Assassin’s Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Coté has addressed the online backlash which has swirled around the main characters of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the subsequent impact it has had on the game’s development staff, and the attempts by bad faith commenters to disrupt and dissuade creative teams from telling stories featuring diverse and inclusive characters in general…
The game would have been a lot better received if a male Japanese protagonist wasn’t erased to slot in a black man into a Japanese story. Im not even Japanese and it makes me upset that they did that, I can’t imagine how disappointed Japanese men are going to feel playing a game about the history of their own country and they can only play as a Japanese woman or a foreigner.
AC has historically never had playable main characters that are based on real world people. Except this one. Makes it feel really not genuine.