{"id":49354,"date":"2024-05-17T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/lets-not-pretend-were-mad-the-new-assassins-creed-shadows-samurai-isnt-asian\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:00:05","slug":"lets-not-pretend-were-mad-the-new-assassins-creed-shadows-samurai-isnt-asian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/lets-not-pretend-were-mad-the-new-assassins-creed-shadows-samurai-isnt-asian\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Not Pretend We\u2019re Mad the New Assassin’s Creed Shadows Samurai Isn\u2019t Asian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ubisoft has finally announced its long-awaited Assassin\u2019s Creed game set in feudal Japan<\/a>. Subtitled Shadows, it follows dual protagonists \u2013 a ninja named Naoe and a samurai based on the historical Black samurai Yasuke<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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While it\u2019s a known issue that Asian representation in Western games is severely lacking, I find it hypocritical and laughable that we\u2019re only talking about the need for an Asian protagonist now that it\u2019s been revealed Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows will star a Black samurai<\/a>. This misses the forest for the trees. While I am always advocating for more Asian men in AAA games, I\u2019ll be the first to say that better representation isn\u2019t<\/em> going to be found in yet another samurai hero.<\/p>\n

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Enough With the Samurais<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ubisoft deciding to focus on Yasuke \u2014 a known historical figure<\/a> \u2014 is a smart move. An Assassin\u2019s Creed game set in Japan that otherwise would have been, frankly, hard to distinguish from some other recent open-world samurai games. And if I wanted to see an Asian samurai protagonist I don\u2019t have to look very hard.<\/p>\n

Asian samurai protagonists are a path already well-trodden. There\u2019s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Katana Zero, Like A Dragon: Ishin!, Samurai Warriors, Rise of the Ronin, Onimusha, Way of the Samurai, Way of the Samurai 2, Ghost of Tsushima\u2026 There\u2019s also my personal favorite, Muramasa: The Demon Blade. I can go on and on. So it\u2019s difficult to come to any other conclusion than that the limited imagination of AAA game development can only envision Asian heroes when they wield katanas or ninja stars.<\/p>\n

If I wanted to see an Asian samurai protagonist I don\u2019t have to look very hard.<\/section>\n

Worse still, the complex characters that were so wonderfully brought to life in shows like Shogun<\/a> are often distilled into their simplest forms in games, especially those created by Western studios. While Japanese developer-led titles like Sekiro and Like a Dragon: Ishin utilize their samurai protagonists to tell nuanced stories about overcoming fantastical challenges, or provide a glimpse of street-level heroics in Edo Japan, the Western-developed games fail to hit a similar level of complexity, often falling back on tired tropes of honor and stoicism. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s only accounting for games that try to tell a story using their samurai protagonist. More often than not the samurai archetype is a vehicle for combat first, eschewing any kind of narrative flavor for a cool sword and top-knot. Consider hero games like Overwatch that feature two kinds of samurai, and a ninja, for their Japanese cast. And all flowers to Ghost of Tsushima for its beautifully rendered open world and combat, but Jin Sakai has about as much charisma as a wet piece of cloth.<\/p>\n

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Wow, Cool Sword<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The main grievance I have as an Asian American in games in regards to representation isn\u2019t the lack of it \u2014 as evidenced by the Wikipedia page full of Asian fighters and ninjas and samurais \u2014 but rather is the lack of diversity<\/em> therein. I\u2019ve reported previously in a story about Asian American game devs<\/a> and representation, we are not a monolith and I, a Korean-American, don\u2019t gain a sense of representation by seeing a Japanese samurai, or a Japanese ninja, or a kung-fu master or ancient gray-haired mystic for that matter.<\/p>\n

Of course, all of this comes with the caveat that it is the nature of AAA game development to focus on \u201ccool\u201d characters with wide appeal. Samurais and ninjas are <\/em>cool, and their tools and weapons lend themselves to big action blockbusters, so is it surprising that such characters become the default? Maybe not, but after so many games it\u2019s still disappointing to see how little chances these stories take with these characters. <\/p>\n

Given the Assassin\u2019s Creed franchise\u2019s history-jumping concept, we could have our cake and eat it too with a little effort. Why settle for another samurai hero when the franchise could easily go to the Mongol Empire, or post-revolution China? Or even the Pacific Theater in World War II, which was a hotbed of counter-imperial espionage led by Asians?<\/a><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to see us have the roles we\u2019re expected to have. I want the roles we\u2019ve not had before.<\/section>\n

This problem of only defaulting to a katana-wielding Asian protagonist isn\u2019t exclusive to Western studios as both Capcom and Square Enix often choose to rely on Asian heroes only when they need a samurai or ninja. But even then, Japan and other Asian studios are still more forward thinking than their Western counterparts on who can be the face of their games. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s ironic, but Tango Gameworks is responsible for what I think has been the best Asian protagonist in games in the often overlooked Ghostwire: Tokyo. It\u2019s a game set in modern-day Tokyo with a 21st century Asian protagonist whose responsibilities lay with his dying sister. There isn\u2019t a feudal lord and, honestly, it\u2019s everything I could\u2019ve asked for from a AAA game project with an Asian lead. Not to mention the work Sega and Atlus have done with games like Yakuza, Persona, and Shin Megami Tensei who portray modern characters in unique settings.<\/p>\n

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We Mustn\u2019t Be Afraid to Dream a Little Bigger<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I find comments saying that Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows is a missed opportunity to represent even more Asian protagonists embarrassing. As an Asian man, I don\u2019t want to see us have the roles we\u2019re expected to have. I want the roles we\u2019ve not had before. I would love for the next Alan Wake-style horror game to have an Asian protagonist, or for Star Wars to follow in the footsteps of The Acolyte and have an Asian lead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I push for greater diversity in games it\u2019s not so that the next AAA samurai game will star an Asian protagonist, it\u2019s so that the next Naughty Dog game, or the next Hideo Kojima game, or hell, even a Final Fantasy game, could imagine an Asian hero. <\/p>\n

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Matt Kim is IGN’s Senior Features Editor. You can reach him <\/em>@lawoftd<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Go to Source (IGN.com)<\/a><\/p>\n

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