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Black Samurai in New Assassin's Creed: Woke or Not?

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0:00 dude it looks good there's your main character wait they're mad because he's black that's a black guy why he's not just black is he gay [Laughter] [Music] too okay guys the new Assassin's Creed trailer just dropped and um people are obviously upset about something why where does it oh I know why you tell me what you think they're upet about during the Civil War time Assassin's Creed or yeah it is bro that's crazy damn cuz I know so much about why did you spit Your no it's a it's it's it's Japanese Assassin Creed here just just watch the trailer and then uh you tell me you tell me why you

0:50 think people are so up in arms about this ████ Ubisoft I love ubis you do nobody oh ████ well that's the actor oh no the Mongols oh no oh damn it looks so good oh what oh she's a oh cuz they made her a girl now I made him a girl now she doing Kung Fu oh wow dang man the graphics looks sick the transition this looks like a sick game wow knows there's no gameplay for the jet though that's what it it's not gaml that's why they're always mad oh man

1:41 it's dude it looks good there's your main character wait they're mad because he's black that's a black guy why he's not just black is he gay too hey why is that funny cuz the Dei ████ that everyone's doing they're like oh Assassin's Creed is woke dude that's ████ how can you be mad at that that's so sick you guys ever watch afro samide it's like the same thing will you continue down that River hell yeah yes or no or choose another path so there I think it's dual main characters it's this girl and it's him is it two different worlds together I

2:34 see are they mad that it wasn't a white guy can we make them ████ they're like ████ dolls push theirin like it should have been a oh thank you oh so people are people are mad that um I mean here let's let's let's go over that is ████ sick dude the very at the very B look at she's like mama is a black man that's take picture I never seen a black guy before at the very base level people are mad that it that it's woke which I think is kind of stupid a level above that they're mad that uh that out of all the characters they could have chosen they picked yasuke which is historically a black samurai who really did exist yeah and that the other character is a girl okay so okay do you know I don't like the girl one I don't like the girl feels Dei but that the people about

3:26 that on another level but before wokeness if this came out people just still been like that's dope dude you know what the number one thing I've noticed in uh gaming developers and people that come out with these new games where they start changing up the characters if it's not like a white male character everybody it's always comment sections where they're like oh it's woke blah blah blah blah blah it's been like the trend for almost every type of media now but if this was like Tom Cruz Last Samurai do you think people would still complain like it's well maybe they would they would complain the other way oh that it's like whitewashing but the thing it has nothing to do with that it's it's a game dude like why do people care about if they change the Avatar of the main character now it's a I'm upset is people are bored look as always right like it's like God damn man you guys take this ████ so seriously so ████

4:16 serious but if it was if it was Assassin's Creed right they almost didn't need to like they could have create they could have made it like a all Japanese theme it's Assassin's Creed it would have worked out but I think it's actually smart to to use the yasa character cuz everyone's been wanting a yasa character and and it satisfies every black weebs Dream well I remember they did they they did an Assassin's Creed game that I really liked where it was a I think it was a Native American dude and it was like I forgot what the era was it was a it was like um the 1776 people were yeah but but I don't think that's like would that be considered woke if they chose that to follow a character who I think you're right about that though it's like it's only woke because it's happening now I think like you're right like if 20 years ago they had this for ████ Super

5:08 NES nobody would bat an eye they would just be like sick I also think because um nowadays people are bored and they are so quick to jump on something when you change a race when you change the gender when you blah blah blah some of these game developers might even know that and might be baiting them to like comment yeah for sure that's obviously but in in general though I think people have been wanting a Yas story like yeah I think there's people that want this that's the thing this is a historical character that so like woke to me is like it's like if you're if you're going to buy NBA 2K or whatever the ████ black mamba Edition and then they're like Kobe Bryant is a woman that to me is what woke became it's like wait why are they recasting this yeah it's inaccurate whereas this is just like hey this is a real character yeah plus it's a unique story which you would think makes for like a

5:59 good what was that recent one that came out um the Battle of sushima Island oh yeah ghost of tsushima yeah yeah that one was like a sick ass well then that's that's what's cool is that there's also that so if you don't want this there's other choices but this one's the Assassin's Creed like brand so they're just and there's a reason why Brands like this out sell Dynasty Warriors that's been completely Chinese for how long doesn't sell and they're not buying that ████ in that was a cool game there's almost there's another game where the almost the exact same thing happened and it's Star Wars and they came out with this new like type of game where you could play as the main character and she's a woman and same it's the same ████ I'm like dude it doesn't matter when we were playing Tomb Raider nobody give a ████ she's bouncing all over the ████ place well Stellar blade it's a woman everyone ████ loves it dude when Mulan came out nobody

6:50 says woke it's like starring a woman first woke Disney I mean most Disney films were starring women yeah that's true they're all princesses and ████ but then they're like like now they're saying it's woke but it's like dude you guys are literally just like feeding into this weird which I think which I think is the intention again like I think they love that because the game hasn't come out yet so they don't even know if it's good but then this is generating enough discussion for people now we know about the game so it worked it's so woke to where no one's going to watch it like Disney ████ oh yeah different that's I'm excited to play it and I can kind of see where I mean these days there's more of a push for minorities and women to take a lead so I guess that's where it might be kind of w it's literally just a trend but this looks like a good ████ game like it doesn't look like that's what they're leading with and that's all they got

7:41 don't buy it right and it's not it's not weird to put I don't know why like some people who maybe they don't play games and they're just like why would they make a a girl the character it's like every ninja or Samurai story has a like anime they all have a kunoichi somewhere in it my favorite is when the guys that are trying to defend against people calling them uh like cuz they're like oh you just must hate women or something and then they're like no I don't hate women I just think that uh they should focus more on the plot and they they try to make up some ████ no that's that's stupid because when I started playing games right and then my buddy was like yo man you got to make a hot character I'm like why and he goes cuz when you're like when you're doing like the ████ when you're in the realm and you're playing with other online right he goes they give you ████ ████ give you they just he goes

8:32 you just walk around and they give you weapons they give you all that and I'm all like damn but like I want a guy character and he goes are you gay and I'm all like why and he goes you want to stare at a man all day and I was like back feel conflicted that was Saints Row after that I always make girls in hot girls all day and they were my gang boss and I'm like you are so right it is way better watching a hot girl run around all day than a buff dude listen I never understood more the female plight than having a female character in Grand Theft otama it's like Jesus Christ who never gets any dialogue you guys are catfishing it's like these guys don't leave you alone I had to reroll another dude I had to roll as a dude cuz I was like I can't do this ████ getting too much attention I got these little kids following me around Saints Row is really fun because they have pre-recorded dialogue depending on if you make it a

9:22 girl there's three different voices you can pick so it could be like a Latina sounding girl and the main character has loads of dialogue so you'll pick your if it's a guy or girl and then you pick out of three different vocal styles but then like if you beat the game I think you can pick a zombie and then his dialogue is always in all the cut scenes but then everyone talks him like normal it's like pretty sick like he's having a conversation with yeah I really don't think it's it's not that big of a deal because if the game is really good and the story is cool that who gives a ████ yeah but honestly I'm probably not even going to play that game I I'm not a big fan I think there's bigger things to be mad about and it's with like Ubisoft and how they don't want you to own the game and it's more like you're renting it forever have you seen that I don't like that models yeah or like how I think the I think the price for like the um collector's edition this is going to

10:13 be like $129 that's normal for a Collector's Editions yeah but you don't plastic statue yeah you don't get enough though plastic statue you get a book or some ████ you get a digital art book you get the U you get a CD of all the music from the game yeah and you get day one DLC yeah I think it's more like the money grub stuff is a bigger deal than it is the Assassin's Creed stickers yeah in game Curr plus I don't think this counts as Dei because it didn't take a job away from a Japanese Samurai wait de what's Dei diversity uh Equity inclusion is that two different answers it it's the same it's kind of like um affirmative action like like yeah it's like let's pick people less qualified for a job in order to maintain diversity they just do they also just do something that could be cool and they do it corny

11:03 as ████ like a couple years ago they did this like movie about Harriet Tubman where she's like an action hero and it's like come on guys he but she was she was awesome but exactly she wasn't like ████ throwing you know Molotov cocktails through Windows it wasn't it wasn't campy it was like serious no it was campy but it just nobody connected with it because like you should just do kind of like Abraham Lincoln when he's like a zombie player right and that movie bombed as well I thought those are meant to bomb I pretty much but I'm just saying like I think people want to see like stories if you're doing topic about something they want to see the story of it yeah not like some crazy ████ unless it's like completely new like what Quinton Tarantino does yeah but if it's a but if it's a movie I say anything goes I think it's fun but but Quinn Tarantino to me is a remix DJ like he takes imp parities and he's inspired by

11:54 certain film Noir ████ and but like going original like I actually thought the Last Samurai was great like some people be like oh that's just ████ Last of the Mohicans and and Avatar and there's a format I mean all movies have formats yeah but it was inspired by true events and then you collected all those stories together and I was like see that's a good way to do it and I'm assuming that's how this is going to be is like there's really no history about Yas it's just um he was you know the the warlord at the time he was a retainer to like one he so they're so like so the dictator of the time was like damn this guy has black skin and he was that's all he really said in his and he was fascinated by this guy that's all that's there in the history really and then well he's one of his he's one of his soldiers and then the the little

12:45 backstory is that he could have been like a uh like the Jesuits who came to Japan brought him I think they're Portuguese or something like that so they brought him over from Africa to Japan and then they traded or he decided to stay there or something and then he became a Warrior in Japan I mean they make a sick ass story out of his character that's dope they probably will the only time I think it's a problem is when you don't have a choice like let's say they said you can only have non-japanese people as Samurai leads forever then it's bad but then there's choices you could play a different game you could watch a different movie you know I definitely I'll tell you this right now I'm not going to play this game because Assassin's Creed why do they always cut to the ████ off office I hate that ████ what the ████ is that oh you don't like that got do a mission in the office got to sneak through the office and hack hack a

13:36 computer I'm like can I get back to the open world environment you guys made actually like this completely blows you don't like that I don't like Theory and I don't like how much running you got to do yeah wait what's wrong with that just ████ half of the game is just running you can fast travel so Joe's the guy who likes the office stuff he's finally I can calm down he got my office got my computer he's like now we're talking yeah I'm just get to hang out by the water cooler see what my co-workers up to yeah so don't forget there's different choices if you don't like black samurai don't worry it doesn't have to be that way Hopey it's a good game [Music]

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