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Ubisoft, in their infinite stupidity, decided to make the one black man from the time period named Yasuke a playable main character in a game set in medieval Japan and then proceeded to make up excuses why he fits the time period instead of a Japanese guy. To dig the knife deeper they already had an established story and main character named Yamauchi Taka who was native Japanese and an Assassin who could have been the "samurai" main character with some retcons and worked just fine. Yasuke himself also would have worked completely fine as someone who worked to convey information to the Assassins as an undercover agent, or someone who was tricking the Templars and being an ally of Taka and Naoe with people actually being able to endear themselves to him with no controversy at all.

This led to the historian who was pushing for the man's historicity to be outed as a complete fraud who lied about who Yasuke actually was and was massively embellishing just what kind of person he was. He said Yasuke was a samurai that would be fighting for Nobunaga instead of just some guy carrying his swords or doing menial tasks.

The problem is that Shadows improved on the AC formula heavily thanks to the addition of prone, massively better stealth design across the board (Though rooftops are broken and break the AI so it's multiple steps forward but one step back), combat is actually hard but fair on Nightmare and you can actually die compared to Nightmare/Draugr on the other new AC games, seasons give so much variety, and the castles are easily the best in the series. Even Yasuke ended up being one of the better written characters in the game. So now we have this Unity situation where everyone refuses to play the game because of the bad press or just outright stupidity from Ubisoft surrounding it and Ubisoft will think people hate the massive improvements the game brought because of the controversy and we'll end up with them ignoring them or downplaying them.