i agree with the sentiments that Ubisoft has the right to make whatever game they want and tell whatever story they want - it’s just painfully obvious their choice was borne from the oh-to-easy-to-spot virtue signaling/DEI/etc camp- of thought processes. They did this, in whatever stupid progressive socio-political way, to garner brownie points; they likely also did it to have these very conversations arise. Any publicity is GOOD publicity, right?
My personal buggaboo with this whole thing is not the “disrespectful” nature of portraying the Japanese cultures and customs, that’s a stupid argument because everyone/everywhere appropriates shit to fit their creative needs and liberties.
My issue, and I’m sure many many others are able to divide it, is they chose Yasuke for what REAL reason? Someone’s Intent is hard to prove, so all Ubi’s bullshit about Yasuke’s provably false basis’ for being included in the story as they have is hard to give them a pass on. And that last statement is even me being generous, it’s utter bullshit that they think they could pass that off as some sort of quasi historical basis. We all know, even though they’ll never admit it, they put him in the game because he’s black and they thought that would spice up the games, appeal, and likely it’s IMPACT with journalist types who fight for the cause of these type of situations. And like I said above, there is no way they didn’t know it was going to be controversial among the loud minority on the Internet, who is sick of the shit.
MMaRsu Yeah I read what was on the web page and was paying attention for the las couple years as this story developed so I already knew this..
