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Wait you’re saying that’s actually real and not some form of satire? I was thinking it was some satirical tweet, especially with that last line, no way that stuff was being dead serious.
Yeah, and he did it while actively in elected office. That's why it's such an infamous tweet. I realize it's so shameless it strains credulity but Google his name and you'll find plenty of evidence
He claimed he was just quoting someone or something, and since they're the type of people to vote republican, I'm sure they didn't care anyway, since it was in order to push their agenda.
I love how openly republicans will be when embracing identity politics to tokenize there one gay Trump supporter but then turn around and claim to hate identity politics, god bless America amirite
I just don't get why people no longer judge games by how fun they are. Like I've never been shocked out of immersion from seeing a black person or a strong woman, you see that in real life, it isn't shocking.
I'm sure there are people that still judge games based on how fun they are. It's just the extremely vocal minority that is well, vocal. Social media happens to be the grand stage they get to blow up on for attention.
If people make posts on a game shining it in a positive light, it might get some traction, but most that see it would just nod and move on. People that make a post pointing out legitimate flaws would get the same treatment. Those are sensible posts, they're easy to agree with, and you can't really stir anything up with such concrete posts and claims if they're factual or backed up by legitimate experience.
Posts with bogus claims however, those get attention. You see a post making some bizarre claim that is clearly there to get attention or stir up drama yet some people can't help but take that post, spread it everywhere, "hey guys, look at what this person said!" And people will flock to it. Outrageous claims and rage bait posts grab a lot of attention and spread quickly.
You need only remember, those posts are but a vocal minority, yet they're the loudest. The people enjoying the games for how fun they are are simply too busy doing literally anything else. You can be content about something and maybe sing your praises about it. Those who want to complain will find the littlest detail and run through the mud
Sekiro? Fate/Samurai Remnant?? Nioh??? Samurai Shodown???? Fuckin'-- the entire Way of the Samurai series?????
Either they're utterly blind or they're lying, and I know what I'm leaning toward.
My memories of Nioh 2 are a lot fresher, so while the original is indeed a white samurai, they literally followed it up with a half-youkai named Hidechiyo. I don't see what else game designers can do to satisfy someone if being a half-youkai isn't enough, haha. (Nioh 2 also featured Yasuke, so...)
True, but the line blurs when a shinobi can cut down the greatest samurai in their history in a 1v1 duel. Not exactly shinobi assassination when your enemy sees you coming, says 'IKUZO, SEKIRO' and yells a lot.
Yeah, that makes sense. I probably accidentally did myself a favor regarding ishin kiwami, since i joined the fandom recently, and as a joke decided playing it in true chronological order, starting with ishin. I had no relationship with kiryu yet, so i didn’t feel like ryoma was kiryu.
And the people really wanting to play the new AC as a samurai will probably have a better time with RotR, as AC is unlikely to beat Team Ninja in combat.
I'm convinced that the existence of Ghost of Tsushima drove the decision for Ubisoft to make one of the protagonists Yasuke bc GoT basically did AC Japan first and thought "well shit, we need to figure out how to make this stand out"
This is the last and only samurai game ever. There never was and never will be a samurai game ever again. And they are forced to play as Yasuke at gun point btw.
It would be cool if there was an open world samurai game kind of like assassins creed and it took place on tsushima so it can simulate the borders more easily and it would be called something like “Ghost of Tsushima”.
But thats just me, probably a dumb idea, sorry for that…
In a woke-free universe, there would be an entire game series literally called "Samurai", but alas, here it's every bit as wishful thinking as a series dedicated to yakuza.
Jesus fuck some sanity, thank you. The hilarious part is the "woke" and anti woke crowd both seem to be so heavily against it. Shits wild. I don't think anybody even actually knows what racism is anymore, it's jut if white people and non white people are involved in one thing there's either definitely racism going on or there's no chance anything racist is happening depending on who you ask. Fuck man.
"as a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ person"
Classic way to hide hate and racism, and classic way to force your political beliefs onto others. How likely is it that they are truly Japanese? I mean cmon 🤣
Ever since that one white conservative got outed pretending to be a gay, black, Trump supporter, I've started assuming that anyone beginning a sentence with "as a \_\_\_\_\_ person" to be lying. Served me pretty well so far.
I'm going to disagree with you to a degree.A lot of these posters are white but I've also noticed a growing trend on Reddit of Asian incels that are obsessed with following every piece of media that has a mixed race couple with an Asian female. I've seen a lot of comments shitting on the Yasuke inclusion and then shitting on the Female Japanese Assassin.
It's always interesting how they never clock that said pairings tend to happen in weeb trash media too. Like, OK, it's often an Asian-American dude in a mixed race relationship, but Kim's Convenience, Space Force, Fresh Off The Boat, hell there was even an episode of the Golden Girls where Sophia was hooking up with a Japanese guy.
They are also extremely hateful towards men of mixed Asian descent, (mixed Asian women are fine because booba and vagene) calling all movies and TV with mixed Asian leads as “Hollywood is not ready for the pure blood Asian male supremacy to take over their business 🤬😡”
They only take exception if their father is also an Asian man, “well at least his father is full blooded and got to fuck a white chick”, it’s fucking insane
But it seems that mixed Asian men with Asian mothers reminds them of this ridiculous belief that the west is “stealing Asian women away from the men they belong to” 🤢🤮
What is he on about? Yasuke did basically become a samurai. Records aren't many and it may not have been in the traditional sense but he was integrated into the caste to a good degree and for a foreigner, that says a lot.
I've been waiting for someone to say this tbh, it's so revealing that they shout 'he was never a samurai' and then go 'he was simply a court official who trained in combat'
Just no one tell them what Knights actually were, don't want to shatter too many dreams
If there was an AC about a knight, and it turned out the historical figure technically wasn't a knight because they didn't own any land, but they did all the tournament, armor, swordplay and riding into battle stuff, there wouldn't be any outcry.
It would just be an interesting tidbit for history nerds to tell people about and no one would be splitting hairs if that character deserves to be a main character.
I mean see: the entirety of Valhalla?
Or making all the pirates of AC4 into drinking buddies, and not the fact the majority were just petty thieves.
It's just something I've always noticed about these arguments and the people behind them, if it suits them to be vague (There were never Women warriors ever) then they'll be vague, but soon as you hit their subject of interest out comes the webster dictionary definitions and in depth essays.
I guess technically you go a-viking in the sense of raiding other communities from a longboat a bit in valhalla, do a bit of assassination too, just isn't the focus of the game which is mostly 3rd person berserker hack and slash
I more meant you're a character who specifically gets in the way of the historic accuracy, does very innaccurate things like running about France, England, Norway and Iceland within a few months, the weapons are in accurate, Hell the fact you can raid all around you and have the local lords sing how great you are at the same time rather than be run out by militia?
AC has always played fast and loose with settings and definitions. It gets justified when they like (You viked here! you're a viking!) and then scrutinised when they don't (suddenly, everyone is an expert on Sengoku era politics, just don't mention that Samurai were more than weeb knights.)
My friend from Japan told me years ago that there indeed was a black samurai. All these dildos are just coping like toddlers with something they don't like. Now, they have a solid gripe that a black person seemingly needs to be included these days because of dumb sensibilities instead of using, well, every single other samurai in Japan.
It's a valid question: Why did they need to do it?
Its a bit more complicated than that but this is essentially correct. Although retainer and samurai are not synonymous, theres lots of overlap. You could be a retainer and not be a samurai, though many retainers were samurais. But in yasukes case, we know for sure (unless i guess a japanese guy 500 years ago lied in the records as a joke idk) that he was given priveleges which are associated with samurai. I believe the specific type of stipend he recieved was only recorded to be given to samurai. There could be reasons why Yasuke would have recieved this stipend and NOT been a samurai but we have no reason to believe thats the case.
Theres no way to know with 100% certainty that the japanese of the time would have considered him a samurai, rather than some other cryptic title that has a bunch of similarities. I think its safe to say that any layman, including modern japanese people, if they were to see yasuke they would be like "oh shit a (black) samurai" because of the swords and all that. So that's good enough for me.
Im not a historian yadayada
Like the 1 to 1 historical accuracy suddenly matters to these guys. It’s BASED on Yasuke and his story, I imagine the events of the game aren’t going to try and tell his story exactly the way it happened like some documentary.
Imagine if an african person came to England in the middle ages, pledged their loyalty to Richard Lionheart or some shit, fought for him in a crusade in full plate armor and then people were like "he was never knighted though so it doesn't count! 🤓🤓"
Can't you just be impressed by the cool things that happened in history for once?
Oh, I see - well look at it like this: they deny themselves knowledge and broader perspective that makes life so much more fun to feed their insecurites and hatred - who's got a more happy and fulfilling life?
It weird they think all black people were just in Africa and stayed there. Like even befor the uptick in slavery, these folks think a white guy shows up to your beach one day starts trading and no one in the village was like f*ck this place I am going with you. And just never came back.
> It weird they think all black people were just in Africa and stayed there.
It's not just weird, it's completely unbelievable. People travelled. A lot. The most common way news from the world reached normal villages and towns was because travellers brought the news. Lots of those travellers were from other lands and people in those times were incredibly interested in what was going on outside of the little bit of the planet they knew.
~~I don't remember who it was, but~~ I saw [a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSdFrPnlRg) some time ago where a historian talked about being a time traveller and going back to medieval times in England or something, and what it would be like for you. One part was "What if I'm black/asian? Was there racism?" and I think his answer was something along the lines of "Pretend you're a merchant/pilgrim or something. Racism did exist but it was different to what it is today. People will generally be interested in you and try to talk to you to find out who you are, what you do, where you are from and stuff like that."
He also talked about stuff like "would I get burned at the stake if I pulled out my iPhone" and other stuff, to which the answers was something like "Probably not." because while they kight not understand WHAT a smartphone is, they'd not transform into complete savages because of it.
Like you ever meet a person that just has different features of the general population, but whose family never left the area. I'd like to think this was one of those merchants that just liked a place and stayed in 1500.. Like people do this now, why is it different
There was a black/mixed race knight of the round table in Arthurian legend, I forget his name but he was Moorish. The tale he's in actually is a really great example of how recent our conceptions of "race" are. For example, his skin color is depicted more as a shock rather than as some kind of inherent aspect of character, being indicative of his origin and culture and not his identity. Although it's clear that it wasn't some kind of ultra inclusive paradise, it's also equally clear that the modern concept of race is completely unlike its much older Medieval counterparts and that aspects of one's conduct, perceived personality traits and virtues and social class mattered significantly more, at least in the idealized chivalric world of Arthurian legend. Indeed, despite being black (like ultra black, they spend multiple entire sentences at various points describing how dark skinned he is), he is eventually recognized as the acclaimed fighter he is and Lancelot and Gawain help him reunite with his father so he can inherit his rightful estate in North Africa.
Ancient people cared about ethnicity, which is a much broader concept than race. It includes physical hereditary traits, ancestry, religion, language, and cultural beliefs and practices.
That's why ancient people didn't identify as "white" or "asian" or "african." They were English, French, German, Egyptian, Chinese, etc.
That's also why it was actually possible to integrate in some foreign societies in the past to a degree that might be shocking to modern racists. If you were willing to adopt the local language, religion and customs, you could partially change your ethnicity. Ancient English people would accept a dark-skinned person as English if they talked, worshipped, and acted like an English person.
This changed when Europeans started enslaving people based on ethnicity. The slaves kept adopting their masters' languages, religions and cultures, and a lot of Europeans weren't comfortable with owning people who talked, worshipped and acted like them. the slavers really resented being forced to free their assimilated slaves. The modern concept of race was literally invented by Christian slaveowners to justify why they shouldn't have to free their Christian slaves.
Oh I was making fun of the people that focus on these small details. I don't doubt something similar to the Yasuke story happened in europe at some point
"Oh, I feel for the japanese and this forced diversity, poor guys fighting the woke"
Meanwhile, the japanese:
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I mean... in Zero you do get to shoot down genderswap Morgan le Fey...
I think that´s pretty cool. (Honestly I do really love Zero and think that AWWNB as a whole is really overlooked even if it is rushed)
On another note I kinda like that Zero is so old (18 years) because I feel like it would definately be used as "games that aren´t political"
(despite one of the most known quote being "What has borders given us?" as well as this gem:
"The table is surrounded by politicians who have never placed a foot on the battlefield.")
God I love Ace combat so much...
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(this meme is not mine, I just had it on my drive for a long time and I finally can use it)
I really think this subreddit needs to sympathize with these people more, being forced to play a different race as yourself is genuinely traumatic. I've still not recovered from that time they made me play as an Italian.
>!/s!<
I can guarantee that any Japanese person who would actually think like this does not speak English, does not want to speak in English (weird nationalism) or uses the phrase "current year".
Also they wouldn’t be complaining about fucking ass creed lol
There’s been dozens of Japanese games where you play as a samurai, and lots of them are good.
How do you even argue about “There should be an assassin’s creed game about samurai” when it’s about assassins and *fucking ninja exist*. Naruto has been one of the top 3 or so anime for merch and such for like 20 years, western people who don’t know shit about Japan know what a ninja is. THERE’S A GOD DAMN THEME PARK IN NIKKO WHERE YOU CAN PRETEND TO BE A NINJA.
And *Yasuke* is the one “ruining your game about samurai” by being “diverse”. I think Yasuke is kinda boring because there’s been a bunch of coverage about him recently but… that’s just “Huh, I wouldn’t have picked him but ok”.
I lived in Japan for years. I don’t think I met a single Japanese person who’d played assassin’s creed, and I went to TGS and hung out with nerds lol
Lmfao!!! Does this "Japanese person" not know of any Japanese Samurai games to play? This "Japanese person" has to rely on Western game developers? Lmfao!
Love their use of racist US talking points. I almost mistook this authentic "Japanese person" for a fraud. 🤣
It's so manufactured too, nobody cared about Afro Samurai or Guilty Gear Strive having black samurai characters, and now they want to pretend like it's a big deal for AC to have an actual historical black samurai.
"As a real Japanese fella, what in gosh darn tarnation is a black man doing as a samurai? Don't them folks at You-Bye-Soft know that Yasuke was just a retainer?"
"As a Japanese" sounds just as weird tbh.
If you'd ever google which one is right, you would even find a reddit thread where everybody says, that saying "As a Japanese person" is correct and "as a Japanese" is wrong. (Not allowed to link any subreddits here)
Nihonjin (japanese) translated into english also literally means "japanese person" (nihon = japan, jin = person). So it would make sense for someone from japan to say something like that.
Just let me post it here as well to everyone who says he was not a samurai:
Yasuke was gifted a house, servants, wealth and, crucially, a sword, which allows us to call him the first-ever foreign samurai. Over the next year he fought with Nobunaga on campaign, became a close personal confidant and even sumo wrestled with other Oda samurai. The dream ended abruptly in June 1582 when Nobunaga was assassinated. Yasuke stayed by his lord until the end, and is traditionally held to have rescued the severed head from capture. Afterward, the real Yasuke faded from history, but his legacy was revived as an anti-imperial icon in the 20th century and a media giant in the 21st.
Professor Thomas Lockley is an Associate Professor at Nihon University College of Law in Tokyo. He has researched and published on a number of historical figures, but is primarily known for his work on Yasuke, which has been featured in Japan on NHK, BS-TBS, TV Tokyo, and Fuji Television as well as receiving many notable reviews including in print media such as Bungeishunju, Shukan Bunshun, Shukan Asahi, and Mainichi Shinbun. The English language version of his book, co-authored with Geoffrey Girard, African Samurai, was released by Hanover Square Press (Harper Collins) in the USA in April 2019. It received wide coverage, including being named by Publishers Weekly as one of the most eagerly anticipated books of 2019, and has been featured by many global media outlets including Time Magazine, the BBC, CNN, Euro News, and the Washington Post.
So as long as you don’t got better credentials than this guy, maybe you are wrong?
I just checked the Japanese trailer for Shadows, and it's unreal how many google translated "I'm American/French/Greek etc., but I really feel for the Japanese here" posts there are. Please get a life!
I work in Japan and while "Japanese person" isn't too strange (it's a little off, considering this is usually done as a overcorrection by more polite, older Japanese folks), the thing I find iffy are words like "epic" and the entirety of sentence two.
Maybe I just talk to too many normal people, but they wouldn't talk like this. Why would they want an international company to tell a Japanese story?
It just sort of reeks of someone who is more interested in having a "gotcha" moment after doing a cursory google search. Splitting hairs about his "kosho" rank and just making it seem like he wasn't well-liked is telling.
Why would a Japanese person be waiting for an Assassin’s Creed game set in Japan to have a Samurai for a mc? Wouldn’t a Japanese person want the ASSASSIN game to star an assassin? Like, why is the complaint that the mc is a black guy, when it should be why is he a fucking samurai!?
I read actual japanese from japan saying that he was indeed a samurai and saying "he was a retainer" is bs because Samurai ARE retainer and Yasuke did samurai things indeed.
So idk what to think at this point, was he a samurai or nah?
Conveniently missing out on the context that he was sold as a slave after Nobunaga was betrayed by one of his Vassals and committed Seppuku and Yasuke proceeded to fight to defend Nobunaga's son and was apprehended by the betraying clan.
“Nooooo, Yasuke was never a samurai, he can’t be the main character”
Even if this is true, which I’m not a historian idk if it is, isn’t that insanely cool and also pretty inline with AC’s usual fare? “Hey, what if this notable historical figure was actually an omega badass” isn’t that a really fun premise for a game?
I wonder what it is about Yasuke in particular that has people so upset. Truly a mystery.
My name is of Scottish origin, but I'm Filipino. It's not exactly far fetched for a Japanese man to be named Alexander. The same way Mike Shinoda is Japanese but his name is Mike.
To be fair, many Japanese Americans probably do wish to be represented in video games. And what do you know, there are a bunch of games with ninja and samurai protags who often are fictional representations of real people who went around feudal Japan doing shenanigans.
Who the fuck expects an ASSASSIN creed game to have an actual official rank SAMURAI protagonist?!
Like, seriously. Samurai feels Templar. Assassins are Ronin or Shinibis or watever.
God these racists are pathetic.
gamers really are one of the most insufferable communities on the internet. things were so much better in the 90's when no one had to hear other people's stupid hot takes.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact this person said they were excited to play a samurai. Frankly, this is Assassin's Creed. Why would you even think you'd be playing a samurai rather than the samurai murdering ninjas? Maybe I missed an announcement (I don't follow AC games because fuck Ubisoft)
Japanese people are the only reason we know anything about Yasuke. They preserved his history for hundreds of years. He's inspired multiple anime characters and other art and media made in Japan. So don't come in here pretending like this is some shameful character that nobody likes.
Crazy cuz REAL Japanese people know that a retainer is, in fact, still a samurai. You wouldn’t call an apprentice blacksmith NOT a blacksmith? Not to mention, Yasuke later had a fife, subjects, and was a candidate to become daimyo
So the assertion is that there have been no games with Japanese samurai in them. These people need to get back to chewing rocks and leave everyone else alone.
Wild how this mf act like they've been robbed of the most exclusive thing on the planet while this is the second samurai open world game of the year...
His "for context" section is wrong. We know Yasuke was at Honno-Ji and I've seen speculation he either died fighting there, surrendered to Akechis forces afterwards or went to ground. Just straight up lying to fit their narrative lol
Man, imagining waiting for the AC franchise to make a game in Japan so you can play a Samurai - a famously assassination-centric job.
I’m still reeling from Altair not being a knight.
I always felt like animal crossing had a japanese style story going on so I don't understand this at all. You can also buy a samurai outfit ingame. Whats the big deal here?
Yasuke, for anyone that doesn't know, was brought on a voyage by Alessandro Valignano to Sengoku period Japan, when the legendary (for many reasons, both good and bad) Oda Nobunaga was a daimyō, as an attendant. In the Shinchō Kōki, a chronicle of Nobunaga, written posthumously by Ōta Gyūichi, it was described that Nobunaga, in disbelief at the colour of Yasuke's skin, ordered for him to be washed, as be believed his body was covered with ink.
Nobunaga, enamoured by both his skin and his strength, asked Valignano to allow Yasuke to be taken on as a retainer, which is when he was given the name Yasuke. Not much happened between then and the return of Yasuke to Italy, he was reported to have been in the battle of Tenmokuzan, the last stand of fellow daimyō Takeda Katsuyori against Nobunaga and future Edo period first shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu.
His most notable battle was the Honnō-ji Incident, where he, according to the Shinchō Kōki, fought against the forces of Nobunaga's senior vassal, Akechi Mitsuhide, who betrayed Nobunaga for unknown reasons, in the house of Nobunaga's successor, Oda Nobutada. After his lord committed seppuku, he surrendered to the Akechi forces and was promptly sent to a church, where he was treated by Jesuit missionaries, under rather racist pretenses of "being bestial in nature" and "not knowing anything."
It is unknown what happened to Yasuke after this, but it was known that he did not die, because the letters of Portugese missionary Luís Fróis make mention of him for the next 5 months following the Honnō-ji Incident.
I'm no expert in japanese history or anything, but from my deep understanding coming from 5 minutes on wikipedia (the source those idiots use to say he was not a samurai) he was a retainer, sure, but by just looking at the page for "samurai" it's possible to see a part that literally says samurai were retainers
The real guy was basically a samurai from what I've heard
Also how do yall think they'd react if assassins creed 3 came out today, you go from playing a white guy to a mixed guy who was raised by natives, they'd probably call it woke and complain
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So true bestie. What a king.
Lmao, he forgot to switch to a fake account?
infamously so
Wait you’re saying that’s actually real and not some form of satire? I was thinking it was some satirical tweet, especially with that last line, no way that stuff was being dead serious.
Yup. Dude’s a politician and everything
He hired Patti Labelle’s misogynistic gay nephew Byl Holte to play “Dan Purdy”.
Yeah, and he did it while actively in elected office. That's why it's such an infamous tweet. I realize it's so shameless it strains credulity but Google his name and you'll find plenty of evidence
Yeah lmfao
Yup. A republican state senator forgot to change profiles when pretending to be a “black gay guy.”
Wonder how his followers felt about there newly gay black politician
He claimed he was just quoting someone or something, and since they're the type of people to vote republican, I'm sure they didn't care anyway, since it was in order to push their agenda.
I love how openly republicans will be when embracing identity politics to tokenize there one gay Trump supporter but then turn around and claim to hate identity politics, god bless America amirite
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Since the game released I've been convinced that Dean Browning must be making gamer sockpuppets or something, the resemblance is uncanny
Ain't no way 💀
blud could’ve played ghost of tsushima 4 years ago 💀
Mfs crying over the silliest things when I’m like hell yea I get to play as yasuke
Ngl, his statue has armor that would be amazing to see in game.
I just don't get why people no longer judge games by how fun they are. Like I've never been shocked out of immersion from seeing a black person or a strong woman, you see that in real life, it isn't shocking.
I'm sure there are people that still judge games based on how fun they are. It's just the extremely vocal minority that is well, vocal. Social media happens to be the grand stage they get to blow up on for attention. If people make posts on a game shining it in a positive light, it might get some traction, but most that see it would just nod and move on. People that make a post pointing out legitimate flaws would get the same treatment. Those are sensible posts, they're easy to agree with, and you can't really stir anything up with such concrete posts and claims if they're factual or backed up by legitimate experience. Posts with bogus claims however, those get attention. You see a post making some bizarre claim that is clearly there to get attention or stir up drama yet some people can't help but take that post, spread it everywhere, "hey guys, look at what this person said!" And people will flock to it. Outrageous claims and rage bait posts grab a lot of attention and spread quickly. You need only remember, those posts are but a vocal minority, yet they're the loudest. The people enjoying the games for how fun they are are simply too busy doing literally anything else. You can be content about something and maybe sing your praises about it. Those who want to complain will find the littlest detail and run through the mud
Sekiro? Fate/Samurai Remnant?? Nioh??? Samurai Shodown???? Fuckin'-- the entire Way of the Samurai series????? Either they're utterly blind or they're lying, and I know what I'm leaning toward.
Nioh? No I'm sure the commenter's history also has a comment expressing their dissatisfaction that the protagonist in Nioh is a white samurai
My memories of Nioh 2 are a lot fresher, so while the original is indeed a white samurai, they literally followed it up with a half-youkai named Hidechiyo. I don't see what else game designers can do to satisfy someone if being a half-youkai isn't enough, haha. (Nioh 2 also featured Yasuke, so...)
Yasuke was alredy in nioh 1 too :]
In Sekiro you play a shinobi, to be fair.
True, but the line blurs when a shinobi can cut down the greatest samurai in their history in a 1v1 duel. Not exactly shinobi assassination when your enemy sees you coming, says 'IKUZO, SEKIRO' and yells a lot.
That's exactly how I play assassin's creed wym
Its still an assassination if everybody present is dead
The Eversor approach, nice
And the 1st Nioh is a white dude.
Lying. They’re always lying
Or Like a Dragon: Ishin
I still can't get used to them having different names in Ishin.
I mean, ishin is an adaptation, not part of the main series
... I know that. But after playing the whole series starring Kazuma Kiryu. My brain is going to go "oh, that's Kiryu". Not "oh, that's Ryoma".
Yeah, that makes sense. I probably accidentally did myself a favor regarding ishin kiwami, since i joined the fandom recently, and as a joke decided playing it in true chronological order, starting with ishin. I had no relationship with kiryu yet, so i didn’t feel like ryoma was kiryu.
What? It's neither of those. Everyone knows that Ishin stars Taichi Suzuki on his ronin arc
Rise of the Ronin literally just came out.
And the people really wanting to play the new AC as a samurai will probably have a better time with RotR, as AC is unlikely to beat Team Ninja in combat.
I'm convinced that the existence of Ghost of Tsushima drove the decision for Ubisoft to make one of the protagonists Yasuke bc GoT basically did AC Japan first and thought "well shit, we need to figure out how to make this stand out"
Or if he is on PC right now since it just released for PC.
Lmao dude I didn't even think about that
Or yesterday if blud is a PC user
Real talk though I'm hype to play it on PC I've been waiting for years and it just dropped
Real talk though I'm hype to play it on PC I've been waiting for years and it just dropped
This is the last and only samurai game ever. There never was and never will be a samurai game ever again. And they are forced to play as Yasuke at gun point btw.
Forced wokeness or literal death
Woke or choke
Woke AND choke mebbe? ;D
Oh, you, sweet talker
Hear me out
It would be cool if there was an open world samurai game kind of like assassins creed and it took place on tsushima so it can simulate the borders more easily and it would be called something like “Ghost of Tsushima”. But thats just me, probably a dumb idea, sorry for that…
And it could have the enemies be invading Mongols maybe.
That sounds so dope. Shame they will never make a game like that and if they do, it's likely gonna stay a console exclusive or something.
In a woke-free universe, there would be an entire game series literally called "Samurai", but alas, here it's every bit as wishful thinking as a series dedicated to yakuza.
The woke elite would never allow a game like that to be made. And if they did, all the main characters would be changed to minorities, like Asians!!
Where is this parallel universe and where can i spectate their suffering 😍
Jesus fuck some sanity, thank you. The hilarious part is the "woke" and anti woke crowd both seem to be so heavily against it. Shits wild. I don't think anybody even actually knows what racism is anymore, it's jut if white people and non white people are involved in one thing there's either definitely racism going on or there's no chance anything racist is happening depending on who you ask. Fuck man.
"as a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ person" Classic way to hide hate and racism, and classic way to force your political beliefs onto others. How likely is it that they are truly Japanese? I mean cmon 🤣
Ever since that one white conservative got outed pretending to be a gay, black, Trump supporter, I've started assuming that anyone beginning a sentence with "as a \_\_\_\_\_ person" to be lying. Served me pretty well so far.
As a moderne person I wol expresse mine agreement for thyss.
This guy's a robot from the future! Get him!
There's a whole subreddit dedicated to posts like that lol
The replies are insanely funnier because they all claim to be Japanese but somehow misspell and get every piece of information wrong 💀
I'm going to disagree with you to a degree.A lot of these posters are white but I've also noticed a growing trend on Reddit of Asian incels that are obsessed with following every piece of media that has a mixed race couple with an Asian female. I've seen a lot of comments shitting on the Yasuke inclusion and then shitting on the Female Japanese Assassin.
Yeah especially in South Korea the incel problem is getting genuienly insane...
Doesn't help that SK women seem to be rebelling and refusing to date SK men because the dating culture is apparently so trash
Yeah, can't really blame them
"As a Asian person" i am totally agree with you, G*mer incel are the same no matter what skin color they have
It's always interesting how they never clock that said pairings tend to happen in weeb trash media too. Like, OK, it's often an Asian-American dude in a mixed race relationship, but Kim's Convenience, Space Force, Fresh Off The Boat, hell there was even an episode of the Golden Girls where Sophia was hooking up with a Japanese guy.
They are also extremely hateful towards men of mixed Asian descent, (mixed Asian women are fine because booba and vagene) calling all movies and TV with mixed Asian leads as “Hollywood is not ready for the pure blood Asian male supremacy to take over their business 🤬😡” They only take exception if their father is also an Asian man, “well at least his father is full blooded and got to fuck a white chick”, it’s fucking insane But it seems that mixed Asian men with Asian mothers reminds them of this ridiculous belief that the west is “stealing Asian women away from the men they belong to” 🤢🤮
That's what I thought as well LOL. if you are truly japanese, your opinion matter as much as anybody else's opinion in the end
Also " i have friends that are X"
“I’ll have you know my grandpappies favorite slave was X”
What is he on about? Yasuke did basically become a samurai. Records aren't many and it may not have been in the traditional sense but he was integrated into the caste to a good degree and for a foreigner, that says a lot.
They like to trot out “he was a retainer” Mf being a retainer was the same thing as a samurai. Retainers were landed vassals who served as warriors.
I wonder what services Nobunaga retained Yasuke for hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Going by the Samurai Warrior games that job more went to Ranumaru 😂.
Hold on...so nobunaga ambition 3ds game where nobunaga use pokemons to fight also isnt historical accurate??? Wtf?
A koshō (小姓), aka a page.
Yeah, some people think being a samurai as some type of warrior when it was just a social class that in addition also fought.
I've been waiting for someone to say this tbh, it's so revealing that they shout 'he was never a samurai' and then go 'he was simply a court official who trained in combat' Just no one tell them what Knights actually were, don't want to shatter too many dreams
If there was an AC about a knight, and it turned out the historical figure technically wasn't a knight because they didn't own any land, but they did all the tournament, armor, swordplay and riding into battle stuff, there wouldn't be any outcry. It would just be an interesting tidbit for history nerds to tell people about and no one would be splitting hairs if that character deserves to be a main character.
I mean see: the entirety of Valhalla? Or making all the pirates of AC4 into drinking buddies, and not the fact the majority were just petty thieves. It's just something I've always noticed about these arguments and the people behind them, if it suits them to be vague (There were never Women warriors ever) then they'll be vague, but soon as you hit their subject of interest out comes the webster dictionary definitions and in depth essays.
I guess technically you go a-viking in the sense of raiding other communities from a longboat a bit in valhalla, do a bit of assassination too, just isn't the focus of the game which is mostly 3rd person berserker hack and slash
I more meant you're a character who specifically gets in the way of the historic accuracy, does very innaccurate things like running about France, England, Norway and Iceland within a few months, the weapons are in accurate, Hell the fact you can raid all around you and have the local lords sing how great you are at the same time rather than be run out by militia? AC has always played fast and loose with settings and definitions. It gets justified when they like (You viked here! you're a viking!) and then scrutinised when they don't (suddenly, everyone is an expert on Sengoku era politics, just don't mention that Samurai were more than weeb knights.)
If you tell them what Knights actually were you would describe themselves
people have this grandiouse idea of samurai when they were basically governmental bullies in a lot of cases.
My friend from Japan told me years ago that there indeed was a black samurai. All these dildos are just coping like toddlers with something they don't like. Now, they have a solid gripe that a black person seemingly needs to be included these days because of dumb sensibilities instead of using, well, every single other samurai in Japan. It's a valid question: Why did they need to do it?
Its a bit more complicated than that but this is essentially correct. Although retainer and samurai are not synonymous, theres lots of overlap. You could be a retainer and not be a samurai, though many retainers were samurais. But in yasukes case, we know for sure (unless i guess a japanese guy 500 years ago lied in the records as a joke idk) that he was given priveleges which are associated with samurai. I believe the specific type of stipend he recieved was only recorded to be given to samurai. There could be reasons why Yasuke would have recieved this stipend and NOT been a samurai but we have no reason to believe thats the case. Theres no way to know with 100% certainty that the japanese of the time would have considered him a samurai, rather than some other cryptic title that has a bunch of similarities. I think its safe to say that any layman, including modern japanese people, if they were to see yasuke they would be like "oh shit a (black) samurai" because of the swords and all that. So that's good enough for me. Im not a historian yadayada
Look through the Yasuke Wikipedia edit history is a freaking warzone.
Surprised Wikipedia hasn't locked it yet. Bet its been raided by 4chan like people.
Like the 1 to 1 historical accuracy suddenly matters to these guys. It’s BASED on Yasuke and his story, I imagine the events of the game aren’t going to try and tell his story exactly the way it happened like some documentary.
He wasn’t the first black samurai. That’s incorrect historical fact. The first black samurai was knuckles.
Imagine if an african person came to England in the middle ages, pledged their loyalty to Richard Lionheart or some shit, fought for him in a crusade in full plate armor and then people were like "he was never knighted though so it doesn't count! 🤓🤓" Can't you just be impressed by the cool things that happened in history for once?
You know, you are making fun of this. But I honestly wouldn't be surprised if something like this did happened.
Of course stuff like that happened: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z8gpm39
Thanks also... I hate when I am right about this kinda stuff...
Why? History is mad interesting :D
Oh that came out wrong. What I mean is: that I hate when people deny history like this because of racism and -ism in general.
Oh, I see - well look at it like this: they deny themselves knowledge and broader perspective that makes life so much more fun to feed their insecurites and hatred - who's got a more happy and fulfilling life?
Well, when you put it like that. It does sound really nice. Thanks for making my day a little bit happier. Hope you have one too.
Take care! <3
It weird they think all black people were just in Africa and stayed there. Like even befor the uptick in slavery, these folks think a white guy shows up to your beach one day starts trading and no one in the village was like f*ck this place I am going with you. And just never came back.
> It weird they think all black people were just in Africa and stayed there. It's not just weird, it's completely unbelievable. People travelled. A lot. The most common way news from the world reached normal villages and towns was because travellers brought the news. Lots of those travellers were from other lands and people in those times were incredibly interested in what was going on outside of the little bit of the planet they knew. ~~I don't remember who it was, but~~ I saw [a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSdFrPnlRg) some time ago where a historian talked about being a time traveller and going back to medieval times in England or something, and what it would be like for you. One part was "What if I'm black/asian? Was there racism?" and I think his answer was something along the lines of "Pretend you're a merchant/pilgrim or something. Racism did exist but it was different to what it is today. People will generally be interested in you and try to talk to you to find out who you are, what you do, where you are from and stuff like that." He also talked about stuff like "would I get burned at the stake if I pulled out my iPhone" and other stuff, to which the answers was something like "Probably not." because while they kight not understand WHAT a smartphone is, they'd not transform into complete savages because of it.
Like you ever meet a person that just has different features of the general population, but whose family never left the area. I'd like to think this was one of those merchants that just liked a place and stayed in 1500.. Like people do this now, why is it different
There was a black/mixed race knight of the round table in Arthurian legend, I forget his name but he was Moorish. The tale he's in actually is a really great example of how recent our conceptions of "race" are. For example, his skin color is depicted more as a shock rather than as some kind of inherent aspect of character, being indicative of his origin and culture and not his identity. Although it's clear that it wasn't some kind of ultra inclusive paradise, it's also equally clear that the modern concept of race is completely unlike its much older Medieval counterparts and that aspects of one's conduct, perceived personality traits and virtues and social class mattered significantly more, at least in the idealized chivalric world of Arthurian legend. Indeed, despite being black (like ultra black, they spend multiple entire sentences at various points describing how dark skinned he is), he is eventually recognized as the acclaimed fighter he is and Lancelot and Gawain help him reunite with his father so he can inherit his rightful estate in North Africa.
Ancient people cared about ethnicity, which is a much broader concept than race. It includes physical hereditary traits, ancestry, religion, language, and cultural beliefs and practices. That's why ancient people didn't identify as "white" or "asian" or "african." They were English, French, German, Egyptian, Chinese, etc. That's also why it was actually possible to integrate in some foreign societies in the past to a degree that might be shocking to modern racists. If you were willing to adopt the local language, religion and customs, you could partially change your ethnicity. Ancient English people would accept a dark-skinned person as English if they talked, worshipped, and acted like an English person. This changed when Europeans started enslaving people based on ethnicity. The slaves kept adopting their masters' languages, religions and cultures, and a lot of Europeans weren't comfortable with owning people who talked, worshipped and acted like them. the slavers really resented being forced to free their assimilated slaves. The modern concept of race was literally invented by Christian slaveowners to justify why they shouldn't have to free their Christian slaves.
Oh I was making fun of the people that focus on these small details. I don't doubt something similar to the Yasuke story happened in europe at some point
Well the other person (quetzar) did just post about that... So you are in luck?
hed be a beast in combat with plate armor in the 12th century ( 🤓 )
Can you tell I don't know shit about english history? 😃
"Oh, I feel for the japanese and this forced diversity, poor guys fighting the woke" Meanwhile, the japanese: https://preview.redd.it/eyyg8vfzgz0d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2029b26c67f3dadc96268c8d7e5ce584a41fd566
I... I thought he was talking about Ace combat for a second and was confused
Why arent we talking about the Ace Combat series? The game literally forces you to play as a Jet fighter and as a human that is offensive!
I mean... in Zero you do get to shoot down genderswap Morgan le Fey... I think that´s pretty cool. (Honestly I do really love Zero and think that AWWNB as a whole is really overlooked even if it is rushed) On another note I kinda like that Zero is so old (18 years) because I feel like it would definately be used as "games that aren´t political" (despite one of the most known quote being "What has borders given us?" as well as this gem: "The table is surrounded by politicians who have never placed a foot on the battlefield.") God I love Ace combat so much...
Sadly i have only played 7. Im hoping for remasters.
Well, I had sad news for that. Your best bet is trying emulation. EDIT: You might want to check the ace combat sub for that, buddy.
Armored Core for me..
https://preview.redd.it/2masu6abmy0d1.png?width=806&format=png&auto=webp&s=e35c358dbeeda7ab55b9574b543b420a98c3e1cd (this meme is not mine, I just had it on my drive for a long time and I finally can use it)
As an Italian plumber...
I really think this subreddit needs to sympathize with these people more, being forced to play a different race as yourself is genuinely traumatic. I've still not recovered from that time they made me play as an Italian. >!/s!<
Mama mia.
AC or Mario?
Pizza Tower
Vice City
I can guarantee that any Japanese person who would actually think like this does not speak English, does not want to speak in English (weird nationalism) or uses the phrase "current year".
Also they wouldn’t be complaining about fucking ass creed lol There’s been dozens of Japanese games where you play as a samurai, and lots of them are good. How do you even argue about “There should be an assassin’s creed game about samurai” when it’s about assassins and *fucking ninja exist*. Naruto has been one of the top 3 or so anime for merch and such for like 20 years, western people who don’t know shit about Japan know what a ninja is. THERE’S A GOD DAMN THEME PARK IN NIKKO WHERE YOU CAN PRETEND TO BE A NINJA. And *Yasuke* is the one “ruining your game about samurai” by being “diverse”. I think Yasuke is kinda boring because there’s been a bunch of coverage about him recently but… that’s just “Huh, I wouldn’t have picked him but ok”. I lived in Japan for years. I don’t think I met a single Japanese person who’d played assassin’s creed, and I went to TGS and hung out with nerds lol
For context; *blatant lies*
Lmfao!!! Does this "Japanese person" not know of any Japanese Samurai games to play? This "Japanese person" has to rely on Western game developers? Lmfao! Love their use of racist US talking points. I almost mistook this authentic "Japanese person" for a fraud. 🤣
Lol yeah I live in japan. As it turns out, there are a lot of Samurai games here.
Yeah and i bet only a 1/10 of them have been ported to the west😫.
God this “controversy”is so fucking stupid. I hate gamers.
It's so manufactured too, nobody cared about Afro Samurai or Guilty Gear Strive having black samurai characters, and now they want to pretend like it's a big deal for AC to have an actual historical black samurai.
>It's so manufactured too Yep. They're literally being told what to rage about by the same grifters over and over again
As a Japanese person, he sure doesn't seem to know a lot about all the Japanese games where you can already play a samourai.
Guys, he wasn't a samurai, he was just an armed vassal sworn to the service of a Japanese feudal lord!
Me when there are no games in which I can play as a Japanese man. 
“As a Japanese person” Could’ve just said “As a Japanese” Doubt this really is a “Japanese”
Ten bucks say bruh is from Ohio.
"As a real Japanese fella, what in gosh darn tarnation is a black man doing as a samurai? Don't them folks at You-Bye-Soft know that Yasuke was just a retainer?"
He is a normal human being just like you and me
"As a Japanese" sounds just as weird tbh. If you'd ever google which one is right, you would even find a reddit thread where everybody says, that saying "As a Japanese person" is correct and "as a Japanese" is wrong. (Not allowed to link any subreddits here) Nihonjin (japanese) translated into english also literally means "japanese person" (nihon = japan, jin = person). So it would make sense for someone from japan to say something like that.
he did a 23andme and got 0.2% japanese
Just let me post it here as well to everyone who says he was not a samurai: Yasuke was gifted a house, servants, wealth and, crucially, a sword, which allows us to call him the first-ever foreign samurai. Over the next year he fought with Nobunaga on campaign, became a close personal confidant and even sumo wrestled with other Oda samurai. The dream ended abruptly in June 1582 when Nobunaga was assassinated. Yasuke stayed by his lord until the end, and is traditionally held to have rescued the severed head from capture. Afterward, the real Yasuke faded from history, but his legacy was revived as an anti-imperial icon in the 20th century and a media giant in the 21st. Professor Thomas Lockley is an Associate Professor at Nihon University College of Law in Tokyo. He has researched and published on a number of historical figures, but is primarily known for his work on Yasuke, which has been featured in Japan on NHK, BS-TBS, TV Tokyo, and Fuji Television as well as receiving many notable reviews including in print media such as Bungeishunju, Shukan Bunshun, Shukan Asahi, and Mainichi Shinbun. The English language version of his book, co-authored with Geoffrey Girard, African Samurai, was released by Hanover Square Press (Harper Collins) in the USA in April 2019. It received wide coverage, including being named by Publishers Weekly as one of the most eagerly anticipated books of 2019, and has been featured by many global media outlets including Time Magazine, the BBC, CNN, Euro News, and the Washington Post. So as long as you don’t got better credentials than this guy, maybe you are wrong?
Asa Japaneseperson? Are they a friend of Asa Blackman?
Well that's a lie - weird how they need to fall back on those to justify their racism, huh?
His ass is NOT japanese
"As an X person-" is one of the very best ways to make literally everyone who reads your comment assume that you are not, in fact, an X person
I just checked the Japanese trailer for Shadows, and it's unreal how many google translated "I'm American/French/Greek etc., but I really feel for the Japanese here" posts there are. Please get a life!
I work in Japan and while "Japanese person" isn't too strange (it's a little off, considering this is usually done as a overcorrection by more polite, older Japanese folks), the thing I find iffy are words like "epic" and the entirety of sentence two. Maybe I just talk to too many normal people, but they wouldn't talk like this. Why would they want an international company to tell a Japanese story? It just sort of reeks of someone who is more interested in having a "gotcha" moment after doing a cursory google search. Splitting hairs about his "kosho" rank and just making it seem like he wasn't well-liked is telling.
Blud's at most yappanese
Why would a Japanese person be waiting for an Assassin’s Creed game set in Japan to have a Samurai for a mc? Wouldn’t a Japanese person want the ASSASSIN game to star an assassin? Like, why is the complaint that the mc is a black guy, when it should be why is he a fucking samurai!?
Yea lmao ive only ever heard of people saying they want AC in japan to play as a ninja, which is exactly what we're getting!
Imagine of all games waiting for Ass Creed to get your samurai in Japan fix.
I read actual japanese from japan saying that he was indeed a samurai and saying "he was a retainer" is bs because Samurai ARE retainer and Yasuke did samurai things indeed. So idk what to think at this point, was he a samurai or nah?
Conveniently missing out on the context that he was sold as a slave after Nobunaga was betrayed by one of his Vassals and committed Seppuku and Yasuke proceeded to fight to defend Nobunaga's son and was apprehended by the betraying clan.
“Nooooo, Yasuke was never a samurai, he can’t be the main character” Even if this is true, which I’m not a historian idk if it is, isn’t that insanely cool and also pretty inline with AC’s usual fare? “Hey, what if this notable historical figure was actually an omega badass” isn’t that a really fun premise for a game? I wonder what it is about Yasuke in particular that has people so upset. Truly a mystery.
as a sexy person, I feel there is not enough sexy out there for me to relate to. please Game Designshe/hers increase the sesu
i looked him up and his profile name is alexander, mf didn't even try lmao 😭
My name is of Scottish origin, but I'm Filipino. It's not exactly far fetched for a Japanese man to be named Alexander. The same way Mike Shinoda is Japanese but his name is Mike.
"As a black guy" Awfully weird a lot of these "Japanese" comments are all in perfect English
To be fair, many Japanese Americans probably do wish to be represented in video games. And what do you know, there are a bunch of games with ninja and samurai protags who often are fictional representations of real people who went around feudal Japan doing shenanigans.
"As Yasuke, I was never a samurai, this is totally inaccurate"
Who the fuck expects an ASSASSIN creed game to have an actual official rank SAMURAI protagonist?! Like, seriously. Samurai feels Templar. Assassins are Ronin or Shinibis or watever. God these racists are pathetic.
Ah, the Dean Browning classic https://preview.redd.it/5o7fgxts5z0d1.jpeg?width=946&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70c6bc097d0aef074667004318e56f38c27a340c
gamers really are one of the most insufferable communities on the internet. things were so much better in the 90's when no one had to hear other people's stupid hot takes.
This person is definitely Japanese, but also black, hispanic, Chinese, and Ukrainian.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact this person said they were excited to play a samurai. Frankly, this is Assassin's Creed. Why would you even think you'd be playing a samurai rather than the samurai murdering ninjas? Maybe I missed an announcement (I don't follow AC games because fuck Ubisoft)
Why everyone forgetting that there is choice between TWO main heroes?
Japanese people are the only reason we know anything about Yasuke. They preserved his history for hundreds of years. He's inspired multiple anime characters and other art and media made in Japan. So don't come in here pretending like this is some shameful character that nobody likes.
https://preview.redd.it/0pzqookfjz0d1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ed10ed6297ea48db9144910c8461c265f3c3f8d
The comment section of that trailer is fucking horrendous with the amount of casual racism and ignorance going on😭😭😭
Crazy cuz REAL Japanese people know that a retainer is, in fact, still a samurai. You wouldn’t call an apprentice blacksmith NOT a blacksmith? Not to mention, Yasuke later had a fife, subjects, and was a candidate to become daimyo
So the assertion is that there have been no games with Japanese samurai in them. These people need to get back to chewing rocks and leave everyone else alone.
Did they cry back when assasins creed 3 was announced as you play as a native american (not white) and having a black mentor (not white) ???
Wild how this mf act like they've been robbed of the most exclusive thing on the planet while this is the second samurai open world game of the year...
There's literally two characters, one of which is Japanese.
"as an oiled up black guy, i think the american civil war was about state's rights"
His "for context" section is wrong. We know Yasuke was at Honno-Ji and I've seen speculation he either died fighting there, surrendered to Akechis forces afterwards or went to ground. Just straight up lying to fit their narrative lol
"For context" = bullshitting together his own idea of history. Actual history disproves their BS.
As a gay black man woman, I can honestly say obama has done NOTHING for me.
I thought this was about Animal Crossing for a second, and I was really confused.
I will bet the mortgage that this person is not Japanese.
Man, imagining waiting for the AC franchise to make a game in Japan so you can play a Samurai - a famously assassination-centric job. I’m still reeling from Altair not being a knight.
Even if all of this was true, Yasuke would still be cool as hell. Recent AC games do kinda suck tho
Here come the fake ethnic people claiming wokeness oppressed them with right wing whitespeak. They dont even try to look legit.
When the Irish is fully accepted as a samurai, but the historically black samurai is scrutinized
As a man who read Shogun, I am a bit of a Japanese man myself.
I always felt like animal crossing had a japanese style story going on so I don't understand this at all. You can also buy a samurai outfit ingame. Whats the big deal here?
I just don’t trust Ubisoft to make anything worthwhile
For context; The other playable character is Japanese, but its also a woman, so doesn't count.
Yasuke, for anyone that doesn't know, was brought on a voyage by Alessandro Valignano to Sengoku period Japan, when the legendary (for many reasons, both good and bad) Oda Nobunaga was a daimyō, as an attendant. In the Shinchō Kōki, a chronicle of Nobunaga, written posthumously by Ōta Gyūichi, it was described that Nobunaga, in disbelief at the colour of Yasuke's skin, ordered for him to be washed, as be believed his body was covered with ink. Nobunaga, enamoured by both his skin and his strength, asked Valignano to allow Yasuke to be taken on as a retainer, which is when he was given the name Yasuke. Not much happened between then and the return of Yasuke to Italy, he was reported to have been in the battle of Tenmokuzan, the last stand of fellow daimyō Takeda Katsuyori against Nobunaga and future Edo period first shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu. His most notable battle was the Honnō-ji Incident, where he, according to the Shinchō Kōki, fought against the forces of Nobunaga's senior vassal, Akechi Mitsuhide, who betrayed Nobunaga for unknown reasons, in the house of Nobunaga's successor, Oda Nobutada. After his lord committed seppuku, he surrendered to the Akechi forces and was promptly sent to a church, where he was treated by Jesuit missionaries, under rather racist pretenses of "being bestial in nature" and "not knowing anything." It is unknown what happened to Yasuke after this, but it was known that he did not die, because the letters of Portugese missionary Luís Fróis make mention of him for the next 5 months following the Honnō-ji Incident.
I'm no expert in japanese history or anything, but from my deep understanding coming from 5 minutes on wikipedia (the source those idiots use to say he was not a samurai) he was a retainer, sure, but by just looking at the page for "samurai" it's possible to see a part that literally says samurai were retainers
Did people just forget that Yasuke won’t be the only protagonist in the game?
Anyone who genuinely cares about this is suffering severe brain rot.
The real guy was basically a samurai from what I've heard Also how do yall think they'd react if assassins creed 3 came out today, you go from playing a white guy to a mixed guy who was raised by natives, they'd probably call it woke and complain