DEI-inspired Assassin's Creed game admits to being 'works of fiction' after backlash from Japan over black samurai

DEI-inspired Assassin's Creed game admits to being 'works of fiction' after backlash from Japan over black samurai

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Shadows has caused significant uproar in Japan due to creative licenses and historical inaccuracies.The game focuses on the greatly exaggerated depiction of Yasuke, an alleged black samurai from the mid-1500s. Ubisoft turned the vague story of the "black slave" in Japan into a fierce and heroic samurai. As expected, Japanese gamers did not take kindly to the setting of feudal Japan being used for a game inspired by div…