Assassin's Creed Shadows has returned to the dual protagonist system that we last saw in Syndicate, letting us play as two characters—rather than having us just pick either a male or female protagonist as in Odyssey and Valhalla—with different playstyles. This immediately prompted a backlash, not because people don't want to have two protagonists, but because one of them happened to be a Black man.
Yasuke is an enigmatic historical figure who lived in Japan in the 16th century and is the...