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Assassin's Creed Shadows hits 2 million players, putting it on track to be the series' most successful game yet (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

but an "outsider" earning the highest title a normal person can earn in feudal japan seems very outlandish.

William Adams was specifically known to have been granted the title of samurai by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and that's precisely in the period immediately at the end of the Sengoku where the title of samurai begins to change as a status (in the sense of being more restricted and codified). And there's zero way that "public pressure" would have pushed Oda Nobunaga to change shit about something he decided to like, he's the last guy of that era on which public pressure did anything. No one from Oda's circle would have called him out on that.

Again, a samurai wasn't necessarily "at the top of social order", there are places where ashigaru, the lowest rung on the ladder, were called samurai. It's a misconception.

As for chosing an actual Japanese person from the time - there is a second playable character who is the fictional daughter of one of those famous real people from that time and an actual ninja from Iga. You play as her for the first 10 hours or so before Yasuke even becomes playable (except for the introduction mission). This argument is ridiculous and just plain bad faith.