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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[Fishmalk Observer]

i completely fell off the train about ubisoft shit, is the game released yet ? How much money are they losing ? Is ubisoft getting sold to chinks yet ?

 

[Super Mario Brothers]

There would be outrage is Ubislop made an American civil war game where Lincoln was black and getting shagged by slaves and trannies as a way to defeat the south.

Honestly, I wouldn't put it past them to do so considering its Current Year. It's not as if actual historical revisionism isn't too far from that.

 

[Malikov]

How are the sales looking ?

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

In other words, @Ibanez RG 350EX's stance on this whole thing is correct.

God, I never get tired of hearing that.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

The "critics" reviews on meta are something else. 15+ no name sites, shills and other country versions of those same sites, all with ratings through the roof.. When you finally get to the at least somewhat respectable known sites....


DualShockers: 55/100
Hardcore Gamer: 70/100
PlayStation LifeStyle: 70/100
Washington Post: 75/100
The New York Times: 65/100
GamesRadar+: 80/100

With a few big names going hard too with perfect or near perfect scores. You could see who got the big $$$ and who didn't.

 

[Meat Target]

I found these.

 

[Krayt Dragon]

The historically accurate angle was weird to me from the start. Assassin's Creed used to be revisionist history fiction. In AC2, not only did they make Niccolò Machiavelli an assassin and show Leonardo DaVinci developing Assassin gear, the final boss is Rodrigo Borgia, the actual pope of the 1500s, who only got the position so he could fulfill his Templar plot to open up a secret vault in the Vatican.

If an Assassin's Creed game were to take place in the hood, Diddy would be a Templar Grand Master and Suge Knight would be the Assassin's Mentor. All the recording studios would be fronts for secret Assassin/Templar hideouts and they'd be fighting over a piece of Eden that is disguised as a golden vinyl record. The game would recontextualize all the gang-related hitjobs to be part of the struggle between Templars and Assassin's, and then at the end you'd have a fist fight with Biggie Smalls.

That's what made Assassin's Creed games fun. Yasuke being a nobody irl is the perfect setup to tell a "What if" story that Assassin's Creed used to be known for.
I have been confused about this angle since this controversy started. It was so unnecessary. Ubisoft has forgotten what Assassin's Creed is supposed to be, which is why they lost their core audience a long time ago.

 

[Ravana]

Ubisoft was too late. Ghost of Tsushima already came out and did an assassin’s creed game in Japan that was actually good.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

How are the sales looking ?

Supposedly one to two or three million copies sold right now, going by Eurogamer and MSN.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

That's what made Assassin's Creed games fun. Yasuke being a nobody irl is the perfect setup to tell a "What if" story that Assassin's Creed used to be known for.
I have been confused about this angle since this controversy started. It was so unnecessary.

It wasn't really about losing sight of the original concept of Assassin's Creed. It was about contriving a way to own the chuds by claiming that their blatant race pandering was historically accurate.

 

[Sho'nuff]

How are the sales looking ?

It's not looking good. Game barely peaked at 60k on Steam, regardless of what they pull through their Ubislop launcher, the only reason to use it over steam would be for the sub service Ubi provides which means Uconnect players aren't sales. And then there are consoles which Xbox can be played through Ubi+ anyway so...

Ubi said it broke 1m players (not sales) but I'm dubious of that claim.

I think if they get to 1m sales before Steam Summer Sale, I'd be shocked. It's looking worse for Shadows than Troonguard.





It's a shame too.

I've always been a fan of AC. AC1 will always hold a special place in my heart. When they rolled out the "rpg" style of Odyssey and Valhalla, I like them, I don't think they are the greatest games ever but I look forward to playing and exploring the world which I feel Ubi has always cared to represent in an impressive manner. I'm glad troon devs are going to get shit on for their terrible and actively hateful to society game design and messaging; but I am sad that AC is the victim this time around.

Maybe the IP will be sold to someone who is capable of remaking AC1 and i can run around as Desmond again, stabbing motherfuckers and taking on 10 templars at once.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Well, let's hear what the Normandy Crew have to say about this game.

 

[Mac Monster]

I hope the sales for this shit show are truly horrendous. It would be really funny for a literal nigger faggot to be the final nail in Ubisoft's coffin.

 

[Snekposter]

I hope the sales for this shit show are truly horrendous. It would be really funny for a literal nigger faggot to be the final nail in Ubisoft's coffin.

Considering how much money Ubisoft blew on this game judging by the hour and forty minutes of people being credited it would need to sell tens of millions to be considered a success.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Ubisoft was too late. Ghost of Tsushima already came out and did an assassin’s creed game in Japan that was actually good.

It took Ubisoft 10 years to find the only nigger that was in Japan before the 20th century.

 

[anti SJW]

 

[Oilspill Battery]

The historically accurate angle was weird to me from the start. Assassin's Creed used to be revisionist history fiction.

Assassins creed used to be secret history, not revisionist history.

Its "Bro, what if mankind has been secretly manipulated by two cults chasing divine artifacts this entire time without our knowledge?"

Not "Afro Samurai is actually a documentary and it just so happens that somehow nobody noticed a black man running around killing japanese during edo era japan."

 

[Eekum Bokum]

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.

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I'm not going to police how you portray Shinto temples. Still, I understand why the Japanese might be a bit more defensive over Westerners allowing players to destroy what they consider sacred in a video game, especially if it comes from a (formally) Christian nation considering Japan's history with Christians being trying to convert everyone 5 seconds after showing up.

I agree that it's gay to try and police people but I'll give them some leeway to be annoyed.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It would have been fun had the game haven't been pozzed and still pissed off the Japanese. There's lots of great salt at laughing on them sperging on the routine shit they pull on Christianity and Judaism, or changing historical figures for coom material.

 

[Frightened Rabbit]

It would have been fun had the game haven't been pozzed and still pissed off the Japanese. There's lots of great salt at laughing on them sperging on the routine shit they pull on Christianity and Judaism, or changing historical figures for coom material.

If they were still making the story of old, they would probably use the 16th Century Portuguese trade beggining era as a backdrop to have a Assassins Vs Templars battle, it would even end with an Assassins win when a Christian uprising is attempted by Christian Japanese and subsequently crushed and all nations that helped the uprising being banned from trade.
I'd like that.