GAME SINS | Everything Wrong With Ghost of Tsushima

[Music] [Music] i enjoy cultural appropriation it's one thing to pay lip service to your own culture and history through entertainment you create it's another thing altogether when someone with an outsider's perspective does it probably explains why i find hideo kojima's metal gear solid games about the united states and americans so charming and it's probably why i wouldn't like ghosts of tsushima as much as i did if it had been made in japan had japanese developers been in charge this game likely would have wound up looking like an anime with overly stylized combat and cinematics along with every female character looking like a 16 year old with a boob job they couldn't copy kurosawa films even when they had one of his unfinished scripts on hand to guide them looking at you neo when dealing with our global anime problem the best way to counter it is to allow people with an entirely different fetishized view of japan make the entertainment it still produces a fetishistic piece of entertainment but a healthy fetish like cbt battling at night was not something armies did back in these days something about not being able to see what you were doing in the era before electric lighting actual darkness was pretty effing dark so trying to engage in a melee fight and that condition is better avoided unless you want to discover you savagely chop the head off of your best friend because you couldn't tell who you were swinging at in the darkness i am haru nobu hadachi descendant of the legendary yoshinobu atachi koten khan's introduction is great setting a samurai on fire with wine instead of dueling him as requested it gets across the samurai code and how rigid and unprepared it was for battling the mongols without saying a single word if only cote khan remained this practical throughout the entire game though the mongol invasion of tsushima is the first recorded use of black powder outside of china so its use here is correct but i would expect some shock and awe from the samurai the site of flaming exploding balls of fire raining down on them that would be damn near sorceress to them i ended up really liking the combat system in ghost of tsushima it's realistic pretty snappy and every enemy encounter i had was usually a unique fight and had a chaotic feel to it and here is where that butt you were expecting invades that praise i'm not going to overlook the lack of a dedicated lock-on option which i think led to some of that chaos since often i couldn't control who jin would attack so i would end up swinging my katana and a stance meant to counter shield carriers at a spear wielder instead who would then effortlessly parry my attack and run a lance through my temple then there's the camera which never felt like it worked right and would often show me the inside of a wall or a close-up of jin's face whenever i had to fight in a cramped environment save the close-ups for the cutscenes game and get these issues ironed out for the sequel so i can take a sin off for an otherwise great combat system jin and his uncle shimura were the last two samurai who remained alive after the failed bonsai charge on the beach so they decide to face cotton khan head on when explosives send them flying jin comes too and sees his uncle being captured then takes a couple arrows to the spine and goes down again only to wake up days later having been dragged away from the beach by yuna how she knew jyn was still alive is never explained since he had a couple arrows sticking out of him and wasn't moving and i doubt she had the option of checking through samurai lying on the beach for a pulse when mongols were running around i am kotan which grand zone though genghis khan didn't [ __ ] around when it came to [ __ ] around your traditions your beliefs which villages to tame and mr burn what coden failed to learn was that he should sell his invasion fleet to the japanese mainland after capturing the island and step [ __ ] around here for weeks and months over one guy while accomplishing nothing as thick as that mongol's armor looks yuna's knife goes right through it ghost of tsushima is a pretty impressive historical simulator only taking a few artistic liberties mainly by including elements of japanese culture into the game setting before they actually existed like haiku and bushido but that's the kind of artistic license i feel is pretty acceptable that's why i'm only going to send one of those liberties the existence of katanas in the game since the creation of the katana is actually tied to the mongol invasion of tsushima the sword samurai were using at the time were called tachi and they did a poor job penetrating mongol armor hence why the katana was created afterward to rectify that problem most people wouldn't be able to tell you the difference between hitachi and a katana anyway so their exclusion is unnecessary even if you want the cool factor of a katana this is more of a missed opportunity the game could have still featured a katana if it wanted and even make it a major plot point by having gin will the very first one as the weapon that gave him the edge to take on the mongols more efficiently i am no coward your enemy is no match for you in this flashback jin took his father's katana without permission to practice with it his uncle lord shimura catches him in the act but i can't see how jin wasn't aware of his uncle's presence he was standing just behind nimma's gin started swinging the sword around and it's not like his uncle blends in with the leaves my brother the mongols took him that's why you saved me euna saved jen's life because she needs his help rescuing her brother taka when you examine the series of events it doesn't add up she would have rescued jen shortly after the attack on the initial mongol invasion of the beach before the mongols could have captured her brother on a different part of the island and her bright idea to save taka was a near dead samurai she found on the beach who she had no way of knowing whether he would live or be in any condition to fight if he recovered we could cause a distraction sneak in no we walk in the front gate kotonkan set fire to our best swordsman humiliated my uncle richard the warriors of tsushima i'm going to repay his kindness by repeating the same mistakes that got your friends killed that's what the mongols will think but this time i'll strike first you struck first last time unless jen means a samurai who went down to face code and khan and was set on fire jen actually does the same thing as him here yo loudly to get the khan's attention for a showdown it goes about as well enough surrender for a guy who bragged about how much he studied his enemy before coming here cotton khan really doesn't understand the samurai belief of fighting until death and no surrender jin survives this doesn't even drop his katana ghost of tsushima has a lot in common with assassin's creed mostly in a positive way because it takes everything assassin's creed does and does it better however dead parents for character motivation rears its head here as well jen's father was killed by bandits right before jen's eyes as he hid in fear why was jen even there in the first place since his father is in full armor i assume it was a military campaign yet he brought his young son along with him to the battle jyn must have been in the water for a very long time it was night when coden threw him off the bridge yet he walks onto the beach in daylight from time to time i had to smack my face over how pretty this game looks though it does cheat a bit to do it i can't tell you whether this game takes place during the spring or fall since it seems to be a mix of the two seasons the game implements a rather novel navigation system where you swipe the touchpad to blow wind in the direction of your marked objective it's a feature i can get behind since it keeps me from staring at a mini-map with gps lines drawn on it for hours on end other open world games might as well have the same graphics as found in the atari due to how much time you spend looking at a two-dimensional mini-map though i suppose that this game would qualify as a horror game to those with pollen allergies due to the amount of dust and pollen your guiding wind kicks up we have to go in quietly like thieves go sushima plays around with a morality system sort of how sucker punches old infamous games did but it's only surface level and your playstyle changes nothing but the weather you can play the game as a stealthy assassin who stabs people in the back or confront everyone head-on samurai style without it really affecting the plot the issue being cut scenes regen takes the non-samurai around with you having no control over it and this ends up being a major plot element later on one hand i'm actually glad they didn't tie this game to such a system but they do offer the illusion of it while forcing the story in one direction you deserve better than this convince your people to stop resisting and you can walk free since when were mongols this end of negotiation if you didn't surrender immediately they wiped you out to serve as a lesson to the next person they faced the face wound jen gave dakotan back on the bridge held remarkably fast ishikawa is the master archer jin needs to help retake castle canada but he's tied up in the affair of his student who betrayed him and is now working for the mongols to teach them the way of the bow which is a pretty laughable idea one of the reasons mongols were the dominant military force of their time was their skill with archery especially while on horseback which is something that never happens in this game oddly the few times i encountered mounted mongols they never use bows it can be hard to write characters in an open world game along with writing a compelling plot the trade-off between linear storytelling versus an open world to explore your own leisure is a big one you might be able to add a few memorable characters to the game but often the plot will either plot along or end up being competent enough to get the job done without tripping over itself and that's how i feel about ghost of sushima's plot the game has come dressed for success but the characters pale in comparison to the exploration and combat that's why for the first half of the game you spend all of your time gathering allies and dealing with their assorted personal issues to get them to help you storm the castle to rescue jen's uncle then after you do that you have to do the same thing again for an entirely different castle and then do it a third time in the final act and it isn't like those characters you gather are standouts they like the plot are there to get the job done you might as well give them yellow hard hats and orange vests and traffic wands that guide cars along ryuzo leads a straw hat ronins a group of desperate mercenaries that are starving to death starvation after a mongol invasion would be a real possibility but the only people who seem to be starving are the straw hats no other town or survivor camp is hurting for food this was only a temporary depot they're taking everything offshore the boats are in the bay how exactly are you planning to get enough food to feed a small army off a mongol ship with just the two of you that takes time and the distraction on the beach would only buy you so much after raiding a ford only to find the mongols that moved the food to a ship and then finally the ship also had no food i have to wonder what the mongols stationed here we're eating an iron hook with a rope attached to the end you can use it to climb walls yuna made her brother taka out to be the best blacksmith on tsushima able to forge the tool jim would need to scale castle cain at his walls but all he makes is a simple grappling hook something any blacksmith could have forged where are you do so sushima island is pretty big yeah ryuzo somehow found janet kamatsu village with no way of knowing where he would be with the addition of the grappling hook ghost of tsushima becomes another game that adds to the growing batman singularity the point at which all games inevitably become batman not that the game was trying too hard to avoid that outcome with people referring to jen as the ghost and later giving him a black suit to wear [Music] it doesn't make any sense what doesn't my men said the mongols didn't hurt them they fed them good food too after saving users men from the mongol forth they were being held in by capturing it the straw hat's food problem should be solved muzo even mentions that the mongols fed his men that were locked up here so they could just take the food that was stored here but they don't your ancestor castle lies to the north yes i look forward to visiting it while i leave you here to starve to death why haven't you already done that you left half the island outside of your control while you had pointless talks with lord shimura on that same note why are you still on sushima the point is to invade mainland japan and take control of it the longer you wait around here the more time the shogun has to shore up his defenses look for a bounty on the coast anyone can claim it when jen attacks castle canada he finds ryuza waiting there for him to claim the bounty on jin's head since his men are still starving if yuzo wanted money he could have sold the information about jin's raid on the castle to the mongols in fact since the mongols at ryuzo sit around in the castle to wait for jhin they would have to know that jhin was coming tonight yet they made no preparations that are taken by surprise by jennifer's allies and koten even leave shimura here why take lord shimmer out of his cage and keep him in her room while the castle is being raided he's coating khan's biggest hostage why not take him to the other fortress or kill him history tells me that the aristocracy wouldn't give much of a damn about invaders burning a few peasants outside of the castle or at least not enough to open the gates and surrender without a fight return home and claim your father's honor recruit the peasants of yarikawa i will petition the shogun for reinforcements act two is exactly the same as act one travel around gain new allies and take a different castle how we get a message to the mainland have unsavory friends of my own a pirate named goro even if you know someone who can slip past the mongol blockade any reinforcements the shogun would sin would have to break through the same blockade and fight their way onto the island and the mongol ships have mortars we will take back your castle uncle and destroy the mongols this sounds like the plan you should have come up with when the mongols first arrived instead of leading a suicide charge against him on the beach we were ambushed and taken captive shoved into a covered pit no food so dark i couldn't see my hands in front of my face for someone who was only moments ago starving after weeks in a pit norio doesn't look it we can help break the seas outside your walls in return lord shimla requests your help the mongols want to conquer the mainland they will lose interest in us the mongols built quite their reputation during their campaigns this is the same army that destroyed an entire middle eastern kingdom for offending the khan right down to every last man woman and child they could find and you think that the mongols that you're gay demanding you surrender or die will forget you and head for the mainland the mongols break through yuri kawa's gate in the initial attack are beaten back by gin of the people then resort to siege weaponry before sending man through again which is the opposite way of laying siege to a fortified location you would start by using your siege weapons and starvation to soften the target before you ever send troops over the wall the combat has been realistic up until this point when mongols start setting their swords on fire and jin activates his devil trigger setting your sword on fire may look cool but it's just going to ruin the temper on your blade your friend defeated one of my best generals my men have started to believe he's invincible you will prove them wrong or you could just leave for the japanese mainland and stop worrying about jhin and this island coating khan already gave up on convincing shimura to side with him so what is keeping him here if he sells away jin is no longer his problem are many ways to eliminate find another what if we didn't have to kill him so instead of killing jyn you want to capture him alive something that is a lot harder to do than killing someone the khan's army must have marched past you have you had any trouble a few bandits nothing i can't take care of coating khan weirdly didn't have jyn's family home destroyed or its caretakers like eureka killed despite all the problems jinn is causing him he has one forgiving mongol japan is getting off easy i've come from my father's my armor i hid it somewhere safe yuriko hid the armor jen's father used to wear she must have forgotten where she placed a few pieces of it like the shoulder plates in the helmet since you have to upgrade it to get the entire set jyn's father died wearing the full armor so it should have been intact after teaching jen how to make poison yuriko has a day out with jen before dying in the most cliche way possible i'm not even sure what killed her she was fine when jen arrived home other than some normal memory loss from aging then she suddenly developed a cough on this mission and was dead within minutes japanese colds are something else i was under the impression that jin and lord shimura were the only two samurai remaining on sushima while planning to storm a fort so goro can sell for the mainland with a message for the shogun two other samurai are following lord shimura and help out and i'm just thinking where did they come from we have huacha a weapon of the enemy the huacha wasn't invented until the 1500s and was used to thwart the japanese invasion of korea you also couldn't instantly reload the hundreds of arrows once you ran out nor would you want to stand directly behind one while the rockets are igniting that's where the exhaust would be directed jin should walk away from this thing covered in suit and third-degree burns these mercenaries are poised to strike a frank do you know where rizo is now not far for your son ryuzo's plan to deal with the gin was to drop hints of his whereabouts so jim would come looking for him so far that's a solid start but then it just gets lazy he waits around in this fort and when jen finally shows up a straw hat comes up from behind and whacks gin on the head he may as well have propped a box up with a stick and wait for jin to crawl under it you were gone so long i knew you were in trouble i came to help but the mongols got me taka is also captured during the assault in a lazy manner he was safe after causing the distraction and had to return while jyn was unconscious in order to be captured convince your people to join me and i will give them peace the mongols never really cared much about your cooperation if you didn't do what they wanted they either killed you or marched you in front of their army as a living shield koten wanting lord shimura and now jin to side with him is pointless the amount of opposition on tsushima is pretty small to begin with and certainly not worth wasting all this time over your friend died for you now i must find another and you must choose again coden thinks it'll be possible to convince jin to side with him after killing taka right before his eyes because he doesn't kill jin when he has a perfect chance to and even leaves the fort carrying jyn's head around on a pike would be pretty effective at squashing resistance too well that was piss easy to escape from the mongols even left all of jen's equipment and his katana nearby you must be your reinforcements that is correct i am lord sadamine oga ghanaman no mention about the shogun samurai reinforcements managed to get past the mongol fleet surrounding the island samurai pride themselves on their honor code but it also makes them rigid predictable easy to break ghost has no limits this makes him dangerous maybe you should have killed him when you had him tied up then i know i keep going on about the con but that's because i actually like him as a character so to see him stringing along the plot with stupid decisions is a shame run cowards chin what are you doing clearing away not like that never like that face them as a warrior all of this stuff about honor and facing your enemy really only applied to other samurai in the more ritualistic combat between them if a samurai were facing bandits or foreign invaders they would have few restrictions on how to combat it the samurai would see the mongols as having no honor so most of those concepts go right out the window even more so when a samurai is completely surrounded by foreign invaders we will strike before they regroup and in this war tomorrow you sent our men to die they are soldiers their blood is on our hands i don't recall jen getting this upset over the previous time shimura led a charge against the mongols that resulted in a lot of casualties he'd want you to have it yuna gives jin some armor taka had been making for him she didn't show up in the cutscene carrying clothes looking at the ghost armor it seems like an arm load too generally poisons two flasks of milk yet it poisons every mongol in the castle this poison acts within seconds at best the first few people to drink it should have started vomiting blood and then the rest would have known something was up where's the con he rode north made me stay behind to collect the ghost's head what exactly is coating khan's plan now he's lost control of most of the island after accomplishing nothing only now does he plan to sell for the japanese mainland while sushima slips from his grasp he defended us by spreading fear and chaos how has jin spread fear and chaos it's not like there were any witnesses all of the mongols here are dead the shogun will demand ahead but it does not have to be yours i know she drove you to this renounce the ghost you must blame her for this outrage seems like a hard sell when he's covered in blood and the other samurai saw him use poison once already wouldn't lying and casting blame on another be dishonorable they just let yuna run off with gin's sword like that a reward for helping retake his home i'm watching the prisoner he's not going anywhere wait too long and your friends will drink it all everyone should know that the sake merchant kenji is one of jin's allies he was at the camp right before the attack on the mongols yet the guard leaves him alone to go drink sake he also left the key to the cell behind as well because kinji opens jin's cell after the guard leaves she's waiting in kin with your equipment jin did give yuna his sword before telling her to leave but the rest of jin's equipment should be here somewhere after he was placed in custody maybe close the gate instead of letting him run out of it or maybe chase after him on your own horses jen should not have been able to escape on a dying horse the northern tip of the island isn't so far north and it should be frozen over all four seasons now seem to be happening simultaneously on sushima smells like wolf spain the mongols learned how to make my poison the mongols somehow got their hands on jen's poison without ever having a sample of it all of the mongols of the castle died of the poisoning so they couldn't have taken the milk flask and examined them and yuriko died after showing jyn how to make it without seeing which plant jen uses for it they somehow figured it out and managed to find a supply of the flowers here in the frozen over northern part of the island the mongols come from the frozen step i don't think a little wind and snow is going to deter them that much especially when jyn collapses 10 feet from where they shot him the mongols couldn't find jen in the storm but yuna did this makes twice now that she has inexplicably rescued jin that poison is so lethal it acts instantly leaving the person on the ground choking on their own blood and there is no antidote yet gin somehow survives it easily what's in all these barrels supplies flowers poison one barrel holds enough to kill hundreds khan will use this against the mainland we can't let him leave tsushima hundreds you say the mongols were only responsible for killing millions with standard weapons yet they need this poison as their secret sauce to conquer japan makes you wonder how the mongols conquered most of the known world around this time without poison i also find it hard to believe that the mongols only just recently came across the idea of poisoning after gin started using it these are the same mongols that catapulted disease corpses over castle walls to spread plague among their enemies look at the waves they're flat the kind you see before a storm the mongol fleet was crippled by a typhoon not a blizzard the mongol fleet is never even destroyed in this game and i was kind of looking forward to that moment i suppose having samurai row up to crippled mongol ships that slaughter and burn tired and injured enemies alive would clash with a plot focus on fighting with honor khan is almost ready to sail for our mainland with ships full of men explosives and my poison what exactly is coating khan waiting for now he has all the poison he needs he should just sail away but we need more fighters no my uncle wants to con debt as much as we do he'll join our attack he'll throw you in prison i'll write him a message leave it in his quarters you can also just send a messenger with your letter the people of your mainland the poison plot line never really came together for me and proves that there wasn't a whole lot of effort put into coding khan's goal only his presentation his goal changed multiple times over the game so he would have a reason to stay on the island instead of leaving for japan and now some simple poison is supposed to be the major threat that has to be stopped the poison can't be that useful of a weapon if jinn can take a face full of it and shrug it off and another will come sequel baiting but then again that is historically what happened the khan is dead but his army is still here our home won't be safe until we drive them out to sea even with coating khan dead the mongol fleet still isn't sailing for japan like what are they even doing here now the shogun has declared you a traitor he ordered you to kill me either the shogun is dumb or someone is lying to him about jhin the shogun isn't the honor pope who judges a samurai's actions against some religious doctrine that must be followed to the letter he's a politician and military leader if you brought jyn's actions of successfully killing mongols including their khan while thwarting an invasion of the mainland before him he would probably wonder why you're wasting his time then commend jin and tell him to do it some more but that they would make it sound a bit cleaner in proclamations and history books this is one of those games that makes it all worth it it hits all three of the basic pleasures of youtube game reviewers performed strongly in search algorithms has a small amount of people trying to stir up imminent controversy over it and is actually a pretty good game it ends just before it starts to wear out its welcome which is something few open world games manage and the ending feels earned while keeping with the kurosawa theme and the best thing about it is how in a few months assassin's creed valhalla releases into a post-gosu tsushima world and that people may finally smell the thick cloud of extra chromosomes that surround that series and then our expectation should be a little higher when playing a game set during important history in hindsight we lucked out that ubisoft considered it to shade ever set an assassin's creed game in japan it's possible to achieve a wonderful bit of spite without ever meaning to goddamn margarine you

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Length: 23min 55sec (1435 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 03 2020