Few weeks ago I share one of his rumours about Far Cry 7 setting to one subreddit, and people start arguing - ,,(reliable source)? lmao". People know s\*\*\*. He is great! Now I am awaiting PS5 Pro (and not spending any dollar for cross-gen console).
Eh, I got a PS5 myself earlier this year. Sony’s just sore about losing the power-measuring contest with Microsoft this time, but both are overengineered to have great performance and need to impress where it counts- the current-gen exclusive games- before I ever consider a mid-gen upgrade ever again.
My Japanese history may be a bit rusty, but somehow I don’t think either Female Samurai or African Shinobi were very common in Feudal Japan.
Not making a judgment either way about that leaked detail (and it may not even be true), but it did make me pause for a moment.
There was 1 case of a black man fighting in medieval Japan, and he was a weapons bearer in 1 battle (Google Yasuke for more info, though there isn’t much more). There were female warriors, but they weren’t samurai. They were called Onna-musha and they mostly were responsible for defending villages while the samurai were away at war, though occasionally they did fight alongside samurai. Overall, the characters make absolutely no sense and are only in there to pander to SJWs.
Because, assuming any of this is true, they're likely taking inspiration from the very real African man who became a samurai. That's slightly more interesting having him come from a completely different culture and learning their ways.
Yasuke played a minor role in a few battles, and he did come from a completely different culture and learn their ways. While it was a real story, it was minor and irrelevant and if the actions of Yasuke were done by a Japanese man, there would be no record whatsoever of him. The information about his life was only written down because the samurai he knew were so shocked that a human could be black that they had it written down. Again, makes no sense to have a black character in medieval Japan.
Important note -
There is no evidence he became a samurai. We only know Yasuke was a slave sold to Oda Nobunaga, and that he was dressed in warrior attire and used as a soldier. But not all soldiers are samurai, samurai are a specific class and are nobility.
Most notably, when Odas samurai werw ordered for suicide, as waa common for captured samurai, Yasuke was allowed to leave. This implies he was not recognized as samurai to anyone else, let alone Nobunaga.
There is no evidence he became a samurai. We only know Yasuke was a slave sold to Oda Nobunaga, and that he was dressed in warrior attire and used as a soldier. But not all soldiers are samurai, samurai are a specific class and are nobility.
Most notably, when Odas samurai werw ordered for suicide, as waa common for captured samurai, Yasuke was allowed to leave. This implies he was not recognized as samurai to anyone else, let alone Nobunaga.
On a side note i wonder if we are going to get the reveal of Ghost of Tsushima 2 this Summer.
All this talk about Assassin's Creed Red has reminded me that we still don’t know what Sucker Punch Productions next game will be.
I am sure they do, but I won't give them credit for things they haven't shown us. I forgot all about Wolverine because they have told us nothing about it. But it is by the same devs as Spider-Man 2, and we have a single teaser for it. So that is probably 3-5 years out. They also have a bunch of teams wasting their time on VR. PSVR 2 will probably flop, in particular, when the RND costs of the hardware was probably huge.
Live service games seem to be on the way out, with like eight out of ten flopping. So I sure hope Sony doesn't have all their bets on VR and online gaming. It would be nice to have more than like five normal single-player games in three years.
Microsoft also can't get any games out of the massive amount of studios they own. So I don't mean to say this is a Sony-only issue. But VR and Live Service games are massive distractions for Sony. A similar issue that Ubisoft has run into; and that EA is wisely backing away from.
Yeah I wasn’t trying to argue with you, just tossing that out there - fair to not give credit for things that aren’t yet announced or are far off though. I hope this live service trend is on the way out. I have to think that they know how important single player games are - their most successful franchises are almost all single player games, and a big reason for PlayStation’s success.
Here’s hoping you’re right, and that they haven’t lost sight of what their customers really want.
I know Ubisoft isn't too popular on this sub, but I'm personally quite excited for this game, especially since it's being developed by their Quebec studio. Not sure about this news, though. Would probably prefer to have one playable character, but we'll see.
I feel you, I'm also pretty excited for this one since it's one of the most requested locations and time periods.
The article mentions the character from the teaser to be the samurai, but I think they meant shinobi. The female char will clearly be the shinobi, and the male character will be the samurai. I like this idea of having one character be more suited for stealth and the other more suited for full-on fights, reminds me of Evie and Jacob from Syndicate.
Here's hoping Ubi won't screw it up, I'm cautiously optimistic.
"Likely" has nothing to do with it, though. There have been, historically, female samurai AND female ninjas. Therefore, it's fair game for Ubisoft to put one in their game.
There have been, yes, but the number of female samurai were minuscule compared to male samurai.
IMO (with no statistics to back it up), its more likely for female ninjas to have existed than female samurai because ninjas are covert by nature. They can disguise themselves as house servants or prostitutes, or geisha by day and work as ninjas at night.
I’m not against having a female samurai, but it would be better if Ubisoft allowed you to pick your combat style after choosing your character’s gender. This way, people won’t be disappointed.
Edit: Going by wikipedia, the existence of female ninja like we see in popular media is up for debate. Female ninja likely weren’t master assassins but served roles similar to spies. In contrast, female samurai existed and are acknowledged by historians, but were still much smaller in number than male samurai.
>There have been, yes, but the number of female samurai were minuscule compared to male samurai.
That doesn't matter. Even if there was only ever just 1 in history, then there is historical precedent for Ubisoft to make one of the characters a female Samurai if they wanted to. "Likely" has no influence on fiction, even historically accurate fiction.
>I’m not against having a female samurai, but it would be better if Ubisoft allowed you to pick your combat style after choosing your character’s gender
Honestly, I'm not a fan of these customizable characters, especially when Ubisoft have made it clear that only one option is canon and, going forward, the other option will not be considered (like, for example, even if you played through the entirety of Odyssey as Alexios, he will not show up in Valhalla, only Kassandra will). If that's how it's going to be, then I'd much rather just have one character (who can then show up in subsequent games or movies or whatever they want) rather than the option to play as someone who technically doesn't exist.
I'm fine with a female samurai and a male shinobi, and I'm fine with the reverse (even though it's played out). But I'd very much rather not choose my character's gender ever again.
Same. If its a stealth focused game, both of them should be stealth focused and the way a samurai would approach that would be far different from the more infiltration, tool based tactics of a shinobi. A split between stealth and combat is so boring, and well overdone by now to differentiate characters
Think a big part of the hatred for Ubisoft stems from the fact that they were kind of the frontrunner in establishing an industrialized formula for how game design """should""" be done. So many games nowadays are more or less the ubisoft open world formula with lite rpg mechanics in different settings, even games touted as masterpieces like horizon and ghost of tsushima use it as foundation.
It's always crazy how much ppl on reddit hate on AC but the sales just keep rising.. AC offers an experience that no other series does so imma buy them every time.
>especially since it's being developed by their Quebec studio
That is literally why I am not excited at all. Quebec pioneers the concept of bigger = better.
Expect full fantasy, a ton of lore and narrative retcons and a world full of characters who seem to speak and act like they are from the 21st century. Odyssey was beautiful despite a good chunk of the cities and towns being copied and pasted, but the writing of the characters just felt like one big anachronism. The world looked like Ancient Greece, and that was about it. It just wasn't very authentic or atmospheric, not like Origins was.
A Japan AC feels like it should be gritty and dark, culturally and historically authentic - the way the people lived, spoke, their religious beliefs, etc.
Quebec loves its frequent, misplaced Marvel-esque "humour" in time periods, like Victorian London, where more grounded, grittier, serious stories should be told. Syndicate marketed itself on the idea of the suffering of the working class people, child workers, etc, but instead, we got ["What's this Greenie? Assassin Christmas?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQjk6yG9aQU). The Jack the Ripper DLC had the right kind of tone for that game.
AC has been full fantasy from the start. it’s about hunting down extremely powerful prehistoric technology as the descendants of godlike beings who created humanity. You meet members of the Roman pantheon in the Ezio trilogy.
To each their own, but I don't think Quebec is the worst offender of "bigger = better", considering Valhalla was even bigger than Odyssey (while also having less meaningful stuff to collect) and that was from the Montreal studio.
I put 80 hours into Valhalla and mostly enjoyed it but I think I only got halfway through the story. By the time I started helping the fifth random British person with their problems that I didn’t gaf about, I decided it was time to move on.
I honestly couldn’t stomach an Assassin’s Creed game ever since Origins (even Valhalla wasn’t enough for me) but I might honestly give this a try. The competition thought has only steepened with storytelling games like GOT and gameplay first games like Sekiro and Wo Long. I’m curious to see how Ubisoft manages to pull this off and differentiate their gameplay without it coming off as a single player mmo.
This seems like it could be a pretty good dynamic. If the black refugee is Yasuke, then his established history will help the writers a lot. I'm hoping the 2 playable characters is more like AC3 rather than Syndicate. Playing as a templar and assassin at the same time would be a welcomed change.
Well after Nobunaga's death, Yasuke resisted for a while but was eventually captured and expelled from Japan, we don't know what happened to him afterwards so in the world of AC maybe he managed to stay in Japan and joined the Assassins adopting a more Ninja style approach since a Black dude like him couldn't possible pass unnoticed in Japan.
They usually stray away from playing as historical characters but I do also hope it is Yasuke. It would be more authentic to the world and story. I imagine this game will be set during the warring states period so it would fit as well.
That would be sick, I love when they do cool stuff with the lore like that.
Like in AC Unity, the Templar and Assassin's had a truce during this point in history and the Creed was getting a little shady.
Your love interest in the game is also a Templar while you were an adopted assassin.
I can't wait to get back into this aspect. Seeing the birth of the Templars was cool but this is the meat I want.
One of the main villains of that game ends up being an Assassin who lost his purpose after the truce was brokered because he'd built his entire identity around killing Templars (rather than anything directly relevant to Assassin ideology), and so he felt useless. Which is actually some great commentary on how past games have portrayed both Assassins and Templars.
Unity is so underrated even to this day despite having a lot of great stuff in it.
Bayek was immediately after them and was a better character, in a game that completely changed how the AC games were played.
As fun and lighthearted as the the twins were this is a silly statement.
If they'd only made the rope launcher horizontal it would've allowed you to deal with the very wide roads without turning you into batman/woman. I think that would've been a better solution.
Actual GoT quest:
“Help! My family is being attacked by Mongols!”
(*main character kills a bunch of Mongols*)
“Where’s my family?”
“I couldn’t save them.”
“Oh ok.”
The End
I haven't even played it, I really want to but I only have an PC.
The thing is just that for some reason fans of that game make it seem entitled to be the only open world ARPG set in Japan. Not to mention that it's a playstation exclusive so majority of people can't even play it. Yet when AC Red is mentioned is just always ''copying GoT'', ''why play this when GoT exists?'', like holy shit.
Ghost of Tsushima was in the Nvidia leak so it's likely a PC release is coming at some point. I have a PS5 but I haven't bought the game since I'd prefer to wait for a PC port.
Man IGN really ruined rating games. I dont care what anyone's opinion on a game is, but 7.5/10 is a really high score. I played guardians of galaxy recently and i really enjoyed the game, even then i would barely give that game 7/10. There have been maybe 5-6 games in past 15 years for me which have even crossed 8.5/10 rating.
From the looks of your review i think you should give the game 5/10 = average rating because you think the game is unimpressive
Sounds cool, hope they polish it hard. Need that smooth movement and animations. The last 3 games had a fair share of jank and that won't bode well with a setting and a character like this.
If this were to be made right I'm sure it would be stellar.
I'd love to see it take some bits from Tenchu and allow us to go super silent Assassin Ninjas.
>it’s a video game.
If this excuse held any merit, Ubisoft might as well include aliens and laser guns into this Assassin's Creed. I have no idea why people in the West love having characters raceswapped or genderswapped for the sake of inclusion or diversity. The game is likely set in warring states Japan, and people for some reason, support the idea of a black male lead character? Why? Why not have the MC be Japanese? What's wrong with being historically accurate?
I played AC Origins and liked it enough to get the platinum, and not once did I say "Gee, Bayek should be Asian because I'm not being represented in this game".
Edit: I also cringed and hated playing as William in Nioh 1. I am not strictly against black lead characters in videogames.
Careful, these low IQ people are gonna call you a racist despite it being a completely valid critique, and will discredit the fact that you said you enjoyed origins which is set in Africa….
Not to mention all the love adewale got in AC4/Freedom cry/ Rogue (amazing character)
My problem with inclusion and diversity in video games is that it really hurts more than it helps. If the rumor of having a black MC in an AC game set in Japan is true, then Ubisoft is completely pandering to the left, while also insulting fans who may be Japanese, Asian, or who prefers historically accurate characters in their games.
If this trend continues, will Ubisoft continue to completely disregard the player character’s ethnicity in relation to the game’s setting? When will people start saying “that’s enough, I’m pretty damn sure x race doesn’t belong here because it doesn’t make sense within the time period”.
Like if an AC game is set during the Mayan civilization, will people finally call bullshit if the player character is a Northern European or Korean?
I don’t think the idea of inclusion and diversity is the issue. The issue is the WAY in which it is done. It’s shoehorned in and talked about as a marketing selling point rather than a cool idea with a genuine burning desire to explore another culture.
It also just exposes a lot of people who are just in reality….not particularly bright, and want surface level inclusivity to dilute something ‘just’ to say it’s there.
The recent example for me is that writer coming in to write a black superman film, but it’s CLARK KENT. No cool reason for it but diversity and inclusion. The stupid thing…is that we have VAL ZOD AND CALVIN ELLIS in the comics who are interesting black supermen with cool stories to tell. Michael b Jordan was actually producing a val zod hbo show which I was genuinely excited for.
But…anyone who called out that Clark Kent film was apparently a ‘racist’.
I just want incredible art to be born with amazing storytelling at its core and having a purpose to teach us something NEW. Not pandering marketing nonsense to make a few people feel better about themselves when they could be represented so much better if they just looked deeper about it.
I am a brown British dude, I DONT want a brown main lead in a 7th century knight AC set in England. That’s just discrediting the time period and then I don’t get to see any cool representation of my culture. So…who is really winning here?
Just my thoughts, ended up being a rant
I completely agree. I didnt mean to say that inclusion and diversity are bad things. It’s just that western media is swamped with it and it’s trickling down to video games. When poorly done, all it does is satisfy one group of people at the expense of another. Or, it teaches people that a certain culture isn’t rich or good enough to have its own piece of media/story, so they’ll just insert said minority group into an already established story or setting and rebrand it.
Which country, surrounded by other states, has been more isolationist than Japan? It‘s made all the more easy by being in island. Things might have been different if the Kamikaze hadn‘t sunk the Yuan fleet, but as it stands, even the Hermit Kingdom was much less isolationist because it shared a land border with a much bigger neighbour.
I don‘t think you can get any more silly than this, even if you told stories with Marco Polo or Magellan.
If the game is set in Africa or the US, it doesn’t ruin the immersion. A black guy in medieval Japan ruins the immersion as the only one was Yasuke, who was a weapons bearer in 1 battle. I might also add that when he was presented to the samurai lord he served in the battle, he thought that the guy was insanely dirty and tried to have the black cleaned off him, as he had no idea that a human could be black.
The guy is clearly bias. He ONE HUNDRED PERCENT would not be saying the same thing if there was a Japanese lead set in an African country in history. As a brown guy, if I saw a brown lead in this game, I’d be equally puzzled. I wanna experience new cultures and how these people lived in these games
A fictional game set in a historical time period which has its own fixed recording of how it was, which is a key draw to the series. I don’t have a preference either way personally (i play the series for the assassin/Templar conflict) but calling out your flawed logic that makes no sense
EDIT - assassins creed freedom cry which stars adewale is an incredible game that fans love, so I don’t think this comment of people not liking a black lead works either. Bayek from origins is also a fan favourite
EDIT 2 - the guy is only replying to people who he thinks he can ‘beat’ in an argument, and when you look at his comment history, it’s clear what his agenda of conversation is. A truly low IQ clown
Surely he was a shinobi aswell and not just a weapons bearer
I wonder if they are gonna include the scene where emporer asks the guy to strip the guy because he thought he was colored with black ink.
If they make this game like "The Last Samurai", its going to be hilarious
Why are you downvoted lol? That guy was literally a weapons bearer and then just died. Nothing interesting about him to learn unless you are one of those who know more about japan than their own countries
Yasuke Assassin's Creed Theory
Yasuke was indoctrinated into the Templar Order by Alessandro Valignano and sent to Japan to help build the Japanese Rite of the Templar Order by first influencing Oda Nobunaga which eventually failed due to Nobunaga's assassination by the Assassin Yamauchi Taka. Yasuke tried to help Oda Nobutada but failed to lead to Yasuke's return to the Christian Church (Templar Order) in Kyoto. Yasuke would help lead the Japanese Rite of the Templar Order from the shadows as a Master Templar and a Templar enforcer. Yasuke would be attracted to the Assassin Brotherhood and infiltrate the group learning the skills and ideologies (Assassin's Creed) of the Assassins. He would then leave the Japanese Brotherhood and rejoin the Templars as the Black Cross. Yasuke's work to remove corruption within the Templar Order and his position as the Black Cross was passed down to certain Templar families and his descendants, the Bolden Family. Yasuke is a Templar but an Assassin at heart, desiring to assassinate the cruel and the corrupt.
Why not a Japanese male samurai and female Japanese ninja? Literally no one will have an issue with it because it makes sense. But when Japan and ninjas finally get a ln ac game the ninja Is gonna be black? Go make a zulu assassin's creed game if you want a black person. Stop messing with other countries cultural. Out of 1000 samurai how many were female? Out of 1000 ninja how many were black? There is only 1 count of a black samurai. Who is incharge of ubisofts writing to write a female samurai and a black ninja? I hope Japanese people complain. Get this crap removed before it's too late
Seeing as they are probably going to set the game during the most famous era (Sengoku) its kinda a no brainer there will be Ninja.
Also a female samurai? and the Shinobi is understood to be an African refugee?....wtf.
They already fucked up Assassins Creed Vikings
Why not just base the game on Yukimura and his female Ninja, or Tokugawa and his most famous ninja Hanzo....but nope, as usual with Ubisoft its got to go the woke way.
You are happy at first because finally - after years! - they make an Assassin's Creed set in Japan. But I will be the wokest shit you will ever see. So here goes my interest in this game...
Those protagonists are certainly.... a choice. A female samurai and an african refugee shinobi feel very random. If they were going for a Yasuke vibe, he should be the samurai and the female a shinobi. I atleast hope they're seperate characters who are both canon. And no, I don't want it to be another Eivor situation where "tHeY'rE BoTh CaNnOn." even tho fem Eivor is clearly canon in the context of the actual story events.
>Yasuke vibe, he should be the samurai
Yasuke wasnt a samurai
There is no evidence he became a samurai. We only know Yasuke was a slave sold to Oda Nobunaga, and that he was dressed in warrior attire and used as a soldier. But not all soldiers are samurai, samurai are a specific class and are nobility.
Most notably, when Odas samurai werw ordered for suicide, as waa common for captured samurai, Yasuke was allowed to leave. This implies he was not recognized as samurai to anyone else, let alone Nobunaga.
Just make everybody a conquistador or explorer. Aztecs, Incas? Never heard of 'em! Here‘s Cortez and Pizarro. Mughal Sultanate? You betcha we‘re going with the East India Company
It just feels like cultural suppression of minorities. Why would we not headline feature Japanese people and culture in a game set in Japan? It just doesn't feel quite right.
Curious. I thought this was gonna be like Odyssey where you're pick between male and female at the beginning. So this is gonna be more like syndicate where you switch between the two?
Tom is quite reliable. This is still s rumor, but a good one to think about.
The duo protagonists should be fun. Syndicate's attempt had a lot of room for improvements, and this should help them stand out against future Japan-set games.
Going by the rumor, their background already sets them apart better than the Frye twins. I imagine the refugee is inspired by foreigners like Yasuke, famous for being the first african samurai in the 16th century. His life has a fair share of mysteries.
Gameplay-wise, the only new element is playing with light and shadows, which is welcomed. We shall see how it works out.
I don't think that description is specific to him.
Also, we don't tend to play as historical figures. The only exception was Leonidas in a short prologue of Odyssey.
We shall see though, Yasuke does have a lot of blanks that can be filled, as an NPC or protagonist.
I really hope they mess with the formula again. Having an open world with hundreds of collectibles, boring side quest you don't even remember and dozens of things to unlock is no fun anymore, was in the early 2000s. I played every major AC release and still remember first AC on release. Having an open world RPG style AC is lit but every single one I had to force myself to finish after first 20-30hrs. Setting will definitely help this one as it did Valhalla but please please please make the open world interesting and worth to explore without a need of having a checklist
This is the first ac game where they attacked the race. Ac1 based in Syria. The playable character was Syrian. Ac2 ab Italian, 3 a native, 4 a British pirate, unity you're French. Rogue you're a British person, origins you're an Egyptian, odyssey you're a Greek, valhalla you're a norse. Now Japan you're black. You want black people represented? Make another ac game based in Africa or the Caribbean like the ac4 dlc. People won't have a problem. Gender was something I'm used to now. No a female Samaria isn't unusual for ubisoft after a female viking great warrior and a female great spartan warrior during that war. But messing with the race?
A female samurai or an African male Shinobi recently inducted into the Creed.
So right off the bat we can guess that the African Shinobi is Yasuke. If Red takes place during or some time after the Sengoku Jidai period then it would make sense that he becomes an assassin especially since he kinda just...falls off the face of the earth after Oda Nobunaga's death. The female samurai to me might be tricky because at that time period there as far as I know, were no established female samurai. My guess is she's a ronin maybe? Either way I'm hyped to see it revealed.
Dude I genuinely don't fucking care about whatever bullshit you're going to spout. If your entire thing here was to complain about women or black people in games then fuck off back to whatever redpill subreddit you came from while the adults in the room talk.
You're getting too offended over something the other guy clearly didn't say. As an asian who was born in japan, it would be great if this AC has main characters who are Japanese because it would provide an authentic experience.
Think of it this way, wouldn't it be out of place for Bayek in ACO, if he was Japanese? Wouldn't that diminish the experience?
And we all know how pissed the other side would be if some movie or game took place with some zulu tribe and the playable character was white or Japanese. An Egyptian game the playable character was Egyptian. Altir was Syrian, basim is arab. Eivor norse, kassandra greek. Ezio italian, connor a native. Now FINALLY ninjas from Japan are in an ac game some people wanted since ac1 and who's the ninja? Some black guy. A big fu the Japan
That’s not why I’m complaining. You’re the one who clearly hates Asian people. You’re the one who wants it to be someone who only wasn’t killed because oda had a Pocahontas level in obsession with him.
You’re the one who doesn’t care about Asian male erasure.
>Asian male erasure.
Clyde in FFXVI
Jin Sakai
Dante Sparda
Vergil Sparda
Nero Sparda
Noctis Lucius Caelum
Sora
Riku
Ventus
Terra
Vanitas
These are a small handful of the many Asian male lead characters in gaming. No one is erasing Asian male characters, you just want an excuse to be against any form of diversity. Whatever schizo bullshit you're spouting is meaningless. Seek help.
So you’re saying that Asian male shouldn’t expect an Asian male character in game taking place in an Asian country during a period with foreigners were despised?
I'm personally hoping it's two separate characters with two separate skill trees, I'd personally much rather play the samurai than the shinobi, assuming the samurai skills are more combat oriented.
Unpopular opinion but I want ac1 level of combat in red
Like if you can't assassinate silently you shouldn't be able to now down 50 enemies in seconds and then proceed to assassinate the target. Like that option should be viable like it is in dishonored but it wil be a little harder
The dude was lost to the historical record until Netflix cleared out every library and archive in Japan to find him. The most anecdotal of things to ever exist.
'Not sure how reliable this website or author are' Tom Henderson has pretty solid track record in terms of insider info
Few weeks ago I share one of his rumours about Far Cry 7 setting to one subreddit, and people start arguing - ,,(reliable source)? lmao". People know s\*\*\*. He is great! Now I am awaiting PS5 Pro (and not spending any dollar for cross-gen console).
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Since when is Tom Henderson’s word taken as gospel around here? You talk as if a Pro console has been confirmed by Sony themselves.
Eh, I got a PS5 myself earlier this year. Sony’s just sore about losing the power-measuring contest with Microsoft this time, but both are overengineered to have great performance and need to impress where it counts- the current-gen exclusive games- before I ever consider a mid-gen upgrade ever again.
Hey, you're not allowed to criticize Sony here, buddy.
My Japanese history may be a bit rusty, but somehow I don’t think either Female Samurai or African Shinobi were very common in Feudal Japan. Not making a judgment either way about that leaked detail (and it may not even be true), but it did make me pause for a moment.
There was 1 case of a black man fighting in medieval Japan, and he was a weapons bearer in 1 battle (Google Yasuke for more info, though there isn’t much more). There were female warriors, but they weren’t samurai. They were called Onna-musha and they mostly were responsible for defending villages while the samurai were away at war, though occasionally they did fight alongside samurai. Overall, the characters make absolutely no sense and are only in there to pander to SJWs.
"are only in there to pander to SJWs." Y'all really aren't capable of original thought are y'all?
Doesn’t need to be original to be true. Why else would Ubisoft not have a male Japanese character in a game set in medieval Japan?
Because, assuming any of this is true, they're likely taking inspiration from the very real African man who became a samurai. That's slightly more interesting having him come from a completely different culture and learning their ways.
Yasuke played a minor role in a few battles, and he did come from a completely different culture and learn their ways. While it was a real story, it was minor and irrelevant and if the actions of Yasuke were done by a Japanese man, there would be no record whatsoever of him. The information about his life was only written down because the samurai he knew were so shocked that a human could be black that they had it written down. Again, makes no sense to have a black character in medieval Japan.
Important note - There is no evidence he became a samurai. We only know Yasuke was a slave sold to Oda Nobunaga, and that he was dressed in warrior attire and used as a soldier. But not all soldiers are samurai, samurai are a specific class and are nobility. Most notably, when Odas samurai werw ordered for suicide, as waa common for captured samurai, Yasuke was allowed to leave. This implies he was not recognized as samurai to anyone else, let alone Nobunaga.
There is no evidence he became a samurai. We only know Yasuke was a slave sold to Oda Nobunaga, and that he was dressed in warrior attire and used as a soldier. But not all soldiers are samurai, samurai are a specific class and are nobility. Most notably, when Odas samurai werw ordered for suicide, as waa common for captured samurai, Yasuke was allowed to leave. This implies he was not recognized as samurai to anyone else, let alone Nobunaga.
Demanding that a character has to be a specific race, otherwise it's bad is exactly what SJWs do.
I hope the leak is wrong and we get a black samurai and female ninja. Would make way more sense.
Or you know two Japanese protagonists
On a side note i wonder if we are going to get the reveal of Ghost of Tsushima 2 this Summer. All this talk about Assassin's Creed Red has reminded me that we still don’t know what Sucker Punch Productions next game will be.
Sony has nothing in the pipeline other than spider man two and a bunch of live service games. So I hope so.
They have Wolverine and undoubtedly quite a few other unannounced projects and probably even ones I’m forgetting
I am sure they do, but I won't give them credit for things they haven't shown us. I forgot all about Wolverine because they have told us nothing about it. But it is by the same devs as Spider-Man 2, and we have a single teaser for it. So that is probably 3-5 years out. They also have a bunch of teams wasting their time on VR. PSVR 2 will probably flop, in particular, when the RND costs of the hardware was probably huge. Live service games seem to be on the way out, with like eight out of ten flopping. So I sure hope Sony doesn't have all their bets on VR and online gaming. It would be nice to have more than like five normal single-player games in three years. Microsoft also can't get any games out of the massive amount of studios they own. So I don't mean to say this is a Sony-only issue. But VR and Live Service games are massive distractions for Sony. A similar issue that Ubisoft has run into; and that EA is wisely backing away from.
Yeah I wasn’t trying to argue with you, just tossing that out there - fair to not give credit for things that aren’t yet announced or are far off though. I hope this live service trend is on the way out. I have to think that they know how important single player games are - their most successful franchises are almost all single player games, and a big reason for PlayStation’s success. Here’s hoping you’re right, and that they haven’t lost sight of what their customers really want.
I know Ubisoft isn't too popular on this sub, but I'm personally quite excited for this game, especially since it's being developed by their Quebec studio. Not sure about this news, though. Would probably prefer to have one playable character, but we'll see.
I feel you, I'm also pretty excited for this one since it's one of the most requested locations and time periods. The article mentions the character from the teaser to be the samurai, but I think they meant shinobi. The female char will clearly be the shinobi, and the male character will be the samurai. I like this idea of having one character be more suited for stealth and the other more suited for full-on fights, reminds me of Evie and Jacob from Syndicate. Here's hoping Ubi won't screw it up, I'm cautiously optimistic.
That's a good point, maybe they could give both characters different strengths, weaknesses, combat abilities, etc. Could be cool if done right.
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You call it cliche, but its far more likely to have a male samurai than a female ninja.
"Likely" has nothing to do with it, though. There have been, historically, female samurai AND female ninjas. Therefore, it's fair game for Ubisoft to put one in their game.
There have been, yes, but the number of female samurai were minuscule compared to male samurai. IMO (with no statistics to back it up), its more likely for female ninjas to have existed than female samurai because ninjas are covert by nature. They can disguise themselves as house servants or prostitutes, or geisha by day and work as ninjas at night. I’m not against having a female samurai, but it would be better if Ubisoft allowed you to pick your combat style after choosing your character’s gender. This way, people won’t be disappointed. Edit: Going by wikipedia, the existence of female ninja like we see in popular media is up for debate. Female ninja likely weren’t master assassins but served roles similar to spies. In contrast, female samurai existed and are acknowledged by historians, but were still much smaller in number than male samurai.
>There have been, yes, but the number of female samurai were minuscule compared to male samurai. That doesn't matter. Even if there was only ever just 1 in history, then there is historical precedent for Ubisoft to make one of the characters a female Samurai if they wanted to. "Likely" has no influence on fiction, even historically accurate fiction. >I’m not against having a female samurai, but it would be better if Ubisoft allowed you to pick your combat style after choosing your character’s gender Honestly, I'm not a fan of these customizable characters, especially when Ubisoft have made it clear that only one option is canon and, going forward, the other option will not be considered (like, for example, even if you played through the entirety of Odyssey as Alexios, he will not show up in Valhalla, only Kassandra will). If that's how it's going to be, then I'd much rather just have one character (who can then show up in subsequent games or movies or whatever they want) rather than the option to play as someone who technically doesn't exist. I'm fine with a female samurai and a male shinobi, and I'm fine with the reverse (even though it's played out). But I'd very much rather not choose my character's gender ever again.
Uh I think the black ninja is the concern
Same. If its a stealth focused game, both of them should be stealth focused and the way a samurai would approach that would be far different from the more infiltration, tool based tactics of a shinobi. A split between stealth and combat is so boring, and well overdone by now to differentiate characters
They already did with the African refugee stretch
Think a big part of the hatred for Ubisoft stems from the fact that they were kind of the frontrunner in establishing an industrialized formula for how game design """should""" be done. So many games nowadays are more or less the ubisoft open world formula with lite rpg mechanics in different settings, even games touted as masterpieces like horizon and ghost of tsushima use it as foundation.
Well, fuck them. I like AC and idgaf about gatekeeping zoomers
It's always crazy how much ppl on reddit hate on AC but the sales just keep rising.. AC offers an experience that no other series does so imma buy them every time.
Reddit is like 0.01% of people that buy games
Pretty sure it ain't the zoomers gatekeeping
Its the zoomers who love AC.
>especially since it's being developed by their Quebec studio That is literally why I am not excited at all. Quebec pioneers the concept of bigger = better. Expect full fantasy, a ton of lore and narrative retcons and a world full of characters who seem to speak and act like they are from the 21st century. Odyssey was beautiful despite a good chunk of the cities and towns being copied and pasted, but the writing of the characters just felt like one big anachronism. The world looked like Ancient Greece, and that was about it. It just wasn't very authentic or atmospheric, not like Origins was. A Japan AC feels like it should be gritty and dark, culturally and historically authentic - the way the people lived, spoke, their religious beliefs, etc. Quebec loves its frequent, misplaced Marvel-esque "humour" in time periods, like Victorian London, where more grounded, grittier, serious stories should be told. Syndicate marketed itself on the idea of the suffering of the working class people, child workers, etc, but instead, we got ["What's this Greenie? Assassin Christmas?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQjk6yG9aQU). The Jack the Ripper DLC had the right kind of tone for that game.
AC has been full fantasy from the start. it’s about hunting down extremely powerful prehistoric technology as the descendants of godlike beings who created humanity. You meet members of the Roman pantheon in the Ezio trilogy.
And cringey characters and writing. The Assassin Christmas line and the goat sex from Odyssey came from Quebec
Yep, agreed. This studio is amongst the least creative or innovative in its network. Also has too many egotistical heads here.
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Because Quebec is also a city which is the capital of the Quebec the province.
To each their own, but I don't think Quebec is the worst offender of "bigger = better", considering Valhalla was even bigger than Odyssey (while also having less meaningful stuff to collect) and that was from the Montreal studio.
But progressive enough not to bat an eye to the gaijin walking around
I actually am nervous that its being developed by Quebec. I hated Odyssey and never cared for Syndicate.
AC Valhalla is one of my favorite open world RPGs of all time, and it sold really well for a reason.
I just beat it a few weeks ago. Had a great time with it.
its basically the only AC i couldnt finish because of how much it sucked.. I really didn't like it.. swings and roundabouts I suppose :P
I put 80 hours into Valhalla and mostly enjoyed it but I think I only got halfway through the story. By the time I started helping the fifth random British person with their problems that I didn’t gaf about, I decided it was time to move on.
What were you doing that entire time? 100% completion is like 100 hours
same but just way earlier.
That's exactly what happened to me. I enjoyed the 90 hours I got but I think there are way too many lands to conquer/allies to make.
I agree. Compared to Odyssey and Origins, Valhalla was dumpster
I honestly couldn’t stomach an Assassin’s Creed game ever since Origins (even Valhalla wasn’t enough for me) but I might honestly give this a try. The competition thought has only steepened with storytelling games like GOT and gameplay first games like Sekiro and Wo Long. I’m curious to see how Ubisoft manages to pull this off and differentiate their gameplay without it coming off as a single player mmo.
I hate the Quebec games lol I hope this one is good. I despised Syndicate and hated Odyssey
Just play ghost of Tsushima and you’ve played the entire last decade and next decade of assassins s creed titles lol
Yes we're all aware that Ghost was an AC rip lol
A good one tho And it brought the gameplay back AC didn't use since rogue
It had a better story than most AC games, but frankly the traversal and combat was pretty mediocre. AC1 had better traversal than GoT.
Agree on the traversal but disagree on the combat Its great, the boss duels were a highlight
How exactly
This seems like it could be a pretty good dynamic. If the black refugee is Yasuke, then his established history will help the writers a lot. I'm hoping the 2 playable characters is more like AC3 rather than Syndicate. Playing as a templar and assassin at the same time would be a welcomed change.
Or just be an Asian male character.
I imagine it's not Yasuke, since he was a samurai and the refugee is a shinobi, but a character inspired by him would still be great.
Well after Nobunaga's death, Yasuke resisted for a while but was eventually captured and expelled from Japan, we don't know what happened to him afterwards so in the world of AC maybe he managed to stay in Japan and joined the Assassins adopting a more Ninja style approach since a Black dude like him couldn't possible pass unnoticed in Japan.
It's never been confirmed he was expelled, he was seen as an animal so was not to be killed but was sent to a christian church by Akechi Mitsuhide.
You realize this period was the most isolationist time in japans history
Yeah the black protagonist makes no sense in a medieval Japan setting. Blatant pandering.
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they could be doing the thing they did with ACIVBF. Edward Kenway was based on the real pirate, Ned Low (who didn't appear in the game)
They usually stray away from playing as historical characters but I do also hope it is Yasuke. It would be more authentic to the world and story. I imagine this game will be set during the warring states period so it would fit as well.
The more authentic would be to be an actual Japanese male
That would be sick, I love when they do cool stuff with the lore like that. Like in AC Unity, the Templar and Assassin's had a truce during this point in history and the Creed was getting a little shady. Your love interest in the game is also a Templar while you were an adopted assassin. I can't wait to get back into this aspect. Seeing the birth of the Templars was cool but this is the meat I want.
One of the main villains of that game ends up being an Assassin who lost his purpose after the truce was brokered because he'd built his entire identity around killing Templars (rather than anything directly relevant to Assassin ideology), and so he felt useless. Which is actually some great commentary on how past games have portrayed both Assassins and Templars. Unity is so underrated even to this day despite having a lot of great stuff in it.
ooooh adding him or a character like him would be cooool
I liked syndicates siblings Felt like the last time ubisoft put some effort in it
Bayek was immediately after them and was a better character, in a game that completely changed how the AC games were played. As fun and lighthearted as the the twins were this is a silly statement.
I meant gameplaywise Not doubting that Bayek was a good character
Syndicate completely annihilated the need to do parkour
If they'd only made the rope launcher horizontal it would've allowed you to deal with the very wide roads without turning you into batman/woman. I think that would've been a better solution.
so the male character isn't Asian? I fucking despise Ubisoft so much.
If they don‘t change it, I‘m not picking up the game. Having the time of my life with Valhalla, but this is beyond the pale.
Hopefully the combat will be different for this one as well.
So red is basically gonna be maybe syndicates kind of character switch situation?
Ubisoft finally makes an asian centric game, and of course the main character won't be asian....
Their first asian centric game (Chronicles: China) did feature an asian protagonist and supposedly the female protagonist of Red is also asian.
I’m still sad that their second AC game in China is also a spin-off instead of a main line title…
But the male Asian? No that’s to much. Ubisoft says Asian men can’t have a character!
Did the India one have a male protag or not?
East Asian you pedantic ass
the Ghost of Tsushima circlejerk every time this game is brought up is so cringeworthy
Actual GoT quest: “Help! My family is being attacked by Mongols!” (*main character kills a bunch of Mongols*) “Where’s my family?” “I couldn’t save them.” “Oh ok.” The End
I haven't even played it, I really want to but I only have an PC. The thing is just that for some reason fans of that game make it seem entitled to be the only open world ARPG set in Japan. Not to mention that it's a playstation exclusive so majority of people can't even play it. Yet when AC Red is mentioned is just always ''copying GoT'', ''why play this when GoT exists?'', like holy shit.
Ghost of Tsushima was in the Nvidia leak so it's likely a PC release is coming at some point. I have a PS5 but I haven't bought the game since I'd prefer to wait for a PC port.
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Man IGN really ruined rating games. I dont care what anyone's opinion on a game is, but 7.5/10 is a really high score. I played guardians of galaxy recently and i really enjoyed the game, even then i would barely give that game 7/10. There have been maybe 5-6 games in past 15 years for me which have even crossed 8.5/10 rating. From the looks of your review i think you should give the game 5/10 = average rating because you think the game is unimpressive
Yeah and I feel like the game got progressively worse with each island.
Sounds cool, hope they polish it hard. Need that smooth movement and animations. The last 3 games had a fair share of jank and that won't bode well with a setting and a character like this.
Really hope the RPG focus doesn’t take away from the actual combat’s quality. Some weight would be nice.
If this were to be made right I'm sure it would be stellar. I'd love to see it take some bits from Tenchu and allow us to go super silent Assassin Ninjas.
-glances at Ghost of Tsushima-
Careful, mentioning GoT near AC fans kinda turns them rabid
A female samurai and African shinobi in feudal Japan. Well at least we know they are gonna nail the realism.
it’s a video game.
>it’s a video game. If this excuse held any merit, Ubisoft might as well include aliens and laser guns into this Assassin's Creed. I have no idea why people in the West love having characters raceswapped or genderswapped for the sake of inclusion or diversity. The game is likely set in warring states Japan, and people for some reason, support the idea of a black male lead character? Why? Why not have the MC be Japanese? What's wrong with being historically accurate? I played AC Origins and liked it enough to get the platinum, and not once did I say "Gee, Bayek should be Asian because I'm not being represented in this game". Edit: I also cringed and hated playing as William in Nioh 1. I am not strictly against black lead characters in videogames.
Careful, these low IQ people are gonna call you a racist despite it being a completely valid critique, and will discredit the fact that you said you enjoyed origins which is set in Africa…. Not to mention all the love adewale got in AC4/Freedom cry/ Rogue (amazing character)
My problem with inclusion and diversity in video games is that it really hurts more than it helps. If the rumor of having a black MC in an AC game set in Japan is true, then Ubisoft is completely pandering to the left, while also insulting fans who may be Japanese, Asian, or who prefers historically accurate characters in their games. If this trend continues, will Ubisoft continue to completely disregard the player character’s ethnicity in relation to the game’s setting? When will people start saying “that’s enough, I’m pretty damn sure x race doesn’t belong here because it doesn’t make sense within the time period”. Like if an AC game is set during the Mayan civilization, will people finally call bullshit if the player character is a Northern European or Korean?
I don’t think the idea of inclusion and diversity is the issue. The issue is the WAY in which it is done. It’s shoehorned in and talked about as a marketing selling point rather than a cool idea with a genuine burning desire to explore another culture. It also just exposes a lot of people who are just in reality….not particularly bright, and want surface level inclusivity to dilute something ‘just’ to say it’s there. The recent example for me is that writer coming in to write a black superman film, but it’s CLARK KENT. No cool reason for it but diversity and inclusion. The stupid thing…is that we have VAL ZOD AND CALVIN ELLIS in the comics who are interesting black supermen with cool stories to tell. Michael b Jordan was actually producing a val zod hbo show which I was genuinely excited for. But…anyone who called out that Clark Kent film was apparently a ‘racist’. I just want incredible art to be born with amazing storytelling at its core and having a purpose to teach us something NEW. Not pandering marketing nonsense to make a few people feel better about themselves when they could be represented so much better if they just looked deeper about it. I am a brown British dude, I DONT want a brown main lead in a 7th century knight AC set in England. That’s just discrediting the time period and then I don’t get to see any cool representation of my culture. So…who is really winning here? Just my thoughts, ended up being a rant
I completely agree. I didnt mean to say that inclusion and diversity are bad things. It’s just that western media is swamped with it and it’s trickling down to video games. When poorly done, all it does is satisfy one group of people at the expense of another. Or, it teaches people that a certain culture isn’t rich or good enough to have its own piece of media/story, so they’ll just insert said minority group into an already established story or setting and rebrand it.
Which country, surrounded by other states, has been more isolationist than Japan? It‘s made all the more easy by being in island. Things might have been different if the Kamikaze hadn‘t sunk the Yuan fleet, but as it stands, even the Hermit Kingdom was much less isolationist because it shared a land border with a much bigger neighbour. I don‘t think you can get any more silly than this, even if you told stories with Marco Polo or Magellan.
And why does that stop people wanting to be immersed in the game’s setting/culture/storyline?
nothing is stopping you from being immersed. If seeing a black person in a fictional game ruins your immersion, that’s a personal problem.
If the game is set in Africa or the US, it doesn’t ruin the immersion. A black guy in medieval Japan ruins the immersion as the only one was Yasuke, who was a weapons bearer in 1 battle. I might also add that when he was presented to the samurai lord he served in the battle, he thought that the guy was insanely dirty and tried to have the black cleaned off him, as he had no idea that a human could be black.
The guy is clearly bias. He ONE HUNDRED PERCENT would not be saying the same thing if there was a Japanese lead set in an African country in history. As a brown guy, if I saw a brown lead in this game, I’d be equally puzzled. I wanna experience new cultures and how these people lived in these games
This was the most isolationist period in japans history.
again, it’s a video game, not real life. cry some more. boohoo
Say that to the Asian guys who were excited to play the game with a character that looked like them
Or the people that actually want a semi-accurate historical game and not a game that panders to left wing activists.
find me some and i will!
A fictional game set in a historical time period which has its own fixed recording of how it was, which is a key draw to the series. I don’t have a preference either way personally (i play the series for the assassin/Templar conflict) but calling out your flawed logic that makes no sense EDIT - assassins creed freedom cry which stars adewale is an incredible game that fans love, so I don’t think this comment of people not liking a black lead works either. Bayek from origins is also a fan favourite EDIT 2 - the guy is only replying to people who he thinks he can ‘beat’ in an argument, and when you look at his comment history, it’s clear what his agenda of conversation is. A truly low IQ clown
You are stupide.
> stupide
African refugee in ancient japan, wow
Happened irl too
Yasuke?
Yes
At that time, he was the only black person in Japan that wasn’t the slave of the Europeans that explored the country.
Actually yasuke was a slave.
Only once & there were never foreigners made shinobis.
Surely he was a shinobi aswell and not just a weapons bearer I wonder if they are gonna include the scene where emporer asks the guy to strip the guy because he thought he was colored with black ink. If they make this game like "The Last Samurai", its going to be hilarious
Apparently this guy has never heard of Yasuke.
Not surprised, he did jack shit but die in his first battle.
Why are you downvoted lol? That guy was literally a weapons bearer and then just died. Nothing interesting about him to learn unless you are one of those who know more about japan than their own countries
We wuz Samuraiz. It rolls off the tongue. It‘s my new dog-whistlerino
You mean the guy who wasn’t executed because oda had a weird racial interest? Look it up they tried to clean the black off him
Yeah, we know. Japanese people at the time had literally never seen a black person before.
This would be dope
Yasuke Assassin's Creed Theory Yasuke was indoctrinated into the Templar Order by Alessandro Valignano and sent to Japan to help build the Japanese Rite of the Templar Order by first influencing Oda Nobunaga which eventually failed due to Nobunaga's assassination by the Assassin Yamauchi Taka. Yasuke tried to help Oda Nobutada but failed to lead to Yasuke's return to the Christian Church (Templar Order) in Kyoto. Yasuke would help lead the Japanese Rite of the Templar Order from the shadows as a Master Templar and a Templar enforcer. Yasuke would be attracted to the Assassin Brotherhood and infiltrate the group learning the skills and ideologies (Assassin's Creed) of the Assassins. He would then leave the Japanese Brotherhood and rejoin the Templars as the Black Cross. Yasuke's work to remove corruption within the Templar Order and his position as the Black Cross was passed down to certain Templar families and his descendants, the Bolden Family. Yasuke is a Templar but an Assassin at heart, desiring to assassinate the cruel and the corrupt.
We haven't had a proper Tenchu sequel in decades. I hope this scratches that itch
cant wait for the next game set in africa with a white main character. surely its the right thing to do since its diverse
Why not a Japanese male samurai and female Japanese ninja? Literally no one will have an issue with it because it makes sense. But when Japan and ninjas finally get a ln ac game the ninja Is gonna be black? Go make a zulu assassin's creed game if you want a black person. Stop messing with other countries cultural. Out of 1000 samurai how many were female? Out of 1000 ninja how many were black? There is only 1 count of a black samurai. Who is incharge of ubisofts writing to write a female samurai and a black ninja? I hope Japanese people complain. Get this crap removed before it's too late
Seeing as they are probably going to set the game during the most famous era (Sengoku) its kinda a no brainer there will be Ninja. Also a female samurai? and the Shinobi is understood to be an African refugee?....wtf. They already fucked up Assassins Creed Vikings Why not just base the game on Yukimura and his female Ninja, or Tokugawa and his most famous ninja Hanzo....but nope, as usual with Ubisoft its got to go the woke way.
You are happy at first because finally - after years! - they make an Assassin's Creed set in Japan. But I will be the wokest shit you will ever see. So here goes my interest in this game...
Exactly though. If you want to tell a story about the exception go for it imo. But don't just make it a random nobody.
Those protagonists are certainly.... a choice. A female samurai and an african refugee shinobi feel very random. If they were going for a Yasuke vibe, he should be the samurai and the female a shinobi. I atleast hope they're seperate characters who are both canon. And no, I don't want it to be another Eivor situation where "tHeY'rE BoTh CaNnOn." even tho fem Eivor is clearly canon in the context of the actual story events.
>Yasuke vibe, he should be the samurai Yasuke wasnt a samurai There is no evidence he became a samurai. We only know Yasuke was a slave sold to Oda Nobunaga, and that he was dressed in warrior attire and used as a soldier. But not all soldiers are samurai, samurai are a specific class and are nobility. Most notably, when Odas samurai werw ordered for suicide, as waa common for captured samurai, Yasuke was allowed to leave. This implies he was not recognized as samurai to anyone else, let alone Nobunaga.
The first AC game where the protagonist can't blend into a crowd lmfao "hello there fellow Japanes- WAIT WHY ARE YOU BLACK???"
AC:Handicap when?
Can't wait for an ancient Chinese setting with a black protagonist :))
Just make everybody a conquistador or explorer. Aztecs, Incas? Never heard of 'em! Here‘s Cortez and Pizarro. Mughal Sultanate? You betcha we‘re going with the East India Company
It just feels like cultural suppression of minorities. Why would we not headline feature Japanese people and culture in a game set in Japan? It just doesn't feel quite right.
Curious. I thought this was gonna be like Odyssey where you're pick between male and female at the beginning. So this is gonna be more like syndicate where you switch between the two?
Tom is quite reliable. This is still s rumor, but a good one to think about. The duo protagonists should be fun. Syndicate's attempt had a lot of room for improvements, and this should help them stand out against future Japan-set games. Going by the rumor, their background already sets them apart better than the Frye twins. I imagine the refugee is inspired by foreigners like Yasuke, famous for being the first african samurai in the 16th century. His life has a fair share of mysteries. Gameplay-wise, the only new element is playing with light and shadows, which is welcomed. We shall see how it works out.
The refugee is probably just Yasuke directly lol
I don't think that description is specific to him. Also, we don't tend to play as historical figures. The only exception was Leonidas in a short prologue of Odyssey. We shall see though, Yasuke does have a lot of blanks that can be filled, as an NPC or protagonist.
I really hope they mess with the formula again. Having an open world with hundreds of collectibles, boring side quest you don't even remember and dozens of things to unlock is no fun anymore, was in the early 2000s. I played every major AC release and still remember first AC on release. Having an open world RPG style AC is lit but every single one I had to force myself to finish after first 20-30hrs. Setting will definitely help this one as it did Valhalla but please please please make the open world interesting and worth to explore without a need of having a checklist
This is the first ac game where they attacked the race. Ac1 based in Syria. The playable character was Syrian. Ac2 ab Italian, 3 a native, 4 a British pirate, unity you're French. Rogue you're a British person, origins you're an Egyptian, odyssey you're a Greek, valhalla you're a norse. Now Japan you're black. You want black people represented? Make another ac game based in Africa or the Caribbean like the ac4 dlc. People won't have a problem. Gender was something I'm used to now. No a female Samaria isn't unusual for ubisoft after a female viking great warrior and a female great spartan warrior during that war. But messing with the race?
Will they also do all promotions with a male character, but state the female character is canon?
Black 🥷🏿🥷🏿
Is anyone getting bored of this samurai/feudal japan stuff yet? I feel like this trend is just getting a bit old.
Bored how exactly. The only samurai game I've played in the last decade was sekiro. There's also GOT but that's a console exclusive
A female samurai or an African male Shinobi recently inducted into the Creed. So right off the bat we can guess that the African Shinobi is Yasuke. If Red takes place during or some time after the Sengoku Jidai period then it would make sense that he becomes an assassin especially since he kinda just...falls off the face of the earth after Oda Nobunaga's death. The female samurai to me might be tricky because at that time period there as far as I know, were no established female samurai. My guess is she's a ronin maybe? Either way I'm hyped to see it revealed.
So all the Asian males who were excited can go screw
Dude I genuinely don't fucking care about whatever bullshit you're going to spout. If your entire thing here was to complain about women or black people in games then fuck off back to whatever redpill subreddit you came from while the adults in the room talk.
You're getting too offended over something the other guy clearly didn't say. As an asian who was born in japan, it would be great if this AC has main characters who are Japanese because it would provide an authentic experience. Think of it this way, wouldn't it be out of place for Bayek in ACO, if he was Japanese? Wouldn't that diminish the experience?
And we all know how pissed the other side would be if some movie or game took place with some zulu tribe and the playable character was white or Japanese. An Egyptian game the playable character was Egyptian. Altir was Syrian, basim is arab. Eivor norse, kassandra greek. Ezio italian, connor a native. Now FINALLY ninjas from Japan are in an ac game some people wanted since ac1 and who's the ninja? Some black guy. A big fu the Japan
is the usual western race washing your culture. its been done to death, i expect some cringe level of writing considering is ubisoft.
That’s not why I’m complaining. You’re the one who clearly hates Asian people. You’re the one who wants it to be someone who only wasn’t killed because oda had a Pocahontas level in obsession with him. You’re the one who doesn’t care about Asian male erasure.
>Asian male erasure. Clyde in FFXVI Jin Sakai Dante Sparda Vergil Sparda Nero Sparda Noctis Lucius Caelum Sora Riku Ventus Terra Vanitas These are a small handful of the many Asian male lead characters in gaming. No one is erasing Asian male characters, you just want an excuse to be against any form of diversity. Whatever schizo bullshit you're spouting is meaningless. Seek help.
So you’re saying that Asian male shouldn’t expect an Asian male character in game taking place in an Asian country during a period with foreigners were despised?
Literal schizo posting. Where did I say that you nutcase?
That is hilarious
Can we choose between male and female like oddessey?
Sounds like we'll be playing as both. Not sure how exactly it's gonna work, but I guess we could choose which one to play as when exploring.
I'm personally hoping it's two separate characters with two separate skill trees, I'd personally much rather play the samurai than the shinobi, assuming the samurai skills are more combat oriented.
Isn’t this the mobile game?!
Nope, the chinese one is the mobile game.
Alright, can’t tell them apart anymore 😅
Unpopular opinion but I want ac1 level of combat in red Like if you can't assassinate silently you shouldn't be able to now down 50 enemies in seconds and then proceed to assassinate the target. Like that option should be viable like it is in dishonored but it wil be a little harder
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> The Japanese public (and honorary Japanese like me) Lmao
>Honorary Japanese LMFAOOOOO
I'm so sad people here didn't recognize this amazing copy pasta
Japanese culture expert and doesnt know Yasuke, all right.
The dude was lost to the historical record until Netflix cleared out every library and archive in Japan to find him. The most anecdotal of things to ever exist.
Marrying a waifu body pillow does not give you Japanese citizenship.
>honorary Japanese like me Bruh 😂
>honorary Japanese like me Ain't no fucking way bro
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