The Controversial Twist In The New Assassin's Creed Game
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024
- The new Assassin's Creed game is set in feudal Japan and features a Black samurai protagonist. As expected, this has sparked a large debate among fans online. Let's get into it.
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Altair - Syrian
Ezio - Italian
Connor - Native American
Arno - French
Edward - Welsh
Eivor - Viking
Kassandra/Alexios - Greek
Bayek - Egyptian
Jacob and Evie - English
It seems like having the main character be from the location of the game is already pretty diverse...
Edward was a Welsh man and his location was in the Caribbean... Why do you have no issue there but an issue with Yasuke? Hmmm
Bayek was Nubian.
@SpiritGunman it was a game about pirates. Most pirates in the caribbean were from Europe. The caribbean has long been colonized by European powers so seeing white and black guys like Adewale makes sense. Shadows they pick the one and only black guy that history knows very little about and spent a few short years on the island.
It would have made more sense making the protagonist in origins a white Roman or Greek but people wouldn't have liked that either.
@@SpiritGunman majority of pirates in the Caribbean were white because of colonization while Yasuke was the only 1 black guy in all of Japan. Yasuke should have been an easter egg but got promoted to MC because of sweet baby inc.
Eivor is taking over England
“We hide in the shadows”
Says the only 6 foot 5 inch black man in feudal Japan
He can blend in
I’m black it ain’t racist
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@kylemwenda1574 Bro... lmao
@@kylemwenda1574 Same :)
@@kylemwenda1574 I went to China and i gotta say everyone there was 4ft tall, me and my friend were hand signalling each other with 100 people between us, literally felt like a snowplough walking through crowds there, I cant wait to see this black guy blend in to crowds
One thing not mentioned that I think deserves to be mentioned is the fact that the architecture in the game is noted by both Japanese and Chinese audiences as being distinctly CHINESE, and not Japanese. Ubisoft didn't even get the setting right...
And the tatami in that one scene is weirdly in the shape of square panels instead of rectangles. It was very baffling. I could also complain about the hairdo, but it's a bit minor compared to some of the other bad visual designs.
That's weird because ubisoft usually gets the architecture right for these games
@MadfireMonkey exactly!
I bet theyre reusing assets from the mobile game set in China
@@jorgecasanova1999No one cares because the wokies code Asians as white-adjacent. And many Hispanics.
I am Japanese and was born and raised in Aichi Prefecture. I am not that knowledgeable about history, but even I can name many episodes and key figures related to the Three Heroes (Oda, Toyotomi, and Tokugawa). I have learned a lot since I was a child, and when I walk around my neighborhood, there are many places related to them. Currently, on RUclips and X, Yasuke existed, but he was not a samurai or a warrior. If I say this in Japanese, I will be attacked by mysterious foreigners and self-proclaimed historians who say things like, "You're not Japanese," "Thank you for using Google Translate," and so on. These are historians who don't even know where Aichi Prefecture is. It's very interesting. Is this hell on earth? I'm not an English speaker, so excuse me for using Google Translate.
@@ofutorisan dont worry, i believe you.
@@DemoNinja79
Thank you🥹🤝
If he wasn't a sumarai then wtf was he
@@Zooom88 a slav my boy.
@@Zooom88 a slav my boy.
If Yasuke was just an important NPC, there would be no controversy.
Why?
@@aloneandthinking Connor from AC 3 made sense as the theme fit his character. Everbody loved him. A native American stuck between a conflict between two powers that does not care for him. Yasuke as main Character for Japan AC does NOT make sense.
It's because of the straight up cultural app-ropriation@@kylemwenda1574
@@aloneandthinking It's actually always been common for the protagonist of an AC game to interact with major historical figures of the time. Ezio in AC2 had a ton of interactions with a young Leonardo Da Vinci, Connor in AC interacts with many figures of the American Revolution. Edward Kenway in Black Flag interacts with Blackbeard and others from the golden age of Piracy, etc.
Bringing attention to Yasuke would have been cool and given more visibility to a historical figure. PLAYING as a historical figure is a bad choice because the game is supposed to be your story as the player. Yasuke's history is already set.
@@MalcrowAlogoranhalf Native American
I like how the woke tries to call me a bigot for wanting an Asian in a feudal Japan game and I’m not black or Asian.
You can play as a Japanese female ninja dude but I guess ignore that part
@@xandercruz900you’re a bigger clown than the guys at Ubisoft.
@@devilslayer3548
Idgaf. I don't want to play as a black dude or a woman. Literally everyone prefers to play with the one that is alike. They are literally cutting off their majority.
If you are talking about the TV series then no. A white man by the name James Clavell wrote the story in 1975. I have nothing to do with who wrote it. They honored his work but many Asian people had a hand in showing their true culture back then through his work. A great actor and producer Hiroyuki Sanada did much to bring the work to TV to celebrate his ancestors and make an amazing show. I would love to see maybe a movie about Yasuke brought to theaters like Django Unchained kind of way or even his own game. The problem with wokeness/DEI infesting everything is that it’s not real. They have proven that they will change anything and everything to meet their own needs to propagate their ideas of revisionist history. This game could have been used to celebrate Asian culture to which Ubisoft has used in their promotion of this game is that it’s historically accurate. But they had to have a black character and rumor is he will be gay. There is nothing wrong with those 2 things but it’s obvious pandering and if I was either of them I’d be discussed.
@@devilslayer3548 you obviously know that’s DEI wokeness too so what’s your point?
And it just came out recently that Yasuke is apparently gay in this AC entry. Western developers are beyond parody at this point
Not just Yasuke. Even the female ninja is gay too lmao
@Uranium_muncher Brother, the problem is they are just doing this fucking shit to check boxes off for fucking ESG and DEI funding. Its absolutely garbage.
@Uranium_muncherBro, all they had to do was make another character, an asian male
@@tkraid2575 is this for REAL for real?? Not like the Valhala and Odyssey shit where "choices" decide your character's "romantic choice" or whatever?
@@TheMindofagenius1no they haven’t made him straight up gay. It’s just that he will have romance options available for female and male characters
I'm Japanese. Yasuke was NOT samurai. Samurai was a high rank bushi. You need at least surname (clan name) to become a bushi. The ruled class were not allowed to have official surname until Meiji era. So having a surname was a privilege in feudal Japan. (Aristocrats had surname too as they were also ruler class.)
The records say that Yasuke was given to Nobunaga from Jesuits as a gift. So it was not really like Yasuke becoming a retainer like normal Japanese. Akechi Mitsuhide said of Yasuke as animal so there is no way people who knew Yasuke could consider him as Samurai the upper rank bushi.
So a lot of Japanese are mad at Ubisoft falsifying our history just to use a black man for feudal Japan setting against the custom of AC series.
It’s an assassins creed game bro all that information you posted doesn’t matter assassin creed never historically accurate let’s focus on the Japanese women and her story with Yasuke in it
@@JasonGNasty
ゲームの中で、弥助が侍と描かれていることは問題ない。
問題は、「弥助は侍だった」と信じ込んでいる人達が、ウィキペディアに嘘の歴史を書いたり、「弥助は侍ではなかった」と言っている日本人を「差別主義者だ」と非難していることだ。
自分の国の歴史的事実を言うことが、なぜ差別になる？
日本人に怒るなと言うなら、そういう滅茶苦茶なことを言ってる人達を先に諌めてほしい。
Also Meiji era was 1800s over 300 years later. So you are saying average people were not allowed to have a family name till 1800?
@@BokushingusKendoTV
In 1870, average people were allowed to have family name.
@@KKAnemone I didn’t say they weren’t. The comment-or said ruled people weren’t allowed to have surnames till Meiji period.
It crazy too because the fan base of Assassin's Creed has been BEGGING for a game in Japan for years, and on delivery, the devs f**ed up
That seems to be pretty par for the course with Ubisoft.
it almost seems spiteful
I was waiting for this till I saw that , I was like come on , if I had just to interact with Yasuke okay but Him as an Assassin is weird
It's funny how most of yall decided to forget about the ninja which is Japanese and seems to be the main protagonist. If yall wanna play a native Japanese samurai so bad then there's Ghost Of Tshushima. Whether Ubisoft f**ked up or not is highly dependent on the game's gameplay
10+ years 😂😂
How will he blend into crowds of Japanese people?
He’s gonna be a combat based character. Blending in with crowds will be more of a Naoe thing since she’s the he stealth character
He probably won't, his play style seems like a brute. While the other lead playable character (Japanese female) which they forget about for being sexist lol. She will be the silent assassin.
The same way Ezio dodges guards by hiding in stacks of hay. Come on stop acting like Assassins Creed is hyper realistic.
@@lexsteele2218 they need to shut up and wait to see if his story is good. I bet half of the people haven't played the last 3 games.
@@Saint_VickThey haven't. They just like crying woke every 5 minutes
Black Samurai, black Cleopatra, Black medieval English queens. It is all just woke nonsense.
He is a real person who was a bodyguard or servant who learn to use a sword and it a game
I guess Afro samurai anime didn’t exist before
mate im all against woke bull%$# but that was real he was the first black samurai and he has a cool story, so im not saying that it will be good but give it a chance bc AT LEAST this is real
What a coincidence out of all the historical figures of feudal Japan. The millions of potential stories to tell that have historical meaning... They chose a black dude...🤔 I'm sure it was just random chance.
@@devilslayer3548Came here to say this. Read an excellent biography about him pre-pandemic, and if some people actually took the time to open their minds and eyes, that would realize what an excellent choice this game made.
@@Rlyeh_The_Dead Of course it wasn't random. I know you're being sarcastic but that just makes your comment even more ridiculous. The African Samurai is an epic story, why not make a game out of it? Your objection is suspect.
別にゲームに黒人採用してもいいのよ。
もちろん白人でもいいのよ。
他の国の人が主人公でもいい。
ラストサムライだってあったし。
ただ、事実を基にしたっていう嘘はダメだよね。
ポリコレによって、日本の歴史が変わってしまうのは嫌。
うん、彼は侍じゃない。嘘だ。
そう
アニメとゲームが出たし今度は実写映画を作り、そして史実として定着させるのがポリコレの目標なんでしょうね
ぶっちゃけ本心では日本人主人公が良かったけどね
vote for japan ( from vietnam)
まじでそう
As an asian man, i am offended by this cultural appropriation and inaccuracy of history.
Have you ever played assassins creed
@@khaoss4024never 100% accurate. Ubisoft likes to fill in gaps with it's own story and make slight changes here and there
@@batalorian7997 like Leonardo Davinci creating a tank that you teach yourself to use, or George Washington turning evil. Edward Kenway traversed the carribeans with colonizers
@@khaoss4024 1) evil Washington was a fantasy created by the Apple 2) driving a renaissance tank around is cool and varies the gameplay.
What’s the reason for an African Samuri?
@@Dennis-nc3vw So creative liberties is fine in other games but exploring a lesser known character isn’t? You understand the whole reason Assassins creed goes to the time periods they go to is because they are generally lesser known. We have at this point at least 5 different games exploring the samurai/assassin concept over and over and over again which is why they decided to make it different by splitting the playstyles into 2 different characters, and since Yasuke has gotten more buzz in the last 6 years, he was a good concept for the combat focused playstyle. Nobody was built like him
Main characters in every Assassin's Creed game have always been fictional characters based on their country of origin. Any historical figure has always been a side character or supporting character. Now, they have made an exception for this game to be based on a real person, an African man in a Japanese land setting, as their main character. They claim he was a historical legendary samurai. who was only in Japan for 13 months, without any surname or wars and battles to his name. He was only a retainer or helper for Oda Nobunaga because of his unique skin at that time. If you say all AC games are fiction, then why make a real person the main character and change history ? Why can't we have both characters be Japanese ?
Tell me more about how Kenway was born and raised in Antigua, Nassau where historically, black people have always been.....
@@kmdreacts What bullshit are you talking about? Bernard was born in Manchester , Edward was born in Swansea , Haytham was born in London , Connor was born in Kanatahséton, Mohawk Valley . So which parallel version of Kenway is born in Antigua? Unless you're pulling stuff out of the ass
@@kmdreactshe wasn’t but that was a pirate game set in the Caribbean, where the point was to play as a pirate, and in that region and at that time, pirates there were pretty much all white; ac freedom cry came out round the same time, 0 ppl complained about playing as adewale, cus he was a great character who made sense with the story and setting. 0 complaints about, Altair, basim, bayek and Connor Kenway, whose stories and settings also matched them. The issue is consistency and things making sense; the shadows choice doesn’t.
He was a samurai for 15 months. Not 13. At the end of the day he was an actual samurai
Assassin's Creed has featured a number of famous historical figures, but Yasuke is the only one that has caused a Wikipedia edit war.
UBI insists that it is only a fictional game, but it is frightening that people are being born who want to revise history.
I read somewhere on twitter that Ubisoft employees even had artwork and plans for a japanese assassin but that Ubi themselves scrapped the idea because of Yasuke.
There's 2 playable characters Naoe is a Japanese woman that's more stealth oriented and then Yasuke that's more combat foused
The original premise goes back around over a decade ago. The plan originally was going to involve the “sword of Eden” which is how that master of Yakusa got so much power. You would’ve played as a monk turned assassin who tries to the recover the sword but it would have been lost at sea to Jesuit missionaries who turned out to be templars. You can find the artwork for it online as the original writer or illustrator decided to put it out.
Are you blind? The girl is the assassin not Yasuke... Typical 14 year old comment
@@MadfireMonkeyAnd she's gay. So you should be DOUBLY happy.
DEI
ありがとう、いち日本人としてあなたの意見にとても共感しました。私自身が思っていることを言ってくれて嬉しかった。
Thank you, as a Japan person, I sympathized with your opinion very much. I was glad that he said what he thought.
Yeah, you’re not a Japanese person. Nice google translate though.
As a Japanese, I am outraged that UBI did not have Japanese experts supervise the project and failed to conduct historical research, that Yasuke, who was only a slave, became a samurai, and that they confused shrines and temples. In particular, to confuse shrines and temples is not only an insult to all Japanese people living in Japan, but also disrespectful of Japanese culture and traditions. I would call it a game of racism.
As a Japanese, I condemn UBI's attitude.
Ubisoft Tokyo helped in making this game
@@khaoss4024 That's why the accusations are pouring in. Nevertheless, we should also put into perspective the statement made in a Japanese magazine interview that the developers at Ubisoft headquarters used a black man because they couldn't empathize with the Japanese people
@@悪意マシマシ善意少なめ We’ll see what happens when the gameplay trailer drops
@@悪意マシマシ善意少なめ Did they really say that??? That's stupid on so many levels and kinda racist.
@@observerf-03p.d39 Unfortunately, it is true. However, as soon as the online article was criticized by the Japanese, he retracted his statement, but still no apology.
I find it ironic that the same kind of people who are praising the inclusion of Yasuke simultaneously hated the Nathan Algren character in The Last Samurai even though he too was inspired by a real person. It's hypocritical to hate one while openly praising the other. Its either all fair game or none of it is.
Yeah but yasuke wasn’t a samurai he was a page boy aka basically carrying around swords for real samurai they dressed him up like a samurai because they thought it was funny he was not a peer
People that criticise The Last Samurai as having a white saviour story clearly didn't watch the film. AFAIK Algren is an amalgamation of several real life people that the Meiji government recruited from abroad in order to modernise Japan. He isn't based off one person per se
Well it was much more likely to find a white man in Japan, because of Christianity and business. Not to mention, Japanese, Korean, Chinese are were EXTREMELY racist with eachother and others especially back then.
EXACTLY. PEOPLE JUST LIKE TO SCREAM WOKE. EVERYONE IS CRITICAL DRINKER FANS
So yasuke never fought in any war? He never carried a sword to slay their lord's enemy, so why was he famous if he just carries sword up and down I don't get it. @@justinleonard6183
As a black gamer this is SO insulting. The only reason UBI put a black person as the main character, is not to uplift black people or black voices, but to check off a box. Thats whats so offensive. Im just a checkbox to them.🤦🏾♂️
Edit: for the people saying I’m not black, please grow up, it’s very childish to be acting this way.
Oh and Yasuke just became GAY too.
You're not black. And if you're, you don't speak for all. There are plenty of black folks already excited for this game.
Never has historic accuracy been in issue in Creed series with all the changes it has done in history. Pope who can fight, Da Vinci making flying machines, evil George Washington with apple of Eden, and many more. Never been an issue. Yasuke is consistent with what's been done before. No complaints when a white dude was protagonist in Carribbean a black land in Black Flag. This is no issue.
@@masibee Right. All this bitching for nothing. 😂
@@masibeehe was a pirate and who where the majority of pirate in history? a lot of white people
The Caribbean, by the time of Black flag, was home to many races. In fact, a common thing brought up in the game is colonialism.
Shadows is set in 16th century Japan and only included Yasuke to pander @masibee
弥助はただの召使。侍じゃない。妄想すごいですね
なんなら召使いですらない
He wasn't even retainer lol
日本史知らないゆとり世代かなーｗ
That book is a fiction based on 'two lines' from a historical text.
It's a fanfic.
And now it's considered 'history'
Just like the mythology of the civil war reasons
You can fight a minotaur and medusa in odyssey
OK, forget the embellishing of his role in history. Tell me how a game about stealth and assassinations are supposed to "hide among the shadows", and blend in killing nobles from village to village and castle to castle" He'd literally be the only person out of place!
You forget this is a 2 protagonist game. Yasuke is the brute force protagonist and Naoe is the stealthy assassin protagonist
@@HahahMamamanso he is not going to be an assasin. Fucking dammit
@@HahahMamamanmake it about Naoe then
There have been a couple of Assasins Creed games where you dont actually play as an assasin youre late to the party on that front
@@HahahMamamana woman with a katana strapped to her back is just as good at blending in the crowd as Yasuke.
Yasuke is indeed an interesting historical person... but he wasn't a samurai, he was a sword retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga.
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▪︎ He served Nobunaga as a 'Koshō', which is the equivalent to a ''page''.
▪︎ Yasuke was only given a 'Wakizashi'
▪︎ Samurai carry two swords (a 'Katana' and a 'Wakizashi')
...
Japanese historians have said that.
▪︎ They also said/wrote that not all retainers were Samurai.
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Samurai were trained since their childhood.
▪︎ Yasuke was around 25 years old when he arrived to Japan; and he was only for 15 months in Japan (he didn't even speak Japanese).
▪︎ You don't become a Samurai in 15 months.
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He didn't even committed seppuku when Nobunaga was defeated.
▪︎ If he was a Samurai, he would have done it.
▪︎ Instead, he was sold back to the Jesuits.
Lol. Sold? Still threated like a slave?
Lucky it's a video game and not a documentary
"sold back to the Jesuits." Lol after all what Oda Nobunaga did for him as a pet or maid he is still treated like a slave. Tsk tsk
@@shadowlancer45The guy is spreading false information, yasuke was in Japan for 3 years and witnessed Oda Nobunaga’s death
@@javonthedon Most of his words matches the ones claimed by our Japanese coworker. They are the ones who knew their history. They actually disappointed at what ubisoft did. This topic is hot right now here.
The thing about yasuke is that though he was the first recorded black man in Japan,not much was known about him there's no clear documentation of where he originated from and how he was in battle if he even was in the battle battlefield,the only source I found was that he was never heard of again after he lost a battle and even that was speculation.
Miyamoto Musashi would’ve been a better choice: not much is known about about his past, double wields swords, one of the greatest dualists, a ronin, and so much more
He wasn’t doing fucking parkour if u want a game like that play ghost of Tsushima idk ppl are getting mad at this game
@twinuzis117 I just started playing that and at least so far there's not a lot of parkour. (Nothing against that game, i've been enjoying it) Also, following your argument, does that mean that Yasuke was doing a lot of parkour?
Unless you were saying play ghosts for more realistic playstyle. If so, ignore that first part of the comment 😊
@@silver9wolf6 Also to support your argument: Assassins creed is a historical fiction game. There are going to be things that didn’t happen in real life-like I’m sure Leonardo Da Vinci didn’t help a man named Ezio. Following Brett’s video-Atleast Miyamoto Musashi is a Japanese man with an incredible background that would be perfect for an Assassin creed game. Yasuke is there not for the sake of representing history but for the sake of having a black character
Musashi is the isolationist and shares no traits with assassins
Yasuke was a black man in Japan during the 1500s, brought over by an Italian envoy. Nobunaga was a daimyo, this was during the Sengoku period. He noticed the skin tone of Yasuke and hired him from the envoy. He carried tools for him and would do tricks for the townspeople. He later made him a retainer, he could not be a Samurai. Not possible given that you are born, bred, and raised to be a Samurai. There's a reason it carries honor. Nobunaga was later forced to commit Seppuku in a betrayal from one of his vassals known as Akechi Mitsuhide. He went to the residence of Oda Nobutada, the son of Nobunaga, and attempted to engage with Akechi forces where he was captured. The vassal that captured him asked Akechi Mitsuhide what to do with him and he was told, "A black slave is an animal and knows nothing, nor is he Japanese, so do not kill him, and place him in the custody at the cathedral of Padre in India." He survived his injuries, but there are few sources for what happened in the following months and he all but disappears after his recounts with the missionaries, making me personally believe he was attached to another envoy and left the country. The people pushing for him to be something he isn't, is going to create backlash. They're then going to call the backlash, that is pushing for factual information, racism. I also just received news that he may be made gay. As far as everything I've studied about him, he wasn't.
He also wasn't killed after Nobunaga died because he was considered to be sub-human and not worthy of death.
There is likely not one Japanese person that gives a flying f*ck. The dude has appeared in Manga published there, so those people dont really need white dudes in America to be offended on their behalf.
Nobunaga was not an emperor
@@sweetrolldealer Thanks, I fixed it.
Nah it is Racism. The Assassins Creed games have never gone for full historical accuracy. The game is literally about Assassins using old articles like apples to full on Sci Fi wipe them
I'm black and the whole Yasuke debacle is ridiculous. So glad that the trailer got mass downvoted to hell and back.
Looking for acceptance eh? Lol kind of pathetic smh
You're not black 😅. So many black folks excited for this game. Great content creators making great vids easily refuting the hypocrisy from antiwoke crowd.
@@masibeenope. Im black and im buying ghosts of Tsushima instead now. Thanks for finally convincing me to get it sooner. Doesn’t matter how you spin it, a non Japanese samurai will ALWAYS look weird to me.
@@masibee Wow, denying what race someone is just because they don't share the same opinion as you. How low can you go?
@@thedrunkronin4550person is a troll. Anytime someone says their black, he responds with the copy and paste comment
It's insane, we are all being called ists or bigot's for wanting a JAPANESE Samurai in a game set in Japan. Stinks of sweet baby inc. most of the buildings and back grounds look like China to
There’s a Japanese woman in there. You are racist. It’s okay though you got friends.
@@cjgameshorts shit baby inc should be cancelled by everyone.
Literally, anime as Yasuke as a samurai, shut the fuck up.
@@DemoNinja79 totally agree mate, unfortunately they have these companies by the balls as the banks who finance gaming companies are all in on this dei 💩. If they refuse they just won't get the financial backing from these big banks.
You Clown, Japanese Architecture and early Language was influenced by China, all of Asia is.
He was basically a bodyguard/servant for Oda Nobunaga (leader of japan) he was not an actual samurai
A pet of his
he liked people with unusual traits, also he wasnt the leader, there were 3 warlords at that time
@@farmerpandasyoutube4800unifier of Japan*
He was a squire lol. bodyguard is a hilarious stretch. He is the classic example of a dei history character who did nothing similar to how they are depicted in modern times. Same with Joan of Arc who never lead forces into battle like they try to depict today.
@@Wibtlol Joan of Arc did lead forces to battle, but she was more like a military strategist and helped with the moral by being a flagbearer and helping with artillery positioning. What she never did was have an actual head on fight. Heck an important part of her trial for heresy is that everyone claimed she never used a sword or killed anyone directly.
Ah yes. No one would blend into a crowd more inconspicuously than a black man in Japan in the 1580s.
Who cares? It's a video game
@@TVClaireBear
Clearly, quite a lot of people, lol.
@@marhier there's bigger issues to worry about and you chose a video game character🤣
@@TVClaireBear
Be that as it may... Brett cared enough to make a video, and you cared enough to watch it.
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@@marhier its fun to watch conservatives make fools of themselves.😏
The fact that Ubisoft chose someone who was considered to be a pet by the emperor over an actual authentic Samurai from that time period in Japanese history just goes to show how obtuse and out of touch they really are.
What source says he was just a pet?
@@jamesdaniels8007 he was basically treated as such cuz of his skin color. a party piece to entertain guests.
@@jamesdaniels8007 Japanese historians
@@jamesdaniels8007 in his head so he has a reason to be mad
Nobunaga was not the emperor. He was the Shogun the military leader. Ogimachi was the emperor.
Brett mispronouncing Nobunaga to Nobu Ganda cracks me tf up lmaoooo
He wasn't even a Samurai in real life. He was what they would consider a squire. The lord he served considered him an exotic guest. He is the classic example of a dei history character who did nothing similar to how they are depicted in modern times. Same with Joan of Arc who never lead forces into battle like they try to depict today.
Did contemporary sources say that he was actually from Africa? Or did they just use the Japanese term for "dark-skinned," which could be just about anyone from the Pacific Islands or Indian subcontinent?
@@cmc5394oparva he was brought to Japan by Portuguese missioneers from modern territory of Mozambique
Joa of Arc most certainly did command some troops. She wasn't a soldier but she had command and rights to command from the French King.. there's many accounts..
So no she didn't fight in the front ranks but was a legitimate commander of the armies of the French, with the kings blessings. There's lots of examples of interesting people in different worlds then they are used to.
Look at Queen Boudica for example, she was a real queen who after her husband's death and betrayal of Rome, lead the Iceni of Brittany in a murderous rampage through Roman-Britian defeating many armies and even burning down a large city...
But I agree DEI is how we get stupid stories like the black samurai who wasn't even a real samurai.
Except that there is no such thing as a "Squire" class. He was a bodyguard and servant, as a retainer to his master, and was expected to be trained in military warfare, which is the role of the samurai.
Dude its a GAME. Assasins creed games always embelish the more exciting parts of history to make their games sell this is no different
If you make a series known for historical fiction, where every protagonist has been entirely fictional and the only historical figures you meet are NPCs, but then suddenly turn around and make a character who was REAL and make THEM your protagonist, all whilst actively not making them a native of the cultural setting you put them in and instead use a different minority whose presence in that cultural setting and time period is barely able to be ascertained objectively; then you are pandering. Plain and simple. Ubisoft isn't known for great decisions, but they knew what they were doing when they decided on this. They were trying to pander.
ALSO THEY WANT YOU TO PAY OVER $100 FOR THE COMPLETE EDITION, WHAT DRUGS ARE THESE EXECUTIVES ON???
Yasuke was never a samurai though. We only know about him because of two sentences in a diary or journal.
He was described as being ordered to carry Nobunaga's tools and to perform tricks for Nobunaga's guests. He was never in battle, he was never given a clan name, he never held land. It's like claiming a medieval jester was the equivalent to a Baron or Count.
The man was a jester but white westerners go, 'OOOOOH SAMURAI!" You guys need to cover the Wiki edit war over whether or not Yasuke was a samurai.
FFS we've already had a black samurai in media, "Afro Samurai"
Your wrong. He did own land. He had his own servants. He fought in 2 battles. He had a warriors stipend, which were only given to samurai. Nobunaga considered him a close friend inviting Yasuke to dine with him and allowed him to enter his private quarters. Everything I just said couldn’t apply to a servant or jester. Especially the warriors stipend. That alone is proof that he was a samurai
Except he was a samurai
Still not japanese.
@@HahahMamaman Nobunaga in his journals never mentioned Yasuke. I doubt he was that significant part of Nobunagas life. There is only one battle that people are sure Yasuke was a part of the Hanno-ji battle were he surrendered. He was also asked to dance the make Nobunaga and his guests laugh while serving them.
if Yasuke was a samurai his name would be well documented just like William Adams. He didn't own land, only house, he was not a samurai, Yasuke contributed nothing to the Japanese. Use your common sense guys.
Based on Fiction story. Historically, Yasuke was a servant not a samurai
He was a servant to his master “oda” that granted him the rank of samurai for as long as he serve him, and yasuke was loyal to oda and after oda’s demise yasuke continues to serve oda’s son.
@@TajimaMunenoriliterally there being no source of Yasuke being a samurai except for being bought by Nobunaga as a servant is the source
@@TajimaMunenori bro acting like he’s got PhD in RUclips commenting. Bro there is no factual evidence that Yasuke was a samurai. Like what’s so hard to understand? I’m correct in saying It’s a literal fact that the source of the opposing argument not existing is the source of the information from comment above. You’re the one not understanding my statement. If you’d like, please bring out the source that states Yasuke was indeed a samurai. Because I know you asked for source not just from curiosity but because you stand on the stance that claims Yasuke was a samurai.
Bro fr brought a quote from Charles Darwin lmaoooooo
My comments have been removed!
Shadow ban! 😂
I like how they glorified Yasuke this much when in reality he was considered an oddity at best
Then explain the warriors stipend please?
@@AaronBaker-g8g stipend is rice. He was feed.
Did you want one in lead of the movie Shogun too? Or because that was a white dude in a beard, THAT wasn't considered "woke"?
@@bukhariapdelahi7072William Adams was actually a major advisor to the Shogun and helped turn the Shogunate against the Catholic church.
In other words he changed human history in a major way.
Why wouldn't they glorify him? All Assasins Creed game twist history to make it more exciting and easier to sell, this is no different
The Kingdom of Mali would make a fantastic location for an Assassin's Creed game. There's some amazing legendary history to work with there
But the main character needs to be white or asian
@@lottoo5693 nah, it's just RDJ in blackface from Tropic Thunder, except he's trans.
The lost knowledge of Timbuktu is such a great stepping stone for Assassin's Creed/Serious Sam/Indiana Jones plot.
@@lottoo5693I'd like to add.
I should add that we adopted a white or Asian person to be our point of view.
hah, Im a game developer, and I remember after releasing one of our RTS we got viciously attacked that it is TOO WHITE, no blacks, no female warrior squads. It was an RTS game about MEDIEVAL POLAND XD
Bro it's fucking insane how people want diversity in their way of thinking and seeing things which crazy and they act bratty when they don't get their way.
You have it rough, the games industry has gone to shit.
Bet the game sucks
black/african vikings also exist. They should have done it also in AC Valhalla.
@@Katniss0000 Ah, no they don't.
In Japan, instead of differences in race, people point out the oddities in things like building structures being significantly wrong or the usage of emblems being different, which create a sense of dissonance in the world. Since UBI is lamenting their mistakes, let's pretend they've been "to be isekai'd" into a wrongly depicted version of Japan. (lol)
Burning incense at Shinto shrines and
(Burning incense is Buddhist)
Port towns have a Chinese style.
The position of people in the hall is unbelievable.
Yasuke wears general-class armour.
Fantasy Japan.
If it was a fantasy like Niou, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
@@craftcocktail-z1k For example, the size and arrangement of tatami mats are often wrong. In reality, the place where the powerful Nobunaga would sit should be on tatami, while the places for his retainers should be on wooden floors. However, in the footage, it is the opposite. The Oda family's banner should depict "永楽通宝,"(Eiraku Tsuho) which signifies money, emphasizing the importance of the economy. Yet, in the footage, the banner only shows the Oda family crest. The flag attached to the Yasuke doll, a purchase bonus, actually bears the crest of Nobunaga’s retainer, Hideyoshi.
UBI should have used shadow clans like the Imbe clan, the Kamo clan, or the Hata clan rather than Yasuke, for the assassin. The theory that the Hata clan are ancient Israelites is perfect for Assassin's Creed and ties in with the story of Assassin's Creed1! I don't think UBI knows that Nobunaga is connected to the Imbe clan. Japanese shrines retain many influences from ancient Israelites and Persians. Many clans fled from the volcanic eruption in Japan around 7,500 years ago, moved to the area around Egypt, and then returned to Japan after many generations.
ruclips.net/video/llAL_X8foDg/видео.htmlsi=kdCgOAtR80MJOaT1
This video is an edited TV program, so it is exaggerated, but it's easy to understand, so you can watch it with the understanding that it's half true. When you mention Israel or Jews, some people immediately think of conspiracy theories, but I am not talking about modern Israel or Jews. I'm referring to much older times. What I'm saying is that there were indeed people with roots in Israel, Egypt, and the Arab regions who came to Japan. This migration happened over many generations, not just over a month or a year. They came not only for trade but also to escape many wars.
Exactly.
Yes, It is INPSIRED BY / based off of historical figure
BUT ubislop claims their game is historically accurate.
It is hated because of the:
- blatant disrespect of Japanese history/culture
- intentional exploitation of sacred religious icons and figures
- false advertisement of time-inaccurate designs of tools, clothing and architecture
- and non-existent permission to use real life clan emblems.
And don't forget about the abnormally mediocre graphics, gameplay (combat and character interaction) and environment setting.
We do not talk about woke-ism and DEI infected content. 😅
And all that is involved in this project are white french people.
Yes, It is INPSIRED BY / based off of historical figure
BUT ubislop claims their game is historically accurate.
It is hated because of the:
- blatant disrespect of Japanese history/culture
- intentional exploitation of sacred religious icons and figures
- false advertisement of time-inaccurate designs of tools, clothing and architecture
- and non-existent permission to use real life clan emblems.
And don't forget about the abnormally mediocre graphics, gameplay (combat and character interaction) and environment setting.
We do not talk about woke-ism and DEI infected content. 😅
And all that is involved in this project are white french people. . .
Forgot to mention that outrageous price if you want to get the full game experience.
Probably because they didn't actually do research
How much is it like omg 😂
@@crispbacon8155 to get the uncompleted game it costs 100 USD
They could've made him a protagonist type character when it wasn't "the cool thing to do", but they decided to do it now
Brett watching shogun is the greatest moment in this episode
I did watch Shogun. tbh, it was a slow burn. lots of talking and whispering in the show.
barely anything interesting happened.
also, because the TV show is foreign and characters talked in Japanese, I wasn't as invested in secondary characters at all.
the evil rival Torunaga and that woman, the wife if the dead shogun were boring as hell to watch.
@@LevisH21I haven’t watched it but I’ve heard from bill burr Joe Rogan and now Brett cooper that it’s good
Same goes for Brett watching anime and doing anime reactions
Why? The new shogun series is pretty bad making changes to the female characters until they are boderline unrecognizable and downgrading blackthorn to the point he's kind of a putz.
The 80s verion Is so much better its absurd
I am not angry that Yasuke is in this game, and I would be fine with a game in which Yasuke is the main character.
However, as a Japanese, I cannot forgive the alteration of our country's history and treating it as historical fact.
私は弥助が出ていることには怒っていませんし、主人公でも構わないです。
ただ歴史を改変されてそれを史実として扱われることは日本人として許せないです。
The fact that the main character is a samurai and not a ninja shows that assassin's creed isn't the same series it once was.
You right, we focused on the Samurai and not on the real questions.
Or maybe you will realize the women is a ninja
@@Shadow-ot4gsmaybe they’ll also realize there are two main characters…just maybe 🤷♂️
Yes, the creed was always intended to be stealthy
Hard (and therefore rare) to be a stealthy puppet-master if you're a BRUTE
Pathetic non-gamer executives always ruin great game concepts SOONER OR LATER!!
But he is a ninja 😂😂😂
He was only there 15 months. Ohh and they made it worse.. they made them both Gay.
We don't get to play how we want?
Wait what? I literally just commented defending that this game was the one instance where it wasn't being woke. Are you serious about them both being gay?
What????
@@sageoffire3964 It think it's rumors. People love rage baiting and benefitting from a culture war. Just wait and see.
@@sageoffire3964 Yes. The dev said they're LGBTQ.
That entire book is based of half a paragraph from one guys journal, in which Yasuke is never described as a Samurai. The book might as well be fiction.
It is fiction 😂
I’m not sure which journal you are referring to, but in a Japanese lords journal he states that Yasuke received a warriors stipend, which were only given to samurai.
@HahahMamaman He was the equivalent of a national guardsman. A reserve soldier who would don the title of a samurai when needed to aid in protecting the kingdom. So, technically he was a samurai and technically he wasn't.
@@kingcold5252 why do always whites complain?? when did japan become white
i bet you are pale mayo skin type
They should have done what they did in previous games and just made Yasuke a historical figure you interact with throughout the game. Could have been an interesting and unique character for the story. They could have even built him up for a DLC afterwards like Adewale in AC4. But making him one of the two initial protagonists was asking for trouble.
As someone who knows japan history and Japanese people, there is NO WAY yasuke was samurai!!!! They bought him as a slave because they thought he is interesting thing, they even washed him so hard to turn Waite because they couldn’t believe that is his actual skin color!! An a non black person I found this so disrespectful to him and Japanese people!!! But to be honest im not surprised
Then why does it say that he was a samurai everywhere? Do I believe random in RUclips comments or multiple sources? Hmmm
@@endubless it doesn't say he's say samurai everywhere ,its an assumption at most and in stories they take liberties to make it sound cool . There's no concrete proof he's a samurai because how poorly stuff are documented about him . He's what you call a retainer the European equivalent of that would be Squire
@@endublessbelieve what the Japanese say about it, not Wikipedia. Nobunaga wanted to keep him close because he was unique so he gave him the title but no property. So he may have been samurai in name only, if he was called a samurai at all.
@@BullyMaguireTheAbsolute retainers can be samurai too though to be fair
more likely he was a jester
I honestly think they would've been better off having a Japanese character as the protagonist and having the Japanese character maybe do a tutorial or a quest with Yasuke. Staying in line with the culture and setting, but still being inclusive about another race they are so fixated on. Also, this isn't going to be their first game where a Black is the main character (Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry). I think that if they wanted to have someone who is Black be the main character then they should do a game where the setting is in Africa. This way it's more respectful because they aren't pushing other cultures aside, but rather they're showing and teaching people who play the game the culture that they did/do in Africa.
We Japanese people are more angry about UBI saying a false history is true than about a black person being the main character
I feel bad gamers just wanna enjoy a good game
Ghost Of Tsushima has us covered. If only there was more of it.
So because the character is black it means that people can't enjoy the game? Is that not racist?
Lollll. The full game costs 130 dollars, it ain’t gonna be a good game
someone gets it🫶
And gamers don't care about race.
THOMAS LOCKLEY and his BOOK was a LIE and full of misinterpretation and misinformation about YASUKE
Yasuke was not a true samurai. He was given a sword and a house, yes. But he was more like a court jester and a tool carrier. To say he was a warrior is both historically inaccurate and counts as Stolen Valor. Play Ghost of Tsushima instead.
Exactly to be a samurai in that period you had to be born into it and trained from birth.
Just a weed carrier for the shogun
@@gorillawhale1046actually in that period the only way you could become a Samurai was by being born into, married into or adopted into a Samurai family (If authorities allowed it)
And there is nothing in history of someone that was the literal reincarnation of GOD or someone that fought Anubis in a flaming horse but a BLACK samurai in feudal Japan is a stretch... Yh and Williams Adam's was not born in Japan and YET history books consider him a samurai even tho he was not trained at birth
Stolen valor... lol. I think this choice is dumb too but come on. It's a video game.
Ubisoft, a french company, couldn't even get french accents in their french revolution game. Sadly assassin's creed, a game series that helped me ace some history tests in high school, is an extremely sad husk of what it used to be. I replayed the old Ezio games recently and they still hold up amazingly.
Did you play the game with the french dialogue? Because it was pretty fucking amazing and using an accent in a dub is fucking stupid ngl
it's not French it's canadian from montreal
@@crissdace8358How is it stupid? Do you think French people don't sound French anymore when they speak English?
This re-writing of history is pissing me off
boy I wonder if you played any other assassin's creed game, every SINGLE one of them rewrites history.
None of them are historically accurate so why get pissed off at this one?
@@abak3d_potato498 as little as possible and that was part of their appeal. For example the creators bragged about how all nine targets you killed in the first game actually died in 1191. Stop these mind games. Assassin’s Creed is not like Prey 2017. Now THAT’S a game that rewrites history.
@@crashcooper2330 stop these mind games, they obviously go to great lengths to be historically accurate. Why do you think you nonsensically spare the Pope in AC2? Because he didn’t die that year.
@@Dennis-nc3vwYeah but it's work of fiction
As a Japanese gamer who loves the franchise, I was blown away when they announced the new game set in Japan, I could not be more happier. The fact that I will now have to be playing a black person instead of a character more similar to myself as Japan is a homogenous country anyways, this pissed me off. I doubt any black person would typically want to play some random Japanese dude in an Assassin's Creed game featured in an African country. It's like Japanese people aren't even a race at this point. It's even worse because not only do progressives want to earn "brownie points" they think that Japanese people are completely racist anyways, not just white people.
Yasuke is one of two possible protagonists. If you want to play as an Asian character, just pick the other one. You are literally complaining about nothing
@@denzellmovies Yea, its so much nothing when they also make them both LGBTQ (wtf are they using this terminology for in ancient history).
@@JayceCH. It's an RPG. So they are only gay if you want them to be. And who says they will use that terminology? That claim is based on absolutely nothing
@@denzellmovies Why would even support this??
@@_haneda why would even oppose it?
"Cultural appropriation" for thee, but not for me!
every race appropriates culture
But it's only racist if white people play non-white characters
@@clw9680they especially appropriate black culture the most 🤣🤣
@@Hurmspeedy i know right..... black culture is the most appropriated by every race.
Its okay if its black.
how am i the only one who noticed the genius editing when knuckles pops out at @2:29 when Brett says "Nobuganda" instead of Nobunaga lolol I'm dying
Wouldn't be interesting if the main character of Shadows was ronin, failing to save his lord at the beginning of the game at the hands of the Templars. He then Joins the assassin's, learns how to become an assassin and kill those responsible and avenging his lord and clan.
That would be a good premise.
I mean that’s the basic premise of Ghost of Tsushima without the Assassin’s Creed factions.
@@daRealB-Rex well you got me there. Ghost was a great game!
@@brokengiblet7271 oh for sure. I loved it, really hoping the rumored sequel comes out this year too so it can put Shadows in its place 😆
@daRealB-Rex OH same here friend. I'd love a sequel and would interested what they would tell! Would they canonize one of the endings or leave it ambiguous? And yes, to watch it destroy shadows. I do wanna see how Shadows gameplay will be.
4:54 NO WAY, you guys used a Maxorz Metal Gear Rising reference! That was beautiful, love to see it. I always like the editing and jokes in the videos you and your team produce but this deserves a shoutout for me.
My wife loves the Assasins Creed games she's also Japanese and a direct descendant of Samurai and she isnt happy about this at all. That dude wasnt even a Samurai he was a retainer.
as the asian wife who's played every game since the series' inception; me too... i think this is officially the first one i pass on which is sad because the series was sooo good
@@inkandcaffeineLMAO the series has been shit since after Black Flag.
If the protag was some random white man your mouthes would be fucking shut and that's the truth.
I didn’t know that I needed to see Brett talk about assassin’s Creed. This literally made my day.🤣🤣🤣
Not to mention there were people rewriting the wiki page for Yasuke to try to fit the narrative. And the cofounder (co-ceo?) of Sweet Baby Inc was found in an image of the dev team...
Yasuke wasn’t a warrior, he was Oda Nobunaga’s attendant and sword bearer. He was enlisted in Nobunaga’s army, but I haven’t seen anything that says he was a renowned warrior. He wasn’t in Nobunaga’s company for very long either, and his life after his service is completely unknown.
There actually was an assassins creed game in Egypt, and I’m pretty sure there have been at least 3 black protagonists in the assassins creed games
You're correct
▪︎ Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (Aveline de Grandpré)
▪︎ Assassin's Creed: Black Flag - Freedom Cry (Adéwalé)
▪︎ Assassin's Creed: Origins (Bayek)
@@tatianaoliveira2191those are dlcs lol there's only one and even that mc got backlash.
@@crissdace8358 and there isn’t an Asian man assassin playable in AC AAA game.
@@snowshock8958 the Japanese protagonist doesn't count because she's a woman? That's ignoring the other Asian mc who's Chinese. That's two it's funny because Asians and black people are the most represented in AC. people just wanted a big title set in Japan a Japanese assassin was technically optional they honestly could've made the assasin literally any race. The people complaining about diversity are the same people advocating for it kinda funny ngl.
@@crissdace8358 Yes she count but she isn’t a man. So it is fine for east Asian people to only get female representation in AC? Unless you insinuate east Asian men and female are the same… lol that doesn’t look good for you. You know just like how we had counterparts for the canon heroine Kassandra and Eivor or even Evie. Then explained to me why aren’t they the only playable character? Come on give me an answer. I will know if you dodge/avoid it.
As a gamer I personally don't care about the gender/color of the protagonist I play, just the story and the gameplay. But choosing someone who would stand out in a assassins creed game out of all things is kinda an odd choice.
Also Yasuke needs his own movie/video game/tv series, he just sounds so badass.
He already has more media about him than any real samurai.
Netflix did a yasuke anime, it was pretty cool tbh, but having him in a ac game as a samurai when you could have chosen miyamoto musashi would’ve been so much cooler
@@no........this is a blatant lie 😂
The statement "faithful to history" is the source of all this.
(Yasuke is not documented as a samurai, yet he claims to be a samurai)
The rude statement in the interview that they used Yasuke because they can't sympathize with Japanese characters (this is where Japanese people get upset).
The CEO's victim polycole gesture by calling critics racists without correcting them.
The evidence that Thomas Lockley spent 10 years altering Yasuke's historical facts on the web.
A mountain of unauthorized copy and paste of Japanese materials (most of them are from different eras, from Taisho era photos to modern ones).
I would not recommend that book. It is western fiction about a person that was nothing more than a foot note in history. He was a retainer he carried Nobunaga sword. He was given a house, and when he first met the Lord, he was asked to strip down in the street and wash his skin, because they had never seen anyone like him in 1500 Japan to Nobunaga he was a novelty. He was a pet.
I will never forgive brett for reading TRIPLE A as ''AAA''
Maybe it’s a joke about why it’s AAA.
It’s no longer so good, it’s graded as a triple A. They now push what they want “A [race],” with a certain gameplay style “A [type],” with either an overcharged price or a ton of loot boxes and pay-to-win “A check.”
Um. Yasuke was never a Samurai, he was a retainer. He was only in Japan for barely 36 months. Samurai's train their whole life to become Samurai
Yasuke was a Samurai, and he was the first foreigner to achieve samurai status serving Daimyo Oda Nobunaga. He served him as a retainer or bodyguard for 15 months until Nobunaga’s death. Afterwards he was sent back to the Portuguese Jesuits
@@chriswilliams6896 Okay, what evidence is there Yasuke was a Samurai. A retainer is " group (retinue) of (usually) men whom a lord gathered around himself in his service; it has been described by one modern historian as "the servants, retainers, and other followers of a lord". In History of Japan, most retainer were in fact samurai but not every retainer was a samurai. The first foreigner to achieve samurai status? You have to many years of training and there's no record Yasuke trained in art of samurai.
@@chriswilliams6896 Wikipedia entries don’t count as evidence either
@@chriswilliams6896 Retainer’s aren’t Samurai’s.
@@chriswilliams6896 No he wasn't. Retainers in history are known as servant status of a normal soldier. Samurais are hereditary high ranking military nobilities and officials. You can't just be a samurai. lmao Please read history about samurais.
When I first watched the trailer, I had another thing besides Yasuke that stood out to me. Naoe, the other protagonist, looked Chinese. I don't think she is or is intended to be, but I can't help but feel like Ubisoft doesn't know the difference between a Chinese, Japanese and probably any other Asian race.
I immediately thought of Robert Downey Jr in Tropic thunder when you brought up the Ryan Gosling black panther picture 😆 9:42
So if they did a game about Sub Sahara African combat will they put in Philippinos?
If it was a real person that was in that area, no problem. The argument falls apart when you find he was a historical figure.
@@williamherring2349Who was also a pet, not a samurai and was considered sub-human. Also, you say this but then have no problem when they blackwash historical white people.
They could have used many other japanese males who were historical figures for that era in a game where the big selling point and hype was finally getting an ac game based on asian culture themes and aesthetic.Yet they went with the one african who at the time only amounted to really being just a footnote in history. People would have also felt wrong about it if it was a white guy too btw. Bottomline should have had an asian male lead as well as they are under represented and if Yasuke was a side character that had his own full length dlc nobody would have batted an eye and probably even embraced his character as well.@williamherring2349
@@williamherring2349 actually ubisoft just now announced that the black samurai and his companion are lgbtq2s
@@williamherring2349he wasnt an samurai tho.
I really hope this puts the final nail in Ubisoft’s long awaited coffin.
In all likelyhood the game will sell more copies in it's first months than Ghost of Tsuhima as sold in its entire life time. Ubisoft has struggled trying to chase trends, but AC is to them what COD has been for Activision.
Considering the fact that there are, and I'm being serious about this, $280 versions of the game that are already sold out and all these people have seen are a 3 minute cinematic trailer, no it won't be
Assassin’s Creed keeps increasing in sales with each release other than Mirage but that’s a given since it was a side project
@@Lilpiktdude Yeah, that and the game didn't go far enough to please the old fans who wanted a game that played like classic AC.
But not like they are lacking in interest. Since all their games has that Ubisoft account feature. They have been able to track that the total franchise of Assassin's creed has had 30 million players playing various titles just this year alone.
That being said. Shadows is obviously in the RPG genre. It would be nice considering they have two teams that alternate. One team could make games for the people who prefer the RPG, and the other the more action adventure route it started out as.
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 m Asian American. I personally don’t mind it too much. As long as it’s a real historical person. Like the show Marco Polo.
But! But! It’s Ubisoft and it’s obviously to fill a political quota rather than for creative purposes.
So Ewwwwww.
Literally lol and that what makes me so mad because the majority of these people are complaining about it because he's black. Not because Ubisoft is on their bullshit again
Where were you born in Asia? If you weren't you're not Asian-American, you're just American. It would also be odd if you think being Asian and not Japanese and from Japan would give you some kind of leverage on the topic. The issue isn't that he isn't real it's that it's inaccurate and some of us actually want him to be portrayed better. The strawman you put in and what argument "Ewwwww" is didn't help either. I find Marco Polo just as trash, and apparently so did a lot which is why it got cancelled. I'm sure if you don't actually care about history the action was fine, but then you shouldn't be trying to compare it in the first place. Same with The Last Samurai.
@@crissdace8358 you are making it sound like people are racist against black people but that is not the case. people are complaining that Ubisoft is not using a Japanese character for the male option in a game set in feudal japan. Yasuke could be black, white, or green and people would still be mad because he is not Japanese.
@@Zanmu you do realize this isn't a gaming channel right?
@@crissdace8358 yes I do, so what if it isn't. the topic is still Assassin's Creed.
Yasuke is not the main character of the game. He is the co-protagonist along with a Japanese woman, Naoe.
I bet no one is gonna see this comment
@@danielmcintyre7405 I saw it
@@danielmcintyre7405and if they do they'll act like they didn't, they just want to be angry
@@danielmcintyre7405 this comment misses the point of the complaints, what we want is both protagonist to be Japanese
@@adnanomer9089another major issue that you fail to realize is that ever AC game MC we’re not real people. This the first MC based on a real person and they choose to essentially mess up his history. Tell me why is the first MC based off a real person in Japan a black guy. Out of all the interesting figure in Japanese culture you choose the one black guy who was essentially kept as a display piece.
Yasuke was a real man but he wasn't a samurai, he was a servant.
Yall need to watch the video the metatron did about the shadows trailer...
Actually you're wrong Yasuke, also known as the Black Samurai or the African Samurai, is widely considered to be the first Black samurai in Japan. He was an enslaved man of African origin who arrived in Japan in the late 16th century and served as a retainer to the Japanese feudal lord Oda Nobunaga from 1581-1582.
He was a retainer which is a samurai for military purposes. Stop reading whitewashed history books. I learned all of this while stationed in Okinawa Japan when I was in the Navy.
And he can't be a samurai in a world where there's an entire new race of humans with technology so advanced they created mythological creatures and an apple that can change the world? and Da Vinci make real tanks, the Borgias batshit crazy, and the assassin created in Egypt instead of Iran, to name a few?
@@treychatman6996 being a retainer isn't the same as being a samurai, which is a class of *hereditary* nobility. Come on.
The reason UBISOFT picked Yasuke as a protagonist is quite racist. They think Asian is unfamiliar to be a protagonist of the game, so they pick other race. Its not a 'stand with black' situation. Its 'no room for asian' situation.
Is this claim actually based on anything? Or are you just making stuff up?
@@denzellmovies Its based on Ubisoft's interview at Japanese magazine Famitsu.
The only thing really bothering me is that Ubisoft has butchered the original Assassin's Creed spirit.
Why not publish this game as "The legend of Yasuke" instead of even further destroying the franchise with public shitstorms...
I think you're right, rebranding this specifically about the protagonist himself, rather than the historical setting would have been less divisive.
We wuz samurai n sheit
we wuz white and got trigged for other people, pale people are so cringe cry harder
Really? That's your best impression? 😂
Bix Nood
The music you listen to was made by black people
@@Hurmspeedy Frank and Dean weren't black. I listen to Sammy, but he was a Jew like me.
Wow. I’m amazed at how far this controversy is spreading. I didn’t expect you to cover it.
I don’t want western devs to make any games about Asian characters. Leave that to the Asian nations already making badass games. They are much better at it. Japan has been the reigning King for decades for a reason.
If Egypt can sue Netflix, then Japan should sue Ubisoft
Why would they sue them?Cause they use a real story about a real people? WHY DOES EVERYBODY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS SHII?
Unlike in the case of Egypt this one is not a documentary. Technically it is a mere fictitious game. Japanese kind of forgiving though. It is like a slap in their face but nah it is just a game my Japanese coworker said. But they're still disappointed AF.
@@zsombor9775this real person wasnt a samurai.
@@lottoo5693he actually was😂 woke people are only and you non-wokes are just back tracking racist type💀🙏
Yasuke was a servant not samurai, in real life he was just a slave to the shogun and sucked in actual combat, he surrendered immediately in his 1st fight apparently, probably bc he was never a samurai and even if he'd somehow impossibly become one, he would have to renounce that immediately to become a ronin or commit seppuku as samurai since his master died. the reason why people are upset is because the actual truth and history are being rewritten as fact for Westerners. Japanese were disrespected in this game with not only chinese architecture but also having their samurai being the only black guy in feudal Japan who wasnt even samurai. @@zsombor9775
If they marketed it as "historical fiction" then i wouldn't care, i still don't in general as it's ubisoft, but one of the main writers writes alot about relationships between grown men and little individuals..... which is a huge red flag.
Or historical fantasy, where an East African slave washes up in a fantasy Japan or perhaps, a fantasy European world, i.e. Isekai.
To me that no longer matters. This nonsense should be shunned. Wakanda wasn't real and I've seen it in multiple serious discussions, even among college professors. It's shocking, but whatever needs to be adapted to push an agenda will be adapted. This is also a time where there's a push for immigration into Japan.
They really did "Yaassify" him did they? What's next? Will he be the Legendary Booty Warrior of Feudal Japan?
I can't go on due to the ass clapping cut scene from the Last of Us Part 2 played out with Yasuke and Nobunaga in their place.
Assassin's Creed has always been considered historical fiction it's literally a game about a group of psychopathic serial killers vs a group setting after world domination... You have to be fucking stupid and completely ignorant to think otherwise stay in your own lane .
... you do know that the opening disclaimer of every single AC game calls it a "work of fiction" right?
Assassins Creed, the most historical accurate game. Had to mess it all. We enjoyed fighting mythological gods and creatures, ancient civilization trying to prevent the end of the world. But one man had to ruin it all. So sad.
I will never understand what is the problem but okay with games with supernatural characters or people with superpowers
"Assassins Creed, the most historical accurate game"
Something tells me this person has never actually played the games
@@kingtut645 actually I've played 1, 2, 3, brotherhood, and at least 1 hour of Valhalla. It's ridiculous that a group of people get mad over a character that doesn't what they want. The game also offers a Japanese female character? Do they not want that either? I could say they're sexist because they wanna play a male character.
@@Saint_Vick these arent remotely accurate
@@osowiecwalking9434 exactly. That's why it shouldn't be a problem to have Yasuke.
I think the biggest issue was never Yasukes skin color nor the fact he never saw combat in real life, but simply because he's one of the protagonists. While AC has always twisted some of the historical characters' history, we have never got to play and control them ourselves. It just messes up the AC code. And in addition to that, we all know why Ubisoft wanted to choose him, since he was one of the only black men in all of Japan back then
The issue is, western devs are allergic to male Asian protags.
Stfu your issue is that he is black and not white.
That is it.
@@JayceCH.Stfu no they arent
Assassin's Creed Fans: We just want realism in our games
"Ezio jumps 50 stories into a small wagon of hay"
It's actually possible. In the promo for Assassin's Creed movie, the stuntman for the main character jumped from an extreme height into a stack of hay.
*sigh* liberties with realism are taken for the sake of gameplay, like in every game. If you want to see what a game that really doesn’t care about realism looks like, go play Pencil Whipped or Super Mario.
An assassin's creed focused on fighting the slave trade would not only give these companies the brownie points they need while also bringing the franchise back to the original games' styles. But instead, they just want us pissed off and fighting over stupid shit.
They already made a game like that although it was more like a dlc to a bigger game, it was alright I guess. But it really feels like they included this character simply to create petty drama online and get people to talk about their upcoming boring ass game. I bet the character itself will have little to nothing interesting about him just like the rest of the game, and I won't care because I will be too busy playing the hell out of gta 6 to remember Assassin's Creed is even a thing.
Freedom cry
Just make a full AC game for Adewale already
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The real main character robbed of a full game. Not Yasuke and African “”page”” doesn’t deserves a full game.
We already have Bayek
guess you haven't heard about AC Freedom Cry, but yeah it was just a small game
@@jonchh956 Yup! That's what i said. "Full Game", Freedom Cry was a DLC
The assassin in the new Assassin's Creed game is so good at blending in that she is right on the cover and in the trailer and no one is talking about her! 🤣
I usually agree with Brett but she kinda dosent know much of AC games or Ubisoft,
AC has gotten ridiculous with historical fiction that this isn't too far-fetched.
This is the first real protag AC has done.
Also social media slander, Its just a vocal minority the game is doing well in preorders.
Not a lot of mention of the female Japanese protag as well.
The real issue is that noone knows much about Yasuke or how the game will turn out and Ubisoft hasn't been the best lately.
Yasuke is perfect for a clean slate character to learn about japan. Also Nioh did the same thing and had yasuke in it as well. We have so many samurai games lets see if Ubi can actually deliver and make a great game instead whining first.
Why not have a white samurai that actually existed ?
THANK YOU
@@0Leonx0 Nioh made William Adams a white man ..a samurai, great game love it, and made Yasuke a boss. Nobody cried about it but now Ubisoft does it with a black man its a problem. Also we have Japanese woman as an assasins as well.
@@ChocolateBoyy0 Yasuka is gay officially in AC.
White samurais existed, black samurais never existed. This whole thing of making everyone black, woman and gay is for political and cultural war reasons. I bet most blacks will not like the fact that he is gay.
It's just a slap in the face when blackwashing is always excused but can't even have too many white characters in a game or movie amd everything must be about representation and removing whites.
@@ChocolateBoyy0yep
'That Park Place' has reported Assassin’s Creed Shadows developer Ubisoft appeared to confirm that the game’s two main protagonists Yasuke (black samurai) and Naeo are LGBTQ+ characters.
Of course they are, it's UbiSoft dude
Assassin’s Creed Shadows may be the best incentive to make people buy Ghost of Tsushima
Yasuke was never a samurai... There is absolutely no historical data that proves anything besides the fact that he was not a samurai, but instead a servant and allowed to carry Nobunaga's Wakizashi. Check japanese wiki which has quotes from actual history instead of works of fiction like the black samurai books.
Had he been a samurai his life would have ended with Nobunaga either slain outright or performing a seppuku, instead he was sent back to his former masters... Nobunaga's heir even referring to him in terms that would not sit well with "modern" extra sensitive audiences that would experience their minds crumbling about something as simple as the truth of how history happened.
The fact that people have a hard time separating fact from fiction really explains a lot about the world today.
"I don't care what they tell you in School, Yasuke was Cleopatra🤥"
It made sense for Connor or Adewale, no one said anything because it was fine and perfect for the theme of the games. In actuality, Japan is an extremely traditional country and obviously even more on the middle ages. So the thing is, there were no black samurai, white shinobi or indian shogun, just japanese nationals or foreigners (gaijin) that suffered from racism. Very little is known of Yasuke but the truth is that he wasnt a Samurai, maybe a bodyguard or an exotic looking servant, just like a beautiful piece of furniture. Racism existed and denying it by creating fantasy stories said to be based on real history only help to wash it up like it never happened (i.e. Bridgerton).
So, I translate 1000 year old Japanese literature into English put them on RUclips and I have some points to make and two cents to throw in. First, I know that during the Heian period the term saburai 侍ひ, (originally pronounced something like samburafi with the 'b' and 'f' becoming less pronounced over time) referred not to warriors but to servants in general. Because the warriors were considered to be the social inferiors of the aristocracy for a long time and were often hired/utilized by them and they managed to accrue lots of power, the term kinda stuck. But, if I'm also not mistaken, the samurai were never an official, distinct social class until after Nobunaga died. I don't know if it was Hideyoshi or Ieyasu who codified a lot of what it meant to be a "samurai" so I don't know if much of this, if any, actually applied to Yasuke. Yes he was a warrior who served under Nobunaga. He was granted honors and privileges that would have made most of Nobunaga's retainers envious. Was he a samurai? Well, I'm not super into the Sengoku period and I'm not sure how the term was used so I can't say, but if my memory serves me correctly, I don't think anyone was a "samurai" in the way most people think of them now; a member of a distinct warrior caste.
Secondly, had this been made 5 to 10 years ago I would have been all for it. I've been wanting them to adapt the Yasuke story for a very long time. But over the past several years it's safe to assume that they didn't do this because they desperately felt this story needed to be told. No. It's just a fantastic chance to squeeze in some more of "the message" and maintain some level of legitimacy and deniability. And while it 'looks' great it's clearly lacking a soul. And that's depressing because the story of Yasuke deserves to be adapted and told by a person/company that can actually put some heart into things.
Lastly, oh wow look yet ANOTHER historical Japanese video game set in the Sengoku/Edo period because clearly Japan only had a couple of centuries where anything cool happened. It's not like there are stories like the rebellion of Taira no Masakado, or Fujiwara no Sumitomo, or that Japan has been adapting and retelling wonderful stories about the Gempei war for centuries, or that Japan has a rich collection of myths from the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki that could be adapted into some super cool movies and games. Nope! Japan only every did anything remarkable in the Sengoku/Edo period so I guess we're making another game set during that time and will never ever make anything set in another period of Japanese history . . . except for one game and that's Ghost of Tsushima, but we're also going to anachronistically shove in a bunch of Sengoku/Edo period visuals and ideas because we can't have things be too different from the Sengoku/Edo period because the Sengoku/Edo period is the best period.
I too would like to see Japanese media from different time periods. Samurai are cool, but there's got to be other stories out there too.
The biggest problem is the fact that Ubisoft expects gamers to spend $90 at a minimum to play this when we don't even know what gameplay looks like.
What I find slightly frustrating is that people seem to treat that problem and Yasuke's role as mutually exclusive. It is extremely greedy to name such a high price--especially since months ago they told us to no longer expect to own our games, so that's the price for RENTING--and it is also a problem that Yasuke being such a prominent character smacks of wokeness rather than a genuine desire to explore feudal Japanese culture.
Well the price is not worth looking at cause I'm not buying it anyway cause of the obvious DEI decision.
So "Black Flag" stays the best AC ever. Told you!
That was for sure my favorite AC. One of my fav games of all time, actually. I was obsessed. Loved the naval skirmishes.
Exactly! AC slowly went downhill after Black Flag.
Unity also is good
Yes! It made sense when that Welsh man conquered the Caribbean with his brothers during peak slavery
You spelled 'worst' wrong.