That’s such a weird argument to make. I still say that if I was in charge of making a game during that period my priority would not be on Yasuke. Seems like common sense. Can’t wait for Assassin’s Creed: Zulu where you play as a former British officer who defects to join Shaka Zulu. Not quite the same thing but the principle remains. Also, anyone claiming they did this organically is being ridiculous especially after the guy who worked on the game in the early stages came out and said they changed the story
Seeing the American Revolution as an Indian? Seeing the crusades as a muslim? In a vacuum, the idea of showing a perspective outside of the norm is fine, obviously though in our “modern world” the driving motivation behind these decisions is the issue.
I mean shit, I liked Afro Samurai, didn’t you guys? That was “yasuke” too
I've never watched Afro Samurai so I don't know how they handled making a black dude a samurai. I'm guessing they didn't say he was an actual real person though. That's the difference with the whole Yasuke thing.
AC3 did the Native American during the revolutionary war and no one cared because they didn't claim the dude was a real guy with a real history.
Afro Samurai has Samuel L Jackson starring as Afro and his friend Monkey. Afro has the voice he uses for serious characters and Monkey has the voice he used in Pulp Fiction.
I think a black samurai being in a show where he fights a white cowboy is on a completely different planet from this shit.
It’s not bad you might like it. They handle it by making the world blatantly fictional from the jump.
I'm guessing they didn't say he was an actual real person though. That's the difference with the whole Yasuke thing.
For sure. It should be obvious I’m not in any way defending that angle of the discussion. Clearly their motivations there range from ignorance to malevolence. I’m just trying to show that there can be other perspectives on the whole subject that aren’t necessarily solely the result of DEI brain worms.
The Last Samurai, with Tom Cruise, as another example of this kind of “outsider perspective” done well (atleast, well enough, it’s all still hollyweird after all)
Yea I enjoyed Afro samurai and liked the song. You are right though about perspectives outside the norm but I wouldn’t trust modern writers to do a good job because so many are the usual college grads who see everything as oppression and colonialism
These types of people were the ones that will argue until they are blue in the face about cultural appropriation and how amazing brown people are compared to dirty white trash. Now they flip the script and say “wow bigot, race matters to you that much? Just let the black samurai exist! It’s not that big of a deal”
That’s such a weird argument to make. I still say that if I was in charge of making a game during that period my priority would not be on Yasuke. Seems like common sense. Can’t wait for Assassin’s Creed: Zulu where you play as a former British officer who defects to join Shaka Zulu. Not quite the same thing but the principle remains. Also, anyone claiming they did this organically is being ridiculous especially after the guy who worked on the game in the early stages came out and said they changed the story
Seeing the American Revolution as an Indian? Seeing the crusades as a muslim? In a vacuum, the idea of showing a perspective outside of the norm is fine, obviously though in our “modern world” the driving motivation behind these decisions is the issue.
I mean shit, I liked Afro Samurai, didn’t you guys? That was “yasuke” too
I've never watched Afro Samurai so I don't know how they handled making a black dude a samurai. I'm guessing they didn't say he was an actual real person though. That's the difference with the whole Yasuke thing.
AC3 did the Native American during the revolutionary war and no one cared because they didn't claim the dude was a real guy with a real history.
Yea, Afro Samurai was fiction and they never tried to act like he was real. As far as I remember. I played the game before I saw the anime
Afro Samurai has Samuel L Jackson starring as Afro and his friend Monkey. Afro has the voice he uses for serious characters and Monkey has the voice he used in Pulp Fiction.
I think a black samurai being in a show where he fights a white cowboy is on a completely different planet from this shit.
Weird opinion considering the jap who made it was inspired by both yasuke and his love for blacks. How is that so different from this again?
It’s not bad you might like it. They handle it by making the world blatantly fictional from the jump.
For sure. It should be obvious I’m not in any way defending that angle of the discussion. Clearly their motivations there range from ignorance to malevolence. I’m just trying to show that there can be other perspectives on the whole subject that aren’t necessarily solely the result of DEI brain worms.
The Last Samurai, with Tom Cruise, as another example of this kind of “outsider perspective” done well (atleast, well enough, it’s all still hollyweird after all)
The biggest problem with AC3 is that there's hardly any buildings in the US that were over 5 stories.
Yea I enjoyed Afro samurai and liked the song. You are right though about perspectives outside the norm but I wouldn’t trust modern writers to do a good job because so many are the usual college grads who see everything as oppression and colonialism
These types of people were the ones that will argue until they are blue in the face about cultural appropriation and how amazing brown people are compared to dirty white trash. Now they flip the script and say “wow bigot, race matters to you that much? Just let the black samurai exist! It’s not that big of a deal”