The Assassin's Creed Black Samurai controversy

it's all so tiresome

I’m so tired

No one is more ignorant of other cultures than the purported supporters of multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion.

i honestly dont care for the exact reason you laid out near the end. all AC games are the same slop at this point. this yasuke thing was probably an attempt to rage bait to garner attention from a series most people dont care about anymore

You can be interressted in "the war we cannot name" without loving "the man we cannot name" XD

After the release and immense success of the Black Panther movie in 2018, the fascination with the character Yasuke continued to grow in 2019 with the publication of the book "African Samurai" by Professor Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girrard. Unfortunately, some individuals, driven by either commercial motives or a desire for social equality, have taken advantage of the situation and attempted to portray Yasuke as a non-Japanese samurai, similar to how the English sailor William Adams was later perceived. In his book, Thomas Lockley presents numerous speculations as if they were factual, often relying on historical documents and interpreting them in a way that supports the captivating narrative of Yasuke being a samurai. However, it is important to note that Lockley and his co-author acknowledge the lack of concrete information about Yasuke. This scarcity of reliable information has led many to create imaginative and far-fetched stories surrounding this enigmatic "African samurai," who may not have actually held the status of a samurai at all. Reputable sources such as the Jesuit records or the Shinchō ki prototype owned by Sonkeikaku Bunko (the Maeda clan's archives) do not contain any evidence of Yasuke being granted samurai status. None whatsoever!

The inclusion of Yasuke is as much a gimmick to set it apart from Ghost of Tsushima (which only featured foreigners as invaders) as it is a thumb in the collective eyes of Japanese culture. Likely, if their main competitor had nor been so well received, they might have only had the Kunoicho co-star character as the sole protagonist if they did not stick with what was said to be the original plotline.

Being educated doesn't mean one is cultured. Just saying. Good to hear a voice of reason.

Japanese culture values self-control, hard work and adherence to heirarchy, so basically the exact opposite of leftism, which can be summed up as "me me me me me"

At least this is no big loss since there was no way I'd buy this game either way.

How you stated when people play games set in historical settings, people want to see the normative and not the outliers. Incredibly good summation of my thoughts.

You might ask why they don't just do a historical setting somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa so that they can have all the black characters they want, but I think they might dislike that part of the world even more than Japan since so much of what has gone on and continues to go on there doesn't fit their narrative.

Putting an irrelevant historical oddity as the main protagonist of one of Japan's most important periods may work well to generate clicks, but won't be enough to get buyers. It'll be fun to see the extent of the flop.

Ubi picked Yasuke because then any criticism of the game can be deflected by accusing the one pointing at the game's flaws of being a bad person.

Yea I agree 100%, progs absolutely hate the country, I constantly see this with manga. They endlessly cry about fan service and the female characters. It’s why I dropped all my comics in 2021 & switched to reading manga. The difference is night & day. All western media needs to be avoided like the plague, that includes this game, and every game from western companies.

At least the "Blaxploitation" film era was fun. This current-year garbage is beyond slop.

They been blackifying for ages, Bayed is black, Kassandra/Alexios as black as possible, Eivor looks like arab...I had no surprise they went with Jake Suki for this one, even the girl looks black the problem is more you already own 3 of these and have no need for more it's literally same graphics, propaganda and gameplay 😆

Postmodernism is seen as peak and as the height of design. All I see is decay and destruction .

Remember a few years ago when everybody wanted to cast Idris Elba as everyone and everything British because he's the only black British actor any of them had ever heard of, and they had only heard of him five minutes ago? Yasuke is the Idris Elba of Sengoku Japan. None of these people had ever heard of him prior to the release of Shogun earlier this year, and now they insist he star in everything occurring within two centuries of his actual life in either direction. Side note: your analysis of how the left intends to level out culture into a gray mush is exactly how the Assyrians maintained their empire until the Babylonians overthrew them.

You're wrong, Altair wasn't Palestinian because: A) While the region of Palestine existed during Altair's time, it wasn't a unified country in the modern sense. It was a broader geographical term. B) Masyaf, Altair's birthplace, is located in present-day Syria. Therefore, it's more accurate to identify him as Syrian.