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I agree with Razor. All these companies insult our intelligence when they state that they're "inspired" to make these choices. They know they're lying, we know they're lying, and they know that we know they're lying. For them to be surprised of this kind of backlash is something I have never believed. They know EXACTLY the reaction that they're gonna get casting a black Ariel, a latina Snow White, and now a black samurai in Sengoku-era Japan. I hope this game bankrupts Ubisoft and people stop investing into ESG funds.
I hope the Japanese companies like Nintendo are watching AC: Shadows, Concord, etc. and giving the biggest "NOPE" they possibly can... and weeding is out of their overseas branches as well.
Heh. Pay close attention to the demographics in most TV advertising these days. An uninformed viewer might be led to conclude that *white people* are the minorities. =9[.]9=
The problem with many ESG funds is they use people's pension money that most normal people don't bother tracking where it is. They just pay into their "retirement" fund while inadvertently funding people who hate them.
@@tokamara8795 The catchphrase of the Japanese manga "Detective Conan" is "The truth is always one!" When they say "going beyond the truth," it means the same as accepting lies and fiction.
*Assassin's Creed: The Great Wok of Japan* - where black samurais ride moonwalking pandas into town, female ninjas stealthily serve dim sum, and the Emperor of Japan is actually the Forbidden City's takeout delivery guy. It's the historical adventure where Japan's feudal era got a side order of Chinese takeout, and nobody's quite sure how or why.
@@rashidisw Common misconception. Rice doesn't need wet or watery soil to grow, it can grow just fine in regular dirt. But since rice is resilient to having submerged roots and insects which feed on those roots and weeds can't survive if submerged, planting rice in water is a form of pre-emptive pest control. It has absolutely nothing to do with the environmental needs of the plant.
Never let them forget, ACS is so historically accurate, Ubisoft.... Stole a Japanese re-enactment group's banner and published it in an art book even after being told of the "error", used Chinese architecture in a Japanese game, used a sword from One Piece and claimed it was Yasuke's at an exhibit, got all of Japan wrong, from crops in season to sizes of tatami mats, didn't even consult a martial artist for the choreography and put a hip hop beat to Yasuke beating up Japanese villagers with curb stomps. This is what you call "representation" and "historical accuracy", Ubisoft?
The hip hop beats are also culturally ridiculous since Yasuke was African not African American. Talk about completely messing up every single aspect of their woke insertion.
@@wbeytel The funniest thing about people that don't actually have representative people involved or at best might have consultancy groups involved is everything they do turns from representation to pandering and tokenism. The very thing they claim to be fighting, stereotypes is exactly what everything they do becomes. It's so backwards and yet they're so proud of it.
Chinese architecture, not art, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had paintings that were Chinese and/or from the wrong time period in the game as well.
With the sword, it wasn't just at an exhibit, it was for merchandise sales...which implies that they also might have stolen the design of the sword in game as well there
About Hashashin part, I worked as an Arabic tester for Mirage, and the Arabic dub had tons of lines where the actors went off script and said the word: Hashashin. Ubisoft asked its UAE affiliate to re-record those lines, only to have the lead actor start using that word as well. lol. We as Arabs did not have issues with it, but Ubi France was insisting that we might feel offended. Turns out their consultants were 3rd or 4th generation migrants with not much relation to their ancestral home, but massive chip over their shoulder. Go figure.
Thing is, historically speaking they were kinda lame. Nothing you do in that game has any relation to the real Hashashin apart from the paradise garden they used for their loyalty con.
@@schaddenkorp6977 Which part?! Everything that we know about Mr samurai is either based on extremely biased fanfiction written by and now disgraced "historian" or a few sentences written by Jesuit priest hundreds of years ago.
@@schaddenkorp6977 Six lines of text exist about Yasuke in Japanese. He never was a samurai, he was a slave sold to Nobunaga who took him for walkies to show off. He was there for 18 months. Never trained in the sword, language or arts at all.
It's crap like this Yasuke business that I no longer have the "I don't mind inclusion if it's well-written" mindset. Having Yasuke as one of the main leads is clearly an anti-asian male decision no matter how historically accurate he is, not to mention making Naoe look like a man, which is anti-feminine.
I have no issue with an ethnically diverse cast if the setting makes sense for it. But when they insert woke identity groups into historical ethnic settings or fantasy versions of historical ethnic settings (medieval Europe, feudal Japan, ancient China, etc) I find it really disrespectful and jarring. It takes me out of the experience. Especially since I know the political ideology behind it and what their agenda is about.
It's probably gossip but I heard something about a character being trans. And I'm pretty sure that she was given the name of an actual Male samurai. If it was gossip, then that's fine but I wouldn't be shocked if they did that crap at some point in this dumpster fire of a game
@zhengyingli These companies are absolutely poisoning the well and people wonder why even when things aren't super agenda pushing we reject it, gee I wonder why?! They've really made it where you can't trust any company and honestly I don't. I'm not sure there's anyone that wouldn't take the check if they didn't think they could somehow inject something into a game somewhere and pick up that sweet investment money.
Actually Ghost of Tsushima is very beloved in Japan. The creators became ambassadors to the island of Tsushima. But that’s because they actually were respectful to the culture and cared about honoring them. They put in the work and effort and it shows. You will not see the same for Shadows. I’d bet money on that.
Funny how the commies in games media lambasted Ghost of Tsushima for "cultural appropriation" yet shill hardcore for Assassin's Creed Shadows when it ACTUALLY commits cultural appropriation.
GOT devs: "We think your culture and history are cool. We tried to make you look cool in our game." Tsushima town council: "Thank you, you did." Show respect, get respect. It really is just that simple.
The fact they turned to their mindfulness app on their phone made me laugh so hard. These people struggle to cope in the modern world as it is the minute they get any push back they have a full-on meltdown.
Racism against East Asians is considered acceptable by the western far left. They have gleefully tried to discriminate against East Asians in education and employment. Of course a French company (who is desperately trying to get people to forget about their harassment scandals) would take their jabs against the Japanese.
Like other entertainment they began this before they saw the dumpster fire that is sales/views of entertainment when forced identity politics and political agenda is included along with weak storytelling and horrible characters. It's too late to do anything with the game so they've chosen damage control. It won't help.
Reminder: Ghost of Tsushima didn't get game of the year award instead it was stolen by "The last of us 2". Garbage woke game is stealing the spot light.
Yep, that was the first true sign things had gotten real bad. It was a technically excellent game but everything else about it sucked. The fact the media and game urinalists praised it to no end proved once and for all that the era of trusting any mainstream gaming sources was dead.
Who cares about game awards again? The intellectually stunted IMAX heir shilling Doritos & Mountain Dew, while giving fake accolades to a bunch of corporate buddies is just a scam. I have no idea why people ever took that seriously to begin with.
@@jakeviolet2195 I've been hearing more about the person that got to play the lead and I have to admit I'm not thrilled and honestly I'll probably sit this one out. 0ne are the jokes I kept hearing around AC shadows was was just wait for the second ghosts of tsushima game and yep this is pretty much what I expected. There is no place to hide from this modern (audience) garbage.
I think you're misremembering the reception to ghost of tsushima. It was nearly universally lauded with 10's from all the Japanese game orgs. It was the lefty western journalists crying about an American company making a game about feudal Japan.
They can't even remember what the mythical creatures and worlds actually were in the lore of AC games, why would they remember that when they have their own narrative to push?
Yeah, that is exactly what I remember too. Japan actually named the people behind that game cultural ambassadors. Meanwhile Western journalists were angry that white men were making a game based on Japan. Oh the irony considering this current situation, and the massive amount of disrespect here.
Yep. The game was a massive hit in Japan, where western-developed games usually don't sell particularly well. Far left white journalists were just playing the white savior like they always do, getting offended on behalf of and trying in infantilize non-white people.
@@minbari73 To be fair do you remember everything from the mediocre games that you have played? No you don't. And the "narrative" around the sane folks about AC shadows is spot on truth. It's especially weird of you to complain about their memory for a 7 year old game when he did talk about the 15 year old game AC1. He did remember that.
@@Ewil.Bluetooth Well, at least they've played them so that they actually have memories of them, unlike AC Shadows where the knives were out the moment the first trailer came out. First i have to agree that any given game is that is regarded by youtube comment morons as a 'mediocre game' is actually one and i can only do that by playing it, unlike the youtube morons who have all seemingly agreed that AC Shadows will be the worst thing since the previous AC game without actually playing it. To be fair, ya know?
Assassin's Creed has always had the "conspiracy theories are real" fictional element. It's a fine line between "a Knights Templar secret society controls the world" and "black guy is a heavily armored assassin who no one knows is responsible for anything in particular despite literally no other heavily armored black guys within 1000km". And the Medusa running around *was* a turn-off for some people.
Razor is right on the money with this game being uninspired. Earlier this year, the former lead writer for this game came out and told us they already had a full script for this game written and waiting on the back burner since 2014. It was going to star a fictional Japanese assassin named Taka. But the entire thing got thrown out for a checklist. Ubi is straight up gaslighting people into thinking the "We wuz Samoorais n' sheet" was always their intention.
That's the thing ever since I saw/heard that I didn't believe a single word I heard coming from Ubisoft. The original plot/story sounded great and was consistent with the rest of the franchise. This on the other hand is such an obvious tokenized/pandering joke. They couldn't even give us a decent-looking female character they had to ruin her to. It's just top to bottom ruined by current activist infected nonsense.
1. This is the worst case so far by a country mile. 2. The gaslighting has reached the point where the people defending this game HAVE to slander every other game. 3. The entire community has been destroyed because of Ubisoft and the shills. It's not that people are surprised, it's that Ubisoft Quebec has successfully did what they always wanted to do, destroy the franchise and slander anyone who questions them. Of course the people who have legitimate reasons to be upset are also understandibly upset that they are being slandered that's all.
Will it, though? I’m hoping it falls flat on its face so that Ubisoft may actually learn a lesson, but there are a lot of brain dead idiots out there who will gobble their crap up without a second thought.
In case nobody has noticed yet, another item on the 'ESG Checklist' is: 'AI/Robot character must be the most developed and interesting character' AND 'must prove to be trustworthy.' Well gee whiz gang, I wonder why they keep pushing that one?
IDK, you could make a playthrough series "Assasins creed: Cultural enrichment- Diversity comes for Japan" where Yasuke acts a lot like NY urban people around asians.
Ubisoft director's attitude mimic the Olympic organizers when questioned about their choices for the opening shows. I'm sick and bored with "I reject reality and substitute my own" attitude.
I mean it was cute when it was small and meaningless now they keep trying to push it into everything and when they get massive push back they try to call people names and act the victim. It's pathetic and I am so sick of it.
Already started playing Ghost of Tsushima a few days ago. I haven't had so much fun in awhile, and im expanding my history beyond the overused Warring States Period Sengoku Era, as Ghost takes place about 200 years earlier during the Kamakura era, on a small island during the first invasions of the Mongol Empire. So awesome to play something and learn something I never knew again, and not play my 10th title focusing on the Sengoku Era (love it, but very overused).
Creative liberties taken by including a medusa for gameplay is different than creative liberties taken where they literally rewrite actual history, and then tell the player that their distorted history is the true version of events.
The main problem is that all the “Virtue Signaling” is paper thin. We can all see through the BS and you probably shouldn’t have based an entire game around some white guy’s fanfic of a Japanese historical figure. The reality is that the first foreigner to be granted the rank of Samurai was a white man who was a merchant and that historical event happens a long time after Nobunaga’s death. Yasuke was Nobunaga’s retainer and carried his tools and weapons for him. The most notable thing Yasuke did was trying to bring Nobunaga’s sword and remains to his son. After that the 2 of them were caught and he was sent back to the people who brought him to Japan in the first place.
It's funny cuz they tried to push the whole accuracy thing then as well. This game makes it very clear right off the bat, no. There is no accuracy here.
How 'bout this: How 'bout I just keep my wallet closed? Just like I do with most movies, contemporary mainstream music, modern pro sports, etc... Just keep my wallet closed.
To give an example related to the topic and was done far, far, FAR better than Assassin's Creed: Shadows..... NIOH 1 AND NIOH 2!!! Yes Yasuke was there but Nioh is set within the Ninja Gaiden universe so it is entirely its own thing. Yes it has parallels with actual history but it still has its own history and setting with Dragon Ninjas, Yokai, Guardian Spirits and literal spirit stones! It can get away with Yasuke there because its not trying to be factually accurate to real-world history, unlike this garbage Ubisoft is throwing around!
@@GinraiPrime666 Accurate to the depiction of Japan and how history turned out, not to how it happened and who was involved: like every other AC game that has been made. AC games are set in a science fiction universe, have you even played any of them?
At least the game had an appropriate location to have a dark skinned protagonist just like Freedom Cry. But Shadows obviously doesn't and to be quite honest, never really liked the RPG trilogy in the first place which shadow is gonna be a part of.
Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if the people working in Ubisoft agree with the statement made years back buy people in the activist community that quote "Asians are white adjacent". They have no problem recontextualizing and revising history when it's in a certain direction. But never the other way around.
Does Ubisoft come off as a "risk taking" company? Here I was thinking the main problem with Ubisoft games was the made-by-committee / made-by-focus-group banality of their games. A dozen open world far cry clones with collectables. I don't think making a game in current year with current year political diversity is "taking risks".
I mean it is a risk making games for literally nobody. (or at the very least a microscopic bit of the market) If this game succeeds it's because normies are totally ignorant of everything going on and all they see is feudal Japan ninjas/samurai. Though all you have to do is look at the cover and you know what this game is.
I'm speaking with my wallet. This game is priced in Canada at $90 for the base edition and $150 for the Gold edition. As far as I'm concerned Ubisoft can get bent. I'll gladly spend my money on something else Thanks.
I know right, most woke games are easy to boycott. I hate that there is even some people who have this obligation to play things made by people who hate them just because it is the new thing. They are actually a lot of other entertainment media that is produced by neutral parties and people on our side of opinions. Support them.
@@minbari73 the average linear beat 'em up has more replay value than a Ubisoft dead-empty open world game. There's more value to be had in indie stealth titles like Styx: Master of Shadows and the Aragami games than in any Assassin's Creed game since "Black Flag." Enjoy hunting feathers.
Kunoichi were a thing that happened. but they were more seductive, and 'I will marry this samurai and do unspeakable things to get the information K need' not traditionally sneaky.
@@55Andy555 Spies were even more prevalent in the Sengoku period. With so many Daimyo warring with each other, espionage was a big business. And honey pot operations are as old as civilization.
All ubisoft had to do was say "Yasuke is a unique character in Japanese history as we know very little about him, nothing of his origin or later fate so he's a perfect figure to implement in this world, staying relatively true to history while also taking creative liberty with his actions and relationships with other more qell known historical figures". Ya know, like every other assassin character in the franchise, and I truly don't think people would care. Like Razor said AC is a franchise where you fight relive other people's memories and you can fight pharoahs, gods, mummies, where George Washington became King George in a different timeline and ancient aliens use sci-fi tech to take over people's body's. But no. Instead, they had to double down on "it's historically accurate! And we'll shame and block anyone who disagrees!".
The biggest problem with what you typed was. Every other protagonist was an unknown in history. they met historical figures sure but they themselves where not remembered by history. You played the shadow in the background that set events in motion.
@@MyAramil Exactly, the moment they decided to take a very complicated and at the very least mostly unknown person that their entire history is based on a man's fanfiction and turn him into one of the main characters you play as they lost all credibility. Using one historian that just so happens to have been completely discredited now and everything he wrote basically shown to be completely made up lies they've got themselves a real problem. I'm sure they didn't see this coming but they deserve everything that comes with it. You base all your "research" on people with agendas and you get what you deserve. Which is not to even go into the other person who's used for research purposes. And her monk/boy love research as her main credentials.
They chose 1 the single B who ever showed up in Japan, because the game is made by afro-judeo gl0balists. No, I will not eat your g0ysl0p just because the PR person generated a more tactful excuse.
The gaslighting and attempts to hide behind things is just so gross, disingenuous and disgusting. Ubisoft knows exactly what it is and they keep trying to pretend like they aren't.
Sometimes i wish craig would read properly when he is quoting someone its not always a big difference when he misreads a word but other times it completely changes the context of a sentence. For example in this video he mis reads accepted as acceptable in every instance and that changes the context of What was being said by cote in a small but meaningful way. I agree with the points craig and razor are making but we dont need to take these idiots out of context when they do a great job in context by themselves
though to be honest, with DEI basically trying to rewrite history. it fits it anyways. Lots of folks who support DEI are also afrocentralists (aka BLACK PEOPLE WHERE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING)
Assassin's Creed II and the other games that followed Ezio's story were the best AC games. It was all downhill after that. AC IV is the lone exception, but that's really "Pirate's Creed" instead of "Assassin's Creed."
I don't know what Razor is referring to about controversy in Japan with Tsushima. That game was absolutely successful. The team was named ambassadors to the island for crying out loud.
06:28 Considering the dates, they should have fudged the numbers a little and had Yasuke and Musashi team up. Tell a bromance rags to riches kinda story. They could form their own assassin group to rival the Iga and Koga. "The Assassinja Clan ain't nothin' to @#$% with." - Yasuke to Nobunaga.
The problem with their revisionist history nonsense here is they can't even be consistent. The only consistency is pushing particular ideologies and agendas. If they went all in with the ridiculousness it would have at least been fun as is it's just a joke.
The fact they forced the ending of the Desmond Miles arc into a comic book that nobody read in favor of the suddenly integral to the story racially ambiguous strong female lead with no credentials other than “girlboss duh” speaks volumes on the state of Ubisoft since 2012
Yu Hirayama used to be a Communist who was claiming to ditch the Emperor of Japan. So basically he has the anti-Japan political belief and acts against the Japanese (especially patriots). His claim that Yasuke being samurai has NO historical backup. He made up a his own definition of samurai that is not recognized by any Japanese historical academia. Sayamaki鞘巻 is a short sword(knife) by default but Hirayama didn't know it since he is too lazy to look up into a dictionary.
I remember arguing someone who defends Yu Hirayama with passion since I mentioned that he wasn't even an Oda historian, he was a Takeda historian. That defender even told me that it doesn't matter since both Takeda Shingen and Oda Nobunaga are Sengoku warlords so what Hirayama said will also apply to Nobunaga. I told him that yes, while both are warlords in the same period, the Takeda and Oda clans have their own practices. I also mentioned that Yu Hirayama was hired by NHK as a historical researcher for a drama about Tokugawa Ieyasu titled "Dou Suru Ieyasu" where his "research" portrayed Ieyasu's wife has lesbian tendencies and matchlock rifles firing multiple rapid shots. The portrayal of Ieyasu's wife having lesbian tendencies caused outrage to viewers and historians had to comment that there is no historical documentation of his wife having lesbian tendencies. I remember watching a jidaigeki drama where the higher ranking samurai offered an ashigaru his Sayamaki so this ashigaru could serve him as his vassal. That ashigaru remained an ashigaru until the series ended so Hirayama's argument that being given a Sayamaki will lead to becoming a samurai failed on that action. The irony is, this jidaigeki is about one of Takeda Shingen's generals, the same clan Yu Hirayama studies.
It's still an irony that DEI doesn't realise it's anagram and it being true, everything they touch DIE's and no one but the small few who hate life want it in or around anything.
To be fair, the part of you fighting mythical creatures in Assassin's Creed is part of the precursor thingy with the animus a the artifacts being all-powerful objects that project things into the human mind, usually to control or to cause fear. The entire fight is supposed to be a mental fight between the artifacts and the target's mind.
It's amazing how quickly you can see with a game (or at least a game from the last few years as opposed to one from say 2010) whether it's infected with the current nonsense or not. Games used to be first and foremost fun experiences. Now it's all about pushing agendas and ideologies.
What were the medusa and the other mythical creatures as depicted in the game? Who or what made them? Don't forget to return with the answer once you find out.
thanks for crushing this thing keep going. Ubisoft don't deserve to be on the market anymore. They lost honesty, dignity, passion for video games. It's just for money laundering.
Why did Ubisoft have to put Yasuke in feudal Japan when they could have properly made a game about when Yasuke and his brother (also named Yasuke) first flew at Kittyhawk?
Ironically, the mythology-based enemies and features of the recent AC were the most fun, because they actually added a little spice to the incredibly shallow opponent and item variety. Fighting Minotaur with a spear that explodes with lightning on combo finish is way more interesting than fighting mercenary no. 2003 with assasination immunity using a +500 attack sword.
What gets me about ACS is that they very easily could have included Yasuke, in this form, if he wasn't the main character, and if they didn't insist that this was historically accurate. Assassin's Creed has always had some form of Alt History in it, with certain historical figures being part of a shadowy group looking to control the world, with a hint of, "This is what really happened." Simply have a line from some present characters going, "Yasuke? I thought he was a simple servant? He doesn't even know Japanese. Perhaps his true role was hidden to help his mission against the Templars?" And be done with it. Nioh 2 did something similar. From what I remember, Yasuke was Nobunaga's retainer, trained specifically to fight the Yokai and Oni that were terrorizing the land. If they weren't such DEI speds about it, they probably still could've included him in some form lol.
0:30 Yeah, I disagree. Parkour is barebones, stiff and not smooth at all. You don't even have a jump button, everything is contextual, so the game plays itself. It's not a return to form at all, if anything it's a bitter reminder of what was done better 15 years ago.
Esentially it's any of the Great Civilizations that were extremely high functioning and conquered other civilizations. Ottoman Empire was another one they use in Battlefeild One with the cartoonishly evil Turkish military official sadistically attacking the ' freedom fighting' arab tribesmen and the dei woman you play as.
I want to play it for myself. Honestly excited for it. How will they explain it? Storyline could be him bringing the creed from Africa (Egypt thanks origins!). This isn't the first case of historical fan fiction. Native American helps start war of independence.Cockney twins help Darwin. Ezio killed the pope, The order started in Egypt. The hidden blade was based off of the spear of Leonidas. AC 2 ancient aliens!!! Ubisoft lot the plot 8 games ago
One of their biggest issues in all of this is how they keep lying and gaslighting instead of really owning their faults and then actually doing something to change it. Instead, they just want to ride this train to the last stop.
Every single AC has this except for AC shadows. main character is always a made up person originally from the country the game is taking place in, and the side characters are always filled with a mixture of made up characters and actual historical people whose job scope is historically accurate and the setting is always historically quite accurate. But here comes AC shadow, the main character isn't a made up japanese character, but instead an actual person whose job scope isn't historically accurate. Even the setting isn't close to history. so what makes AC:shadow so special? do japanese people not deserve something historically accurate in an accurate historical setting?
"This depiction of feudal Japan will invite criticism, but it's a risk worth taking!" -The company currently going under faster than the Titan submersible
The idea of AC going to Japan was a long desired idea, but all of this has become blindingly stupid. The RPG boss battles from Origins and Odyssey were bad enough departures, but female playable characters of Odyssey and Valhalla were moronic for the times, black and female Vikings in Valhalla were face palm worthy, and the more you look at games like III or Syndicate, you can see where the wheels came off the bus. Far Cry was the same. 3 was pretty wild, then parts of the backstory for 4 includes The Message, 5 ripped on "prepper cults!" and 6 was also about GYRL POWER and tr@n/g@y BS. The game play itself might have been alright, but you can't play it because the storyline breaks make you roll your eyes so hard they pop out of your head.
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I agree with Razor. All these companies insult our intelligence when they state that they're "inspired" to make these choices. They know they're lying, we know they're lying, and they know that we know they're lying. For them to be surprised of this kind of backlash is something I have never believed. They know EXACTLY the reaction that they're gonna get casting a black Ariel, a latina Snow White, and now a black samurai in Sengoku-era Japan. I hope this game bankrupts Ubisoft and people stop investing into ESG funds.
You are right, they know what they're doing and they smirk with pleasure when they get backlash. Ignore these people, boycott companies.
I can't stand when they wash characters.
I hope the Japanese companies like Nintendo are watching AC: Shadows, Concord, etc. and giving the biggest "NOPE" they possibly can... and weeding is out of their overseas branches as well.
Heh. Pay close attention to the demographics in most TV advertising these days. An uninformed viewer might be led to conclude that *white people* are the minorities. =9[.]9=
The problem with many ESG funds is they use people's pension money that most normal people don't bother tracking where it is. They just pay into their "retirement" fund while inadvertently funding people who hate them.
Ghosts of Tshusima: “Hey, Yomi, is their a reason we got this sales bump?”
Trek to Yomi: “Ubisoft.”
Ghosts of Tsushima: “Oh yeah.”
As a massive fan of Japanese cinema, particularly old school Samurai movies I was thoroughly underwhelmed with TTY.
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@@arturfilipecastanha580 That's a sleeper hit that deserves more attention.
@@Grandmastergav86 Yeah i agree, was kinda disappointed
Tenchu: Am i a joke to you?
"Go beyond acceptable truth" means "I want to push my agenda as reality."
@@tokamara8795 Exactly
I mean we're talking about stuff based on the work of Thomas Lockley, complete and total historical revisionism, pure and simple.
@@tokamara8795
The catchphrase of the Japanese manga "Detective Conan" is "The truth is always one!" When they say "going beyond the truth," it means the same as accepting lies and fiction.
"Go beyond acceptable truth" = LIE
They want to lie, that’s all
“Accurate recreation of feudal Japan” like putting pink Sakura trees, that blossom in spring, during the autumn harvest
as well chinese architecture
*Assassin's Creed: The Great Wok of Japan* - where black samurais ride moonwalking pandas into town, female ninjas stealthily serve dim sum, and the Emperor of Japan is actually the Forbidden City's takeout delivery guy. It's the historical adventure where Japan's feudal era got a side order of Chinese takeout, and nobody's quite sure how or why.
Ripe rice field in spring are total nonsense.
Rice ain't wheat, rice need wet-watery field to grow and therefore can not survives a freezing winter.
Kaiser Wilhelm was the 1. in Japan.
@@rashidisw Common misconception. Rice doesn't need wet or watery soil to grow, it can grow just fine in regular dirt. But since rice is resilient to having submerged roots and insects which feed on those roots and weeds can't survive if submerged, planting rice in water is a form of pre-emptive pest control. It has absolutely nothing to do with the environmental needs of the plant.
Never let them forget, ACS is so historically accurate, Ubisoft....
Stole a Japanese re-enactment group's banner and published it in an art book even after being told of the "error", used Chinese architecture in a Japanese game, used a sword from One Piece and claimed it was Yasuke's at an exhibit, got all of Japan wrong, from crops in season to sizes of tatami mats, didn't even consult a martial artist for the choreography and put a hip hop beat to Yasuke beating up Japanese villagers with curb stomps.
This is what you call "representation" and "historical accuracy", Ubisoft?
The hip hop beats are also culturally ridiculous since Yasuke was African not African American. Talk about completely messing up every single aspect of their woke insertion.
@@wbeytel
The funniest thing about people that don't actually have representative people involved or at best might have consultancy groups involved is everything they do turns from representation to pandering and tokenism. The very thing they claim to be fighting, stereotypes is exactly what everything they do becomes.
It's so backwards and yet they're so proud of it.
Chinese architecture, not art, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had paintings that were Chinese and/or from the wrong time period in the game as well.
With the sword, it wasn't just at an exhibit, it was for merchandise sales...which implies that they also might have stolen the design of the sword in game as well there
@@horaciosi Gurl programmers.
About Hashashin part, I worked as an Arabic tester for Mirage, and the Arabic dub had tons of lines where the actors went off script and said the word: Hashashin. Ubisoft asked its UAE affiliate to re-record those lines, only to have the lead actor start using that word as well. lol. We as Arabs did not have issues with it, but Ubi France was insisting that we might feel offended. Turns out their consultants were 3rd or 4th generation migrants with not much relation to their ancestral home, but massive chip over their shoulder. Go figure.
It's not surprising. It's always them with their inferiority complex.
@@randomv3iwer seems about right.
Thing is, historically speaking they were kinda lame. Nothing you do in that game has any relation to the real Hashashin apart from the paradise garden they used for their loyalty con.
@@darthkahn45"Pls sir I need drugs to unalive people."
A super mysterious character? He was a slave to Jesuit Missionaries who was sold to an emperor to be an exotic possession. So mysterious!
He's Nobunaga's version of the Lions the British crown kept as pets
I agree in sentiment, but dude you really need to brush up on the history there.
@@schaddenkorp6977
Which part?! Everything that we know about Mr samurai is either based on extremely biased fanfiction written by and now disgraced "historian" or a few sentences written by Jesuit priest hundreds of years ago.
@@schaddenkorp6977 Six lines of text exist about Yasuke in Japanese. He never was a samurai, he was a slave sold to Nobunaga who took him for walkies to show off. He was there for 18 months. Never trained in the sword, language or arts at all.
@@schaddenkorp6977 Your source is Ubisoft, our source *IS LITERALLY JAPAN.*
It's crap like this Yasuke business that I no longer have the "I don't mind inclusion if it's well-written" mindset. Having Yasuke as one of the main leads is clearly an anti-asian male decision no matter how historically accurate he is, not to mention making Naoe look like a man, which is anti-feminine.
Shes a Kunoichi, being sexy was part of the job for them.
Making her look ugly is stupid
@@Exlayer-pk8hyhey having a Jawline to rival the Crimson Chin is a major boon when half your job is honeypots
I have no issue with an ethnically diverse cast if the setting makes sense for it. But when they insert woke identity groups into historical ethnic settings or fantasy versions of historical ethnic settings (medieval Europe, feudal Japan, ancient China, etc) I find it really disrespectful and jarring. It takes me out of the experience. Especially since I know the political ideology behind it and what their agenda is about.
It's probably gossip but I heard something about a character being trans. And I'm pretty sure that she was given the name of an actual Male samurai. If it was gossip, then that's fine but I wouldn't be shocked if they did that crap at some point in this dumpster fire of a game
@zhengyingli
These companies are absolutely poisoning the well and people wonder why even when things aren't super agenda pushing we reject it, gee I wonder why?! They've really made it where you can't trust any company and honestly I don't. I'm not sure there's anyone that wouldn't take the check if they didn't think they could somehow inject something into a game somewhere and pick up that sweet investment money.
At this point, these aren't creative liberties. Ubisoft is guilty of historical revisionism.
European mythology to Japan: "First time?"
Revisionism or vandalism? I lean more towards the latter.
@@carbagehealth their mentality is that only they are allowed to be historical revisionists and no one else has the right to oppose their holy message
Have you been there? No. You don't know if there was african samurais.
@@m0-m0597Not too bright are ya.
Actually Ghost of Tsushima is very beloved in Japan. The creators became ambassadors to the island of Tsushima. But that’s because they actually were respectful to the culture and cared about honoring them. They put in the work and effort and it shows.
You will not see the same for Shadows. I’d bet money on that.
Yeah that part confused me. The only outrage I've ever heard of about Ghosts of Tsushima came exclusively from the west.
no need to bet money on it... Ubisoft is already betting millions on it. 🤣😂
Just the western journalist. @@TheTwinkelminkelson
Funny how the commies in games media lambasted Ghost of Tsushima for "cultural appropriation" yet shill hardcore for Assassin's Creed Shadows when it ACTUALLY commits cultural appropriation.
GOT devs: "We think your culture and history are cool. We tried to make you look cool in our game."
Tsushima town council: "Thank you, you did."
Show respect, get respect. It really is just that simple.
I remember when Ubisoft said "We removed the crossbow in Assassins Creed to remain historical accurate."
DEI kills art: *EMOTIONAL DAMAGE*
It hurts because it’s being proven true
The fact they turned to their mindfulness app on their phone made me laugh so hard. These people struggle to cope in the modern world as it is the minute they get any push back they have a full-on meltdown.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu it's performative, in reality he probably switched to his alt account and posted some flaming
Also art damage
Ubisoft's CEO has been proven right: I've become very comfortable with not owning Ubisoft games.
It's the one thing they were absolutely right about.
You barely own them anyway with how many times ubisofts launcher requires you to sign back in to make sure you bought the game.
@@Tobabobis I wouldn’t know, Ubisoft Connect is still looping through its weird 420 sequential updates.
Yep, I even uninstalled the few I did have. 😊
Imagine being a fan of the franchise, seeing it go anywhere and everywhere. Then it comes to your homeland and the focus is on a foreigner.
Racism against East Asians is considered acceptable by the western far left. They have gleefully tried to discriminate against East Asians in education and employment. Of course a French company (who is desperately trying to get people to forget about their harassment scandals) would take their jabs against the Japanese.
The tribe that wants every white country to be Africa and the Middle East, also wants Japan to be Africa and the Middle East.
The developer said they wanted to defy cliches? Didn’t they put in hip-hop for the black samurai...?
And I am willing to bet that one of the outfit options he will have will be the killmonger hair.
@@MyAramil Or an outfit where he looks like black panther, kills the mythical one panther that existed in Japan to make said outfit too...
Like other entertainment they began this before they saw the dumpster fire that is sales/views of entertainment when forced identity politics and political agenda is included along with weak storytelling and horrible characters. It's too late to do anything with the game so they've chosen damage control. It won't help.
I remember a mafia game with the same theme , wanted to do very same things and everyone bought it …… Faster baby was it called , same stuff ….
“Gargle with lye” is classic razorfist
He has such a way with words.
I expect an Asian MC in the next AC game that tells their story in Africa during the slave trades
funny thing about that, at least in a modern context. Though, we'd be talking about China and their "plan" in eastern wakanda.
Yes, for fairness and equity they must do this
The assassin character will be part of the group that was behind the slave trade. Let's see how that works out.
@@Pangora2 All the villains will somehow be western europeans.
@@55Andy555makes the most sense
Razorfist's response is perfection and I completely agree with him get R-E-K-T Ubisoft heartfelt
Reminder: Ghost of Tsushima didn't get game of the year award instead it was stolen by "The last of us 2". Garbage woke game is stealing the spot light.
Yep, that was the first true sign things had gotten real bad. It was a technically excellent game but everything else about it sucked. The fact the media and game urinalists praised it to no end proved once and for all that the era of trusting any mainstream gaming sources was dead.
Who cares about game awards again? The intellectually stunted IMAX heir shilling Doritos & Mountain Dew, while giving fake accolades to a bunch of corporate buddies is just a scam. I have no idea why people ever took that seriously to begin with.
Ghost of Tsushima was great. Unfortunately they have gone woke too and now the upcoming sequel features a wahmen samurai main character.
@@jakeviolet2195
I've been hearing more about the person that got to play the lead and I have to admit I'm not thrilled and honestly I'll probably sit this one out.
0ne are the jokes I kept hearing around AC shadows was was just wait for the second ghosts of tsushima game and yep this is pretty much what I expected. There is no place to hide from this modern (audience) garbage.
Ubisoft: "Gamers need to get comfortable being gaslighted."
Naa we will just keep our money 🤣
I think you're misremembering the reception to ghost of tsushima. It was nearly universally lauded with 10's from all the Japanese game orgs. It was the lefty western journalists crying about an American company making a game about feudal Japan.
They can't even remember what the mythical creatures and worlds actually were in the lore of AC games, why would they remember that when they have their own narrative to push?
Yeah, that is exactly what I remember too. Japan actually named the people behind that game cultural ambassadors. Meanwhile Western journalists were angry that white men were making a game based on Japan.
Oh the irony considering this current situation, and the massive amount of disrespect here.
Yep. The game was a massive hit in Japan, where western-developed games usually don't sell particularly well.
Far left white journalists were just playing the white savior like they always do, getting offended on behalf of and trying in infantilize non-white people.
@@minbari73 To be fair do you remember everything from the mediocre games that you have played? No you don't.
And the "narrative" around the sane folks about AC shadows is spot on truth.
It's especially weird of you to complain about their memory for a 7 year old game when he did talk about the 15 year old game AC1. He did remember that.
@@Ewil.Bluetooth Well, at least they've played them so that they actually have memories of them, unlike AC Shadows where the knives were out the moment the first trailer came out.
First i have to agree that any given game is that is regarded by youtube comment morons as a 'mediocre game' is actually one and i can only do that by playing it, unlike the youtube morons who have all seemingly agreed that AC Shadows will be the worst thing since the previous AC game without actually playing it. To be fair, ya know?
Hey Razor we don't claim him in France
Assassin's Creed has always had the "conspiracy theories are real" fictional element. It's a fine line between "a Knights Templar secret society controls the world" and "black guy is a heavily armored assassin who no one knows is responsible for anything in particular despite literally no other heavily armored black guys within 1000km". And the Medusa running around *was* a turn-off for some people.
Which is ironic because it turned out that the Tiny Hats were the ones running the world the whole time.
@@IceNinja2007DAH JOOOOOOOZ
The big difference is that they are claiming that Yasuke and female ninjas are historically accurate.
Screw lying Ubisoft. They got lazy and I hope ubi goes down for making games for them and not us.
Razor is right on the money with this game being uninspired. Earlier this year, the former lead writer for this game came out and told us they already had a full script for this game written and waiting on the back burner since 2014. It was going to star a fictional Japanese assassin named Taka.
But the entire thing got thrown out for a checklist. Ubi is straight up gaslighting people into thinking the "We wuz Samoorais n' sheet" was always their intention.
That's the thing ever since I saw/heard that I didn't believe a single word I heard coming from Ubisoft.
The original plot/story sounded great and was consistent with the rest of the franchise. This on the other hand is such an obvious tokenized/pandering joke. They couldn't even give us a decent-looking female character they had to ruin her to. It's just top to bottom ruined by current activist infected nonsense.
Ubisoft has been super woke for years. Idk why people are so surprised by this
I don't think it's a case where people are surprised by it. They're just tired of it.
Woke for years but also keep raising their ridiculously price over those years. What do they expect?
They've become worse and worse. And people are just tired of the woke agenda being shoved down our throats
1. This is the worst case so far by a country mile.
2. The gaslighting has reached the point where the people defending this game HAVE to slander every other game.
3. The entire community has been destroyed because of Ubisoft and the shills.
It's not that people are surprised, it's that Ubisoft Quebec has successfully did what they always wanted to do, destroy the franchise and slander anyone who questions them. Of course the people who have legitimate reasons to be upset are also understandibly upset that they are being slandered that's all.
After they tried to say the Anglo-Saxons were evil for defending themselves from the viking invasions in Valhalla, this was just a logical next step.
After the Paris Olympics I absolutely do not care about what the woke French think
Theyll never convince gamers of their point of view
Some things are hard to boycott. Ubisoft is not one of those things.
I look forward to watching this game fail.
You and me both!
gods willing and fingers crossed.
Larry fink getting his clansmen at the FED to print some millions for the dieversity initiative Ubisoft so clearly wants a reward from..
I'm definitely gonna have some drinks and snacks as I watch the dumpster fire.
Will it, though? I’m hoping it falls flat on its face so that Ubisoft may actually learn a lesson, but there are a lot of brain dead idiots out there who will gobble their crap up without a second thought.
In case nobody has noticed yet, another item on the 'ESG Checklist' is: 'AI/Robot character must be the most developed and interesting character' AND 'must prove to be trustworthy.' Well gee whiz gang, I wonder why they keep pushing that one?
because the CEOS of blackrock do not know how to act like humans?
Which is funny considering how much better the robot was from what I've seen in outlaws than everyone else.
And I mean literally everyone else.
Gets the ol' noggin joggin.
Because they think it will be their kind programming the bots, so the bots will be loyal... to them and no one else.
IDK, you could make a playthrough series "Assasins creed: Cultural enrichment- Diversity comes for Japan" where Yasuke acts a lot like NY urban people around asians.
No longer a protected class. they gonna get the white treatment. Hmmmm, wonder why...
How is Yasuke going to win any battles if he doesn't have a Glock switch?
Ubisoft director's attitude mimic the Olympic organizers when questioned about their choices for the opening shows. I'm sick and bored with "I reject reality and substitute my own" attitude.
I mean it was cute when it was small and meaningless now they keep trying to push it into everything and when they get massive push back they try to call people names and act the victim.
It's pathetic and I am so sick of it.
Already started playing Ghost of Tsushima a few days ago. I haven't had so much fun in awhile, and im expanding my history beyond the overused Warring States Period Sengoku Era, as Ghost takes place about 200 years earlier during the Kamakura era, on a small island during the first invasions of the Mongol Empire. So awesome to play something and learn something I never knew again, and not play my 10th title focusing on the Sengoku Era (love it, but very overused).
He needs to find himself a "don't be a weak beta" app
he is clearly lying, the people inside ubi have to act like women to not get reported to HR and punished for their toxicity
Creative liberties taken by including a medusa for gameplay is different than creative liberties taken where they literally rewrite actual history, and then tell the player that their distorted history is the true version of events.
It hasn't been off the rails for "just a minute". Ever since Ezio busted out the Golden Apple, we've been in Ancient Aliens territory.
Black flag was the last great one
@@vangelisgru7271 Origins is worth a playthrough. Yes, the WE WUZ one. Bayek is, after Ezio and Edward, my favorite AC protagonist.
@@vangelisgru7271 Unity, despite it's flaws, was also great, the last true assassin's creed that stuck to it's theme
@@MrBlueBurd0451
Bayek:
love me wife
love me son (rip)
'ate cultists
simple as
The main problem is that all the “Virtue Signaling” is paper thin. We can all see through the BS and you probably shouldn’t have based an entire game around some white guy’s fanfic of a Japanese historical figure. The reality is that the first foreigner to be granted the rank of Samurai was a white man who was a merchant and that historical event happens a long time after Nobunaga’s death. Yasuke was Nobunaga’s retainer and carried his tools and weapons for him. The most notable thing Yasuke did was trying to bring Nobunaga’s sword and remains to his son. After that the 2 of them were caught and he was sent back to the people who brought him to Japan in the first place.
Razor on point as always.
We're now back in "Here's this giant enemy crab..." territory here
It's funny cuz they tried to push the whole accuracy thing then as well.
This game makes it very clear right off the bat, no. There is no accuracy here.
How 'bout this: How 'bout I just keep my wallet closed? Just like I do with most movies, contemporary mainstream music, modern pro sports, etc... Just keep my wallet closed.
PRE-ORDERED
One of my favorite phrases from a TH-camr is : "gaze averted, wallet closed" so far that is really holding up.
You can be fantastical with your story/franchise. Just don't feed us propaganda slop, no one wants.
Agreed
To give an example related to the topic and was done far, far, FAR better than Assassin's Creed: Shadows..... NIOH 1 AND NIOH 2!!! Yes Yasuke was there but Nioh is set within the Ninja Gaiden universe so it is entirely its own thing. Yes it has parallels with actual history but it still has its own history and setting with Dragon Ninjas, Yokai, Guardian Spirits and literal spirit stones! It can get away with Yasuke there because its not trying to be factually accurate to real-world history, unlike this garbage Ubisoft is throwing around!
@@GinraiPrime666 Accurate to the depiction of Japan and how history turned out, not to how it happened and who was involved: like every other AC game that has been made. AC games are set in a science fiction universe, have you even played any of them?
@@minbari73 Ubisoft argued Yasuke was real. Haven't you've been paying attention to them?
Ghost of Tsushima was not controversial in Japan, only here
It was actually a top seller in Japan.
Origins had boss fights with three gods of Egypt, dead pharos, and a giant snake on a boat. I didn't think it could get any worse, but here we are🤣
At least the game had an appropriate location to have a dark skinned protagonist just like Freedom Cry. But Shadows obviously doesn't and to be quite honest, never really liked the RPG trilogy in the first place which shadow is gonna be a part of.
I personally really liked Origins, but the series took a complete nosedive after that game.
Those were explicitly animus anomalies/hallucinations.
At least that makes sense if looking at Egyptian myths. But with Shadows it doesn't make sense with (ancient) Japan
The biggest problem I had with Origins was that you don't play in ancient Egypt; you play in Greek Egypt. Ubisoft couldn't even get that right. 🤦♂️
The casual racism in this game is wild.
That's what they're all about.
ひとつの作品において「その国の正確な歴史を学べる」と言う発言と、「真実を越えることを躊躇しない」という発言をすることに、UBIのスタッフは少しの矛盾も感じ無いのだろうか。
Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if the people working in Ubisoft agree with the statement made years back buy people in the activist community that quote "Asians are white adjacent".
They have no problem recontextualizing and revising history when it's in a certain direction. But never the other way around.
this is a semetic technique called "pilpull"
I love getting Razor Rants in my Side Scrollers
I don't like AC. Never got into it. But why would anyone trust Ubi after their "our games are AAAA" and then immediately botching Skull and Bones?
Never underestimate the stupidity and short memory of the normies.
If this game succeeds at all it'll be because of them unfortunately.
4:55 I lost it at "mindfulness app"
Does Ubisoft come off as a "risk taking" company? Here I was thinking the main problem with Ubisoft games was the made-by-committee / made-by-focus-group banality of their games. A dozen open world far cry clones with collectables. I don't think making a game in current year with current year political diversity is "taking risks".
I mean it is a risk making games for literally nobody. (or at the very least a microscopic bit of the market)
If this game succeeds it's because normies are totally ignorant of everything going on and all they see is feudal Japan ninjas/samurai.
Though all you have to do is look at the cover and you know what this game is.
Medusa, the Minotaur, the Cyclops... basically every greek mythological creature is a boss in Odyssee.
I'm speaking with my wallet. This game is priced in Canada at $90 for the base edition and $150 for the Gold edition. As far as I'm concerned Ubisoft can get bent. I'll gladly spend my money on something else Thanks.
Well go play your 8 hour linear beat em up then.
@@minbari73 He will and you can keep cope, deal with it too.
I know right, most woke games are easy to boycott. I hate that there is even some people who have this obligation to play things made by people who hate them just because it is the new thing. They are actually a lot of other entertainment media that is produced by neutral parties and people on our side of opinions. Support them.
@@minbari73 the average linear beat 'em up has more replay value than a Ubisoft dead-empty open world game. There's more value to be had in indie stealth titles like Styx: Master of Shadows and the Aragami games than in any Assassin's Creed game since "Black Flag." Enjoy hunting feathers.
Kunoichi were a thing that happened.
but they were more seductive, and 'I will marry this samurai and do unspeakable things to get the information K need'
not traditionally sneaky.
I will say I can understand why she's the ninja gotta put a mask on that. Nothing seductive about that massive chin and generally manish appearance.
In the feudal era though?
@@55Andy555 Spies were even more prevalent in the Sengoku period. With so many Daimyo warring with each other, espionage was a big business. And honey pot operations are as old as civilization.
All ubisoft had to do was say "Yasuke is a unique character in Japanese history as we know very little about him, nothing of his origin or later fate so he's a perfect figure to implement in this world, staying relatively true to history while also taking creative liberty with his actions and relationships with other more qell known historical figures". Ya know, like every other assassin character in the franchise, and I truly don't think people would care. Like Razor said AC is a franchise where you fight relive other people's memories and you can fight pharoahs, gods, mummies, where George Washington became King George in a different timeline and ancient aliens use sci-fi tech to take over people's body's. But no. Instead, they had to double down on "it's historically accurate! And we'll shame and block anyone who disagrees!".
The biggest problem with what you typed was. Every other protagonist was an unknown in history. they met historical figures sure but they themselves where not remembered by history. You played the shadow in the background that set events in motion.
@@MyAramil A lot of people seem to forget or ignore this.
@@MyAramil
Exactly, the moment they decided to take a very complicated and at the very least mostly unknown person
that their entire history is based on a man's fanfiction and turn him into one of the main characters you play as they lost all credibility. Using one historian that just so happens to have been completely discredited now and everything he wrote basically shown to be completely made up lies they've got themselves a real problem. I'm sure they didn't see this coming but they deserve everything that comes with it. You base all your "research" on people with agendas and you get what you deserve. Which is not to even go into the other person who's used for research purposes. And her monk/boy love research as her main credentials.
I would care actually. I'm not interested in your hotep fantasies, period.
They chose 1 the single B who ever showed up in Japan, because the game is made by afro-judeo gl0balists. No, I will not eat your g0ysl0p just because the PR person generated a more tactful excuse.
I’d have tad less disrespect for Ubisoft if they just came out and said they took a faustian bargain with certain investors.
The gaslighting and attempts to hide behind things is just so gross, disingenuous and disgusting.
Ubisoft knows exactly what it is and they keep trying to pretend like they aren't.
People keep saying this game won't make a ton of sales, that's just wrong! I think they'll make a ton of sales (to ghost of tsushima)
Sometimes i wish craig would read properly when he is quoting someone its not always a big difference when he misreads a word but other times it completely changes the context of a sentence. For example in this video he mis reads accepted as acceptable in every instance and that changes the context of What was being said by cote in a small but meaningful way. I agree with the points craig and razor are making but we dont need to take these idiots out of context when they do a great job in context by themselves
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though to be honest, with DEI basically trying to rewrite history. it fits it anyways.
Lots of folks who support DEI are also afrocentralists (aka BLACK PEOPLE WHERE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING)
Yeah, I noticed that too and it always does bug me a little. But based on what we're talking about it does kinda fit.
Assassin's Creed II and the other games that followed Ezio's story were the best AC games. It was all downhill after that. AC IV is the lone exception, but that's really "Pirate's Creed" instead of "Assassin's Creed."
Ubisoft brought this upon themselves.
I don't know what Razor is referring to about controversy in Japan with Tsushima. That game was absolutely successful. The team was named ambassadors to the island for crying out loud.
I'm a simple man. You tell me there's a Razor Rant in a video, I click.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is more historically accurate.
:Grounded in the AC franchise". Really? Can't wait to find out how he's an ancestor of a white bartender.
Ubisoft: "Accurate recreation of the World"
Also Ubisoft: puts a Christian Stave Church in Valhalla and makes the Christian Irish into Celtic savages
Curious. When were Christian Stave churches Built? After the Viking Period?
Ghost of Tsushima and Like a Dragon Ishin will appreciate the free advertisement.
06:28 Considering the dates, they should have fudged the numbers a little and had Yasuke and Musashi team up. Tell a bromance rags to riches kinda story. They could form their own assassin group to rival the Iga and Koga.
"The Assassinja Clan ain't nothin' to @#$% with." - Yasuke to Nobunaga.
The problem with their revisionist history nonsense here is they can't even be consistent. The only consistency is pushing particular ideologies and agendas. If they went all in with the ridiculousness it would have at least been fun as is it's just a joke.
Yasuke shouldve never been a main character
The fact they forced the ending of the Desmond Miles arc into a comic book that nobody read in favor of the suddenly integral to the story racially ambiguous strong female lead with no credentials other than “girlboss duh” speaks volumes on the state of Ubisoft since 2012
Yu Hirayama used to be a Communist who was claiming to ditch the Emperor of Japan. So basically he has the anti-Japan political belief and acts against the Japanese (especially patriots). His claim that Yasuke being samurai has NO historical backup. He made up a his own definition of samurai that is not recognized by any Japanese historical academia. Sayamaki鞘巻 is a short sword(knife) by default but Hirayama didn't know it since he is too lazy to look up into a dictionary.
I remember arguing someone who defends Yu Hirayama with passion since I mentioned that he wasn't even an Oda historian, he was a Takeda historian. That defender even told me that it doesn't matter since both Takeda Shingen and Oda Nobunaga are Sengoku warlords so what Hirayama said will also apply to Nobunaga. I told him that yes, while both are warlords in the same period, the Takeda and Oda clans have their own practices. I also mentioned that Yu Hirayama was hired by NHK as a historical researcher for a drama about Tokugawa Ieyasu titled "Dou Suru Ieyasu" where his "research" portrayed Ieyasu's wife has lesbian tendencies and matchlock rifles firing multiple rapid shots. The portrayal of Ieyasu's wife having lesbian tendencies caused outrage to viewers and historians had to comment that there is no historical documentation of his wife having lesbian tendencies.
I remember watching a jidaigeki drama where the higher ranking samurai offered an ashigaru his Sayamaki so this ashigaru could serve him as his vassal. That ashigaru remained an ashigaru until the series ended so Hirayama's argument that being given a Sayamaki will lead to becoming a samurai failed on that action. The irony is, this jidaigeki is about one of Takeda Shingen's generals, the same clan Yu Hirayama studies.
"My truth"
"Acceptable truth"
People who add qualifiers to "Truth" and liars.
It's still an irony that DEI doesn't realise it's anagram and it being true, everything they touch DIE's and no one but the small few who hate life want it in or around anything.
To be fair, the part of you fighting mythical creatures in Assassin's Creed is part of the precursor thingy with the animus a the artifacts being all-powerful objects that project things into the human mind, usually to control or to cause fear. The entire fight is supposed to be a mental fight between the artifacts and the target's mind.
I finally got to play ghost of Tsushima and it’s quite refreshing to not have we wuz kang bs in a game
It's amazing how quickly you can see with a game (or at least a game from the last few years as opposed to one from say 2010) whether it's infected with the current nonsense or not.
Games used to be first and foremost fun experiences. Now it's all about pushing agendas and ideologies.
Ghost of Tsushima was on sale a few days ago, too
I don't know if someone said this yet but ... the first or second trailer used hip-hop music so about cliches
And that's in the game.
When yasuke is in combat he has a background track hip hop theme.
Extremely culturally sensitive.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Yasuke was African who was sold on the Indian slave market. No hip hop as far as the eye could see then...
Martur Luther King was a blond, blue eyed white man....thats MY acceptable truth :D : D:D
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣Very nice!
Yes you did have a boss fight with Medusa I know this because I have the game
What were the medusa and the other mythical creatures as depicted in the game? Who or what made them? Don't forget to return with the answer once you find out.
@@minbari73 The developer who says their historically accurate while selling that should feel ashamed. You should feel that way too.
@@jamestoney6599 I meant in game you dolt. In the AC lore.
"French fagaloon"
I absolutely love it
This was a thurrrrr-row video. Thanks dunkey.
Wasn't expecting a toony town tv ad. Great channel BTW.
thanks for crushing this thing keep going. Ubisoft don't deserve to be on the market anymore. They lost honesty, dignity, passion for video games. It's just for money laundering.
Well, the Japanese don't drive trucks of peace or have _explosive_ public performances...
Careful, don't think too hard about it...
All the japanese trucks are fictional and have dimensional displacement powers
Turns out, people like that only respect things they fear... and they fear violence.
I’m tempted to play Ghost of Tsushima, which I haven’t played btw, and stream it under the Assassin’s Creed Shadows game category.
Why did Ubisoft have to put Yasuke in feudal Japan when they could have properly made a game about when Yasuke and his brother (also named Yasuke) first flew at Kittyhawk?
Ironically, the mythology-based enemies and features of the recent AC were the most fun, because they actually added a little spice to the incredibly shallow opponent and item variety. Fighting Minotaur with a spear that explodes with lightning on combo finish is way more interesting than fighting mercenary no. 2003 with assasination immunity using a +500 attack sword.
What gets me about ACS is that they very easily could have included Yasuke, in this form, if he wasn't the main character, and if they didn't insist that this was historically accurate.
Assassin's Creed has always had some form of Alt History in it, with certain historical figures being part of a shadowy group looking to control the world, with a hint of, "This is what really happened."
Simply have a line from some present characters going, "Yasuke? I thought he was a simple servant? He doesn't even know Japanese. Perhaps his true role was hidden to help his mission against the Templars?" And be done with it.
Nioh 2 did something similar. From what I remember, Yasuke was Nobunaga's retainer, trained specifically to fight the Yokai and Oni that were terrorizing the land.
If they weren't such DEI speds about it, they probably still could've included him in some form lol.
Well his master Nobunaga and his son were both dead after only a few years they even met Yasuke if you go by the story timeline
In reference to the Medusa fight in Odyssey, if I remember correctly, all of the mythological fights were due to hallucinations from pieces of Eden.
0:30 Yeah, I disagree. Parkour is barebones, stiff and not smooth at all. You don't even have a jump button, everything is contextual, so the game plays itself. It's not a return to form at all, if anything it's a bitter reminder of what was done better 15 years ago.
Its' the DEI manual to a T. You cannot offend minorities but Whites and "White" Asians are fair game.
I mean I forget which person it was that said Asians were "white adjacent" but I think we're seeing that philosophy used right here.
Esentially it's any of the Great Civilizations that were extremely high functioning and conquered other civilizations.
Ottoman Empire was another one they use in Battlefeild One with the cartoonishly evil Turkish military official sadistically attacking the ' freedom fighting' arab tribesmen and the dei woman you play as.
I want to play it for myself. Honestly excited for it. How will they explain it? Storyline could be him bringing the creed from Africa (Egypt thanks origins!). This isn't the first case of historical fan fiction.
Native American helps start war of independence.Cockney twins help Darwin. Ezio killed the pope, The order started in Egypt. The hidden blade was based off of the spear of Leonidas. AC 2 ancient aliens!!! Ubisoft lot the plot 8 games ago
😂😂😂 like they care about a constructed story arc
One of their biggest issues in all of this is how they keep lying and gaslighting instead of really owning their faults and then actually doing something to change it. Instead, they just want to ride this train to the last stop.
Every single AC has this except for AC shadows. main character is always a made up person originally from the country the game is taking place in, and the side characters are always filled with a mixture of made up characters and actual historical people whose job scope is historically accurate and the setting is always historically quite accurate. But here comes AC shadow, the main character isn't a made up japanese character, but instead an actual person whose job scope isn't historically accurate. Even the setting isn't close to history. so what makes AC:shadow so special? do japanese people not deserve something historically accurate in an accurate historical setting?
There is no such thing as acceptable truth. There is just truth. Hard, verifiable, historical facts. Done.
"This depiction of feudal Japan will invite criticism, but it's a risk worth taking!"
-The company currently going under faster than the Titan submersible
There’s a black Viking in Assassins Creed Valhalla. Ridiculous
A ................ "mindfulness app". Really now, stop the train, cause I wanna get off.
Buckle up buttercup, If I have to ride this train, then we all are gonna ride this train.
I remember someone’s retort to people being annoyed about Yasuke was ‘well you played a welsh sailor in the West Indies so this is the same’ 🫠
This game better have a DEEP SALE of they want people to buy it.
@@williamg3165 it will be free on play in 12 months. Well not free as pay for them services but you know what I mean.
The idea of AC going to Japan was a long desired idea, but all of this has become blindingly stupid. The RPG boss battles from Origins and Odyssey were bad enough departures, but female playable characters of Odyssey and Valhalla were moronic for the times, black and female Vikings in Valhalla were face palm worthy, and the more you look at games like III or Syndicate, you can see where the wheels came off the bus. Far Cry was the same. 3 was pretty wild, then parts of the backstory for 4 includes The Message, 5 ripped on "prepper cults!" and 6 was also about GYRL POWER and tr@n/g@y BS. The game play itself might have been alright, but you can't play it because the storyline breaks make you roll your eyes so hard they pop out of your head.