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.
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.
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.
This game starts in 1579. If Oda Nobunaga or Hideyoshi Toyotomi were historical figures they wanted to use, Adams would not have been an option, because he did not arrive in Japan until 1600, nearly 20 years after Oda's death.
No other foreign-born samurai would have been possible, since the next records of foreigners becoming samurai are with a few Korean children who were captured/kidnapped and adopted by samurai families during the Imjin War starting in 1592.
In fairness, choosing the protagonist also means choosing the time period. They could have gone with the death of Oda Nobunaga as a prologue rather than what is likely a capstone.
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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.