@overflow 1. the historical accuracy argument is stupid until you start talking about accuracy and it's not accurate, this is a hairy argument I admit
2. I know, I was actually reading about him a couple years ago and very recently before the kerfluffle about the game because people keep vandalizing wikipedia to add him to a page that listed who was eligible to be in a list for a couple years now. He's super interesting.
3. among other things he's a figure in romance novels in Japan lol yeah it's a bad argument. but a bunch of people were looking forward to a Japanese assassins creed expecting the mc to be Japanese.

I have a bugbear about it which is when I was reading about him, there's evidence he was legally permitted to carry swords and was permitted at court so he's a serious historical figure he never met multiple criteria to be called a samurai (this is muddied by some other people that didn't meet the definition being called that though but I am too lazy to catalog them, I just agree it's not totally fair to only exclude him)

foreign-born people in Japan in the 16-17th century are all super interesting I got fixated on this because of the culture fight shit, which in retrospect I feel kind of stupid about.