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Why Are Gamers Upset With Assassins Creed Shadows? | rosiebellmoo reacts to TheActMan
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Well this is going to be hard to boil down but here's what I've gathered as an outsider:
-Yasuke's existence is questionable because the wikipedia pages have been edited multiple times since the game's announcement, wikipedia isn't a viable source but the commotion does blur what's credible and not
-His overall inclusion isn't a problem as he does offer a lot of opportunities and unique narratives but when every previous main character has been represented by the corresponding race/ethnicity and he is the only black man in a game titled Shadows had a very tone deft revelation, even more so when a lot of Eastern Asian companies and products have been under a lot of unnecessary scrutiny
-The cultural inaccuracy between Japanese and Chinese architecture as well as Japanese customs, such as wearing full samurai armor in a public area, makes the overall presentation feel like it wasn't given enough attention to detail
-The overall corporate greed and poor state of AAA games have made people more skeptical and judge prematurely especially when Sachi Schmidt-Hori was hired as the history consultant when she's also the author of a book about the relationship between young boys and Buddhist priests and why it's a good thing (I had to look it up to be double sure and wasn't proud of it)
-Personally speaking, the sweet baby and dei drama has made almost everyone feel much more skeptical towards diversity, whether it was organic from the start, pressured into existence, or another checkbox to fill
I tried to see other videos about the counter arguments and all that gave me was a headache and time I'll never get back, I think tipping point was when someone asked what dei or sweet baby stood for and another commented watered it down as the newest "boogeyman" which convinced me that a majority of them were delusional.
Yes..but I think no one goes this far. They think "this looks pricey" and "is this woke " from what I've seen.
@@Rosiebellmoo it also doesn’t help when people have legitimate criticisms the common responses I’ve seen fall back to racism or another response involving the word “woke”. It all drowns the major problems like locking content behind a paywall or having an internet connection as a requirement.
His existence isn’t in question but like most people from that time his life isn’t very well documented and as such most of his achievements and status is questionable.
Yea i feel all this & have started to feel the same with anything that adds diversity into games now.
@@AtelierGod they don't mean in question as if he existed, but in trems of if he was a samurai or not as we just don't know.
Lets not forget that the wiki article for yaske was changed when shadows was announced.
Litterly changing history to appease ubisoft.
On top of this, there is very little known about him already, but was is known is that he was, at best, a weapons bearer for nobunaga and a party trick for how he looked and when nobunaga was defeated he was taken back by his previous masters and was never heard from again.
Its extremely unbelievable that a black guy in fudal japan could do all the assassins creed stuff you normally do, maybe thats what the ninja women is for, don't have a problem with her, she's cool.
But even if he's for more active combat, unless they have you play as him in battlefields and not fighting against nobunaga, don't let you just randomly kill people and have the times you play as him very liner, its just not going to be believable.
If they want to say that he actually was a samurai, that he participated in big battle against templar forces and didn't do anything to go against what little there is written about him them fine, that kind of historical fiction is ok.
But they definitely are not going to do that.
Metatron actually did a video on this and even translated from the Japanese wiki _manually_ to bring the truth to the scene.
@@danielantony1882 yes but he admitted he doesn't know if he was a samurai or not
@@wasneverherebefore No one does. The likely fact was that he wasn’t.
@@danielantony1882 the evidence supports that he LIKELY was. All the things he was gifted implied he had an incredibly high rank including given a sword and made Nobu's sword bearer
@@wasneverherebefore Buddy, you don’t know the games Hinomoto does. Him not being a samurai but having the privileges of it is a common tuesday in Hinomoto. The guy was clearly a Bushi so he doesn’t need to be a Samurai.
Its because we're RACIST!!!
Thats why we all buy mario kart, because its a racing game and shadows is not
Nah, Download Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers. Now that's a crazy racing game for real racists. And it's free, too!
@@JeffHikari well I do wanna spec more points into my racist skill tree so I may just take you up on that offer
"You're not Nintendo! You're Pretendo! You're all RACE TRAITOOOOOORS!"
@@JeffHikari It's definitely better than Sonic R.
We? I dont do racing games...Cuz all of my friends are busy 😢
There are two primary issues with Yasuke in this game..
1. He isn't historically accurate, what I mean when I say this is yes, he did exist, however he was never a samurai, he wasn't in Japan for long enough to become one nor was he ever given the opportunity to by his lord Nobunaga before his passing. And before anyone comes at me with "It's a fictional game!" notice how Ubi and a lot of their shills have been stating up and down that "Yasuke is a historical figure, he was real!" Okay, then if he's real, and that's so important, why are you defending a butchering of his history? It's different with the other historical characters since, by and large they are at least for the most part accurate to who/what they were in life, not the case with Yasuke, they clearly just want to bake the cake and eat it too. If they wanted a actual samurai, there's plenty in Japan's history to choose from. If they absolutely NEEDED it to be Yasuke, then make him what he was, Lord Nobunaga's Retainer.
EDIT: Making Yasuke a samurai in this game is like going back to ACBF and changing Blackbeard from being a pirate to instead being a British naval soldier..
2. I hate to say it, and people will no doubt call me a racist for stating the obvious, but it's true, Yasuke would in no way shape or form blend in. Part of the skill set of an assassin in this universe is the ability to blend in with the crowd. Yasuke, being one of only like 3 africans in Japan at the time and the fact he's a giant (compared to the local populace) means there's no way he can hide, making him a liability at best within the order. And if the answer to this is "well, he's not an assassin" then why even bother with Yasuke as a main character?
Absolute Facts. 😂
@@WallNutBreaker524 It's funny how people default to "You don't like him cause he's black!" and I can't help but be like "Dude. Hello? Remember Freedom Cry? Adewale? Nobody had a problem with him!"
I played the shit outta Deathloop, and I didn't give a rat's ass of the fact Colt is black, I didn't care, I loved his character and him being black didn't harm the story/setting at all.
*Juliana throws him up through the skylight and slams him back onto the floor*
"Yep, we dated.. Ow.."
XD
Franklin from GTA V I found actually endearing, a street thug and gang member simply wanting a better life for himself gets caught up in a government scheme with two psychopaths. Franklin being black had no negative effects on the story, other characters, or the setting.
Frankly, I saw all this coming the second they revealed Yasuke, before I even knew who he was I saw it coming..
@@dreymak4071 RUclips keeps deleting my comments. 🤦♂️ But yeah, the Wokes are a broken record.
Every Japanese media and games before shadows regards him as a samurai.........are they lying? You regurgitate what others saying but not what the Japanese are saying or portraying him as.
@@gravemind76 Is Assassin's Creed an Japanese Game? No. It's an French-American Game Series. And Shadows is just based off of Japan.
Also, at the very least Japan does this for entertainment. Why did Ubisoft do it in Shadows? Originally it was supposed to be a Japanese Male Fictional Ninja Character, why did they turn the Original Protagonist Character into an Actual Historical Character, this has never been done before in the Assassin's Creed Series, oh right... For Political Brownie Points from the Woke Mob. That's why we're mad. Because we know the reason why Yasuke is the Protagonist all of a sudden.
Edit: Also, it seems RUclips has deleted all the previous replies here. This has 9+ replies from other people. They're gone now. Who the hell is the new CEO? They're doing a crap job managing RUclips with this useless and blatant Censorship.
New model is adorable.
Thank you !!!
I wonder if Act Man knows about the Wikipedia issue concerning Yasuke's entry.
I have a feeling I would be better off not knowing
He did bring it up, but eh, Wikipedia was never that reliable anyway. Unless there's been a widespread change across other historical records that show Yasuke's history, there's little to worry about in terms of all the historical revisionism shenanigans.
@@ThePeteriarchy If I'm not mistaken other sources of info were also changed. I can't recall if it were Oxford or Britannica, but they've been changing stuff on "legit sources" since this exploded.
He does but act man doesn't go into the more controversial side of topics.
@@ThePeteriarchyto my understanding it’s relatively reliable when it comes to fields that aren’t opinion based, things about physics generally aren’t gonna receive the treatment like politics might, it’s about being able to tell when a clear bias not supported with sources is presented that’s the problem.
the issue with the black samurai is that in a good faith argument he would be fine, as a relatively obscure figure to be used in AC's historical fiction shenanigans as they often do.
but ubisoft and the whole consulting industry have no good faith. they have destroyed all benefit of the doubt they could ever get.
i dont really care they chose to use yasuke as a character for their game, but the blatant political opinions they shove into and calling him a samurai is the problem, major fact people over look, samurai is a class/title within feudal japan, not the name for a warrior, but rather a position one could obtain, yasuke never obtained that title due to how xenophobic japanese people were and still are, that and most historical mentions of yasuke are second hand due to most of his achievements being destroyed for political reasons
@@sevenz3r011 I bet you Ubisoft and those who view themselves as "on the right side of history" will use this as a perfect excuse to insult and be racist towards Japanese and Asian people in general. I've seen quiet a few of the people who claim to advocate for equality and such being surprisingly racist towards Asian people. I think it's because they often see them as the stereotype of being more successful then them, and feel incredibly jealous and bitter.
@@floofiekun1875 yeah, seems nowadays you cant be racist towards whites or asians, and you cant be sexist towards men, probably inferiority complex like you said, someone in their past did something to them and now they became what they said they were destroying
Facts. Gamers and Weebs have become Redpilled at this point. From Warhammer to Anime. Woke woke woke. 😢
@@floofiekun1875 True. 😂
The problem I see with ACS is simple, almost every AC game has characters native to the area with the exception of Black Flag which takes place in the Caribbean at the height of piracy and most pirates were from Europe at the time so Kenway was a dime a dozen, with Yasuke he’s the one black guy in a country’s several thousand years of history and they went out of their way to pick him just so they didn’t have to make a Japanese man a playable character.
I think they had a black character so they could distinguish the game from all the other Japanese open world stealth games on the market.
@@Mr.scooter-le8yo you stand out by making something that is good not by making something skin deep. Black flag is still called the best AC game because the gameplay was good, the story good and side activities were good. This isn’t going for something good but pandering at best or malicious at worst.
@@AtelierGod black flag is controversial at best, people call that a mid Assassin's Creed game because you don't do much except for sail boats and the mission design being boring. It's Ubisoft we're talking about they're not going to make a good game especially with a franchise like assassin's Creed that almost gets a new game every year. Assassin's Creed shadows is one of the most highly pre-ordered games right now especially in Japan so I would say the main black protagonist is really appealing to people even though there hasn't been even a second of gameplay shown.
I mean the thing is, as an actual history teacher and US and Japan are kinda my specialty I wanna say this -
Yasuke was a real guy and he WAS in Japan, but for about 8 to 12 months. Now was Yasuke a samurai? No. He was a Koshō which is the Feudal Japan equivalent to a golf caddy but for weapons. Now he may not have been a full samurai, but possibly a HALF Samurai. Just because one carries a katana back then didn't mean they were samurai. There were Ashigaru (basic foot soldier essentially).
After the Honnōji incident and Oda Nobunaga and his son did Seppuku, Mitsuhide Akechi gave Yasuke back to the Jesuits and verbatim told them "the animal should not be held accountable for the actions of its master".
Yasuke was looked at with disgust by the samurai, except Nobunaga because Nobunaga was renowned for his interest in all things foreign and unique.
Also, no Samurai walked around in FULL armor outside of combat. That's like a modern solider going to the grocery store in full combat armor and his rifle.
AND the architecture in Shadows is Chinese, they couldn't even get that right. Oh man don't get me started on how pissed the Japanese are.
Well Japanese people are actually saying the opposite and making fanart about yasuke, many of those hate comments are American burner accounts pretending to be Japanese using google translate, as shadows is one of the most pre ordered games in Japan rn.
In most Japanese media regarding yasuke regards him as a samurai even in videos made by Japanese themselves, if they believe and portray him as one then he is one simple as that. Hell guilty gear strive nago is based off of him and with slayer dlc hints that nago might actually be him.
Many Japanese people are coming to tiktok cool with him and find him interesting.
@@gravemind76 a loud minority maybe, but historically speaking Yasuke was not. There was a thing called Ashigaru that carried katanas and such, but they weren't Samurai. I'm going off real history here, not what wokeists are going off. There was also half Samurai too. Go watch Rev, the Dislike to like ratios on Ubi Japan are astronomical, ans buddy...please for the love of God tell me you're not basing history of goddamn fan art...FAN art 😮💨. Man, fan art isn't historical. Your argument is totally invalid. Please go read up on history. REAL Japanese historical documents barely mention him.
@@gravemind76You say that, but there is *a lot* more pushback on this specific portrayal of Yasuke that you seem to ignore. All of those other versions of Yasuke are fine because *absolutely none of them* were created with the context of "This guy WAS A BONAFIDE SAMURAI!!" and is instead "Yeah, but *what if* he was?"
Ubisoft is just fucking asscheeks anyway, and anybody who buys this shitty, culturally inept "product" is kind of lame.
@@JayEdelgardVTyou are right, yasuke wasn't samurai
Yasuke was a bushi and only saw one battle. Even historical researchers are conflicted on if he was a samurai or not since the term samurai wasn't even invented till after his time. Just like how ninja term didn't exist till after a certain time period. But Shinobi and konichi was used during that time.
Why people were looking forward to this game:
-Playing as a ninja, something fans have wanted sonce AC1
-Playing as an actual historical figure
Why people are dissatisfied with the game:
-Yasuke's samurai status is questionable
-The cultural advisor is an expert on PDF-iles and a defender of them
-Ubi's rent-to-own pay schemes
Yasuke's samurai status is questionable who gives a fuck its assassins creed the game that had you fight the pope who had a magical orb
@@mr.ilikespam6081 The problem for those educated on Yasuke is that they very specifically chose Yasuke for diversity reasons when he historically is both questionable in what exactly his contribution and status was, but he was also only there for like 3-5 years which, given the time period, is an EXTREMELY specific period of time. It's more forced diversity shit and people are pretty tired of it on that front.
Then you have the cultural representation of Japan in the game... and basically nothing is right. The architecture is Chinese, the armor is wrong, aspects of the culture itself aren't accurate... basically whoever the hell they hired as a cultural advisor is an uneducated moron on this topic (as well as an unsavory rumor I've heard).
Basically, the marketing is ridiculously greedy, the culture is completely misrepresented from what we've seen, they chose a period of time specifically to fit in a black guy (of questionable historical accuracy in his depictions) which is just inherently going to at least annoy people nowadays. It would not have been hard to have either a single main character, OR to forge some sort of alliance between another Japanese character that would be just as famous or more famous than Yasuke (if its name recognition they want).
He was there a year and 3 months…. lol
I'm the weirdo who IS annoyed that you're playing as an actual historical figure. Every game before this your player character is wholly unique and you interact with historical figures, many of which in the plotline are secretly part of one of the factions, like some sort of historical scifi Forrest Gump. But now we're playing as a real person? Why? I'd have been completely down with Yasuke being a secret Assassin you interact with as part of the plot, like how Machiavelli was in AC2/B, but making him playable feels weird like it was a decision made not because it was necessary, but because it can obfuscate the fact that (tinfoil hat time) a male samurai that was an original character would inevitably draw closer comparison to Jin Sakai and Ghost of Tsushima; and Ubi knows they can't pull of a character that well.
I think its not strange after how many games assassin's creed has had where you are a fantasy character..that you may want to play as a fantasy character ^^
If it's not broke..why fix it ?
Soft fluffy cow ears saved my life. ❤
Am floof
I think is funny how 99% of the black support dissapear when they made yasuke gay
They did? 😅
AC in Italy? Italian mc
AC in America? American mc
AC in Egypt? Egyptian mc
AC in Greece? Greek mc
AC in Japan? For some reason split it, at make one a real black historical figure.
It would've been really cool to have Yasuke IN the game, like working with him in a line of missions. Why divide the protagonist role anyway? Why would you play as a samurai* in a game about ASSASSINS? It's just a lot of strange decisions on top of the shit monetization choices.
AC in Constantinople? italian mc
Love the new model! Also Ubisoft is really ruining such a great franchise.
It just feels like they think the well is infinite and won't run dry 🤔
@@Rosiebellmoo yep that’s how it seems with Ubisoft
@@darklord1366 That's how it seems with the Mainstream Entertainment Industry is nowadays. They listen more to Woke Political Activists than to actual Gamers, their customers. 😂
nah, ac was ruined long ago ,yasuke isnt big problem, the actual problem is bad gameplay
Nah, im not taking chances with Ubisoft, im waiting for videos to come out AND the game to go on sale before I even think of buying the game. Specially since Ghosts of Tsushima exists in my library, gods that game was great.
Stop breaking out of the matrix! XD
@@Rosiebellmoo we can't, as the great Oogway once said "our time has come"
Don't you mean renting?
Japanese gamers are "upset" as well: they lament their history's hijacking for the sake of ポリコレ (porikore, political correctness). I kinda agree with you though: historical fiction requires historical character to be left in their "role", or it's just fiction at that point.
I would have put a character creator (like in Ronin) where you can choose to be either a samurai or ninja, and Yasuke as a NPC (in his alledged historical role) maybe as a trainer in Foreign/Western Weapons.
Thats why all other AC games had you play as a fictional character, to give the dev's the freedom to do things that they couldn't with a historical one.
Seems they don't care about that anymore
Make Yasuke a challenge character. One you unlock a ways into the game.
You have a much smaller campaign, but it starts at higher difficulty, intended for experienced players.
Also skipping much of the early career stage.
So, Ghost of Tsushima was really well received in Japan. So the reason assassin's creed: shadows doing so well in pre orders is probably because they expect it to be on the same level.
18:58 This is the only point i agree with Actman on, Yasuke could've literally been an undercover Templar. 😂
Was replaying Ghost of Tsushima when I saw the video and that game is the AC game we always wanted
Man I didn't realize the let down for AC players was higher on this theme in particular. Feels bad honestly :(
If my pc was stronger and shadows was cheaper I’d probably get it but honestly I think I’ve lost touch with the series ever since origins
Valhalla was great in terms of making your own Viking build but the world was just too big
@@Poke-laddThat was part of it. And then the river raid system just felt like you were always stagnant since it essentially happens in a separate universe as its own mini game complete with maintaining crews that had nothing to do with the main game. And you’re right, you sail for 5min to get to solid land where you then have to run across flat land or ride a horse for another 5min whilst you get attacked by random NPCs on the way to a 20min dungeon. None of which have any of the original aspect of AC; being sneaky climbing rooftops, blending in with the crowd, quick trips into buildings with hasty retreats.
I beat ghost twice so I’m not going back pretty hype for shadows tho
Ubisoft sucks, but your new model rocks. So cute.
I dropped Ubisoft a while ago, but this monetization BS means I'm STAYING AWAY for sure.
People since Assassin's Creed Shadows came out: " You know, I'm something of an expert on Japanese history myself."
While you were busy playing vidya games i was busy becoming a samurai , studying the blade . All is according to keikaku. We are not the same.
@@Rosiebellmoo Lmao
It's not exactly difficult to be a more knowledgeable Japanese historical expert than the one Ubisoft has hired.
@@found6393 even someone who is not Japanese?
The problem is not wether its real or not its that out of all japanese historical figuers they choose a black man and the fact that the game is 130 dollars
The few times we played as a historical character is King Leonidas in AC Odyssey for a short time and Jack the Ripper in DLC for AC Syndicate.
The bigger problem was to counter "that isn't historically accurate", the opposition did not say "well it's just a video game". That would have been fine. Instead they said "yes it is accurate" and rewrote history. This is not a problem of Ubisoft's making and it isn't their fault.
Even if it doesn't need an internet connection to play, needing a server ping to download is still very problematic
Yeah . That is very sus
@@Rosiebellmoo let me remind you that Blizzard had Diablo 2 Resurrection require players to connect the game online every 30 or so days or else the game will stop working offline. Also, the James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (first one) by Ubisoft too could only be played offline if the game is able to regularly ping to Ubi servers within a set span of time. If the DRM can't ping and the hidden time limit expires, the game cannot be played or installed even via DVD.
And precedent has been set in the past for publishers to outright lie about that sort of thing and forcing it in after the fact isn't off the table with these sorts of companies anyway
Historical debates aside I just just love the big brain move of picking the guy who would stand out the most in the setting to be affiliated with the Assassins, seriously he would draw a crowd everywhere he goes and the Templars would have to monumentaly stupid no to be able to come to the conclusion that most of the time he shows up a bunch of their people died regardless if he did it or not
Yes, the Yasuke issue isn't as important as the monetary and usual Ubisoft practices, but it is still a reason added to why people hate the game.
Whether Yasuke is a real samurai or not isn't as important since AC's is a historical fiction. What is important, however, is their choice to single out the only black man in all of feudal Japan to be put into a steathy assassin game. I hope to god his gameplay is more Samurai focus and not having to blend in because I doubt the guy with dark skin standing a head taller than all the Asians around him can be a subtle killer. Even the trailer highlights how different he looks from the average Japanese person.
I also thought of Yasuke as a villain because someone brought up the very interesting idea of Yasuke being a Templar. The whole background lore of AC is it being a battle between the Assassin Order and the Templar. The whole reason the history is obscured and your character unkown is to hide this multi milenia long fued.
The reason the Templar want to know more about the past is to find the pieces of Eden from the old civilization. And I've heard it's a pre established bit of lore Oda Nobunaga had one. Typically the assassins kept them from getting that stuff though which is why they fight.
Yasuke being a Templar would be interesting and it wouldn't be the first time we played as one of them. In AC3 the big reveal early on was our guy being a traitor assassin helping the Templar.
However as others have mentioned this setting in the series has been hyped for a very long time. I don't think most people that have a problem have one with the girl but I know a lot of us had an idea of what we wanted that this doesn't match up to. To me personally I feel like the game will be bogged down by Yasuke because I just want old AC goodness we haven't had in a very long time. And that's the biggest issue here. A lot of us had a foot out the door or stuck one in in hopes of this being the thing that brought us back in. It's not us turning our backs on a beloved series we had little hope and faith to begin with.
Anyways I don't have faith in Ubisoft making a game like the old ones which is something they're apparently going for. I have even less faith from recent games and my faith in them is gone knowing there's two completely different characters. I genuinely hope they can get me back still but at this point I'd rather redownload Ghost of Tsushima.
He starts off as a Templar then later join the brotherhood
Honestly as far as I'm concerned there hasn't been a proper assassin's creed game for going on a decade now, it's just been generic ubisoft sandboxes set in the assassin's creed universe
Im not upset. I think it’s funny. Of course I’m not gunna buy it.
Ya same here haha. I just like to see the
Good and bad current gaming things going on
Honestly, can you blame people? Assassin’s Creed fans have been asking for a game set in Japan for YEARS. The setting is perfect for an Assassin’s Creed game. Now, finally, after all this time, they get it, and you’re literally the only black samurai in Japan. You can’t even play as a Japanese Samurai in an Assassin’s Creed game set in Japan. The inclusion of Yasuke isn’t necessarily a problem. He is a historical figure, albeit an obscure one, and historical figures are typically characters in these games. But they chose to make him the protagonist instead of someone actually native to the historical setting. There is also an issue with the way the female protagonists is portrayed. Not that she is an Assassin. That was never an issue. Women did have a place in the shinobi world. However, they were primarily used for infiltration, intel gathering, and spying. If Ubisoft wanted to portray a woman in a combat role, they should have made her an onna-musha, women who are known to have actually fought alongside Samurai men in battle. There are a number of famous examples of onna-musha. Of course, researching them is beyond the intellectual capacity of the brain-dead, blue-haired land whales, soyboys, beta males, simps, and Twitter warriors who make up the writing team. There’s a reason I lost interest in Assassin’s Creed.
Onna musha sound pretty cool ! A game should feature them that would be pretty neat ^^
He really danced around the "Samurai" part.
For me, adding yasuke to the game is an awesome thing. BUT, this is a big butt, as a npc/companion. Not as the players
I myself would prefer getting to know yasuke as somebody else, befriended him, taking on mission with him and even train with him. And at the climax, having to say goodbye to a friend as he was exiled at the end.
Idk, for me i prefer that. In black flag knowing pirate like black beard and cap kid in the eye of edward is more intriguing then playing as blackbeard himself
True. At least just make him an unknown assassin from samurai faction that helps the main Japanese character.
I've never heard of this guy before but really that stache of his makes me want to agree with him. Ok but honest talk. I get why people are angy over this because people have wanted because it's a black samurai and not some Japanese dood named like ryuji or ken. But this black samurai that we know so little about because not much information is out about him. But really people should be more upset that this is a Ubisoft game and it's going to be monotized up the wazoo and back. Then end up a mediocre product that they tricked you into putting over a 100$ into.
The historical person was a slave for a Japanese lord who basically treated him like shit and pretended he was samurai and made him go into battle despite not being a real warrior. He was 'a samurai' for less than a year
On the topic of Historical Fiction, look at Nioh 2.
A game following the story of Hideyoshi’s quest to unify Japan, but there are demons, magic, and shit like that, it’s fiction placed in the actual history of Japan, but you don’t play as Hideyoshi, so it works for that kind of fantasy emersion
Ac the game where you can box the pope , slow down time, fight the Egyptian fricking gods and his comment about samurai’s with jet packs, ezio had a medievalish jet pack 😂 historical accuracy wasn’t a problem then was it?
The problem with Yasuke is that he was NOT a samurai. A samurai is basically a knight in Japan for lack of a better comparison. To become a knight or a samurai you had to be trained in martial arts from childhood, you had to have a good education, meaning you had to have very good understanding of the language, history and culture of the land you were going to represent, and last but not least, you had to be a landed NOBLE! Meaning that you had to have been given a title of nobility from your feudal lord. Do you see the problem here?
Yasuke from the historical records that we have was a man of African origin who served as a retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga for a period of 15 months between 1581 and 1582, during the Sengoku period, until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident.There are few historical documents on Yasuke. From the fragmentary accounts, Yasuke first arrived in Japan in the service of Jesuit Alessandro Valignano. He was summoned to Nobunaga after Nobunaga wished to see a black man. Subsequently, Nobunaga took him into his service and gave him the name Yasuke. As a retainer, he was granted a stipend, a house, and a short sword. Yasuke accompanied Nobunaga until his death and was present at the Honnō-ji Incident. Afterwards, Yasuke was sent back to the Jesuits. There are no records of him afterwards.
The Shinchō Kōki (Lord Nobunaga Chronicle) states:
A black man was taken on as a vassal by Nobunaga-sama and received a stipend. His name was decided to be Yasuke. He was also given a short sword and a house. He was sometimes made to carry Nobunaga-sama's tools.
The man is only ever presented in the historical records we have as a servant or a retainer at best. He was never made a lord nor was he ever given any real formal martial training. Even a weirdo like Nobunaga, as he was known to the people of Japan, knew that if he did something like giving a foreigner that didn't even speak the language well, a samurai title, he would alienate his vassals at best, or have a full blown rebellion at worst. This was not a small matter. The only foreigner to ever attain the title of samurai was William Adams known to Japan as Miura Anjin, and he was only granted the title after 5 years of service to the Shogunate.
"Through Suminokura, Ieyasu offered to free Adams and his crew in exchange for support in the upcoming civil war. Adams and Joosten were released from Osaka Castle after six weeks and were sent back to their ship. Ieyasu ordered the crew to sail the Liefde from Bungo to Edo, and the ship arrived at Uraga in August 1600. Adams thereafter lodged with Honda Masazumi in Edo, while his crew resided with Mukai Shogen in Uraga. In Edo, Adams trained Tokugawa's army in firing the cannon that had been removed from the ship. In late August, Adams joined Tokugawa's army in a battle in Aizu, and in October he again joined the army in its march westward, culminating in the decisive Battle of Sekigahara that effectively secured Ieyasu's control over Japan.
Following the victory at Sekigahara, Tokugawa awarded Adams 10,000 Portuguese reals, but did not allow the Liefde crew to leave Japan. Instead, in 1601, he decided to give each of them a regular rice allowance in exchange for serving as teachers and advisors to the shogunate. In May 1603, he further granted Adams a mansion in Edo with housekeepers, a monthly allowance of 50 Ryō, and a daily allowance of a kilogram of rice, as well as an expanded allowance for his crew members.
Adams successfully piloted the first Spanish merchant ship into Edo Bay in the autumn of 1603, after which Edo became a trading port. Ieyasu dubbed Adams "Anjin" around this time, in recognition of his piloting skills.
Late in 1604, Tokugawa decreed that Adams would stay in Japan permanently, and in 1605 Tokugawa further granted Adams the status of samurai. Adams had a wife Mary Hyn and two children back in England, but Ieyasu forbade the Englishman to leave Japan. Adams also was given the title of jikatatori hatamoto (direct bannerman), a prestigious position as a direct retainer in the shogun's court. Adams was given generous revenues: "For the services that I have done and do daily, being employed in the Emperor's service, the emperor has given me a living" (Letters). He was granted a fief in Hemi within the boundaries of present-day Yokosuka City, "with eighty or ninety husbandmen, that be my slaves or servants" (Letters). His estate was valued at 250 koku and was located next to the harbor of Uraga, the traditional point of entrance to Edo Bay. "
As you can see, the title of samurai was not given freely to anyone. Adams was a teacher and militia man for the Shogunate. He fought in several battles and his knowledge as a sailor and trader helped the Shogunate to become more powerful. He was only given the title and fiefdom after 5 years of constant service and contributions to the land.
It'd be awesome if you posted your sources since making things up on the Internet is free and accountability is nil
@@chaosXP3RTWell here you go.
The Shinchō Kōki manuscript of the Sonkeikaku Bunko (尊経閣文庫) archives describes him as follows:
"A black bōzu (黒坊主, kuro-bōzu)[c] from the Christian country has arrived. He appears to be 26 or 27 years old. The blackness of his body is like that of a bull, and he is healthy and of fine physique. Moreover, he has the strength of more than ten men. The padres came with him and thanked Lord Nobunaga for his permission to proselytize."
The Shinchō Kōki also states:
"A black man was taken on as a vassal by Nobunaga-sama and received a stipend. His name was decided to be Yasuke. He was also given a short sword and a house. He was sometimes made to carry Nobunaga-sama's tools."
There are more than 60 known manuscripts, with various titles given to them, including Shinchō Ki (信長記), Azuchi Ki (安土記), Ōta Izuminokami Nikki (太田和泉守日記) and digitized versions are available on the Electronic Library of the Japanese National Diet Library.
Another one. Father Lourenço Mexía wrote in a letter to Father Pero da Fonseca dated 8 October 1581:
"The black man understood a little Japanese, and Nobunaga never tired of talking with him. And because he was strong and could do a few tricks, Nobunaga took great pleasure in protecting him and had him roam around the city of Kyoto with an attendant."
Mexía, Lourenço. "Carta que o padre Lourenço Mexía escreueo de Funày ao padre Pero da Fonseca a oito de Outubro de 1581". Biblioteca Geral Digital. UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA
Next on the list.
After entering into Nobunaga's service, Yasuke followed Nobunaga to Azuchi Castle in Omi Province. Yasuke next appears in historical records on 11 May 1582. The Ietada Diary of Matsudaira Ietada, a vassal of Tokugawa Ieyasu, mentions that Yasuke accompanied Nobunaga on his inspection tour of the region after he destroyed his long-time arch-enemy, the Takeda clan of Kai. The description of 11 May 1582 states:
"Nobunaga-sama was accompanied by a black man who was presented to him by the missionaries and to whom he gave a stipend. His body was black like ink and he was 6 shaku 2 fun [182.4 cm or near 6 feet] tall. His name was said to be Yasuke."
Further reading can be found here.
1. Crasset, Jean (1925). 日本教会史 (Histoire de l'eglise du Japon) (in Japanese). 太陽堂書店 (Taiyōdō Bookshop). Archived from the original on 19 September 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
2. Solier, François (1627-1629). Histoire Ecclesiastique Des Isles Et Royaumes Du Japon. Sébastien Cramoisy. Archived from the original on 5 November 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
3. Lockley, Thomas (2016). "The Story of Yasuke: Nobunaga's African Retainer". Ōmon Ronsō. 91. Tokyo: Nihon Daigaku Hōgakubu. ISSN 0288-1411.
And if you are interested in what a samurai is a good start can be found here.
www.historyskills.com/classroom/year-8/year-8-samurai-reading/
pay attention to what training they had to go through when reading it. This is the bare minimum you can research it more if you want.
@@kpetalis Thank you! I appreciate your efforts! But I don't understand why you gave me 60 manuscripts to read? Your original comment said "there are few historical documents" on Yasuke. 60 manuscripts seem like more than a few historical documents, unless you define "manuscripts" as not a document?
How did you get so passionate about Yasuke and this subject?
@@chaosXP3RT I'm not particularly passionate, I simply love history and do some research. Nothing extravagant.
What I don't like is history revisionism and culture appropriation as well as judging historical figures, cultures and political and social norms using modern day sensibilities. That is the definition of cultural appropriation and "modern day stupidity.
You can't judge a person's actions , writings, opinions and culture using our own definition of words and norms. You have to judge it using the norms of the time period and culture. And if you try to change the books, the language used and the sensibilities of the time from the source material because it "offends" you, then you are nothing more than a vandal. There was a particular party during the 1930s and 1940s that did the same thing and we have a term for that kind of behavior, it's called censorship and it is the antithesis of free speech and democracy, but, it seems we have forgotten it.
@@kpetalis There was another party that did history Revisionism too and the damage they caused is still being felt to this day. Even after rebelling from the USA from 1861-1865, they were allowed to write US history books and revise history.
Oh my god WHO CARES IF ITS “WOKE”? “I think the way to determine if its actually woke is gonna be to look at the story” YEAH, BECAUSE WEATHER THE STORY IS GOOD OR NOT IS THE ONLY THING THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS. Are ya’ll really gonna be mad if this game has great story and gameplay if it also gives commentary on racism in shit? Are ya’ll that petty?
If story good: good game
If story bad: bad game
That is all
Yeah all people want is a good game pretty sure it was like this with fallout and xmen aswell
I'm usually the one to say "Game making companies should make riskier decisions" but with this one I'm just like "why couldn't they just went with the safer option?"
There is risky and then there is stupid, sometimes it's not so easy to distinguish
Last I checked up on assassins creed was the greek one where the where censoring statues and altering historical artwork to be less offensive so I would lean on it being an agenda but I could be wrong
I think they also had Black Flag which the protagonist was Edward Kenway. If I'm not mistaken Edward Kenway is also a historical person. Even so, the fact remains that every entry had a protagonist that was actually belonging and centric to the location in terms of race at the time. While it may be true Yasuke did exist in Japan at the Sengoku Period, he is an "oddity" and not centric to the location the setting is in. That's how out of place he was. What they are doing to Yasuke here is Tokenization which is exactly what Oda Nobunaga was doing to him back in history going by the very few info about him. Add to that socio-political engineering by historical revisionism (editing articles and info online about Yasuke to tailor history to their "version of history"), and pandering to current racial divides. That's what's bad about that. And come on, let's stop pretending it's not about ESG-DIE. Stop treating customers like we're all idiots.
It's all this pandering to ESG-DIE investment schemes that also partly caused these crazy huge prices they're putting on these games so it's doubly bad. This is a plain double-standard. If the next AC game is set in historic Africa, and the main character is the first white man to ever set foot in Africa, you can be d*mn sure these "supporters" of Yasuke would be crying foul and maybe even sending death threats because "a white guy is killing black people" in a video game set in historical Africa...Oh, wait, they're already doing that to Resident Evil 5's possible remake.
Edward wasn't historical, so this would be the first time we've had a playable irl person in AC.
All I'll say is that this character setup for Assassin's Creed: Shadows is just making Assassin's Creed: Syndicate again. Female character is stealthy, male character is a brute mainly used for distractions. Also if any sort of militia style combat/system is involved, I wouldn't be surprised
Makes sense, he has more armour and sword so he would be better for open combat
Like of ubisoft wanted a black man as a main character why didn't they choose an African historical period like a time period where mansa musa was alive and your objective was like assassinating his enemies or something since mansa musa was a rich african king (400bilion+ dollars in today's money) and they could've made a game about when he travelled to macca and you as the main character protect the knig from assassins that were targeting him through the trip that would be a good game in my opinion. Like choosing yasuke as a main character when there are many other stories but i feel like they choose yaduke for a reason and it's clicks they don't care about being right at this point they just want clicks and controversy is the best way.
I also feel their specific choice let's them demonize consumers by basically saying "Well you don't like this game because there's a black person it it, so all gamers are racist!" when honestly I just care about gameplay, a good story and showing respect to different cultures. I can empathize with Japanese people, they have to see a game where their culture is being misrepresented and generally insulted.
I think most people can easily see through Ubisoft, the choice feels less about historical accuracy and more about virtue signaling to the "right crowd", so they feel morally righteous. It makes me sad to see people of different ethnicities being reduced to being used for tokenism. Things have just spiraled out of control in the past 20+ years.
Imagine how condescending it has to feel as someone of a different ethnicity in the US who worked hard to get where they are, and then being told you were somehow oppressed the whole time, and are suddenly being giving a ton of opportunities just because of your skin color over instead of your actual talent. It's basically racism but in the completely opposite direction.
That reminds me that I've seen quiet a few of these people who claim to be "on the right side of history" being racist towards Asians do to them accepting the stereotype of those of Asian descent being overall more talented and successful. I remember the movement made to stop Asian hate and how they blamed everyone else but their own people doing it. For a group of people that seem to be against stereotyping and wanting equality they sure as hell don't practice what they preach do they?
first of all, gramma, second of all, do you know were egypt is?
@@digimon5433 ok i know my gramma isn't the best here but this is youtube comments and not college. and yeah I know where egypt is been there and I know people from there as I am palestinian so we and egyptians are like brothers and sisters.
Glad to see a measured take out of Act Man. Gotta disagree with you about one thing though, Rosie. You can still have historical fiction that includes historical figures. The most ridiculous examples can include the Red Alert series, where Einstein somehow lives far longer than he actually did IRL and makes a time machine during a Cold War Gone Hot scenario, but also includes previous AC games where you met, became friends with, or killed romanticized versions of real historical figures, like the imperial sailors you fought and pirates you sailed alongside with in AC4. And AC has done a historical figure as a playable character before. Just in a DLC. It let you play Jack the Ripper, and made it so that the serial killer's motivations actually tie into the Assassins vs Templar shenanigans. The mistake that I'm seeing with Ubisoft atm is how they're marketing Yasuke, not the fact that they chose him to be the MC at all, because the latter can still work (if it had better writers or was made by a better studio). It seems like the new direction they're going with some of their marketing is towards historical accuracy, when their games have never been about that in the slightest except for how they depict the setting. But even if they somehow finally make an AC story that actually stays good all the way through instead of the usual thing of having a strong intro and it descending into boring slop later on, it still pales in comparison to the pricing issue, the Season Pass BS of locking missions behind a paywall, and this looming concern that Ubisoft can just remove access for games you paid for, since they've already done it.
Wa ? I was saying that it didn't need to be accurate to make it historical fiction (to the viewer ) I think is the part your referring to ?
I was saying you just need to put something historical in there..(like a historical person , since they've done that in other creed games , and it doesn't have to have any accuracy .. in order for it to be "historical " fiction.. maybe I did badly at explaining oop
That command and conquer bit is way off, it wasnt a cold war gone hot but an alternate ww2 where the Nazis never rose to power and thus never betrayed Russia leading to them not changing sides
@@louissteyn6871 Ah, alright. I was just going off of what I could kinda gather from RA2's goofy campaign. Tried playing the original, and I couldn't get far into it.
@@Rosiebellmoo Oh okay. I think I misheard or misunderstood a part as you saying something along the lines of it being kind of a problem when historical fiction deals with a real character. But yeah nah you did clarify later on, and on here as well.
The black samurai shit was the stupidest argument ever ngl
but holy crap THE PRICING i legit have never been so triggered by a games pricing but this games pricing made me so mad Lol
But my biggest problem with this game is that ITS UBISOFT
Ubisoft sucks now
I think the problem isn't his ethnicity but his relevance. If he is the main character..he was more of a side character (from what I understand) in history without a lot of impact or relevance
Damn games are just overly expensive for no reason these days. Like what are they doing that games 10+ years ago didn't? Fancier graphics? Given what we've seen it certainly isn't about a step up in quality. Honestly it's just offensive and I refuse to buy a game that's 70 dollars, especially when the games already got planned DLC for it. Like they could just put it in the base game, but want to nickel and dime people so goddamn much they'll make expensive af DLC and it's disgusting.
Like sure, Persona 3's Remake might be good, but I wouldn't pay 70 for it. Especially given that they decided to make the extra story from Persona 3 FES as paid DLC instead of having already included it in the remake. It'd be like if Nintendo made the Super Mario RPG remake, but made the end-game content DLC you had to buy. It all just feels way too greedy to me.
It also reminds me of the greedy practices that fighting games do where they make people pay money for fucking color palettes of all things, when in older games like some of the King of Fighters games where they had the ability to make your own custom palettes to use. It's not even difficult to implement such a feature. People give that shit way too much of a free pass.
And the main problem from our side is that yasuke is a real person who was documented and was known, and is nothing like what they are portraying .
And on top of that why is the Japanese game the first game that has a person not of the ethnicity that fits in the area and era lol 😂
I think it's mostly because Ubisoft have done a lot of shitty things recently that people have no good will for them anymore.
Yasuke would have been better off as an NPC that the main character, probably a believable japanese samurai, interacts with frequently since the Japanese are notoriously nationalistic and there is no way in heck a foreigner would be allowed to obtain the rank of Samurai, there would be a special title for non-nationals if they ever managed to reach that level of influence during the time period AC:Shadows is said to take place.
Also as someone that is in the middle of a Ghost of Tsushima playthrough, I see no reason to even buy AC:Shadows to get my "realistic" Samurai/Ninja fix.
Look at the ratio of the trailer uploaded on the Japanese Ubisoft channel
My main concern based on the description on their website they are making it sound like odyssey and Valhalla where you basically explore a country which to me feels like a game being to bloated with filler rather than interesting quests and stories. Dont really care about the yasuke stuff because AC has always been historical fiction and took liberties even outside the whole Templar stuff like AC3 has Charles Lee be the reason for the Boston Massacre even though he would not have been in America at the time.
Back in the days of physical releases, and stores getting limited copies - pre-ordering made sense if it was a game you knew you wanted. But, int the age of digital copies there's absolutely no point. They are trying to capitalize on FOMO, and it sucks.
It’s not Ubisoft if it’s not broken, boring, greedy, or embroiled in some dumb controversy
The whole Yasuke thing is a whole nothing burger if the game is good. Though I do wished he was like in Nioh, a side character. I tend to like characters where you have less information and I found Yasuke from Nioh to be much more cool.
How can your ever make the only black man in this region of Japan at the time back when any foreigners were derided and enslaved into an assassin... How can the character exist in society?
The whole controversy is making my brain smooth
I'm just happy that DEI in general is becoming more well known; a certain fox's who armor coming down
Also, your new model is cute
to be fair, the woke thing is a pattern.
dei is contentious right now because its being more widely noticed that it directly corralates with crap.
its the excuse when the writing is awful. its the excuse when the setting it retconned, the characters bastardised, and the continuity and internal logic of the setting are completely ignored. because the production team does not care about the ip, they are just exploiting its popularity to decieve its fanbase into buying their crap.
this keeps happening, and its getting more attention the more it happens. between the price tag and ubisofts history, their is no good faith. their is no good will among gamers to temper the reaction, so the worst is assumed because its ubisoft. why would anyone expect better of ubisoft?
with the sweet baby thing aswell, the timing is tone deaf. they didn't help by going for a hip hop styled soundtrack because that makes it feel stereotype-y.
and woke is largely defined by monodimensional and stereotypical thinking. reducing a persons entire identity to a caricature of whatever is deemed to be their primary trait.
I dunno I'm enjoying x defiant currently. I just think people are getting lost in the sauce if there entertaining past the price tag
@@Rosiebellmoo well if you enjoy it, you enjoy it. thats all that matters.
im just saying it not just an empty complaint by culture warriors, there is something there.
if you have fun with it, then it doesn't really matter if its bad for this reason or that reason. its entertainment, are you entertained? your the one paying for it.
I hope they keep disappointing: as I won't be buying anyway, the worse the game the better I feel about the decision.
True. When it's blatantly bad and they want you to invest early with no gameplay..you can be very confident you are not missing out
I have NO problem at all with a black samurai, In Assassin's Creed shadows
Not owning our own games? First i thought everyone was a bit melodramatic but now i see they were right… Ms Rosie? It was phase one: something and PHASE 3 was profit.
Historian "Caspar Speaks" has a video about this and provides references. Yasuke was a samurai!
Given that it is Ubisoft, from the connection statement I am inclined to believe they mean that you won’t need to have a connection when shutting down the game.
"And the weebs are all happy and they are all Naruto-running on the fields" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Im decently excited for the game. Like all ubisoft games im cautiously optimistic, but i dont understand people's beef with the game, especially over Yasuke. AC has never been historically accurate and its entire theme is alternate history and what happened that wasn't written in the history books. Also he's not the only protagonist, we still have a japanese ninja/assassin character. I think we shoukd wait for gameplay to make any judgements about it.
The biggest reason people are pissed at this is just as what was stated, every protagonist in AC was from the local culture of where the story was taking place. So having Yasuke as even one of the two playable characters is still a break from the norm. Usually that wouldn’t be a problem but as we all know with just a surface level of looking into it you’d find they made this change consciously for DEI reasons as the team working on this has connections to DEI groups. Another reason it’s pissing people off is because although yes this is historical fiction people are pushing to make the claim that Yasuke was indeed a samurai, when there is not enough evidence to make the claim. Just look at Wikipedia (which is a terrible source for anything) dozens of changes to make their world view seem like fact when indeed it is not. THATS why people of the “culture war” are making a fuss because people are literally trying to bend history. As for a gamers yes Ubisoft is a terrible company nothing new there and for their subscription and pre order model again terrible.
P.S The main focus should be people trying to bend history to fit their narrative not an already know fact that AAA game companies have terrible pricing models. Remember it’s easier to keep your wallet closed, but it’s a lot harder to change someone’s mind when they’ve been fed false info especially when all of major media is in goose step with each other about pumping out false info.
Yasuke has potential to be an interesting character so I’m not to bent out of shape about him (do I trust Ubisoft to write him correctly? No.)
Love the DK 64 background music 😊
There's nothing I could say or add that others haven't already said better about historical accuracy, ubisofts greed and such, so instead I'll comment on how I love the cute lil bombs in your hair!
From what I remember Ezio from AC2 was a real historical figure who was executed as a teenager along with the other males from his family. The AC2 version of Ezio escapes this fate though, and this small anchor to history allowed the writers to write a revenge story around the ahistorical Ezio. Hopefully Yasuke provides a similar anchor to build a good story around.
Also sailing ships having stamina bars makes a ton of sense, since the manoeuvrability of the ship is determined by how quickly the crew can adjust the rigging
times like theses you wished they'd go back to making great AC games like the first AC trilogy and Ezio collection, the new outro is growing on me with the cutesy cow vibes
Let's be honest: What do you all genuinely think would happen if Twitter found out Ubisoft was going to have Yasuke portrayed as an antagonist?
Haha true, honestly I'd find that kinda stupid too. It just doesn't make sense given the setting
Well I'm not buying this, too much garbage at too high of a price. I'll stick with Nioh for a portrayal of him or an equivalent. Plus with that you play as a fictional version of a man who is confirmed to have been a foreign samurai. Plus the gameplay is definitely better with a better story. I also like the whole thing with guardian spirits and the powers you get from them.
Also, people have sold the Assassins Creed series short on historical accuracy. It may be historical fiction but many things are really close to what really happened. It's honestly quite impressive but it's clearly leaning more to the side of fiction and not being balanced.
Sadly people do not care about gameplay they are still nagging about him being black. But the gameplay looked awesome. I buy games for gameplay, not race. But i never pre order
No he is not wrong. So very little is written about this guy in Japan which means that you can take the story far away and create something new and intriguing.
Expensive? It is like 80 dollars. Red dead 2 cost that when it was released.
But yes if you buy gold shadows you get 2 seasons with 2 expansions that will save you money. Because their expansions cost.
I have a problem with yasuke not because he's black but because, I think, Ubisoft pokered on an outrage about the black character to gloss over the bs price they throw at the costumers.
I do think that yasuke could make for a great story, a man came to the country as a slave to a missionary impressed Nobunaga with his strengths had to prove to his samurai-pears his worth that he isn't just a pet for Nobunaga. He could grow to like and be loyal to the man that freed him all while teaching him and the player about acient japan. On the other side the female assasin could have witness Nobunagas cruelty, been tortured by him ending him for the sake of japan. It could be an awsome story with a great conflict that could lead to a heated final fight. But let's be honest it's Ubisoft, dudes gonne collect morel travelmiles than a plane in oder to get to the missions and she has a dead familymember as motivation like everyone in a ubisoft game. And all of that for 100$+ cause f*ck you
I wouldn't hold my breath that this game gonne be good
Hey, I hope Assassin's Creed shadows is fun. And worth $70 or $80
This is definitely pandering its a shame alot of real criticism gets blocked out by actual racist and sexist.
I wont repeat what others have said but yea the game is looking like normal ubisoft garbage
I gave up on Ubi, the single game with which they can attract my attention is Splinter Cell Remake but I’m afraid they going to ruin it as well
Season passes for single player games is just completely stupid. NISA has been doing it for unlockable characters and skins, but you are effectively paying full price (50$ USD) for for a promise that they will release things in the future, they can cut it off at any point and SURPRISE Season pass 2 for another 50$. I just wont buy any of it🙄
In the case of nisa games in particular, everything that ends up on the season pass eventually ends up in the 'complete' version of the game which is both cheaper then the original game and even the season pass. So best to wait anyways.
With Ubisoft stuff... enjoy them nuking their servers when they see games no longer being viable as a source of income and people who bought into it lose everything.
Seasons pass is not new for AC. They are expansions. They arent a battle pass. So many games single player still do season passes. People are speadinmg a lot of misinformation about this game
Any time someone whines about it, just bring up Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer. Totally accurate and historical fact that no one ever complained about.
NO
They do not plan on making Shadows live service.......
They plan on making Infinity a live service game Hub and it releases the same day as Shadows
Before I go on my tangent, I was already not buying shit from Ubisoft before this trailer because their games are overpriced dogshit. AAA sucks in general. Look at Blizzard, Bethesda, and EA. Not buying shit from them either. Especially Blizzard after I was dumb enough to buy Diablo 4. At least I wasn't dumb enough to buy Fallout 76, Stanfield, or Star Wars Battlefront 2 remake.
In all fairness with the DEI pushing shit may be a valid concern Sweet Baby Inc is notorious for it and one of the games they worked on was AC Valhalla. Also the lead writer for AC Shadows has ties to SBI. So this probably is just another example of DEI bullshit but because it's Ubisoft and a modern Assassin's Creed game, it probably would still be overpriced dogshit without the DEI. If they're focusing on jacking up the price with minimum effort and DEI shit instead of making a good game, the game will suck. The money spent on SBI could've went into making the game good. Plus I think there was an older draft where there was a Japanese main male character instead of Yasuke that they scrapped. And if they wanted to the route of a mostly unknown historical figure, why not Yagyu Jubei? Historically, we know fuck all about him but he's probably one if not the most heavily romanticized samurai of sengoku period.
Your new model looks awesome!!!
17:10 There kind of is a game with high-flying Samurai and Attack on Titan style combat, Check out Wild Hearts. Or to a lesser extent, Monster Hunter Rise.
Lesser extent? LESSER?!
@@caliberkat Comparing the two, you fly quite a bit less in MH Rise compared to Wild Hearts. Not that MH is a lesser game.
@JeffHikari oh ok, I misinterpreted it on my end
Asscreed has been mid since Black Flag, and bad since it decided to be a watered down RPG. But then all of their games seem to be mid and watered down RPGs now.
You just pick between guns or swords for how you want to explore their watered down RPGs.
Shadows IS woke, sweet baby drizzled all over it
Ima be real, I Don't really care about the characters they used (although it's more the reason why they probably did it, and many other "samurai's" they could have portraid)
I just want the game to be good, have goofy funny political stuff used in satire, not trying to please people who don't even play the game and forcing it down others throats.
Just please be a good game, last decent one was Odyssey.
Plus I'm only going to get it if it's on sale months after the launch where I can tell with gamplay if it's worth it. But with Ubisofts track record of late I might not even bother with their games anymore.
Remember…if you want a good Assassins Creed game set in Japan….just get Ghost of Tsushima and go ghost only.
(Sorry Xbox…this does not apply to you and there’s no solution)
OH! Rosie evolved!!!
Holy sh!t I agree with a V-Tuber..
(Sorry, first video I've watched of you)
In Assassin's Creed Syndicate's main DLC called..
Jack the Ripper.
You play as the titular historical figure at most 3 - 4 times, but this was the only time you get to play as a historical figure.
(I don't personally think it counts because you playing as a "mythical" who hasn't been physically identified).
The problem I have with Assassin's Creed Shadow..
As the compromise I was willing to play as a fictional African samurai character who meets Yasuke, not the historical figure Yasuke.
Ubisoft said the reason why they picked Yasuke as a playable character...
So the audience can view this historical Japan through "non-Japanese" eyes.
(Well then why didn't you make a fictional African samurai character to play as or why didn't you make us play as a real historical black Viking named Geirmund Hjørson, called Heljarskinn when it comes to AC Valhalla)?
Soucre: Wikipedia
If the game was only 20 dollars a lot less people would be upset
Hmmmm..........people get upset for some dumb stuff.
No one is really 'upset' other than wokies, most people are critiqing terrible expensive products made by companies influenced by clowns that try to ruin art to force diversity and inclusion into games.
@@WookieWarriorz Unfortunately some people are upset. You (I assume you are a person of color) are accepting of discrimination and bigotry. You (once again assuming you are a part of a minority group) seem to be using 'certain terms' as 'insults' that are not. You have your opinion and point of view that is shared by others.
Honestly, I stopped caring because Ubisoft is 100% pandering for dem DEI points.
Also, Naoe is the fictional daughter of Fujibayashi Nagato but historically, Nagato only had a son so the question now is, why is Yasuke playable and not the son? Why removed a real historical person and replace him with a fictional female character?
I think you and I know the answer to that question. To pander and appear progressive, when in reality I think they're all secretly racists themselves against Asian people. I've seen a good number of people that claim to be on the right side of history being disgustingly racist towards Asians.
I am not upset with this game. I will buy this game if the gameplay is good. I will play the Japanese woman if I can. Choose.
My knowledge about feudal japan is not great at all. I am more of a europe medieval guy that have a great knowledge about medieval times, so i won't be able to judge AC shadows.
I just read something about a black samurai. Maybe that samurai is nott a samurai?
That is my knowledge about this.
I will not read up on it so i can complain, so i stay more neutral in this matter. If i have bad knowledge about this, i should shut up if i knew everything about feudal japan, i would probably complan.
So please act man and others do not generalize.
If the game outlaws is good. I will buy that one 2
People hate to much and ubisoft have been a target since years back by the community, juat bcause it is ubisoft. Avatar game was ok. I played it. It was ok received by those who played it.
So i have stopped watching hyypnotize and others. Because, if i would watch it, i would never be able yo play a game again.
We all know why they chose a black main character. Its not because he was a historical figure.
@chaucerianfraud6767 Oh do tell. I’m sure you think it’s a political statement anytime there’s a black character. SMH!
@@FrshJurassicPrnceYA It is now. Yes. Used to not be the case. But surely it is now. Please pretend its not the case.
@@chaucerianfraud6767 It's not tho. Only a very closed minded or racist individual would think like that.
@@FrshJurassicPrnceYA You are lying.
Black flag Edward is Welsh not in whales
They ruined their own lore. Hanzo Hattori...an actual historical figure, like Yasuke, was active in Japan during this time period going after a Sword of Eden. They could have used him. That was my first red flag...then I saw the pricing. No thank you Ubisoft. Ill go back to playing the Ezio collection and Black Flag...you know...the pirate game you didnt fuck up...when you actually cared about games.
Also kinda insulting to turn a terrible story of black slaves being mistreated into a fake samurai black guy story. Feels like diluting the real horrors of history.
Some peopel forget these are products you pay good money for haha 😂😂 actualy corporate defending clowns 😂😂
You’re cool and funny. Keep up the great work.
Best cow has best take hate that evil hideous pirate game
6:00 I think this point he is making is just wrong. No, ppl aren't mad because the game designed is tired. Ppl are definitely bored and over it, but that doesn't make ppl mad. Ppl don't go out of their way to hate on a franchise they are just bored of.
The two core reasons are the pricings and the protagonist.
Nice model 👍.
I get more fun and worth by buying dozen of adult games on sales than this sh*t or monster hunter full pack on sale for less or 2-3 most popular games of 2023-2024 for that money
I hate woke, I also hate this fall out TV show.. But I don't hate the fall out TV show because it's woke... I hate it because it fucked up the lore even worse than bethesda did.
Yup and they'll call us racist for not liking shit. They all do the oh you like waffles more than pancakes at breakfast time, WTF WHY DO YOU HATE PANCAKES YOU BIGOT thing 😂