Assassin’s Creed Shadows apology not good enough, Japanese historical group tells Ubisoft

The Murderer’s Creed Shadows appropriated battle-flag controversy is not going to die down. Though Ubisoft apologized ro a Japanese historic group for utilizing it, photographs of the flag will stay in a digital artwork guide, and the group now says it’s not pleased with simply an apology right here.

To recap, Ubisoft apologized on July 8, a couple of week it was found that the flag of a Japanese navy re-enactment group, Sekigahara Teppo-tai (or Sekigahara Rifle Corps), was in the game without their knowledge or permission. Murderer’s Creed Shadows is about in feudal Japan, roughly befo

Ubisoft stated it was sorry and the flag can be pulled from the sport, however not a hardcover artwork guide being offered in a $279 collector’s version full of bodily premiums.

That is presumably as a result of that guide has already been printed. Murderer’s Creed Shadows launches Nov. 12. That’s not ok for Sekigahara Teppo-tai.

小耳に挟んだ情報なのですが、アサシンクリードシャドウのコンセプトアートの背景に関ケ原鉄砲隊が使用されているそうです。
実際に確認してみましたが、拡大すると確かに我々の使用している背旗が確認できました。
正直どのような反応をすれば良いのか悩むところです。#関ケ原鉄砲隊

— 影山＠関ケ原鉄砲隊 (@matchlock_kage) June 10, 2024

Translated, that’s: “The Sekigahara Teppo-tai members mentioned the matter once more. We have now requested Ubisoft to take away the picture from the Collector’s Version artbook. I’m undecided if this will probably be doable, however I’ve contacted Ubisoft by their help.”

The poster went on to notice that the flag references leaders of The Battle of Sekigahara, which occurred about 21 years after the setting for Murderer’s Creed Shadows. IGN has images of the flag’s use within the artbook.

Murderer’s Creed Shadows criticized from its first reveal

The criticism is an extension of ongoing criticism of Murderer’s Creed Shadows as culturally insensitive — a subject many Japanese take very significantly. The sport stars an African samurai who appears to be primarily based on a real-life African who served a warlord round that point. It additionally stars a wholly fictitious feminine ninja.

A petition demanding Ubisoft cancel the game outright now has 83,000 signatures, though there is no such thing as a probability of Ubisoft spiking this AAA sport 4 months earlier than launch, and particularly for this type of criticism. About 60,000 of these signatures have come within the final week.

Right here, although, it’s unquestionably a foul search for Ubisoft, as it seems that western artists went Googling for Japanese battle flags, discovered one, and had no concept what they had been working with, as a result of it was solely essential to get one which seemed Japanese.

Murderer’s Creed Shadows will launch on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X. It’s going to even be out there day one to Ubisoft+ subscribers.