Ubisoft Desperately Tells Players They Can Skip Playing as Black Samurai Yasuke “For Any Reason” in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

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Ubisoft Desperately Tells Players They Can Skip Playing as Black Samurai Yasuke “For Any Reason” in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Ubisoft appears to be making a last-ditch effort to salvage Assassin’s Creed Shadows, now telling players they can skip playing as Yasuke, the game’s controversial Black samurai protagonist, “for any reason.” This phrasing, used by creative director Jonathan Dumont in a recent interview with Screen Rant, has many interpreting it as Ubisoft quietly acknowledging the widespread dissatisfaction with Yasuke’s inclusion and trying to placate frustrat…