Ever since Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows was announced, it has been the subject of public debate. Largely, that debate has unfortunately centered around one of the game’s deuteragonists, Yasuke—an actual historical figure whose presence a chunk of online racists take issue with anyway.

From the moment it was announced, Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ interpretation of feudal Japan was met with immediate blowback — mostly from the West. The usual suspects were up in arms over the general identities of the protagonists,