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[Kacho]

It comes out the same day as Shadows lol...

 

[Boss Mog]

Where have you been the past few months?

Following the game and laughing all the way. I'm not outraged, I'm just not getting the game is all and will instead sit back with pop-corn and enjoy the show as it crashes and burns. Hopefully it will mark the end of Ubisoft in its current form which would be a positive.

 

[sendit]

Lol…the release date of this is diabolical.

 

[simpatico]

Jonny Somali lives this IRL. Terrorizing Asia one street encounter at a time.

 

[Robot Carnival]

This is a bit different for a number of reason.

The main one is that Nioh came out in 2017 and the climate was not anywhere near as virulent as it is now. Another one is that Nioh never many any pretense about being historically accurate. Finally, AC games have always had someone representative of the setting as the main character. However, there was outrage the moment we learned that Yasuke would star in the game, before anything was even known, so it's hard to tell how much of the criticism was genuine (a lot of it isn't and is blatant racism, let's not lie). If I'm going to be fair, I don't think there would have been much controversy if Nioh starred Yasuke instead of Williams Adams. That Nioh was made by a Japanese studio also made it immune to accusations of DEI. Who will tell Japanese people who they can or cannot have as a samurai in their games?

I think the fact that Nioh being a game about slaying demons and monsters also gave it some slack. you can probably put Yasuke in that kinda game as the protagonist and it would have caused a lot less controversy. but Ubisoft went with an AC title instead of and, well, here we are.

 

[ripjoel]

 

[DeepEnigma]

They’re really making a thing of this with those fake Wikipedia edits.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Looks like a good time.

 

[Sharius]

People demand for an AC in japan for years, ubislop has the best chance to land on the biggest AC game in series if they just choice a japanese or even chinese or any asian man to be main protag, but they has to go with a black man, hope the discussion will give them free PR, and that what they get, lmao

 

[mopspear]

There were around 10 actually

List of foreign-born samurai in Japan - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

One of my ESL students is a Japanese woman living in Germany (you can hold your jokes because I've thought of them all already) so I sent her the link about the Prussian samurai so thanks for the list. Maybe he was from part of Prussia that overlapped with Germany.