I ANNIHILATED Ubisoft and They Deserved It

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On this video we are watching and reacting to the trailer of Assassin's Creed Shadows. This trailer has created a lot of controversy and backlash with people attacking and insulting each other over the protagonist being a Black African man. What is the real history about this? Let's talk about it.
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Many people are getting really upset about this game, particularly in Japan as Japanese gamers are feeling left out when compared to previous Assassin's Creed games which always features a protagonist from the same are as the setting.
Even though these feeling as absolutely justified, it's also important to not overswing and reach incorrect conclusions such as some people mentioning that there was never a Black African man in Feudal Japan, which is historically incorrect.
Let's talk about Yasuke, let's watch the trailer and see if the way they represented him in this game is in any way coherent with the historical record and most importantly let's ask the hardest question of all...Was Yasuke a samurai?
然に彼黒坊被成御扶持、名をハ号弥助と、さや巻之のし付幷私宅等迄被仰付、依時御道具なともたさせられ候、
This black man called Yasuke was given a stipend, a private residence, etc., and was given a short sword with a decorative sheath. He is sometimes seen in the role of weapon bearer.
Shiba Yoshikane in 1553 - son of the previous and soon to be the next de jure lord of Owari, before Nobunaga ran him out of town.
若武衛様は川狩より直にゆかたひらのあたてにて信長を御憑み候て那古野へ御出すなはち貳百人扶持被仰付天王坊に置申され候
Lord Buei the Younger fled directly from his fishing spot on the river to Nagoya, dressed only in a bathrobe, to call on Nobunaga’s help. Accordingly, Nobunaga assigned him a stipend sufficient to maintain a retinue of two hundred men and installed him in the Tennōbō temple.
Saitō Dōsan. Recent research suggest this story is inaccurate, but I’m just demonstrating how Ōta Gyūichi uses the word.
斎藤山城道三は元來山城國西岡の松波と云者也一年下國候て美濃國長井藤左衛門を憑み扶持を請余力をも付られ候
The original family name of Saitō Yamashiro Dōsan was Matsunami. He was a native of the Western Hills of Yamashiro Province. One year, he left the Kyoto area for the provinces and called on the help of Nagai Tōzaemon of Mino, who granted him a stipend and assigned auxiliaries to him.
Nobunaga remonstrating Ashikaga Yoshiaki in 1573 for not giving out stipend properly.
一諸侯の衆方々御届申忠節無踈略輩には似相の御恩賞不被宛行今々の指者にもあらさるには被加御扶持候さ樣に候ては忠不忠も不入に罷成候諸人のおもはく不可然事
Item [3] You have failed to make appropriate awards to a number of lords who have attended you faithfully and have never been remiss in their loyal service to you. Instead, you have awarded stipends to newcomers with nothing much to their credit. That being so, the distinction between loyal and disloyal becomes irrelevant. In people’s opinion, this is improper.
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一無恙致奉公何の科も御座候はね共不被加御扶助京都の堪忍不屆者共信長にたより歎申候定て私言上候はゝ何そ御憐も可在之かと存候ての事候間且は不便に存知且は公儀御爲と存候て御扶持の義申上候ヘ共一人も無御許容候餘文緊なる御諚共候間其身に對しても無面目存候勸(觀歟)世與左衛門古田可兵衛上野紀伊守類の事
Item [7] Men who have given you steadfast and blameless service but have not been awarded a stipend by you find themselves in dire need in Kyoto. They turned to Nobunaga with a heavy heart. If I were to say a few words in their behalf, they assumed, then surely you would take pity on them. On the one hand, I felt sorry for them; on the other, I thought it would be in the interest of the public authority (kōgi no ontame; sc., to your benefit). So I put the matter of their stipends before you, but you did not assent in even one case. Your hard-heartedness, excessive as it is, puts me out of countenance before these men. I refer to the likes of Kanze Yozaemon [Kunihiro], Furuta Kahyōe, and Ueno Kii no Kami [Hidetame].
Nobunaga to his own "companions" (think of Alexander’s foot and horse companions) in 1575 because he was feeling generous that day and had just given a bunch of cloth to a beggar and then felt like also rewarding his men who were supposedly moved to tears by the former act of generosity.
御伴之上下皆落淚也御伴衆何れも々々被加御扶持難有仕合無申計樣体也如此御慈悲深き故に諸天の有御冥利而御家門長久にに御座候と感申也
All of Nobunaga’s companions, those of high as of low rank, also shed tears. Each and every one of his companions had his stipend increased, and it goes without saying that they felt fortunate and thankful. It is because Nobunaga was so compassionate, everyone felt, that the heavens shed their blessings upon him and that the fortunes of his house would long endure.
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@metatronyt Ай бұрын

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@unusualaussie9606 Ай бұрын

Was giving a male name to a female intentional? Take into account that she has male like face in 2024 and you have your answer.

@bigpicklerick Ай бұрын

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@loadshedding_ Ай бұрын

@@unusualaussie9606"male like face" bro what😭

@GeneralPadron Ай бұрын

I am the 888th like...

@MultiStendhal Ай бұрын

I appreciate you appreciation good sir

@heartache3711 Ай бұрын

She said "stolen by the Portuguese", I think what she meant to say was sold by African slave traders to the Portuguese. We're keeping it historical after all.

@30noir Ай бұрын

You can't have an evil african - are you racist?

@titanscerw Ай бұрын

Kidnapped by African or arab machometan slavers, sold to Portuguese and saved from slavery by a Catholic Monk ... Also he was in Nippon all of 15 months we know of ... Unacceptable liars. +][+

@arkaleon1551 Ай бұрын

We keep the reciet ubisoft

@joaofarinha551 Ай бұрын

It's amazing how they try to push the idea that the Portuguese were somehow these great conquerors/slavers and yet we had little to no armies in comparison to other European nations. The reason we had slaves was because we bought and paid for them. Guess who was there to sell them to us?

@johnyoung5392 Ай бұрын

Eventually, someone will make a video game where Blacks enslave Whites in 1800 America, but ohhhh it's a "video game"

@soknheith3259 Ай бұрын

Shinobi village my ass! They didn't have any historians as advisors, they just rewatched Naruto.

@BlueBD Ай бұрын

their Historian focuses on the BL and Yaoi of ancient Japan.

@EverythingEverywhereAllOver Ай бұрын

They would have done better if they rewatched Naruto. Like Naruto ninja tactics and politics are top notch. You can learn how to rule a country from Naruto.

@MazinGo-1972 Ай бұрын

Ubisoft actually made a Naruto game. I doubt that has any baring on this one but they did do one over a decade ago.

@incrediblehobson8479 Ай бұрын

I think you give them too much credit

@shreyway12 Ай бұрын

@@BlueBDproof? You’re talking out of your ass just like everyone else in this thread.

@Skeety08 Ай бұрын

ubislop: " we cannot really mix a samurai and shinobi together" Hattori Hanzo: "am I a joke to you"?

@Ghostofspartagaming-iv2yp 24 күн бұрын

Fr why couldn’t they made him the main character in the game instead like we barely know anything about him and would be good to know about him

@hesoyam881 19 күн бұрын

@@Ghostofspartagaming-iv2yp Hanzo Hattori was conventionally more of a Samurai but has been depicted in several works of fiction as being a shinobi/ninja. To be more historically accurate, one would depict Hanzo Hattori as a guerilla tactician and capable samurai general. He's less of an "assassin" ninja and more of a "strategist" ninja. He hails from a land where ninja are prominent and has trained in similar arts, but I doubt he is the kind to be parkouring from building to building while in the shadows

@Tylerthephantom 15 күн бұрын

*Ghost of Tsushima has entered the chat.

@Skeety08 15 күн бұрын

@@hesoyam881 still you gotta admit if they were choosing a historical figure for an AC game he would’ve been a good pick

@hesoyam881 15 күн бұрын

@@Skeety08 AC protagonists have always been fictional blank slate characters. While Naoe carries on that ideology, idk why they chose to have Yasuke as a second protagonist as well. In which case, yeah Hanzo Hattori would have definitely fit in a lot better

@Shin-nl8oz Ай бұрын

Thank you from Japan. Btw, one thing ... regarding Kanetsugu Naoe, Naoe is a family name, so it could be both male name or female name☺

@st.lucient4755 22 күн бұрын

Wouldn't the question shift to the weirdness of naming a girl with 2 family names, instead of one family name and one given name ? Like "Watanabe Yamada" ? Or "Satou Takeda" ?

@Shin-nl8oz 22 күн бұрын

@@st.lucient4755 Well, it could be also a first name, and if it's a first name, it sounds more like a female than a male name.

@st.lucient4755 22 күн бұрын

@@Shin-nl8oz wouldn't it be a really odd case, especially considering the Naoe clan was very much still present at the time period ? Along the same line as naming a son with "Takeda" or "Uesugi" for his first name would be weird ? Please correct me if I'm wrong but as I came to know, Japanese people prioritize what kanji they spell the name with before the vocal part of the name. So much that, in an introduction one needs to explain like "I'm *example name*, read as the flowing water that splits the mountains" What would the kanji of Naoe's name in this case even be

@Shin-nl8oz 22 күн бұрын

@@st.lucient4755 I must say naming a son "Takeda" or "Uesugi" is quite strange, for these are 99.999999% family names. Naoe in this game is written as 奈緒江. Judging from the characters, it's a first name, I think. Actually, each character has several meanings depending on the context, and this comment space is not enough to explain all of those different meanings. 奈 is the same character used for Na in Nara city, the old capital of Japan ☺

@sherylalto 8 күн бұрын

Naoe can be a surname or a name. It may look the same to people who speak english, but it can be written totally different in japanese kanji. Like 直江as surname or 奈緒江 as a female name. For people who use kanji would know the difference.

@rayvg7709 Ай бұрын

Ghost of Tsushima handles the whole samurai/assassin thing incredibly well.

@fattiger6957 Ай бұрын

Rise of the Ronin also covers that with a ton of combat customization.

@Eldiran1 Ай бұрын

Along these great game, you even have the serie Shogun who have a powerfull and historicaly correct woman in it.

@skitz-oh Ай бұрын

@@fattiger6957 is Rise of the Ronin amy good?? Been debating on getting it but looks a bit shit

@GothamThotSlayer Ай бұрын

@skitz-oh It's a decent game but I would wait for a discount

@fattiger6957 Ай бұрын

@@skitz-oh It's really good. Not as cinematic as Ghost of Tsushima, but there is way more customization. You aren't locked to just Katana. There are a ton of weapons, each of which has multiple styles. It's kind of structured like a RDR2-style open world game. The marketing really failed it. I forgot about it until saw it on a Japanese history YT channel.

@winj3r Ай бұрын

When you manage to upset the far-left and the far-right, at the same time, it becomes clear you are doing something very well.

@IgnusIncubus Ай бұрын

Honest question: who in the far-right actually had a unjust problem with this game? I ask because I*am* far right and the problem o have with this game is not actually unjust (as I see it) and nothing that Metatron said till now pissed me off or anything like that

@wolvenedvard3049 Ай бұрын

Just like Israel lol.

@admirekashiri9879 Ай бұрын

Exactly this is why I love his work 😁

@zameion90 Ай бұрын

Or that you just complain all the time

@Alte.Kameraden Ай бұрын

It is why I like Metatron. If you're getting attacked by the extremes you're doing something right. TIKhistory is also in the same boat.

@mm-qf9zb 21 күн бұрын

I can't forgive Thomas Lockley for using Yasuke to make money and get brownie points. No major Japanese game company will ever release a game with Yasuke as a samurai in the future.

@sapereaudediogenes7282 Ай бұрын

In Minute 17:30, they say that: "Yasuke was likely stolen as a child, by the Portuguese". That is inacurate as the Portugues bought slaxes from African Traders. They did not steal them. On the other hand if the Lady is referring to Kidnaxxing. Than that statement would again be inacurate, as it is true that the Portugues did Raid coastel villiges. But it was very rare and costly in Soldiers lost! It was way cheaper and easyer to buy them from African city states. Thus making the likelyhood that he was bought as a slaxe child very high. Also Yasuke was later given freedom by the Portugues in India, before even meeting the Jesuits and traveling to Japan. Even this Locley Guy agnolaged that in his bock.

@chelsthegameruiner8669 Ай бұрын

Apparently the Portuguese also didn't have a very powerful military at the time from what people are saying

@sapereaudediogenes7282 Ай бұрын

@@chelsthegameruiner8669 no actually at that Time, they made up some of the finest and best Warriors of Europe. But the sad truth is just that Sl.vxs were being sold for very cheap, African kings would sell them for Alcohol, salt, sugar, furniture, clothing.

@sapereaudediogenes7282 Ай бұрын

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@sapereaudediogenes7282 Ай бұрын

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@kevinbrodacki 20 күн бұрын

I've never heard anyone talk about stealing a person. as if yasuke was was an object lol

@paradisecityX0 Ай бұрын

Ubisoft pretty much confirmed that they ARE Abstergo in Black Flag and Rogue

@ShaiAmos Ай бұрын

*TRUE*

@HansWurst1569 Ай бұрын

Assassins creed 3 also kind of made that point in their multiplayer. Yes it had multiplayer.

@1lham_edits Ай бұрын

@@HansWurst1569 yeah, loved the AC Brotherhood, Revelations, 3 and Black Flag multiplayer modes. Mostly played the AC3, most people were on there.

@IsisNish Ай бұрын

Exactly this. Especially at the end of Rogue where Otso and team were all "join us or die".

@juliusc.8711 Ай бұрын

@@1lham_edits I personally preferred the maps from revelations and the characters but i loved the "Haytham wanna be" with the serrated sword from 3.

@James_Bee Ай бұрын

Taken as a child BY THE PORTUGUESE?! Yeah, no. They may have traded or bought him, but they weren't the ones going out and raiding tribes and abducting would be slaves.

@BasedR0nin Ай бұрын

For real, he wasn’t taken by he was “sold” TO the Portuguese

@thatoneLerrydude Ай бұрын

Rewriting history is all these hacks can do.

@dominic.h.3363 Ай бұрын

You can't possibly suggest they tell the truth that one black tribe sold off the other... that'd be... accurate. They hate that!

@XarkoCZ Ай бұрын

You know damn well they tried to avoid saying he was sold a slave

@iyaramonk Ай бұрын

The Portugese are the only European slave traders that also participated in raids. This is not hidden knowledge.

@bmanichanh Ай бұрын

As an Asian, I'm mad because it's basically a hate crime simulator designed to humiliate Asians as much as possible

@OwO377 Ай бұрын

Realistic fact . They so call international is straight up blasphemy.

@seangotti3 Ай бұрын

But r u Japanese? If not ur opinion doesn't matter

@drifter139 Ай бұрын

you can take solace in the fact this game will bomb hard but it will be blamed on white men like me since apparently we are born racist and hate women. sooo good for you and bad for me lol

@Kane.JimLahey. Ай бұрын

You truly believe this?

@ChadKakashi Ай бұрын

I doubt that was the intention. It’s like saying Ghost of Tsushima is a “Mongol Hating Simulator”

@timou_93 Ай бұрын

It would have been very interesting to see Yasuke as a perfectly trained bodyguard, fighting with European styles, and slowly evolving his kenjutsu skill tree with samurai trainers, including Japanese sword techniques. Having an hybrid and evolving skill. Instead of starting as a legendary samurai which is weird, and not really respectful of the time it takes to train another culture techniques.

@inquisitive6786 11 күн бұрын

Why would a slave from africa be fighting with european styles lmao

@user-xg9tp9uq8p Ай бұрын

「私は日本人です、というコメントのほとんどは日本人ではありません」いやいや、本当に珍しいことだが今回ばかりは本当に日本人は怒っていますよシャドウズのトレーラー発表を発端にしたwikipediaの弥助のページの編集によって歴史を改竄する動きが検知されてから、私たち日本人は本当に怒っていますそしてUBIが歴史専門家を雇い、日本に現地取材をしたというのにも関わらず、低品質な歴史公証の産物が確認されたことにもあきれましたさらに「アジア人視点のゲームでは感情移入できない」というコメントにも、「それならばどうして日本を題材にしたゲームなど作ろうとしたのだ」とさらなる批判を呼びました滅多にこのようなケースで怒りの声を上げない日本人が、これほど大挙してコメントを残していく背景や理由をどうぞ考えてください

@user-xg9tp9uq8p Ай бұрын

@@user-lr6lr1sq4j そうなんすよねこの上の文章もグーグル翻訳考えなければもっとくだけた言い方もできるのに

@alias-wave Ай бұрын

失礼な言い方になるかもしれませんが、あなたは同音異義語の変換ミスをしているので日本語話者であることは確実ですね。 ×「公証」〇「考証」

@artnull13 Ай бұрын

What do you think of the historian they hired? The Professor of fujoshi studies.

@user-xg9tp9uq8p Ай бұрын

@@artnull13 ゲームに限らず、漫画やアニメ、映画、ドラマの背後で暗躍する活動家は人種を問わず全員嫌いです日本人にも狂った活動家がいて大変迷惑しています

@Nellielle007 Ай бұрын

@@artnull13I'm a fujoshi and this is a big piece of agenda BS

@leburger5160 Ай бұрын

Let's get this out of the way. That Sachi lady isn't a historian. They credited her as being one of the lead historians. but her entire academic background consists of nothing but writing about sexual interactions between Buddhist monks and other men in feudal Japan. Beyond that, she has done sweet f all that gives her any relevance to this era. That speaks volumes about what this game is gonna end up being, and it isn't good...

@ruleoftwo6174 Ай бұрын

and why you think she has her role in US academia? she's the last person any japanese would goto for general history, let alone any accuracy

@Technoanima Ай бұрын

Basically she's a perv.😂

@danielchettiar5670 Ай бұрын

She favors the colourful flag. That all the current political environment/regime cares about, so she thrives

@Xaa25 Ай бұрын

She's a professor of litterature, you know the thing that conserved all the thoughts of an era befor internet existed.

@dravenocklost4253 Ай бұрын

@Xaa25 Literature is not Historian. Literature is a broad term. Historiagraphy is not. Cope.

@user-hy5xsai Ай бұрын

As someone mentioned, one way might be to omit the Japanese woman from the main character; UBI chose Yasuke instead of the Japanese samurai because he could not relate to the Japanese (a statement made in a deleted interview). A Japanese woman named Naoe was also provided, but the life of a female ninja is harsher than that of a samurai, and is rarely praised. She is a shadowy figure whose name is difficult even to leave in history, and her situation is always complicated. What is the contradiction that it is impossible to create a male Japanese samurai and possible to create a female ninja who is more difficult to portray? Frankly, I think they want to see an unrealistic black samurai in full armor wetting his cudgel with Japanese blood.

@MetaGiga 7 күн бұрын

While native Japanese citizens lower than him bow because of his high ranking status…

@kuro_kishi Ай бұрын

"Yah-soo-kay", The fact they continuously butcher his name shows how much Ubisoft knows about Japanese culture. 😂😂😂

@mish375 Ай бұрын

Yeah, in Japanese the "u" sound is reduced in the name Yasuke.

@Seattletyy93 15 күн бұрын

It's just French being terrible as usual

@ultracapitalistutopia3550 4 күн бұрын

@@mish375Precisely both vowels "u" and "i" are heavily reduced when they're not followed by a voiced consonant. That's why Japanese pronounce "desu" and "masu" as "des" and "mas" instead, since both are usually at the end of a sentence.

@ultracapitalistutopia3550 4 күн бұрын

Also to be fair, the modern Japanese language romanization was built around modern English, so it's forgivable that non-native English speakers have even more trouble to deal with these romanized Japanese names/terms.

@Shrapnel82 Ай бұрын

“I’ve seen a cat slice one of those doors open, multiple times.” The notorious catana. Their claws are folded over 9,000 times.

@Dowlphin Ай бұрын

This is how they came to rule over humankind. Superior genes.

@kevinagney6158 Ай бұрын

Cats are the reason that the earth is not flat. Smialadons would have pushed every thing off out of bordum.

@billylee7398 Ай бұрын

Ah yes. I used to wake up at 6 am. to catch this sound a channel that was competing with Fox and WB. The show was called Samurai Eastern Cats.

@NotTheStinkyCheese Ай бұрын

Samurai pizza cats? They were amazing @@billylee7398

@Kaijugan 20 күн бұрын

I mean, most doors were made of paper…

@e0jay Ай бұрын

Ubisoft going off with their horseshit again. Sucker Punch managed to create a simultaneous Samurai and Shinobi character. My man Jin mastered both "different warrior classes" when he became the Ghost in Ghost of Tsushima 🤷‍♀

@trvpmusic2569 Ай бұрын

Well Jin technically in that game is the first Shinobu and existed like 400-500 years before Yasuke and Naoe ...so if Jin actually existed Naoe would probably be a descendant of his but she wouldn't be versed in modern samurai arts

@ahmarelvirgio823 Ай бұрын

I'm not even an expert of historian and development gaming work, but I feel like I'm smarter than those clowns

@shunakiyama6275 Ай бұрын

Yeah and the entire story of that game was how Jin couldn't be both and had to abandon being a samurai.

@kozhcaelum8495 Ай бұрын

@@shunakiyama6275uh no, what he abandoned is the way of samurai, which absolutely priorities honor regardless if the enemies respect it or not, not his training/battle skill as samurai which is OP's point.

@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180 Ай бұрын

@@kozhcaelum8495building on that, that's bushido, which not every samurai followed and many actively exploited. Out idea of honourable samurai is like the chivalrous knight: the code existed, their ideals existed, probably some followed it, but pop culture believes them the rule instead of the exception they were.

@caliburn1123 Ай бұрын

3:15 back in syndicate they paid enough attention to detail to include hidden weapons like the knuckles, cane swords and kukris because of the restrictions on wearing weapons visibly

@AnOwlfie Ай бұрын

It sucks because in the back of my head is an AC Shadows where the male character was an actual Japanese samurai and the female character is an actual kunoichi. The potential for greatness is there. I know that the Ubisoft who made the early AC games could've done it. We were robbed.

@pierluigiadreani2159 Ай бұрын

Don't worry Raffaele, I spoke with Black Rock. One day we will make a videogame about Ghino di Tacco, and we will present him as he was: a proud indopacific woman on a wheelchair.

@Extra_Onions Ай бұрын

did you just assume their pronons? shame on you ;)

@KG-2137 Ай бұрын

don't give the ideas, it might happen now kek ;D

@soadbyc4 Ай бұрын

surely, you must mean a proud genderfluid indopacific (woman?) on a wheelchair.

@dominic.h.3363 Ай бұрын

I mean, they could stick Stephen Hawking into an animus and you wouldn't notice any of it. They could have done it, they didn't. It's not their focus. Melanin content is all they care about.

@daviddiggens8841 Ай бұрын

Oh you mean the inventor of the first ever spaghetti taco delivered on a ramp. How could they forget it/why?

@josephjenott931 Ай бұрын

Imagine if they had started off this game using a more established character who was both a Samurai and a Ninja. The best example that comes to mind is the famous Hanzo from the Hattori clan. Easily filling both roles and appreciating the Japanese culture more. I guess that's just too good to ask for.

@digimon5433 Ай бұрын

then it would be a GOT clone

@thatoneLerrydude Ай бұрын

Different time periods, different context, different game.

@llama6394 Ай бұрын

That would be way too unoriginal and we wouldn't be able to use the kusarigama

@NoahToledo-xo5pj Ай бұрын

@@thatoneLerrydude Hattori Hanzo existed at the same time as Nobunaga

@titanscerw Ай бұрын

As well as Tokugawa and Hideoshi Toyotomi with Oda Nobunaga we would have 4 very famous and kinda pivotal historical characters in game, like in the original leaked script with player being shinto monk going to work as shinobi. Much better then whatever this trash is.

@JezzLundkvist Ай бұрын

I'm happy KZfaq pushed your videos to me. Because hearing you talk about all this is so interesting! Learning something new all the time!

@guilhermearaujo1781 Ай бұрын

Really sad that they don’t go after the specialist to them develop the game. They develop their own ideas and find someone that’s whiling to “validate” it for personal reasons.

@lainiwakura1776 Ай бұрын

All I can hear is "we didn't do our research!"

@samfire3067 Ай бұрын

And "we called a Guy to Say Anything "

@fhlostonparaphrase Ай бұрын

All I hear is "We don't care, but we're calling it historical regardless"

@PyrrhicPax Ай бұрын

Y'all clearly didn't watch the video.

@CallMeTeci Ай бұрын

The crazy thing is - they DO their research. Ubisofts teams for historic research know what they are doing. The problem is that they dont decide what gets into the game. Another example would be the Netflix series Barbarians, where the historic advisers quit in the making of Season 2 because it infuriated them so much how hard they were ignored and how much bs the directors threw into it anyway, against any advice. I wouldnt be surprised if many people left since the early years of AC, but i dont doubt it that they still KNOW what is correct and what not. Inserting agendas and slobbering investors coqs just has a higher priority, especially after "Vikings: The Game" was so successful.

@thewanderer4336 Ай бұрын

@@CallMeTecikinda like amazon completely ignoring those tolkien lore experts, why hire them (and still pay them I assume) if they weren't going to listen to them anyways? It just makes you go wtf, wasting time and money

@analogbunny Ай бұрын

My favorite story about a Kunoichi based out of Kyoto who snuck into a regional warlord's local holdings disguised as a washerwoman. She then found the room of records and "cooked the books", and stole a small amount of gold each time. After a couple years of this she (or someone) sent a message to the Shogun that the regional warlord was skimming taxes. When the Shogun audited the local warlord, they found it to be "true", and the regional warlord was publicly beheaded for treason. I learned this story when visiting a museum on "ninja history" (and they openly admitted there was only so much they could know). They made a huge emphasis on the fact that although many shinobi were assassins, some of them specialized in using and manipulating the legal system to do the assassination for them. Even if the story isn't true per se, it was meant to convey the idea that the shinobi engaged in all kinds of complex statefare, espionage, book-keeping, eco terrorism... anything to complete their goals.

@captainnyan-nyan2005 Ай бұрын

Well it's falls under the subterfuge aspect of a Shinobi. Getting the job done

@analogbunny Ай бұрын

@captainnyan-nyan2005 Sometimes the Shinobi made it very, very clear that this was an assassination. Gruesome poisons, beheading, ambushed, booby traps. Other times they made the death look natural. It depended on what they were trying to accomplish.

@Ewil.Bluetooth Ай бұрын

@@analogbunnyIt's pure fiction though.

@kendra_t Ай бұрын

I have no historical facts to base this off of for this but I suspect most if not all kunoichi assassination jobs would have been done via poisoning.

@mdd4296 Ай бұрын

Eco-terrorism? Did you mean they fight for the eco system or they terrorise using the environment (like setting a forest on fire)

@Sintrania Ай бұрын

The fact that even medieval fan are defending samurai history really show how f**ked up Ubisoft is.

@blackscorpionstinger 2 күн бұрын

They could avoid all these issues just by saying, “This new entry is completely fictional, bro!”

@matj12 Ай бұрын

I would like that weapons with Naoe would work like in Hitman. There are small weapons which can be hidden and large weapons which get attention. Naoe could get by with just a small weapon and stealth or smuggle in a large weapon for direct combat.

@j.avance9031 Ай бұрын

It's a true shame that Ubisoft chose to go this route for their female character. Imagine if they did make a real Kunoichi. She could don a servants attire in order to use social stealth and slip into a place unnoticed before searching out her target and poisoning his meal and then slipping away into the night. It could've been super unique but no, she's a Shinobi with Hollywood level ninja attire that can take on three samurai at once.

@jasonco2 Ай бұрын

Yeah, leaning into the Hitman style of stealth and assassination (poison, social interaction, “accidents”) would have been great!

@DmnHd81 Ай бұрын

That's basically the gameplay of Assassin's Creed:Liberation which stars a mixed race black woman. She disguises as a slave, dresses as a noblewoman and wears combat attire normally.

@somiplayerbee5425 Ай бұрын

@@DmnHd81 Liberation is so underrated. I was really sad, that is never meant as a proper game but just on a small console/platform. :( It deserved much more.

@blueboy9773 Ай бұрын

So we'll have a dressing game to play :')) Gather outfits, select to wear something appropriate for the mission. Kill some dudes , sneak out. To be honest just give me a customizable character and let me play whatever i choose to, just add multiple ways to do a mission, sneak, disguise or going in with a bang.

@G-Mastah-Fash Ай бұрын

@@DmnHd81 A black woman dressed as a noble in 18th century America, very stealthy and totally plausible.

@BleeDinglies Ай бұрын

It almost seems like they hire a historian who specializes in some obscure area that really has no relevance to the game. And then use the fact that they've hired this "historian" to give credibility to their idea's about how it should have been in history. Effectively rewriting history. Now, whether this is done just to cause controversy to get social media talking using the 'any publicity is good publicity' idea, I don't know.

@Jebbreh Ай бұрын

Look at the background studies of their "historian". Lol.

@digimon5433 Ай бұрын

"rewiting history"? you do know this is a video game, right?

@BleeDinglies Ай бұрын

@@Jebbreh I'm scared to lol, probably get flagged at work if I look it up. I heard that her book is about promoting the normalization of Buddhist monks doing bad things to kids in feudal Japan or some other degenerate behavior.

@llama6394 Ай бұрын

Doesn't it make sense to bring a historian who's researched gender in japanese literature when one of the protagonists is a woman?

@BleeDinglies Ай бұрын

@@digimon5433 And we all know how people independently fact check when they're told that something is "historically accurate" right?

@LB-yg2br Ай бұрын

Whoa you can destroy light to help hide? Whoa that’s crazy! No one has EVER done THAT before… Where is my copy of thief?

@papabloodharvest9542 5 күн бұрын

Splinter Cell did it better

@ZeroHxC07 Ай бұрын

Man if this Ubisoft devs are experts it’s prettt laughable. Remember when Altair was going to have a crossbow and they took it off because it didn’t fit. Good times, good times.

@ZeroHxC07 Ай бұрын

Also when they say y asume was “stolen” by the Portuguese. I can bet my left testicle he was probably given to a church and he was taken in.

@dawlben2247 Ай бұрын

They didn't do historical figures as main characters, because they would have to break history. They used historical people as side characters to keep close to facts.

@thatoneLerrydude Ай бұрын

Them why Yasuke?

@Xinamon98 Ай бұрын

@@thatoneLerrydude You know why.

@llama6394 Ай бұрын

They always broke history. They didn't make you a historical figure for immersion reasons and because they wanted to write their own characters.

@Don9872 Ай бұрын

@@llama6394 the assassins creed stories (the Desmond games at least) were written as if it could be a hidden history of human civilisation. They had (obviously fictional) tid bits from Adam and Eve all the way through to the WW1&2 sprinkled throughout the games. They always worked actual historical and mythological events into the story.

@kaltaron1284 Ай бұрын

To be fair we don't know much about Yasuke as a historical character but he still makes a poor choice for many reasons. And the stupid thing is there was nothing stopping them from including him as an important character. Just not as one of two playable ones.

@minoru-kk Ай бұрын

As a Japanese Id like to thank Metatron for continuing to cover this topic. I wrote this using translation software. In addition to Yasuke issue, various art errors have been found in the trailers. We in Japan saw these stupid things and suspected that Ubisoft hadnt do any historical or cultural research, and it seems clear that this is the case from their interviews, as you explained in this video. Thanks for your commentary on such "historical" game in English

@PervyAutomaton Ай бұрын

I'm sorry to hear, that they could not even do a bit of research of your culture :/

@Thiccness_Is_Delicious Ай бұрын

@@PervyAutomatonwhich is extremely upsetting as asian culture is still to this day the most fascinating especially japan.

@greyjedi1272 Ай бұрын

You clearly aren’t Japanese, 1- Japanese media made Yasuke popular so that being an issue is laughable. 2- errors in media doesn’t mean Ubisoft didn’t do any research.

@minoru-kk Ай бұрын

@@greyjedi1272Is your JP media which unfaithful to historical sources the basis for labeling me a foreigner? THAT is laughable. If an average JPs watch the trailers or walkthroughs, theyd found easily that the historical research and art setting of this game is all nonsense, like I did. Thats definitely Ubis fault and Im pointing that out

@MEDIAOFJUSTICE Ай бұрын

@@greyjedi1272popular??😂 Yasuke is not popular. Yasuke is not a samurai.

@GreenVikeenArt 27 күн бұрын

What is this idea of giving female protagonists male names lately? It's a really weird trend. We are not allowed to be feminine even with our own names...

@ahadurrahman9451 15 күн бұрын

ghost of tsushima did the samurai and ninja/assassin moral code so nicely

@maximfyodorovich4489 Ай бұрын

>One black man steps foot in feudal Japan >tHe JaPaNEsE cAMe FroM BlAck pEOpLE

@reneallouis7748 Ай бұрын

Jomos were not black, neither the ainu. Next question.

@YarugumaSou Ай бұрын

As much of a joke as it is I've seen a dozen of delusional afrocentric facebook pages saying the same thing.

@موسى_7 Ай бұрын

Technically, all of humanity is from Ethiopia according to science

@zsuira Ай бұрын

@@موسى_7bollocks

@michelecastellotti9172 Ай бұрын

@@موسى_7and? Back then our skin was still white from the days we were covered in fur my guy, black people exist because they adapted to living in africa for who knows how many generations. They are born tanned is what i am saying.

@thel1355 Ай бұрын

There is only one reason for Yasuke--they couldn't find any mention of a black woman in the histories.

@Dowlphin Ай бұрын

No problem, just declare Yasuke a woman.

@olafschmidt8437 Ай бұрын

or: Yasuke is more an open book (read: more blank spaces which could be filled with the story of AC) than William Adams and can therefore be a better connection to the European (:=Templar ) side. I personally would have stayed away from Japan for AC completely. Or IF going there, than in the period after Matthew Perry came to japan (like "Last samurai type, but with the Assassins trying to fight the "new" corruption or something like that). Feudal Japan is so far removed from Europe influence (apart from the western enclave in Nagasaki).

@matheusrhuzzo6115 Ай бұрын

Okay? So?

@YouTubeCensors Ай бұрын

😂 I'm sure they could find another Asian American woman willing to sell her Heritage for a few $$ and say Yasuke was a woman.

@tompatompsson Ай бұрын

@@olafschmidt8437 Or just have the MC be a made up person like every single other AC game ever made?

@samariuseverett7931 21 күн бұрын

Love the intro being unbiased is the best route to go to understanding everyone keep up the great content bro 2:21

@Usagizaka46 Ай бұрын

The name Naoe is actually a family name. Kanetsugu, (priorly, Higuchi Yoroku) adopted the name when he married into the family. Naoe as a female name isn’t odd and actually exists. Of course the kanji is different. Shadows is still a mess though lol. What a joke. “Samurai and Shinobi come from different social class.” Hattori Hanzo says what!???? Anyway, nice take on this. Fair and balanced.

@chrisjackson1215 Ай бұрын

I could feel my braincells dying as the people from Ubisoft spoke.

@Overlord99762 Ай бұрын

They're French 🗿

@beardedlonewolf7695 Ай бұрын

@@Overlord99762 Canadian

@NobleNemesis Ай бұрын

You could tell they wanted to look back at the camera and nervously ask "Right?!.. Right?"

@musafirghayrmaeruf1 Ай бұрын

@@NobleNemesis"Please dont shoot"

@stepsis8437 Ай бұрын

💀💀💀💀💀💀

@tubeorip Ай бұрын

"She is following the footsteps of her" CUT CUT She is going to say her Dad we can't have that.

@mad3271 Ай бұрын

bruh

@ci825 Ай бұрын

Lmao nah fr… can’t depict a kind and benevolent man WITH power and capability to be our female protagonist’s role model and inspiration. That’s big no no

@Firebacon1gg Ай бұрын

Wait thats a woman? I thought it was a male.😅 mm just like ubisoft diverse team of white women. U know that one picture that surfaced online of its diverse group. Anyways yeah thought it was a dude.

@GnosisZX Ай бұрын

@@Firebacon1gg your not the only one an ai thought she was dude too

@GuitarsRockForever Ай бұрын

@@Firebacon1gg trans woman of color with disability.

@mohamedmaiza3866 Ай бұрын

Not my area of expertise but I am quite certain the original propagators of samurai and ninja being different were those "ninjitsu masters" selling 5 dollar manuals in ads from black belt magazine.

@ADHadh Ай бұрын

Please do an entire video about ceramics and pottery so I can have a video I can use to rope my GF into watching your content with me. She's been into ceramics for two years now and every visit to a museum with ancient pottery exhibits (never mind if Egyptian, Greek, Roman or Japanese) has her fully engrossed, while she usually only gives a glance to arms and armor. Bonus points if it features rats in some way (as I know they were a symbol of prosperity in Japan? A video on rats would be great too).

@daveorilian5100 Ай бұрын

'we can't mix ninja and samurai together' ...... Ghost of Tsushima has entered the chat

@revbladez5773 Ай бұрын

Ninja were not a thing during that time but then again, having things that were not around in that time is something that game does quite a lot.

@Beldhan Ай бұрын

hattori hanzo want a word with them.

@shira_yone Ай бұрын

Sekiro even if they want Sengoku Jidai example

@kaltaron1284 Ай бұрын

@@revbladez5773 The first mention is from the late 8th century in poems in the Man'yōshū. There is literally no reason to believe that spying techniques didn't exist at the time. Of course in a different way than later and I agree that the game is quite anachronistic.

@revbladez5773 Ай бұрын

@@kaltaron1284 Spying techniques yes. But proper shinobi as we think of them were a Sengoku-period thing.

@badrequest5596 Ай бұрын

saying every shinobi was an assassin is like saying every CIA agent is james bond or ethan hunt. most of them are just computer nerds looking through data or a million other different tasks to make things for agents in the field possible. wouldn't be much different with shinobi. some were warriors, others were just information gatherers, some had good fighting skills, others barely the basics and everything in between, just like today

@kaltaron1284 Ай бұрын

And Yasuke strolling around in full combat gear is like a US Marine in full kit going downtown. Or maybe that is normal where those devs live?

@DushawnxDaisy Ай бұрын

@@kaltaron1284nah you’re reaching fam

@MegaMerdeux Ай бұрын

@@DushawnxDaisyit was a good analogy. Did you miss the entire video? "You wouldn't wear your combat gear downtown" metatron point it out 😂

@kaltaron1284 Ай бұрын

@@MegaMerdeux I don't even understand what Daisy is trying to say. And thank you.

@HiragamaIkunai Ай бұрын

The number 1 way of assassination by kunoichi or shinobi was poisoning food /drink which requires no training beyond don't drink your own drugs ect, but no they didn't usually kill people as living lips are much looser than dead.

@Adam-wt5id Ай бұрын

I saved a old gameinformer magazine that had AC2 as the cover story. The entire article was about how Ubisoft went so extra hard to accurately recreate the cathedrals and landscapes of old Venice. Game was nominated for GoTY at the time. Now ubisoft just says fuck it and tosses out games like they are dealing playing cards

@ErisFrance0 Ай бұрын

Aside from the historic accuracy they proclaim, can we also call them out on lying about "destroying the ambient around you" being treated like a new thing in gaming? The Thief game allowed you to destroy light sources in order to sneak around and blend in the shadows too, and it came out 10 years ago. It was the main core of the whole gameplay... Not to mention several games have allowed for stuff around you to be destroyed if you ran into or smash it on purpose for years.... theres nothing new about it!

@user-xg9tp9uq8p Ай бұрын

The commentary about Iga commented on by the owner of this video deserves a special mention. He really researches it well. Iga was a sphere of influence created by a group of people called “AKU-TOU（悪党）stray or Outcast（difficult to translate）” who gathered together in opposition to the power of the Samurai and ruled over a vast area of land as an independent council group. As this ruling system was established, they honed his own espionage skills and eventually came to serve Samurai rulers throughout Japan. Among these was one of the most famous ninja, Hattori Hanzo, who served the Tokugawa family. As you know, Hattori Hanzo was not only a samurai of the Tokugawa family, but also a chieftain of the ninja. Together with Momochi and Fujibayashi, they are known as the three great "high glade class ninja" of Iga. Iga was not a secret hiding place, but a strategic point of transportation in Japan. The Oda family sent an army to control the area, but they were resourceful enough to defeat the Oda forces on their own（First Tensho Iga Rebellion）. However, their rebellion incurred the wrath of Nobunaga, and the Iga were eventually destroyed in a terrible battle known as the Second Tensho Iga Rebellion. I'm really glad you're looking into this background properly. It doesn't seem like UBI did as much research as he did.

@exia7684 Ай бұрын

"We cannot mix samurai and shinobi together" Sekiro and Jin Sakai: *wheezes in Japanese*

@tatianaoliveira2191 Ай бұрын

About that... Hattori Hanzō

@godemperorofmankind5874 Ай бұрын

Lol. These mfers are gonna flip their socks off when they see the mechanics of those games.

@DonVigaDeFierro Ай бұрын

Proving that Ubisoft and Ass Creed are already a joke.

@benjaminthibieroz4155 Ай бұрын

Not sure about Sekiro. Owl is most likely a samuraï though

@octogonSmuggler Ай бұрын

Neither of those games claim historical accuracy the way AC does, though.

@silvastone1691 Ай бұрын

I've never played an Assassin's Creed game. This could've been my first and I was lowkey interested when I heard the game was being worked on some time back. However with everything I know about the western game industry and how AAA games have been the past couple of years I've become distrustful of most big budget titles. When I saw the trailer I wanted to believe this to be a sincere game but I got weird vibes. Seeing this video and other things I've heard it confirmed my suspicions and I would sadly have to skip this one, but hey, money saved.

@LuxBellator92 Ай бұрын

I don't know why Ubisoft even bothered with this game. We already had the perfect Samurai Assassins Creed game, and it was called Ghost of Tsushima.

@stoutjudas9868 29 күн бұрын

Amen

@drewtheunspoken3988 Ай бұрын

There was an easy fix to this; all they had to say was that it was an historic fantasy inspired by a few documents. But they're doubling down on their deep historic research. Despite there being very little information, if any, related to their character choices.

@digimon5433 Ай бұрын

AC has always been historic fantasy

@amicableenmity9820 Ай бұрын

@@digimon5433 I agree. They have vikings (who should properly be called Norsemen unless their actual occupation is being a viking) riding deer and wolves. And being openly gay, which wouldn't happen in Norse society. And then there's the aliens from the second game, but no one seems to remember that. I appreciate Metatron telling us what the truth was, but AC has never ever been accurate.

@thatoneLerrydude Ай бұрын

@@digimon5433Yes, thing is they lie all the time that it isnt. AC is a historical as Game of Thrones, yet they go all day about "historical this historical that" like absolute lunatics.

@revbladez5773 Ай бұрын

@@digimon5433 Historical sci-fi, actually.

@fattiger6957 Ай бұрын

This is the issue here. Ubisoft could just say they take liberties with history to make their games fun and that you aren't supposed to take it too seriously. Yet the company constantly claims AC is historically accurate.

@kidcthulhufortney1320 Ай бұрын

Two words to debunk the hard samurai/shinobi divide: Hattori Hanzo

@mylesdrake2949 Ай бұрын

The absolute legend.

@Direwolf13PS3 Ай бұрын

The guy they skipped because he would be... 1. Male 2. Japanese 3. What people wanted

@wasigupitobudiarto7767 Ай бұрын

Why didn't they made story about Hattori Hanzo instead? according to AC Wikipedia he is an Assassin too

@johansvensson833 Ай бұрын

@@wasigupitobudiarto7767 becuse they got shot when they made washington a mad dictator

@sean7082 Ай бұрын

And he is a mentor of brotherhood of Assassin also from mobile assassin's creed.

@Gsmooth84 Ай бұрын

Why is it when I see Naoe, I immediately think of Shao Jun? Also, this is in the year 1579-1580 and Ezio died in 1524 which was 50+ years ago.

@Thatonebioshockfan Ай бұрын

you're asking some of my questions, I just Wave it off because I see no need to complain. thank you for making this video.

@Andrew-gn9qp Ай бұрын

I am Asian, and I am very confused why Westerners are enforcing Black people and feminism in Asian culture. This is just not something Asian people bother with. We associate Black people with American entertainment, and feminism in an Asian context means equality before the law, not "bad ass warrior women."

@GutsEnthusiast Ай бұрын

bruh... people only care about this are people infatuated by social politics. there are a shitload of anime from Japan where historical figures are gender swapped into women...

@AtticusStount Ай бұрын

There was a black samurai insofar as he was adopted and married into the samurai class. But of course, they chose a black because they insist on 'blackwashing' history. Please try to adjust your language and thinking: it is not 'westerners' but rather a small group of people, this is not 'all westerners'. This group of malignant intellectuals could very well be funded by a rather powerful political system 🧸🐉

@TheVisualDigitalArts Ай бұрын

Don’t worry as a black man I’m also confused, I don’t want to play as a black person in feudal Japan either.

@knullization Ай бұрын

The west is currently in a cultural 'war' between the conservatives who are proud of our culture and the progressives who think our culture is an evil force that must be destroyed.

@NobleNemesis Ай бұрын

I think it's just subversive thought put into our education system to create discord in society, but that's just me. lol

@veronicatash777 Ай бұрын

You are forgetting that 1) history is written by management; and 2) management is inept.

@kregorovillupo3625 Ай бұрын

and 3) you can't contraddict management or you're fired, or worse put in work hell.

@brytonwallis4817 Ай бұрын

I’d hate to be contrarian in woke work place Get unconsidered and have eyebrows raising as you say what may be more accurate

@veronicatash777 Ай бұрын

@@brytonwallis4817 You use that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means...

@brytonwallis4817 Ай бұрын

@@veronicatash777 does it not? You mean contrarian is what you call a person who says contradictions to what another person says?

@veronicatash777 Ай бұрын

@@brytonwallis4817 Woke means being aware of systemic injustices. You want your workplace to be oblivious to systemic injustice?

@2BachShakur Ай бұрын

I’ve been asking for an AC in feudal Japan since the inception of the franchise. Now that it’s finally out, I regret everything.

@ronwatford7331 Ай бұрын

Serious question: I thought the peasantry developed the ninja to fight against what they saw as the Samurai "oppressors"?

@sevenproxies4255 Ай бұрын

Being able to destroy light sources to stay hidden in the shadows has been done as far back as Thief: The Dark Project back in the 90's though. So while the mechanic makes sense, I can't give Ubisoft any credit for implementing something you'd consider a bare minimum in a stealth game.

@trvpmusic2569 Ай бұрын

I've only seen that in Splinter Cell games

@sevenproxies4255 Ай бұрын

@@trvpmusic2569 Splinter Cell did it too. But Thief was the earliest example I could think of.

@varnix1006 Ай бұрын

I will always be surprised the team behind Assassin's Creed did not talk with the team behind Splinter Cell. Considering both are stealth action games.

@sherry356 Ай бұрын

@@varnix1006 This is Ubisoft we’re talking about though. I’d actually be surprised if they did do that.

@Dowlphin Ай бұрын

How do you destroy a light source without the act drawing attention? That bit bothered me. I think the point is not, as claimed, to remain undetected, but to be able to attack from darkness.

@rosmundsen Ай бұрын

I don't care what your teachers told you, my grandmother always told me that Metatron is a reasonable man.

@موسى_7 Ай бұрын

I agree

@PervyAutomaton Ай бұрын

I thought she told you he was a 70 year old black women 😂

@dexterion5940 Ай бұрын

Just one question for anyone who is more informed about this game : What connections do these samurai/shinobi duo have with assassins,templars,and apple of eden?Is the backstory still unknown?

@user-uj5yn6pf8t 28 күн бұрын

The protagonist looks at the rice planting and whispers about a good harvest. A square tatami mat that was never supposed to be used for a castle. For some reason, the torii gate serves as the gate to the village. The way the helmet is worn and the way the sword is held are also different. There is no end to the list of strange depictions. If you do even a little research on Japan, you'll realize that all of this is wrong. This was just a lack of homework. Despite making it so sloppily, the developer says this: ``Yasuke is a great samurai'' ``Creation based on history''``I want people who are familiar with Japanese history to look forward to it.'' You're very good at jokes. That's probably what the developers thought.Samurai and ninja are popular, so let's make a game set in Japan. However, it's a pain to research, so I'll just make the atmosphere more Japanese-like. All you have to do is do a sloppy job. Creating a fictional myth of a great black samurai also ensures diversity. The concept art was completed by pasting the work of a Japanese creator without permission! Ah, This game is great in the sense that it makes Japanese people uncomfortable.

@NikosGirginoudis Ай бұрын

Guard- Hey citizen, did you see what the assassin looked like? Citizen- Yeah, he was a tall black man clad in samurai armor! Guard- Curses, there's literally thousands of people like that in Japan, I'll never find him! If only he stood out somehow...

@llama6394 Ай бұрын

He is not an assassin though...

@kendra_t Ай бұрын

Citizen: well, there was a woman wearing a sword who walked down the street earlier..

@unknown_spy_1984 Ай бұрын

@@llama6394 then the whole game is moot

@kaustavdas436 Ай бұрын

@@llama6394but the game's name is assassins creed😭

@llama6394 Ай бұрын

@@kaustavdas436 yh that's why og fans had a lot of problems with odyssey and valhalla. At least we have Naoe this time thank god. Yasuke is literally just to please RPG fans who only like combat.

@Peteruspl Ай бұрын

Hiding in shadows and destroying lights - that's cool, but also not "modern". It was implemented in original Thief in 1998.

@titovalasques Ай бұрын

God! I really wish Nightdive studios would remake Thief Gold and Thief II: The Metal Age.

@koikoi1116 18 күн бұрын

First of all, in Japanese history, Yasuke was a man who only existed to carry the sword of the Shogun he served. Even if it is fiction, don't twist the history of Japan! The person who is most inconvenienced by this is Yasuke himself, whose name remains in history! Is UBI such an idiot that he doesn't understand that?

@frey6955 Ай бұрын

i remember watching an old japanese ninja/shinobi movie, they said no shinobi would put their sword on their back as it could hinder their movement when crawling on tight space, they would use short sword or hidden weapon more or maybe normal katana but sheathed on the hip

@OptimusNero Ай бұрын

I just hope Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 will be as great and respectful to history as the first one. That's the only historical game franchise I have hope for at this point...

@lonewulfmo9128 Ай бұрын

Comparing assasins creed to kingdom come is like comparing grandtheft auto franchise to ARMA franchise. Why on earth would you make such a comparison bro? I say this as some one that likes both Kingdom come and assasins creed black flag, origins and odyssey. Those are not really simulation games or 'realistic' as kingdom is meant to be

@zzodysseuszz Ай бұрын

@@lonewulfmo9128bc kingdom come has shit combat and some historical inaccuracies much like assassins creed used to be like.

@Randomper279 Ай бұрын

Ya I can’t wait for it as well.

@OptimusNero Ай бұрын

@@lonewulfmo9128 It's true AC isn't supposed to be as realistic as KCD. However, that's not an excuse to introduce political bias in your games, like the pacifist Karl Marx

@lonewulfmo9128 Ай бұрын

@@zzodysseuszz 🤣🤣 🤣 OK ill admit kingdoms combat is not perfect. My point is at least from my experience the two franchises are different genres.

@TheRevenantEdits Ай бұрын

I'm just gonna say it here... This man's intro to this video... Is GOLDEN

@Holtijaar Ай бұрын

Ok so as per the trailer Naoe is a daughter of a nobleman, possibly a samurai - at 12:31 they said her father had a last name, which commoners in Japan didn't have until late 19th c. She could have been trained in martial arts. She is probably more of a samurai than Yasuke then. EDIT: Well that comment didn't age well as Metatron literally decided to debunk what I just wrote in his next video about Yasuke, lol. I stand corrected that having a surname not necesarily meant that her father was a nobleman. Thanks Metatron for educating me!

@cthomaspeasant3059 Ай бұрын

It's funny how all of those titles are losing their meaning because the relevant tribes in question throw them around so haphazardly like a drunkard with too many grenades

@MickSG. Ай бұрын

Agreed. I heard someone calling people who wanted to save endangered animals, woke. And I got called woke for being vegetarian. A straight friend of mine also got called a bigot, because she turned down a gay girl. Another got called racist for saying he wasn't going to buy this AC. I am honestly done with all of this culture war stuff. I just keep to myself now.

@samfire3067 Ай бұрын

Or like cod world at war does on veteran. Everyone IS stoping granades like it's candy

@fredrickmansav6852 Ай бұрын

@@MickSG. yeah but people who "save endangered" animals don't know when to stop, just look up polar bear overpopulation in Canada, and i doubt you were being a quiet conservative vegetarian but a loud annoying liberal vegetarian.

@ayviondenar3461 Ай бұрын

@@MickSG.True. All this baseless name-calling does nothing but polarize and villainize people; it doesn’t matter where you lie on the subjective spectrum of good or evil; once you get name-called, your character is immediately associated with all of the virtuous and/or nefarious traits of that name, irregardless of evidence. People are very quick to assume the worst of others, which only creates more division.

@aj.j5833 Ай бұрын

@@MickSG. Have you meet other vegetarians and spoken to them? Most of them are woke and annoying. Unfortunately for you thanks to them you have to prove you aren't like the other vegetarians. I don't blame people who question you for being vegetarian, when most of them are annoying woke fools and many people are rightfully done with their BS.

@shib5267 Ай бұрын

can we talk about how their japanese history expert is a crazy shotacon fujoshi???

@altechelghanforever9906 Ай бұрын

Excuse me, what the fuck?

@TheRealGeorgeSears Ай бұрын

The woman who wrote the book on how its alright to be a p3d0?

@NE0N_ANGELUS Ай бұрын

@Knoloaify Ай бұрын

Shota fujo isn't even the issue here. The issue is her glorifying pederastry in ancient Japan.

@Frozenkex Ай бұрын

based?

@zaberfang Ай бұрын

I didn't remember that hoods existed in Japan back then. They could have used Hattori Hanzo as the assassin member.

@Ramt33n Ай бұрын

Nuce to see us have some standards at last! Perhaps there's hope down the line!

@Rajonas007 Ай бұрын

The fact that in 2024 in the age of internet and how easy it is to connect to people who are genuinely interested in history is sad how they ignore everything for propaganda

@addictedtochocolate920 Ай бұрын

I remember sprinting to the comments in the original video when the dev said "we cannot mix two fantasies" talking about the Samurai and Shinobi. They really did 0 research for this beyond watching Last Samurai, probably.

@digimon5433 Ай бұрын

do you think samurai would use peasant tools?

@aj.j5833 Ай бұрын

They didn't understand main character of The Last Samurai, Nathan Algren, does not drive the story or historical events, he is an observer, outsider looking in, not directly involved in local event and is dragged along by the real actors instigators of events, the native Japanese.

@MegaMerdeux Ай бұрын

@@digimon5433since samurai is a title. I don't see why they wouldn't use a pitchfork to defend themselves in a a given situation. Would a marine use a kitchen knife to fight someone? The answer is yes

@varnix1006 Ай бұрын

Because they don't need to mix the two fantasies. They just need to make a good stealth action game, but they won't cause they have to appear to have taken in a large audience by "diversifying".

@aj.j5833 Ай бұрын

@@varnix1006 In doing so made a very anti-Japanese and rey cyst game.

@dormarch186 Ай бұрын

I do hate the shift in hidden blades being a dagger you hold instead of a bracer with a spring blade Outside of the things like WW2 being all templars

@danielclark-hughes692 Ай бұрын

Its wild that a studio who took laser scans so accurate they used them to rebuild Notre Dame cathedral now find themselves incapable of just pointing out where the histroy differs from the plot. Have the insane plot but give us codex that gives the actual history.

@raphaelmt1706 Ай бұрын

Ubisoft is clearly guilty of cultural appropriation here

@greyjedi1272 Ай бұрын

You are a fool.

@sande9182 Ай бұрын

How?

@greyjedi1272 Ай бұрын

@@sande9182 it would seem these people are ok with devs making games from anywhere else but Japan is their golden cow for some reason.

@The_sound_Of_Thunder Ай бұрын

For quite some time now

@redcobra6016 Ай бұрын

And Suckerpunch was falsely accused of that very thing with Ghost of Tsushima.

@jtorro Ай бұрын

Ubisoft really said ”Women are weaker than men so they need to tip toe and get the jump on dudes”. Are they based?

@pIayingwithmahwii Ай бұрын

they really do need to do that xD tbh it is so annoying how games companies think women r strong when they r really weak (compared to men and non-human animals). i hate how games companies make their games nowadays for games journalists, who hate gamers and tend to automatically make bad choices when it comes not only to story and character, but also even the gameplay itself

@MeanOldLady Ай бұрын

Of course we're weaker. That's why women assassinate stealthily or resort to social engineering to further their goals in warfare & espionage. Yuri Bezmenov also explains that "James Bond"-style of espionage, when trying to destroy a nation/group from within, is very limited compared to the grunt work of social engineering through propaganda. Look at how much propaganda is being pumped up today under dictatorships in the west & how little is about violence & assassinations.

@AtticusStount Ай бұрын

'Based'? sorry, but could you write standard English? I don't understand what you are trying to say.

@SlipknotPyro Ай бұрын

@@AtticusStount pretending not to understand american slang to seem intelligent? Based.

@DylanJo123 Ай бұрын

@@AtticusStountdoes the Google search bar not exist where you live?

@DaedLizrad 22 күн бұрын

Metatron is a true gamer, collecting titles even when they require opposite questline requirements, impressive.

@NightBane345 Ай бұрын

I find it hilarious when I think about this. They could've gone back to the assassin's roots with Yauve, of her standing back, blending into the crowd, not really focusing on combat, but being as precise as possible. Then Yasuke, as they did here, sadly very stupidly, be the more distraction, and heavy fighters, so Yauve had easier time to sneak past the enemies, to get to their target. Not just hoping about and killing everyone like they're made out of paper.

@Ms.DreadWoof Ай бұрын

So what you're telling me is that they wasted money on DEI instead of hiring acual Japanese historians for this project? Typical ubisht.

@PureMaddnessOne Ай бұрын

Apparently that sachi woman wrote a book aboot adult men doing unsavory things with young boys and she praises it (yeah she praised the pdf file stuff).

@dondahighhh12 Ай бұрын

ubisoft already has 2 studios in Japan, yall think they didnt fly over there and ask them?😂

@Ms.DreadWoof Ай бұрын

@@dondahighhh12 Considering how many Japanese people have voiced their distaste about this game and the blatant inconsistencies mentioned in this video, I'm gonna go ahead and say no. But go ahead and continue to support these shitty companies that don't care about you or me.

@professr9343 Ай бұрын

The Portuguese did due raids for slaves and the Portuguese also had Japanese slaves

@Okita-tr1dh Ай бұрын

@@dondahighhh12yep, it’s only for marketing in Japan so nothing to do with game dev

@john7649 Ай бұрын

imagine if they made William Adams the other playable character instead. most people would still be upset, but a significant portion would be upset for very different reasons

@fattiger6957 Ай бұрын

I can attest to seeing a ton of people complain about that recent Shogun TV show because of the character based off of Adams.

@trvpmusic2569 Ай бұрын

@@fattiger6957 yea but nothing like this lol and I think that's because of racist added on to it (NOT CALLING EVERYONE RACIST) but it's true you'd only have people who care about history complaining while with Yasuke it's People who care about history, people who care about political pandering, and racist so that's why it's so loud

@bluetooth2677 Ай бұрын

No, it's because you care about gaming more than TV shows. Trust me people were complaining about White people playing Egyptian movies recently. Even the last samurai had people complaining. I've seen very few racist people complaining. Just because you disagree, doesn't mean there a racist.

@trvpmusic2569 Ай бұрын

@@bluetooth2677 Yea The Last Samurai was the absolute worst I seen Japanese people react to something lol but it was no where near as bad as this because of western political sides fighting over this

@bluetooth2677 Ай бұрын

@@trvpmusic2569 Okay, I give you that. Western politics side fighting is crazy. Haha 😆

@Krunchbyte1 Ай бұрын

I think Naoe would look cool in more of a fantasy game, she looks like q Dragon Age character walking around in historical Japan They talked about AC going back to its roots, and this dual protag setup reminds me of Syndicate, but they could've given Naoe a more realistic contemporary design to actually go back to their roots with the OG social stealth mechanics that were envisioned for the series

@vincentthendean7713 22 күн бұрын

11:09 This is something you can do in the original Thief game *26 years* ago.

@chadfromchad4662 Ай бұрын

When you mention anything historical, they call you a racist. They say its historical, and everything is supposed to be good. Then they will have the guts to say that it is a game and people overreact due to racism.

@Frozenkex Ай бұрын

Great strawman

@fredrickmansav6852 Ай бұрын

@@Frozenkex literally not a strawman, leftists actually say everything is racist.

@llama6394 Ай бұрын

Only the racist people are being called racists.

@dannypqliar8763 Ай бұрын

@@Frozenkex Great meh-meh...

@GothamThotSlayer Ай бұрын

@Frozenkex you're part of the same problem

@randomperson-up5vt Ай бұрын

It's only historical when ubisoft needs it to be and fiction when people get annoyed at something.

@badrequest5596 Ай бұрын

we already have a pretty good assassins creed in japan. it's called ghost of tsushima. and it is considerably more historically accurate than whatever this weabu thing ubisoft is trying to push

@fattiger6957 Ай бұрын

@@badrequest5596 Add Rise of the Ronin to that. Currently playing it and loving it.

@yushayasad3676 Ай бұрын

@@badrequest5596now that's just false. Ghost of Tsushima is incredibly inaccurate. The only accurate part of the game is battle at Kamoda beach. Apart from that, the game is complete fiction along with inaccuracies like using 15th century armour and tools during the 12th century.

@johansvensson833 Ай бұрын

@@yushayasad3676 and also magic similar to the last ac game

@chihwahli3677 Ай бұрын

Thank you for giving acurate background info that corrects other peoples mistakes. It is a pity that they have a professor, but still get it soo wrong.

@MythicChronicles_01 Ай бұрын

One thing I think is cool about this game is that for the first time in an AC game we we have an historical person to play as its pretty cool tbf, though I would loved it if they made the player character Hanzo Hattori, I am expecting a dlc for him though or at least an npc seeing has Oda did use Hanzo at some point

@reprobaterenegade2594 Ай бұрын

Dude, the thing that is hardest to watch the most for me....the fucking wakizashi being ABOVE the katana when worn. You can tell Ubisoft made every effort NOT to consult someone with any kenjutsu experience

@SuperHongTay Ай бұрын

Friendly reminder that Ubisoft has already attempted to feature Japanese culture in their games. In For Honor, the samurai wear wooden armor, of which one has spiked sode and is called ‘Supaiku’

@reprobaterenegade2594 Ай бұрын

@@SuperHongTay I haven't touched For Honor at all.

@SuperHongTay Ай бұрын

@@reprobaterenegade2594 same. I took one look at that nonsense and decided the game was not for me. The same way I know I will not touch AC shadows

@reprobaterenegade2594 Ай бұрын

@@SuperHongTay At least Ghost of Tsushima pays respect to samurai culture even if the game has it's own historical inaccuracies.

@SuperHongTay Ай бұрын

@@reprobaterenegade2594 ghost of tsushima has done their research. They are not faithful to history, and I don’t like the fact they promote certain myths that modern gamers will treat as facts, (visit the subreddit you will get what I mean), but damn did they pay homage to samurai films and japanese culture

@danielling5283 Ай бұрын

I wouldn’t be surprised if they put in William Adams and make him to be the main bad guy.

@metatronyt Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@poloshirtsamurai Ай бұрын

They'll anachronistically make him like a Gríma Wormtongue to Ieyasu.

@Circurose Ай бұрын

With his yokai?

@watchmehope6560 Ай бұрын

@@Circurosewhat yokai?? Nioh was fantasy based on a real man. This is fantasy trying to pass as history

@facundomontivero2299 Ай бұрын

Apparently Nobugana is gonna be the main bad guy.

@danreed88 Ай бұрын

Like what you said about a samurai being shinobi simultaneously isn’t there a great example of this in the show Shogun?

@kiwiseed7563 22 күн бұрын

if they took the real history part of Yasuke and recreate his story one by one and then they start the actual game from the moment he gets spared and disappears but in the game continuation he does not just disappear but becomes involved with the assassins' ..that could have been so cool ... you could have had all the correct history moments before and then switch and make it fantasy from there on ...but i guess they not gona do that since he was teased as an already famous samura in the world ... talking about wasted story potential

@steelshanks1265 Ай бұрын

Guess Ubisoft never heard of Hattori Hanzo...

@violet-trash Ай бұрын

I hope we get to play as the white Zulu chief in the next game, he was a very interesting historical figure.

@buffaloalice8413 Ай бұрын

Assassin’s Creed: Apartheid

@yellow_flash813 Ай бұрын

🤣🤣😭 as someone with zulu blood, that would be crazy

@ericblackwell70 Ай бұрын

Well you didn’t play as a Zulu chief but you definitely killed a a lot of them in resident evil 5 or did you all of a sudden forget that now?

@The1337guy1 22 күн бұрын

@@ericblackwell70 And I'd do it again.

@alexicusx1181 Ай бұрын

Also why they don't make games from Heian period with O-yoroi armours and eboshi hats? It would be nice and unique

@TheGhost-fk4eo Ай бұрын

“Samurai and Shinobi are a different social class, so you can’t put them as one character.” (Paraphrased). I couldn’t believe what I was hearing the first time I heard this. I’m surprised you didn’t freak out as much about it either 😂. It shows how much “research” they have put into this game. Also they are acting like you can’t do both, (*cough* *cough*, Ghost of Tsushima, *cough* *cough*)

@sx4mania35 Ай бұрын

*ehem* Laughs in Hattori Hanzo (who actually appeared in Assassin's Creed Memories. When Ubisoft had good material in their hands but decided to throw them away)