Oh but when a Japanese mangaka bastardizes western history for the sake of fiction, then its bloody ok? Fuck off mate. No one sets off to make a Samurai/Ninja power fantasy game to DISRESPECT. Any inaccuracy is already covered under several facts: Its a sci-fi, simulated imaginary history Ubisoft didn't pay billions to scour the Earth for historical documents of the era They took creative liberties to make it appealing They aren't writing a history book nor trying to reeducate anyone Its just background mistakes no sane gamer really cares about
Yasuke seems to be a templar working for Oda Nobunaga. It looks like he turns his back on him and joins Naoe an assassin to take him out. But it doesn't look like he will actually join the assassins order.
It's funny that the people always complaining about "cultural appropriation" and "realism" absolutely botch their portrayal of Japan and blatantly don't care at all.
Because they only apply "cultural appropriation" to White people. Their goal has nothing to do with the culture they are "defending" but attacking White people.
@@hueypautonoman How is not lol, a company filled with DEI policies and in a marxist hive that is Quebec. Even the pics the studio take of themselves are just women with lgtb flags and crap, seems they don't hire men lol. And as always, those end up being the ultimate racists, sexists and bigots.
As a Greek, I understand the feeling haha. Not nearly as bad, but they did similar things with Odyssey and trying to make it seem like Casandra could have been a spartan warrior amongst other inaccuracies lmao
Add Cleopatra too, brother famous Hellenic woman became Sub-Saharan Black woman And Achilles from Troy- directed by BBC portrayed as a black Achilles These DEI shits are destroying others cultures everywhere
I’m sure the English can agree as well after Valhalla. They nailed origins and have gotten lazier and more agenda driven every game since, mirage is just buns as a game but that world is probably the only accurate one since origins
Apparently no one had the spine to call it what it was back in Odyssey and Valhalla. I took one look and could spot the bs. Assassin's Creed ended after Ezio and it peaked with Altair.
Cuut the absolutee BSSS. Who honestly believed 100% an AC game that has magical Gods and different cultures in templar armor, was gonna be "historically accurate" And since when did anyone care about the accurate authenticity of any ethnicity in any action video game ever????
@dyneXeye if they just say it was historical fiction then most normal people wouldn't criticised the accuracy and the people who would have criticized it will largely be ignored because it isn't in the conversations.
@ VIDEO GAME already implies historical fiction. Or did everyone suddenly become stupid and thought an action video game was gonna represent someones culture accurately.
Me too, I would like to play a black assassins in an Assassin’s Creed in Africa, but I’ll never play this assassin woke in Japan. Yasuke was just a slave, I won’t loose my time with this nobody, give me Musashi, Attory Hanzo, there is so much great samurai or ninja to play with… but they give us a stupid slave as a protagonist ? Yasuke won no war, nor any fight with a great warrior… there is no great history about him. He was just a curiosity, a toll for his master and nothing more.
I guess it really does take an actual person from that culture to notice things at a glance. Another Japanese creator pointed out previously that the game has plants/trees/fruits that are from different seasons all appearing in the same scene which would be impossible. The architecture are either from other countries in Asia, or outright oddly shaped as if AI was used to design them. Some even have features that you would normally not see on a normal building (like the castle rooftop hatch specifically for ninjas to sneak into). It's like they just used google or an AI to dump all medieval Asian stuff into the game and chose what "looked Japanese" to them without proper consultation or references.
Anyone who's played enough Japanese games over the years would be able to pick up on the blatant disregard for historical accuracy here. In the games industry alone, there exists a wealth of Japanese-developed games set in the Sengoku period, so Ubisoft have zero excuse here.
@@soragranda If I remember rightly, the woman studied sexual orientation stuff from that time period or something like that it's been a while since I saw the video.
@lda5803 Ubisoft consulted various, that woman is the lead one, she worked on a study about homosexuality in that era, but... she was criticized because the book she publish was too much romantized rather than the expected academic work (not to mention, the topic was pretty much young boys groomed by adults). They also use stuff from thomas lockley and other academics that theorized about yasuke, but thomas wasn't even an historian (he was in the law school), the other academics never right about their opinions in academic papers since yasuke existance in nobunaga records is less than three pages. Overall, those consultants weren't the best option by any means.
It is weird that Ubisoft doesn't seem to be putting much effort into Shadows to make it authentic or realistic after Ghost of Tsushima. You'd think that they would try to match or even outdo the game that set the standard for Western-made stealth games set in Japan, but they don't seem to care. However good Shadows is in any other area, it will be unfavorably compared to GoT.
The thing is, ghosts of Tushima (SuckerPunch) never marketed their game as historically accurate but Ubisoft did and does all the time. And the irony is sucker punch did a way better job it's crazy
They could have pivoted, but early development of this game started in 2018. So before GoT was released. This makes sense as 5-6 years in pretty standard for AAA games.
I thought sakura usually bloom in a range from late March through April depending on how soon temps warm up (sooner in the southern parts and later in Hokkaido for example). The game is set around the latitude of Kyoto so peak sakura bloom should be around the very beginning of April in modern times. I don't know if the climate was noticeably different in 1579 though. If it was colder on average, that would push the bloom time back a bit (though google says the time frame for bloom hasn't chaned much from today's schedule). Actually, the biggest sakura difference between modern day and medieval Japan would be the varieties of cultivar. The famous modern cultivar somei-yoshino (pale pink, ubiquitous in pop culture) wasn't developed until the mid 1800s, before the period of the game. Yamazakura (wild cherry or mountain cherry) varieties with darker pink color should be more accurate for the time period of the game. Also, maybe the biggest difference, is that peak bloom only last around a week. I'm betting the pink trees in game are gonna be popping off most of the time it's not autumn or winter lol.
This is how average gamer that wants to fulfill samurai/ninja fantasy looks at games. Opens 20 tabs and fact checks every rock, tree and piece of art of the period, ANd it if incorrect they hate it. Get fucked
At least this isn't an American L. We generally care about Japan and its culture, like with Ghost of Tsushima for example. I see a ton of Americans offended on behalf of Japan with this game. This AC game is French-Canadian 😅
@senku3402 Yeah, but nothing egregious. I only heard they sort of mixed in some Sengoku elements in an era that takes place before that. But it gets a pass, generally.
@@Fxrrxt2x alot more such as the wrong architecture and overwhelming exagerated trees which was not how tsushima looked like, they aimed for more of a move type visual then a historical accurate tsushima, as well as buts of the story though being fictional, I point this out because I hear everyone saying how respectful ghost of tsushima is then shadows but even it is has its mistakes.
@@senku3402 Be that as it may, the Japanese TH-camrs I've watched still praised the game even with some of those inaccuracies, and that's enough for me to do the same. Sure, artists are going to exaggerate some things for dramatic flare, but what AC Shadows is doing is completely missing the mark and coming across as disrespectful, since they claimed the game was historically accurate. I think what's really getting to us is the mix up of various different Asian cultures, like Chinese especially. It's the total lack of even trying to get it right. And us Americans are pissed too because we've been waiting for more than a decade for an AC game set in Japan, and this is the slop we get.
@Fxrrxt2x If you open an ac game its made very clear the game is histroical fiction and not non fiction, and it was claimed by the director of the game that its fictional though there was one lady that did claim otherwise, but then they stated an apology as stated, "our intention has never been to present any of our Assassin's Creed games, including Assassin's Creed Shadows, as factual representations of history, or historical characters."
They shouldn't have hammered down on being historically accurate, especially with the source they used turning out so problematic. Or they could have made him DLC with his own added missions and call it "The Legend of Yasuke" or something. But this game has bigger problems than that. And Ubisoft has bigger problems than this game. It's just another nail in the coffin really.
@Pandarah Like in black flag. Adewale was dope in the story that when they made dlc to play as him I instantly bought it. I hate that he left Edward but he wanted to make a name for himself alone as well.
If this game was being as historically accurate as is claimed, Yasuke would just be that NPC bodyguard standing next to Nobunaga. He might be a miniboss if the gameplay required the playercharacter to attack Nobunaga and that is all they could do with him. From my perspective, it's like Ubisoft took a minor side character from history and made him so much more important then he was in real life. I saw a repost of a tweet that stated Fausake's armor is more ostentatious then Nobunaga's armor and proved that with an ingame screenshot. Which one is the Samurai Lord?
Video games are held to a very low standard when it comes to cultural accuracy, maybe it was a few hours on google that provided all the images they needed to replicate 'their' interpretation of a specific era of Japan. But, but, it's a video game after all. Without trying to open a can of Film worms, there are Japanese/Malaysian/English actors in Chinese(Hong Kong) cinema. In western cinema, if an Asian actor can speak English, they can represent a Japanese, Chinese, Korean character without the average western viewer noticing their nationality
I think we shouldn't exaggerate and we should understand Ubisoft's desires when they create a video game. For example, I'm French, and I played Assassin's Creed Unity which took place in Paris. There were errors in buildings, monuments, street signs, some costumes, even the French flag and historical events. But all of this made sense, because Ubisoft creates a game that is fiction and not a faithful representation. They base themselves on historical reality to adapt it into a video game, for the needs of the game (scenario, gameplay, etc.). They are obliged to make modifications or free interpretation, they have been doing it since the beginning. For example, Pope Borgia does witchcraft with a stick in Assassin's Creed 2, and the Catholic Church did not complain. I find that the Japanese atmosphere of the game is very well done in Assassin's Creed Shadows for the moment, and it makes you want to go to Japan, and learn more about Japanese culture. The game does not insult Japan at all, and no Assassin's Creed has ever insulted a country. They have no interest in doing so. Even the integration of Yasuke is fascinating for Japan, because he is a foreigner who will be loyal to Lord Nobunaga, he will enjoy Japan, he will respect the traditions, he will be impressed by the culture of the country and everything he sees there, and will want to save Japan and the Japanese at the risk of his life. Japan is so beautiful and fascinating that even a foreigner will want to save it, do you realize? In short, for me, there is no problem with Assassin's Creed Shadows concerning the respect of Japanese culture. There is nothing to worry about. the mistakes that the game will contain are not insults at all, they are the storyline, the gameplay, the player's enjoyment. Players will never believe that everything in assassin's creed shadows is the pure truth; they will read history books if they want to know real things proven by historians. Ubisoft has done research, they have consultants, and then they adjust things to try to make the world immersive but keeping in mind that it is a video game and that the settings and atmosphere must serve the gameplay and keep the fantasy. I pre-ordered assassin's creed shadows, and I can't wait to play it
It’s not only a Japanese thing. I’m Slavic and almost never see proper representation. Usually, they just hire people whose families emigrated years or even centuries ago and are maybe somewhat know russian now. I don’t really understand the drama. It’s not exclusive to Japan-similar mistakes were made in AC3, AC Unity. It’s fiction. As you said, Japanese creators also make mistakes in anime, etc. I don’t find it offensive, though there’s definitely room for improvement. I just wish actual DEI efforts focused on this
I have heard people in Middle Eastern countries talking about how their music in global media being a random mixture of nonsense that is completely inaccurate too.
I feel ya. I remember when they made Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, set it in Prague, and then had all the major Czech characters voiced by Americans, who were told to do an insanely exaggerated Russian accent... made me hurl when I heard it. But I'm sure most cultures would have a bunch of similar examples.
@@TheLewisDawg Everyone is always so quick to blame "Americans." These games (including mankind divided) are not being made in the US it's MONTREAL. French-Canadians. If you think Montreal Canada is America that's like thinking China and Japan are the same.
@@ironwolf56 Um, dude, Canada is America, cuz America isn't the country, this is the two continents: south and north america. USA is the country. I know many people equal America to USA, but technically they're wrong. This is like call European only French people.
Not so much today, but like 30 years ago, there was a big shortage of Japanese actors working outside of Japan. So right or wrong, they hired Chinese actors to play Japanese people.
Shanghai Joe was played by a Japanese person, and between 1936 to 2011 Kato in Green Hornet has been played by 3 different Chinese people. It goes both ways, and it's more recent than you might know.
@Striker775 Always love to learn more. I know there was a lot of people upset that Memoires of a Geisha cast Chinese and Malaysian actors to play Japanese characters. Michelle Yeoh is my all time favorite actress. I am surprised they didn't ask Tamylin Tomita to play that part though.
I was gonna say, it should be remembered this studio is in Quebec Canada so even with the big budgets finding voice acting talent with natural Japanese accents is probably near impossible.
As a japanese and history buff the style of building they use is Historically accurate yes, but that style of building is way overused in that time period building from that time where usually damaged with straw roofs as it was easier to repair, the roof style on ac shadows was more for nobility, but commoner would have straw roof, and if you where on the wealther side of commoner maybe a tiled roof but commoner roofs almost alway look like how western roofs look (for a lack of better examples). The "asian roof" style was used by Nobles, temples, shrines, and Palaces. And maybe farms but thay would be stretching it.
@xzxasxadxas I'm playing devil's advocate most my comments are defending Ubisoft but when all there other games have historically accurate building, this is the only AC game to not, yes it's a video game and yes I'm ok with the historical Inaccuracies but, one this comment was to educate the person in the video to spread information and two this is the only AC game to not have historically accurate buildings. I will buy this game and play it as it looks good, and I am not offended by this game in the slightest but all I'm saying is while yes it's a video game this is the one AC video game they said "nah no more historically accurate buildings"
@@Luci_Magne true that it isn't fully accurate, but the older games are especially less accurate, especially the Ezio Collection, in terms oof architecture.
Mixing up multiple Asian cultures is what they've always done. Just look at Mortal Kombat. They've done that for as long as I remember. A lot of it has to do with the way East Asians are essentially forced together under a single "Asian" category that doesn't distinguish different ethnicities cultures throughout American society. There are no Chinese or Japanese groups. Its always "Asian". This leads to their cultures all being viewed collectively as one single thing with no nuance. They do the same to Arabic, African and South American cultures.
I don't think I understand what you mean. Systematically or culturally? Systematically, I feel like every ethnicity gets done like that because it doesn't really care about that as much as it does the race of the person just for documentation involving identity. Hispanics and Latinos essentially get lumped together, same for Whites, and Blacks. In my area, various different cultures are quite distinguished because it's actual people from those cultures and ethnic groups running the place. I walk into a Mexican restaurant, and it's actual Mexicans running the business, same with Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese businesses, etc. I feel like we're all about various different cultures expressing themselves and sharing a little bit of where they came from. But, that might just be my specific area.
9:19 literally every single game in the franchise opens with a disclaimer telling you that you’re playing a fictional story that’s *based* on historical events and figures
I'm not a fan of Assassin's Creed either, tho i was interested in the franchise as a kid- im turning 30 this year. I guess what i can add to the conversation here is that people shilling hard for this game are so insistent that Yasuke was indeed a true samurai, when records suggest that he was only in the country for 14 months. Now i am not japanese (im filipino), but ill ask a question instead: Is there any proof that an adult can become a samurai in 14 months and be given the full benefits of being one in that short of a time?
As an Italian, I can only be glad Assassin's Creed 2 was released at a time when this studio still cared about being "historically accurate"... It's been since Valhalla that things changed for the worse...but with this title, they are outdoing themselves...🤦
The conceit of the games is that a character from our own time is experiencing the game through accessing the genetic memory of their ancestor by way of technology. (Actually I believe it no longer has to be an ancestor, but it did for the first decade or so of the franchise.) So a person in one cultural context is reliving a memory of another person in a different cultural and temporal context. The memories are also subject to degradation and all the problems inherent with human memory. Things that are not specifically remembered are facsimile constructed by the AI of the technology. And it's these two factors that are used to excuse inaccuracies. But that doesn't really excuse Ubisoft for making blatant errors.
This is just playing defense for something unacceptable. Ubisoft was praised for the scanning of Italian architecture and being very accurate in how the buildings would have looked at that time. AC 2 and brotherhood weren't perfect but did lean more towards accurate than this. They have become lazy with their game design, and it's apparent.
@@TheBane616It's not really playing defense, it's a reasonable take Ubisoft could use credibly. The issue being for a company that prides themselves on authenticity, they've dropped the ball massively. And they will pay the price for spitting on Japanese culture.
@TheBane616 The Landmarks were good in Ezio era, but building types, positions and roads were largely gameplay focused. As I said I think they could have done better in this regard.
@TheHeartThatRunsCold the animus is the reason the season, architecture, and culture are messed up? That sounds like the biggest stretch imaginable. If you're still interested in trying it out and seeing if the story has something redeemable, I commend you and hope you have fun. It just doesn't feel like a lot of love went into this world. This isn't the first game they've slacked on, Far Cry 6 had the bones of a great game but was just awful and preachy.
They might not like this take but the game looks like its set in Southeast Asian country with Japanese aesthetics. The atmosphere and vibes are just a total mix of cultures slapped in a game world. I'm Asian myself, I know my countries it looks weird, like that miniature Eifel tower/Paris in China.
They keep flip-flopping on whether or not it's supposed to be historically accurate or not. Every time they try to promote the game, they say it's "historically accurate." But every time someone calls them out on it, they say it's "completely fictional." They can not keep their story straight
Many Koreans on Naver said that they should cast Korean as the main character, since Japanese people originated from Baekje, Korea (which is absolutely false of cos).
Ok, as someone who is also japanese, you got to remember It's a game. At the start of each game they never claim to be historically accurate I feel like it goes over most people's head
Well exactly, in that case all animes are historically inaccurate even the show shogun because there it's shown katana is a very good weapon which was not. Katana was literally so poorly durable😂 made with bad quality of steel. And yes samurai ideology is fucked up but they show it so loyal and good😂
AC Shadow is just a single exemple of a more global trend that forces black people everywhere, in every cultures, even when it's not accurate historically or logically. It even infected japanese companies as the exemple of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth prove it with the proportion of black people and LGBT in the game. Bandai Namco too made recently a statement about their All In DEi orientation. I hope more japanese people will raise their voice against this to ptotect their authentic culture that global players so much.
Hi Zuvi, I’m currently working on my thesis about the Sengoku Jidai, and I just checked out your video discussing the game. I really appreciate your take on it, but I’d love some more details on the specific issues you had with how things were represented. You mentioned that the buildings and settings don’t quite match up with Japan, but didn’t go into why. Also, were there any particular parts of the trailer, like how characters were portrayed or anything else, that you found concerning? You compared your feelings about the game to how an American might feel watching anime, which I found interesting, but I’d like to hear more about that connection. As someone from the U.S, I totally get that there are a lot of stereotypes in anime, like those over-the-top portrayals of Americans. It would be helpful if you could share your specific concerns about the game’s representation. You also mentioned China in your critique. I’d like to know which cultural or architectural elements led you to think the developers mixed up Japan with another country, since you didn’t really dive into that in the video. When you got to the middle of your video, you said the visuals seemed off and unusual, but I didn’t catch any details on what exactly was wrong. Since you focused mainly on that short trailer, I’m curious about what features really stood out to you. I’d really appreciate it if you could think about making a follow-up video that digs deeper into your concerns about the game’s depiction.
Japanese architecture is based off Tang Dynasty. From the temples to the grid layouts in Kyoto. This is not even a chicken and egg dilemma. Japan was literally heavily influenced by China. So it's no wonder people mixed the two up. Of course Japan has it's own unique cultures like Samurai, geishas etc.
There are many videos on youtube about the inaccurate portrayal of Assassin's Creed Shadows, please search for them. For example, DashBlue, SHOHEI KONDO, etc.
It looks like they typed “what environments should I use if I wanted to create a video game set in feudal Japan” into ChatGPT then just rolled with what it spit out. For reference I tested this theory and it basically spit out everything you see in their gameplay so it’s probably exactly what they or their “historians” did.
Gone are the days where game developers of ANY big studio make any research about anything, besides Googleing images randomly and calling the day. Have a good day, zuvi-chan. ⭐⭐⭐
They rewrote Japanese history for this game. Many of us gamers know it is a huge no-no to do to any culture. I will never buy/play this game i'm sick of Ubisoft doing this BS. TY for your take on the game love for America.
Even though I'm not Japanese, I really enjoy reading and understanding the history of other countries. That's why I really care. The producers categorically stated that the story was based on historical facts. Kill Bill is a fantasy and cartoonish film. These distortions were intentional to please certain groups in the United States. Even the technical side of the game is a disaster with serious bugs. The old Ubisoft employees who made really good productions left the company and founded a new studio. Ubisoft has fired several employees recently. "There is no argument against facts."
At least people from AEG were explicit about Rokugan, a setting made for Legend of the Five Rings CCG (1995) and later RPG (1997). That it is roughly based on feudal Japan with influences from other East Asian cultures such as China, Mongolia and Korea.
Would love to get her take on Ghost of Tsushima. The only thing is I do know there are Japanese American people that go to Japan and often aren’t treated as Japanese, where people act like they can’t understand them even if the Japanese-American has been speaking Japanese for over ten years.
People would've been chill if: - Yasuke's history wasn't as romanticized as Lockley made it out to be - If the George Floyd incident, backlash, and aftermath didn't exist - If Johnny Somali being racist towards Japanese wasn't a thing - Ubi didn't copy 1 to 1 a prop design belonging to a different IP (Zoro's sword, One Piece I reckon) - Ubi didn't copy a prop of an actual rifle core - Ubi didn't straight disrespected Japanese with the One Torii Gate and so much more.
To be fair, Koei has been romanticizing Yasuke for a long time now and they're a Japanese team. The Lockley controversy gives people a valid reason to feel betrayed though.
@ romanticizing Yasuke or any historical figures w/o a massively controversial history isn't all that bad the problem is that Ubi made so many blunders right beside the romanticizing. I love the idea of a Black samurai, but cmon Ubi... Why sell a figure with a One Torii gate on it? And show religious landmarks when it is prohibited by Japanese Law
Well, being patriotic means loving your homeland - okay 🤷🏼♂️ As a German, I still won't play this game because I don't need disrespect on the console. And I'm European/German - "Western" doesn't exist for us. By the way, "white people" we see as hostile term - if you want to be called Asian and not yellow, then you have to call us Europeans or Caucasians. But the only thing white is the wallpaper on my wall or the formula the Cartels are selling.
@@lazkraft7917 Not really. love for the homeland has no limits. others are just self-haters and complainers. for me it's more like: "well and what do you want to do about it?" Xenophobia, on the other hand, is a category all its own.
I played entry title for 2 hours. Lame as hell. I don't get why people are so into AC brand. Assassins should blend into the crowd not stand out. Yet you always have a protagonist, whose outfit and behaviour are so flamboyant it make one only cringe at the sheer idea of playing these games. PS. USA is country build on wrong foundations. Natives make only 1,4% of its populus, so no wonder their view is twisted by the sheer fact, it's a melting pot, not a native, homogeneous country with it's own mythology, religion, language and culture. Their culture is pop culture. They simply don't know any better and they don't even care. For me as a Polish man, arrogance it their main trait. A life of USA's citizen boils down to cola, burgers and wmarts. What a vibrant culture.
Small tangent about historical landmarks in Ubisoft games: I'm not French or Greek or Egyptian and I've never traveled to those places but I really liked the inclusion of famous landmarks in those games (ex. Notre Dame, the Parthenon, multiple pyramids and temple complexes). Ubisoft's depiction of those landmarks wasn't 100% historically accurate but to me those places in game gave off great vibes, almost like you could actually be travelling to those places back in time. The feeling is part fantasy but part history and I found it very magical, particularly in the cases of Greece and Egypt. Looking at the Wikipedia article for AC Shadows, it says that there are supposed to be "historically accurate" landmarks including Takeda and Fukuchiyama castles and that the game is set in 1579 in places including Kyoto, Kobe, Osaka, and Iga prefecture. I don't know if any of the released gameplay features these castles but I really hope that the design team did these locales justice. In addition to castles, I would love to see an in game depiction of other important cultural locales such as Kiyomizudera, Chionin, Daitokuji or Kinkakuji, some really beautiful locales with lots of picturesque landscaping and maybe semi-accurate statuary (so many beautiful Buddha altarpieces or Kannon statues for example). As a lover of art museums and botanical gardens these are the types of architectural elements I would like to see included. They are in the Azuchi-Momoyama period so there is plenty of scope for visual interest with colorful Nanban style art. Tea ceremony was starting to pop off among the samurai upper class around that time and Sen no Rikyu was alive - he could be a character. There could be side quests in which Yasuke sits for a portrait or Naoe attends tea ceremony. We know they are featuring the foreign influences on the Shogunate (Yasuke being a prime example) so other foreigners would be nice to see as minor characters trying to influence the shogun. Of course that would mean a story focus (at least at the side quest level) on cultural elements such as commerce, religion, the arts, philosphy, etc. I'm not sure the Shadows dev team had these types of elements in mind considering all of the marketing emphasis on sengoku jidai combat and battles. But, coming from Origins and Odyssey in which softer cultural elements played a fairly large part, I hope everything isn't just military-focused in this game. Then there are the rest of the elements that make up the built environment (houses, streets, walls, landscaping features like terraces and farmland, etc.) of Ubisoft games. Do I think that these commonplace locations get anywhere near the love and attention that the famous landmarks get? Definitely not lol. They can be pretty bare bones and start to look repetitive pretty quickly (reusing assets is standard practice). Once you've seen one villa or thatched roof hut or dye pit (or enemy stronghold) you've seen them all. City landscapes can seem more varied because of the density of features and the vertical aspects though. And do I think that they are particularly accurate? I'm not sure, honestly, but probably not. Ubisoft probably doesn't put a lot of resources into the more mundane aspects of game creation. They do their research, sure, and maybe more than some other companies (enough that they can call it "educational" with the discovery tour feature of some of the AC games). But I don't think they are actually historically accurate because Ubisoft don't employ a lot of actual historians (or a lot of natives from the places the games are set for cultural continuity). I think they do the best they can on a limited budget (large but still limited) with whatever research is done by their in-house staff mostly. I think this might be part of the problem with most of the gameplay footage I've seen so far (tbf I haven't watched a whole lot). All of the buildings look fairly generic and repetitive in most of the gameplay I've seen and, yes, there are inaccuracies. I would assume that the quality of Shadows is somewhat on par with their previous work but, as I said, I'm no expert in Italian, French, Egyptian, or Greek architecture and culture from the featured time periods (but I can totally see Ubisoft messing up with nuanced things like what types of plants and vegetables are in season or the specific types of cuisine eaten). Maybe they were overall more accurate with past games idk. It's certainly possible that Ubisoft cheaped out on the R&D quality this time around (especially considering that infamous consultant they hired who justified the inclusion of the Yasuke character for them). More probably they had overriding interests beyond "historical accuracy" with the Yasuke character (idk if it was supposed to be different demographic appeal or what). Visually, though, I do find Shadows to be a bit of a let down compared to entries like Odyssey and Origins from what I've seen so far. I play AC games mainly for the visuals and immersive environments and I can't say that Shadows has made me want to explore the world they've created so far. Maybe future footage of different locations or mechanics will change my mind.
I dont mind, though I can understand that the majority of the problems people have with shadows also existed throughout every assassins creed game from 1 to shadows. Though I do hope that they fix these mistakes, its not like these are anything new, if you have been playing assassins creed since the very first game.
Tang China did influence Japan but it was more prominent during the Heian Period and earlier, however, over the centuries, Japanese architecture developed well enough that it is what we see today based on the surviving buildings and their reconstruction. I watched the anime Angolmois Gekkou Kassenki, which was set during the Mongol Invasions, and its historical fiction since main lead, Kichii Jinzaburo is fictional but the recreation of that era in the series felt that you are in that period. There are many Japanese historical dramas which were set during the Sengoku Period and I watch those. One thing I always observed is the attention to detail to recreate the period. The costumes, the weapons, the atmosphere, are recreated to a degree that you felt you are in that period. The 2024 Shogun TV drama did this to a T and Hiroyuki Sanada even said that he felt relieved when the Japanese reacted positively for what he and the Shogun team did to recreate Japan during the Azuchi-Momoyama Period, which is still in the Sengoku Period. It also helped that Hiro-san also acted in Japanese Historical Dramas, along with Fumi Nikaido and Shinnosuke Abe. Fumi Nikaido and Hiro-san have portrayed the actual historical figure and the character based on them in Shogun. Fumi Nikaido was Lady Chacha/Yodo and her counterpart in Shogun, Lady Ochiba. Hiro-san was Tokugawa Ieyasu and his counterpart, Yoshii Toranaga. AC games prior to Shadows did involve historical events and settings but they always have a disclaimer that the story is fictional. That is the reason why they could let Ezio interact with Da Vinci and Shay with Benjamin Franklin since it’s fictional. Ubi brought this to themselves when they said Shadows will be recreated as historically accurate in order you can learn from it but failed miserably due to poor research and attention to detail. P.S. - I positively feel that the team in AC Origins did recreate Ptolemaic Egypt pretty well, so much so that some teachers used as a reference on how Egypt looked during that period.
Ubisoft perfectly showed Roman culture in AC brotherhood, Indian culture in FC4, but don't know about Japanese culture much, maybe it won't mess up that much as we think
Assassin's Creed nerd here: Ubisoft takes quite a bit of liberties in all the AC games. Back in AC3 (Took place in early america) there was tons of snow, and not a whole lot of Furs, and the cities were kind of recognizable puzzle pieces kind of mashed together to get the VIBE of the stting for the 18th century America colonies. There's also ancient alien gods toying with humanity and leaving relics that end up causing historical events, so its kind of an "Alternate history" thing.
And that's fine creative liberties are wonderful but don't go on stage and state that it's historically accurate when many of the details are wrong or taken from someone's own personal creative interpretation, that's taking the "accurate" part out
@@danielroe8788 I think their marketing was a bit much, but the game has always been almost cartoonish with almost anything. As I said, even the French/Indian War details were uncanny and off, and that was the THIRD game in a like... 13-15 game franchise?
@@evagelios and you make good points however I do believe that they largely become void once you start mislabeling your product, I think if they left out the whole "historically accurate" part none of this would be a problem
@@danielroe8788 When did Ubisoft claim the game is "historically accurate"? It is a game, not a history book. Afaik they only said Yasuke is a historical person, which is correct. This video just blablas about the game looking "weird", but she can't even point out a single inaccuracy.
As a non Asian I can’t tell the difference at face value but I respect the difference between each and every one of the cultures that from that part of the world. I respect all cultures because each has a unique history and worth looking at; that said, I don’t plan on purchasing this particular game because it and the developers of it pretty much threw all respect for the history and culture of Japan (or Asia as a whole if we’re honest). I was a long time fan of the game series and part of that was because in the past the developers showed respect for maps, architecture, building placement and culture, even made sure seasons made sense. But now we have cherry blossoms when rice is being harvested for the fall, Chinese architecture and possibly even some Korean too, when it’s supposedly taking place in Japan. Also, music used to make sense and fit the game; but since they have a black protagonist there is some hip hop maybe even get a rap battle in there too. Even if they do get rid of Yasuke or whatever his name was; doesn’t change all the lack of respect and even disrespect that the company has shown to the people of Japan.
Assassins Creed 3 should have been off putting to Americans given how many pivotal moments in American history was all thanks to the assassin protagonist. Ubisoft have always done silly nonsense.
But they hired actual Native Americans to voice some characters! They couldn't act to save their lives and just read the script with monotonous voices, but representation™was there...
@@finoderi that’s just a common speech pattern for Native Americans even to this day (my family is Houma Nation tribe), so it’s pretty authentic. especially for a character who learned English second hand from time spent with colonists.
@@finoderi like i said, yeah that’s a pretty common speech pattern. it’s often exaggerated in media to make Native American characters come across as stoic.
@@n0nsticknick I think there is a difference still between playing a character who doesn't like or used to to show their emotions and just reading a script without even trying to act. It's very noticeable.
It's supposed to be Historical Fiction. It's a genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events and figures. It is supposed to be getting setting right but as you can see it doesn't.
Thank you for your valuable perspective. Welp, what do you expect from Ubisoft at this point? I went back to your Ghost of Tsushima video, which seemed much more positive on a Western game.
Y'all seriously need to get over yourselves. It's a video game, not a documentary. They do this to every country they choose as a setting. But suddenly when its japan its a crime against humanity lol
Thank you for giving your insight on the AC Shadows situation. I don't think anyone needs to be a historical expert to criticize the game and no amount of angry westerners should prevent people from voicing their concerns.
As a French Canadian, I can tell you that many of us are not satisfied with this game’s quality. The recurring question is, “Why didn’t they let their studios in Japan lead and run the project?”
2:00 Part of the issue so many people have had is that Ubisoft did say they took "historically accuracy" even made a trailer in Japanese specifically saying, not even the tatami good correct XD. So either they lie or their "historians" scam them hard, but doubt is the later, since they have took A LOT of time developing this game, they just simply didn't care to asked people that knew. There are SO MANY sengoku jidai dramas, heck even movies about nobunaga recently like "the legend and the butterfly" in 2023 about nohime and nobunaga that setting wise looks great, they could base so much on that (visually wise) they don't care... in regards of "is just fiction" is funny cause they are the same ones that can do fictional stuff be weird and still make a setting that feels historical, but them take off some weapon because is not "historically accurate", is a weird franchise but also seems like the production in regards of this game is trying to tell something other than a good story, that is not good for a game.
Researching and being historically accurate doesn't stop you from making fiction on top of it. In case you didn't know there's an entire book genre (and movies too) called "historical fiction". One of the most prolific authors from this genre is Bernard Cornwell and he literally take factual events like the 100 year war and create a fictional character that interacts with real people that existed and sometimes even change the course of history. In the case of Shadows, it's just the usual teenage-edgy outrage culture at it's full power, because we're talking about video games and this is some of the worst communties in entertainment media. Ubisoft or any other company in any other media can do whatever they want with their story and their product and they don't owe anything or any kind of explanation to anyone. I mean, there's an anime in which Nobunaga is a oversexualized "waifu". The Japanese themselves don't give a damn about historical accuracy in fictional media, just as any culture in which fantasy and fiction is deep rooted in, like for example the book/movie "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" . The best thing you can do to punish Ubisoft for their creative decisions is to not buy the game. The most hilarious thing about it is that the people that hated "cancel culture" so much, lived long enough to start cancelling stuff themselves. Woke and anti-woke really are just two sides of the same coin, with the same annoying, militant preachy attitude that draw in aversion from every other side of the spectrum.
@@Ocean5ix Your first paragraph could have stop on "historical fiction" whihc exist of course but you know what?!, EVEN HISTORICAL FICTION NEEDS TO BE BELIEVABLE AND HAVE REMINCENT ASPECTS OF THE STUFF IS BASED ON. Which is the issue with this game since even natives feel lost at how this whole setting is portrait... which, btw, even older AC titles while being fictional obviously DID portrait their setting and characters in interesting ways that somewhat still fit the setting. This game looks like an example of lazy setting, no coherence with said setting and character even more archtypical than previous games, in regards of gaming community being the worst... thats easy to say when years ago before ESGs everything was really good, if we are going to pretent the additional new factor have nothing to do then, that is also hypocrital at best...
@@Ocean5ix The nobunaga waifu, for example, is still portraiting the setting pretty great and is still fucntional around the character itself, also is not "oversexualize" is just sexually attractive (echii for the friends), you can go as long as the great wave author Hokusai to know echii is in japanese artists media since the beginning and it works, people doesn't like ugly stuff as much as people like you does. Here also can see your mistake, the novel about nobunaga waifu DID have tons of historical moments portrait cool and actually similar to the historical context with the obvious difference, which is specially logical since IS GOING TO AN SPECIFIC MEDIUM AND OBJETIVE GROUP (romcom, echii readers). Which is key, you also know nothing about gaming if your only defense is "oh is one of the worse communities", not you nor the ubisoft it seems XD. I can criticize them for lying saying they care about history which they did SAY EVEN in japanese... I can also criticize them for using that to sell wrong ideas about historical characters, you guys love to defend them and call people criticizing them "shiller" yet you guys are defending ubisoft while they are pandering with lies...
@@soragranda "EVEN HISTORICAL FICTION NEEDS TO BE BELIEVABLE AND HAVE REMINCENT ASPECTS OF THE STUFF IS BASED ON." No it doesn't, just put a Japanese looking person, a Japenese looking set of armor and sword, a Japanese looking "house" and call it a day. You're talking about two different things. Something being historical fiction and something being good or bad. Is Shadows a bad depiction of feudal Japan? Probably. Is it a federal crime to make a bad depiction of Japan in a historical fiction game? No it isn't. But people are 100% acting as if it is. It's almost pointless to discuss this because we can keep bringing up examples. Want a recent one? Take for example a game I love: Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. The vast majority of American characters in the game are either scammers, gangsters or straight up bad people. Is that an accurate depiction of Hawaii? I'm not so sure. If you take anything from what I said at all, take this. Natives will 99% of the time be confused and complain about the portrayal of their country because 99% of someone's portrayal of another country/culture is inaccurate. That's just how it is. I'm Brazillian and I never saw a single foreign movie getting things right about my country ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But hey, don't mess with weeaboos, they get real angry apparently.
@@soragranda "EVEN HISTORICAL FICTION NEEDS TO BE BELIEVABLE AND HAVE REMINCENT ASPECTS OF THE STUFF IS BASED ON." No it doesn't, just put a Japanese looking person, a Japenese looking set of armor and sword, a Japanese looking "house" and call it a day. You're talking about two different things. Something being historical fiction and something being good or bad. Is Shadows a bad depiction of feudal Japan? Probably. Is it a federal crime to make a bad depiction of Japan in a historical fiction game? No it isn't. But people are 100% acting as if it is. It's almost pointless to discuss this because we can keep bringing up examples. Want a recent one? Take for example a game I love: Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. The vast majority of American characters in the game are either scammers, gangsters or straight up bad people. Is that an accurate depiction of Hawaii? I'm not so sure. If you take anything from what I said at all, take this. Natives will 99% of the time be confused and complain about the portrayal of their country because 99% of someone's portrayal of another country/culture is inaccurate. That's just how it is. I'm Brazillian and I never saw a single foreign movie getting things right about my country ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But hey, don't mess with weeaboos, they get real angry apparently.
I'm just wondering why this game, out of so many others, is receiving such a disproportionate amount of backlash for historical inaccuracies or for a person of one race killing a lot of people of another race. There have been triple a games, even previous games IN THIS SERIES, that have historical inaccuracies. Or how there have been other titles, INCLUDING IN THIS SERIES, where a person of one race is killing a lot of people of another race. I don't understand why people are making an uproar over it. Just kidding i know why
I can see the female protagonist is cuter than I expected watching from this video, but she seems off as well. She seems a japanese idol from 1999. Or maybe not even japanese.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Kodomo no koro kara, anime to manga wa daisuki. I grew up trying to learn Japanese because my dad worked for a Japanese company. I was exposed to manga and various animes (Getter Robo, even Minky Momo), so I always respect Japanese culture and tradition. Seeing AC Shadows really annoyed me, because Ubisoft should've just hired a team of Japanese historians or cultural experts to help with the game, but no. They opt to do it internally and based on their own views. This is just crazy 😅
As the general sentiment of our video presenter and the comments seems to be that people don't care about the inaccuracies and cultural appropriation there is significant consumer backlash across North America about the historical accuracy claim and there's a very real chance that the game will be commercially unsuccessful. Your voices are being heard and your sentiment is largely shared by many North American people in both US and Canada.
I think you’ve stumbled across a kind of “cultural uncanny valley”. It may have been easier to imagine a general “Japanese” look with pixels or low polygon models than high resolution polygons. Like, “temples and cherry blossoms, we’re in Japan”. With graphics closer and closer to photo realism the bar for details is raised more and more. That’s probably how you end up with a jarring feeling something is off.
You're overthinking it. It feels off because it IS off. It's created by people with little to no understanding of the setting so there are obvious, glaring errors
It is the cultural context and vibe that is off, not because of the graphic. Ubisoft can't nail the nuances in Asian culture have(this time Japan, last time China). How people interact, how something presented. That is the why things look off.
To address your point about how westerners may feel when seeing Japanese depictions of western counties or ideas, we mostly love it and feel very honored. We see that a lot of Japanese media treats us with a kind of wonder and admiration, despite how silly we can be. In Assassin Creed Shadows’ case, this isn’t the same - there is no admiration or respect here. Ubisoft is extremely ignorant and disrespectful in how they treat Japanese history and culture, and I invite others to join me in never buying another Ubisoft product again.
Japan had Chinese architecture, not sure why so many Japanese don’t know this. Nara and Kyoto were modelled after the Tang Dynasty, Nara and Kyoto is the area where this game is set. Japanese even brought in Chinese architects to model the buildings when Buddhism was on the rise. Fun fact you can still see Chinese architecture in Kyoto and Nara today.
She is obviously patriotic and skipped over this. Kyoto literally modelled after Tang Dynasty architecture and grid layout. So of cos they would look alike.
We in the West do this to our own history, in fiction, constantly. Which is a tragedy, 'cause most people around these parts have forgotten their history and traditions, traded off for a more globally inclusive mishmash of influences and modern re-interpretations of them; whereas the Japanese have thankfully preserved and are acutely aware of theirs.
It's sad how far they have fallen. They used to be very respected for how accurate they were aside from the elements that were relevant to the fantasy of it.
It’s literally only a problem in the west. They can’t create good characters or write good stories. Look at the East like Capcom & Konami, Japanese company’s that have given us some of the greatest franchise like Resident Evil & Metal Gear Solid. Ubisoft put zero to no afford into AC shadows at all. I’d rather play ghost of tsushima which is over all a better game and more respectful to Japan.
New subscriber! Great video, thank you for being honest! I'm in Los Angeles. Your reaction says a lot about the game. I've played most of the AC games, gonna skip this one.
People, who mix up Japan, Korea, China. It funny. They like night n day. When I travel, European in hospitality industry all know the difference. And the Asians, who work in hospitality, are very interested in testing their ability to KNOW where ANYone come from, including YOU, white or Asian. It the coolest thing about travel, in sophisticated place. Before pandemic, I met a waitress from Singapore. I always wanted to meet a girl from Singapore and what I would say, from meeting one female, is that they like the popular, attractive, socially smart females in movie 'Heathers.' But they the Asian version. So. They the ones, who everyone think about, when they in school. How you suppose to get to Singaporean, when you think Chinese and Japan, same?
That schoolgirl in Kill Bill is a well known Japanese actress Chiaki Kuriyama and the movie also had big names like Jun Kunimura, but maybe you were talking about other characters, not sure. edit: ah yeah looking it up they also had Lucy Lui play a Japanese character lol But look at the cast of kill bill there are many well known real Japanese actors. It's quite a long list. Issei Takahashi So Yamanaka Akaji Maro Kazuki Kitamura Shun sugata Kenji Ohba etc So I think a better movie example could have been used. But no big deal I get what you meant haha.
Ah, she was talking about Lucy Lui. I couldn't figure out who she was talking about because there are a lot of legit Japanese actors in it. I saw Chiaki Kuriyama in some random drama years ago, didn't realize she was still making stuff
and the fact that Lucy Lui's character is mixed is a plot point. The yakuza don't accept her as a leader because her father is a chinese american and she was born on a military base or something like that.
If she isn’t a fan of the games or hasn’t played any of the games significantly her opinion doesn’t matter much. Also it has a Japanese female character so she is represented. She is not even a history buff. The truth is: the game receives hate because of The African samurai bodyguard and the female shinobi .. stop dancing around it. People like this woman just jump on the H8 train because they don’t have the heart to go against the trolls. Real lame ish
I have never cared about "myself" being represented in a videogame. I don't care if the game doesn't have a japanese female character at all, that's the least of my concerns.
@ the H8 train is easy. Wait for the game, play, then criticize… you never know some things can be changed in the short time between your video and the game dropping
@@Magnus_VII Agreed. The fact that she knows nothing of history nor of the lore in the AC games outweighs the fact that she's Japanese. Assassin's Creed is literally advertised as "historical fiction". Way too many people have been caught in the snowball of hate. Way, WAY too many.
I'm not talking at all about the game itself (as in the gameplay and performance) but what it's representing, based on the information available including what the company has been saying. I never went into detail about what was exactly wrong other than vague examples on purpose because you can find that information almost anywhere and the point was that a Japanese person like myself would be able to tell what is visually wrong about it at a glance.
One of the more annoying things I've been seeing is that because Japanese voices are actually speaking out this time there are people that are coming away with the perception that Japan is hyper-sensitive about depictions of its history or culture and that they should avoid the setting in the future. In reality Japan is probably one of the most tolerant countries in that regard and the outcry comes entirely from the approach Ubisoft took in marketing this game as culturally aware and historically accurate while seemingly investing no real effort into understanding the setting they had chosen. It's basically the same reason why Mexico is upset over the movie Emilia Pérez.
After watching many Japanese depictions of other countries and cultures I believe that Japan has no foot to stand when it comes to complaining about people making unauthentic depictions of Japan or borrowing their culture. On that note I have yet to see Japanese people do that and pretend that it is "historically accurate" or that it was curated by real experts in the field and thus is as authentic as possible which Ubisoft did and I think that is the real problem most people have with this entire situation.
Essentially this game is lost in translation. The idea of exploring the past sounds awesome. But loosely adapted, i totally agree would have been a better way to advertise this best Assassin's Creed entry
It's like the movie Emilia Perez, none of the actors speak real Spanish, like a Mexican person would, and It's because they didn't hire a single actor from Mexico, they didn't even bother to hire people from Latin America. And the director acts like he was our white savior, it's offensive AF.
It should make sense that if the environment is in Japan, the consumer would want to play as a Japanese protagonist. Just like the other AC games, using someone of the environments general population.
With all the stories of legendary samurai, Ubisoft really was determined to pick Yasuke -- who probably wasn't a samurai at all. Anyone have any guesses as to why they picked Yasuke? 🤔
probably the same reason any other game includes him? hes a popular historical figure. you're just dumb and racist, that's why him being in the game bothers you
They have said why, Yasuke is interesting because he's an outsider. There's a lot of perpective that comes from a slave turned samurai, and it creates contrast with Naoe which is the Native in the story. Also they probably did it to separate themselves more from Ghost of Tsushima.
And now , whatever the fiction is it, everyone who visit here in Kyoto They freaking thought that Yasuke was real samurai and asked me like Do you know Japanese had a black samurai ? Or do you know Yasuke , he’s a black samurai Or is that black samurai is true or there was true black samurai game will coming , did you know? Freaking asked by American teenagers and foreigners who visited here That’s fictional game was misleading our history now and totally fucking done with this questions Every tour groups , if there’s a teenager , and that boy immediately asking Yasuke is real samurai and fuck , why am I need to answer this shit as a daily or monthly routines And many western peoples pushing this Black samurai controversy as a real fact on internet, you can find it everywhere. We fucking tired of this and done this We’re really pleased that foreigners banned from traditional places This gaijins not only insulted to other traditional places but also want to changing our history with soft powers Do you know how many Japan really become so done with DEI propagandas and this black samurai shit Even, teenagers from western countries really thought this black man is real samurai and we totally hate this, If you type first foreign samurai You will only find Yasuke as a black samurai there and however , everyone says fictional , peoples are slowly accepting this as a real fact because of these agenda posts, medias, and of course, this game
@@emperoroak7331 While I appreciate the passion, I'd worry less about those stupid foreigner teens and more about Japan's administration trying to incorporate DEI into the society as well as censor anime and manga every where. It's already seeded into Japanese video games through companies like Playstation, Nintendo, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Sega, Square Enix, etc.
@@VietTran-xb1kc y’all keep using this argument but all i can find is a statement from last year where they said they strive for their stories to be *historically informed*, can’t find anything where ubi devs/representative ever claimed their games are historically accurate. in fact, every single game starts with a disclaimer telling you it’s fiction based on historical events and figures.
I had that issue when I was moving back to Japan 10 years ago, my oldest brother thought I was moving to a communist country with a one baby policy, until I explained to him the difference between Japan and China. Anyway, I haven't played an AC game since like 2012 and I'll be skipping this one too, the series was pretty cool at first but now it's just played out.
Hello. THank you for your thoughts. It is always interesting to get an insight of someone who is actually Japanese on that matter. I am Ukrainian and I speak Russian language so when marvel introduced the bad russian guys and they speak bad Russian it always made me laugh because I know that is not accurate at all so I understand. Not being Japanese myself I I am vary excited for this game because I do not see these subtle differences and in my mind, this is Japan because I have never been there and I wish one day I would visit to experience the culture and country for myself. But for now I will go there in the virtual reality and explore it. I have one questions for the author of this video. 1) What did you think about SHogun TV show? Was it accurate? DId it have aan uthentic Japanese vibe? Thank you Edit. removed the second question bc you answered at the end.
Literally every Assassin's Creed game goes through this. I remember having a greek friend who was upset about the depiction of greeks in Odyssey. As a Muslim myself, I remember that "weirdness" from some of the liberties they took in the very first game. Still, at the time, there was no other Muslim representation in games, so the bar was low. Like she said, games like Ghost of Tsushima have set the bar much higher for Japanese games.
@@juantensei3057 I've only played a few hours, but the characters are definitely more openly Muslim and seem to be more in line with how Muslims would act during that time. I can't, of course, speak to anything related to Arab culture or the culture of Iraq at that time because I'm not Arab.
I'm a Palestinian Christian whose ancestors lived in the Levant (including Jerusalem) during the time period depicted in Assassin's Creed 1. I didn't see a problem with the game - it's supposed to be historical fiction and I thought it did an ok job at depicting/alluding to the different religions that lived in the Holy Land during the Crusades.
@@ubemon To be clear, I don't have a problem with the game. I played it and was very happy to see an ancient muslim order depicted in a game. I've loved the series ever since. In terms of historical accuracy, however, obviously the actual Order of the Assassins, which was a real group, had some noticeable differences in terms of its actual creed, its mission and it's understanding of religion, particularly a Shia Ismaili understanding of Islam. I do agree, though. Most of the things they changed for the sake of entertainment were intentional, and there's nothing wrong with that. They've always made it clear that it's fiction. In the Ezio trilogy (spoiler) you literally have a one-on-one fight with the Pope. It's not meant to be historically accurate.
I never understood why people kept asking for an Assassin's Creed game in ancient Japan. I was always hoping for ancient Rome or so. Reason is because it would never be and feel the same then when a Japanese studio would make this. Maybe Ghost of Tsushima is an exception. You also didn't talk about the obvious elephant in the room 😅
I asked my Japanese friend abt it and she said "Japanese ppl don't mind using their culture and history for a game, but what matters is the respect"
Oh but when a Japanese mangaka bastardizes western history for the sake of fiction, then its bloody ok?
Fuck off mate.
No one sets off to make a Samurai/Ninja power fantasy game to DISRESPECT.
Any inaccuracy is already covered under several facts:
Its a sci-fi, simulated imaginary history
Ubisoft didn't pay billions to scour the Earth for historical documents of the era
They took creative liberties to make it appealing
They aren't writing a history book nor trying to reeducate anyone
Its just background mistakes no sane gamer really cares about
The game is made by the kind of people that think kung-fu and karate are the same thing.
No that is what u idiots think
Yikes 😬 you’re right
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...well technically...
@@freethinker-- yes it’s the same way to say French and Italian is the same. Yikes.
Yaske is the best assassin in all of the Assassins Creed ... He killed an entire studio
That joke's getting old and boring. Plus, this isn't an echo chamber. Geeks and Gamers is that way➡️🗑
@@SUP-h9d eew no
Yasuke seems to be a templar working for Oda Nobunaga. It looks like he turns his back on him and joins Naoe an assassin to take him out. But it doesn't look like he will actually join the assassins order.
Yasuke isn't the Assassin. He is a supporting character. The ninja woman is the Assassin
I find it ironic to discover there was an Ubisoft Japan studio but this wasnt used to make their japan game instead somewhere in french Canada.
i dont think anything good comes from canada. except maybe a couple corn stars lmao
they used it to make xdefiant and now its gone. unbelievable
@@dajunior2714 could have actually had made this game with japanese devs and director, what a missed opportunity.
@@THaB4DGuY Their maple syrup is good.....I think?
@@THaB4DGuY 🎵 Les Canadiens de Montréal: notre équipe nationale! 🎵
Japanese people need to stop apologizing to ignorant gaijin who criticize Japanese culture.
誰もが待ち望んでいた最高の時代設定をここまで台無しにした理由が全くわからない。日本人としてとても楽しみにしていたのに悲しい。
Maybe play Ghost of Tsushima instead?
Don’t give them your money. I am French and I won’t play this assassin’s creed. It’s an insult to Japan.
@@WannabeShady90もうしたよ。最高のゲームだった。
then wait for Ghost Of Yotei @@子丑寅卯辰metoo
It's funny that the people always complaining about "cultural appropriation" and "realism" absolutely botch their portrayal of Japan and blatantly don't care at all.
Because they only apply "cultural appropriation" to White people. Their goal has nothing to do with the culture they are "defending" but attacking White people.
This is a lie. They're not the same people. lol
It's the Left whenever they talk about that stuff they only mean "brown people"
@@hueypautonoman how do you know that?
@@hueypautonoman How is not lol, a company filled with DEI policies and in a marxist hive that is Quebec. Even the pics the studio take of themselves are just women with lgtb flags and crap, seems they don't hire men lol. And as always, those end up being the ultimate racists, sexists and bigots.
As a Greek, I understand the feeling haha. Not nearly as bad, but they did similar things with Odyssey and trying to make it seem like Casandra could have been a spartan warrior amongst other inaccuracies lmao
Add Cleopatra too, brother
famous Hellenic woman became Sub-Saharan Black woman
And Achilles from Troy- directed by BBC
portrayed as a black Achilles
These DEI shits are destroying others cultures everywhere
I’m sure the English can agree as well after Valhalla. They nailed origins and have gotten lazier and more agenda driven every game since, mirage is just buns as a game but that world is probably the only accurate one since origins
She is not a Spartan warrior of soldier. She is a misthios. But I don't know If it is accurately presented, even at that.
Lol its the same team apparently
Apparently no one had the spine to call it what it was back in Odyssey and Valhalla. I took one look and could spot the bs. Assassin's Creed ended after Ezio and it peaked with Altair.
The backlash would be significant lower if Ubisoft didn't went on stage to brag about how historical accurate the game is gonna be
Cuut the absolutee BSSS. Who honestly believed 100% an AC game that has magical Gods and different cultures in templar armor, was gonna be "historically accurate" And since when did anyone care about the accurate authenticity of any ethnicity in any action video game ever????
When did they brag about it being historically accurate? Pretty sure that never happened.
Assassin’s Creed is always been historic fantasy since 2008.
@dyneXeye if they just say it was historical fiction then most normal people wouldn't criticised the accuracy and the people who would have criticized it will largely be ignored because it isn't in the conversations.
If don't want people to criticised the historical accuracy of your game then don't say it's historical accurate
@ VIDEO GAME already implies historical fiction. Or did everyone suddenly become stupid and thought an action video game was gonna represent someones culture accurately.
"Something is off" that's a gut feel and is usually correct. The more you look into this one, the more you realise your gut feel was correct.
As a Turk, I boycott this game. Ubisoft's disrespect towards the Japanese is absolutely unacceptable.
Me too, I would like to play a black assassins in an Assassin’s Creed in Africa, but I’ll never play this assassin woke in Japan. Yasuke was just a slave, I won’t loose my time with this nobody, give me Musashi, Attory Hanzo, there is so much great samurai or ninja to play with… but they give us a stupid slave as a protagonist ? Yasuke won no war, nor any fight with a great warrior… there is no great history about him. He was just a curiosity, a toll for his master and nothing more.
I guess it really does take an actual person from that culture to notice things at a glance. Another Japanese creator pointed out previously that the game has plants/trees/fruits that are from different seasons all appearing in the same scene which would be impossible. The architecture are either from other countries in Asia, or outright oddly shaped as if AI was used to design them. Some even have features that you would normally not see on a normal building (like the castle rooftop hatch specifically for ninjas to sneak into). It's like they just used google or an AI to dump all medieval Asian stuff into the game and chose what "looked Japanese" to them without proper consultation or references.
"Without proper consultation or references" They did hire some, but it seems they were scam :/.
Anyone who's played enough Japanese games over the years would be able to pick up on the blatant disregard for historical accuracy here. In the games industry alone, there exists a wealth of Japanese-developed games set in the Sengoku period, so Ubisoft have zero excuse here.
@@soragranda If I remember rightly, the woman studied sexual orientation stuff from that time period or something like that it's been a while since I saw the video.
@@lda5803yeah she was a dei hire with an agenda 😂
@lda5803 Ubisoft consulted various, that woman is the lead one, she worked on a study about homosexuality in that era, but... she was criticized because the book she publish was too much romantized rather than the expected academic work (not to mention, the topic was pretty much young boys groomed by adults).
They also use stuff from thomas lockley and other academics that theorized about yasuke, but thomas wasn't even an historian (he was in the law school), the other academics never right about their opinions in academic papers since yasuke existance in nobunaga records is less than three pages.
Overall, those consultants weren't the best option by any means.
It is weird that Ubisoft doesn't seem to be putting much effort into Shadows to make it authentic or realistic after Ghost of Tsushima. You'd think that they would try to match or even outdo the game that set the standard for Western-made stealth games set in Japan, but they don't seem to care. However good Shadows is in any other area, it will be unfavorably compared to GoT.
The thing is, ghosts of Tushima (SuckerPunch) never marketed their game as historically accurate but Ubisoft did and does all the time. And the irony is sucker punch did a way better job it's crazy
The stealth systems themselves are much deeper though, you couldn't go prone or put out light in Tsushima.
They could have pivoted, but early development of this game started in 2018. So before GoT was released. This makes sense as 5-6 years in pretty standard for AAA games.
Where is it lacking in authenticity exactly?
Ghost isn't all that historically accurate either. Neither game has to be
Sakura bloom in mid summer. Modern day melons . architecture, basic tools, furniture, look as if they were from TEMU.
I thought sakura usually bloom in a range from late March through April depending on how soon temps warm up (sooner in the southern parts and later in Hokkaido for example). The game is set around the latitude of Kyoto so peak sakura bloom should be around the very beginning of April in modern times. I don't know if the climate was noticeably different in 1579 though. If it was colder on average, that would push the bloom time back a bit (though google says the time frame for bloom hasn't chaned much from today's schedule). Actually, the biggest sakura difference between modern day and medieval Japan would be the varieties of cultivar. The famous modern cultivar somei-yoshino (pale pink, ubiquitous in pop culture) wasn't developed until the mid 1800s, before the period of the game. Yamazakura (wild cherry or mountain cherry) varieties with darker pink color should be more accurate for the time period of the game. Also, maybe the biggest difference, is that peak bloom only last around a week. I'm betting the pink trees in game are gonna be popping off most of the time it's not autumn or winter lol.
This is how average gamer that wants to fulfill samurai/ninja fantasy looks at games. Opens 20 tabs and fact checks every rock, tree and piece of art of the period, ANd it if incorrect they hate it.
Get fucked
日本人が思っていることを英語で発信してくださりありがとうございます
At least this isn't an American L. We generally care about Japan and its culture, like with Ghost of Tsushima for example. I see a ton of Americans offended on behalf of Japan with this game.
This AC game is French-Canadian 😅
Ghost of tsushima also has mistakes and innacuracies though as well just to add that
@senku3402 Yeah, but nothing egregious. I only heard they sort of mixed in some Sengoku elements in an era that takes place before that. But it gets a pass, generally.
@@Fxrrxt2x alot more such as the wrong architecture and overwhelming exagerated trees which was not how tsushima looked like, they aimed for more of a move type visual then a historical accurate tsushima, as well as buts of the story though being fictional, I point this out because I hear everyone saying how respectful ghost of tsushima is then shadows but even it is has its mistakes.
@@senku3402 Be that as it may, the Japanese TH-camrs I've watched still praised the game even with some of those inaccuracies, and that's enough for me to do the same. Sure, artists are going to exaggerate some things for dramatic flare, but what AC Shadows is doing is completely missing the mark and coming across as disrespectful, since they claimed the game was historically accurate. I think what's really getting to us is the mix up of various different Asian cultures, like Chinese especially. It's the total lack of even trying to get it right. And us Americans are pissed too because we've been waiting for more than a decade for an AC game set in Japan, and this is the slop we get.
@Fxrrxt2x If you open an ac game its made very clear the game is histroical fiction and not non fiction, and it was claimed by the director of the game that its fictional though there was one lady that did claim otherwise, but then they stated an apology as stated, "our intention has never been to present any of our Assassin's Creed games, including Assassin's Creed Shadows, as factual representations of history, or historical characters."
因みにこのゲームは日本の世界観を作るにあたって中国人の歴史家を登用しました。制作陣に日本人は1人もいません。
They should NEVER have added yasuke. Biggest blunder of all time! People have been waiting forever for AC in Japan.
wouldve been cool if he was a shopkeeper or something like that kid in origins and valhalla, but as main character? definitely not
They shouldn't have hammered down on being historically accurate, especially with the source they used turning out so problematic. Or they could have made him DLC with his own added missions and call it "The Legend of Yasuke" or something. But this game has bigger problems than that. And Ubisoft has bigger problems than this game. It's just another nail in the coffin really.
@Pandarah Like in black flag. Adewale was dope in the story that when they made dlc to play as him I instantly bought it. I hate that he left Edward but he wanted to make a name for himself alone as well.
If this game was being as historically accurate as is claimed, Yasuke would just be that NPC bodyguard standing next to Nobunaga.
He might be a miniboss if the gameplay required the playercharacter to attack Nobunaga and that is all they could do with him.
From my perspective, it's like Ubisoft took a minor side character from history and made him so much more important then he was in real life.
I saw a repost of a tweet that stated Fausake's armor is more ostentatious then Nobunaga's armor and proved that with an ingame screenshot.
Which one is the Samurai Lord?
Play ghost of Tsushima. Way better lol
Video games are held to a very low standard when it comes to cultural accuracy, maybe it was a few hours on google that provided all the images they needed to replicate 'their' interpretation of a specific era of Japan. But, but, it's a video game after all.
Without trying to open a can of Film worms, there are Japanese/Malaysian/English actors in Chinese(Hong Kong) cinema. In western cinema, if an Asian actor can speak English, they can represent a Japanese, Chinese, Korean character without the average western viewer noticing their nationality
Asians don't have it too bad. Anora was the first movie ever where they hired actual Russians to play Russians.
問題はUBIが明らかに日本人を侮辱するような態度が目に見えている事だ
Ghost of Tsushimaって知ってる？
シャドウズが好感を持たれる水準に達してないだけ。
ビデオゲームでも映画でも、下らない作品は酷評され、高尚な作品は讃えられる。
それだけ。
I think we shouldn't exaggerate and we should understand Ubisoft's desires when they create a video game. For example, I'm French, and I played Assassin's Creed Unity which took place in Paris. There were errors in buildings, monuments, street signs, some costumes, even the French flag and historical events. But all of this made sense, because Ubisoft creates a game that is fiction and not a faithful representation. They base themselves on historical reality to adapt it into a video game, for the needs of the game (scenario, gameplay, etc.). They are obliged to make modifications or free interpretation, they have been doing it since the beginning. For example, Pope Borgia does witchcraft with a stick in Assassin's Creed 2, and the Catholic Church did not complain. I find that the Japanese atmosphere of the game is very well done in Assassin's Creed Shadows for the moment, and it makes you want to go to Japan, and learn more about Japanese culture. The game does not insult Japan at all, and no Assassin's Creed has ever insulted a country. They have no interest in doing so. Even the integration of Yasuke is fascinating for Japan, because he is a foreigner who will be loyal to Lord Nobunaga, he will enjoy Japan, he will respect the traditions, he will be impressed by the culture of the country and everything he sees there, and will want to save Japan and the Japanese at the risk of his life. Japan is so beautiful and fascinating that even a foreigner will want to save it, do you realize? In short, for me, there is no problem with Assassin's Creed Shadows concerning the respect of Japanese culture. There is nothing to worry about. the mistakes that the game will contain are not insults at all, they are the storyline, the gameplay, the player's enjoyment. Players will never believe that everything in assassin's creed shadows is the pure truth; they will read history books if they want to know real things proven by historians. Ubisoft has done research, they have consultants, and then they adjust things to try to make the world immersive but keeping in mind that it is a video game and that the settings and atmosphere must serve the gameplay and keep the fantasy.
I pre-ordered assassin's creed shadows, and I can't wait to play it
It’s not only a Japanese thing. I’m Slavic and almost never see proper representation. Usually, they just hire people whose families emigrated years or even centuries ago and are maybe somewhat know russian now. I don’t really understand the drama. It’s not exclusive to Japan-similar mistakes were made in AC3, AC Unity. It’s fiction. As you said, Japanese creators also make mistakes in anime, etc. I don’t find it offensive, though there’s definitely room for improvement. I just wish actual DEI efforts focused on this
I have heard people in Middle Eastern countries talking about how their music in global media being a random mixture of nonsense that is completely inaccurate too.
I feel ya. I remember when they made Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, set it in Prague, and then had all the major Czech characters voiced by Americans, who were told to do an insanely exaggerated Russian accent... made me hurl when I heard it.
But I'm sure most cultures would have a bunch of similar examples.
@@TheLewisDawg Everyone is always so quick to blame "Americans." These games (including mankind divided) are not being made in the US it's MONTREAL. French-Canadians. If you think Montreal Canada is America that's like thinking China and Japan are the same.
What did you think of GTA IV? I love the characters in that game, but I heard the accents are completely wrong.
@@ironwolf56 Um, dude, Canada is America, cuz America isn't the country, this is the two continents: south and north america. USA is the country.
I know many people equal America to USA, but technically they're wrong. This is like call European only French people.
Not so much today, but like 30 years ago, there was a big shortage of Japanese actors working outside of Japan. So right or wrong, they hired Chinese actors to play Japanese people.
Shanghai Joe was played by a Japanese person, and between 1936 to 2011 Kato in Green Hornet has been played by 3 different Chinese people. It goes both ways, and it's more recent than you might know.
@Striker775 Always love to learn more. I know there was a lot of people upset that Memoires of a Geisha cast Chinese and Malaysian actors to play Japanese characters. Michelle Yeoh is my all time favorite actress. I am surprised they didn't ask Tamylin Tomita to play that part though.
I was gonna say, it should be remembered this studio is in Quebec Canada so even with the big budgets finding voice acting talent with natural Japanese accents is probably near impossible.
As a japanese and history buff the style of building they use is Historically accurate yes, but that style of building is way overused in that time period building from that time where usually damaged with straw roofs as it was easier to repair, the roof style on ac shadows was more for nobility, but commoner would have straw roof, and if you where on the wealther side of commoner maybe a tiled roof but commoner roofs almost alway look like how western roofs look (for a lack of better examples). The "asian roof" style was used by Nobles, temples, shrines, and Palaces. And maybe farms but thay would be stretching it.
This is a video game bruhhhhh
It feels like no other studio is being held to those standards... The anti-Ubisoft hate feels highly exagerated.
It's an Assassin's Creed game, mate. Historical fiction.
@xzxasxadxas I'm playing devil's advocate most my comments are defending Ubisoft but when all there other games have historically accurate building, this is the only AC game to not, yes it's a video game and yes I'm ok with the historical Inaccuracies but, one this comment was to educate the person in the video to spread information and two this is the only AC game to not have historically accurate buildings. I will buy this game and play it as it looks good, and I am not offended by this game in the slightest but all I'm saying is while yes it's a video game this is the one AC video game they said "nah no more historically accurate buildings"
@@Luci_Magne true that it isn't fully accurate, but the older games are especially less accurate, especially the Ezio Collection, in terms oof architecture.
ubislop deserves to go bankrupt, this game is very disrespectful to not only the japanese but everyone who has a functional brain.
Mixing up multiple Asian cultures is what they've always done. Just look at Mortal Kombat. They've done that for as long as I remember.
A lot of it has to do with the way East Asians are essentially forced together under a single "Asian" category that doesn't distinguish different ethnicities cultures throughout American society. There are no Chinese or Japanese groups. Its always "Asian". This leads to their cultures all being viewed collectively as one single thing with no nuance. They do the same to Arabic, African and South American cultures.
Ubisoft isn't an American company tho.
@@Ocean5ix Ubisoft's cultural consultants are.
@@krizzex French people in a nutshell though XD.
@ You're right. I should have said western because its like that with all European countries as well.
I don't think I understand what you mean. Systematically or culturally? Systematically, I feel like every ethnicity gets done like that because it doesn't really care about that as much as it does the race of the person just for documentation involving identity. Hispanics and Latinos essentially get lumped together, same for Whites, and Blacks.
In my area, various different cultures are quite distinguished because it's actual people from those cultures and ethnic groups running the place. I walk into a Mexican restaurant, and it's actual Mexicans running the business, same with Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese businesses, etc. I feel like we're all about various different cultures expressing themselves and sharing a little bit of where they came from. But, that might just be my specific area.
9:19 literally every single game in the franchise opens with a disclaimer telling you that you’re playing a fictional story that’s *based* on historical events and figures
I'm not a fan of Assassin's Creed either, tho i was interested in the franchise as a kid- im turning 30 this year. I guess what i can add to the conversation here is that people shilling hard for this game are so insistent that Yasuke was indeed a true samurai, when records suggest that he was only in the country for 14 months. Now i am not japanese (im filipino), but ill ask a question instead: Is there any proof that an adult can become a samurai in 14 months and be given the full benefits of being one in that short of a time?
As an Italian, I can only be glad Assassin's Creed 2 was released at a time when this studio still cared about being "historically accurate"...
It's been since Valhalla that things changed for the worse...but with this title, they are outdoing themselves...🤦
yeah fist fighting the pope was definitely historically accurate lol
The conceit of the games is that a character from our own time is experiencing the game through accessing the genetic memory of their ancestor by way of technology. (Actually I believe it no longer has to be an ancestor, but it did for the first decade or so of the franchise.) So a person in one cultural context is reliving a memory of another person in a different cultural and temporal context. The memories are also subject to degradation and all the problems inherent with human memory. Things that are not specifically remembered are facsimile constructed by the AI of the technology. And it's these two factors that are used to excuse inaccuracies.
But that doesn't really excuse Ubisoft for making blatant errors.
This is just playing defense for something unacceptable. Ubisoft was praised for the scanning of Italian architecture and being very accurate in how the buildings would have looked at that time. AC 2 and brotherhood weren't perfect but did lean more towards accurate than this. They have become lazy with their game design, and it's apparent.
@@TheBane616 they never scanned anything. There was a myth they 3D scanned Notre Dame but it turned out to be that, a myth.
@@TheBane616It's not really playing defense, it's a reasonable take Ubisoft could use credibly. The issue being for a company that prides themselves on authenticity, they've dropped the ball massively. And they will pay the price for spitting on Japanese culture.
@TheBane616 The Landmarks were good in Ezio era, but building types, positions and roads were largely gameplay focused.
As I said I think they could have done better in this regard.
@TheHeartThatRunsCold the animus is the reason the season, architecture, and culture are messed up? That sounds like the biggest stretch imaginable. If you're still interested in trying it out and seeing if the story has something redeemable, I commend you and hope you have fun. It just doesn't feel like a lot of love went into this world. This isn't the first game they've slacked on, Far Cry 6 had the bones of a great game but was just awful and preachy.
They might not like this take but the game looks like its set in Southeast Asian country with Japanese aesthetics. The atmosphere and vibes are just a total mix of cultures slapped in a game world. I'm Asian myself, I know my countries it looks weird, like that miniature Eifel tower/Paris in China.
I just wanted to play as a Japanese guy in Japan. Was that so difficult for Ubisoft?
You can play as a Japanese girl, with all the traits of the titular assassin. And you can also play as a samurai
@@kursedmilk Is a guy a girl? No.
@ boohoo
@ ah yes, the perfect answer. You sound like a Ubisoft dev. Keep ignoring your player base. See how that works out.
@Maxშემიწყალე you sound like an incel lol
They keep flip-flopping on whether or not it's supposed to be historically accurate or not. Every time they try to promote the game, they say it's "historically accurate." But every time someone calls them out on it, they say it's "completely fictional." They can not keep their story straight
Stupid no they didnt
@idcchmeh I've seen several videos of them doing exactly that, but believe what you want to believe
Many Koreans on Naver said that they should cast Korean as the main character, since Japanese people originated from Baekje, Korea (which is absolutely false of cos).
Ok, as someone who is also japanese, you got to remember
It's a game. At the start of each game they never claim to be historically accurate
I feel like it goes over most people's head
Well exactly, in that case all animes are historically inaccurate even the show shogun because there it's shown katana is a very good weapon which was not. Katana was literally so poorly durable😂 made with bad quality of steel. And yes samurai ideology is fucked up but they show it so loyal and good😂
right the whole franchise is historical fiction/alternate history, not sure why this specific entry is getting so much backlash
Finally someone with a brain
AC Shadow is just a single exemple of a more global trend that forces black people everywhere, in every cultures, even when it's not accurate historically or logically. It even infected japanese companies as the exemple of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth prove it with the proportion of black people and LGBT in the game. Bandai Namco too made recently a statement about their All In DEi orientation. I hope more japanese people will raise their voice against this to ptotect their authentic culture that global players so much.
Hi Zuvi, I’m currently working on my thesis about the Sengoku Jidai, and I just checked out your video discussing the game. I really appreciate your take on it, but I’d love some more details on the specific issues you had with how things were represented.
You mentioned that the buildings and settings don’t quite match up with Japan, but didn’t go into why. Also, were there any particular parts of the trailer, like how characters were portrayed or anything else, that you found concerning?
You compared your feelings about the game to how an American might feel watching anime, which I found interesting, but I’d like to hear more about that connection. As someone from the U.S, I totally get that there are a lot of stereotypes in anime, like those over-the-top portrayals of Americans. It would be helpful if you could share your specific concerns about the game’s representation.
You also mentioned China in your critique. I’d like to know which cultural or architectural elements led you to think the developers mixed up Japan with another country, since you didn’t really dive into that in the video.
When you got to the middle of your video, you said the visuals seemed off and unusual, but I didn’t catch any details on what exactly was wrong.
Since you focused mainly on that short trailer, I’m curious about what features really stood out to you.
I’d really appreciate it if you could think about making a follow-up video that digs deeper into your concerns about the game’s depiction.
Japanese architecture is based off Tang Dynasty. From the temples to the grid layouts in Kyoto. This is not even a chicken and egg dilemma. Japan was literally heavily influenced by China. So it's no wonder people mixed the two up. Of course Japan has it's own unique cultures like Samurai, geishas etc.
There are many videos on youtube about the inaccurate portrayal of Assassin's Creed Shadows, please search for them. For example, DashBlue, SHOHEI KONDO, etc.
*Ubisoft*
*Yallbesoft*
It looks like they typed “what environments should I use if I wanted to create a video game set in feudal Japan” into ChatGPT then just rolled with what it spit out. For reference I tested this theory and it basically spit out everything you see in their gameplay so it’s probably exactly what they or their “historians” did.
Gone are the days where game developers of ANY big studio make any research about anything, besides Googleing images randomly and calling the day. Have a good day, zuvi-chan. ⭐⭐⭐
They rewrote Japanese history for this game. Many of us gamers know it is a huge no-no to do to any culture. I will never buy/play this game i'm sick of Ubisoft doing this BS. TY for your take on the game love for America.
@@DMT-ix9zj anyone who as ever played Assassin’s Creed knows that every single game in the franchise presents an alternative history lmao
@@n0nsticknick
People only care if it's japan
Even though I'm not Japanese, I really enjoy reading and understanding the history of other countries. That's why I really care. The producers categorically stated that the story was based on historical facts. Kill Bill is a fantasy and cartoonish film. These distortions were intentional to please certain groups in the United States. Even the technical side of the game is a disaster with serious bugs. The old Ubisoft employees who made really good productions left the company and founded a new studio. Ubisoft has fired several employees recently. "There is no argument against facts."
Where are the old devs of Ubisoft right now? What is the studio called?
@@aqualiusaidhreborn5923 I believe he's talking about Patrice Desilets who founded Panache Digital Games.
@@aqualiusaidhreborn5923 They are at Kepler Interactive currently working on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
At least people from AEG were explicit about Rokugan, a setting made for Legend of the Five Rings CCG (1995) and later RPG (1997). That it is roughly based on feudal Japan with influences from other East Asian cultures such as China, Mongolia and Korea.
Many Korean actors play Japanese roles in Hollywood. sometimes Chinese. you have a unique voice~ subbed 😌
Would love to get her take on Ghost of Tsushima. The only thing is I do know there are Japanese American people that go to Japan and often aren’t treated as Japanese, where people act like they can’t understand them even if the Japanese-American has been speaking Japanese for over ten years.
People would've been chill if:
- Yasuke's history wasn't as romanticized as Lockley made it out to be
- If the George Floyd incident, backlash, and aftermath didn't exist
- If Johnny Somali being racist towards Japanese wasn't a thing
- Ubi didn't copy 1 to 1 a prop design belonging to a different IP (Zoro's sword, One Piece I reckon)
- Ubi didn't copy a prop of an actual rifle core
- Ubi didn't straight disrespected Japanese with the One Torii Gate
and so much more.
To be fair, Koei has been romanticizing Yasuke for a long time now and they're a Japanese team. The Lockley controversy gives people a valid reason to feel betrayed though.
Johnny somali wasn't being racist towards japanese people. He was just being dick 🙄 and he did it for click and views
they also stole the oda family crest and slapped it on yasukes armor
@ romanticizing Yasuke or any historical figures w/o a massively controversial history isn't all that bad the problem is that Ubi made so many blunders right beside the romanticizing.
I love the idea of a Black samurai, but cmon Ubi... Why sell a figure with a One Torii gate on it? And show religious landmarks when it is prohibited by Japanese Law
The koei thing only happened two times (Nioh and SW 5)@@charaoki
Well, being patriotic means loving your homeland - okay 🤷🏼♂️
As a German, I still won't play this game because I don't need disrespect on the console.
And I'm European/German - "Western" doesn't exist for us.
By the way, "white people" we see as hostile term - if you want to be called Asian and not yellow, then you have to call us Europeans or Caucasians. But the only thing white is the wallpaper on my wall or the formula the Cartels are selling.
Sometimes this "love" can go to extreme lengths
@@lazkraft7917
Not really. love for the homeland has no limits.
others are just self-haters and complainers.
for me it's more like:
"well and what do you want to do about it?"
Xenophobia, on the other hand, is a category all its own.
I played entry title for 2 hours. Lame as hell. I don't get why people are so into AC brand. Assassins should blend into the crowd not stand out. Yet you always have a protagonist, whose outfit and behaviour are so flamboyant it make one only cringe at the sheer idea of playing these games. PS. USA is country build on wrong foundations. Natives make only 1,4% of its populus, so no wonder their view is twisted by the sheer fact, it's a melting pot, not a native, homogeneous country with it's own mythology, religion, language and culture. Their culture is pop culture. They simply don't know any better and they don't even care. For me as a Polish man, arrogance it their main trait. A life of USA's citizen boils down to cola, burgers and wmarts. What a vibrant culture.
Small tangent about historical landmarks in Ubisoft games: I'm not French or Greek or Egyptian and I've never traveled to those places but I really liked the inclusion of famous landmarks in those games (ex. Notre Dame, the Parthenon, multiple pyramids and temple complexes). Ubisoft's depiction of those landmarks wasn't 100% historically accurate but to me those places in game gave off great vibes, almost like you could actually be travelling to those places back in time. The feeling is part fantasy but part history and I found it very magical, particularly in the cases of Greece and Egypt. Looking at the Wikipedia article for AC Shadows, it says that there are supposed to be "historically accurate" landmarks including Takeda and Fukuchiyama castles and that the game is set in 1579 in places including Kyoto, Kobe, Osaka, and Iga prefecture. I don't know if any of the released gameplay features these castles but I really hope that the design team did these locales justice. In addition to castles, I would love to see an in game depiction of other important cultural locales such as Kiyomizudera, Chionin, Daitokuji or Kinkakuji, some really beautiful locales with lots of picturesque landscaping and maybe semi-accurate statuary (so many beautiful Buddha altarpieces or Kannon statues for example). As a lover of art museums and botanical gardens these are the types of architectural elements I would like to see included. They are in the Azuchi-Momoyama period so there is plenty of scope for visual interest with colorful Nanban style art. Tea ceremony was starting to pop off among the samurai upper class around that time and Sen no Rikyu was alive - he could be a character. There could be side quests in which Yasuke sits for a portrait or Naoe attends tea ceremony. We know they are featuring the foreign influences on the Shogunate (Yasuke being a prime example) so other foreigners would be nice to see as minor characters trying to influence the shogun. Of course that would mean a story focus (at least at the side quest level) on cultural elements such as commerce, religion, the arts, philosphy, etc. I'm not sure the Shadows dev team had these types of elements in mind considering all of the marketing emphasis on sengoku jidai combat and battles. But, coming from Origins and Odyssey in which softer cultural elements played a fairly large part, I hope everything isn't just military-focused in this game.
Then there are the rest of the elements that make up the built environment (houses, streets, walls, landscaping features like terraces and farmland, etc.) of Ubisoft games. Do I think that these commonplace locations get anywhere near the love and attention that the famous landmarks get? Definitely not lol. They can be pretty bare bones and start to look repetitive pretty quickly (reusing assets is standard practice). Once you've seen one villa or thatched roof hut or dye pit (or enemy stronghold) you've seen them all. City landscapes can seem more varied because of the density of features and the vertical aspects though. And do I think that they are particularly accurate? I'm not sure, honestly, but probably not. Ubisoft probably doesn't put a lot of resources into the more mundane aspects of game creation. They do their research, sure, and maybe more than some other companies (enough that they can call it "educational" with the discovery tour feature of some of the AC games). But I don't think they are actually historically accurate because Ubisoft don't employ a lot of actual historians (or a lot of natives from the places the games are set for cultural continuity). I think they do the best they can on a limited budget (large but still limited) with whatever research is done by their in-house staff mostly. I think this might be part of the problem with most of the gameplay footage I've seen so far (tbf I haven't watched a whole lot). All of the buildings look fairly generic and repetitive in most of the gameplay I've seen and, yes, there are inaccuracies. I would assume that the quality of Shadows is somewhat on par with their previous work but, as I said, I'm no expert in Italian, French, Egyptian, or Greek architecture and culture from the featured time periods (but I can totally see Ubisoft messing up with nuanced things like what types of plants and vegetables are in season or the specific types of cuisine eaten). Maybe they were overall more accurate with past games idk. It's certainly possible that Ubisoft cheaped out on the R&D quality this time around (especially considering that infamous consultant they hired who justified the inclusion of the Yasuke character for them). More probably they had overriding interests beyond "historical accuracy" with the Yasuke character (idk if it was supposed to be different demographic appeal or what). Visually, though, I do find Shadows to be a bit of a let down compared to entries like Odyssey and Origins from what I've seen so far. I play AC games mainly for the visuals and immersive environments and I can't say that Shadows has made me want to explore the world they've created so far. Maybe future footage of different locations or mechanics will change my mind.
I dont mind, though I can understand that the majority of the problems people have with shadows also existed throughout every assassins creed game from 1 to shadows. Though I do hope that they fix these mistakes, its not like these are anything new, if you have been playing assassins creed since the very first game.
People can be silent if they wish, but this game is a disgrace.
Tang China did influence Japan but it was more prominent during the Heian Period and earlier, however, over the centuries, Japanese architecture developed well enough that it is what we see today based on the surviving buildings and their reconstruction.
I watched the anime Angolmois Gekkou Kassenki, which was set during the Mongol Invasions, and its historical fiction since main lead, Kichii Jinzaburo is fictional but the recreation of that era in the series felt that you are in that period.
There are many Japanese historical dramas which were set during the Sengoku Period and I watch those. One thing I always observed is the attention to detail to recreate the period. The costumes, the weapons, the atmosphere, are recreated to a degree that you felt you are in that period. The 2024 Shogun TV drama did this to a T and Hiroyuki Sanada even said that he felt relieved when the Japanese reacted positively for what he and the Shogun team did to recreate Japan during the Azuchi-Momoyama Period, which is still in the Sengoku Period. It also helped that Hiro-san also acted in Japanese Historical Dramas, along with Fumi Nikaido and Shinnosuke Abe. Fumi Nikaido and Hiro-san have portrayed the actual historical figure and the character based on them in Shogun. Fumi Nikaido was Lady Chacha/Yodo and her counterpart in Shogun, Lady Ochiba. Hiro-san was Tokugawa Ieyasu and his counterpart, Yoshii Toranaga.
AC games prior to Shadows did involve historical events and settings but they always have a disclaimer that the story is fictional. That is the reason why they could let Ezio interact with Da Vinci and Shay with Benjamin Franklin since it’s fictional.
Ubi brought this to themselves when they said Shadows will be recreated as historically accurate in order you can learn from it but failed miserably due to poor research and attention to detail.
P.S. - I positively feel that the team in AC Origins did recreate Ptolemaic Egypt pretty well, so much so that some teachers used as a reference on how Egypt looked during that period.
Ubisoft perfectly showed Roman culture in AC brotherhood, Indian culture in FC4, but don't know about Japanese culture much, maybe it won't mess up that much as we think
Assassin's Creed nerd here: Ubisoft takes quite a bit of liberties in all the AC games. Back in AC3 (Took place in early america) there was tons of snow, and not a whole lot of Furs, and the cities were kind of recognizable puzzle pieces kind of mashed together to get the VIBE of the stting for the 18th century America colonies. There's also ancient alien gods toying with humanity and leaving relics that end up causing historical events, so its kind of an "Alternate history" thing.
And that's fine creative liberties are wonderful but don't go on stage and state that it's historically accurate when many of the details are wrong or taken from someone's own personal creative interpretation, that's taking the "accurate" part out
@@danielroe8788 I think their marketing was a bit much, but the game has always been almost cartoonish with almost anything. As I said, even the French/Indian War details were uncanny and off, and that was the THIRD game in a like... 13-15 game franchise?
@@evagelios and you make good points however I do believe that they largely become void once you start mislabeling your product, I think if they left out the whole "historically accurate" part none of this would be a problem
Still out here defending Ubisoft after all their failures? :D Lmao
@@danielroe8788 When did Ubisoft claim the game is "historically accurate"? It is a game, not a history book. Afaik they only said Yasuke is a historical person, which is correct. This video just blablas about the game looking "weird", but she can't even point out a single inaccuracy.
Thank you, I appreciate you sharing your perspective.
As a non Asian I can’t tell the difference at face value but I respect the difference between each and every one of the cultures that from that part of the world. I respect all cultures because each has a unique history and worth looking at; that said, I don’t plan on purchasing this particular game because it and the developers of it pretty much threw all respect for the history and culture of Japan (or Asia as a whole if we’re honest). I was a long time fan of the game series and part of that was because in the past the developers showed respect for maps, architecture, building placement and culture, even made sure seasons made sense. But now we have cherry blossoms when rice is being harvested for the fall, Chinese architecture and possibly even some Korean too, when it’s supposedly taking place in Japan. Also, music used to make sense and fit the game; but since they have a black protagonist there is some hip hop maybe even get a rap battle in there too. Even if they do get rid of Yasuke or whatever his name was; doesn’t change all the lack of respect and even disrespect that the company has shown to the people of Japan.
Assassins Creed 3 should have been off putting to Americans given how many pivotal moments in American history was all thanks to the assassin protagonist. Ubisoft have always done silly nonsense.
But they hired actual Native Americans to voice some characters! They couldn't act to save their lives and just read the script with monotonous voices, but representation™was there...
@@finoderi that’s just a common speech pattern for Native Americans even to this day (my family is Houma Nation tribe), so it’s pretty authentic. especially for a character who learned English second hand from time spent with colonists.
@@n0nsticknick So they speak their own language without any inflections?
@@finoderi like i said, yeah that’s a pretty common speech pattern. it’s often exaggerated in media to make Native American characters come across as stoic.
@@n0nsticknick I think there is a difference still between playing a character who doesn't like or used to to show their emotions and just reading a script without even trying to act. It's very noticeable.
It's supposed to be Historical Fiction. It's a genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events and figures.
It is supposed to be getting setting right but as you can see it doesn't.
Nothing felt off about Metal Wolf Chaos though...
Thank you for your valuable perspective. Welp, what do you expect from Ubisoft at this point?
I went back to your Ghost of Tsushima video, which seemed much more positive on a Western game.
Y'all seriously need to get over yourselves. It's a video game, not a documentary. They do this to every country they choose as a setting. But suddenly when its japan its a crime against humanity lol
she discredited herself so many times throughout the video lmao
Thank you for giving your insight on the AC Shadows situation. I don't think anyone needs to be a historical expert to criticize the game and no amount of angry westerners should prevent people from voicing their concerns.
As a French Canadian, I can tell you that many of us are not satisfied with this game’s quality. The recurring question is, “Why didn’t they let their studios in Japan lead and run the project?”
If Ubisoft doesn’t claim that Yasuke is a legendary samurai in history and free Japanese, it would be less controversial.
They don’t.
This girl is adorable and it is refreshing to hear the opinion of someone who is actually from the group being discussed.
2:00 Part of the issue so many people have had is that Ubisoft did say they took "historically accuracy" even made a trailer in Japanese specifically saying, not even the tatami good correct XD.
So either they lie or their "historians" scam them hard, but doubt is the later, since they have took A LOT of time developing this game, they just simply didn't care to asked people that knew.
There are SO MANY sengoku jidai dramas, heck even movies about nobunaga recently like "the legend and the butterfly" in 2023 about nohime and nobunaga that setting wise looks great, they could base so much on that (visually wise) they don't care... in regards of "is just fiction" is funny cause they are the same ones that can do fictional stuff be weird and still make a setting that feels historical, but them take off some weapon because is not "historically accurate", is a weird franchise but also seems like the production in regards of this game is trying to tell something other than a good story, that is not good for a game.
Researching and being historically accurate doesn't stop you from making fiction on top of it. In case you didn't know there's an entire book genre (and movies too) called "historical fiction". One of the most prolific authors from this genre is Bernard Cornwell and he literally take factual events like the 100 year war and create a fictional character that interacts with real people that existed and sometimes even change the course of history.
In the case of Shadows, it's just the usual teenage-edgy outrage culture at it's full power, because we're talking about video games and this is some of the worst communties in entertainment media.
Ubisoft or any other company in any other media can do whatever they want with their story and their product and they don't owe anything or any kind of explanation to anyone. I mean, there's an anime in which Nobunaga is a oversexualized "waifu". The Japanese themselves don't give a damn about historical accuracy in fictional media, just as any culture in which fantasy and fiction is deep rooted in, like for example the book/movie "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" . The best thing you can do to punish Ubisoft for their creative decisions is to not buy the game.
The most hilarious thing about it is that the people that hated "cancel culture" so much, lived long enough to start cancelling stuff themselves. Woke and anti-woke really are just two sides of the same coin, with the same annoying, militant preachy attitude that draw in aversion from every other side of the spectrum.
@@Ocean5ix Your first paragraph could have stop on "historical fiction" whihc exist of course but you know what?!, EVEN HISTORICAL FICTION NEEDS TO BE BELIEVABLE AND HAVE REMINCENT ASPECTS OF THE STUFF IS BASED ON.
Which is the issue with this game since even natives feel lost at how this whole setting is portrait... which, btw, even older AC titles while being fictional obviously DID portrait their setting and characters in interesting ways that somewhat still fit the setting.
This game looks like an example of lazy setting, no coherence with said setting and character even more archtypical than previous games, in regards of gaming community being the worst... thats easy to say when years ago before ESGs everything was really good, if we are going to pretent the additional new factor have nothing to do then, that is also hypocrital at best...
@@Ocean5ix The nobunaga waifu, for example, is still portraiting the setting pretty great and is still fucntional around the character itself, also is not "oversexualize" is just sexually attractive (echii for the friends), you can go as long as the great wave author Hokusai to know echii is in japanese artists media since the beginning and it works, people doesn't like ugly stuff as much as people like you does.
Here also can see your mistake, the novel about nobunaga waifu DID have tons of historical moments portrait cool and actually similar to the historical context with the obvious difference, which is specially logical since IS GOING TO AN SPECIFIC MEDIUM AND OBJETIVE GROUP (romcom, echii readers).
Which is key, you also know nothing about gaming if your only defense is "oh is one of the worse communities", not you nor the ubisoft it seems XD.
I can criticize them for lying saying they care about history which they did SAY EVEN in japanese... I can also criticize them for using that to sell wrong ideas about historical characters, you guys love to defend them and call people criticizing them "shiller" yet you guys are defending ubisoft while they are pandering with lies...
@@soragranda "EVEN HISTORICAL FICTION NEEDS TO BE BELIEVABLE AND HAVE REMINCENT ASPECTS OF THE STUFF IS BASED ON."
No it doesn't, just put a Japanese looking person, a Japenese looking set of armor and sword, a Japanese looking "house" and call it a day. You're talking about two different things. Something being historical fiction and something being good or bad. Is Shadows a bad depiction of feudal Japan? Probably. Is it a federal crime to make a bad depiction of Japan in a historical fiction game? No it isn't. But people are 100% acting as if it is.
It's almost pointless to discuss this because we can keep bringing up examples. Want a recent one? Take for example a game I love: Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. The vast majority of American characters in the game are either scammers, gangsters or straight up bad people. Is that an accurate depiction of Hawaii? I'm not so sure.
If you take anything from what I said at all, take this. Natives will 99% of the time be confused and complain about the portrayal of their country because 99% of someone's portrayal of another country/culture is inaccurate. That's just how it is. I'm Brazillian and I never saw a single foreign movie getting things right about my country ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But hey, don't mess with weeaboos, they get real angry apparently.
@@soragranda "EVEN HISTORICAL FICTION NEEDS TO BE BELIEVABLE AND HAVE REMINCENT ASPECTS OF THE STUFF IS BASED ON."
No it doesn't, just put a Japanese looking person, a Japenese looking set of armor and sword, a Japanese looking "house" and call it a day. You're talking about two different things. Something being historical fiction and something being good or bad. Is Shadows a bad depiction of feudal Japan? Probably. Is it a federal crime to make a bad depiction of Japan in a historical fiction game? No it isn't. But people are 100% acting as if it is.
It's almost pointless to discuss this because we can keep bringing up examples. Want a recent one? Take for example a game I love: Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. The vast majority of American characters in the game are either scammers, gangsters or straight up bad people. Is that an accurate depiction of Hawaii? I'm not so sure.
If you take anything from what I said at all, take this. Natives will 99% of the time be confused and complain about the portrayal of their country because 99% of someone's portrayal of another country/culture is inaccurate. That's just how it is. I'm Brazillian and I never saw a single foreign movie getting things right about my country ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But hey, don't mess with weeaboos, they get real angry apparently.
Ubisoft should've never attempted an AC game in Japan after Ghost of Tsushima. That game was awesome
Will this video get brigraded also
I'm just wondering why this game, out of so many others, is receiving such a disproportionate amount of backlash for historical inaccuracies or for a person of one race killing a lot of people of another race. There have been triple a games, even previous games IN THIS SERIES, that have historical inaccuracies. Or how there have been other titles, INCLUDING IN THIS SERIES, where a person of one race is killing a lot of people of another race. I don't understand why people are making an uproar over it.
Just kidding i know why
I can see the female protagonist is cuter than I expected watching from this video, but she seems off as well. She seems a japanese idol from 1999. Or maybe not even japanese.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Kodomo no koro kara, anime to manga wa daisuki. I grew up trying to learn Japanese because my dad worked for a Japanese company. I was exposed to manga and various animes (Getter Robo, even Minky Momo), so I always respect Japanese culture and tradition.
Seeing AC Shadows really annoyed me, because Ubisoft should've just hired a team of Japanese historians or cultural experts to help with the game, but no. They opt to do it internally and based on their own views. This is just crazy 😅
As the general sentiment of our video presenter and the comments seems to be that people don't care about the inaccuracies and cultural appropriation there is significant consumer backlash across North America about the historical accuracy claim and there's a very real chance that the game will be commercially unsuccessful. Your voices are being heard and your sentiment is largely shared by many North American people in both US and Canada.
I think you’ve stumbled across a kind of “cultural uncanny valley”.
It may have been easier to imagine a general “Japanese” look with pixels or low polygon models than high resolution polygons. Like, “temples and cherry blossoms, we’re in Japan”.
With graphics closer and closer to photo realism the bar for details is raised more and more. That’s probably how you end up with a jarring feeling something is off.
You're overthinking it. It feels off because it IS off. It's created by people with little to no understanding of the setting so there are obvious, glaring errors
It is the cultural context and vibe that is off, not because of the graphic. Ubisoft can't nail the nuances in Asian culture have(this time Japan, last time China).
How people interact, how something presented. That is the why things look off.
@@smcdonough1427it feels aight to me
To address your point about how westerners may feel when seeing Japanese depictions of western counties or ideas, we mostly love it and feel very honored. We see that a lot of Japanese media treats us with a kind of wonder and admiration, despite how silly we can be.
In Assassin Creed Shadows’ case, this isn’t the same - there is no admiration or respect here. Ubisoft is extremely ignorant and disrespectful in how they treat Japanese history and culture, and I invite others to join me in never buying another Ubisoft product again.
Japan had Chinese architecture, not sure why so many Japanese don’t know this. Nara and Kyoto were modelled after the Tang Dynasty, Nara and Kyoto is the area where this game is set. Japanese even brought in Chinese architects to model the buildings when Buddhism was on the rise. Fun fact you can still see Chinese architecture in Kyoto and Nara today.
She is obviously patriotic and skipped over this. Kyoto literally modelled after Tang Dynasty architecture and grid layout. So of cos they would look alike.
We in the West do this to our own history, in fiction, constantly. Which is a tragedy, 'cause most people around these parts have forgotten their history and traditions, traded off for a more globally inclusive mishmash of influences and modern re-interpretations of them; whereas the Japanese have thankfully preserved and are acutely aware of theirs.
It's sad how far they have fallen. They used to be very respected for how accurate they were aside from the elements that were relevant to the fantasy of it.
For the petition,canceling the game is very much unlikely. But will it push to have the game ban in japan instead?
It’s literally only a problem in the west. They can’t create good characters or write good stories. Look at the East like Capcom & Konami, Japanese company’s that have given us some of the greatest franchise like Resident Evil & Metal Gear Solid. Ubisoft put zero to no afford into AC shadows at all. I’d rather play ghost of tsushima which is over all a better game and more respectful to Japan.
ghost of sleepyshima got alot of things wrong, so.
@ way better then AC Shadow’s
New subscriber! Great video, thank you for being honest! I'm in Los Angeles. Your reaction says a lot about the game. I've played most of the AC games, gonna skip this one.
People, who mix up Japan, Korea, China. It funny. They like night n day. When I travel, European in hospitality industry all know the difference. And the Asians, who work in hospitality, are very interested in testing their ability to KNOW where ANYone come from, including YOU, white or Asian. It the coolest thing about travel, in sophisticated place. Before pandemic, I met a waitress from Singapore. I always wanted to meet a girl from Singapore and what I would say, from meeting one female, is that they like the popular, attractive, socially smart females in movie 'Heathers.' But they the Asian version. So. They the ones, who everyone think about, when they in school. How you suppose to get to Singaporean, when you think Chinese and Japan, same?
I wish they would have consulted with an actual Japanese historian, this could have been a great gaming experience.
They have. It's been stated several times, even in past Assassin's Creed games, that they ALWAYS make make these games alongside actual historians.
Assassin's Creed Shadows = Emilia Pérez
That schoolgirl in Kill Bill is a well known Japanese actress Chiaki Kuriyama and the movie also had big names like Jun Kunimura, but maybe you were talking about other characters, not sure. edit: ah yeah looking it up they also had Lucy Lui play a Japanese character lol
But look at the cast of kill bill there are many well known real Japanese actors. It's quite a long list.
Issei Takahashi
So Yamanaka
Akaji Maro
Kazuki Kitamura
Shun sugata
Kenji Ohba
etc
So I think a better movie example could have been used. But no big deal I get what you meant haha.
Ball & Chain Girl? I remember her from a Ju-On film
@@TheMockingjay74 yeah her, recently I saw he in a game called Death Come True lol
Ah, she was talking about Lucy Lui. I couldn't figure out who she was talking about because there are a lot of legit Japanese actors in it. I saw Chiaki Kuriyama in some random drama years ago, didn't realize she was still making stuff
and the fact that Lucy Lui's character is mixed is a plot point. The yakuza don't accept her as a leader because her father is a chinese american and she was born on a military base or something like that.
If she isn’t a fan of the games or hasn’t played any of the games significantly her opinion doesn’t matter much. Also it has a Japanese female character so she is represented. She is not even a history buff. The truth is: the game receives hate because of The African samurai bodyguard and the female shinobi .. stop dancing around it. People like this woman just jump on the H8 train because they don’t have the heart to go against the trolls. Real lame ish
I have never cared about "myself" being represented in a videogame. I don't care if the game doesn't have a japanese female character at all, that's the least of my concerns.
@ my statement still stands
@ the H8 train is easy. Wait for the game, play, then criticize… you never know some things can be changed in the short time between your video and the game dropping
@@Magnus_VII Agreed. The fact that she knows nothing of history nor of the lore in the AC games outweighs the fact that she's Japanese. Assassin's Creed is literally advertised as "historical fiction". Way too many people have been caught in the snowball of hate. Way, WAY too many.
I'm not talking at all about the game itself (as in the gameplay and performance) but what it's representing, based on the information available including what the company has been saying. I never went into detail about what was exactly wrong other than vague examples on purpose because you can find that information almost anywhere and the point was that a Japanese person like myself would be able to tell what is visually wrong about it at a glance.
One of the more annoying things I've been seeing is that because Japanese voices are actually speaking out this time there are people that are coming away with the perception that Japan is hyper-sensitive about depictions of its history or culture and that they should avoid the setting in the future. In reality Japan is probably one of the most tolerant countries in that regard and the outcry comes entirely from the approach Ubisoft took in marketing this game as culturally aware and historically accurate while seemingly investing no real effort into understanding the setting they had chosen. It's basically the same reason why Mexico is upset over the movie Emilia Pérez.
You nailed it. They should have said from the start it's based on fiction and not history.
After watching many Japanese depictions of other countries and cultures I believe that Japan has no foot to stand when it comes to complaining about people making unauthentic depictions of Japan or borrowing their culture.
On that note I have yet to see Japanese people do that and pretend that it is "historically accurate" or that it was curated by real experts in the field and thus is as authentic as possible which Ubisoft did and I think that is the real problem most people have with this entire situation.
I don’t think Ubisoft really cared obviously with this content and what is your take on the black samurai
Essentially this game is lost in translation. The idea of exploring the past sounds awesome. But loosely adapted, i totally agree would have been a better way to advertise this best Assassin's Creed entry
It's like the movie Emilia Perez, none of the actors speak real Spanish, like a Mexican person would, and It's because they didn't hire a single actor from Mexico, they didn't even bother to hire people from Latin America. And the director acts like he was our white savior, it's offensive AF.
It should make sense that if the environment is in Japan, the consumer would want to play as a Japanese protagonist. Just like the other AC games, using someone of the environments general population.
@@jmw1982blue the protagonist is Japanese, the deuteragonist isn’t
With all the stories of legendary samurai, Ubisoft really was determined to pick Yasuke -- who probably wasn't a samurai at all. Anyone have any guesses as to why they picked Yasuke? 🤔
To piss you off.
@@reebaconator ESGs money, and some pandering with lies.
probably the same reason any other game includes him? hes a popular historical figure. you're just dumb and racist, that's why him being in the game bothers you
They have said why, Yasuke is interesting because he's an outsider. There's a lot of perpective that comes from a slave turned samurai, and it creates contrast with Naoe which is the Native in the story. Also they probably did it to separate themselves more from Ghost of Tsushima.
Dude, every Assassins Creed Game first opening loading screen says "THIS IS A FICTIONAL STORY." We know Japan is its own country bro.
And now , whatever the fiction is it, everyone who visit here in Kyoto
They freaking thought that Yasuke was real samurai and asked me like
Do you know Japanese had a black samurai ?
Or do you know Yasuke , he’s a black samurai
Or is that black samurai is true or there was true black samurai game will coming , did you know?
Freaking asked by American teenagers and foreigners who visited here
That’s fictional game was misleading our history now and totally fucking done with this questions
Every tour groups , if there’s a teenager , and that boy immediately asking Yasuke is real samurai and fuck , why am I need to answer this shit as a daily or monthly routines
And many western peoples pushing this Black samurai controversy as a real fact on internet, you can find it everywhere. We fucking tired of this and done this
We’re really pleased that foreigners banned from traditional places
This gaijins not only insulted to other traditional places but also want to changing our history with soft powers
Do you know how many Japan really become so done with DEI propagandas and this black samurai shit
Even, teenagers from western countries really thought this black man is real samurai and we totally hate this, If you type first foreign samurai
You will only find Yasuke as a black samurai there and however , everyone says fictional , peoples are slowly accepting this as a real fact because of these agenda posts, medias, and of course, this game
@@emperoroak7331 While I appreciate the passion, I'd worry less about those stupid foreigner teens and more about Japan's administration trying to incorporate DEI into the society as well as censor anime and manga every where. It's already seeded into Japanese video games through companies like Playstation, Nintendo, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Sega, Square Enix, etc.
@@emperoroak7331 sounds like you’re more upset with tourists than the game lmfao dramatic bozo
Guess you never read the fact that Ubiass said it's historically accurate. You are the same shit that supported Ubiass no matter what.
@@VietTran-xb1kc y’all keep using this argument but all i can find is a statement from last year where they said they strive for their stories to be *historically informed*, can’t find anything where ubi devs/representative ever claimed their games are historically accurate. in fact, every single game starts with a disclaimer telling you it’s fiction based on historical events and figures.
I had that issue when I was moving back to Japan 10 years ago, my oldest brother thought I was moving to a communist country with a one baby policy, until I explained to him the difference between Japan and China. Anyway, I haven't played an AC game since like 2012 and I'll be skipping this one too, the series was pretty cool at first but now it's just played out.
I guess my Japanese family members can't tell the difference between USA and Canada etc so 😅
Hello. THank you for your thoughts. It is always interesting to get an insight of someone who is actually Japanese on that matter. I am Ukrainian and I speak Russian language so when marvel introduced the bad russian guys and they speak bad Russian it always made me laugh because I know that is not accurate at all so I understand. Not being Japanese myself I I am vary excited for this game because I do not see these subtle differences and in my mind, this is Japan because I have never been there and I wish one day I would visit to experience the culture and country for myself. But for now I will go there in the virtual reality and explore it. I have one questions for the author of this video.
1) What did you think about SHogun TV show? Was it accurate? DId it have aan uthentic Japanese vibe?
Thank you
Edit. removed the second question bc you answered at the end.
On the contrary alot of people care about the inaccuracies in the game.
Literally every Assassin's Creed game goes through this. I remember having a greek friend who was upset about the depiction of greeks in Odyssey. As a Muslim myself, I remember that "weirdness" from some of the liberties they took in the very first game. Still, at the time, there was no other Muslim representation in games, so the bar was low.
Like she said, games like Ghost of Tsushima have set the bar much higher for Japanese games.
What is your opinion as a muslim about AC mirage
@@juantensei3057 I've only played a few hours, but the characters are definitely more openly Muslim and seem to be more in line with how Muslims would act during that time. I can't, of course, speak to anything related to Arab culture or the culture of Iraq at that time because I'm not Arab.
tenchu on the ps1 looks like a better assasin game than shadows
I'm a Palestinian Christian whose ancestors lived in the Levant (including Jerusalem) during the time period depicted in Assassin's Creed 1. I didn't see a problem with the game - it's supposed to be historical fiction and I thought it did an ok job at depicting/alluding to the different religions that lived in the Holy Land during the Crusades.
@@ubemon To be clear, I don't have a problem with the game. I played it and was very happy to see an ancient muslim order depicted in a game. I've loved the series ever since. In terms of historical accuracy, however, obviously the actual Order of the Assassins, which was a real group, had some noticeable differences in terms of its actual creed, its mission and it's understanding of religion, particularly a Shia Ismaili understanding of Islam.
I do agree, though. Most of the things they changed for the sake of entertainment were intentional, and there's nothing wrong with that. They've always made it clear that it's fiction. In the Ezio trilogy (spoiler) you literally have a one-on-one fight with the Pope. It's not meant to be historically accurate.
動画ありがとうございます！日本人の正直な意見や第一印象を聞いてよかったのです。僕は日本人じゃくても新しいアサクリのゲームは本当に違和感ですね。
I never understood why people kept asking for an Assassin's Creed game in ancient Japan. I was always hoping for ancient Rome or so. Reason is because it would never be and feel the same then when a Japanese studio would make this. Maybe Ghost of Tsushima is an exception. You also didn't talk about the obvious elephant in the room 😅
Isn't 'creed' shinjo