I always said that GoT is AssCreed but not shitty. Especially the combat, it's nothing too groundbreaking but the animations are so brutal.
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PLACE YOUR BETS! Will Yasuke get buck broken or will we get Mutt's law? I think Naoe will be an obvious lesbo and Yasuke will go full "muh BBC where da Japanese women at" but I'd love if they just went full retard and made him and Nobunaga fuck. Will Nobunaga's historical
rentboy "favourite page" Mori Ranmaru join in?
Sorry for the double post, but it’s more info. So apparently a Ubisoft alphabet employee/dev had some say in Yasuke’s “soft romantic side”.
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FYI, this statement originates from an official Ubisoft post regarding Shadows a week ago:
Technically, this can simply mean that the two protagonists are different in that Yasuke has relationships with women and Naoe has relationships with men, so there's no new information here besides the confirmation that there will be an element of romance in the game.
With that said, we can still have some pretty good guesses about how this is going to turn out based on previous games and what we knows besides. Along with the known staff for Shadows, as I understand, Odyssey and Valhalla have a bunch of small, unimportant playersexual romance options, both male and female, for the choose-your-gender protagonist. Easy to assume that this will be the same for Shadows, but an important new distinction is that the male and female player options in Shadows are in the form of two completely separate characters rather than genderbending the same character. I therefore imagine that Yasuke and Naoe will have separate pools of romance options, as the Ubisoft post suggests.
With this in mind, Naoe is practically guaranteed to have both male and female romance options based on what I've said earlier in this thread about how lesbianism is the go-to queer rep. The question about her remaining is whether Naoe's sexuality will be completely up to the player or if the devs will declare that she's canonically bisexual.
The biggest question of all is whether Yasuke will be given a male romance option. If so, I think that might make him the first male protagonist of a major video game title with a defined character (as opposed to a mere player stand-in like Commander Shepard and previous AC protags of nebulous gender) who can go gay. Or if not the first, then certainly one among a very few. Ordinally Ubisoft would be absolutely delighted to pull this trigger, but there's a few aspects that might hold them back: Yasuke is a black historical figure. If Ubisoft suggests that the only known black man in historical Japan could be gay (regardless of how little is known about the real Yasuke), it might piss off the black male audience that this protagonist is ostensibly meant to cater to. This is a demographic, unlike white and Asian men, that Ubisoft might care enough about to stay their hand in this regard.
Personally, I've grown to be annoyed with video game romance options in general, especially with the whole "playersexual" element. I've been finding it to be a detriment to making good narrative characters, whether player-character or NPC, when their romantic side is made so strangely indeterminate. As a counterexample, romance is a very small element of the Uncharted series with no options whatsoever, but Nathan Drake's set-in-stone romance with Elena and complicated relationship with Chloe is a great boon to all three characters that everybody understands and acknowledges about them.
You couldn’t make this up with a million years and a crystal ball.
