The past few days have seen a reversal of sorts in Japanese sentiment towards Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, with Japanese dissatisfied with the lack of research by the development team, as well as more people finding out about Famitsu’s edited interview.
In particular, even some of the establishing shots of the AC: Shadows trailer show an astonishing lack of research, which angered the Japanese, who felt that despite the series’ main claims to fame being the accuracy of the architecture and lifestyle of past people, less attention to correct details was being paid, out of a casually racist perspective.
The above image was one of the most criticized, with square tatami mats and a follower of Nobunaga sitting on the same elevated area as Nobunaga himself. Some accused Ubisoft of deriving inspiration from Chinese architecture as well, rather than Japanese architecture.
Of course, the original version of Famitsu’s edited interview—where the part of the interview where developers discussed how they chose Yasuke while “looking for ‘their samurai'” was edited out—also made the rounds, informing the Japanese crowd about how political agendas influenced the chosen setting of the game.
The fact that some black people defend this game tells us why they were slaves
I will agree with that game is woke trash but I continue to be surprised by the fact that white people don’t realise they were slaves too. Especially the English, Welsh amongst other whites… Who do you think the vikings enslaved? Why do you think the English put a stop to slavery.. Coz they knew their ancestors experience the same thing.
White people do know there was white slaves…….
we do live under goverments after all.. xD
The entire serfdom system was slavery, almost the entirety of Europe was enslaved under the cancerous judeo abrahamic monarch system, which really was globohomo woke 1.0.
Even the name “Catholic” means ‘universal’ ‘global’ ‘all encompassing’.
Only difference is that back then the celibate faggots were in monasteries doing “progress” (aka destroying native culture and rewriting it in a more ashkenazi jew friendly manner)
And today the celibates are LGBTFUCKs on blogs, wikis and other media.
And the crusaders are now NATO, and heresy is hatespech and cancellation is inquisition/apostasy punishment blabla.
You mean the same Roman Catholic church that, for centuries, tended to persecute Jews and treat them as heretics?
Look I have a problem with the Roman Catholic church myself, but your rant comes across as entirely unhinged. Roman Catholics haven’t been allies of the Jews for much of the history of the church, and even now they aren’t particularly friendly with them.
Also, what is a “Judeo Abrahamic monarch system?” You think that European monarchy didn’t exist before Jewish influences? Are you insane? The various European monarchies were most greatly influenced by the Roman Empire, the Muslim caliphates, and the Mongol khanates than anything Jewish.
>persecuted jews
Oh yeah that’s why they were eradicated. Oh wait, they weren’t despite being a minority population wise and catholicism being the majority.
But stay coping. “they’re not real jews” “they’re khazars” “christianity is antisemitic” etc.
Sure.
putting black people in everything doesnt make you like them. its just pissing people off
Who do you think is behind that then? Who runs all these woke ass companies? The fricking Jews.. They hate two things black Conservatives and straight white males. So why not get to fight amongst each other by pulling a affirmative action 2.0 disguised as DEI. But liberals of all races are too dumb to see what they are doing. They did the same thing with black lives matter, which is funded by George soros who is also jewish.
George Soros is a fake jew. Who funds anti-jew activities too.
NPC take
Apart from the usual “fellow Japanese people” posters, I didn’t see that much positive reception to the game.
I’m not surprised one bit. This game is the equivalent of Netflix’s Cleopatra made by Jada Pinkett Smith, and just as woke as that!
“I don’t care what they tell you in school, Hatori Hanzo was a black gay man!”
Honestly I would care more about the woke agenda than having architecture or some details in social customs wrong. I had to deal with that about my own country, and often we laugh at american’s ignorance of our customs, rather than being pissed off (like that strange mix of Semana Santa and Fallas in Sevilla, in Mission Impossible 2 I think…) We understood that it was done out of ignorance and not ill intention. But the woke agenda is totally in bad faith
I agree with you, but the Japanese reviewers are taking issue with the fact that Ubisoft likes to brag about how much research they do for the AC games to make sure that historical details are correct, and yet (setting aside the obvious woke pandering) they got many basic things wrong about Japanese culture of the period.
I didn’t see Japanese people complaining about historical inaccuracies in Ghosts of Tsushima, including the anachronistic appearance of the katana, which didn’t exist in Japan in the 13th century.