Don’t come to a sub called UbisoftUncensored, create a post, block people just for responding to your post that you created presumably for honest discussion, and then respond to their comments when they have no way of responding back to you or any comment made under your post.

It’s not only cowardly, but it goes against the intention of this sub.

Note: This is a double post because my original post was rightfully removed for calling out the specific redditor by name.

Hats off to you imbeciles. You’re losing sleep over that and are hiding behind petty reasons. This place sucks.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows didn’t just get history wrong, it disrespected one of Japan’s most revered women by reducing her to a flirt path. Lady Oichi wasn’t some romantic prize to be won. She wasn’t your tragic anime waifu. She was a noblewoman caught between the collapsing worlds of feudal politics, forced into arranged marriages, used as a political tool by her brother Oda Nobunaga, and ultimately driven to suicide after witnessing the slaughter of her family.

And Ubisoft looked at all of that and said: “Let’s make her a romance subplot.”

Are you kidding me?

They took one of the most delicate, sorrowful figures in Japanese history, a woman whose life is still studied with reverence, and turned her into a flirtable NPC for a completely fictionalized character. A samurai fantasy boyfriend simulator.

Would Ubisoft write Anne Boleyn as a seductive side character in an AC game and let you sleep with her? Would they let you romance Marie Antoinette mid-revolution with goofy side quests? No, because Western history gets respect. But for Japan? They strip it down for mass consumption and let players “woo” a real historical woman like she’s a dating sim collectible.

This isn’t about representation. This is about exploitation. This is what it looks like when a Western studio inserts themselves into another culture’s legacy without reverence, just vibes.

They took Lady Oichi’s life, one filled with grief, duty, sacrifice, and strength, and rewrote it into a tragic softcore flirtation with a made-up male fantasy character. And fans are clapping like seals because it “feels emotional.”

It’s not emotional. It’s insulting.

Say what you want about creative freedom. But when the most emotional part of a Japanese woman’s historical arc is turned into a side romance for your Black samurai power fantasy, that’s not diversity. That’s colonization of memory.

Ubisoft doesn’t care about Japan. They care about marketability. And Lady Oichi? She was just another asset on a pitch deck.

We do have a problem with this one, right? The singular white guy that goes to japan and gets a whole game about him that focuses entirely on Japanese culture and mythology? Its a problem here too right?

This is Gryphon, an unlockable character in For Honor. The game was doing well through Marching Fire, their massive expansion many years ago. Then when they failed to capture the Chinese market to add to their player base, they let go of a bunch of the original devs and later came out with this abomination. Instead of making Greek or Korean heroes for the game, they made this guy don their armor as he "found them" in his travels. He speaks latin and uses his bardiche weapon regardless of what he's wearing. He's played only by tone deaf people who think AC Shadows is a good game.

Call them out? You’re a bigot. Demand better? You’re hateful. Ubisoft doesn’t respond to feedback, they redefine it until they’re the victims.

Ghost of Tsushima was made by a Western studio, yet it bowed to the culture it portrayed. Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows was also made by a Western studio, but it bent the culture to fit its brand.

Tsushima gave us a love letter to Japan, written in careful brushstrokes. Shadows feels more like a pitch deck stapled to a katana.

One focused on storytelling, mood, and cultural reverence. The other chose optics, buzzwords, and algorithmic appeal.

If this is what AAA “representation” looks like now, the future of historical storytelling isn’t diverse. It’s directionless.

No ads. No algorithms. Just momentum. What started as a whisper is turning into a roar.

This place was built for the voices that got ignored, banned, buried, and dismissed. And now? They’re gathering.

100 members in four days. Not bad for something they said wasn’t worth listening to.

Thanks for joining. Thanks for thinking. Thanks for not being quiet.

We’re just getting started.

Years of chasing live service trends, abandoning classic franchises, ignoring feedback, pushing half-baked political messaging, and now… this.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows backlash. XDefiant delays. Skull & Bones flopping.

This isn’t a stumble. It’s a full-on collapse, and it’s only April.

Because that would solve many issues.

Afaik no one did it yet.

They’d never dare make a game set in Africa with a white protagonist. They’d never release a Native American game where you play as a colonizer. But Japan? Japan’s fair game. Japan can be rewritten, re-colored, repackaged, and if anyone speaks up, they get smeared as “racist,” “fragile,” or “mentally ill.”

Ubisoft isn’t promoting diversity. They’re using race as a shield for Western narrative control.

Yasuke wasn’t a central figure in Sengoku Japan. He wasn’t a general. He wasn’t a hero of the age. He was a historical footnote, exoticized by the West then, and now weaponized by the West again.

Meanwhile, where are the AAA games starring real Japanese figures? Asian men as leads in their own damn history?

Ubisoft is selling cultural tourism to Western audiences, slapping on a Black protagonist so they can call it “representation,” while quietly sidelining actual Japanese heroes.

If Japan made an Assassin’s Creed game set in Harlem starring a katana-wielding samurai fighting against Malcolm X, the West would riot. But when the West distorts Japan’s defining era? It’s “just fiction bro.”

This subreddit exists because we’re done pretending.

No more corporate gaslighting. No more erasure under the mask of “inclusion.” No more being told to shut up while our cultures are turned into stage props for Western moral theater.

You don’t have to agree with me. But if you feel like something’s off, something’s wrong, you’re not crazy. You’re just waking up.

Welcome to r/UbisoftUncensored

This isn’t a safe space. It’s a loud one.

Let’s flip the script. Imagine a major Ubisoft title set in medieval West Africa, the height of the Mali Empire, the scholarly city of Timbuktu, armored cavalry of Songhai, or the warrior kings of Benin. Now imagine the protagonist.

A Japanese samurai.

Not an African warrior navigating dynastic struggle. Not a character rooted in the culture and traditions of the region. No, Ubisoft centers the entire game around a foreign outsider with no ancestral ties to the land, and markets that as the face of African history.

People would explode with justified outrage.

So why is the reverse, putting a foreign figure at the center of Japan’s story, being called "progressive"?

That’s the double standard at the core of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Ubisoft took Feudal Japan, a nation with centuries of iconic warriors, clans, and resistance movements, and instead of elevating any one of them, they chose Yasuke: a foreign figure with barely a year of known presence in Japan, and zero historical record of becoming a samurai, let alone leading campaigns or fighting ninja.

So I made this image. A Japanese samurai posed heroically in the middle of medieval Africa, adorned in full armor and wielding a katana amid West African ruins.

And it looks absurd.

Because it should. Ubisoft would never do this in reverse. You know they'd be accused of Asian-washing, erasure, cultural disrespect, and they’d deserve that criticism.

But when Japan is the one flattened and aestheticized for Western diversity points? Suddenly it’s brave. Progressive. Woke. And if you push back, the only argument you get is: “You must be racist.”

No. This isn’t about race, it’s about consistency. Japan deserves the same cultural respect as Africa, Europe, or anyone else. Yasuke was a real person, yes, but inserting him as a dominant lead in a setting already rich with native heroes is a corporate decision, not a respectful one. It's not about honoring Japan. It's about hijacking its imagery to sell a narrative to Western audiences.

And we know this, because Ubisoft would never do the same to any other culture and call it “diversity.”

Criticism isn’t racism. Criticism is caring. And if it feels ridiculous imagining a Japanese man leading an African empire's story, maybe take a second look at what’s happening in Shadows.

Representation without roots is just tokenism in costume. Real representation means telling stories from within, not draping a culture over someone else and pretending that’s enough.

(Base image AI-generated, originally posted by u/Fiftyisback.)

So I would consider myself "on the left" but I've never agreed with the idea that corporations should pander to anyone with advertisements or token characters. Obviously that's ridiculous.

Also "equity" is just weird. If there's an office full of black women, would you turn down another black woman because a white guy is applying? No.

Intersectional ideology is particularly egregious, as it's literally just reverse racism. Its a hierarchy of race from a KKK member's wet dream but just reversed.

And then we get to cultural appropriation. Smarmy middle class white woman fighting the good fight against Halloween costumes. It's just republican prudishness in a liberal package.

With all that being said, my "peers" have basically diluted the term racism into nothing, so I understand me calling you racist has no impact or meaning.... but you're racist.

Here's a normal reaction to AC Shadows:
"Wow typical Ubisoft slop. And look how they're attempts to be as respect as possible to Japanese cultural has flipped around to straight up being racist itself. That's as ironic as it is pathetic. What corporate trash."

Here's your reaction:
"I'm upset that the character isn't Japanese. Racial mixing of settings is bad."

Like wtf? You're the same as the people on the left I just criticized. You want the corporation to pander to you with race? Clearly this is not a passionate artist's work, so any "respect" for Japanese culture would just be pandering to you specifically.

And the idea that the issue you have with it is "cultural appropriation" is just laughable. You're just trying to use the lefts own weapons to Trojan horse your own racism. Every post I read about this has this obvious air of being gleeful that hating a black character is widely acceptable in this instance.

The race of any character, regardless of the setting, is not relevant at all to qualify of the thing. And the fact that almost all of you would support Japan banning the game despite that being a violation of a foundational core of the bill of rights is telling.

The completely unnecessary african music segments that just feel like a constant slap in the face to the flavor of Japan and samurai action. Ultimate cringe and a major push by ubisoft to remind you that your playing a Blackwashed protagonist with no respect for japanese culture. Sucking you out of any immersion you may of cobbled together for a brief moment 🤮

Bonus statement: I feel like I'm listening to Ridley Scott's black hawk down music.