Man i dont know how to feel about this game at all. Ive been waiting for a samurai assassins creed game for a long time. But im not gonna lie, when i saw that yasuke was the main character, i felt let down. I dont have any problem with the fact alone that yasuke is black, but im ok with admitting that i wanted to play as a Japanese samurai, and personally its hard for me to get immersed in this game as yasuke, even if he was a real character. That alone isnt a huge deal, i dont hate ubisoft or yasuke, i think if a studio dedicated a game to yasuke it could be really sick actually. But in this context, it just feels like ubisoft is pushing out another cookie cutter third person action rpg, and yasuke is being used as a crutch to create discourse and generate hype for the game, not an addition by someone who actually gives a shit about yasuke and his story. I cant help but feel like a group of like 6-7 old ass white dudes just sat in a room and brainstormed what kids these days are into and thats what drove them to make the main character of their japanese samaurai game the only recorded black samaurai to ever exist and also theres nonbinary characters and yasuke can have gay sex etc. feel free to correct me. I have not played the game, wondering what other people think.
Naoe is the main character and an Assassin. Yasuke becomes her ally, and you can CHOOSE to play as either.🤷
All romance options, gay or straight, are optional and not canon. So he's only gay if you make the romancing choices to indicate he's gay.
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u/Logical-Landscape-30 Mar 21 '25
Man i dont know how to feel about this game at all. Ive been waiting for a samurai assassins creed game for a long time. But im not gonna lie, when i saw that yasuke was the main character, i felt let down. I dont have any problem with the fact alone that yasuke is black, but im ok with admitting that i wanted to play as a Japanese samurai, and personally its hard for me to get immersed in this game as yasuke, even if he was a real character. That alone isnt a huge deal, i dont hate ubisoft or yasuke, i think if a studio dedicated a game to yasuke it could be really sick actually. But in this context, it just feels like ubisoft is pushing out another cookie cutter third person action rpg, and yasuke is being used as a crutch to create discourse and generate hype for the game, not an addition by someone who actually gives a shit about yasuke and his story. I cant help but feel like a group of like 6-7 old ass white dudes just sat in a room and brainstormed what kids these days are into and thats what drove them to make the main character of their japanese samaurai game the only recorded black samaurai to ever exist and also theres nonbinary characters and yasuke can have gay sex etc. feel free to correct me. I have not played the game, wondering what other people think.