One glaring thing i noticed that people have missed is that Yasuke had no last name (family name). In ancient times, Japanese peasants didn't have last names only the nobility and the samurai did. So the fact that Yasuke has no last name/family name and was never given one means he was never accepted as a samurai. (besides the fact that you know....the title of samurai was passed down through blood and you couldn't just become one anyways)
Of course this is just if Yasuke did exist, but he didn't.
I'm not surprised by any of this and leave it to the history autists to immediately start poking holes in everything the leftists and Ubisoft are claiming. The mockery will likely get so bad that eventually they'll pull the "Well it's a work of fiction anyway so checkmate bigots!" and they may even make that into official canon.
However because of their inevitable backtracking it will completely erode the 'historically accurate' hype they were building and the whole premise was they were trying to insert a black guy who allegedly really existed. It's kind of quite a bit scandal by gaming standards really which is dumb because if they went with their fictional storytelling right from the get go it wouldn't have been an issue but they insisted on pushing this shite. It's looking likely this woman who wrote this crap found this reference to the black man in ancient Japan and then jumped on it without doing any further research because to her this is just a grift. Ubisoft likely bought it because of credentials and did zero background checking themselves.
I don't even think this is even an issue of them being malicious about pushing their agenda, I think they really are that stupid.
It’s malicious. Woke SJWs are genuinely racist against Japan. Western Game Devs, particularly of the Indie variety, and Western Game “Journalists” and media personalities are particularly guilty of hating Japan and we can see that in decades of coverage towards Japanese games. The act of using a black man instead of a Japanese character in feudal Japan is blatantly racist and a humiliation ritual.
They hate'em cause they can't be 'em.
Japanese game devs have created products and franchises that can be enjoyed to this very day, and in some cases, even if you don't speak japanese. Wokeoids devs of both corporate and indie flavor have never managed to make anything fun - they depend on frameworks, bloatware and managed third party sales systems to create games that behave less as games, and more as lectures on ideology.
They thought that by becoming game devs, they could control the narrative and break into our hobby to become our new masters. Instead, they broke their teeth on the walls of reality and are haemohorraging money with every tottering step they make, becoming dependent on federal money to even exist for any period of time.
That's why they're so desperate. That's why they're so afraid.