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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[Gravityqueen4life]

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I cant believe the Asian looks more like a monkey then Yauske. what's with the shape of his skull?

 

[Hitman One]

U mad, Japs?

 

[Safir]

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...what? They didn't even have gender pronouns in Japan.

Japanese has locations: my side, your side, over there, where?. "Kare" (translated as "he") is "over there". "Kanojo" ("over there woman", "thot", translated as "she") was invented to translate Western novels. Other "pronouns" are just nouns. Here's "boku" in a Japanese-English dictionary:

(pronoun)
1. (male term or language) I, me
2. (used for addressing young boys) you
3. manservant

Watashi = private
Ore = big
Ro = oldfag
Kimi = lord [now informal, think "king"]
O-mae = (respectfully) front [now rude, connotation of "what is this shit that I nearly stepped in", see OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU]

There's no first/second/third person, everything is in third person.

Parallels to this exist in Western languages:
"Your humble servant would like to remind you..."
"Would your lordship care to wait..."
"My fat ass doesn't want to...."
- Spanish has "usted/ustedes".

The TL;DR is you can't identify as non-buynary in Japanese. You can however identify as plural and say "oretachi" or something, it's not majestic or even troony, people would just think you're pretending to have the backing of a group.

 

[Matthew216]

This is from the Fate/Grand Order (if you know what that is…..I’m sorry) comic “Learning with Manga.” Or is by an artist copying their style.

 

[Übertroon]

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They paired the black guy with the fat queer girl

It's so over my niggas

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Who still plays this series, even if it weren't about an anachronistic ninja niggerfaggot? I realized I was over the whole concept about an hour into Assassin's Creed 3 and that was now 13 years ago.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

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Can you imagine the kind of person who would spend $130 on this thing?

I’m sure Scott The Woz will (tbf I like Scott but he’s one of those gamer guys who buys EVERYTHING)

 

[Ser Prize]

So now they’re making Yasuke gay/bi too? Can’t wait to BTFO black people with this.

Black men are one of the largest demographics to be gay, so it's true to life.

 

[TenMilesWide]

I realized I was over the whole concept about an hour into Assassin's Creed 3 and that was now 13 years ago.

Unfortunately you tapped out right before peak. AC4 Black Flag remains the high water mark for the franchise (boat pun here).
The "assassins vs templars" backdrop maps more cleanly onto pirates vs colonial powers than injuns vs colonial powers, and the verticality of assassin gameplay fits perfectly on ships' masts and riggings.

 

[AllieKat]

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Seems Ubisoft hired actors with down syndrome

This is Deus Ex tier Chingrish but without the charm

 

[ziggity zaggity]

It's crazy to me that this is so woke that even ESPN (owned by ABC, owned by Disney) is willing to question it:
https://www.espn.com/gaming/story/_/id/44302079/assassins-creed-shadows-review

 

[Frightened Rabbit]

Tell me bros, how bad are the characters ignoring historical accuray, I need to know how bad it is.
Also, I am kinda MATI that Ubishit fans have gaslit themselves into thinking that Ubishit cared about historical accuracy in older AC games, when in AC1, the first game, they said that having crossbows in 12th century Holy Land would be a historical innacuracy, during the Third Crusade.
I am never letting that shit go, could've just said it was for gameplay reasons.

 

[Qonas]

Tell me bros, how bad are the characters ignoring historical accuray, I need to know how bad it is.
Also, I am kinda MATI that Ubishit fans have gaslit themselves into thinking that Ubishit cared about historical accuracy in older AC games, when in AC1, the first game, they said that having crossbows in 12th century Holy Land would be a historical innacuracy, during the Third Crusade.
I am never letting that shit go, could've just said it was for gameplay reasons.

Every AC game is an exercise in how bloodily and how deeply historical accuracy can be raped.

 

[Would]

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FarCry 2, but in the past then?

 

[dj0449674]

 

[Hitman One]

Unfortunately you tapped out right before peak. AC4 Black Flag remains the high water mark for the franchise (boat pun here).
The "assassins vs templars" backdrop maps more cleanly onto pirates vs colonial powers than injuns vs colonial powers, and the verticality of assassin gameplay fits perfectly on ships' masts and riggings.

I wish there were more pirate games. I would kill for a Rockstar produced pirate video game.

 

[CarlosDanger]

Was disappointed by AC3, although killing redcoats was fun. I loved Black Flag, was getting into Unity when a bug corrupted my save and I haven't touched an AC game since. I was watching some gameplay of this and it has the most fucked up facial animations this side of Bethesda and the voice acting in places is Two Worlds level of bad.

 

[GR8 B8 M8 I R8 8/8]

Because it is woke and disrespectful. Japan is PISSED about it. Extremely pissed. They had a counsel meeting about it ffs, talking about how you can destroy and vandalize their sacred temples. Temples that are recreations of real ones. They state that players couldn't ruin religious buildings in previous games but you can with theirs.
They already struggle with foreign retarded tourists vandalizing their historical areas and temples irl.

The fact that they turned the ancestor of the CURRENT EMPEROR into a non-binary queer gender blob that Yasuke screws is probably not helping.

So yeah, woke and disrespectful is putting it lightly.

I hope Ubisoft burns to the ground and nobody tries to pick it up. But China has the lowest standards.
Assassin's Creed ended with Ezio. I'll always love those games but everything after (except black flag I hear but I don't really want to bother with it) is trash.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Japan is PISSED about it. Extremely pissed. They had a counsel meeting about it ffs, talking about how you can destroy and vandalize their sacred temples. Temples that are recreations of real ones. They state that players couldn't ruin religious buildings in previous games but you can with theirs.
They already struggle with foreign retarded tourists vandalizing their historical areas and temples irl.

After all the JRPGs I've seen where the bad guys are very obviously the Catholic church and you literally murder God at the end, that's a bit rich. Of the many legitimate criticisms of this game, the Nips crying about virtual depictions of muh sacred temples is at the bottom of my list.

 

[X Prime]

The fact that they turned the ancestor of the CURRENT EMPEROR into a non-binary queer gender blob that Yasuke screws is probably not helping.

I changed my mind; Ubisoft is incredibly based for this. Impotent slants seething!

After all the JRPGs I've seen where the bad guys are very obviously the Catholic church and you literally murder God at the end, that's a bit rich. Of the many legitimate criticisms of this game, the Nips crying about virtual depictions of muh sacred temples is at the bottom of my list.

Not to mention there's stuff like Fate's depictions of real people. There's almost certainly mountains of porn of that franchise's version of one of France's national heroes, Jeanne d'Arc. They have no room to talk.