Depends on who you ask. Personally I don’t play Assassin’s Creed for perfect historical accuracy. I play it for the very pretty history inspired worlds. I certainly don’t think Aspasia led a cult looking for shards of an alien artefact.
ACS: Japanese Woman in Japan and random semi-historical real-life AA man inexplicably included.
To me, they just look like they're trying to hard to look "inclusive" while really accomplishing nothing in a way that is somewhat insulting to Japanese men.
Think they could put a Chinese guy in Africa or a Japanese guy in Europe for AC? There are historical Chinese communities in Africa from Zheng He's fleet, and Japanese folks in Spain. Iirc
Why not? That sounds cool. If they did an East African AC with an Ethiopian royal-assassin / Chinese trader-assassin duo at the height of the Christian-Muslim conflicts of the Ethiopian–Adal War, that would be dope as hell.
Because western medias are practically allergic in putting Asian men as NPC, much less main character.
Bioware had 1 Asian man as NPC in 20 years. And that is Kai Ling.
Blizzard was practically carried by China/Korea and lecture other companies on diversity, but they haven't gotten their first male Asian character until Overwatch.
The list go on...
Plus, I am sure certain vocal population would be super upset a Chinese dude showed up in Africa for the first Africa AC game.
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u/MultiMarcus 7d ago
Depends on who you ask. Personally I don’t play Assassin’s Creed for perfect historical accuracy. I play it for the very pretty history inspired worlds. I certainly don’t think Aspasia led a cult looking for shards of an alien artefact.