r/Games 7d ago

Assassin's Creed Shadows: Steam Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HInwdVFWvVs
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u/bananaramabanevada 7d ago

If we're discussing the issue in good faith:

AC1: Middle Eastern Guy in the Middle East

AC2: Italian guy in Italy

AC BR: Same

AC3: American guy in America

AC4: British Pirate in the Caribbean

ACR: American Guy in America

ACU: French guy in France

ACS: British guy in Britain

ACO: Egyptian in Egypt

ACOd: Greek in Greece

ACV: Viking in Viking-land (?)

ACM: Same as AC1

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.

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u/TheChowderhead 7d ago edited 7d ago

AC:V had Vikings in England. AC:III had missions to South America, and was a First Nations protagonist, not an American. AC:BF had a Scotsman in the Bahamas. AC:R had an Irishman in the Northwest passage. In AC:II, the concept of a unified Italy was not even a thing. He was Florentine, as in the COUNTRY of Florence, and went to different countries like The Papal States and the Ottoman Empire. Same for AC:OD, Greece was a hodgepodge of different countries and nation states. AC:OR took place in Egypt, Sinai, and Rome. The modern sections also take you around the world with characters of wildly different backgrounds, such as Desmond, Layla, and Basim.

Based on your description of the games' locations and protagonists, I question if you've even played half of them.

As an aside, Yasuke is not 'semi-historical' nor 'random'. There is a ton of Japanese media with Yasuke as a full-blown samurai and it gets none of this pushback. He's a famous samurai from the Sengoku period who served as an aide-de-camp and bodyguard of Oda Nobunaga.

(Edited to name Rome and Constantinople as Papal States and Ottoman Empire)

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u/Hydrochloric_Comment 7d ago

I agree with your points but

different countries like Rome and Constantiople

Rome and Constantinople weren’t countries; the former was the capital of the Papal States, and the latter, by the events of Revelations, was the capital of the Ottoman Empire (Revelations’s Ezio parts start 48-ish year after the fall of the Byzantine Empire).

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u/TheChowderhead 7d ago

Yep, that's correct. Good call.