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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[BikeLock]

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.

No gamer has paid attention to those sources for gaming news since at least Gamergate, lmao.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Gay sex simulator with three hour cutscene - IGN score: 10/10.

“Gay sex simulator with three hour cutscene is a return to form with the gay sex simulator series. You really enjoy the gameplay systems but there is some dialogue and plot hole issues. In example, how did I shove the walnut up my dad’s ass with cum (great QuickTime event btw) if my cum bar was just empty before? All in all, a beautiful masterpiece.”

 

[oh no its pipkun]

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.

Since Japan can't keep kick streamers out of the country, they're virtual signalling.

 

[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

The saddest words put to pen:
"The Japanese were right again"

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

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

You joke but that is literally what they did here. There is a pretty good argument that the was the only one in all of Japan at the time. Running around now in this game murdering native japanese.

Now that i hear it like that.. it doesn't sound like the kind of message they really want to send. haha

No gamer has paid attention to those sources for gaming news since at least Gamergate, lmao.

Oh agreed, just pointing out that the shill and ideological shill nature of the current gaming media is NOT saving them when large sums of money aren't likely involved. Well, it looks like medium sums since only a handful of sites ever heard of are actually boosting it. Mostly no-name and multiple language versions of the same no-names. (not joking) They seem to have been very selective in who they paid.

Looks like they didn't have enough money to blow or partially gave up. Remember, marketing budgets in modern AAA gaming are usually as large or larger than the total development one. (Which makes the blood boil given the current cookie cutter, low effort nature of an industry that claims they didn't have the time/money to do it right or better.)

 

[flamminglaevateinn]

The saddest words put to pen:
"The Japanese were right again"

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Salty Korean/Chinese tourists probably defaced the shrine, not niggers (although they are the same).

 

[not william stenchever]

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

They'd make Kentares IV look like a small dustup in a bar.

 

[Ghostse]

I found these.

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2013: Assassin's Creed: Black Flag
2024: Same as before but no second L

Fucking lol.

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.

The problem there is it would show Christians being oppressed and we can't have that.