Yup, Ghost of Tsushima is not only just the first AC style game to be set in Japan, but is the style of a modern AC fans have been wanting since Odyssey went off the deep end with RPG slop. It's a surprise they dropped the trailer a day before GoT on PC too.
I actually had an idea for BP2WF where-in Black Panther is somehow still around, like the original costume that T'Challa wore, and everyone is trying to figure out who it is, and they never find out. Everyone realizes that maybe it doesn't ULTIMATELY matter so long as Black Panther still fights for what he's always fought for and still instills hope in the people of Wakanda... only for an after credits bonus scene to reveal it was Bucky and he's like "guys, I can't keep doing this, I'll get into so much trouble?!?!?"
@@gazaalley3862 A full blown Japanese protagonist. Maybe an actual samurai, or a Ronin or whoever could and should have been the protagonist in a game about feudal Japan. How would you feel if they made a game set in Africa but you play as a white protagonist who is one of the people there?
@@gwadahunter2222 huh, Im talkin about ezio, him in turkey but not a turkish person like yusuf, ezio could have been a side character, but ig its DEI or ubi greed for ezio (Im being sarcastic and joking alright)
Yasuke seems like he could be such a cool character that you talk to as an advisor or member of the court and maybe he could give you an outsiders opinion on what’s going on.
@@uh9104Be careful calling him Samurai. While there is evidence that he could have been one, you can easily argue that he wasn't one either. The problem with AC is that they are depicting him as a Samurai with his own set of armor which is unlikely since that is reversed for the highest ranked Samurai. He was a foreigner who was not even taught the ways of the Samurai, so it's highly unlikely he was ever given a set of armor. All I am saying is that the story exists but people are largely exaggerating his legend.
I guess cuz japanese folks wanted to play as a japanese man yk, a japanese female isn’t enough, now idk wether how to feel about this as I’m not japanese but I will say, if there was a male shinobi instead of Naoe, all this woke and dei wouldn’t be happening (assuming only). (I found out what DEI was after this trailer dropped 😅)
@@uh9104because he was never a samurai, he was a retainer of nobunaga’s for a year. He’d be a great character for us to interact with in the game but considering that he was enslaved by the Portuguese and was only free for a year under nobunaga he probably didn’t know how to fight well either if at all. Ghost of Tsushima is loved because it feels like an authentic Japanese setting. AC is loved for similar reasons with the more fictional elements just being an addition to a primarily historical game where you can be an assassin and explore. When you break that, even if only slightly, you start to lose immersion and this your enjoyment of the game.
Yasuke could've been a very important NPC your character interacts with, keeping with the tradition of fictional lead interacting with historical figures.
Generally though the historical figures were historically significant that had a huge impact on history itself. Yaskue in regards to Japanese history was insignificant and had no major impact on Japanese history.
@@thepayne7862 Yeah, but he was an historical figure and they could've easily embellished. If anything, the fact that we don't know much about him could've lent itself well to that embellishment, while making people curious about the real historical figure. And they would've won brownie points for the representation, too.
heck if they still wanted to portray him as a cool samurai he could have been a boss character, he was working as a bodyguard for the main antagonist of the game after all.
The irony of IRL Yasuke most likely being used as Nobunaga's trophy, only to be paraded out as Ubisoft's DEI token candy grab is made more delicious by their inept obliviousness over their own predictibility
Meanwhile the Chuddites cry DEI when they see a historical figure that just so happens to be black. Funny how y'all weren't upset with Da Vinci having a alien superweapon but suddenly a black man is seen and the world is ending.
Oh shut up if you don’t know real history yasuke was the one who killed oda because he wanted to commit seppku and decided he wanted yasuke to do it. Do you know how much of a honor it is for that to be asked of that.
@@uh9104what’s wrong? His comment is dead accurate. The black guy in question was bought as a slave to be shown off to his friends. Now here is Ubisoft exploiting this single black guy for the exact same reason. But please continue to ignore the obvious.
@@uh9104 and your source for Yasuke being the one to cut head during the ritual is? Especially when even the part whether there was seppuku ritual at all is disputed by historians? If your source is fanfiction made by Thomas Lockley in 2019, then I would highly recommend revise your policy of advising people to be quiet.
Yasuke was only in Nobunagas service for a matter of months. How did he have time to get training as a samurai? There is no documentation of him ever participating in a battle, let alone being a samurai. He was, for all intents and purposes, Nobunagas golf caddie for a couple of months before getting sent away. He wasn't even granted a warriors death. Because he wasn't a warrior.
Yasuke was already working for the Jesuits, there is tales of him being stronger than 10 men (exaggerations of course) and he was defending Oda Nobunaga's son when the latter was killed. Saying he was a golf caddie is an exaggeration on the opposite way, Yasuke most likely was a warrior, just no a Samurai. His role consisted to that of basically a bodyguard so he did most likely knew some form of combat however it would have been different to that of an actual Samurai's fighting style. Sure at lot of this are "maybes" but so is the idea that he only carried swords and nothing else. If anything there is more evidence to the idea that he was some sort of warrior but again unlikely a Samurai, hence why Mitsuhide didn't kill him.
@@NoahToledo-xo5pj Yasuke did have some form of training when he was bought in India. He most likely knew how to fight but fighting like a samurai? Unlikely.
@@NoahToledo-xo5pjcrazy because Japanese history states he surrendered immediately after odas death and was sent away from Japan. Also he wasn't a samurai
@@texasfuneral4787 He surrendered when Mitsuhide told him to gave up his sword which he did but there is nothing in Japanese history that says he immediatly surrendered the moment Nobunaga died.
AC set in middle east - Middle Eastern man AC set in Italy - Italian man AC set in North America - Native/English man AC set in Greece - Greek man/woman AC set in Norse and English area - Norse man/woman AC set in Victorian Britain - English man/woman AC set in Egypt - Egyptian man AC set in Japan - African man???/Japanese woman
@@blackpaisley5156 Doesn't matter, Altair is still Middle Eastern. Plus Desmond Miles is basically the reincarnation of Altair seeing as how they're basically twins, so it makes sense he would speak with an American accent while he is reliving Altair's memories.
@@Dedhaven Now you just sound dumb. If it didn't matter, why did Ubisoft give him a Middle Eastern accent in Revelations. Yasuke actually existed. You just want an excuse to be mad 😂
Altair was half white,and Bayek was a Siwi Berber minority in Egypt that had so few numbers historically and currently that one of his people would’ve never been a Medjay,only the ethnic Egyptian majority and the Nubians would’ve been
For context yasuke (弥助 or 弥介) was a man, likely of African origin, who served as a servant and retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga in 1581-1582, during the Sengoku period. He was retained by the daimyō as a koshō (小姓, page) for a period of 15 months until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident. He arrived in japan in 1579 in the service of a italian jesuit missionary named Alessandro Valignano. At no point in the historical records does it state he achived the rank of a full samurai.
@@uh9104 as i said and was said in the video while yasuke was a samurai he was the equivelant of a european squire which was a knight in training. What sources have survived to the modern era are unsure of his place in the heirarchy of Clan Oda except that he was attached to the daimyō’s retune which was an honor onto itself.
@@Grr33nie - They are similar but Sekiro is more “fantastical” if that makes sense. Ghost is more realistic in the sense that you don’t fight giant beasts. It’s my favorite open world game since it came out.
@@EBNall - Because we’ve seen what the last 10 years of ACs gameplay been like. If it’s anywhere near Sekiro or Nioh, etc then it has a chance to be GOTY in all honesty. But Ubisoft already has a shitty reputation as is so you already know what to expect. Ghost of Tsushima and Sucker Punch always deliver quality stuff and GoT is no different. Story is great, gameplay is phenomenal, stealth could use some work, multiplayer/coop gameplay and abilities is fantastic. It’s plain and simple an overall incredible game.
@@Dragoncam13the Sengoku period has lots of other interesting and more impactful characters. That said, maybe Yasuke was chosen as less is known so there is more scope to create new stories interlinked with that period.
@@Valen-mh9fh "maybe Yasuke was chosen as less is known so there is more scope to create new stories interlinked with that period." You know why Yasuke was chosen, come on now.
Ubisoft literally googled "Black samurai" and then based the game on that time period just so the lone google result could be the main character. DEI at Ubisoft isn't just a priority. It's THE priority.
The battle of Tenmokuzan was NOT a battle where Oda was defeated by Hideyoshi. It was a battle that Oda WON against Takeda Katsuyori, and obviously happened when Oda was alive.
Minor correction JSG. He lived 3-4 years in Japan total. 3 of which was as a slave to one of the Portuguese missionaries. He spent less than a year with Nobunaga. Let’s charitably call it 8 months. Immediately following Nobunaga’s death Akechi ordered him to be sent packing back to the Portuguese in India. Akechi’s statement on the subject made it very clear what Yasuke’s status was. And it sure as hell wasn’t “samurai”
There is basically one black guy in feudal Japan who appeared for 5 seconds and it was enough for AC to make their Japanese game (a highly requested setting when AC was still liked) not have a male Asian lead. If I was an Asian guy I'd be pissed.
@@thibaldus3 its a video game not a documentary. I like the new lead. There are 1k games with jpn dude in Japan. Now we are going to get smth new and yall complaining. Get a life
@@thibaldus3 I'm a black guy, and I'm incredibly pissed. I don't give 2 shits about "representation" especially when it's forced representation. If it's set in a time period/location where it makes sense to see black people, sure add some in. But if it's not, DO NOT PUT THEM IN!!!
I don't think they're similar that one was trying to tell a complete lie and paint it as truth, whereas this took inspiration from historical events and made a new FICTIONAL story with those ideas just like in the other games.
@@Ka_chi1The problem with that argument is that the people defending the game are also using revisionist history tactics, but just in a somewhat less offensive context - Yasuke being a recognized samurai is a blatant lie, albeit not as severe as lying that Cleopatra was black. The guy was basically a servant of Oda Nobunaga only because Oda found him "exotic" but people have been citing AI generated images as "evidence" of him being a legit samurai - when at best Oda gave him the title of "Samurai" so people would stop pestering him about having a commoner accompany him
@@Ka_chi1They're similar in that alot of Egyptians weren't happy with Cleopatra and alot of asian ac fans arent happy with this. The counter argument from the dei supporters for both is.. but white people.. blah blah.
@@seto_kaiba_ No, Kashindan which was a type of retainer were considered a class of samurai but not all retainers were samurai. It's like the term Bushi which means warrior, not all Bushi were samurai but all samurai were bushi. Not all retainers were Kashindan but all Kashindan were samurai.
One sad part here, is that Ubisoft actually DOES know how to do this right... I'll argue that Bayek, from Assassin's Creed: Origins is one of, if not the, best protagonists the series has ever had. No one batted an eye about him being black there... it was in friggen egypt. This is set in Japan. And as noted, Japanese are a minority themselves. I don't understand the reasoning here. I guess if I want to play a good assassin's creed game set in Japan I'll just go back and replay Ghost of Tsushima :-\
That show was hot garbage. Should have told a more realistic story, and then when Yasuke leaves, then you can pull out all the magic, mechs, and weird stuff
GOOD VIDEO, I suppose the grandmother of one of the developers told him "it doesn't matter what historians say in feudal Japan, the samurai were Nword"
If you ever laid eyes on Afrocentrist(African Fascism) on Twitter you know this is real. Sometimes ppl there be saying kill white men and got 50k likes
Don’t forget Netflix Vikings Valhalla. They inserted a black woman as a Viking queen and although she is a fictional character, she was used as stepping stone to argue Vikings in real life were actually very diverse.
I feel like a lot of progressive creators and critics operate on Kirk Cameron "Way of the Master" logic KC circa ~2005: "Any amount of what could be interpreted as evidence for God means God is real" Progressives circa 2018: "You can't prove there were *no* people of colour in 15th century Bohemia, so why not make the game's demographics the same as a modern metropolitan city?"
Talking about people from other countries in Japanese history & supernatural elements in historical fiction remind me of the Doraemon chapter about the legend of Momotaro. Where it turned out that the oni is just a white sailor shipwrecked. That rural Japanese community has never seen a white guy(much taller than them, blue eyes & blond hair with a lot of chest hair) & thought he was an oni so they kept running away instead of helping or trading with him, resulting him having to scare people for basic necessities
@@nerdygem8620 The show is very episodic, this is just one ep. And I don't think it fully english translated as I still hasn't found the Titanic volume(vol 7) of The Doraemon Special manga in english(I read the Vietnamese version); where the gang while in search of a rumored ghost ship, discovered that the Titanic has been trapped in a time loop for a century so that a space demon can keep feeding off the victim's fear forever
@@nerdygem8620 It's in The Doraemon Special(it's a manga where Nobita & Doraemon teaming up with 6 robots of the same type as Doraemon on adventures). As I said, I couldn't find a full english translation
Here's a case in regards to the baby inc company, that messed with a past AC game, and the minority group of gay/bisexual men. Originally, Jacob was indeed the only playable protagonist in the game, and evie didn't even exist as she is today. The game looked much darker and Jacob had the same outfit as George. This bit is important context. A woman called Kim belair and her friends got involved in the games development, fairly late, and they are somewhat famous for changing games to be more "inclusive" but that really just translates to more female and less white. Jacob was actually always supposed to be bisexual, and the games lead writer is in fact a gay man himself. The deep hypocrisy of Kim belair is that she doesn't care about that being inclusive, because she only values inclusion for people like her. And so she essentially blackmailed the syndicate team into creating evie as a playable twin protagonist. During an interview she can be heard complaining that her fellow devs told her Jacob is the main character, and she responded by saying she could manipulate people into thinking evie was the protagonist, by misrepresenting the twins online. You see, Kim belair was originally hired because she is a marketing expert, and so she knows how to manipulate what people think of a product. You can find this interview on a AC sisterhood TH-cam video, titled after the woman who I am referring to here. Anyway, the games development ended up going through hell, and the team had to work backwards and cut a lot out, in order to add evie on time for launch. Kim belair went on to be the founder of the company called "sweet baby inc" who are currently in a lot of controversial conversation for similar reasons as we are discussing now. Kim belair since said "if they (they meaning the development team she is working with) don't see the value in what I want for a game, then I'll scare them with what might happen if they don't do as I ask." She actually said that. You can find her saying this in a variety of articles and videos about her. Just look her up and see for yourself, however take note, many journalists are her allies and lie for her. Jacob is the character shown in every single bit of leaked gameplay, screenshots, videos, development notes, artworks showing story moments are almost always shown with Jacob, and Jacob has 3 times as many concept arts that are all dated sometimes years older than the artworks for evie. Jacob also has artworks of the exact character shown in thr AC victory leaks, and this character is described as "Jacob frye." We can see on a website (if I use its name the comment will he removed for some reason) that is used for game devs to share their work together, and network, and this website has a variety of AC victory stuff. From menus screens to gameplay render screenshots, and even a display of the room people would sit in, when the team would reveal the game. It all shows Jacob frye as the protagonist, both in description, and visibly the "victory protagonist" has Jacob's face, exactly the same as it is in syndicate. The only reason the victory outfit isn't used for Jacob now, is because the art team wanted something that reflects Jacob's gang underworld story better, for his main look. Hence the victory outfit was given to George instead. If your interested, you can also find some cool black flag development stuff on that website as well. Originally, Pearl wasn't a character in syndicate/victory. Roth was, but he had a very different look and narrative role. The character that eventually got split to creat Roth as he is now, nd pearl, was Jacob's mentor. An older lady with grey hair, a black and red version of Lydia's outfit, and a silver mask to hide a badly injured face. She was the late games plot twist main villain. And the idea behind her character was later recycled into watch dogs legion's Sabine. Legion launched on the first big anniversary for Syndicate, and so many of it's ideas were actually restorations of cut syndicate narrative ideas. Evie eventually replaced thus mysterious mentor/villain to Jacob, but the narrative role of this mentor character was given to Roth and pearl, while evie would be instead, a good guy in the story. You can even spot the necklace thus mysterious mentor character had, on both Lydia, and evie but only on the box art, as evie didn't have it in the actual game. I hope you see for yourself, as I have put a lot of effort into trying to share this, but it isn't easy, as journalists rarely talk about it honestly, and those who support belair, tell lies about reduced female characters, despite the reality being opposite. Note also that the "AC victory project" mod, is a mod to restore that original version of the game. The mod team have seen all the files in game, and researched the games development extensively. They also say Jacob was the only protagonist in AC Victory, and it was indeed Jacob. Evie wasn't a playable character at all. You can check on their nexus page.
@@chrismoore5333 And that's the crux of the matter over this title. The current controversy is just window dressing for a venue infected by Section 8 tenets. The rot runs deep. The current writers and showrunners have proven to be anything but inclusive much less competent. And boy howdy, we have not even talked about the pricing for this title. Ask anyone here arguing for or against these character changes with the main character if they're excited to play. I'm literally waiting.
@@Zoloft77 you right. This is the first AC game I've ever seen, that I know I won't buy. Such a shame, when I've completed every single other game, multiple times.
@@apieceoftoast768I play them intermittently. Black Flag was good, as was Syndicate (the one in London) and Origins (the one in Egypt). I started Valhalla, which was good but it was too long and I got sidetracked and never finished it (my own fault as being a bit OCD meant I tried to do all the optionals, of which there are too many). They make too many imo, like CoD. And no idea what the underlying story is now, too convoluted and drawn out imo.
I think JSG mixed up Akechi, the betrayer, with Hideyoshi, Nobunaga's "sucessor." After the death of Nobunaga, Yasuke was said to allied with Nobunaga's son, Nobutada. Unfortunately Nobutada's forces were overun by Akechi who then captured Yasuke. It was after this that Hideyoshi came a defeated Akechi.
Ubisoft managed to get a gaming series about two secret societies with opposite agendas fighting for the future of humanity while they search for relics of an ancient civilization and features some of most amazing historical periods... And made it boring.
Exactly, in terms of historical references there are very few mentions and those that exist mark him out as a page and weapon-bearer. He was essentially the Japanese equivalent to a squire for a year.
@@anthonyrios2311 Or a Samurai could have been ordered to murder someone, take the guilt and kill himself. There is also the question when is a scout for the army a samurai and when is he a ninja? In this regard they do the same stuff. Attacking supply lines? Usually done behind enemy lines with some stealth, but is a legitimate military tactic. Also, not all Samurai were warriors. They were supposed to, yes, but some were just bureaucrats, that needed the rank to be taken seriously.
So is a pirate.and besides don't forget the other protag.or are you gonna talk about how a woman can't fight in the same series with time travel and mythological creatures.
@Ka_chi1 are we even talking about the same thing??I'm talking about the Samurai code of honor versus that of assassins which could be hired for money..
Team Ninja (the Japanese game devs behind Nioh, Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive) had Yasuke in the Nioh series as one of Nobunga's top guards in Nioh 2 back in 2020. In the game lore, Yasuke was brought to Japan by (I think spanish) missionaries. Nobunaga recruited Yasuke to be one of his attendants after being impressed by his size and strength. He fought with a massive axe and came to be known as the Obsidian Samurai. The name Yasuke was given to him by Nobunaga. Not sure what his name was before that. But Nobunaga made him one of his top samurai. Both Yasuke and Nobunaga are villains that you fight multiple times in Nioh 2. When Nobunaga ultimately kills himself, Yasuke stays behind with him. The Nioh games are made by Japanese devs and tell Japanese history, but with a fantasy twist. That twist being Yokai being added into real historical conflicts as an explanation for massive battles or evil things happening, for the most part. Lots of kool characters in that game. But Yasuke was an interesting character BECAUSE he's so different. For the same reason that William (the white Irish main character of the first Nioh) was interesting. It's that initial bit of intrigue, like "he obviously stands out. What's his story?". And it's genuinely a unique and interesting story in the same way that The Last Samurai was an interesting and unique story. There's nothing wrong with telling stories like that. And Ubisoft aren't the first ones to tell that story. I think the Nioh series flew under the "let's make everything political" radar because both Nioh 1 and Nioh 2 are niche double A games... not huge major AAA releases. But they're honestly great games if you like a challenge, and Japanese history. I'm Korean, but I learned quite a bit about Japanese history through those games lol. There's this trend in this gaming generation where literally every AAA game is turned into a political battlefield. It's happened with every AAA game this gen, from Horizon Forbidden West, to Stellar Blade, to Assassin's Creed, Hogwarts Legacy, God of War Ragnarok, Forspoken, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Guilty Gear Strive, and more. I think the gaming industry is getting too big. Too many outsiders are taking notice. And too much Western politics is bleeding in. It's not just the woke western politics... it's all the western politics. AAA games are reaching the point where they get made, or broken, based on which political side claims them. Like with Hogwarts Legacy... the right claimed that game as anti-woke, while the left hated it because of Rowling. Did anyone even know about Sirona in that game? Or the fact that everyone always calls you "they" instead of "he/she"? What was in the game never mattered. It was all just about the surface level political battle... just like nearly every AAA game this gen. Just my 2 cents.
;Literally, they are so blinded by making everygame some ammo in a imaginary war that they even missed you play as a Japanese person as a assassin member, to me its VERY balanced by having Yosuke for the neat factor and her in it for the local.
I fully agree! The Hogwarts Legacy one annoyed me the most. I'm a big Harry Potter fan, so it sucks to see everything to do with that series bing dragged into politics now.... even in the video game. I'm a very casual gamer. I don't even have my own console. I played Hogwarts Legacy on my bf's Playstation. But I remember it being really of difficult to actually find out information about Hogwarts Legacy without constantly seeing political crap from either side claiming the game was antiwoke or that it should be boycotted. It was so annoying.
One of the reasons I loved "The Expanse" tv series so much. It was about factions not skin color. Earth, Mars, Belt or OPA. Good people in all of those places, bad people in all of those places. Skin color did not matter. You could be ANY color in ANY faction and be smart, dumb, or useful idiot. The show was great because it pulled you right in and you did not see skin color. You did not notice who was aligned with what faction because of how they looked.
Race obsession is a very American thing. Americans make up a small portion of the world population. No wonder it doesn't work when they push racial politics then try to sell it to people who don't care about it.
Yeah I seen the memes it's hilarious imagine there was an assianation and you are the only black guy amoung the Japan and they are like find someone who looks out of the ordinary. Like bro he would be picked out of suspicion if not killed before he even got on the island due to how xenophobic they are and were back in the day.
@@Dragoncam13 24/7? "Hey, there have been a lot of assassinations going on lately" "Hey isn't there one ⚫️ guy that just showed up?" "Oh yeah, come to think of it there were reports of same thing happening in the last village he was in. Maybe we should look into that?" "Are you kidding me? We aren't trying to get canceled! "
@@TheOrangeRoad once again,it’s almost as if the point of an AC game is to stay out of plain sight and being able to get away with multiple assassinations since it’s war time. You literally forgot the entire premise of AC1
Even if he was innocent, history has proven over and over again that an outsider is the first one to blame. And an outsider could even simply have been some dude who grew upon two villages away...
The funniest part of this is how many people, on both sides, are apparantly Yasuke scholars now and simply know all the facts of his life as if this obscure figure with little known about him at best, large gaps at worst, is just common knowledge. Lol. Legit physical cringe reading some of the posts.
I agree, I had no idea I was around such historians all of a sudden. Like get over yourselves, there is MUCH we don’t knows about Yasuke and people are pulling stuff out of their ass to try and sound smart. Cringe is putting it lightly.
Exactly there isn't a whole bunch of documentation on Yasuke. There definitely isn't any historical record he was made a samurai. Also according to various sources most of the info about him comes from the Jesuits. There was very little written about the man. Honestly how very little information there is about him, to me kind of shows how insignificant he was in regards to Japanese history.
To argue the other side for a moment... 1) I am pretty sure almost nobody you ask would claim to be a scholar, but when one is motivated, it is possible to learn a lot about a subject very quickly. It doesn't take a PhD to read and repeat the findings of the experts. 2) Context matters. If the topic involved a person or event with a complex, multi-faceted history, such as how historically accurate Ridley Scott's _Napoleon_ is, then being an actual expert on French history would be immensely useful. But this is a simple one-off question: was the man called Yasuke who lived during the Sengoku period of Japan actually a samurai? Not a particularly deep or difficult subject to debate. You said it yourself-there's little known about him; the corollary of which is that it doesn't take much effort to learn everything pertinent about him. Indeed, it is the people trying to argue against the mainstream interpretation that have the burden of proof, and therefore the greater need to be well-versed in that topic. 3) The Sengoku period of Japan is not a particularly obscure one. It is a popular era studied by many people interested in Japanese and/or military history, and is fairly often depicted in media (particularly anime and manga, for obvious reasons). While there may be relatively few true "experts", there actually are a good number of people with a reasonably deep knowledge of the period. 4) Speck/plank. Go ahead and tell me that you have never pontificated large on a subject you did not actually know about very well. And then forgive me in advance for not believing you.
I imagine a part of the reason to add Yasuke was to try and differentiate this game from the other Japanese period games (ex. Ghost of Tsushima and Like a Dragon) since they already know they don't have the actual writing talent or game designers to outclass any of them. When all else fails, bet on black.
I keep reading the wikipedia and i cant even keep up with all of the recent developments in the understanding of that bit of history. 🤯 they keep finding out new stuff that causes the need for another edit. Fascinating!
What the fuck he was no court jester or equivalent to one he was a warrior who fought in mutiple battles he was a badass there’s no wonder they would pick him he was cool.
Its not strictly true that all the protagonists were born and raised in the areas their game took place in. Don't forget that Italian Renaissance man Ezio went to the Ottoman Empire in Revelations or that Edward Kenway was born and raised in Wales before heading off to the Caribbean to become a pirate during Black Flag. And before anyone says 'its more likely that someone from such and such would have went to so and so compared to a black guy being in Japan', thats not the statement I am responding to. I am responding to the statement 'all previous Assasin's Creed games had protagonists from the cultures featured in the games'. Also, at the end of the day, the history in Assassin's Creed is not our actual history. Its an alternate world whose history happens to resemble ours but differs notably in many ways because of the Templar vs Assassin conflict in the shadows and the influence of that ancient precursor race that apparently inspired a bunch of mythological figures. Taking a historical figure with few records pertaining to him and filling it in with stuff like 'he became a full fledged samurai' doesn't really even rate compared to some of the other divergences in the franchise.
Everything presented here was my exact point since day one when the rumors came out it was Yasuke. It was barely because he was a big black guy in Japan. It mostly came down to you CAN’T make a historical figure do something they weren’t known to do! Pretty sure Yasuke wasn’t known for traveling the countryside by himself, taking out bandit camps, or decimating enemies. But he would’ve worked perfect as a go-between NPC of the PC and a high rank official.
Bro is looking for historical accuracy in the same series where George Washington uses magic you beat up the pope fight Anubis, a cyclops and other mythological creatures there's time travel etc. but oh no a black man who existed and was close to being a samurai but wasn't and they made him a samurai how dare they don't they study history.bro they just took inspiration from history and made a fictional story about it.
@@Ka_chi1 yea. Besides the pope part,I hated all those other decisions they made for AC games. Again, I don’t mind that he’s in the game, but being a main character doesn’t make sense. And having someone as distinct of a character as Yasuke be a main character is like a sore thumb on a foot. He stands out anywhere he goes. He did so in real history and he would in game if the world was gonna make sense. And you prove my point, you’re making it more about him being black while I’m making it about you don’t make a historical figure do things they weren’t known to do.
@@jacesmith9342 why can't he be the main character telling a unique story on the what if scenario of what if he was a samurai sounds nice but Ubisoft is probably gonna botch it as usual. And on making historical figures do something they don't do George Washington doesn't have magic and the Spartans didn't fight cyclops bro it's fiction it isn't real and it never will be I could write a story where nobunaga won and took over Japan's huh but he didn't do that.and with him sticking out he clearly isn't the assassin it's the other protag.
@@Ka_chi1 you do know The Tyranny of George Washington was an alternate reality timeline right? So stop using it as an example. The dumb mythological stuff they did in Odyssey and Valhalla was a bad idea too. And the basis of the AC story is weave through the events of history, filling the spaces of behind the scenes. You interact, influence, and are influenced by actual historical characters and events. You don’t actually become them. That creates a restriction. Imagine playing Unity as Marie Antoinette but you get to parkour and assassinate people while also incorporating AC lore. It wouldn’t work. Not to mention, in order for Yasuke to be a meaningful character, the whole story has to take place in less than a year, the amount of time he was under Nobunaga’s employ and time in Japan before he disappears. It’s a terrible story decision.
$10 says the ainu will not be mentioned or shown at all in the game despite them being one of the only minority groups in japan and predating the japanese on the islands.
You mean JAMON Japanese. Aka, Native related to Ainu. Ainu are not minorities. They are the natives of Japan. We still EXIST. Im related to Ainu. Ainu are not minorities. Stop trying to say this crap about my culture!! I'm a hafu my family comes from house Seto. One of the first samurai tribes. Samurai are not just warriors and I'm tired of this crap!! People see an old busted photo and think Ainu were some other race and it's disgusting we still exist! Jamon still walk the country! We are farmers and some of the oldest house names! Seto is a huge house name in Japan and is related to nobles and samurai. I can by my blood buy a sword and import it to the USA. My family has a generation passed down katana with the Kumon we are under. This game sucks and the use of Ainu being minorities sucks too! We are not Minorities we are natives to the country! We still walk and live we are known as Jamon Japanese we do not have eyes people think of as "Asian" my family bloodlines run deep in Shirakawa. I'm raised in the culture and have many friends who also speak venmously about stating baseless facts on Ainu. Stop changing our history, struggles and cultures to suit your needs. It's harmful and I'm getting so tired of seeing people treating us like unicorns! My grandfather is rolling in his grave as is our accestors buried in the beautiful hills and farmlands I come from. Ainu are Japanese. The first people of Japan. Who were almost extinct by colonizers of neighboring Asian countries. There are two people of Japan. Yayoi as people outside see Japan and Jamon. Jamon are related to the natives and have older house names. Yayoi are related to the colonizers and south Koreans. Everyone at one point came from 2 places as evolution has shown. Ainu are not going to be dick rode anymore for this game or others grandstanding on their culture. I'm tired of it. Stop. It hurts my family and our struggles and our ancestry. The tribes were lost and culture destroyed. Just like native tribes of other countries culture cleansing is why Ainu are not well known and adapted to the invaders. Only small pockets exist and are still scrutinized. Ainu doesn't need others telling their story. We can tell it OURSELVES. we never left we adapted to survive! Jamon Japanese are the Decendants of the Ainu! We are not your unicorns. We are people. Stop treating us like we're just magical creatures of mystical lore!! Grandfather's fathers would weep seeing this.
@@jacobjackson6746HE WAS DEPORTED! That Alone says what his status was and it was no damn samurai or even close to it. They had no use for him. If he had been anything remotely close to a Samurai he would have had status and would have remained. But just ignore the obvious.
@@spartanx169x not all bushin are samurai. he wasn't a warrior but still bushin. he was deported when his lord oda died. if he was a bushin warrior (trained in the art of bushido) he would have been executed. they don't always don't kill civilians.
In this period of japan theres a bunch of foreigners coming in. I think its perfectly valid from a story standpoint to include him and it even shows in the trailers the contrast between the two characters.
You are right, MC are supposed to be random people while historic figures are there as a thematic park, yasuke should be am atraction like Napoleon or Saladin
I think you might have confused some facts. The Battle of Tenmokuzan was won by Nobunaga, happened before the Honnō-ji Incident and was not fought against Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Nobunaga committed seppuku during the Honnō-ji Incident. After Nobunaga’s death, Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeated Mitsuhide in the Battle of Yamazaki and avenged him.
You the same one who loved the whitewashing of Kratos, and showed up OPENING NIGHT to watch Tom Cruise cosplay an samurai. Y’all need to Check ya selves, before the Maker does.
No joke the idea of Japan becoming the dominant world power and spreading their language and culture with the same vitriol as say England did with colonies all across the world circa 1750 sounds like a fucking amazing setting for a story. Imagine if they wound up creating a dominion up in Canada while fighting the Spanish for America.
@@achinthmurali5207Japan pretty much kept to themselves and fought each other until they were pushed to open their borders to outsiders. Then they speed ran their industrial revolution and the emperor united the country.
Great to hear your take on this! I am disappointed in their use of Yasuke because I read and loved Shogun as a teen which was inspired by a real Englishman named William who went to Japan and became a retainer for Tokugawa. When I heard about Yasuke, I thought that his life could be a really cool story to tell too! In fact, I would have loved to have him as a protagonist if the game was about coming to Japan and discovering and learning about the culture. However, in AC: S, he seems to be a full-on Samurai who defeats other samurai in swordfights like it was nothing. If they had included samurai William who inspired Shogun instead, I would have been equally upset if they portrayed him as some badass katana master because that's not the story I would have imagined him in. I also wish they'd had a male Japanese character that you could play, similar to how Odyssey and Valhalla let you choose the gender of your protagonist. But that's just me, I merely prefer playing male characters.
I dont plan on buying the game because of the ridiculous price point for different versions and season pass. But Ubisoft already had a black assassin in Adawale who has an incredible amount of potential. They could have done so much with that character right now. Ubisoft is only doing this because Ninjas just happen to be the popular thing right now🤦🏿♂️.
I pointed this out elsewhere, but they could have gone GTA5 style with three protagonists, the samurai, the ninja, and the African or European trained warrior depending on what they did for Yasuke's backstory. Moreover, with Yasuke's actual background, the Jesuit that brought him could have been significantly involved in the Templar/Assassin conflict giving another set of story hooks and feeding back into the original AC trilogy's conflict between the Templars and Assassins in the Catholic church, or Yasuke himself been Templar and not Assassin trained, thus giving him different abilities and allowing for 3 significantly different fighting styles of the three protagonists.
No one had an issue playing as an Arab in an Arabian setting. No one had an issue playing as a Native American in an American setting. No one had an issue playing as a black man in a Caribbean setting. No one had an issue playing as a black woman in an American setting. No one had an issue playing as an Egyptian in an Egyptian setting. No one had an issue playing as another Arab in an Arabian setting. People have an issue playing as a black man in a Japanese setting. “TeLl Me YoU’rE rACiSt WiThOuT tElLiNg Me YoU’rE rACiSt”
it’s also odd as others have pointed out because we’ve never played as the actual historical people of the time, the main protagonists are always made up and their stories happen to intersect with these historically significant individuals at points that would hopefully make sense if your character actually did exist.
What they're really hoping for is for people to subscribe to Ubi+. If they did so after the trailer, from now to the release date they're basically paying for the full game ($70). Paying for it afterwards for the same amount of time, then they've paid for the ultimate edition ($140).
Yusuke was a retainer and servant, not a samurai. Furthermore, the Asians are pissed due to cultural appropriation. Lastly, Ubisoft did this on purpose to avoid criticism for a half-baked game at an unfair price. I'll just stick to Ghost of Tsushima, if this creed game is good I'll be surprised. But I expect another Suicide Squad.
If Ubishit really really REALLY needed to have him in the game, he should've been a side character in Shadows and then since they really really REALLY want him so badly he could've had a side game like Mirage. It'd be exponentially less stupid. Not that it matters, I don't buy Ubislop to begin with outside of my soft spot for the Division.
Simply the only problem here is Ubisoft making the game. Like come on do y'all really think they genuinely wanted to put him in the game other than to fill a quota? As much as i love the thought of a black samurai (afro samurai's absolutely goated) I just can't imagine this coming off as a genuine story to be told. Knowing how Ubisoft is... especially with this series
I'm japanese, and this is mostly a non issue for me, because Ubisoft is a publisher I will never buy another game from. And I'm an old school Splinter Cell fan. I was there when they USED TO BE great. But I will enjoy watching Ubisoft lose money. The tide already turned. This shit won't sell.
I frankly think Yasuke is more than interesting enough that it is completely alright to make a game about him. Whether he was a true Samurai or not seems a bit irrelevant in historical fiction like AC. It's not like William Adams likely was some magic wielding, demon slaying, ninja-samurai in real life either, but it was still a cool game. This isn't exactly a documentary about Cleopatra or something. However! in the current climate, it's just a very obvious move, and comes off as a bit... lame.
Honestly I think that Yasuke could work as a character for assassin's creed, exactly because he is such an outsider to japanese culture. It could give a good opportunity to both show and explain Japanese culture and history from the eyes of someone living at the time that knew absolutely nothing about it, while also telling a nice story of someone being a foreigner in a foreign land, having to fight and survive while getting embroiled in plots and schemes he couldn't imagine himself getting into. There is a very big potential for a good story and a good game with Yasuke as the protagonist, but we all know Ubisoft won't make it since they aren't about making good games anymore, which is a pity since that just makes it a wasted opportunity to tell a great and compelling story. Although the same thing could be done with any other foreign character in Japan, as has been done with that one european samurai.
I don't think that's fair at all. There have already been a bunch of black protagonists in AC adawale, that girl from ac 3 and bayek ( the father of the brotherhood) It's not fair for the first ever male Asian protagonist in a mainline game( Because there was one in the Indian chronicle) to be shafted like that. Not to mention if anyone has the right to share "samurai culture" it would be the japanese themselves. It's also not fair on how UBI advertises yosuke being an samurai ( he could have been, he might not have been) and an important figure of their history. When the most important trait he had was being black, his status,origin and exit changes between source. Most Japanese accounts say he was a slave brought by the Portuguese and became either a retainer or sword barrier but hadn't really fought in battle. He was also either stated to have stay in Japan for 3 years or 1 year in Japan. So again he wasn't really that important to them, given all the contradictory and lack of actually regards regarding Yosuke Mind you unlike With nioh and a bunch of japanese products with yosuke foreign products are more critically looked upon when dealing with their culture. That why ghost of Tsushima was highly praise it was a game being developed by sucker punch that was based on the USA. AC also has to deal with it. It didn't help that Ac for all it's gimmicks have actively shown culture from people of that culture, Connor for example will be game ended if you hunted to much animals, Edward was a pirate who was originally from the British navy as a hired pirate, heck even in most Rpg like games in AC they show Egyptian culture with someone who is from Egypt, they show Greek from a Greeks perspective and even a viking perspective from someone who was a viking. Chosing yosuke as the mc was a horrible idea, it not only robbed the ability for the Japanese to represent their own culture. Like the Bushido code(which yosuke in game broke by betraying nobunaga) the most important thing to a samurai. all the while branding him as a samurai when clearly should have bean a ronin in the game.
Let's be completely honest, if they made an AC with black characters, nobody would play unless they are slaves because those seem to be the only roles ppl don't have an issue with. Either that or some downtrodden hoodlum. Maybe I'm overreacting, but I have yet to see any examples where ppl haven't downright pushed back or took issue with a black character existing in any capacity. And let's also be fair, making Yasuke some random irrelevant side character is as good as not putting him in to begin with. I've always sat in the middle, I completely understand y'all perspective and I myself am against forced diversity and woke bs. But damn seems like ANYTHING with a black character that ain't a thug or a slave gets decimated. Someone plz give me some insight or perspective, not tryna come off as one of them "y'all just racist ppl" cause I don't think that and typically agree with JSG on most stuff. Maybe I'm buggin
Agreed. I would've preferred to see a Japanese man as the Samurai and the lady as the Shinobi. But I see so many comments up here talking about Yasuke performing acts of an assassin like he isn't going to be the "brawler" archetype while the lady who is the Shinobi is going to be the assassin? Syndicate does exist but I'm guessing folk are upset just because they want attention. Then I also wanted to say that I would love to see a an AC game based in ancient Africa with an African main protagonist but let's be real. They won't ever do that.
Yeah, considering from what ive read, there is evidence of him maybe being a Bushi(which is a rank or two below Samurai), but nothing thay suggests that he achived the rank of Samurai, circumstantial evidence suggests not though, from what i read he was only in Japan for 3ish years and near the end of his stay, he was given a short sword, which all Japanese citizens were allowed to have, and not a proper Katana which were generally only allowed for Samurai or Samurai adjacent ranks
Part of the work thing is diversity inclusion to the point of unrealistic. You’re right though that the Right don’t usually do their research like you did. I love history so that was pretty cool of you to start off with that 😎👌
The original idea was to be set in the Sengoku era. In the 12th century way before Yasuke showed up. If Ubisoft wanted Yasuke in the game they could’ve made him a story DLC but nope modern Ubisoft gotta flex off their DEI and ESG points. They can go to hell.
@@michaelthexm048 then the should just make it a story DLC or just give him his own game. There’s no reason why Yasuke should be focus on this. He’s clearly overshadowing the main protagonist everyone seems to be talking Yasuke more than the female shinobi which wouldn’t that make her a Kunoichi instead?
Yasuke's story is a very interesting but it's little more than a small cliffnote, a trivia in a long article of very important people and events that shaped japan, he doesn't deserve the fame he gets nowadays, there's a million places they could use a black main character. Nubia, Ethiopia, Mali, hell, even india had a black "sultan" once, this is just an awful choice for a main character. Remember people, yasuke fought in ONE battle and he LOST, his master DIED and he was shamed and given back to the italians likely to end up in a plantation.
They already had multiple black characters dude. The guy in the Blag Flag DLC,the Creole woman from the one that took place in Louisiana,the black girl who was friends with Bayek,etc. the entire point of AC is to take historical figures and do their own thing with them,like they did since AC1 and 2
The problem with this as well is that no one knows if yasuke was A samurai since at the time, people didn’t loosely use that word, was he a fighter? Yes, he was trained because he was a bodyguard for the people he arrived with which was the Jesuits, so for all we know yasuke could have been a bodyguard, too nobunaga or even carried his swords and equipment into battle another thing to node is in the very few references of yasuke he was never drawn wearing any sort of samurai attire, but simple clothing and one more thing is that nobunaga was known to love and collect very rare things and what was yasuke in feudal Japan?? And listen I don’t really care about the historical accuracy anymore with assassin Creed because they include real characters with factitious, storylines .Machiavelli was never an assassin, but what they used to include was pretty concrete things about what those people where. Or another example is Leonardo da Vinci never actually designed weapons, but he was an inventor in the game so they tied those trades into him and inventing other things. The thing about Yasuke is that no one knows what he really was besides the surface level things. And even then it’s very shady and another thing is that at this point in time what they’ve created is someone completely different bearing the same name as the progenitor but with no actual traits that we know of from the progenitor. So my conclusion is the reason I feel and probably very bad about this whole thing not just because of the people in Japan because of history of itself if you’re willing to revolve around someone who really knows about and served under Nobunaga for about a year before he disappeared off the records then what would stop them from doing the same with other places or other games and the thing about saying that they wanted to differentiate from other Japanese based James is BS Japan has hundreds of thousands of years worth of history and stories of very important people that they could’ve drawn, from but didnt.
Since Yasuke was brought over by Jesuits,it’s very possibly that the sword style that he did possibly use was western in origin as well. Also about time they made a game in feudal Japan that isn’t the same copy and paste stuff as other games,if they want accuracy then they can watch Shogun
@@rayray9865 I haven't watched the show or read the book (yet), but they had very knowledgable Japanese advisors and according to some Japanese people in comment sections and Metatron's reviews of the show, it is indeed pretty accurate.
@@rayray9865 It's relatively accurate. Not fully but goes along with history pretty closely. Is some of it fictionalized? Yes, but the major events do follow history.
The term samutai wasnt widely used at the time he served. As you said he held some rank, he was given land, and a stipend and a short sword, so he was something akin to a norse Houscarl, or picked man, was trusted to carry odas sword. But overall he appears to be something like a novelty a lord came acros, took a liking to and heaped gofts on to. His status was likely tied to Odas favor of him and would disappear with oda.
Where did you read he got land ? Also, yes, the fact that he wasn't executed/forced to kill himself when Nobunaga was defeated shows he held no political power/importance. Unlike a real Samourai.
Lol. I dont think he got the requirements of being a Servant. He lost his first battle and surrendered, failed to protect his lord and got sold again as a slave.
Yasuke wasn’t a samurai like they wish to portray him. He never was, he was a pet essentially. A tiger to parade to shows and meetings. Not to fight with but to show off. That’s it. He had more rights like a king’s horse has more rights than you or I in the Middle Ages. But history can go F itself since Ubisoft being the political and ideological machines they are, they knew the controversy that was to rise up, the game was manufactured to raise a controversy. Even their preorders are available before we even see any game play. It was never about the message, the gameplay, or any accuracy whatsoever, it’s about the controversy. It always was about it
According to Metatron, he wouldn't have fought like a samurai, he would have been one, and fought, but he would be fighting his own way, according to him.
He COULD'VE been one, as far as we know he was a retainer and an equivalent to a man at arms, he would've fought in an Indian/islamic style as he was sold as a slave in that area and learned to fight in that area
@@DrKarmo So you're saying that someone in Japan for only 3 years completed all the training and became a Samurai? Hahahahahahahaha Aaaaaaaaaah... Hahahahahahahaha
Nobunaga never directly wrote about him. He didn't committed sepukku or harakiri. When he was captured after Honnoji, he was considered a disgrace and Yasuke was allowed to live. And yes he didn't had a last name.
Nothing against Black Characters in Assassin's Creed, in fact they have a total of 4 Black Assassin's. They had 2 Black Assassin's in Origins, plus we were able to use Adewale in DLC in connection to Black Flag, plus the black female Assassin Aveline in her own game connected to the Assassin's Creed universe
I'd be happy if assassin's creed would make a game having Zulu as a protag. I was actually excited about this game when I heard about shadows, especially after having playee Valhalla.....until I actually looked into this controversy. Well, maybe there is some hope left. Not sure how true it is, but a buddy from work was telling about another assassin's creed coming out that centers around the Salem witch trails. That sounds very exciting if it's true.
@@Dragoncam13 tho Valhalla was....lacking to say the least, they found a way for eivor to discover them through the guy from mirage....I forget his name. I thought about that fact myself, but I think if they can come up with a creative explanation, it could work. I mean, it'll be better than Ubisoft throwing the one single black guy in Japan in the game as a main protagonist just to please their ESG overlords. Also, Shaka Zulu was just the one I thought of, I'm sure there may be other prominent blacks that can be used....or even better create one like they did with the other games. 🤷🏾♂️
@@magnumopus8124 I agree,Valhalla was trash but they did have that guy that was freeing slaves in AC black flag dlc which was one of the most well received DLCs to this day. I’d argue the only black a Subsaharan Africa AC game would work if it Happened somewhere on the Swahili coast or the Horn of Africa
I can understand how it would make sense to have a main character that looks more representative of the people, but we've established that Yasuke was a real person in that period and that location. The fact that he was a slave and probably not a high-ranking individual when he was around actually makes me think a game from his perspective could be interesting. A game about a person forced to live in a land that is unusual or difficult to cope with. A game where the main character goes from being a slave to a person who has the power to save or destroy the world that has been cruel to him. Plus it's not an unusual writing technique. Having a character that's foreign to things end up being the main lead could make it easier or offer an outsider's perspective when introducing something. In this case that something would be the culture of the period and region. Also, if Yasuke wasn't a prominent or important figure in that period, I think that makes him a character the writers can bend the fiction around easier. They can take liberties with his stories without changing too many important historical events. With all of that said, Yasuke wouldn't have been my first choice for a lead. But I don't think he's a terrible choice.
The game is set in feudal Japan... Why not make Hattori Hanzō the protagonist? ▪︎ Hattori Hanzō is already mentioned in other A.C. media (also a member of the "Japanese Brotherhood of Assassins"), in ''Assassin's Creed: Memories'' ▪︎ He was a famous Samurai (& ninja too) of the Sengoku era, who served the 'Tokugawa clan' as a general. He was credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu and then helping him to become the ruler of united Japan. ... ▪︎ Yasuke is indeed an interesting historical person... but he wasn't a samurai, he was a sword retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga. ▪︎ Sure you can make an anime or a show or a game about him... ▪︎ But I think that in this specific game (Assassin's Creed: Shadows), the protagonist should have been Hattori Hanzō.
While Hanzo should have been a protagonist, I think that the gameplay itself would have been too similar to the Ghost of Tsushima, with the whole 'samurai being sneaky and striking from shadows' concept. It's a shame, because we could have get a pov of Sengoku period from Tokugawa perspective (which happens rarely in media, at least to my knowledge). Either way, hopefully Hanzo will get included as a NPC to interact with.
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Ubisoft's trailer is the best Ghost of Tsushima ad ever made
For real. It does make me wanna play Tsushima now
@@Noirthodoxstarting to play that game fucking amazing 🔥
@@Lildanny527 glad they brought it to PC too💪🏼
Now more people get to enjoy this masterpiece
Just started Ghost today and I'm enjoying it a lot
Yup, Ghost of Tsushima is not only just the first AC style game to be set in Japan, but is the style of a modern AC fans have been wanting since Odyssey went off the deep end with RPG slop. It's a surprise they dropped the trailer a day before GoT on PC too.
Bucky should be the next Black Panther, change my mind.
I actually had an idea for BP2WF where-in Black Panther is somehow still around, like the original costume that T'Challa wore, and everyone is trying to figure out who it is, and they never find out. Everyone realizes that maybe it doesn't ULTIMATELY matter so long as Black Panther still fights for what he's always fought for and still instills hope in the people of Wakanda... only for an after credits bonus scene to reveal it was Bucky and he's like "guys, I can't keep doing this, I'll get into so much trouble?!?!?"
Man, the irony of that would be so thick that Tony Stark would make a suit out of it. :P
What if he was South American? Like Brazilian?
Who is Yasuke replacing ?
@@gazaalley3862 A full blown Japanese protagonist. Maybe an actual samurai, or a Ronin or whoever could and should have been the protagonist in a game about feudal Japan. How would you feel if they made a game set in Africa but you play as a white protagonist who is one of the people there?
Damn. You mean they coulda had an Italian Samurai?
There was a British one, William Adams or Miura Anjin
An italian in turkey existed, ac revelations.
@@senku3402 The Italian guy was the descendant of the Turkish protagonist of the first game
@@gwadahunter2222 huh, Im talkin about ezio, him in turkey but not a turkish person like yusuf, ezio could have been a side character, but ig its DEI or ubi greed for ezio (Im being sarcastic and joking alright)
We Italians can't be depicted as anything but mafioso wise guys, stereotypical chefs that end every word with a vowel, and/or fist pumping douchebags.
Yasuke seems like he could be such a cool character that you talk to as an advisor or member of the court and maybe he could give you an outsiders opinion on what’s going on.
Why can’t he be a main character he is a badass who has a cool backstory and a cool story as a whole and he is the black samurai
Why would he need to be the mc rather than a cool side character or maybe a playable dlc character @@uh9104
@@uh9104Be careful calling him Samurai.
While there is evidence that he could have been one, you can easily argue that he wasn't one either.
The problem with AC is that they are depicting him as a Samurai with his own set of armor which is unlikely since that is reversed for the highest ranked Samurai. He was a foreigner who was not even taught the ways of the Samurai, so it's highly unlikely he was ever given a set of armor.
All I am saying is that the story exists but people are largely exaggerating his legend.
I guess cuz japanese folks wanted to play as a japanese man yk, a japanese female isn’t enough, now idk wether how to feel about this as I’m not japanese but I will say, if there was a male shinobi instead of Naoe, all this woke and dei wouldn’t be happening (assuming only).
(I found out what DEI was after this trailer dropped 😅)
@@uh9104because he was never a samurai, he was a retainer of nobunaga’s for a year. He’d be a great character for us to interact with in the game but considering that he was enslaved by the Portuguese and was only free for a year under nobunaga he probably didn’t know how to fight well either if at all. Ghost of Tsushima is loved because it feels like an authentic Japanese setting. AC is loved for similar reasons with the more fictional elements just being an addition to a primarily historical game where you can be an assassin and explore. When you break that, even if only slightly, you start to lose immersion and this your enjoyment of the game.
Yasuke could've been a very important NPC your character interacts with, keeping with the tradition of fictional lead interacting with historical figures.
Yeah, weird they didn't use an entirely fictional lead.
Surely they could've seen the backlash on this beforehand?
For real, I wanted to play as Hanzo, but Ubishit choose Nobunaga's pet
Generally though the historical figures were historically significant that had a huge impact on history itself. Yaskue in regards to Japanese history was insignificant and had no major impact on Japanese history.
@@thepayne7862 Yeah, but he was an historical figure and they could've easily embellished. If anything, the fact that we don't know much about him could've lent itself well to that embellishment, while making people curious about the real historical figure. And they would've won brownie points for the representation, too.
heck if they still wanted to portray him as a cool samurai he could have been a boss character, he was working as a bodyguard for the main antagonist of the game after all.
Imagine if they make an Assassin's Creed in Africa, but the main character is white.
Like one of those movies where a white guy joins a tribe and becomes better than them and fights the bad white people?
You don't need to make an Assassin's Creed game like that. Yall already did that in real life.
They have done that before, nothing new clown.
@@blackpaisley5156 so it's historically accurate. then i say let them do it.
@@LostGeburahkinda fucked up though because one was a colonization and the other one landed in Japan.
The irony of IRL Yasuke most likely being used as Nobunaga's trophy, only to be paraded out as Ubisoft's DEI token candy grab is made more delicious by their inept obliviousness over their own predictibility
Meanwhile the Chuddites cry DEI when they see a historical figure that just so happens to be black.
Funny how y'all weren't upset with Da Vinci having a alien superweapon but suddenly a black man is seen and the world is ending.
Oh shut up if you don’t know real history yasuke was the one who killed oda because he wanted to commit seppku and decided he wanted yasuke to do it. Do you know how much of a honor it is for that to be asked of that.
@@uh9104are you a paid shill or are you spewing all these nonsense comments for free? Stop watching netflix and open a book.
@@uh9104what’s wrong? His comment is dead accurate. The black guy in question was bought as a slave to be shown off to his friends. Now here is Ubisoft exploiting this single black guy for the exact same reason. But please continue to ignore the obvious.
@@uh9104 and your source for Yasuke being the one to cut head during the ritual is? Especially when even the part whether there was seppuku ritual at all is disputed by historians?
If your source is fanfiction made by Thomas Lockley in 2019, then I would highly recommend revise your policy of advising people to be quiet.
I wonder if they'll make a Japanese MC in the African Assassins Creed game.
Please 🙏
In anime, I see that can happen
considering how China now own half of the african continent, make him chinese just to really rub it in.
That wouldn’t make sense,Chinese would work though since there was a Chinese shipwreck in Eastern Africa
You know there's already an African AC right?
Yasuke: My name is Skywalker.
Who ?
Who?
Yasuke Skywalker
Holy shit that is exactly what this feels like.
Yasuke would be a better Skywalker than Rey. Change my mind.
Yasuke was only in Nobunagas service for a matter of months. How did he have time to get training as a samurai? There is no documentation of him ever participating in a battle, let alone being a samurai. He was, for all intents and purposes, Nobunagas golf caddie for a couple of months before getting sent away. He wasn't even granted a warriors death. Because he wasn't a warrior.
Yasuke was already working for the Jesuits, there is tales of him being stronger than 10 men (exaggerations of course) and he was defending Oda Nobunaga's son when the latter was killed. Saying he was a golf caddie is an exaggeration on the opposite way, Yasuke most likely was a warrior, just no a Samurai. His role consisted to that of basically a bodyguard so he did most likely knew some form of combat however it would have been different to that of an actual Samurai's fighting style. Sure at lot of this are "maybes" but so is the idea that he only carried swords and nothing else. If anything there is more evidence to the idea that he was some sort of warrior but again unlikely a Samurai, hence why Mitsuhide didn't kill him.
@@NoahToledo-xo5pj Yasuke did have some form of training when he was bought in India. He most likely knew how to fight but fighting like a samurai? Unlikely.
@@NoahToledo-xo5pjcrazy because Japanese history states he surrendered immediately after odas death and was sent away from Japan. Also he wasn't a samurai
@@texasfuneral4787 He surrendered when Mitsuhide told him to gave up his sword which he did but there is nothing in Japanese history that says he immediatly surrendered the moment Nobunaga died.
@@NoahToledo-xo5pj oh so he continued to fight for years then lmao he fking surrendered immediately and you can't stand that
AC set in middle east - Middle Eastern man
AC set in Italy - Italian man
AC set in North America - Native/English man
AC set in Greece - Greek man/woman
AC set in Norse and English area - Norse man/woman
AC set in Victorian Britain - English man/woman
AC set in Egypt - Egyptian man
AC set in Japan - African man???/Japanese woman
AC1 also had that middle eastern man with an American accent. But let me guess. It didn't matter at the time?
@@blackpaisley5156 Doesn't matter, Altair is still Middle Eastern. Plus Desmond Miles is basically the reincarnation of Altair seeing as how they're basically twins, so it makes sense he would speak with an American accent while he is reliving Altair's memories.
@@Dedhaven Now you just sound dumb. If it didn't matter, why did Ubisoft give him a Middle Eastern accent in Revelations. Yasuke actually existed. You just want an excuse to be mad 😂
Altair was half white,and Bayek was a Siwi Berber minority in Egypt that had so few numbers historically and currently that one of his people would’ve never been a Medjay,only the ethnic Egyptian majority and the Nubians would’ve been
@@Dragoncam13 cool story, my point still stands. Altair is still Middle Eastern and Africans are not native to Japan.
For context yasuke (弥助 or 弥介) was a man, likely of African origin, who served as a servant and retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga in 1581-1582, during the Sengoku period. He was retained by the daimyō as a koshō (小姓, page) for a period of 15 months until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident. He arrived in japan in 1579 in the service of a italian jesuit missionary named Alessandro Valignano. At no point in the historical records does it state he achived the rank of a full samurai.
@@uh9104 Correct.
A retainer refers to a vassal in feudal Japan, usually a samurai providing military services.
@@uh9104 as i said and was said in the video while yasuke was a samurai he was the equivelant of a european squire which was a knight in training. What sources have survived to the modern era are unsure of his place in the heirarchy of Clan Oda except that he was attached to the daimyō’s retune which was an honor onto itself.
@@BCDC123 thank you
Did you really just copy the Wikipedia page?
Ghost of Tsushima came out on PC today so I highly recommend supporting that game over AC: Shadows.
Definitely.
Downloading it now :p, I'm a huge fan of Sekiro, are they anything alike?
@@Grr33nie - They are similar but Sekiro is more “fantastical” if that makes sense. Ghost is more realistic in the sense that you don’t fight giant beasts. It’s my favorite open world game since it came out.
Nobody's seen gameplay of Shadows, how can you make that recommendation?
@@EBNall - Because we’ve seen what the last 10 years of ACs gameplay been like. If it’s anywhere near Sekiro or Nioh, etc then it has a chance to be GOTY in all honesty. But Ubisoft already has a shitty reputation as is so you already know what to expect. Ghost of Tsushima and Sucker Punch always deliver quality stuff and GoT is no different. Story is great, gameplay is phenomenal, stealth could use some work, multiplayer/coop gameplay and abilities is fantastic. It’s plain and simple an overall incredible game.
Yasuke should have been a DLC (better a sidequest but this is Ubisoft they won't miss a chance to nickle and dime yo ass)
Why a DLC whenever they already had a DLC that was black during black flag?
@@Dragoncam13the Sengoku period has lots of other interesting and more impactful characters.
That said, maybe Yasuke was chosen as less is known so there is more scope to create new stories interlinked with that period.
@@Valen-mh9fh "maybe Yasuke was chosen as less is known so there is more scope to create new stories interlinked with that period."
You know why Yasuke was chosen, come on now.
@@Valen-mh9fh Like who?
Ubisoft literally googled "Black samurai" and then based the game on that time period just so the lone google result could be the main character. DEI at Ubisoft isn't just a priority. It's THE priority.
The battle of Tenmokuzan was NOT a battle where Oda was defeated by Hideyoshi. It was a battle that Oda WON against Takeda Katsuyori, and obviously happened when Oda was alive.
How do you know he was alive when he won the fight? Did the May 2024 Edited Wiki page say so? 😂 (Sarcasm, in case someone missed it)
@@Kira110lolDid they actually edit the Wikipedia page? Wow these people are getting desperate.
Minor correction JSG. He lived 3-4 years in Japan total. 3 of which was as a slave to one of the Portuguese missionaries. He spent less than a year with Nobunaga. Let’s charitably call it 8 months. Immediately following Nobunaga’s death Akechi ordered him to be sent packing back to the Portuguese in India. Akechi’s statement on the subject made it very clear what Yasuke’s status was. And it sure as hell wasn’t “samurai”
There is basically one black guy in feudal Japan who appeared for 5 seconds and it was enough for AC to make their Japanese game (a highly requested setting when AC was still liked) not have a male Asian lead. If I was an Asian guy I'd be pissed.
@@thibaldus3 At the very least they have something besides horrendeous MTX to separate themselves from Ghost of Tsushima and the Ronin-game...
@@thibaldus3 its a video game not a documentary. I like the new lead. There are 1k games with jpn dude in Japan. Now we are going to get smth new and yall complaining. Get a life
@@CJ-wh7ik Don't appropriate Japanese culture.
@@thibaldus3 I'm a black guy, and I'm incredibly pissed. I don't give 2 shits about "representation" especially when it's forced representation. If it's set in a time period/location where it makes sense to see black people, sure add some in. But if it's not, DO NOT PUT THEM IN!!!
Reminds me of the black Cleopatra show and howthe literal country of Egypt damn near sued Netflix over it.
I don't think they're similar that one was trying to tell a complete lie and paint it as truth, whereas this took inspiration from historical events and made a new FICTIONAL story with those ideas just like in the other games.
@@Ka_chi1The problem with that argument is that the people defending the game are also using revisionist history tactics, but just in a somewhat less offensive context - Yasuke being a recognized samurai is a blatant lie, albeit not as severe as lying that Cleopatra was black.
The guy was basically a servant of Oda Nobunaga only because Oda found him "exotic" but people have been citing AI generated images as "evidence" of him being a legit samurai - when at best Oda gave him the title of "Samurai" so people would stop pestering him about having a commoner accompany him
@@Ka_chi1They're similar in that alot of Egyptians weren't happy with Cleopatra and alot of asian ac fans arent happy with this. The counter argument from the dei supporters for both is.. but white people.. blah blah.
@@darrylferguson3622 Yasuke was a retainer and retainers were considered samurai. Plus, AC does historical fiction All the time.
@@seto_kaiba_ No, Kashindan which was a type of retainer were considered a class of samurai but not all retainers were samurai. It's like the term Bushi which means warrior, not all Bushi were samurai but all samurai were bushi. Not all retainers were Kashindan but all Kashindan were samurai.
One sad part here, is that Ubisoft actually DOES know how to do this right...
I'll argue that Bayek, from Assassin's Creed: Origins is one of, if not the, best protagonists the series has ever had. No one batted an eye about him being black there... it was in friggen egypt.
This is set in Japan. And as noted, Japanese are a minority themselves. I don't understand the reasoning here.
I guess if I want to play a good assassin's creed game set in Japan I'll just go back and replay Ghost of Tsushima :-\
Bayek wasn’t black though,he was a Siwi Berber. Taharaqa was black.
In what universe is Bayek black to you? Do you go outside? Answer this honestly please.
@@Hyde1415what is he then? In what universe does anybody have African hair and they aren't black? Oh my bad, I forgot vikings were black
@@texasfuneral4787 Wtf are you actually talking about? No one said anything about vikings.
@@Hyde1415 that's exactly the stupidity I'm talking about. It doesn't make sense right? Oh yeah cleopatra was black.
I'll take Samurai Jack over Reverse Samurai Jack thanks.
Yeah, who Da Samurai in this game?
Can we please not talk about that abortion on Netflix.
👻 cleopatra 👻 oooOOooOOOOOoooOoOh!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought you meant the Witcher for a second and I was wondering where it was mentioned here
That show was hot garbage. Should have told a more realistic story, and then when Yasuke leaves, then you can pull out all the magic, mechs, and weird stuff
The icing on the game was Yasuke being pretty much girlboss'd into the sidelines in his own series.
@@justlivin2499 Yasuke isn't in the Witcher
Yasuke was as significant a figure in Japanese history as Wakanda is a significant figure in global economics
GOOD VIDEO, I suppose the grandmother of one of the developers told him "it doesn't matter what historians say in feudal Japan, the samurai were Nword"
Ironically, I have heard the black supremacist claim that the original samurai were black.
I lol'ed good at this one! hahaha. Cheers!
"I don't care what they tell you in school, Oda Nobunaga was black!" XD
If you ever laid eyes on Afrocentrist(African Fascism) on Twitter you know this is real. Sometimes ppl there be saying kill white men and got 50k likes
its not a claim its a reality go look it up budda was a black man also and so was the original shaolin monks@@inotaishu1
Its like black Cleopatra all over again.
He was an actual black person unlike Cleo you numpty.
Don’t forget Netflix Vikings Valhalla. They inserted a black woman as a Viking queen and although she is a fictional character, she was used as stepping stone to argue Vikings in real life were actually very diverse.
@@glazeddonut9494well Vikings did go to Africa and America with the natives
@@glazeddonut9494how yasuke is actually black and is a badass he deserves a game.
To be fair, Egypt is in Africa (Not South Africa), so Egyptians are going to be dark skinned.
I feel like a lot of progressive creators and critics operate on Kirk Cameron "Way of the Master" logic
KC circa ~2005: "Any amount of what could be interpreted as evidence for God means God is real"
Progressives circa 2018: "You can't prove there were *no* people of colour in 15th century Bohemia, so why not make the game's demographics the same as a modern metropolitan city?"
As Sargon once said, and I paraphrase: "I wouldn't even pirate you."
Sargon of Akkad? That hypocrite?
Talking about people from other countries in Japanese history & supernatural elements in historical fiction remind me of the Doraemon chapter about the legend of Momotaro. Where it turned out that the oni is just a white sailor shipwrecked. That rural Japanese community has never seen a white guy(much taller than them, blue eyes & blond hair with a lot of chest hair) & thought he was an oni so they kept running away instead of helping or trading with him, resulting him having to scare people for basic necessities
Well now I'm gonna have to watch that episode, it sounds awesome
@@nerdygem8620 The show is very episodic, this is just one ep. And I don't think it fully english translated as I still hasn't found the Titanic volume(vol 7) of The Doraemon Special manga in english(I read the Vietnamese version); where the gang while in search of a rumored ghost ship, discovered that the Titanic has been trapped in a time loop for a century so that a space demon can keep feeding off the victim's fear forever
@@aokhoinguyenang3992 There's a Titanic one? Ok, now I HAVE to. I've only seen the one where nobita switches places with his older self.
@@nerdygem8620 It's in The Doraemon Special(it's a manga where Nobita & Doraemon teaming up with 6 robots of the same type as Doraemon on adventures). As I said, I couldn't find a full english translation
Sweet baby inc detected
Here's a case in regards to the baby inc company, that messed with a past AC game, and the minority group of gay/bisexual men.
Originally, Jacob was indeed the only playable protagonist in the game, and evie didn't even exist as she is today. The game looked much darker and Jacob had the same outfit as George.
This bit is important context. A woman called Kim belair and her friends got involved in the games development, fairly late, and they are somewhat famous for changing games to be more "inclusive" but that really just translates to more female and less white. Jacob was actually always supposed to be bisexual, and the games lead writer is in fact a gay man himself. The deep hypocrisy of Kim belair is that she doesn't care about that being inclusive, because she only values inclusion for people like her. And so she essentially blackmailed the syndicate team into creating evie as a playable twin protagonist. During an interview she can be heard complaining that her fellow devs told her Jacob is the main character, and she responded by saying she could manipulate people into thinking evie was the protagonist, by misrepresenting the twins online. You see, Kim belair was originally hired because she is a marketing expert, and so she knows how to manipulate what people think of a product. You can find this interview on a AC sisterhood TH-cam video, titled after the woman who I am referring to here. Anyway, the games development ended up going through hell, and the team had to work backwards and cut a lot out, in order to add evie on time for launch. Kim belair went on to be the founder of the company called "sweet baby inc" who are currently in a lot of controversial conversation for similar reasons as we are discussing now. Kim belair since said "if they (they meaning the development team she is working with) don't see the value in what I want for a game, then I'll scare them with what might happen if they don't do as I ask." She actually said that. You can find her saying this in a variety of articles and videos about her. Just look her up and see for yourself, however take note, many journalists are her allies and lie for her.
Jacob is the character shown in every single bit of leaked gameplay, screenshots, videos, development notes, artworks showing story moments are almost always shown with Jacob, and Jacob has 3 times as many concept arts that are all dated sometimes years older than the artworks for evie. Jacob also has artworks of the exact character shown in thr AC victory leaks, and this character is described as "Jacob frye." We can see on a website (if I use its name the comment will he removed for some reason) that is used for game devs to share their work together, and network, and this website has a variety of AC victory stuff. From menus screens to gameplay render screenshots, and even a display of the room people would sit in, when the team would reveal the game. It all shows Jacob frye as the protagonist, both in description, and visibly the "victory protagonist" has Jacob's face, exactly the same as it is in syndicate. The only reason the victory outfit isn't used for Jacob now, is because the art team wanted something that reflects Jacob's gang underworld story better, for his main look. Hence the victory outfit was given to George instead. If your interested, you can also find some cool black flag development stuff on that website as well. Originally,
Pearl wasn't a character in syndicate/victory. Roth was, but he had a very different look and narrative role. The character that eventually got split to creat Roth as he is now, nd pearl, was Jacob's mentor. An older lady with grey hair, a black and red version of Lydia's outfit, and a silver mask to hide a badly injured face. She was the late games plot twist main villain. And the idea behind her character was later recycled into watch dogs legion's Sabine. Legion launched on the first big anniversary for Syndicate, and so many of it's ideas were actually restorations of cut syndicate narrative ideas. Evie eventually replaced thus mysterious mentor/villain to Jacob, but the narrative role of this mentor character was given to Roth and pearl, while evie would be instead, a good guy in the story. You can even spot the necklace thus mysterious mentor character had, on both Lydia, and evie but only on the box art, as evie didn't have it in the actual game.
I hope you see for yourself, as I have put a lot of effort into trying to share this, but it isn't easy, as journalists rarely talk about it honestly, and those who support belair, tell lies about reduced female characters, despite the reality being opposite.
Note also that the "AC victory project" mod, is a mod to restore that original version of the game. The mod team have seen all the files in game, and researched the games development extensively. They also say Jacob was the only protagonist in AC Victory, and it was indeed Jacob. Evie wasn't a playable character at all. You can check on their nexus page.
@@chrismoore5333 And that's the crux of the matter over this title. The current controversy is just window dressing for a venue infected by Section 8 tenets. The rot runs deep. The current writers and showrunners have proven to be anything but inclusive much less competent.
And boy howdy, we have not even talked about the pricing for this title. Ask anyone here arguing for or against these character changes with the main character if they're excited to play. I'm literally waiting.
@@Zoloft77 you right. This is the first AC game I've ever seen, that I know I won't buy. Such a shame, when I've completed every single other game, multiple times.
Just call it DEI. Sweet Baby Inc is just one of its minions
@@chrismoore5333that’s really eye opening, thanks
Don't know why people want to get exited about an ubisoft game
Bailed after Ezio
After the crew 1, I don't expect anything but something bad
@@apieceoftoast768shit was pretty solid until odyssey, save for unity at launch.
@@apieceoftoast768I play them intermittently. Black Flag was good, as was Syndicate (the one in London) and Origins (the one in Egypt).
I started Valhalla, which was good but it was too long and I got sidetracked and never finished it (my own fault as being a bit OCD meant I tried to do all the optionals, of which there are too many).
They make too many imo, like CoD. And no idea what the underlying story is now, too convoluted and drawn out imo.
@@Valen-mh9fhI feel u but I beat it twice
"But it's historically accurate!"
"Yeah but we all know why YOU are doing it!"
That's what I'm saying, man.
And then it's not even historically accurate.
I think JSG mixed up Akechi, the betrayer, with Hideyoshi, Nobunaga's "sucessor." After the death of Nobunaga, Yasuke was said to allied with Nobunaga's son, Nobutada. Unfortunately Nobutada's forces were overun by Akechi who then captured Yasuke. It was after this that Hideyoshi came a defeated Akechi.
Always happy when I see a new video drop from you.
It would have been cool if he was an npc as a historical easter egg.
Ubisoft managed to get a gaming series about two secret societies with opposite agendas fighting for the future of humanity while they search for relics of an ancient civilization and features some of most amazing historical periods... And made it boring.
And gaey. And lame.
They already had a black assassin protagonist. Her name was Avaline, she was from 1700s New Orleans, she made sense and was awesome
Also Adewale a black supporting character in AC Black Flag
The main Character in AC Freedom's cry (set in Haiti)
And an antagonist in AC Rogue
Adewale
@@Apollo890 Oh i forgot about him! I never played that DLC but he sure was an awesome first mate in Black Flag
@@Apollo890 Oh i forgot about him! I never played that DLC but he sure was an awesome first mate in Black Flag
well... couldn't have put it better myself...
The historical Yasuke and the Yasuke of Popular culture are two different characters entirely
Exactly, in terms of historical references there are very few mentions and those that exist mark him out as a page and weapon-bearer. He was essentially the Japanese equivalent to a squire for a year.
WE WUZ NINJAS ‘N SHIET
Samurai are the opposite of assassins.
Or, in this case, ninjas......even though that some samurai were also ninjas like Hanzo
They've had vikings and spartan warriors already. This franchise strayed from full on assassins a while ago
@@anthonyrios2311 Or a Samurai could have been ordered to murder someone, take the guilt and kill himself. There is also the question when is a scout for the army a samurai and when is he a ninja? In this regard they do the same stuff. Attacking supply lines? Usually done behind enemy lines with some stealth, but is a legitimate military tactic.
Also, not all Samurai were warriors. They were supposed to, yes, but some were just bureaucrats, that needed the rank to be taken seriously.
So is a pirate.and besides don't forget the other protag.or are you gonna talk about how a woman can't fight in the same series with time travel and mythological creatures.
@Ka_chi1 are we even talking about the same thing??I'm talking about the Samurai code of honor versus that of assassins which could be hired for money..
Team Ninja (the Japanese game devs behind Nioh, Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive) had Yasuke in the Nioh series as one of Nobunga's top guards in Nioh 2 back in 2020. In the game lore, Yasuke was brought to Japan by (I think spanish) missionaries. Nobunaga recruited Yasuke to be one of his attendants after being impressed by his size and strength. He fought with a massive axe and came to be known as the Obsidian Samurai. The name Yasuke was given to him by Nobunaga. Not sure what his name was before that. But Nobunaga made him one of his top samurai. Both Yasuke and Nobunaga are villains that you fight multiple times in Nioh 2. When Nobunaga ultimately kills himself, Yasuke stays behind with him.
The Nioh games are made by Japanese devs and tell Japanese history, but with a fantasy twist. That twist being Yokai being added into real historical conflicts as an explanation for massive battles or evil things happening, for the most part.
Lots of kool characters in that game. But Yasuke was an interesting character BECAUSE he's so different. For the same reason that William (the white Irish main character of the first Nioh) was interesting. It's that initial bit of intrigue, like "he obviously stands out. What's his story?". And it's genuinely a unique and interesting story in the same way that The Last Samurai was an interesting and unique story. There's nothing wrong with telling stories like that. And Ubisoft aren't the first ones to tell that story. I think the Nioh series flew under the "let's make everything political" radar because both Nioh 1 and Nioh 2 are niche double A games... not huge major AAA releases. But they're honestly great games if you like a challenge, and Japanese history. I'm Korean, but I learned quite a bit about Japanese history through those games lol.
There's this trend in this gaming generation where literally every AAA game is turned into a political battlefield. It's happened with every AAA game this gen, from Horizon Forbidden West, to Stellar Blade, to Assassin's Creed, Hogwarts Legacy, God of War Ragnarok, Forspoken, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Guilty Gear Strive, and more. I think the gaming industry is getting too big. Too many outsiders are taking notice. And too much Western politics is bleeding in. It's not just the woke western politics... it's all the western politics. AAA games are reaching the point where they get made, or broken, based on which political side claims them. Like with Hogwarts Legacy... the right claimed that game as anti-woke, while the left hated it because of Rowling. Did anyone even know about Sirona in that game? Or the fact that everyone always calls you "they" instead of "he/she"? What was in the game never mattered. It was all just about the surface level political battle... just like nearly every AAA game this gen.
Just my 2 cents.
Spot on
;Literally, they are so blinded by making everygame some ammo in a imaginary war that they even missed you play as a Japanese person as a assassin member, to me its VERY balanced by having Yosuke for the neat factor and her in it for the local.
@@GazingTrandoshan and if anything,it’s gonna be like syndicate where the Japanese woman is gonna be the actual assassin while he’d be more of an ally
I think the whole Stellar Blade controversy was stupid, like why is it so bad to have a hot chick as the protagonist?
I fully agree! The Hogwarts Legacy one annoyed me the most. I'm a big Harry Potter fan, so it sucks to see everything to do with that series bing dragged into politics now.... even in the video game. I'm a very casual gamer. I don't even have my own console. I played Hogwarts Legacy on my bf's Playstation. But I remember it being really of difficult to actually find out information about Hogwarts Legacy without constantly seeing political crap from either side claiming the game was antiwoke or that it should be boycotted. It was so annoying.
Gotta work those ESG/DEI points somehow.
According to just some guy, this makes you a right winger.
Welcome!
One of the reasons I loved "The Expanse" tv series so much. It was about factions not skin color. Earth, Mars, Belt or OPA. Good people in all of those places, bad people in all of those places. Skin color did not matter. You could be ANY color in ANY faction and be smart, dumb, or useful idiot. The show was great because it pulled you right in and you did not see skin color. You did not notice who was aligned with what faction because of how they looked.
Race obsession is a very American thing. Americans make up a small portion of the world population. No wonder it doesn't work when they push racial politics then try to sell it to people who don't care about it.
Yeah I seen the memes it's hilarious imagine there was an assianation and you are the only black guy amoung the Japan and they are like find someone who looks out of the ordinary. Like bro he would be picked out of suspicion if not killed before he even got on the island due to how xenophobic they are and were back in the day.
It’s almost as if he’d be hiding in shadows and wearing clothes covering his features so people wouldn’t know who who did it
@@Dragoncam13 24/7?
"Hey, there have been a lot of assassinations going on lately"
"Hey isn't there one ⚫️ guy that just showed up?"
"Oh yeah, come to think of it there were reports of same thing happening in the last village he was in. Maybe we should look into that?"
"Are you kidding me? We aren't trying to get canceled! "
@@TheOrangeRoad once again,it’s almost as if the point of an AC game is to stay out of plain sight and being able to get away with multiple assassinations since it’s war time. You literally forgot the entire premise of AC1
Even if he was innocent, history has proven over and over again that an outsider is the first one to blame. And an outsider could even simply have been some dude who grew upon two villages away...
@@Dragoncam13He was 6'1 in a population of 5'3 men. There's no amount of clothes hiding that. Dude is basically Andre the giant being an Assassin 😂
The funniest part of this is how many people, on both sides, are apparantly Yasuke scholars now and simply know all the facts of his life as if this obscure figure with little known about him at best, large gaps at worst, is just common knowledge. Lol. Legit physical cringe reading some of the posts.
I agree, I had no idea I was around such historians all of a sudden. Like get over yourselves, there is MUCH we don’t knows about Yasuke and people are pulling stuff out of their ass to try and sound smart. Cringe is putting it lightly.
That's essentially the power of myth.
We have religions based upon this type of thing.
I just noticed that these "Historians" didn't even show or site where they get these "evidence", what a bunch of clowns.
Exactly there isn't a whole bunch of documentation on Yasuke. There definitely isn't any historical record he was made a samurai.
Also according to various sources most of the info about him comes from the Jesuits.
There was very little written about the man. Honestly how very little information there is about him, to me kind of shows how insignificant he was in regards to Japanese history.
To argue the other side for a moment...
1) I am pretty sure almost nobody you ask would claim to be a scholar, but when one is motivated, it is possible to learn a lot about a subject very quickly. It doesn't take a PhD to read and repeat the findings of the experts.
2) Context matters. If the topic involved a person or event with a complex, multi-faceted history, such as how historically accurate Ridley Scott's _Napoleon_ is, then being an actual expert on French history would be immensely useful. But this is a simple one-off question: was the man called Yasuke who lived during the Sengoku period of Japan actually a samurai? Not a particularly deep or difficult subject to debate.
You said it yourself-there's little known about him; the corollary of which is that it doesn't take much effort to learn everything pertinent about him. Indeed, it is the people trying to argue against the mainstream interpretation that have the burden of proof, and therefore the greater need to be well-versed in that topic.
3) The Sengoku period of Japan is not a particularly obscure one. It is a popular era studied by many people interested in Japanese and/or military history, and is fairly often depicted in media (particularly anime and manga, for obvious reasons). While there may be relatively few true "experts", there actually are a good number of people with a reasonably deep knowledge of the period.
4) Speck/plank. Go ahead and tell me that you have never pontificated large on a subject you did not actually know about very well. And then forgive me in advance for not believing you.
I imagine a part of the reason to add Yasuke was to try and differentiate this game from the other Japanese period games (ex. Ghost of Tsushima and Like a Dragon) since they already know they don't have the actual writing talent or game designers to outclass any of them. When all else fails, bet on black.
I keep reading the wikipedia and i cant even keep up with all of the recent developments in the understanding of that bit of history. 🤯 they keep finding out new stuff that causes the need for another edit. Fascinating!
Yasuke was more or less a bodyguard and the equivalent to a court jester
But we don't know what happened afterwards
What the fuck he was no court jester or equivalent to one he was a warrior who fought in mutiple battles he was a badass there’s no wonder they would pick him he was cool.
@@uh9104 He didnt fight in any battles, when his lord was captured he ran. If he was truly a samurai he would be forced to commit seppuku.
@@uh9104 He fought in 1 battle for revenge on the death of Oda. Thats all.
@@uh9104he fought in 1 battle, the one in the temple where Nobunaga died, was scorned and called an inhuman beast and given back to the jesuits
Yet the Japanese don’t have a problem.
1:02 That's not Yasuke, that painting depicts an event from like 100 years after he died.
Its not strictly true that all the protagonists were born and raised in the areas their game took place in. Don't forget that Italian Renaissance man Ezio went to the Ottoman Empire in Revelations or that Edward Kenway was born and raised in Wales before heading off to the Caribbean to become a pirate during Black Flag. And before anyone says 'its more likely that someone from such and such would have went to so and so compared to a black guy being in Japan', thats not the statement I am responding to. I am responding to the statement 'all previous Assasin's Creed games had protagonists from the cultures featured in the games'.
Also, at the end of the day, the history in Assassin's Creed is not our actual history. Its an alternate world whose history happens to resemble ours but differs notably in many ways because of the Templar vs Assassin conflict in the shadows and the influence of that ancient precursor race that apparently inspired a bunch of mythological figures. Taking a historical figure with few records pertaining to him and filling it in with stuff like 'he became a full fledged samurai' doesn't really even rate compared to some of the other divergences in the franchise.
Everything presented here was my exact point since day one when the rumors came out it was Yasuke. It was barely because he was a big black guy in Japan. It mostly came down to you CAN’T make a historical figure do something they weren’t known to do! Pretty sure Yasuke wasn’t known for traveling the countryside by himself, taking out bandit camps, or decimating enemies. But he would’ve worked perfect as a go-between NPC of the PC and a high rank official.
Very much this. Also the fact that a game that takes place in feudal japan does not hava an Asian lead is ridiculous.
Bro is looking for historical accuracy in the same series where George Washington uses magic you beat up the pope fight Anubis, a cyclops and other mythological creatures there's time travel etc. but oh no a black man who existed and was close to being a samurai but wasn't and they made him a samurai how dare they don't they study history.bro they just took inspiration from history and made a fictional story about it.
@@Ka_chi1 yea. Besides the pope part,I hated all those other decisions they made for AC games. Again, I don’t mind that he’s in the game, but being a main character doesn’t make sense. And having someone as distinct of a character as Yasuke be a main character is like a sore thumb on a foot. He stands out anywhere he goes. He did so in real history and he would in game if the world was gonna make sense. And you prove my point, you’re making it more about him being black while I’m making it about you don’t make a historical figure do things they weren’t known to do.
@@jacesmith9342 why can't he be the main character telling a unique story on the what if scenario of what if he was a samurai sounds nice but Ubisoft is probably gonna botch it as usual. And on making historical figures do something they don't do George Washington doesn't have magic and the Spartans didn't fight cyclops bro it's fiction it isn't real and it never will be I could write a story where nobunaga won and took over Japan's huh but he didn't do that.and with him sticking out he clearly isn't the assassin it's the other protag.
@@Ka_chi1 you do know The Tyranny of George Washington was an alternate reality timeline right? So stop using it as an example. The dumb mythological stuff they did in Odyssey and Valhalla was a bad idea too. And the basis of the AC story is weave through the events of history, filling the spaces of behind the scenes. You interact, influence, and are influenced by actual historical characters and events. You don’t actually become them. That creates a restriction. Imagine playing Unity as Marie Antoinette but you get to parkour and assassinate people while also incorporating AC lore. It wouldn’t work. Not to mention, in order for Yasuke to be a meaningful character, the whole story has to take place in less than a year, the amount of time he was under Nobunaga’s employ and time in Japan before he disappears. It’s a terrible story decision.
$10 says the ainu will not be mentioned or shown at all in the game despite them being one of the only minority groups in japan and predating the japanese on the islands.
You mean JAMON Japanese. Aka, Native related to Ainu. Ainu are not minorities. They are the natives of Japan. We still EXIST.
Im related to Ainu. Ainu are not minorities. Stop trying to say this crap about my culture!! I'm a hafu my family comes from house Seto. One of the first samurai tribes. Samurai are not just warriors and I'm tired of this crap!! People see an old busted photo and think Ainu were some other race and it's disgusting we still exist! Jamon still walk the country! We are farmers and some of the oldest house names! Seto is a huge house name in Japan and is related to nobles and samurai.
I can by my blood buy a sword and import it to the USA. My family has a generation passed down katana with the Kumon we are under.
This game sucks and the use of Ainu being minorities sucks too! We are not Minorities we are natives to the country! We still walk and live we are known as Jamon Japanese we do not have eyes people think of as "Asian" my family bloodlines run deep in Shirakawa. I'm raised in the culture and have many friends who also speak venmously about stating baseless facts on Ainu.
Stop changing our history, struggles and cultures to suit your needs. It's harmful and I'm getting so tired of seeing people treating us like unicorns! My grandfather is rolling in his grave as is our accestors buried in the beautiful hills and farmlands I come from.
Ainu are Japanese. The first people of Japan. Who were almost extinct by colonizers of neighboring Asian countries.
There are two people of Japan.
Yayoi as people outside see Japan and Jamon. Jamon are related to the natives and have older house names. Yayoi are related to the colonizers and south Koreans.
Everyone at one point came from 2 places as evolution has shown.
Ainu are not going to be dick rode anymore for this game or others grandstanding on their culture. I'm tired of it. Stop. It hurts my family and our struggles and our ancestry. The tribes were lost and culture destroyed. Just like native tribes of other countries culture cleansing is why Ainu are not well known and adapted to the invaders. Only small pockets exist and are still scrutinized. Ainu doesn't need others telling their story. We can tell it OURSELVES. we never left we adapted to survive! Jamon Japanese are the Decendants of the Ainu!
We are not your unicorns. We are people. Stop treating us like we're just magical creatures of mystical lore!! Grandfather's fathers would weep seeing this.
He. Was. Not. A. Samurai. Period.
he was bushin! the word samurai or ninja didn't exist at the time.
he own land has a sword and was deported that's about it for info.
@@jacobjackson6746HE WAS DEPORTED! That Alone says what his status was and it was no damn samurai or even close to it. They had no use for him. If he had been anything remotely close to a Samurai he would have had status and would have remained. But just ignore the obvious.
@@spartanx169x not all bushin are samurai. he wasn't a warrior but still bushin. he was deported when his lord oda died. if he was a bushin warrior (trained in the art of bushido) he would have been executed. they don't always don't kill civilians.
@@jacobjackson6746 he was kept as an oddity. Period.
Assume for a moment that the Japanese Brotherhood has kenjutsu practicionners and blacksmliths.
In this period of japan theres a bunch of foreigners coming in. I think its perfectly valid from a story standpoint to include him and it even shows in the trailers the contrast between the two characters.
No one has a problem with including him, just a problem with making him a samurai MC.
You are right, MC are supposed to be random people while historic figures are there as a thematic park, yasuke should be am atraction like Napoleon or Saladin
I think you might have confused some facts. The Battle of Tenmokuzan was won by Nobunaga, happened before the Honnō-ji Incident and was not fought against Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Nobunaga committed seppuku during the Honnō-ji Incident. After Nobunaga’s death, Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeated Mitsuhide in the Battle of Yamazaki and avenged him.
Yeah, that's how I recall it 'going down'. Hideyoshi took over from Oda, was never against him.
And yet Tom Cruise is the last samurai get over yourself.
And Da Vinci turned u into an air bomber but nobody cried over that
DaVinci still lived in Italy and represented the Italian culture
@@shiningdiamond5046and yasuke didn’t live in Japan???
This is one of the best takes I've heard, man. Mad props.
You the same one who loved the whitewashing of Kratos, and showed up OPENING NIGHT to watch Tom Cruise cosplay an samurai. Y’all need to Check ya selves, before the Maker does.
Make it stop!
No joke the idea of Japan becoming the dominant world power and spreading their language and culture with the same vitriol as say England did with colonies all across the world circa 1750 sounds like a fucking amazing setting for a story. Imagine if they wound up creating a dominion up in Canada while fighting the Spanish for America.
They were once the dominant Asian power before and during WW2. So your idea actually happened but to a limited degree
@@achinthmurali5207they weren’t the dominant power until the 1890s,before that it was mainly China or Mongolia
@@achinthmurali5207Japan pretty much kept to themselves and fought each other until they were pushed to open their borders to outsiders. Then they speed ran their industrial revolution and the emperor united the country.
@@achinthmurali5207If I remember correctly it was like a 50 year span from homogeneous country to outside trade and empire building.
@@rayberto1826 All that after shutting themselves off for 200 years. Imagine if they developed like the Western world did in that time...
"No matter what your teachers tell you, Samurai Jack was an actual Bruthah."
-Johnathan Dumont and Charles Benoit, probably
Great to hear your take on this!
I am disappointed in their use of Yasuke because I read and loved Shogun as a teen which was inspired by a real Englishman named William who went to Japan and became a retainer for Tokugawa. When I heard about Yasuke, I thought that his life could be a really cool story to tell too! In fact, I would have loved to have him as a protagonist if the game was about coming to Japan and discovering and learning about the culture. However, in AC: S, he seems to be a full-on Samurai who defeats other samurai in swordfights like it was nothing. If they had included samurai William who inspired Shogun instead, I would have been equally upset if they portrayed him as some badass katana master because that's not the story I would have imagined him in.
I also wish they'd had a male Japanese character that you could play, similar to how Odyssey and Valhalla let you choose the gender of your protagonist. But that's just me, I merely prefer playing male characters.
I dont plan on buying the game because of the ridiculous price point for different versions and season pass.
But Ubisoft already had a black assassin in Adawale who has an incredible amount of potential. They could have done so much with that character right now.
Ubisoft is only doing this because Ninjas just happen to be the popular thing right now🤦🏿♂️.
I wish the Freedom Cry DLC was longer, I'm not gonna lie
I pointed this out elsewhere, but they could have gone GTA5 style with three protagonists, the samurai, the ninja, and the African or European trained warrior depending on what they did for Yasuke's backstory. Moreover, with Yasuke's actual background, the Jesuit that brought him could have been significantly involved in the Templar/Assassin conflict giving another set of story hooks and feeding back into the original AC trilogy's conflict between the Templars and Assassins in the Catholic church, or Yasuke himself been Templar and not Assassin trained, thus giving him different abilities and allowing for 3 significantly different fighting styles of the three protagonists.
Man, I miss Ninja Gaiden. Ryu Hayabusa where are you?
Yeah, DOA 1-4 were a phenom. Even the volleyball spinoffs were enjoyably
No one had an issue playing as an Arab in an Arabian setting.
No one had an issue playing as a Native American in an American setting.
No one had an issue playing as a black man in a Caribbean setting.
No one had an issue playing as a black woman in an American setting.
No one had an issue playing as an Egyptian in an Egyptian setting.
No one had an issue playing as another Arab in an Arabian setting.
People have an issue playing as a black man in a Japanese setting.
“TeLl Me YoU’rE rACiSt WiThOuT tElLiNg Me YoU’rE rACiSt”
it’s also odd as others have pointed out because we’ve never played as the actual historical people of the time, the main protagonists are always made up and their stories happen to intersect with these historically significant individuals at points that would hopefully make sense if your character actually did exist.
The smallest portion of the game is $70, the full game is $130.
Dang, like the SW Outcast game?
I'll wait for the reviews and if it's any good, wait for a sale.
What they're really hoping for is for people to subscribe to Ubi+. If they did so after the trailer, from now to the release date they're basically paying for the full game ($70). Paying for it afterwards for the same amount of time, then they've paid for the ultimate edition ($140).
Yusuke was a retainer and servant, not a samurai.
Furthermore, the Asians are pissed due to cultural appropriation.
Lastly, Ubisoft did this on purpose to avoid criticism for a half-baked game at an unfair price.
I'll just stick to Ghost of Tsushima, if this creed game is good I'll be surprised. But I expect another Suicide Squad.
If Ubishit really really REALLY needed to have him in the game, he should've been a side character in Shadows and then since they really really REALLY want him so badly he could've had a side game like Mirage.
It'd be exponentially less stupid.
Not that it matters, I don't buy Ubislop to begin with outside of my soft spot for the Division.
Simply the only problem here is Ubisoft making the game. Like come on do y'all really think they genuinely wanted to put him in the game other than to fill a quota? As much as i love the thought of a black samurai (afro samurai's absolutely goated) I just can't imagine this coming off as a genuine story to be told. Knowing how Ubisoft is... especially with this series
According to modern western media, nothing interesting ever happened in Africa
Apartheid, read up on it.
@@EBNall I must have missed that MCU movie
@@soutarm And Wakanda isn't even real.
3:56 Threw the right under the bus yet you echo their point.
He can't accept it. He's grown up being taught to hate them.
This whole thing is concerning again.
They need to remake the Shaka Zulu miniseries and make half of the Zulu warriors White. 😁
I'm japanese, and this is mostly a non issue for me, because Ubisoft is a publisher I will never buy another game from. And I'm an old school Splinter Cell fan. I was there when they USED TO BE great. But I will enjoy watching Ubisoft lose money. The tide already turned. This shit won't sell.
I frankly think Yasuke is more than interesting enough that it is completely alright to make a game about him. Whether he was a true Samurai or not seems a bit irrelevant in historical fiction like AC. It's not like William Adams likely was some magic wielding, demon slaying, ninja-samurai in real life either, but it was still a cool game. This isn't exactly a documentary about Cleopatra or something.
However! in the current climate, it's just a very obvious move, and comes off as a bit... lame.
Honestly I think that Yasuke could work as a character for assassin's creed, exactly because he is such an outsider to japanese culture. It could give a good opportunity to both show and explain Japanese culture and history from the eyes of someone living at the time that knew absolutely nothing about it, while also telling a nice story of someone being a foreigner in a foreign land, having to fight and survive while getting embroiled in plots and schemes he couldn't imagine himself getting into.
There is a very big potential for a good story and a good game with Yasuke as the protagonist, but we all know Ubisoft won't make it since they aren't about making good games anymore, which is a pity since that just makes it a wasted opportunity to tell a great and compelling story.
Although the same thing could be done with any other foreign character in Japan, as has been done with that one european samurai.
William Adams was the European's name, I believe
I don't think that's fair at all.
There have already been a bunch of black protagonists in AC adawale, that girl from ac 3 and bayek ( the father of the brotherhood)
It's not fair for the first ever male Asian protagonist in a mainline game( Because there was one in the Indian chronicle) to be shafted like that. Not to mention if anyone has the right to share "samurai culture" it would be the japanese themselves.
It's also not fair on how UBI advertises yosuke being an samurai ( he could have been, he might not have been) and an important figure of their history.
When the most important trait he had was being black, his status,origin and exit changes between source. Most Japanese accounts say he was a slave brought by the Portuguese and became either a retainer or sword barrier but hadn't really fought in battle. He was also either stated to have stay in Japan for 3 years or 1 year in Japan.
So again he wasn't really that important to them, given all the contradictory and lack of actually regards regarding Yosuke
Mind you unlike With nioh and a bunch of japanese products with yosuke foreign products are more critically looked upon when dealing with their culture.
That why ghost of Tsushima was highly praise it was a game being developed by sucker punch that was based on the USA.
AC also has to deal with it. It didn't help that Ac for all it's gimmicks have actively shown culture from people of that culture, Connor for example will be game ended if you hunted to much animals, Edward was a pirate who was originally from the British navy as a hired pirate, heck even in most Rpg like games in AC they show Egyptian culture with someone who is from Egypt, they show Greek from a Greeks perspective and even a viking perspective from someone who was a viking.
Chosing yosuke as the mc was a horrible idea, it not only robbed the ability for the Japanese to represent their own culture. Like the Bushido code(which yosuke in game broke by betraying nobunaga) the most important thing to a samurai. all the while branding him as a samurai when clearly should have bean a ronin in the game.
Let's be completely honest, if they made an AC with black characters, nobody would play unless they are slaves because those seem to be the only roles ppl don't have an issue with. Either that or some downtrodden hoodlum. Maybe I'm overreacting, but I have yet to see any examples where ppl haven't downright pushed back or took issue with a black character existing in any capacity. And let's also be fair, making Yasuke some random irrelevant side character is as good as not putting him in to begin with. I've always sat in the middle, I completely understand y'all perspective and I myself am against forced diversity and woke bs. But damn seems like ANYTHING with a black character that ain't a thug or a slave gets decimated. Someone plz give me some insight or perspective, not tryna come off as one of them "y'all just racist ppl" cause I don't think that and typically agree with JSG on most stuff. Maybe I'm buggin
Agreed. I would've preferred to see a Japanese man as the Samurai and the lady as the Shinobi. But I see so many comments up here talking about Yasuke performing acts of an assassin like he isn't going to be the "brawler" archetype while the lady who is the Shinobi is going to be the assassin? Syndicate does exist but I'm guessing folk are upset just because they want attention. Then I also wanted to say that I would love to see a an AC game based in ancient Africa with an African main protagonist but let's be real. They won't ever do that.
Yeah, considering from what ive read, there is evidence of him maybe being a Bushi(which is a rank or two below Samurai), but nothing thay suggests that he achived the rank of Samurai, circumstantial evidence suggests not though, from what i read he was only in Japan for 3ish years and near the end of his stay, he was given a short sword, which all Japanese citizens were allowed to have, and not a proper Katana which were generally only allowed for Samurai or Samurai adjacent ranks
I come for the commentary I stay for the history lessons.
Part of the work thing is diversity inclusion to the point of unrealistic. You’re right though that the Right don’t usually do their research like you did. I love history so that was pretty cool of you to start off with that
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The original idea was to be set in the Sengoku era. In the 12th century way before Yasuke showed up. If Ubisoft wanted Yasuke in the game they could’ve made him a story DLC but nope modern Ubisoft gotta flex off their DEI and ESG points. They can go to hell.
Idk there's a lot of unknown history of him, that good story potential.
@@michaelthexm048 then the should just make it a story DLC or just give him his own game. There’s no reason why Yasuke should be focus on this. He’s clearly overshadowing the main protagonist everyone seems to be talking Yasuke more than the female shinobi which wouldn’t that make her a Kunoichi instead?
@@studio96films65 Kunoichi were female shinobi so yes. But maybe Ubi wants to go full ESG and have her trans?
@@StivsLair 🤦
@studio96films65 I had the same response.
Yasuke's story is a very interesting but it's little more than a small cliffnote, a trivia in a long article of very important people and events that shaped japan, he doesn't deserve the fame he gets nowadays, there's a million places they could use a black main character. Nubia, Ethiopia, Mali, hell, even india had a black "sultan" once, this is just an awful choice for a main character. Remember people, yasuke fought in ONE battle and he LOST, his master DIED and he was shamed and given back to the italians likely to end up in a plantation.
They already had multiple black characters dude. The guy in the Blag Flag DLC,the Creole woman from the one that took place in Louisiana,the black girl who was friends with Bayek,etc. the entire point of AC is to take historical figures and do their own thing with them,like they did since AC1 and 2
The best video on the whole issue. Well done!
I bet there was a similar outrage when the Last Samurai movie came out, oh wait there wasn't.
The problem with this as well is that no one knows if yasuke was A samurai since at the time, people didn’t loosely use that word, was he a fighter? Yes, he was trained because he was a bodyguard for the people he arrived with which was the Jesuits, so for all we know yasuke could have been a bodyguard, too nobunaga or even carried his swords and equipment into battle another thing to node is in the very few references of yasuke he was never drawn wearing any sort of samurai attire, but simple clothing and one more thing is that nobunaga was known to love and collect very rare things and what was yasuke in feudal Japan?? And listen I don’t really care about the historical accuracy anymore with assassin Creed because they include real characters with factitious, storylines .Machiavelli was never an assassin, but what they used to include was pretty concrete things about what those people where. Or another example is Leonardo da Vinci never actually designed weapons, but he was an inventor in the game so they tied those trades into him and inventing other things. The thing about Yasuke is that no one knows what he really was besides the surface level things.
And even then it’s very shady and another thing is that at this point in time what they’ve created is someone completely different bearing the same name as the progenitor but with no actual traits that we know of from the progenitor. So my conclusion is the reason I feel and probably very bad about this whole thing not just because of the people in Japan because of history of itself if you’re willing to revolve around someone who really knows about and served under Nobunaga for about a year before he disappeared off the records then what would stop them from doing the same with other places or other games and the thing about saying that they wanted to differentiate from other Japanese based James is BS Japan has hundreds of thousands of years worth of history and stories of very important people that they could’ve drawn, from but didnt.
Since Yasuke was brought over by Jesuits,it’s very possibly that the sword style that he did possibly use was western in origin as well. Also about time they made a game in feudal Japan that isn’t the same copy and paste stuff as other games,if they want accuracy then they can watch Shogun
@@Dragoncam13 shogun is not accurate. It’s based on a novel based on a novel based on truth, history with a lot of fluff put in.
@@rayray9865 I haven't watched the show or read the book (yet), but they had very knowledgable Japanese advisors and according to some Japanese people in comment sections and Metatron's reviews of the show, it is indeed pretty accurate.
@@rayray9865 It's relatively accurate. Not fully but goes along with history pretty closely. Is some of it fictionalized? Yes, but the major events do follow history.
The term samutai wasnt widely used at the time he served. As you said he held some rank, he was given land, and a stipend and a short sword, so he was something akin to a norse Houscarl, or picked man, was trusted to carry odas sword. But overall he appears to be something like a novelty a lord came acros, took a liking to and heaped gofts on to. His status was likely tied to Odas favor of him and would disappear with oda.
Where did you read he got land ?
Also, yes, the fact that he wasn't executed/forced to kill himself when Nobunaga was defeated shows he held no political power/importance. Unlike a real Samourai.
Speaking of Yasuke I'm wondering when Fate Grand Order is going to put him in the game as a playable servant
I'm on board for a 6.5 black anime girl who could kill me with her tighs
Might be a while, there isn't exactly a shortage of Shinsengumi and Sengoku era figures for them to pull out for the next few Guda Guda events.
He's not a legend though, he's just black. Which ironically is the only reason he ends up in anything.
Lol. I dont think he got the requirements of being a Servant. He lost his first battle and surrendered, failed to protect his lord and got sold again as a slave.
Imagine Yasuke as dark Amazonian waifu samurai?
Make it real takeuchi
Yasuke wasn’t a samurai like they wish to portray him. He never was, he was a pet essentially. A tiger to parade to shows and meetings. Not to fight with but to show off. That’s it. He had more rights like a king’s horse has more rights than you or I in the Middle Ages.
But history can go F itself since Ubisoft being the political and ideological machines they are, they knew the controversy that was to rise up, the game was manufactured to raise a controversy. Even their preorders are available before we even see any game play. It was never about the message, the gameplay, or any accuracy whatsoever, it’s about the controversy. It always was about it
Yeah he should have been like a side character/ally not main character
According to Metatron, he wouldn't have fought like a samurai, he would have been one, and fought, but he would be fighting his own way, according to him.
He COULD'VE been one, as far as we know he was a retainer and an equivalent to a man at arms, he would've fought in an Indian/islamic style as he was sold as a slave in that area and learned to fight in that area
@@DrKarmoHe had no last name. So that seals that he wasn't. If he was made samurai he would have been given one
@@DrKarmo So you're saying that someone in Japan for only 3 years completed all the training and became a Samurai?
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Nobunaga never directly wrote about him. He didn't committed sepukku or harakiri. When he was captured after Honnoji, he was considered a disgrace and Yasuke was allowed to live. And yes he didn't had a last name.
I just saw that!
Nothing against Black Characters in Assassin's Creed, in fact they have a total of 4 Black Assassin's.
They had 2 Black Assassin's in Origins, plus we were able to use Adewale in DLC in connection to Black Flag, plus the black female Assassin Aveline in her own game connected to the Assassin's Creed universe
I'd be happy if assassin's creed would make a game having Zulu as a protag. I was actually excited about this game when I heard about shadows, especially after having playee Valhalla.....until I actually looked into this controversy. Well, maybe there is some hope left. Not sure how true it is, but a buddy from work was telling about another assassin's creed coming out that centers around the Salem witch trails. That sounds very exciting if it's true.
It wouldn’t make sense to have an AC game with Shaka Zulu honestly
@@Dragoncam13 and why is that?....🤔
@@magnumopus8124 since he was a tribal,there would’ve been no way that he would’ve been into contact with any of the associates of the Hidden Ones.
@@Dragoncam13 tho Valhalla was....lacking to say the least, they found a way for eivor to discover them through the guy from mirage....I forget his name. I thought about that fact myself, but I think if they can come up with a creative explanation, it could work. I mean, it'll be better than Ubisoft throwing the one single black guy in Japan in the game as a main protagonist just to please their ESG overlords. Also, Shaka Zulu was just the one I thought of, I'm sure there may be other prominent blacks that can be used....or even better create one like they did with the other games. 🤷🏾♂️
@@magnumopus8124 I agree,Valhalla was trash but they did have that guy that was freeing slaves in AC black flag dlc which was one of the most well received DLCs to this day. I’d argue the only black a Subsaharan Africa AC game would work if it Happened somewhere on the Swahili coast or the Horn of Africa
I can understand how it would make sense to have a main character that looks more representative of the people, but we've established that Yasuke was a real person in that period and that location. The fact that he was a slave and probably not a high-ranking individual when he was around actually makes me think a game from his perspective could be interesting. A game about a person forced to live in a land that is unusual or difficult to cope with. A game where the main character goes from being a slave to a person who has the power to save or destroy the world that has been cruel to him.
Plus it's not an unusual writing technique. Having a character that's foreign to things end up being the main lead could make it easier or offer an outsider's perspective when introducing something. In this case that something would be the culture of the period and region.
Also, if Yasuke wasn't a prominent or important figure in that period, I think that makes him a character the writers can bend the fiction around easier. They can take liberties with his stories without changing too many important historical events.
With all of that said, Yasuke wouldn't have been my first choice for a lead. But I don't think he's a terrible choice.
At least they didn't give him the killmonger cut!!
About as blatant a demonstration of cultural appreciation, and i thought that was supposed to be bad?
The game is set in feudal Japan... Why not make Hattori Hanzō the protagonist?
▪︎ Hattori Hanzō is already mentioned in other A.C. media (also a member of the "Japanese Brotherhood of Assassins"), in ''Assassin's Creed: Memories''
▪︎ He was a famous Samurai (& ninja too) of the Sengoku era, who served the 'Tokugawa clan' as a general.
He was credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu and then helping him to become the ruler of united Japan.
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▪︎ Yasuke is indeed an interesting historical person... but he wasn't a samurai, he was a sword retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga.
▪︎ Sure you can make an anime or a show or a game about him...
▪︎ But I think that in this specific game (Assassin's Creed: Shadows), the protagonist should have been Hattori Hanzō.
While Hanzo should have been a protagonist, I think that the gameplay itself would have been too similar to the Ghost of Tsushima, with the whole 'samurai being sneaky and striking from shadows' concept. It's a shame, because we could have get a pov of Sengoku period from Tokugawa perspective (which happens rarely in media, at least to my knowledge). Either way, hopefully Hanzo will get included as a NPC to interact with.
@@giovanne2910 True...
becase woman protagonist plus black co protagonist = high DEI score