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BeautifulBlaze
11/07/23 3:34:14 PM
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Ubisoft: "You're playing a black samurai. Best we can do."

lol

https://insider-gaming.com/assassins-creed-red-yasuke/

Anyone read the Reddit thread? Lottta angry people. >_>

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Cephalopods
11/07/23 3:37:50 PM
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Idk, that actually sounds pretty cool to me.
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Humble_Novice
11/07/23 3:37:53 PM
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Teeheehee, the salt from those folks are just so delicious! Nothing wrong about a game featuring Yasuke.

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HashtagSEP
11/07/23 3:38:45 PM
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Yeah, this sounds pretty cool to me.

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boxoto
11/07/23 3:39:28 PM
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yay as playing as Yasuke

nay for playing an Assassin's Creed game

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Forty_Niners
11/07/23 3:39:49 PM
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Are you a ninja in jade?

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DeathVelvien
11/07/23 3:41:04 PM
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This is honestly way better than playing as some ninja

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Flaming_Fire619
11/07/23 3:41:45 PM
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Honestly this is more interesting me than going the whole ninja route. A samurai from Africa with a historical fiction story is like cooler than random ninja. Like, wasn't that part of what people liked about the original series, the at least tangential connection to the real world history?

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A_Good_Boy
11/07/23 3:41:57 PM
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The perfect role for a master assassin; the most unubiquitous person in the entire county.

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Hayame_Zero
11/07/23 3:42:29 PM
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Yasuke was an actual person. I've also seen AC fans suggesting to see him depicted in some way for awhile if they ever did a Japanese one.

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BurmesePenguin
11/07/23 3:44:24 PM
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While I have no issue with Yasuke, playing as the not assassin character (who I assume is secretly an assassin) in the culture with a famous assassin character class is certainly a choice.

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ellis123
11/07/23 3:45:16 PM
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boxoto posted...
yay as playing as Yasuke

nay for playing an Assassin's Creed game
^

I got hyped a bit and then remembered that we are talking about AC and there is a 0% chance of me ever actually buying the game.

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Ivynn
11/07/23 3:45:16 PM
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Ubisoft for the longest time said they didn't want to do an AC set in Ancient Japan because they felt the setting was "played out." This is probably the only way they'd agree to do one. This way they stand out from all the other ninja games set in feudal Japan.

I doubt most people will understand that nuance tho.

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pauIie
11/07/23 3:46:52 PM
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i felt like we already learned this, and that the female character will be a ninja

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Smashingpmkns
11/07/23 3:47:04 PM
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They took way too long to make a game based in Japan. I know they were probably keeping this one in their back pocket to reinvigorate interest in the series but man, the series is well past saving imo.

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BombermanGold
11/07/23 3:49:03 PM
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BeautifulBlaze posted...
Ubisoft: "You're playing a black samurai. Best we can do."

lol

https://insider-gaming.com/assassins-creed-red-yasuke/

Anyone read the Reddit thread? Lottta angry people. >_>

You know, this reminds me...it's quite telling that very few Japanese media make any mention of Yasuke despite having a rather prominent role in history under Nobunaga.

Slowly seems to be rectified, but still.

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TheHorus
11/07/23 3:52:22 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5a178e4d.jpg

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BurmesePenguin
11/07/23 3:56:00 PM
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BombermanGold posted...
You know, this reminds me...it's quite telling that very few Japanese media make any mention of Yasuke despite having a rather prominent role in history under Nobunaga.
Does he? As far as I'm aware it can't even be confirmed based on what is known whether or not he was considered a samurai as opposed to just a retainer in Nobunaga's retinue.

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hereforemnant
11/07/23 3:56:31 PM
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boxoto posted...
yay as playing as Yasuke

nay for playing an Assassin's Creed game


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DuuuDe14
11/07/23 3:57:01 PM
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boxoto posted...
yay as playing as Yasuke

nay for playing an Assassin's Creed game


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InTheEyesOfFire
11/07/23 4:04:09 PM
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HashtagSEP posted...
Yeah, this sounds pretty cool to me.


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Amakusa
11/07/23 4:05:19 PM
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BombermanGold posted...
You know, this reminds me...it's quite telling that very few Japanese media make any mention of Yasuke despite having a rather prominent role in history under Nobunaga.

Slowly seems to be rectified, but still.
He's not that prominent in the grand scheme of things, particularly since he entered Nobunaga's service in the last years of his life. In a way that largely works to Yasuke's advantage as anyone willing to write him into their story can do anything they want with him and nobody can really make claims of historical inaccuracy against him.

He has, however, made appearances in Nioh, Samurai Warriors 5, and the later Nobunaga's Ambition games.

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trivialbeing
11/07/23 4:12:55 PM
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BombermanGold posted...
You know, this reminds me...it's quite telling that very few Japanese media make any mention of Yasuke despite having a rather prominent role in history under Nobunaga.

Slowly seems to be rectified, but still.
it wasn't that prominent. People hype him up but he was barely a footnote
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Axiom
11/07/23 4:15:15 PM
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Still waiting on Season 2 of the anime. You're also playing a ninja in every other Assassin's Creed game so they can get over playing Samurai
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WalkingPlague
11/07/23 4:16:30 PM
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a lot of people forget that despite historical inaccuracies, AC wasnt meant to provide a history lesson. the story told is loosely based on the character. i see no issue.

to see yasuke in a game is/should be epic.

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Jagr_68
11/07/23 4:22:08 PM
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Ubisoft PR: our games are going down the shitter and people aren't falling for our garbage expansion packs and microtransactions. We need something spicier!

CEO: female protag?

PR: no that is too obvious of a pandering move. Gamers would never fall for it.

CEO: something with japan?

PR: Hmm, that's right gamers sideplay as pathetic anime virgin fans and samurai games are def still hot shit with the kids but that's not enough!

CEO: just greenlight it, you fucking monkeyfucking imbecile [in French]

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ellis123
11/07/23 4:24:35 PM
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Jagr_68 posted...
PR: no that is too obvious of a pandering move. Gamers would never fall for it.
They did it multiples of times. They just drew the ire of chuds for being woke rather than getting any sales. People who wouldn't actually care about a FeMC would actually require the gameplay to not be trash to come back.

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TomClark
11/07/23 4:27:58 PM
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Sounds rad tbh.

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Ratchetrockon
11/07/23 4:31:31 PM
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dope

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CoyoteTheGreat
11/07/23 4:44:54 PM
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This actually sounds really cool, I might actually play an Assassin's Creed game again.

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Crimsoness
11/07/23 4:45:23 PM
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So Ghosts of Tsushima but you're a black guy?

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Bass
11/07/23 4:45:26 PM
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HashtagSEP posted...
Yeah, this sounds pretty cool to me.


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The_Wheelman1
11/07/23 4:48:57 PM
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Samurai is cool and all but the parkour stuff is more suited for a ninja.

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BurmesePenguin
11/07/23 4:49:37 PM
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Crimsoness posted...
So Ghosts of Tsushima but you're a black guy?
Jin Sakai is black

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wanderingshade
11/07/23 5:09:01 PM
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He's basically a samurai on a technicality, as in he was mostly a member of the Oda clan and not indentured, but payed and allowed to have a sword and his own house. He did fight Akechi Mitsuhide's forces for his lord and his clan.

First known Black swordsman in Japan for sure though.

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11/08/23 11:03:11 AM
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SDBZ
11/08/23 11:38:48 AM
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You guys do know that the female character is a Japanese ninja right?

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Smackems
11/08/23 11:40:13 AM
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Not that big a deal. Nioh had you as a white dude

Also ninja are mostly a modern myth

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TendoDRM
11/08/23 11:49:32 AM
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I'll play it anyway since I still love Assassin's Creed, but sounds cool.

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Pikachuchupika
11/08/23 11:51:29 AM
#39:


Finally an open world Ubisoft game in Japan.
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BurmesePenguin
11/08/23 11:52:55 AM
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Smackems posted...
Also ninja are mostly a modern myth
Everything in Ass Creed is mostly a modern 21st century myth.

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SDBZ
11/08/23 12:01:10 PM
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I prefer ninja over samurai so since there will still be that option I'm definitely picking that if it's a choice.

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luigi33
11/08/23 12:37:13 PM
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Why ya'll okay with Nioh being a random white person Ninja

But mad when a black Samurai based on historical fact gets his own game?

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Lordgold666
11/08/23 12:37:59 PM
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Game is gonna be great

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YellowSUV
11/08/23 12:43:37 PM
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I don't understand why they don't just use a made up black guy instead of Yasuke. All the previous Assassin's Creed games had you play as made up characters so the story wasn't too limited.

The only thing I can thing of is that you technically play as Yasuke, but it is in very limited set piece events (like how Odyssey had you play as Leonidas in the prologue)

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EDF-5
11/08/23 12:44:32 PM
#48:


That is a cool environment and if I play

another ac again it would be with that
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Srk700
11/08/23 12:45:17 PM
#49:


Today is the 1st time I've ever heard of Yasuke, so this sounds like a great idea to me since it's sort teaching you about history that isnt exactly common knowledge (of course it's AC, so it's not going to be an accurate portrayal, but still nice). Doubt it would be enough to make me play my 1st AC since Black Flag, but this does increase my interest in this game.
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El_Marsh
11/08/23 12:45:36 PM
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I'm glad that they went to a couple of dozen other settings before getting to feudal Japan.

I'm a bit burned out on the setting tbh but the idea of seeing it through the eyes of an outsider is interesting.

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