Yasuke is actually a fantastic choice as far as history/narrative goes.

A shame the game looks like more generic Assassin’s Creed Mapfucking+Crowd Supermurder.

Which is fine if that’s your thing, but I haven’t been thrilled by an AC game since… well, AC1.

  • lobut@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    15 hours ago

    Yeah, I have the exact conflict about it.

    I hate the pandering too but when I hear a breakdown from it and I hear “woke” and “DEI” and it makes me want to strangle that YT personality.

      • lobut@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        14 hours ago

        oh I thought you said I specifically said downvoted you and I was so confused.

        It blows my mind that they had diversity consultants? Japan is like a huge part of the gaming industry the fact they really messed things up so bad is confusing. I figured they’d have a huge Japan division which would have been able to be like: “you know that’s wrong, right?” I like how he said the issue wasn’t diversity and that it was incompetency.

        The end message is really important, I really needed to hear it.

        • rtxn@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          13 hours ago

          I don’t know who the downvote came from, it just appeared suspiciously quickly.

          I’m sure Ubisoft had some sort of consultants about cultural and historical matters, but their involvement in production of the game and marketing is dubious at best. It still fucks me up that anyone thought it was okay to use a destroyed cultural/religious object as marketing material, even without knowing its connection to the Allied bombings. I maintain my position that Ubisoft is exploiting these ideas callously and arrogantly and should not be given the benefit of doubt.