At this point, we're all too familiar with filmmakers and game developers butchering real history to insert their forced diversity, but this might take the cake for the dumbest example: a black samurai in feudal Japan.
Gotta love the Manhattan hipster dreadlock man-bun and fresh-shaved beard.
Here's the trailer:
Even worse, it appears the character was shoehorned into the game after the original story was already written. Former game developer Mark Kern (who is Asian himself,) broke the story on X:
Ubisoft claims the character, Yasuke, is based on a real historical figure. According to historical accounts, however, Yasuke was merely a visitor to Japan under the service of Jesuit missionaries and there is no evidence he was ever a samurai.
Minutes after Mark Kern pointed this out, someone edited the Wikipedia page on Yasuke to erase any mention that there is no evidence Yasuke was a samurai:
The reactions from Japanese gamers were SAVAGE 😂
Even black gamers aren't having it:
It's stupid. I know exactly why you're doing it. It's annoying. It's pandering.
We think he speaks for all of us. We're tired of "the message" and forced diversity being crammed into every story.
Oh, did you already guess that the lead writer for this game is an affluent liberal white woman named Alissa?
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