History Teacher Reacts to Assassin's Creed Shadow Trailer
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- The next game in the beloved Assassin's Creed takes players to Japan! Mr. Terry is a high school history teacher, and avid Assassin's Creed player. Mr. Terry talks about the potential settings and characters of the game.
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What do you think so far?
if you stream it i will watch
I Like It.
I’m hesitant. Ubisoft has literally said that they think that their games are basically an expensive rental. I’m all in story wise, but I also want to see gameplay.
Looks insane
Btw whats your favorite AC game? Mines Black Flag
@winken1891 mr terry has said many times in a live stream that as it is a pirate game with ac slapped on it. Not a proper ac thus he ranks it low
Yes, those were Portuguese ships, being that Portugal was the first European Power (and the most powerful navy in the world at the time) to reach Asia by sea. While also being the first to set foot in places like India, China, Japan and much more, way before any other western kingdom. You can tell by the Templar Order of Christ cross on the sails.
So, the time period should be 1543 onwards.
Thing is Portugal had nothing on Britain, France and Spain empire wise, they were just too small a nation.
@@cpj93070 I don't know what that has anything to do with the original comment
From plot perspective, I think having a foreigner in such period can highlight the dynamics between European and Asian countries. I'd say it make some sense.
I am an Asian.
The female character Naoe is the daughter of legendary shinobi Fujibayashi Nagato in the game and that’s who you said looks like the guy from shogun. She’s a fictional character though
I wonder how Ubisoft will conclude Yasuke’s story after Oda’s assassination during the Honnoji incident. Historically there are two stories which is still widely disputed today. Maybe that’s Akechi Mitsuhide being murdered after he betrayed Oda. He was assassinated in a bamboo forest by bandits while he was retreating from Toyotomi.
A glance at the Japanese wiki explained that after the death of Nobunaga, he went to fight for Nobunaga's son until being captured by Akechi then spared and sent to the indian Christians at the time. Which then we get no records of him afterwards.
@@Nameless_JPN-ENG Story goes, Yasuke was beside Oda during the Honnoji incident and was requested by Oda himself to take his head and sword to Oda’s son Nodutada so that Akechi won’t be able to obtain it to use to toward his advantage. Apparently Yasuke was able to take his head to a nearby shrine or temple after where they created a “death mask” of Oda’s face. Other story is that after hearing Oda was betrayed Yasuke then fled to Nodutada to defend him from Akechi and Oda’s head and body completely vanished in the fire. No matter what happened in the end Yasuke was handed to his former Jesuits captives and nothing is known afterwards. Honnoji incident is one of Japan’s greatest unsolved mysteries till today.
@@rDijDi The death mask part was only a story by some self-proclaimed person to be Nobunaga's decendent though... And it is not actually clear if that was indeed Nobunaga's.
Terry I am so psyched that you are reacting to this trailer. Legit the same reaction I had!
that was yasuke in Nobunagas court the year begins 1579. Naoae is a Ninja of the Iga clan who is getting killed at the beginning of thr trailer by the Oda which did happen in history
Yasuke is the man , he was retainer of the legendary oda nobunaga...
If you want to know more about him the Shogunate has posted a great vid on him.
I dont need more propaganda from a white gay
NO source says he was even a retainer. He was an attendant or "patron" in the original Portuguese language that states this.
He was a toy for Oda Nobunaga, nothing more, but the fact that he was shown as a samurai... it's funny, Yasuke never participated in battles, he was Oda's servant
@@Red-vm2vu you must be a thousand years old at this point. i imagine you used to see him serving oda too. tell us bro were just curious about oda's servant
@@MustardSkaven You clearly don't know what a retainer is
I agree that the japanese castles look really beautiful, but if you think european castles are mostly ugly, you probably haven't seen that many, because there are some really gorgeous european castles out there too.
I watch a lot of OSP and when they talk about castles they note most were made quickly and for military purposes. So they end up looking like a year 1300 version of the new housing development that went up that’s over priced and it looks like apple though they could design houses.
実在してても、弥助は侍でもなんでもないのになあ…。
この背景も建物から、神社の鳥居もどこに設置してんだよっていう話だし、季節もぐちゃぐちゃ。
本物の日本人が見れば、一発で分かるのに…
You'll probably be glad to know that a game with the working name Asssasin's Creed Nebula which will possibly include India, the Mediterranean and the Aztec Empire is currently supposed to be in early development. The leak came from the number one source for Ubisoft/Assassin's Creed leaks but it is for now unconfirmed.
If they really are, please dont cave to the racist trolls, from the Aztec perspective the Spaniards are the invaders here to take their land, yet too many gamers want Spaniards to be portrayed as the "good guys", there was a game recently in which explored the Aztec perspective of having to defend their land from the Spanish invasion, yet it got changed to somehow include the Spaniard point of view and made Aztec leaders the bad guys...... Ecumene Aztec is the name.
I really hope Ubisoft will choose more places within South America, Africa, and other parts of Asia after this game because they barely touch those regions, the most they ever did was chronicles but I want to see more than that.
As a Mexican, I honestly fear what they could do with the Aztec Empire, seeing what they are doing with Japan.
India? What time period? I would love to know more as an Indian
@@miamor2624 As a Mexican my only fear is that they will cave to the racist trolls who will inevitably get triggered and offended by portraying spaniards as what they are, the bad guys here to conquer land and destroy our culture.
According to the developer commentary, the black samurai character is supposed to be the actual real life person Yasuke, not just based on him.
I’m sure the game will be tons of fun but I have some storytelling concerns due to having an actual historical figure (regardless of race) as a playable character. If they want to authentically follow what we do know about him, the story’s scope would have to be smaller. If there’s a cool battle or event that would make sense for a samurai character to be present at but it was known Yasuke was somewhere else, he literally cannot be there. Then if they do decide to take creative liberties with Yasuke (since we know so little about him) I think there will be too much that would need to be made up since he would be playable and needs to be present 100% of the time. At that point, they wouldn’t be telling the story of Yasuke anymore, just some made up guy with his name.
I think they could avoid this along with all the other controversy surrounding him right now if he was made a prominent and influential NPC. This would allow Yasuke to be portrayed in the most accurate and authentic way possible and not compromising the story scope while still having him in the game but this argument and many other similar ones are being conflated with being racist and I find that disappointing.
Congratulations on being one of the only people with a point that ISN'T dripping with bias. Also a great point overall. I'm tired of this trend where someone points out a potential problem, and the only response they get is people calling them some of bigot. As though it's impossible for someone to disagree with you unless they have hatred in their hearts.
Yasuke was a retainer of Oda Nobunaga who was very fond of him. It isn’t stated anywhere in history or past historical scripts that we are aware of to suggest he was ever a fully fledged Samurai like he is depicted here but he was given a sword, a house with land and title so it isn’t mad to suggest he wasn’t ever a samurai, especially when in this period of feudal Japan the word Samurai didn’t really exist or was ever used to describe warriors as such because they where described mostly as bushi which translates to warrior, samurai was a wildly used term much later in Yasukes time. There is very little history about Yasuke other than this so I’m not mad at this and just don’t understand how people are up in arms with why they made him a Samurai as their argument is baseless especially when they use the lack of evidence to suggest he was samurai against the argument which is a contradiction because lack
of evidence can work for both sides of the argument. Having said all this, it is very clear Ubisoft are playing the diversity card but I’m not mad as I can see that playing with a character new to this land as Yasuke was could cleverly be used as a way for us to navigate this new culture through his eyes and learn the culture as he did would be a great aspect to the game. Finally, we have a Japanese protagonist yet people are complaining we don’t have a male Japanese protagonist which is very unfair to Naoe’s character and I very much look forward to seeing the game through her perspective also.
Sorry but no. True there is a record stating he was a bushi but that is it. Samurai was used, it just was not that popular and would not be used that often for a while. That said if you can't say he wasn't a samurai due to lack of evidence, the same applies in the reverse. Meaning that your argument is just as baseless as theirs. Basically, you are being a hypocrite.
Also if they made an Assassin's creed game in Africa and used someone from the middle eastern, Roman, Greek, or Dutch characters would you be good with those as well or not.
Finally people have been looking forward to an Assassin's creed game set in Japan with playable Japanese characters, just like in every other game where the main characters are from that country all the way back to Altir. But now that we finally get Japan one of those two characters is not Japanese. That is the problem. No one is upset with Naoe and your statement there at the end is hopefully, unintentionally, missing the point. Both characters should be Japanese not just one. The statement would remain true if the female character was a different race and the male character was Japanese.
@Allmightyimortal just going to say, depending on the time period, literally all of those cultures were in various places in Africa. So again, not off base for them to be in the game in some way or another, time period dependent.
Additionally, shouldn't call them a hypocrite. I would say a situation that would need more information to be substantive, one way or the other.
@AkodoGarou first part. True, but how exactly do you think the backlash would be by the same people defending this choice. That's more what I meant.
Second, I'm calling him a hypocrite because this situation needs more info, he states as much and then doubles down on him being a samurai. We honestly can't say one way or the other and so people voicing opposition to this are just as valid as those in support. He days that but doubles down on his side and says the other side is wrong. That's why he is a hypocrite
@@AkodoGarou I mean if you had an AC game where you made the main character of the American civil war Chinese, massage history to make him a bigger deal and push modern Chinese values, we would have the same problem. Then if ppl say you're only mad because he's Chinese, you're being entirely disingenuous over WHY it's an issue. If it wasn't a Ubisoft game, it wasn't an Assassin's Creed game, it was even less historical and it wasn't during the warring states era then there would be far less outrage. Ppl would not care if it was an entirely ahistorical game and new IP. Yosuke could be fighting cyber robots with the power of god and anime on his side and people would love it.
As for the historic nature of what's being argued, as far as I can tell most of the evidence that Yosuke was a Samurai being cited right now comes from 2 professors who wrote a non-peer reviewed book in 2019 with flimsy evidence or the fact that Japanese ppl made content about black Samurai loosely based off of Yosuke, which to me isn't evidence. It's like citing Netflix as the reason Queen Elizabeth is black. Even the first result on google is a reddit post from 2 days ago citing a Britannica article from 2022 citing the book from 2019. Prior to this I vaguely remember looking Yosuke up by accident (A manga about Oda made me go down a rabbit hole) and most of the search results is no he was not a Samurai. In fact, ppl were arguing if he even was black, which is the only reason I remember searching it. It depends on which definition of Samurai u use and it requires the loosest version of the definition and only then can Yosuke be a Samurai, albeit one with little legitimacy. At that point, even Wikipedia brings up a long list of maybe Samurais based off of loose definitions of Samurai. It gets ridiculous.
@@Allmightyimortal You're the first person I've seen with a decent understanding of this-bravo! I've been telling people all day that the fight over whether or not he was a samurai can go both ways, and there simply isn't enough evidence to prove either. However, there is ample evidence to prove Yasuke was more than a simple slave or jester, which I see lots of people claiming he was. As a Black person, I'm naturally very interested in Yasuke's story and love that he's in the game, but I understand that he probably should never have been included as a main character. It would have been better to see him in a role as a side character that you occasionaly talk to.
as far as I can tell from what I remember and have looked up (being honest there)
Yasuke (his Japanese name) was never granted the role of a Samurai, BUT was made into a personal bodyguard and then close attendent of Oda Nobunaga. He never covered him up because he was a extremely rare site (a man of his skin complication was not thought to really exist in (at least) central Japan). He then got elevated and was given a house, some land, some servants, and a stipen as he would be officially hired as a court retainer. We don't know what happened AFTER Oda Nobunaga died to him; he could have went back with the jessuets, he could have headed westard and settled outside of town (not really likely), he could also have become just a minor pirate, we really don't know EXACTLY what happened except one thing; he did live after Oda died.
Further, Ubisoft is not really a good company anymore and well probably make this game with dozens of DLC or some other thing that makes it a 5/10 at best (in my opinion). I mean, the saying is "Dont Pre-Order" because of what they did last time. ALSO, more then likely they did alter the story to fit more modern sensibilities. I would have likes it if the Samurai noted in the Trailer was actually just straight up a hard core villain and was the main bad guy OR the sub-main bad guy...instead of making him a good guy. The story is more-then likely going to suffer from being bland.
No idea where you are getting all of this fanfiction from. So little is written about him.
1. He is never said to have been a bodyguard
2. He is said to have been an attendant. (Letter by Lorenzo Mesia)
3. No writing whatsoever about whether he was covered up or not.
4. No sources saying he got any land, houses or servants.
5. He got a stipend (which is a payment for service, like any attendant would get). Source (Matsudaira Ietada's diary)
6. Again, no source says he was a retainer (koshin)
7. We do have information on what happened to him after Nobunaga's defeat. He was sent back to the Jesuits. (Letter by Luis Frois)
I am just curious, where did you get all this "information" from? I have the shincho koki and Portuguese Jesuit letters in front of me and they don't say all these things. So where are people getting all these ideas from? Did you watch a certain video or read some article?
@@MustardSkaven it is general info you get from the multiple other sources surrounding the man. I am not going to say you are wrong as I point out it is what I found. ALSO, I did think his life after Oda was unclear, but a lot of sources do point to him just returning to the Jesuets (probably taking back his old role{?}).
@@DASBIGUN Yeah but it matters where you found it. The quality of the source matters. Is it a contemporary source or some modern video?
The primary and contemporary source in what happened to him after Akechi's betrayal is the following (translation of a letter by Luis Frois): "The vassals went and asked Akechi what to do with the cafre, he said the cafre is like an animal and knows nothing, and he's not Japanese so don't kill him and give him to the church of the Indian padre. With this we were a bit relieved."
@@MustardSkaven so, a lot of the sources I got info from where ones that are older and not "modern" (if you know what I mean). I avoid going for things that are hyper 'fixated' on him being a Samurai that can sneek people in a full set of ceramonial armor
Ubisoft's business practices deserve more of a critical eye than using Yasuke. From day one you're already having to buy a battle pass to unlock content and the pricing is being structured in a way to funnel consumers to their subscription service. They're doing the same exact thing with the Star Wars game they're developing.
The Male MC was changed to Yasuke later in development the question is why did they do it? Sadly I lean more towards they chose Yasuke because there is so little actual info about the REAL Yasuke and by using him they managed to check an esg/dei box.
I'm gonna venture a guess that they chose him cause he's an interesting character to explore
@@Nakedpanda140.96 Both things are probably right.
Very excited for the game👍🏻
great hoodie🥷😎
I'm only here for the comments. So many miserable people became Japanese history experts overnight before this premiered. 😂😂
I’m seeing a lot of people using English terms interchangeably with Japanese ones.
It’s driving me insane since I’m a black man that minored in Japanese language/studies in college. These people have no idea what they are talking about
Also a lot of them mysteriously turned Japanese and are saying Japanese people hate Yasuke or a cinematic trailer
@@mookiestewart3776 I honestly tried to stay out of it at first. Feudal Japan is about 10,000 km and 1,000 years outside of my history concentration, so I deferred to the experts. But the arguments I was seeing were increasingly awful and contrary to every Japanese primary source I could find. I think what was worse for me was seeing so many arguments from people who'd obviously never played an Assassin's Creed game before. I got sucked in to it in the end. Lol
@@erianpeterson3431 Facts. I've used the way back machine on quite a few suspicious profiles, and surely enough, they seemed to have changed their names and morphed into Eastern Asian people in a day. 🤣
The black samurai is Yasuke though there just isn’t information on where exactly he comes from. All that is known is he became a retainer to Oda Nobunaga towards the end of the warring states period. He actually learned Japanese really quickly but not much else. the mountain village was Iga a place in central Japan with a history of shinobi. They went to war twice within two years once they won the other was complete destruction of Iga as the shogun got insider information on shinobi traps and how they fought literally countering them into oblivion.
pivot blade design from AC3 in katana form
Aztec would be absolutely perfect 😮😮😮, imagine a gold and black hooded cloak with a gold assassin's blade! And riding kulkukan!
I think If they ever get to the final game it should be during WWI and WWII in a two part game think of an extension of Arno climbing the Eiffle Tower.
日本人です、これは日本じゃない。外国人のファンタジーの日本です。
YandereDevに登録された日本人は不思議、正直この方は日本人と思わない。
@@tdc9009 僕も賛成！
hey user random number. we know you used google translate for that comment.
@@tdc9009 thank you very much friend, exposing these characters will unveil the truth. they are pretending to be japanese
@@ravenflare8076 馬鹿？
I would have preferred an Ancient Korean setting myself, since its much less explored compared to Feudal Japan. Definitely would have helped it stand apart from Sekiro and Ghosts of Tsushima. In fact, there are many Asian cultures which would have been more interesting for AC to explore - Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam etc.
Still, from the trailer, Shadows looks good, and yeah, Yasuke was an actual person, he was Oda Nobunaga's retainer (his personal samurai basically, before they became an elite class later on) and only one of two foreigners to achieve that title (the other being William Adams.) The protagonist in the anime Afro Samurai was inspired by him as well.
I agree the 3 i really wanted in an assassin's Creed story lines have always been Aztec/Mayan, Japan and ww2. WW2 has been briefly shown or hinted at and i would love to see it happen. Just imagine at the end youre the one who kills Hitler. Can wait for this game
For a game franchise that a lot of gamers keep saying they don't care about anymore, there are an unusual amount of them getting really mad over Yasuke.
Cause Yasuke wasn't a samurai.
People are sick of the racist far left.
@@NuclearWintr
And Cornwallis wasn’t part of a secret society.
@@NuclearWintrHe was.
@@NuclearWintrand assassin’s creed is the most historically accurate series ever
assassin's creed set in mesoamerica would be awesome.
The African dude is Yaskue who was an actual historical figure. He was a sword bearer and bodyguard for Daymio Oda Nobunaga.
He may have been made a samurai but this topic is hevily debated among historians.
I highly recomend The Metaton's videos about him.
As for the female protagonist she is fictional and the daughter of a real Shinobi, Fujibashi Nagato.
yosuke never been a historical figure in japan. no one really mention him. lack of evidence if he a real samurai or not. alot of his history is fictional. the reason why he is big in western because he is black dude in japan. if he was a real famous person, name one of his achievement in battlefield
Watched vid and damn it's really polarizing and as Metatron said there's technically no confirmation that Yasuke is a Samurai or not cause even native Japanese people are saying he's not a samurai but then cause of some retainer rules he is ... In a way . So st the end the answer is we don't know
The thread "Was Yasuke a Samurai?" on r/AskHistorians is better - it has the perk of being an incredibly detailed dive into the topic by an actual historian rather than an emotionally driven RUclipsr with a chip on his shoulder about wokeness.
Historians do not heavily debate whether Yasuke was a samurai. They almost universally agree that he was.
You're wrong. Yasuke is explicitly written as a koshō (小姓 = page, squire.).
Not a Samurai. This topic ISN'T hevily debated among historians. Okay?
@@zaknakmenace9356 they literally have a damn statue of him.
I agree with you. Ubisoft went with female shinobe and black samurai to avoid comparison with Ghost of Tsushima and Rise of Ronin. Both GoT and RoR did an amazing job and ubisoft could never achieve that level so they did a different route.
i can think of a bunc of different historical figures that are actually japanese, are extremely unique and cool that they are yet to explore, Tomoe Gozen is a good example, also known as the first female samurai and she is quite well documented as well, quite a relevant and big figure in japanese history, and that's just one of them.
Rise of the Ronion was garbage. What are you talking about?
@@pixelcount350 literally🤦♂️ the only thing rise of the ronin is “better” at is combat but it’s just a Japan souls like game with unrealistic combat. I guarantee Ac will be better in pretty much every way besides combat
@@jacksonhahnyou an idiot if you believe ubisoft will be more real. Female shinobi? Black samurai? Soo real dude.
@@LeMrAlpacaso. Yasuke being so much of a mystery is what makes this better they can get creative with it, and ya'll act like every AC has been 70% accurate anyways; just a bunch of racist and/or clout hungry people trying to ruin a game because black hurts their eyes 😂😂😂
If you haven't yet you should play Assassins Creed Rogue. takes place during the french and indian war and has my favorite of the protagonists
Arquebuses, not muskets; muskets were improved versions of muskets. They weren't heavily favoured right away, but Nobunaga was the biggest popularising force, especially after eviscerating the famed Takeda cavalry at Shikatagahara. It definitely helped that Takeda Shingen's much less competent son, Takeda Katsuyori, had taken over by that tim, 'cause he just sent the best of his whole clan into a meat grinder and made firearms look really good. Fortunately, Sanada Masayuki survived after the clan and became one of the most interesting figures of that period, while not the most powerful
100% Aztec, Mayan, Inca etc would be amazing! There's so many untap world building, architecture, fashion, weapons etc with these cultures. Currently playing Shadow of Tomb Raider and I'm having an absolute blast with it.
I think it would have been cool if they picked a place other than Japan. The Mali empire for example, I played in Japan apready in "ghost of tsushima" this feels like just replaying the same game with Ubisoft style and alot less originality, visiting an African empire like mali would have been very cool, you rairly see depection of African empires in video games and movies
One of the leaked games, Codename Nebula, will take place in the Aztec Empire, India, and the Mediterranean.
The girl is Naoe (fictional daughter of the real life shinobi Fujibayashi Nagato) and the man is Yasuke (real like person dubbed, “the only black samaurai”). Yasuke was a retainer for Oda Nobunaga the first great unifier of Japan. The oda clan lead a massive attack on the Iga province (where naoe is from) which is what we see in the beginning.
Yasuke not Samurai.
He just Bushi(武士)
@unknown5454b No matter how many times you repeat a lie it won't change history.
@@Decimo10X Even though you're black, do you understand Japanese?
I understand because I'm Japanese, but do you know the difference between Samurai(侍) and Bushi(武士)?
If you translate both into English, It will become a samurai.
But the meaning of samurai and Bushi is completely different.
@@Decimo10X Do you understand kanji?😂
@@unknown5454b He was a Samurai get over it.
The character is yaskue
7:25 This, a game similar to the movie "Apocalypto".
This is the first time in the Assassin's Creed franchise where one of the protagonists is an actual historical figure.
And not native to the land. I wonder why.
@@EmperorTyraelyou reak of involuntary celibacy 🤣🤣
Idk, probably because it's awesome? Do you enjoy video games? @@EmperorTyrael
@@EmperorTyrael I mean even in the video he suggested that this was more a move to be different from the other like 5 Samurai games that have come out over the last few years. Rise of Ronin dropped like a month ago.
They changing history
From trailer I kinda feel like this AC designer or the writer is not pay attention to the samurai tradition by the head armor decoration I'm sure that Yasuke is not form a samurai family or a lord family he shouldn't ware a helm that have an antler on his helm. Game plot are not accurate to the history as they claim but a least ubisoft should use Ghost of Tsushima as an example on how to do a better game.
i am not an assassins creed fan i do have black flag but i would wont mind perhaps one set in american revolution era or set in the era of black flag but in sted of beeing a pirate you could be a pirates hunter and you served the british royal navy and you had to hunt down pirates or something i am not sure where i want a new game to be set
AC3 is set in the American Revolution
Ight the American Revolution is both 3 and Liberation, and the hunting pirates one is Rogue. Don't play Liberation though, it's the most broken game I've ever played and it was never fixed like other Ubisoft titles
American Revolution= Assasins creed 3, hunting pirates= Assasins creed Roge. Fun fact the AC3 protagonist is the grandchild of the Black Flag protagonist
If they are going to feature an assassin, they should use hidden clans like the Imbe clan, Kamo clan, or Hata clan rather than Yasuke.
The theory that the Hata clan are ancient Israelites fits perfectly with Assassin's Creed and ties in with the story of Assassin's Creed 1!
Given that Nobunaga is connected to the Imbe clan, it would make sense if they based the story on that.
I mean, the game looks good, but I was enjoying the pirate theme so it be nice to be able to control ships
Have you seen Things i care about's explanation on the Korean War, Mr. Terry. I'd like your review on the Vietnam War, so i put this suggestion in for you to check it out.
Yasuke was a bodyguard for a Portuguese missionary
And then one of nobunagas favorite retainers
Now that it's on PC you should play Ghost of Tsushima than An Ubisoft story
They believed the law associate professors novel "biography" as truth
Shogun will only get one season, as the show ends where the book ends.
I'm glad they added guns. It was a huge part of their society around this time. Japanese produced so many firearms it has been estimated at one point there were more firearms in Japan than the whole of Europe.
And in terms of gameplay wise, it'll definitely be a throwback to some of the early games like Unity, AC III and Syndicate where the enemies will be carrying guns.The last 4 AC games didn't have guns at all. So I can imagine it'll be slightly more challenging
whats everyones favorite assassin's creed game?
Origins
3
Odyssey tbh. Old AC was nice but the parkour was jank af. Odyssey was the perfect mix of reality and mythology, and had plenty of interesting places to explore and cool quests to complete. Cassandra was also a great protagonist.
The first one. Sure, gameplay is not the most advanced by today's standards, but I love the story.
I loved odyssey both for gameplay and because I'm just a little obsessed with greek history lol. It also probably is due to the fact that I prefer large open world games and don't like much of the ship battles from the first ones
You were close
Yasuke was a real person with vague details as he was sold to Oda Nobunaga by the Jesuits
So Mr Terry is a Templar
That’s yasuke former slave turned samurai brought to japan by the Portuguese
He was not a samurai he was just a slave
1. I honestly thought that you were a retired teacher.
2. 4:20 - That’s Yasuke the black “Samurai”. (Historically debated if he was an actual samurai or just retainer of Nobunaga.)
3. The best locations are: The Wild West, during the civil war, and India, during the revolution and either World War, as they were concurrent.
Oh no, do I look that old?
@@MrTerry You look very well off for a teacher based on the expensive merchandise in your background.
that’s all false lol you learn that from your western sites lmao. To be a samurai you need to be born as a pure blooded Japanese noble family it’s like knights where all knights came from a nobles family. You need to start at the age of 5-13 to start your samurai training and that’s the rule and the rule of the way of the samurai never changes ever. So how tf is Yasuke a samurai? When he’s only been in Japan for 1-3 years until he was shipped back to the Europeans. Yasuke was nothing more than a servant or retainer and retainer in Japan can mean anything IF YOU READ THE ACTUAL TRANSLATION FOR IT AND NOT THE WESTERN ONE. It’s practically a maiden job which is accurate for Yasuke because it stated that he clean his masters sword and armor plus he cook food for him to until his masters death. And let me break it down to you that in Japan Yasuke is nothing more than a fictional figure because he’s not in any history textbooks in Japan ever, in Japan he’s known as a folklore or a myth. There’s several ways to contradict Yasuke being a samurai like when Yasuke failed to protect his master from a traitor and if Yasuke was a samurai and failed he would’ve had to commit seppku as every samurai who fails to protect their masters needs to commit seppku which Yasuke never because he was no samurai and he was release back to the Portuguese
@@Kodeuk You're not wrong but during the era the restrictions on Samurai was loosened and there were at least 2 foreigners that managed to become Samurai on paper in all but lineage/blood/honour in the 1600s (After that era). It also required them being extremely valuable and powerful to the Shogun for them to become Samurai. Whether or not they were true Samurai is debatable but they're the exception and not the rule. The likelihood that Yosuke was a Samurai is so small, unless you use the loosest definition of Samurai you can think of, which makes a lot of foreigners count as Samurai.
@@1ProAssassin well to begin with Yasuke is nothing more than a folklore or myth in Japan as he is not in any history text books or anywhere in asia lol the west made it all up about him being a samurai. As for the 2 foreigners they actually had records of them being in Japan for many years and became one. Yasuke in the other hand states in Japan for 1-3 years then was sent back to the Europeans
Japanese shrines retain many influences from ancient Israelites and the regions around Mesopotamia. In particular, the sacrificial ritual of the Onbashira Festival at Suwa Taisha is very similar to the story of Isaac's sacrifice in the Bible. Many clans fled the volcanic eruption in Japan around 7,000 years ago, migrated to the region around Egypt, and returned to Japan after several generations.
Are we Gona get a Reaction to all ac games pleeeeaaassse
I’ve done a tier list video!
The Black Samurai from the trailer "a tall African man named Yasuke arrived in Japan in 1579. He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior" (USA TODAY )
Extremely unlikely he was samurai though. Nobody ever mentioned him having that rank even though they did mention it when other foreigners became samurai.
I can't recommend the thread "Was Yasuke a samurai?" on r/AskHistorians highly enough. I hope more people read it!
Then we might have less people arguing that although this man walked like a samurai, quacked like a samurai, and essentially WAS a samurai in every conceivable way, he was actually not a samurai and was in fact pitiful and meaningless, and they are very emotionally invested in telling you so for some reason (racism)
Racism is rampant in the gaming community and history community.
I’m all for questioning and skepticism over history as I believe it’s important to uncovering the truth, but Yasuke is pretty well documented all things considered. It would just be a stupid thing for someone to lie about historically, and obviously people from that long ago in Japan wouldn’t have even known black people existed in order to lie about it to begin with.
The AskHistorians on reddit is full of bias people. Historians themselves are divided on this topic. My brother is a historian, with a PHD in fucking Asian History. He says he's not a Samurai due to lack of evidence. But he has coworkers that say he was because "he technically is due to assumption of land and such." The fact is no one knows and the best answer he is he wasn't a Samurai. No evidence = it didn't happen. Besides - for a famous Samurai - where is his kids and ancestry in Japan? They would have kept him around if hes so damn famous.
@@Willowposting No he was not. Compared to William Adams, he was not went documented at all. This is why no one knows if hes a samurai or not.
A good example of extreme bias on that reddit page is that the mods are literally claiming "He will flag people that will question Samurai'ing while Black and ban people." Reddit is not a good place for history. They are full of agenda pushing clowns.
@@NissanSkylineVR30Have you seen the thread? There are multiple lines of evidence he was a samurai.
His name is Yasuke tho his real history is unknown as many different sources say many different things and his story is super open ended, as for Naoe she is the daughter to a historical figure
You should react to the KCDII trailer
Ther sayed that yazuke would fit in with the conspiracy aspect of the series becausvther is so litle knewn of himmplus when devolepment startet he was populer to use .
Like hecisxreal but we knew so litle and he has these connections to other historicrel Figureds he likely just worled well with the plot og the story. People beeingbpissed about it just realy dont understand Assasins creed.
Dude could you please check your spelling and spacing? It'll do wonders for you.
3:07 The door and ceiling is too high
3:07 The servant sitting beside his master is weird he should be on the floor with the other
3:07 inaccurate Tatami floor and sitting on top of the corner of Tatami is considered Rude and uncivil
3:07 正座 (seiza) the way they sit is developed in Edo period which somehow it appears in Ubisoft sengoku fantasy
3:10 Oda crest is upside down thing that should have been EASY to make it accurate but somehow UBISOFT still f up btw his hair style is 丁髷 also developed around EDO period
Even Ghost of Tsushima is inaccurate ( kurosawa style games) it's has Souls and they pay attention to the details
Edit: I don't care about Yasuke and I am not voice of people of Japan, I kinda like him in a way of a folk , mythology side of him
What bothers me about this game, as it did with Syndicate, it’s when the developers don’t apply the name of the game to the game itself.
What do I mean by that? Look no further than the first assassin‘s Creed! It set up the three tenets that we Assassin’s Creed fans know.
The first tenet: Hide in plain sight.
The second tenet: Stay your blade from the flesh of the innocent.
The third tenet: Never compromise the brotherhood.
Assassins creed used to be good. Just remake AC4 black flag already and they would make alot of money :D
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Yea I don't care if he was a samurai or not (he was a retainer) but what I do care about is why out of all the cool samurai and actually japanese people that were there, they chose the black dude? Does this not seem like they want to push racial politics to anyone? The comments and dislikes on the trailer very much are signaling that fans are not ok with this.
The Japanese players especially are not okay with it, if their comments and amount of dislikes in the Japanese version of the trailer are anything to go by. I think that's the worst part of this whole thing.
@@miamor2624 I just hate the gas lighting and false equivalences that ppl keep pushing to defend it. Anybody can see that this is pretty racist in context. It's the freaking Sengoku period. One of the most famous and popular eras of Japanese history. Assassin's Creed may not be super historical but most of it still follows along the historical path. It's not quite as ahistorical as Nioh. I've been wanting a good AAA open world game set in this era where you play as a Samurai. The closest I 've gotten is Samurai warriors or strategy games which don't quite work. If it was fully focused on not being historical with a new IP and especially in a less iconic era, people wouldn't care if it was Yosuke or Aliens. People would be quite upset and equally confused if they set the next Assassin's Creed during the American Civil war and made the protagonist Chinese, while centreing the narrative around pleasing a modern Chinese audience.
Since much isn't known about him, Yasuke provides a lot of creative freedom for Ubisoft to play with. However, I totally understand why people are upset with this choice.
Tell us you have no friends without saying anything and ..... go!
@1ProAssassin We have Ghost of Tsushima a thousands times better even if it kinda plays to some misunderstandings and myths.
the african samurai is loosely based on Yasuke
That character is literally called Yasuke. They are taking the historical person and pretending he was a warrior in Japan.
There are properties where Oda Nobunaga is a girl
Clearly black samurai shouldn't be big deal
Remember that even being a sandal bearer was a big fucking deal. So either way has our being a reliant it sword bearer was still a big fucking deal
Metatron made a good and objective video about it. Go watch it if you want some clarification.
My biggest issue with Metatron is his over reliance on clickbaity, misleading titles, and graphics in his thumbnails. At this point, a lot of people do that, but it gives the wrong impression and makes him come off as yet another grifter pandering to the "anti-woke, grievance incel culture war hate mob" even if that isn't his intention.
“Objective” is very much a reach. His opinion is far from it and treating is as law when even Japanese researchers disagree is sus.
The Aztec and Cortez sounds like an amazing idea!
Must be sengoku or edo period
It looks awesome. I wonder if they're going to have a scene of someone doing his hair or they show how he keeps his locks maintained. But besides that Yasuke is a great historical figure, although I'd stick to the historical sites if you want to look into it and not these internet bigots who just make stuff up. But I tend to lean towards stealth in these sort of games as it seems much more rewarding. So I'll most likely be playing the lady when given a choice.
The RUclips channel "Metatron" did a video of this very trailer. The black "samurai" is based on an actual historical figure named Yasuke, though there is debate on his samurai status. There isn't a lot of information about him, but Metatron explains what he knows about him. It's very informative, and a fun video.
Yasuke is explicitly written as a koshō (小姓 = page, squire.).
Which was the medieval servant of a Knight. Calling Yasuke a Samurai is like calling a page or a squire a Knight.
I just wonder, What can Yasuke do in the Sengoku period? Even they wanna change the history and making him a samurai, but he can't kill anyone.
If he was an assassin, he couldn't hide in a crowd as the only large black guy. Japanese are not brainless and blind. And they had their own heroes at that time.
This is just a way of humiliating Asians. Those pushing this propaganda are the Templars themselves, who view humans as slaves to be manipulated.
Yes ,but kosho usually filled by member of prestigious samurai family. Because they also served as body guard, they need to be very good fighter too. Do Kosho has the chance to enter battlefield? Usually don't, because they are lord's personal guard, unless the lord want to show everyone his kosho capability.
I mean, he seems more the combat type, akin to Jacob from Syndicate
Contrary to Popular Culture depictions of him, Yasuke was never a Samurai. He was a retainer for Oda Nobunaga who was basically kept around as a curiosity. He only had one sword whereas Samurai had two of them and that sword was most likely ceremonial, just like his Samurai armor. Ubisoft only chose him to be the male protagonist because DEI/ESG. A move that has backfired big time, especially in Japan. I don't care that it is historical fiction. They had a perfectly good story with a protagonist and plot that fit into the Feudal Japanese settin', but threw it out because they want to pander. Not to mention that playin' a real-life historical figure, even if he is a glorified footnote, misses the point of Assassin's Creed, which is that you're playin' a character who has been lost to history.
Retainer means samurai. A quick google search will help you grow more braincells 😂
@@erianpeterson3431retainer does not mean samurai. Every samurai is a retainer but not every retainer is a samurai
The games not being historical is not an argument.
Yes you fought monsters in odyssey but still your protagonist looked like a Greek right? You can have a fantasy setting but that doesn't mean every aspect has to be fantastical.
O i have dragons here let's denounce gravity completely in this world it's a fantasy world. It doesn't work that way. Since it's a game in Japan i don't think it's irrational that you'd expect to play as Japanese same as when you played in Egypt and Greece you had to play resembling those.
And the fact the company is working with DEI consultants and is actively trying to push politics is a flag on its own.
You can play as a Japanese person but have dismissed this option because the other protagonist is a woman. So, is this a mixture of bigotry and sexism. I'm wondering if the people upset about not being able to play as a Japanese man is really a just a fetish. There are plenty of games that can satisfy that itch.
@@askariali6039 i bet if it was the blue eyed samurai these people wouldnt be saying a darn thing
@@erianpeterson3431 They didn't and the game is called Nioh. An acutal historic samurai, Norwegian (I thiink) William Adams, is featured as a magic wielding, demon vanquishing badass protagonist and these smooth brainers didn't bat an eye. Of course, the gaming community didn't push back because it was a Japanese studio that did it so they gave it a pass. None of that instant Japanese historian BS was spouted. The bigotry of it all.
@@askariali6039 To be fair, I would argue that Nioh was a new franchise while the AC series have a track record of being somewhat historically accurate while also have the protag being a fictional character that blends in with the ppl of said place. And in blackflag's DLC we had Adawale which no one had any problem with either.
It kinda feels like a missed opportunity to have a new Japanese assassin, which we still kinda? have here?
@@askariali6039 William Adams was English. Also Nioh didn't claim to be very historical either.
AC however, always prided itself in its historical aspects.
Yasuke is one of my favorite minor historical figures, and I always enjoy seeing him turn up in Japanese games (he was especially awesome in Nioh!) so his presence here is very exciting.
That was Yasuke. Don't go to RUclips chat to figure out who he is, though. It gets really racist.
I don’t hate the protagonists. I think it’s interesting they’re using a real historical figure as a protagonist. I just don’t like the setting. It’s obvious they’re just trying to leech off of ghost of Tsushimas success
Yasuke may technically not a Samurai but usually his position is filled by member of prestigious Samurai family. As a retainer, sword bearer, and what not they are also body guard of lord, so he need to be good fighter too.
Japanese gamers really don't like the game. One even called is his first time to understand what 'cultural appropriation' feels like. Much of the architecture is Chinese, not Japanese. Yasuke mishandles his sword. And they are upset that after 20 years of asking for a game set in Japan, they don't get a Japanese samurai protagonist.
Also there is debate whether Yasuke was even a samurai. Most evidence points to him not being a samurai. He never received the two swords (wakizashi and katana) of a samurai, only the ceremonial (wakizashi). He never fought in any of the battles and was with Oda only 15 months and in Japan for only 3 years.
Also, Yasuke is the first PC to not be a local from the region in which the game is set, and also the first PC to be based on a real person.
Qll of which is quite upsetting to many people, and I tend to agree this is a bad move for Ubisoft. To disrespect Japanese culture and history this much and in such a blatant fashion...
Stop lying 🤥 🤡
@@erianpeterson3431 Not lying though?
I wanted a male Japanese MC, be it him a samurai or a shinobi, but no, Ubislop has to shove DEI down our throats.
I have no problem if Yasuke was a side character though.
Ah yes the 1st Assassins creed to take place in asia I wonder who the main character will be ... Ah of course more BS pandering. Also yeah sneaking away from a crime will be super easy and inconspicuous as one one of the TINY AMOUNT of outsiders allowed in the country at this time. Also I get that he's a real person but with all the other games the characters match the region and he sticks out so much hes a bad pick and would be a horrible assassin being so conspicuous.
Good thing he's on 1 of 2 main protagonists.
Good things a main character 😌
Oh Mr Terry, you are asking for trouble when you talk about meso-America and the native cultures of Aztecs and Mayans during the Spanish invasion, as it inevitably ends up in racial politics that we have seen games like Ecumene Aztec come under fire from internet trolls.
Assuming the people I'm thinking of are the ones who get mad, maybe the Aztecs shouldn't sacrifice and brutalise their enemies and their own people to the point that the other civilisations were willing to ally with the Spaniards to destroy them.
@@MW_Asura Oh yeah, because the catholics were so "civilized" right? With their executions via crucifixion, endless tortures and persecution of "heretics" AKA anyone that didnt bend the knee to their dogma and the authority of the church, and dont forget their filthy diseases, which natives didnt have because Aztecs had always been clean, they washed daily in Senotes and didnt develop the same kind of diseases than the Europeans living in filth did, so who are the real "savages"?
@@MW_Asura Because the Europeans were so "civilized" right? With their executions via crucifixion, their torture devises and persecution of "heretics" AKA anyone that refused their dogma and didnt recognize the authority of the church, and dont forget European diseases, that developed due to the filthy conditions of European society of the time, Aztecs and meso-Americans were always clean and washed daily in senotes, so they didnt develop those filth-related diseases, so who are the real "savages"?
@@MW_Asura Because the Europeans were so "civilized" right? With their executions via crucifixion, their torture devises and persecution of "heretics" AKA anyone that refused their dogma and didnt recognize the authority of the church, and dont forget European disease, that developed due to the filthy conditions of European society of the time, Aztecs and meso-Americans were always clean and washed daily in senotes, so they didnt develop those filth-related diseases, so who are the real "savages"?
@@MW_Asura Because the Europeans were so "civilized" right? With their executions via crucifixion, their torture devises and persecution of "heretics" AKA anyone that refused their dogma and didnt recognize the authority of the church, and dont forget European disease, that developed due to the filthy conditions of European society of the time, Aztecs and meso-Americans were always clean and washed daily in senotes, so they didnt develop those filth-related diseases, so who are the real "savages"?
The black samurai is named Yasuke he died in 1582
He was a retainer/ sword holder. Dude served the futile lord. History never mentions he was given the title of samurai. I would stay away from his wiki
Were there back then, how do you know?
@@jamesly2307 people who read the actual stuff we have on him and they use the wiki they read the actual written stuff we have on him
@@jamesly2307 they only stuff Japan
I personally dislike the new AC, something in the trailer show how they not capture the era feel. Even Yakuza Isshin feel more period-accurate than this.
AC has never been accurate
@@erianpeterson3431 Not the accuracy, but the feel of accuracy. You know, like old COD, player feel like playing a WW game, even if it more like Hollywood version of WW.
Ishin was great. This AC is just disappointment for me.
It's funny to me that you said Samurai (and Shinobi/Ninja) games had been done a lot, like WAY too many times. Yet the ONLY example you can think of off the top of your head is GoT? lol
Show how poor/ignorant ppl might be, even unintentionally, when it come to the trope/genre and how just one piece of media influence and elevate it to somehow more important place/status while it's been there all the time. You have to have someone, from your side, to validate it for you to feel ok to consume and so it'd be qualified as "Legit". That's sad and i'm actually feel sorry to the ppl who can only think GoT as something more special than what it is..
(But i guess it's the same applied to every North Korean who managed to flee their country/prison and expose themself with the knowledge that had previously been "taught" to them in their country.)
East Asian Civilizations Minor with focus on Japan here, always had an affinity for Yasuke's story and more obscure, lesser known aspects of Japanese history such as the Indigenous/Aboriginal Ainu people---long before people on RUclips started talking about him. Not sure if you're aware, but Professor Sachi Schmidt-Hori, a Japanese cultural historian, is the chief consultant on the game. I am extremely excited for the dual protagonist set up and contrast between Yasuke's superior strength and physicality and Naoe's speed, agility and stealth. It's now my most anticipated game of 2024.
I understand the Author's arguments and agree with more than one, but this Yasuke hardly bothers me in Assasin Creed because it is not a simulation-history game
To those writing here about Assassin Creed: Assasin Creed is not Kingdom Come Deliverance. In this great series of games, however, we have a mythical race of Isu that did not exist The orders of Assassins and Templars did not have stories in real life like in AC lore and Franklin, as someone already wrote, did not support the Assassins. And neither did da Vinci. This is not a game that simulates the Middle Ages or Sengoku or history like the aforementioned KCD but a de facto fantasy game set in realities stylized on Earth's history. So here there is no comparison to the push for Kingdom Come Deliverance. The annoyance of the Japanese I understand but they do similar things in manga, anime. In the famous Knights of the Zodiac (Saint Seiya)in Greece, their leader is Japanese Seiya the Pegasus Knight. While in 1986 when the action of the 1st volume of the manga begins it gets away with it, in the further series taking place in the 18th century the actual leader of the knights and the pegasus is Tenma another Japanese. Where a Japanese in 18th century Greece came from the mangaka didn't care. Not saying I'm happy about Yasuke in AC, but I wouldn't go overboard with the outcry from some fans. Mixing real eras with the fiction of the Isu race, time travel and the age-old almost Templars and Assassins. It's a world not KCD and more in the style of the Code Geass manga where you supposedly have our Earth but the main empire of this world is centered in America has an Emperor and it's called the Britannia empire and you have mega combat mechs in the early 2000s. In such situations it's hard to even laugh at a black person. Isu and time travel spoil everything as medieval or Sengoku Japan simulations.
It's funny, that Japanese had the origins of blackpowder and firearms right on their doorstep and even tho they made some early firearms themselves, they had to wait for Europeans, who got them from Ottomans, to bring the guns around the world and back to Japan
Europeans definitely did not get them from Ottomans - there were already records of them in Mongol Invasions, but mainly they played big part in The Hussite Wars, where the current terminology such as "pistol" or "howitzer" comes from (from czech "píšťala" and "houfnice" as examples)
@@Dollt28 Being Czech myself, I know about the importance of firearms in Hussite Wars. I meant that even tho Mongols used them as well and contributed greatly to spread of usage of firearms Europeans mostly got them from Ottomans/Arabs
As a history teacher, what do you think of the attempts to edit sites like Wikipedia to portray Yasuke as definitely being samurai when the evidence is not clear on that?
I heard that fans are mad practically because they wrongfully assumed that Ubisoft was going to make the multiplayer cost extra money to play, and also because it requires an internet connection to download which seems silly to me though I have a well enough internet connection anyways because we are living in the digital age.
IGN is literally embarrassing itself right now.
How?
@@maxrichards3881 asking for pre-orders with no gameplay
I’m very excited. I don’t care what people say, I think it looks freaking awesome. Even before Ubisoft posted the other videos elaborating on the trailer, I knew that must be the Iga Sokoku Ikki burning and that’s Yasuke, anyone familiar with the history would know what’s going on if even I did. Not much excuse for all the ignorance. Game is gonna be badass. I was sold the second the music kicked in with that Kill Bill surf rock and punk vibe.
I understand AC is fiction but its weird that they're pandering like this
Pandering to Yasuke fans?
Yasuke was a samurai.
He was not damn samurai
@@dragonslayer1223 Historical records put him in the same context as other samurai. r/AskHistorians has a great post about it.
@@dragonslayer1223
And Blackbeard never met Edward Kenway, why’s this a problem now?
its shame it went woke instead of making a good Samurai game. but Ubisoft will Ubisoft and its more money id safe
I’ve known abt the black samurai for years and never rly cared up until I saw the trailer. It just annoys me because u know damn well why they chose the only black guy in Japan at the time to be the main character. It’s for brownie points and checking boxes for their agenda. It’s just weird.
Japanese gamers are very upswt with the trailer. They used Chinese architecture in many places instead of Japanese architecture, they have Yasuke use the katana backwards several times in the trailer. And the Japanese are angry they don't get a Japanese male protagonist in the game after asking for 20 years to get a game set in Japan.
One Japanese twitter user even said he finally understands what 'cultural appropriation' feels like.
@@gideonroos1188”Japanese male protagonist” you say???
@@gideonroos1188stop lying pleb
@@greyjedi1272 Yes. Especially when the character will fulfill such an iconic role as a samurai. It's like making a game about the Zulu Impi warriors, but the protagonist is a Pakistani.
@@gideonroos1188 you mean like the Japanese have been doing with him for the last 70 years?
If you want a proper authentic Japanese Samurai game play ghost of tsushima. Don't buy this garbage
Yasuke was a black retainer to Oda Nobunaga, who never became a samurai despite common misconception. Yasuke was the name given to him by Nobunaga, and reality is we know next to nothing about Yasuke. His age, birthplace, how he came to Japan, everything is lost or was never written down. Best we can assume is that he came from Mozambique and *maybe* learned some combat techniques.
A quick google search will help grow a braincelll
@@erianpeterson3431 A quick google search will help grow a brain cell
Wow, so stunning and brave UBisoft!!! can't wait for the next AC were your a white European named Shaka Zulu and fighting the patriarchy in Africa!!!
Well we already had Egyptians so why not 😊
why is the Samuri black and in every other assassin creed the main character is from that society / race ? . Is ubisoft racists against Asians?
i just want to paly a japanese man in ajapanese setting. they went out of their way to pick this exact point of the story for a fiction tale. for brownie points. they always used fictional Main chracters for their games. why stop now
In the video he notes that they most likely did this to be different as samurai games are kinda common.