Assassin’s Creed Red is scheduled to debut next year, and although Ubisoft has recently focused on promoting Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Assassin’s Creed Nexus, very interesting information has emerged about the adventure from Japan.
“A real African samurai named Yasuke” is the story that Assassin’s Creed Red is based on, according to Tom Henderson of Insider Gaming.
Interesting information had already appeared earlier, according to which Assassin’s Creed Red would offer players the opportunity to control an African samurai and a woman, and now the informant has reached further details.
Although Yasuke’s story is mostly fictional, he was a historically real person who existed, making him the first Assassin’s Creed hero to fit this description.
Tom Henderson reached out to a new source who confirmed that “the male character is definitely Yasuke,” but the samurai story was to be reworked to “adapt to the plot and direction of the game.”
The informant also confirmed that the second playable character will be a woman:
As confirmed by Insider Gaming, Naoe’s entire name at this time is Naoe Fujibayashi. She is the daughter of the renowned genuine Fujibayashi Nagato, regarded as one of the three finest Iga jōnin. The first image of Naoe was released online in October 2023 through senior writer Pierre Boudreau’s LinkedIn profile.
In Assassin’s Creed Red, we are to learn two tragic stories – Yasuke’s story begins with tragedy (unlike his real story), and in this case the story is to be “rewritten”.
Yasuke was a slave traveling aboard a slave ship in Assassin’s Creed Red when it was attacked and everyone perished, including his lover, yet he lived. After being saved, Yasuke was taken to Japan and raised as a samurai under Nobunagi’s command.
Ubisoft has decided on a very interesting plot, because – at the beginning of the game “Naoe and Yasuke are bitter enemies”, but eventually “they become allies in the pursuit of Japanese unification.”
According to Insider Gaming, Assassin’s Creed Red will feature several historical figures, such as Fujibayashi Nagato, Naoe’s father; Oda Nobunaga; Akechi Mitsuhide; Hattori Hanzo, a recurring character; Toyotomi Hideyoshi; Kōdai-in, Hideyoshi’s wife; Oichi; Ashikaga Yoshiaki; Akechi Kagemitsu, and more.