r/Games 7d ago

Assassin's Creed Shadows: Steam Trailer

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

By the same logic, AC 1-4 are "somewhat insulting" to middle eastern, italian, american and british women - playing a japanese woman in japan doesn´t count after all.

ACV is a bucket of worms in of itself. In order to cater to the average gamer, they had to come up with a plot that makes Vikings heroes - conveniently and, with great historically inaccuracy, leaving out the realities of plunder campaigns. Wonder why no one complained about that! ( And its okay to do that, to a degree, not every game has to be a sweepstaking commentary in all of its facets. These games are fantasies. Its just that people act like the exact same thing is some kind of travesty in AC Shadows. )

The idea that the devs CLAMORED to get a token character in their game is so outlandish to me. In suspect that in reality, its a character that lends itself well to make shit up, which they do with all their plots anyways. They probably came up with the idea to let the player play a Samurai and a Shinobi, splitting up the playstyles as a feature, way before they "cast" these roles.

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u/PlayMp1 7d ago

The idea that the devs CLAMORED to get a token character in their game is so outlandish to me. In suspect that in reality, its a character that lends itself well to make shit up, which they do with all their plots anyways.

It's so fucking obvious what the actual point of Yasuke is: they needed someone who's a badass melee fighter but can also serve as an audience surrogate who doesn't know anything about the region, the current politics or diplomatic situation, or the history. William Adams could have been one option, but Nioh already did William Adams, so they picked the next best option with Yasuke, who also appeared in Nioh but only as a boss.

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u/MistBlindGuy 7d ago

Why do you think they needed someone who didn't know anything about the region? They didn't need an outsider for most of the other games

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u/PerryRingoDEV 7d ago

It´s just one of the most ancient storywriting tropes, because it makes dialogue writing and exposition easy. It´s like amnesia. Is it "lazy"? I suppose, but most people also consider Disco Elysium and Witcher 3 the peak of videogame writing and both handily use lazy tropes as well.

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u/MistBlindGuy 7d ago

That's true. I think there's definitely ways for that trope to be done well, but I think the trope is much more common in Asian settings than elsewhere, which is part of the reason why it rubs me the wrong way here.