There's A Petition To Cancel Assassin's Creed Shadows
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video, we dive into the heated controversy surrounding Assassin's Creed Shadows. A petition to cancel the game has garnered a staggering 69,000 signatures in just under two weeks, sparking intense debates within the gaming community.
We'll explore the main points made by the petitioners, analyse whether their arguments hold water, and discuss the broader implications for the Assassin's Creed franchise.
- Chapters -
0:00 - About the Petition
2:43 - Original Purpose of the Petition
4:08 - Comments From The Supporters
9:11 - My Opinion on the Arguments
15:17 - How Will This Affect The Game?
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I'm Japanese.
Do you want to make it a race issue because you can't understand the mistakes of Japanese culture and history which is mentioned in this game?
The problem of all about of this is the promotional interview videos and articles prior to the game's release that said "we have hired experts who know a lot about Japan, we are faithful to historical facts and respectful to Japan".
After Japanese got angry, they made the excuse that this is just a fiction.
But they didn't make any videos or articles for overseas, just for Japan.
However, because they didn't make it clear what was fiction, the number of people overseas who misunderstood and believed in it increased tremendously.
And they are beginning to rewrite Japanese history selfish.
This was due in part to the fact that there were people who genuinely believed in Thomas Lockley's novel as if it were fact.
Do you think that a person who was under Nobunaga's command for only one year and three months could learn a foreign martial art and achieve military success?
Was there such a person in your country?
There is no primary evidence that Yasuke was a samurai, and if you know the history and culture of Japan, you know that it is impossible for a person without a last name to have been a samurai.
He may have been a bushi, but he could not have been a samurai.
And there is absolutely no way that a tile would be placed on a torii gate at the entrance of a village.
A torii gate is a gate to a shrine, which is a sacred area, and kawara are 100% not placed on it in Japan.
For example, in your country, do you have a culture of placing a covered church gate at the entrance of a village since ancient times?
And how can there be cherry blossoms in the spring and silver grass in the fall at the same time?
I have never seen the four seasons messed up, at least not in my country.
In addition, photos taken in the 20th century are used, even though the story is set in the 15th or 16th century,
crazy square tatami (If they had ever been to Japan, they would not be able to do such a thing professionally),
The clothes worn by the commoners are not Japanese clothes, and non-existent kanji,
A character wears a flag from the Battle of Sekigahara, which took place after Yasuke left Japan,
barbaric acts in the streets wearing armor with family crests (family crests are like the Coat of Arms in the West),
They explained the situation with a big lie: "In those days, witnessing death was an everyday occurrence, and most people in Japan at that time died with their heads cleanly cut off.",
confusing shrines and temples (e.g., equating churches and mosques),
katana on the right hip (even if he was left-handed, the katana has to be held on the right), and many others.
No previous AC series has been so insulting and sloppy with nothing but mistakes.
Don't you think it's terrible to say that it's ridiculous to be offended by that because it's just a game?
Or are you gonna say that my opinion is right and yours is wrong because it doesn't matter to me?
I agree with everything you say I am not Japanese but learn a lot from anime like the culture I feel like double stander they do not do mistakes use other like war banners that own by someone they put in game with out asking or Shinto gate front village are have Chinese thing there so on they did not do mistake like that like past games why this so different this one of them I want make for years now they half aing it
they will ignore that my friend, because they dont care. They will call you a fake-japanese or a racist, not understanding that they are the racists.
@@guru7968
Maybe, but I hope not.
I can't help but wonder how this is possible in a company full of professionals.
Is it due to radical DEI ideology?
@@user-kf3tt7jj2d I mean isn't it more historically accurate to play an actual historical figure compared to a oc
"No previous AC series has been so insulting and sloppy with nothing but mistakes"
Assassin's Creed Valhalla featured weapons from the 16th century, 11th century Norman-style castles in England, and 11th century stave churches in Pagan Scandinavia in a game set during the 9th century, presented the Norse as a tattooed, fur-wearing stereotype, showed the Picts as skull-adorned barbarians wearing loincloths in the snow, and falsely represented the Christian traditions of Easter and Halloween as coming from Pagan precursors in accordance with a widespread cultural myth. Not a single Norseman is represented in historically accurate mail armor. You can't even wield a single-handed sword in the main game, only two-handed swords, despite the fact that two handed swords would not exist in Europe for centuries. By comparison AC Shadows is extremely accurate. You can watch Brandon F.'s playthrough of Assassin's Creed 3 and Gold and Gunpowder's discussion of Assassin's Creed 4 to see the copious number of historical errors in each of those games. If you want to criticize Shadows, then criticize Shadows, don't make assertions about the previous games if you don't know what you're talking about.
Yasuke sword is literally Zoro sword from One Peice. Some Japanese person literally pointed that out on Twitter. Is Ubi really making this up.
日本を好きでもなければ興味もなく、敬意すらない。
そんな奴らが弥助を見つけてとびついた。
「黒人を活躍させられるぞ、やったー!!」
浅ましいんだよ。
Yeah totally, the only thing they care about is representing Black people, same reason the same studio made the protagonists Black in their last two games, Syndicate and Odyssey. Wait...
(P.S. You're not fooling anybody with google translate buddy)
@@SomasAcademyanyones name starting with “user” is a bot or a burner lmao they think they’re slick
@@SomasAcademyniggas like you are soft; having black people as characters doesn’t mean they’re tryna “represent them.” they're showing diversity in their games. It's important to have different voices and stories represented. It keeps things exciting, yet people like you cry because you see a few blacks having the spotlight 😂
@@987married こう言う決めつけ馬鹿がいるから署名が始まったw
@@5starrchase You didn't pick up on the sarcasm in my comment?
Americans and Europeans might not have respect for their history but atleast japanese people have. This game is viewed as 文化盗用 in japan
Why is it one of the biggest pre orders there then LOL
@@987marriedexactly they just mad it's not a white character like alllll the other assassin's creed games
@@maacha286 Judging by pre-orders and other stats. It sounds a lot like how conservative westerners complaining and acting like they represent everyone when they don't.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's something similar there
@@clavinarmstrong8469 Someone forgot Bayek and Adewale. Is Connor a white man too? What about Altair? Aveline?
@@RedArc4Lif3 yeah: Altaïr, Connor, Bayek, Basim, Yasuke, Naoe. These are the main characters of the main games, who are non-white. There's also, as mentioned, Aveline and Adéwalé, the main characters of the side games or DLC. Then there's Shao Jun and Arbaaz of the AC Chronicles games. So there's 6 non-white main AC characters, and there's 8 white main characters (of only the main games), which are Ezio, Edward, Shay, Arno, the Frye Twins, Kassandra, and Eivor. 9 or 10 if you count Haytham and or Havi. To me, this doesn't really matter, but here it is, for the sake of statistics.
It is important for Japanese to keep a record of "complaining of being insulted."
The petition and the number of signatures are proof that we Japanese have not been silent. That is the greatest significance of the Japanese signature drive.
It doesn't matter who first asked for the signature.
I am proud that the Japanese are at the center of it. Because I am Japanese.
Most of the Japanese people who are doing the petition activity do not think that the sale of the game will be stopped by this signature, and they sign after understanding that.
We are not opposed to the fact that a black person is the main character, and the fact that Yasuke is the main character itself is a certain historical fact.
As a historical fact, black samurai did not exist, that is the fact.
Of course, Japanese understand that games are fiction.
The problem is that Ubisoft has stated in various promotions that Yasuke was the black samurai of a great hero, and they have also stated in press releases to various media that "black samurai existed in Japan" in full.
From only the official PV that has been released, Japanese can understand that they are disrespecting and insulting Japan.
However, we agree that people will enjoy the game by purchasing the game after the release knowing this fact.
Please enjoy the difference between actual Japanese history and culture, the difference between actual samurai fighting style, and the difference between actual ninja and ninja defined by Westerners like us.This is not a metaphor or sarcasm.
From only the official PV that has been released, Japanese can understand that they are disrespecting and insulting Japan.
The following is a general sense of discomfort. Probably, there are more small discomfort depending on individual differences.
・Japan and China and Korea and other Asian countries mixed together in the game.
・There are several experts of Japan, Japanese history, and Japanese culture who claim to be researchers and history consultants involved, so even though they extensively guarantee that you can "truly experience Japan" including historical research, all you can see in the PV is "a mixture of non-Japanese culture and history" or just Chinese.
・It is not a proper custom or cultural expression of feudal Japan.
・It is called hidarimae and is a kimono representing the dead. Assassin's Creed Shadows is a zombie game?
・Japanese don't bow recklessly even though they don't know who they are.
・The episode that Yasuke liberated Fukuchiyama, which is the theme of the game, is itself a fabrication. The people of Fukuchiyama are grateful and indebted to Akechi.
・Architecture, placement, samurai manners, hats and umbrellas, lighting, terrain, actual nature, staging, swords, costumes, helmets, armor, samurai fighting style, everything else is wrong.
・The vassals sat on tatami mats and the master was boarded up, an improbable rudeness. Since tatami mats of that period were of high quality, it was unnatural that the place where vassals and masters gathered was tatami mats. It should be wooden.
・There are parts of the lighting that can't be explained without using electricity.
・The concept art is too sloppy, as is the case with the unauthorized plagiarism of the commercial art book that released the limited apology only to Japan.
・Concept art includes utility poles, light trucks, guardrails on the road, and crossing gate bars for trains. Japan's medieval period was too much of a technological revolution.
・The gassho-style private house of Shirakawa-go is used as it is. It is unnatural because the structure of private houses is totally different depending on the climate.
・Horses that were active in Japan at that time were not thoroughbreds. The representative horse is Kiso horse which is native to Japan.
・Why do you use animals native to countries other than Japan, not only horses but also monkeys and other animals? If Japan is the stage, Japanese monkeys should be used properly.
・Yasuke's helmet is modeled after the "May Doll" that is displayed at children's celebration events, but why not refer to the actual helmet? You can't fight with that helmet, and it's the most ancient design.
It's just a PV, but there are many other things that Japanese people feel uncomfortable and wrong about.
For example, samurai did not sit on their heels during that period. There is a reason not to sit on your heels, and if an armed intruder enters the town, the residents will run away or hate them the moment they see them.
Naoe also looks unnatural from the name to the Japanese, and it is not an act of shinobi. Only Yasuke is highlighted, but Naoe is also impossible as a shinobi in various ways.
However, all of these issues are minor things that Japanese people will accept as soon as Ubisoft retracts its statement that it was created under the supervision of experts who know Japan and is faithful to historical facts, and the head office sincerely apologizes for its rudeness to Japanese people and says "This game is based on Japan, but everything is fiction." We Japanese are angry because we can't do that little thing.
imma be honest, since after ac origins, assasins creed don't really feels like an assasins creed, just look at valhalla or oddyssey 💀
UBIはハリウッドのSHOGUNに関わった日本文化歴史の専門家に聞けばこれ程問題にならなかった
shogunの時も、黒人侍を出せ！日本は黒人侍を隠すな！黒人差別だ！と批判されてました。AIで作ったような明らかに刀の差し方とかがおかしな黒人侍の写真を出し、ほら日本には弥助以外にも黒人侍がいたじゃないかと記事を出して主張したり。おそらくUBIは、shogunに対して黒人侍を出せと批判してた側の人たちだったのでしょう。
Currently playing Assassin's Creed 3 and Black Flag after trying and uninstalling Odyssey. The older games are so much better!
Simpler times back then.
I thought I was the only one that thought that. I’ll take AC Rogue over Odyssey
Well, considering this is the team that made Odyssey...
They absolutely do not look better if your talking about graphics, lol.
@@northamerica5142 gameplay>graphics
The graphics in the old AC aren’t too shabby itself
@@swallowedinthesea11 they okay but I prefer the newer ones
Ghost of tsushima will kill this game
it already did kill ac shadows before shadows was even in development
Yasuke actually existed, but he did not have a surname. That alone proves that he was not a samurai. Next, Oda Nobunaga was defeated by Akechi Mitsuhide in the Honnoji Incident, and Yasuke was captured at that time, but he was not considered an enemy and was released. This would not have been possible if he had been a samurai.
First of all, many people say that the Assassin's Creed series is basically fiction, but Shadows is different from other works. If the protagonist is a fictional character, you can immediately tell that this work is fiction, but if the protagonist is a real person like Shadows, fiction and non-fiction are mixed together, and if someone who does not know the history of the country watches it, they will not be able to tell which is fiction and there will always be a number of people who mistakenly take it as non-fiction. If this video game increases the number of people with incorrect knowledge to a certain extent, there is a great possibility that history will be distorted. Therefore, if a real person is taken as the main character, it should have a minimum of historical accuracy, or if fictional elements are included, they should be limited to parts that anyone can see as fiction.
Despite this, Yasuke in Shadows asserts that something with no corroborating evidence is a legendary samurai.
However, since this video game is fiction, all they need to do is announce later, "In reality, Yasuke was not a samurai, but a porter who served Nobunaga for only a year and a half, but the story of this video game is a "what if" story of what would have happened if Yasuke had been a samurai." But for some reason, Ubisoft refuses to change their stance that "Yasuke was a legendary samurai."
There are also many other incorrect expressions in the trailer that could be perceived as belittling Japanese people.
Given the above factors, it is only natural that Japanese people would feel very uncomfortable watching it.
Some people say, "If you don't like it, just ignore it," but if we ignore it, incorrect information about Japan's history will spread, and there is a good chance that we could eventually fall into an irreversible situation, so I think it is important to continue speaking out.
@@artpine9159 I'll be honest I'm not reading all that so idk if you already said it but although he existed there is no evidence that he was a samurai and was most likely just a big black guy that lived in Japan freely instead of being owned by the rich
@@katybridges280 弥助は一年半信長が死ぬまで織田信長に仕えており大柄で力も強かったらしいが仕事は主に信長の刀持ちや荷物持ちだった。仕えた期間も一年半ととても短かったため武術や言語、文字を習得していた可能性は限りなく低い。Ubisoftはこのような人物を「伝説の侍だった」と主張してしまった。ただ、このビデオゲームはフィクションだから後からでも「実際には弥助はサムライではなく信長に一年半しか仕えなかった荷物持ちでしたが、このビデオゲームのストーリーはもしも弥助がサムライだった場合のイフストーリーです。」と発表さえすればいいだけなんだけど、なぜかUbisoftは一向に「弥助は伝説の侍だった。」という主張を変えない。なんで？
I mean Ubisoft and AC were always known for messing with history. Like Connor helping Washington win the american revolution. There aren't any historical records of a native american assassin helping win the battle of bunker hill and the batle of monmouth. Or Ezio beating the hell out of the pope. Plus Yasuke was a retainer. And while yes he wasn't a samurai as all samurai are retainers not all retainers are samurai. However people are very confused on the fact. As Yasuke's wikipedia page says: "Yasuke was a man of African origin who served as a samurai to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga for a period of 15 months between 1581 and 1582" His wiki page calls him a samurai aswell. And so have many other works of fictional Yasuke's. He was treated as a retainer, comported himself as a retainer, and fought as a retainer. That is what a samurai is. Even tho Yasuke was never given the title of Samurai and wasn't ever a samurai technically he acted and got treated as a samurai in history so that's were the confusion comes from. Also this is exactly like all the other AC games were they combine fiction and non fiction and it has never confused anyone. So this won't confuse them either. And if it does well people have been debating this matter for what's like a decade or 2. Also in the trailers i didn't see or hear any incorrect expressions since they barely showed dialogue and the dialogue that they did wasn't wrong in any way. And if you mean the language well that's again always been in AC games were even tho the protagonists like Ezio are italian and exist in a time were they wouldn't speak english in that country they still speak english. But i do understand that it's hard to ignore the many inaccuracies but this has basically been a staple of the AC franchise were they try to explain that they have a diffrent history then our own universe by having things like the isu an evil pope with a magical godly artifact that can shoot laser beams, Jack The Ripper having been an assassin and having way more victims than the canonical five even having been spotted out in the open in the AC universe or the american revolution being won because of the help of this one guy that never got mentioned in our history even tho he was appearently in the room were the declaration of indpendence was being signed. Or the fact that Benjamin Franklin conducted expirements on this random egyptian box and after striking it with lightning a hologram came out. Ubisoft is known for messing with history but people know that this isn't actual history or real. Also Ubisoft isn't doing a what if scenario for Yasuke in what if he was a samurai. Ubisoft just like wikipedia writers and many others actually think that Yasuke was a samurai due to confusion.
@@MasterTemplar781 "Ubisoft, like the Wikipedia writer and many others, believes that due to confusion Yasuke was actually a samurai."
This is the crux of the issue. If this work was just fiction, they could just issue a new statement saying that Yasuke was not actually a samurai, which would be very easy. But Ubisoft never mentions that. Many people say "this is fiction," but it is Ubisoft that does not want to make the part about "Yasuke being a legendary hero" fictional.
@@artpine9159 It is just a work of fiction i'm pretty sure that as the game starts they say "This is a work of fiction based off of historical events. This game is created by people with diffrent religions, race, gender and sexuality." And technically Yasuke was a legendary hero just like Leonidas however the legendary samurai part is fictional and even tho Ubisoft isn't stating it right now at the start of the game i already said what it shows at the start of the game which they show in every game and also in this game. So that's why people never get confused about it. Even tho it's based off of real life historical events it is fictional and it does say it's based off of them not completely accurate towards them but i do agree with the fact that Ubisoft could just state or say that Yasuke wasn't actually a samurai but tbh it's ubisoft they're lazy and try to gain money i don't really think they care. And they probably don't care about the petition either.
This is all so stupid, but I guess it's kinda karma or payback for how Ubisoft and ubi Québec especially has treated the franchise with its entries.
I'll just sit back and enjoy the shitshow.
How is it stupid when all this concept of the game is full dei racist hate representation fabricated historical event plus they inevitably stole a symbol from Japanese clan that doesn’t fit of Oda Nobunaga clan
@@maxlopez7671plz repeat that in more coherent sentences
@@maxlopez7671 elaborate please
@@GuyFawkes-gpp Yasuke's flag has emblem of Hideyoshi.
Hideyoshi took control Oda family after Honnouji.
This signify Yasuke betrayed Nobunaga. ...no, UBI made him it so.
Legendary Samurai, is this???
Blacks have right of protest.
@@oolongchen7533 good for you
発売中止の為ではなく、批判意見をあげないと無視されるので署名しました。
声を上げないと日本人は怒ってないと言われますから。
まぁ、声を上げても日本人になりすましてると言われてますが。
@@user-fx9uc4ub2i sorry to say this but they are not going to cancel it
@@user-fx9uc4ub2i they are racist idiots pretending that they understand racism and are fighting against racism when they call every form of criticism racist
If Ubisoft had just said, "In reality, Yasuke was not a samurai, but a porter who served Nobunaga for only a year and a half, but the story of this video game is a "what if" story of what would have happened had Yasuke been a samurai," things would never have gotten this bad. Moreover, they had plenty of opportunities to make such announcements as soon as the trailer came out and there was such a fuss, but they never said anything. I wonder why?
Ubisoftが「実際には弥助はサムライではなく信長に一年半しか仕えなかった荷物持ちでしたが、このビデオゲームのストーリーはもしも弥助がサムライだった場合のイフストーリーです。」と発表していれば絶対にここまで大変なことにならなかったよ。しかもトレーラーが出てすぐに騒ぎになった時点でこういう発表をする機会は山ほどあったけど彼らは絶対に言わないんだ。何故だろうね？
Nothing is bad yet. Game isn't out yet.
Besides Yasuke was a SAMURAI. Nothing is going to change that fact.
Historical accuracy and assassin's Creed are two things that are far from the truth
@@repusprimus2872 弥助は実在したが、弥助には苗字が無かった。それだけで彼が侍ではなかったことが証明できる。次に本能寺の変で織田信長が明智光秀に敗れ、その時弥助も捕まったが敵とみなされず解放された。サムライだったらあり得ないことだ。
まず、アサシンクリードシリーズは基本的にフィクションだからと言う人たちがとても多いですがシャドウズだけは他の作品とは違います。架空のキャラクターが主人公であればすぐにこの作品はフィクションだと知ることができるが、シャドウズのような実在した人物が主人公だとフィクションとノンフィクションが混在した状態になり、その国の歴史を知らない者が見るとどれがフィクションか判断がつかず誤ってノンフィクションとして受け取る人々が必ず少なからず出てくる。それによって間違った知識を持った者たちがこのビデオゲームによってある程度増えてしまうと歴史が捻じ曲がってしまう可能性が大いにあり得る。よって、実在の人物をメインキャラクターとして取り上げるなら最低限の歴史的正確性を備えるかフィクション要素を入れるのであればだれが見てもフィクションとわかる部分に限定すべきである。にもかかわらずシャドウズの弥助は確証が全く無いものを伝説の侍と断言しているのである。その他にも日本人を軽視していると受け取られてもおかしくないような間違った表現がトレーラーでは散見されている。以上の要素から日本人がこれを見て非常に不快に感じるのは当然のことといえる。
「気に食わないのであれば無視すればいいだろ。」などと言ってくる人がいるけど無視すれば日本の間違った歴史が広まりいづれ取り返しのつかない事態に陥る可能性が十分にある以上は声をあげ続けることが重要に思う。
@artpine9159 no because it states in every game it's fiction, did you miss that?
@@MavethTheReaper Even if it is written as fiction, if a real person is used as the protagonist, a certain degree of historical accuracy is required.
@@MavethTheReaper The problem is that Ubisoft says "This video game is fiction," while at the same time claiming "Yasuke is a real, legendary samurai." As mentioned above, this fuss would have died down if Ubi had just issued a statement saying "Yasuke was not actually a samurai," and Ubi should have known that, but for some reason they continue to shout "Yasuke was a legendary samurai" forever.
We got pissed because UBI basically despise Japanese culture and history and pay no respect to them. And saying like
“I think it's not an assassin thing, it's a Japan thing in our case. So looking at death was a day-to-day occurrence in that period, and the way most people died in Japan during that time is clean decapitations.”
“Assassin's Creed is well! known for its depiction of the history and accurate recreation of the world and it's what players can expect with Assassin's Creed Shadows.
We're showing real historical figures, such as Oda Nobunaga and a lot of events that happened during that time, so you're not only playing in feudal Japan, but learning about this fantastic time period.”
Some of the architecture is Chinese not Japanese what I hear
@@yugioh5222 you’re joking🫣
@@willismakesmovies nope hear this some video I watch that not all the game trailer that Japanese one did not have Japanese kanji but Chinese in video some other thing hear they have thing for the future that was not in thine line doing the game as wall and war banner of the collector edition is wrong so yeah not joking
Scenes of rice planting in Myanmar, buildings in Thailand, Chinese Buddha statues, guardrails, utility poles, trucks, construction ropes, long-tailed monkeys that do not live in Japan, and countless others have been confirmed. Recently, images of important Japanese cultural properties that would normally require a fee to use were used without permission during gameplay footage.
In addition, Zoro's sword from One Piece was on display as Yasuke's sword.
@@notariraton I hear about that funny as hell how they gotten caught
Meanwhile I wanted Naoe to be a Male Assassin Protagonist 💀
I’m sorry but this is just nonsense. Playing as Yasuke is just going to break all the immersion for me. And no it’s not bcos I’m racist against black people but the fact he looks ridiculous. How are you meant to take this game or this character seriously when he’s just so far removed from what you actually picture feudal Japan to look like? The reason you don’t make the main character an historical person is so you’ve got a blank slate to work with and you can mold them to fit the setting and the story. The only reason they’ve done this is to push a political woke agenda and I don’t play video games to be pandered to.
@@Maple_T29 The fact that we have to argue for a Japanese samurai protagonist, in an Assassin Creed game set in Feudal Japan is insane!
@@Maple_T29 I'm a Tatar and I want my Tatar Samurai now!!!!
@@RedArc4Lif3 everyone wants that and everyone’s thinking that but they are too scared to say it out of fear of being labelled as an ist or an ism of some kind. They find it ok to play as a big black man murdering Asian people but if you play as a big white man murdering black people then it’s a problem
Shh... You aren't supposed to say that.
@@65firered my bad I’ll probably upset all the wokies now for saying what 90% of people want to say but are too scared to😂🤭
I mean it will absolutely inconsequential if anything it will boost the sales, Ac fans that were apprehensive will look at how ridiculous those rage bait supposed ac fan that came out the woodworks with their history degrees now but didn’t care when we were beheading Medusa in greece, i am still very skeptical of the game because Ubisoft is a shit show but those haters that claim themselves to be fans will just boost sales
I'm feeling the same, I don't have a lot of faith in Ubisoft, especially not in an RPG-style game (I just don't like that format for AC, I prefer linear narratives), and ESPECIALLY not an RPG-style game headed by Ubisoft Quebec (I enjoyed both of their previous games for what they were, but both of them felt tonally at odds with the rest of the franchise), but it's so annoying seeing people claiming to be AC fans while seemingly knowing nothing about the series. Like, there are the complaints about "historical accuracy" that were nowhere to be seen in previous games (and for the record, I'm someone who actually does have a history degree and is annoyed by some historical inaccuracies, but am entirely fine with Yasuke lol), but on top of that they keep making claims about the series that any long-time fan should know are false, like saying every previous protagonist was native to their setting... as if AC Revelations, AC3, AC4, AC Freedom Cry, and AC Valhalla don't all feature protagonists travelling to far off and/or culturally distinct lands and learning about the local cultures or peoples. I want to be critical of AC Shadows for being part of AC's transition away from what made it special or for its shady monetization, but these supposed fans keep making me feel the need to defend it from their dumb criticisms!
@@SomasAcademy exactly
First, Ubsioft needs to first start by stopping the double main character stuff. It's just bad. Second, I think most people just wanted to be some Japanese dude in japan for a long time. Ever since we knew, udisoft were switching locations. All you have to do is look at fan/concept art for AC, and you'll see what they draw more often than not. We've played as people who would have lived in these areas at the time, and for the first time, we play as the one extreme odd man out in a game about assassins. Like no one is gonna believe that yasuke can walk the streets and not have everyone stare at him.
The game literally has a mechanic where when Yasuke is walking the streets everyone stares at him. It's one of the key things that sets him apart from Naoe.
@@SomasAcademy that's the main problem with AC games now. Double main characters. Just go back to one or a dedicated sex to play as instead of pick M or F. Started with syndicate got better with origins which is one of my favorite mains as a character and went back to trash and is still trash. Ubisoft as a company just needs to stop because they're only selling slop.
@@xx_HI_xx7I'm buying now shush
@@xx_HI_xx7 Yeah, I just want a single, linear story. It's obvious that Ubisoft just makes it an option so that they can avoid backlash for avoiding female characters while still being able to put a male character in all the ads and on the covers lol. I didn't mind Syndicate having two protagonists (even though that game had plenty of writing flaws) because at least it had one set story with both characters playing roles, but all the games since origins have seen a drop in storytelling quality because of the elements of choice. Like, look at Origins' cutscenes compared to Odyssey's - they're so much more impactful because the characters don't have to pause and wait for you to input a dialogue choice! I like RPGs, but not out of AC; from AC I just want strong, story-driven experiences with characters I can get attached to, not blank slates I can project myself onto.
I'm not gonna even attempt to make a cultural argument against it, however, given hoe garbage the last 4 or 5 games have been and how little ubisoft seems to care... im all for canceling and making them start over
I mean I get that Yasuke was a real person and that he’s been misportrayed but I have seen videos of Japanese people running away from Tyler the Creator on his trip to Japan… so idk if Japan has the right to be up on a high horse about racism
Well seeing his videos myself he would just go straight into their face saying "guest where I'm from, guest where I'm from, guest where I'm from NOT AROUND HERE!"...
Like come on... don 't tell me you'd like it if some random fucker come straight into your face and asking "guest where I'm from". Like really?!?
Are you delusional or fucking something, that's also seen as rude in Japan, so don't go around acting like their racist. because their not, it just people like you mention before are being rude and disrespectful.
Which in turn will make the Japanese hate them and then could lead to racism.
And I've seen videos of some dark skinned streamer harass Japanese people minding their business dialy for content. Does that now mean all dark skinned people in japan are vial people who harass others?
if i were Japanese (which i'm not but still) i would approve Tyler the creator then having to support assassin creed
simple
@@siddheshpillai3807 ???
@@jokerdaacebecause Tyler is honest ubishit isn't and also Tyler makes great music that even jesper kyd who worked on music for ac 1 and 2 wished to come back to Hitman
Why is no one talking about how ubi is ripping off ghost of Tsushima!!! Looks the same to me.
Not at all
I understand the controversy and i somewhat agree with it but trying to a whole game is crazy
Here’s an idea. If you don’t like the game don’t play it. It’s that simple. There’s plenty of games centered around feudal Japan and the samurai setting. Ghost of Tsushima, Rise of the Ronin, Sekiro etc. I can guarantee you that Ghost of Tsushima is a far better game and does everything Assassins Creed is known for better than anything Shadow is going to do. Just play those games and ignore this one if it bothers you so much. I’m saying this as a fan of the Assassins Creed series, I’ve been very disappointed in Ubisoft ever since Odyssey was released so I’m just gonna hold off on this one. If it’s good it’ll be a pleasant surprise, if it’s bad it’ll be typical Ubisoft. But no don’t cancel it, let it flop so Ubisoft will (not likely) hopefully learn from it and give us a game that we the fans want.
They won't.People need something to be mad at then when it releases , they'll move on to the next thing to be mad at.
Ok, but in rise of the ronin you can find “Yasuke Armor” which clearly looks like samurai armor, so don’t mention that game, it is also blackwashing!
@@toa695 How? Yasuke was a real samurai. Why is being black controversial?
@@Novelist1029 I don't know, ask the people crying about this game! I'm just saying, if they hate Yasuke so much they shouldn't play Rise of the Ronin either
@@toa695 Oh so we’re in agreement. My bad I misunderstood your comment lol
I think you forgot the bit that Ubisoft claimed AC Shadows to be Historically Accurate 🙃
For anyone interested in what Japanese people are saying and what they actually think, I have a channel and a video for you. The channel is Shohei Kondo.
The video is "Ubisoft is faking Japanese history for money?" by The Purple Experience.
Just consider the difference between what you've been told and what Japanese people are actually saying.
Nah he's trash and a grifter I'm good
“Listen to racist Japanese people instead of normal Japanese people.” - A racist.
Reminds me of the petition to de-canonize the star wars sequels
They made mitakes in the promotional activities of AC shadows in Japan,despite of using Japan history and culture...
~3:20 It's not a historical inaccuracy though; the person who wrote this caption didn't start from a place of caring about history and take issue with Yasuke because of that, they took issue with Yasuke and are misrepresenting history in order to frame their position as something defensible, when in reality it is most likely just as political as all those comments. They're taking one element that correlated with being a Samurai at certain points in history that Yasuke happens to lack and pretending that that's what defines being a Samurai; they can present it as being about historical accuracy, but they're working backwards to get there. This whole controversy is absurd; it is not controversial among historians to label Yasuke a Samurai, and the argument that he wasn't a Samurai was, until the announcement trailer for Shadows, a fringe talking point that occasionally cropped up online. People keep making up false requirements for being a Samurai, or drawing from the more specific caste-like conception of Samurai that developed during the Edo Period (after the game takes place), but the fact is that during the Sengoku Jidai the Samurai were simply members of a lord's standing army. Although it's impossible to say with certainty whether Yasuke was a samurai based on the incredibly sparse evidence about his life, he had many of the trappings of Samurai from that period, hence he is typically interpreted as most likely being a Samurai by historians; anyone who tells you positively that he was not a Samurai is either lying or mistaken. Was he an active warrior like the Yasuke we see in the game? Who knows, the sources don't tell us that... which makes depicting him as one just as valid of a creative choice as depicting King Richard the Lionheart contemplating forming an alliance with Saladin against the Nizari Ismaili Assassins, or showing Leonardo DaVinci creating working models of his war machine designs, or showing Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia as an incestuous couple, or showing Mary Read as using the alias "James Kidd," or showing Anne Bonny escaping from prison, or showing Bartholomew Roberts as a heterochromic reincarnation of a member of an ancient subspecies of humans that created homo sapiens and inspired world mythologies... and that's a lot of examples from only a few games, but I could probably come up with at least one from each entry if I wanted. In fact, I know I could, because every single game presents at least one historical figure as a member of a secret organization, on top of all the other creative liberties they take to fill in details not explicitly contradicted by the historical record.
Now, are there historical inaccuracies with how Yasuke is presented? Absolutely! The fact that he seemingly runs around in armor all the time is ridiculous; most Samurai would only put their armor on when they were headed into field combat, not just walk around in it. They usually wouldn't even wear it in duels, only war. Armor is heavy and cumbersome, they wouldn't waste energy wearing it all the time. But that's a nitpick, not something to get the game cancelled over. And if you look back two games to Valhalla, you've got almost every character wearing a caricature of Norse clothing that looks more like something a biker would wear than anything the Norse actually had, armor that didn't exist yet (like large shoulder plates) and yet not armor that did (none of the Norse wear mail like they would historically), weapons that didn't exist yet (two-handed swords, comically large axes, springalds, and worst of all, windlass crossbows), castles that didn't exist yet (stone castles were a Norman thing, they weren't around in England during the Viking Age), and "Picts" who dress in furs and deer skulls in the snow despite being a Catholic culture that dressed the same as other Brits during that time (which seems a whole lot more insulting to a culture than showing a historical figure who happens to be a foreigner...), and yet somehow there were no petitions to get that one cancelled. The issue was never historical accuracy, that's just the smokescreen people are using to hide their real reasons for being upset over Yasuke's inclusion.
Yup and their main characters were natives of the region... so why UBI couldn't the same thing with this one? a Japanese male, and a Japanese female?
hack, we could've had Yasuke as a friendly side quest character.
this is what I found about him for randomness
"the black one"
Yasuke, means, “the black one,” in Japanese. He's been erroneously given the name of “Kuru-san,” which is highly unlikely as the word “-san” wasn't used during that period of Japanese history. He was a slave who travelled to Japan with members of one of several Italian missionary groups that arrived in Japan in 1579.
Also we can cancel it for the OUTRAGOUS price they're charging for it... like come on... £130!!
@@jokerdaace Ah yeah their main characters were always native to the region, like how Ezio was a native of the Ottoman Empire, Connor was a Native of the British American colonies (totally not a second-language English speaker who had to learn about British culture from an outside perspective), Edward was a native of the Caribbean, Adewale was a native of Haiti, and Eivor was a native of England. And no, Yasuke does not mean "the black one"; "suke" is a common Japanese male name ending, nobody knows where the "ya" comes from. "Kuru" is what means "black" in Japanese. You guys have two modes, it's either lying about history or lying about the Assassin's Creed franchise.
@@SomasAcademyEzio is Italian and the game is based in Italy not the ottoman empire.
"Ezio Auditore da Firenze is a character in the video game series Assassin's Creed, an Italian Master Assassin who serves as the protagonist of the series' games set during the Italian Renaissance"
Conner is a native Indian of an Native Indian tribe who's dad is English (a templar), and mother is Native Indian of the region, he grew up in the tribe with other tribe members who are also native Indian. however had to go and grow up in a British American colony because his tribe was attacked.
in AC Valhalla which region you start in first? I let you guest oh wait yes FUCKING NORWAY where Eivor is native of.
and you only bring a small (2) examples that or not technical native to their region but dose have some merit to it that they could be there and they could be at their position.
suke means:
a helper
suke means “a helper”, stand for “tasuke(助け)” that means “helping”. It typically named of samurai role name, Lords got name “xx-no-kami”, and second associate got “xx-no-suke”. Nowadays, we name “suke” as a part of boy's name. It's usually placed on end. like “Kensuke”“Kohsuke” “Shin-no-suke”
so if you combine ya which could mean ( black or black one) with suke (a helper) you get yasuke, which can basically mean a black helper... but I only found that it means "the black one" not black helper or it could mean black helper who fucking cares, he is black and he was a helper
and just google Yasuke and do some research.
Because you are clearly out of fucking touch here and lying about the Assassin's Creed franchise.
@@jokerdaace AC Revelations is set in the Ottoman Empire and stars Ezio. Connor's assumed name is spelled Connor, not Conner, and he grew up in the Haudenosaunee in a Kanien'keha:ka village, speaking Kanien'keha:. The Haudenosaunee was an independent nation, not part of the British colonies. He travelled to the British colonies as an outsider, and had to learn about the local culture. A significant element of his story is the fact that he is a cultural outsider. You start Valhalla in Norway, and then travel to England and spend most of the game in England, where Eivor is not native.
Fake fan lol, it's obvious you just googled the names I listed and read off their wiki pages to try to counter me, but you can't beat someone who's been obsessed with the series for more than a decade with shit you pulled off google.
"Ya" doesn't mean black in Japanese lmao, you're just making shit up.
@@jokerdaaceactually not all assassin's creed games had natives as playable characters
neah dont agree to the fact that we have to wait for it to come out and see what it is and what is offensive. Its now the time to voice our unhappiness while they can do something about it. Also the fact that there are 60k ppl it matters because they are most japanese ppl and its not a minor part of the majority that would buy and also the fact that west will not buy because of how they treat japanese culture and people. I dont know i started this video with the understanding that u are in support of the petition but towards the end it seemed that u were advocating for ubi..maybe just me
I have absolutely no interest in Shadows because it's Ubisoft but this whole entire "controversy" is just so forced and ridiculous
Facts they doing everything against the BLACK SAMURAI 😂😂😭
It’s just kind of ridiculous and there is absolutely no way Ubisoft is going to cancel it because of it.
They won't and that's awesome, gimme ac Japan, I'm ready, can't wait
I'm hyped
You’re delusional plus it’s Japanese response to cancel so we don’t have a choice but the cancel the game so tootles
we know mindless assassins creed fans will buy every crap
@guru7968 the game shows promise so it's not mindless, plus nothing wrong with being a fan
Imagine hearing that there’s a story based on a true story about someone of a different culture embracing the ideas of a sacred warrior order, being the only one that wasn’t born in that environment, and thinking that it ISN’T an interesting story.
It's interesting if it was 100% accurate. There's just not a lot of historical data on yasuke beyond word of mouth text. We don't even know if he really was a samurai, not to even mention one who would train in combat to then fight for real.
@@xx_HI_xx7who cares. It's an interesting story
@autobface that's just it. It's a story. A story rife with falsehoods. I simply didn't like the historical "experts" spouting nothing but historical inaccuracies.
@@xx_HI_xx7it's fiction in a game are you good?
@@xx_HI_xx7oh nooo! Fiction in my fiction! Alien time travel and magic is fine, but cancel the black man 😂
well tecnically jack the ripper was an assassin
That completely different
I think you are missing the point.
I subbed man, ty so much for your take, as a black man it actually makes me sad the hate this game is getting, these games have always been fiction, if it comes out and is trash I will say it, but we only saw a trailer.
Ya people are mad that the main character is black and not that the game is trash
At least, Japanese gamers think AC shadows is disrespect Yasuke and black people too.
@@Literally_a_Moth Japanese gamers had angered after many mistake and stole on trailer was revealed. Not because main character is black.
@oolongchen7533 it's because he is black and it's alot of westerners, racists, I'm buying
@oolongchen7533 don't speak for black people
I respect Japanese culture, but these reasons their giving for taking an issue with this game is absolutely cap, how many samurai games come out every year that give fuck all about being historically accurate even when that’s their objective, and none our held to this standard. It’s obvious that those up in arms are offended solely by the image of a black man being placed any where near Japanese culture. Let’s be real here, how much has the samurai been used casually throughout modern culture and only now do people draw the line or find some reason to become historical experts.
In other than AC Shadows, He is fascinating man, and now.
He could have done more, but UBI ruined it.
there are no exceptions with this game it is borderline racist whether it is discovery tour or not. even fast and furious tokyo drift didn't go far to political incorrect and that coming from franchise which has rocket pontiac fiero and godeye and lack of racing and even then it was represented better than ac so sorry but i don't agree
Can’t get behind this game it’ll be the first assassins creed ever I don’t purchase I’ve always been a huge fan and I’ve always been excited for them to go to Asia and I’m so disappointed they simply treat Japan as a aesthetic backdrop to their game with historically accurate slapped on the box. Not to mention ac jade is just a mobile game. It’s so sad I looked forward to this game since the first release.
Ubisoft won’t cancel their game because of a petition. The only way to make them change their ways is to not buy their product.
To me this would be like casting a white guy as the lead in Django Unchained, imagine if a white guy was cast in the lead of a black role, the world would literally implode. I don't care either way but I don't understand why people are upset. It is culturally insensitive but apparently it doesn't matter for some reason. Same thing happened with that Cleopatra movie. They cast a Black girl because apparently black people cant be culturally insensitive in Hollywood's eyes, even though its historically inaccurate.
the kenji yamamoto twitter trending posts shows how pathetic the whole situation is
I have always seen ac protagonists as real people who have been carefully removed from history efficiently by the brotherhood.
People arguing that Yasuke is not a samurai only adds on to that AC lore that assassins minimized his role to keep the brotherhood in secrecy
@@doofenshmirtzevil じゃあなんで弥助には家名が無いの？
@@artpine9159 it's fiction as stated in every game legit every game it says it's fiction what aren't you getting?
@artpine9159 not everyone has a family name
@@MavethTheReaper The problem is that Ubisoft says "This video game is fiction," while at the same time claiming "Yasuke is a real, legendary samurai." As mentioned above, this fuss would have died down if Ubi had just issued a statement saying "Yasuke was not actually a samurai," and Ubi should have known that, but for some reason they continue to shout "Yasuke was a legendary samurai" forever.
On one side: THIS IS HISTORCIALLY INACORRECT AND WOOOOOKE!
On the other: YOU ARE BEING RACIST!
Me: IT COST £130! AND A £18 MONTTHLY SUBSCRIPTION!
Ubisoft: Right in order, no it is not, yes they are being racist and finally... aaaah let's not mention that OK.
Bro buy the stander edition you don’t have to buy the ultimate
@corbinduncan5227 regardless of it being standard or gold or god edition, the price is fucking stupid and unnecessary.
Why are so many people acting like AC shadows is a documentary 💀💀 It’s a fucking video game😭a fictional video game🤦♂️
Yeah but Ubisoft is the one who said he's a real legendary samurai.
Where is my Tatar Samurai? How dare they not include him in the late 1500s? The fact that the people are defending Ubisoft is insane.
I mean I got my samurai but he was better in Nioh 2.
@@65firered Nioh 2 any good? I got tired of the Nioh formula after Sekiro. It's just not the same.
@@RedArc4Lif3 Nioh 2 and Rise of the Ronin are both good.
@@65firered I'm more tempted to play Rise of the Ronin, is it clunkier than GOT?
@@RedArc4Lif3 Not the combat, the traversal is a little but you get a glider that makes a big difference. It has the most variety in this part of the genre combat wise, multiple weapons and multiple styles for each weapon. It's no where near as tight as Sekiro or even Nioh but the variety makes up for it. Also, it's an actual historical fiction so there's no BS like with Ubisoft Quebec.
Can we please just call it a racist movement and address it as such
You can. It will be rather awkward when people see this "racist movement" includes people of many different races from several different countries including Japan. But I'm sure you can smear anyone who points that out, it's what you do and when you think about it it's all you can do.
@@65fireredmany racists
Gamers either hate black people or women...
This game has both. And Yasuke's the target while Naoe is completely ignored 💀
History continues to repeat itself
Im Vietnamese. Should i boycott Black Ops. Oh wait, i like it already. Under the lens of a gamer, the last thing you need to be worried about is not about Yasuke, i can assure that. And anyone with a bit of knowledge in history know what side u should be one. None, cause things, surprisingly, not black and white. Besides, if you want to boycott Shadow for it inaccuracy, there is worse our there. Hollywood, i looking at you. And you too, Netflix
Well, I gotta say I've been watching your videos for some time (mostly ac related) and have enjoyed them, but this? You have earned that subscribe click 😁😁
@@arkadiusznagorny3111 :O thanks man great to have you on board!
@@willismakesmovies my pleasure, now make November be here already ^^ no, that's asking too much 😋
@@arkadiusznagorny3111 I’ll try! 👉😤👈
@willismakesmovies Ahhh!!! The clock moved a second ahead and it only took it a second! It's working!!
Idk man. It seems like you might actually be picking a side here in a very indirect way lmfao
People are so-called outraged about this game's historical accuracy, but fail to realize that the most historically accurate AC game came out almost 17 years ago for the Xbox 360 and the PS3. Every game after, has been UbiSoft using history to continue the story told in the Levant. Aren't we doing a disservice to the muslim(maybe palestinian) community by continuing (and mostly enjoying) a franchise that has nothing to do with the plight of the arabs?
No way people are this racist that they hating on a game that didn’t come out yet🤦🏿♂️😭
i dont think they are going to cancel a game they worked on for 6 years. if they do it, i wont ever play games from ubi 😢
Everyone here tryin to play White Knight ror Ubisoft so sone reason byt literally just kook at their most recent video's comments.
Only 69k
Funniest petition i've ever seen. It's the most blatant case of it being Invaded by westerners.
hey i know you
Did you use some hidden assassin techniques to sneak in here? 🤣
Indeed
Yep and subbed to you
I was praying you did a video on it
I'm going to play it, i just wont play yasuke, i want to play as a STEALTH character. From the gameplay I've seen, he is definitely not a stealth oriented character. I liked mirage, it was a step up from Origins-Valhalla. The people hating on it are 100% only hating on it because of the black character, which yes was DEFINITELY used to appeal to the more left leaning masses (i mean come on, they could have chosen from dozens of historical figures in japan that could have also had the same play style). But they're just being childish, the franchise is finally taking (though a small one) a step back towards what made us actually fall in love with Assassin's Creed, AND they're remaking a bunch of classic ac games to bring the newer generation to altair and ezio, maybe bringing connor and edward back as well.
There are only two types of people hating on shadows. The people that have been hating on every game since ac3. And like i said before, the white guys getting mad they have to play a black character or a women. Like, this isn't even the first ac game that let us play as either. Liberation you played a black french women, and in the ac4 dlc you can play as adewale.
I'm not white but I see this disrespect to Japanese culture as disgusting. Where do I fit in clown?
I disagree with that assumed motive. They could have made any of their previous fictional characters in majority white settings Black, if it was just to "appeal to the more left leaning masses," why would they only decide to include a Black character in a setting where a native character would also be a racial minority (in the Western framework that is)? I don't see any reason to doubt their explanation for why they chose Yasuke; he's a foreigner, like the presumed audience, so he can serve as a window into Japanese society as someone who is just learning about it, his basic story is interesting, and there are big gaps in the historical record about him, so they have a lot of room for creative license. Is it possible they selected him just cause he's Black and they want to appeal to people who want more Black characters? Sure, it's possible, but it seems like the only reason to believe that is a gut feeling, whereas the explanation they provided seems very reasonable.
thats 69.000 buyers...millions of dollars lost.. let that sink in for a minute
And how many of them actually even play assassin's creed and were gonna buy the game before they found out about the protagonists? sorry but this game will sell very well.
They don’t like Yasuke but don’t want to be seen as racist or immature for it. So, they created a fake strawman argument, claiming that Ubisoft portrayed the game as historically accurate and disrespected Japan. Then, gullible people who have never played the game jumped on the hate train.
Which is more believable Ubisoft screwed up or people created a false narrative to hide their racism and gullible people jumped on to it and any evidence to the contrary is either made up or coincidence?
My opinion..
Some of this backlash would've been smaller if Ubisoft made a "fictional African samurai character" who gets taught by Yasuke.
There's no reason why we played as a historical figure before, there's no reason why should play as a historical figure now.
(Jack the Ripper was not a historical figure, "he" was mythical figure to the point of we didn't know "his" motive, we didn't know "his" race & we didn't know its gender)
This is asinine. How is this not woke cancel culture to cancel a video game because of some historical inaccuracies 😂😂😂😂 you gotta be kidding me
well if that asinine say that to egyptians and their reaction to Cleopatra on netflix and even everyone myself included with Cuties on netflix
who by the way cuties was made by the same country that made ubisoft
Lol who plays Assassins Creed for historical accuracy? These people need to get a life already.
The content creator of This video showed the disclaimer from Ubisoft declaring the game as fiction. So Ubisoft admitted it’s fiction. So why be so angered about it? How is this game trying to change the history of Japan? Japan’s history not just about samurai and bushi. There has ways been historical fiction based on every culture. I don’t see real Japanese people caring about this. Maybe some diehard hikkimori or American Japanese maybe offended… I really don’t know. I will say this… a lot of those comments that are supposedly Japanese are suspicious… they use terms like Woke and DEI. Those are terms used in the USA. One actual Japanese content creator made a video about it. And he had the wrong definition of DEI. He thought it meant diversity, equality and illusion. I wrote to him what it stood for diversity equity and inclusion. So it seems he got that and wasn’t truly educated on the term.
All in all. I think if you don’t like it, for whatever reason, don’t buy it. Let others decide for themselves.
strawman
Check out Shohei Kondo, he's Japanese and has videos covering Shadows and explaining how the Japanese feel about it. You simply lack that information, be careful he didn't tell you.
everyone is probably gonna play as the girl character anyways... lets be real lol
Yeah, I'm a history nerd and love when AC highlights obscure historical figures so I actually got super excited when it was confirmed that Yasuke was one of our characters, and even I fully intend to play Naoe instead. She's the one built for the Assassin fantasy, it's cool that Samurai fans get an option but I don't play Assassin's Creed to be a bruiser lmao
I don't expect UBI to read the petition and cancel or modify it.
If they had such humility and diligence, they would not have made a game with such a messy view of history and a landscape that is questionably Japanese or not.
I just want to leave you with the fact that this game was clearly rejected by many Japanese people.
Even as Indian I reject this game if not even series videogamedunkey was right this
@@siddheshpillai3807
Hello from Japan, not related to AC Shadows, but I have been wanting to talk to someone from India sometime.
In the fake Yasuke legends that have spread overseas, there are scenes where Japanese are in awe of Yasuke's skin and believe that he is an incarnation of Daikokuten. This, of course, is not true.
Daikokuten is a Mahakala form adopted into Buddhism. I think it is very shallow to worship people only because of the color of their skin. And vice versa.
You may say I am overthinking this, but I think the fake Yasuke legend lacks consideration for Asia.
@@user-hy5xsaino no you have a fair point
@@siddheshpillai3807
Thanks, and fingers crossed that the weird misunderstanding will be cleared up soon.
I say regardless of this Ubisoft is dead set on releasing this Controversy or not.
Edit: There is no bad publicity.
well unless you meta or tesla or even freaking this company
well petitions don't make games so..
@@magitoddw exactly!
Hey it’s literally putting what right and shouldn’t being a overhyped racist hate representation to history
well neither does gaming devs so..
The time to make change was months ago when Yasuke was already a known character. The game is way too close to coming out to ask to change a main character.
It’s obvious people are ignorant of the game being a fictional series and are just giving blatant un informed opinions.
Bro I'm actually excited
1. Bc there is actually a historical black samurai
2. It's ac I like ac.
3. I just like japanese style games
don't tell me you are going to buy it for £130 plus I believe a £8 monthly subscription?
@@jokerdaace no I'm gonna get the çheap version or just wait till it gets cheaper through time. I'm not rolling in cash. I just enjoy the ac franchise whether or not it's accurate to historical events. I don't care I just like playing them
Type in to view a trailer and gameplay footage and are met with nothing but negitivity, this is not exclusive to just the Ubisoft company but with pretty much all, There is a very simple and uncomplicated solution, if you don't like the product don't play it
so a strawman try something new..
Stop with bull crap
Japanese people has a point bud.
lol this is sad.
It’s the Quatering’s subscriber base that’s signing the petition 😂
Who cares if everyone’s not liking the game it’s just a game enjoy it. Have fun with it when it comes out. Complaining about the game in the characters.
It's true that a video game that was carefully thought out and made over a long period of time, and a video game that was made with the lowest possible production costs, even if it meant breaking the law, are both "just video games"🤣🤣🤣
People keep saying the Japanese are signing the petition, but it’s 95% Americans. The same people who hate on every game and are never happy.
Fake lol
Hot take
Where is my Tatar Samurai? What a common dismissal tactic. What's next the smearing campaign against the Japanese?
Makes sense
@@HahahMamaman Common dismissal tactic, I remember you from last week. We know what they are saying. Racist folk denying Japanese their voices.
I thought only lefties canceled shit...
nah man... everyone cancels shit, hack I even just canceled my uber eats just now :D
I'm pretty sure many of these people are probably strong conservatives. I myself am one and a Christian gamer personally. I think it's wrong to assume ubisoft is having an agenda. We're not God, so we can't really know for sure and the series assassin's creed has always gone with historical events and Characters that aren't well know yasuke is perfect for assassin's creed we don't know alot about him so they can tell us what we know and then be creative with the character I also think it's a great distinction from Ghost of tsushima or any other game set on japan your aways playing as a Asian it's cool to play as someone different from the culture
And yasuke was a real character, so I don't understand this hate and personally think yasuke is cool, so it's fine, yaskue can be in other games but as soon a ubisoft does iit now people are calling it woke seriously this not right at all
And one last thing
ASSASSIN'S CREED IS NOT A HISTORICAL TEXT BOOK OR A DOCUMENTARY THE SERIES HAS ALWAYS TAKEN HISTORICAL EVENTS AND RE-WRITE THEM TO FIT IN WITH THE AC LORE
Assassin's Creed as series has almost never been 100% faithful to real life history, and has always, from day 1 since the very first game in 2007, played somewhat fast and loose with historical accuracy.
There is a sequence in Assassin's Creed 1, featuring a conversation between Desmond Miles and Warren Vidic that perfectly encapsulates the themes of the series, which is about how history is written and shaped by the victors in their image, who were often corrupt and biased, meaning marginalized voices often were silenced and forgotten. There is a video by Lazzeraz which delves deeper into this topic.
To me, featuring Yaskue is the most thematically compelling choice the developers could have done in my opinion
The game is fiction why does anyone care what happens in it
would you say the same with prank channels
@@siddheshpillai3807 Prank channels actually show people being physically hurt, also prank channels are not video games.
As for as trying to cancel the game goes, it's as likely to succeed as the boycott of Hogwarts Legacy, which went down as the best selling game of that year.
I do get the feeling a lot of the people who are complaining about the character don't understand the concept of Historical fiction. I've seen at least video by a Japanese youtuber who mocked the very idea of the concept of Historical Fiction, and then I wonder, just how many works of fiction in Japan, games, Manga, Anime, novels fall into that same genre. And how popular as a genre it might be?
In Britain, we've had a LOT of Historical Fiction, both drama and comedy over the years, and there are always some who miss the point that it's just fiction based upon real events, but not necessarily how things really went down.
There's certain youtubers who always complain about a lack of historical accuracy in certain works of fiction, usually Fantasy. This can be anything from the wrong type of weapons and armour being present to the "wrong race" of people being present in a Medieval setting. Even when that setting is something like Game Of Thrones or The Witcher or Wheel Of Time or any other Fantasy show, which is not the same thing as Historical Fiction, and aren't even set on Earth in any case. But then they insist that things weren't like that in reality on Earth, and ignore all evidence of say, black people living in Medieval Europe, like actual legal documents showing their wages, taxes, marriages and so on.
To a certain degree, some of the outrage feels a bit similar to this, but it goes beyond something so simple. Some historians (who are Japanese) say he was a Samurai, others (who are also Japanese) say he wasn't. My question would therefore have to be, why are there two camps on this issue? What is the evidence for against?
If I had a penny for every time I’ve noticed “Japanese” gamers raging about Shadows on Twitter use google translate instead of genuine Japanese I’d be able to buy the collectors edition 😂
assassins creed fans when you have to play as a black guy or a woman
Im still getting the game regardless of how people feel
I hate it... because it gonna cost me £130 and a £8 monthly subscription.
@@jokerdaace good for you buddy
@@GuyFawkes-gpp I will feel better if you buy it for me
@@jokerdaace why would I do that?
@@GuyFawkes-gpp since you are willing to burn £130 for a game that WILL be shit you can do the same for me :D
This is all just sad theres no other word for it in my mind, do people honestly not have anything better to with their lives like come on its a game its not the end of the world
私の経験上、こういう売り方をしたビデオゲームで面白かったものは一つもありませんでした😂このビデオゲームがAC史上最高傑作と信じて疑わないのならぜひ買えばいいと思います🤣🤣あ、ちゃんと一番高い方を買ってくださいね？😂😂😂
Watch this ironically be the best selling AC game of all time lol
I preordered the collector’s edition which this will be my first collector’s edition ever🎉
Me too
Wouldn't be surprised. AC in Japan plus being the first next gen AC game means it'll be a guaranteed hit. Not particularly excited for it myself as I'm not a fan of Ubisoft Quebec but there's no denying it'll be successful.
Damn, could have gotten the witcher 3 with both expansions for 30 bucks. I used to love AC but the last few games are dumpster fire cash grabs with no respect for the series
@@Wyatt_Riley I need to double back and play the Witcher 3 for sure lol
But I respect your opinion. Tbh I’ve been playing AC since the first and I haven’t loved the RPG turn the series took but I hope Shadows is 🔥!
I thought the last two games were a great Viking game and a great mercenary/spartan game but not necessarily a great AC game ya know?
@micahangelo1813 Exactly. If they want to make an rpg, make an rpg, but don't disrespect the AC franchise by slapping the name on it but not attempting to make an AC game at all. RPG elements have no place in AC games. It doesn't make any sense as you are reliving a person's memories. How can you be reliving someone's memories, yet have the ability to make game altering choices? They seriously lost the plot.
cancel it in japan, who cares lol. imma still play it
wait... you willing to pay £130 for it?!?
@@jokerdaace wait for it on sell, it's gonna be a third of the price in a year or two, like most games, and wait for all the DLC and patches to release. I'm not in a hurry to play a game
@@Tony-rh2lp nah fuck that I just gonna pirate it
@@jokerdaace the normal price is 70 dollars just like any other game lol. three prices you can spend $70 $100 $130.
@@zacherypritchett9079 Yeah and it's ridiculous, regardless that they are pricing that much for a game that will probable be shallow and shit.
Helldivers wasn't priced that much, DRG wasn't either, Vintage story priced at least around Minecraft but Vintage story HAS a shit ton more content then Minecraft and is much more easier to set up mods and doesn't crash every 10 fucking min nor do you need a fucking NASA grade computer run the shit Minecraft is...
WE shouldn't be accepting these prices for things that aren't gonna be great and they don't need to be in the first place.
bro it’s a video game it’s not that deep 😭
unlike your sister...
bro wtf
This is crazy that there are so many hateful ppl in this world smh
You people are not historians but some of us are. There WHERE NO children of AMMON Who where Samurai. ONLY Blacks, ONLY Blacks where Ninja. You are playing a fantasy game where the race does not matter. So the moment you find out. OH! ONLY Blacks where Samurai and Ninjas you start attacking that fact an changing Wikipedia. The Literal definition of Shogun was given to the FIRST Black Samurai who won a war. He earned that title.
Standing here saying the Race should be Japanese is literally the problem. There WHERE NO JAPANESE Samurai!
Minamoto no Yoritomo was the first Shogun and he is Japanese, plus the paintings depict him as having Japanese facial features.
And you got the definition wrong.
Furthermore, you are 110% trolling :D
Im gonna buy this game twice. Once on Epic and then on Steam whens its released.
I love how everyone thinks people can play ghost of tsunami when they don’t have ps5 game only 💀 they didn’t ruined ac they didn’t missed the window of opportunity + for the people who wants to cancel it you are very selfish to the other people who want to play it + a lot fake Japanese accounts is In play let’s not forget that
私の経験上、こういう売り方をしたビデオゲームで面白かったものは一つもありませんでした😂このビデオゲームがAC史上最高傑作と信じて疑わないのならぜひ買えばいいと思います🤣🤣あ、ちゃんと一番高い方を買ってくださいね？😂😂😂
Most of those who signed under the petition are white Americans, which is a bit ridiculous to say the least. Most Japanese players really don't give a damn about it as far as I'm aware, and quite a lot of them are happy to see Yasuke as a playable character.
I'm Asian... and I'm butt hurt about the price... are we gonna talk about that?
it will cost me £130 and a £8 monthly subscription... really? we not gonna talk about that?
yeah saying this is about “japanese culture” is just thinnly veiled racism. yall just don’t wanna play a black dude, be honest
It's not that you want honesty, it's that the only answer you'll accept is the one you made up. You want anyone who criticizes the game to be racist and thus anyone who criticizes the game is racist to you.
7 minutes 20 views bro fell off
Not really
@@GuyFawkes-gpp have you never seen this joke before
@@iamnotbrucewayne-r9v what joke?
@@GuyFawkes-gpp the "[number below 30] minutes [small amount of views due to the time of the upload] bro fell off"
@@iamnotbrucewayne-r9v maybe people didn't like the topic and didn't click
I guess Assassins Creed Rogue is woke because you play an Irish man in America.
Suppose Revelations too since you're an Italian in Constantinople.
Can't forget Black Flag where you're an English man in the West Indies.
"I'm Welsh" - Edward probably
Now imagine the uproar if the next game was set during the American Civil War and you’re told you are an ex slaver fighting against slavery and slave owners in the south and then the reveal trailer drops and the main character looks like Eivor😂 the woke hysteria would be insane💀
It's just a game though?
yes... and it cost £130... let that sink in.
@@jokerdaace no it doesn't
@@jokerdaace it's only that if you buy the top edition, what do you expect? A bunch extra for a higher price.
@Blue-Moldy_Cheese yeah but come on why so fucking much what are you really getting that is worth 130 what a fucking game pass for a single player focused game and don't forget the base game cost 70 too like why???
@Blue-Moldy_Cheese when it comes to Ubisoft, I can't be expecting a great game. It's gonna be shit. Look at the latest far cry 6 bloated lame shit and skull and bones... yeah, let's talk about it it was terrible.
I can name a few more but I hope you get the picture,
As a japanese person myself, sure id prefer if Assasins creed shadows was a little more historically and culturally accurate. But why is everyone so upset about it, its literally a video game. Assasins creed has never been historically accurate. I mean the whole get up of the brotherhood, leonardo Di vinci making the hidden blades?? No one cried about it then? Why now? Dont get me wrong the game still looks kinda shit but why are people actively insulted by this, its just a game.
だ０ひとりとして血蚊図課７１９３１５３←If you want to claim to be Japanese, please read this.
@@notariraton-w7z ８８９答え６８似奔刃二奈里素麻巣５３８６０ｗｗｗ
Why did you think it was possible to impersonate a Japanese person? At least learn Japanese lol.
Stop with the racist this is sad
Funny how it's pretty much just westerners signing it... look at the top 3... all white dudes... 😂😂😂😂
Disrespect becuase theres a black samurai is crazy u racist gamers and yourubers are exposing yourselfs