Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[HaughtyFrank]

The terrible voice for Naoe aside: I thought the world had agreed that upon that giving "foreign" people an accent when the game/movie takes place IN these "foreign" (putting that in quotation marks, because they're actually not foreign in the context) environments is racist?! If you had the stereotypical "white savior"-setting where Japanese people talk in broken English to the American hero, then it'd make sense. But this game features Japanese heroes who grew up in Japan, who ALL speak Japanese. So when you turn them into English-speakers, it then becomes their regular language, so they wouldn't have that accent.

Really don't like this decision of Ubisoft here.

From the Ass Creed Shadows thread

Honestly he's not wrong though. It's a bit weird to play a game where characters almost seem to struggle to pronounce the words. Even more so that the degree of accent seems to vary a lot from character to character, I assume because they hired a actual people whose first language is Japanese. In other Ass Creed games people just put on a fake accent so it was easier to make uniform