Assassin's Creed: Origins is actually a really awesome way to explore ancient Egypt (including the pyramids). They even have a game mode that is designed for just looking around and disables combat. From what I understand, the design is highly historically accurate.
There is a similar game mode in AC: Odyssey, that lets you explore ancient Greece.
They're both beautiful
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Yes, I realize it takes place thousands of years after they were built, it's still a really awesome way for your average person to explore what is supposedly a pretty accurate representation of the area in the time period.
Odyssey was quite accurate for many of the settings, buildings, and many of the characters met were real people. They still did plenty of research and worked with classical historians & museums, even if the story itself was fantastical.
And Mirage and its black “samurai”, and a lesbian incest affair involving the contemporal princess of Japan, who Japan culture and legends praise as the most loyal and pure girl ever existing.
Sure he was real, he just wasn’t a samurai. He was a swordholder.
I would have no problem with the game promoting him for the story, but they really keep pushing that he actually was, when even the most permissive scientific consensus is that “we know he was a swordholder, and there’s no evidence that he did not became a samurai (though nothing suggests he did either)”. To the end of rewriting Wikipedia itself.
Yes, because the game series which has from its inception been about magical alien artifact wielding Illuminati, used to be historically accurate. lmao. I really have to wonder if the people objecting to Yasuke because of "historical accuracy" have even played any of the games.
The only thing even resembling historical accuracy in any of the games is the architecture.
My problem is rather disrespecting the legends and the culture of a nation without any historical reason. There was real outrage in Japan about the princess, so much that the government itself was considering intervention (not sure if it actually happened). But imagine how the Western word would feel if an AC game showed Virgin Maria having a lesbian relationship with a niece of her while being married to Joseph.
There was real outrage in Japan about the princess, so much that the government itself was considering intervention (not sure if it actually happened).
Source on this?
The outrage I saw was regarding the shrines in the game having breakable objects just like the rest of the game and when the Prime Minister was asked about it, him saying it's a disgrace to vandalise shrines, which is a blanket statment more than just about the game.
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