Thank you for watching! To sum it up, the discussions in regards to the creative decisions with Yasuke is a wholly different matter from the actual history that we can examine. To me, the gameplay/monetization in regards to Assassin's Creed: Shadows is more concerning than Yasuke. If you want more gaming content specifically, I do have a gaming channel you can subscribe to as well while this channel focuses more on history! www.youtube.com/@NefasQS | We also stream at twitch.tv/NefasQS
@WilliamLopshire you haven't played it yet. And with the amount of yapping you're doing regarding gameplay, it's safe to say you can't even afford the game when it comes out. How about you complain about that since it's valid to do so. Even the video author correctly points that out.😊
@WilliamLopshire I'm not even going to read anything past your first words and the return the same question to you. How are you going to be arrogant and say something like. "Gameplay isn't going to be good..." When you haven't even played the game. You could have shut up in the first place if you just gave yourself the advice you're trying to give me lmao. Play the game, then complain about gameplay if you don't like it. Otherwise, take your own advice and stop being ignorant.
"Assassin’s Creed Shadows pre-orders are looking very strong. I don’t have the exact numbers yet, but no one in the know is disappointed with them." LOL.... looks like all you racist haters are FAILING. Can't keep a good game down!!!!! Can't wait to play on November 15th!!
@@elitealice Don't you mean UbiLGBTQ+ after the recent announcement from Ubisoft? I personally have no issues with the LGBTQ+ community, but I don't want their ideals pushed onto me. I don't go around saying "Straight Pride" and pushing my ideals onto other people. I would like the choice and not have a game breaking emersion moments when my character suddenly flirts with another man (playing as a male character) as I do not usually play female character (if I have a choice). I also have an issue withs Yasuke as the main male character/protagonist. I don't care about Yasuke's history, he could be a gardener for Oda Nobunaga for all I care. I do not mind playing him as a standalone, side mission or telling the story of him in another game. But, this is the first game within the series out of all the Assassin's Creed games (13 of them I might add) in Feudal Japan where the male protagonist is not native to that setting of which I find it rather offensive and mis-representative for the Asian community. Not to mention, I can't even play as a male shinobi (ninja). I thought the whole premise of Assassin's Creed is about Assassins, ninja/shinobi are "Assassins", they use the art of stealth, deception, mis-direction and not mowing down people in heavy armour. And don't get me started with Naoe's male jawline, AI can't even detect if she's female. To add a nail to the coffin, the prices are (wands at the ready) "Ridiculous". Not to mention, add scarcity tactic by adding a pre-order special mission. I will rate this a "No pre-order out of 10".
What confuses me is that the AC franchise literally has canonical aliens, gods, and godesses. But add ONE black man and its unrealistic now? Common now lol
@@trvpmusic2569white cultural problem, let’s not mince words here….no race of men has ever been preoccupied with hating other races on the face of this planet, they invented 99 percent of racial epithets that exist in this world, find the lie.
The issue is Not that simple. Its a collection of many cultural Problems. Be IT the alianation of the "White" Main Charakter. Because every TV Show movie or Game Studios wants to be woke you will Always See a Female Protagonist or AS a Side Charakter but the Main Male Charakter is Always black or diverse. AS an example the new. Star wars movies and Rings of Power. And Then you Got that AC Main Charakters never where real Befor. And this Shows that they wanted a diverse Charakter so Bad they picked yasuke to make it Happen because Else they couldnt have explained it in 100 years. So its the First time that they Pick an Historical Charakter AS the Main Charakter. And its AS i belive the First time that they Main Charakter does Not have the erhnicity AS from the Region the Game is playing. AS for example bayek is eygiptian. Ezio is Italien. Altai is Arab. Nordsmen in valhalla. People would Like a stand alone yasuke Game 100 times more then an AC Game with a Female Protagonist and insteat of a japanese Male Protagonist a black men. Again me and many Others would have Loved a yasuke standalone Game Just AS many Liked the Anime and Had No Problem with it. But IT doesnt fit Assassin's Creed
simple answer: - its not "diversity" or some vain "moral" principle, its done ideologlically to push what they think is "progressive" mentality - which aligns to ESG/DEI - main writer has connection to Sweet Baby Inc, ESG firm - goes hand in hand with Ubi being one of their "partners" - done to gaslight audience into emotional validation which leads to bias for Ubisoft to defend them - used as a shield to any issue the game will have - used to deflect from $130 price point and Ubi+ own nothing subscription - afro centrism in western media to artificially make everything about black or "done by blacks" - wasted opportunity for japanese male lead, only reason female lead is there is brownie points on "strong female protagonist trope" which they can still get brownie points for - he's not a samurai and never was, there's no evidence to it anyone defending it is a dumbass, anyone saying the nay-sayers are racist is a dumbass and anyone pretending its "not a big deal" is one as well for not realizing social manipulation tactics and how obvious revisionist it is to do this and why media is shilling so hard for it right now (like IGN and WIki sites changing their post on Yasuke to align with it)
@@MrMrbobo46 That's all BS! It's a F'N video game. It doesn't fit AC huh? Did the aliens fit then? What culture was they? Did you have a opinion about that? How about the fact that your character goes into a machine and time travels. Time travelers should have their own game because it's more realistic. Jesus Christ you people say anything.
I appreciate what you’re doing here. Thank you very much. I love the fact that you are citing all your information that you’ve gathered, and doing a far more deep dive than what most people have done explaining the history of Yasuke.
It's unfortunate, that there is no real history to draw upon which is why Ubisoft picked this character, when the game was being planned, Yasuke was all the rage in the west, and people thought it was neat. Unfortunately, for a game where the creators say they pride themselves on this being historically accurate, it's anything but. Yasuke was in Japan for less than 2 years, that first year as a Jesuit slave, the remainder of the second year as a gift to Oda, most of the history of Yasuke is kinda of fantasy as there are no real detailed records, Lockley the guy who said he did research on the book was literally trying to push a book. Seriously, they could've picked a random japanese dude and avoided all of the controversy, and it sounded like in the original story draft it was about a monk, which would've been cool, but here we are. The funniest part is no one even knows what his name is, where he was born or how old he actually is, dude could've been a dark skinned guy from India for all we know, but nope he's the fantasy of 6'4" 235lb running back who plays for in the NFL. it's all kinda silly.
@@zzz-nu2re I mean that would've been cool actually, it keeps a primarily Japanese main protagonist and allows them to hit their DEI representation for the extra $$ to produce the game.
But Ubisoft is not. It's obvious that the SELLING POINT of the game is that he's black. Sorry. And they knew what they were doing making his counterpart an Asian woman instead of a man. Weve got a ghost of Tsushima at home looking ahh. Plus the mechanics of ac has transgressed far beyond its peak (ac unity) so most people are expecting what they've poured money into over the years which is rpg type. But yeah the glorification of blacks agendas is being pushed hard by white game developers w probably Asian gf projecting their collective unconsciousness. It's goofy as hell they are also late as hell. This is coming from a dark colored entity. I like yasuke and it meant a lot to me to see how the japanese elite accepted and saw different beings from a across the world capable of fitting in their class and society. I just don't like how him being black is the SELLING POINT. Reminds me of some drake shit. Edit, this would have competed with ghost if they made it miyamoto and yasuke despite the probable time difference. This just seems like they wanted to call dibs on yasuke which EVERYONE WANTS TO DO and we will probably see more yasuke related stuff in shows movies and games in the pronto future. Just seeing this ahead of time already irks me before it even happened
It's not about fiction vs non-fiction necessarily. It's about the pandering, tokenism and erasure of Asian males in Western media in favor of other demographics that need to be placated and championed incessantly by woke YTs. There's no reason to not choose a vastly more influential and notable Japanese samurai who trained for years, completely enthralled in the lifestyle, versus some marooned bodyguard of an Italian or Portuguese merchant or missionary or whatever that lived there for 3 years.
What are you on about? The Knights Templars pretty muched served the pope. That indeed didn't make the pope himself a Templar, but it makes perfect sense for a game studio to make him the final boss right?
@@2009heyhow Brother, I'm so sick of their bad faith false equivalencies and gas lighting lol "Actually, the Pope being a Templar is the same as some insignificant Sub-Saharan African jester being portrayed as a bad ass Samurai, overshadowing the innumerable native Japanese Samurai who spent their entire lives engrossed in the lifestyle. Versus the Pope somehow inconceivably being related to the Templar, who were actual catholic Knights, and not some shoehorned diversity hire serving the purpose to make black people feel good about themselves while, once again, erasing Asian males from media in the process. I don't understand why it's a crazy leap to associate the head of the Catholic Church with his underlings. They think fiction vs non-fiction is the crux of the issue, and not the cheapening of the real cultural affinity people might have with their ancestry. People love alternative history; they don't like erasure for the purposes of pandering to particular demographics and orthodoxies.
I'm 34 years old. I've been a gamer all my life, and I've never once cared about the race of a protagonist. If the game is good and fun to play, that's all I care about.
Can we all just agree that Yasuke is a real historical figure, and that video game are for entertainment. And if you really want to worry about accurate historical facts you'll put down your video game controller and pick up a history book. I guess that's too much to ask for some trolls.
Can we all just agree that there is a political group out there that can't stop putting their forced diversity ideologies out there? No one cares that he is black just some months ago an anime came out for the same person, and no one was hating on it. Look at the writers of this game and you'll get why ppl don't like it. (oh btw they just made both the characters gay, and no nothing wrong with them being gay, but again forced diversity, yeah so cool)
@KodachiC Ah yes Naruo is well known for its w0ke r*cist forced diversity like Cry Baby Inc, the maker of this game. My dude look at the writers of the game. There is a big difference between putting diversity and forced diversity.
@@V34035 One of which is a Japanese woman. So Yasuke was "forced" into all the Japanese media he has been in? Let's get to it: You don't hate forced diversity. Just diversity.
@KodachiC Ah yes back to trying to call ppl racist when they point out your delusion: Snow White. Queen Cleopatra. (btw they were going to get sued by Egypt for rewriting their history) Dear White People. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Velma. Rapunzel. THE WITCHER. Warhammer 40k. Etc, etc Is always funny how all of these shows had a white liberal far left left-blue-haired girl as director or writer. BTW that's the wirriters of this game as well, and is funny how she works with the most woke game industry out there Cry Baby Inc. The problem isn't that he is black the problem is that they're going to ruin a historical figure like they always have.
@kickingbackpunchingcones4099 The fact that the focus is on the black guy and not the Asian girl should already make you doubt if the outrage solely comes from Asian gamers
@@Hargazer Problem is Asian Males rarely get represented in Western Media, whenever they are, they are always portrayed as emasculated comedic characters.
A genuine question. Nioh came out a few years ago featuring a white samurai and no one cared. I wonder why that was? Yaskue may or may not have been made a Samurai, but he WAS given weapons and Armor, servants and a home. For all intents and purposes, he might as well have been one.
I'll say this as someone who's effectively not a fan of the series, but i think your misunderstanding something on this about why the yasuke situation is such a problem. First off it's because he's a named historical figure who we know quite alot about as the protagonist (and likely, not a samurai or ninja, evidence points to him essentially being the equivalent to a flag bearer or butler), this is extremely problematic for the fanbase because it is obviously done for DEI purposes and gaming is a escapist hobby for most people, meaning they don't play games to be preached to about anything, hence why the backlash is so extreme, plus the fact it's the one assassin's creed game fans have been begging for for years, meaning ubisoft took their wishes and spat on them in the eyes of the fans, if the female kunoichi was the only playable character in the game, it probably wouldn't have had as much of a backlash, this is specifically because it's obviously pandering for dei points and will effect the story as well. Now on to nioh, first problem is nioh was a original game, william adams was a real person as well who became a advisor and samurai under ieyasu tokugawa but again this is a new franchise so there was no baggage against it (to be honest, nearly everyone in nioh is a historical person fyi, including the bosses, even the love interest's name is not historical, she seems to be based on william adams first wife along with a couple of sprinklings of other historically significant female characters of the period), second the japanese themselves did this one making it national choice, had assassin's creed shadows been made by a japanese team and put yasuke in it the furvor would likely not be as strong, third there were far more white people in japan during the warring states period than there were black people, i won't go into details about all of the seedy stuff that happened in japan during the warring states period but the idea of seeing a white male in japan in the late 1500's to early 1600's is not unheard of.
@tatsuya2112 and that's where I got you. If you knew anything about Nioh, you'd know it features Yaskue in it, as a samurai. Only difference was he wasn't a main character so no one whined. Also, how exactly do we know a lot about him? He's mentioned in a few texts, explicitly stated he was granted a sword, servants and a home... and then that's it. He disappears from the historical record meaning he fits as a protagonist perfectly. They can do whatever they want with him because after his service to Nobunaga ended, he dropped out of the historical record entirely. Also, when Nobunaga died he pretty much went on a warpath due to it. He was clearly not just a "baggage handler or servant". Come on man. We both know why you're really upset. The fact you directly stated that him being in the game is just an attempt at DEI directly tells on yourself.
@@tatsuya2112 lmao, assuming so many bs here, the guy really existed, if having a real character from history in your historic game is sjw, you might as well build a time machine and go complain to nobunaga for giving him a job, also love how you have absolutely no doubts about williams adams, but so many about yasuke, despite this being a video that clarifies he really existed
@@MeTaLISaWeSoMe95 Thought i could be cordial, you know just lay out the facts but that's not what you want it seems. First off i never told you where i stood on the argument or either series, i've never played a single assassin's creed game or nioh nor do i want to, only the reason for the argument and again, nioh was made by the japanese which gives it far more leeway than a western developed game when it comes to this, you also completely overlooked my main points for your pollical desire, assassin's creed has never used a historical figure as a playable character in the series, breaking with conventions, while it would have been obvious dei pandering if they had made the character black, it would have had less of a backlash on that alone, though the backlash is mainly, that they aren't using ethnically from the population that the game is based on, which is VERY important when your playing as a assassin, you know, someone who doesn't want to stand out, notice how no one is getting angry over the female protagonist, because she wouldn't stand out unlike yasuke which you could easily pick out of a crowd in the game. If i had my way i wouldn't have even made the game in the first place, japan is overdone but if your going to make it about ancient japan at least make it authentic, what i want to see is a AC game based in the songhai dynasty (west african, one of the least known empires in the world, would be interesting to see a game on it) or possibly the aztecs, i'm tired of hearing about AC honestly, i want a game from it that is actually innovative instead of copying every single other series pattern of using famous time no x, if i saw something actually innovative i'd give it a shot. Oh and you forgot something with your obvious trying to make this racial bias argument, no one has problems with either afro samurai or onimusha 3 as examples, because neither tried to push a political agenda, again for the last time, the problem with this is they used yasuke, for the first time in the history of the series they used a actual historical figure, my own take is that making him a assassin is insane, a warrior sure but if he's actually a assassin in the game it's utterly mind boggling because he sticks out, has obvious identifiying features and can be watched for as soon as he's known as a assassin, the first rule of a assassin is to not stand out, but that's irrelivant, said it before i don't care about the game in general.
Naoe is literally the titular fictional assassin of the game just as every other AC game had native assassin's. I feel yasuke as much as he's a protagonist, he isn't the primary Assassin . Going way back to the announcement for codename red, the silhouette always showed the stealthy character. But thats just how view it anyway
simple answer: - its not "diversity" or some vain "moral" principle, its done ideologlically to push what they think is "progressive" mentality - which aligns to ESG/DEI - main writer has connection to Sweet Baby Inc, ESG firm - goes hand in hand with Ubi being one of their "partners" - done to gaslight audience into emotional validation which leads to bias for Ubisoft to defend them - used as a shield to any issue the game will have - used to deflect from $130 price point and Ubi+ own nothing subscription - afro centrism in western media to artificially make everything about black or "done by blacks" - wasted opportunity for japanese male lead, only reason female lead is there is brownie points on "strong female protagonist trope" which they can still get brownie points for - he's not a samurai and never was, there's no evidence to it anyone defending it is a dumbass, anyone saying the nay-sayers are racist is a dumbass and anyone pretending its "not a big deal" is one as well for not realizing social manipulation tactics and how obvious revisionist it is to do this and why media is shilling so hard for it right now (like IGN and WIki sites changing their post on Yasuke to align with it)
she's exactly as real to yasuke with the exception being that she is based on an actual man. So she's not exactly a fictional character, she's only fictional because she was a man not a woman.
Given the dialogue between hum and Naoe, I wouldn't even say he's an assassin, but more templar aligned. Templars want order, Assassins want freedom, and we're talking about a historical period where neither was present. So makes sense they end up working together.
Jesuits werent allowed to own slaves. As a matter lf fact, there are copies of Vilgangos diary where he takes a hard stance agaiant slavery and that was the man who Yasuke came with. He was a free man by the time he came to Japan.@xftjlas8296
How i see it as a black guy: The sole fact that the main reason he is black and that's all the populous really knows about him is a great thing. By him being a most mysterious character, the team has more leniency to make creative choices with his character while still holding basic information about him
For sure. The video even states that not much if anything is known what came of him afterwards, and that said, will likely be used as the period in which they can spin a narrative for the game.
If people wanted accuracy in an AC game, they should play something else. Yasuke's story is very interesting no matter how it's told. I see more people who aren't Japanese offended by this than I see people who are Japanese. Matter of fact, THEY'RE the ones whose opinions truly matter. It's ridiculous to be outraged. Hell, I'm black, and let me tell you if there was a game set in another part of Africa and the main character was white, I wouldn't trip. Truth is it doesnt matter if they used a historical figure who is Japanese like Hatari Hanzo, it still wont be accurate and who knows what else we could do in the game to complain about it.
simple answer: - its not "diversity" or some vain "moral" principle, its done ideologlically to push what they think is "progressive" mentality - which aligns to ESG/DEI - main writer has connection to Sweet Baby Inc, ESG firm - goes hand in hand with Ubi being one of their "partners" - done to gaslight audience into emotional validation which leads to bias for Ubisoft to defend them - used as a shield to any issue the game will have - used to deflect from $130 price point and Ubi+ own nothing subscription - afro centrism in western media to artificially make everything about black or "done by blacks" - wasted opportunity for japanese male lead, only reason female lead is there is brownie points on "strong female protagonist trope" which they can still get brownie points for - he's not a samurai and never was, there's no evidence to it anyone defending it is a dumbass, anyone saying the nay-sayers are racist is a dumbass and anyone pretending its "not a big deal" is one as well for not realizing social manipulation tactics and how obvious revisionist it is to do this and why media is shilling so hard for it right now (like IGN and WIki sites changing their post on Yasuke to align with it)
stop talking nonsense. There is no point in making a game about the Zulu tribe with a white main char, I wouldn't play that crap like I wouldn't play a game with a Black samurai. When I'm playing a game I want to immerse myself in that world, when I play Scorpion I want to hear that scorpion voice, when I play a Zulu tribe char in a Zulu tribe surrounding and "Era" I want to hear that Zulu tribe accent and voice for the authenticity of the experience. What's the point in me playing a white Dutch dude in Africa ? It just seems off !
@@spitflamez What has tarzan to do with this ? Do you even know the story of tarzan ? Did you play any Tarzan game ? tarzan was a white kid that survived in the jungle,raised and surrounded by animals.Imagine playing a Tarzan game(in the jungle) and you have the main char a puddle cuz why not,he dropped from the airplane also, instead of playing tarzan, or the tiger,the bear or the snake. Did you hear about Mowgli ? Wtf comparison you made .lol
First of your mother fucking RACIST to assume the "white people" are the only once that are made, a bunch of us Asian (not just the japanese) are also unhappy There have already been a bunch of black protagonists in AC adawale, that girl from ac 3 and bayek ( the father of the brotherhood) It's not fair for the first ever male Asian protagonist in a mainline game( Because there was one in the Indian chronicle) to be shafted like that. Not to mention if anyone has the right to share "samurai culture" it would be the japanese themselve. Mind you unlike With nioh and a bunch of japanese products with yosuke foreign products are more critically looked upon when dealing with their culture. That is why the ghost of Tsushima was highly praised . it was a game being developed by sucker punch that was based on the USA based on their culture. It wouldn't be as much as a success in Japan if say they made the mc white because it wouldn't have properly shown their culture AC also has to deal with it. It didn't help that Ac for all it's gimmicks have actively shown culture from people of that culture, Connor for example will be game ended if you hunted to much animals, Edward was a pirate who was originally from the British navy as a hired pirate, heck even in most Rpg like games in AC they show Egyptian culture with someone who is from Egypt, they show Greek from a Greeks perspective and even a viking perspective from someone who was a viking. People would naturally assume they choose to represent samurai culture a Japanese culture with a Japanese man. Yosuke himself also doesn't represent the japanese he was made mc to represent an entirely different group of people even do the game is focus on Japan and it's culture. Chosing yosuke as the mc was a horrible idea, it not only robbed the ability for the Japanese to represent their own culture. Like the Bushido code(which yosuke in game broke by betraying nobunaga) the most important thing to a samurai. all the while branding him as a samurai when clearly should have bean a ronin in the game. He could have been a side character (maybe mentor or dlc character)
Actually they were, there were plenty of threads and complaints. I for one did complain about it. But at least in Nioh character was actually based on historical samurai. Yasuke wasn't a samurai. The fact that he has no surname is evidence for it.
@@Sporkonafork1 The game takes place during the time the Portuguese arrived. They brought African slaves, servants, and retainers with them. Homogeneous sure, but if they're including the Portuguese Jesuits and merchants there's no reason not to include the Africans they brought along as well.
If the main guy was Japanese, great, if he was White that would be fantastic, if he's melanated WOW WOW WOW something is not right here, and his side kick is Asian 😂😂😂 oh boy they really mad.
The problem with the anti-woke crowd is that anything they don't like, they deem as woke and they will use any excuse or technicality no matter how ridiculous to justify their hate. Most of the people complaining aren't even going to play the game or even play the older games. I think Yasuke looks awesome tbh, just hope the improvements to gameplay are good.
Yep, there are more people offended that a black man gets a roll at all than people who actually care about the history. It's not hard to hide. Matt Damon slays demons on the great wall of China as the greatest warrior ever seen by chinese people, cool. Last samurai, cool. Nioh, cool! Black man in Japan? The world is ending. Woke this. woke that. You can't make this up.
They litterally can't wrap their brain around Blacks existing other than in the roles of former slaves or gangbangers, so their brain explodes and they go full Nick Fuentes.
Please tell me why Yasuke was a samurai? Cause I want to know. Like was there any concrete information that he was a Samurai. And also… what kind of Samurai because the Samurai class is very complicated.
They can’t claim they did any historic research. The Shinobi weren't their own fighter class. There were Samurai, which is a rank, who did assassinations or spy work, therefor they took on the job of a Shinobi. So exactly the opposite of what he is saying. Also a Samurai wouldn't walk through town in his battlefield armor. And Iga wasn't a secret, hidden village in the mountains, but an important and well known center of commerce with a lot of trade routes. There were no Ninja training in the Himalayas, that's from Batman for heaven's sake.
Naah, the fans are just busted This is the same franchise that has greek demigods and Norse Vikings fighting mythological creatures and monsters BUTA BLACK SAMURAI IS WHERE THEY DRAW THE LINE. BullShit
@Leontemplar-yt6ff well let's see when the game drops cause I'm still buying it because I am a fan of yasuke even tho the story is not the same as the irl story
@@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad Whether it fails or not has nothing to do with my point. I honestly could care less if it fails or succeeds. Like I said before if you don’t like the main protagonist, you don’t have to buy nor view any videos pertaining to the matter.
Great video. Thank you! Have you, or could you, touch on how the concept of Bushido has affected this controversy? I understand that now many people are saying Yasuke couldn't be a real Samurai because he didn't follow their imagined version of Bushido. Such as being taken alive and not fighting to the death. However, I have read many other historians have pointed out that the most famous "versions" of Bushido are not from the time period of Nobunaga and Yasuke, but are instead a later Edo Period invention. Thoughts, good sir?
I found this video really great @CasparSpeaks. Helping in bringing some clarity amidst the fog. Really nice to know about the facts in this structured format. Please continue! 🍀
They'll even go and make fake japanese profiles 😆😆. Dedicated to hating in unison. Not saying there can't be some japanese stating some kind of issues with the game, but I would bet anything that the vast majority making any type of argument that bares any resemblance to the ones these guys are making actually isn't japanese
@@Scoring57 you are ignorant if you think all of that is American people. Ubisoft change their history, putting the spotlight to another race when Asian and Japanese people hasn't have representative in AC game, disrespecting their culture (using different clan symbol on pre-order statue, stealing logo from a japanese community, using chinese sub-title on japanese only limited time trailer, etc.) Is asian and japanese not included in the diversity category?
@@dityaasmoroJust like the Rings of Power outrage, "evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt that which is already good". These parasites can only attach themselves to something better men have created, and then plunder it the name of DEI.
There are very, very many more reasons to be mad about the direction that Assassin's Creed is going than trying to pretend a black samurai never existed. I feel very sorry for the people that try to keep wikipedia a reasonable resource. Really good summary and, I must admit, I like the we don't know his full story as a potential plot point. Probably not enough to buy it, unfortunately.
the question is not whether he never existed but whether he was a samurai or not, because the evidence is so vague and unlike the mentioned Hideyoshi, he wasn't even in Japan for a long time, and especially not in Nobunaga's service. His lord was dead maybe 20 months after Yasuke entered his service. The safest thing to say in my mind is that Yasuke was his bodyguard and sword bearer, but even if he was made a samurai, he still would not have thought in battle like one because you cannot be trained this fast. And I agree there are more problems with this game than just that, even the inclusion of Naoe which follows the common western trope of preferring east asian women over east asian men. And if rumors are true, this was not supposed to be the original concept for the game. The original one featured three historical shinobi as the protagonists and they were all men. Which probably would have been the better idea. I think the game will still make money because of the brand recognition but it would have sold much better if they had stuck with the original concept. Or just do a game set e.g. in the Mali empire if they wanted another black "assassin".
@@inotaishu1 It shouldn't matter if he was a Samurai or not because AC main characters have always been fictional so even if he wasn't a samurai, them taking creative liberties shouldn't matter. I highly doubt those rumors of the original concept being to include 3 historical shinobi as protagonists because again, AC main characters have never been based on historical people that existed.
the tom cruise movie you’re referring to received heavy backlash when it released, but you probably werent born yet so you wouldnt know. An ASIAN samurai would be acceptable
@@the61822what about Nioh? That game featured a white samurai and a quick TH-cam search of the comment section shows no problems with it or the historical accuracy (which no one ever cared about historical accuracy in video games before this). MGS3 is based in the Cold War and no one had a problem with the Boss being a woman or electrically powered Russian generals and walking tanks but somehow for THIS game everyone is a historian. Read a book if you want real history.
White people actually interacted with Japan through trade, diplomacy and warfare in ways that Black people didn't. I don't understand what the issue is. The obsession with Yasuke clearly comes down to trying to shoehorn a novelty into Japanese history in order to portray him as having some outsized impact on that history for modern audiences; and to placate the inferiority complex of black Americans due to the relative insignificant impact Sub-Saharans have had on world history overall. That's why you get so many white savior types (and the Uncle Chan in this video) trying to champion them. That's why there's so many false equivalencies and attempts to equalize everything--such as the case as with your comment. You get one black guy that was a retainer for a feudal lord and people eat it all up, that's how starved people are for representation. To where the series of events devolve into outright fiction. The desperation to be connected to a renowned and beloved cultural period is pathetic and embarrassing.
Great vid. For both the breakdowns and examples, as well as the concerns about the actual gameplay. I wish all the discussion about the game was as rational.
it's because an east asian male assassin does not exist in the AC universe -- and despite all other AC games casting natives for egypt, norway, greece, america, etc, they snubbed Japanese men for Yasuke in what was the most anticipated AC entry since the IP's existence (assassins -> NINJAS), 10 years waiting. they even gave Yasuke a hip hop track lol (we're in feudal japan), he's african not african-american. Is this game about Japanese culture or about stepping on one minority to uplift another, it's wild how some people don't get it
Okay so I get what many says. Of course it’s a fiction, it’s a game. The guy did exist. But to what extent was he a warrior? We have no documents at all except that book from a foreign dude with lots filling in the blanks with speculation. The issue is that Ubisoft advertises the game by emphasizing “historical accuracy”. Though they retracted that by saying it’s mere fiction, you know that won’t cut it right? For us Japanese in regards to this game, we’ve been shoved a false history and was falsely advertised as OUR history. Finally when they got a back lash from people who know even a little bit of Japanese history, they retract that statement. Like no, they can’t end it at that. Oh and also the developer’s statement being like “Oh we couldn’t empathize with a Japanese character so we had to get “our own samurai”. Like wtf? Imagine a game dev saying we had to have a white character since we couldn’t empathize with a black character. They’d get cancelled to the ground. But I guess Asian representation is “abundant” so it doesn’t matter
Its actually bigger than the game. I've seen several posts on social media pushing the fact Yasuke was the first black samurai with 'facts' straight from the book. And many, especially blacks in America, believe this narrative. Its a growing trend among certain groups to push exaggerated and misleading history about blacks. And if you dare question it you're a racist. It needs to be questioned. Glad This is getting a pushback and it should.
Holy shit, grow up. You dont see italians up im arms because Leonardo Da Vinci was creating gliders and GUNS with his Blueprints, do you? If you, or anyone else, thinks AC is Purely historically accurate and not based on Historical Figures, you need to get a mental check up. ASAP
Yasuke wasn't just any samurai, he was a hatamoto bannerman that served as a high ranking samurai as a close and personal retainer to lord oda nobunaga
One of the reasons for the controversy is the definition of "samurai" is ambiguous. Originally it referred to lower-ranking nobles who made their living by the martial arts to serve higher-ranking nobles, but during the Warring States period, when the status system was ambiguous, it came to refer to a relatively higher-ranking combatant with the right qualification for mounted combat, and during the Edo period it again became a hereditary status. Considering that Yasuke's surname is not documented, it is unlikely that he held such a high status, and given that he wasn't killed by Akechi Mitsuhide after Oda Nobunaga's death and was sent to Nanbanji Temple, it is likely that he did not participate in the battle that much. However, the definition of "samurai" in English is even more ambiguous, and could be anyone who worked in a combat position in medieval Japan. In Japanese, "bushi" is close to this definition.
I saw a post where someone did extensive research on him in light of the reveal and the TL;DR was that: Yes, Yasuke was officially considered a samurai.
There is no historical document that refers to him as a samurai only as a retainer, which was commonly held by a Samurai but not always Also the fact he wasn't made to commit seppuku upon his lords death heavily suggests he wasn't a samurai
Yasuke never received a title, nor land, nor payment. In fact, his very name "Yasuke" is all we know about him, since he was so irrelevant that his proper full name was never recorded, even though literally everything else was recorded in the court of Nobunaga, even the names of the lowliest servants.
Yasuke was kept around as a talking piece, an oddity for Nobunaga to show off, much in the same way he enjoyed irking other Daimyo by showing them Azai Nagamasa's gold-plated skull. there is no actual historical record of him doing any of the things samurai actually did and he was sold right back to his slave masters after Nobunaga died it's ignominious and much less feel-good than the romanticized version of the history but unfortunately for a large part of history blacks were treated with unreasonably large amounts of ignominy
Or Hattori Hanzō who was both a Samurai and a Shinobi, so if they wanted a historical figure for the time period they could have gone with Hanzō and instead of focusing on two separate protagonists Hanzō could have fit the warrior and assassin role, honestly he would have made more sense then Yasuke
Thank you! It’s amazing how many people complain about Yasuke and assert that he wasn’t a Samurai but don’t know anything about how Oda ran his clan. They think, “Oh, He was a weapon bearer, that’s equivalent to a Squire. He was just an errand boy or pet.” They know nothing about how important that job was and forget that he was getting paid. They also forget that you don’t have to be from a prestigious family to be a samurai in Oda’s army. Hideyoshi was a peasant then a sandal bearer. Yasuke had a better position starting out than Hideyoshi. Great stuff man! Maybe this might inspire the naysayers to actually read a book and learn some words!
Half of the anger seems misplaced, like if sucker punch made the next samurai ghost game with yasuke the judgement wouldn’t be this bad People are just losing faith in Ubisoft, AC direction is all over the place and the games feel like grinding and filler alongside the lackluster gameplay Most people already know their not gonna do the character justice so why use him it feels like their using his name for “clout”
Yasuke never received a title, nor land, nor payment. In fact, his very name "Yasuke" is all we know about him, since he was so irrelevant that his proper full name was never recorded, even though literally *everything else* was recorded in the court of Nobunaga, even the names of the lowliest servants.
@@Chaoskoch citation needed. Weapons bearer was a title of a retainer which was a samurai. The Japanese recognised him as part of their history. His contemporaries wrote about him. Hell, even TH-camrs that study Japanese history site sources backing this. All of the information and academia is out proving that he was one. Now prove with academic rigour and research that he wasn’t. I’ll wait.
@@tyfuego3721 the not doing the character justice is not an argument these people are using. I get that they feel some kind of irritation for the times we are living in. They insert people in media pieces for inclusion when it doesn’t make sense to or they change history completely. Hell, America does this in academia for example ancient Egyptians being white or Netflix’s Cleopatra. They assert that as being the truth. With Assassin’s Creed though they are using an actual human in a fictional universe. People just need to grow up or make better video games themselves.
Regardless of the true extent to which yasuke was a samurai, I think the concept of being black samurai in japan, which is a really homogenous country, could be done really well if ubisoft doesn't fuck it up
he could've been another historical figure in the game that you interacted with to show that. Why is he a playable character instead? People know why and they don't like the reason.
@@ernimuja6991dude no word of a lie you coming across as very bigoted. Yes so what if they include black people in media after decades of just media drenched with people of European descent. And even when black people were in media it was a clown and jokers of shows. What’s ur problem with me seeing someone who looks like me and saying that kind of cool . Yes I do understand sometime it’s a pandering in. Oh stupid to realise that but this is a person who has been in history. They just want to experiment and see how creative they be with it. About”we all know why that is” hella weird shit to say look at yourself in the mirror and check your implicit bias .
@@ernimuja6991 You guys are hypocrites.😂Where were you when they made Nioh, white people in samurai Anime films or all those films and childrens books with white European people as Bible characters and ancient Egyptians? In Assasins Creed Origins the female playable character Aya is half Greek, where was the backlash?
@@user-vw6bk4pb4l Nioh literally starts in England. It is the story of an Englishman. It would be really dumb for a Japanese man to start his journey from an English jail. There has been a consensus about the other stuff, you must've missed me in that consensus due to your assumptions about me. And Assassin's Creed Origins is set in Ptolemaic Egypt which had a substantial Greek population. Why wouldn't Aya be half Greek? Since you brought up Nioh, nobody cared because it is the story of an Englishman which makes it fine. But Assassins's Creed is the story of a culture. It has always been so and casting a man from a different culture in it as the main character naturally rubbed people the wrong way.
This is happening because a lot of black history has been so distorted that now when some piece of very interesting information comes to light........ we'll come on now. This how you know we ain't sleeping no more.
Well when you take such an obvious opportunity and flip it for woke points, it shows developers are not making games for the gamers anymore, but for the stake holders. Basically they’re making things for the wrong interest group than the community that got them there in the first place. Its kinda what happened to Battlefield when they had Trevor Noah (a political comedian) reveal the BFV trailer.
Imagine this. "An Asian man came from somewhere to England in the Middle Ages, and became a topic of conversation because he was a rare race. He couldn't speak English, but he was given the title of Earl and became a knight. The strongest knight in England was an Asian! This is not recorded, but it's true! The people of England worshipped Asian knights!" This is just an analogy, but who would believe such a story? Thomas Lockley, who wrote "Yasuke", said that he had checked with a Japanese history expert before writing, but in fact the Japanese history expert denied Thomas' statement. It was discovered that Thomas had written a lie to make money. Unfortunately, Yasuke was just a baggage carrier and not a samurai.
Your analogy is stupid because Yasuke existed, and if what you proposed happened it would still make for a great story. Funny how you guys claim to know the "real" history of Yasuke and yet stayed silent for over 50 years. Also, doesn't matter his function in real life, Yasuke WAS samurai. Now crawl back to your MAGA rallies.
@@KodachiC the fuck are you talking aboout. These japanese people are mad because Ubisoft change their history, use their culture to uplift another race where Asian people doesn't have representative in AC except one spin off, didn't respect the history material (using different clans emblem on the pre-order statue, stealing a logo/emblem from a japanese community, using chinese subtitle for a LIMITED TIME JAPANE ONLY TRAILER) and you make as like the Japanese people are the one who's racist
The same people having a problem with Yasuke are the same ones that have a problem with Mafia 3, according to them it was "boring". They don't want to admit that they say that because he was half Italian half black.
yahudaputy875 loved mafia 3 an didn't care about any of that. Now this game is ubsoft an they are trash. I'll pass just because that simple reason alone. Lol
It isn't him being black. It's about him being shoehorned even though he had no influence at all. And he was in fact glorified pet of Oda. If it was about racism people wouldn't want japanese guy either, but this isn't the case. People literally wanted to play as asian guy as ninja, and devs denied that by doing grand stand with politics.
So its okay to chose the only black person in Japanese history, over a male Japanese character set in feudal japan, yeah makes sense, because that 1 black man is better than all of japan
Amen! 90% of these daft morons didn't know there was a black man in feudal Japan before the trailer dropped. The first argument was "black people in fuedal Japan makes no sense" now they have been educated on that fact that yasuke was real. "Oh but he wasn't a samurai 😭" who tf cares either buy the game or don't.
@@zeroskaterz92 and what is that extra money for? A few worthless skins and a battle pass for a single player game, Also just because another company charges more doesn't excuse the actions of this company. stop Glazing ubislop.
@@N_Tertainment7 Are you dumb or something? Charging for additional content for single player game is nothing new. Even games like Witcher 3, Resident Evil series, Dark Souls trilogy, Elden Ring all have additional content with multiple editions to the game. Ubisoft ain't the only company that done this. Clearly you don't know wtf you're talking about and don't actually play video game for that matter. lmao
@@N_Tertainment7 Are you inept or something? Charging for additional content for single player game is nothing new. Even games like Witcher 3, Resident Evil series, Dark Souls trilogy, Elden Ring all have additional content with multiple editions to the game. Ubisoft ain't the only company that done this. Clearly you don't know wtf you're talking about and don't actually play video game for that matter. Just yapping over something that you know nothing about. lmao
Yasuke, who was favored by Nobunaga but disappeared into the darkness of history without accomplishing anything in particular It is interesting to note that hundreds of years later, he became a legendary samurai for the sake of poly-correctness. He did not become a legend because of what he accomplished. He became a legend because he was black. Very interesting.
Here’s my issue with it all. No one is clearly understanding what the problem is with yasuke in the game and unfortunately it’s left to people larping around online on both ends. The evidence actually leans more into no he wasn’t a samurai. He didn’t have 2 swords or a clan name which was something shared between all samurai all the way up to the end of their era. As for the retainer aspect it’s going over people heads what that actually is in terms of Japan then. Retainer in that period would have been something like the speaker of the house when the lord was away.That doesn’t mean he was automatically samurai. When it’s addressed on what a retainer is in history it’s stated a samurai COULD be a retainer but generally it was someone very close to the lord. The other thing is again the name. Samurai had 2 distinct identifiers that only people of their specific status had so that if us normies could know who they were and who they were with and their status. Samurai after earning the title had 2 names. A nickname a true family( a clan roots) name and a lineage name. It’s like a pimp named slit back…. Not even joking you gotta say the whole thing lmao.Also despite what people say only samurai were allowed to carry 2 swords. People say that’s not true but it is. What’s not true is the style of swords they carried. Wasn’t always a long and short sword. All these things yasuke lacked along with time to be samurai. And it’s wild how romantic people make samurai. Samurai were asshole murdering fuck heads and people wanna shoehorn him down to that status.
You seem to have an inaccurate understanding of what a Samurai was. First they were not monolithic through time, including what weapons signified them. Different types and lengths of swords were used by samurai over their long history. Two swords for example, didn't become the symbol of samurai until over decades after Yasuke's death, during the Edo period. You also have an inaccurate understanding of what a retainer was. The type of retainer he was, with property, a stipend, a sword with his master's crest and bodyguard duties, would be a samurai, and not anything else. Had you paid attention to the video, you would have been provided with ample evidence for why he clearly was a samurai. Your issue is that you can't conceive of a black samurai. It just doesn't sit right with your understanding of the world. That is a you problem.
Interesting. In this video he talks about how the cultural circumstances for which someone is declared samurai is evolutionary over the era. Being that this period in time there was a lot of conflict and war, the circumstances for becoming a samurai must've been much more lenient as a result. Much like women taking on jobs while the men are at war (in the U.S during world war) because the times gave them little option, and much necessity for it.
@@barnettmcgowan8978 I don’t have a bad understanding of the history of my people. He wasn’t actually called retainer he was called bushi. Bushi can be described as a retainer. All samurai were bushi but not all bushi were samurai. There were 2 words specifically used for samurai which were Buke and saburai. The word samurai was coined much later after Yasukes time in Japan. As for the swords yes samurai had different swords up until 1601 when the it became common for samurai to carry a long and short sword however anyone from that time literally did carry a short sword. Also no one knows when or where he died. Shit they don’t even know if he was from Africa. You can read everything anyone knows in literally 2-3 mins flat. Nothing at all says he was anything more than bushi. Idk where you’re getting this he had a crest on his sword and stuff. Gonna assume you read Thomas lockleys made up shit. It was a single short sword a stipend and a home with servants. Nothing more. Same shit was given to Anjin miura
@@OmniPotentS001 Don't you just love how Barnett is incapable of debating an opposing viewpoint without making baseless accusations of you being racist? Lol. Ample evidence of Yasuke being a samurai. Good lord. The delusions of some people. Citing a Thomas Lockley novel when Lockley himself openly admits to speculating the vast majority of his book is the peak of ignorance. 0 concrete evidence exists that confirms he was definitely considered a samurai. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Anyone who claims this proof exists is lying. There is evidence to suggest he *could've* been Samurai. A lot of the people against this Yasuke business try to downplay Yasuke into being little no than a servant Japanese people laughed at. If Nobunaga made him bushi, for whatever reason, Yasuke was in fact not just some laughing stock slave/clown like some are claiming. He was clearly somebody of some significance. I honestly find it embarrassing that people need to explain why people would expect AC: Shadows to have the main male protagonist be Japanese. I've noticed the vast majority of the people whining about those who take issue with this Yasuke business are either being intellectually dishonest or are just genuinely ignorant/uninformed. None of them take into account Ubisoft's very overt DEI/representation agenda that they publicly proudly admit to. Or do these oafs just forget that nearly every major character in Far Cry 6 was a woman? The gaming industry in general, has seen a pendulum shift in this DEI business, especially with making more main characters Black and or women, for no reason other than to score real world ESG brownie points. A lot of people aren't fans of this new trend. Given this trend, Ubisoft's history of following this trend, and people have very valid reasons for being concerned about Ubisoft making Yasuke the main male lead. One point I notice a lot of people failing to address is that Ubisoft doing this goes against their own beliefs in representation. Why is Ubisoft refusing to "represent" Asian men by giving this game a main male protagonist that is Japanese? What did Asian men do to Ubisoft? They made sure to give Fujibayashi Nagato a daughter, even though I'm pretty sure his recorded family history is sketchy, why not give him a playable son? These people are looking at this from the most surface-level view possible, and coming to a definitive conclusion, with that conclusion mostly being baseless accusations of racism. I can see why there's a saying that the average person is an idiot. At the end of the day, Yasuke being samurai or not is moot for me. It's a cool thing to think about, and the idea does have potential. He was around in this time period, and could easily slot into this game. Japan has used him numerous times in games, anime and manga (This is not a 1:1 comparison some are falsely claiming it is, as Japan, unlike Ubisoft and Western developers, isn't consumed by DEI nonsense. It's like trying to compare Afro Samurai to this). They handle him better. And they didn't try to revise history of Yasuke when they did. The West has done so when Netflix made an animated show about him, and they're doing so now. This is not the same thing. Quite clearly.
not really simple answer: - its not "diversity" or some vain "moral" principle, its done ideologlically to push what they think is "progressive" mentality - which aligns to ESG/DEI - main writer has connection to Sweet Baby Inc, ESG firm - goes hand in hand with Ubi being one of their "partners" - done to gaslight audience into emotional validation which leads to bias for Ubisoft to defend them - used as a shield to any issue the game will have - used to deflect from $130 price point and Ubi+ own nothing subscription - afro centrism in western media to artificially make everything about black or "done by blacks" - wasted opportunity for japanese male lead, only reason female lead is there is brownie points on "strong female protagonist trope" which they can still get brownie points for - he's not a samurai and never was, there's no evidence to it anyone defending it is a dumbass, anyone saying the nay-sayers are racist is a dumbass and anyone pretending its "not a big deal" is one as well for not realizing social manipulation tactics and how obvious revisionist it is to do this and why media is shilling so hard for it right now (like IGN and WIki sites changing their post on Yasuke to align with it)
Thank you for your kind words! I have not worked in radio before, my primary fields of work were/are agro-industry & history and I'm also a voice actor as well and if you're in Delaware you MAY have heard my voice on one of the public radio channels once!
I mean no one vilifies white men for no reason. And this should go without saying but just be clear, NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE RACISTS. But there is a very clear history of a violent and racist hierarchy in the west that is upheld by and for white people. Going further within that hierarchy white woman are still second to white men. To say Yasuke is only in the game because he's black and therefore a white guy can't be in the game is insane. It implies that it would more natural for a white man to be in that setting. The West has a hard time seeing black history as anything more than slavery and rap music. It's also super disingenuous to act they like care about historical or cultural representation like they didn't have white folks playing Egyptians or Tom Cruise playing a samurai or Nioh for that matter. We bare knuckle box a pope, fight in tanks and use blood to time travel. But a black man with a katana is where we draw the line👌okay chief
It's about the total erasure of the absolute most notable figures of the period, who obviously would have been Japanese (Asian) males as main characters. Also, Tom Cruise's character wasn't a Samurai you bozo. He wasn't the 'last samurai'. And his character still would have had a much greater impact than a marooned slave that lived as a lord's servant for 3 years. The imagery of Kan Watanabe's character having a dream of a white tiger to foreshadow the coming of some white man to Japan to train rebel Shogunate forces in the ways of modern warfare is cringe as shit though, I can't lie. I understand why the movie is seen as problematic, but it is based on a true story. Although the nationality is changed from French to American for American audiences.
@@sandelemental6502 you really think a video game...when Noone even talks about the most recent ac game that came out is going to impact anything...it's fictional bs game like everyone before it that people play and forget about.. because it's not important. You guys stress for nothing
No, nobody cared until they made a protagonist not be the nationality of where the game takes place. People would've thought it was weird if we played a French dude at the height of the Italian Renaissance. People would've thought it weird if we played as a roman dude in AC Origins instead of an Egyptian. This is not that hard to understand, truly.
Well first I was talking about how they’ve always played with the history it was never exactly how it went down in history so everyone wants to say Yasuke wasn’t a samurai he was just caring the samurai weapons. and dude we played as an Italian that traveled to Rome and Constantinople he wasn’t born there. It’s not that hard to understand that people can travel and that there’s still a Japanese protagonist
It was never spot on historically accurate which is my point what are y’all talking about? They’ve always played with the ideas the only thing that’s ever exactly how it was in history was the map we play the game
Cool. I get to play a black samurai while they play rap music in the background. If you think that's wrong, maybe you should watch some of the gameplay trailers and see how they mix the music and it's actually rap music. This is a 100% DEI influenced. Do some research and you'll see that all the history of yasuke is done by one white guy out of japan who is fictionalizing all of it
I love how when this game got announced suddenly everyone became an expert on japanese history, the real problem here is the price, even if you're not force to buy that ultimate edition, is way to much
William Adams (Miura Anjin) was an English navigator who sailed with a Dutch trading fleet to the far East and landed in Japan in 1600. He became a vassal under the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, was bestowed with a title, lands and swords, and became the first SAMURAI from England.....a white Englishman
I found out about Yasuke when I was stationed in Japan. Everyone knows about him to some extent. It's wild how racist and inconsiderate people are to real historical characters in today's age.
they should have kept japanese main character in that native american AC game or white guy as main character in origins. see where this is going? fiction needs to be grounded in reality. there is reason why so many people hate new lord of the rings tv show while movies are almost universally adored. there is a pattern here and people know what it is. its just they are scared to point it out coz their social points might take a tumble :P i kinda think ubisoft knew they will divide the audience with this choice and they prolly felt like its free social marketing and went with it. they will just collect initial sales from suckers who will buy seasonal passes and shit and spend 200$ on this rehash garbage. thats my ted talk.. i go play my ghost of tsushima now.
This is a video game and it's fiction, so just make it fun. However, please stop talking about Japan's Sengoku period with this game. It bears no resemblance to the real Sengoku period in Japan. This is all fiction. It's a video game that has nothing to do with Japan.
@@putent9623 Literally all of your animes takes place in Japan with characters named as gojo but with white hair and blue eyes then we got another one named Naruto with blonde hair and blue eyes and you seem to be ok with it ?
No it hasnt this game is recent . The Japanese have made a bunch of movies , books and shows on this guy. They don't have a problem with him. Their problem is that Ubisoft is using Chinese item and architecture instead of Japanese. It's not until a character is black that people seem to have an issue.
@@terrellfair9812 I didn't ask about the Japanese. Yasuke drama has been going on since at least 2019. If you're unaware of that, that sounds like a YOU problem.
This is my feeling too! Yasuke is the perfect balance of "we know he existed and was close to some of the most famous Japanese historical figures" and "he is so mysterious that he could have been involved with magic super-assassins for all we know"
Rhunzzz he was wounded running from a fight he was brought to. He wasn't even a samurai an he returned to wear he came before he died. Great history lol
He got exiled after surrendering the only fight he ever fought. Then he refused to follow bushi and seppoku himself after failing in battle. Thus the lord who captured him saw him as nothing but beast and exiled him. Also Oda was villain in real life. Him being close to him should actually just make him villain as well. In this case a templar since oda had fetish for west.
One single random black man that had no historical impact on Japan. Let’s make him the protagonist of a game set in feudal Japan. Forget the under representation of Asian protagonists, lets all pat ourselves on the back for defeating the racists! This game is going to get everyone on our side!
I reside in Japan and when I heard and did some research of my own, Yasuke the black samurai did exist. Yet why are so many refuting his existence and are clearly upset especially amongst the palm coloured gaming community in the US. This is Japanese history and there’s alone and if they can’t accept that fact don’t buy the game, I’ll be adding it to my assortment of UBISOFT titles in game collection.
Part of it is weebs trying to virtue signal by being offended on Japan's behalf.... but I think a bigger part of it is the partisan anti-wokist crowd using this game as a standard bearer for their grievances. I wouldn't be surprised if astroturfers from adversarial countries like Russia saw an opportunity here to stoke the fires of division as well, I've seen a lot of not only brazenly racist memes but also flat out falsehoods being spread about the history here reaching thousands of people, it's incredible how quickly lies can outpace the truth on social media.
Based on what I've seen. NOBODY is refuting Yasuke's existence. It's the fact that the one chance AC is finally gonna introduce a MALE Asian lead (so don't bring up Naoe), the omit that chance and put the one famous black guy in Japanese history. I swear in my life, the wouldn't be any backlash if Yasuke was an optional 3rd character along with a Asian female lead AND a MALE lead.
Great video and breakdown the context that you gave was very important for understanding titles and positions and how our perspectives are different than the actual traditions and culture that we may have opinions on
I'm honestly curious if Yasuke ends up being linked to the Templars, like they work the lore of him being brought to Japan by the Jesuits only for the ones that brought him were part of them.
Desmond: Some of the stuff I'm seeing in the Animus... sometimes it seems... wrong. Untrue, like the history's off somehow. It doesn't- Warren: It doesn't what, Mr. Miles? Match up with what you read on an online encyclopedia? What your high-school history teacher taught you? Let me ask you something: do these supposed experts have access to secret knowledge, kept hidden from the rest of us? Desmond: There are books, letters, documents... all sorts of source material from back then. Some of it seems to contradict what the Animus is showing me. Warren: Anyone can write a book, and they can put whatever they want on its pages. Anything. Used to be that we thought the world was flat. Desmond: Some people still do. Warren: Yes, and they publish books about it. Or that the moon landing was a hoax. I believe there's also a book that claims the Earth was created in seven days. A best-seller, too! Desmond: Where's this going, Doc? Warren: The point, I suppose, is that you shouldn't trust everything you hear. Everything you read. What's that your ancestor said? "Nothing is true?" Desmond: "Everything is permitted." Warren: Yes, exactly. It's part of what makes the Animus so spectacular. There's no room for misinterpretation- Desmond : There's always room for misinterpretation. -Assassin's Creed ONE
@@gregoryjamaalfultona game about a magic tool that can control people and a precursor race. With a FICTIONAL MAIN CHARACTER. Thai one actually has something and someone from history.dude no word of a lie you coming across as very bigoted. Yes so what if they include black people in media after decades of just media drenched with people of European descent. And even when black people were in media it was a clown and jokers of shows. What’s ur problem with me seeing someone who looks like me and saying that kind of cool . Yes I do understand sometime it’s a pandering in. Oh stupid to realise that but this is a person who has been in history. They just want to experiment and see how creative they be with it. About”we all know why that is” hella weird shit to say look at yourself in the mirror and check your implicit bias .
@@KodachiChere's hoping more than a few angry gamers reexamine their worldviews when they realize that most average Japanese players aren't wrapped up in their silly discourse bubble, and don't mind Yasuke being a protagonist, and actually think he's pretty cool
I don't really have a problem with Yasuke. Imagine finding out Jack the Ripper was made an assassin in the AC universe. AC fans are a little over the top and these anti-woke people will eat up what some have to say and paint this false narrative that Ubisoft is being woke. Would a male Japanese man be better? Probably would be more accurate and would be more creative options with his background of his story, but we don't know much about Yasuke. His story could be great and so could Naoe. I think fans are also getting way too upset about Naoe. Yeah, I'm a male and I won't have an option to play a Japanese male in this game, but other games already have that type of protagonist. Ubisoft is doing something different and all the trailer showed was an interpretation on his myth that looked like an absolute unit.
simple answer: its not a small thing nor some irrelevant thing decided, there's a bigger reason it happened - its not "diversity" or some vain "moral" principle, its done ideologlically to push what they think is "progressive" mentality - which aligns to ESG/DEI - main writer has connection to Sweet Baby Inc, ESG firm - goes hand in hand with Ubi being one of their "partners" - done to gaslight audience into emotional validation which leads to bias for Ubisoft to defend them - used as a shield to any issue the game will have - used to deflect from $130 price point and Ubi+ own nothing subscription - afro centrism in western media to artificially make everything about black or "done by blacks" - wasted opportunity for japanese male lead, only reason female lead is there is brownie points on "strong female protagonist trope" which they can still get brownie points for - he's not a samurai and never was, there's no evidence to it anyone defending it is a dumbass, anyone saying the nay-sayers are racist is a dumbass and anyone pretending its "not a big deal" is one as well for not realizing social manipulation tactics and how obvious revisionist it is to do this and why media is shilling so hard for it right now (like IGN and WIki sites changing their post on Yasuke to align with it)
@@marcusclark1339 those are valid points. I can't argue with that especially knowing what social manipulation in today's world is. It might be "Just a video game" but it has a lot to tell lol
I mean technically a Japanese male character would have drastically widen the timeline rather than just the late 16th century. 17th century Japan would have been insane given it was around the time the entire country closed itself off from the world.
@@marcusclark1339 The one thing that you said that is false is the 130 dollar price point. The game is 70. The Ultimate Edition which comes with two expansions and more goodies is a bigger package.
It has nothing to do with racist, Ubisoft just pushing nonsense game settings, yasuke was never samurai but servant and its little know about it in general there was only couple foreign samurais who is well documented through history and they there white, imagine game setting in Africa and you play as asian or white.
@Krahamus Another racist who doesn't like black people 🥱 Tbh if the story was good, I wouldn't care if a 5ft ginger Viking was the star of Assassin's creed roots. It's all make believe 😂
People get mad when the main character isn't a male, yes the samurai is a male but there's an anti black bias all over the world, let's just keep it real, everyone was expecting a very good looking rugged Japanese male protagonist. Not a black man and an Asian woman.
Thank you for watching! To sum it up, the discussions in regards to the creative decisions with Yasuke is a wholly different matter from the actual history that we can examine. To me, the gameplay/monetization in regards to Assassin's Creed: Shadows is more concerning than Yasuke. If you want more gaming content specifically, I do have a gaming channel you can subscribe to as well while this channel focuses more on history! www.youtube.com/@NefasQS | We also stream at twitch.tv/NefasQS
@WilliamLopshire you haven't played it yet. And with the amount of yapping you're doing regarding gameplay, it's safe to say you can't even afford the game when it comes out. How about you complain about that since it's valid to do so. Even the video author correctly points that out.😊
@WilliamLopshire I'm not even going to read anything past your first words and the return the same question to you. How are you going to be arrogant and say something like. "Gameplay isn't going to be good..." When you haven't even played the game. You could have shut up in the first place if you just gave yourself the advice you're trying to give me lmao. Play the game, then complain about gameplay if you don't like it. Otherwise, take your own advice and stop being ignorant.
WEF ESG DEI BRIDGE WOKE LEFT💩💩💩
"Assassin’s Creed Shadows pre-orders are looking very strong. I don’t have the exact numbers yet, but no one in the know is disappointed with them."
LOL.... looks like all you racist haters are FAILING. Can't keep a good game down!!!!! Can't wait to play on November 15th!!
@@dawsonjoseph5939 I preordered the ultimate edition. All my friends have preordered too.
If the first assassination of the game wasn’t my wallet I’d be interested.
Easy, wait for year end sales or other special promotion.
@@chengkuoklee5734 or make a real statement against Ubisoft's business practices and get the game for free through other means
Ubisoft + easy
@@elitealice Don't you mean UbiLGBTQ+ after the recent announcement from Ubisoft? I personally have no issues with the LGBTQ+ community, but I don't want their ideals pushed onto me. I don't go around saying "Straight Pride" and pushing my ideals onto other people. I would like the choice and not have a game breaking emersion moments when my character suddenly flirts with another man (playing as a male character) as I do not usually play female character (if I have a choice). I also have an issue withs Yasuke as the main male character/protagonist. I don't care about Yasuke's history, he could be a gardener for Oda Nobunaga for all I care. I do not mind playing him as a standalone, side mission or telling the story of him in another game. But, this is the first game within the series out of all the Assassin's Creed games (13 of them I might add) in Feudal Japan where the male protagonist is not native to that setting of which I find it rather offensive and mis-representative for the Asian community. Not to mention, I can't even play as a male shinobi (ninja). I thought the whole premise of Assassin's Creed is about Assassins, ninja/shinobi are "Assassins", they use the art of stealth, deception, mis-direction and not mowing down people in heavy armour. And don't get me started with Naoe's male jawline, AI can't even detect if she's female. To add a nail to the coffin, the prices are (wands at the ready) "Ridiculous". Not to mention, add scarcity tactic by adding a pre-order special mission. I will rate this a "No pre-order out of 10".
@@Apollyon6660 not reading allat
What confuses me is that the AC franchise literally has canonical aliens, gods, and godesses. But add ONE black man and its unrealistic now? Common now lol
Yea this is a western cultural problem we are currently dealing with
@@trvpmusic2569white cultural problem, let’s not mince words here….no race of men has ever been preoccupied with hating other races on the face of this planet, they invented 99 percent of racial epithets that exist in this world, find the lie.
The issue is Not that simple. Its a collection of many cultural Problems. Be IT the alianation of the "White" Main Charakter. Because every TV Show movie or Game Studios wants to be woke you will Always See a Female Protagonist or AS a Side Charakter but the Main Male Charakter is Always black or diverse. AS an example the new. Star wars movies and Rings of Power. And Then you Got that AC Main Charakters never where real Befor. And this Shows that they wanted a diverse Charakter so Bad they picked yasuke to make it Happen because Else they couldnt have explained it in 100 years. So its the First time that they Pick an Historical Charakter AS the Main Charakter. And its AS i belive the First time that they Main Charakter does Not have the erhnicity AS from the Region the Game is playing. AS for example bayek is eygiptian. Ezio is Italien. Altai is Arab. Nordsmen in valhalla. People would Like a stand alone yasuke Game 100 times more then an AC Game with a Female Protagonist and insteat of a japanese Male Protagonist a black men. Again me and many Others would have Loved a yasuke standalone Game Just AS many Liked the Anime and Had No Problem with it. But IT doesnt fit Assassin's Creed
simple answer:
- its not "diversity" or some vain "moral" principle, its done ideologlically to push what they think is "progressive" mentality - which aligns to ESG/DEI
- main writer has connection to Sweet Baby Inc, ESG firm
- goes hand in hand with Ubi being one of their "partners"
- done to gaslight audience into emotional validation which leads to bias for Ubisoft to defend them
- used as a shield to any issue the game will have
- used to deflect from $130 price point and Ubi+ own nothing subscription
- afro centrism in western media to artificially make everything about black or "done by blacks"
- wasted opportunity for japanese male lead, only reason female lead is there is brownie points on "strong female protagonist trope" which they can still get brownie points for
- he's not a samurai and never was, there's no evidence to it
anyone defending it is a dumbass, anyone saying the nay-sayers are racist is a dumbass and anyone pretending its "not a big deal" is one as well for not realizing social manipulation tactics and how obvious revisionist it is to do this and why media is shilling so hard for it right now (like IGN and WIki sites changing their post on Yasuke to align with it)
@@MrMrbobo46 That's all BS! It's a F'N video game. It doesn't fit AC huh? Did the aliens fit then? What culture was they? Did you have a opinion about that? How about the fact that your character goes into a machine and time travels. Time travelers should have their own game because it's more realistic. Jesus Christ you people say anything.
Love to see an intelligent person with research and non bias speak. Agreed on all points. Good video man.
fr. if they were doing it to be "woke" then they would've replaced a white person.
I feel the same way man
Then watch metatron
@@mydloSA He said he loves to see actual intelligent people speak, not the biased Eurocentric people
@@j.i.k2.044well by that comment we can safely assume you're not an intelligent person
I appreciate what you’re doing here. Thank you very much. I love the fact that you are citing all your information that you’ve gathered, and doing a far more deep dive than what most people have done explaining the history of Yasuke.
Metatron did a better anaylsis
It's unfortunate, that there is no real history to draw upon which is why Ubisoft picked this character, when the game was being planned, Yasuke was all the rage in the west, and people thought it was neat. Unfortunately, for a game where the creators say they pride themselves on this being historically accurate, it's anything but. Yasuke was in Japan for less than 2 years, that first year as a Jesuit slave, the remainder of the second year as a gift to Oda, most of the history of Yasuke is kinda of fantasy as there are no real detailed records, Lockley the guy who said he did research on the book was literally trying to push a book.
Seriously, they could've picked a random japanese dude and avoided all of the controversy, and it sounded like in the original story draft it was about a monk, which would've been cool, but here we are. The funniest part is no one even knows what his name is, where he was born or how old he actually is, dude could've been a dark skinned guy from India for all we know, but nope he's the fantasy of 6'4" 235lb running back who plays for in the NFL. it's all kinda silly.
@OmegaSupremeWCheese they couldve picked Oda Nobunaga as the samurai and srill have yasuke in the game if they want representation so badly
@@zzz-nu2re I mean that would've been cool actually, it keeps a primarily Japanese main protagonist and allows them to hit their DEI representation for the extra $$ to produce the game.
@@zzz-nu2reno he didn’t we’re talking about the same guy who got debunked multiple times but historians and so forth 😂
I thought everyone was “colorblind” and all that stuff?
No, they just say that until they see a black person.
@@JOKINGANIMAL Oh, found my eyesight again. LOL
@@LukaDonesnitchonly when it’s suitable gotcha. 😮
But Ubisoft is not. It's obvious that the SELLING POINT of the game is that he's black. Sorry. And they knew what they were doing making his counterpart an Asian woman instead of a man. Weve got a ghost of Tsushima at home looking ahh. Plus the mechanics of ac has transgressed far beyond its peak (ac unity) so most people are expecting what they've poured money into over the years which is rpg type. But yeah the glorification of blacks agendas is being pushed hard by white game developers w probably Asian gf projecting their collective unconsciousness. It's goofy as hell they are also late as hell. This is coming from a dark colored entity.
I like yasuke and it meant a lot to me to see how the japanese elite accepted and saw different beings from a across the world capable of fitting in their class and society. I just don't like how him being black is the SELLING POINT. Reminds me of some drake shit.
Edit, this would have competed with ghost if they made it miyamoto and yasuke despite the probable time difference. This just seems like they wanted to call dibs on yasuke which EVERYONE WANTS TO DO and we will probably see more yasuke related stuff in shows movies and games in the pronto future. Just seeing this ahead of time already irks me before it even happened
Great comment
Everybody is a desktop historian now... yet nobody has a problem with the pope being a templar... AFTER 1307
for real
It's not about fiction vs non-fiction necessarily. It's about the pandering, tokenism and erasure of Asian males in Western media in favor of other demographics that need to be placated and championed incessantly by woke YTs. There's no reason to not choose a vastly more influential and notable Japanese samurai who trained for years, completely enthralled in the lifestyle, versus some marooned bodyguard of an Italian or Portuguese merchant or missionary or whatever that lived there for 3 years.
What are you on about? The Knights Templars pretty muched served the pope. That indeed didn't make the pope himself a Templar, but it makes perfect sense for a game studio to make him the final boss right?
@@2009heyhow They didn't serve the pope.. especially NOT in that era.. Did you forget what happened to them in the 1300s.?
@@2009heyhow Brother, I'm so sick of their bad faith false equivalencies and gas lighting lol
"Actually, the Pope being a Templar is the same as some insignificant Sub-Saharan African jester being portrayed as a bad ass Samurai, overshadowing the innumerable native Japanese Samurai who spent their entire lives engrossed in the lifestyle. Versus the Pope somehow inconceivably being related to the Templar, who were actual catholic Knights, and not some shoehorned diversity hire serving the purpose to make black people feel good about themselves while, once again, erasing Asian males from media in the process.
I don't understand why it's a crazy leap to associate the head of the Catholic Church with his underlings. They think fiction vs non-fiction is the crux of the issue, and not the cheapening of the real cultural affinity people might have with their ancestry. People love alternative history; they don't like erasure for the purposes of pandering to particular demographics and orthodoxies.
AA guy appreciate you taking the time out to speak on this matter. It’s 2024 and it’s sad we have to deal with this.
I'm 34 years old. I've been a gamer all my life, and I've never once cared about the race of a protagonist. If the game is good and fun to play, that's all I care about.
You right that's what matters
Your frontal lobe must be damaged 😂
I keep saying this I miss the times gamers just played games without complaining.. Lately everyone is a Kritique
@@donquaviousdigglebottom652cuz games are sucking recently. And it shows what the execs are focusing on instead of writing good stories.
@@ernimuja6991 Like which games? I can give you awesome releases right now. Get outta here man 😆😂
Thank you so much for this informative video!!!
Can we all just agree that Yasuke is a real historical figure, and that video game are for entertainment. And if you really want to worry about accurate historical facts you'll put down your video game controller and pick up a history book. I guess that's too much to ask for some trolls.
Can we all just agree that there is a political group out there that can't stop putting their forced diversity ideologies out there?
No one cares that he is black just some months ago an anime came out for the same person, and no one was hating on it.
Look at the writers of this game and you'll get why ppl don't like it. (oh btw they just made both the characters gay, and no nothing wrong with them being gay, but again forced diversity, yeah so cool)
@@V34035 This is literally the opposite of forced diversity.
If anything Naruto and Bleach are more guilty of "forced" diversity.
@KodachiC Ah yes Naruo is well known for its w0ke r*cist forced diversity like Cry Baby Inc, the maker of this game. My dude look at the writers of the game.
There is a big difference between putting diversity and forced diversity.
@@V34035 One of which is a Japanese woman.
So Yasuke was "forced" into all the Japanese media he has been in?
Let's get to it: You don't hate forced diversity.
Just diversity.
@KodachiC Ah yes back to trying to call ppl racist when they point out your delusion:
Snow White.
Queen Cleopatra. (btw they were going to get sued by Egypt for rewriting their history)
Dear White People.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Velma.
Rapunzel.
THE WITCHER.
Warhammer 40k.
Etc, etc
Is always funny how all of these shows had a white liberal far left left-blue-haired girl as director or writer.
BTW that's the wirriters of this game as well, and is funny how she works with the most woke game industry out there Cry Baby Inc.
The problem isn't that he is black the problem is that they're going to ruin a historical figure like they always have.
Idk why so many people trippin on this, imma be on my afro samurai shit getting that mf #1 headband
@kickingbackpunchingcones4099 The fact that the focus is on the black guy and not the Asian girl should already make you doubt if the outrage solely comes from Asian gamers
@kickingbackpunchingcones4099 yeah... bro is a real person did you not watch the video???
@@Hargazer Problem is Asian Males rarely get represented in Western Media, whenever they are, they are always portrayed as emasculated comedic characters.
@@Hargazer Problem is Asian Males rarely get represented in Western Media, whenever they are, they are always portrayed as comedic relief characters.
@@Hargazer Problem is Asian dudes rarely get represented in Western media, whenever they are, they are always portrayed as comedic relief.
A genuine question. Nioh came out a few years ago featuring a white samurai and no one cared. I wonder why that was? Yaskue may or may not have been made a Samurai, but he WAS given weapons and Armor, servants and a home. For all intents and purposes, he might as well have been one.
I'll say this as someone who's effectively not a fan of the series, but i think your misunderstanding something on this about why the yasuke situation is such a problem.
First off it's because he's a named historical figure who we know quite alot about as the protagonist (and likely, not a samurai or ninja, evidence points to him essentially being the equivalent to a flag bearer or butler), this is extremely problematic for the fanbase because it is obviously done for DEI purposes and gaming is a escapist hobby for most people, meaning they don't play games to be preached to about anything, hence why the backlash is so extreme, plus the fact it's the one assassin's creed game fans have been begging for for years, meaning ubisoft took their wishes and spat on them in the eyes of the fans, if the female kunoichi was the only playable character in the game, it probably wouldn't have had as much of a backlash, this is specifically because it's obviously pandering for dei points and will effect the story as well.
Now on to nioh, first problem is nioh was a original game, william adams was a real person as well who became a advisor and samurai under ieyasu tokugawa but again this is a new franchise so there was no baggage against it (to be honest, nearly everyone in nioh is a historical person fyi, including the bosses, even the love interest's name is not historical, she seems to be based on william adams first wife along with a couple of sprinklings of other historically significant female characters of the period), second the japanese themselves did this one making it national choice, had assassin's creed shadows been made by a japanese team and put yasuke in it the furvor would likely not be as strong, third there were far more white people in japan during the warring states period than there were black people, i won't go into details about all of the seedy stuff that happened in japan during the warring states period but the idea of seeing a white male in japan in the late 1500's to early 1600's is not unheard of.
@@tatsuya2112 so case in point, its cuz hes black lol. got it.
@tatsuya2112 and that's where I got you. If you knew anything about Nioh, you'd know it features Yaskue in it, as a samurai. Only difference was he wasn't a main character so no one whined. Also, how exactly do we know a lot about him? He's mentioned in a few texts, explicitly stated he was granted a sword, servants and a home... and then that's it. He disappears from the historical record meaning he fits as a protagonist perfectly. They can do whatever they want with him because after his service to Nobunaga ended, he dropped out of the historical record entirely. Also, when Nobunaga died he pretty much went on a warpath due to it. He was clearly not just a "baggage handler or servant". Come on man. We both know why you're really upset. The fact you directly stated that him being in the game is just an attempt at DEI directly tells on yourself.
@@tatsuya2112 lmao, assuming so many bs here, the guy really existed, if having a real character from history in your historic game is sjw, you might as well build a time machine and go complain to nobunaga for giving him a job, also love how you have absolutely no doubts about williams adams, but so many about yasuke, despite this being a video that clarifies he really existed
@@MeTaLISaWeSoMe95 Thought i could be cordial, you know just lay out the facts but that's not what you want it seems.
First off i never told you where i stood on the argument or either series, i've never played a single assassin's creed game or nioh nor do i want to, only the reason for the argument and again, nioh was made by the japanese which gives it far more leeway than a western developed game when it comes to this, you also completely overlooked my main points for your pollical desire, assassin's creed has never used a historical figure as a playable character in the series, breaking with conventions, while it would have been obvious dei pandering if they had made the character black, it would have had less of a backlash on that alone, though the backlash is mainly, that they aren't using ethnically from the population that the game is based on, which is VERY important when your playing as a assassin, you know, someone who doesn't want to stand out, notice how no one is getting angry over the female protagonist, because she wouldn't stand out unlike yasuke which you could easily pick out of a crowd in the game.
If i had my way i wouldn't have even made the game in the first place, japan is overdone but if your going to make it about ancient japan at least make it authentic, what i want to see is a AC game based in the songhai dynasty (west african, one of the least known empires in the world, would be interesting to see a game on it) or possibly the aztecs, i'm tired of hearing about AC honestly, i want a game from it that is actually innovative instead of copying every single other series pattern of using famous time no x, if i saw something actually innovative i'd give it a shot.
Oh and you forgot something with your obvious trying to make this racial bias argument, no one has problems with either afro samurai or onimusha 3 as examples, because neither tried to push a political agenda, again for the last time, the problem with this is they used yasuke, for the first time in the history of the series they used a actual historical figure, my own take is that making him a assassin is insane, a warrior sure but if he's actually a assassin in the game it's utterly mind boggling because he sticks out, has obvious identifiying features and can be watched for as soon as he's known as a assassin, the first rule of a assassin is to not stand out, but that's irrelivant, said it before i don't care about the game in general.
As a historian and a non-gamer, this added some much needed context, great video.
The fact that people were hyped when is anime was coming but now it’s somehow completely different 😂
Litteraly, but maybr it's just the anime community is more opened than the gaming one
@@daeith1233 EXACTLY!
The gaming community cry if a game has a female protagonist these days 💀
@@bradstical86facts
@@daeith1233 I'd say gamers are just more vocal. It's not just this game, but pretty much any AAA game. You'll always run into angry ppl
Why is everyone bent up that ubi interpreted history slightly?? Theyve been doing this forever thats the point
For real
@@l.j.galbreath3720on god
Assassin's creed is legit about alternate history
everyone bitching about a game that hasn’t shown no gameplay nor is it close to releasing yet like get ya panties out a twist
Exactly
Idc if they complain bc the gameplay ends up being cheeks but like damn it's just a character we know shit all about yet
It's because he's black lol
Naoe is literally the titular fictional assassin of the game just as every other AC game had native assassin's. I feel yasuke as much as he's a protagonist, he isn't the primary Assassin . Going way back to the announcement for codename red, the silhouette always showed the stealthy character. But thats just how view it anyway
simple answer:
- its not "diversity" or some vain "moral" principle, its done ideologlically to push what they think is "progressive" mentality - which aligns to ESG/DEI
- main writer has connection to Sweet Baby Inc, ESG firm
- goes hand in hand with Ubi being one of their "partners"
- done to gaslight audience into emotional validation which leads to bias for Ubisoft to defend them
- used as a shield to any issue the game will have
- used to deflect from $130 price point and Ubi+ own nothing subscription
- afro centrism in western media to artificially make everything about black or "done by blacks"
- wasted opportunity for japanese male lead, only reason female lead is there is brownie points on "strong female protagonist trope" which they can still get brownie points for
- he's not a samurai and never was, there's no evidence to it
anyone defending it is a dumbass, anyone saying the nay-sayers are racist is a dumbass and anyone pretending its "not a big deal" is one as well for not realizing social manipulation tactics and how obvious revisionist it is to do this and why media is shilling so hard for it right now (like IGN and WIki sites changing their post on Yasuke to align with it)
WEF ESG DEI BRIDGE WOKE LEFT💩💩💩
“So a black man isn’t the primary protagonist after all, ok that makes it better 😮💨”
That’s what you sound like 😂😂😂
she's exactly as real to yasuke with the exception being that she is based on an actual man.
So she's not exactly a fictional character, she's only fictional because she was a man not a woman.
Given the dialogue between hum and Naoe, I wouldn't even say he's an assassin, but more templar aligned.
Templars want order, Assassins want freedom, and we're talking about a historical period where neither was present.
So makes sense they end up working together.
Thanks for all the info, subbed
It's wild that the entire thing is just westerners trying to tell Japanese people how to feel.
Who cares learn your history and stop hating on black people.
@@Hardline_Bosswhos hating on black people? Can you stop trying to incite racism you bigot
History of the whole world unfortunately
@@Hardline_Bosswtf
Japanese people dislike the trailer and a lot.
The need to classify a black man as a servant or slave is crazy lol The racist comments I've read on the trailer are very telling.
Jesuits werent allowed to own slaves. As a matter lf fact, there are copies of Vilgangos diary where he takes a hard stance agaiant slavery and that was the man who Yasuke came with. He was a free man by the time he came to Japan.@xftjlas8296
Very informative, thanks for laying this all out.
Thanks for making this video very enlightening!
How i see it as a black guy:
The sole fact that the main reason he is black and that's all the populous really knows about him is a great thing.
By him being a most mysterious character, the team has more leniency to make creative choices with his character while still holding basic information about him
For sure. The video even states that not much if anything is known what came of him afterwards, and that said, will likely be used as the period in which they can spin a narrative for the game.
Yet ppl are crying racism if u tell them the actual history. They want pro black fiction to be true just like the cleopatra 'docuseries'
I finally found one sane person covering this topic. Thank you.
This was an excellent analysis. One of the most detailed I've seen.
If people wanted accuracy in an AC game, they should play something else. Yasuke's story is very interesting no matter how it's told. I see more people who aren't Japanese offended by this than I see people who are Japanese. Matter of fact, THEY'RE the ones whose opinions truly matter. It's ridiculous to be outraged. Hell, I'm black, and let me tell you if there was a game set in another part of Africa and the main character was white, I wouldn't trip.
Truth is it doesnt matter if they used a historical figure who is Japanese like Hatari Hanzo, it still wont be accurate and who knows what else we could do in the game to complain about it.
simple answer:
- its not "diversity" or some vain "moral" principle, its done ideologlically to push what they think is "progressive" mentality - which aligns to ESG/DEI
- main writer has connection to Sweet Baby Inc, ESG firm
- goes hand in hand with Ubi being one of their "partners"
- done to gaslight audience into emotional validation which leads to bias for Ubisoft to defend them
- used as a shield to any issue the game will have
- used to deflect from $130 price point and Ubi+ own nothing subscription
- afro centrism in western media to artificially make everything about black or "done by blacks"
- wasted opportunity for japanese male lead, only reason female lead is there is brownie points on "strong female protagonist trope" which they can still get brownie points for
- he's not a samurai and never was, there's no evidence to it
anyone defending it is a dumbass, anyone saying the nay-sayers are racist is a dumbass and anyone pretending its "not a big deal" is one as well for not realizing social manipulation tactics and how obvious revisionist it is to do this and why media is shilling so hard for it right now (like IGN and WIki sites changing their post on Yasuke to align with it)
stop talking nonsense. There is no point in making a game about the Zulu tribe with a white main char, I wouldn't play that crap like I wouldn't play a game with a Black samurai. When I'm playing a game I want to immerse myself in that world, when I play Scorpion I want to hear that scorpion voice, when I play a Zulu tribe char in a Zulu tribe surrounding and "Era" I want to hear that Zulu tribe accent and voice for the authenticity of the experience. What's the point in me playing a white Dutch dude in Africa ? It just seems off !
@@inspirerise-ei1jtSo you have never heard of Tarzan, huh?
@@spitflamez What has tarzan to do with this ? Do you even know the story of tarzan ? Did you play any Tarzan game ? tarzan was a white kid that survived in the jungle,raised and surrounded by animals.Imagine playing a Tarzan game(in the jungle) and you have the main char a puddle cuz why not,he dropped from the airplane also, instead of playing tarzan, or the tiger,the bear or the snake. Did you hear about Mowgli ? Wtf comparison you made .lol
@@inspirerise-ei1jtif your not gonna play anyway then respectfully click of the freaking video we do not care 😂
White people weren't mad when the game Nioh made the main character a white guy in Japan 😆
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Neither was I and I'm black but we already know what time it is
First of your mother fucking RACIST to assume the "white people" are the only once that are made, a bunch of us Asian (not just the japanese) are also unhappy
There have already been a bunch of black protagonists in AC adawale, that girl from ac 3 and bayek ( the father of the brotherhood)
It's not fair for the first ever male Asian protagonist in a mainline game( Because there was one in the Indian chronicle) to be shafted like that. Not to mention if anyone has the right to share "samurai culture" it would be the japanese themselve.
Mind you unlike With nioh and a bunch of japanese products with yosuke foreign products are more critically looked upon when dealing with their culture.
That is why the ghost of Tsushima was highly praised . it was a game being developed by sucker punch that was based on the USA based on their culture. It wouldn't be as much as a success in Japan if say they made the mc white because it wouldn't have properly shown their culture
AC also has to deal with it. It didn't help that Ac for all it's gimmicks have actively shown culture from people of that culture, Connor for example will be game ended if you hunted to much animals, Edward was a pirate who was originally from the British navy as a hired pirate, heck even in most Rpg like games in AC they show Egyptian culture with someone who is from Egypt, they show Greek from a Greeks perspective and even a viking perspective from someone who was a viking.
People would naturally assume they choose to represent samurai culture a Japanese culture with a Japanese man.
Yosuke himself also doesn't represent the japanese he was made mc to represent an entirely different group of people even do the game is focus on Japan and it's culture.
Chosing yosuke as the mc was a horrible idea, it not only robbed the ability for the Japanese to represent their own culture. Like the Bushido code(which yosuke in game broke by betraying nobunaga) the most important thing to a samurai. all the while branding him as a samurai when clearly should have bean a ronin in the game.
He could have been a side character (maybe mentor or dlc character)
No actually it's" not" just white people the Asians fan base also complain about it.
Actually they were, there were plenty of threads and complaints. I for one did complain about it. But at least in Nioh character was actually based on historical samurai. Yasuke wasn't a samurai. The fact that he has no surname is evidence for it.
Elephant in the room:
Most ppl in the gaming community hate black so much they hate turning off the lights at night.
Lol
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Nah, they just hate forcefully implemented left wing virtue signaling.
But they'd be hating themselves 🤔
If they don't like black characters on video games then don't play NBA 2K. 🤑😜🤪
They just cant imagine us being anything but a servant. Lord forbid we have a higher seat in nobletly
Bruh Japan is homogenous
@@Sporkonafork1 The game takes place during the time the Portuguese arrived. They brought African slaves, servants, and retainers with them. Homogeneous sure, but if they're including the Portuguese Jesuits and merchants there's no reason not to include the Africans they brought along as well.
If the main guy was Japanese, great, if he was White that would be fantastic, if he's melanated WOW WOW WOW something is not right here, and his side kick is Asian 😂😂😂 oh boy they really mad.
@@AJGressNot all of the Africans who came to Japan were slaves. Some were traders and sailors.
And we do actually, we just got our kingdom taken ... if you do your reaserch you'll find out ... we had our own nation ..
The problem with the anti-woke crowd is that anything they don't like, they deem as woke and they will use any excuse or technicality no matter how ridiculous to justify their hate. Most of the people complaining aren't even going to play the game or even play the older games. I think Yasuke looks awesome tbh, just hope the improvements to gameplay are good.
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Yep, there are more people offended that a black man gets a roll at all than people who actually care about the history. It's not hard to hide. Matt Damon slays demons on the great wall of China as the greatest warrior ever seen by chinese people, cool. Last samurai, cool. Nioh, cool! Black man in Japan? The world is ending. Woke this. woke that. You can't make this up.
Facts
@@HYDEinallcaps typical
They litterally can't wrap their brain around Blacks existing other than in the roles of former slaves or gangbangers, so their brain explodes and they go full Nick Fuentes.
Please tell me why Yasuke was a samurai? Cause I want to know. Like was there any concrete information that he was a Samurai. And also… what kind of Samurai because the Samurai class is very complicated.
And after that, explain to us how Nioh can carry so many weapons and armor at once. Especially as a white samurai.
Thank you for this information! I've learned something new today
Thank you so much for this WOW I'm amazed I need to do more research 👍
They can’t claim they did any historic research. The Shinobi weren't their own fighter class. There were Samurai, which is a rank, who did assassinations or spy work, therefor they took on the job of a Shinobi. So exactly the opposite of what he is saying. Also a Samurai wouldn't walk through town in his battlefield armor. And Iga wasn't a secret, hidden village in the mountains, but an important and well known center of commerce with a lot of trade routes. There were no Ninja training in the Himalayas, that's from Batman for heaven's sake.
Naah, the fans are just busted
This is the same franchise that has greek demigods and Norse Vikings fighting mythological creatures and monsters BUTA BLACK SAMURAI IS WHERE THEY DRAW THE LINE.
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Exactly my point
@Leontemplar-yt6ff well let's see when the game drops cause I'm still buying it because I am a fan of yasuke even tho the story is not the same as the irl story
If you don’t like it you don’t have to buy it and play it, Simple…
Don't come crying if the game fails.
*Simple.*
@@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad Whether it fails or not has nothing to do with my point. I honestly could care less if it fails or succeeds. Like I said before if you don’t like the main protagonist, you don’t have to buy nor view any videos pertaining to the matter.
Seems like you care by watching this video and spending time to comment and reply. And perhaps reply twice.
says the same snowflake that will be crying racism when it flops.
That’s good because people won’t
The Japanese gamers are getting mad at seeing: Chinese lanterns, not about Yasuke.
Thank you! It's only the white racist trolling
I saw this too but so many comments from westerners are claiming Japanese people are mad that Yasuke is the main protagonist
@@kingpanther424 well, I haven't seen that. but they are mad because they wanted a Japanese character.
@@kingpanther424 those are just racist people trolling! Japanese people are cool and real as hell!!! 💯💯❤️
I still think the game could be pretty cool with the story of Yasuke and Naoe
Great video. Thank you!
Have you, or could you, touch on how the concept of Bushido has affected this controversy?
I understand that now many people are saying Yasuke couldn't be a real Samurai because he didn't follow their imagined version of Bushido. Such as being taken alive and not fighting to the death. However, I have read many other historians have pointed out that the most famous "versions" of Bushido are not from the time period of Nobunaga and Yasuke, but are instead a later Edo Period invention.
Thoughts, good sir?
I found this video really great @CasparSpeaks.
Helping in bringing some clarity amidst the fog.
Really nice to know about the facts in this structured format.
Please continue!
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Good old fashioned American 🇺🇸 racism nothing like it.
They'll even go and make fake japanese profiles 😆😆. Dedicated to hating in unison. Not saying there can't be some japanese stating some kind of issues with the game, but I would bet anything that the vast majority making any type of argument that bares any resemblance to the ones these guys are making actually isn't japanese
@@Scoring57A bunch of incels twiter gangsters on 4Chan. Racist nerds.
@@Scoring57 you are ignorant if you think all of that is American people. Ubisoft change their history, putting the spotlight to another race when Asian and Japanese people hasn't have representative in AC game, disrespecting their culture (using different clan symbol on pre-order statue, stealing logo from a japanese community, using chinese sub-title on japanese only limited time trailer, etc.) Is asian and japanese not included in the diversity category?
@@dityaasmoroJust like the Rings of Power outrage, "evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt that which is already good". These parasites can only attach themselves to something better men have created, and then plunder it the name of DEI.
I'm so glad you came thru with this to shut up all the people hating on this game. Setting the record straight for the haters.
There are very, very many more reasons to be mad about the direction that Assassin's Creed is going than trying to pretend a black samurai never existed. I feel very sorry for the people that try to keep wikipedia a reasonable resource. Really good summary and, I must admit, I like the we don't know his full story as a potential plot point. Probably not enough to buy it, unfortunately.
This game is apparently set in 1579. A time where Yasuke had just arrived and was not a member of the samurai yet.
or he can be a side quest story teller telling his story of being in feudal japan
the question is not whether he never existed but whether he was a samurai or not, because the evidence is so vague and unlike the mentioned Hideyoshi, he wasn't even in Japan for a long time, and especially not in Nobunaga's service. His lord was dead maybe 20 months after Yasuke entered his service. The safest thing to say in my mind is that Yasuke was his bodyguard and sword bearer, but even if he was made a samurai, he still would not have thought in battle like one because you cannot be trained this fast. And I agree there are more problems with this game than just that, even the inclusion of Naoe which follows the common western trope of preferring east asian women over east asian men. And if rumors are true, this was not supposed to be the original concept for the game. The original one featured three historical shinobi as the protagonists and they were all men. Which probably would have been the better idea. I think the game will still make money because of the brand recognition but it would have sold much better if they had stuck with the original concept. Or just do a game set e.g. in the Mali empire if they wanted another black "assassin".
@@inotaishu1 It shouldn't matter if he was a Samurai or not because AC main characters have always been fictional so even if he wasn't a samurai, them taking creative liberties shouldn't matter. I highly doubt those rumors of the original concept being to include 3 historical shinobi as protagonists because again, AC main characters have never been based on historical people that existed.
Then by your logic they should not have used "Yasuke" at all.
A white samurai is more acceptable I see. No issues when white people act as Samurai.
the tom cruise movie you’re referring to received heavy backlash when it released, but you probably werent born yet so you wouldnt know. An ASIAN samurai would be acceptable
@@the61822what about Nioh? That game featured a white samurai and a quick TH-cam search of the comment section shows no problems with it or the historical accuracy (which no one ever cared about historical accuracy in video games before this). MGS3 is based in the Cold War and no one had a problem with the Boss being a woman or electrically powered Russian generals and walking tanks but somehow for THIS game everyone is a historian. Read a book if you want real history.
@@the61822it didn't get nowhere near the amount of outrage yasuke is getting stop it and most of that movie was a lie
White people actually interacted with Japan through trade, diplomacy and warfare in ways that Black people didn't. I don't understand what the issue is. The obsession with Yasuke clearly comes down to trying to shoehorn a novelty into Japanese history in order to portray him as having some outsized impact on that history for modern audiences; and to placate the inferiority complex of black Americans due to the relative insignificant impact Sub-Saharans have had on world history overall. That's why you get so many white savior types (and the Uncle Chan in this video) trying to champion them. That's why there's so many false equivalencies and attempts to equalize everything--such as the case as with your comment.
You get one black guy that was a retainer for a feudal lord and people eat it all up, that's how starved people are for representation. To where the series of events devolve into outright fiction. The desperation to be connected to a renowned and beloved cultural period is pathetic and embarrassing.
@@holdenmuganda97nioh is created by Japanese. Now can you say the Japanese what they should do with their culture?
Great vid. For both the breakdowns and examples, as well as the concerns about the actual gameplay. I wish all the discussion about the game was as rational.
it's because an east asian male assassin does not exist in the AC universe -- and despite all other AC games casting natives for egypt, norway, greece, america, etc, they snubbed Japanese men for Yasuke in what was the most anticipated AC entry since the IP's existence (assassins -> NINJAS), 10 years waiting.
they even gave Yasuke a hip hop track lol (we're in feudal japan), he's african not african-american. Is this game about Japanese culture or about stepping on one minority to uplift another, it's wild how some people don't get it
Okay so I get what many says. Of course it’s a fiction, it’s a game. The guy did exist. But to what extent was he a warrior? We have no documents at all except that book from a foreign dude with lots filling in the blanks with speculation. The issue is that Ubisoft advertises the game by emphasizing “historical accuracy”. Though they retracted that by saying it’s mere fiction, you know that won’t cut it right? For us Japanese in regards to this game, we’ve been shoved a false history and was falsely advertised as OUR history. Finally when they got a back lash from people who know even a little bit of Japanese history, they retract that statement. Like no, they can’t end it at that. Oh and also the developer’s statement being like “Oh we couldn’t empathize with a Japanese character so we had to get “our own samurai”. Like wtf? Imagine a game dev saying we had to have a white character since we couldn’t empathize with a black character. They’d get cancelled to the ground. But I guess Asian representation is “abundant” so it doesn’t matter
Yes it was the game directors crazy racist interviews it wouldn't b so bad
Its actually bigger than the game. I've seen several posts on social media pushing the fact Yasuke was the first black samurai with 'facts' straight from the book. And many, especially blacks in America, believe this narrative.
Its a growing trend among certain groups to push exaggerated and misleading history about blacks. And if you dare question it you're a racist.
It needs to be questioned. Glad This is getting a pushback and it should.
Holy shit, grow up. You dont see italians up im arms because Leonardo Da Vinci was creating gliders and GUNS with his Blueprints, do you?
If you, or anyone else, thinks AC is Purely historically accurate and not based on Historical Figures, you need to get a mental check up. ASAP
Yasuke wasn't just any samurai, he was a hatamoto bannerman that served as a high ranking samurai as a close and personal retainer to lord oda nobunaga
One of the reasons for the controversy is the definition of "samurai" is ambiguous. Originally it referred to lower-ranking nobles who made their living by the martial arts to serve higher-ranking nobles, but during the Warring States period, when the status system was ambiguous, it came to refer to a relatively higher-ranking combatant with the right qualification for mounted combat, and during the Edo period it again became a hereditary status.
Considering that Yasuke's surname is not documented, it is unlikely that he held such a high status, and given that he wasn't killed by Akechi Mitsuhide after Oda Nobunaga's death and was sent to Nanbanji Temple, it is likely that he did not participate in the battle that much.
However, the definition of "samurai" in English is even more ambiguous, and could be anyone who worked in a combat position in medieval Japan. In Japanese, "bushi" is close to this definition.
I saw a post where someone did extensive research on him in light of the reveal and the TL;DR was that: Yes, Yasuke was officially considered a samurai.
who?
@@aa.xviiii me:)
There is no historical document that refers to him as a samurai only as a retainer, which was commonly held by a Samurai but not always
Also the fact he wasn't made to commit seppuku upon his lords death heavily suggests he wasn't a samurai
Yasuke never received a title, nor land, nor payment. In fact, his very name "Yasuke" is all we know about him, since he was so irrelevant that his proper full name was never recorded, even though literally everything else was recorded in the court of Nobunaga, even the names of the lowliest servants.
Yasuke was kept around as a talking piece, an oddity for Nobunaga to show off, much in the same way he enjoyed irking other Daimyo by showing them Azai Nagamasa's gold-plated skull. there is no actual historical record of him doing any of the things samurai actually did and he was sold right back to his slave masters after Nobunaga died it's ignominious and much less feel-good than the romanticized version of the history but unfortunately for a large part of history blacks were treated with unreasonably large amounts of ignominy
The real disgrace is not having Miyamoto Musashi as a main character.
Oooooo that’d be dooooopeeee
he wasn't alive until after oda death
Or Hattori Hanzō who was both a Samurai and a Shinobi, so if they wanted a historical figure for the time period they could have gone with Hanzō and instead of focusing on two separate protagonists Hanzō could have fit the warrior and assassin role, honestly he would have made more sense then Yasuke
Thank you for this video
Thank you! It’s amazing how many people complain about Yasuke and assert that he wasn’t a Samurai but don’t know anything about how Oda ran his clan. They think, “Oh, He was a weapon bearer, that’s equivalent to a Squire. He was just an errand boy or pet.” They know nothing about how important that job was and forget that he was getting paid. They also forget that you don’t have to be from a prestigious family to be a samurai in Oda’s army. Hideyoshi was a peasant then a sandal bearer. Yasuke had a better position starting out than Hideyoshi. Great stuff man! Maybe this might inspire the naysayers to actually read a book and learn some words!
Half of the anger seems misplaced, like if sucker punch made the next samurai ghost game with yasuke the judgement wouldn’t be this bad
People are just losing faith in Ubisoft, AC direction is all over the place and the games feel like grinding and filler alongside the lackluster gameplay
Most people already know their not gonna do the character justice so why use him it feels like their using his name for “clout”
Yasuke never received a title, nor land, nor payment. In fact, his very name "Yasuke" is all we know about him, since he was so irrelevant that his proper full name was never recorded, even though literally *everything else* was recorded in the court of Nobunaga, even the names of the lowliest servants.
@@Chaoskoch citation needed. Weapons bearer was a title of a retainer which was a samurai. The Japanese recognised him as part of their history. His contemporaries wrote about him. Hell, even TH-camrs that study Japanese history site sources backing this. All of the information and academia is out proving that he was one. Now prove with academic rigour and research that he wasn’t. I’ll wait.
@@tyfuego3721 the not doing the character justice is not an argument these people are using. I get that they feel some kind of irritation for the times we are living in. They insert people in media pieces for inclusion when it doesn’t make sense to or they change history completely. Hell, America does this in academia for example ancient Egyptians being white or Netflix’s Cleopatra. They assert that as being the truth. With Assassin’s Creed though they are using an actual human in a fictional universe. People just need to grow up or make better video games themselves.
It's like saying someone in the military isn't a soldier because they mop floors or are cooks 💀
Regardless of the true extent to which yasuke was a samurai, I think the concept of being black samurai in japan, which is a really homogenous country, could be done really well if ubisoft doesn't fuck it up
he could've been another historical figure in the game that you interacted with to show that.
Why is he a playable character instead? People know why and they don't like the reason.
@@ernimuja6991dude no word of a lie you coming across as very bigoted. Yes so what if they include black people in media after decades of just media drenched with people of European descent. And even when black people were in media it was a clown and jokers of shows. What’s ur problem with me seeing someone who looks like me and saying that kind of cool . Yes I do understand sometime it’s a pandering in. Oh stupid to realise that but this is a person who has been in history. They just want to experiment and see how creative they be with it. About”we all know why that is” hella weird shit to say look at yourself in the mirror and check your implicit bias .
@@ernimuja6991I don't so explain it to me
@@ernimuja6991 You guys are hypocrites.😂Where were you when they made Nioh, white people in samurai Anime films or all those films and childrens books with white European people as Bible characters and ancient Egyptians?
In Assasins Creed Origins the female playable character Aya is half Greek, where was the backlash?
@@user-vw6bk4pb4l Nioh literally starts in England. It is the story of an Englishman. It would be really dumb for a Japanese man to start his journey from an English jail.
There has been a consensus about the other stuff, you must've missed me in that consensus due to your assumptions about me.
And Assassin's Creed Origins is set in Ptolemaic Egypt which had a substantial Greek population. Why wouldn't Aya be half Greek?
Since you brought up Nioh, nobody cared because it is the story of an Englishman which makes it fine. But Assassins's Creed is the story of a culture. It has always been so and casting a man from a different culture in it as the main character naturally rubbed people the wrong way.
This is happening because a lot of black history has been so distorted that now when some piece of very interesting information comes to light........ we'll come on now. This how you know we ain't sleeping no more.
Gamers are mad because that’s what gamers do. They get mad.
Well when you take such an obvious opportunity and flip it for woke points, it shows developers are not making games for the gamers anymore, but for the stake holders.
Basically they’re making things for the wrong interest group than the community that got them there in the first place.
Its kinda what happened to Battlefield when they had Trevor Noah (a political comedian) reveal the BFV trailer.
@@robster7787 They do what Larry Fink tells them
Yeah and wokist people create problems and don't really care about minorities
I been mad too if my japanese cultures got black washing
@@Ryanlexzit’s not black washed though I’m suprised this is the first time people are hearing about Yasuke considering how many weebs exist.
Imagine this. "An Asian man came from somewhere to England in the Middle Ages, and became a topic of conversation because he was a rare race. He couldn't speak English, but he was given the title of Earl and became a knight. The strongest knight in England was an Asian! This is not recorded, but it's true! The people of England worshipped Asian knights!" This is just an analogy, but who would believe such a story? Thomas Lockley, who wrote "Yasuke", said that he had checked with a Japanese history expert before writing, but in fact the Japanese history expert denied Thomas' statement. It was discovered that Thomas had written a lie to make money. Unfortunately, Yasuke was just a baggage carrier and not a samurai.
Your analogy is stupid because Yasuke existed, and if what you proposed happened it would still make for a great story.
Funny how you guys claim to know the "real" history of Yasuke and yet stayed silent for over 50 years.
Also, doesn't matter his function in real life, Yasuke WAS samurai. Now crawl back to your MAGA rallies.
I'd play that game. The right Asian man could make a great knight.
@@KodachiC the fuck are you talking aboout. These japanese people are mad because Ubisoft change their history, use their culture to uplift another race where Asian people doesn't have representative in AC except one spin off, didn't respect the history material (using different clans emblem on the pre-order statue, stealing a logo/emblem from a japanese community, using chinese subtitle for a LIMITED TIME JAPANE ONLY TRAILER) and you make as like the Japanese people are the one who's racist
@@KodachiC yasuke was never a samurai to begin with.
@@0Leonx0 Yes he was. Sorry you can't handle Asians liking black people, just Yasuke was samurai.
Bet you didn't actually watch the video.
Thank you for your honesty and knowledge about Yasuke 🙏🏼
The same people having a problem with Yasuke are the same ones that have a problem with Mafia 3, according to them it was "boring". They don't want to admit that they say that because he was half Italian half black.
You’re stupid if you think that.
yahudaputy875 loved mafia 3 an didn't care about any of that. Now this game is ubsoft an they are trash. I'll pass just because that simple reason alone. Lol
as long as you are not playing as Yasuke but but also experiences Yasuke when he surrenders in battle and are being called slave it is okay for me.
It isn't him being black. It's about him being shoehorned even though he had no influence at all. And he was in fact glorified pet of Oda.
If it was about racism people wouldn't want japanese guy either, but this isn't the case. People literally wanted to play as asian guy as ninja, and devs denied that by doing grand stand with politics.
So its okay to chose the only black person in Japanese history, over a male Japanese character set in feudal japan, yeah makes sense, because that 1 black man is better than all of japan
I'm happy to see Yasuske in a Protagonist role in an video game.
Amen! 90% of these daft morons didn't know there was a black man in feudal Japan before the trailer dropped. The first argument was "black people in fuedal Japan makes no sense" now they have been educated on that fact that yasuke was real. "Oh but he wasn't a samurai 😭" who tf cares either buy the game or don't.
Great breakdown. Made me a subscriber.
All this controversy to distract people from the fact that Ubisoft is charging 130$ for a game that hasn't even shown gameplay.
Gaslighting much? 130$ for the Ultimate Edition, not the Standard Edition. So many games have multiple editions and far more pricey than this.
@@zeroskaterz92 and what is that extra money for? A few worthless skins and a battle pass for a single player game, Also just because another company charges more doesn't excuse the actions of this company. stop Glazing ubislop.
@@zeroskaterz92 also Alzheimer's much? Repeating the same comment twice.
@@N_Tertainment7 Are you dumb or something? Charging for additional content for single player game is nothing new. Even games like Witcher 3, Resident Evil series, Dark Souls trilogy, Elden Ring all have additional content with multiple editions to the game. Ubisoft ain't the only company that done this. Clearly you don't know wtf you're talking about and don't actually play video game for that matter. lmao
@@N_Tertainment7 Are you inept or something? Charging for additional content for single player game is nothing new. Even games like Witcher 3, Resident Evil series, Dark Souls trilogy, Elden Ring all have additional content with multiple editions to the game. Ubisoft ain't the only company that done this. Clearly you don't know wtf you're talking about and don't actually play video game for that matter. Just yapping over something that you know nothing about. lmao
whats your thoughts on shogun the series?
Made a video for you on the topic!
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Yasuke, who was favored by Nobunaga but disappeared into the darkness of history without accomplishing anything in particular
It is interesting to note that hundreds of years later, he became a legendary samurai for the sake of poly-correctness.
He did not become a legend because of what he accomplished.
He became a legend because he was black.
Very interesting.
Here’s my issue with it all. No one is clearly understanding what the problem is with yasuke in the game and unfortunately it’s left to people larping around online on both ends. The evidence actually leans more into no he wasn’t a samurai. He didn’t have 2 swords or a clan name which was something shared between all samurai all the way up to the end of their era. As for the retainer aspect it’s going over people heads what that actually is in terms of Japan then. Retainer in that period would have been something like the speaker of the house when the lord was away.That doesn’t mean he was automatically samurai. When it’s addressed on what a retainer is in history it’s stated a samurai COULD be a retainer but generally it was someone very close to the lord. The other thing is again the name. Samurai had 2 distinct identifiers that only people of their specific status had so that if us normies could know who they were and who they were with and their status.
Samurai after earning the title had 2 names. A nickname a true family( a clan roots) name and a lineage name. It’s like a pimp named slit back…. Not even joking you gotta say the whole thing lmao.Also despite what people say only samurai were allowed to carry 2 swords. People say that’s not true but it is. What’s not true is the style of swords they carried. Wasn’t always a long and short sword. All these things yasuke lacked along with time to be samurai. And it’s wild how romantic people make samurai. Samurai were asshole murdering fuck heads and people wanna shoehorn him down to that status.
You seem to have an inaccurate understanding of what a Samurai was. First they were not monolithic through time, including what weapons signified them. Different types and lengths of swords were used by samurai over their long history. Two swords for example, didn't become the symbol of samurai until over decades after Yasuke's death, during the Edo period. You also have an inaccurate understanding of what a retainer was. The type of retainer he was, with property, a stipend, a sword with his master's crest and bodyguard duties, would be a samurai, and not anything else. Had you paid attention to the video, you would have been provided with ample evidence for why he clearly was a samurai. Your issue is that you can't conceive of a black samurai. It just doesn't sit right with your understanding of the world. That is a you problem.
Interesting. In this video he talks about how the cultural circumstances for which someone is declared samurai is evolutionary over the era. Being that this period in time there was a lot of conflict and war, the circumstances for becoming a samurai must've been much more lenient as a result. Much like women taking on jobs while the men are at war (in the U.S during world war) because the times gave them little option, and much necessity for it.
@@barnettmcgowan8978 I don’t have a bad understanding of the history of my people. He wasn’t actually called retainer he was called bushi. Bushi can be described as a retainer. All samurai were bushi but not all bushi were samurai. There were 2 words specifically used for samurai which were Buke and saburai. The word samurai was coined much later after Yasukes time in Japan. As for the swords yes samurai had different swords up until 1601 when the it became common for samurai to carry a long and short sword however anyone from that time literally did carry a short sword.
Also no one knows when or where he died. Shit they don’t even know if he was from Africa. You can read everything anyone knows in literally 2-3 mins flat. Nothing at all says he was anything more than bushi. Idk where you’re getting this he had a crest on his sword and stuff. Gonna assume you read Thomas lockleys made up shit. It was a single short sword a stipend and a home with servants. Nothing more. Same shit was given to Anjin miura
@@OmniPotentS001 Don't you just love how Barnett is incapable of debating an opposing viewpoint without making baseless accusations of you being racist? Lol.
Ample evidence of Yasuke being a samurai. Good lord. The delusions of some people. Citing a Thomas Lockley novel when Lockley himself openly admits to speculating the vast majority of his book is the peak of ignorance.
0 concrete evidence exists that confirms he was definitely considered a samurai. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Anyone who claims this proof exists is lying.
There is evidence to suggest he *could've* been Samurai. A lot of the people against this Yasuke business try to downplay Yasuke into being little no than a servant Japanese people laughed at. If Nobunaga made him bushi, for whatever reason, Yasuke was in fact not just some laughing stock slave/clown like some are claiming. He was clearly somebody of some significance.
I honestly find it embarrassing that people need to explain why people would expect AC: Shadows to have the main male protagonist be Japanese.
I've noticed the vast majority of the people whining about those who take issue with this Yasuke business are either being intellectually dishonest or are just genuinely ignorant/uninformed. None of them take into account Ubisoft's very overt DEI/representation agenda that they publicly proudly admit to. Or do these oafs just forget that nearly every major character in Far Cry 6 was a woman?
The gaming industry in general, has seen a pendulum shift in this DEI business, especially with making more main characters Black and or women, for no reason other than to score real world ESG brownie points. A lot of people aren't fans of this new trend. Given this trend, Ubisoft's history of following this trend, and people have very valid reasons for being concerned about Ubisoft making Yasuke the main male lead.
One point I notice a lot of people failing to address is that Ubisoft doing this goes against their own beliefs in representation. Why is Ubisoft refusing to "represent" Asian men by giving this game a main male protagonist that is Japanese? What did Asian men do to Ubisoft? They made sure to give Fujibayashi Nagato a daughter, even though I'm pretty sure his recorded family history is sketchy, why not give him a playable son?
These people are looking at this from the most surface-level view possible, and coming to a definitive conclusion, with that conclusion mostly being baseless accusations of racism. I can see why there's a saying that the average person is an idiot.
At the end of the day, Yasuke being samurai or not is moot for me. It's a cool thing to think about, and the idea does have potential. He was around in this time period, and could easily slot into this game.
Japan has used him numerous times in games, anime and manga (This is not a 1:1 comparison some are falsely claiming it is, as Japan, unlike Ubisoft and Western developers, isn't consumed by DEI nonsense. It's like trying to compare Afro Samurai to this). They handle him better. And they didn't try to revise history of Yasuke when they did. The West has done so when Netflix made an animated show about him, and they're doing so now. This is not the same thing. Quite clearly.
No one sees color until they remember that you exist, then they seem to remind you
holy f this guy's voice is awesome. This is asmr without even trying to be asmr
You did a great job breaking things down 🔥
not really
simple answer:
- its not "diversity" or some vain "moral" principle, its done ideologlically to push what they think is "progressive" mentality - which aligns to ESG/DEI
- main writer has connection to Sweet Baby Inc, ESG firm
- goes hand in hand with Ubi being one of their "partners"
- done to gaslight audience into emotional validation which leads to bias for Ubisoft to defend them
- used as a shield to any issue the game will have
- used to deflect from $130 price point and Ubi+ own nothing subscription
- afro centrism in western media to artificially make everything about black or "done by blacks"
- wasted opportunity for japanese male lead, only reason female lead is there is brownie points on "strong female protagonist trope" which they can still get brownie points for
- he's not a samurai and never was, there's no evidence to it
anyone defending it is a dumbass, anyone saying the nay-sayers are racist is a dumbass and anyone pretending its "not a big deal" is one as well for not realizing social manipulation tactics and how obvious revisionist it is to do this and why media is shilling so hard for it right now (like IGN and WIki sites changing their post on Yasuke to align with it)
Thank you! 🤗
Caspar You've got really good pipes, you sound like a radio host. Where you in radio before? Thx for the share.
Thank you for your kind words! I have not worked in radio before, my primary fields of work were/are agro-industry & history and I'm also a voice actor as well and if you're in Delaware you MAY have heard my voice on one of the public radio channels once!
Great video. I appreciate the information and insight.
I mean no one vilifies white men for no reason. And this should go without saying but just be clear, NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE RACISTS. But there is a very clear history of a violent and racist hierarchy in the west that is upheld by and for white people. Going further within that hierarchy white woman are still second to white men. To say Yasuke is only in the game because he's black and therefore a white guy can't be in the game is insane. It implies that it would more natural for a white man to be in that setting. The West has a hard time seeing black history as anything more than slavery and rap music. It's also super disingenuous to act they like care about historical or cultural representation like they didn't have white folks playing Egyptians or Tom Cruise playing a samurai or Nioh for that matter. We bare knuckle box a pope, fight in tanks and use blood to time travel. But a black man with a katana is where we draw the line👌okay chief
Makes no sense lol. Truth bomb though on your part.
They be tripping bruh
play nioh
It's about the total erasure of the absolute most notable figures of the period, who obviously would have been Japanese (Asian) males as main characters.
Also, Tom Cruise's character wasn't a Samurai you bozo. He wasn't the 'last samurai'. And his character still would have had a much greater impact than a marooned slave that lived as a lord's servant for 3 years. The imagery of Kan Watanabe's character having a dream of a white tiger to foreshadow the coming of some white man to Japan to train rebel Shogunate forces in the ways of modern warfare is cringe as shit though, I can't lie.
I understand why the movie is seen as problematic, but it is based on a true story. Although the nationality is changed from French to American for American audiences.
@@sandelemental6502 you really think a video game...when Noone even talks about the most recent ac game that came out is going to impact anything...it's fictional bs game like everyone before it that people play and forget about.. because it's not important. You guys stress for nothing
No one cared about the historical accuracy until a samurai is black
No, nobody cared until they made a protagonist not be the nationality of where the game takes place. People would've thought it was weird if we played a French dude at the height of the Italian Renaissance. People would've thought it weird if we played as a roman dude in AC Origins instead of an Egyptian.
This is not that hard to understand, truly.
Well first I was talking about how they’ve always played with the history it was never exactly how it went down in history so everyone wants to say Yasuke wasn’t a samurai he was just caring the samurai weapons. and dude we played as an Italian that traveled to Rome and Constantinople he wasn’t born there. It’s not that hard to understand that people can travel and that there’s still a Japanese protagonist
@@quentincohen7847 Not really true, people were pretty disappointed when magical weapons and Final Fantasy characters appeared in Origins...
Have you seen AC Valhalla?
It was never spot on historically accurate which is my point what are y’all talking about? They’ve always played with the ideas the only thing that’s ever exactly how it was in history was the map we play the game
Cool. I get to play a black samurai while they play rap music in the background. If you think that's wrong, maybe you should watch some of the gameplay trailers and see how they mix the music and it's actually rap music.
This is a 100% DEI influenced. Do some research and you'll see that all the history of yasuke is done by one white guy out of japan who is fictionalizing all of it
I love how when this game got announced suddenly everyone became an expert on japanese history, the real problem here is the price, even if you're not force to buy that ultimate edition, is way to much
William Adams (Miura Anjin) was an English navigator who sailed with a Dutch trading fleet to the far East and landed in Japan in 1600. He became a vassal under the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, was bestowed with a title, lands and swords, and became the first SAMURAI from England.....a white Englishman
And?
Note he also gained surname like samurais traditionally get. Yasuke didn't.
@@Tespri Its not a competition lol
Great video and informative, thanks for sharing this
I found out about Yasuke when I was stationed in Japan. Everyone knows about him to some extent. It's wild how racist and inconsiderate people are to real historical characters in today's age.
people when game has a futuristic community in the distant past: 👍👍
people when game has a black man in japan:😡😡
White people are more offended than Japanese people. It’s not people per se, but white people 😅.
😂😂exactly 💯
they should have kept japanese main character in that native american AC game or white guy as main character in origins. see where this is going? fiction needs to be grounded in reality. there is reason why so many people hate new lord of the rings tv show while movies are almost universally adored. there is a pattern here and people know what it is. its just they are scared to point it out coz their social points might take a tumble :P
i kinda think ubisoft knew they will divide the audience with this choice and they prolly felt like its free social marketing and went with it. they will just collect initial sales from suckers who will buy seasonal passes and shit and spend 200$ on this rehash garbage.
thats my ted talk.. i go play my ghost of tsushima now.
people are upset since they wanted to play as japanese man in japan. Why deny them that?
@@Tespri they are lot game of ancient Japan you a play native samurai play those
Thanks for the history lesson
1.) Thank you for giving us more insight into this topic! 😁
2.) Honestly...with your voice you could read a grocery list and I'd subscribe! 🔔🙃😂
This is a video game and it's fiction, so just make it fun. However, please stop talking about Japan's Sengoku period with this game. It bears no resemblance to the real Sengoku period in Japan. This is all fiction. It's a video game that has nothing to do with Japan.
Has nothing to do with Japan but literally takes place in Japan, said by fkn ubisoft themselves. Still fiction but it takes place in Japan.
@@putent9623 Literally all of your animes takes place in Japan with characters named as gojo but with white hair and blue eyes then we got another one named Naruto with blonde hair and blue eyes and you seem to be ok with it ?
People have been in denial for a long Time time to wake those sleepy eyes up
I’ve been trying to type all this out to all the bafoons that are saying that Yasuke wasn’t a samurai, not I’ll just drop the link to this video lol
Its crazy how literally nobody cared about if assassins creed was historically accurate until MC was black.
How is it crazy? The Yasuke thing has been ongoing for years.
yeah lets make every f...cking thing black wohoooooo africa the entire universe is sub saharan africans
No it hasnt this game is recent . The Japanese have made a bunch of movies , books and shows on this guy. They don't have a problem with him. Their problem is that Ubisoft is using Chinese item and architecture instead of Japanese. It's not until a character is black that people seem to have an issue.
@@terrellfair9812 I didn't ask about the Japanese. Yasuke drama has been going on since at least 2019.
If you're unaware of that, that sounds like a YOU problem.
@MustardSkaven no it hasn't. What are you even talking about
Why couldn't Ubisoft just make a Afro samurai Videogame sequel instead.
Why couldn’t your dad have just worn a condom?
Playing as Yasuke is super intriguing to me....
Cuz you’re racist
I feel like Yasuke is perfect for an AC game precisely because we know he existed but we don't know what ultimately happened to him
This is my feeling too! Yasuke is the perfect balance of "we know he existed and was close to some of the most famous Japanese historical figures" and "he is so mysterious that he could have been involved with magic super-assassins for all we know"
Rhunzzz he was wounded running from a fight he was brought to. He wasn't even a samurai an he returned to wear he came before he died. Great history lol
He got exiled after surrendering the only fight he ever fought. Then he refused to follow bushi and seppoku himself after failing in battle. Thus the lord who captured him saw him as nothing but beast and exiled him. Also Oda was villain in real life. Him being close to him should actually just make him villain as well. In this case a templar since oda had fetish for west.
as opposed to the millions of samurai whose stories we completely know about?
@@nikhilnewse3318 Oda did do g3noclde. And of course tried to take over entire japan.
One single random black man that had no historical impact on Japan. Let’s make him the protagonist of a game set in feudal Japan. Forget the under representation of Asian protagonists, lets all pat ourselves on the back for defeating the racists! This game is going to get everyone on our side!
I reside in Japan and when I heard and did some research of my own, Yasuke the black samurai did exist. Yet why are so many refuting his existence and are clearly upset especially amongst the palm coloured gaming community in the US. This is Japanese history and there’s alone and if they can’t accept that fact don’t buy the game, I’ll be adding it to my assortment of UBISOFT titles in game collection.
Part of it is weebs trying to virtue signal by being offended on Japan's behalf.... but I think a bigger part of it is the partisan anti-wokist crowd using this game as a standard bearer for their grievances. I wouldn't be surprised if astroturfers from adversarial countries like Russia saw an opportunity here to stoke the fires of division as well, I've seen a lot of not only brazenly racist memes but also flat out falsehoods being spread about the history here reaching thousands of people, it's incredible how quickly lies can outpace the truth on social media.
Based on what I've seen. NOBODY is refuting Yasuke's existence. It's the fact that the one chance AC is finally gonna introduce a MALE Asian lead (so don't bring up Naoe), the omit that chance and put the one famous black guy in Japanese history.
I swear in my life, the wouldn't be any backlash if Yasuke was an optional 3rd character along with a Asian female lead AND a MALE lead.
@mstr293 it's video game. It's a video game 😮
@@terrydavid86so??
Great video and breakdown the context that you gave was very important for understanding titles and positions and how our perspectives are different than the actual traditions and culture that we may have opinions on
Your voice is so soothing. Good stuff.
I thought his voice was an AI at first.
I mean.... When have gamers NOT gone off about a black main character...?
Or a woman in some cases. Battfield? I'll bet that the crossover is noticeable too.
I'm honestly curious if Yasuke ends up being linked to the Templars, like they work the lore of him being brought to Japan by the Jesuits only for the ones that brought him were part of them.
The backlash is only proving that Yasuke should be in the game
Desmond: Some of the stuff I'm seeing in the Animus... sometimes it seems... wrong. Untrue, like the history's off somehow. It doesn't-
Warren: It doesn't what, Mr. Miles? Match up with what you read on an online encyclopedia? What your high-school history teacher taught you? Let me ask you something: do these supposed experts have access to secret knowledge, kept hidden from the rest of us?
Desmond: There are books, letters, documents... all sorts of source material from back then. Some of it seems to contradict what the Animus is showing me.
Warren: Anyone can write a book, and they can put whatever they want on its pages. Anything. Used to be that we thought the world was flat.
Desmond: Some people still do.
Warren: Yes, and they publish books about it. Or that the moon landing was a hoax. I believe there's also a book that claims the Earth was created in seven days. A best-seller, too!
Desmond: Where's this going, Doc?
Warren: The point, I suppose, is that you shouldn't trust everything you hear. Everything you read. What's that your ancestor said? "Nothing is true?"
Desmond: "Everything is permitted."
Warren: Yes, exactly. It's part of what makes the Animus so spectacular. There's no room for misinterpretation-
Desmond : There's always room for misinterpretation.
-Assassin's Creed ONE
Desmond: There's always room for misinterpretation.
You left out that line.
It also still doesn't change the point. Ac1 called out this nonsense from the start.
@@gregoryjamaalfultona game about a magic tool that can control people and a precursor race. With a FICTIONAL MAIN CHARACTER. Thai one actually has something and someone from history.dude no word of a lie you coming across as very bigoted. Yes so what if they include black people in media after decades of just media drenched with people of European descent. And even when black people were in media it was a clown and jokers of shows. What’s ur problem with me seeing someone who looks like me and saying that kind of cool . Yes I do understand sometime it’s a pandering in. Oh stupid to realise that but this is a person who has been in history. They just want to experiment and see how creative they be with it. About”we all know why that is” hella weird shit to say look at yourself in the mirror and check your implicit bias .
It’s not only gamers who are angry, Japanese are angry. Look at Japanese comments
Those are all white weebs using Google translate.
It is selling at #1 on Amazon Japan
@@KodachiC Is not even out yet, wtf are you on about? And who buys games on Amazon wtf are you saying, pal 🤣
@@V34035 Preorders. And yes, it seems the Japanese buy games on Amazon.
@@KodachiChere's hoping more than a few angry gamers reexamine their worldviews when they realize that most average Japanese players aren't wrapped up in their silly discourse bubble, and don't mind Yasuke being a protagonist, and actually think he's pretty cool
Some people aren't buying it cause it has a black samurai. I'm not buying cause its Ubishit
I don't really have a problem with Yasuke. Imagine finding out Jack the Ripper was made an assassin in the AC universe. AC fans are a little over the top and these anti-woke people will eat up what some have to say and paint this false narrative that Ubisoft is being woke. Would a male Japanese man be better? Probably would be more accurate and would be more creative options with his background of his story, but we don't know much about Yasuke. His story could be great and so could Naoe. I think fans are also getting way too upset about Naoe. Yeah, I'm a male and I won't have an option to play a Japanese male in this game, but other games already have that type of protagonist. Ubisoft is doing something different and all the trailer showed was an interpretation on his myth that looked like an absolute unit.
simple answer: its not a small thing nor some irrelevant thing decided, there's a bigger reason it happened
- its not "diversity" or some vain "moral" principle, its done ideologlically to push what they think is "progressive" mentality - which aligns to ESG/DEI
- main writer has connection to Sweet Baby Inc, ESG firm
- goes hand in hand with Ubi being one of their "partners"
- done to gaslight audience into emotional validation which leads to bias for Ubisoft to defend them
- used as a shield to any issue the game will have
- used to deflect from $130 price point and Ubi+ own nothing subscription
- afro centrism in western media to artificially make everything about black or "done by blacks"
- wasted opportunity for japanese male lead, only reason female lead is there is brownie points on "strong female protagonist trope" which they can still get brownie points for
- he's not a samurai and never was, there's no evidence to it
anyone defending it is a dumbass, anyone saying the nay-sayers are racist is a dumbass and anyone pretending its "not a big deal" is one as well for not realizing social manipulation tactics and how obvious revisionist it is to do this and why media is shilling so hard for it right now (like IGN and WIki sites changing their post on Yasuke to align with it)
Bro you are right , these ppl are obviously ignorant
@@marcusclark1339 those are valid points. I can't argue with that especially knowing what social manipulation in today's world is. It might be "Just a video game" but it has a lot to tell lol
I mean technically a Japanese male character would have drastically widen the timeline rather than just the late 16th century.
17th century Japan would have been insane given it was around the time the entire country closed itself off from the world.
@@marcusclark1339 The one thing that you said that is false is the 130 dollar price point. The game is 70. The Ultimate Edition which comes with two expansions and more goodies is a bigger package.
I see ninjas and samurai I'm auto intrigued. I'm buying in.
Racist people don't like black people, I've heard this my whole life
At least Ubisoft showed us some love 👍🏾
It has nothing to do with racist, Ubisoft just pushing nonsense game settings, yasuke was never samurai but servant and its little know about it in general there was only couple foreign samurais who is well documented through history and they there white, imagine game setting in Africa and you play as asian or white.
@Krahamus Another racist who doesn't like black people 🥱
Tbh if the story was good, I wouldn't care if a 5ft ginger Viking was the star of Assassin's creed roots.
It's all make believe 😂
@@Krahamus Yasuke was a samurai. He received 扶持 (fuchi), which was a stipend given to retainers (samurai).
People get mad when the main character isn't a male, yes the samurai is a male but there's an anti black bias all over the world, let's just keep it real, everyone was expecting a very good looking rugged Japanese male protagonist. Not a black man and an Asian woman.
@@Krahamus Don't go believing your own lies now.
They always ad black people into everything, but would never care enough to research and present an actual African story.
We get it. You dont like seeing black people in media. Be quiet already