Assassin’s Creed Shadows Is A Woke Mess

We don’t know how the game will exactly pan out yet. Given it’s Ubisoft, I’m sure they’ll fail massively in the games execution. Nonetheless, the whole topic of DEI in games has been coming up more-and-more recently. Any one remember the failed live service Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League game?

What makes this game a complete and utter woke mess is the decision to make one of the main playable characters in the game Yasuke, Japan’s first black “samurai”. I’m not even sure we could label him a true samurai. His story is no doubt being re-written in a wokeist revisionist “history lesson”. He was nothing more than a retainer and Nobunaga’s lap dog. More of a trinket to show off as no one else could show off a black man in Japan back then. He was also Nobunaga’s body guard so he no doubt had training and could pick up arm’s if they ever needed him to. Something like a militia member. So I can’t discredit he may have been trained but in no way was he an actual samurai. To suggest otherwise is what makes this some woke fan fiction of history and is utterly disgusting.

Imagine being a Japanese person. You’ve been longing for years for the Assassins Creed series to finally make a game based within your country. Then it finally happens, you hear the rumors the next game is going to be based in your country. Then out of all of the countries history they choose the male character in the game to be a black man. Stunning and brave or just completely disrespectful? I feel it’s the latter.

I just can’t get my head around it or maybe… just maybe, I can? Maybe they plucked some writers from Sweet Baby Inc? That’s the only way any of this makes sense. I know what some will say, “you’re racist”. I can already begin to queue my eye roll now. The same people who would label me that would be the same people complaining of white washing if this new game was based in Africa but had the main character as a white male. It has nothing to do with this being a black man and everything to do with it not being a Japanese man.

What do you think? I’m interested in seeing what everyone’s thoughts are on this… I know I’m not alone in this. Hell, a nice amount of people in Japan are upset as well:

Conclusion

Ubisoft could have avoided everything by just simply basing the game around Japanese characters instead of pandering to a DEI story. It feels forced and unnatural. It would be like basing a game in Africa during the slave trade and having one of the main characters being this one random occurrence of a white slave. It’d feel appalling, it’d feel forced and it’d feel unnatural.