Forced to play Yasuke

[☻DWN]

I hate that we are being forced to play as Yasuke for multiple story missions. I thought we are free to choose which character we want to play, then there are story missions that you need to use Yasuke to start them. Didn't buy this game for the black man. I want to play as Naoe because she's the proper assassin and this is Assassin's Creed.

[@#$%&]

Cry more.

[danmak27]

Booo Hooo

[Auntie Hong Ying's Tasty Beans]

Originally posted by ☻DWN:

I hate that we are being forced to play as Yasuke for multiple story missions. I thought we are free to choose which character we want to play, then there are story missions that you need to use Yasuke to start them. Didn't buy this game for the black man. I want to play as Naoe because she's the proper assassin and this is Assassin's Creed.

Or, you know, you could have actually watched the trailers, and read some of the announcements, and knew both were protagonists and required to beat the game. You can't even unlock all the knowledge in the game without Yasuke.

[5ean5ean]

Dang...can't get a refund if you made it that far.

[Darth Invader]

Also, OP gave a good review for the the game???

[Astray]

Its not like everyone talked about Yasuke for month, he is part of the story so obviously ur are forced to play with him at some point. You can still play only Naoe if you want for the rest of the game like 95% lmao stop crying

[Majoro Thom]

This is bait. The game is almost completely Naoe. You never have to play as Yasuke unless you picked canonical play through. Then that is on you because you obviously don't read the screen when playing your games.

[Volt]

Originally posted by MilesColtrane:

This is bait. The game is almost completely Naoe. You never have to play as Yasuke unless you picked canonical play through. Then that is on you because you obviously don't read the screen when playing your games.

That is actually incorrect, you can't progress further without completing the quest binded on Yasuke aka never be able to 100% finish the story.

[TH3R4BB!T]

Well, it was the same with Syndicate, you play mostly Evie and switch rarely to Jacob in the story. There was no other way to finish the story. Gladly here you have most of the time a choice. But I hate the game play of Yasuke, to brutal even for a Samurai, and he feels more like an after thought being added only to keep it 'political correct'.

[Gilgamesh]

There should be a mod to yeet Yasuke out of the game..

[Shin Happens]

Games should almost never force you to play as anyone or anything you do not want to play as. Found it annoying in GTA V (even if none of the characters were annoying), the first Insomniac Spider-Man game (where many complained about the mandatory Mary Jane sections and then they tripled down on being not Peter Parker in the sequel) or Syndicate (would have liked it if I could have been Evie all the way through)... here it's probably the least annoying version though, because the mandatory bits are rather short, still, it's bad form to force gamers to play as someone you'd rather not want to.

Just give players choice. All that being said: sometimes there can be very good narrative reasons to switch characters of course, it's never 100% "yay or nay" it depends on the context.

In Shadows I feel a dual protagonist is mostly not needed though, the game would have been virtually the same if you were only Naoe. Maybe they were scared (again) to make an AC game with only a female character. I mean they made Kassandra the canon choice in Odyssey, but analytics showed more people played as Alexios. In Origins Bayek's wife was the assassin and things point to Ubi originally wanting Aya to be the protagonist, but they chickened out.... They even gave Eivor a female name in Valhalla and made it very obvious who the canon choice is... still you could always be a male version of Eivor, albeit a man with a very female name.
And in Shadows they chickened out yet again. Only that the other protagonist now is so weird to have in an AC game and feels out of place from a gameplay mechanics pov.

[paulkneipp]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who doesn't like playing as Yasuke. My first thought was it was pretty cool to have dual protags and a samurai should be interesting. But he feels too tanky for an AC game and doesn't seem to fare any better than Naoe in open combat. I've only just got to the point where he comes back into the storyline and I really wasn't looking forward to having to play him half the time. I'll keep him for the necessary stuff or if I want to switch things up.

[The Frisian Algerian]

Originally posted by ☻DWN:

I hate that we are being forced to play as Yasuke for multiple story missions. I thought we are free to choose which character we want to play, then there are story missions that you need to use Yasuke to start them. Didn't buy this game for the black man. I want to play as Naoe because she's the proper assassin and this is Assassin's Creed.

Imagine all the people around the world who have been forced to play with whites every friggin time.
Give me some more black men please!

[The Former]

Let's all simmer down. It's not worth getting worked up over.

[Raider Deci]

It could certainly had been implemented better and doesnt fit at all with the open world & traversal in the game, but switching to another character is not exactly unusual in games and not worth getting worked up over