“Yasuke” (the subject of Ubisofts latest Assassins Creed: Shadows game, has become the subject of controversy after Historian Thomas Lockleys work was called into question over the authenticity of portraying Japans “First African Samurai” as a Legendary Hero.
With the Japanese Government now involved, and a tapestry of shady circumstances on display, the situation is best described as a public relations disaster… for a game franchise that is now at the center of a debate regarding cultural appropriation, and invasion.
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Fuck this AC game. If you want something authentic get ghost of tsushima. Thomas lockley had a black cock up his ass when he wrote his bullshit
Buying Ghost of Tsushima now because of AC: Shadows.
Snoopsuke, a tall man with soothing features, arrived in Japan in 1579 and made history as the first foreign-born man to become a samurai warrior. Snoopsuke was originally a man who liked green pipes, which were forbidden in many countries, and was brought to Japan by knights. The powerful Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga was fascinated by Snoopsuke's tall stature and dark skin, and upon seeing him, ordered his servants to try and learn how to prepare a pipe "of the green kind." Snoopsuke further shocked Oda Nobunaga by throwing out some loud rhymes that he couldn't understand, but Oda Nobunaga loved them even though he didn't understand Hip Hop. Despite this strange encounter, Nobunaga took Snoopsuke into his service, granting him a sum of money, a house, and a katana. From then on, Snoopsuke loyally served Nobunaga as an honorable samurai, fighting alongside him in fierce battles. He went from being a simple laid-back man with a pipe and a rhymer to a member of the Japanese elite and a rap legend. Snoopsuk
Could have used the real Yasuke, imagine being a nobody.. someone who's looked down upon.. wasted potential of an unexpected assassin
I love how butthurt the japanese get here, at least your culture and history wasn't erased completely. – In Valhalla the Danish cultural and historical impact was basically erased and turned into Swedish / Norwegian…
"I don't care what they tell you in Japan, Yasuke was a samurai"
This force diversity/woke BS is getting really annoying
Don’t like it don’t buy it
Seto cause screw the rules
最大の問題はUBIが弥助を採用する前から、ロックリーの「小説」を「歴史的事実」として報道する英語圏の大手メディアが複数あり、多くの視聴者を勘違いさせている事です。
これから先、ハリウッドでもブロードウェイでも「ロックリーの手で作られた歴史」を元にして、偏見に満ちた間違いだらけの日本が描かれる事でしょう。真田広之が「Shogun」を通じて成し遂げた努力は全て無に帰ります。
尤もロックリーは自著の内容について、英語圏に対しては「歴史的事実」と断定し、日本人には「正確な事はわからない」と述べていますから、いずれにせよロックリーを太陽の下に引き摺り出さない事には何も始まらないでしょう。
現在ロックリーは全てのSNSを消して逃亡していますが、驚くべき事に、在籍している大学では仕事をしているようです。
Lol but everyone allows Shogun to exist without this much scrutiny…
I know I won't get it…
"Why are you breaking that trend now."
Lol, you know why. you. know. why.
This is what happen when you hire devs with she/her it/thing pronouns in their social media profile
Source: trust me bro
What is he trying to say ghost of tsushima copied??
That game is leagues above anything ubisoft
People are so sensitive, and just want something to complain about. I dont care if he wasn't a samurai as long as the game is good is all that matters. It literally says before you play every single ac that its "inspired by historical events, characters, or place" or something along them lines. So before even playing the game you know its not entirely historically accurate. And lets not forget the fact that the story of ac(to my knowledge) is that the templars are trying to cover up history, so it goes with the story. All that i care about is if it does what odyssey did and have the "historical locations" because i want to learn some stuff while playing.
Okay so long story short.
One historians fan fictions about one guy who existed but we barely know anything about creates world wide drama because it was put into a AAA game that tells a fictional story about two secret societies fighting over alien artifacts.
In spite of how much controversy the RPG focused games of AC had, I still liked Odyssey a lot, in spite of its flaws, heck, even Valhalla can be fun (at times). But whatever this is, is a disrespect to the franchise. Ubi, please pull the plug on whatever this is please.
I hate wikipedia it's filled with weirdo activists that do historical revisionism as a full time job. They are also usually all white liberal single dudes 🤣
''A historical alternation of Japan'' by woke activists. That's exactly it.
This is how humanity burns, rewriting history for money or to justify a viewpoint. How long till the monsters of history are rewritten as saviors
The fact that any of this is even an issue is insane. It’s a fucking game 😂
How dare you! Blacks created and did everything. They were all KANGZ!!
Saying ghost of tsushima copied the formula when it came out 3 years before thid is crazy
Can't wait for that sales report😊 and the rolling heads at ubisoft😂
Oy vey.
I hope this game fail and Ubisoft go broke and disappeared from the gaming Industry.
They didn't make Black Panther white because Elon Musk is from Africa 😂
All the racist in the comment sections mad about a black samurai that actually existed screaming for historical accuracy. Meanwhile, in other previous games we fighting against literal gods over ancient alien artifacts. And no one said anything about historical accuracy. Then you don't care about historical accuracy. You're mad because he's black. Doesn't matter that he actually existed as a samurai to you, racist prks
I feel like highly fictionalized Yasuke is fine in context of assassins creed. Like the video said, assassins creed isn’t really grounded in reality. It’ll just be like a fanfic or a historical figure (which is all historical fiction basically)
Thomas Lockley problem really should be separated from whether or not Yasuke is a suitable pc for the game.
Can we just all take a moment to laugh that after all the talk about DEI consultants that Ubisoft shit the bed this hard.
If this game came out 5 years ago wirh a Black Samurai it would have felt fine. After everything with Sweet Baby it feels a little forced after we know how they manipulate companies.
I gotta ask. Would people be making such a stink about this if it were a white person instead of a black person?
The easiest band-aid they could put on this (which they're likely not going to) would be to change his name and thus turn him into a completely fictional character. They'd definitely have to re-record some lines at this point but it shouldn't be too difficult.
Regardless, I hope they get their asses whooped at least a little bit. It would already be a minor victory if they get barred from selling the game in Japan or something
The fact of the matter is that ghosts of Tsushima was created and built by a much smaller dev team that had a great love of samurai history and deep knowledge of their media. They wanted to show respect to all of the great samurai stories, movies, and histories. Shadows is being developed by greedy corporate losers who want to shill out a samurai game bc gamers have been dying for one for decades. They couldn’t care less about the history and legacy of the samurai or that time period.
It’s crazy how black ppl have no control over nothing but are targeted with racist comments because they are put in a video game movie etc but when the roles are turn its get over it
Idk if it was this video where I said it but they could have easily chose someone like miyamoto musashi, an actual legendary samurai
I'm pretty sure that Tom Cruise was the first black samurai.
The information war continues. The woke never sleep. We know that their goal is to export DEI to a global audience. Ubisoft is a big entertainment company and a useful tool for exporting propaganda, just like Disney. It's also ironic that this is coming from people who consider cultural appropriation a sin. Yet, here we have western cultural imperialists attempting to subvert Japanese history and culture.