Gaming🎮 Assassin's Creed Shadows' never-ending discourse has ended up reaching the Japanese government, but, no, it probably won't lead to anything

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Some Japanese government ministries have responded to a request for their views on Assassin's Creed Shadows's apparent historical inaccuracies. Basically, their responses don't exactly comprise part of a big or heated debate, all they've seemigly done is either decline to comment, or wheel out their generic response when it comes to video games.

If you're out of the loop, there's been a lot of chatter about potential historical innacuracies in the game, with any legitimate concerns from Japanese folks being drowned in a sea of outrage from some western players raging against diversity in video games. The latter faction has largely just been yelling about whether the game's black protagonist - Yasuke - was actually a samurai in real life, something that doesn't really matter anyway in the context of Shadows, since, you know, this is a work of fiction that's clearly labelled as such, as Ubisoft alluded to in a statement yesterday.

Well, now the whole thing has been brought up to a few Japanese ministries, as reported by Sankei (good spot, GamesRadar)

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