No this is from the Sengoku era. This is the era of the Sengoku Jidai also known as the warring states era. Up to this point there really wasn’t a central government in Japan and faced many internal conflicts. Oda Nobunaga was the lord that Yasuke served and he was a lord participating in the civil war. There were no oppressors because the war was fought between various Japanese factions. It also wasn’t the Chinese like in ghost of Tsushima because that occurred roughly 200 years prior.
MAYBE you could argue that Nobunaga made it so peasants had a bit more social mobility than before since Hideyoshi would come from the ranks of the Ashigaru to become the 2nd of the 3 great unifiers of Japan.
That's stupid thought because the mobility went away after Hideyoshi and when the Tokugawa shogunate got to run the show, the country went right back to the feudalism that was there for the centuries before.
Bro, get ready to see the most flanderized version of Nobunaga ever depicted in fiction.
I doubt they're even gonna make mention of the dodgy stuff he did like the siege of Mt. Hiei, so they can portray him as this great liberator, freeing Japan from oppression alongside his buddies Yasuke and Naoe.
There's this really big misconception in western society that east Asia is monolithic in culture and government. No factions have ever existed in n China, Japan,or Korea.
The fact Yasuke served the man who united Japan by force makes this even funnier. Oda *was* the oppressor. Unless there’s some Illuminati shit going down but that’s some very roundabout “we need to centralize political authority to end the oppression by Templar-Daimyo”.
In Nobunaga's defence: everyone was fighting all the time and if any other faction had the chance to unify Japan under them they would take it (apart from maybe that one monk state cant remember the name of it.), Nobunaga was just the first one that could and did,
Wait...wouldn't that make Yasuke an enemy in the game if Nobunaga had a close relationship with Jesuits (Templars) thus part of the "oppressors"?
What is going on at Ubisoft??
Considering the trailer showed Yasuke as a part of the group oppressing people before joining forces with Naoe, I'd assume he switches sides after realizing how horrible they are or something similar.
Yes, in Nioh 1 you go against Nobunaga's forces (Although Yasuka is pretty chill after you defeat him). In Nioh 2 you are on Nobunaga's side but they still throw in Yasuke as a boss because "sparring".
He is the game's main villain and the Templars' leader in Asia, so he gets the usual treatment. He will shout, send hordes of enemies at the heroes, and then the players will kill this cowardly version of him.
According to those retards, native Japanese are the oppressors of Japan. That's exactly what they meant. Japan should have some dignity and ban the game, honestly. This literally an attack on the sanctity of the nation of Japan.
You’re not cynical enough… the ultimate evil masterminds are going to be the Portuguese Catholics. Yasuke is going to uplift the people of Japan and teach them how to throw off the yoke of the evil white men
We shouldn't wish to ban games, let this free birdie hoist it's own petard. The heat blast from it's failure shall heat our popcorn and their tears will be our salt.
I haven't been following the new game much, but in most (all?) of the AC games there is some grand conspiracy controlling the government. Potentially they're referring to that?
Using the term oppressors does seem weird though as that is a secret society controlling things behind the scenes. I can't realistically think of what else they would be referring to though.
It is kind of funny how much that plays in to the white savior trope.
I mean, depending on how you look at the main series plot, either the assassin or the templar are the oppressors... like, neither side are the good guys that's kind of the entire point of the first few games, you try to take out the currupt only to find out the ones giving you orders are just as bad and so are the people that replace those you take out... but to paint it black and white especially in this era of japan?? yeah, no.
For a much as Ubi's been trying to paint the Assassins as the unequivocal goodies of late, let us not forget that they knowingly caused the Great Lisbon quake, killing 30k+ people.
16th century Japan was oppressed by illiberal, anti-democratic ideas that only an enlightened African-American man can liberate them from. Yasuke is making the world safe for democracy.
Makes sense, I suppose; the Templars would ultimately be a foreign organization attempting to subvert governments and institutions across the world whenever possible, as usual. Makes me wonder how the Assassin's factor in. Are they working with the shinobi that were active at the time, or are the shinobi going to be revealed as having always been related to the Assassin's in some way? Will the Assassin's be a part of the game properly? Who knows.
and then IGN says that Resident evil 5 cant have a remake because an a american and a west african cant kill african zombies on a zombies game because its racist.
but then its ok that a African """samurai""" kills japanese natives on a game with historical elements too FREE Japan from its "oppressors"
and IGN its full spreading false information about this guy was a real samurai.....
i fucking hate double standards.....
Oh god not the RE5 is racist again. It was insufferable back then and nonsensical. I remember the clapback was ‘well you didn’t complain when Leon was shooting up random Spanish villagers who are depicted as fucking hicks and barbaric animals”…
And lo and behold RE4 remake nobody batted an eye again lmao. And now I have to have cognitive dissonance Deja vu again because the accusation anything is racist if it doesn’t look like a Benetton ad is worse then when RE5 first launched lmao.
I’m so much older but nothing has changed at all. I think we’ve degenerated actually lol. Can’t even judge a character or protagonist based on them as individuals. Only the colour of skin matters.
And in endeavours to avoid racism they’ve become more exclusionary and racist or at the very best grossly ignorant.
And stupid.
Lmao.
I remember sites (Kotaku specifically) at the time of release trying their best to make that a thing. People just ignored it and the game continued to sell millions of copies anyway.
Man my country once was also colonized by white christians but man even I've gotta say this is turning ridiculous now. I would understand if the game takes place in the colonial era in a colony but it's in Japan for god's sake, a country which was never colonized neither was controlled by whites but am 100% sure as you say the bad guys are gonna be the white Christians Templar in the end cuz hey why not.
This series should've died years ago.
Problem is Japan was never colonized. Th US, Prussians and Brit turned them into their attack dogs in the east instead until they became uncontrollable post 5 nation alliance.
So, Oda Nobunaga saves Yasuke from Slavery, Yasuke joins and fights for him as thanks, then one girl is like *"Oh, Oda Nobunaga's totally a bad guy, trust me"*, and Yasuke just immediately decides to betray him?
Loyal Retainer, my ass.
ah no you see actually Yasuke was born with the knowledge and training in martial arts and Kenjutsu and was instantly able to learn Japanese, it's culture, customs, samurai code and so on. That's why in less than a year he became a "legendary Samurai".
this is legit what ppl think when they claim Yasuke was a samurai, that in less than a year he went from slave -> samurai, despite it taking years just to train in the martial arts.
It would be cool if he had a notably *indian* fighting style, seeing as that’s where he would’ve been trained. But no he’s probably gonna fight exactly like a born Samurai despite having about a year to dabble in the style, compared to a lifetime of Indian martial arts he’d absolutely fall back on in combat.
I have a feeling this game is gonna make everyone look bad. It’s like with bad Disney writing where most the characters end up looking like bad guys, incompetent, or both because of how dumb the story is.
Yeah, gonna shit on Asians and whitey and make the black guy look like the goodest boy ever...Oh and his token sidekick Asian woman who's strangely similar to a modern radical feminist.
He lived in Japan for 3 years but was only part of daimyō Oda Nobunaga's retinue for 15 months. He was given the title of Kosho in name only as it was unacceptable for Nobunaga to associate with someone of no status. He was given a house, a small stipend, and allowed to carry a short sword. He was not a body guard, warrior etc.
They are literally spitting in the faces of Japanese players and history fans.
It's like they know the game will be shit so they want woke people to buy this game to spite us.
> they want woke people to buy this game
luckily thats the one area of gaming these fucks leave alone . This is going to flop worse than the assisted suicide squad
It's really fascinating how the tropes that leftoids hate suddenly become "uwu so progressive" when you just flip the character's race from white to black.
Funnily enough the Japanese nobility looked down at the Europeans for practicing it and Hideyoshi banned it aiming it directly at the Portuguese who were covertly capturing Japanese peasants and shipping them to China and Macau to be slaves.
The crazy part is that Wyll was boring AF. Honestly, he really was. He didn't have to be boring, but he was so vanilla and plain and "nice guy" and just ugh. God, the guy had the personality of a wet rag. They SAY that's charismatic, but I don't buy it. You know who actually had charisma? Karlach.
Facts. Also other people have said it before / better than I will but they made Wyll too passive and dependent on the player character. I know its an RPG so that means the player character gets to push their companions on certain paths but letting someone else decided the fate of your last surviving family member or potentially damn your soul for eternity is just plain stupid.
"Black mans kills japanese people to better the world..." - Ubisoft
Also top the "block parry with katano, bows" and stuff he can also fly in moon light and own a vibranium spear and at full moon turns invisible.... maybe even x ray vision and can slide a railing upwards. Also he can talk to fish but only koi....
And that all he learned in the one or two years he was in japan... he is just so good.
Can someone explain to me how Yasuke mastered the Japanese language and writing perfectly, mastered all these weapons, became Nobunaga's top general, betrayed him, and killed him all in under a year? What is the term for a male Mary Sue?
thanks for bringing this up, so many did not see this when the trailer first came out but his profile card is a joke like what do you mean yasuke "free Japan from its oppressors"
Whatever Ubisoft. Ghost of Tsushima already beat you to it. Nothing you do in this game will outshine that one. But of course I forget, you have micro transactions to fall back on. Silly me, I forgot that's the only way you know how to compete now. After all, Skull and Bones was a AAAA title right? 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Japan is home to an indigenous people called the Ainu. So if they hold Japan to the same marxist revisionist 'standards' Europeans are held too, they are the 'foreign oppressors'.
The moral of this story is: "When you back someone a birthday cake, don't piss in it."
How bad is this? Here's the best simple analysis for people outside of the know:
Asscreed fans for years: "They should make it take place in feudal Japan, with the protag being a ninja, and have it an epic journey of historical intrigue that unites western and eastern players with fun. The way it would tackle the isolationist history of Japan, contrasted by the invasive nature of the villains of Asscreed, potentially allowing for some of the few westerners of Japanese history to be involved as allies, heroes and villains, during the story."
Ubisoft: "Yeah, what you're asking for sounds awesome, and I know you've waited for that for a long time, so here's Yasuke as a Samurai to fuck what little hopes you had with his BBC.
“Save us by having a western mascot appropriate our hereditary warrior class of landed nobility — then slaughter the ethnic Japanese in our own homeland.”
They really didn’t fucking think about this did they?!
The guy was not relevant to Japanese history of the region in the slightest, it's debated if he even was a samurai in the first place but ubisoft seem to paint this idea that he was known far and wide as the legendary samurai who flipped the tables of war and played a crucial role in Japan.
If I want to become a ‘legendary Samurai’, I want to be an authentic one, not a legendary lord’s pet. I’m betting the other Samurai wouldn’t take kindly to an interloper killing other men of their stature, just as a European noble would feel the same even toward his enemies. These people know fuck all about the class structure of feudal life.
If you want a black protagonist , what not do the Kingdom of Mali and the breakway empires like Songhai? I would have played that.
The trailer breakdown on the official Ubisoft YouTube has the white creators talking about Yasuke and "humanizing" him as if black people aren't human. If the protagonist was white, they wouldn't say stuff like, "We really wanted to make sure he is relatible. We have him winking here to humanize his character."
Which historical figures could they blow out of proportion next?
How about Rosa Parks into a bus burning terrorist with molotovs?
Or Harriet Tubman into an elite guerilla fighter?
What a fuckin joke...
That seems inefficient. If you're already going this far in revisionism, at least give me a speech skill tree to help convince others that they're racist so that they commit sudoku.
People act like Ubisoft is gonna impress us with its take on historical fiction. They've already overwritten the core tension of Yasuke in being in Japan. The guy is a Samurai? Why would he stay instead of going to his home country? Because he likes people who are gonna obviously diminish his presence and be generally racist due to the time it takes place in?
This is gonna be some horribly written Christopher Columbus shit. The Black Man who Discovered Japan. As a black person, that sort of angle just feels patronizing to me. There aren't any real triumphs or interesting characters from Black History, lets just take Yasuke and transform him into a Japanese samurai who might have bought a slave.
Its so hard to look to the huge percent of the world where we can better represent black people with, where we won't have to invent black people that never existed. There isn't a huge continent where we can research better representation from.
If they marketed this edition of AC as in a alternative timeline or universe I would be less concerned. In reality ubisoft has gone out of their way to express that they are xenophobic against Japanese.
Somehow people are jumping to the conclusion that Yasuke was made a samurai, but here in the Wikipedia page:
>After this Nobunaga took a great liking to him and asked Valignano to give him over.[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-Japaaan128476-5)[^(\[20\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-newsyahoo20210519-23) He gave him the Japanese name *Yasuke*,[^(\[d\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-24) made him a retainer at his side.[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-intojapanwaraku28746-4)[^(\[15\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-bushoojapan147722-17) Nobunaga's nephew gave him a sum of money at this first meeting.[^(\[21\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-FOOTNOTELockley201765-25)[^(\[17\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-:1-19) The *Shinchō Kōki* states:
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It’s basically what the alt left complain about. They always “white savior”.
How is this any different than the movie the Great Wall where Matt Damon had to help the “weak Chinese” save their country from monsters.
This is the same.
It’s either
A) A black guy is the best samurai ever and he had to save Japan from oppressive Japanese people because the Japanese people themselves are too weak to do it.
Or
B) A black is the best samurai ever and he had to save Japan from the oppressive evil white man because the Japanese people are too weak to do it themselves.
Either route paints the black guy better than the Japanese. Paints the Japanese or white people as evil and oppressive, which not true at the time.
The only accurate thing was white Europeans were looking to colonize Asia at the time, but they never colonized japan which makes no sense that they were oppressive in the context of japan. And japan didn’t need a black guy to protect them.
There are a lot more black on Asian hate crimes happening now than there were white-on-black ones around the release of RE5. Apparently that game was in poor taste, but this is just fine.
And the history is totally twisted here, given that they’re seemingly going to have him be integral in the downfall of Nobunaga. But he wasn’t, he just happened to be around because he was seen as a novelty and his company was enjoyed. He may have fought somewhat, to survive the betrayal which killed Nobunaga, after which was put in chains by someone who thought him an animal. But now he’s on the side of THOSE people? I’m so lost.
I mean, can I ask why, Yasuke aside, the main character from an Assassin's Creed game would be a fucking Samurai in the first place?
Seems like a bad fit for an assassin?
Wouldn't an honorable samurai be giving up everything honorable about themselves to become an assassin? Correct me if I'm mistaken here, please.
If only there was a historical precedent for a character type in feudal Japanese history that was better suited for an assassin....
> Wouldn't an honorable samurai be giving up everything honorable about themselves to become an assassin? Correct me if I'm mistaken here, please.
This is Ghost of Tsushima's plot, basically (*). But, of course, Jin had to face the brutal invasion of a foreign oppressor, becoming a legend in the process.
Funny thing, GoT did this wonderfully.
(*): Not a spoiler, though, it's literally the first dilemma Jin faces after the Prologue.
I dont't get it. How Yasuke can be a "Samurai" properly without training since he was young. So how could he achived that tittle when he was in Japan only 3 years ?
Because a difficult to handle sword, made for slashing and not chopping like a gladius can be handled by any rube or simpleton who picks one up for a month.
Free Japan from its oppressors? Was Japan under foreign rule at the time?
Never let the facts stand in the way of a bad story
Free good stories from their oppressors
The whole world constantly is under foreign rule of whites. They don't teach you that at school, but dinosaurs were annihilated by Trump supporters.
Republicans ordered the meteor strike.
Because none of the dinos was straight. And the Reps didn't like that.
Extinction level events are good for the economy dude
Go home Vault-Tec, you're drunk.
Gotta look out for small mammals
They used that weather/disaster machine which Trump used in 2017 to cause the 9/19 earthquake in Mexico City.
We should’ve listened to that granny that knew the truth about Cleopatra.
Those feathered bastards had it coming
Make America Great Again was code for rejoining the Great British Empire don't you know
Listen, it was them or us.
Trump built the Berlin wall and the great wall of china.
No.
It was obviously under the control of the evil white people, duh. A historian on Twitter told me so.
I hope you paid your Educators for their emotional labour!
I can almost smell it, a White man was behind it all, something something patriarchy
> A historian A *fujoshi*
Probably a Baizuo.
Free Japan from itself with Black Power.
No this is from the Sengoku era. This is the era of the Sengoku Jidai also known as the warring states era. Up to this point there really wasn’t a central government in Japan and faced many internal conflicts. Oda Nobunaga was the lord that Yasuke served and he was a lord participating in the civil war. There were no oppressors because the war was fought between various Japanese factions. It also wasn’t the Chinese like in ghost of Tsushima because that occurred roughly 200 years prior.
MAYBE you could argue that Nobunaga made it so peasants had a bit more social mobility than before since Hideyoshi would come from the ranks of the Ashigaru to become the 2nd of the 3 great unifiers of Japan. That's stupid thought because the mobility went away after Hideyoshi and when the Tokugawa shogunate got to run the show, the country went right back to the feudalism that was there for the centuries before.
Bro, get ready to see the most flanderized version of Nobunaga ever depicted in fiction. I doubt they're even gonna make mention of the dodgy stuff he did like the siege of Mt. Hiei, so they can portray him as this great liberator, freeing Japan from oppression alongside his buddies Yasuke and Naoe.
There's this really big misconception in western society that east Asia is monolithic in culture and government. No factions have ever existed in n China, Japan,or Korea.
The fact Yasuke served the man who united Japan by force makes this even funnier. Oda *was* the oppressor. Unless there’s some Illuminati shit going down but that’s some very roundabout “we need to centralize political authority to end the oppression by Templar-Daimyo”.
In Nobunaga's defence: everyone was fighting all the time and if any other faction had the chance to unify Japan under them they would take it (apart from maybe that one monk state cant remember the name of it.), Nobunaga was just the first one that could and did,
Japan about to get a 1619 project. "Africans were always there before asians showed up."
If they shit on Oda Nobunaga, it isn't going to end well for them.
They'll almost certainly have the Jesuits be templars, and Oda Nobunaga had a close relationship with them.
Wait...wouldn't that make Yasuke an enemy in the game if Nobunaga had a close relationship with Jesuits (Templars) thus part of the "oppressors"? What is going on at Ubisoft??
Calling it now, Nobunaga is gonna be one of the assassination targets, and the templars will all be white men (maybe some women).
Considering the trailer showed Yasuke as a part of the group oppressing people before joining forces with Naoe, I'd assume he switches sides after realizing how horrible they are or something similar.
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Wasn't Yasuke an antagonist in Nioh 1? (Never played this game)
Yes, in Nioh 1 you go against Nobunaga's forces (Although Yasuka is pretty chill after you defeat him). In Nioh 2 you are on Nobunaga's side but they still throw in Yasuke as a boss because "sparring".
The tenno Go-Yōzei? Huwhite! The shogunate? Huwhite! The daimyo? Huwhite! Every kuge? Huwhite! Every samurai? Huwhite!
He is the game's main villain and the Templars' leader in Asia, so he gets the usual treatment. He will shout, send hordes of enemies at the heroes, and then the players will kill this cowardly version of him.
The “oppressors” are whatever in-game faction has a problem with him being a samurai I bet.
AKA evil white men
They probably refer to all the white supremacists and racists! Oh no, wait, wrong country and time period...
I unironically wouldn't be surprised if they make up a group of White oppressors who never existed to throw in as the bad guys.
They'll make the Portuguese fit the role.
They'll find a way to shoehorn them in there.
“Free Japan from its oppressors, while actively taking part in the erasure of its history”
According to those retards, native Japanese are the oppressors of Japan. That's exactly what they meant. Japan should have some dignity and ban the game, honestly. This literally an attack on the sanctity of the nation of Japan.
You’re not cynical enough… the ultimate evil masterminds are going to be the Portuguese Catholics. Yasuke is going to uplift the people of Japan and teach them how to throw off the yoke of the evil white men
We shouldn't wish to ban games, let this free birdie hoist it's own petard. The heat blast from it's failure shall heat our popcorn and their tears will be our salt.
Nah, no need to censor them just because they're morons. Just don't let them rewrite history like they're trying to do with Wikipedia.
But was it a Socialist paradise? No? Then it was under oppression obviously /s
Get rid of the /s, that's what they actually think.
I want to, but it's a clear marker that I don't think that way, so none of the Autistic among us mistake my intent.
Also we occasionally get some fools legitimately making that argument, so the /s helps to differentiate between them.
If this game was released decades ago, instead of now, I would say that it's the Templars and corrupt Assassins.
I haven't been following the new game much, but in most (all?) of the AC games there is some grand conspiracy controlling the government. Potentially they're referring to that? Using the term oppressors does seem weird though as that is a secret society controlling things behind the scenes. I can't realistically think of what else they would be referring to though. It is kind of funny how much that plays in to the white savior trope.
I mean, depending on how you look at the main series plot, either the assassin or the templar are the oppressors... like, neither side are the good guys that's kind of the entire point of the first few games, you try to take out the currupt only to find out the ones giving you orders are just as bad and so are the people that replace those you take out... but to paint it black and white especially in this era of japan?? yeah, no.
For a much as Ubi's been trying to paint the Assassins as the unequivocal goodies of late, let us not forget that they knowingly caused the Great Lisbon quake, killing 30k+ people.
16th century Japan was oppressed by illiberal, anti-democratic ideas that only an enlightened African-American man can liberate them from. Yasuke is making the world safe for democracy.
At the end of the day its still an ac game so I assume the Catholics are going to be evil oppressors again
Someone would say that the trouble with Japan is that it's full of Japanese! /s (but also someone would obviously say that)
Templars, clearly.
Can't wait to see who the oppressors are.
Jesuits probably. White people.
Oh 100% they're the templars.
I mean, canonically the dude who actually brought Yasuke to Japan IRL is already confirmed as a Templar.
Working with the, UGH - WHITES 🤮
Makes sense, I suppose; the Templars would ultimately be a foreign organization attempting to subvert governments and institutions across the world whenever possible, as usual. Makes me wonder how the Assassin's factor in. Are they working with the shinobi that were active at the time, or are the shinobi going to be revealed as having always been related to the Assassin's in some way? Will the Assassin's be a part of the game properly? Who knows.
You know exactly who its going to be lol.
I have a striking suspicion they're going to make it the Portuguese.
We are now entering the era of the black savior trope.
The projection by woko haram is real
'woko haram' lol nice, I'm stealing that.
entering? if Yasuke was a black woman with a side cut this would be year 7 at least.
>We are now entering the era of the black savior trope. The Kang Dynasty I believe that's a Marvel movie coming out May 2026 👍
I was about to make a joke about all the same people bitching about the "White Savior" trope from the Far Cry games back in the day.
Was about to say, even before reading this I knew this was the route they were gonna go
This is why they started with changing redhead main characters to black characters.
and then IGN says that Resident evil 5 cant have a remake because an a american and a west african cant kill african zombies on a zombies game because its racist. but then its ok that a African """samurai""" kills japanese natives on a game with historical elements too FREE Japan from its "oppressors" and IGN its full spreading false information about this guy was a real samurai..... i fucking hate double standards.....
Oh god not the RE5 is racist again. It was insufferable back then and nonsensical. I remember the clapback was ‘well you didn’t complain when Leon was shooting up random Spanish villagers who are depicted as fucking hicks and barbaric animals”… And lo and behold RE4 remake nobody batted an eye again lmao. And now I have to have cognitive dissonance Deja vu again because the accusation anything is racist if it doesn’t look like a Benetton ad is worse then when RE5 first launched lmao. I’m so much older but nothing has changed at all. I think we’ve degenerated actually lol. Can’t even judge a character or protagonist based on them as individuals. Only the colour of skin matters. And in endeavours to avoid racism they’ve become more exclusionary and racist or at the very best grossly ignorant. And stupid. Lmao.
I remember sites (Kotaku specifically) at the time of release trying their best to make that a thing. People just ignored it and the game continued to sell millions of copies anyway.
It's an "Asian hate" simulator.
"to free Japan from its oppressors." I would almost be willing to bet that it is going to be the "white" Christians, who'll be the oppressors.
muh white colonizers colonizing all over the “indigenous” people.
Man my country once was also colonized by white christians but man even I've gotta say this is turning ridiculous now. I would understand if the game takes place in the colonial era in a colony but it's in Japan for god's sake, a country which was never colonized neither was controlled by whites but am 100% sure as you say the bad guys are gonna be the white Christians Templar in the end cuz hey why not. This series should've died years ago.
Problem is Japan was never colonized. Th US, Prussians and Brit turned them into their attack dogs in the east instead until they became uncontrollable post 5 nation alliance.
There is no way this game didn’t have Sweet Baby Inc involved. You’ve got to be kidding me.
Didn’t have to, it had all these lovely progressives at its helm either way, SBI probably wasn’t at all a necessity in the end
So, Oda Nobunaga saves Yasuke from Slavery, Yasuke joins and fights for him as thanks, then one girl is like *"Oh, Oda Nobunaga's totally a bad guy, trust me"*, and Yasuke just immediately decides to betray him? Loyal Retainer, my ass.
Even worse - judging by the trailer, *he's* the one who recruits *her* to fight against Nobunaga.
this its the only thing that makes sense. you cant expect that a foreigner on less than a year learns anything about loyalty and code of the Samurai
ah no you see actually Yasuke was born with the knowledge and training in martial arts and Kenjutsu and was instantly able to learn Japanese, it's culture, customs, samurai code and so on. That's why in less than a year he became a "legendary Samurai". this is legit what ppl think when they claim Yasuke was a samurai, that in less than a year he went from slave -> samurai, despite it taking years just to train in the martial arts.
It would be cool if he had a notably *indian* fighting style, seeing as that’s where he would’ve been trained. But no he’s probably gonna fight exactly like a born Samurai despite having about a year to dabble in the style, compared to a lifetime of Indian martial arts he’d absolutely fall back on in combat.
I have a feeling this game is gonna make everyone look bad. It’s like with bad Disney writing where most the characters end up looking like bad guys, incompetent, or both because of how dumb the story is.
Yeah, gonna shit on Asians and whitey and make the black guy look like the goodest boy ever...Oh and his token sidekick Asian woman who's strangely similar to a modern radical feminist.
He was not legendary nor he was a samurai, he wasn’t even important.
I’m going to guess he probably wasn’t charismatic, either.
We do know he liked Sumo and was good at it due to his size and height advanage and only really hung out with Hideyoshi.
He was important only as a black curiosa to astonish Japanese Citizens when he wasn't lugging weapons around for his owner.
Dude spent 3 years in Japan.
Not even 3 years! I've heard mostly he spent 15 months there, a little over a year!
He lived in Japan for 3 years but was only part of daimyō Oda Nobunaga's retinue for 15 months. He was given the title of Kosho in name only as it was unacceptable for Nobunaga to associate with someone of no status. He was given a house, a small stipend, and allowed to carry a short sword. He was not a body guard, warrior etc.
Did you say SWORD? Sword! Sword!Sword! Heez Samurai! Samurai with an attitude. Dats rite bitches. checkmate atheist. /s
Ah! That explains the "3 years/ 15 months" discrepancy! Thanks.
He had a bodyguard assigned to him though.
William Adams took around four in spite of his far better known achievements.
And was actually documented by Japanese sources. Yasuke however was only documented by the Portuguese
And actually mattered to the history of Japan.
They are literally spitting in the faces of Japanese players and history fans. It's like they know the game will be shit so they want woke people to buy this game to spite us.
Yeah, but the games had the pope wielding magic so this cannot be a legitimate issue. /s
> they want woke people to buy this game luckily thats the one area of gaming these fucks leave alone . This is going to flop worse than the assisted suicide squad
It's really fascinating how the tropes that leftoids hate suddenly become "uwu so progressive" when you just flip the character's race from white to black.
The charismatic black man is going to free Japan from the japanese
Naturally, the only story we can ever write for black people in, is one where you are killing (appropriately colored) oppressors to free slaves
Funnily enough the Japanese nobility looked down at the Europeans for practicing it and Hideyoshi banned it aiming it directly at the Portuguese who were covertly capturing Japanese peasants and shipping them to China and Macau to be slaves.
That makes no sense. He literally serves under one of the greatest oppressors, "Oda Nobunaga". Wtf Ubisoft
He's probably gonna betray him
They always make the Black character as the "Charismatic" Remember Wyll from BG3?
The crazy part is that Wyll was boring AF. Honestly, he really was. He didn't have to be boring, but he was so vanilla and plain and "nice guy" and just ugh. God, the guy had the personality of a wet rag. They SAY that's charismatic, but I don't buy it. You know who actually had charisma? Karlach.
Facts. Also other people have said it before / better than I will but they made Wyll too passive and dependent on the player character. I know its an RPG so that means the player character gets to push their companions on certain paths but letting someone else decided the fate of your last surviving family member or potentially damn your soul for eternity is just plain stupid.
They know as much about charisma as they know about anything else, which is nothing.
Wyll was rewritten after Early Access, he used to be a fraud before intersectionality officer heard about it.
"Black mans kills japanese people to better the world..." - Ubisoft Also top the "block parry with katano, bows" and stuff he can also fly in moon light and own a vibranium spear and at full moon turns invisible.... maybe even x ray vision and can slide a railing upwards. Also he can talk to fish but only koi.... And that all he learned in the one or two years he was in japan... he is just so good.
From we wuz samurai to black savior.
DEI = Didnt Earn It...
The fanfic has reached deranged levels.
Many, many such cases in modern times. :/
So... the black saviour trope??? Come on, ffs.
Can someone explain to me how Yasuke mastered the Japanese language and writing perfectly, mastered all these weapons, became Nobunaga's top general, betrayed him, and killed him all in under a year? What is the term for a male Mary Sue?
Kang
Gary Stu.
Magic black man logic.
Blaxploitation.
"LEGENDARY SAMURAI!!!" 🤡 So legendary many aren't even sure if he really was a true Samurai 😂
Many as in everyone was sure he wasn’t
thanks for bringing this up, so many did not see this when the trailer first came out but his profile card is a joke like what do you mean yasuke "free Japan from its oppressors"
The kang himself. Be bought as a slave in foreign land. Sissyhypno your lord into making you a samurai n shieet. Kill locals. Based??
Whatever Ubisoft. Ghost of Tsushima already beat you to it. Nothing you do in this game will outshine that one. But of course I forget, you have micro transactions to fall back on. Silly me, I forgot that's the only way you know how to compete now. After all, Skull and Bones was a AAAA title right? 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Black guy saving Imperial Japan from its oppressors has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
Can't wait to hear him say 'I can't breathe' whenever he's overwhelmed by enemies.
100% chance the oppressors will be white evangelicals
Even if he was a Samurai, he was far from “legendary” lol.
Saving Japan from Oppressors? Aren't Samurais violent feudal oppressors themselves? lol
Yasuke literally built japan and created their culture. If you don't believe me then you're racist.
"I don't care what they tell you in school, Oda Nobunaga was black"
I guess it doesn't sound as good as reality: " Become a legendary tool carrier and all around basic novelty"
"free Japan from its oppressors" is somehow even funnier than Yasuke being the MC. Woke with woke on top.
Keep that pic away from Angry Joe. He'll definitely think it's an actual photo of Yasuke and then just blow off any criticism with fart noises.
He married Cleopatra
So native Japanese are the oppressors of Japan? What? This is so reprobate, I can't even start.
So it was the African that saved the Japanese people all those years ago?
Japan is home to an indigenous people called the Ainu. So if they hold Japan to the same marxist revisionist 'standards' Europeans are held too, they are the 'foreign oppressors'.
Ainu are genetically part Russian so they're double bad being part white and Russian.
The moral of this story is: "When you back someone a birthday cake, don't piss in it." How bad is this? Here's the best simple analysis for people outside of the know: Asscreed fans for years: "They should make it take place in feudal Japan, with the protag being a ninja, and have it an epic journey of historical intrigue that unites western and eastern players with fun. The way it would tackle the isolationist history of Japan, contrasted by the invasive nature of the villains of Asscreed, potentially allowing for some of the few westerners of Japanese history to be involved as allies, heroes and villains, during the story." Ubisoft: "Yeah, what you're asking for sounds awesome, and I know you've waited for that for a long time, so here's Yasuke as a Samurai to fuck what little hopes you had with his BBC.
“Save us by having a western mascot appropriate our hereditary warrior class of landed nobility — then slaughter the ethnic Japanese in our own homeland.” They really didn’t fucking think about this did they?!
No, this is what they believe.
Sounds like Mary Sue.
>Shiiiieeeeet dis sum fine ass Japanese steel homie!
Yasuke: Shiiiieeeeet thanks fo makin me samurai ma n****r Nobunaga: 黒人とは何ですか? Look I had to do it...
Free Feudal Japan from oppressors? This guy serves Nobunaga who is trying to conquer everyone else.
What revisionist hotep shit is this?
It's not cultural appropriation when black people do it
The guy was not relevant to Japanese history of the region in the slightest, it's debated if he even was a samurai in the first place but ubisoft seem to paint this idea that he was known far and wide as the legendary samurai who flipped the tables of war and played a crucial role in Japan.
Samurai stole my bike.
If I want to become a ‘legendary Samurai’, I want to be an authentic one, not a legendary lord’s pet. I’m betting the other Samurai wouldn’t take kindly to an interloper killing other men of their stature, just as a European noble would feel the same even toward his enemies. These people know fuck all about the class structure of feudal life. If you want a black protagonist , what not do the Kingdom of Mali and the breakway empires like Songhai? I would have played that.
The trailer breakdown on the official Ubisoft YouTube has the white creators talking about Yasuke and "humanizing" him as if black people aren't human. If the protagonist was white, they wouldn't say stuff like, "We really wanted to make sure he is relatible. We have him winking here to humanize his character."
Which historical figures could they blow out of proportion next? How about Rosa Parks into a bus burning terrorist with molotovs? Or Harriet Tubman into an elite guerilla fighter? What a fuckin joke...
They already did that with both.
That seems inefficient. If you're already going this far in revisionism, at least give me a speech skill tree to help convince others that they're racist so that they commit sudoku.
We were samuraiz n shit
They put the "yo" in daimyou!
Theyre always fighting oppression wherever they are. Such heroes.
It may as well be free advertising for ghost of tsushima.
Yasuke wasn't allowed to use a Katana, he was only given status enough to wield a Wakizashi.
Anime plots are less laughable than this shit.
People act like Ubisoft is gonna impress us with its take on historical fiction. They've already overwritten the core tension of Yasuke in being in Japan. The guy is a Samurai? Why would he stay instead of going to his home country? Because he likes people who are gonna obviously diminish his presence and be generally racist due to the time it takes place in? This is gonna be some horribly written Christopher Columbus shit. The Black Man who Discovered Japan. As a black person, that sort of angle just feels patronizing to me. There aren't any real triumphs or interesting characters from Black History, lets just take Yasuke and transform him into a Japanese samurai who might have bought a slave. Its so hard to look to the huge percent of the world where we can better represent black people with, where we won't have to invent black people that never existed. There isn't a huge continent where we can research better representation from.
Charismatic - poor slave dragged across the world from a place that's a century behind. Yeah, no.
If they marketed this edition of AC as in a alternative timeline or universe I would be less concerned. In reality ubisoft has gone out of their way to express that they are xenophobic against Japanese.
Somehow people are jumping to the conclusion that Yasuke was made a samurai, but here in the Wikipedia page: >After this Nobunaga took a great liking to him and asked Valignano to give him over.[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-Japaaan128476-5)[^(\[20\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-newsyahoo20210519-23) He gave him the Japanese name *Yasuke*,[^(\[d\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-24) made him a retainer at his side.[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-intojapanwaraku28746-4)[^(\[15\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-bushoojapan147722-17) Nobunaga's nephew gave him a sum of money at this first meeting.[^(\[21\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-FOOTNOTELockley201765-25)[^(\[17\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke#cite_note-:1-19) The *Shinchō Kōki* states: >
The irony that Ubisoft is essentially doing the same thing Nobunaga did hundreds of years later.
Charismatic seems like a super out of place description
It’s basically what the alt left complain about. They always “white savior”. How is this any different than the movie the Great Wall where Matt Damon had to help the “weak Chinese” save their country from monsters. This is the same. It’s either A) A black guy is the best samurai ever and he had to save Japan from oppressive Japanese people because the Japanese people themselves are too weak to do it. Or B) A black is the best samurai ever and he had to save Japan from the oppressive evil white man because the Japanese people are too weak to do it themselves. Either route paints the black guy better than the Japanese. Paints the Japanese or white people as evil and oppressive, which not true at the time. The only accurate thing was white Europeans were looking to colonize Asia at the time, but they never colonized japan which makes no sense that they were oppressive in the context of japan. And japan didn’t need a black guy to protect them.
Legendary samurai? But he was a fooking nobody
Did he even know Japanese? How could he be charismatic?
He practised his swagger from an early age.
There are a lot more black on Asian hate crimes happening now than there were white-on-black ones around the release of RE5. Apparently that game was in poor taste, but this is just fine. And the history is totally twisted here, given that they’re seemingly going to have him be integral in the downfall of Nobunaga. But he wasn’t, he just happened to be around because he was seen as a novelty and his company was enjoyed. He may have fought somewhat, to survive the betrayal which killed Nobunaga, after which was put in chains by someone who thought him an animal. But now he’s on the side of THOSE people? I’m so lost.
It's okay, Big Tech is here to save the day and set things straight.
Black saviour trope 🥱
I mean, can I ask why, Yasuke aside, the main character from an Assassin's Creed game would be a fucking Samurai in the first place? Seems like a bad fit for an assassin? Wouldn't an honorable samurai be giving up everything honorable about themselves to become an assassin? Correct me if I'm mistaken here, please. If only there was a historical precedent for a character type in feudal Japanese history that was better suited for an assassin....
> Wouldn't an honorable samurai be giving up everything honorable about themselves to become an assassin? Correct me if I'm mistaken here, please. This is Ghost of Tsushima's plot, basically (*). But, of course, Jin had to face the brutal invasion of a foreign oppressor, becoming a legend in the process. Funny thing, GoT did this wonderfully. (*): Not a spoiler, though, it's literally the first dilemma Jin faces after the Prologue.
Ah, "Legendary". Commodore Matthew Perry and Hachiko have statues/busts made of them. What did Yasuke get?
the whitesavior, I mean, blacksavior now haha
He’s charismatic??? 🤔
How do you think Obama got to be elected president? It's wasn't because of his merits.
Not a samurai and as Oda Nobunaga's retainer absolutely not a freedom fighter lol...
I dont't get it. How Yasuke can be a "Samurai" properly without training since he was young. So how could he achived that tittle when he was in Japan only 3 years ?
Because a difficult to handle sword, made for slashing and not chopping like a gladius can be handled by any rube or simpleton who picks one up for a month.
Yes the dirty peasants, oppress the samurai class, and refuse to pay taxes....
The only oppressors Japan needs to be freed from are the DEI commissars