Mister metatron, do you have a link for your full coverage of yasuke? Or is it underway?

We should also remember that just because you're given land *doesn't* mean you're made a noble or anyone with authority; it's very likely that Nobunaga just gave Yasuke the land that the house he was given was built on. Plus, after the Honno-ji incident, Mitsuhide sent Yasuke *back* to the Jesuits, & we basically never hear of him again. It's entirely possible that Nobunaga just considered Yasuke a friend & gave him all that stuff as a *gift* for a friend, *without* the title of Samurai coming with it. Was he a bushi? Probably; but there were so many different types of bushi that to assume he was part of that class made him a samurai is just *stupid* . Not to mention that the Japanese who commented on the trailer were all like "this's historical revisionism for an anti Japanese agenda; why else would they pick Yasuke when they had figures like Musashi Miyamoto or Hattori Hanzo they could've picked instead?" So basically, whether he really was a samurai or not, Yasuke being 1 of the protags in this game, with the other being a very *male* looking fictional kunoichi exposes this game as woke revisionist propaganda that's gonna make it D.O.A.

NO SHE'S NOT A SAMURAI THE GUY I'M GOING TO KNOW RIGHT NOW NAMED YASUKE, BECAUSE YOU'RE WONDERING IN REAL LIFE HE WAS ALSO A SAMURAI, I THINK YOU CAN LOOK IT UP ON GOOGLE RIGHT NOW , YES IT WILL TELL YOU , THE ASSASSIN'S NAME IS NAOE YES THAT IS THE NAME OF THE ASSASSIN

AND THE FUNNY PART IS THINGS GOODNESS THIS IS GOING TO BE ON 2024 NOT LIKE THE ONE FOR ROCKSTAR THAT'S GOING TO BE FOR 2025 , AND THANK GOODNESS THEY'RE NOT GOING TO PUSH THAT AROUND FOR NEXT YEAR, LIKE THIS IS WAY MORE BETTER I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS BUT THIS IS KIND OF WAY BETTER SO IT'S COMING AROUND NOVEMBER 15TH 2024, BUT I THINK WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR WHAT KIND OF CONSOLES ARE THEY GOING TO BE ON WE DON'T KNOW THAT SO I THINK WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR THAT, WHAT KIND OF CONSOLES IS GOING TO BE ON, I THINK I'M ASSUMING IT'S GOING TO BE ON THE NEW GENERATION OF CONSOLES WE HAVE RIGHT NOW , WE DON'T KNOW STILL YET THOUGH BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO WAIT TILL BY THE, OH WAIT AND SEE SO FAR WHAT HAPPENS YES I KNOW THE TRAILER MYSELF IT'S REALLY ALSO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THAT SONG AS HEAR THAT SONG IT MEANS SO MUCH NOSTALGIA FROM ASSASSIN'S CREED 2 NOTHING ABOUT THE CLASSIC GOOD OLD EZIO FAMILY FITS SO WELL WITH OTHER ASSASSIN'S CREED GAMES CONTINUE WITH THAT SONG WITH OTHER ONES GOING FORWARD I REALLY DID LIKE THE ENDING OF THE TRAILER IN THE GRAPHICS DON'T LOOK SO IMPRESSIVE IN LAST YEAR, SO THAT KIND OF A PROVED A LOT PUT THE GRAPHICS OF FANTASTIC I CAN'T WAIT AND THIS GAME COME OUT ON PC ARE THE GRAPHICS WILL BE MORE OPPRESSIVE BECAUSE IT'S PC AND THEN I THINK TO MAKE THE GRAPHICS 10 TIMES MORE BETTER THAN LIKE THE CONSOLE YEAH RIGHT NOW , PLAY THIS GAME LIKE JUMPING OUT OF YOU AND IT LOOKS MORE BETTER IN PC, BUT WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT IS THE LAUNCH DATE FOR THIS GAME WHEN WE KNOW THE DAY SO FAR, AND WHAT DAY IS GOING TO BE RELEASED DATE, WHAT'S THE WEATHER FOR GAMEPLAY STILL OH YEAH OH FOR ME IN MY OPINION I'LL WAIT AND SEE IF SOMETHING GOES ON TOMORROW IS SATURDAY, WHAT IS SEE IF I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AROUND TOMORROW , MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS GAME BUT ALL IN ALL I THINK I GOT A RATING I THINK I'M GOING TO GIVE IT AND I THINK I DON'T KNOW I FORGOT MY RATING FOR THIS GAME IN THE FIRST TRAILER A VERY GOOD 25 OUT OF 10 A VERY GOOD TRAILER IT WAS NOT FAST IT WAS NOT LIKE LAGGING AND EVERYTHING SO THIS TRAILER ON ISN'T VERY GOOD WHEN I REALLY LIKE THIS ONE, IT'S NOT LIKE ONE OF THOSE FAST TRAILERS IN THERE AND WOULD LIKE THOSE FAST AND THEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON SO FAR, PUT THIS ONE FOR ME WAS VERY PERFECT TIMING VERY SLOW AND VERY WAY MORE BETTER SO FAR, SO I DO GIVE HIM DOWN SO FAR BY NOW, A VERY GOOD TRAILER AND I REALLY DO LIKE HOW DOES IT FEEL IN JAPAN , YOU TRY TO CHINA WHAT KIND OF DIFFERENCE OH YES THE TRAILER LOOKS AMAZING AND I REALLY DO SEE WHAT HAPPENS AROUND TOMORROW, UNTIL WE FIND OUT BUT FOR ME WHILE I WAIT AND SEE YES VERY GOOD TRAILER 🤷🏻🙅🏻🙁😔🤔🧐,🙂😌👍🏻2️⃣5️⃣.1️⃣0️⃣

Metatron, why would Mitsuhide keep Yasuke alive if he was an important Bushi and bodyguard to Nobunaga? And didn’t he refer to Yasuke as a cow who knows nothing? In the middle of a political coup, anyone loyal to Nobunaga would have been a threat, no? How come he survived in this case?

"Dont order at all"

​@@arielquelme So what to do then? Hoist the Jolly Roger?

I loved AC Black Flag so much The best AC after Ezio's saga IMO

@@user-qg3bb8mn6s Arrrrrrgh

Do not Pre-order any game ever! No matter what they show!

It's because the nerds who are angry at a black man appearing in their idealized ethnostate they actually know nothing about are permavirgins who should never taken seriously. They should however be laughed at constantly. Every time they pop up, just laugh at them for being less than trash.

It is really scary to see people like that exist

Right 😂

Fr. People went and removed every reference to "Samurai" in his Wikipedia article. Brainrot behavior.

People think wikipedia is legit lol

The key words are “based on” instead of “is” historical facts. Little is known about him to the point he’s nearly a myth. This isn’t a good argument like many others who find the distaste of Yasuke in this game.

The race is a large part of the issue, because that's why they put him there. Stop cucking.

​@octodaddy2553 people don't care that he's in the game, most people would not have a problem with him being a side character in the game, AC has never had a real life historical figure as the mc of a game so to all of a sudden choose to go that route and ignore the countless Japanese figures they could have chosen and picked Yusuke seems like a slap in the face. This argument that everybody is just mad that the mc of an assassins creed game is black is nonsense considering NOBODY cared when they made a game in Egypt with a black mc, because it made sense. If this game was in Africa and the mc was a Japanese guy people would be upset at that as well.

Its just wrong on many levels and its much more complicated as well. Tbh up untill this the heroes were always unknown and historical persons were always a "decoration to set the time period and story" now they choose a historical man as a hero who is black on a game played in japan and you slaughter japanasee people expect the worst villian who im sure will be John Blackthorne.... Why cat just they keep to the normal, in a japanasee area put a damn japaneese hero...

@@AstroBimpson honestly, the fact that he was a historical figure in Japan is the only reason ppl defending this has legs and I believe those arguments also have some strength. Why can’t Ubisoft create a game about yasuke? He’s depicted plenty of times in Japanese media as a samurai/warrior and even Nobunaga is depicted as some little girl sometimes in media bc it’s fictional! Even if it’s historical fantasy, which these games tend to lean on. The main issue is that ppl DID get mad about him bc of his race and not about the predatory pricing of potential mid games which will continue to plague the industry if we don’t pushback heavily the same way ppl are pushing back against yasuke. So yes, I have major contention with most arguments made against this game that are race based. I don’t believe it’s in good faith

It's up to you and other Japanese people to speak about it. Anyone not Japanese or African is immediately labeled a racist and disregarded.

I can totally understand the feeling japanese people are having towards this. I'm brazillian, and if they made an Assassin's Creed one day set in Brazil and the main character was from some other country I also would be pretty upset.

I fully understand ur anger, even as a white European.

Out of curiosity, just becuase i'm not sure what you mean. Please define Western asian?

​@michael3088 the writer means Turkish or Asian Arab. As well as the people from the Caucasus

Which conventions?

Ubisoft is simply hiding like cowards behind the fact that Yasuke exists so they can use him.

Exploited for political reasons? LMAO how? By being included as a black figure in a video game. The only thing you've expressed here with such an idiotic statement is your OWN racial bias

​@@blooperman1997well he's first historical character to be a protagonist - up to this point real people were only side characters, while the protagonist was always made-up... for example.

​@@blooperman1997 No protagonist was real

Don't forget the flat top.

Most of us have short hair or are simply bald. I'm not feeling the representation for the reparations ya feel me.

But that is all you ever see black people utilize lol dreads and cornrows or the like

Also the half shaven dread style of various ranges from long to short length.

That’s not true. Achilles had a short cut, Adewale was bald, Yasuke has locs, a lot of characters in origins had a range of hairstyles.

That's becoming a classic 😂😂😂😂

😅😅😅😅😅

I see what you did there

Best comment lmao

Yep, you are a sick person.

😂😂😂😂

They do it better in Rise of the Rōnin because the character actually uses a piece of cloth and that’s what Metatron wants.

Jin also sheaths his blade the correct way, i.e. he moves the scabbard towards the tsuba instead of pushing the katana all the way in

@@v0rtexbeater I kind like that Yasuke does it the wrong way, because as far as we know he did not had proper training i the japanese martial arts even tho i don´t think ubisoft did it intentionally, it can give more personality to the character.

It is actually a game feature that you can do on your Own. Just slide the Middle pad to the Right. I do it everytime i clean an outpost.

@@Gabrielfrota Yeah, Yasuke being imperfect in technique is absolutely right for the character.

Ha, no sooner than I post this, I scroll down and find a Japanese guy making the same point.

metatron made a new video where he talked about this point but lemme summarize it what he said, he said that nobunaga was a guy that wasnt really the most traditional person and often liked to break rules so like he gave a stipend to yasuke even tho he was a foreigner so it is possible yasuke couldve been a samurai with no last name, oh yeah i forgot some poor samurais also had no last names

@@jestyo0o I haven't watched the video yet. But as you've summarized it, I'm skeptical. Nobunaga was certainly considered eccentric. But, the Hideyoshi example sufficiently undermines the argument. He's conventionally considered a commoner until given permission to change his name by Nobunaga. If we compare apples to apples and assume consistency (may be a large assumption), I don't see Yasuke having been made a samurai or man of elevated status however you want to label it.

@@TheKiltedGerman yeah for me and Metatron, we both slightly lean to he wasn't a samurai

During the Sengoku-Jidai period (the period Yasuke served Nobunaga), the traditional master-servant relationship in Japanese society collapsed, and the traditional definition of samurai changed dramatically, becoming synonymous with bushi. jizamurai (地侍) were bushi with the status of nanushi (名主), the highest class in the village who managed the farmland, and many of them became vassals of the sengoku daimyo (戦国大名, feudal lords). On the other hand, it also referred to local bushi who did not serve the shogun or daimyo. It did not matter that Yasuke didn't hail from Japanese nobility or became samurai by non-hereditary nature. By that period, the rules and conditions had changed. Also, Nobunaga, Yasuke's Daimyō, was well known to defy earlier Japanese traditions. I see many people incorrectly referring to Nobunaga as "Yasuke's Shogun." Nobunaga could not become Shogun because he did not hail from the Minamoto bloodline. However, at the height of his power, Nobunanga definitely became more powerful than the Shogun of his time, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and defeated him, dissolving the Shogunate.

おい、もしあいつが黒い肌してたら、夜にステルスモードに入るのがもっと楽やぞ、この野郎！

@@vicentesalasii1480 Are you, a westerner with latino / spanish last name, pretending to lecture a Japanese about their own culture?. 😂😂😂

@maximus7288 1. Only a hopeless idiot would think that being ethnically Japanese automatically makes a person an all-knowing authority of history in their country. There are MANY Japanese who are not very knowledgeable of their own country's history, just as there are many Americans, Russians, and so on not knowledgeable of theirs. I minoured in East Asian Civilizations with focus on Japan and have studied Japanese culture, language and history for decades. However, most of my sources on this matter come from historians and certified historical references far better equipped with the knowledge than myself. I'll take their word any day over randoms on the internet. 2. How do you even know he/she is really Japanese to begin with? Because they told you so in a KZfaq comment? Are you not aware of all the angry non-Japanese weaboos who have been exposed as pretending to be Japanese, sometimes using Google Translate to exhibit false "outrage" and spam the message boards with fake comments? 3. It is a historical fact that although Bushi and Samurai (comes from the root word subarau, which literally means "to serve") were differentiated more distinctly at one point, during the Sengoku period, they became synonymous with each other. It was in that period that Yasuke and Nobunaga existed.

@@maximus7288 "Being Japanese" doesn't preclude exclusive knowledge or the ability to study Japanese history in-depth, in the same way as studying any forms of western culture is for westerners. Quit being a tool.

I was just impatiently waiting for Metatron to make a response of it as well. 🥲 Metatron never disappoints.

isnt just some skin he could be orange but if the game is good youll play it

​​@@jermaineflow >"if the game is good" >Modern-day Ubisoft game lol

@@jermaineflow Forgetting the fact that their games are all bad or mediocre at best since Black Flag, the protagonist is an important part of the game especially when it's "historical" and they're supposed to be real historical characters in a somewhat realistic story.

@@beardedlonewolf7695 fun fact Black Flag is based in the Caribbeans....yet you play as a white guy lol

Based Ubisoft?

When was that? When Evior killed targets or when she and Sigurd were in the Yggdrasil simulation?

Look up Jackson Crawfords video on Christian Influence on Norse myth. Most polytheistic religions have no theological issue implementing Christanity into their religion because they already believe in multiple God's, and many Norse believed both the Christian God was real and the Norse pantheon was also real, some even believed Christ was within the Norse stories.

Nah, AC was peaked and completed when Ezio's trilogy finished. After that Ubi started to make ACs as soulless mass-produced series in their own capitalistic way. Black Flag was the best piece of these products mostly due to the shipbattles, but the AC's legacy and its true meaning were already dead when it came out. I played most of the AC games but hardly remember the story in Black Flag and the others later. On the other hand, I clearly remember the story of Altair and Ezio, and their journeys. Ubi did the same with Far Cry, after Far Cry 3.

I thought it was funny that Vallhala had Greek Hopplete status (Reused from Odessy) along the Bifrost. So god damed lazy and it took me right out of the game

Dude yasuke in Japanese media,anime and video game before it was fine now everynerd mad in assassin creed become Japanese culture expert

@@bruce-ny4qwdude no one is mad that yasuke “exists” or is “in a game”. We have had black protagonists in AC and we have had Yasuke in samurai warriors 5 and Nioh and no one cared. The problem is that they removed Asian male representation to make MORE room for black male representation. Now we have three black male protagonists and zero Asian male protagonists. Asians got erased from their own setting. If they made yasuke a dlc option or just a historical character that you meet in game LIKE EVERY OTHER AC GAME then we would be eating it up:

@@LB-yg2br if u want play asian male lead there game call ghost of tsushima, CA create different from that story line on this game so this I not mad that ca, i more mad at prices.

@@LB-yg2brLOL imagine whining about the exclusion of the use of a MALE Japanese protagonist for a game taking place in Japan as if there is NO Japanese protagonist in the game, but trying to use that criticism to disguise your true issue with the game lol pick a struggle. Are you racist or sexist? Lol

What fking school you go to teaches about Yasuke? Lol

Ubisoy themselves was the templar.. Theyre trying to rewrite the history into samurai yasuke rather than servant yasuke Very templar behavior

@@arielquelmebecause Ubisoft has never fabricated the history of a historical character or characters

Yes, I also expected to hear something about the templars, but I guess that plot has been abandoned ever since Ubisoft stopped following Dezmond's story.

@@nikodimus86 so I’m guessing that’s when you stopped playing the game because it still did focus on the templars but who they were in the beginning and how they evolved into what we know them as now.

@@gerodford711 No, I started playing a lot later. Finished the first AC in 2019. But by that point I had already known the story and lore took a backseat so I decided to stop there. My brother insisted that I play the few next instalments of the story but knowing how things end up poisons my goodwill. Similar how I can't stand GoT after episode 3 of the last season or how I can't stand to watch old Star Wars, knowing how the main three characters end up.

So it is clear here... Som confisons about the title were used byvsome peoples to push the theory that "yasuke was a samurai"

​@@arielquelmeThe theory that Yasuke was a samurai seems to be just as strong as the opposing view. Either one is a fair opinion to hold based on the evidence

What have you been saying for years? He literally said it's uncertain. But there's more evidence in the positive.

That's nice to know, but keep in mind that in a more colloquial sense, people nowadays use the term "Samurai" as a generic term for all medieval Japanese warriors (except perhaps shinobi/ninja). In the same way most people use the term "Knight" in a generic sense to refer to all western European medieval warriors, regardless of social class or nobility status. Is it correct? In a strict sense, no, but I wish people weren't so pedantic about it.

I mean, actual born and raised Japanese people disagree, but you do you

Lol

Your first statement is so broad and absolutist as to be completely absurd.

So is this your roundabout way of saying a white person could become a real samurai, but it’s impossible that the black dude did…?

During the Warring States period in Japan, anyone could become a samurai, regardless of race or status, if they demonstrated outstanding ability and achievement. There were 11 foreign samurai who became samurai after showing achievement and ability, but Yasuke was not one of them. It is not racism, it is a difference in ability and achievement.

@@user-fk3zu7lk4w you weren’t there. And he’s still a black man. Racism is still a thing. It could be an intended omission by people who didn’t like the fact that a black man was given status. Which is also why there’s a lot of mystery around him as a historical figure. If he had the strength of 10 men, I’m doubtful “ability and achievement“ was an issue

Probably yeah, but maybe Yasuke has already been to that village and the people don't seem to think it's odd anymore.

We don’t know how long Yasuke has been in that village tbf, that girl might’ve just entered whilst the other villagers are aware of him.

@@jairverplaats153it’s the 16th century. They will definitely notice him. Plus he was a caddy. His master wouldn’t have let him stroll around in a village..

I remember the first time I saw a black man in person at a MacDonalds. I was a small kid. I was stunned. It was as if I saw a film celebrity

​@@Player-re9mo I've also had exact same experience seeing a black person for first time, I've only seen them on TV before. I also had same experience in the reverse with both Europeans and Africans as an Asian as well. For me they were all fun experiences. I got stared at a lot, but it was very understandable and everyone was very friendly and just had lots of questions, which I was more then happy enough to answer for them. I really do miss those days when traveling was an very exotic adventure. Now everything just feels corporate and same grey no matter where you go.

We actually don't have any proof that the Mongols aren't Templars.

@@samuru101 they are

And the girl being an assassin, that's how i saw the game lol

But why would you copy another game when there's thousands of years of history to work with.

@@samuru101 Which doesn't matter cause Jin Sakai was not a historical figure.

so what if they did? This company can do what they want. If I want to be immersed in the black experience why the F would I look to Ubisoft, a French owned Caucasian company? If a Japanese person wants true representation, they can not depend on people who are NOT apart of their culture to do it for them.

Did you not see the female Japanese lead?

@@averiagaskin181 you don't have to be a race to tell a story about that race. Don't be racist

@@VerdictofOdin With the American college girl bob cut? Japanese people don't like her either

@@dirt_dert_durt ah, sorry, thank you for speaking for all Japanese people. I was unaware of your title.

No, you got it wrong.

@@michaelmcdoesntexist1459no he got it dead right. Metatron is a coward scared of leftists.

They just wanted a black guy but also wanted to spark an argument about historical accuracy thinking they would be on the right side of history this time. Unfortunately they got history wrong and now they have more dislikes than likes and low stocks. They went woke and as of late they keep going broke.

exactly in other games your character was a blank slate interacting with historical figures in a fictional setting

​@@sp1ashy345perhaps the biggest sign of Ubisoft's agenda.

I don't 100% mind it, but I don't want it to be a trend.

Wow I wonder why, Sweet baby inc detected.

I just wanted to play as a shinobi guy who attacks templar samurais for killing his family. I feel that would be awsome

@@spitlikesfire9368Well you can still play as a Shinobi

How would you do a game on Musashi? He lived in the Edo period, a time relatively peace and mainly only dueled rather then fought in any wars or larger conflicts. It would be kind of boring if we followed his story faithfully.

You've never played as a historical figure in these games. Only met them.

AC's thing is you never actually play as a real person from history, they are always NPCs you meet who tie into the story. Which is a reason why everyone should just play GoT.

honestly i hope the devs just go the extra mile with immersion just to piss off the writers. like they can use the matieral they were given. make it to where he immedately just gets caught anytime he tries to be stealthy or hide. actually, thinking about it yasuke might be insanely good during nighttime stealth missions. No one would be able to see him literally

Nobunaga's black Rayquaza..

@@Syiepherze so i assume we are going off pokemon conquest, mitsuhide used ice beam with his lapras and 1 shot that black rayquaza off the island

Or if it was dual protagonists, with like a Japanese stealth character named something like Naoe. If only am I right

I also thought that Hattori Hanzo would've been a good choice- or at least play as a shinobi working for him. Another cool historical figure would've been Yagyu Jubei.

@@tacticaltemplar875They could have made a full Yasuke story along with a Hattori story with male and female options. More work and I fear Ubi would do a shit job as usual but people would appreciate it.

@@Subutai_Khan Agreed. I think Yasuke would've been a cool character for you to meet and maybe even have some missions associated with him. Making him a main protagonist is just ill-fitting, imo.

You could even be the one that k/lls or assassinate Nobunaga and free or let go of Yasuke, that would have been fun

Before AC 3: Liberation, there wasn’t a black or female protagonist. Before AC 3, there wasn’t a non white male protagonist. Before Odyssey, there wasn’t one where you can choose your character’s gender. Nothing wrong with trying new things.

Exactly, that's what I love of previous AC, but now yeah...

There's nothing wrong with this being the first time they use a historical figure as a main character. The important thing about this is that there is not as much information about Yasuke as there is about other more important or prominent figures, and this gives the devs more freedom to have him as a main character. A historical figure being a main character is not inherently an issue.

People keep saying this but it's not true. Ezio was a real person. They even explain it in the game itself in the notes you can read. Ezio was a real person caught in a real family conspiracy he escaped. The thing is, is the AC2 builds off of that since he disappears from history after his escape. So AC does have a precedent for this kind of stuff. Nioh also had a samurai who was a white character in a similar circumstance to Yasuke and it was well received. You guys are trying to white wash history that isn't your heritage. It's literally Japanese and bits of African heritage, and they should decide if their historical characters are proper because it's a FICTIONAL game set in a culture that isn't yours.

@@gamer7916 True, but yasuke is being used in bad faith, even if he was a samurai, you should know they are just doing this for that juicy DEI points. More points means more Investments from Blackrock (or equivalent) DEI investment management companies. I am totally fine with him as an NPC in this game (as an introduction), and then an expansion (like AC: Rogue) where you play as Yasuke.

This is just cap

​​@@leos4243 ive been seeing a lot japanese people saying they have no records of this guy ever being a samurai think ill trust the japanese people that actually know there own history

@@b4ked164 I have a good Japanese friend, he has been aware of him as long as I can remember but he’s a history buff, but what you are saying is like saying Curtis LeMay isn’t in a California text book so he doesn’t exist, at the end of the day he’s an obscure figure that operated in Japan for about 1.5-2 years, I’m sure he wasn’t in textbooks because he had a negligible effect on the period, that does not mean he didn’t exist and that good art can’t be made about him, and also how is it that you are speaking for a culture with 100s of millions of people when at most your exposure to it is limited to anime at best, also can you give me any other example of Yasuke being treated special, because other than maybe Nioh, I can’t think of one piece of Media outside of this game he is in, for as many dips online you can point to saying this, I can show you a dozen Japanese scholars that say the opposite

Then why do the Japanese video game devs keep showing Yasuke as a samurai and putting him in THEIR games too? Nioh 2 and Guilty Gear are PRIME examples. Like, I am sure some people are annoyed, but the Japanese like ALL people are not a monolith.

なぜ欧米人は弥助が日本史で重要な存在だったと嘘をつくんですか？ 目的がわからなくて怖いのですが

Exactly. A fucking joke.

Definitely won't buy something from them.....sonsick of this woke crap....

No.... They didn't do that!?!? Did you even play the game?

Do you enjoy lying?

@@jayceazar1476 why you lying? That didn't happen

link?

It's not that difficult to predict unhinged behavior

Ok lets play a prediction game 20 years later: "i heard Genghis Khan was black" -some woke activists

@@arielquelmedon’t think we have to wait another 20 years for this haha

Lol I'm predicting that what is going to happen with Mary Read character in AC 4 remake. Make her trans or lesbian

Very likely yes

I wouldn't be surprised if they made a game about Sun Tzu and make him black or his relatives.

@@metatronyt its getting worse when you find out that IGN have expose on who was the "h i s t o r i c a l" consultant for the game. It will surprise you big time.

You talk about it needing to be accurate history (which they are because no one knows what happened to Yasuke) and then you want them to be less accurate😂😂 make up your fucking mind and I'm pretty sure none of those guys would want to be seen as assassins. Seeing as it wouldn't be honorable.

No it wouldn't become accurate due to the timeline again the way they chose him is because he was a rarity, like most assassins, and this happens right after Ezio's student who he mentored who went back to china to fight back also going to Japan.

Exactly. This is so stupid.

So, Oda prized Yasuke so much as to gift him weapons and land but not so much as give him some armor when in campaign so he doesn't get killed? I admit I'm no expert but this seems rather absurd .

Anyone who knows anything about the AC series knows that it’s historical fiction. Ubi even labels it as a work of fiction every time you boot into a game.

Marx? Pacifism?! HA!

Ubisoft is currently dying a slow, pathetic death. And games with things like this in it won't help them.

They have karl marx in a game? Oh wow... I bet he was saintly... and nothing like the descriptions of his own family.

They made 9th century Britain 40% black

You clearly haven't played AC Syndicate (the game in question) as Karl Marx clearly states in the game that the bourgeoisie should be overtrown and that the workers need to seize the means of production. Not exactly a "pacifist democrat"...

Ezio is not a Syrian, but Revelation took place in Syria. Edward is a British white man, but Black Flag took place in the Caribbean. Apparently not every other AC game has created a character that is a reflection of the culture/ethnicity of the location setting.

@@NominalistWay ignoring the fact that we knew we were following ezio in his adventure to seek altair's wisdom before the location was revealed. we were least contextualized on why he's there before it was revealed where the character went (and well desmond had to get out of his coma somehow so everyone speculated another ezio game would come out after). black flag took place during the age of piracy where a bunch of privateers and would be, very ambitious sailors went to the high seas and took a very ludicrous (and dangerous) job stealing from others. so outside of AC Revelations black flag is accurate to the location and structure at the time since most of those privateers and sailors are from england ie black slaves, former privateers that are mostly white and hispanic captains along with other sailors coming about. I do think that reflecting the culture doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things if you have the writing chops to make it work, but with AC shadows I am really not holding any hope for the story to be remotely decent.

@@NominalistWay No Revelation took place in Turkey not Syria, Istanbul is located in turkey....secondly Ezio's story started off in his home country of Italy in AC 2 and in AC Brotherhood....lastly by the time of AC Black Flag, Spain, Portugal, France and England had colonies in the Carribbean and the Carribbean was definitely populated by European pirates and privateers from those countries.....nice try with your cherry picking there buddy. If Ubisoft really cared about diversity and inclusion of black people then in each of these settings they could have introduced such diverse characters in Ezio's story because around that time there was a black member of the Medici family who was the Duke of Florence named Alessandro De Medici, they could have also introduced black general Alexander Thomas Dumas in AC Unity because he was present in the French military during the French Revolution and during Napoleons rise to power.....I can also think of at least several historical settings and events in other African countries outside of Egypt that they could set an AC game in such as the Anglo Zulu war, The Mali Empire of Mansa Musa, The Italian invasion of Abyssinia (Modern Ethiopia) where you could play as a Ethiopian assassin, the Zimbabwean Rozvi Empires war against Portuguese Colonists and many more ....but hey folks clearly love tokenized black characters and warped black history over the real deal so have it.

​@@cyborgchicken3502Yes, my bad. Revelation took place in Turkey. But Ezio is not a turkish either. And yes, The story starts from AC2 which took place in Italy, which makes Ezio being the protagonist reasonable. But since Revelation took place in Turkey, they could use a turkish as the protagonist and allow Ezio to be a supportive character, if Ubi Soft really care about using local people as protagonist. The same applies to Black Flag. If they truly care about using local people, they clearly have options other than using a British guy to assume the role.

​@@nekoluxuria7721No, we don't know we were following Ezio on his quest to seek Altair's wisdom be fore the game was released. For all we know, the game could be a story about a different person, who is a native turkish, seeking Altair's wisdom on Ezio's behave. In which case, the story could at the same time be a sequel to Ezio's adventure and be represented by a local character. But why don't the players give any concern about whether the story is represented be a character native to the location where the story took place? There is no other explanation that I can think of except a unjustified double standard.

Assassin's Creed rewrites history all the time

DLC would have no controversy.

By that logic, it means we should play as Nobunaga. But that’s now how it works. When making a protagonist especially for these games, it benefits to have a protagonist that is close to the action but not the main reason it occurs as that is just kind of hard to fit into a game. Like if we played as Nobunaga, the game would have to become a discount Shogun 2 in how we have such large control over those kind of things. It also can benefit to work off a historical figure with a more ambiguous and unclear background. As it gives room for more creative freedoms and filling in the blanks without defying what we do know about the figure.

@@kaijuslayer3334 Maybe it would just make sense to play as a Japanese samurai.

It makes no sense. In Unity we don't play Louix XVI, Robespierre or Bonaparte. The fact that Yasuke is a sidenote allows the writers to do whatever they want with him, very much a fictional character. Only this time it's slightly grounded in history.

@@YurRedRooster It could, but Nioh had a white guy as the lead and we didn’t complain then. Yasuke is based on something real so I don’t mind either. Especially since he’s still super samurai and the other protagonist is still Japanese.

Melanin gives him the power to process thoughts quicker and therefore learn that stuff faster.

You sound like Aketchi Mitsuhide

While I agree that he wasn't some legendary warrior in Japan it is also false to say he wasn't a trained warrior. We have written proof of him being trained in India so He was already a trained combatant by the time he reached Japan.

​@@adambielen8996share your source? Where did it said he was trained in India?

The Woke Mob will not care that you're speaking absolute Facts. 😂 They'll say "Assassin's Creed has never cared about Historical Accuracy" as a weak defense.

they should have just made a new character like always

That was the impression I got from reading about Yasuke as well. Samurai? No. But he did have some form of station in Nobunaga’s court. As you said, a personal bodyguard, and I agree with that assessment. He wasn’t just some interesting pet Nobunaga paraded around. He wasn’t a samurai either. Guy knew how to fight and he was MASSIVE compared to Japanese at the time so it’s completely plausible he was used as a personal guard….and not just some dude carrying Nobunaga’s effects around.

But had they done what was historically accurate it wouldn't push their DEI ideology.

Furthermore, it is quite clear that someone like him would not have the freedom of movement (i.e. go unnoticed and be able to join and go wherever he wants) like a Japanese protagonist would have. This choice is wrong in the very spirit of the game as everyone would notice it and be able report his whereabouts at any time. It's not that there wasn't any other shinobi or spy in Japan besides Naoe...

I would have preferred for Yasuke to be a side character like Leonardo Da Vinci or Benjamin Franklin were in Ezio's games or Assassin's Creed III and the main playable characters be a female and male shinobi/ninja, as the assassin brotherhood just fits better as ninja then as samurai. But alas, this series lost what little bit of identity it had with AC Odyssey.

Yeah. Because the Miles family bloodline, which all AC protagonists are members of, ORIGINATES IN AFRICA, specifically Egypt.

@@PyrrhicPax Does every assassin have to be blood relative of Miles family????

Keep spewing your conspiracy theories

@@PyrrhicPax No protagonist has been in the family bloodline since black flag, Edward was the last one

@@Alfonso222 Not conspiracy when it's clear as day.

We ignoring the literal Japanese shinobi…?

good thing you can! The game lets you play as a japanese shinobi! Dont buy the game though, not until you know how good it is.

Ubisoft's bankruptcy can't come soon enough. They have been the most incompetent of the big AAA publishers for a long time. And now they seem to want to take the crown as the greediest.

@@fattiger6957 So you are saying if Bethesda and EA had a baby it would be Ubisoft.

@@Nexus_Hives If the doctor dropped the baby on its head, then yes.

Fr. Gameplay isnt even available yet theyre telling people to preorder

Exactly. I was not going to buy this game regardless.

Sounds like A DEI OFFICER,

Rwmember when a nutty professor said :"my grandmother said Cleopatra was black"

Yasuke We will begin with the fact that Yasuke was a real person, he did exist, he was of African descent and he was put into the service of Oda Nobunaga. This is fact, and is not disputed. What is disputed are all the revisionist stories of Yasuke as a great warrior, as having been awarded Samurai status, and earning respect of the Japanese people and other Damiyo that he encountered in the service of the Oda... THIS IS NOT FACT. Romantic stories of the famed Black Samurai are nothing more than fables no more real than the futuristic comic book land of Wakanda. Recent books by authors such as Thomas Lockley provide a plethora of speculation portrayed as fact, typically referencing historical documents and then interpreting them in a way to fit the narrative that sells books. However we won’t go to far into the motivations of authors and commercialization of romantic stories, these have their purpose and remaining true to the historical records is rarely one of them. Here is a high level overview based upon known recorded facts... Yasuke arrived in Japan in 1579 in service of the Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, who had been appointed the Visitor (inspector) of the Jesuit missions in the Indies (East Africa, South and East Asia). He accompanied Valignano when the latter came to the Kyoto area in March 1581 and his appearance caused a lot of interest with the local people. According to Histoire ecclésiastique des isles et royaumes du Japon, written by François Solier of the Society of Jesus in 1627, Yasuke was likely from Mozambique however this is not confirmed. When Yasuke was presented to Oda Nobunaga, the Japanese Daimyō thought that his skin must have been coloured with black ink. Nobunaga had him strip from the waist up and made him scrub his skin. These events are recorded in a 1581 letter of the Jesuit Luís Fróis to Lourenço Mexia, and in the 1582 Annual Report of the Jesuit Mission in Japan, also by Fróis. These accounts were also published in Cartas que os padres e irmãos da Companhia de Jesus escreverão dos reynos de Japão e China II (1598), normally known simply as Cartas. "When Nobunaga realized that the African's skin was indeed black, he took an interest in him." According to a Japanese accounting of Yaskue states: "On the 23rd of the 2nd month [23 March 1581], a black page came from the Christian countries. The man was healthy with a good demeanour and Nobunaga praised Yasuke's strength. Some say that Yasuke could speak or was taught Japanese, and it is stated Nobunaga enjoyed talking with him. However, it is more likely that a Jesuit missionary translated for them, in order to control the dialogue as they were not ones to miss an opportunity to interact with Nobunaga in order to advance their mission. Reportedly, Nobunaga's nephew gave him a sum of money at this first meeting, for his travels, and on 14 May, Yasuke departed for Echizen Province with Fróis and the other Christians. During this trip, they met local warlords such as Shibata Katsutoyo, Hashiba Hidekatsu, and Shibata Katsuie, They returned to Kyoto on 30 May. At some point, although when is not exactly clear, Yasuke entered Nobunaga's service. Yasuke was also mentioned in the prototype of Shinchō ki owned by Sonkeikaku Bunko , the archives of the Maeda clan. According to this, the black man named Yasuke was given his own residence and a short, ceremonial katana by Nobunaga. Nobunaga also assigned him the duty of weapon bearer (much to the annoyance of actual samurai) Here is where the facts morph from what is known, to what is "wished for"... Nobunaga had a propensity for the unique, and he was particularly interested in all things foreign. Clearly he was fascinated by Yasuke, and this was documented to be to the chagrin of many of his top generals such as Akechi Mitsuhide, who is reported to have been disgusted by the site of Yasuke, and saw him as nothing more than a wild beast. After the Battle of Tenmokuzan, Nobunaga led his force, including Yasuke, and inspected the former territory of the Takeda clan. So people make the assumption that Yasuke actually fought in this battle, and that he donned Samurai armor and fought valiantly as a samurai hero. Fact check: A sword bearer stays behind with the general camp, near to the lord, they don't go out on the battlefield, and there is ABSOLUTELY POSITVELY NO RECORD OF YASUKE FIGHTING IN ANY BATTLE! There is also NO RECORD of Yasuke receiving martial arts training, or use of the Japanese sword, either when in the service of Nobunaga or the years prior. The truth is that his time with Nobunaga was limited, as they first met in 1581 and Oda Nobunaga was dead a year later. This is hardly enough time for Yasuke to be trained to be the great warrior all the Waukanda dreamers want him to be. Yasuke as a Samurai? Sadly, for either commercial purpose, or some social equity rationale, some people attempt to equate Yasuke as a non Japanese Samurai in the same way the English sailor William Adams (Pilot) was later viewed. However Adams was actually presented Samurai status, and there is no record of Yasuke being bestowed similar Samurai status. The FACTs are that Oda Nobunaga made him a servant for a few months. A few months... not a lifetime of service dedicated to serving his lord, ready to give his life in the service of the Oda. Another fact that is clear; Yasuke was kept around as talking piece, an oddity for Nobunaga to show off, much in the same way he enjoyed irking other Daimyo by showing them Azai Nagamasa's gold plated skull. Fate of Yasuke They say that Yasuke was present at Honnoji and took part in the fighting that lead to Nobunagas death. However it is recorded that perhaps only a single individual from the Oda survived the Honnoji incident and it wasn't Yaskuke. Yasuke was alleged to have been taken by Mitsuhide troops soon after the Honnoji incident, but Akechi had his men return him to the Christian missionaries stating that you don't kill the beast, for the fault of his master. Was he an Honorable Samurai? Despite modern romanticized versions of Yasuke, if he was this great Samurai some would have you believe, then it stands to reason that he would have either fought to the death at Honnoji, or at the very least he would have committed Seppuku. Nope.... didn't happen. Or if he was an honorable Samurai like the 47 Ronin, at the very least he would have begged to join Hideyoshi in the fight against Mitsuhide and gotten revenge.... don't you think? Nope, didn't happen All that is known about the fate of Yaskue , is that he was seen with the Christian Missionaries after Nobunagas death and reportedly fled the country soon after. So while people may attempt to romanticize the story of Yasuke to suit their agenda, the truth is that such blatantly false attempts to rewrite history are pure revisionism and nothing more. Faking history because it makes you "feel good" does nothing but a disservice to all students of the culture, the Japanese nation and the historical record. There was no black samurai, no great Yasuke, no hero.... just a man who was a victim of circumstance and the times he lived in.

So they hired a fugoshi as a consultant.

@@Antillles Fujoshi. It seems so XD

Did you even watch the video before commenting?

@@maximtcaciuc2904 name the thing I said that is in conflict with the video, or sht up

@@user-nx3by5gy1n 12:40

He was

​@@sageex3931 evidence

That would have been really interesting seeing someone fight dhal-and-talwar style against the usual katanas and such!!

And I assume we have some actual evidence that he was trained to fight in India, correct perhaps some historical records and not just hopes and dreams

Out of all the arguments, this one is the most peculiar. He spent about ~15 months in Japan, wouldn't there be a record of his training or fighting abilities? Surely Metatron and people on both sides would have mentioned that. Instead we have to fall back on the old, "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Which you can apply to anything in history that doesn't have a conclusive answer. The title debate is really not so much the issue, it's the insinuation that if Yasuke was a Samurai then therefore he was a badass on the battlefield as depicted in the game trailer. Kinda like how some people think Frank Miller's 300 and the movie adaptation are detail for detail real. Essentially also doing what pop culture has done with the Shinobi. Some people will believe pop culture over historical accuracy. Ultimately, this should have been a Japanese lead character, BOTH of them. If Ubisoft wanted to include an minority, make it about the Ainu or the Ryukyuan people.

​@@lusterdog9694 Making the assassin like character come from a minority like the Ainus would have been such a good idea, it would have mirrored how the assassins formed in America with the natives, like what we see in Black Flag. Also, Yasuke was a bodyguard to one guy specifically but you are supposed to play him in an open world ? Makes no sense. That's the reason why AC protagonists are fictitious and don't historically exist in real life, the games are not supposed to entirely clash against real history but fill some holes in it with fiction.

​@@charlottewalnut3118 your assumption's wrong b/c there aren't any

@@BobbyBoy-pe2qtI think it would have been cool to keep Yasuke and get rid off the female protagonist. That way Yasuke and Hattori Hanzo could be these two bad asses working together, in like a “Buddy cop action” type who use different fighting styles. Yasuke the more standard Samurai style combat and Hanzo the more Shinobi stealth based style combat.

@@Re-Todd_Howard and why get rid off the female character

@@BobbyBoy-pe2qt i like her, nothing personal against her. I just thought Hanzo and Yasuke would’ve been a dope team.

@@Re-Todd_Howard It would be a interesting duo The Demon Hanzo and The Black Giant/Ogre/Oni Yasuke would have been dope. Sounds something you'll hear from a old school samurai/ronin film and a shoutout to Power Man and Iron Fist from Marvel.

@@Re-Todd_HowardDo we really need the 10,000th male protagonist game? Is it so wrong to try and introduce some new perspectives with the likes of a female Japanese assassin? Go play the countless other male protagonist feudal Japanese games if you’re that desperate. I swear, if Mulan came out today, people would be complaining about how they wish Disney instead did a story about some famous Chinese warrior, instead of, god forbid, a woman.

What a sheep you are. Imagine relying on someone else's opinion lmaooo

plus, they had always gone with OC playable characters in the past, so it is also more egregious that the first time they choose a historical character to be playable they did this.

The spanish, absence in any northern european piece of pop culture product. And I glad they forget us, to tell bs or deform history, better not to.

@camil3545 Jack the Ripper is a playable character in Syndicate.

​@LarryWater Yet we don't know who the identity of Jack the Ripper is, nor likely will we ever know who Jack the Ripper was. That's the creative freedom they got with Syndicate and being able to use them as a character in a DLC, not as the entire storyline main character.

I mean they do have a protagonist who is Japanese. The actual shinobi who is likely gonna be the more major character due to the nature of *Assassin’s* Creed. I feel the choice of having two protagonists was intentional for that reason, they didn’t wanna leave either side out so they made two.

Ppl are really trying to change history huh? That’s so crazy

@@alexanderromero293 you have no idea.

@@EudaimonV Sadly including Metatron who contradicts his own earlier video in this one due to his love of AC series biasing him.

You go to Wikipedia for history?

Yeah, I actually looked at the edit war for that page. Every single edit in the war has been over that single block of text stating there is no evidence of him being a samurai, either to remove it, add it back, or in one case add citations. Should also note that it seems to be one person that is desperate to have the block removed and he actually says that Yasuke can be declared a samurai without any evidence needed to back it up.

Not strange he is African and rare to see them in japan so, no it’s not strange. Strange is trying to attack a whole race for something that actually happened. If Black people were to do this everybody would be made but it’s okay for whites to be racist? The hypocrisy.

DeepLを使って翻訳してみては？　主語を明確にしておけば、おおむね正確な翻訳になります。日本語では省略できる「誰が、誰に」「何が、何に」を明確にするのがポイントです。

@@history_893 それは上記のコメントでの翻訳ボタンだと伝わらないという意味ですかね？ 基本的な部分が伝われば良いかと思うのですが、特に反応も無いのでこのままです

@@user-tu1pg5ly6h いやそういう意図ではなく、伝えたいメッセージがあるなら正確に伝わったほうがいいですよね？　長文を書いたのに曲解されると無駄になってしまいますし、日本語で書いてあると、これを無視する人は多いです。意図的に日本人からのメッセージであることを強調するには日本語で書くことも重要ですが、中身が伝わらないと意味をなさないですからね。日本語と英語を併記するのが良いのではないでしょうか。

@@history_893 えへへ…めんどくさいんだ…///

@@user-tu1pg5ly6h そうですか・・・。

just want to point out a little about japan not being good on keeping to accurate history. not saying this person is right or wrong but I wouldn't necessarily trust the record keeping of japan from that time or around ww2. PS that really goes for most countries if not all when history is written by those who win. if the person of that time is classist or racist or xenophobic they will show their biases as they write. like metatron said just because it isn't explicitly said/denied doesn't mean it didn't happen

👍🏻. Thank you for the history. Most of us don't know anything about Japan. ❤

He, tell him to F.O.

"Also, Yasu came to Japan one year before Nobunaga died, Nobunaga had already almost unified Japan, how could he be a samurai without a war?" This one is kinda weak although I agree with most of other things however that weak one can be a reason on "why put Yasuke in there as important character when there are more Japanese historical samurai with good combat records that suit better as the game character"

This is good. But treating someone as ficticious just because they weren't mentioned in history books in school is a very bad way of going about history and learning history. Tons of historical figures and events are not mentioned in school history books in every country in the world. Plus why would the Japanese even need to know about someone like Yasuke who's completely irrelevant to the history of Japan and is a fun fact more than anything? All in all the person is correct

That is correct.

Jan Joosten van Lodensteyn was a Dutch navigator who became a samurai and was given just one name. So, a samurai with only one name is possible and it happened.

@@huseyindelidogan5654 Jan Joosten's Japanese name is Ya Yousu. Ya is the surname.

@@user-kv3rz7wd1k Yayōsu is clearly a contraction of Lodensteyn’s given names Jan Joosten adapted to Japanese pronunciation. Ya is not a Japanese sounding surname in the first place. There are only 10 Japanese surnames (out of 291,129 registered) that include the kanji 耶, and none of them have just one kanji. The only people who use this kanji alone as a surname are the Chinese, who pronounce it Yé 耶.

​@@huseyindelidogan5654 I am Japanese, so I know that. Most Chinese surnames have one character, and Japanese have two. But you probably don't know this, but there are many one-character surnames among the Japanese as well.

Almost everything about Yasuke is research based assumptions though, Yasuke wasn’t even ever confirmed to be a slave, he was “assumed” to be a slave in childhood to explain how he made his way to India and had combat training, but nowhere in letters and writings confirms this. So think of it like that.

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So it's a 'Japanesed' version of 'Roots'.

@@mobrk6036 Main difference is how a lot of people take that novel as actual proper source instead as historical fiction ala Shogun about Adams. Everyone knows that Shogun is historical fiction novel loosely based off life of Adams while for some reason Lockeys novel is treated as a proper historical source and many outlets even Britannica cite stuff from said novel as factual which is simply insane.

Glad someone mentioned this. Lockey's novel is quite literally nothing but assumptions and should never be used as a source on anything.

Would the games more palatable if the game was about the English man.

@@Craig-pm2kc I think anyone from the outside of Japan would stick out.....would be better if protagonist was a Japanese Samurai tbh.

@@cheekychappyo8 if they are going to be an assassin they should be a ninja not a samurai lol

@@GKAlaric Stand corrected 👍

@@GKAlaric ninja weren’t assassins they were used for reconnaissance and gathering information.

@metatronyt any sources you also have to refute this claim? sharing and citing sources to and from each other should be the proper way of engaging a discussion like this, I say

Nice.The only source DEI can use in their defense is the modification of Wikipedia.

TBH I would love to see Metatron respond to you, I am not expert on Japaneese culture or history, but based on what he stated in previous video on Yasuke plus what You added it really seems very unlikely that Yasuke was anything else than exotic pet Nobunaga used to show off, the way he was used as bodyguard and basically a jester during parties only supports that claim, also the way he was talking to him "yea you are my black samurai, I will totally make you a lord", sorry but it looks like Yasuke was not respected warrior but a butt of a joke, he would not even be able to properly use weapons he got, and you see that treatment reflected in quote from Mitsuhide you provided. I would really like to know what Metatron discussed with the author of that "black samurai" book as it seems that his stance changed from "we don't really know but it is unlikely" to " we don't really know" and I do not belive that term "samurai" being used rarely in official documents at the time was enough for him to change his mind.

funnily enough the first non-japanese samurai seems to actually have been William Adams (the guy that inspired Nioh's protagonist) who had to serve and train under a lord for 5 years before being granted a small estate and title.

He is using Thomas Locke as a reference and source of information. I don't even know why any one even still takes him seriously.

Who or what is SBI?

@@tacticaltemplar875 Sweet Baby Inc. A DEI consultancy firm. Bankrolled by BlackRock and a slew of NGOs vaguely connected to the US Democrat party (in other words, corruption). This is where your pension funds and tax dollars are going, folks.

If that's true then the game is already dead.

​@@tacticaltemplar875 Sweet Baby Inc. same devs behind that Suicide Squad game which currently has less players than an OFFICIALLY DEAD GAME.

@@tacticaltemplar875 Sweet Baby Inc. A DEI consultancy firm. Bankrolled by BlackRock and a slew of NGOs vaguely connected to the US government. This is where your pension funds and tax dollars are going, folks.

There was lots of Chinese and Japanese cross pollination with art style and architecture. I’m sure they know what they’re doing. The cult of anti- woke is just nitpicking for political and ideological reasons, it’s activism

This "audience" is literally just one comment that got translated and is now spread everywhere. And I honestly do not see how.

​@revbladez5773 you obviously aren't reading much then. There are entire threads on Japanese Twitter about this.

@@revbladez5773 Sorry to tell you that most of Japanese are not happy with it, so far nothing positive I saw. my japanese friends arent either. Cuz not only the architecture, every face in the trailer dont look Japanese at all, they are all just a blend Asian stereotype except Nobunaga, he looks like white dude for no reason. Literally, dont even try to blame Japanese never saw their neighbors and houses or something, they know what they see.

@@revbladez5773 is Ubisoft paying you to write this shit?

There are Aliems in the AC series, enough said. Let the man be a Samurai

@@ggert23 no

Thank god he lost then … affection indeed

@@Shimra8888I mean he won in the end, it was the men who was in his own inner circle who would unify Japan. Hideyoshi would after avenging Nobunaga’s death, and Tokugawa took the reins at the end.

My guy you actually think AC games are accurate to the history ? xD

@@NorthInium Details such as historical characters, world building and weapon/armor are usually more in line with accuracy in most AC games (Except Valhalla). There is the fiction side, which is the assassin/templar conflict. That doesn't mean that they aren't trying to make the world as authentic as possible.

​@@Shimra8888without Oda, people like Tokugawa wouldn't have chosen to help unify Japan and modernize. Thry would've been like Qing China and Tsarist Russia if it weren't for these men and the Meiji Restoration era.

I believe in Metatron's first video on the topic, accounts of Yasuke say his skin was dark as ink and was a giant. While this doesn't discount anyone from India, it would at least scale to Africa a bit more. But he says some of this a second time here, while we are still unsure of most accuracy to begin with. Basically: we will never know minus accounts that will give a vague sense. It's what makes history fascinating, which I think is lost on so many today. Who would have thought that this would have been a question so far into the future of those that saw him?! It's incredible.

​@@BeardGrizzly South Indian's have darker skin then most African

Got to remember in this period Eastern Africans went to India, as merchants, traders, and guards to the Europeans. Some ended up living in Goa. Plus the Jesuits would have made it clear if he was a native Indian in the little we have written of him. They don’t claim this.

@@admirekashiri9879 Right, but wouldn’t that be true of any groups that the Portuguese interacted with? If there is some way the Portuguese distinguish these groups and Yasuke was referenced in that manner then it would make sense how we would know. But what specifically did the Portuguese say about him that indicated he was African as opposed to Indian?

@@Egg_of_the_King The term blackamoor was used to refer to black Africans, as far as I know Indians (Dravidians or Hindu) were not classed as Blackamoors. The Europeans saw black Muslims in Africa and classed them as Moorish or blackamoor due to the auxiliary troops used by the Arabs and Berber Moors in the Iberian Peninsula during the Al Andalus period. So keep that in mind. They did make some distinctions as did the Japanese when they depicted Black people and south Asians in the Nanban art.

Actually Black Flag takes place in the caribbeans and had a white Welsh guy as the protagonist so not every assassian creed had a representative of their country

@@trvpmusic2569 that was a game about pirates in the West Indies. Pirates at that time were of many nationalities including Welsh so it’s still counts. Stop being petty and pedantic….. peasant

But you do have a Japanese protagonist...?

​@@trvpmusic2569caribbeans is not a country and it was colonial period, so a white person is not a rare sight

there is literally a Japanese protagonist

Well. They made Kassandra canon character in Ancient Greece and let her participate in Olympics. Like pls. It’s a video game. Not an encyclopedia

Dawg he literally existed. He’s historically present

Not racist, back then they were just in ahh the only recorded racist was Akechi Mitsuhide

No they removed the crossbow because it was too overpowered. Crossbows were invented way before the 3rd crusade. Ezio was also covered head to toe in armor and had no problem hiding in a crowd. Every protagonist shows all their weapons and tools on display without getting spotted.

@@agirlinabasementofyourdaddy " consistency" "logic" 2 things needed even if its fictional or fantasy

The information is kinda biased. Considering that Luis brought him as a slave there to begin with

@@main1033 And also the fact Akechi had already gone full asshole mode and hated Nobunaga’s guts so I don’t think he looked to Yasuke favorably. By default, the Japanese are already pretty racist so

@@main1033 Well, all historical documents are biased, because they're written by humans with their interpretations of events. The Chronicles of Oda Nobunaga are biased, now important events in History are written by countless people and therefore you can cross-check their narratives and derive at least some factual understanding of what was happening at the time. With Yasuke you can't do this. His irrelevancy to the Sengoku period doesn't permit you to make any good assertions about the man. Luís Fróis maybe biased in his reports, but his reports are historically relevant, unlike Yasuke.

@@kaijuslayer3334 It may seem like a good argument at first, but if Akechi was on full asshole mode as you describe it and hated everything to do with Nobunaga why not kill Yasuke, if he commanded such respect and authority in the inner circles of Nobunaga? It may be his personal racists opinions, but one thing is certain, he didn't perceive Yasuke as someone important that would cause him troubles in his plans at the time. Which was proven to be true anyway, after those events no one really knows what happened to the man. Despite whatever you may think of the Historical Character Yasuke, one thing is undeniable, he was irrelevant and wasn't perceived as any type of threat by Akechi and his reasons as far as Luís Fróis is concerned are what I mentioned earlier.

@@tiagobras2271 Well Akechi had a ego problem, hence why he betrayed Nobunaga and tried to be Shogun

Chosen for what dude. It's just a black dude in Japan and they just put him in a video game.

The word is Hollywood/the media wants to make money and thinks black men and white men as leads will make more money than East Asian men as leads. That is why other Western stories about feudal Japan never focuses on exclusively Japanese people in Japan, but always has to use some white-male lead...like the Last Samurai or the Shogun TV/book series. The media still constantly whitewashes East Asian media/media set in cultural East Asia and find ways to race/culture swap the main characters into people played by European-Caucasian actors while erasing much of the original East Asian characters. See Dragon Ball, Avatar Last Airbender live action film, Ghost in the Shell, Death Note, etc. This situation goes back decades, such as when Bruce Lee was denied the role of the character in the Kung Fu series (they chose David Carradine) because he was considered "too Chinese" to play the role of a wandering Shaolin monk. They chose John Wayne to play Genghis Khan even though there have been Asian/Asian-American actors in Hollywood since the Silent era of film. The new Netflix show the Three Body Problem was based on a Chinese novel series where the first book almost entirely takes place in 1970s China and 2000s China. What did Netflix do? They erased the entire modern 2000s Chinese setting to set it in the United Kindom instead, got rid of basically all of the Chinese characters, and replaced them with new characters that allowed them to use mostly British actors. For people who are familiar with the books, the two different Chinese settings were unique and are supposed to be thematically and philsophically contrasting with each other to represent different values and perspectives...so they are not only race & culture swapping, but they're also erasing key themes and philosophical viewpoints of the story.

@@meciocio "Chosen for what"? Can you read? Chosen specifically for the color of their skin. Do you know what it means to make decisions based on skin color? Let me ask you, would it be logical or even appropriate to have an asian or white guy as the protagonist in an AC game in Africa set centuries ago?

@@m-h1217 what's your problem dude

​@@meciocio wow bruh stop trolling you don't look cool.

@shinian6523 Nowhere on the current (May 19, 2024) Wikipedia article does it say that Yasuke was a samurai. Wikipedia does have some issues, but fortunately Yasuke doesn’t seem to be one of them

bruh did u even watch the video?

@@farisjamjoom6240none of them watch the video because metatron said yasuke was important, so they ignored it and started commenting.

Guys the comment was a reference to that infamous interview from the Cleopatra show on Netflix. The commenter doesn't unironically believe what they said.

​@@frustratedplayerAs if the comment has to do with the video😂 Curb your autism

Assassin’s Creed, Mongolia

There’s an Asian female protag, is that not good enough

No, did you not comprehend the video or just decided to be ignorant?

@@saturnargentavis1901 oh shut up.

He was never a samurai after nobunaga died they literally put him in a cage and treated him like an animal.

@@zsoltszabo22 your source mcdonalds

@@Xmasparol You know what? I got my info from the internet like most people do these days, and like any sensible person I compared my foundings. And one thing a lot of them had in common was an actual samurai (unlike Yasuke) by the name of Akechi Mitsuhide, he hated Yasuke and thought of him as something subhuman ( probably because he was racist) he was also jealous of Nobunagas interest towards Yasuke. Due to this after Nobunaga's passing he took the first oppurtunity to literally lock the man in a cage and ridicule him. He later handed Yasuke over to the Jesuites but that doesnt change the truth of my initial statement. So maybe you should do some research of your own before dissing someone else's.