Ubisoft Apologises for Using Re-Enactment Group's Flag in Assassin's Creed Shadows Art | Push Square

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Ubisoft has apologised for using a historical re-enactment group's flag in Assassin's Creed Shadows concept art and the physical artbook that comes bundled with the Collector's Edition.

As reported by Siliconera, the flag belongs to a historical re-enactment group called the Sekigara Teppo-tai (or Sekigahara gun group, thanks VGC). In a post on X, Ubisoft Japan said that the art in question will not be used or distributed further beyond this date, except for the aforementioned artbook, and apologised for the inclusion.

As ever, we are astounded at the eagle-eyed nature of observers online. Below, we've included an image of the Teppo-tai in action and one of two instances of the flag used in Assassin's Creed Shadows concept art. Strain your own eyes, and see if you can pick out the offending banner:

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Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

It’s tucked away in the right side of the pic, doesn’t stand out at all. Could not imagine caring enough to spot that.

For all their «inclusivity and sensitivity» they sure managed to mess things up in a major way. Repeatedly.

Let’s be honest: every trailer or image released for a big video game is to be inspected with a fine tooth comb by at least one person on the internet. I’m guessing whoever put the banner in the game copied it from a picture of this reenactment group thinking it was historic, but couldn’t read Japanese. If you’re fluent in Japanese it’s probably obvious