Assassin's Creed Shadows Statue Manufacturer Pulls Controversial, 'Insensitive' Design

They should make a drinking game for how many controversies, negative reactions, and dramas that this game gets in.

This game cant catch a break dx I wouldn't be surprised if it fails at this point

At least they’re doing the right thing instead of refusing to change it. I mean, they already did stupid things, probably best to walk this one back a tinge.

Again, know who a publisher like Ubisoft would hire to screen for things like this? Sweet Baby Inc...

@HotGoomba I’m honestly waiting for the release to see how well it sells.

@Nepp67 If it keeps up, I wonder if they’ll just outright cancel it? I know they have done a lot of work on it already. But with the delay, all the controversies and all, will it ever seen the light of day?

I am so happy to read they cancelled the statue over the gate and not the skin color. I’m so worn out.

Ubi cooked itself lol 😂

This game now has more ***** drama than the Autumn line-ups for tvN.

@LavenderShroud The game is complete there's zero chance its being cancelled. Anyway most of the controversy is just racists exposing themselves over Yasuke something the vast majority including Japan don't care about.

Heureka, did you realize?! They didn't have to write "Twitter" for once. Just wrote "on X". Proud of ya!

@DennisReynolds Yeah. I highly doubt it’ll be canceled myself. Stranger things have happened. It just feels like this game cannot catch a break, but like you said it’s most just race related rants against this game.

I felt it would be wise for me to just avoid all articles surrounding this game as the discourse was going to eye rolling and insufferable to wade through.
Turns out Ubisoft took the stupid crown and ran for it, and...... face planted into a brick wall they built💩💩💩💩💩

@DennisReynolds There is certainly a lot of that, but also a lot of misguided people who haven't even bothered to educate themselves (and some cross over for sure).

There shouldn't be an issue with portraying someone who we have documented evidence of and what is AC if it's not a walk through history? Yasuke doesn't seem to be anything different from the usual approach from Ubisoft.

Yasuke is not exactly a random character being abused for Ubisoft's gain, he features in a number of historical based works, which include games and there are numerous attempts in Japan and outside to tell his story.

No one cared that Nioh took the first Englishman in Japan and made him a demon hunter but suddenly playing a black man who was a vassal of Nobunaga is suddenly an issue? It's difficult to take the complaints seriously if you have even a basic understanding of what Yasuke actually was. (Incidentally Yasuke appears in Nioh talking about Nobunaga)

Now obviously we don't know how Ubisoft have actually handled this in game so we will have to wait and see. However criticising them for putting historical people in their historical game is just nonsense and the issue isn't with Ubisoft, it's with the small minded people who need to go and do some reading.

And we know it's not an issue of westerners making games about Japan, because Sucker Punch didn't get as much grief when they announced Tsushima.

I did just spot this post on reddit from a history subreddit which I think applies.
"If you've read this and all my other posts and links on Yasuke and still don't believe Yasuke was a samurai, then you either a) prefer to believe your own bias over historical research or b) should post an academic level publication arguing Yasuke wasn't a samurai so I could read it."

Just do the right thing and cancel the game too please.

@LowDefAl Let's be honest if Ubi adapted Adams as well instead if Yasuke then i expect the backlash wouldn't be anywhere near as big. Anyway we still have a Japanese playable character and she's literally the Assassin of the two.

How did they even accidentally do the one legged Torii? Like who designs a period game and decided a crumbled ancient gate as it stands today is what would have been there as it is today? Did they do Odyssey and assume the current condition of the Acropolis is how it was in the period, too?

This game is cursed. It would be better to just not release it. They can write it off financially as a loss. Movies have done that several times. It ends up costing them less than releasing them. It strange but when it comes to finances and taxes, there are very creative ways to save money.

If they do release it, I am curious if you can play through the entire game as the same character and if any trophies are tied to a specific character.

You’d think it wouldn’t be that difficult to avoid the atomic bomb given the game’s set rather a long time before 1945.

@CallMeDuraSouka "I felt it would be wise for me to just avoid all articles surrounding this game...." 🤔

@LavenderShroud @DennisReynolds I'm with you two on this. I was pretty much going to say the same. I'm actually looking forwards to the game just to see how many of the nay sayers have a turn about and say how it's such a great game...oh and I want to play it too of course.

@LowDefAl @LavenderShroud @DennisReynolds I just need to add that I'm finding it ironic that people complaining about the 2 main characters are usually the people complaining about the lack of DEI in games...