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⌈ Secret Post #6341 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Controversial opinion.s

[(Anonymous)]

It DOES suck that the male protag in the Japan based Assassin's Creed is not Japanese. Male Asian characters are severely underrepresented in wester games and it reeks of racism (and kinda cultural appropriation) to choose this random black dude over a Japanese man as a protag. And no, the female kunoichi doesn't count as the Japanese representation because Asian women are not even remotely as underrepresented as Asian men on account of the massive fetishising going on.
They could have made Yasuke an important NPC, as they usually do with historical/inspired by historical people. But no, they chose to erase Japanese characters in a Japan based game.

Re: Controversial opinion.s

[(Anonymous)]

I always take issue with these sorts of takes because IMO (as a non-Japanese Asian American) it feeds more into white supremacy and anti-blackness than it does into anti-Asian propaganda.

Re: Controversial opinion.s

[(Anonymous)]

I disagree. And I also think that this argument is exactly why Ubisoft did this, because by choosing a black character over a Japanese one, they ensured that nobody can rightfully criticise this choice/this game in general without getting the white supremacist/anti black accusations thrown at them AND they got free outrage publicity.
There was no reason other than that to choose a non-Japanese character.

Re: Controversial opinion.s

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. "They made this character in an Asian setting black because they think Asians aren't POC enough" is a strawman, and almost always means you just don't want a black character. I assume most other characters in this game set in Japan are Japanese; there are black people in Japan (source: I live here), you should be able to deal with one black character.

Re: Controversial opinion.s

[(Anonymous)]

It's irrelevant that there are black people in Japan. The whole thing about AC games was that the main characters are people from the country the game takes place in. Only the second they go for an Asian setting, they throw this overboard and choose a non-native character, it fucking sucks and it's definitely weird.