There has likely never been a more hotly contested video game protagonist than the African "Samurai," Yasuke, who has been heavily promoted by outlets like IGN during the leadup to the release of Assassin's Creed: Shadows. Despite the initial excitement among fans that there would finally be an Assassin's Creed set in Feudal Japan, any anticipation for this game quickly dissipated when it was revealed that this game would feature the first "historical protagonist," an African man with little known about him, rather than a fictional Japanese character.
While most shill accounts and access media outlets have chosen to belittle the outcry from fans as merely the rumblings of bigots and racists, this has done little to help what damage Ubisoft has already done during the development of this AC title. Ubisoft has managed to make a myriad of mistakes, from not understanding Japanese cultural customs or architectural designs, to recently being forced to apologize for what amounts to half-assed plagiarism.
This is the banner Ubisoft used without permission.
— Grummz (@Grummz) June 18, 2024
Video is here: https://t.co/7x3GSi63gn pic.twitter.com/S1V0DRct3h
However, these mistakes might have been more easily forgiven if not for the level of vitriol being spewed by access media accounts in an attempt to protect the first DEI Assassin's Creed title. Many YouTubers, "academics" and online outlets have tried to sell the tale that Yasuke was in fact a Samurai, basing most of this off of a book by a man named Thomas Lockley.
This is crazy. The entire Yasuke fanfic story was fabricated by a white man named Thomas Lockley, using fake Wikipedia sources. He even deceived Japanese people. Everything you read about Yasuke is fake, imposed by white liberals. In 2024, they erased history on Wiki for a game🤯 pic.twitter.com/0R3PXTSsoY
— LearningTheLaw (@Mangalawyer) July 9, 2024
But what is more egregious is that Lockley allegedly based his "historical works" off of Wikipedia sources that were edited to fit a desired narrative, rather than being based off of verifiable historical data. The reality is that the revisions that are explained in great detail in the video below paint a more insidious picture of what is going on behind the scenes when it comes to sites like Wikipedia, where bad actors are trying to revise history in real time.
Add into all of this chaos the reality that Ubisoft has actively been anti-consumer for several years now, creating a rift between gamers and the studio. Yves Guillemot, the CEO of Ubisoft, has attacked gamers and Elon Musk for opinions he disagrees with, told consumers to get used to not owning physical media, and has even tried to justify exorbitant price tags for their games by labeling them "AAAA."
While no one has ever denied that Yasuke did in fact exist, the fact that the shills are so desperate for gamers to love his character is a massive cause for concern. Woke ideologues and activists will desperately try and convince you that you need to love the same things as them, and if you refuse, they go on the attack and label you every derogatory term that their soy-infused brains can conjure up.
This could have been a fantastic game, even if Assassin's Creed hasn't lived up to the hype of the originals as of late. However, this is another title that has been sacrificed on the Alter of Woke, and as such, our wallets will remain closed.