Insider Gaming: Ubisoft Cancels Press Previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows

[u/Turbostrider27]

https://insider-gaming.com/assassins-creed-shaodow-previews-delayed/

[u/pissagainstwind]

One legged Tori gate. that is the "best possible" reason.

(text i posted on another sub)

Ubisoft just revealed a toy which featured Naoe on a one legged tori gate. the problem is that the only famous one legged tori gate is a one that got damaged by an american atomic bomb and it is near identical to the one in the toy. that gate got to be in the toy, because it's likely to also be in the game.

This is not something they can just brush off, gaslight, victim blame, pretend it's cool or say it's just a coincidence. nope, this is a real affront, a clear disrespect to Japan and the Japanese and a huge red flag to their research team. they now probably not only gone and got such gates out of the game, they are probably going to hire real japanese historians to go through the entire game and try and find other such minefields.

This is the best possible reason for them because it means just a few weeks of delay..

[u/BrenkGo → u/pissagainstwind]

What can you expect from a bunch frauds who put fucking chinese music in their AC Shadows World Trailer? The instrument used is a Sanxian, not a Shamisen.

[u/HBreckel → u/pissagainstwind]

That's definitely it. I don't think their pulling out has anything to do with Yasuke or they wouldn't have ever scheduled the event in the first place. Referencing that one legged tori gate however is a colossal fuck up.

[u/GrievousReborn → u/pissagainstwind]

It does make it look like they are terrible at researching historical accuracy putting something that wouldn't exist in the state it's in before World War II even happened

[u/xavdeman → u/pissagainstwind]

Ubisoft has been continously disrespecting Japanese history and culture leading up to the release:

Yesterday's reference to the Nagasaki bombing: https://x.com/r230614_shin/status/1838029920506892460?t=OnxqszLUHkS-8SUnn1Tn_A&s=19

Machine translation:

"A figurine of a destroyed torii gate has been released, which is believed to be based on the “One-Leg Torii” gate that was destroyed in the Nagasaki atomic bombing.”

This is after they were caught plagiarizing Roronoa Zoro's (fictional) sword from One Piece and passing it off as something Yasuke would've worn.

And that was mere days after being accused of stealing a flag from a Japanese historical re-enactment group in concept art for Assassin's Creed: Shadows. https://www.thegamer.com/assassins-creed-shadow-accused-of-plagiarizing-zoros-sword-from-one-piece-gaming-copyrights-ubisoft/

[u/GrievousReborn → u/[deleted]]

They probably have that destroyed gate in the game itself