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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[Absolutego]

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.

I mean the Jesuits are their version of Jews, historically speaking, it's less animosity and more that combined with modern Japanese being total Europhiles who think Biblical references are, like, super deep yo.
And I don't recall those JRPGs having you go blow up St. Peter's Basilica or the Notre Dame.

 

[X Prime]

But that's all irrelevant, Shintoism is a fake religion anyway.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

And I don't recall those JRPGs having you go blow up St. Peter's Basilica or the Notre Dame.

If they did, no one should care because it's a video game.

The faggoty part is Ubisoft attempting to claim the woke moral high-ground of historical accuracy and cultural sensitivity - historically inaccurate and culturally insensitive games are totally bitchin' if you just embrace it, and that's true whether it's us doing it to the Japs or vice versa.

EDIT: lmao weebs mad

 

[Baraadmirer]

For anyone who doesn't want to shell out an exorbitant sum of money but wants to play something similar, you may want to buy the also historically-accurate game Yasuke Simulator instead.

 

[Brap God]

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.

You think they give a fuck about the game? This is just the latest opportunity to try and paint tourists from outside of Japan as bumbling retards that will go around smashing temple property because they saw it in a game. They wouldn't have even complained about this if they couldn't turn it into their favorite "gaijin = yabanjin" rhetoric.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

You think they give a fuck about the game? This is just the latest opportunity to try and paint tourists from outside of Japan as bumbling retards that will go around smashing temple property because they saw it in a game. They wouldn't have even complained about this if they couldn't turn it into their favorite "gaijin = yabanjin" rhetoric.

Still baffling that Assasin’s Creed decided to go with this approach.

You’d think they’d do better considering the state of their company.

 

[Brap God]

Still baffling that Assasin’s Creed decided to go with this approach.

You’d think they’d do better considering the state of their company.

Precisely because of the state of their company is why I'm not surprised. I've seen clips from big streamers, they've paid to advertise the game btw, showing off how busted this game is. They have way bigger problems.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

A woke and disrespectful game being called woke and disrespectful? How bizarre!

 

[The Token Ethnic]

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What bussy does to a nigga.

 

[Hitman One]

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.

wtf I love jrpgslop now?

 

[Soycast Guy]

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.

I do think it’s pretty funny to see the japs going after Ubisoft. I don’t care for any pagan religions or whatever they consider sacred, but seeing Ubisoft suffah is pleasing to me.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I have no care for pagan religions but it is pretty funny to see the Japanese going after them. Purely because seeing Ubisoft suffah makes me smile.

Oh, for sure. I couldn't imagine a more fitting punishment for people who claim to be very worldly and cosmopolitan and culturally sensitive.

But if this were circa-2003 and Ubisoft was making a kick-ass game that shamelessly exploited Japanese culture and architecture purely for how the aesthetic appeals to filthy gaijin, I'd tell any gooks complaining about it to fuck right off.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

everyone whose reviewed it has said it's a dead simple remake of Assassins Creed just with a black dude. There is nothing new nor nothing special aside from the shoehorning in of "We Wuz Samurai" stuff that marks it as different.

So yah just more Ubisoft sludge but with a woke tinge.

 

[Dysnomia]

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.

Japanese games toss in Catholic imagery for flavor in some really odd ways. It used to be censored hard core in the 8 and 16 bit days. And even beyond with La Pucelle because Mastiff was afraid of backlash. Priere's staff had a cross on the tip. Croix's gun was shaped like a cross. I'm surprised a game that centered so much around the church and features tons of characters who were servants of the church even made it stateside in the PS2 days.

Energy Breaker for SNES, which was not released in the west, featured the pope as the big bad. If you are interested there's a fan translation.

Normally I'd say if you don't approve of the imagery in a game or how it's used don't play it. But Ubislop spent so much time gloating over muh historical accuracy by using very questionable and downright fraudulent cultural advisors that they deserve what they get. Stuff like the one leg torii was just tone deaf and it would take a ten second search to see why that might be a bad idea. Especially since Naoe is sitting on top of it. They pulled that figurine fast.

I heard there was a fully functional Japanese samurai character already created and he was benched for Yasuke. It's unfortunate that they couldn't stick him back in there and make Yasuke a cameo character. But it looks like they were in too deep with the final build and they would have had to scrap most of the game and redo it at that point.

Ubisoft did a dumb and we should all laugh at them and move on.

For anyone who doesn't want to shell out an exorbitant sum of money but wants to play something similar, you may want to buy the also historically-accurate game Yasuke Simulator instead.

The voice acting is already superb in comparison.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Wait, are people genuinely slagging off the japs for gate-keeping and wanting no gate keeping because muh video.
The irony been that the game they're slagging off is woke, DEI, nigger-faggotry infested ubislop of a once good franchise, because western devs didn't gatekeep.

Weird flex but you do you. I'm with the nips on this one.

 

[GratsTheat783]

Most of the vitriol revolves around Yasuke... despite the character being a key figure in Japanese history.

I read an entire book on Japanese history (A Modern History of Japan From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon) and I don't recall him being mentioned at all.

 

[Grundlejungle]

The last time I played an assassin's Creed game was the third one, it was such a significant step down from the assassin's Creed II trilogy that I never ended up finishing it. Might get the pirate one if it ends up being under 10 bucks though.
The fact that this franchise just keeps going despite being considered creatively bankrupt for at least a decade is honestly shocking. And they keep setting the games in locations and time periods that lack things to actually fucking climb. Part of the fun of earlier games was getting to the top of a really tall thing, and most of the newer assassin's Creed games don't have anything taller than like two or three stories to climb.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Wait, are people genuinely slagging off the japs for gate-keeping and wanting no gate keeping because muh video.

It's really fucking gay to intentionally strip those posts of their context and paint them in the most uncharitable light possible.

It's one thing to mock leftists for failing to uphold their own absurd morality when it comes to shit like "cultural appropriation". It's another thing entirely to actually accept their premise and believe that westerners are morally obligated to depict other cultures in only particular ways. If you're telling me the Nips really ought to be allowed to police how I can and can't portray their gay temples, you're just as bad as the faggot leftists at all the big game publishers.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

I do think it’s pretty funny to see the japs going after Ubisoft. I don’t care for any pagan religions or whatever they consider sacred, but seeing Ubisoft suffah is pleasing to me.

To me it’s irony in the fact these kinds of game devs often preach about how they’re accurate and all. The moment they get it wrong it’s all the heel drags and they instead paint them as a racist. It doesn’t even matter if the person is from the culture they got wrong.

 

[Hokuriku]

You think they give a fuck about the game? This is just the latest opportunity to try and paint tourists from outside of Japan as bumbling retards that will go around smashing temple property because they saw it in a game. They wouldn't have even complained about this if they couldn't turn it into their favorite "gaijin = yabanjin" rhetoric.

There are people (of a certain melanin persuasion that coincidentally overlaps with Shadows) that are unironically retarded enough to consider Johnny Somali an idol to be emulated, so yeah I'm willing to give the Japanese the same benefit of the doubt.

It's one thing to mock leftists for failing to uphold their own absurd morality when it comes to shit like "cultural appropriation". It's another thing entirely to actually accept their premise and believe that westerners are morally obligated to depict other cultures in only particular ways. If you're telling me the Nips really ought to be allowed to police how I can and can't portray their gay temples, you're just as bad as the faggot leftists at all the big game publishers.

I'd agree if westerners themselves didn't consciously choose to lick the feet of the Chinese and the followers of the child-rapist Mohammad whenever they don't like how they're depicted. The only reason it's 'okay' with the Japanese is because they're not large or influential or psychotic enough to cause actual problems.

In any case, Ubisoft went to the ends of the earth fellating themselves over how much they were studying and integrating Japanese culture only for it to have been a NAMBLA consultant make-work scheme. If they were just up front about taking massive creative license the Japanese wouldn't have cared, Ghost of Tsushima barely holds any semblance to reality and they still use it as a hook for tourism.