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Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Hasn't Removed Yasuke, But Dev Focused on Historical Accuracy

PerpetualBoredom

@DennisReynolds That is simply not true.
The animes and whatnot about Yasuke are fictionalized works, but Ubisoft depicts it as it actually happened as a matter of fact and marketed it as such (I'm aware AC is way past being historical).
That he was even a retainer is highly doubtful, even simply considering how class worked, especially concerning foreigners ("jesuits") back in that japanese period.

Enjoy the game, no worries whatsoever, but please do not claim that Yasuke is was what Ubisoft, even more so Thomas Lockley, claim he was. Maybe they fell for this grifter, big time. Cheers

Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Hasn't Removed Yasuke, But Dev Focused on Historical Accuracy

PerpetualBoredom

@DennisReynolds
The claim that Yasuke was a full blown Samurai is wholly beiunscientific at best. I've looked into multiple sources and it's nowhere near "likely". One dude makes a whole career out of exclaiming that this is a story, named Thomas Lockley.

What puts people off of this game is the audacity of Ubisoft to call it historical. I loved the Yasuke anime, but the new AC is a Far Cry of anything "historical". Hence all the cheap errors they are putting into the game.

That and the sheer amount of laziness in developing and marketing the game makes, in my eyes, the whole endeavor a DOA.
We only have one trailer of it yet, but Ghost of Yotei will likely wipe the floor with AC Shadows.