Journalists bashed Ghost of Tsuhsima as "cultural appropriation" but japanese loved it. But Ubislop makes this garbage and Journalists praise it but the Japanese hate it.

"Nobody knows" except for all the Japanese people calling out Ubisoft for twisting history.

If it was “just a video game” why was it so necessary to change wiki articles? Why was it so necessary to make sure the fans were gaslit to believe this was not a big deal? Why was it necessary to make those specific choices?

I was born in Japan. For the most part Japanese do not like anyone, especially gaijin, changing historical facts. It's viewed as highly disrespectful. Yasuke was Nobunaga's retainer. He was never a samurai.

May Ubisoft go bankrupt.

I think they wanted a black guy and said ‘find a historical excuse’

There are a lot of black people who really believe the fantasies around Yasuke. A quick google search shows that he was only in Japan for 15 months and was only a retainer. Japan is a very xenophobic country, ESPECIALLY back then, so to think a black man would hold such a high status as a samurai could only work in fiction.

"I remember my grandmother saying to me: I don't care what they tell you at school, all the samurai was Black."

You know the funny thing is, the black people that being blatantly racist towards Asians and don't see any issue with it haha. I am just like, you don't see the irony in this do you?

The protagonist for every single AC game was a fictional representative of the cultural setting of the game. But for probably the most anticipated setting for an AC game, feudal Japan, you have to play as the only known black dude in the entire country during that period. It's incredibly disrespectful when you think about it.

First they say it isn't happening. Then it happens. Then they say it's not a big deal. Until they announce it is. Then they tell you it's a good thing. But you know it isn't. Then they blame you and demonize you for pointing it all out. Rinse and repeat.

The Japanese "historian" they hired was a Western Literature Professor from one of the highest Ivy league in America(New Hampshire). Her entire accreditation was not japanese history but BoisLove and Yaoi of medieval Japan. Like if that mattered. She is what that Japanese call a Fujoshi

You're a top secret assassin.... While being the most easily recognizable person in all of Japan 😂😂😂 I wonder if they'll still have the stealth feature where you blend into a crowd lol

If Yasuke was JUST an important NPC, the controversy would either be nonexistent or so much less.

If the game takes place in China and plans to sell the game in China, I doubt Ubisoft would even dare pull the same crap with the protagonist being anything but an actual Chinese person.

Ubisoft's new game called "Assassin's Creed Ubisoft is Racist" is going to flop and flop hard. To take an emperor's curiosity in having a black retainer and having a white woman at Ubisoft turn him into a poster for Ubisoft's racism cannot go well for Ubisoft.

None of this matters. What matters is closing your wallets in November

From the woke agenda to learning that they are locking missions behind a paywall and having a mini battle pass I am so fed up with modern gaming.

I want a 4’ 11" 300lbs Vietnamese black panther.

How much outrage would there be if there was an Assassin's Creed in Africa with a white Zulu Warrior?

Ubisoft has lost 80% of its total value since 2018.

Anyone who knows anything about Japanese culture and history can tell you right away that Yasuke was not a samurai for one extremely simple reason: He has no surname. See people think that "samurai" is just any Japanese warrior, but they were nobility. And only nobles had surnames, because it was the name of their clan. There's even precedent for commoners and foreigners being made samurai. Hideyoshi Toyotomi was such a nobody that we don't even know what his name originally was, but he was made a samurai under Nobunaga Oda. Later Ieyasu Tokugawa granted samurai status to William Adams, giving him the name Miura Anjin. With samurai status came wealth, land, and power, these men made a distinct mark on history and are well documented. We know almost nothing about Yasuke, he has no surname, he had no land, no wealth, no clan, no record of anything he did or any role he played in historical events, not even anything trivial. Yasuke was effectively Nobunaga's pet, given a stipend of money and allowed to wander around town freely, but still very much a servant, not even a warrior. He is a historical footnote and the only reason we even know he existed is because Nobunaga had a serious fascination with foreign things, and found Yasuke interesting.

I'm Japanese. Yasuke was not samurai because only upper rank bushi was samurai before Edo period. Also Yasuke having no surname is that it is doubtful if Yasuke was even a bushi, because bushi had to have a surname in the class system. Greedy media making Yasuke into a samurai is going too far. Mixing history and fiction/sales pitch is propaganda.

GeT uSeD To NoT OwNinG YoUR GaMEs... Ubisoft. GeT UsEd tO NoT SeeINg AnY Of Our MoNEy... Gamers.

May this be a lesson to just axe anything "woke". Its better to take the full loss than to pull this stunt like Ubisoft

It's ubisoft. They deserve far worse.

It’s hilarious watching the people who constantly bleat about “cultural appropriation” actively engage in it while getting mad at the people calling them out. Peak hypocrisy and stupidity.

all of these companies nowadays are so hell-bent Destroying their own companies and they’re all allergic to making money

And this was after IGN reported that Ubisoft were very satisfied with the sales numbers thus far.

as soon as they changed the wikipedia page, the "it's just a video game" excuse goes right out the window

Why the eff is she working with the guy that burned down her village? And how do you put your hair in dreads in 16th century Japan? Lot of stores selling hair product back then?

The ratio is brutal. The biggest issue is the lack of playable male Japanese Samurai that represents the locals just like in previous AC games.

Assassin Creed has never had a historical figure be a playable character, and now suddenly they are breaking that rule just to have a black mc in japan

Ubisoft wont be seeing a dollar from me.

Repeat after me: Get woke, go broke. Investors already saw the reception of Outlaws. Now they see the reception to Assassin's Creed. They can see the writings on the wall. If Ubisoft has 2 major franchises and customers are reacting negatively to both...that doesn't bode well for sales of either, meaning no profits.

HISTORIC FACTS: 1) Yasuke by official recording was a page or koshō/小姓 /page in Japanese. What would be similar to a squire, page in medieval times? Not near a samurai, or even a medieval knight. 2) He also had a short sword (wakizashi) given since he was not of the noble class, or high standing and for Yosuke owning a katana would be a crime without permission. (Katana was not a fast-made sword even today and was for the elite only. Taking a year or years to be made.) Besides low-quality mass productions known as kazuuchimono like WWII katana swords. 3) Oda Nobunaga already used sword hunt /刀狩/ katanagari ordering the seizure of swords and a variety of other weapons from civilians/farmers in the Sengoku period in 1576 because of problems with an Ikkō-ikki group causing problems and certainly enforcing that law on his allies. In 1588 Toyotomi Hideyoshi similarly enforced the same law for a second time. 4) An interesting fact is that Feudal Japan was stratified by using religions such as Confucianism, Buddhism, and Shinto keeping the society stable, and stratified. Lasting nearly a millennium with changes in 1543(The first European arrival) isolation till 1853 (The arrival of Matthew Perry and opening.) and the drastic changes of 1868 (Meiji era) and then 1945 (After WWII) in culture, society, etc. 5)Daimyo in the war between themselves in the Sengoku period set rules including those loyal to Oda on the swords, and tanegashima (matchlocks) gun, weapons with control, and rules. The castles even had weapon storages, and in typical bureaucracy, they were counted and controlled, even secured behind the lock and key in the castle weapon storages. Since daimyo lands were at risk of invasion from other enemy daimyos, they did allow certain weapon groups, for self-defence, for the military, and outside it with permission besides other daily things that could serve as weapons and also, in response to avoid rebellions from commoners, non-nobility of their lands. It would be double pressure if the daimyo army rebelled when another enemy attacked. Meaning, that the local populace got less dangerous weapons, as they controlled more deadly ones. 6)Also, there were already permits, laws, what kind of weapon one could wear by status, what colour, material, decorations, etc. Noting their status in society thanks to the influence of China, and to easily regulate society. Just like armour by their type and appearance noting who they were in the army. 7) Yasuke would not wear a Ō-yoro/大鎧/great armour as seen in the video as it was meant for high-standing humans instead of a similar, plainer Dō-maru/胴丸)/body wrap which was for low-class samurai and servants as he was of bushi/ 武士/ warrior class with no given surname. The difference was fewer components, (less flashy) with less weight and without the decorative markings, or colour of the higher-ranking military ranks. 8) The strange part of the video is that armour was worn only in wars, not every day as it would be like wearing a special OPS uniform for daily life and chores. It would draw attention even before he would receive the secret note. 9) Yasuke was certainly of a slave background under the Portuguese Empire as the slave trade started well before the 1500s with their outposts in India where he was picked by Jesuits as written by Jesuit Luís Fróis. Slavery did not exist in Japan and was given to Oda by them, implying that he was subservient to the Jesuits. 10) The records tell that he was in Japan for three years staying with Jesuits and Oda (15 months in service) with no further recording and had less experience in war. And it would be a stretch, even for modern humans staying in Japan with norms, or getting masterful in kenjutsu sword fighting taught at a young age. Well, he could use other weapons besides katana. 11) He was for certain a curiosity in a monoculture society and Oda Nobunaga. Just like Pochahontas to English, the first Incas, Aztecs to Spanish, Native Americans to French, etc. Most Africans in monoculture societies from historical records in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese royal courts from slavery would get employed because of their appearance as a curiosity for guests of their employees, or end up doing tricks. Sadly it was quite common. 12) He was returned to the Jesuits after the death of Oda after a stint in prison after a capture. (Not committing a seppuku as common for samurai.) Maybe he was spared that, or he was not a samurai. 13)There is information by Jesuit Luís Fróis - Historia de Japam Volume 1 through 4 that he by assumption would receive the title of tono also as dono/殿 との comparable to "lord" or "master". However, it does not imply noble status, or even samurai class as it was a show of respect title like the English milord, German Wohlgeboren, Spanish-don, etc. It is below the title of -sama in honorifics in Japan's honorific titles. 14) He had a house, not land as mentioned in records (since he was not part of the nobility, or even local) and a stipend that was a fixed regular sum paid as a salary or as expenses to a clergyman, teacher, or public official as he worked as a page or servant. The house could be claimed back after his service, or given with land for him after service as it was common in that period.

Didn't the IGN journalist say that Japanese people and white people are the same in the article about Assassin Creed.

LOL Ubisoft are betting the farm on Star Wars Outlaws and Shadows. They are in very deep trouble.

Although an Irishman, my Ma is from Kanagawa Japan, my family over there are disgusted, my Ma? Not surprised as she said "there is a sickness in western pop culture which is entering it's inevitable end because of it's insane anti consumer practices"

Personally I think the Assassin's Creed: Zulu Nation release featuring Rabbi Moeshe Applebaum will be totally lit.

I remember a long time ago Ubisoft said they'd never do an AssCreed in Japan. Now they finally do it and they decide to do this. What a shame.

Yasuke was treated terribly like a circus act in Japan.

What a insult to Japan .. Yasuke was a jester kept by the lord for amusement he was NEVER a Samurai at best he was sword carrier and the lord sold him back to slavers after 3 years . Ubisoft you don't have any honor .. you could have done Hattori Hanzo he was known as an expert tactician and a master of sword fighting and helped in united Japan.. but no you wanted the sweet ESG points may you suffer the same fate as Kill the Justice League

It's not just a video game. They are trying to change the history of a nation they aren't even a part of, with a man who wasn't even a samurai. The book everyone refers to when talking about Yasuke was made by a nonjapanese person who like the rest of the world knows nothing about this retainer because he wasn't that important. Now Ubisoft is saying he lead armies after being in Oda's service for 15 months. NO way that would happen with even a native person. That's not to mention that he surrendered to his clans betrayer after both his lords committed seppuku.

These companies are screwed. The little guys are kicking their butts.

Ubisoft and the MSM are trying to make it about race to hide that the game is 130 dollars for the full package. Yes, using Yasuke as a meat shield to call haters the usual buzz-words was less troublesome than trying to justify charging nearly twice what AAA games cost for the full experience. And let's consider they will inevitably try to add overpriced DLC.

He was a sword bearer and only lived in japan for a few years before the man who effectively owned him died, he was then sent out of japan. Those are the facts that we know about him.

It's "not just" about video games. You are watching in real time information warfare.

my husband is Afro/Japanese and he’s sick and tired of companies twisting around history to please nobody who asked for it! Like that South Park episode STOP TRYING TO PANDER TO PEOPLE LEAVE HISTORY ALONE! My husband’s father’s heritage is Zulu, He said it best “what next are they going to turn Shaka Zulu into an obese transgender lgbt from the nordic countries? Who are they trying to impress? 2:09 Yasuke was a vassel of Oda Nobunaga

japan should sue ubisoft for trying to rewrite japans history, just like egypt did to netflix

“The wages of woke is broke!” - H. Cthulhu

Show me one good, successful, and very real thing ESG/DEI has created. Just one... Don't say a GD thing until you have one GD result to show for the agenda so far.

It's not just a video game when they are rewriting wikipedia it's propaganda.

I've seen too many people resort to the old "It's fantasy, who cares?!" excuse. We'll, if it's fantasy and nothing matters, why bother with the historical setting at all? Why the pretence? Why Yasuke and not some other random black dude? Why not mermaids and unicorns? Just abandon the whole premise of Assassin's Creed altogether.🙄

I am Japanese and my wife is African, but she is no longer in this world. I wanted to share my opinion about the game. ubisoft mentioned the accuracy of the story in the Assassin's Creed series. But the problem is that the setting like structures, houses, nature, objects - everything is bizarre and not Japanese but Chinese And the protagonist, Naoe, doesn't look Japanese but has more the ethnicity of Vietnamese or Korean or Thai.she looks like liu kang swap gender And this is the problem I have than others. If the idea is to create a game in the correct environment and Japanese traditions settings And that has to be done properly, in my opinion. The problem with Yasuke, I think, is that we Japanese expected more of a representation of a famous shinobi or samurai to represent the land of the rising sun. And I think if we wanted an African protagonist, I would have liked it more if it had been set in a traditional Mozambican environment with an African protagonist. More importantly, this is the first time that Ubisoft has decided to use a main character as a historical figure rather than a secondary one. And I think that's what created the controversy that's going on right now.

The sad part is that Yasuke could have been an interesting side character.

The biggest thing that annoys me is that this company deflects from their greed, bad salaries for talented artists and mediocre games through constant virtue signaling while silencing critics and raking in even more money through ESG/DEI. Disgusting.

A photo from the 1600s... might as well include a jet fighter in the background of the photo.

A nationalistic nation like Japan was back then would not have made a foreigner a samurai. However accepted he was, things didn't work that way. Samurai were blood and soil type and weren't fond of letting outsider in, which could have proven fatal to them. While i'm sure they thought Yasuke was an interesting oddity, they would not have given him the rights and responsibility of being part of this elite class of warrior. Your ties to the clan was everything, a foreigner with no ties to the land could not be given such title, however good and useful he might have been.

Not buy the game because they are asking like $180 for the game and some sticker. The main concern is the single player game need an internet connection to play. In 3-5 years they can pull the plug and even if you have the disc you want be able to play the single payer game.

There’s a movement going on …. There’s no going back now … time to make em feel it …

He was never given a family name. He absolutely cannot have been a Samurai just based on this fact alone. Nothing else needs to be said because nothing else matters.

that picture of Yasuke from 1400s is amazing if you think that the protograph was create in 1822

My wife is a gamer and part japanese. She said this is so disrespectful. You had one job, Ubi. People have been asking for a japanese setting for over a decade.

UBIsoft has needed took down for awhile now...

I heard that Ubisoft believes that Yasuke would against Nobunaga. If that’s true, hahahahahahahaha!

Why even make games when you hate having customers and fully expect Blackrock/Vanguard to keep you afloat? Good luck with that, by the way... 😂

Forget about the melanin for a second, I might not know a whole lot about Japan but I would think "assassin" and "samurai" are kind of mutually exclusive

Fires people. Closes studios. Lowered product quality. Raises prices. - Great business model!

Kneon, you're right that this is just a video game, however Ubisoft made this a historical issue by claiming that Yasuke (a historical person) was a samurai. Problem is there are no historical documents stating Yasuke was as samurai and no one so far has been able to point to a single historical source saying so. Right now it looks like the samurai Yasuke claim is something made up COMPLETELY out of thin air and being pushed largely by journalists (and now a French gaming corporation).

My favorite part in the game is when Yasuke shouts "george floyd!" Before looting a Don Quijote

Wasn't Assassin Creed about killing people and then avoiding capture by blending in with the crowd? How is that guy gonna blend in? xD

The same people praising this game attacked Resident Evil 5 as racist. 😂

historical data is like a game of telephone with each person telling the story things change that much more even when it's written down.

it's not a matter of whether there was or was not a black samurai, it's a matter of timing, industry awareness, and recognizing the temperament of their customers. these are important points around which successful companies maneuver and unsuccessful run into and sink. modern "executives" repeatedly fail at this fiduciary task, historically without facing any career-damaging repercussions. when companies fail to notice which executives are repeatedly making these bad decisions and fail to deal with them in a timely fashion, they are tacitly rewarding those decisions. more and more, customers are willing to show no such a reluctance to punish those executives and their companies for poor business acumen...

It's amazing how much fake history has been made about this man.. been seeing people say here's some real photographs of the man. Even though he lived like 100 or 200 years before it was invented. That he was fighting the Mongol hordes and defending their Japan for them. That he had tons of wives and that there are Japanese people who really don't know that they're part black. That he owed vast tracks of land and he was a wise good Lord to the people under him. It's amazing the stuff I'm making up about this guy.

I’ll bet if someone makes a game set in WW2, and there happens to be a black SS officer, certain people will throw a hissy fit.

I remember when I was a kid going to burger king, I would get a game cd with my kids meal. You could also get game cds from other products like corn flake boxes and magazines.

There always been black samurai --- Games Worksh... I mean Ubisoft

All game developers should be treated like they are EA until proven innocent.

Proof that Yasuke was never a Samurai: He's a Samurai in a Assassins Creed game.

I don't think Ubisoft can understand just how much Japan will resent them for this...

Even as a black man, I don't care about representation, I can do that in any game that has character customization like fallout 4.

Ubisoft once prided themselves on keeping their Creed games 80-85% historically accurate, to the point where Notre Dame was rebuilt using their in game model. Even if it is historically accurate, they had to go out of their way to find the one Black Samurai in Japan history as opposed to one of the thousands of Japanese Samurai they could have used. And I would have the same stance if the set a game in Africa and gave us a white guy main character.

Gamers have had enough of this shit, and it's finally being fought back in full force!

Yuskai would have been a good support character with his job literally being the templar representative to Obu Nobunaga. Yes take into account his retainer status to make him an interesting villain within history. Don't sacrifice the idea of Shinobi Assassins creed for perceived glory points.

My husband is a huge Assassin's Creed fan (has played every single game) and is Japanese.. and he's really upset about Yasuke. He's not upset that he's in the game.. he's upset that he's THE main character. They are twisting history, making things up and calling it fact. That's why he's upset. There was definitely an African man, brought to Japan by Portuguese Jesuit priests and given to Nobunaga. But the fact that the trailer shows this man LEADING Nobunaga's forces is absolutely absurd. There is little to no evidence that he was even a samurai. There is a quote about him being given a short sword and small home by Nobunaga but there isn't a lot beyond that as far a commendations. The point is that people have been asking for an Assassin's Creed game taking place in Japan for a decade easily.. why did they HAVE to do this? What would have been wrong with a real Japanese samurai being the main character of this game?

What I just cannot understand is that they did not make an Assassin’s Creed game set in feudal Japan with a Japanese man being the main character. It would have been a guaranteed money maker. It’s a given. I just can’t see how these businesses consistently misjudge what their customers are going to do, which is not give them money. It’s the entire spectrum from games to movies to drinks. And I’m probably forgetting something else too.

Why can't they ever just look up actual history, legends, and fables of black people they do exist. But they like to make things up or change something.

Let Ubisoft's fall send a clear warning: "No more forced "Message". Just do your job, or go bankrupt. No third option."

The quests behind pay walls, the claims of it being a AAAA game... We need to stop gaming companies from seeing this as a possibility for their own games and call a boycott. I was never going to buy the game and never would because I haven't played a single Assassin's Creed game but I fear this spreading to games that I would like to play.

While the history may reflect the origin of that particular samurai, it is still bound to annoy people in the current divisive climate.

They can't help themselves. Culture & people are merely pieces to use to assemble your vision.

The Metatron YT channel gave a mini-deep dive into Yas...wtv his name is...into their past that is documented, with most of the information coming from *HIS OWNER's* journal. Apparently he bought the guy and almost immediately freed him, not believing in slavery, and kept him as a serf who basically acted as his personal assistant. There was one story that cracked me up about how soon after being taken in the owner was still disbelieving of the color so he had him bath with other servants who were ordered to scrub him for hours on end to see if the coloring would come out, thinking it must have been some type of dye. Later he was given a *short sword* (slightly shorter than a Wakizashi I assume) and a small parcel of land to live on and farm. He was never taught how to fight, never mind trained as a samurai, but he was known to sit in the garden and talk for hours on end about his homeland in Africa with his _liege._ As for A.C. having him as a super warrior, idk, it doesn't bother me all that much *EXCEPT* alot, and I mean a *LOT* of people want to play a male version of the female *NINJA* character. Ubisoft has been changing historical figures for ages in Assassin's Creed, but I _think_ this feels wrong because of the motivation. They didn't do it because they thought he would be the most fun person to play with, they did it to virtue signal and *NOT* let a white guy play the hero. Or white *_adjacent_* in this case. Had they included this did as an NPC, even a very important one, while having the lead be a Japanese native regardless of sex, like they have in their other recent A.C. games no one would have said a fu##'n word, but they didn't. They really, really *HATE* white men and don't want them to have _"Heroic"_ roles in their games. They literally said as much on numerous occasions. This is where things get really f'd up. Even if their stock drops the major investment firms will still give them money. It's not their's anyway, it comes from your 401K, or the bus driver's down the road. They take the money they get from the elite and put it into Nvidia, AMD, Open AI or simply buy high yield treasuries with it while regular people who already have that shit 401K (which never should have been legal to begin with, at least not as a replacement to pensions) retirement plan and use that. If the company finally goes bust, well it's just less money for the new _"Serf"_ class the powers that be have created by buying all the land and investing regular people's money horribly poorly and driving inflation through the roof. These companies literally do not care, as the money is your's that they are losing, while the people at the top cash out whenever there is a top while your's has a sell at the bottom. Absolute mess. F Ubisoft and the firms that support them. This is why I emptied my 401K in 2014, ate the penalties and invested myself. You're better off watching a week's worth of investment channels on YT and using Robin Hood than putting money into these shams *UNLESS* your employer is 50%+ matching. Since most companies don't match at all anymore, why would anyone in their right mind let someone they don't know invest in this garbage for them? Literally hundreds of millions of people in the US and Europe are funding companies and banks they absolutely despise. Take their fricken money away and invest on your own. A 10 year treasury smashes 401K returns by about 4% right now, while good investing should kill it by 15%+. In any case, get your money out so these companies are finally *FORCED* to cater to their customers, as like I said, right now they are getting your money regardless.

Yasuke was brought to Japan by Portuguese Jesuits in 1581. Oda Nobunaga found him intriguing. He found foreign people and objects interesting. The Jesuit was used as a translator between the two. Yasuke was kept around for entertainment and was made a retainer (to the ire of his generals and samurai houses). Nobunaga gave him a sword, but Yasuke never really participated in battles directly. If anything, he was kept in the command camp during campaigns. One year later, in 1582, Yasuke was killed while fighting Akechi Mitsuhide's forces or was forced to commit seppuku when Nobunaga was betrayed and died in the Honno-ji incident. There's no real mention of him after the incident in Japanese texts or Jesuit documents. Ubisoft took massive liberty with his story. During that time period. There were approximately 100 Africans brought to Japan by the Jesuits and Portuguese Murchants.

The first commercial manufacturer of cameras was Voightlander circa 1756

Black man or women playing a samurai instead of a ninja. Yeah we waited so long for Japan to get an assassins game and this is what we get

History is getting Blacked

GO WOKE,GOBROKE!

The self-sabotage is baffling, but not so much if we consider someone else is attempting to lower stock to buy it out.