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The Assassin’s Creed Shadows dumpster fire burns on, and Japan isn’t having it. Some politicians are calling the game’s historical accuracy into question, a historical reenactment group is furious that Ubisoft stole their flag and issued a half-hearted apology, and now the drama around Yasuke being a historically accurate samurai seems to originate from a white guy trying to sell his book. You can’t make this up... ➡️ Tip Jar and Fan Support: http://ClownfishSupport.com ➡️ Official Merch Store: http://ShopClownfish.com ➡️ Official Website: http://ClownfishTV.com ➡️ Audio Edition: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qJc5C6OkQkaZnGCeuVOD1 Ubisoft’s new Assassin’s Creed game set in feudal Japan is facing backlash from Japan for historical inaccuracies and cultural misrepresentations. 00:00 Ubisoft’s new Assassin’s Creed game set in feudal Japan is facing backlash for historical inaccuracies and portrayal of characters. 02:31 Japan upset with Assassin’s Creed Shadows for cultural appropriation and historical inaccuracies based on a white author’s false information. 04:21 Japan is done with Assassin’s Creed Shadows due to historical inaccuracy and stolen flag controversy, but media will likely still promote the game. 06:19 Japan is upset about the misrepresentation of Yasuke in a book, leading to a petition and controversy over historical accuracy. 09:48 Japanese backlash prompts investigation into cultural theft of Assassin’s Creed Shadows due to historically inaccurate portrayal of samurai. 12:06 Japan disappointed with new Assassin’s Creed game, historical group demands removal of unauthorized flag use. 14:19 Japan is upset with Assassin’s Creed Shadows for misrepresenting their history and culture, and the game is likely to flop as a result. 15:36 Japan is done with Assassin’s Creed Shadows due to historical inaccuracies and cultural misrepresentations.Ubisoft’s new Assassin’s Creed game set in feudal Japan is facing backlash from Japan for historical inaccuracies and cultural misrepresentations. 00:00 Ubisoft’s new Assassin’s Creed game set in feudal Japan is facing backlash for historical inaccuracies and portrayal of characters. 02:31 Japan upset with Assassin’s Creed Shadows for cultural appropriation and historical inaccuracies based on a white author’s false information. 04:21 Japan is done with Assassin’s Creed Shadows due to historical inaccuracy and stolen flag controversy, but media will likely still promote the game. 06:19 Japan is upset about the misrepresentation of Yasuke in a book, leading to a petition and controversy over historical accuracy. 09:48 Japanese backlash prompts investigation into cultural theft of Assassin’s Creed Shadows due to historically inaccurate portrayal of samurai. 12:06 Japan disappointed with new Assassin’s Creed game, historical group demands removal of unauthorized flag use. 14:19 Japan is upset with Assassin’s Creed Shadows for misrepresenting their history and culture, and the game is likely to flop as a result. 15:36 Japan is done with Assassin’s Creed Shadows due to historical inaccuracies and cultural misrepresentations. About Us: Clownfish TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary channel that covers Entertainment and Tech from a consumer’s point of view. We talk about Gaming, Comics, Anime, TV, Movies, Animation and more. Hosted by Kneon and Geeky Sparkles. Disclaimer: This series is produced by Clownfish Studios and WebReef Media, and is part of ClownfishTV.com. Opinions expressed by our contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of our guests, affiliates, sponsors, or advertisers. ClownfishTV.com is an unofficial news source and has no connection to any company that we may cover. This channel and website and the content made available through this site are for educational, entertainment and informational purposes only. These so-called “fair uses” are permitted even if the use of the work would otherwise be infringing. #Games #Gami
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If you guys are unfamiliar with Clownfish TV, please check out the video versions of these episodes on the Clownfish TV YouTube channel and also on the Clownfish Gaming YouTube channel. Please subscribe for more podcast. Check out D-Res. That's our other podcast. The episode will begin in a couple of seconds. Thanks for listening. ♪♪♪ Hey, guys. Welcome back to Clownfish TV. This is neon. I am here with geeky sparkles. Hello. And we're going to talk about Assassin's Creed shadows. I have not talked about this game in a while because I really didn't care much for the drama, but now there's fresh drama. Fresh meat. Fresh meat. Fresh meat. There is lots of fresh drama around this game. We're going to talk about the Ubisoft disaster that is Assassin's Creed shadows. For those of you who don't know, this game is coming out. I believe this fall. It's supposed to be an out yet? No, it's not even out yet. It's supposed to be or was advertised as being like a historically accurate portrayal of feudal Japan, but we have a black samurai which people are having issues with. I think it's Yasuke who actually existed, but they don't, as I understand it, they don't know exactly what his historical context was, and then we got like a female assassin, and they're taking a lot of liberties with it, right? Because DEI. Because DEI. Yes. Let's be honest. And so gamers are like, yeah, why do we got to do this? We just wanted to historically accurate combat simulator. We wanted that. I'm not funny when you think about it. Because it's not, you know, I get it, but it's kind of funny. And so it blew up into this big thing. And then the, of course, the gaming media, the wonderful journos at the polygons and the katakas. Oh, you're all bigots. You're all white straight men. You're all white straight men. You all are. You hate women. You hate black people. That kind of thing. Yeah. Let's not pretend we're mad the new Assassin's Creed shadows. Samurai is an Asian as a typical headline. Because you're just mad because he's black. Also, I want to point out, you know, the same Hollywood, you know, groups that are behind things like we got to make Frost an Eskimo because, you know, she has ice powers or we have to make sure that Storm Shadow is, or I'm sorry, snake eyes is an Asian guy because it's racist to make it a white guy that knows martial arts. Right? He can't be a ninja. And that was the whole, that was the whole driving force of his character was he was an outsider. Yeah. Trust him. You know, rules for, you know, for me not for me. You know, every, every black character likes hip hop, you know, every, everything. It's like, it's so. Fried chicken. Tropy. Uh, so. Samurai like fried chicken. Oh my God. I don't know. Samurai like hip hop? I don't know. Oh my God. Yeah. They just like, they would. They would do it too. And they'd say, well, we're doing this for a cultural appreciation. It's like, what the fuck are you doing? So anyway, it gets worse, right? They tell everybody else that they made it white. It was cultural appropriation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then when they turned around and they were not, was it Cleopatra? Yeah. And they were like, you know, Asian samurai fighting assassin simulation game. But there have been. So many things. Anyway, there's backlash from Japan because they were like, yeah. Yeah. What are you doing? Like, this is not history. This is like when they, when they turned around and they were not, was it Cleopatra? Yeah. And they were like, you know, saying, well, oh, she was, you know, they made her black and they're like, but she was probably Greek. Like it wasn't, you know. Well, yeah. So, uh, Yasuke, apparently the guy who's pushing the narrative. This, this, this isn't apparently. It's a white dude. It's a white dude. The guy who's been pushing the narrative that he was this great samurai hero. And, uh, all these, all these outlets were because of Wikipedia got overwritten, right? That people went in and they tweaked Wikipedia to make, make them out to be this big deal. And the reality is like everybody knows he existed. People don't know exactly what he did. Some people thought he was, he might have just been a servant. And that was, that was it. Some people thought, you know, maybe he fought, but he wasn't samurai. You know, we don't really know. There's not a lot of information on this guy. Well, anyway, this, this dude, this white dude apparently wrote a book full of historical inaccuracies and then linked it on Wikipedia. And then the media started running with the Wikipedia narrative. And it all came from this author trying to pimp his book. So there's, there's that drama. But wait, there's more. Oh my God. There's more. Apparently Ubisoft stole a flag from a Japanese historical reenactment group and used it in the marketing for this historically inaccurate game. Oh my gosh. I, I, I can't see this thing just needs to just kill it. At this point in time, I don't know what they're going to save in this one. Oh, if only the Japanese, if only the Japanese had a word for committing self-deletion. Yeah. Like, well, the media, the media is going to be like, they're going to try to push this thing with all they got. Yeah. Get in teeth or what it releases. Because hundreds of millions of dollars. Like this is another AAA title from a studio that's hurrying right now. Hundreds of millions of dollars around the line. Why do they push so hard to demonize games? To demonize gamers who criticize this stuff because these AAA titles cost hundreds of millions of dollars and they spend some of that hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising on gaming sites. Mm-hmm. I mean, it's as simple as that. And then we've also got, you know, the, kind of the, the wild card, which is these bottom feeding journals that don't get paid enough to give a shit just causing as much damage as they can for political points and fist bumps and social media clout. And so there's a whole lot of issues going on here. I don't know how the game is going to do. Apparently the pre-orders are good. I don't, I don't care. This is one of those things where like, I don't care about the game, but the drama around it is absolutely fascinating. So let's try to make sense of what's going on. And I'm sorry. We don't do daily Assassin's Creed shadows videos over here. You know, so you'll have to bear with us. We're trying to play catch up. Before we get into it any further, please subscribe for more pop culture news, views and rants guys. Yeah. If you do. I'm glad to de-res. I actually have some gaming news out there. We're going to be ramping up podcast. So check it out on Amazon iTunes where we find find finer podcasts and ours. I don't know where to start. I don't know where to start. I think we'll start with this. Now again, this is, this is, I'm, I'm taking a face value. I can't verify this. So if this turns out to be untrue, don't shoot the messenger. But it's coming from manga lawyer. It said insane Thomas Locky, who is responsible for Japan's major deception about, uh, yasuke was caught editing Wikipedia since 2015. His since quit social media and claimed he will never play Assassin's Creed shadows portrayed as a hero by the media. He has now seen as Japan's biggest historical scammer. So yeah, he said, uh, all source information that referred to academic, uh, papers. So it said they, they deleted the papers because he would go into, I guess the Wikipedia articles as I understand it and link to his, his, his, his quote, quote historical book, the black samurai who survived Hanoji. Is it Hanoji? Oh, I don't know. He said, thank you for your support of the years due to hate mail connected with the Assassin's Creed, which I have nothing to do and have no intention of playing, but, but to do with, I think it's supposed to be, he's a writer, right? I have nothing to do. I wish I have nothing to do. I don't know. Maybe you need to unlock some, some fetch quests, uh, and have no intention of playing, but many people seem to think I'm responsible for. I'll be freezing this account. I hope not forever. Who knows? So again, as I, as I understand it, it's coming out that he basically used this situation to promote his book and a lot of people ran with his book as being the executive source of, of, uh, you know, uh, yasuke being this great important samurai. Now, Japan started a petition to demand that the Nihon University and Thomas Lockley, Lockier Lockley correct the misconception of, uh, yasuke. The truth always wins. This is the petition. They said there's a man from Japan. Okay. There's widespread misunderstanding of Japan's history. Uh, I said, well, the main reasons is this book published by this Thomas Lockley, an associate professor at Japan University, a white dude, by the way. Uh, he seems to admit this not fact of his own prediction. He talks about as much as if that were fact. So basically it's, he's, he's taking some liberties with history, kind of like Hamilton, which also had wrap in it. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Um, if this continues, the petition says the history of Japan will be established overseas in the wrong way. So we will collect signatures and ask Japan university and Mr. Rockley to respond. Um, says that there, there's sincere about Japan's history. They should be concerned that predictions. I'm saying speculation probably are not based on documents and we'll soon spread as facts. That's kind of what was going on, right? Yeah. Uh, yeah. Uh, yeah. So because of, because of that, because of his book being cited, apparently, everybody is running with his, his speculative work as being a work of a historical accuracy because something, something, something university, something, something changed it on, uh, Wikipedia. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Uh, so now the whole, the whole narrative is kind of coming unraveled again as I understand it. God, that, what is up with that face? That's that Netflix show. That's crazy. That looks like, uh, animal crossing in real life. That's my face. That's my look on. I'm on Twitter. I'm just like, what the hell. Pretty much. So bounding in the comics has an article here, backlash from Japanese players prompts national politician to investigate cultural theft of Assassin's Creed shadows. So they said, yeah, there are actually, there are politicians looking into it. One of, uh, two members of the independent party to protect people from NHK, a party whose platform is bill imposing the government's broadcasters, TV, all the mandatory licensing, feel, okay, whatever on July 11th. They retweet a post from a fellow Japanese Twitter user, summarizing the various issues local players have had with Assassin's Creed shadows presentation. So that's just how some of his buildings feature Chinese. Yeah, I did know that Chinese architecture and a game is supposed to be a historically accurate representation of feudal Japan or how a lowly servant can be seen, say on the same level as Nobunanga himself. When I was a kid, I saw the game, the ambition game, right, for NES and I thought it was Noah, Noah Bunga, like Calabunga, I was like, Noah Bunga is the ambition. That sounds pretty awesome. Noah Bunga, dudes, um, stop writing history. He's the most radical samurai ever. Go out to Wikipedia and change it. Sounds like, sounds like. Well, I thought it was like Ninja Turtles, right? Sounds like I was like Calabunga. Calabunga. Oh my god, that's what we're going to do. We're going to make a game called Noah Bunga and he's going to rap and we're going to say this is actually what happened in Japan. He wraps alongside the retweeted politician made a request for opinions from the general public. Yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda. I mean, this goes on and on. Like everybody's following this thing day by day, blow by blow, but the one short of it is Japan has noticed, right? They're not, they're not real happy, but it gets better. It gets better. Is this coming? They apologize for this. Not the other thing. Right. Okay. So this is coming from comic book resources. So now this whole thing has been, I mean, this has been snowballing for a couple months now. This even hits comic book resources, which normally would be a website that'd be like those bigots and Nazis don't like the historically inaccurate black. No, what's wrong? Really accurate, Wikipedia said so. They should. The book said so. He's my new. I was seeing no, no, no, I'm like, Oh my God. Oh my God. You're gonna know. No, I'm gonna do. I think a samurai in the turtle. Yeah. Oh my God. That'd be awesome. So anyway, this is that I'm going to butcher this. Okay. Let me try this. Second gahara tepo tie. Sorry. If he got it wrong, we don't speak. No, I'm going to do. Tepo tie. Okay. Japanese historical reenactment group has stated Ubisoft's recent apology for the unauthorized use of its flag and concept art for Assassin's Creed shows was not good enough. The group wants the developer to remove images of the flag from art from its art book for the game. Wow. I didn't know this happened. They said, yeah, they had their flag in the Assassin's Creed collector's edition art book. Well, they can't exactly remove that. They already put it. Did they release the book? Yeah. I think so. Um, well, I think that they're already, they're probably going to press because right it takes a couple months to print this stuff, right? We've asked Ubisoft to remove the image from the collector's edition art book. I'm not sure this will be possible. I've contacted Ubisoft through their support through their support Ubisoft's apology post originally appeared on July 8th on the official account. God, all this stuff has happened and I have not been paying attention because I don't give a shit about this game. But if it was called no Abunga's radical ambition, I totally would play it. The developer confirmed that used the flag in two instances of concept art besides the flag featured in the physical art book of the collector's edition of Assassin's Creed Shadows Ubisoft really revealed it will discontinue it moving forward. Yeah. But next to the bottom, they said we would even notify the two incidences about the flag that have been used that permission and publicized in concept art for the game. We were given the opportunity to apologize to the group and they accept it except for its inclusion in the collector edition art book. The artwork will not be used or distributed beyond the state. Okay. So they said they said they were sorry and it won't be an art book, but now they said they wanted out of the art book. Uh, yeah. Well, I don't know how they're going to manage that one. Sorry, but it's already printed and put and sent out. I don't know how they're going to be. Well, this isn't, this isn't going to help their case any though, right? Like, Hey, we're the good guys. We're trying to be as diverse and inclusive as possible. So here we have a historical reenactment group saying, you know, bullshit. You took our flag. Here we have Japanese politicians saying, Hey, we have a white dude trying to rewrite our history and we have one dude who conveniently enough kind of looks like Tom Cruise, right? But he's deciding that this is this is Japan's history, right? Uh, I mean, this is like, this is a disaster on so many levels and then what's got happened is the game is going to come out and it's going to be mid and people won't buy it because it's mid. Like most normal people do not know this is going on there to be like, Oh, new Assassin's Creed game. Oh, it's got samurai ninjas and stuff. They're not going to kill. I mean, that's the truth, but they're going to think it's a little weird, you know, but they're just going to think it says, Oh, it's true. Okay. It's a true story. Okay. Why are there? Why are there? No, why are there no Japanese men in the story about the samurai during a set place and taking place in feudal Japan? Why can't we just make another Tenshu game? Tenshu was pretty good. I like Tenshu. As long as they're clear that this is based very, very loosely on historical events, like, you know, Netflix needs to have that disclaimer too. Like, no, no, no, the queen of England in the 1700s. She wasn't actually black. Yeah. Patrick was black. Oh, no, no, no, no, they didn't actually rap. Yeah. So let's wrap this up. Yep. All right, please subscribe for more pop culture news views and rants. We'll talk later. No, bunga dudes. No bugga dudes. Thanks again for listening. More news and videos are available on our website at www.clownfishtv.com and on our YouTube channel, ClownfishTV. You can buy official merchandise, clownfish comic books and more at shopclownfish.com. If you like this show, please consider subscribing and leaving us a positive review on iTunes and other podcast platforms. If you're looking to help support this show financially, go to clownfishsupport.com. If you'd like to sponsor an episode of this show, send us an email at business@webrief.io. 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