Assassin's Creed

Didn't know we had a Yasuke expert here in the forums to grace us with his presence. Seems to be a lot of them in the past 24 hrs outta nowhere.

High time someone burned all copies of Shogun and canceled the TV series.

*quietly shelves talk about how Kassandra shouldn't have had nearly the same gameplay as Alexios if we're worried about historical accuracy*

Besides, hasn't it been hinted that Yasuke will have trouble with "social" stealth as well (which I can only assume means increased suspicion in cutscenes and gameplay, potentially being locked out from certain areas etc) compared to Naoe, and not just being less stealthy because he's a samurai and she's a shinobi? Maybe those very concerns about him not being Japanese are touched upon in the game

The new/old "I'm just asking questions!"

It is interesting, I do wonder how they'd approach it. With all these Yasuke experts coming out there was some interesting details about him being a retainer to Nobunaga and thus having a higher status compared to most Japanese people. They could potentially use that angle as a means of just excusing NPC behaviour to treat him as any other person. The fact there's two protaganists, one someone native to the country and one an outsider being brought up into the culture, could be an interesting story dynamic if they chose to. But I haven't been bowled over by AC story lately and supposedly the writers for this did Odyssey which, I couldn't even tell you most of what happens in that game. They do Yasuke will be the more combat heavy character so maybe he will be not as stealthy.

Mirage still not available on Steam then. Boo.

RACIALLY PURE GAMES FOR RACIALLY PURE PEOPLE

I know, I was just emulating your comical outrage. I feel better now.

Yes, just like I and many others did when the game was an action RPG called Nioh. I don't remember seeing nearly as much outrage about the other foreigner protagonist back then, either...

Yeah, because Connor/Ratonhnhaké:ton, that member of a marginalized (at the time and place) group fighting alongside famous and celebrated people and making a major mark in AC's version of history is completely different from *checks notes* Yasuke, this member of a marginalized (at the time and place) group fighting alongside famous and celebrated people and making a major mark in AC's version of history...

Or, again, Kassandra having the exact same gameplay as Alexios (and even being the canon protagonist, so you can't argue that they wrote the game around a man and then tossed her in, in fact literally the opposite happened because some idiot in management was afraid she wouldn't sell) in a setting where the historical and strictly enforced gender rules would mean it wouldn't even be close...

AC has always taken liberties with its "historical accuracy" for the sake of gameplay, it's only just now that it's become such a major problem? I wonder why /s

Correct, and in fact there is an actual legitimate complaint that, if they're going with actual historical people this time rather than fictional characters that "were there, shaped history", as it were, Yasuke didn't actually do that much historically, there's debate around whether he was even given the title of samurai, there's like a hundred native Japanese men of that time period they could have chosen for the male protagonist instead etc etc. But don't act like a good majority of the complaints aren't coming from ill-informed and/or racist people focusing only on that one specific aspect of Yasuke's skin color (or even denying his historical existence) and nothing else...

/Looks at Japanese developer make a series of games about US politics its imperialism and its nuclear policy, also 1960s Soviet politics as well as their invasion into Afghanistan, African child soldiers who are led by a white kid and the blood diamond trade.

Reading the last few pages about historical accuracy has just reminded me about Genji's giant enemy crab.

Funny, I saw outcry about katanas this time too, except it was more like "katanas in that time weren't used for combat, they were only a status symbol, other weapons were used instead" (those also exist in the game, btw), "how dare they reeee-"... Even if that's true (and it very well could be!), where the hell were these complaints when damn near every piece of media set in those time periods, including the Japan-made ones, featured katanas all over the place because they're so iconic at this point? Surely there's enough legitimate grievances that can be levelled against Ubisoft games without having to resort to crap like that??

The points you raise have absolutely nothing to do with gameplay. They're either marketing or narrative fiction reasons. As you point out, the gameplay remains the same regardless of the choices.