Japanese officials "taking appropriate action" after viral Assassin's Creed Shadows video shows destruction of their shrine: "If they had asked us, we would have refused"
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Officials of the Itate Hyozu Shrine in Japan are "taking action" against 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed Shadows after a video circulated online showing a player destroying parts 🍰of the interior in the video game.
As reported by (spotted and translated by ), representatives of the Itat꧃e Hyozu Shrine in Hyogo Prefecture are "taking appropriate action" and say they were not consulted about the Shrine൲'s inclusion in the game. "If they had contacted us, we would have refused."
Sankei News also interviewed an official who debunks a rumor that Japan’s Association of Shinto Shrines was also getting involved, but its report does confirm previous, uns🦄u♋bstantiated rumors about the officials' distate with the situation.
It's a complex situation. I can sympathize with the officials who feel a site that has meaning to them is being desecrated in the name of enteᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrtainment, but much of the wider respo🎀nse appears to selectively forget that the Assassin's Creed series' relationship with organized religion, particularly in Europe, has rarely been particularly kind.
Are we all forgetting that Ezio beat the Pope himself to a bloody pulp inside the Vatican in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed 2? What about that time Arno killed a target while hidden inside a church confessional in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed Unity? You could raid and loot churches in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Valhalla and could climb over mosques in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mirage.
It feels like the backlash is all from the same crowd who are 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:angry there's a Black Samurai in the game. Yasu🎶ke is a notable figure in h🔯istorical documents, but some still believe it's unrealistic to have a Black person in the Japanese Sengoku period.
While you're here, check out our list of upcoming 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:video game release dates and see if you can guess which one is going to have a controversy next.
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