{"id":239050,"date":"2024-07-02T21:48:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/cancel-assassins-creed-shadows-demand-angry-japanese-gamers-furious-at-ubisofts-lack-of-cultural-respect\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:15:38","slug":"cancel-assassins-creed-shadows-demand-angry-japanese-gamers-furious-at-ubisofts-lack-of-cultural-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/cancel-assassins-creed-shadows-demand-angry-japanese-gamers-furious-at-ubisofts-lack-of-cultural-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancel Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows demand angry Japanese gamers furious at Ubisoft\u2019s lack of \u2018cultural respect\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/assassins-creed-shadows-trailer-900x506.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Anybody who has been online for more than five minutes in their lifetime instinctively knew that Ubisoft\u2019s first portrayal of the land of the Rising Sun in an Assassin\u2019s Creed game was, at best, going to raise eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can rarely accuse Assassin\u2019s Creed games of being steeped in historical accuracy anyway, but by making the two main characters bear no semblance to the historical setting they are placed into was going to annoy people who are big fans of accurately representing cultures and the like.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/assassins-creed-shadows-release-date-trailers-platforms-and-everything-we-know\/\">Assassin\u2019s Creed: Shadows<\/a> for starters, the female \u2013 Naoe \u2013 is a made-up ninja. So what you might say. The second character, Yasuke, seems to be the one a lot more people have taken issues with.<\/p>\n<p>The real-life African, Yasuke served a short period of time as a vassal or retainer to warlord Oda Nobunaga. In AC Shadows he is a full-on Samurai.<\/p>\n<p>Does it matter? Japanese gamers think so with one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B5%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%89%E3%82%A6%E3%82%BA%E3%81%AE%E7%99%BA%E5%A3%B2%E4%B8%AD%E6%AD%A2%E3%82%92%E6%B1%82%E3%82%81%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99\">starting up a petition<\/a> that states (in part):<\/p>\n<p>The game is about samurai in Japan and ignores the fact that samurai are the upper class of the samurai class and should be \u201cgokejin\u201d or nobles who serve them. In fact, William Adams, the first European to receive the title of samurai, was a man in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu as the bannerman of the 250 koku.<\/p>\n<p>In this history, Ubisoft continues to misunderstand the nature and role of the samurai. This is a serious insult to Japan\u2019s culture and history, and can also lead to Asian racism. We call on Ubisoft to immediately cease the release of Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows and to show sincere research and respect for Japan\u2019s history and culture.<\/p>\n<p>The petition has a target of 35,000 signatures and at the time of writing is fast approaching 29k of them.<\/p>\n<p>Not that it will make a difference of course. A lot of the issues seem to be around the game being pushed as accurate whereas it is seen by signatories of the position as out and out fiction.<\/p>\n<p>One comment however says, \u201cThis is falsification of history. We cannot just stand by and let it happen. In addition, the content of the game and the response of the manufacturer showed no respect for Japan. It is unbearable to see black samurai slaughtering Japanese people. I hereby object.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We await the time-honored tradition of a good old-fashioned review bombing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/cancel-assassins-creed-shadows-demand-angry-japanese-gamers-furious-at-ubisofts-lack-of-cultural-respect\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Anybody who has been online for more than five minutes in their lifetime instinctively knew that Ubisoft\u2019s first portrayal of the land of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}