Yasuke Got the Internet MAD! Assassin Creed Shadows REACTIONS! | PX2S Gamer's Digest 8.20
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In this breakout of episode 8.20, we talk about why everyone is made about Yasuke from Assassin's Creed Shadows, what they are really made about (he black), and how much we (and Ubisoft) don't care.
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It's not Yasuke that got everyone mad, but the lack of representation for the Japanese during the Sengoku period.
When it was Nioh no one batted an eye. Game is going to be hot garbage, either way. Buy Ghost of Tsushima, instead.
@@Kaptain_Torrent_ Intentions matter...and it's not an artistic choice but pushing woke shit and agendas.
@@Kaptain_Torrent_ yeah but there's documentation on William and he literally saved Japans trade. Nice try tho 🤡
@@infid3lw4rrior94 Idk that to be a fact and neither do 98% of people regurgitating that argument. Anyway, it's irrelevant to my reply to the other guy.
Hey, you know it's not a game with only black people in it right?, it's like 99% Japanese
More mad because Ubisoft is one of a number of companies that says hey we have to check off the inclusion boxes rather then just make a good game.
baldur's gate 3 has proven that you can check off inclusion boxes and still make a damn good game. you do realize that these things are not mutually exclusive, yes?
I mean, Team Ninja decided to make Williams Adams the main protagonist in 2017's Nioh and I didn't see you making a stink about "inclusion bad" back then.
how come?
I sincerely hope you have more self awareness to try and argue that inclusion isn't bad if its for the sake of white people and only problematic if its for the sake of black people.
the best decision of course would be to simply shut up and not try to argue at all since you already indirectly outed yourself as a hypocrite with double standards.
by the way: take it from a guy who plays a fuckton of samurai games because he loves samurai a lot (which is me): samurai games with a japanese protagonist are as common as sand in a desert. samurai games with a white or black protagonist like William Adams or Yasuke are a rarity and something new, fresh, different and there's nothing wrong with any of that.
if you don't want to play a game like that, there's plenty of other options for you to choose from.
just stop this bullshit about "inclusion bad" okay?
@@Timberwolftrass I think Musashi Miyamoto would have been a better fit did more of an impact in this culture IMO they missed the mark on choosing a main protagonist that best suits the setting. William Adams was a navigator and a shipwright that Shogun Ieyasu declared as a samurai for the aforementioned, but Team Ninja NEVER marketed him as a historical legendary samurai or a warrior for Nioh.
@@DanceStlylez Musashi Miyamoto already has a couple of games where he is the playable protagonist, Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! easily comes to mind, and he also appeared as a playable character in several other games like in the Samurai Warriors franchise and the Sengoku Basara franchise. Nevermind that a lot of movies, books, anime and manga have been produced that star Musashi Miyamoto.
Yasuke on the other hand hasn't been featured quite as extensively as of yet so I think it's nice seeing him being given a moment in the spotlight.
As for William, Nioh is about his journey into becoming a samurai, which he is by the end. several characters refer to him as samurai over the course of the game, Nioh 2 features a mission titled "The Blue-eyed samurai" in which your custom character gets to meet William and Team Ninja's latest game Rise of the Ronin features a hidden boss fight against a character titled "Blue-eyed samurai" which drops a couple of items from the Nioh games as an easter egg for you to collect, including the armor worn by Yasuke in both Nioh games.
So anyone who carried a katana was “samurai” ?….
He didn’t even have a katana it was a short sword.
There’s plenty of other black individuals in history they could choose from but they insert him into Japanese history. It’s not only disrespectful to Japanese culture but also any potential African culture they could pick from.
Yasuke is marketed by Ubisoft as a historical legendary samurai. He's not a legendary samurai or a warrior. He's a sword bearer, part of an entourage.
William Adams is a navigator and a shipwright that Shogun Ieyasu declared as a samurai for the aforementioned, but Team Ninja NEVER marketed him as a historical legendary samurai or a warrior for Nioh.
Since they already used artistic license for Adams, Team Ninja also had Yasuke as a warrior in Nioh too.
Kaneko Hiraku (professor at the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo, the most prestigious historical research institution in Japan) includes in his book below, paired with the translation in Thomas Lockley's book (which is correct): The meaning of the word stipend is not supposed to prove Yasuke was a samurai all by itself. What proves Yasuke was a samurai is not that he received a samurai stipend, but that he received a samurai stipend and carried Nobunaga's weapons which was usually the job of a koshō and koshō were samurai and had and fought with a katana at Nijō and he was mobilized and followed Nobunaga on the Takeda campaign of 1582 and remained by Nobunaga's side even after Nobunaga dismissed all his "ordinary soldiers".
@@TheEzekiel300 Where is it written that Yasuke was a legendary samurai or a warrior? All you said was he was a kosho.
Nobunaga won't endanger his rare trinket by letting him fight. If he's in a battle, I'm sure he'd be behind a jinmaku as all sword bearers do: sit still, be quiet and just hold the lord's katana as part of the background. Of course, he'll follow Nobunaga, of course he'll be at his side. What's the point of him a sword bearer then, huh?
There’s so much evidence for him being a samurai but because he held weapons for nobunaga which was a high honour and also a task of a samurai y’all choose to reduce him to that. Stfu
@@poloshirtsamuraiyou do realise he did fight right?
@@duen-wayneogilvie5223 Enough to be a legendary samurai? Doubt it.
He is not only black, now they confirmed he is gay as well hahahaha. You guys must be so excited.
I certainly am. i play a lot of samurai games because that's my jam and in a sea of samurai games, that is something new, fresh and different. a nice change of pace. its unfortunate that a lot of other people make a stink about this but that's how it is. some people like fresh, new and different things while other people are boring pussies.
@@Timberwolftrass I think people are afraid that ubisoft are more concerned with inclusivity rather than storytelling.
I am cautious, I will wait a couple of weeks after all the review bombing jerks fizzle away, and try to find a non bias story review.
@@nathanscott2871 storytelling has never been Assassin's Creed/Ubisoft's strong suit, let's be honest real.
people remember Assassin's Creed for its characters but not so much for its plot.
Besides
while a story can be nice and add to the experience, most people play games to have fun which means that a mediocre or bad story doesn't matter as much if the game itself is fun enough to play.
Gameplay is just much more important than story because on reaching new game plus, most players will make excessive use of the "skip cutscene" and "skip dialogue" functions, myself included. even in games whose story i like and love a lot like The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt.
@@Timberwolftrass then this vocal minority is the people who wanted story. I also like when they put more effort into storytelling. So for me assassin's creed 1 and 2+brotherhood, unity, origins and sort of odyssey were my favourite.
Personally gameplay isn't the "main" reason I play games. I almost never play games online, too repetitive and boring for me. Take helldivers that was great fun for about 20 hrs then it was boring. Look at skyrim and fallout games with crap gameplay.
I dont know where you get "most" people. Maybe most people you know. People play games for a whole host of reasons, some for an immersive well crafted world, some play for freedom of expression (escapism to a world that isn't as shit as this one), some people play for story, some people play to kill an hour so they pick up CoD and play for 30 mins to an 1 hour a day. Some people play to explore the world that has been created, some people play for gameplay. Some play for characters (which i personally include in the story but i know people separate these). Everyone plays for a combination of reasons
So for example helldivers is a solid 6/10 for me. Elden ring was 7/10 for me. FF7 Rebirth was 10/10 Stellar Blade was 9.5/10 for me. Ghost of tsushima 9/10 sekiro 8/10. Returnal 9/10, Bloodborne 9/10. Mass effect trilogy 10/10. My all time favourite series is the "legend of heroes" series. One game of theirs has almost 2.5 million words roughly 25 full books worth of writing inside that one game.
So I understand why people are worried when ubisoft releases a game set in the medieval japan and focuses on a black guy and a girl. Because we don't know if they are doing this to tell a believable (with the aid of suspension of disbelief) engaging story or if it is purely thrown in their for some sort of recognition (tokenism is very common these days)
Because of the unnecessary focus on race, sexuality, gender etc. People now spend wayyyy too much time thinking about it and attributing things to it. This makes it hard to decipher reasonings behind things that happen.
Ps they shouldn't have revealed him as black. Should have kept him masked and silent. Only about a third of the way through does the mask comes off (maybe she removes it) then we find out why he has to hide his body. This would have been brilliant. And because they didn't draw attention to it people wouldn't be as quick to jump onto the pandering argument.
@@Timberwolftrass True! Cleopatra and JFK were gay, even through they didn't say so, so we should make games where they are gay! Don't forget Jesus Christ!
And apparently yasuke is also geh 😂
It's an RPG so you can pick multiple romance partners if you want to. That's what the article says, so if u want u can romance women, if u want u can romance men during your personal playthrough. If even having that as an option triggers you then you are a snowflake simple.
FYI they did this in odyssey and Valhalla as well.
@@duen-wayneogilvie5223 I was about to reply to OP and say the same, this isn’t anything new.
Its simple, people no longer know if it is diversity for storytelling reasons or because they are pandering to inclusivity at the cost of storytelling.
A lot of media has swapped storytelling for diversity which is why people are frustrated.
There is plenty of media that is diverse and has great stories that receive no backlash.
To relate to this video, the issue isnt yasuke, the issue is people dont trust that ubisoft are writing the story to tell an interesting story but instead to push a narrative based on race and gender and all that nonsense.
Personally i find it disappointing that yet again ubisoft are too afraid to make a compulsory female lead. Japan was the perfect setting for a female shinobi story.
I think you make great points here. As a person who don’t really mess with AC games, this one got me with the inclusion of Yasuke. I grew up watching a ton of samurai stuff and playing those games (I loved Way of the Samurai) but for some reason I never found Yasuke. I think Ubisoft has the potential of doing something really cool here. But I stress “potential”, I noted in the video that all this talk and such over Yasuke could mean nothing if the game is a 7/10 (which is how I feel about a lot of Ubisoft games). I understand your hesitance about diversity, but I am of the mind, the other side is a samurai story we had already. So if they wanna try something different sure. If it is trash then we can judge it after we play the game.
@PressXtoStart that's exactly it! If they are actually trying to write a new perspective as the first black samurai and the challenges that arise from being the only black guy in the country, then it could be a fantastic story. The problem comes from if it isn't handled well and he was only introduced to be "the black guy" so that they can get digital backpats for being inclusive.
I think it would have been cooler to keep him masked for all the trailers and for about a third of the game then have him be unmasked by the female character and that's when you find out why he hides his identity.
Cmon lets be real, Someone like Musashi as the mc in a japanese setting would be dope. Even if Yasuke was a full on samurai he was only chosen for diversity.
When the main source for everyone on Yasuke is a literal fictional book like Lord of The Rings for Yasuke and people claim its actual history thats when you know all reason has left.
Imagen being asian and waiting YEARS for this game to come out while it has been the most anticipated time period for all the AC games for a while. And they decide to give the spotlight to a guy who has 0 likeness to you. It just feels like a slap in the face just to make americans on twitter happy who don't even play these games. Also you can see the racist women from sweet baby inc in the team picture so we already know WHY they are doing this and it just stinks
Assassin Creed Shadows was the best-selling PS5 game in Japan due to its pre-orders. Articles posted 4 days ago
@@PressXtoStart send a link to that because i highly doubt it
@@melih626 www.spieltimes.com/news/assassins-creed-shadows-tops-amazon-japan-ps5-best-sellers/
I havent played AC since "Black Flag" and i dont give a F about this game BUT i do care that people are changing history about Yasuke. Realistically theres not enough of anything about yasuke. All we know is that he was a sword bearer/ retainer and they do not fight on battlefield, they wait back with the generals ON the battlefield. Now, the Kunoichi (female spy) is typically a spy for SHINOBI (male assassin). Honestly i think yasuke wouldve been welcomed more as an NPC that you later fight against when Oda loses his castle, since yasuke was his bodyguard that would make the most sense. Imo i think they shouldve just went with a ronin/assassin style Japanese character, this way both "wants" would be met.
they are changing the history of AC in order to tell a story that no longer follows the originals AC story that was being told up until origin. they are also no longer caring about respecting the culture of whatever setting they are in at the time when they cant even use proper architecture like they used to back in the day. yasuke is just a nail on the coffin for long time fans since 2007 yes this is longer than waiting for the final season of Game of Thrones trash we got. the difference is we didnt have to pay 70 bucks (my bad 120 i f you want the full game!) for each season. we were teased the idea of fuedal japan since black flags and instead we play a samurai AND a ninja(i think most of us wanted to be an assassin ninja fighting against the corrupt samurai/ronin that are rebelling against the shogun. they cant do a hybrid samurai/ninja character because they would be copying Ghost of Tsushima. so many issues with the story itself. its not longer AC its WARRIOR CREED KILL everyone you want dont worry ubisoft no longer care about respecting the culture and architecture of their settings anymore and let the words FICTIONAL story allow them to destroy a game that was historical fiction vs fictional history.
If it were a gay Chinese Zulu warrior these two would be having fits.
I don’t see the problem with gay people…
@@PressXtoStart Most people don't. It's amazing how you can have highly successful games (like the Mass Effect series, Baldur's Gate, ect.) that allow you to romance who you want. Most people do not care.
The problem most people have is the fact that Ubisoft announces these things and make it a driving point of the game. They virtue signal to get attention for their game. Then they charge an outrageous price for it.
I wish you guys could see beyond what is face value and realize you are getting manipulated by Ubisoft. You will spend too much money on a mediocre game (most likely).
@@dflatt1783 I’m not sure how much of the video you watched but I(DJ) made the point that this whole drama is being made over a potentially a 7/10 game, which most Assassin Creeds are.
As for paying to much for the game that is at your discretion, base price is 70 you gonna pay more if you gonna buy into the MTX or deluxe editions no one forcing you to do that.
Lastly this isn’t Ubisoft brainwashing this is them trying to be different, the game was compared to Ghost of Tsushima the moment the rumors broke. That game has a fantastic combat system, far better than AC. So there goal here was to try and tell a unique samurai story under the umbrella of Assassin Creed, with a character that is lesser known. The problem everyone has is a racist one, they are masking it in many different ways but it comes back to the issue of color…
I’m not gonna say that’s your argument because I don’t know you and you didn’t state that was your issue. But it’s an obvious through-line with the internet’s reaction. So yah no brainwashing here.
@@PressXtoStart Sure bro. Whatever you say. One day you might grow up and see past people's physical appearance and what they do in the bedroom. Good luck with that.
@@dflatt1783 where did the physical appearance and bedroom activities come from. It seems like I answered every one of your points, and you don't really have a response, so you created something up in your head to respond to. Plus I "looked past" your original knee-jerk comment to respond to you. lol, I don't think I'm the one that needs to do some growing. But take care.
Ive been hyped for Yasuke ever since the first leak, what im mad about is Ubisot making another sub par assassin's creed where the mechanics are just bad, in fact Ubisoft has been taking a lot of L's these past couple years
As an Asian man who is never represented (okay, a few games), this is insulting.
I love samurai games, I play a lot of them and I don't remember many games where Yasuke was playable, let alone the protagonist, so I'm really excited for this. It's something fresh, new and exciting. I think i'm going to have fun with this 🙂
True! There aren't many games with black protagonists, so I'm hoping this does good so every game has a black protagonist!
@@narata1541 I didn't say there aren't many games with black protagonists, I said there aren't many samurai games with black protagonists.
If you want to quote people to make a cringe joke, that's fine since you mostly just embarrass yourself.
Just don't make up random lies about.
If for no other reason than the sake of your own dignity.
Or what's left of it.
internet mad, water wet
Everyone is just sick and tired of DEI and identity politics. If this game had been released in 2004, no one would care, but people today are hypersensitive to DEI in everything.
because he is black, and not everything has to be black you know?
you're right and not everything is black, actually most things are white. matter of fact, despite there being hundreds of black people in japan while yasuke was there, more than likely he will be the only black person in the game.
Nah, youre not thinking right. You gotta check those DEI boxes man! Black norsemen, black europeans, black asians, black middle easterners; you name it! Just gotta remember the golden rule, homogeny only applies if the majority is black. Let Witcher serve as a perfect example, just faaaar too many white people in Poland.
how many movies / games about samurai have random white protagonists running names on trained samurai and getting with the super hot high born girl at the end? White people get an endless list of badass katana wielding foreigner in Japan content but Yasuke is crossing a line?
@@shanerye6092 because its using history as a base and people wouldve expected a famous historical japanase samurai and not yasuke
@@shanerye6092 You want to eclipse japanese culture by puting a Black dude instead while using whitewash as a gaslight technique in order to avoid including a yellow native male protagonist
Got it .
The same technique that used Kimmel and Walter Short to invade Japan during the 2ww by letting Pearl Harbour be attacked so you get an excuse to nuke them out.
Story is repeating again ... Why you americans hate so much asians really