Summary
Assassin’s Creedproducer Marc-Alexis Côté has hit back at the backlash surrounding Shadows protagonist Yasuke, claiming that it’s “sad” thatTwitterowner Elon Musk felt the need to “feed hatred” with his remarks.
Assassin’s Creed Shadowshas been somewhat controversial since its release, andnot because the game itself looks bad. For the past couple of weeks, the game’s protagonist Yasuke - the first recorded black samurai - has caused a stir among gamers, with manylabeling the game as “woke” and “disrespectful” to Japanese culture. All the complaints became so difficult to ignore that Twitter owner Elon Musk got in on the act byclaiming “DEI kills art,“which stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Ubisoft never really acknowledged the backlash, probably due to the fact that it was ridiculous and had absolutely no weight to it, but one of the developers behind the title recently spoke out against the hate, and Elon Musk’s tweet in particular ina recent interview with Game File. Assassin’s Creed producer Marc-Alexis Côté said that seeing the tweet from Musk “generated emotions,” and that he was tempted to redownload Twitter just to respond, as he had “a lot of three word replies that came to mind.”
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Dev Responds To Yasuke Backlash
Thankfully, he managed to keep his cool thanks to a mindfullness app on his phone, and now just thinks that the Twitter owner is “sad” for “feeding hatred” on the platform, and that clapping back at Musk would “not convince people about our point of view as a team.”
On that front, Côté hopes that people will “play the game for themselves” and “keep an open mind” to form their own opinion, and that if they’re still not satisfied after the game’s opening hours, then they can start having a rational discussion about problems with the title.
Thankfully, we won’t have to wait too long to get our hands on Assassin’s Creed Shadows, asthe game launches on November 15 later this year. If you want to know what our initial impressions are of the game after a few hours at Summer Game Fest,you may check that out here too.
