Culture Assassin's Creed Shadows Is Already Being Called "Woke" And "Disrespectful" - Assassin's Creed Shadows' two protagonists are getting the abuse we all sadly expected.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is already being labeled as "woke" and "disrespectful" following its announcement trailer, primarily due to main characters Naoe and Yasuke, the latter of whom is historically considered Japan's first black samurai.

Ubisoft has finally lifted the lid on the next mainline Assassin's Creed, revealing that Assassin's Creed Shadows will be available on November 15 later this year. While we didn't get any gameplay, we did get a lengthy cinematic trailer going into the backstories of the game's two main protagonists, Naoe and Yasuke. Naoe appears to be a Shinboi from the Japanese provinces, while Yasuke is considered to be Japan's first black samurai, and came into contact with several prominent figures in Japanese history.

That means Assassin's Creed Shadows will center around a woman and a black man, and some people on social media have reacted with exactly the kind of behavior we have come to expect nowadays whenever a protagonist isn't a straight white man. In the replies of Ubisoft's announcement tweet, you don't have to look very hard for people decrying the game as "woke" and "disrespectful", with a sprinkling of DEI in there for good measure.

Assassin's Creed Shadows' Yasuke Is Somehow "Disrespectful" To Japan​

Most of the vitriol revolves around Yasuke, with some people taking issue with the fact that they're being made to play as a black man in a Feudal Japan setting, despite the character being a key figure in Japanese history. Some claim that it's inappropriate for Ubisoft to have someone who isn't native to the country as one of the main characters, though I don't think these same people take issue with the fact that the incredibly Welsh Edward Kenway was sailing around the Carribean in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag.

You've also got some stating that Yasuke wasn't actually a samurai, but was a retainer to Oda Nobunaga, and that this somehow "disrespects" Japanese culture. However, people are already pointing out Yasuke was Nobunaga's Kosho, which is essentially the bodyguard or personal servant of a general or lord and is considered a samurai in Japanese history. Just because Yasuke didn't belong to a Samurai clan, it doesn't mean he wasn't one.

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[gayberouse]

WE WUZ SAMERAIS N SHEEIT

 

[Tepes Thot]

“We sadly expected”

Yeah dumb fuck, turns out when you do the same thing people don’t like over and over again, they don’t like it every time.

 

[smartypants302]

One thing I know about feudal Japan is they were a very diverse and open society. Not a closed and isolated caste based society with strict roles. I'm not even a fan of Japan nor it's history and I know the guy this is based on was nothing more then a court jester for some warlord and not some kind of soldier.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Naoe appears to be a Shinboi

Is a shinboi like a samurguy?

 

[pot of sneed]

Yeah dumb fuck, turns out when you do the same thing people don’t like over and over again, they don’t like it every time.

You think they'd have learned by now but they just keep doubling down.

 

[Male Idiot]

Oh yeah. Nobunaga had a black servant.

He made him try to wash the blackness off to entertain other japanese nobles.

Will that scene be in?

 

[Asian tech support]

In what history was Yasuke more than a footnote and a maybe? A key figure in Japanese history he was not.

Dunno what AC fans are left but I was under the impression they've been asking for a proper title set in Japan for over a decade. Imagine 1) being an AC fan for that long and 2) when you got what you wanted, you have to play as a Crimes Expert.

 

[6 Years Ago]

If their goal is to make the world less racist they're doing a terrible job. (I know that's not the goal)

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

The dislike to like ratio at the moment.

I think we can do a lot better than that.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Some claim that it's inappropriate for Ubisoft to have someone who isn't native to the country as one of the main characters, though I don't think these same people take issue with the fact that the incredibly Welsh Edward Kenway was sailing around the Carribean in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag.

Kenway was a sailor so him traveling around makes sense. Also the Caribbean was heavily colonialized by the British/Spanish so he didn't stick out like a sore thumb.

 

[Cuckoman]

I want to know their gender identity.
I would like to see representation and at least one of the protagonists being trans.

I really hope Yasuke is trans. I will look forward to play with and identify as a black manlet pooner,
channeling all this short-man energy into battle.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Oh boy, I can't wait for sub-par stealth, and to CLIMB TOWERS to unlock more of the map. No thanks Ubisoftcock, I was tired of your shitty gameplay loop back in 2013. These niggers have been copy-pasting open world dieversity fests since 2008 right? Coming up on 20 years of this trash.

Also, if it wasn't obvious with the WB niggerai shit (coordinated ad campaign), netfux for years, and Amazog etc. The kikes have been coming for the east for a while now. The goy fled the west's nigger'd content to the east, and the kikes followed. Hope the Nips wake up soon, or China forces them to wake up.

 

[2ndBest]

Yasuke was not a samurai, I know the AC series is based on history with their own characters, so why not just make a new one instead of trying to claim something?

 

[DoomsdayElite]

They're so desperate to keep this bullshit historical revisionism going that they'll transform a house nigger into a samurai, fucking lol. Okay. And when sales fail to meet expectations, this same soy-infused fudgepacker will be crying about all those hateful MAGA chuds who sabotaged it.

 

[Sithis]

Yasuke was not a samurai, I know the AC series is based on history with their own characters, so why not just make a new one instead of trying to claim something?

ESGbux from firms that support DEI, and to appease the manufactured illusion of demand for such slop. Every time you see some ugly nigger pointlessly shoehorned into something like a story about feudal Japan or Romeo and Juliet, remember, thank Larry Fink or a member of his tribe.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

A black man who sneaks around, commits crimes, and kills people? I play games to escape reality!

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

This journoscums argument about AC4 makes no fucking sense, considering most pirates were Europeans or colonists. Does this retard think that its an own because Edward wasn't a Native Caribbean? If so, that game would have sucked because they were all dead by 1715. And being a Welshman would be more fun anyway. Silly accents we can understand, and he was the last protagonist I can remember liking from AC, other than Shay from Rogue.

Even worse, pointing out Kenway being a foreigner is accidentally bringing attention to a candidate very, very similar to Edward that was actually real, and would have a better claim to being a samurai and being more historically relevant than Yasuke. Hell, we actually know his name: William Adams.



More information on him, more important to Japanese history, small contribution as it was, and more remembered in Japan. But having a white English protagonist is a no-no, and Nioh already used him and was more fun than any AC game since Rogue, so too bad. Also, didn't Yasuke get sent back into slavery when Nobunga got gutted? If so, Jesus Ubisoft, how are you going to tie that loose end?

 

[FierceBrosnan]

Most of the vitriol revolves around Yasuke, with some people taking issue with the fact that they're being made to play as a black man in a Feudal Japan setting, despite the character being a key figure in Japanese history.

He was Nobunaga's attendant at best and did literally 0 samurai shit. Can this franchise just die already?

 

[Megaton Punch]

the kind of behavior we have come to expect nowadays whenever a protagonist isn't a straight white man

Yes, journo, the problem people have with the protagonist of a Japanese game being black is that he's not white. This is exactly the kind of galaxy brained take that got your profession the amount of respect it has today.