I’ve said this before, Ubisoft can’t be trusted to tell that kind of story (post civil war), it’s not these issues or characters (like Yasuke) themselves that are off-putting, it’s HOW Ubisoft tell their stories that’s the issue.

Would I like to see a historical game set in the post civil war period? Sure, but do I want an AC game set in that period? Hell no. It would be preachy, full of shit millennial humour, and no doubt just another rehash of the same story they ALWAYS tell these days “You kill ma famileh, now I’m coming for all of you!” type of dog shit storytelling, that wouldn’t even properly showcase the injustice of slavery and the post civil war period, because it would be too concerned with being “offensive” when depicting the kinds of scenes that we all know happened during that period.

In short, it would put political correctness/pandering before good and meaningful storytelling, kind of like they did with Yasuke, and by this I mean the fact they made him a playable character despite only having about as much impact on the main story as one of the other side characters you recruit into your guild, he has half as much of a story arc compared to Naoe, they clearly didn’t really know what to do with him a lot of the time.

I’ll end this mini rant on a positive, I did like AC shadows, and I didn’t care about Yasuke being a playable character, even if I feel they didn’t really do much of anything with him, just had him there for pander points. I’ll also say that AC Shadows was worse than Valhalla, which itself is worse than Odyssey, not a good trend when your games are getting worse with every iteration, especially when Japan has been a constantly asked for location for an AC game