Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been defended by a real Japanese and a veteran developer at that
A veteran developer has weighed in on Assassin’s Creed Shadows, defending the game from the attacks it’s receiving.
Veteran developer Yoshiki Okamoto , who worked at Capcom for more than a decade, considers the controversy surrounding Assassin’s Creed Shadows and the presence of a black samurai as the protagonist, Yasuke, to be senseless.
For Okamoto, evidently a person of great acumen and intelligence, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a work of fiction, so it is not offensive that it takes liberties , as most critics want. The developer touched on the subject in a video published on his personal YouTube channel, where he stated that in the past he wanted to make a game with two protagonists with his team, Genji.
A true Japanese
Going into more detail about Yasuke, he explained that he is a documented historical figure. It is here that he stated that there should be no problem with discrepancies between the game and the story, because Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a work of fiction, not real life.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been defended by a real Japanese and a veteran developer at that
“It’s a game, it’s a fantasy, not reality,” Okamoto said. “Even though Oda Nobunaga’s family crest is upside down, it’s just Oda Nobunaga in the game , it doesn’t affect how fun it is anyway.”
In short, in his view certain criticisms are simply instrumental . After all, the Japanese are the first to use the culture of other nations in a creative and free way in their works (or do you believe that Lady Oscar really existed?).
It should be noted that Okamoto is a real Japanese , unlike the author of the petition asking for the cancellation of the game , who pretended to be one, also filling the text of the petition with errors and inaccuracies about Japanese culture, while claiming to want to defend it. In the end it was discovered that this staunch defender of something that he evidently knows little and badly is actually German, just as most of those who signed it are Western.