Yasuke (Assassin's Creed)
Yasuke is a character in the 2025 action role-playing game ''Assassin's Creed Shadows'' developed by Ubisoft Quebec and published by Ubisoft. Voiced by Tongayi Chirisa, he is an African samurai who is based on the historical Japanese figure Yasuke, of the same name. Conception and design When developing ''Assassin's Creed Shadows'', Ubisoft Quebec wanted to set the game in feudal Japan, a setting they felt invoked the image of large castles, samurai, and ninja. Initially they developed a ninja Assassin character, Naoe. But as development progressed they wanted to include samurai aspects also, and chose to explore two protagonists in the title to cater to players that wished to play both. While previous entries in the ''Assassin's Creed'' series had traditionally used fictional protagonists, they chose the samurai character to be based on a historical figure, in this case Yasuke, a black former African slave that had served under the daimyo Oda Nobunaga. Game director Charles B ...
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Assassin's Creed
''Assassin's Creed'' is a historical fiction, historical action-adventure video game series and media franchise published by Ubisoft and developed mainly by its studio Ubisoft Montreal using the game engine Anvil (game engine), Anvil and its more advanced derivatives. Created by Patrice Désilets, Jade Raymond, and Corey May, the ''Assassin's Creed'' video game series depicts a fictional millennia-old struggle between the Order of Assassins, who fight for peace and free will, and the Knights Templar, who desire peace through order and control. The series features historical fiction, science fiction, and fictional characters intertwined with real-world historical events and historical figures. In most games, players control a historical Assassin while also playing as an Assassin Initiate or someone caught in the Assassin–Templar conflict in the present-day Frame story, framing story. Considered a spiritual successor to the ''Prince of Persia'' series, ''Assassin's Creed'' took ...
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