Japanese people are targeting the historian Ubisoft relied on for their black samurai

[quote]This game set in Japan is going to bomb hard in Japan, and I hope it bombs in the USA as well.[/quote


Why do you hope it bombs?

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character a black samurai who did not actually exist.

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The person existed. There is debate about what his actual role was, but again, fictional history. Historical accuracy only matters to you if they use a black person or a woman.

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The person existed.

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I didn't say the person didn't exist.

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There is debate about what his actual role was

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No there isn't. There's one moron "historian" who basically wrote his own fan fic about this guy and tried to pass it off as history, to the point of even using Wikipedia to promote his views that are not at all accepted or being debated. There is NO LEGITIMATE EVIDENCE that this guy was ever a samurai.

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Historical accuracy only matters to you if they use a black person or a woman.

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This is a stupid take. If they wanted to use this black samurai then they should have used him as a quest giving NPC like they have done with all other historical figures in every other game they've ever made. Instead they made him the first playable character to actually have been found in history, and represented him in a way that is insulting to an entire culture.

I don't really know anything about Nioh, and now that I've looked it up I realize that was a PlayStation exclusive so that's probably why. I haven't owned a PlayStation since the PS2.

Seems that game was actually made by a Japanese company, and it appears the guy that game's main character was based off of is actually buried in Japan as a samurai and they even have an annual celebration in Japan to commemorate him. This is a strange example to use in comparison to the completely-fictional representation of the character in this Assassin's Creed game. No one would care about this at all if they weren't trying to make him into something he clearly wasn't.

Here is a link to the Encyclopedia Britannica article about the historical figure Nioh's main character is apparently based on: LINK

It's not my thread. I'm good

My favorite part is that they use hip hop for Yasuke as if that's the only music black people like

Also, Ghost of Tsushima is the samurai assassin game we all wanted

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The person existed. There is debate about what his actual role was, but again, fictional history. Historical accuracy only matters to you if they use a black person or a woman.

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I’ll outright say it, if I’m going to play an Assassin’s Creed game set in Japan during an era of forced isolation, I absolutely want to play as a Japanese character and I expect 99% of the characters in the game to be Japanese as well.

Origins was set in Egypt and we played as an Egyptian character.

Odyssey was set in Greece and we played as a Grecian.

Valhalla was set in Northern Europe and we played as a Northern European.

If they set a game in India, I want to play as an Indian.

If they set a game in Central/South America, I want to play as a Central/South American.

If they set a game in the heart of Africa, I want to play as an African.

What I don’t want is to play a game set in Japan with a character who doesn’t represent the time or place the game is set in. That goes against the precedent they have set in their franchise’s history.

Hollywood and Gaming had a history of whitewashing and wanted to rectify that. Fine, I’m cool with you being historically accurate and encourage that. Instead they are black washing roles and historical figures with outright lies and all you are doing is the same thing you just apologized for but shifting the races/cultures you are pissing off.

You're not going to play it, that's fine. However, this campaigning isn't going to do a thing because, other keyboard culture warriors, nobody AT ALL sees a problem with what they are doing.

It's still going to sell a crap ton of copies. Be prepared.

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loosely based on an actual real historical character.

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loosely based on a possibly historical character.

It is becoming evident that Thomas Lockley made almost everything up.

Apparently, they are saying he fabricated everything based on 2 or 3 sentences in a text.

Yasuke may have been black, but could also have been Indian or Indonesian. The more tanned Cambodian/Indochina peoples were often called black of skin, they are saying.

And he was a weapon bearer and court entertainment of a shogun for about a year, then was sold back into slavery.

Lockley took those few sentences and made up all kinds of shite.

Allegedly