Hey everyone, I'm sorry there was such a big gap between this video and the last, I really have no good excuse. I am, however, committing to releasing a new video before April ends. Thanks so much for tuning in! Hope you enjoy the video, and be sure to let me know what you think :)
Man this title probably ruined things for you. You do present valid and solid points, but the title just gave you half the dislikes on its own. Should've called the video something neutral
@@steelbear2063 the combat is the only ok part to it. Like og assassins creeds blend with the batman/spiderman rocksteady combat. The lack of detail and secondary animations, garbage stealth gameplay, and imo boring story w baseless characters, make it hard to play. Have you seen the guy walk up stairs? He clips thru past his ankles…ive never seen a “game of the year” like this.
I understand the value of smaller maps. For me , most open world games are just too bloated with bland missions, basic npcs and bland story made unnecessarily long. After a while open worlds just feel like a chore.
Its hard to imagine this game NOT open world, Be honest, would you really enjoy this game if it were a level game? No alternative paths to take a base? If every fight took place inside a mongol base? With no steath variety?
@@milesharris249 linear dosent have to mean level to level, it could be a smaller map that’s easier to traverse. Having a big open world only to fill 60% of the space with fetch quests and repetitive enemy bases Is a waste since it could’ve been done without the 2-3 minute process of holding the W key / left stick while zoning out.
Witcher 3 for me had perfect balance of side quest and other activities . Side quest were short but with enough side story context to make each quest unique somewhat .
@@iammac5813 Yep. It had some boring quests too but the most of them were interesting and even made mention to real world fables/fairy tales. Witcher 3 is literally the only open world game i liked.
It's like half-fixed Ubisoft game. It doesn't have resource or leveling grind which is nice, combat is very good, art is perfection BUT those fillers in gameplay, after clearing 20th location you'll get anxious, for real. I played it last winter and after about 15 hours, I didn't start any game for weeks, that's how anxious and stressed it made me feel, a f-in checklist, like being at work. I MIGHT start it up one day as I'm sucker for old Japan but then I'll just rush through main storyline. I wouldn't say it's a bad game, but fancy look aside it's 6 or 7 out of 10 aka "meh"
All I learned from this game's success is that it's absolutely okay to use the same tired open world formula that everyone's apparently sick of, so long as it's set in Japan. Got it.
this is the perfect way of putting it. it’s crazy what people overlook about this game’s flaws because it looks pretty and has samurai. the side quest designs are terrible. stealth is terrible. combat is OK. story is OK. game overall is not bad at all, but it’s so repetitive and so emblematic of all the shitty parts of older Ubisoft games that people loveeeeee to hate on
@@cocoapowered yep, i thought exactly the same ,it was so boring to play this game. It played same as assasinscreed and i expected more. But the wast majority of people who played that game enjoyed it. it got very good reviews In the end it is just like any other boring sony game
crazy how people overlook how boring the first hour of the game is. Its literally an hour long trailing mission with unskipable cutscenes with 30 seconds of gameplay spliced between each cutscene
what struck me the most was the lack of good cutscences apart from the chapter finales. The marketing was all over the "so inspired by movies" but the presentation didnt reflect that apart from a few scences
There were some awesome cutscenes here and there, far in between though. I was disappointed with the repetetive camera angles during companion missions, made it feel like a none-event. Things would come a long way if they treated these segments with more care. It would help flesh out the lore simply by using cinematography ; not some stupid birds eyeview.
The marketing was some of the most two-faced, disingenuous nonsense I've seen for a game. Nothing in the game is even vaguely reminiscent of samurai cinema. It's just a video game that looks like any other.
Yeah it was just two guys standing 3km from each other with only their lips moving and nothing else, it's like from an old early 2000's RE game. This game is just like Starfield for me. Beautiful world, but incredibly bland and boring world and NPCs.
the worst thing i hate as a ghost of tsushima player. is that initating a standoff doesnt alert ALL the enemys. most noticeable in big camps. i kill 3 enemys by standoff. kill 1 group watching the standoff. and then silence, then i find out some guy didnt hear a samurai shouting "ARE YOU COWARDS" like a deaf person.
@@billcipher3946it's a fair assumption cause half the fanbase of got that Say it's a masterpiece it's only a bunch of haters of tlou2 using this Game as a safe space
Put anything Samurai, anime, or Japanese related into a game and it’s 10/10. This is a 6/10 game at best. No side missions, adobe flash combat, and dead open world.
What game did you play? It has a ton of side missions, the combat has a skill ceiling and the world literally changes as you help the people take the island back. It’s one of the more Alive worlds we’ve gotten in the past few years.
@@zerg6001 the same one that you did, where even after clearing out all of the mongol camps, I still encounter them during free roam. I mean they could have rewarded you with other activities, side content rather than pressing buttons to cut bamboo, following foxes/birds, or taking a bath. It’s not the worst game in the world, but it definitely is not a great game.
This is one of the best types of reviews for me. I absolutely love this game and disagree with some of your points, but you deliver your thoughts with actual care and analysis, instead of carelessly rambling like so many do. Keep it up man, I'm attempting to put out an analysis for the game soon so it helps to see what others have done.
to be fair i would imagine most people dont bother concisely composing a half hour long list of opinions because its going to be met with lol get good, and the effort wont be reciprocated in any meaningful way.
If you just play the main story and roam around in the open world just for looking at the graphics then it is a fantastic game but doing all those open-world activities gets boring.
@@idanshoval6939 I am not personally offended by anything you loser, why? Do you have a bone to pick with me? Is it because I decided to sell 10 diapers on eBay? Or that I sell some handmade bags? Or is it because I have decided to start selling pottery? Or is it because I have a wall that says "DON 'T CROSS!" and it has been crossed? You are obviously high, and if you are, my hat's off to you. F you! F you! That's right. It is in fact 12: 30pm. I did not spend the entire time sleeping, I was watching marathons of 24 on USA and caught the last half of an awesome episode of Dancing with the Stars, plus I called my mom. Here are some thoughts I had on the evening: "Should we get showreel pizza for dinner?" "Nah, it won't be as good." "That's what she said." "I should sign my check," "I should sign my check." "I should just get the salad." "What's the difference?" "I could make the salad for $3, and the pizza for $8." "I really need a good salad”
I played and finished the game and I agree with what you've got to say. By the time I got to Act 3, I just wanted to be done with it. The open world, even if beautiful was exhausting, because there is nothing worthy to do. The side quests eventually devolved into same OW tropes of - go here meet person, go to another place with said person, kill enemies, repeat. This game would've been another level had they made a linear, focused game. OW games will need to innovate greatly or die.
Since when did side quests ever became "interesting", ever since Skyrim the players don't really nor give interests onto a side quest mission but just completing 100% of the game or upgrades. If you really wanted to put much time on every side quest's story then sure why not but don't expect players to give interests nor impact because to them, its just filler or to get upgrades.
@@UmbrellaSound I didn't say it wasn't fun, of course I had a lot of fun, played around with it, and there times that the side quest's story became interesting on showing some aspects of the character or world. But in the end of the day, it's still repetitive on doing the same formula (not saying that I hate it, I'm ok with it). Witcher 3 is a phenomenal, one of a kind game and cyberpunk...I couldn't even enjoy the side quests due to the gameplay and gunplay still being buggy.
The game has absolutely astounding art design. The minimalist approach to guiding the player to objectives complements the setting beautifully, while adding a huge level of immersion. But I hate the camera during combat. I also get the burnout from these types of open-world games, which have been done to death. GoT is basically Assassin’s Creed: Japan but with nicer art design and more thoughtful combat.
What I hated about this game is the duels/boss fights on the hardest difficulty, them somehow locks on you even if you dodge or block, it's a cheap illusion of sekiro's sometimes questionable boss grabs or hitbox
this game must be the most overrated game ever, it has so many flaws but people for some reason rarely want to talk about them or directly pretend they don't exist, like the dumb enemy AI, the big amount of copy paste, the texures looking plastic, the kurosawa mode having not understood Kurosawa's work at all and being just a black and white filter with a little bit of grain, nothing that the simplest mobile app cannot do and even better than this game... and lots of bugs, you can find videos that last over half and hour only with bugs, the game is just mediocre in every aspect but people see nice colors (which isn't the same as textures btw) and they think "oh, this game is sooo good", just stupid
I absolutely despise the game design of most Sony games past the middle of the PS4 gen it's like they made a hollow shell of a game then paste different skins on it and sell them as separate games
He even kills the same. Every leader stealth kill is a decapitation, in battle that random left arm dismemberment. Any way I have another base to clear in this Sony Swan Song!
I dont understand all the praise for this game. Got it on discount recently, played until reaching DLC map and finally dropped it. Got bored out of my mind. But it is beautiful yeah.
x2, I will play Rise of the Ronin definitely, but this one is lame on the lack of connectivity between gameplay and story is not lame as f, it is not woke neither it is not a Ubisoft cashgrab but the game lacks on many departments, and damn it is too long.
I feel they should've put more effort into the side quests etc. The world is absolutely beautiful and the swordplay is very fun. Stealth didn't really feel innovative at all. You just sneak behind or over the enemy and press a button. The enemy AI doesn't really react to your stealthy approach, meaning even if the enemy catches a glimpse of you, they rarely go check it out. I ended up challenging the enemy head on every time and because of that the story didn't quite match up. Jin Sakai was not the Ghost for me, except for the poisoning of the mongol troops. Also NO CUTSCENES for the sidequests except for the stories of your allies. Despite it's flaws I think it was one of the best games I've played in a while.
My god dude how do you find the swordplay fun. It’s such a generic lazy combat system, most of it is redundant like the different stances and it’s extremely lacking in depth and difficulty. It’s easy, boring and bland.
@@zzodysseuszzthe swordplay dosent have to be like sekiro fun. You don’t need something that’s so difficult and extravagant. Other games like rdr2 and the last of us 2 have very simple gameplay yet it’s still very fun and engaging.
the game's issue is that it's an open world with ZERO justification for being so. it clearly screams design as a hub based semi open world like sekiro. maybe they could even have shipped the game with a honor system and a branching path narrative if they didn't commit to spending resources on open world meme, because the game's narrative and design just screams traces of a honor system.
@@Navefreamo how is that possible, considering you liked GoT, a terrible snorefest of a game? Horizon is far from perfect but it destroys GoT in every category
I played my first play through on Lethal mode. The combat mechanics really shine and dont feel so spammy on the harder difficulty. I thought the art and pacing was brilliant. Act 3 was weak as all hell though and needed more development.
You are so wrong about the combat, you never upgraded your stances so your missing key parts of making the combat fun. Also you can absolutely switch stances during thr duels. Using the wind combo and moon spinning attack.
I actually originally thought that they'd go into the reason Jin survives the war, bridge and poison. I thought the ghost meant something and that they would reveal that perhaps he did die or that he became cursed or something. I suspended my disbelief because I thought that perhaps he couldn't actually die. But turns out, no he has protagonist armour
I know, right! I remember in one of the original reveal trailers they showed the Komoda Beach scene, and I kept waiting for an actual ghost to show up cos like... seemed like the thing you don't get up from. But no... he's just too cool to die for reals, I guess...
The stances just seemed pointless. You start the game without any of them. Tap o for one red dot, tap o twice for two red dots and so on. It’s the weakest part of the game
Yeah, I know this is just a video game and a fictionalized version of the Mongol Invasion. But damn, as someone who reads history. This game is so inaccurate. For example, the armor design of the Samurai and Sakai Clan armor are anachronistic, those armor came later in the 16-17th centuries. The sword design is a katana. But the game takes place in in the 13th century when Japan still used "tachi" which is a curvier sword. The katana was invented in response to the Mongol's hard and thick armor not being able to penetrate the brittle and weak blade of the tachi. (Though in Japanese dub, the sword is called tachi, accurate) But, the thing I really hate is there's not a single samurai who wields a bow! Only like Ishigawa and Jin! Because a real samurai wasn't only a master swordsman, but also an archer! In fact, swords of samurai are mainly for secondary use! In fact, I don't see any samurai who wields spears or war clubs. And yes samurai also knows other weaponry not just swords! The Mongols too are kind off disappointed, because why does this game don't have any Mongol cavalry?!! Umm hello, that's what they were widely known for! They are master archers on horseback. In the game, they ride horses, yes, but when they see Jin, those Mongols immediately dismount to fight you in the ground! Also, the hwacha is not even a Mongolian weapon, it's a rocket launcher developed in Joseon (Korea) in the late 16th century! And what's so ironic is the hwacha was created due to the Japanese invasions of Korea! How about that "samurai code" also known as Bushido? It wasn't fully developed in the 16th century. Also, that samurai fights with pure honor is just romanticized of Hollywood or Kurosawa fiction. In fact, a samurai wasn't only a warrior but a strategist too. They would applaud you for innovative or unconventional tactics. Furthermore, when Shimura arrests Jin by the Shogun due to his dishonorable acts, it's all bullsh1t. What's this the Jedi Order? No, the Shogun wouldn't do something weird like that. This is just scratching the surface there are still a lot of inaccuracies but, this is just a video game I get it! But it still hurts... (Sorry for the bad English, I'm a Filipino)
It definitely screams of a more stereotypical Westerner’s perspective of Japanese history. Despite delving into absurdity, Yakuza Ishin and Rise of the Ronin feel more historically accurate, owing largely to the fact that Japanese developers made both games. I think it’s also telling since Sucker Punch said their game was more of an ode to Akira Kurosawa films than anything else. It’s just that SP’s version feels so devoid of cultural context in a lot of ways that it ends up feeling like a product.
This. I tried it until middle of Act 2. Needed to quit. Started Dark Souls instead after having finished Sekiro the 2nd time some weeks ago. Really wanted to like it, because it looks sooo nice and cozy. But completely lacking of character, heart and details. And this game always tries telling me I'm dumb... Press RT to press through the wall... cool, thanks for the tutorial explanation...ah... nahhh.. you remind me every single time how this works 😂
people will shit on assassin's creed and then play assassin's creed Japan. the story was mediocre, the dialog was so terrible I actually laughed during the serious moments, the combat? its cool if the major features actually work as intended (standoff, wind stance parry), and if you want to fight the same fight 100s of times over 50 hours. and the OpenWorld? are we all fucking 10 years old? because it's been years since I've seen an OpenWorld that isn't just a scavenger hunt. the armor and weapons? 85% would never match with each other and 80% of the armor sets fucking suck. Also, by the end of the game I almost got violently mad every time that gold bird appeared. Finally, the stealth is so laughably easy you can kill an entire camp one by one as they run over to check on their dead comrades, just such a silly little game.
also do you guys remember when fallout 4 came out, and they were trying to push that "the man out of time" name? and everyone said it was lame? yeah "the ghost" is about as fucking lame.
Ghost of Tsushima is magical the first half, but still no one has done what Witcher 3 did. The thing with Witcher 3 was that it was representing something new all the time for the player with little to no repetition, the open world didn't have any repetitive scenarios that was randomly computer generated, instead most of the things on the map was thought out, and everything was so well done that you didn't know if it was a small side-quest or a main mission, and the lack of repetitiveness was striking compared to other open-world games. The problem with Ghost of Tsushima is the usual, after a while you get tired of the random events that happens over and over, and collecting things and foxes are just the same after the same.
Nah he’s right, I literally shut the game off mid last boss fight, I was so bored, didn’t help that I played sekiro right before, just not even close to the perfection of sekiro.
You don’t NEED to get every single open world thing in the game. You can complete the game without them. You can take some while going to main quests n side quests, but if you complain about being a checklist perfectionist.. i mean, that’s just ridiculous, isn’t it? How many years would this game have taken if they had a 60 different small open world tasks? The health and resolve increases are that, health and resolve increases. You don’t need to do them if they’re too boring. There aren’t even too many of them in the open world?? Yeah, i get the foxes, those get boring and annoying, but man.. everything else is nice, unless you have an incredibly short attention span.. if you see some of the very small side quests in GOT as just "walk, fight, save" you might as well look the same cynical way at every repeating task in any game. That’s the thing with games. Some tasks repeat. Oh no. Some quests are bigger than others, wow. That’s how the world works... damn i get bored every single time i need to take a shit on the toilet! It’s so repetitive! I wish my asshole would tear from time to time.. *(im incredibly sorry)* But the thing is, if you aim too high and make 70+ quests a totally unique experience.. wouldn’t it 1. Be sorta impossible, 2. Run like shit? Take a millennial? Like imagine finishing the beautiful and emotional main quest with your team, and then breaking out of your human form, transcending your current plain of existence to work on creating a totally new and unique experience for small missions with the world you have? Man, by the end there’d be dragons overdosing on bubblegum in mongol armor in the skies, like.. the world is limited with the shit you can do in "old” japan right? Of course lord shimura must be remembered, in STORIES, to have a character be of more importance than others you need to make them more important.
You do realize that there's a myth in Japan that hot springs give you vitality and rejuvenation. So the hot springs make a lot of sense. Not to mention the bamboo strikes are literally how samurai train their sword skills. Your review just seems very nitpicky
Souls got me back into gaming after 10 years. I like GOT’s mechanics but the cutscenes/walking n talking, taking the game out of my hands constantly omg I couldn’t do it.
Thank you for this review. I completely abandoned Ghost of Tsushima on PS4 ages ago but picked it up again when I finally managed to get a PS5 a few weeks ago. 60FPS made the game more tolerable but I found myself feeling extremely bored very quickly. I try to 100% every game I play, but the repetitive nature of the open world and the “press button to make health increase” nature of all the side content made me abandon my incessant need to 100% my games and just burn through the story as quickly as humanly possible. The combat was the only thing I truly enjoyed in that it made me feel extremely overpowered coming out of a 20v1 encounter having not taken a hit, but all the encounters are so similar and so repetitive that they manage to lose their lustre too. Honestly looking at all the reviews and videos gushing over this game confused me and made me consider if I was losing my touch with gaming or something. I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt this way about Ghost of Tsushima. A visually stunning, competent but wholly underwhelming and shallow experience cluttered with boring and repetitive missions.
For the first time ever, I'm grateful for seeing the spoiler for a game. Saw this on PS plus and played for a few hours thinking the story/world activity was so bland. Definitely deleting it now. Great analysis!
I guess some people just like those Ubisoft like games. Both this and Horizon zero dawn were hyped AF, tried both and I felt like I've played them before because all of them feel so similar
Whoa! Horizon is nothing like this game. Horizon is amazing (probably the best games...ever.). I just finished Forbidden West. Started on this game next...what a joke. This game is lame as shit. I tried for 2 days to get into it and it's just so boring and I can't skip anything.
People who over praise this game are incapable of actually critiquing a game because oooh pretty instead of looking deeper than what it provides at the surface. The combat is ridiculous it's janky and confusing thanks to the camera being unable to follow you. The story is also boring.
A Japanese man played this game and he said ot RESPECTED THE CULTURES AND hot springs actually do heal you so health increase is logical.swordsmen train on Bamboo strikes to strengthen the sword and themselves.if u dont know Japanese culture you cant just say it sucks? Gameplay is boring but not as much as y'all say,it is a quite good story (not the best) but still good.its not a masterpiece yes,but it doesn't suck too like what are you on?
This game came with my PS5 bundle pack I got from GameStop, this and 2k22 ( which I really don’t play, because I hate that game as well). I decided to play this game without checking the reviews online (that and because it came with my system) and I can honestly say this game is trash and a pain in the ass. The controls seem bulky and laggy, the moves don’t register half the time and it seems buggy and glitchy. There’s a bunch of unnecessary dialogue you can’t seem to skip pass and the enemies are walking talking cheat codes. This game sucks.
The things it’s missing, is LIFE. I have no idea who my character is, what his name is, what he’s fighting FOR (not against) Compare it with Skyrim. A decade old game. I just don’t understand why I’d want to play this over Skyrim (apart from Graphics :) )
You didn't pay attention then lol the characters name is scattered many times through the game jin saki the last surging member of his clan next to his uncle
@@BustyNutz How is it your fault if you weren’t immersed? lol it’s always up to the game (or movie, tv show or book etc.) to get you immersed in its world.
I beat the game ..took my time too...haven't done iki island yet but this review is spot on man....it's not terrible but it's not goty material....it's repetitive and bland...the foxes were cute at first but damn....the same shit over the whole map....I could go on for days
We're at year 2021 and still there are difficulties to just go sight seeing in open world games. I spent more time doing just that and creating amazing art with the in game camera feature. I hope devs make a game one day with this kind of mechanic.
I would have loved a modified version of the dishonored system where if you stealth the game it changes the world and if you fight by the code or whatever it also changes the world accordingly. I could completely not bother with the stealth and still be forced into doing stealth
Dude you literally spoke to my heart! Every single point you’ve made have been driving me nuts throughout my play through i was thinking of making a video and I don’t even make them, I don’t get the praise.
Ya,…I get it. Games not perfect but i personally love the vibe, story, music, gameplay, and setting so much that I still love this game. All the complaints you have I feel could be improved in a sequel which Sucker Punch is always amazing at. Sly 2 and infamous 2 are both incredible sequels (Also saying the game sucks is pretty wild. Kinda disrespectful to the creators who actually did make a good game even if you have problems with it)
It's like u watching boring random generated Samurai movie from Sony...Story terrible, gameplay is okay but nothing special... Only fo people who dont care about story or gameplay....If u wanna play amazing Samurai or Shinobi type game just buy Sekiro...
Combat is elegant but that’s all about it. Making the deflecting skill based doesn’t work when you can’t animate the enemies properly, a Batman style not execution based parry would save this game’s combat. Shadow of Mordor has done everything better this game tried to do.
I honestly can't really disagree with much of what you said, but I love the game. Sound design plays a massive role for me in my enjoyment of this kind of game and the sound design in Ghost is senseitional. I also enjoy the combat a lot. I don't care about stories in games, never have. That's what books and movies are for.
I would hate this video since I'm a gigantic fan of the game. I think it's the best samurai game ever and maybe in the top 20 games ever (IMO) But this is just a really good analysis/review. I respect this video
I dont like the sheathing..lol it ruins it for me. Its all about sword play and theres like one animation and so far its suuuper delayed. I do some badass stuff and then i stand there like a dimwit after. I have been shocked and disappointed so far. Just got the game
This game is getting pass from all the reviewers, if it was a Nintendo game people would criticised till death. This is 3-4hr of fun extended or spread out ovee 25 hr
Most people will dislike this because their opinion is always right and they can't respect others. I'm glad people actually speak out on what they think, rather than arse like every title they own.
The like to dislike is telling and yet i can’t find but a small handful of comments that disagree. Another video bashing GoT has the same thing. Its fine if you don’t like ghost but It’s almost like these people can’t handle people disagreeing or criticizing them. Pathetic if you ask me
@@Shaolinstoutits because just saying got sucks and that fly Cooper and infamous are better games are literally just terrible takes. And he's nitpicking on a lot of things. You can simplify every single game and make it seem bad. "All dark souls games is go around fighting bosses" "all rdr2 is just shooting and robbing" all gta5 is shooting and robbing. U see my point. And his content himself is low effort. His jokes ain't funny at all
You're just explaining what every game is. Every game gets repetitive at a point. It really just comes down to how invested in the world you are that determines if you want to put more time into it.
Every similar game is repetitive in the fact that you go to some destination on the map to start a mission and complete it but with GoT its repetitive in mission design. All the mission length were the same length and cut scenes were the same length. Nothing dynamic happens. You go on these missions, meet your companion, go to raid or fight some enemies and done. Comparatively to Rdr2 and Witcher 3 there was so much more going on. I couldn't love this game as much becasue I noticed it just was lacking what these two games executed so well. Only thing I truly loved about GoT was the combat, only when raiding the castle with my group of companion facing hordes of enemies... not really when I was out and about traveling. On that note there wasn't many missions that did that. And comparatively to an action driven game, where the character feels totally bad ass killing large groups of enemies... GoT did that kind of, but not as well as the GraveWalker from Lord of the Rings Shadow of Mordor/War. And you can tell it also drew from Lotdr too due to the combat focus and the scaling of buildings or objects, just not as enjoyable. I felt like GoT was trying to do everything what these games did great and lost focus. Hence it does some familiar things we all enjoy... so we enjoy the game but as the reviewer said something was empty about it.
@Csl, the real issue is less repetition. It's the fact that by the start of Act II you pretty much have everything you need and the game is too simplistic. Finding another fox shrine, hotspring, side quests, collectables and pillers is no longer gratifying since the gameplay isn't evolving and the rewards feel minimal as your already overpowered so doing more will just further break the game.
this game showed us one thing: there are tons of people actually love ubisoft formula. ıt still sells. samurai theme and being a ps exlusive helped a lot this game also. its a mid game after all. you can say the best ubisoft game on the market right now.
when i played the game I criticised about it in my local gaming group and every thrashed me. Actually I was just playing it to finish it. Not really enjoying the game itself.
Probably the most disappointed I've been with a game in recent memory, it's basically a repetitive Ubisoft open world game, except it's made by another company and now suddenly everyone loves it even though it's hardly any different from your typical Assassin's Creed fare, it's arguably worse in some areas like the laughably bad stealth
Yeah im so disappointed that inhave waited 4 years for this to come to pc, world is empty, repetitive fetch quests and clunky combat, just another ok story, and some ofbthe textures suck even on ultra, i think dropping the label samurai on it+ and it being a sony exclusive which are known most of the time for quality is what helped this game getting all the hype, i recently started playing we happy few, been on my radar for a couple of years now and i enjoyed that far more than this.
I agree. This game is boring as fk. I played 2/3 acts on and off it took me until now to get that far because of boredom. Good combat but same crap over and over worse than Assassin's Creed origins, odyssey and Valhalla which kept me more entertained.
Love the game, I've done every mission, gotten every collectable, and completed every side quest and starting my new game plus! Never once was I bored, Never once did it feel repetitive. I have nothing but good things to say about this game and am now working on getting 100% trophy for it. 10/10!
I agree with you man, I came into this game from Sekiro and I'm gonna be honest GOT is really boring and slow, does nothing original and it's combat is an absolute snoozefest generic garbage.
Glad I wasn't the only one. Tried picking up this game like 5 times and it's just so fucking bland, feels like i'm playing Assassins Creed if Ubisoft actually gave a fuck
It's boring 🤷. I guessed the ending of the story while doing the combat tutorial. The world is empty just nice views and a occasional base. The combat is alright but I've seen so much better. It's a typical ps exclusive where do focus on graphics and give bare minimum on gameplay
This is exactly what I’m thinking, I could literally make ghost of Tsushima story. All the characters and all and that’s not a good look cause I wouldn’t say I’m very good at that.
I can agree on most of the criticism you made in this video and I really like GoT. I think the biggest problem is this game in MANY occasions is very intrinsically motivation focused. The stances have much room to improve, but after the DLC the little duel thing in the hideout of the raiders really made me look towards dueling in a different way. Even though those duels use pretty much every single boss move you've already fought against, the stances matter a little more, literally. Some enemies in those duels (although I have a hunch you can beat them in whatever stance) really become easier to beat using certaing stances and combinations. That's the beauty in my opinion, as a deeply intrinsically motivated player, of the combat system in this game: you can play it simple and make it work *or* you can master it and look fucking cool although there's no real reason for that other than living your samurai powerfantasy. I could play the game just smashing triangle (and there's nothing wrong with that), but I chose not to do it because I wanna look cool. I have the same feeling with Cyberpunk, another game I really enjoy. It's a very easy game even in the hardest difficulty, if you play this game like a fucking crackhead like I've played, but looking like a badass edgerunner it's a *total* different game (literally and metaphorically). There's just no real reason to do it except for the powerfantasy. The stealth in GoT is the Achilles Knee of this game in my opinion. It feels like Assassin's Creed but slower and less good looking. I've played most of the game in combat instead of stealth because I HATE the stealth of this game, like DEEPLY. It feels uninspiring, it's the same as every other game has ever done but without the cool perks those other games have. Imagine AC stealth but without the social stealth, super-human abilities (Odyssey cof cof), different ways to stay hidden other than just tall grass and actual parkour. Not even Odyssey's stealth was this weird and boring.
The only reason why it got praised so much is because TLOU2 came out around the same time.. and sucked. I Pre-ordered GOT, and was REALLY disappointed.. same "villages" same houses.. generic story.. generic everything. I finished it and sold it straight away. It's just a 5/10 game for me.
with you on this brother, got it on PC but couldn't play past the prologue, even that itself was a chore. the game is bland nothing new or interesting.
Hey everyone, I'm sorry there was such a big gap between this video and the last, I really have no good excuse. I am, however, committing to releasing a new video before April ends.
Thanks so much for tuning in! Hope you enjoy the video, and be sure to let me know what you think :)
Im sure everyone is getting sleep bud
Man this title probably ruined things for you. You do present valid and solid points, but the title just gave you half the dislikes on its own. Should've called the video something neutral
@@steelbear2063 good idea except the game is dog trash
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I mean I like it enough, though the combat is beyond me. Just can't grasp it
@@steelbear2063 the combat is the only ok part to it. Like og assassins creeds blend with the batman/spiderman rocksteady combat. The lack of detail and secondary animations, garbage stealth gameplay, and imo boring story w baseless characters, make it hard to play. Have you seen the guy walk up stairs? He clips thru past his ankles…ive never seen a “game of the year” like this.
Bro I swear most triple A games all have that feeling of "missing something"
I understand the value of smaller maps. For me , most open world games are just too bloated with bland missions, basic npcs and bland story made unnecessarily long. After a while open worlds just feel like a chore.
Its hard to imagine this game NOT open world, Be honest, would you really enjoy this game if it were a level game? No alternative paths to take a base? If every fight took place inside a mongol base? With no steath variety?
@@milesharris249 linear dosent have to mean level to level, it could be a smaller map that’s easier to traverse. Having a big open world only to fill 60% of the space with fetch quests and repetitive enemy bases Is a waste since it could’ve been done without the 2-3 minute process of holding the W key / left stick while zoning out.
Witcher 3 for me had perfect balance of side quest and other activities . Side quest were short but with enough side story context to make each quest unique somewhat .
@@THETHC123that’s not what linear is.
@@iammac5813 Yep. It had some boring quests too but the most of them were interesting and even made mention to real world fables/fairy tales.
Witcher 3 is literally the only open world game i liked.
It's like half-fixed Ubisoft game. It doesn't have resource or leveling grind which is nice, combat is very good, art is perfection BUT those fillers in gameplay, after clearing 20th location you'll get anxious, for real. I played it last winter and after about 15 hours, I didn't start any game for weeks, that's how anxious and stressed it made me feel, a f-in checklist, like being at work. I MIGHT start it up one day as I'm sucker for old Japan but then I'll just rush through main storyline. I wouldn't say it's a bad game, but fancy look aside it's 6 or 7 out of 10 aka "meh"
Combat is crap.
@@ItalianoDio-L ragebait
Ghost of Tsushima is basically Assassin's Creed + Far Cry game, with the mission structure design of RDR2.
And that’s not a bad thing
Yes it is we don’t need more slop
All I learned from this game's success is that it's absolutely okay to use the same tired open world formula that everyone's apparently sick of, so long as it's set in Japan. Got it.
this is the perfect way of putting it. it’s crazy what people overlook about this game’s flaws because it looks pretty and has samurai. the side quest designs are terrible. stealth is terrible. combat is OK. story is OK. game overall is not bad at all, but it’s so repetitive and so emblematic of all the shitty parts of older Ubisoft games that people loveeeeee to hate on
and as long as its only on playstation it gets bias brownie points
@@southsidetherealest2860facts. There’s so many people out there who worship these PS exclusives despite so many of them being complete dogshit.
@@cocoapowered yep, i thought exactly the same ,it was so boring to play this game. It played same as assasinscreed and i expected more. But the wast majority of people who played that game enjoyed it. it got very good reviews
In the end it is just like any other boring sony game
Finally someone points out the true facts about this game. “The most Ubisoft ass game not made by ubisoft” perfection.
Bingo. If this game were made my Ubisoft it would've gotten 6's across the board.
Least its not filled with micro transactions
No wonder this shit is free on ps premium
You can just see the “assassins creed samurai” on the box
@@kor6bigtime592that's the only logical explanation about it being free on ps plus premium
crazy how people overlook how boring the first hour of the game is. Its literally an hour long trailing mission with unskipable cutscenes with 30 seconds of gameplay spliced between each cutscene
Does it get better though? I turned it off after 45 minutes because I was bored
@@zzz-cb3xe no it doesn't
Finally on PC and I want my money back. Was bored 45 mins in and decided to play a bit more. I regret that.
@@talus9663you can refund a game you don’t like on steam
what struck me the most was the lack of good cutscences apart from the chapter finales. The marketing was all over the "so inspired by movies" but the presentation didnt reflect that apart from a few scences
There were some awesome cutscenes here and there, far in between though. I was disappointed with the repetetive camera angles during companion missions, made it feel like a none-event. Things would come a long way if they treated these segments with more care. It would help flesh out the lore simply by using cinematography ; not some stupid birds eyeview.
The marketing was some of the most two-faced, disingenuous nonsense I've seen for a game. Nothing in the game is even vaguely reminiscent of samurai cinema. It's just a video game that looks like any other.
Yeah it was just two guys standing 3km from each other with only their lips moving and nothing else, it's like from an old early 2000's RE game. This game is just like Starfield for me. Beautiful world, but incredibly bland and boring world and NPCs.
the worst thing i hate as a ghost of tsushima player. is that initating a standoff doesnt alert ALL the enemys. most noticeable in big camps. i kill 3 enemys by standoff. kill 1 group watching the standoff. and then silence, then i find out some guy didnt hear a samurai shouting "ARE YOU COWARDS" like a deaf person.
This has gotta be one of the first critical game reviews for ghost of Tsushima I’ve seen and actually agreed with most of the points.
He might be a tlou2 fan
@@samuelesquivel6202 Zdj pa konc sveta
@@samuelesquivel6202 Why assume not everyone is going to like what you like.
@@billcipher3946it's a fair assumption cause half the fanbase of got that Say it's a masterpiece it's only a bunch of haters of tlou2 using this Game as a safe space
“The most Ubisoft ass game not made by Ubisoft”. Truer words never spoken.
Put anything Samurai, anime, or Japanese related into a game and it’s 10/10. This is a 6/10 game at best. No side missions, adobe flash combat, and dead open world.
What game did you play? It has a ton of side missions, the combat has a skill ceiling and the world literally changes as you help the people take the island back. It’s one of the more Alive worlds we’ve gotten in the past few years.
@@zerg6001just dudes that live just to hate
you either downloaded the wrong game or you're just blind
@@zerg6001 the same one that you did, where even after clearing out all of the mongol camps, I still encounter them during free roam. I mean they could have rewarded you with other activities, side content rather than pressing buttons to cut bamboo, following foxes/birds, or taking a bath. It’s not the worst game in the world, but it definitely is not a great game.
@@justinholland6132 so I guess not loving everything that lemmings blindly follow is hate now.
This is one of the best types of reviews for me. I absolutely love this game and disagree with some of your points, but you deliver your thoughts with actual care and analysis, instead of carelessly rambling like so many do. Keep it up man, I'm attempting to put out an analysis for the game soon so it helps to see what others have done.
@Mystic Editor Or have different opinions then you
@Mystic Editor a fanboy of what?
to be fair i would imagine most people dont bother concisely composing a half hour long list of opinions because its going to be met with lol get good, and the effort wont be reciprocated in any meaningful way.
Yeah man keep it up and next time you might create a better game than this 🤷♂️
Wrong. This guys is just a fkn idiot. No value at all.
If you just play the main story and roam around in the open world just for looking at the graphics then it is a fantastic game but doing all those open-world activities gets boring.
@@foolie7226 just like your personality
@@KanyeIsKing bruh this chick likes this game too much. This a critique calm down
@@Fairenough169 stop stalking people, bot account
@@KanyeIsKing why are you personally offended by this lol
@@idanshoval6939 I am not personally offended by anything you loser, why? Do you have a bone to pick with me? Is it because I decided to sell 10 diapers on eBay? Or that I sell some handmade bags? Or is it because I have decided to start selling pottery? Or is it because I have a wall that says "DON 'T CROSS!" and it has been crossed? You are obviously high, and if you are, my hat's off to you. F you! F you! That's right. It is in fact 12: 30pm. I did not spend the entire time sleeping, I was watching marathons of 24 on USA and caught the last half of an awesome episode of Dancing with the Stars, plus I called my mom. Here are some thoughts I had on the evening: "Should we get showreel pizza for dinner?" "Nah, it won't be as good." "That's what she said." "I should sign my check," "I should sign my check." "I should just get the salad." "What's the difference?" "I could make the salad for $3, and the pizza for $8." "I really need a good salad”
I played and finished the game and I agree with what you've got to say. By the time I got to Act 3, I just wanted to be done with it. The open world, even if beautiful was exhausting, because there is nothing worthy to do. The side quests eventually devolved into same OW tropes of - go here meet person, go to another place with said person, kill enemies, repeat. This game would've been another level had they made a linear, focused game. OW games will need to innovate greatly or die.
Since when did side quests ever became "interesting", ever since Skyrim the players don't really nor give interests onto a side quest mission but just completing 100% of the game or upgrades. If you really wanted to put much time on every side quest's story then sure why not but don't expect players to give interests nor impact because to them, its just filler or to get upgrades.
In my opinion the saboteur is the best ow game.
@@WOW-yd3ufhave you played Witcher 3? Hell, even cyberpunk for all it's shortcomings has got a lot of fun side quests.
@@UmbrellaSound I didn't say it wasn't fun, of course I had a lot of fun, played around with it, and there times that the side quest's story became interesting on showing some aspects of the character or world. But in the end of the day, it's still repetitive on doing the same formula (not saying that I hate it, I'm ok with it). Witcher 3 is a phenomenal, one of a kind game and cyberpunk...I couldn't even enjoy the side quests due to the gameplay and gunplay still being buggy.
The game has absolutely astounding art design. The minimalist approach to guiding the player to objectives complements the setting beautifully, while adding a huge level of immersion.
But I hate the camera during combat. I also get the burnout from these types of open-world games, which have been done to death. GoT is basically Assassin’s Creed: Japan but with nicer art design and more thoughtful combat.
The art design is good for only seeing once, it looks fucking fantastic..
But only once..
That's not good art design
What I hated about this game is the duels/boss fights on the hardest difficulty, them somehow locks on you even if you dodge or block, it's a cheap illusion of sekiro's sometimes questionable boss grabs or hitbox
@@Broken_Lobo no he’s totally right, esp first Kahn fight. beat the game on hard btw. def some cheap shots in there
@@Broken_Lobo what is lethal plus
Get good buddy
@@unstartedartistyour literally not even supposed to beat khan the first time. He can't die lmfao so its not point in really complaining about
Sounds like a skill issue
this game must be the most overrated game ever, it has so many flaws but people for some reason rarely want to talk about them or directly pretend they don't exist, like the dumb enemy AI, the big amount of copy paste, the texures looking plastic, the kurosawa mode having not understood Kurosawa's work at all and being just a black and white filter with a little bit of grain, nothing that the simplest mobile app cannot do and even better than this game... and lots of bugs, you can find videos that last over half and hour only with bugs, the game is just mediocre in every aspect but people see nice colors (which isn't the same as textures btw) and they think "oh, this game is sooo good", just stupid
Most overrated goes to Witcher 3
@@Fyrdmanred dead 2
I absolutely despise the game design of most Sony games past the middle of the PS4 gen it's like they made a hollow shell of a game then paste different skins on it and sell them as separate games
Like what? Give examples
He even kills the same. Every leader stealth kill is a decapitation, in battle that random left arm dismemberment. Any way I have another base to clear in this Sony Swan Song!
Good bxtch
I dont understand all the praise for this game. Got it on discount recently, played until reaching DLC map and finally dropped it. Got bored out of my mind. But it is beautiful yeah.
x2, I will play Rise of the Ronin definitely, but this one is lame on the lack of connectivity between gameplay and story is not lame as f, it is not woke neither it is not a Ubisoft cashgrab but the game lacks on many departments, and damn it is too long.
I feel they should've put more effort into the side quests etc. The world is absolutely beautiful and the swordplay is very fun. Stealth didn't really feel innovative at all. You just sneak behind or over the enemy and press a button. The enemy AI doesn't really react to your stealthy approach, meaning even if the enemy catches a glimpse of you, they rarely go check it out. I ended up challenging the enemy head on every time and because of that the story didn't quite match up. Jin Sakai was not the Ghost for me, except for the poisoning of the mongol troops.
Also NO CUTSCENES for the sidequests except for the stories of your allies.
Despite it's flaws I think it was one of the best games I've played in a while.
My god dude how do you find the swordplay fun. It’s such a generic lazy combat system, most of it is redundant like the different stances and it’s extremely lacking in depth and difficulty. It’s easy, boring and bland.
@@zzodysseuszzthe swordplay dosent have to be like sekiro fun. You don’t need something that’s so difficult and extravagant. Other games like rdr2 and the last of us 2 have very simple gameplay yet it’s still very fun and engaging.
the game's issue is that it's an open world with ZERO justification for being so. it clearly screams design as a hub based semi open world like sekiro. maybe they could even have shipped the game with a honor system and a branching path narrative if they didn't commit to spending resources on open world meme, because the game's narrative and design just screams traces of a honor system.
This game is a samurai version of Horizon Zero Dawn, an open world game I unistalled and stopped playing. Painfully mediocre
Bro HZD was actually pretty good, a masterpiece compared to this lame joke
@@wallacesousuke1433not for me tbh, I was bored as hell instantly
@@Navefreamo HZD's combat is actually good, GoT is a generic snorefest, an AC wannabe
@@wallacesousuke1433 I am talking about horizon I was bored instantly
@@Navefreamo how is that possible, considering you liked GoT, a terrible snorefest of a game? Horizon is far from perfect but it destroys GoT in every category
I played my first play through on Lethal mode. The combat mechanics really shine and dont feel so spammy on the harder difficulty. I thought the art and pacing was brilliant. Act 3 was weak as all hell though and needed more development.
Act 3 feels rushed. It felt like they don't know what to add any more.
You are so wrong about the combat, you never upgraded your stances so your missing key parts of making the combat fun. Also you can absolutely switch stances during thr duels. Using the wind combo and moon spinning attack.
Nothing fun about this terrible combat, just play Sekiro or Nioh instead
I actually originally thought that they'd go into the reason Jin survives the war, bridge and poison. I thought the ghost meant something and that they would reveal that perhaps he did die or that he became cursed or something. I suspended my disbelief because I thought that perhaps he couldn't actually die. But turns out, no he has protagonist armour
I know, right! I remember in one of the original reveal trailers they showed the Komoda Beach scene, and I kept waiting for an actual ghost to show up cos like... seemed like the thing you don't get up from. But no... he's just too cool to die for reals, I guess...
Yes this game is boring as hell its just a mediocore game with fancy graphics
The stances just seemed pointless. You start the game without any of them. Tap o for one red dot, tap o twice for two red dots and so on. It’s the weakest part of the game
Yeah, I know this is just a video game and a fictionalized version of the Mongol Invasion.
But damn, as someone who reads history. This game is so inaccurate. For example, the armor design of the Samurai and Sakai Clan armor are anachronistic, those armor came later in the 16-17th centuries.
The sword design is a katana. But the game takes place in in the 13th century when Japan still used "tachi" which is a curvier sword. The katana was invented in response to the Mongol's hard and thick armor not being able to penetrate the brittle and weak blade of the tachi. (Though in Japanese dub, the sword is called tachi, accurate)
But, the thing I really hate is there's not a single samurai who wields a bow! Only like Ishigawa and Jin! Because a real samurai wasn't only a master swordsman, but also an archer! In fact, swords of samurai are mainly for secondary use! In fact, I don't see any samurai who wields spears or war clubs. And yes samurai also knows other weaponry not just swords!
The Mongols too are kind off disappointed, because why does this game don't have any Mongol cavalry?!! Umm hello, that's what they were widely known for! They are master archers on horseback. In the game, they ride horses, yes, but when they see Jin, those Mongols immediately dismount to fight you in the ground!
Also, the hwacha is not even a Mongolian weapon, it's a rocket launcher developed in Joseon (Korea) in the late 16th century! And what's so ironic is the hwacha was created due to the Japanese invasions of Korea!
How about that "samurai code" also known as Bushido? It wasn't fully developed in the 16th century. Also, that samurai fights with pure honor is just romanticized of Hollywood or Kurosawa fiction.
In fact, a samurai wasn't only a warrior but a strategist too. They would applaud you for innovative or unconventional tactics.
Furthermore, when Shimura arrests Jin by the Shogun due to his dishonorable acts, it's all bullsh1t. What's this the Jedi Order? No, the Shogun wouldn't do something weird like that.
This is just scratching the surface there are still a lot of inaccuracies but, this is just a video game I get it! But it still hurts... (Sorry for the bad English, I'm a Filipino)
It definitely screams of a more stereotypical Westerner’s perspective of Japanese history. Despite delving into absurdity, Yakuza Ishin and Rise of the Ronin feel more historically accurate, owing largely to the fact that Japanese developers made both games.
I think it’s also telling since Sucker Punch said their game was more of an ode to Akira Kurosawa films than anything else. It’s just that SP’s version feels so devoid of cultural context in a lot of ways that it ends up feeling like a product.
I literally couldn’t finish this game. Was really boring.
Same, but I returned 3 years later after becoming a master in the legends mode and now I´m having fun with the single player somehow...oh well.
I loved the game but this has got to best and most real review I’ve seen. So true through and through. And funny.
after Sekiro I don't think I can play this shit.
For the action, same.
for the open-world part, I couldn't get through it because BotW is just better
@@ArgenteonYT Agreed breath of the wild was also Amazing.
Same.
This. I tried it until middle of Act 2. Needed to quit. Started Dark Souls instead after having finished Sekiro the 2nd time some weeks ago.
Really wanted to like it, because it looks sooo nice and cozy. But completely lacking of character, heart and details.
And this game always tries telling me I'm dumb... Press RT to press through the wall... cool, thanks for the tutorial explanation...ah... nahhh.. you remind me every single time how this works 😂
people will shit on assassin's creed and then play assassin's creed Japan. the story was mediocre, the dialog was so terrible I actually laughed during the serious moments, the combat? its cool if the major features actually work as intended (standoff, wind stance parry), and if you want to fight the same fight 100s of times over 50 hours. and the OpenWorld? are we all fucking 10 years old? because it's been years since I've seen an OpenWorld that isn't just a scavenger hunt. the armor and weapons? 85% would never match with each other and 80% of the armor sets fucking suck. Also, by the end of the game I almost got violently mad every time that gold bird appeared. Finally, the stealth is so laughably easy you can kill an entire camp one by one as they run over to check on their dead comrades, just such a silly little game.
also do you guys remember when fallout 4 came out, and they were trying to push that "the man out of time" name? and everyone said it was lame? yeah "the ghost" is about as fucking lame.
Ghost of Tsushima is magical the first half, but still no one has done what Witcher 3 did. The thing with Witcher 3 was that it was representing something new all the time for the player with little to no repetition, the open world didn't have any repetitive scenarios that was randomly computer generated, instead most of the things on the map was thought out, and everything was so well done that you didn't know if it was a small side-quest or a main mission, and the lack of repetitiveness was striking compared to other open-world games. The problem with Ghost of Tsushima is the usual, after a while you get tired of the random events that happens over and over, and collecting things and foxes are just the same after the same.
Wow, great work on this analysis. I just finished the game a few days ago and most of your critiques are spot on.
The fact that you cant skip any cut sence or or you you have to spaaam R2 to start dilouge is so so frustration
I can’t tell you how many times I accidentally changed weapons when I wanted to change ammo, attack or heal because I was using the bows
This game is like a h**ker. It looks beautiful but it's empty. Don't expect love. Just fk for an hour and move on.
Great words
Idk why they put a stealth system in the game they didn't know how to do it
47 minutes of nitpicking.
This game is not that good. I wasted money buying this.
You didn't even watch the video lmao. He wasn't even nit picking.
@@cosmicbilly😂, yeah he was.
Nah he’s right, I literally shut the game off mid last boss fight, I was so bored, didn’t help that I played sekiro right before, just not even close to the perfection of sekiro.
@@gaztroan131 no he wasn't it's was y'all can't just accept that it's not as good as you make it out to be 😂
You don’t NEED to get every single open world thing in the game. You can complete the game without them. You can take some while going to main quests n side quests, but if you complain about being a checklist perfectionist.. i mean, that’s just ridiculous, isn’t it? How many years would this game have taken if they had a 60 different small open world tasks? The health and resolve increases are that, health and resolve increases. You don’t need to do them if they’re too boring. There aren’t even too many of them in the open world?? Yeah, i get the foxes, those get boring and annoying, but man.. everything else is nice, unless you have an incredibly short attention span.. if you see some of the very small side quests in GOT as just "walk, fight, save" you might as well look the same cynical way at every repeating task in any game. That’s the thing with games. Some tasks repeat. Oh no. Some quests are bigger than others, wow. That’s how the world works... damn i get bored every single time i need to take a shit on the toilet! It’s so repetitive! I wish my asshole would tear from time to time.. *(im incredibly sorry)*
But the thing is, if you aim too high and make 70+ quests a totally unique experience.. wouldn’t it 1. Be sorta impossible, 2. Run like shit? Take a millennial? Like imagine finishing the beautiful and emotional main quest with your team, and then breaking out of your human form, transcending your current plain of existence to work on creating a totally new and unique experience for small missions with the world you have? Man, by the end there’d be dragons overdosing on bubblegum in mongol armor in the skies, like.. the world is limited with the shit you can do in "old” japan right? Of course lord shimura must be remembered, in STORIES, to have a character be of more importance than others you need to make them more important.
You do realize that there's a myth in Japan that hot springs give you vitality and rejuvenation. So the hot springs make a lot of sense. Not to mention the bamboo strikes are literally how samurai train their sword skills. Your review just seems very nitpicky
Its a boring piece of sht open world garbage that would be cool in 2016 but falls flat on its face in 2024.
I dunno, I've sunk 70+ hours into it, I think you have just been spoiled by master pieces like RDR2.
Souls got me back into gaming after 10 years. I like GOT’s mechanics but the cutscenes/walking n talking, taking the game out of my hands constantly omg I couldn’t do it.
Thank you for this review. I completely abandoned Ghost of Tsushima on PS4 ages ago but picked it up again when I finally managed to get a PS5 a few weeks ago. 60FPS made the game more tolerable but I found myself feeling extremely bored very quickly. I try to 100% every game I play, but the repetitive nature of the open world and the “press button to make health increase” nature of all the side content made me abandon my incessant need to 100% my games and just burn through the story as quickly as humanly possible. The combat was the only thing I truly enjoyed in that it made me feel extremely overpowered coming out of a 20v1 encounter having not taken a hit, but all the encounters are so similar and so repetitive that they manage to lose their lustre too. Honestly looking at all the reviews and videos gushing over this game confused me and made me consider if I was losing my touch with gaming or something. I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt this way about Ghost of Tsushima. A visually stunning, competent but wholly underwhelming and shallow experience cluttered with boring and repetitive missions.
Same i was going for the platinum because it’s pretty easy but man i got bored during act 2
For the first time ever, I'm grateful for seeing the spoiler for a game. Saw this on PS plus and played for a few hours thinking the story/world activity was so bland. Definitely deleting it now. Great analysis!
I guess some people just like those Ubisoft like games. Both this and Horizon zero dawn were hyped AF, tried both and I felt like I've played them before because all of them feel so similar
Whoa! Horizon is nothing like this game. Horizon is amazing (probably the best games...ever.). I just finished Forbidden West. Started on this game next...what a joke. This game is lame as shit. I tried for 2 days to get into it and it's just so boring and I can't skip anything.
People who over praise this game are incapable of actually critiquing a game because oooh pretty instead of looking deeper than what it provides at the surface. The combat is ridiculous it's janky and confusing thanks to the camera being unable to follow you. The story is also boring.
I disagree, the combat is literally the best aspect
@Mystic Editor dude my favorite game is rdr2 wdym, this is like my 4th favorite
@@fanatp0stpanka this combat is a joke it lacks variety
@@KnucklesWTD ok? and?
@@fanatp0stpanka game is a 8/10 that people are ignoring the flaws to pretend it’s higher.
Okay but infamous second son was pretty damn good
A Japanese man played this game and he said ot RESPECTED THE CULTURES AND hot springs actually do heal you so health increase is logical.swordsmen train on Bamboo strikes to strengthen the sword and themselves.if u dont know Japanese culture you cant just say it sucks? Gameplay is boring but not as much as y'all say,it is a quite good story (not the best) but still good.its not a masterpiece yes,but it doesn't suck too like what are you on?
This game came with my PS5 bundle pack I got from GameStop, this and 2k22 ( which I really don’t play, because I hate that game as well). I decided to play this game without checking the reviews online (that and because it came with my system) and I can honestly say this game is trash and a pain in the ass. The controls seem bulky and laggy, the moves don’t register half the time and it seems buggy and glitchy. There’s a bunch of unnecessary dialogue you can’t seem to skip pass and the enemies are walking talking cheat codes. This game sucks.
After now playing it on PC, I can attest that your analysis is on the spot. I am bored to death.
WHEN YOURE SNEAKING AND IT ACTIVAT3S GHOST LIKE WELP THATS A WHOLE GOD DAMN RESET
The things it’s missing, is LIFE.
I have no idea who my character is, what his name is, what he’s fighting FOR (not against)
Compare it with Skyrim. A decade old game.
I just don’t understand why I’d want to play this over Skyrim (apart from Graphics :) )
You didn't pay attention then lol the characters name is scattered many times through the game jin saki the last surging member of his clan next to his uncle
@@BustyNutz exactly. It didn’t immerse me
@@MichaelJ44 that's your fault then no the games
@@BustyNutz wrong
@@BustyNutz How is it your fault if you weren’t immersed? lol it’s always up to the game (or movie, tv show or book etc.) to get you immersed in its world.
idk i just feel like this game was kinda perfect for me
Perfect example of a spoiled gamer brat review.
Yeah, it's you.
AC: Japan
okay Ubisoft fanboy
@@KanyeIsKing It’s not even remotely ac though
@@Ace-dv5ce no is not, at least AC manages to keep me entertained despite being repetitive.
GoT puts me to sleep.
@@budilamarius5053 I agree
I beat the game ..took my time too...haven't done iki island yet but this review is spot on man....it's not terrible but it's not goty material....it's repetitive and bland...the foxes were cute at first but damn....the same shit over the whole map....I could go on for days
I felt the same exact way after getting in to Act lll
We're at year 2021 and still there are difficulties to just go sight seeing in open world games. I spent more time doing just that and creating amazing art with the in game camera feature. I hope devs make a game one day with this kind of mechanic.
You definitely didn’t plat Skyrim
I would have loved a modified version of the dishonored system where if you stealth the game it changes the world and if you fight by the code or whatever it also changes the world accordingly. I could completely not bother with the stealth and still be forced into doing stealth
so many stupid things said here. and the reason for no lock-on is because you fight multiple enemies at the same time
Do you know what other game does this but also allows lock on? The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
JJ Jet i’ve played it, ghost is better
@@westym8935 hahaha....fuck no it isn't.
JJ Jet Jin would whoop geralts ass
@@westym8935 haha, Geralt would cast Quen and it would be over.
Dude you literally spoke to my heart! Every single point you’ve made have been driving me nuts throughout my play through i was thinking of making a video and I don’t even make them, I don’t get the praise.
Ya,…I get it. Games not perfect but i personally love the vibe, story, music, gameplay, and setting so much that I still love this game. All the complaints you have I feel could be improved in a sequel which Sucker Punch is always amazing at. Sly 2 and infamous 2 are both incredible sequels (Also saying the game sucks is pretty wild. Kinda disrespectful to the creators who actually did make a good game even if you have problems with it)
It's like u watching boring random generated Samurai movie from Sony...Story terrible, gameplay is okay but nothing special... Only fo people who dont care about story or gameplay....If u wanna play amazing Samurai or Shinobi type game just buy Sekiro...
Combat is elegant but that’s all about it. Making the deflecting skill based doesn’t work when you can’t animate the enemies properly, a Batman style not execution based parry would save this game’s combat.
Shadow of Mordor has done everything better this game tried to do.
I honestly can't really disagree with much of what you said, but I love the game. Sound design plays a massive role for me in my enjoyment of this kind of game and the sound design in Ghost is senseitional. I also enjoy the combat a lot. I don't care about stories in games, never have. That's what books and movies are for.
I feel personally attacked
Good the game is terrible lol
@VITEX Cyberpunk is better than Ghost.
@@jetthejudge naaaaaaaaaahhhh
I would hate this video since I'm a gigantic fan of the game.
I think it's the best samurai game ever and maybe in the top 20 games ever (IMO)
But this is just a really good analysis/review.
I respect this video
I dont like the sheathing..lol it ruins it for me. Its all about sword play and theres like one animation and so far its suuuper delayed. I do some badass stuff and then i stand there like a dimwit after. I have been shocked and disappointed so far. Just got the game
@@jetjaguar5200 you're able to sheath your katana by swiping right on the 'big ass button' as it's called
@@directdebit6078 it doesnt work for me. I did just start..idk
@@jetjaguar5200 strange.
Try swiping at other angles
@@jetjaguar5200 swiping right on the touch pad sheaths your sword
This game is getting pass from all the reviewers, if it was a Nintendo game people would criticised till death.
This is 3-4hr of fun extended or spread out ovee 25 hr
This game sucks lucky me I can’t get a refund because I played it
People like this game bcs it's like fast food of games
Most people will dislike this because their opinion is always right and they can't respect others. I'm glad people actually speak out on what they think, rather than arse like every title they own.
The like to dislike is telling and yet i can’t find but a small handful of comments that disagree. Another video bashing GoT has the same thing. Its fine if you don’t like ghost but It’s almost like these people can’t handle people disagreeing or criticizing them. Pathetic if you ask me
@@Shaolinstoutits because just saying got sucks and that fly Cooper and infamous are better games are literally just terrible takes. And he's nitpicking on a lot of things. You can simplify every single game and make it seem bad. "All dark souls games is go around fighting bosses" "all rdr2 is just shooting and robbing" all gta5 is shooting and robbing. U see my point. And his content himself is low effort. His jokes ain't funny at all
holy shit the lack of awareness
most of the comments are literally shitting on people for having the nerve to like the game.
It’s samurai far cry
Lol I beat it and that's facts man....it's the same shit over and over
You're just explaining what every game is. Every game gets repetitive at a point. It really just comes down to how invested in the world you are that determines if you want to put more time into it.
Every similar game is repetitive in the fact that you go to some destination on the map to start a mission and complete it but with GoT its repetitive in mission design. All the mission length were the same length and cut scenes were the same length. Nothing dynamic happens. You go on these missions, meet your companion, go to raid or fight some enemies and done.
Comparatively to Rdr2 and Witcher 3 there was so much more going on. I couldn't love this game as much becasue I noticed it just was lacking what these two games executed so well. Only thing I truly loved about GoT was the combat, only when raiding the castle with my group of companion facing hordes of enemies... not really when I was out and about traveling. On that note there wasn't many missions that did that. And comparatively to an action driven game, where the character feels totally bad ass killing large groups of enemies... GoT did that kind of, but not as well as the GraveWalker from Lord of the Rings Shadow of Mordor/War. And you can tell it also drew from Lotdr too due to the combat focus and the scaling of buildings or objects, just not as enjoyable.
I felt like GoT was trying to do everything what these games did great and lost focus. Hence it does some familiar things we all enjoy... so we enjoy the game but as the reviewer said something was empty about it.
@Csl, the real issue is less repetition. It's the fact that by the start of Act II you pretty much have everything you need and the game is too simplistic. Finding another fox shrine, hotspring, side quests, collectables and pillers is no longer gratifying since the gameplay isn't evolving and the rewards feel minimal as your already overpowered so doing more will just further break the game.
name of the song at 25:25?
this game showed us one thing: there are tons of people actually love ubisoft formula. ıt still sells. samurai theme and being a ps exlusive helped a lot this game also. its a mid game after all. you can say the best ubisoft game on the market right now.
when i played the game I criticised about it in my local gaming group and every thrashed me. Actually I was just playing it to finish it. Not really enjoying the game itself.
Probably the most disappointed I've been with a game in recent memory, it's basically a repetitive Ubisoft open world game, except it's made by another company and now suddenly everyone loves it even though it's hardly any different from your typical Assassin's Creed fare, it's arguably worse in some areas like the laughably bad stealth
Abandoned this game, couldn't take it no more
@EdwardHogtumorAnd Roblox too.
@EdwardHogtumori haven't played fortnite but I bet it's more engaging than GoT
Yeah im so disappointed that inhave waited 4 years for this to come to pc, world is empty, repetitive fetch quests and clunky combat, just another ok story, and some ofbthe textures suck even on ultra, i think dropping the label samurai on it+ and it being a sony exclusive which are known most of the time for quality is what helped this game getting all the hype, i recently started playing we happy few, been on my radar for a couple of years now and i enjoyed that far more than this.
I agree. This game is boring as fk. I played 2/3 acts on and off it took me until now to get that far because of boredom. Good combat but same crap over and over worse than Assassin's Creed origins, odyssey and Valhalla which kept me more entertained.
Love the game, I've done every mission, gotten every collectable, and completed every side quest and starting my new game plus! Never once was I bored, Never once did it feel repetitive. I have nothing but good things to say about this game and am now working on getting 100% trophy for it. 10/10!
I agree with you man, I came into this game from Sekiro and I'm gonna be honest GOT is really boring and slow, does nothing original and it's combat is an absolute snoozefest generic garbage.
sekiro is a true masterpiece had me on edge i'm still halfway thru the game cuz of how hard it is lmfao
Sekiro is one of game after putting 100 hours on it almost made all PlayStation exclusive looks cheap and repetitive to me
game is so good sadly havent finished it cuz of how hard it is@@Notmaxcity
@@coupe1000 keep playing it i find it soo hard but after u master its combat and parrying u will find it not that hard
@@Notmaxcity yeah I kno it’s not but I needed to take a break I might hop back on I’m on the gun sword guy (first one)
Glad I wasn't the only one. Tried picking up this game like 5 times and it's just so fucking bland, feels like i'm playing Assassins Creed if Ubisoft actually gave a fuck
It's boring 🤷. I guessed the ending of the story while doing the combat tutorial.
The world is empty just nice views and a occasional base.
The combat is alright but I've seen so much better.
It's a typical ps exclusive where do focus on graphics and give bare minimum on gameplay
This is exactly what I’m thinking, I could literally make ghost of Tsushima story. All the characters and all and that’s not a good look cause I wouldn’t say I’m very good at that.
@@Ace-dv5ce the story was so lazy that I guarantee you can write one better than that
@@haunteddreams7856 I do too, and that’s ridiculous coming from a open world triple a lol
@@Ace-dv5ce it's all because it's a ps exclusive..... I guarantee you that if this game wasn't exclusive then it would be rated as average
@@haunteddreams7856 Well its also a grounded Samuri game. So it stand out thats what i love about it. Not GOTY but still great.
11:17 u fucking killed me with that part bro, the constantly raising voice had my dying hahahaha imediately liked and subbed
The unskippable cutscenes and dialogue are insufferable....another game trying to be profound and "cinematic' but instead is tedious and boring
As a pc player i want my money back this game is just like assassins creed but not made by ubisoft and its bland as f
I can agree on most of the criticism you made in this video and I really like GoT. I think the biggest problem is this game in MANY occasions is very intrinsically motivation focused. The stances have much room to improve, but after the DLC the little duel thing in the hideout of the raiders really made me look towards dueling in a different way. Even though those duels use pretty much every single boss move you've already fought against, the stances matter a little more, literally. Some enemies in those duels (although I have a hunch you can beat them in whatever stance) really become easier to beat using certaing stances and combinations. That's the beauty in my opinion, as a deeply intrinsically motivated player, of the combat system in this game: you can play it simple and make it work *or* you can master it and look fucking cool although there's no real reason for that other than living your samurai powerfantasy. I could play the game just smashing triangle (and there's nothing wrong with that), but I chose not to do it because I wanna look cool. I have the same feeling with Cyberpunk, another game I really enjoy. It's a very easy game even in the hardest difficulty, if you play this game like a fucking crackhead like I've played, but looking like a badass edgerunner it's a *total* different game (literally and metaphorically). There's just no real reason to do it except for the powerfantasy.
The stealth in GoT is the Achilles Knee of this game in my opinion. It feels like Assassin's Creed but slower and less good looking. I've played most of the game in combat instead of stealth because I HATE the stealth of this game, like DEEPLY. It feels uninspiring, it's the same as every other game has ever done but without the cool perks those other games have. Imagine AC stealth but without the social stealth, super-human abilities (Odyssey cof cof), different ways to stay hidden other than just tall grass and actual parkour. Not even Odyssey's stealth was this weird and boring.
I know this is your opinion...but my opinion is that your opinion is wrong
Annnd your opinion is wrong
@@ChadScarbs wrong again
Agreed honeybadger
I was conned into getting this game by Sony marketing now I'm struggling to finish a game that is literarily "not just that interesting"
The only reason why it got praised so much is because TLOU2 came out around the same time.. and sucked. I Pre-ordered GOT, and was REALLY disappointed.. same "villages" same houses.. generic story.. generic everything. I finished it and sold it straight away. It's just a 5/10 game for me.
This whole channel is negative and lame
with you on this brother, got it on PC but couldn't play past the prologue, even that itself was a chore.
the game is bland nothing new or interesting.
Listening this during the ending of the game because it’s so fucking boring it make me not even want to finish it
Even the videos about games all being the same are all the same...