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.
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
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.
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.
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
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"
@@Kai_Stone For you. The game was amazing and it did not feel like a chore because of the gameplay, open world, customization, and story. Maybe you should stick to lesser games if you don’t like slow paced stories.
@@Calebandon0 Lesser games? Na that is. Lesser game you newb. Maybe you like bland ass games with terrible pacing, repetitive scenery, and half ass cutscenes but I’ll stick to the good games friend
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”
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.
@@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
@@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 refunded the game after 7.6 hours. the CONSTANT fade-to-blacks and unskippable cutscenes drove me crazy, especially when the cutscenes weren't animated at all, and the conversation could've easily let me keep control of Jin. having my control taken away from me constantly was annoying, and it broke my heart because i really wanted to like this game, but i couldn't stay in it because my camera kept going black every five minutes
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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...
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.
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'm on PC so i just got around to playing it and imo it was Heavily overrated. Not really that good, in the begging it was ok but got old and repetitive really fast. The way it was hyped i thought it would be great like an RDR2 or Witcher3
@@kiwiofficial64 Got halfway through. Spam x to make horse run..... L1 to talk to people, L1 to draw gun...? It would make a better TV series than a video game.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
This is probably the best analysis of "Ghost of Tsushima" I've seen. Great video! I think GoT is a solid game with fun combat, okay story and a beautiful world. However, I am sick of people glazing it, like it's some outstanding masterpiece. So many people insist that Ghost should have won GOTY 2020 instead of The Last Of Us 2, and I think that's just INSANE! The Last Of Us 2 is more impressive in pretty much every aspect you can analyze: story, characters, dialogues, cutscenes, combat, stealth, immersiveness, world interactivity, emotional impact, music, themes, AI, physics, and so on. People who think Ghost is better have no idea what they're talking about.
Tlou2, goty 2020 and fan award 2020 lives rent free in got fans 😂😂. Whenever there is video in RUclips or TikTok regarding this game, these three points are brought into argument every single time. No objective arguments on games strengths and flaws, just keep screaming about how it is a masterpiece, it deserved the goty, it won fan award, so other awards are considered null and void, nd paid the critics, tlou2 is woke that’s why it won. Like why can’t got fans just enjoy this Ubisoft game and completely ignore nd and tlou2 🤣🤣
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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)
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
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.
Overrated game. Found it boring and repetitive. Mongol outposts were the worst, just rehashed over the whole open world. Accurate review. This and Horizon zero dawn I found very similar in mission design and constant collecting and check boxes. Terrible. Great writing by the way, have subscribed.
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.
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.
The world is itself is so bland. The lack of music when you're exploring makes it seem empty. Unlike GTA, Witcher 3, the world just doesn't seem lived in. When you're exploring, you know when you find a village, it's the same process every time, go into the house that is the same one every time, climb the ladder that is in the same place. Pick up your few supplies. That's my biggest gripe. The menu and levelling up elements was fine for me.
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.
Yeah I agree with everything you said. But I still love it, lol. I like it for different reasons than other games though. It’s more like appreciating music or a work of art for me. It’s just a beautiful game and it has so much samurai badassery
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.
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
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.
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
I was naïve about the game I only played it for 2 days till I got bored, the world is an artwork and the color palette is unique in every part of the map but its empty they just scrap assets to add huts and ins and fill em up with stupid ronins or mangolians and that's it, missions and side missions are so damn boring you basically talk to a character follow some tracks kills some enemies rinse and repeat
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.
Nailed it. With the Iki Island "expansion" out now, Sucker Punch seems to be pulling a Ubishit on us. After what Ubistank did to Ghost Recon Wildlands, Sucker Punch is looking real familiar. Real familiar.
Yes the story was ok, a bit boring more of the same just this time Jin is trying to get over his "Daddy issues", and after beating the side quests I just can't bring myself to finish the other activities, it's so boring.
@@Ace-dv5ce Iki island isn't bad it's reminds me of the difference between fallen ghost and wildlands right now. I hoping fans like myself who pay lots of money for this stuff get what we want. The bug fixes do come out pretty often, that's good. I'm hoping there are add ons or dlc to address other issues before we have a list of different game modes to choose from. That said, I'm gone go play right now.
Beautiful game but absolutely terrible gameplay. Got bored so damn fast, missed essential character side missions that play into the main story. Tons of terrible side missions. Oh and not to mention the entire game is supposed to be becoming a ninja and the AI stealth mechanics are similar to original Xbox and ps3 games. So sad it was such trash haha. Best fights were duels, should’ve been based around those mechanics
Gameplay was so bad but that's a ps exclusive for you they focus on graphics and give bare minimum on gameplay. Look at horizon zero dawn I absolutely loved that game but gameplay there's hardly anything to it but jump, role and shoot. Ghost of Tsushima was a massive let down
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.
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 love ghost of tsushima, like very much, but still as criticism it lacks a lot of things, very obvious one is variety in enemies, and npcs, there are about 3 npc models and they reuse it in every place in the whole game, it gets boring looking at the same face everytime you talk to them, 2nd the enemies, supposedly as you progress, the difficulty of the enemies rise, but they dont gain any new moves or weapons, their clothes change and their numbers do, thats it, i never did side quests, or even the fox dens in my first playthrough cuz it gets boring doing the same thing over and over again, i hope Ghost of Tsushima 2 is more alive and fixes a lot of stuff
Hey man, love the content, and agree with your criticism despite loving the game. One thing I also thought was lacking was horse combat. The mongol empire had formidable horseback archers, and maybe they could have implemented a new type of enemy or something
They made director's cut worse. After you finish like the 3rd mission on Iki Island, all your fights with thugs on the road gets interrupted by locals that come to fight with you. Which totally kills all the challenge in the game as you can't fight the new enemy types in peace. It makes the game too easy because your character gets stronger while your challenge in the game gets easier.
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.
As someone who loves this game, this video gave me an idea as to how people may not feel the same. I think ghost weapons and "special moves" are OP and kill the experience. For me I loved the combat and archery so that just about all I did. Stealth was eh but I enjoy the combat and especially the duels I do wish there was the ability to choose assassin and warrior in the story arc, but it's about one of my only gripes with it
Agreed. After playing it for a couple of weeks I never went back to it and that was two years ago. I don't hate it I just didn't care. Then I tried Sekiro and was hooked, one of the best games I've ever played
It’s a better version of Assassins Creed, and that’s why I like it. But I understand why some might find that to be a little generic. In my opinion Ghost of Tsushima is what the new AC games should have been.
@@DescendingBlade all three recent AC games are better than Ghost of Tsushima. The only things GoT does better are graphics and combat. I loved all the recent AC trilogy games. If they were "like GoT" I wouldn't have even finished them.
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.
@@resolve06 LOL I couldnt be more objective if I tried, it's you whose opinions are being driven by your female hormones... that or you're casual garbo who can't tell a good combat even if you're hit in the face with
I honestly think action-adventure games with open worlds were better with their small to medium sized worlds (zelda likes basically) big open worlds are mostly worth it in something like elder scrolls games in my eyes
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.
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
From all the gameplay it looks like modern assassin's creed but in Japan
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.
Bro I swear most triple A games all have that feeling of "missing something"
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
@@suda_lifts super bad actually lol
dont compre rdr2 to this abomination of a game
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.
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
@@zzz-cb3xe Yes of course it does. WTF is wrong with you stopping only 45 minutes in? ADHD?
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
Na it is a bad game. It’s a grindy game where it feels like a chore
@@Kai_Stone For you. The game was amazing and it did not feel like a chore because of the gameplay, open world, customization, and story. Maybe you should stick to lesser games if you don’t like slow paced stories.
@@Calebandon0 Lesser games? Na that is. Lesser game you newb. Maybe you like bland ass games with terrible pacing, repetitive scenery, and half ass cutscenes but I’ll stick to the good games friend
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”
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.
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
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
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 refunded the game after 7.6 hours. the CONSTANT fade-to-blacks and unskippable cutscenes drove me crazy, especially when the cutscenes weren't animated at all, and the conversation could've easily let me keep control of Jin. having my control taken away from me constantly was annoying, and it broke my heart because i really wanted to like this game, but i couldn't stay in it because my camera kept going black every five minutes
Forgot the black screens the combat is stale bread.
@crumblyairship OH NO A CUT SCENE!?!?
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.
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
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
And stealth that isn’t even fun
“The most Ubisoft ass game not made by Ubisoft”. Truer words never spoken.
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
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.
I enjoyed ac unity more than this game no that says alot
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.
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.
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.
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.
Your english great! Thanks for the insightful comment
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
@@OscarDirlwoodred dead 2
You are Right the texture is really what pisses me of, Nobody Talks about it! I hope in the sequel the change graphic
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...
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.
Yes this game is boring as hell its just a mediocore game with fancy graphics
@bobjilesen8450 Its only boring if you have ADHD.
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 loved the game but this has got to best and most real review I’ve seen. So true through and through. And funny.
I'm on PC so i just got around to playing it and imo it was Heavily overrated. Not really that good, in the begging it was ok but got old and repetitive really fast. The way it was hyped i thought it would be great like an RDR2 or Witcher3
rdr 2 is so much better
@@kiwiofficial64 RDR2 is horrible. Its a cowboy simulator at best.
@@dorraymarshall1143 have you even completed the game bruh?
@@kiwiofficial64 Got halfway through. Spam x to make horse run..... L1 to talk to people, L1 to draw gun...? It would make a better TV series than a video game.
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
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.
Wow, great work on this analysis. I just finished the game a few days ago and most of your critiques are spot on.
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
@LocoCocoPops Red dot? WTF you talking about?
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
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 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.
I felt the same exact way after getting in to Act lll
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
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 fact that you cant skip any cut sence or or you you have to spaaam R2 to start dilouge is so so frustration
This is probably the best analysis of "Ghost of Tsushima" I've seen. Great video!
I think GoT is a solid game with fun combat, okay story and a beautiful world. However, I am sick of people glazing it, like it's some outstanding masterpiece. So many people insist that Ghost should have won GOTY 2020 instead of The Last Of Us 2, and I think that's just INSANE! The Last Of Us 2 is more impressive in pretty much every aspect you can analyze: story, characters, dialogues, cutscenes, combat, stealth, immersiveness, world interactivity, emotional impact, music, themes, AI, physics, and so on. People who think Ghost is better have no idea what they're talking about.
Tlou2, goty 2020 and fan award 2020 lives rent free in got fans 😂😂. Whenever there is video in RUclips or TikTok regarding this game, these three points are brought into argument every single time. No objective arguments on games strengths and flaws, just keep screaming about how it is a masterpiece, it deserved the goty, it won fan award, so other awards are considered null and void, nd paid the critics, tlou2 is woke that’s why it won. Like why can’t got fans just enjoy this Ubisoft game and completely ignore nd and tlou2 🤣🤣
@@jenishmaharjan9655gow better
@@daboyjay7413 got carried by tga lobby in 2018, and folded by Elden ring in 2022, so much better 🤣🤣
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.
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.
IT'S A BORING UBI CHECK LIST! Stop making excuses for this mediocre beautiful game. The better game won GOTY and that was TLOU 2
11:17 u fucking killed me with that part bro, the constantly raising voice had my dying hahahaha imediately liked and subbed
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
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.
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
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.
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.
This game sucks lucky me I can’t get a refund because I played it
@thegreatESQUEape Let me guess you think TLOU and RDR2 are amazing!?
WHEN YOURE SNEAKING AND IT ACTIVAT3S GHOST LIKE WELP THATS A WHOLE GOD DAMN RESET
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 feel personally attacked
Good the game is terrible lol
@VITEX Cyberpunk is better than Ghost.
@@jetthejudge naaaaaaaaaahhhh
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
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)
The unskippable cutscenes and dialogue are insufferable....another game trying to be profound and "cinematic' but instead is tedious and boring
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
Lots to love about this game. Everything you said is true. So boring after a while…finished first act, can’t be bothered to keep going
Frrrrr
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.
Overrated game. Found it boring and repetitive. Mongol outposts were the worst, just rehashed over the whole open world. Accurate review. This and Horizon zero dawn I found very similar in mission design and constant collecting and check boxes. Terrible.
Great writing by the way, have subscribed.
Game is good
@@KanyeIsKing ok?
@@Blue-Apple-fc9eo For a hot second, I thought her last name was Bukaki and that she was a spam account.
@@Shaker1000 Yeah don’t blame you either.
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.
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.
The world is itself is so bland. The lack of music when you're exploring makes it seem empty. Unlike GTA, Witcher 3, the world just doesn't seem lived in. When you're exploring, you know when you find a village, it's the same process every time, go into the house that is the same one every time, climb the ladder that is in the same place. Pick up your few supplies. That's my biggest gripe. The menu and levelling up elements was fine for me.
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.
Yeah I agree with everything you said. But I still love it, lol. I like it for different reasons than other games though. It’s more like appreciating music or a work of art for me. It’s just a beautiful game and it has so much samurai badassery
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.
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
I’m not even gonna try it. Sekiro makes this game look like somebody farted in a shoe.
Your comment didn't age well 😅
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.
I play on PlayStation myself but goddamn the fans are annoying they won't accept anyone disliking a ps game.
Perfect example of a spoiled gamer brat review.
Yeah, it's you.
Okay but infamous second son was pretty damn good
You definitely didn’t plat Skyrim
Idk why they put a stealth system in the game they didn't know how to do it
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.
I was naïve about the game I only played it for 2 days till I got bored, the world is an artwork and the color palette is unique in every part of the map but its empty they just scrap assets to add huts and ins and fill em up with stupid ronins or mangolians and that's it, missions and side missions are so damn boring you basically talk to a character follow some tracks kills some enemies rinse and repeat
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
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)
All boss fights are the same except for the Khan, the Uncle and Ryuzo and the mythic tale where you have to duel 7 ronin all 7 being the same enemy
It’s samurai far cry
Lol I beat it and that's facts man....it's the same shit over and over
Nailed it. With the Iki Island "expansion" out now, Sucker Punch seems to be pulling a Ubishit on us. After what Ubistank did to Ghost Recon Wildlands, Sucker Punch is looking real familiar. Real familiar.
Yes the story was ok, a bit boring more of the same just this time Jin is trying to get over his "Daddy issues", and after beating the side quests I just can't bring myself to finish the other activities, it's so boring.
I like how you say Wildlands when there’s obviously one game 10 times worse that came out more recent
@@Ace-dv5ce Iki island isn't bad it's reminds me of the difference between fallen ghost and wildlands right now. I hoping fans like myself who pay lots of money for this stuff get what we want. The bug fixes do come out pretty often, that's good. I'm hoping there are add ons or dlc to address other issues before we have a list of different game modes to choose from. That said, I'm gone go play right now.
Ryuzo is goofy he gets mad at jin for not throwing the fight but also to proud to accept jins handout to server under lord shimura
wow do you want some cheese with that wine ? lol
Beautiful game but absolutely terrible gameplay. Got bored so damn fast, missed essential character side missions that play into the main story. Tons of terrible side missions. Oh and not to mention the entire game is supposed to be becoming a ninja and the AI stealth mechanics are similar to original Xbox and ps3 games. So sad it was such trash haha. Best fights were duels, should’ve been based around those mechanics
It wasn’t trash kid, you’re just bad.
@@KanyeIsKing ever played ninja gaiden on hardest difficulty? That games beyond better
@@Fairenough169 that game is a 7/10, this game is an 8/10
Gameplay was so bad but that's a ps exclusive for you they focus on graphics and give bare minimum on gameplay. Look at horizon zero dawn I absolutely loved that game but gameplay there's hardly anything to it but jump, role and shoot. Ghost of Tsushima was a massive let down
@That HALO Dude ok
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.
Thank you.. I agree with your review 100%. Doing the same thing again and again and again..
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 love ghost of tsushima, like very much, but still as criticism it lacks a lot of things, very obvious one is variety in enemies, and npcs, there are about 3 npc models and they reuse it in every place in the whole game, it gets boring looking at the same face everytime you talk to them, 2nd the enemies, supposedly as you progress, the difficulty of the enemies rise, but they dont gain any new moves or weapons, their clothes change and their numbers do, thats it, i never did side quests, or even the fox dens in my first playthrough cuz it gets boring doing the same thing over and over again, i hope Ghost of Tsushima 2 is more alive and fixes a lot of stuff
Hey man, love the content, and agree with your criticism despite loving the game. One thing I also thought was lacking was horse combat. The mongol empire had formidable horseback archers, and maybe they could have implemented a new type of enemy or something
They made director's cut worse. After you finish like the 3rd mission on Iki Island, all your fights with thugs on the road gets interrupted by locals that come to fight with you. Which totally kills all the challenge in the game as you can't fight the new enemy types in peace. It makes the game too easy because your character gets stronger while your challenge in the game gets easier.
You mean Raiders.
@@SeriousDragonify Yes, but it doesn't matter. I play ghost legends and it's a lot harder
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.
Finally got around to playing this and yea it sucks
I hate such big map. They made Japanese copy of Assassin's Creed :/
Boring
It's not a big map
As someone who loves this game, this video gave me an idea as to how people may not feel the same. I think ghost weapons and "special moves" are OP and kill the experience. For me I loved the combat and archery so that just about all I did. Stealth was eh but I enjoy the combat and especially the duels
I do wish there was the ability to choose assassin and warrior in the story arc, but it's about one of my only gripes with it
Agreed. After playing it for a couple of weeks I never went back to it and that was two years ago. I don't hate it I just didn't care. Then I tried Sekiro and was hooked, one of the best games I've ever played
Whenever someone asks me about Ghost of Tsushima all I can say is "It is a different Ubisoft game".
EDIT: 20:30 The reason I only used smoke bombs
It’s a better version of Assassins Creed, and that’s why I like it. But I understand why some might find that to be a little generic. In my opinion Ghost of Tsushima is what the new AC games should have been.
@@DescendingBlade all three recent AC games are better than Ghost of Tsushima. The only things GoT does better are graphics and combat.
I loved all the recent AC trilogy games. If they were "like GoT" I wouldn't have even finished them.
@@thedopeson combat is debatable considering how overpowered you get that challenge evaporats, it's just aesthetically good
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
@@wallacesousuke1433It’s not perfect but saying it’s terrible is a reach. Get out of your emotions.
@@resolve06 LOL I couldnt be more objective if I tried, it's you whose opinions are being driven by your female hormones... that or you're casual garbo who can't tell a good combat even if you're hit in the face with
I honestly think action-adventure games with open worlds were better with their small to medium sized worlds (zelda likes basically) big open worlds are mostly worth it in something like elder scrolls games in my eyes