“Assassin’s Creed: Shadows”, the last installment of the successful video game franchise of Ubisoft, launched on Thursday with greatly positive criticisms and strong sales, but some anti-“awake” critics complain about a story focused on a black samurai and LGBTQ characters, while the Japanese government expressed concern about the violence represented in the game for the game. Feudal Japan.
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“Assassin’s Creed: Shadows”, the new installment of the “Assassin’s Creed” franchise, one of the best -selling video game series, was launched on Thursday for Xbox, PlayStation, Mac and PC platforms.
The game has been mostly well received by critics, with a score of 81% in the Metacritic review aggregator, and Ubisoft said the game reached one million players on their first day of launch.
Set in feudal Japan, one of the main playable characters is a black samurai warrior named Yasuke, which is based on a real samurai of African origin, although the inclusion of the character caused some controversy when the trailer was launched last year, which some critics considered that it was not authentic for Japan.
The launch of the game this week renewed some anti-“Woke” criticisms, particularly because of the romantic stories that involve the option of same-sex relationships.
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What did the Japanese government say about “Assassin’s Creed: Shadows”?
The new game “Assassin’s Creed” unleashed some controversy in Japan due to concerns about how players could destroy artifacts in Japanese sanctuaries and temples. Hiroyuki Kada, a member of the national diet of Japan, the country’s parliament, expressed concern for the game at a legislative body meeting earlier this week. According to several media, including the publication of IGN games, which said that his staff from Ignon Japan had translated Kada’s comments, Kada said he feared “allowing players to attack and destroy real -world locations in the game without permission could encourage similar behavior in real life.” The Japanese prime minister, Shigeru Ihiba, replied that disfiguring a sanctuary in real life would be an “insult to the nation itself,” stating that “respecting the culture and religion of a country is fundamental.” Ishiba said the matter would have to be discussed with the Ministry of Culture of the country and other agencies, but it is not clear if the government plans to take any measure. Kada also published in his account X about the concern for whether the game could generate disrespect for Japanese culture. The day of the launch, Ubisoft launched a patch that made the tables and other objects in temples and sanctuaries indestructible, while reducing the amount of blood spilled in the temples by the attacked players. Ubisoft refused to comment with Forbes if the decision to launch the patch was related to the concerns of the Japanese government.
Why “Assassin’s Creed: Shadows” faces a negative reaction of the “woke”?
Some users complained about a possible history of same -sex relationships, which led to the official account of “Assassin’s Creed” X to respond to the Trolls on Thursday. “Remember the fourth principle of the creed: flirting in role -playing games is always optional,” he published the account in response to another publication of a user who criticized how a player who used Yasuke’s character could have a relationship with a character called Ibuki, who is non -binary. However, some users pointed out that the function is not new, since users could have same -sex relationships in previous games of “Assassin’s Creed.”
Why does the protagonist of “Assassin’s Creed: Shadows” generated controversy?
Yasuke, one of the main characters, is based on the black samurai warrior of the real life of the same name. The character was revealed last year when the game trailer was launched, which unleashed some controversy about the character not being native to Japan. The game developers said in a blog post that chose Yasuke as the character because “there are still many questions and speculations” about the man of real life, which allowed creativity in the development of the character. Charles Benoit, the director of the game, also said that Yasuke was chosen because he is not a native of Japan, which allows both Yasuke and the player to discover the country at the same time. The character caused some negative anti-“woke” reactions of right-wing critics, including the YouTuber Tim Pool and the presenters of Daily Wire Brett Cooper and Michael Knowles. The billionaire and head of Doge Elon Musk also criticized the character in a publication last year, claiming that “Dei kills art.” Some historians consider Yasuke the “first black samurai”, and although much of their life is unknown, it is believed that it could have been from Mozambique. The historian Thomas Lockley told Time that Yasuke was taken to Japan by the Italian Jesuit Missionary Alessandro Valignano, where he met the Japanese leader Oda Nobunaga, who was impressed by his imposing figure and recruited him in his army.
How did the Japanese community respond to “Assassin’s Creed: Shadows”?
Some Japanese players accused the game of historical inaccuracies, pointing out details as an inaccurate architecture and the use of Chinese subtitles in a promotional video instead of Japanese. Ubisoft apologized to Japanese fans in July, claiming to have collaborated extensively with historians and researchers, but acknowledged that “some elements of our promotional material have generated concern in the Japanese community.” The company said that the game sought to be a “convincing historical fiction” and not a “historical representation based on facts.”
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