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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[Snekposter]

I'd argue that Welshman Sean Connery was able to play James Bond because he had the swarthiness of a sexy Italian combined with the class of an Englishman and the rough, working class charm of ....a Welshman.

He was Scots, not Welsh.

 

[X Prime]

I love laughing at retards who can't discern the difference between something claiming to be historically accurate like Assassins Creed and something entirely fictional like SMT.

You would be surprised how often it is claimed SMT is an accurate mythology primer, particularly by the fans. One known argument is that how they portray God is a legitimate interpretation.

In other words, @Ibanez RG 350EX's stance on this whole thing is correct. It's fundamentally no different than how China gets mad at the US for doing things they themselves do all the time. Japanese culture is not entitled to special respect.

 

[ChefKiss]

You would be surprised how often it is claimed SMT is an accurate mythology primer, particularly by the fans. One known argument is that how they portray God is a legitimate interpretation.

In other words, @Ibanez RG 350EX's stance on this whole thing is correct. It's fundamentally no different than how China gets mad at the US for doing things they themselves do all the time. Japanese culture is not entitled to special respect.

Let me know all the AAA games where you can trash mosques and burn Qurans

 

[Ambidextype]

Do you remember the Shogun series based on James Clavell's novel or remember Shogun Total War? Both of them were about sengoku period and they were made by mostly westerners with a very little input from actual Japanese historians. And with the former tv series and novel, every characters are loosely based on real life Japanese figures but make a fictional story about William Adams, basically the TV series was almost similar story to Ni-Oh before that video game got made. I don't remember Japanese people raising a huge stink over those media even though it didn't probably accurately portray the real event. The only person that wasn't too fond of the TV series was Akira Kurosawa.

I think this just tells me how much ubislop made their newest title with malicious intent. I think every huge missteps they made about this new assassin creed game wasn't accidental. Every steps had to be meticulously planned from the story, the characters, promotional ads to release date even if it means this new game's going to lead them to bankruptcy because wokies don't really like Japan. They would rather stick it to chuds like kamikaze than having successful golden goose selling like hotcakes in their hands. I find their insistence to cling to that mentality amusing. They had easy lay-up to victory, literal best seller if they just thought more about profit than ideology but they got too comfortable thinking maybe blackrock or canadian government would bail them out.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

He was Scots, not Welsh.

No-one has ever said, "the rough, working-class charm of the Scots" without needing a second take to stop laughing.

 

[Snekposter]

No-one has ever said, "the rough, working-class charm of the Scots" without needing a second take to stop laughing.

Let's just say despite that he somehow managed to impress both Broccoli's wife and Fleming's girlfriend with his "masculine charms".

 

[Safir]

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.

Not Lincoln, butI think someone made a musical about the Founding Fathers.

I love laughing at retards who can't discern the difference between something claiming to be historically accurate like Assassins Creed and something entirely fictional like SMT.

You're retarded and a cuck. There's no difference. If a tranny makes a video in which it rapes your mother, it's still offensive if it says it's a "creative reimagination".

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I do NOT support muh cultural sensitivity as a matter of principle. You rape their culture, they rape yours, and both you and they do whatever you want about it.

If you say "plz no raep" and start censoring yourself as a gesture of good will and they laugh in your face, they win.

If they get scared of pissing you or consoomer-minded that they start censoring themselves to appeal to you, you win.

Ubisoft is not ethically wrong to make a game about a nigra culturally enriching Oichi, they're commercially wrong because there's no market for it anywhere. If they made a game about a white guy who became emperor and it sold gangbusters in the West and Japs banned it and complained in the UN, it'd be fine. If they made same and Japs were too scared to complain and little nips played it and internalized their inferiority, even better.

 

[Endless Torment]

Not Lincoln, butI think someone made a musical about the Founding Fathers.


You're retarded and a cuck. There's no difference. If a tranny makes a video in which it rapes your mother, it's still offensive if it says it's a "creative reimagination".

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I do NOT support muh cultural sensitivity as a matter of principle. You rape their culture, they rape yours, and both you and they do whatever you want about it.

If you say "plz no raep" and start censoring yourself as a gesture of good will and they laugh in your face, they win.

If they get scared of pissing you or consoomer-minded that they start censoring themselves to appeal to you, you win.

Ubisoft is not ethically wrong to make a game about a nigra culturally enriching Oichi, they're commercially wrong because there's no market for it anywhere. If they made a game about a white guy who became emperor and it sold gangbusters in the West and Japs banned it and complained in the UN, it'd be fine. If they made same and Japs were too scared to complain and little nips played it and internalized their inferiority, even better.

Thanks for giving me more material to laugh at.

 

[Spud]

If that means censorship to not blow religious buildings up then so be it.

I remember a hope I had for gaming, when I played Red Faction Guerrilla, I thought that with improving technology we could have bigger and more destructible maps and environments. Think a map the size of GTA V but every building can be destroyed and done in such a way where you could target solely the supports and cause it to fall down but maintain it's shape to destroy the buildings around it. Today we have cattle who beg for censorship and limiting gameplay cause of "woke".

 

[Matthew216]

You know what I want? I want a video-game based on the battle of the Alamo, but I want it to be ridiculously not historically accurate!

Have Jim Bowie’s famous knife be able to cut through whole legions of Mexicans!

Have Davie Crockett be a enemy killing machine, sending Mexican troops flying with one punch!

Have Sam Houston actually get there with reinforcements. Have him arrive on a large horse whose footprints leave fire in their wake!

That’s what I want to see! And I’d be okay with it, provided we point out that it’s not historically accurate!

 

[Super Mario Brothers]

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私の代名詞はthey/themです。

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.

DID Yasuke when?

 

[Snekposter]

You know what I want? I want a video-game based on the battle of the Alamo, but I want it to be ridiculously not historically accurate!

Have Jim Bowie’s famous knife be able to cut through whole legions of Mexicans!

Have Davie Crockett be a enemy killing machine, sending Mexican troops flying with one punch!

Have Sam Houston actually get there with reinforcements. Have him arrive on a large horse whose footprints leave fire in their wake!

That’s what I want to see! And I’d be okay with it, provided we point out that it’s not historically accurate!

That sounds fucking metal. It also sounds like something the Japanese themselves would make.

 

[Fishmalk Observer]

You know what I want? I want a video-game based on the battle of the Alamo, but I want it to be ridiculously not historically accurate!

Have Jim Bowie’s famous knife be able to cut through whole legions of Mexicans!

Have Davie Crockett be a enemy killing machine, sending Mexican troops flying with one punch!

Have Sam Houston actually get there with reinforcements. Have him arrive on a large horse whose footprints leave fire in their wake!

That’s what I want to see! And I’d be okay with it, provided we point out that it’s not historically accurate!

Alamo no Ken/Fist of the Lone Star

 

[Cereal Experiments Grain]

You would be surprised how often it is claimed SMT is an accurate mythology primer, particularly by the fans. One known argument is that how they portray God is a legitimate interpretation.

Wait, are you telling me that Thor nuking Japan isn't part of Norse mythology?

 

[Safir]

Lenta.ru, a domestic Russian news site owned by the gay lobby, posted an ad for Ass Creed Kangs despite the game being sanctioned here.

https://lenta.ru/articles/2025/03/22/shadows/

The ad itself is boring, 'uuugh this is a vidyagame you can run around in it and hide bodies', no mention of faggotry or any controversy except they subtly liken Yasuke to the fictional Naoe and contrast him with the historicity of Nobunaga.

 

[frozen_runner]

Do you remember the Shogun series based on James Clavell's novel or remember Shogun Total War? Both of them were about sengoku period and they were made by mostly westerners with a very little input from actual Japanese historians. And with the former tv series and novel, every characters are loosely based on real life Japanese figures but make a fictional story about William Adams, basically the TV series was almost similar story to Ni-Oh before that video game got made. I don't remember Japanese people raising a huge stink over those media even though it didn't probably accurately portray the real event. The only person that wasn't too fond of the TV series was Akira Kurosawa.

The Japanese were widely unhappy with the 1981 adaptation of Shogun. For last year's new adaptation (which was quite good, though maybe not better than the original, just different), Hiroyuki Sanada made his involvement contingent on all the set-building, makeup, and costuming being taken care of by Japanese veterans of period dramas. He also insisted that none of the characters be race- or sex-swapped.

 

[Individualism Incarnate]

Except the japanese officials use the nignog examples to lump in the non-nignogs with the nignogs, because they think every non-jap is a subhuman.

Are they wrong?

 

[TowinKarz]

Just wait until the Draconis Combine hears about this.....

 

[X Prime]

Wait, are you telling me that Thor nuking Japan isn't part of Norse mythology?

I know, it's a complete disappointment.

 

[BikeLock]

A gay nigger and a woman as "protagonists" in feudal Japan, I can't imagine why it would be shitty and also piss off the Japanese.