Have a game like Nioh but featuring Yasuke as the PC, for that matter. It's the context of this being the first AC set in Japan that makes it an issue. A standalone Yasuke game would just be an idiosyncratic Western take on a Japanese setting whereas this is a deliberate injection of Western racial politics into Japanese pop-culture.
Exactly. 15 years ago a Yasuke game may have been cool but today it would be bogged down with racial politics. I don’t remember anyone complaining about Afro-samurai. They did this deliberately
I mean the trend didn't come out of nowhere. It's been a process that's been going on at least for 40 yrs.
The original Thor movie from 2011 cast a black guy as a Norse god, and it was already a meme when that happened that Leftist media would always raceswap some White character to be black.
Have a game like Nioh but featuring Yasuke as the PC, for that matter. It's the context of this being the first AC set in Japan that makes it an issue. A standalone Yasuke game would just be an idiosyncratic Western take on a Japanese setting whereas this is a deliberate injection of Western racial politics into Japanese pop-culture.
Exactly. 15 years ago a Yasuke game may have been cool but today it would be bogged down with racial politics. I don’t remember anyone complaining about Afro-samurai. They did this deliberately
I mean the trend didn't come out of nowhere. It's been a process that's been going on at least for 40 yrs.
The original Thor movie from 2011 cast a black guy as a Norse god, and it was already a meme when that happened that Leftist media would always raceswap some White character to be black.
I remember that. Made me scratch my head but it wasn’t until 2014 before I really opened my eyes.