI "officer" for every single game is still much worst.
Joining the club. :D they will find out what it rly means.
vote with your wallet after all the shareholders care about money and not dei. they think dei will boost sales when these dei plebs are less than 20%. great strategy to alienate 80% of your customer base.
let them fail, who cares.
Activistion
Funny how a game about Japanese people isn't diverse but adding black people is
Husband has some very long-time friends in Japan, bor-raised-live there. One has parents who are HISTORIANS.
There's NO such thing as a 'black samurai', there never was.
There was an african male, a Eunuch, who was made a low ranking retainer by one of the Feudal lords, but there's so little about and NO genuinely solid info that this 'yasuke' even existed.
NO grave, NO records of substance.
This is just more Black Supremacist fascist Bs.
See my problem isn’t with yasuke..my problem is they went to Japan which is a country that has thousands of years of history , we went to Egypt we got ane Egyptian character , we went to Italy we got an Italian ,we go to Japan to tell a story about japan and get a black dude …make it make sense yasuke wasn’t even an actual samurai, they have made that man seem bigger than he actually was cause he’s black
Were getting a Japanese woman too, so it balances out
Yasuke? He was a legitimate Samurai who worked under Nobunaga. What ate you talking about?
To be honest this isn't a surprise at all. I'm just glad they're getting called on it.
@@Shhadow023They managed to sneak in a BM/AF pairing into feudal Japanese history, which is saying a lot. I'd love to see them try to do that to Chinese history, but the woke never dare to offend China.
He built Japan 😂😂
Sales for Ghost of Tsushima about to spike again.
same might happen with nioh 1&2 and maybe rise of the ronin lol
"My grandmother told me I don't care what they tell you in school, samurais were black." 😂😂😂
All AC main was fictional character who interact with historical figures. Only in Japan they use the Only Black Man in there at that time, who stay only short period of time as caddy & court jester for Oda Nobunaga the full blown Samurai MC. If they really want use historical character, why not Hattori Hanzo, He legendary Samurai/Ninja at that timeline but they won't because he not fit for Agenda.
Companies care about image and money. Don't buy the game.
Yep. Not buying anything from Ubisoft ever again.
Yeah. People need to stop paying for this nonsense, to stop it.
fun fact from a historian
Yasuke actually existed
@@samuraidoggy I ll buy it to pi$$ off racists
@@JonySmith-bb4gxno 😂.
Check out the Japanese trailer, that margin between likes to dislikes is growing FAST.
Rightfully so
Rightfully and deservingly so.
where can you see dislikes anymore?
Dont really care
@@daltongarrett7117 You need to get an extension
Ghost of Tsushima was already a better Japanese AC
Ubisoslft needs to stop using their woke privilege of cultural appropriation.
Black fatigue
Enough of the black worship
You'll be ok. We worshipped yt Jesus in America for over a century 😂
Jesus is a Jew. Skin color was probably tan/brown since they were outdoors and he traveled so much.
Black fatigue is real. They’re worshipped these days.
@@natemyers4946But Jesus isn't white.
@@natemyers4946 Everyone but you knows he was a semite. Have you seen pictures of semites - they look like tanned white people. Another semite; Muhammed was described as having skin as white as the moon.
@@AlrightDave no shit. I live in America where the image has been propped up as the ultimate image of godliness when that's false.
DEI Samurai. With Affirmative Action Katana.
$216 for access to Ubisoft's catalog for one year, or until they go out of business.
Ppl gotta start gatekeeping. Harshly. If you like something, you gotta protect it.
Biggest woke failure ever is over the top especially since we had a movie called "The american society of magical negeroes"😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂 even my american friends cant believe that movie is real, im from Finland
As a German, my first thought was "white hooded peoples propaganda movie" or "satirical skit" 🤣
@@user-qc6sq4mf1x To this day I still cant believe in the year of 2024 we have a movie called that
By biggest, I'm assuming he was referring to the production cost:presumed lack of sales ratio.
I still love playing the AC games despite the cringe. I'm old though, I wait until they're free on PS Plus. I no longer need games to be brand new, they just need to be new to me.
The extreme stagnation in graphics improvement makes it pretty easy...
White people are soooooooooooo DANGEROUS. What a premise….
I see so many people arguing over whether he was a retainer or a samurai. IT DOES NOT MATTER. He is there as a token to score points, just like they have made the female character look like a man with a flat chest, huge jawline, small eyes, etc. The motives were toxic so whether he was a samurai in real life is irrelevant. Even as funny as it is for them to think a xenophobic feudal Japan lord would ever have made a black foreigner a samurai.
This game should be banned in Japan! It should not even be released!
It's going to get worse. I am willing to bet that the girl partnered with him is rainbow.
what is a GIRL ?
You better believe it, because her preferences are PROGRESSIVE for the age
Or a soon to be single mother
@@dmacarthur5356 My bet is on this, they will show you how she became one as well.
@@aj.j5833In a no skip cut scene
When DEI becomes everything
The Consumers needs becomes unsatisfied
I lost faith in Ubisoft ages ago. Their attitude to their customers is toxic.
I don't care what your teachers said, my grandmother always said that the best samurais were black.
HAHAHAHAHA.
"...my grandma said cleopatra was black...."
Don’t forget they were gonna black Hercules.
Santa Clause was Black 😂😂😂.
Someone Posted this in another comment section and I just wanted to paste this to show JUST HOW WOKE of a decision this was...
"the "Japanese Historical Expert" that they hired for this game, Sachi Schmidt-Hori and who IGN interviewed in their puff piece about this game, is an expert in gender studies investigating romantic relationships with adolescent boys. No I am not kidding, she studies "investigating how gender, sexuality, corporeality and power are represented and negotiated in pre seventeenth century Japanese narratives and illustrations". These are not my words, this is what is written on her university page.
Edit: She wrote a book called 'Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives'. So yeah, here's your Japanese expert."
😂😂😂😂😂😂 holy f...
WTF?
the "adolescents" in those historical documents were often 19 year old men finishing up there training to become samurai and actual evidence suggests it was often a reciprocated relationship when one did happen
Good lord that is some extremely niche study
>Schmidt
Yeah, I could tell.👃
If they're against me owning my games, I'm against them owning any of my money.
Ghost of Tsushima sold like crazy and was even praised by the COUNTRY of JAPAN for how good it was. This game will bomb and Ubi will be like.......WHY? Their game sold, why didn't ours? What was different?
LET IT BURN.
And for all of you who are going to play it "for free" when it hits PS PLUS, well, YOU'RE STILL SUPPORTING THEM. They still make money when people play the games and they still get all of the playtime hours from all you "renegades" who don't like it enough to pay for it but will play it for free because you just can't say no and play something else. You're still helping them and you're still making them think that people WANT this trash because, "look at all these hours played!" You're not accomplishing anything if you give in at the end and play it anyway. Free or otherwise. Either stand for your principles or shut up and nuzzle at the teet of the message. You can't do both.
At best, Yasuke was kept around as a curiosity, nothing more.
Well he was likely kept as a bodyguard because of how giant he was.
There is no evidence that suggests he was a samurai, though there is no evidence he was not either
@@theredknight9314 he wasnt even a bodyguard, its documented that he only really carried nobunagas weapons, menaing he was a personal delivery boy at best
@@theredknight9314 a negative can be disregarded without evidence. Samurai training took years. He was in Japan for three. That's evidence he wasn't
@@bigfrankfraser1391 At most, he was supposed to withhold Nobunaga's weapons from anyone but Nobunaga himself. He would have been forced to kill anyone who tried to take the weapons, or die trying to stop them. A guard dog.
@@bigfrankfraser1391 now thats false. We know from the Jesuits accounts, he was regarded by nobunaga as stronger then 10 men and travelled with him everywhere as a form of protection.
WE WUZ ̶K̶A̶N̶G̶Z̶ SHOGUNZ!!!!!
Dude, the Sah-Moo-Rai and Sho'Nuff could AND would beat the shiznit out of Yasuke.
Yasuke just held swords and never saw battle. @@TeamBelmont91
@@TeamBelmont91 Sho’Nuff is Bad AF.
@@pvt.reefer6163 He was the sword caddy.
@@cainabel615 Hell yeah, dude!
*WHO IS THA MEANEST?!*
what this game is, an excellent example of cultural appropriation.
1) yaskue was from 1800s japan, the story takes place in the 1400s, when he would have been killed due to japan's xenophobia.
2) he was a retainer for a samurai, not a samurai in his own right. so they got his story wrong.
3) they gave him "dreadlocks", which originated in germania or austria region, then migrated to nordic countries, and is now called the "dutch braid". it traveled to africa via nordic raids on the african coast.
"The Message" doesn't belong in Japan.
I would argue it doesn't belong anywhere.
It belongs in the bin.
Japan is loving the game
Only people that hate is white people
@@Kaztrofy that's where this video brings
The Message by Grandmaster Flash?
the game should be banned in japan in my opinion.
It should be banned everywhere
Yasuke was in other video games. Afro Samurai the anime t.v show base off Yasuke was created by Japanese people
AC logic: Asian men are represented enough in games, let's stop representing them. Even in their cultural roots.
I have a rule.
I don't click on any articles who talk about someone or something being "SLAMMED!"
I have been WAITING for a Japanese set Assassin's Creed game for SO LONG. Now I'm not going to play this. This is insane. I love Japanese culture. Now it's just gone and jumped off the woke cliff. I'm out ubisoft
Dude your not even Japanese yourself or been to Japan just look at yourself in the mirror before saying crap like this
Just play Shadows Die Twice and be done with it.
@Particle_Ghost already played it. Sekiro is great. I want more Samurai/ ninja games. What's wrong with that? I want the games to feature the people of that culture and to represent that era, especially if it is supposed to be "historic." This is a huge fail.
Loved Ghost of Tsushima so much.
But THIS woke rewritten history BS? 🤢
@@janicem9225 Ghost is so good
My grandma saids that samurai waz black
I get that reference.
He looks just like me
Must be true then 😂😅
Day wuz Shogunz and sheet!
I played most AC games up to this point. I waited more than a decade for a Japan setting. Ghost of Tsushima was amazing. I won't be buying any more Ubisoft games ever after they make the protagonist a black fake samurai.
AC: Shadows is Historically Accurate. There was a Black Samurai in the 1600s. Get your historical facts right before you hate.
Ghost of Tsushima is a million times better anyway and now the Director's Cut version is out too
thats because the devs of tsushima were fans of akira kurosawa movies and wanted to make a game that had kurosawas essence in it, meaning tsushima is way better because the devs wanted to make a good game for people to enjoy
IMO, the biggest reason to boycott stuff like this is the hiring of these completely inept and inexperienced "lead writers". What a joke.
Leave it to the french to fumble AC
Just boycott them, I'm not buying any of these woke games
Their entire mandate is destruction....no matter the monetary losses.
The question people need to ask is: why? What would destroying these companies accomplish in the long-term? This isn't a matter of incompetence, but of something much bigger and darker. What will this lead to?
@@thatsoab2545 It's not the companies they want destroyed, it is western society as a whole.
@@thatsoab2545 The long term consequence will be the total collapse of white owned entertainment media and subsequent subversion of it. For the interests of those who want to erradicate whites from the planet. We are already seeing how all of these same profile sub-people infiltrate companies and put their own in places of power. We already saw it in Russia with the Commies, specially the Majorist-Minorist marxist feud.
@@thatsoab2545sodom and Gomorrah levels of degeneracy….that’s what they want
@@thatsoab2545 buy them up cheap and rebuild them the way they want.
These companies will have Nothing left when all of the ESG money and customers good will is gone.
That's the exact opposite of how esg works. They'll be fine, and you'll ask the clouds 'why do they keep doing this? Do they hate money? When will they go bankrupt'? Lol
@@stinkfinga4918 The wind has already changed its course, only blind people and fools don't understand this.
@@Cavpal funny, because theyre pushing harder than they were four years ago. It's getting worse, not better.
@@stinkfinga4918they are falling but slowly. There are still morons who will buy their games and keep them alive for a while but definetly falling apart slowly.
oh man, a fictional game about travelling back in time through genetic memories is taking artistic liberties!? stop the presses!
People complaining about this are soft. as. fuck.
Making a ninja an assassin would’ve rebuilt the passion and fanbase of assassins creed. What a loss of an opportunity.
Assassin's Creed is supposed to be a game where you sneak around and blend in with crowds to kill the bad guys. How is a tall black man supposed to blend in with a bunch of Japanese people? It makes no sense at all.
It should have been Miyamoto Musashi, one of the greatest samurai in Japan history
@@Bigdikus But musashi would of been made into black chick in a wheelchair so it didnt ring as good as havin black dude pretending to be samurai.
Its not meant to have sense to begin with - after all wokness is insanity.
Yeah, samurai (even though Yasuke isn't one, historically) is not the same as ninja (Japanese Assassin) from the "titled" game though. I thought I'm the only one who noticed it considering the iterations from previous installments of the game's series.
*Investigator runs into the scene right after the attack, and stops to question a witness*
Investigator: "Can you describe the attacker?"
Witness: "Yes. He was a tall black man."
Investigator: "Did you see his face?"
Witness: "Sorry. I didn't get a good look at his face."
*Investigator scans the crowd, spotting 1 tall black male amongst the sea of shorter Japanese men.*
Investigator: "I can't pick him out in this crowd, but he couldn't have gotten far."
Seriously, most big companies have completely lost their minds!! Disney being the leader of this. Its like they want to fail.
ask Blackrock and Vanguard why
Would of been cool if they created a Zulu character during the Zulu wars unfolding a plot by the East India Company etc that would of been kick ass.
The issue with paying the $17.99 once is that after you don't pay it, your access to the library goes away. Even if you download the games, you can't play them. I accidentally let my PlayStation Premium lapse and couldn't play anything I had downloaded for "free".
The only one black guy in Japan as a protagonist and Chinese architecture 😂😂😂
Japanes was culutre influenced by Chine, is it something that is "China only"
@@kirgan1000 people watching the Quarterpounder shouldn't be expected to have the capacity to research stuff like that. Imagine them finding out that Japanese uses an old Chinese writing system, most of their martial arts came from China and then were adapted over time for their own needs and that literally most of Japanese Art and Mythology came from China and then again developed further.
It's as if cultures evolve over time and have common ancestors.
@@ThareldisAlthough Japanese architecture is influenced by Chinese, it is very distinct. Plus if you watched the video the person who commented that the architecture are Chinese rather than Japanese is Japanese. Surely a citizen of Japan knows the difference from Chinese and their own architecture styles.
@@Thareldisas someone who’s studied Japanese language and culture that’s is such a misleading statement. Sad u think u sound smart stating bs like it’s facts
@@MarkSeinIIII agree, I’m not Japanese or even Asian and even I can spot the difference between Chinese and Japanese architecture
Yosuke may have been a real person with some interesting historical background. But he was not a samurai.
Then why is it okay for Japanese creators to portray him as one? Noone, absolutely noone was bitching about the Anime, Books written about him and him being portrayed as one ins everal modern games, but when Ubisoft does it every fucking grifter in existence is trying to milk the self made controversy, while not giving a flying fuck about the stuff they are complaining about.
@@Thareldis Ubisoft isnt Japanese, they didn't have a japanese culture advisor. Why couldnt ehy have a portrayal pf two Japanese people? Instead they go put of there way to pander to people. Frankly, I am tired of beimg pandered too. You think you beong inclusive when your just trying to buy game copies. Assassin's Creed is Pseudo history, but everyone gets there time to shine. Persians, Arabs, Americans, English, Pirates ( of many ethnicities ), French, Irish, Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Russian, Indian, Chinese. But the one time thr Japanese get a game, they choose to focus on Yosuke and Japanese woman. Even though it is Pseudo-History, it still tries to explain within the world why these things happen, amd also how a secret war between Assassins and Templars are secret agaismt the background of real events. Kind of hard for anyone other than Japanese people to blend in with other Japanese. Too conspicuous.
well he was a warrior of sorts but historical texts didn't also indicate that he wasn't samurai.
you could say he briefly served as one but wasn't officialy appointed as one.
@@Thareldis The difference is intent, The Japanese are doing it for fun. The West is doing it for an Agenda and basing the entire history of the era around an irrelevant person. I mean read comments talking about him people have rewrote the entire period of the history with people seriously saying Yasuke was the strongest samurai and fought in many battles.
Are there going to be any Walmarts in feudal Japan for this protagonist to rob?
Checked the Ubisoft+ rules and the $18 idea won't work. You drop your sub, you lose the games you haven't bought outright. They thought of that loophole.
This feels like Yasuke started out as the protagonist of the DLC series associated with AC Shadows. Some DEI consultants saw this and advised Ubisoft to bump the original Japanese main character and crowbar Yasuke into the main game.
So.. the female Japanese Assassin stops existing, because Yasuke is also in it?
So for this Halloween we can dress however we want without judgement like we're supposed to.
Low income urban areas do. Because they're told they should.
wut? ya saayin i can put on mah black face, cig and bling blingz?
Not if you're white. then you can only go as a moron or a racist.
#1 pre-ordered game in Japan. So much for go woke go broke.
Have you not Trolled other comment sections ?
Black Samurai- ok. A real thing. NOT.
No, he was. If you are allowed to carry two swords, then you're part of the buke. There's a statue of him in Japan. All that said? Ubisoft could screw up a one-car funeral...
@@drak3y Nope
I tried looking for said statue and I only got 2 statues that were made way past the edo period in Zambia and Mozambique i.e. in Africa. The only pieces of period work depicting him I saw were 3 paintings and none of them were sporting armor.
The woke crowd wanted everyone to pay attention to race so here we are😂
@@drak3y he carried nobunagas weapons, and was nothing more than a glorified bellboy
Yusuke was a retainer which is nothing but a squire. He wouldn't have been allowed to wear samurai gear he would have carried their gear & supplies that's it that's all. They can't even put a black man on a poster for a movie in Asia what makes them think that a black samurai was going to be okay 😂😂😂
in the end he was a mascot for slightly over a year. Then vanished into history when he was resold
@@SoundwaveSinus9 His backstory sounds like the perfect Assassin's creed character then. One the Templar's certainly would have erased to make sure nobody knew of his deeds.
@@Ravenbones perfect? they would cut him out of history not a coward and slave
@@SoundwaveSinus9 People in Japan made fucking Statues of him, made Anime and Games where he is portrayed as and called a Samurai and they like those stories. Even if he never existed, which we know he did, people in Japan are telling and retelling his story. That's not exactly "vanished into history" and neither would him never really existing making it an affront to Japanese culture, if they are telling stories about him themselves already.
@@Thareldis he litteraly vanished after 1.5 years and nothing is known after...what Japanese make out of it is their thing but in the end its fantasy just like afro samurai. A game series that claimed to be accurate to some degree about history goes full fantasy should be critizised
Any games company who goes woke should look billions as a punishment
Happy to keep voting my wallet. No $ for Ubisoft.
What a way to not make money...
What an awful way to waste money.
Deliver a good product and don't make it political. Seemingly an impossible task in 2024.
there are plenty of dumb woke people than u think !! ... wait and see the sales of this garbage game ! ... All i can do is not waste my money on ubisoft's woke trash.
its just a black guy bruh
@@Vrail-07That's the problem bruh
The lead developer for the game that came up with the idea, she put her Twitter to private or something
A leftist avoiding consequences? Well I never.
Guessing she's white too🙄🤣
In her Twitter profile it said something like "serving black kings"
She a white woman?
@@proudpatriot3491 kind of weird to share her kink so openly.
I would be more interested if they made the game in the african setting.
Seems like everything these days is being black washed
How to be a super sneaky assasin...be a person who looks like no one in the area.
Makes sense.
You said it best, they found on black guy and made him the main character. These people are beyond pathetic and I’ll be encouraging everyone I know not to spend money with this failed company
They are constantly updating wiki trying to change history to fit the narrative, when in actual fact this "samuarai" was just a bus boy kept as an oddity by his master
The same is true of merriam webster and oxford dictionaries. They rewrite them constantly digitally to change the definitions to fit their agenda and narrative. Its disgusting.
Good on you for pointing it out. I used to try to tell people when they changed the definition of racism, vaccine, and woman on Webster and Wikipedia (to support political movements), but nobody would listen to me then.
@AgentHK-47 I replied to this and said something similar, but can't see my own reply lmfbo. Good Ole flametube censoring at its finest
@@ferd1775 you have to word things very specifically to get it to show up, sadly
My shits always getting deleted I'm surprised this comment is still up, they hate the truth lol
Ubisoft is off my game list permanently. That includes my family, friends, their families and friends, and their families and friends and so on. Never going to near this game, even for free. Keep boycotting this woke crap in gaming and let them lose a ton of money. Keep us informed on how this is doing.
...*She rolls in there*, yeah I can definitely see her rolling into the company..😭 💀
This will be the 4th black character in the series. No one talks about this. Or the forced inclusion in Egypt. African and what Egyptians consider Egyptians isn't Bayak or Aya (the only ones in that game that are that dark). This falls directly in line with what Netflix did with their horrendous Cleopatra propaganda
Japan is a Nigerian colony.
Chinese architectures instead of Japanese architecture? They're the same aren't they? - Ubisoft management.
The French are notoriously arrogant and racist.
Yeah you're right.. nothing in Japan was ever actually either from China to begin with, nor ever imported as a trend in periods where Japan and China had trade and relations with one another. The Japanese started out as Chinese settlers, who intermingled with the local native populations for crying out loud.
Japan only had sake as alcoholic beverage not malt liquor and Newports.
Dude we play a black Samurai riding on a unicorn with a flaming sword in our hand and you are worried about beverages?