I still hate Ubisoft’s insane over pricing.

Main characters in every Assassin's Creed game have always been fictional characters based on their country of origin. Any historical figure has always been a side character or supporting character. Now, they have made an exception for this game to have a real person, an African man in a Japanese land setting, as their main character. They claim he was a historical legendary samurai who was only in Japan for 13 months. without any surname or wars and battles to his name. He was only a retainer or helper for Oda Nobunaga because of his unique skin at that time. If you say all AC games are fiction, then why make a real person the main character and change history ? Why can't we have both characters be Japanese ?

rewriting history is always bad period for example before the trailer wikepedia said that yasuke was not samurai but now it said that he his.

“Black wash, white wash, mouth wash, body wash”😂😂😭

Ppl forgetting Ubisoft already has two AC games with black protagonist. Yeah they weren’t mainline games . But they definitely didn’t get this much hate for a reason 💀

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="345">5:45</a> She's such a good Ninja, the audience cannot see her.

Nobody has a problem with black people or women. CJ,Lincoln Clay,James Heller, Lara Croft, Ade wali, Bayek, Ellie, Evie Frye etc etc. These are all beloved characters, the issue is Ubisoft making s**t games and hiding it behind politics shoved down our throats.

He was never a samurai he was a retainer who surrendered in his first battle and got taken away by missionaries. He was no hero. Imagine a tall black guy in a hoodie in feudal Japan trying to be an assassin. I'm sure no one would notice him.

Personally, the « samurai or retainer » debate is irrelevant to me since the game wouldn’t have been THAT historically accurate anyway. But can we please stop pretending that out of ALL the historical figures (which weren’t actually playable before by the way) available in japan , going out of your way to pick the ONE black guy as a protagonist instead of having him be a character you encounter along the way isn’t blatantly shallow (yes even with Naoe)? Especially coming from Ubisoft?

Black wash, white wash, body wash, mouth wash fuckin got me.

Asian male representation as a protagonist is the issue.

This is the first AC game where a historical figure is a playable character. There are historical documents of Yasuke serving under Obunaga. Japanese historians have confirmed all of this years ago. That's what everyone, including the trolls, always fail to understand. He served number Obunaga, who served as daimyo. I agree with you about the price. I'm definitely expecting bugs right away.

Wait till they realize jesus wasnt a white dude from tennesee

It's not the fact that they have a black man as the protagonist it's about why they have him as a protagonist.

侍と忍はアジアのものではない 日本のものだ

First of all as a ametur japanese historian Yasuke is somewhat based in historical fact, but much of what he did is up for debate due to a lack of evidence proving his existence, so basically there is a 50/50 chance a true split between if he was a joke or a legitimate samurai, I don't lean on either side here. but here's my assumed history, YAsuke showed up in JApan with missionaries as a slave, Oda noticed the man's stature and basically took ownership of him, I can't be sure of if yasuke was kept around as a joke or legitimately trained in the samurai arts, but either way I assume he was kept around just because of his strength. my assumption is that when Oda died YAsuke was put under Oda's successor, when Oda's successor died, YAsuke went back to the missionaries and that's where his history seemingly cuts off. My professional opinion is this for after that cutoff, he was likely sent back home, or simply served as a ship hand. On Ubisoft's case, I understand why they're using Yasuke, he's a interesting if not quirky part of japanese history and its a good way of making AC shadows unique from GOT, And honestly for a man with almost no history to his name, I am excited to see what they do.

"Nothing is real, everything is permitted" -The Creed, the irony

As a Asian guy I’m just sad I can’t play as an Asian guy. I already normally can’t play as a Asian guy in 95% of games unless they have a character creator, even then most of the time they give us some of the most ass options available. I just end up with my character looking like a white guy with slightly slanted eyes. I don’t really care about any of the woke shit or whatever people are talking about, hell the price tag on this thing is more of a concern than there being a black guy. My only point is, it Literally could’ve just been two Japanese characters and it wouldn’t have changed anything I guarantee you that. I’ll forget about this whole thing in like an hour anyways so it doesn’t really matter either way.

So apparently due to leaks AC shadows will be the first to introduce the ac infinity hub thing. Ubi apparently also wants to do the smaller AC games like mirage in between the big releases like red and hexe. Then the leaks also said we are gettinng a coop AC game and a free to play AC game similar to the old multiplayer modes. Not sure if the coop one is free but infinity will work like fortnite and you access everything through it. They kinda teased this idea in unity when tou get to choose an assassin memory at the start and it has different options from different time periods. We could only choose the france one cause well it was part of thegame. But how the leaks described infinity, reminded me of that

Assassin's Creed 1 - set in Holy Land. Protagonist: Syrian Assassin's Creed 2 - set in Italy. Protagonist: Italian Assassin's Creed 3 - set in America. Protagonist: Native American Assassin's Creed Black Flag - set in West Indies where Pirates of different nationalities gather. Protagonist: Welsh Assassin's Creed Unity - set in France. Protagonist: French Assassin's Creed Syndicate - set in London. Male and Female protagonists: British Assassin's Creed Origins - set in Egypt. Male and Female protagonists: Egyptian Assassin's Creed Odyssey - set in Greece. Male/Female protagonist: Greek/Spartan Assassin's Creed Valhalla - set in Norway/England. Male/Female Protagonist: Viking Assassin's Creed Mirage - set in Baghdad. Protagonist: Arab Now why can't they do the same and have both Male and Female protagonists as Japanese when it's set in Japan?

You make some good solid points, we’re basically arguing about first world problems to be honest but as much as I hate to admit it, I do see a nefarious agenda being woven into modern games, movies, and other forms of entertainment. I’m not saying everything is a red herring but how many times can you spot a coincidence before you see it as intentional?

I've been through every single AC game since I turned 18 in 2010. Same shit happened during AC3 and freedom cry DLC. Same thing happened with Origins (Bayeks voice actor recently came to Twitter saying here we go round 2) Like lol it ain't nothing new to me. What is new is the fact I'm dropping $130 on a game. That's just wild to me.

While I don't mind that they are using a black lead, they are being historically inaccurate. He was a retainer at best. That said, AC has always played hard and fast with history. My problem is the pricing.

It’s funny they having this conversation now when in the first game there is a literal female Templar during the fucking crusades, if you know that time period you know there was no way in hell that shit was happening 😂 that was the first game , we boxed the fucking pope but yasuke is the problem now?

aged badly yasuke is gay now

This is actually not a yearly release Ubisoft now has 2 teams 1 team makes the big assassin creed games the others make smaller once like mirage and then there a 3rd team that makes games that we don't know

Tell that to every Japanese man who just wanted to play a Japanese man in a game set in feudal Japan. That's all there is to it.

Essentially you are telling everyone "You're racist because he is black" but you also saying Japanese people calm down there are other games to play as a male Japanese. You are already saying AC is trash, so your topic is 'the character is black we shouldn't be mad about that.' So what is your bone in this convo? You are not AC fan or Japanese? What makes your opinion have any weight in this and telling us that we shouldn't be mad?

It’s not about the “inclusion” of yasuke (who didn’t really do anything of notability). It’s about the exclusion and sidelining a Japanese samurai and projection of Yasuke as a heroic samurai. Ubisoft are not being inclusive they are simply exploiting a black man to virtue signal and score DEI points. If Yasuke has white or yellow skin would they have cast him….the answer is no. They are using black skin as a pawn and culturally appropriating Japanese culture

Fair enough, but I think where the hate comes from is that there were other historical figures they could have used that were not just more relevant, but awesome as well. I would much rather play as Hattori Hanzo who was both a samurai and assassin than a guy I have no idea about and which a lot of people don’t. He pretty much is the ideal candidate. So then why Yasuke and not someone like Hanzo? I guess you could say that because he isn’t as known then they can take more liberties with him but if they are willing to bend historical accuracy and what not for Yasuke then they could have done it with Hanzo. It really doesn’t make any sense and because of that then the only answer seems to be wokeness. In the other AC games when they were two main characters, they were still the same ethnicity as well. Also keep in mind people have wanted an Asian AC game for years and the closest we got was Red which was only a side scroller and when we finally get this, it is years after people were asking about it and we get some guy most people don’t know about. That’s my two cents anyways. No respect and overall good video

Yasuke being a samurai is innacurate.... but the Borgia pope being a Templar is accurate... lol ok

Ah what can I say we got sweet babe inc and disney. I see anything that could be woke my wallet puckers up. And yeah they went out of theyre way to find this guy for a main charater in history in that era in japan. Hate to say it no one had a issue with Cj in gta being black. Its this woke crap being forced. Yep also when I buy a game I want to own the game not "rent" it but also again hope they keep over priced video games going. Im just going to rip on whats going on and not buy it. Its that simple.

People aren’t mad he’s black. People are mad he’s not Japanese. Look at the games to this point; Assassain’s Creed: Italian MC AC 3: in North America, Native American MC AC Orgins: in Egypt, Egyptian MC AC Odyssey: in Greece, Greek MC AC Valhalla: Viking Age, male or Female Norse MC AC Mirage: in Mesopotamia, Middle Eastern MC AC Shadows: feudal Japan, black MC If you don’t see the problem there there’s no helping you

Idc what y’all say. But Yasuke looks SICK! in that samurai armor.

Would a shinobi samurai do good?

Ac shadows sounds spectacular. From the gameplay mechanics to the dynamic between the two characters

Remember they had this same anger and backlash over Tanya in the MK1 Umgadi Trailer. These folk never miss a beat to show their true colors.

For those who are suddenly so obsessed in "historical accuracy" please address the literal Medusa in the AC room.

I have no prob with Yasuke but tbh, Im kinda dispointed on how Ubi try to tell a story. I kinda want Yasuke to be an assassin from outside JP who been capture as slave by Templar. Then after Yasuke be with Oda Nobunaga, He try to help some random kid from war then teach them about world outside Japan(brotherhood and Templar) then teach the kid to be an assassin(ninja) now we have Yasuke who are not Samurai but doing thing behind the scenes for fantasy part. Then if the game is really good(story part) they can make DLC about Yasuke and I bet everyone who buy it gonna be people who really want to play as Yasuke. now everyone happy.

I am so happy that a lot more people are actually defending this game because when I try to search up this game and people's trailer all I get is hate on the game and there are some docs of yasake being a samurai

Really good thoughts! However, I don’t think the uproar around this game is isolated to this one release. It’s the compounding pressure of numerous releases being negatively impacted by militant DEI agencies. If this game had been released without all the rest of the crap going this year or the past 5 years, people probably would complain but it wouldn’t receive this much backlash. Still, I think you made a good point. If they wanted to put a black guy it, just say that. Don’t try to come up with an elaborate cover story. I’d disagree that it’s not woke. By the admission of its own developers, many are afraid to say anything for fear of being fired. They have one of the most aggressive DEI departments in the industry. The last thing I’ll comment on is the “if they made an African game and made the person white” part. I don’t black people would be good with a Black Panther game with a white protagonist even if they included a black female on the side. And if the developers were like, “we just wanted a white guy as the lead,” you better believe people would be livid. Enjoyed the vid though bro. Thanks for bringing it to the public space for discussion!

Its a gross over generalization to say Yasuke was just a servant and a slave and there is "NO DOCUMENTATION" saying otherwise when this guys past is not only debated to this day, but also has tons of documentation from various sources with their own biases. Like there is evidence that he was a samurai and has seen actual combat and was a bodyguard, but even if you don't believe this stuff you can't just just make such a factual statement with all the nuances and debates still going on about him today.

here's my take on this Yasuke situation. they're giving us Yasuke at a time where virtue signalling is in every source of media, and those who know absolutely nothing about the history of Yasuke, will see it as just that - virtue signalling. personally? I've found myself intrigued with the story of the black samurai, and I actually can't wait to see how Ubisoft handles his history in this upcoming game. 🔥 history is nice, guys. 😂🎉

Adewale is actually an assassin who happens to be black. Was there a backlash about that?

Crazy thing is even if the male protagonist was Japanese, people will still find something to complain about with the game. Then constantly compare it to Ghost of Tsushima or Rise of the Ronin.

Totally agree it’s a video game it doesn’t need to be 100% accurate 🤦‍♂️ but Yasuke was a real person that is a fact Also even if they went with Japanese man people would just complain that it’s another ghost of Tsushima clone at least this game is doing something different and it letting you play as two characters people forget that there’s a Japanese woman assassin as well I don’t think this is a big deal

Bro i agree. We like to play video games to escape from reality and not for it realism.

My opinions is checking on E3 game before it’s actually coming out into your stores, in area’s of location,

Yes people all so forget that games are work of fiction 😂 nothing to do with history 🙄 the hate makes no sense.

Game is prolly going to be a banger mirage wasn't good and I knew ppl love the original a c stealth but if it's like vahalla with mystery around the world different weapon types and combat styles its goi g yo be off the charts and alot of fun foreal I'm not the biggest Assassin's Creed fan at all with how the stealth and stuff like that but Assassin's Creed Valhalla was amazing to be honest I hope it's less like mirage and more like vahalla

People just like to hate on Ubisoft. Either play the game or don’t. It’s that easy.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="74">1:14</a> that actually is the case here, in Japan i assume too considering the culture. In fact i was shocked when i saw one 7 years ago, because i forgot they existed

I'm a bit late, but i finally found a person that understands that its a assassins creed game and that the protagonists have never been historically acurate or even real figuers, and that they chose yasuke precisley because he had little to no documents about him letting them create a story based of a real historical figure, its not like ubisoft is saying that he was a samurai and that it is historical fact that he was, they even said so themselves that little was known about yasuke, this is why they thought he was the perfect fit as a protagonist.

Here is a true question, How many characters in Assassin's Creed (AC 1 through AC Valhalla) were playable and if any of them were true historical people from the past? The ANSWER is very simple, 15 Playable Fictional Characters and “NONE” of them were true historical people of the past! All the "playable" characters in AC 1 through AC Valhalla were all fictional characters, Yasuke was a real historical person who was nothing more than a retainer, not a samurai. Yasuke IS A REAL HISTORICAL BLACK MAN WHO WAS NOTHING BUT A RETAINER FOR Oda Nobunaga! "Real Historical Person," Yasuke was and is but a "Retainer." The other Assassin's Creed characters from Assassin's Creed 1 through Assassin's Creed Valhalla are "Fictional," characters that DO NOT EXIST IN ACTUAL HISTORY. Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad (Fictional Character), Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Fictional Character), Captain Edward James Kenway (Fictional Character), Adéwalé (Fictional Character), Aveline de Grandpré (Fictional Character), Bayek of Siwa (Fictional Character), Alexios and Kassandra (Fictional Characters), Basim Ibn Ishaq (Fictional Character), and others that are not based in our past historical history. That is why I always stated to other people that 80% is Fact because of True History for Assassin's Creed Video Games, then there is the 20% Fiction that has "People", Places, Items, and other things that are in the game, are not in our past history. Yasuke "IS A TRUE HISTORICAL PERSON IN JAPAN," NOT A FICTIONAL CHARACTER, you can say, "fantasy," all you want but we all know that Yasuke is a real black man who was a retainer, not trained to use the katana, he cleaned Nobunaga's Katana's and other weapons that is what a retainer does. Sorry to say in true historical words and more true blunt historical words Yasuke was a retainer meaning he was a servant to Oda Nobunaga. Not my words but in actual dictionary definitions, Retainer is a person attached or owing service to a household especially a: SERVANT or b: EMPLOYEE. There’s discrepancies in Japanese history about Yasuke and we don’t know he was a retainer or a samurai that was trained. There is basically no actual documentation except for a few stories, but stories can change over time because of different perspectives, different things happening different mindset. Just like for example, that if you say something from a long time ago by word-of-mouth, then someone says it in a different word or words than that word-of-mouth or whatever you said can be different. And we cannot forget about WWII that many things could’ve been lost because of the war, and we may never know from certain items to certain documentations were burnt or been completely annihilated because of the two bombs, but we don’t know. I’m not saying that this can be a true story or not but all we know that he was nothing more than a retainer and that is it. I am sorry to say, but until there is actual more evidence like where is Yasuke Katana sword? Where is it? Does anyone know? Because if you have that sword and it has his name on it and approves that he was a samurai, but in the end, no sword, no proof that he was a samurai. Both Greed and WOKE is the message and agenda on both UBISOFT and Sweet Baby Inc. and Black Gamer Girls, and DEI Money. There is no story or the Hero's Journey in this game. Assassin's Creed is just now a "Shadow Shell," of itself and an empty husk. You know if only the Baka writer read Japanese History a lot closer than instead of 2 characters to play, there could be only 1 character to play. There was an opportunity they could have used instead of a fictional black samurai character and in real history he was a retainer not a samurai. If only they read Japanese history carefully and throughly they could have made the only one Japanese Female Assassin Character. Combined both true history and fiction, Japanese women at the time did learn to use a particular weapon called, "Naginata," a Polearm weapon with a curved blade at the top. While the katana sword tends to be associated with male samurai of Japan, a distinctive weapon called the naginata has been traditionally associated with women and female fighters known as onna-bugeisha. This could have been the base of a Japanese Assassin's Creed Story, with a Japanese Woman who learned to use the Naginata and eventually learns the way of the Assassin's Brotherhood. Do you know why they don’t want to make a game based in Africa, especially in Assassin’s Creed well because in actual history, many of the warring tribes enslaved their own kind. In about 90% or even 80% of the black population of today, don’t want to admit that their own kind in Africa, their own ancestors in Africa enslaved their own kind. This is why they don’t want to make any Assassin’s Creed games based in Africa. I know they already did Egypt, but I am talking other African countries or places in Africa other than Egypt like South Africa, Algeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and the other 48 African countries.

I honestly agree with what you said in the video, some people just seem to want to complain about anything. When it comes to Assassins creed, at this point, it is tradition to complain/make outrage of something to do with the games/series/Ubisoft. The price, however, is ridiculous.

Dude says that the race swap of a mythological character from god of war isn't woke

Not only what you said, but to comment on the “what if they made a game in Africa and the playable character was white/Asian/ whatever race the say” If you show me the time in history where that non african character was in Africa and has interest connections to the most influential and important people of the time to the point where you’d probably have him in the game anyway… then yes, I wouldn’t mind you do that, because that’s the story you choose to take FROM HISTORY

It’s funny how the social media historians only seem to care so much about Asian representation and the historical accuracy of a fantasy RPG when it’s a black dude as the lead.

Well the devs did say that they made Yaske protagonist because they needed non-Japanese eye. Why do you need that view in the first place? The game is about feudal Japan for fucks sake

Whats terrible is that sane price tag

"Y'all acting like people are trying to rewrite history books" I guess you're not aware of the fighting over the Wikipedia page attempting to do exactly that

It's a marketing strategy, why would you want to play as a Japanese guy in a stealth and combat-based game with the chance it might fail because it was developed by Ubisoft, when you can just be safe and go play Sekiro, Ghost of Tsushima, Rise of Ronin? It's too generic and predictable, especially at the price of 129.99$ 😰. So they added Yasuke in place of a Male Japanese protagonist. Honestly, they could've had 3 options as a playthrough, Female and Male Japanese, and Yasuke as an option in the middle of the game. This would satisfy the baseless Xenophobia in the air from both Woke and Anti-Wokeism (because some use anti-wokeism as an excuse for dormant racism) and also to mark their diversity quota if that was even considered.

My problem is not with Yaskai, it with playing as a historical figure. The point of assains creed is to play as an original character who operates in the shadows and changes history without being recogmized for it. Playing as a known historical figure defeats the whole purpose. Yusukai should be a side character or a main NPC character. The only way I can see this working is if he isn't an assassin and when you play as him you just fight as a warrior without stealth or espionage.

We play as a Japanese male in mortal Kombat DBZ tekken ect yugioh Pokemon Mario like come on

African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan written by Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard. I suggest people read this book before speaking about the subject as if you know all the details. Assassin's creed games have always took liberty in their games to use the element of history to create an interesting story. if you don't like it, don't buy it. Art is subjective guys.

I’m paying $280 for the Unlimited version. Everyone complaining about the game are not true AC fans. I’ve played every AC game and every game brings something different to the franchise.

To be fair, you really think they using Yaskue as not as a marketing token piece to be more diverse? I mean its more its coming from Ubisoft a triple A dev you really think they give two shits my guy about any of his actual history? 😂 I mean Im not even trying to be a jerk about this. I dont care about skin color in a game I just wanna play a game.

Should be called Assassin's Creed: DEI

Ik nothing about Asc but I'll still watch to support you

Im still trying to figure out why people trying to tell Ubisoft how to make the game they wanna make and put out 😂

Honestly, I think it's really cool that they added Yasuke. The little we know about the real Yasuke, is super interesting to me (he was a real person).

I ask maybe that look at the people this is based on. That is like taking a black character and making them white after already having done racist things to them, and having people say that their feelings and thoughts are not valid. Quite a bit of the drama is because they disrespected us and people lying trying to change our history. Mocking us as well. It's not that he is black as much as it is why they put a black man in the game. Yasuke was a kosho. The word samurai was not even around then. There were names for different ranks and importance. Yasuke was a slave sadly. Our problem is that people are supporting a company that is not even basing the place accurately to our own but other places can have historicaly accurate along with the race of the people and mythology/religions of the times. We just are tired of these companies discriminating against us and trying to take our media and change it while saying horrible things about us.

Let the record show that the bulk of people who are either pro Yasuke or anti Yasuke are not black people, but surface level non-black activists who fight on our behalf. And the black people who are talking about this subject, we're either neutral, don't care, or are just saying "Hey, Yasuke was a real person" and we leave it at that. We skew more towards Call of Duty, GTA, sports games, and fighting games... with the occasional rpg like Warframe, Final Fantasy, and others. Black culture does get demonized, and much of our pre slavery has been hidden or obscured. But I do like the idea of a black Assassin from sub saharan/west African region. Perhaps their gimmick could be gathering herbs and chemicals to use for poisons and concoctions. Perhaps even the utilization of prayers and rituals that cause confusion, blindness and at higher levels even time delayed death.

The fact that asian and japanese people are complaining about their culture not being seen in video games and other media is not only stupid it's blatantly incorrect considering there are hundreds of movies and quite a few games about japanese culture ghost of Tsushima,rise of the ronin and more one culture that has been severely left out is African culture the only game I can think of that have real historical events related to Black culture and it's past is assassin's Creed freedom cry I genuinely have never seen any other games that have black culture and events aside from ac freedom cry. If there are any games that anyone else knows about that have black culture in them pls tell me cause I'm actually curious if there are any others Also just my opinion not trying to fight anyone 👍

I really loved samurai warriors and had hopes that the samurai warriors characters can be in this game since they were historically real and I didn’t know about Yasuke until this and just found out yes he was working but he worked for Nobunaga Oda…… A LITERALLLLL CHARACTER IN SAMURAIIIIIII FRIIIIIICCXXKKIIINN WARRIORRSSSS 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤩🤩🤩 hopefully we can meet Tadakatsu Honda and be able to get his armor and Tonbo-giri weapon or meet Musashi Miyamoto. Hanzo Hattori and Kotaro Fuma especially Yukimura Sanada would be very cool to meet in this game aswell as add some Japanese mythology like Raijin and Fujin and stuff

Dude spoke the truth

It so sad to see naoe being completely overshadowed from this situation, ive personally always wanted a female Asian protagonists so thats who im mostly gonna be playing as, but you can bet ill be playing yasuke alot to especially since what was shown in the cinematic trailer all the fighting choreography is taking directly from the game

It's not about him being black, it's about him being black in Japan. If you wanna play a game set in japan, you would want to play as a Japanese protagonist. And for everyone saying that Yasuke existed and blah blah, it's an assassins creed game where you are supposed to blend in the crowd and shit. I don't know if a tall black guy in the middle of japan would be very good at the task. It's fucking hilarious honestly. And also he's gay lmao cuz why not.

that is, first you give me the example that an AC in an African context with an Italian protagonist would be strange, a second later the same thing but there's a Japanese girl... dude what? they put it there because otherwise people would have hanged them I truly believe that by now people have been brainwashed

nioh games have a white guy as a samurai but no complaints from the asians, tom cruise played a white samurai and no complaints from the asians..once a black samurai appeared the asians go wild saying this is not historical, the real yasuke was just a slave, yauske in real life would never be a samurai..i guess racism is still strong out there.

This is exactly what I’m saying bro! People need to be worried about these chipotle bowl portion sizes something of upmost importance!

Y is the main cac a woman?? Bro

Not the trove music

Good video. I agree with your point that the hate has gone way too far. The problem is not so much that Ubisoft did nothing wrong, it's that they employ the services of "diversity consultants" and make significant changes to games based on their feedback. These consultants have no interest in creative freedom or story or gameplay or anything else gamers actually care about. You've only got to look at Warhorse Studios to see a game developer with the balls to say "go f*ck yourself" when told to make their games more "inclusive". They don't say go f*ck yourself because they're jerks, they do it because they care about making a game for gamers, not sacrifice their creative integrity to make a few bucks. When any creative person or team, whether it's a sole author or a team of game developers, stop trying to make the best game/book/album/film possible and instead try to offend the least amount of people possible out of some misguided effort to appeal to the widest audience possible, the end result is usually a crappy film/book/song/game. Anyway just my opinion, good video, thanks for sharing your thoughts on this stuff, it's always good to see different perspectives on stuff like this. Liked and shared. All the best with your channel.

People are so fixated on Yasuke, that you ignored half of the game being, Naoe. A Kunoichi a freaking female shinobi, Perfect for the stealth sections of the game. Not to mention her being a woman makes her unsuspecting and underestimated. Shinobi has meanings/connotations of stealing or hiding away hence it connection stealth.

We want japanese character to represent Japan, thats all. Its not hard to understand. And the backlash is deserved since they are literally representing japanese culture through someone who isnt japanese, didnt belong there neither was he an integral part of the countries history, he was just there for 15 months, wasnt a samurai but a bodyguard who was given the title of samurai, didnt know the language or history enough and here we have him in full samurai outfit fighting japanese people. Like who thinks thats ok?

cope harder guys, you all seem to think hate just spews from nowhere.

AC is all about History while playing with it to create unique interactions and stories that otherwise didn't happen. Who'd of thought. Yasuke instead upholds what they've done as we see various historical figure inclusions like: Leonardo Da Vinci: nobody complained that he helped Ezio nlt only repair and modify the Hidden Blade twice but he also studied the Apple of Eden too. He was a major supporting figure in a otherwise finctional plot but he's okay tobdo so. George Washington: at the forefront of AC3 where he allies himself with Ratonhnhaké:ton (Connor) who protects him from Charles Lee. In the DLC George Washington finds an Apple of Eden. It gave him a nightmarish vision of what would happen if he were crowned king of the United States with its power in his possession, and so he passed the Apple to Connor for it to be disposed of. The DLC goes into detail of what would happen it was called "The Tyranny of King Washington". Again no one batted an eye on how they altered history here. Jack the Ripper: Need I say more...his murder's are justified as became disillusioned with the Order, they weren't prostitutes they were assassins disguied as prostitute's. Cleopatra: making a final request to Aya to take her son Caesarion away from Egypt and train him as a Hidden One. Thats NOT FREAKING REAL.

It really doesnt make sense the hate that these games are getting these days

If you're going to do an assassin, why not use the shadow clans like the Imbe clan, the Kamo clan, or the Hata clan? Why Yasuke, the page of Nobunaga? LOL The Hata clan = Ancient Israelites theory would be perfect for Assassin's Creed, as it ties in with the story of Assassin's Creed 1! It would make sense if Nobunaga was connected to the Imbe clan and you were building on that story.

Actually during this era Shinobi and samurai was a different class

Um, they made him gay now, lmao.

Whyfolks are calling anything with black characters woke. What theyre doing with star wars is woke, little mermaid was woke. A black james bond would be woke. A black superman would be woke, a black peter parker would be woke.. this isnt woke.

What makes it funnier is that its #1 preordered in japan and they are getting mad on behalf of japanese ppl

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Why can I have both Japanese lead? There's tons of ninja assassin you could pick from, Hanzo, Fuji, you name it. Yasuke? Ridiculous. I sincerely hope the game booms so Ubi can go bankrupt.

yasuke was the token prize of Nobunaga who never saw actual combat and never became a samurai, all he wore and all the weapons he held were ceremonial. he was nothing and he died a nothing. Samurai was Japan's NOBILITY class they wouldn't give the ranks to anyone specially not a Foreigner weather white or black.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="378">6:18</a> That’s literally what I'm mad about! Couldn’t care less about who the character is. My main question I ask when I go to buy a game is... will I be able to play it? Which honestly should not be a question I gotta ask. If you want people to buy your game... MAKE IT SO I CAN PLAY THE GAME! Hate when a game lags and crashes so much!

Two things we know for sure: 1) this Ubisoft game will be THUGNIFICENT and 2) Nobunaga's last words would be "RUN AWAY, SMOKEY!"

You use a person who is not a samurai to represent the samurai, a sacred part to the Japanese, and then you hype up that he is a legendary samurai in history who saved Japan in the feudal era. Why not create avatars, that's what makes us angry