Discover your legacy as the heir to a legendary African samurai in YASUKE: A Lost Descendent. Challenge enemies in futuristic swordplay, pull off some high-velocity parkour, and become an awesome ...

Take control of Yasuke, Shadows’ second protagonist, and it’s a whole different game. Yasuke is slow. He is clumsy. He can’t kill silently. And he climbs like a grandpa. He is the antithesis ...

This is Yasuke, Japan’s first Black samurai, and the first real historical person to be a playable protagonist in an Assassin’s Creed game. You may have come across Yasuke before, as he’s ...

This 1605 drawing of a Black sumo wrestler may depict Yasuke. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Wikimedia Commons under public domain Seconds into the first episode of the Netflix anime ...

Yasuke is one of two playable characters in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. But unlike the other protagonist, Naoe — the stealthy shinobi who bears the iconic hidden blade — Yasuke is ...

It is the game’s other protagonist, a Black samurai named Yasuke. Some gamers erupted over his appearance, convinced that the franchise, known for its immersive recreations of the past ...

Discover your legacy as the heir to a legendary African samurai in YASUKE: A Lost Descendent. Challenge enemies in futuristic ...

This doesn't detract from the historical evidence that yes, Yasuke was a real-life Samurai in Japan, who served under Oda Nobunaga until his assassination in 1582. Ubisoft taking creative ...

You’d be forgiven for thinking Yasuke is the starting character in the early moments of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The opening cutscene follows his introduction to Oda Nobunaga; then time skips ...

The other is Yasuke, a Samurai who is based on the historical figure of the same name. Assassin’s Creed tends to play with historical events and fit its own version of them into the series ...

Naoe is a shinobi who prefers the shadows over brute force, while Yasuke is a samurai, favouring close-quarters combat. Both characters have their own skills that make deciding how to approach ...