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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[King George III]

I just get the feeling that this game is just revenge porn for nignogs that got caught by the "racist" guy behind the counter at the gookstore on more than one occasion. I expect at least one samurai themed convenience store robbery in the near future.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

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.

Then the solution is to stop kowtowing (see what I did there?) to the Chinks and the sandniggers, not start doing it for the Japanese.

 

[Brap God]

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.

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.

 

[Hokuriku]

Then the solution is to stop kowtowing (see what I did there?) to the Chinks and the sandniggers, not start doing it for the Japanese.

Ironically I think that's only going to happen if everyone everywhere pushes so hard against the West that it makes it impossible for creators to make anything narratively deeper than Tetris or the Weather Channel. If people literally have no choice but to be offensive, the pretense of riding an impossible tightrope vanishes.

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.

If I could use soccer hooligans as an excuse to blanket ban the British I'd probably take it. In any case they really fucked up letting Somali walk, they let themselves look like doormats for copycat streamers.

 

[Fapcop]

because they think every non-jap is a subhuman.

Unfathomly based.

Once more, I implore you to learn from the slits!

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

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.

The enemy of my enemy. And let's be honest, gaming been dictated by the nips again wouldn't be a terrible idea. At least we would see the East to West transfer of ideas, leading to great games, happen again.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

The enemy of my enemy.

Denouncing cultural appropriation to own the wokies sure is a new one.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Denouncing cultural appropriation to own the wokies sure is a new one.

Not really. I'm just not autistic and can see where the nips have a point. When was the last time they kicked off for cultural appropriation?
It's the best possible outcome that a fart-huffing niggerfaggot game, high on their own cultural appropriation, it ripped apart by the same culture they're trying to fart-huff over.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I'm just not autistic and can see where the nips have a point.

No, they don't. In the same way I believe the Nips should be able to portray other cultures however the hell they want, we have exactly the same right.

It's the best possible outcome that a fart-huffing niggerfaggot game, high on their own cultural appropriation, it ripped apart by the same culture they're trying to fart-huff over.

Yes, that's why I very specifically pointed out the difference:

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

I'm perfectly happy to hoist Ubisoft with their own petard in this situation - judging your enemies by the standard they apply to others is entirely appropriate. I'm NOT at all thrilled by the retards who actually seem to believe that cultural appropriation is bad because muh honorabru waifu Japan or that we're obligated to care what the Japs think about western video games.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

No, they don't. In the same way I believe the Nips should be able to portray other cultures however the hell they want, we have exactly the same right.

It may be too late but I don't want to get into an autistic slapfight with you, mainly because I agree with 99% of your views on gaming and you're a fun poster to read in the gaming threads.
It's one thing to call for religion-of-peace level protections, and another thing to protect your culture from the depiction of some niggerfaggot shagging a boy while defiling the story.
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.

I'm NOT at all thrilled by the retards who actually seem to believe that cultural appropriation is bad because muh honorabru waifu Japan or that we're obligated to care what the Japs think about western video games.

Fuck the japs. This isn't about defending japan or whatever, they're a bunch of sandal-wearing goldfish tenders, I'm not backing the japs specifically, just the pushback against the niggerfaggotry.

The woke and dei needs destroying by any means necessary. If that means censorship to not blow religious buildings up then so be it. It's not like the useless niggers making games know how to do destruction physics anyway.

 

[Grub]

Everything I've read about this game and all the Yasuke bullshit on both sides makes me long for the days when videogame characters were an indeterminate blur of pixels and the stories went as a deep as 'I dunno you're a ninja/soldier/robot/super powered thing/Italian plumber go run to the right and kill some shit because reasons.'

 

[tehpope]

I don't think anyone's mentioned it in this thread, but the credits to the game are over TWO FUCKING HOURS LONG.

There are classic films you can watch that come in under 2 hours, with their own credits to boot.

edit: its more like an hour and forty minutes of credits and twenty minutes of licenses bullshit. My point still stands.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

The woke and dei needs destroying by any means necessary. If that means censorship to not blow religious buildings up then so be it.

Luckily we don't need to resort to anything like that and Assassin's Creed Shadows is the perfect illustration that they're already very much on the back foot. This game has gotten nothing but negative press from everyone not engaged in industry quid pro quo and by the indirect metrics that have come out so far, it appears to be selling poorly and may be the straw that breaks Ubisoft's back.

We're winning.

 

[That Chris Guy]

Assassin's Creed Shadows' two protagonists are getting the abuse they have long deserved.​

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Fixed.

 

[Sneed Halation]

Somewhat related and I wanna sneed about it, the Viva New Vegas modding discord had a paid advertisement for this shitty game and @everyone'd for it, and so then I decided to just point out the little known historical fact that Yasuke was actually the first samurai ever and also invented anime, and then got banned for it. I can't believe those white supremacists hate Buh-Lack cultcha and histry

 

[ZeCommissar]

I stopped playing AC after Black Flag.

I don't know what type of person or gamer you must be to keep playing AC. No I don't care that Origins apparently had a different combat system, no I don't care that Valhalla has vikangz, and no I really don't care about this one. It's literally just the same slop year after year. Climb the tower to scout, press keys when enemy swings to kill, jump into a hay bale. At least Black Flag had boats n shieeeeeeeeeeet. Don't forget the whaling minigame. I mean FFS if you're going to be playing AC slop because you just like it do yourself a favor and be the Edward Kenway of the internet.

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.

I....huh

I'm actually kinda floored by this statement. Do they think the Welsh who were a part of the Kingdom of England for fucking centuries at that point in history never hopped on a boat the whole time during the age of colonization??? I could probably find hundreds of Welsh-descended men who sailed the Caribbean compared to the 10 black people who saw Feudal Japan.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Stopped playing after 2. Did they ever explain the Annunaki shit or did it turn into "white"-washing history simulator?

 

[Endless Torment]

This thread is great because I'm laughing at people seething over shit like Fate where they also gender bend their own major historical figures and Christian imagery in JRPGs.
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.

 

[Snekposter]

I'm actually kinda floored by this statement. Do they think the Welsh who were a part of the Kingdom of England for fucking centuries at that point in history never hopped on a boat the whole time during the age of colonization??? I could probably find hundreds of Welsh-descended men who sailed the Caribbean compared to the 10 black people who saw Feudal Japan.

To make things even more hilarious Black Bart Roberts, sage/pirate/Juno's bitchboy is another Welshman, and he was even called Black Bart not because of his many heinous crimes but because Welsh were notoriously swarthy compared to everyone else from the UK. And Edward is only half-Welsh, the other parent being English, which is why he's got the blonde hair and pale skin of an Anglo-Saxon and not the dark hair and complexion of a Welshman.

If you weren't aware of just how different the Welsh are, as far back as Roman times everyone who went there noted it, one even saying they must have come from Iberia at some point since they looked more like the native Spaniards, curly hair and all, than they did the other local inhabitants.

 

[Pokemon Conquistador]

To make things even more hilarious Black Bart Roberts, sage/pirate/Juno's bitchboy is another Welshman, and he was even called Black Bart not because of his many heinous crimes but because Welsh were notoriously swarthy compared to everyone else from the UK. And Edward is only half-Welsh, the other parent being English, which is why he's got the blonde hair and pale skin of an Anglo-Saxon and not the dark hair and complexion of a Welshman.

If you weren't aware of just how different the Welsh are, as far back as Roman times everyone who went there noted it, one even saying they must have come from Iberia at some point since they looked more like the native Spaniards, curly hair and all, than they did the other local inhabitants.

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.