Assassin's Creed Shadows dev says the open-world game aims to be "respectful as possible to Japanese culture, but creative choices are made on our side"
"We are working with experts"

Ubisoft has offered some mixed messages in response to the criticism of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Samurai Yasuke in the lead-up to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed Shadows. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:One dev called out Elon Musk for "feedi𒊎ng hatr🌜ed" in the whole ordeal, while a month later Ubisoft apologized for promotional material that "caused concern within the Jꦇapanese community." More recently, another dev has defended the studio's "creative choices" while noting its heavy reliance 𝔍on Japanese experts.
"Of course we're making creative choices,"▨ art director Thierry Dansereau told at Gamescom. "It's a video game in the end, so we want to make the best experience possible for our players." Dansereau noted that the team has "worked with Osaka and Tokyo studios [who've acted] as consultants. One of their art directors is involved and ꦇdoing research in the field. We went there, we did a field trip as well, and we have Japanese experts living in Japan."
Dansereau added, "There was a letter published by Ubisoft apologising to that group of people in Japan. But something they need to know is we are working with experts, world-renowned experts, and if we have in any way offended [people] we are sorry but this is not the goal. We've paid a lot of attention to stay as respectful as possible to Japanese culture, but creative choices are made on our side, based on all the discussions we had with our own group of experts. We're conf෴ident with how the game will be received."
However the character ends up being portrayed, Yasuke's appearance in Assassin's Creed Shadows has generated no shortage of opinions. Even veteran Capcom developer Yoshiki Okamoto weighed in, saying the backla♛sh was overblown because "it's a game, it's fantasy, not reality." Nonetheless, the vitriol has gotten intense enough that Ubisoft's CEO waꦚs denouncing "hateful acts" toward the company's developers just a few months ago.
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