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Have you ever wanted to play a video game where the protagonist is a black Japanese samurai who has gay love affairs with non-binary characters? Well, if you have, then Assassin's Creed Shadows might just be the game for you. So one of the most anticipated games of the year just came out and gamers of the world simply are not happy. Apparently, Assassin's Creed Shadows is just not good.
And it kind of ties into what we were talking about in regards to Snow White just at the beginning of the week, because it seems like there are two huge issues here. Number one, the quality is supposedly just lackluster with a half-baked story and half-baked characters. And two, the DEI initiatives that Ubisoft shoved into this game are very much on display.
So all of that means that there are two issues here, and people that are simply just criticizing the quality of the game are getting lumped in with the anti-woke culture war fighters, it's this whole mess of people being upset. But this does beg a broader question of where is the gaming industry actually going, and is it too far gone for most gamers?
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All right, so just a couple of weeks ago, the new Assassin's Creed game called Shadows came out. It hit the market, obviously, to an uproar of criticism, but also publicity. And basically, if you guys have not heard about this game, it is the new Assassin's Creed game, and it is set in feudal Japan. And when the trailer of this came out last year, I had just finished watching Shogun.
So I was actually like in them. I was like the perfect demographic for this game. I don't even play video games. I was like, oh my God, this would be so sick. I'm like in the Shogun mindset. And then I watched the trailer and I was like, what the actual heck is going on?
Now, the game was said to follow two protagonists, a black Japanese samurai, Yasuke, and a female shinobi or a Japanese spy named Naoe. And like I said, the trailer came out last May, and even last May in 2024, it made an insane splash because people were obviously confused about a black samurai leading a video game that is set in feudal Japan.
However, at the time, Ubisoft confirmed that Yasuke was a real historical figure, so they weren't just pulling this out of their ass, although though, when you actually look at his history, the time that this man spent in Japan as a samurai and his actual history is very, very murky. There is a book written about him, but again, we just don't really know a lot about him.
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