09-24-2024, 06:19 PM
My main problem with Assassin's Creed: Japan is that having a black lead and female character as the only playable options just feels way too much like cringe cooperate diversity pandering. It's made much worse by all the rabid, terminally online people who will call you judgmental names for simply being skeptical.
We all know black people were obviously very rare in feudal Japan, a japanese male protagonist would've fit the overall theme better, and Yasuke was likely chosen simply for a diversity statement. So it's just super odd to see people arguing up and down that this was a completely natural choice unaffected by the political climate.
There's nothing wrong with having a black protagonist, and I do think there are some racist losers who are mad simply because they don't want to see black characters period, but the problem is Yasuke feels like a token minority being used as a shield to levy people's reasonable disappointment of a long awaited game feeling far less authentically japanese than it should've been.
We all know black people were obviously very rare in feudal Japan, a japanese male protagonist would've fit the overall theme better, and Yasuke was likely chosen simply for a diversity statement. So it's just super odd to see people arguing up and down that this was a completely natural choice unaffected by the political climate.
There's nothing wrong with having a black protagonist, and I do think there are some racist losers who are mad simply because they don't want to see black characters period, but the problem is Yasuke feels like a token minority being used as a shield to levy people's reasonable disappointment of a long awaited game feeling far less authentically japanese than it should've been.
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