It's Done: Yasuke is not a Samurai

[Meow]

I was banned from AC Shadows forum for this post.

Ubisoft ''Yasuke: a real life Samurai'' ''We are looking for our non Japanese Eyes''.

This video Breaks down Japans view of all this and He says he will go through the original records too.

Thomas Lockley : ''He was given a sword'' '' it's up for debate'' wow. That's it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU8IdaxHo1Q

15 mins in video below: ''All the recorded battles from birth all the way up until his death and in those battles with a list of all the Samurais that had served under Oda Nobunaga, Yasuke is no where to be found, i'm sorry it's not in the historical record at all.''

"What we know of Yasuke as a Historical figure is that he is an attendant (Kosho)''

A Kosho could also be a Page boy but in this context it's Attendant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSdy1ZoQNzw

[Lamiosa]

I still wonder if Ubisoft eben has the copyrights for Thomas Lockleys fictional story.
Was a clever trick to say it was historical to circumvent the use of "Yasuke the Samurai" as fiction.

[Meow]

lol Yeah imagine writing

''Yasuke: real life Samurai''

''went to great lengths consulting source documentations, network of expert historians, professors etc.''

''the fascinating facts though are indisputable''

And then wondering why people would have got the idea he was a samurai.

And they went to great lengths, when they could of just made up a fictional samurai, literally picked any of the real Samurai or focused on Naoe as a stealth Ninja since that's the DNA of Assassin Creed.

Why go to such a great length?

[Renigen]

Yasuke was not just a samurai, but an assassin too. Only the bad assassins end up in pages of history. Yasuke was so good, he avoided it altogether.

[Lamiosa]

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lol Yeah imagine writing

''Yasuke: real life Samurai''

''went to great lengths consulting source documentations, network of expert historians, professors etc.''

''the fascinating facts though are indisputable''

And then wondering why people would have got the idea he was a samurai.

I wonder who even takes this whole stuff serious... Old writings and japanese historican never told about a Samurai named Yasuke or a great person named Yasuke who changed Japans history.
And suddenly in the time of DEI some western guy comes and tells a whole story, as if he knows Japan history better than Japanese themselves.

[H-Foundry PIXIV]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Meow:

Thomas Lockley : ''He was given a sword'' '' it's up for debate''

Lockley was fired from his job by the Japanese government for being a shill plant working for western leftist devs. He was there to embellish the idea of Yasuke actually being a Samurai which the left would then reference back to, which is how we got that wiki edit-war where shills were embellishing the page and other re-editing back to realistic levels.

Even now the wiki page still embellish that he was actually a samurai and cite Lockley and another author who only released his book in 2024 haha. Full shill re-writing of history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke

[Meow]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Renigen:

Yasuke was not just a samurai, but an assassin too. Only the bad assassins end up in pages of history. Yasuke was so good, he avoided it altogether.

There's a reason why the current emperor of japan couldve been black.

[Lamiosa]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Meow:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Renigen:

Yasuke was not just a samurai, but an assassin too. Only the bad assassins end up in pages of history. Yasuke was so good, he avoided it altogether.

There's a reason why the current emperor of japan couldve been black.

Don't give Thomas Lockley the idea to declare him black.

[Meow]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Lamiosa:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Meow:

lol Yeah imagine writing

''Yasuke: real life Samurai''

''went to great lengths consulting source documentations, network of expert historians, professors etc.''

''the fascinating facts though are indisputable''

And then wondering why people would have got the idea he was a samurai.

I wonder who even takes this whole stuff serious... Old writings and japanese historican never told about a Samurai named Yasuke or a great person named Yasuke who changed Japans history.
And suddenly in the time of DEI some western guy comes and tells a whole story, as if he knows Japan history better than Japanese themselves.

And here's the thing though, like that guy mentions they could of had him been an informant for Assassins / Naoe and STILL been in the game But they wanted to have Specifically as the main star the legendary samurai.

[Lamiosa]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Meow:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Lamiosa:

I wonder who even takes this whole stuff serious... Old writings and japanese historican never told about a Samurai named Yasuke or a great person named Yasuke who changed Japans history.
And suddenly in the time of DEI some western guy comes and tells a whole story, as if he knows Japan history better than Japanese themselves.

And here's the thing though, like that guy mentions they could of had him been an informant for Naoe But they wanted to have him as the main star the legendary samurai.

Oh we were already there how Ubisoft had both included him and made it better. They could also introduce Yasuke as DLC, spin-off or low-budget game made by another company.

But they decided to risk their million dollar project, which could have sold really well (Japan is a easy win for an AC), by not making a Japanese the MC and even anger Japanese themselves with a couple of bad decisions.
So what they get now they deserved well.

[Meow]

Oprindeligt skrevet af H-Foundry PIXIV:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Meow:

Thomas Lockley : ''He was given a sword'' '' it's up for debate''

Lockley was fired from his job by the Japanese government for being a shill plant working for western leftist devs. He was there to embellish the idea of Yasuke actually being a Samurai which the left would then reference back to, which is how we got that wiki edit-war where shills were embellishing the page and other re-editing back to realistic levels.

Even now the wiki page still embellish that he was actually a samurai and cite Lockley and another author who only released his book in 2024 haha. Full shill re-writing of history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke

That guy in the video mentioned he went to Japan and tried to Push Yasuke the legendary Samurai on JAPAN in one story also apparently then told a diff story to the west. After Ubisoft announced the game, Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia, Smithsonian etc. all changed their pages. Then the Social Media Mob started gas lighting everyone that this guy was a REAL Legendary Samurai Hero of Japan.

[Meow]

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Oprindeligt skrevet af Meow:

There's a reason why the current emperor of japan couldve been black.

Don't give Thomas Lockley the idea to declare him black.

In AC Shadows You can get with The current Emperor of Japans direct ancestor who was Married and renowned for her Loyalty according to Japanese. I swear this has to be some kind of Jab at Japan lmao.

[Lamiosa]

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Oprindeligt skrevet af Lamiosa:

Don't give Thomas Lockley the idea to declare him black.

In AC Shadows You can get with The current Emperor of Japans direct ancestor who was Married and renowned for her Loyalty according to Japanese. I swear this has to be some kind of Jab at Japan lmao.

There are so many strikes against Japan, that it is hard to think it was just stupidity and not target attack on Japanese culture. But who knows, it is Ubisoft and they failed so many times with their games.

[Meow]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Lamiosa:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Meow:

And here's the thing though, like that guy mentions they could of had him been an informant for Naoe But they wanted to have him as the main star the legendary samurai.

Oh we were already there how Ubisoft had both included him and made it better. They could also introduce Yasuke as DLC, spin-off or low-budget game made by another company.

But they decided to risk their million dollar project, which could have sold really well (Japan is a easy win for an AC), by not making a Japanese the MC and even anger Japanese themselves with a couple of bad decisions.
So what they get now they deserved well.

That's true everyone had been asking for AC Shadows since atleast AC: Black Flag, and they never done it, and then all these Samurai games came out, still easiest win just copy Ghost of Sushi. or the best parts. Make a Japanese MC profit. Yeah they sure wanted to make gamers uncomfortable. They easily burnt $600 million on this game, 300m for dev budget cause their studio is as bloated with dei hires as their games with boring. then you need another 200-300m for advertising and everything else, delays, pre order cancellations etc.
No wonder their stock went from $85 to $13

[Meow]

Oprindeligt skrevet af H-Foundry PIXIV:

Even now the wiki page still embellish that he was actually a samurai and cite Lockley and another author who only released his book in 2024 haha. Full shill re-writing of history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke

One of the references in that page is a source for Female Sumo Wrestler. It's all so forced.

[Meow]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Lamiosa:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Meow:

In AC Shadows You can get with The current Emperor of Japans direct ancestor who was Married and renowned for her Loyalty according to Japanese. I swear this has to be some kind of Jab at Japan lmao.

There are so many strikes against Japan, that it is hard to think it was just stupidity and not target attack on Japanese culture. But who knows, it is Ubisoft and they failed so many times with their games.

Considering they spent so much money on teams of Consultants & networks of professionals and historians, it wouldn't surprise me that all those strikes like tori gate, using Chinese architecture etc. could simply be stupidity, but then again dei hires who knows,