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Forbes
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Assassin's Creed Shadows' Has A Yasuke Problem, No Not That One
Assassin's Creed Shadows Ubisoft It is hard to remember a more exhausting set of controversies than the ones that have surrounded Assassin's Creed Shadows since it was announced, focused on culture war-centric issues that have only become more inflamed in recent months. Much of that focus is on the inclusion of Yasuke, a black samurai pulled from history. The accusations have ranged from the claim he wasn't a real samurai to the idea that the game just should have starred a Japanese man instead. Now at launch, they range from the fact that he can seduce a royal ancestor or a non-binary character. All of this is nonsense. Yasuke is a great character in the story and a net benefit to the narrative. But there are certainly criticisms to be had about him from a gameplay perspective specifically. Throw all that other stuff in the trash and you have the real problem: Ubisoft has done it once again with a dual-character setup in a game that doesn't need one. This time, they split it not just by gender, but by an entire playstyle, with the second creating some awkward design moments, frequently. Yasuke is a sledgehammer. He runs into bandit camps and castles and just starts swinging giant katanas or maces around. He has close to zero stealth capabilities, even his one assassination move has him yelling at an enemy to get them to turn around before he drives a blade completely through their chest cavity. This can be fun! If you temporarily forget what kind of game this is supposed to be, it turns encounters into sort of an action brawler. Yasuke ragdoll kicking enemies into walls will never get old. AC Shadows Ubisoft But the world is not built for Yasuke. He's incredibly slow in traversal, huffing and puffing down paths, unable to skip across rooftops or grapple hook his way to high perches. He can't even fit through cracks in walls. This creates so many uncomfortable moments. For instance, I cleared out an entire hostile temple with Yasuke's brawling, but then tasked with getting high-up lost pages in the arena, I simply couldn't climb to get them. I had to change to Naoe, but because it was a restricted zone, I had to literally run outside, change to Naoe, then come back in and start climbing around for pages. Then leave and go back to Yasuke to keep playing with him. This happens with a lot of vision towers as well. It's true that Assassin's Creed, in recent entries, has gotten more and more friendly with open combat with characters like Kassandra or Eivor. But the point is, they could do both. No character switch for quests or even within the same literal encounter. Here, while Yasuke can be fun, he feels like he's pulled from an entirely different game, and they had to design like 20% of Shadows specifically for him, while the rest seems far more suited to Naoe. It's a really weird dynamic. Yasuke is a great character in the story. Combat with him can be fun in a vacuum. But in the larger context of the game's design, he's an puzzle piece that doesn't quite fit. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
《刺客教條：暗影者》戰鬥引《柏德之門3》發行總監盛讚：「近年最好的《刺客教條》戰鬥系統！」
在兩度延期之後，遊戲大廠 Ubisoft 在上市前飽受爭議的《刺客教條：暗影者》（Assassin's Creed Shadows）終於在 20 日正式推出，並且也迅速突破了百萬玩家遊玩的里程碑。而《柏德之門3》的發行總監也盛讚，《刺客教條：暗影者》的戰鬥系統是近年的《刺客教條》遊戲中最優秀的，他也很喜歡這次重大變革與重新引入的反擊系統。 廣受玩家讚譽的《柏德之門3》發行總監 Cromwelp 在近期《刺客教條：暗影者》上市之後也馬上回到日本戰國時代體驗遊戲。他還特別發 X 表示，真的很喜歡《刺客教條：暗影者》的戰鬥系統，並認為這次的戰鬥體驗讓人感覺很緊湊、精確。Cromwelp 也指出，一直以來《刺客教條》系列的反擊系統都讓他懷念，也很開心這次終於回歸了，「這是多年來最好的《刺客教條》戰鬥系統！」 I really like the combat in AC Shadows. It feels tight and deliberate, with a welcome return to the clear counter system I missed. Best AC combat system in years. — Very AFK (@Cromwelp) March 20, 2025 而雖然《刺客教條：暗影者》在上市之前就飽受許多爭議而引起大家的討論，也不被玩家社群看好，但在 20 日上市之後 Ubisoft 就馬上宣布，遊戲已經突破百萬玩家遊玩，並且在 Steam 上也突破了 4 萬玩家同上遊玩，寫下《刺客教條》系列在 Steam 上的最好成績。 緊貼最新科技資訊、網購優惠，追隨 Yahoo Tech 各大社交平台！ 🎉📱 Tech Facebook： 🎉📱 Tech Instagram： 🎉📱 Tech WhatsApp 社群： 🎉📱 Tech WhatsApp 頻道： 🎉📱 Tech Telegram 頻道：
Forbes
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
It's Abundantly Clear The ‘Assassin's Creed Shadows' Controversies Are Nothing
AC Shadows Now that Assassin's Creed Shadows has launched and players and critics have gotten their hands on the game, they've discovered something: This is an Assassin's Creed game. It's fine, even pretty good, but this is simply nothing out of the ordinary for the series, even if many would have you believe otherwise. The narrative about the game was drowned by social media accusations of it being 'woke' by using black samurai Yasuke as one of its two leads, and while that drama farming was always ridiculous, it is even more so when you play the game and realize that there's nothing remotely controversial about any of this, his inclusion, how he's portrayed, or what liberties may have been taken with the character in a series where Leonardo Da Vinci builds you a hang glider and you fist-fight the Pope. This story is not all that dissimilar to what we saw years ago with Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai or more recently, our good friend the Anjin in Shogun, two characters that drew far less controversy because well, you know. I'd argue that Yasuke's story is more interesting because of his race and the dynamic that creates within Japanese society, and his place and ascension within it. Assassin's Creed Shadows If Assassin's Creed Shadows has a Yasuke problem, it may just be that the story is not exactly split evenly between him and Naoe, as there is much of the game he cannot interact with, nor is he granted her level of stealth powers that are a series trademark. But that's a design problem, and has nothing to do with who he is and the character's inclusion in the game. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder I've seen some pivots to other 'woke' aspects, which are things like the option to form non-straight romances with characters, an optional path. To me, this speaks not to how games have gotten more 'woke,' but how weird and nonsensical this sort of pushback has become. Remember Mass Effect, the nearly 20 year old series everyone likes that has been doing this kind of thing for eons? Games haven't changed, these commentators and fans have, which have become a pit of rage-baiting Twitter users and YouTubers and their audiences making something out of literally nothing time and time again. And while this happens all the time, this time, now that the game is here, it's just so clear how this has been beyond manufactured when Shadows' worst sin is perhaps being too similar to other Assassin's Creed games, not taking enough risks. You can say 'well none of this matters,' but it does matter. Ubisoft is taking steps to protect its employees from harassment due to the hostility surrounding this release that can target not just the company, but individual developers. Again, for what? Because Ubisoft is using a historical figure to tell a story that has already been told similarly in other media with white guys? That the Japanese representation is a woman, not a Jin Sakai Tsushima samurai? This is utter nonsense, and discourse about practically any new game on the market has become so toxic that staying off the internet entirely is the only wait avoid it. But good luck with that. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
