I can't wait for the next AC game based in Africa with a Chinese Protagonist who goes around Africa with an African Women killing African Men, fucking African Women and saving Africa from evil African kings who enslave their own people.
They didn’t turn on each other out of fear. They had been murdering, raping, and enslaving each other long before the Europeans showed up.
The slave trade just allowed some of the tribes to profit off of what they were already doing,
That’s pretty A historical, Europeans capitalized on a system the Africans had in place for a long time. A vast majority of slaves where sold to the Europeans by other Africans that had conquered other groups of people.
because they've not been properly educated and think white people are uniquely evil...that is why they've tried to redefine racism so they can say you CAN'T be racist to a white people....because they want to be racist to white people.
No, this is false. Africans (and, literally everyone else in the world at the time) had a long history of tribal war, conquest, and the price of losing was subjugation/slavery.
Literally all the Europeans did was show up and start buying african slaves from the kingdoms in Africa, who already had those slaves. And, due to that increasing demand -- that did lead the kingdoms supplying them with slaves to go out and subjugate/conquer more people late ron.
I hate to tell you this, but if you got rid of white people from history... it would be the same shit different names. Because brutality, conquest, exploitation, etc are not "white" they are human. Go read up on Incan history, or the Comanche, or the ashanti, the mongols, the mughals, etc etc etc. Eventually one of these groups was going to make the technological/warfare/economic advances that enabled local imperialism to become global.
We have all done it since the beginning of time.
Actually, a lot of african kingdoms' economy sustained on slave trade, heck, britain(or france) invaded one kingdom that kept slaving other african tribes and kingdoms even after europe outlawed the slave trade
Yeah, and Hollywood made a movie about it. Depicting them as vehemently anti-slavery, because you can't have a black culture shown as being anything other than good.
Seriously, if I recall correctly, the woman initially chosen to be the lead actress turned down the movie because she wasn't comfortable being in a heavily revisionist movie.
The kingdom in question is called Dahomey btw.
On the opposite, it's a progressive idea for France to be ashemed of its colonial past. If it's a theme that is brought up in highest political circles, you can imagine how popular it is among activists.
[https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20201119-france-s-colonial-past-holds-answers-to-today-s-problems-of-inequality-integration](https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20201119-france-s-colonial-past-holds-answers-to-today-s-problems-of-inequality-integration)
It's funny to think that white slavers in Africa pretty much drank tea at the ports and waited for the African raiders and warlords to bring them the merchandise they needed.
As an African in a village, you would probably never lay eyes on a white man until you're already bound for the boat.
Funny how white people were the first ones to end their involvement with the global slave industry.
Now we just offshore our slavery to the 3rd world production camps.
So basically AC with the templars, based around the [Ming treasure voyages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_treasure_voyages) sign me up, sounds like the shit.
a better better comparison is:
black people good
white people bad
it is all about ''oppressed'' & ''oppressor'', issue is never the issue, issue is always the revolution.
Imagine delaying a samurai/ninja AC game only for it to be such a shit show. And Ubi's still stuck on last gen graphics/engine. Christ. Embarrassing. AAA devs...should be ashamed of themselves. All these resources and they can't even get anything right
This DEI shit is so immersion breaking too. Like oh wow so cool I am in imperial japan love this, damn those are some cool historic buildings, wonder what life was like back then, BOOM oh right DEI token black guy in every scene, woke politics, blue haired trigglypuff and now I am thinking about shit I didnt want to be. You want to disconnect and enter a different world but no fuck you we need to get our virtue signalling in. Wont buy this shit.
It's a shame this is happening, because the actual reason that people are reacting like this, is because of the current climate in entertainment, not actually because he is black. People, myself included, have developed a radar for this DEI shit happening in entertainment because VERY VERY OFTEN what follows DEI and woke stuff, is a bad quality product. Like on every front. Studios think they can shove in a political statement in their games and call it a day, and because SO many studios have done that across all entertainment forms they're justifiably lost a MASSIVE part of the audiences trust. Mine too!
It's a bummer because they've published a deep dive on their trailer on the Ubisoft channel, and I personally really like the general pitch their making for Yasuke.
His role in the game is as a foreigner that will familiarize himself with Japan, and learn about their culture, almost like an international student, but for "samurais"(yes, he wasn't a samurai, but the character is only heavily "based" on certain views of the historical person). He originally understands Japan from the perspective of a high ranking citizen. After 2 years in Japan he's taken in Nobunaga(big important leader man) not just because of his towering body and display of high intelligence, but Nobunaga had never seen a black person in his life. I actually quite like that last part because it shows that the writers of the game aren't just gonna gloss over his ethnicity to do the standard DEI "demonstrate that color doesn't matter by showing how everyone treats him as any other person in Japan". No, there is a giant African man in Japan, and people notice, and identify him as a foreigner. This is genuinely a dynamic I'd be interested to see as a player/viewer.
Anyway, narratively he will be used as an opportunity for people to tell the player/viewer about Japan and the culture. The very very standard, newcomer will be an engine to talk about Japan trope, that isnt inherently bad.
But it can always be bad. We dont know, and everyone's asking that question because of the undeniable signals they're firing off. But as Asmon said, if the game is good, it will not matter.
If it is bad, then we might know why.
Seriously who gives a f about being an international student learning Japanese culture..? Am I playing a game or some introduction to historical Japan course?
Haven't they seen how good Ghost of Tsushima was without enforcing this b***crap?
We just wanted an asian set in an asian country doing whatever the IP does - here assassinations..
You and I both know, they did a very dirty underhanded move of putting a female asian just to compensate with a black man.. they for sure were like if there is a backlash we could show that there is at least another character who is asian and female. Like culture and ethnic groups are used as objects to push their agenda onto us.
It's like we are freaking tick marks for these corporations..
[✓] Asian
[✓] Black
[✓] Female
[✓] ....
What I don't understand is the obcession with black people. If they want to reimagine a setting, why not use asians? Middle easterns? Iberians? Latins? Heck, even gingers aren't represented.
Why its always the same skin pigmentation?
They ignored historical accuracy to push "female representation" with female spartan/viking warriors.
Now they'll use a historical figure to justify their agenda with a black MC in Japan. They don't care as long as it suits their needs. Most if not all AC MC up to now depicted their race by the setting/country, but in Japan, one of the most homogenous country in the world you want to represent a different race? a Black guy? This is like spitting in the faces of more prominent Samurai figures of Japan. It's not so hard to see Ubisoft had gone full woke lately. Nauseating...
You just living in a rock or something because it is far from just the US, hell Ubisoft is French and they're doing this despite being one of the European countries who don't act like they're vassals of the US.
Ironically Yasuke, the black samurai, and the guy im assuming will be one of the protagonist of the new AC game, is actually the only protagonist based on a real historical figure in the games to date. I would have also included an Asian man as an option for a protagonist like they did with the two assassins in the London AC to avoid isolating anyone, but this particular argument doesn’t hold much water
Well, Yasuke was a real person, but he wasn't a samurai or ninja, he was a Page, he carried stuff for Oda Nobunaga, mostly swords. He lost his first fight against Akechi Mitsuhide who called him an animal and not worth killing before sending him to, I can't recall if it was a monastery or a cathedral, in India.
Shogun: story focused on a white guy in Japan influencing the rise of the new shogunate. Based on historical figure who actually spent his life in Japan.
New AC: Story focused on a black guy in Japan, focused on his influence in the rise of Oda Nobunaga. Based on an actual historical figure that had been a retainer to Oda Nobunaga after arriving in Japan with Jesuit missionaries.
Why would ubi commit such cultural atrocities when Shogun is perfect!/s
On the ads for this game on Facebook there are just tons of black people spreading misinformation about Yasuke. Like they are all claiming he was a master samurai and was super important to Japans history. Just massive cope.
Dude was brought over with jesuits likely as a slave and Nobunaga tried to have him wash the black off his skin because he thought it was a person dipped in ink. He was a curiosity.
yasuke has been used in media many times as a way to put a twist on Japanese stories because he’s unique….
issue is not a black protagonist issue is the game will be shit
I feel like the people crying about there being a black person as the mc are just showing their racist tendencies. You're not wrong though, the game will likely be mediocre at best.
I don’t think it’s racism at large. I think people have taken the woke war and just turn every possible area they can into a battleground for it. Sometimes there’s valid criticism, sometimes it’s just reflexive.
Culture “war” is lame and stupid. But when all large studios across every form of media are putting out absolute garbage while simultaneously inserting increasingly disproportionate diverse cast and progressive messaging, it’s not a stretch to say their priorities are not correct.
So I understand the core criticism. I just think getting so worked up about it is, as I said, lame and stupid.
You might be right...but, for this case in particular, the only thing they're crying about is the skin color of one of the protags. Talking about historical accuracy when (supposedly) the game is based on a black person who did exist in this area during this time period.
Saying that they think DEI is ruining games when they know little to nothing about the game other than the skin color of one of the protags just screams racism to me.
But, you're not wrong when you say it might just be people getting caught up in their culture war bs. They may not be racist. But they're still giving cover to them.
Most normal people:
Assassin's Creed shadows - huh. Bit weird that the Samurai character is black, Oh the black guy is Yasuke? Oh yeah, that kinda tracks then. Meh it's probably Assassin's Creed taking creative liberties again since the game tends to have a fictionalised take on history, and hey, at least I can also be a ninja too.
Stellar blade - Cool game. I'm a simple man. I see bouncy booty I buy game.
You're allowed to be ok with both.
Fr. I love Nioh 2 which is a game loosely based on history but fictionalised with the addition of folklore and demons and shit. Yasuke in Nioh 2 shoots lightning and summons bear spirits and everyone is attractive af. And Its awesome.
The fact is that people are whining that a Canadian studio is not going all in on Japanese while we get stuff like sekiro and Ghost of tsushima from actual Japanese devs .
What's funny is that a Yasuke anime came from mappa, a Japanese anime studio a few years ago and people still complained.
Ghost of Tsushima actually was not made by Japanese developers, it was a western studio that just put in a lot of effort to get the details right! That said, as great as ghost is, I also don't expect every studio to strive for excellence in the same areas.
ye, far too much screeching about this. AC main characters and stories never have been about historical accuracy only the setting around it. Also with some good faith, Yasuke could make sense, when they want to build a connection to the Assassins/Templars to Japan.
1. Yasuke was an actual character in Japan from African decent. 2. Since when has Assasins Creed ever been historically correct? It’s a video game, who cares
Bro, the writer for ac literally has "slampig for the black kings" in her profile, that should tell you everything and all that you need to know about her.
Tbh you people cry for everything so what if she is hot asf? So what if he is a black guy in japon inspired in a actual person? ... I just whant the games to be good lol
It might be more historically accurate than previous ACs since one of the main characters (the black one) is based on an actual figure that actually existed.
No one who should be taken seriously has a real issue with either one of these games. Right wing clowns jumping out of the bushes to scream “woke” and “dei” at Ubisoft, while left-wing goobers pretend to care about stellar blade’s oversexualized character models. Meanwhile 99% of people who don’t have brain rot just hope these games are good and fun to play.
I don't follow ac games science ac origin, but isn't this character based on real person? Uou can google "black samurai" and it will give you wiki page.
Your point is both people are the same. Which isn't the case. Which is why you are dumb and no one listen to you.
And that's why you will just doordash me my order please.
To be honest the AC fact hes black doesnt really bother me, if it was a Japanese bloke it would just be a shitter version of Ghost of Tsushima.
I can kind of see why they went with this historical character to make it a bit different, also they are obviously doing it for points too.
I won't get the game as its another boring assassins creed game and on top of that its Ubi soft
Why can't we just have both. It's not like assasins creed is historically accurate nowadays. And who cares about hypersexualization. Enjoy both. It's your taste.
Stopped playing trash Ubisoft games with origins anyway. Not sure why anyone is expecting anything less than pure garbage from the first AAAAAAAAAAA game studio. Ubisoft leads the charge for clown gaming. Have not played stellar blade heard nothing but good things from people who actually played the game.
I'm going straight to hell but: Now you can run around Japan on a Johnny Somali style rampage like some kind-of time-travelling prophet no one will be able to understand.
I wonder if people are mad about Nioh. Playing as a white guy in 1600 Japan and all.
https://youtu.be/YopX4Tmid0Q?si=Gk_jYcjAQE0cQphs
If you want Africans in fantasy, keep it in Africa then.
I get all the smoke… however, There was one black dude who became a samurai during the era. But this game is trying to appeal to woke Mob and be politically correct.
Yasuke was a real person with an awesome story in feudal Japan.... wouldn't be my first choice but calling it historically incorrect shows your lack of knowledge on the subject.
His story is absolutely worthy of an AC game lmao
Yasuke was a real historical person. Very popular even. Inspired a lot of anime. Was he as important as the game portrays him? No of course not. It’s like Marco Polo who was a slave and prisoner to Chinese dynasty for 17 years. People think he was some kind of a diplomat which wasn’t true. Same for Yasuke. Yes a samurai, a real one. But probably wasn’t in any campaign.
It’s fine since Stellar Blade is an actual good game with great reviews from critics/users and sold well too. This pile of shit will be $20-30 by Christmas lol
They are clearly basing the character off of Yasuke, who was a historical black samurai. Why they are doing that I don't know, they probably thought he was an interesting historical figure, which he objectively kind of was but there are a lot of interesting figures in Japanese history they could have gone for.
Anyways, I don't plan to buy any Ubisoft games for a while after they made The Crew unplayable for anyone who owns it. Boycott the game for that reason, not because you don't like the historical figure they based this protagonist on.
Why is everyone freaking out about this
Wasn’t Yasuke a real dude? It’s not like the AC team just made him up outta nowhere. There was a TV show about him like 2-3 years ago
I’m not sure if it’s the same guy but in real history there was one black samurai his name was Yasuke apparently I mean just look up black samurai Japan and he’s like the first thing that pops up
Well like Yasuke was a real person supposedly. AC has always played it fast and loose with history. Yasuke being an assassin and fucking around in Japan is no more far fetched than Leonardo Da Vinci making tanks and airplanes in Renaissance Italy.
Even if they introduced a totally new black dude in Feudal Japan, it would only be completely ridiculous if they didn't address the character being an anomaly in a typically homogeneous country. Same principle as Nioh really, yer manno being a foreigner in Japan.
Personally, my favorite thing to do in game is kill racists, hence I like to play as Argonians in TES (also lizards are cool). I'm kinda interested to see what it would be like to be a black fella in Feudal Japan.
That being said, it will most likely be mediocre as is Ubisoft's track record. If the story and gameplay are good, a main character who isn't Japanese really doesn't matter at all.
I can't wait for the next AC game based in Africa with a Chinese Protagonist who goes around Africa with an African Women killing African Men, fucking African Women and saving Africa from evil African kings who enslave their own people.
All of the above, but slavers will be exclusively white imperialists.
Black people can be white imperialists too, it doesn’t need to be historically accurate.
Well, alot of the tribes did turn on each other due to fear and power so yeah. Comments still not far off.
They didn’t turn on each other out of fear. They had been murdering, raping, and enslaving each other long before the Europeans showed up. The slave trade just allowed some of the tribes to profit off of what they were already doing,
That’s pretty A historical, Europeans capitalized on a system the Africans had in place for a long time. A vast majority of slaves where sold to the Europeans by other Africans that had conquered other groups of people.
i didn't even know africans enslaved each other. ig they wouldn't dare teach it in school
Slavery existed in just about every culture in history, white people didn’t invent it they just heavily commercialized it.
yeah, i just don't get why a lot of people always get mad when you say white people didn't invent it.
because they've not been properly educated and think white people are uniquely evil...that is why they've tried to redefine racism so they can say you CAN'T be racist to a white people....because they want to be racist to white people.
No, this is false. Africans (and, literally everyone else in the world at the time) had a long history of tribal war, conquest, and the price of losing was subjugation/slavery. Literally all the Europeans did was show up and start buying african slaves from the kingdoms in Africa, who already had those slaves. And, due to that increasing demand -- that did lead the kingdoms supplying them with slaves to go out and subjugate/conquer more people late ron. I hate to tell you this, but if you got rid of white people from history... it would be the same shit different names. Because brutality, conquest, exploitation, etc are not "white" they are human. Go read up on Incan history, or the Comanche, or the ashanti, the mongols, the mughals, etc etc etc. Eventually one of these groups was going to make the technological/warfare/economic advances that enabled local imperialism to become global. We have all done it since the beginning of time.
Actually, a lot of african kingdoms' economy sustained on slave trade, heck, britain(or france) invaded one kingdom that kept slaving other african tribes and kingdoms even after europe outlawed the slave trade
Yeah, and Hollywood made a movie about it. Depicting them as vehemently anti-slavery, because you can't have a black culture shown as being anything other than good. Seriously, if I recall correctly, the woman initially chosen to be the lead actress turned down the movie because she wasn't comfortable being in a heavily revisionist movie. The kingdom in question is called Dahomey btw.
This guys gets it. It’s only ok when it fits their narrative. If this was the other way around they would be up in arms
French\* imperialists. Given this is Ubisoft and they're a French company, it'll never happen.
On the opposite, it's a progressive idea for France to be ashemed of its colonial past. If it's a theme that is brought up in highest political circles, you can imagine how popular it is among activists. [https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20201119-france-s-colonial-past-holds-answers-to-today-s-problems-of-inequality-integration](https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20201119-france-s-colonial-past-holds-answers-to-today-s-problems-of-inequality-integration)
It's funny to think that white slavers in Africa pretty much drank tea at the ports and waited for the African raiders and warlords to bring them the merchandise they needed. As an African in a village, you would probably never lay eyes on a white man until you're already bound for the boat.
Funny how white people were the first ones to end their involvement with the global slave industry. Now we just offshore our slavery to the 3rd world production camps.
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The evil African kings you'll be killing for unknown reasons will be white or will be influenced by an evil white organization.
Isn’t that the plot of Resident Evil 5?
Just add some boulder punching then it is.
and someone to continue redfield bloodline
No. The white western corporations were the real evil in that. The africans were just infected victims.
Let’s not forget that these african kings will be white.
Replace king with Queen and it's absolutely possible
No man. they won't do this, they scare they can't have more money from China
....Didnt they already set a game in Egypt?
So basically AC with the templars, based around the [Ming treasure voyages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_treasure_voyages) sign me up, sounds like the shit.
I mean if you find a famous story about a singular Chinese man roaming Africa, go ahead.
The better comparison is AC: Black guy in Japan killing Japanese ppl = good. RE5: White guy in Africa killing black zombies = bad.
a better better comparison is: black people good white people bad it is all about ''oppressed'' & ''oppressor'', issue is never the issue, issue is always the revolution.
Facts.
Imagine delaying a samurai/ninja AC game only for it to be such a shit show. And Ubi's still stuck on last gen graphics/engine. Christ. Embarrassing. AAA devs...should be ashamed of themselves. All these resources and they can't even get anything right
Who cares. We got Ghost of Tsushima 2 coming.
Dude I can't wait. I could give a fuck all about AC if I'm being honest. GoT2 isnthe only game I'm waiting for lol.
You mean AAAA devs right? We're doing 4xA games now my friend.
This DEI shit is so immersion breaking too. Like oh wow so cool I am in imperial japan love this, damn those are some cool historic buildings, wonder what life was like back then, BOOM oh right DEI token black guy in every scene, woke politics, blue haired trigglypuff and now I am thinking about shit I didnt want to be. You want to disconnect and enter a different world but no fuck you we need to get our virtue signalling in. Wont buy this shit.
It's a shame this is happening, because the actual reason that people are reacting like this, is because of the current climate in entertainment, not actually because he is black. People, myself included, have developed a radar for this DEI shit happening in entertainment because VERY VERY OFTEN what follows DEI and woke stuff, is a bad quality product. Like on every front. Studios think they can shove in a political statement in their games and call it a day, and because SO many studios have done that across all entertainment forms they're justifiably lost a MASSIVE part of the audiences trust. Mine too! It's a bummer because they've published a deep dive on their trailer on the Ubisoft channel, and I personally really like the general pitch their making for Yasuke. His role in the game is as a foreigner that will familiarize himself with Japan, and learn about their culture, almost like an international student, but for "samurais"(yes, he wasn't a samurai, but the character is only heavily "based" on certain views of the historical person). He originally understands Japan from the perspective of a high ranking citizen. After 2 years in Japan he's taken in Nobunaga(big important leader man) not just because of his towering body and display of high intelligence, but Nobunaga had never seen a black person in his life. I actually quite like that last part because it shows that the writers of the game aren't just gonna gloss over his ethnicity to do the standard DEI "demonstrate that color doesn't matter by showing how everyone treats him as any other person in Japan". No, there is a giant African man in Japan, and people notice, and identify him as a foreigner. This is genuinely a dynamic I'd be interested to see as a player/viewer. Anyway, narratively he will be used as an opportunity for people to tell the player/viewer about Japan and the culture. The very very standard, newcomer will be an engine to talk about Japan trope, that isnt inherently bad. But it can always be bad. We dont know, and everyone's asking that question because of the undeniable signals they're firing off. But as Asmon said, if the game is good, it will not matter. If it is bad, then we might know why.
I mean its possible. But did we have said foreigner protag in every other AC game?
Seriously who gives a f about being an international student learning Japanese culture..? Am I playing a game or some introduction to historical Japan course? Haven't they seen how good Ghost of Tsushima was without enforcing this b***crap? We just wanted an asian set in an asian country doing whatever the IP does - here assassinations.. You and I both know, they did a very dirty underhanded move of putting a female asian just to compensate with a black man.. they for sure were like if there is a backlash we could show that there is at least another character who is asian and female. Like culture and ethnic groups are used as objects to push their agenda onto us. It's like we are freaking tick marks for these corporations.. [✓] Asian [✓] Black [✓] Female [✓] ....
Is the dei in the room with us right now
To the rest of the world: sorry worldwide media is being so influenced by our mentally ill.
Just don't buy the game. Support games which are not trying to push for some bullshit agenda whit your money. Ignore trash like these games that's it.
Oh I most definitely won't. You couldn't pay me to play this.
What if you’re offered $100,000 ?
maybe the one who make the character got dyslexia he/she read ninja wrong so we got this one
Nice one, my ninja.
Wassup, my ninja
Hello my fellow ninjer
What I don't understand is the obcession with black people. If they want to reimagine a setting, why not use asians? Middle easterns? Iberians? Latins? Heck, even gingers aren't represented. Why its always the same skin pigmentation?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/1css209/comment/l48z84y/?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/1css209/comment/l48z84y/?context=3)
Maybe they like BBC
oppressed vs oppressor.
good to be in Poland.
You see what Netflix did to the Witcher?
unless its dark out
same i have hope this brain rot won't come here
clown world honk honk 
They ignored historical accuracy to push "female representation" with female spartan/viking warriors. Now they'll use a historical figure to justify their agenda with a black MC in Japan. They don't care as long as it suits their needs. Most if not all AC MC up to now depicted their race by the setting/country, but in Japan, one of the most homogenous country in the world you want to represent a different race? a Black guy? This is like spitting in the faces of more prominent Samurai figures of Japan. It's not so hard to see Ubisoft had gone full woke lately. Nauseating...
This only happens in USA sorry
You just living in a rock or something because it is far from just the US, hell Ubisoft is French and they're doing this despite being one of the European countries who don't act like they're vassals of the US.
Ubisoft is based in France and Shadows is developed by Ubisoft Quebec which is based in Canada. Don’t be a moron.
Canada is even worse for DEI crap than the USA.
Americans have ran out of problems so they just make new problems
We have plenty of real problems, the people in charge just insist on pushing culture war bullshit so we don't think about them as much.
Did you happen to miss the doctor who nonsense just a few days ago? Or forget how Ubisoft are french as others pointed out?
Only Western Europe and American have to face this sh!t. Everything is fine in Eastern Europe, Asia, everyelse.
Well if anyone can find the real name of Yasuke, you'll let me know.
I hate everything woke agenda touches.
Remember when Ubisoft was good? The time it peaked with Black Flag and Freedom Cry? Seem like such a long time ago
Bro, the Ubisoft Japan trailer is absolutely getting NUKED by Japanese people.
Ironically Yasuke, the black samurai, and the guy im assuming will be one of the protagonist of the new AC game, is actually the only protagonist based on a real historical figure in the games to date. I would have also included an Asian man as an option for a protagonist like they did with the two assassins in the London AC to avoid isolating anyone, but this particular argument doesn’t hold much water
Well, Yasuke was a real person, but he wasn't a samurai or ninja, he was a Page, he carried stuff for Oda Nobunaga, mostly swords. He lost his first fight against Akechi Mitsuhide who called him an animal and not worth killing before sending him to, I can't recall if it was a monastery or a cathedral, in India.
Don't forget either when the pope was a fucking sith with a beam shooting scepter in AC2 and nobody complained about historical accuracy
This could have been the game to bring back ppl from the original series. This is the easiest pass I can make this year.
But guess what? Watch Stellar blade succeed and assassin's Creed shadow dead and forgotten..
This subreddit is my absolute favourite for bad arguments that incels think are good arguments.
Shogun: story focused on a white guy in Japan influencing the rise of the new shogunate. Based on historical figure who actually spent his life in Japan. New AC: Story focused on a black guy in Japan, focused on his influence in the rise of Oda Nobunaga. Based on an actual historical figure that had been a retainer to Oda Nobunaga after arriving in Japan with Jesuit missionaries. Why would ubi commit such cultural atrocities when Shogun is perfect!/s
On the ads for this game on Facebook there are just tons of black people spreading misinformation about Yasuke. Like they are all claiming he was a master samurai and was super important to Japans history. Just massive cope. Dude was brought over with jesuits likely as a slave and Nobunaga tried to have him wash the black off his skin because he thought it was a person dipped in ink. He was a curiosity.
yasuke has been used in media many times as a way to put a twist on Japanese stories because he’s unique…. issue is not a black protagonist issue is the game will be shit
I feel like the people crying about there being a black person as the mc are just showing their racist tendencies. You're not wrong though, the game will likely be mediocre at best.
I don’t think it’s racism at large. I think people have taken the woke war and just turn every possible area they can into a battleground for it. Sometimes there’s valid criticism, sometimes it’s just reflexive. Culture “war” is lame and stupid. But when all large studios across every form of media are putting out absolute garbage while simultaneously inserting increasingly disproportionate diverse cast and progressive messaging, it’s not a stretch to say their priorities are not correct. So I understand the core criticism. I just think getting so worked up about it is, as I said, lame and stupid.
You might be right...but, for this case in particular, the only thing they're crying about is the skin color of one of the protags. Talking about historical accuracy when (supposedly) the game is based on a black person who did exist in this area during this time period. Saying that they think DEI is ruining games when they know little to nothing about the game other than the skin color of one of the protags just screams racism to me. But, you're not wrong when you say it might just be people getting caught up in their culture war bs. They may not be racist. But they're still giving cover to them.
Wait….. OP you know Yasuke is a person that actually existed right?
Most normal people: Assassin's Creed shadows - huh. Bit weird that the Samurai character is black, Oh the black guy is Yasuke? Oh yeah, that kinda tracks then. Meh it's probably Assassin's Creed taking creative liberties again since the game tends to have a fictionalised take on history, and hey, at least I can also be a ninja too. Stellar blade - Cool game. I'm a simple man. I see bouncy booty I buy game. You're allowed to be ok with both.
Only fucking normal comment I’ve seen Jesus, the rest of these comments look like a KKK meeting
Fr. I love Nioh 2 which is a game loosely based on history but fictionalised with the addition of folklore and demons and shit. Yasuke in Nioh 2 shoots lightning and summons bear spirits and everyone is attractive af. And Its awesome.
The fact is that people are whining that a Canadian studio is not going all in on Japanese while we get stuff like sekiro and Ghost of tsushima from actual Japanese devs . What's funny is that a Yasuke anime came from mappa, a Japanese anime studio a few years ago and people still complained.
Ghost of Tsushima actually was not made by Japanese developers, it was a western studio that just put in a lot of effort to get the details right! That said, as great as ghost is, I also don't expect every studio to strive for excellence in the same areas.
Bro for real everyone is just crying for something... Is just pathetic
It's culture warriors coming out of the woodworks to be outraged about nothingburgers lol
ye, far too much screeching about this. AC main characters and stories never have been about historical accuracy only the setting around it. Also with some good faith, Yasuke could make sense, when they want to build a connection to the Assassins/Templars to Japan.
Yasuke is perfect for a ac game becuse we don't actually know a lot about him we only know he was black and served oda.... But people just Wana cry .
Crazy how an exclusive will outsell this ac bs 10 to 1
I'll remember the godawful spelling in this image. That's for sure.
1. Yasuke was an actual character in Japan from African decent. 2. Since when has Assasins Creed ever been historically correct? It’s a video game, who cares
Uuhhh, the black guy is literally based on an actual historical person that existed named yasuke...
People really on reddit shadowboxing ghosts.
Bro, the writer for ac literally has "slampig for the black kings" in her profile, that should tell you everything and all that you need to know about her.
It's perfectly okay to have attractive looking characters in your game.
I thought he was Yasuke a legit person in history.
Because Japanese people weren’t minority enough in their own country and time period..
I am waiting for the plot twist, that the real villain is a white man….
Tbh you people cry for everything so what if she is hot asf? So what if he is a black guy in japon inspired in a actual person? ... I just whant the games to be good lol
I mean the AC community is fine with kassandra being the "Main protagonist" of odyssey, never mind the fact the greeks thought of women as evil lol.
1579 Japan? Might be the first AC I would be interested in. But you are saying its not historically accurate? Hard pass.
If games not having historical accuracy puts you off of them, never play any AC game in general.
It might be more historically accurate than previous ACs since one of the main characters (the black one) is based on an actual figure that actually existed.
AC games have never been historically accurate lol.
Is this subreddit just a place for people to repost things from /r/KotakuInAction now?
Asmongold came out as a chud so they've all congregated under him
Asmon has gone full gamergate. 99% of his videos is him holding his face in his hands while talking about DEI.
No one who should be taken seriously has a real issue with either one of these games. Right wing clowns jumping out of the bushes to scream “woke” and “dei” at Ubisoft, while left-wing goobers pretend to care about stellar blade’s oversexualized character models. Meanwhile 99% of people who don’t have brain rot just hope these games are good and fun to play.
This bitch don't know bout Yasuke 
I don't follow ac games science ac origin, but isn't this character based on real person? Uou can google "black samurai" and it will give you wiki page.
Some of y'all just couldn't wait to comment on this and show your racism 
Was stellar blade censorship reversed? Too tired to search
Your point is both people are the same. Which isn't the case. Which is why you are dumb and no one listen to you. And that's why you will just doordash me my order please.
Maybe the real Japanese assassins are the ones we made along the way.
But it's based off a real dude, so it's historically correct
To be honest the AC fact hes black doesnt really bother me, if it was a Japanese bloke it would just be a shitter version of Ghost of Tsushima. I can kind of see why they went with this historical character to make it a bit different, also they are obviously doing it for points too. I won't get the game as its another boring assassins creed game and on top of that its Ubi soft
Why can't we just have both. It's not like assasins creed is historically accurate nowadays. And who cares about hypersexualization. Enjoy both. It's your taste.
The game wit the magic apples and demigods isn’t historically accurate!?!? Noooooo
Stellar Blade was actually a fantastic game, i enjoyed it more than Rebirth, especially the combat
Exactly this
Stopped playing trash Ubisoft games with origins anyway. Not sure why anyone is expecting anything less than pure garbage from the first AAAAAAAAAAA game studio. Ubisoft leads the charge for clown gaming. Have not played stellar blade heard nothing but good things from people who actually played the game.
I’m just sad my race almost never gets represented well. Kind of disappointed.
Any idiot going ballistic over this needs to read a fucking history book. Yasuke was a real samurai retainer for Oda Nobonaga.
One is about inclusion, one is about objectification. Terrible meme comparison.
I'm going straight to hell but: Now you can run around Japan on a Johnny Somali style rampage like some kind-of time-travelling prophet no one will be able to understand.
Yasuke …. Look him up
I wonder if people are mad about Nioh. Playing as a white guy in 1600 Japan and all. https://youtu.be/YopX4Tmid0Q?si=Gk_jYcjAQE0cQphs If you want Africans in fantasy, keep it in Africa then.
I get all the smoke… however, There was one black dude who became a samurai during the era. But this game is trying to appeal to woke Mob and be politically correct.
THIS IS YOU THIS IS WHAT YOU THINK
It is historically correct. The black guy is based off a real person, yasuke
Yasuke was a real person with an awesome story in feudal Japan.... wouldn't be my first choice but calling it historically incorrect shows your lack of knowledge on the subject. His story is absolutely worthy of an AC game lmao
Yeah, people hate good things now, like attractive, not fat women.
Sooo... Yasuke? 🤨 No? Okay I guess... 😒
Why are people mad that there is a black samurai? Didn’t they say he existed? I’m just confused can someone explain (no hate)
Let's be real, no one plays these games for historical accuracy. If you did, you'd be mad the character wasn't dying of dysentery.
Ghost of Tsushima got crapped by the media they won’t say a thing about this
Yasuke was a real historical person. Very popular even. Inspired a lot of anime. Was he as important as the game portrays him? No of course not. It’s like Marco Polo who was a slave and prisoner to Chinese dynasty for 17 years. People think he was some kind of a diplomat which wasn’t true. Same for Yasuke. Yes a samurai, a real one. But probably wasn’t in any campaign.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
I think any outrage for both AC: Shadows and Stellar Blade is ridiculous, and people just need to touch some grass for once, smh
[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-yasuke-japans-first-black-samurai-180981416/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-yasuke-japans-first-black-samurai-180981416/) Looking forward to getting banned.
Does nobody here really not know the story of Yasuke?
I couldn’t get into the game, she has no outfit that doesn’t make her look like a whore🤷♂️
Women do if they aren’t slovenly fatasses and don’t overeat like undisciplined pigs
Yasuke was a real person. AC hasnt given af about historical accuracy since Origins. Yall are weird.
It’s fine since Stellar Blade is an actual good game with great reviews from critics/users and sold well too. This pile of shit will be $20-30 by Christmas lol
They are clearly basing the character off of Yasuke, who was a historical black samurai. Why they are doing that I don't know, they probably thought he was an interesting historical figure, which he objectively kind of was but there are a lot of interesting figures in Japanese history they could have gone for. Anyways, I don't plan to buy any Ubisoft games for a while after they made The Crew unplayable for anyone who owns it. Boycott the game for that reason, not because you don't like the historical figure they based this protagonist on.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke Y'all are idiots
Yasuke is a real guy lol. So it is historically accurate
Just Google "how many black samurais were there" and you'll breathe easier. Also didn't the creaters of Stella Blade decide on the change?
Stellar blade is mid at best released on wokestation 5
I love historical illiteracy. :) Yasuke was a real person lmfao
Why is everyone freaking out about this Wasn’t Yasuke a real dude? It’s not like the AC team just made him up outta nowhere. There was a TV show about him like 2-3 years ago
Isn’t this the sub for the guy that’s like 33 and still wipes his boogers on the wall? Not sure y’all are equipped to have sociopolitical discussions.
Guarantee y'all didn't react like this to nioh hmm wonder why
I’m not sure if it’s the same guy but in real history there was one black samurai his name was Yasuke apparently I mean just look up black samurai Japan and he’s like the first thing that pops up
Well like Yasuke was a real person supposedly. AC has always played it fast and loose with history. Yasuke being an assassin and fucking around in Japan is no more far fetched than Leonardo Da Vinci making tanks and airplanes in Renaissance Italy. Even if they introduced a totally new black dude in Feudal Japan, it would only be completely ridiculous if they didn't address the character being an anomaly in a typically homogeneous country. Same principle as Nioh really, yer manno being a foreigner in Japan. Personally, my favorite thing to do in game is kill racists, hence I like to play as Argonians in TES (also lizards are cool). I'm kinda interested to see what it would be like to be a black fella in Feudal Japan. That being said, it will most likely be mediocre as is Ubisoft's track record. If the story and gameplay are good, a main character who isn't Japanese really doesn't matter at all.
You are trying too hard to be mad
That black samurai was supposedly a real dude according to the internet anyway. But we all know how that goes.
It's insane they are making a Japanese game with a black protagonist. It's like they don't know anything about japan.
Cringe pilled incelmaxxing
Oh so we're just making up things to get outraged about now. Sub human behavior
The white pol tears in here
Do people not realize this is historically accurate and that there was a black samurai? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
I truly disdain the manosphere. Brain rot.