Ghost of Tsushima - PlayStation 4

Ghost of Tsushima is an extremely fun game. From the exceptional graphics, to the storyline and the challenging yet seamless combat and stealth system to master, Ghost of Tsushima offers a satisfying gaming experience for those looking for an open world game that focuses on developing different samurai techniques to defeat hordes of Mongol invaders and Ronin alike. Duels are very cool, liberating locations is a blast and even the mini challenges for increasing Resolve (special attack meter) can be a fun challenge. Some of the side quests are a little slow and boring, but others are interesting and the main campaign story is very well written.In conclusion, this game is impressive and I highly recommend it.

I was quite impressed with the game right from the start. You begin with a rather traditional hack and slash sequence but then the story unfolds and the changes in the main character are handled subtly and superbly so that by the time he embraces what has happened to him, it feels like a natural progression.Yuna is a great character and with you from the beginning. She's well rounded and in no way sexualized. In fact, none of the women in the game, main or background, are overtly sexualized, and all feel appropriate to the time period.For a game about a samurai, it doesn't hyper romanticize the idea of the samurai. You can see all the strength and all the weaknesses of the characters you interact with, which give a very real-life experience interacting with them.LGBTQ is represented here, as much as the time period allows, but the representations are good and give you the sense that even though it's never talked about, LGBTQ people did exist back then and they were normal people who loved each other even if they couldn't show it openly.Mechanics-wise, if you are a melee person, you like the game from start to finish. If you are like me and prefer to stealth and snipe your way through a game, the beginning will feel a bit restrictive, but once you get your longbow and more of the Ghost's abilities unlocked, it just as enjoyable as it is for melee fighters.VERY FEW FETCH QUESTS! If you're a story person like me, side quests are usually boring and only distractions from the main plot. And the worst side quests are just fetch quests. Tsushima has a few, but it doesn't overwhelm the side quests. A lot of go kill things, but at least they're not fetch, and they do a decent job of giving a story to them, or at least trying.Multiplayer. I'm not wholly impressed by multiplayer. I'm very disappointed that you can only play with one other person in the story multiplayer, while in survival you can have four. Survival isn't that much fun if you have a group of friends all starting together and who want to play together, because with a team of all brand new players, even the easy mode is pretty much impossible to beat. You do gain experience if you lose, but it incredibly frustrating to not be able to survive more than one or two waves unless you don't play with people you know and hope there's someone strong in your group. The difference classes are useless, since survival is set up to only have one useful attack style, and that's hack and slash. So Hunters can't really use archery skills well, and Assassins can't go around hiding in the grass to kill people. Everyone just has to attack the same way in order to survive. And all survival matches are basically the same thing.Overall, main game is amazing, bu multiplayer needs serious work. Why have one option with four people and one with two? I play with two other friends, so we can't play the story missions together without dropping one of us. And the story is the best part of the game.

Best graphics I’ve ever seen in a video game. The environments were stunning on a base PS4. Really fun game to platinum. Expect to get 50-60 hours of gameplay. Legends co-op was also fun from what I played.

Possibly obscurity, an odd one for sure to pull off the shelf by happenstance. Piqued my interest in content alone, where I’ve always had a penchant for all things ninjitsu, stealth being the one trait I do not and cannot attain in physical stature so of course, it's what I aspire to. Though, more recently a renewed interest in the benign childhood whims and an urge for something new in my Sixaxis bare palms yearning for that vibration. Originally I purchased this alongside one of the many Assassins famed games. As good as they are, they lack all things that truly offer this game space to shine. Amidst the chaos of hacking and slashing, this game felt clumsy, awkward, and unforgiving. But 2 months after a backburning cooldown with reflexes stopped, I attempted to pick up where I had left off into this Gem, luckily just at the start of things to flow, before any bridges were truly crossed initially and I relearned how to play responsively.Once that threshold crossed, the world inside this box began to bloom. Slow at first as things tend to, but before too long I'm finding myself stopped by a waterfall or cloudy hillside, or walking slowly through the woods to find a possible flower and just to see what all there is unfolding to me. Fireflies and ancient spirits gilding by, souls weigh the mist of war-torn Japan. stark white ethereal, oceans on stone translucent doe floating in a backdrop of the serene inner calm this game begs. Though, seemingly, this game is about killing -- it isn’t. It is truly about sacrificing and understanding how precious each moment is, the true cost that a person can bear. You are not savagely anything, but rather a sentinel of persistence, endurance for Tsisiham to feel the powerful strength that cannot be broken because he is not fighting. He is peacing. And if one is not fighting, then there is no fight, where if one is peaceful there will always be peace.‘Posits come, as I am sure they must, for a samurai. It is not my pain that is savaging the world. And it is not my pain that will fight it. But instead, a loving endurance to stand and risk everything for what is truly sacred. I find myself growing and learning alongside Jin as he grows from a young-hearted ready for revenge fighter, to an enduring heart calm at peace, who accepts that it is easy to fight bloodthirsty into a battle you know you cannot win. But it is not the ease of things that define us. And it is not for us to spare ourselves the hardship of becoming what we must nor deafening the struggle with which we must survive. And it is not anyone else choices that hurt me. They take a life, that is on them to take that life and cannot blame righteously anyone, even if it is their own. If I cannot save someone it isn’t my blade hurting them nor my hurt to endure.Each character has their own weakness and while everyone has their faults that does not “make everyone a murderer.” And as we shadow Jin on this self-fulfilling journey toward inner peace we see just how much the world can try to burden him, blaming everything that goes wrong on him, their suffering, torment, betrayal, sacrifice, and anger on him, while he must battle the quiet from his own mind where, in silence, his sword is what screams.