TLDR: The Assassin’s Creed Shadows game featuring Yasuke, a Black samurai, has sparked controversy for historical inaccuracies and cultural insensitivity. Critics argue it distorts history, but ...

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"Shadows" has already sparked fierce debate online and beyond for casting a black samurai, Yasuke, as one of the two playable protagonists. A Japanese petition against the depiction of the samurai ...

The Assassin's Creed series of video games is adored for painstaking historic accuracy, but also sparks controversy with heavy use of artistic license – most recently with a black samurai in the ...

"Shadows" has stoked controversy with playable character Yasuke, a burly black samurai in the service of warlord Oda Nobunaga. Historians agree that a real black man of that name lived in Japan ...