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Japan is learning a lesson. Don’t associate with activists.

I don't care what they tell you in school Cleopatra was a Samurai

Tweet by a Japanese gamer - "I know what cultural appropriation feels like now".

Sucker Punch made a better Japanese AC game with Ghost of Tsushima than Ubisoft ever could. The stealth, the combat, the music, the customization, the visuals, everything about that game is awesome.

Good, as they should. The Japanese have every right to hate Assassins Creed: Shadows. Just like when Egyptians overwhelmingly hated Netflix' "Queen Cleopatra".

It's really ironic that journalists slammed Sucker Punch for making a historical Japanese game and Japanese loved. But they'll praise this crap by Ubislop but the Japanese hate it.

Ubisoft... you had one job. And that was NOT pissing off an ENTIRE COUNTRY.

After this game comes out, I don't want to hear A WORD from leftist clowns when Capcom remakes Resident Evil 5.

This game is great advertising for Ghost of Tsushima.

Woke people arguing that stellar blade is not realistic, while themself trying to alter history with their delusion.

Italy - play as an Italian America - play as a native American China - play as a Chinese woman Norway - play as a viking Egypt - play as Egyptian Greece - play as a Greek Japan - play as an African🥴 Ubisoft is hard on that DEI powder

Everything woke turns to shit.

Ah yes. A 6'2 black samurai in feudal Japan is perfect for hiding in the shadows.

Remember when Sucker Punch was criticized for "cultural appropriation" but, the Japanese loved their game? Watch it be the other way around for this.

Instead of doing all this BS, why don't they just do a game based on Afro Samurai and have them all battle and compete over the headband?

Yasuke was the original diversity hire.

Its defenders would say “bRuH It’s A vIDEO gAmE.” Okay wise guy, what would you think if they casted an Asian dude as the next Black Panther and justified it with “Bruh it’s just a fictional story?” Same energy.

"I don´t care what they taught you in school all Japanese were black" 😅😅

What if: Yasuke was a friendly NPC all throughout the game, feeding you intel and supplies through his connections with the great General. And near the end of the game theres a sidequest where Yasuke is taken back by his Jesuit slavers and it was your mission to free him and that explains why Yasuke faded from history.

I remember someone at Ubislop years back saying they wouldn't ever make a Japanese AC for some dumb reason or another and now they are making one within the best timeframe for it but with the worst possible characters to lead it, this really is just a waste of the setting now.

The worst part here is Wikipedia actually rewriting historical events to, presumably, support a video game. Had already lost hope for the site, but this was still shocking to hear.

Imagine for a moment if Ubisoft released an Assasin's Creed set in Africa with a protagonist that wasn't black. Yeah, exactly. lol

I am frustrated as a Japanese. You can have as many black men and women as you want if you set it in Africa. But what about Japan? Chronicle China is not well known, but the main character was Chinese. (But it was only a woman.) Are East Asian men not used to being assassins?

Also interesting is you can go onto wikipedia and look at the edit history. One 'user' was repeatedly removing the passage and several others were adding it back. Eventually it became an Edit war where Wikipedia initially added back the text, and locked the section for editing. A few minutes later Wikipedia, while it was still locked, removed the text. Their citation is that there is no conclusive evidence for 'the claim that yasuke was not a samurai'. The literal equivalent of amazon asking for proof that you didn't get your package.

As an Asian Male, I'm just absolutely sick and tired of this nonsense. For the first time, we have an Assassin's Creed based in Japan, an 100% obvious Asian Country. However, of course...we CAN'T have a Japanese Male Lead...we have to have a Black individual based upon yes, a Real Person, but one who was NOT a Samurai, but a Servant and Retainer who was paraded around to draw attention because he didn't look like anyone else in Japan. However, let's go down the list here of Main characters in previous AC games... Assassin's Creed set in Italy - Plays as an Italian Man Assassin's Creed set in France - Played as a Frenchman Assassin's Creed Set in America - Played as a Native American Man Assassin's Creed Set in Greece - Played as a Greek Man Assassin's Creed Set in Norway - Played as a Norseman Assassin's Creed Set in Japan - Played as a Black Man....WTF?! It's just infuriating at this point that we CANNOT have Japan just be about Japanese people without putting all of this trash inclusiveness into the game. What's so wrong about having a Japanese Male Samurai in a game that's supposed to take place in Feudal Japan? Doing more digging, you realize that the writer scrapped the previous story which was actually about a Japanese Male in Japan, and instead changed it to a Black Male instead, and when you find out that she also is connected with Sweet Baby Inc...the Woke of all Woke nonsense group for games, this is what we get. I hope they make a new AC game in the future taking place in Sahara Africa where a Japanese man leads a group of Zulu Warriors. GTFO Ubisoft.

There are so many Japanese badasses they couldve chosen for a main character...they went woke instead

I don’t remember all this complaining when Tom cruise played the last Samurai

This happened last year with cleoparta and as an Egyptian we had quite the "lovely" reactions over clearing our history, ironically I am also a Japanese translator and Japanese companies are looking for talents over here now since we have one the higher amount of Japanese learners in the world and higher adaptability with Japanese culture too

It's official, Sweet Baby Inc is involved with this game, RIP.

The irony is "Yasuke" means "The Black One" - it would be like having Adewale in AC4 be called "The Negro"....

"I don't care what they taught you in school - my grandma told me samurais were black and non-binary" 😂

Ironically, it's so woke that it comes back around to being racist. So, they're saying the first black "immigrant" to Japan is a murderer? No wonder they closed their borders. Ghost of Tsushima is the superior Assassin game.

Even Japanese gamers torn the trailer in Japanese version to shreds

you'd have to feel pretty damn inferior to constantly rob others of their history?

Yasuke being essentially a court jester for Nobunaga makes this all drip with sweet irony. Years later, and he is still being used as a ploy to entertain people who blindly consume media based on the skin color of the characters in their media. Then, when you call attention to it, they call YOU the racist!

I refuse to buy this game. Its legitimately insulting

Ubisoft went nuclear a while ago when they said that you should be comfortable not owning your games. I'll never buy a game from them again after that. I don't need any more reasons to not buy from that shit company.

That Yasuke Netflix anime did a lot more damage to history than thought.

People were SO MAD that theres no black people in the tv show, Shogun, too. Like

How many asian male protagonist in the assassin creed franchise? None. Equal presentation my a$$

As a Japanese male, it’s extremely disappointing I can’t play as a Japanese male in a game set in feudal Japan. Ubisoft stays sh*tting on Asian males.

it's been a fun day, people on bird app using the netflix anime as their source of "historical accuracy" and others not understanding that Tom Cruise wasn't the "Last samurai". Ah, culture.

Barely researching I found how Japan had a more tame xenophobia compared to after the 17th century, but it was still prevalent in the culture... also, one Japanese twitter comment summarized a most enjoyable viewpoint: "Why must this game be about a foreigner coming to japan to butcher its citizens?" The fact this game is taking such a racist action while trying to push DEI politics seems like another tipping point that might help correct the industry. Remember, Netflix paid 2 billion USD for simply “distorting the Egyptian identity” with their Cleopatra show; imagine the threat to a much smaller company like Ubisoft getting a fine like that... for simply trying to push an agenda... I love Assassin's Creed China most, as it was all I could really play on my laptop during my childhood, and only at 14-20 fps. Still found the main character, a woman trained by Ezio (unoriginally my favorite character in the series) to be intriguing; She had actual backstory, and the low framerate kept halting all my progress as I would die or CTD, deleting whatever progress I made through a level... still looking forward to beating it, when I get a non-cracked copy.

I litteraly saw a scene where I thought this was an intro to Madden 26 😂

An entire roster of historic Japanese figures ,and they chose the retainer. I can't begging to imagine the amount of stupidity that runs rampant in Ubisoft.

Japan realized their mistake in investing in ESG and DEI activism.

I'm black, and an assassin's Creed fan who always, ALWAYS wanted an assassin creed game based in Japan, the ninja were LITERALLY assassins, and the assassin creed asestitc would go PERFECTLY with it! But unfortunately,i think I might pass because the opportunity has been wasted...im not a masochist by any count, Lara Croft, Samus Aran and Aloy are one of my favorite female characters in gaming. But i don't want to play as a konoichi because in that time period in Japan they were extremely uncommon , they should have had Hattori Hanzo be the main protagonist, or Magoichi Sakai. And Yasuke... I would be cool with the concept, if they didn't say that it was a historical era. I did a lot of research on yasuke cuz I thought it was cool as hell that a black samurai was a thing, but ive did research and everything they're doing with him in this game Feels like full on pandering. They could've made him s DLC character like they did for Awale in AC4. They should've made the Ninja customizable, and the fact that this is THE first time they do anything with Japan and i feel they completely wasted this cool idea that ive always wanted on pandering. And I sadly won't be purchasing this. Such an amazing idea wasted and it makes me sad.😢

Ya know at first i didnt see the big deal in this but now im realizing why people are making it a big deal and angry. Though Yasuke was a real african at that time and present at that time period of japan, he didn't really have that big of a role. I dont mind that ubisoft added him and giving him a bigger role but they could of just had him as a side character that our character worked with constantly in the story and possibly could of made a dlc story like they did with Edward first mate in blackflag. Though i believe some comments people are making are just plain stupid complaining about a black person in japan when there really was at that time. They need to learn some history.

Dear Ubisoft, Don't stop while you're ahead. More diversity! Pander harder!!! It's over 9000!

I hope this goes to show Japanese people and Japanese companies not to ever associate with woke companies ever again.

waiting for black Abraham Lincoln finna be lit

If Ubisoft really wanted to make something unique, and they insist on having Yasuke as a playable male protagonist, they should've ignored all the exaggerated and bombastic fictions/speculations about him as some badass samurai. Instead, in true Assassin's Creed fashion, they should've used the minimal and lackluster information about him as a convenient cover-up for why he came to Japan, why he became close to Nobunaga Oda, and why he basically disappeared without a trace. But that would require actual creativity from the writing team, and that's not what Ubislop is all about anymore.

I love that Wikipedia has been in an editing meltdown as they tried to make Yasuke more attuned to the game than reality.

I'm a black guy and it's pretty obvious why they made a black protagonist set in Japan. Just DEI garbage

Hey were did you get those excerpts from the Shinchō Kōki?

I’m so sick of all this ESG score/woke bullcrap. This is a slap in the face to us people that just want a good, fun game again instead of whatever this is. Remember when games used to be fun and NOT full of ESG riddled propaganda? I remember those days.

Yasuke is so irrelevant you can read his history in 5 minutes

>Character is a black migrant in an ethnostate >commits crimes What did Ubisoft meant by this?

I'm not even that mad about the meat riding of Yusuke, but to also have the second protagonist be a chick, I mean that's just overdoing it at this point. What they should've done is have a Japanese guy, a Samurai who'd become a ronin and take Yusuke with him and go into hiding. Knowing the friendship and respect he and his leader shared, the Samurai would honor it and tell him that the enemy will come for them and they must fight in resistance. So the now ronin would train Yusuke and tell him that they must stay undercover, so they would go to the Portuguese to make it seem like Yusuke got turned back to them and they would let him go in secret where the Japanese guy would take him after faking his own death. Then the two would be in hiding and the ronin would tell Yusuke that what they will do is for vengeance and honor, but they will become shadows in history, ghosts that never existed. So then they meet some ninjas at some point as the Japanese would tell Yusuke about the legends of the ninjas and when they find them, they would pay for training. Later on the ninjas and them would become allies as the clan that they joined got targeted as well and so now the survivors of the clan would agree on taking them in and create a new circle. That reformed clan would make the two protagonists ninjas and they all would fight in resistance together and avenge their fallen ones and leaders. That's how they should've done it. Yusuke would still be there and they would still get their woke points and with the Japanese character, the fans would also be pleased. So it would've been a win-win for everyone. If they really wanted to have a female character too, then one of the ninja side characters could've been a woman and so there you have it. It still would all work out fine.

The Jesuits' arrival in Japan is a brutal historical account. Jesuits taught them about the crucifixion, and Japan said, "That's a cool way to deal with enemies," and they used it on the first 300 missionaries.

There was one, ONE black dude in all of Japan 😭one single unimportant dude he didn’t really do anything, and they chose him? They chose the one black guy in the entire country at the time in a game based in Japan…WTF 😭

Ubisoft saw Rise of the Ronin and went "lets make the next AC with samouraï..." same they did with the success of Skyrim/God of War and Valhalla's vikings

Imagine how racist one can be to take other people's culture and do whatever they want with it. This is an absolute sign of malice and disrespect towards what other people have. This thing here is absolutely disgusting and i hope Japan retaliates hard on Ubisoft's racism.

The only good this game did was to have edit wars in Wikipedia regarding Yasuke

Anyone is surprised at this point?

Great video with a lot of background info. Thanks!

Yasuke was definitely a samurai. Being a retainer of samurai literally makes him a samurai. He fought beside him

Yasuke was literally just a curiosity to the Japanese. There were so many better historical figures they couldve chosen

If Egypt can sue Netflix, Japan can sue Ubisoft too.

I'm kind of surprised people are still playing AC games. After Black Flag, I was done with a franchise, seeing it going downhill.

Myamoto Musashi was a Freelancer, a Ronin, almost his whole life. that would have been a perfect protagonist! when beeing Japanese isn't diverse enough.... no words! instead, we get one of those FAMOUS female japanese warriors - that were nowhere to be found in this period!

They just don't want us to have nice things.

Awe man, playing as a monk assassin would have been way cooler. God I hate it here.

What are your bets on the story involving a romance between the 2 protagonists to make the DEI agenda the full shitshow bingo?

Kinda funny how the Japanese of old used a black men as some sort of jester, and then ubisoft is doing pretty much the exactly same hundreds of years later.

About Wikipedia and any Wikipedia changing stuff over night is one of the reasons I am never gonna throw out my hard copy encyclopedia I got at first grade….

He said if you want a historically right game play ghost of tsushima where the protagonist is pure fictional right

At this point I'm wondering why a lot of the people who demand history be altered to insert black people where they werent present arent actually black themselves.

Black Rock, Vanguard, and State Street a the real Rings Of Power.

I want to give shoutout to my Asian brothers and sisters, they're trying to push this shit onto your legendary culture. I think we all should stand up and force Ubisoft's hand or at least bankrupt them

It's absurd that they didn't use a trans indian bi they/them kunoichi too

Its all so damn tiring. I wasn't even a fan of Nioh's protagonist being white, so this is silly.

We need Ghost of Tsushima 2 like yesterday

Ever hear the expression 'Leftists always argue the exception '? This is that in videogame form. Bonus points. 1. "Get comfortable NOT OWNING your games." - Ubisoft 2.Ubisoft worked with UK police to crack down on online "toxic" behavior.

The problem with Assassin's Creed is the longer the series has gone on the more it's twisted history by turning the main character basically into Forest Gump. Having to interact with every historical figure of the time. Instead of just being in the time period.

First I do want to say that kassandra/Alexios were not spartans, they were mercenary, and that eivor didn't become cheif until end of the game when Sigurd when back to Norway. Also sheildmaidens were a thing. Second, I'm honestly confused on who to believe because wiki says he was a retainer and had the rank of konsho, but smithsonian and Britannica articles say he was a samurai. I am genuinely curious how the discourse happened if he was a samurai or not.

Yasuke was nothing more than a trophy for his court. Just to show off his worldly presence and power. Same as black men in European courts.

NEVER PRE ORDER FROM UBISOFT, SWEET BABY INC IS INVOLVED WITH THIS GAME, LOOK AT THE LEADER WRITER OF THIS GAME THEY/THEM IS ASSOCIATED WITH THEY/THEMSELVES

Gamers, just boycott all woke companies. This is hilarious.

Isn’t “bending historical context” the entire premise of assassins creed? Remember, this is a game series where Leonardo da Vinci creates a tank and you beat a pope to death. Are we going to say AC unity ruined French culture and history because it implies that napoleon was only successful because he uses a piece of Eden?

Assassins Creed lost its way when Ubisoft killed off the series' protagonist, Desmond Miles. Now, it's just a mindless zombie, not knowing it's a dead franchise.

Ubisoft needs to get used to people not buying their games

Japan to be mad about this because this makes no sense. This game is about Japan have a Japan character.

A few Japenese locals i know are actual excited for this game. Because its based off their actual history

Ah, yes. Actual ninjas: exist. Ubisoft: let's take this guy who was basically a jester and call him a samurai but also have him break the samurai code and pretend like a large black dude could be discreet in feudal japan.

Finally, someone who actually read the actual manuscripts. Thank you for educating people with anime misconceptions.

Sooooo.... Leonardo davinci was an inventor, never invented anything for the assassins but it was cool how ubisoft implemented him in and had him create things that go against physics and even though he wasn't in venice at that time period they put him there. That was cool af to everyone. Now yasuke is also a historic figure which you said we know nothing about. All we know is he existed in japan during that time period, may or may not have had title, armor or sword. We dont know. And them using this real person with blank slate a hell no!! If they used some white guy there would be no problem. Smh

Imagine having a culture sooo lame you have to be shoe horned into other cultures stories...

Japan has hundreds, maybe thousands of figures more relevant than Yasuke, but the woke had to mess this up.