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Assassins Creed Shadows Trailer Brings Controversy Over Black Samurai

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| May 15, 2024 |

Today, Ubisoft released a trailer for Assassins Creed Shadows, the next game in the seventeen-year-old video game franchise. But instead of getting gamers excited, it got them laughing at the latest ridiculous instance of forced diversity, which involves a big historical reach. Then, it stopped being funny when Wikipedia tried to alter history to support the game. You can see the trailer below:

I imagine something stuck out to you about one of the two heroes of a game set in Japan in the late 1500s and steeped in Japanese culture – specifically that he’s a black guy. This character is actually based on a real person named Yasuke, a black man who lived in Japan for three years and got that name from the daimyō Oda Nobunaga. However, it seems odd to make a game about Japanese culture and then choose someone who isn’t Japanese and only lived in the country for a short time as one of the two main characters, which people are noticing:

But it gets weirder. Apparently, Yasuke was not a samurai, or at least probably wasn’t:

Mark Kern, the former Blizzard producer and current nemesis of DEI in gaming who goes by Grummz on social media, sums up the optics of and likely motivation behind making Yasuke the focus of Assassin’s Creed Shadows:

It’s obvious this is what Ubisoft is doing, isn’t it? There were so many samurai they could have used, but they chose someone who wasn’t Japanese and likely wasn’t a samurai, and the other main character is a woman. And some Wikipedia editor seems to know this because they’re now trying to edit the Wikipedia article on Yasuke to eliminate the sentence that says he was probably never a samurai and when called on it, says he doesn’t need a source to back up his edits:

This is insane. What Ubisoft should have done – other than making a video game about historical Japan and the samurai with Japanese people as the main characters – is say they’re taking creative license and using a historical figure to craft a cool video game character in a historical fiction narrative. I mean, JFK and Richard Nixon didn’t really team up with Fidel Castro and Robert McNamara to fight a zombie invasion of the White House, but nobody tried to rewrite history so people would believe Call of Duty: Black Ops – Zombies really happened. The problem is that they know everyone else understands that they’re doing this for the wrong reasons, so they’re trying to cover their tracks (or have others cover their tracks) so they can turn it around on their detractors.

Among their detractors are Japanese people, many of whom don’t seem thrilled that their culture is being used to push Western wokeness:

Can’t imagine why they’re so insulted. Maybe some games journalists will get together and call them all racists.

Making this even more damning is the possibility that the final version of Assassins Creed Shadows was changed from earlier concepts that featured Japanese characters:

However, Grummz has also heard from sources that this may not be true, or at least not completely:

All we’ve got is a trailer for this game, and it’s already steeped in controversy. I suspect this won’t be a big hit, despite being an Assassins Creed game and following a successful entry in the series. Another week, another woke gaming controversy, and we prepare for the wheel to turn again.

Comments (2)

Holger.Kraftarm
May 16, 2024 at 4:09 am

This beloved setting and time period could have been such a gold-mine.

But NO! It’s Ubishit after all. They absolutely HAVE to revise history and force feed DEI propaganda no matter the cost.

Also don’t forget: The lead writer of AssCreed Shadows, Alissa, follows SBI on her Twitter page and has pronouns in her bio.

This is all the proof you need to see how DEI infested this game company is.

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