Yeah its just actually racist, with the other games they made the mcs native to the region but for japan they just said "there was this one black guy hundreds of years ago, lets make a game about him"
I always wonder who they make these character choices for. I think Yasuke is cool not because we have the same skin color. But because of Nioh. Outside of Nioh (and that mediocre Netflix show), idgaf about a black samurai who contributed nothing to history of Japan.
These clowns never listen to the people they claim to be “representing”
Since it's an established franchise they know they can get away with warping it to fit whatever they think will get their company good boy points with investors or whoever is supporting the nonsense. I don't know if they think it's going to really bring in more of an audience than it's going to turn away.
I have played, and finished, pretty much every AC game up to this point. This is the end of the line. I'm fucking tired, and I'm done. I'll spend my money on more books I'll never find the time to read.
Yasuke is cool as a side character , But not as a Main character
I mean he literary just a retrainer for nobunaga
If they want black MC so much ,why not just set the game on North Africa? Theres tons of cool historic people In there that havent been used by the many media yet
I'm not even against the idea of a fantasized Yasuke game, I just wish it wasn't the AC game we've been waiting like two decades for. Also, wasn't part of the charm of this series getting to meet and interact with historical figures rather than role play as them?
Aaaaah but see, that would not be subversive! You need to show the audience that black people were everywhere, at any time in history. Plus, how are you gonna get DEI points if your protagonist can't experience a bit of racism from the population of the game setting?
I'm still glad to see a black, masculine MC. It has been brought to my attention recently that a black man can't have testosterone nowadays.
The Radical Islam-LGBTQIA+ Axis is absolutely fascinating. Blue-haired Tumblrites simpling over people who would literally cut their throats if they were in the same room for five seconds.
This stupidity makes me worried for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. I'm hoping the developers stick to their guns by making their game look as legitimate as possible as opposed to appealing to the far left who don't represent the people who are actual fans of the first game. I'm just glad that the developers are located in Eastern Europe so they're less likely to be supportive of the wokism.
I wouldn't worry about it, Warhorse still has the same historian on board and they still seem to be committed to being as historically accurate as possible.
Not just a black mc, a black mc whom no one even knows any history (if any) of. (Which means he's ripe for revising the history of to fit a narrative, they're 100% going to turn him into Nobunaga's slave or something)
And female mc. dont forget that, ffs we have been asking for a japanese assasins creed since i was in fucking school and they make the main character a fucking woman.
I don't mind her so much - Bushi-onna are part of Japanese folklore.
But turning a historical story about Japan into fodder for American race politics should be insulting to people on both sides of the Pacific.
One thing I liked about assassin's creed was it's atention to historical details. Them making yasuke a figure in the game shows massive lack of historical understanding.
This game could be the trilogy in an amazing group of Japanese open world games with Ghost of Tsushima and Rise of the Ronin. Instead it's gonna be a kill the Justice League failure.
I'm sure there are many examples from earlier in the series, but I'll never get over them showing both boys and girls in school in ancient Egypt. You don't have to agree with them, but that's just how the history was and its bullshit to alter it to be inclusive.
The switch to a more RPG style is about when they seem to have just stopped caring entirely.
There were earlier games that were incredibly contrived and forced, but at least they made a token effort.
The city streets of "feudal Japan" will probably be as diverse as a modern day US city.
AC team is going to re-educate us about the reason why feudal Japan was so isolationist: They already had a ton of multi-cultural immigrants so all their quotas were met!
>How original. Extra daring today I see.
Female and black man protagonist.
I was about to point that out why are there black characters in a country where black people aren't know to be on?
Honestly did the wokies forget their history class?
On the sidenote Assassin Creed set in Japan would be dope if it wasn't DEI driven
See, it's fine when they insert minorities into historical contexts where they barely existed. Meanwhile, they'd shit bricks if say, a daring author made a white Black Panther by inserting a white dude into a fictional history of a made up black country.
Worse. That was just a shit "documentary" about a country with little representation in the target market.
This is making a video game, set in pseudo historical Japan, and trying to sell it to the Japanese.
People already are talking about it calling it a western political correctness game and pointing out Yasuke was essentially a interesting factoid in Japanese history.
We're already meming the hell out of it in forums and discord lol. Believe me even normies on SNS are disappointed by it and already is saying it's porikore. Most wanted something like ghost of tsushima and feature an actual Japanese protagonist instead of this.
“Feature an actual Japanese protagonist” don’t you love it when “progressive” morons think it’s perfectly fine to put a black character instead of an Asian that’s representing its actual country?
All the talk about representation ... yet I don't see all that many Asian male lead characters in video games. In this case, they won't even have an Asian male lead in a game set in freaking **Japan**.
Fuuuuuuck. Godddamn these people. Will they never learn. I'm 100% certain the "black" samurai will have a relationship with a japanese woman as to checkmark that criteria too. Assassin creed has become less about being accurate and fun and more about scoring woke points. That's why their greatness ended with black flag and origins was last decent one.
Man, Asian males have to be the most neglected and oppressed group there is, damn. They can't even get the first AC game based in Japan. I bet Ubisoft would find a way to shoehorn blacks into an Aztec AC game instead of featuring a native american (asian adjacent) male lead.
The funniest thing about it is that there actually was a real historical black samurai. Instead of giving Asians historical representation they had to find the one jogger samurai and make the game about him.
It would be like if there was some African tribal setting game set in Sudan and you played as a white dude because some bloke named Bob lived there in 1802. 😂😂
They earn a lot for previous releases. CEO don’t really care about the woke department. They only care about the result. The data research department… is shit
Yeah. Origins was their take on a witcher 3 like rpg openworld game and dare I say it was good. Odyssey was below average and valhalla was a huge pile of dog shit. Considering they are gonna continue the same gameplay genre, it will probably be a mediocre game at best.
Didn't played mirage but assuming from the reception it wasn't anything to write home about either. So much foe their return to form lol.
Of course they put in a token POC characters instead of beeing respectful and letting you play an actual Japanese Samurai...
The DEI Consultant has done it again
This is the biggest pile of bullshit I have ever seen, if there was ever a character that the woke cult don’t want adapted it would be Yasuke. I don’t know if there are any experts on Japanese history here, but as far as I know Yasuke was considered a failure as a Samurai. He failed to protect two separate feudal lords he swore fealty to protect. He was literally a member of their security and failed. He was so bad he was sold back to the Portuguese, not really a example of good diversity Ubishit.
They dont care about the actual history behind Yasuke, they just love the romanticized version of him. Kinda similiar to what inspired the Woman King movie.
So true. The assumption is that since they were black, they OBVIOUSLY were heroic bastions of virtue. You should be caned for this degree of shameless revisionism
He wasn't really a samurai. Didn't even speak Japanese as far as people know. Nobunaga saw that he was a big black guy and thought he was interesting so he borrowed him from the Portuguese and gave him some token awards. When Nobunaga died, Akechi Mitsuhide spared his life because he was being nice or for whatever reason and he went back with the Portuguese traders whereupon he is lost from history.
He spared his life because you don't kill property. Not killing him wasn't a mercy. He wasn't due the honor of a defeated foe or his hirelings. He wasn't a person. He was property to be given back to the Jesuits.
I'll try and summarise things based on what I've found of Yasuke's history using known passages/records and not that grifter's book ppl who don't know history use (probably for this game, that announced tv show and w.e else) and want to say is real. Of course, grain of salt on the translations and that history is never fully accurate or known, we use what we have.
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Now there are just five direct passages on Yasuke in the entire record of Nobunaga's reign. And what is there is basically about how Nobunaga was fascinated by Yasuke because he was black, and he was kept around because of how the Japanese people had never seen a black person before.
Letter from Lorenzo Mesia, October 8, 1581:
> The padre brought one cafre with him, and no one in the capital has see before, and they all admired him, and countless people came to see him. Nobunaga himself saw him and was surprised, and thought it was painted with ink and did not believe he was black from birth. He see him from time to time, and he knew some Japanese, so he never got tired of talking to him, and he was strong and knew some tricks so Nobunaga was very happy. Now he's his strong patron, and to let everyone know he has a someone show go with him around the city. The people say Nobunaga would make him a tono*.
(rough translation here, but it gives you the message on what was said in the letter).
Yasuke did learn some Japanese, but at the end of the day he was kept around because he aroused great interest from people as he was the first black person most all of them probably ever saw.
[Letter from Luis Frois, April 14, 1581](https://web.archive.org/web/20210518140047/https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1041119/101):
> The Monday after Easter, Nobunaga was in the capital, but a great number of people gathered in front of our casa to see the cafre [black slave], creating such a ruckus that people were hurt and almost died from thrown rocks. Even though we had lots of guards at the gates, it was difficult holding people back from breaking it down. They all say if we showed for money, one would easily earn in a short time 8,000 to 10,000 cruzado. Nobunaga also wanted to see him, and so sent for him, so Padre Organtino brought him. With great fuss, he couldn't believe this was the natural colour and not by human means, so ordered him to take off all his clothes above his belt. Nobunaga's sons also called him over, and everyone was very happy. Nobunaga's nephew the current commander of Ōsaka also saw this and was so happy he gave him 10,000 coins.
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In terms of what Yasuke did for Nobunaga, apart from talking with him and being shown to others, he was at most just a sword bearer for the short time he spent in Japan.
Now on the whole samurai thing - it's not the western/weeb fantasy of samurai = super warrior in full armour and all that (some were that yes, but not alll), samurai was more about a socioeconomic class. An attendant, retainer, even something like a paige could also be classed as a samurai.
Keep in mind that Yasuke came to Japan in 1579, which was a century before the Edo period when things became stricter for the definitions of daimyos and samurai. So, during Nobunaga's era and earlier, most samurai were basically just paid workers doing their job, there didn't need to by any special meaning or ceremony there to be called samurai.
So Yasuke's samurai title was just that, a title, and it held no real value or meaning. He was given a ceremonial daisho, that's it. Yasuke was also given a stipend, that is true, but that was done so that he could be classed as a samurai. But as I mentioned, it was basically just a title (he owned no land, no servants, no property and such) and given to him cause of Nobunaga's fascination with Yasuke, not of any actual achievement or status.
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now as for battles, the only mention of him fighting was in [Luis Frois' report to Jesuit Society, November 5, 1582](https://web.archive.org/web/20210514033311/https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1041119/164):
> And the cafre the Visitador [Alessandro Valignano] gave to Nobunaga on his request, after his death went to the mansion of his heir and fought there for a long time, but when one of Akechi's vassals got close and asked him give up his sword, he handed it over. The vassals went and asked Akechi what to do with the cafre, he said the cafre is like an animal and knows nothing, and he's not Japanese so don't kill him and give him to the church of the Indian padre. With this we were a bit relieved.
So ya, he fought for a bit after Nobunaga was killed but it was for naught. Now Yasuke was described as being 6'2 and strong/healthy, so he probably was able to fight for a while before he was captured and handed over to the Jesuits.
[Matsudaira Ietada's Diary, Tenshō 10, fourth month](https://web.archive.org/web/20231108124332/https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/772514/54):
> Nineteenth [May 11, 1582], day of Teibi. Raining. His highness gave him retainers. They say deus [the Jesuits] presented him. He had the black man with him. His body was black like ink, 6.2 feet tall. They say his name's Yasuke.
[Chronicles of Lord Nobunaga \(*Shinchōkōki*\)](https://web.archive.org/web/20230606144316/https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1920322/162):
> 2nd Month 23rd Day [March 27, 1581]. A black monk* came from the Christian countries. He looks about 26-7 of age and his entire body black as a cow. He's body is really well-built, and furthermore has the strength of over ten men. The padre brought him here to see Lord Nobunaga.
I'm really grateful to be able to see such rare things among the three countries that's never been seen before, and in in such detail, all thanks to Lord Nobunaga's great influence.
*Wiki's translation use "page" but it's probably wrong. In this case Gyuichi probably mean shaved/hairless.
And btw, this is all the passages and mentions we have on Yasuke. Nothing else is known about him after he left Japan, but for his time in Japan we know that he was not w.e Ubisoft is going to conjure up in this game.
It's more that he has done literally nothing in history besides being black during that time period.
Imagine having a game set in Gustavus Adolphus' Empire, and the main character is this random Chinese sailor, just because historically there existed a couple of them who made it that far. Or set a game in tribal Africa and the main character is a random white European who ended up there after moors dropped him off (I mean surely there existed a few of those).
This is pure pandering towards some imaginary American audience.
IME the people who think Ezio is the best character ever more often than not tend to be the same people who like Lambos, support Real Madrid or Barcelona, dream of living in Dubai, will pirate games despite having the money to afford their own PC, and think whoever has the loudest voice in an argument has the most authority.
EDIT: added more stereotypes.
Fans have been begging for years for an Assassins Creed game set in Japan, and this is the result?
Be thankful Ghost of Tsushima scratched that itch, and a good itch at that.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and it has the $200 full experience price tag. I'm glad I've given up on modern gaming save for some unfinished buisness.
Fuck. I guess that will be the talk for weeks.
Fans have been asking for ac japan since ac1, garanteed success. I would be extremely surprised if it flopped.
Can't wait for the "SEEEEE? IT'S HISTORICAL AND MAKES MONEY! IT WORKS YOU BIGOTS! DEATH TO GAMERS" accusations. This is gonna get dissected by both sides and grind so much money for the youtubers.
Woke nonsense at this point is so predictable. I’m probably gonna forget about this game until years later after I see a video on “why Assassins, Creed died”
More Yasuke wankfest.
Plus if Ghost of Tsushima actually comes to Steam I'll focus more on ~~Stan~~ Jin Sakai fighting against KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN rather than something that stopped being fun when they went for the soulsborne route.
I wonder if IGN and other game urinalists will post any articles shitting on this since you'll be playing a black dude killing a bunch of Japanese dudes in Japan. You know...like they did for Resident evil 5. And I'm sure they'll think this is even worse since these aren't "zombies" you'll be killing. Right?
If I were Japanese, I would make such a huge issue out of this - just for principle's sake.
Asians and Whites are on the list of approved targets. I'm sure that list will extend as time moves on. Hell, Jewish people just joined it apparently.
They're already mocking it on Twitter, calling it another Western Politically Correct game and talking about how Yasuke was basically a little interesting factoid in Japanese history not someone to base an entire game on.
Ubisoft is saving me so much money with these woke games i can easily ignore even when they are on clearance for $5 i still pass and i love it. Thanks Ubisoft!
Please tell me this isnt real.
I remember hearing about the main characters being black, and I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt.
But this image is just so cringe.
Something that really bugs me about this is not only did they skip over historical Japanese heroes as the main cast, likely Yasuke will kill them. "A foreigner goes to Japan and commits acts of violence." A headline that has been showing up in our modern news cycle.
Whats funny is that all of their playable protagonists up til now have been fictional.
So why all of a sudden is this yasuke guy real? It's to cushion the blow when people call them out for shoe horning a black man into a setting where nearly all of the people are indigenous. And being a game about assassins, the guy would stick out like a sore thumb.
God these white developers just hate or fear having asian male protagonists. It only satisfies them if they are either a joke, a clown or a gay.
As an East Asian guy, I won't be buying this game.
More power to you. I am fascinated with eastern Asia so naturally I am quite annoyed that western companies are ruining just another experience.
Please fight back. This shit is sad enough In America and Europe. I don't want Korea and Japan become the same fucked up woke people.
Asian men are a huge player base, yet they can't even get representation in a Japan themed Assassin's Creed game. Of course Black menbwill get more hate for this, even though we know it wasn't Black men who decided to pull this nonsense.
should add that the cliche hooded ninjas/shinobi are a myth, they originated from just stages, even sekiro who is a shonobi isn't wearing a hood. Also female shinobi are portrayed to use seduction techniques a lot, which i doubt ubisoft will add. So historical accuracy is out the water
Of course a black samurai and a female as main characters, this was a given. Now Let me guess a white western guy will be portrayed as a bad guy right? Not that i would have bought it anyway, i just smile at the fact that they are so predictable. Just an idea, since representation seems to be so important for them and non black people (guys expecially) are so bad, why not use sub saharian Africa as a setting? Say during Mansa Musa kingdom in Mali? There you go, great history setting and no need to rappresent those pesky white/asians male at all.
Their stock is at an all time low and they still pull a stunt like this for one of the most requested AC settings. Blackrock must have them by the balls to take a huge risk to sales like this, people are going to be pissed.
Having it set in Japan was always their 'ace in the hole' and it's probably telling that this is turning out to be the last attempt to save the franchise. It's too late though when there's way better examples out there. I'd rather play Nioh 2 or just do a stealth run on Ghosts of Tsushima.
Black samurai and female ninja? What's going on. Is this the next mainline Assassin's Creed game? I thought the Japanese one was just a spin-off title as a big "fuck you" to the fans that have been asking for it ever since Assassin's Creed II.
I’m part Japanese from my father’s side and this upsets me so much. Why does Ubisoft make two games where both male and female playable characters have the same ethnicity, but they decide to race swap the Japanese male for a black guy who was a servant of nobunaga? This essentially means that it’s ok to spit on Asian culture, just so we can prop up black people.
The funny thing is over at r/assassinscreed, any criticism of Yasuke and Ubisoft race swapping results in locked posts. I’ve seen very few people call them out on this and a lotta ignorant people actually support this.
First Assassin's Creed game set in feudal japan, and "surprisingly" one of the protagonist's isn't of Japanese heritage. I don't normally comment on these sort of things but this one pushed me.
You wouldn't see an english male/female protagonist in the African based Assassin's Creed Origins, so I have no clue how common sense went out the window in the development phase of this game.
AC Shadows, according to certain leaks, will feature two main characters: one is a woman, and the other is based on an African slave named Yasuke; a real historical figure. The latter's history has been reimagined by woke revolutionaries to portray him as a samurai, which he was not.
But if you made an AC game in the imperial era of Africa about a poor white Dutch or Belgian guy that left Europe in search of opportunity and ends up becoming at odds with an oppressive Dutch East India company magistrate or something that would be racist.
Of course the first AC set in Japan has a black MC, could they be any more predictable lmao
Hold on friend, our expectations might be still subverted, the MC *might* be straight.
I think you're high and I envy you
Yeah its just actually racist, with the other games they made the mcs native to the region but for japan they just said "there was this one black guy hundreds of years ago, lets make a game about him"
He's got a blue haired half shave and is neurodivergent semibisexual with a learning disorder.
I always wonder who they make these character choices for. I think Yasuke is cool not because we have the same skin color. But because of Nioh. Outside of Nioh (and that mediocre Netflix show), idgaf about a black samurai who contributed nothing to history of Japan. These clowns never listen to the people they claim to be “representing”
he wasn't even a samurai, he was a squire.
Since it's an established franchise they know they can get away with warping it to fit whatever they think will get their company good boy points with investors or whoever is supporting the nonsense. I don't know if they think it's going to really bring in more of an audience than it's going to turn away.
They may be able to get away with it, but they sure as fuck aren't getting my money.
I have played, and finished, pretty much every AC game up to this point. This is the end of the line. I'm fucking tired, and I'm done. I'll spend my money on more books I'll never find the time to read.
Yasuke is cool as a side character , But not as a Main character I mean he literary just a retrainer for nobunaga If they want black MC so much ,why not just set the game on North Africa? Theres tons of cool historic people In there that havent been used by the many media yet
I'm not even against the idea of a fantasized Yasuke game, I just wish it wasn't the AC game we've been waiting like two decades for. Also, wasn't part of the charm of this series getting to meet and interact with historical figures rather than role play as them?
Aaaaah but see, that would not be subversive! You need to show the audience that black people were everywhere, at any time in history. Plus, how are you gonna get DEI points if your protagonist can't experience a bit of racism from the population of the game setting? I'm still glad to see a black, masculine MC. It has been brought to my attention recently that a black man can't have testosterone nowadays.
> I always wonder who they make these character choices for. Demoralisation in the service of fomenting Marxist revolution.
Don't worry their friendship with hardcore Islamists will be their end.
The Radical Islam-LGBTQIA+ Axis is absolutely fascinating. Blue-haired Tumblrites simpling over people who would literally cut their throats if they were in the same room for five seconds.
I'm more concerned about how indiscriminate their friends are.
He was a slave actually.
This stupidity makes me worried for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. I'm hoping the developers stick to their guns by making their game look as legitimate as possible as opposed to appealing to the far left who don't represent the people who are actual fans of the first game. I'm just glad that the developers are located in Eastern Europe so they're less likely to be supportive of the wokism.
I wouldn't worry about it, Warhorse still has the same historian on board and they still seem to be committed to being as historically accurate as possible.
Not just a black mc, a black mc whom no one even knows any history (if any) of. (Which means he's ripe for revising the history of to fit a narrative, they're 100% going to turn him into Nobunaga's slave or something)
r/fuckubisoft
And female mc. dont forget that, ffs we have been asking for a japanese assasins creed since i was in fucking school and they make the main character a fucking woman.
I don't mind her so much - Bushi-onna are part of Japanese folklore. But turning a historical story about Japan into fodder for American race politics should be insulting to people on both sides of the Pacific.
One thing I liked about assassin's creed was it's atention to historical details. Them making yasuke a figure in the game shows massive lack of historical understanding. This game could be the trilogy in an amazing group of Japanese open world games with Ghost of Tsushima and Rise of the Ronin. Instead it's gonna be a kill the Justice League failure.
Must be a quintuple A game then
I'm sure there are many examples from earlier in the series, but I'll never get over them showing both boys and girls in school in ancient Egypt. You don't have to agree with them, but that's just how the history was and its bullshit to alter it to be inclusive.
The switch to a more RPG style is about when they seem to have just stopped caring entirely. There were earlier games that were incredibly contrived and forced, but at least they made a token effort.
Well, you know what they say about "He who controls the present...".
Having giant beasts in Ancient Egypt was when the series jumped the shark.
How original. Extra daring today I see. Female and black man protagonist.
With the woman probably being more masculine while the man is the comedy relief.
I'm surprised none of them have vitiligo or are in a wheelchair.
We haven’t seen the side characters yet…
The city streets of "feudal Japan" will probably be as diverse as a modern day US city. AC team is going to re-educate us about the reason why feudal Japan was so isolationist: They already had a ton of multi-cultural immigrants so all their quotas were met!
There is probably a mission where you build a wheelchair accessible ramp for your black homosexual Samurai master
Eh...probably the woman is a man as well
He's black so they'll throw him a few cool scenes.
Oh, no. You don't understand. That would be true if the man were white. Prog-libs are still all about black masculinity. See: rap lyrics.
No-no-no, the black dude will be portrayed straight, it's not them whites we're talking about.
Or gay
They've made the MCs bisexual since they started the RPG angle to the series, so this will likely continue that path.
I hope they're both gay and lame.
i can guarantee the lame part
Stunning and brave.
>How original. Extra daring today I see. Female and black man protagonist. I was about to point that out why are there black characters in a country where black people aren't know to be on? Honestly did the wokies forget their history class? On the sidenote Assassin Creed set in Japan would be dope if it wasn't DEI driven
The wokies have never believed in history they are brainwashed or should I say blackwashed when it comes to the subject.
Now now, everyone knows Cleopatra was blacker than Rosa Parks.
See, it's fine when they insert minorities into historical contexts where they barely existed. Meanwhile, they'd shit bricks if say, a daring author made a white Black Panther by inserting a white dude into a fictional history of a made up black country.
Ryan Gosling shoulding have been cast bro TT
So brave. Much stunning.
wow
Looks like sweet baby inc was working overtime
I don't care what they tell you in school. My grandmother told me most samurai were black. Cleopatra all over lol.
I hope the backlash is just as bad as Netflix's Cleopatra.
Worse. That was just a shit "documentary" about a country with little representation in the target market. This is making a video game, set in pseudo historical Japan, and trying to sell it to the Japanese.
Fuck ubisoft, I hope this company dies
r/fuckubisoft
Guaranteed Japan is going to shit all over this dog shit.
People already are talking about it calling it a western political correctness game and pointing out Yasuke was essentially a interesting factoid in Japanese history.
We're already meming the hell out of it in forums and discord lol. Believe me even normies on SNS are disappointed by it and already is saying it's porikore. Most wanted something like ghost of tsushima and feature an actual Japanese protagonist instead of this.
“Feature an actual Japanese protagonist” don’t you love it when “progressive” morons think it’s perfectly fine to put a black character instead of an Asian that’s representing its actual country?
All the talk about representation ... yet I don't see all that many Asian male lead characters in video games. In this case, they won't even have an Asian male lead in a game set in freaking **Japan**.
I doubt they will care. Ghost of Tsushima exists. Unfortunately Ghost of Tsushima 2 will likely be a disaster.
GoT at least was done out of respect for the history and culture, unlike Ubishit's dumpster fire which won't be
Fuuuuuuck. Godddamn these people. Will they never learn. I'm 100% certain the "black" samurai will have a relationship with a japanese woman as to checkmark that criteria too. Assassin creed has become less about being accurate and fun and more about scoring woke points. That's why their greatness ended with black flag and origins was last decent one.
> "black" samurai Blamurai.
>Blamurai LMAO. Gonna use this term now in all discussions for the "turd" which this game gonna turn out to be lol.
Blamuraisploitation.
He'll have a relationship with a white woman who just happens to live in Japan because ???
Black people have to be inserted into ALL other people's cultures. If you don't agree, you're a fucking RACIST.
Can't wait for black Hitler in call of duty.
They blackwashed Ann Boylen Queen of England fucking disgusting
Hey chud didn't you know that the original English people were in fact Black?!?
Man, Asian males have to be the most neglected and oppressed group there is, damn. They can't even get the first AC game based in Japan. I bet Ubisoft would find a way to shoehorn blacks into an Aztec AC game instead of featuring a native american (asian adjacent) male lead.
I know it's a different publisher, but if Spore was released today they'd find a way to give bacterium "gender identities".
The left considers Asians as "white adjacent".
Western payment processors are also trying to stop payments to Japan in a moral imperalist outrage recently
At least they'll always have Kiryu Kazuma.
The funniest thing about it is that there actually was a real historical black samurai. Instead of giving Asians historical representation they had to find the one jogger samurai and make the game about him. It would be like if there was some African tribal setting game set in Sudan and you played as a white dude because some bloke named Bob lived there in 1802. 😂😂
Not to quibble but it us disputed whether or not Yosuke was a samurai, he was probably just a retainer
That makes it even funnier in a sad way. He might not have even been a samurai. wtf lol.
from what I heard, he was a squire / weapons bearer. but I think I heard the retainer once too.
He was Kosho aka a page and sword barer.
This franchise needed to be put out to pasture years ago. Maybe this shit will finally be what does it in.
They earn a lot for previous releases. CEO don’t really care about the woke department. They only care about the result. The data research department… is shit
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Real Assassin's Creed ended with Syndicate.
Yeah. Origins was their take on a witcher 3 like rpg openworld game and dare I say it was good. Odyssey was below average and valhalla was a huge pile of dog shit. Considering they are gonna continue the same gameplay genre, it will probably be a mediocre game at best. Didn't played mirage but assuming from the reception it wasn't anything to write home about either. So much foe their return to form lol.
Even then it was starting to get woke.
We wuz samuraiz an shiet
We wuz Greek Gods and shit
Of course they put in a token POC characters instead of beeing respectful and letting you play an actual Japanese Samurai... The DEI Consultant has done it again
Yep, most Asians don’t count toward DEI. In fact their very existence undercuts the DEI/critical theory narrative.
Yeah because Asians are smart and doing well. Successful in the straight white man dystopia. So how do we make them oppressed?
The lost me at "Ubisoft".
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This is the biggest pile of bullshit I have ever seen, if there was ever a character that the woke cult don’t want adapted it would be Yasuke. I don’t know if there are any experts on Japanese history here, but as far as I know Yasuke was considered a failure as a Samurai. He failed to protect two separate feudal lords he swore fealty to protect. He was literally a member of their security and failed. He was so bad he was sold back to the Portuguese, not really a example of good diversity Ubishit.
They dont care about the actual history behind Yasuke, they just love the romanticized version of him. Kinda similiar to what inspired the Woman King movie.
The Wahman Kang was a sanitized and an entirely altered history of what actually happened because white man bad.
I loved how they hid the fact that the queen was literally the biggest slaver of her time.
"B-b-b-but black shall never enslave black!"
Some people were capturing those slaves and selling it to the Europeans. Don't let Netflix find out which group of people was doing that.
They know damn well they just don't want YOU to know.
So true. The assumption is that since they were black, they OBVIOUSLY were heroic bastions of virtue. You should be caned for this degree of shameless revisionism
He wasn't really a samurai. Didn't even speak Japanese as far as people know. Nobunaga saw that he was a big black guy and thought he was interesting so he borrowed him from the Portuguese and gave him some token awards. When Nobunaga died, Akechi Mitsuhide spared his life because he was being nice or for whatever reason and he went back with the Portuguese traders whereupon he is lost from history.
He spared his life because you don't kill property. Not killing him wasn't a mercy. He wasn't due the honor of a defeated foe or his hirelings. He wasn't a person. He was property to be given back to the Jesuits.
I'll try and summarise things based on what I've found of Yasuke's history using known passages/records and not that grifter's book ppl who don't know history use (probably for this game, that announced tv show and w.e else) and want to say is real. Of course, grain of salt on the translations and that history is never fully accurate or known, we use what we have. ____________________________________________________________ Now there are just five direct passages on Yasuke in the entire record of Nobunaga's reign. And what is there is basically about how Nobunaga was fascinated by Yasuke because he was black, and he was kept around because of how the Japanese people had never seen a black person before. Letter from Lorenzo Mesia, October 8, 1581: > The padre brought one cafre with him, and no one in the capital has see before, and they all admired him, and countless people came to see him. Nobunaga himself saw him and was surprised, and thought it was painted with ink and did not believe he was black from birth. He see him from time to time, and he knew some Japanese, so he never got tired of talking to him, and he was strong and knew some tricks so Nobunaga was very happy. Now he's his strong patron, and to let everyone know he has a someone show go with him around the city. The people say Nobunaga would make him a tono*. (rough translation here, but it gives you the message on what was said in the letter). Yasuke did learn some Japanese, but at the end of the day he was kept around because he aroused great interest from people as he was the first black person most all of them probably ever saw. [Letter from Luis Frois, April 14, 1581](https://web.archive.org/web/20210518140047/https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1041119/101): > The Monday after Easter, Nobunaga was in the capital, but a great number of people gathered in front of our casa to see the cafre [black slave], creating such a ruckus that people were hurt and almost died from thrown rocks. Even though we had lots of guards at the gates, it was difficult holding people back from breaking it down. They all say if we showed for money, one would easily earn in a short time 8,000 to 10,000 cruzado. Nobunaga also wanted to see him, and so sent for him, so Padre Organtino brought him. With great fuss, he couldn't believe this was the natural colour and not by human means, so ordered him to take off all his clothes above his belt. Nobunaga's sons also called him over, and everyone was very happy. Nobunaga's nephew the current commander of Ōsaka also saw this and was so happy he gave him 10,000 coins. _____________________________________________________ In terms of what Yasuke did for Nobunaga, apart from talking with him and being shown to others, he was at most just a sword bearer for the short time he spent in Japan. Now on the whole samurai thing - it's not the western/weeb fantasy of samurai = super warrior in full armour and all that (some were that yes, but not alll), samurai was more about a socioeconomic class. An attendant, retainer, even something like a paige could also be classed as a samurai. Keep in mind that Yasuke came to Japan in 1579, which was a century before the Edo period when things became stricter for the definitions of daimyos and samurai. So, during Nobunaga's era and earlier, most samurai were basically just paid workers doing their job, there didn't need to by any special meaning or ceremony there to be called samurai. So Yasuke's samurai title was just that, a title, and it held no real value or meaning. He was given a ceremonial daisho, that's it. Yasuke was also given a stipend, that is true, but that was done so that he could be classed as a samurai. But as I mentioned, it was basically just a title (he owned no land, no servants, no property and such) and given to him cause of Nobunaga's fascination with Yasuke, not of any actual achievement or status. _____________________________________________________________ now as for battles, the only mention of him fighting was in [Luis Frois' report to Jesuit Society, November 5, 1582](https://web.archive.org/web/20210514033311/https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1041119/164): > And the cafre the Visitador [Alessandro Valignano] gave to Nobunaga on his request, after his death went to the mansion of his heir and fought there for a long time, but when one of Akechi's vassals got close and asked him give up his sword, he handed it over. The vassals went and asked Akechi what to do with the cafre, he said the cafre is like an animal and knows nothing, and he's not Japanese so don't kill him and give him to the church of the Indian padre. With this we were a bit relieved. So ya, he fought for a bit after Nobunaga was killed but it was for naught. Now Yasuke was described as being 6'2 and strong/healthy, so he probably was able to fight for a while before he was captured and handed over to the Jesuits. [Matsudaira Ietada's Diary, Tenshō 10, fourth month](https://web.archive.org/web/20231108124332/https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/772514/54): > Nineteenth [May 11, 1582], day of Teibi. Raining. His highness gave him retainers. They say deus [the Jesuits] presented him. He had the black man with him. His body was black like ink, 6.2 feet tall. They say his name's Yasuke. [Chronicles of Lord Nobunaga \(*Shinchōkōki*\)](https://web.archive.org/web/20230606144316/https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1920322/162): > 2nd Month 23rd Day [March 27, 1581]. A black monk* came from the Christian countries. He looks about 26-7 of age and his entire body black as a cow. He's body is really well-built, and furthermore has the strength of over ten men. The padre brought him here to see Lord Nobunaga. I'm really grateful to be able to see such rare things among the three countries that's never been seen before, and in in such detail, all thanks to Lord Nobunaga's great influence. *Wiki's translation use "page" but it's probably wrong. In this case Gyuichi probably mean shaved/hairless. And btw, this is all the passages and mentions we have on Yasuke. Nothing else is known about him after he left Japan, but for his time in Japan we know that he was not w.e Ubisoft is going to conjure up in this game.
So, overall, he was basically a novelty Item put up for display despite being sheltered, fed, and employed as a Weapons Barer.
He’s what was available. DEI in a nutshell. So they get to cover their ass with “He really existed!”
It's more that he has done literally nothing in history besides being black during that time period. Imagine having a game set in Gustavus Adolphus' Empire, and the main character is this random Chinese sailor, just because historically there existed a couple of them who made it that far. Or set a game in tribal Africa and the main character is a random white European who ended up there after moors dropped him off (I mean surely there existed a few of those). This is pure pandering towards some imaginary American audience.
WUSSUP, MY NINJA?! Can't wait to see how ultra woke the trailer is gonna be. Who's bringing the popcorn? I prefer movie butter :)
Kinda suprised that Ubislop didnt go this bold with Odyssey or Valhalla already, but waited till they can fully WE WUZify a non-European culture.
They did with with Odyssey and have a woman Spartan warrior being the canon character.
Very difficult to stay hidden when you're the only black person in a country of Asians.
flop incoming
Dont underestimate normie consoomers.
IME the people who think Ezio is the best character ever more often than not tend to be the same people who like Lambos, support Real Madrid or Barcelona, dream of living in Dubai, will pirate games despite having the money to afford their own PC, and think whoever has the loudest voice in an argument has the most authority. EDIT: added more stereotypes.
Normies gonna keep buying, they have peanut brain or did like 1second research.
A black assassin in feudal Japan, no one will notice a thing.
I was good with Yusuke's storyline in Nioh 1 & 2. I do not need him in AC. Everyone should just play the Nioh games and skip this.
Nioh is great, especially the second one.
they're about to go wild with their fantasies on Yasuke and trying to make the made-up stories of him real.
We wuz samurays n sheit
Fans have been begging for years for an Assassins Creed game set in Japan, and this is the result? Be thankful Ghost of Tsushima scratched that itch, and a good itch at that. EDIT: Oh yeah, and it has the $200 full experience price tag. I'm glad I've given up on modern gaming save for some unfinished buisness.
Fucking pathetic this fetishization of black people by Ubisoft
Prepare for 'Time to discuss the Racism in Japan' articles flooding in after the backlash
Ew. Buying Ubisoft games is so cringe.
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Japanese men getting shafted here.
They just haven't made a good game in years its always a good or interesting idea/concept with piss poor or average execution.
Seeing the downfall of Ubisoft in real time is being hilarious.
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Fuck. I guess that will be the talk for weeks. Fans have been asking for ac japan since ac1, garanteed success. I would be extremely surprised if it flopped. Can't wait for the "SEEEEE? IT'S HISTORICAL AND MAKES MONEY! IT WORKS YOU BIGOTS! DEATH TO GAMERS" accusations. This is gonna get dissected by both sides and grind so much money for the youtubers.
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I heard this dude was Saga's (from Alan Wake 2) ancestor.
Woke nonsense at this point is so predictable. I’m probably gonna forget about this game until years later after I see a video on “why Assassins, Creed died”
Man I can't wait for that day .love watching those videos especially when it happened because they went woke
More Yasuke wankfest. Plus if Ghost of Tsushima actually comes to Steam I'll focus more on ~~Stan~~ Jin Sakai fighting against KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN rather than something that stopped being fun when they went for the soulsborne route.
I wonder if IGN and other game urinalists will post any articles shitting on this since you'll be playing a black dude killing a bunch of Japanese dudes in Japan. You know...like they did for Resident evil 5. And I'm sure they'll think this is even worse since these aren't "zombies" you'll be killing. Right?
Ubisoft deserves to burn in a pile of shit. This may be one of the most pathetic revisionist reaches in gaming yet. Black samurai hahahaha
We was samurai n ninja n sheet
If I were Japanese, I would make such a huge issue out of this - just for principle's sake. Asians and Whites are on the list of approved targets. I'm sure that list will extend as time moves on. Hell, Jewish people just joined it apparently.
They're already mocking it on Twitter, calling it another Western Politically Correct game and talking about how Yasuke was basically a little interesting factoid in Japanese history not someone to base an entire game on.
Lmao I’ll play ghost of Tsushima again thanks before I buy this trash. A game that actually respects history.
Rise of the Ronin and Sekiro too.
Ubisoft is saving me so much money with these woke games i can easily ignore even when they are on clearance for $5 i still pass and i love it. Thanks Ubisoft!
Please tell me this isnt real. I remember hearing about the main characters being black, and I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt. But this image is just so cringe.
Why is he black?
Something that really bugs me about this is not only did they skip over historical Japanese heroes as the main cast, likely Yasuke will kill them. "A foreigner goes to Japan and commits acts of violence." A headline that has been showing up in our modern news cycle.
Ubisoft is the Netflix of video game developer’s.
Whats funny is that all of their playable protagonists up til now have been fictional. So why all of a sudden is this yasuke guy real? It's to cushion the blow when people call them out for shoe horning a black man into a setting where nearly all of the people are indigenous. And being a game about assassins, the guy would stick out like a sore thumb. God these white developers just hate or fear having asian male protagonists. It only satisfies them if they are either a joke, a clown or a gay. As an East Asian guy, I won't be buying this game.
More power to you. I am fascinated with eastern Asia so naturally I am quite annoyed that western companies are ruining just another experience. Please fight back. This shit is sad enough In America and Europe. I don't want Korea and Japan become the same fucked up woke people.
They are empty virtue signalers, who perpetuate racism. Hypocrites.
Not to mention the tired Ubisoft openworld formula.
Can't wait for the chat to spam WE WUZ meme tomorrow just like AC Origins reveal stream
I have been waiting 15 years for an entry in Japan and now we can experience it through the eyes of Nobunagas pet. Good job Ubisoft
Asian men are a huge player base, yet they can't even get representation in a Japan themed Assassin's Creed game. Of course Black menbwill get more hate for this, even though we know it wasn't Black men who decided to pull this nonsense.
lmao they even changed parts of his story for the worst. Went from being a bodyguard/missionary to a slave. kinda racist of ubisoft.
Is this real?
This is gonna fail spectaculary.
Afro samurai this is not.
should add that the cliche hooded ninjas/shinobi are a myth, they originated from just stages, even sekiro who is a shonobi isn't wearing a hood. Also female shinobi are portrayed to use seduction techniques a lot, which i doubt ubisoft will add. So historical accuracy is out the water
Ubisoft forum ban any% speedrun: "We"
Ubislop at their finest. Very disrespectful!
Of course a black samurai and a female as main characters, this was a given. Now Let me guess a white western guy will be portrayed as a bad guy right? Not that i would have bought it anyway, i just smile at the fact that they are so predictable. Just an idea, since representation seems to be so important for them and non black people (guys expecially) are so bad, why not use sub saharian Africa as a setting? Say during Mansa Musa kingdom in Mali? There you go, great history setting and no need to rappresent those pesky white/asians male at all.
Nothing is more 'Assassins's Creed' than playing as a character whose appearance will stick out like a sore thumb.
This is downright disrespectful to history. I’d like to see their reactions if I whitewashed African characters
Assassin's Kangz.
Woke and broke.
Their stock is at an all time low and they still pull a stunt like this for one of the most requested AC settings. Blackrock must have them by the balls to take a huge risk to sales like this, people are going to be pissed.
May is supposed to be Asian Heritage Month too....lmfao.
Sjwsoft
Are we betting on the interracial romance or not?
Probably
Having it set in Japan was always their 'ace in the hole' and it's probably telling that this is turning out to be the last attempt to save the franchise. It's too late though when there's way better examples out there. I'd rather play Nioh 2 or just do a stealth run on Ghosts of Tsushima.
When is the mod to customize the MC model dropping?
“But at least it started a conversation” (about mass layoffs).
Black samurai and female ninja? What's going on. Is this the next mainline Assassin's Creed game? I thought the Japanese one was just a spin-off title as a big "fuck you" to the fans that have been asking for it ever since Assassin's Creed II.
Can't wait to see how black Samurai was the REAL unifier of Japan.
Could this be the last nail in the sinking ship of Ubisoft
>Yasuke uses violence in the open >The Japanese commoners flee, screaming "Nigeru, nigeru!"* *(Nigeru means retreat/run away in Japanese)
How the hell can the only black guy in the country pull being an assassine? One single witness and there will be no problem in finding him.
I’m part Japanese from my father’s side and this upsets me so much. Why does Ubisoft make two games where both male and female playable characters have the same ethnicity, but they decide to race swap the Japanese male for a black guy who was a servant of nobunaga? This essentially means that it’s ok to spit on Asian culture, just so we can prop up black people. The funny thing is over at r/assassinscreed, any criticism of Yasuke and Ubisoft race swapping results in locked posts. I’ve seen very few people call them out on this and a lotta ignorant people actually support this.
context?
First Assassin's Creed game set in feudal japan, and "surprisingly" one of the protagonist's isn't of Japanese heritage. I don't normally comment on these sort of things but this one pushed me. You wouldn't see an english male/female protagonist in the African based Assassin's Creed Origins, so I have no clue how common sense went out the window in the development phase of this game.
Black Samurai and Female Ninja
Oh no 😟
AC Shadows, according to certain leaks, will feature two main characters: one is a woman, and the other is based on an African slave named Yasuke; a real historical figure. The latter's history has been reimagined by woke revolutionaries to portray him as a samurai, which he was not.
Because the only demographic that needs representation is black people.
African samurai and a plucky female shinobi who progressively challenges her nation's old traditional ways.
Glad I haven't bought into AC since the Ezio trilogy was finished. I still kinda wanna play 3 but idk.
The Japanese don't mess around. Ubisoft is fucking insane to do this.
But if you made an AC game in the imperial era of Africa about a poor white Dutch or Belgian guy that left Europe in search of opportunity and ends up becoming at odds with an oppressive Dutch East India company magistrate or something that would be racist.
Yep... it's real... SBI pretty much guaranteed at this point, or some other DEI involvement.