It was great until...

[Kelso]

The introduction of Yasuke into the game. Forget all the hate till now about him, this character feels like it was made to just feel like the worst character you could ever play as in an assassins creed game. Honestly the game would be a solid 7.5/10 but the more they push yasuke the more that score drops.

Yes, I'm aware you can choose to play a Naoe in pretty much all options but there is things that are 100% meant to be played as yasuke and it just ruins the game overall. Ghost of Tsushima literally laid out a damn near perfect blueprint to follow for an assassin samurai and ubi still managed to give us the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that is yasuke.

[sensei]

"but you dont have to play him, its optional, dont be a bigot"

[Ken10]

Yasuke is one of the best things about this game for me lmao. His story is way more interesting until the Assassin stuff starts and I've played him way more than Naoe unless it makes me or it seems like fun to play as her for a mission or two.

I think it makes the gameplay loop more enjoyable and the story more interesting having two characters who have their own strengths rather than one character who's somehow a jack of all trades like in most games.

[Ragnar Random]

i dont particularly like yasuke's gameplay either. his story is somewhat interesting, and i get why they included it cuz it's an interesting bit of history from the time period, and ac games have always taken historical events and turned them upside.
but his gameplay doesn't feel good, and i play with him only when i have to for his story missions. i'm glad they included him tho, just to p1ss of the trumpists.

[Coffee Addict]

he feels like he was added at the last minute it feels like ubisoft saw ghost of tsushima and thought they could do that too except worse, naoe feels great to play as if most of the dev time was spent on her

[TH3R4BB!T]

At least Yasuke gets to meet the pretty girls, that is the only plus

[Ragnar Random]

Originally posted by TH3R4BB!T:

At least Yasuke gets to meet the pretty girls, that is the only plus

no way dude, the lady with the gun that you can bang as naoe is pretty

[Lucifer Verone]

Yasuke was unnecessary to be in this game. This was clearly done as a move to rail people up and not in a good way. Youre telling me out of everyone in Japans history the one black man was your protagonist and a woman who doesnt exist?

[Coffee Addict]

Originally posted by Lucifer Verone:

Youre telling me out of everyone in Japans history the one black man was your protagonist and a woman who doesnt exist?

thats the way every AC game is though we always play as fictional characters who meet real people from the games time period. yasuke is the first "historical" character we get to play in the series and records are so scarce almost nothing is known about him so ubisoft saw it as the perfect excuse

it was a dumb move on ubisofts part but when has ubisoft not done dumb moves

[NecroMaster]

Originally posted by Coffee Addict:

Originally posted by Lucifer Verone:

Youre telling me out of everyone in Japans history the one black man was your protagonist and a woman who doesnt exist?

thats the way every AC game is though we always play as fictional characters who meet real people from the games time period. yasuke is the first "historical" character we get to play in the series and records are so scarce almost nothing is known about him so ubisoft saw it as the perfect excuse

it was a dumb move on ubisofts part but when has ubisoft not done dumb moves

That’s what I’ve been saying.

Oda had many retainers not just yasuke and many retainers who’s names were not well known.

You could’ve possibly played a fictional retainer you could customize which would’ve been much better as no assassins creed game has let you do that before.

[WESTG4M3R4L1F3]

ont s'en colice

[GurneyH]

The original idea they had for the story would have been better I think, rather than what we got.

[Ansgar Odinson]

Originally posted by sensei:

"but you dont have to play him, its optional, dont be a bigot"

I wish this were true.

I actually liked their portrayal of Yauske and his story was compelling. But playing him is total @SS and much of the game forces you to do so.

[Kisama]

Originally posted by Ragnar Random:

i dont particularly like yasuke's gameplay either. his story is somewhat interesting, and i get why they included it cuz it's an interesting bit of history from the time period, and ac games have always taken historical events and turned them upside.
but his gameplay doesn't feel good, and i play with him only when i have to for his story missions. i'm glad they included him tho, just to p1ss of the trumpists.

"history" You forgot the part where the guy they hired for the "history" was proven to be making up tons of information.

[Kisama]

Originally posted by Coffee Addict:

Originally posted by Lucifer Verone:

Youre telling me out of everyone in Japans history the one black man was your protagonist and a woman who doesnt exist?

thats the way every AC game is though we always play as fictional characters who meet real people from the games time period. yasuke is the first "historical" character we get to play in the series and records are so scarce almost nothing is known about him so ubisoft saw it as the perfect excuse

it was a dumb move on ubisofts part but when has ubisoft not done dumb moves

Not only is almost nothing known about him, they made up a bunch of stuff and presented it as fact.

[Lucifer Verone]

Originally posted by Coffee Addict:

Originally posted by Lucifer Verone:

Youre telling me out of everyone in Japans history the one black man was your protagonist and a woman who doesnt exist?

thats the way every AC game is though we always play as fictional characters who meet real people from the games time period. yasuke is the first "historical" character we get to play in the series and records are so scarce almost nothing is known about him so ubisoft saw it as the perfect excuse

it was a dumb move on ubisofts part but when has ubisoft not done dumb moves

exactly, and majority have been native to their respective countries and represent the culture of the land. Not Yasuke who was a foreigner.