You mean the fight where
Eiichiro Oda is first and foremost a Japanese comic artist. His main expertise is drawing cartoons in Japanese, not picking decent English speaking actors (or really any facet of film making). Oda's involvement, much like the so called historian's involvement, was just a smoke screen. Let's say that Lockley wasn't a complete charlatan, if some parts were incredibly historically inaccurate was Ubisoft gonna waste the time and money to rework it to make it accurate? No. Likewise, let's say that Oda found his balls and said some scene or sequence sucked ass. Was Netflix gonna go ahead and do reshoots to appease him? Absolutely not.
His certainty that Shadows is going to be a huge hit seems just a tad premature. With PC gaming being bigger than ever, it's pretty retarded to take Odysseys slightly lower peak Steam player counts from 8 years and so confidently declare Shadows a hit. I think it was last year Capcom have stated half units sold are on PC, which is a pretty big deal for a publisher that's traditionally been much more console focused. But I guess compared to Ubisoft's string of massive failures over the last few years, I guess you could spin Shadows being a relative 'hit' even if it fails to break even.
Tom Cruise's Character wasn't even the titular "Last Samurai" in that movie, hell Cruise's character wasn't even a samurai, he was just an outsider who joined the samurai's cause.
Because this genderspecial obviously heard the jokes about the last samurai being a white dude, which were posted at the time and many times since but of course it's super reductive and actually believing that means someone didn't watch the movie.
Don't listen to the Doomcuck of vidya, lol.
Wasn't AC Mirage already advertised as a return to form?
Is that a man or a dood?
Iirc he was in Japan for 3 years total, and only spent 18 months of that under Nobunaga. Not only is there a zero percent chance Yasuke was an actual samurai (for fucks sake they didn't even bother to write down the guys actual name, "Yasuke" was just his japanese nickname), there's a zero percent chance he could even read or speak Japanese beyond basic "go here, hold this" commands.
Also how he left the historical record points to him not being a Samurai. Once Oda was betrayed and attacked by the rebel army, Yasuke did fight a little bit in self defence, but ultimately surrendered and handed his weapon over. The guy leading the rebellion decided to spare Yasuke because he was basically Oda's pet who posed no threat and returned him to the Jesuits to avoid an international incident and stay on their good side.
It also makes for a better character in a video game, you know, where you start off at level 1?
Better yet make him a side character. Have the Jesuits be Templars trying to get Oda into their club so they have influence all though Japan while Yasuke is an assassin in deep undercover as a slave to spy on Oda and monitor the situation. He could even be the main mission giver because his role as a spy means he can give the ninja girl intel on HVTs on the Templar conspiracy. Once everything is done Yasuke "surrenders" to the assassin sympathetic rebels and is "returned to the Jesuits" when in reality he is leaving Japan to start his next mission.
Not good enough, Floyd-San needs to stick his BBC into small, tiny, pathetic Japanese men as they beg for mercy and be Oda's number one bro and his most respected soldier. Anything less and we might offend some people(those that matter, fuck those racist slant-eyed chuds)
I was thinking about why out of all the historical fiction about Japan, why is Shadows the one to draw controversy and it's exactly what you said. Last Samurai was popular there and that's just as accurate as Shadows, I'm pretty sure they liked Shogun too. Nioh also had Yasuke but no one minded because that game is a fantasy (so I'm told, I never played it myself). I remember when Unity came out, Ubisoft caught flack for portraying the Revolution as the secret bad guys but they waved it off saying "it's historical fiction, guys" and that was the end of that. They said no such thing here and it makes you wonder if there would have any blowback if they just said it's fiction.
Shadows is some bipolar woman's BBC fanfic meant to humiliate and shame Japanese, much in the way Europeans are made to feel sorry for their history and culture every day. They didn't count on Japanese not giving a single shit about being "racist" and calling this shit out when they see it.
