Assassin's Creed Shadows has found itself in yet more trouble, this time over a collector's figurine depicting protagonists Yasuke and Naoe alongside a one-legged Torii gate.
As reported by IGN, collectible company PureArts said yesterday that it is "reworking the design" of its Qlectors Yasuke & Naoe figurine, which it says had an "insensitive design" that caused "concerns" from which it has subsequently learned.
The figurine in question was originally revealed back in September and depicted the two protagonists of Assassin's Creed Shadows next to (or atop, in Naoe's case) a Torii gate with one pillar instead of the standard two.
If you're not familiar with Torii gates, they can be found near Japanese religious shrines, and they traditionally represent the boundary between the human and divine realms.
The one-legged Torii gate, however, has specific significance; as IGN points out, perhaps the most famous one-legged Torii gate in the world can be found at Nagasaki's Sanno shrine, and it stands as a memorial to the devastation caused by the atomic bomb being dropped on the city in 1945.
It's unlikely that Ubisoft or PureArts intended to cause any offense by depicting a one-legged Torii gate in the figurine,...
