No amount of information presented is going to satisfy the racists who have an issue with Yasuke being in the game. It would be dismissed as bias and the goalposts would simply be moved to something else.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say your friend thinks this because they're not part of the other cultures.
Oh I didn't mean it to satisfy them, I mean it as a "fuck you" to them. However, I do think a lot of people aren't aware he's based on an actual historical figure.
Y'know if this was really about historical inaccuracies in AC Shadows then maybe these posts would have merit but they don't because this isn't about those inaccuracies, it's about Yasuke.
The biggest criticism regarding Unity I've ever seen was the centrist (at best) stance on the revolution (which is a common position in far right french movements). This Polygon article highlights these issues : https://www.polygon.com/2014/11/17/...ity-denounced-in-france-as-anti-revolutionary
Oh...100%. But after all the shit Ubisoft has pulled over the years (especially internally) the move makes complete sense.
There was Nioh drama? Was it even mainstream enough for those type of ppl to start screaming about ?
From what I've read in Japanese the concerns are more about historical accuracy with things in the setting and whatnot . Not really about Yasuke , he's already in plenty of Japanese media in different positions and whatnot .
Yasuke was a real person who existed in the exact period and interacted with the characters that AC Shadows story is looking to depict. Like what are we talking about.
I agree and your second point is very true. Historical accuracy has always been played with from the very start so why is it now a problem? Because one of the history characters is a main character? Freaking sad arguments being made against this game.
Yup and how many of them have actually kept up with the series where now this is a point of contention given everything the franchise has done from the jump. Curious.
A quick and easy PR win as if games don't take several years to make from who knows how many concepts? Even IF then why is it suddenly an issue of "historical accuracy"? Is it really because instead of being a side character he's a main character? Is that really where the line gets drawn?
Ehhh.... I agree a large percentage of them are not Japanese, but a lot of hatred is coming from Japanese gamers. Japan is not the bastion of antiracism that many people assume it is.
It is less about Japan being a bastion of antiracism and more that they dont caring about this at all. Assassins Creed isnt a big IP there to begin with. Also most of the Japanese gamers that are hating are the onest that are being influenced by western opinions.
Did you even read my post? I'm talking that this is the first time that an AC game uses a historical figure as a player character for a game (now you'll mention the DLC for Syndicate where you play as
Yes? It is? Player characters in AC have always been OCs, that was one of the non written rules about the franchise. Naoe is an OC. It tended to help the suspension of disbelief that these superhuman characters doing all kind of crazy stuff where written out of history because they wanted to be, and the actual historical characters were the ones adjacent to them, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Macchiavelo, Jacques de Molay, Darwin and a long etc.
Do you live in Japan or speak Japanese? I'm curious how you know?
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No, Yasuke appears in a lot of fiction but he's usually just acknowledged as a historical figure of the period. The last big games I can think of that he was a character in were Nioh and Samurai Warriors, and people were pretty unbothered.
