[2020-07-25] Ghost of Tsushima is a TERRIBLE Video Game [jLV1pMNW5sk]

Hello and welcome back to my video game

review of the video game called Ghost of

Tsushima. I think this game is one of the

most overrated, overhyped games that I've

never played, and I really don't

understand why so many people are raving

on about it as if it's the best game ever.

So if I had to describe this game, I would

describe it as The Witcher 3 if Japan

vomited all over it. I swear it looks just

like The Witcher 3 if someone made some

kind of Japanese samurai mod skin for it.

I can just imagine the developers team

sitting around a table thinking about what

kind of game to make next, and then one of

them goes, hey, let's make a ripoff of The

Witcher 3 but set in Japan with samurais!

And then they all start nodding going, oh

yeah, that's a good idea, let's do that.

So my first complaint with this game is

the name of the game is kind of stupid, I

think. Okay, so the first half of the name

is pretty cool— Ghosts of. Anything with

the word ghosts in sounds pretty cool,

like Ghost Recon or Ghost in the Shell.

But Tsushima just sounds kind of lame. I

don't think anyone even knows where

Tsushima is. I bet no one's even heard of

Tsushima, even if you know a lot about

Japan like I do. I'd be very surprised if

you know where Tsushima is. Why didn't

they just use some kind of recognizable

name place like Kyoto? Ghosts of Kyoto.

It's also kind of cumbersome to pronounce.

As someone who speaks Japanese fluently,

obviously I can pronounce it perfectly,

but if you don't know Japanese, then you

might be confused. Is it Tsushima? Is it

Tsushima? Do you pronounce the T? Is it a

silent T? Also, it kind of sounds like

sushi with a ma on the end. So the

graphics of this game are not up to my

standards. Okay, it does look very

colorful and pretty sometimes, but when I

look out the window of my room, I still

think that real life looks much better. I

don't want to look at the game and then

look outside and then still be thinking

that the real world looks better. So when

it comes to graphical fidelity, I would

have to give this game a 2.9 out of 10.

My second problem with this game is the

voice acting. Now, if you're a big One

Piece fan like I used to be, then you'll

instantly recognize that the main

character is voiced by the same voice

actor that voiced the character in One

Piece called Zoro, and it just kind of

ruins the whole experience when every time

he speaks, all you can think of is that

green-haired Zoro character from One

Piece. Now don't get me wrong, he's a very

good actor. His voice sounds very cool and

manly and deep and epic, but it's too

recognizable as Zoro. You hear that voice

and you instantly think One Piece. I just

feel like it ruins the immersion a little

bit every time he speaks. I wish they

would have just gotten some less famous

voice actor, some unknown voice actor who

just has like a normal voice. My next

problem with the game is the armor of the

main character. You may have noticed he

has the He has this massive square metal

plate strapped to his right shoulder, and

it just looks really inconvenient. I can't

stop thinking about how uncomfortable it

must be to wear. It just doesn't look very

practical. Wouldn't the corners of the

square metal plates keep hitting you in

the face every time you turned your head

or you moved your shoulder around a bit?

Also, the metal shoulder thing never even

comes into some kind of gameplay mechanic

when you're fighting. The enemy's blades

never hit the square metal plate thing and

bounce off. It would have been more

interesting if you could use the shoulder

plates as some kind of blocking mechanism

or defense mechanism, but I guess it's

just there as like a visual thing because

I suppose the game artist, character

design artist, thought it looked cool.

Now let's move on to the gameplay. So the

gameplay does not look interesting at all.

If you've played Assassin's Creed or Jedi:

The Last Order Or The Witcher 3 or any of

those games where it's third person and

the enemies gather around you and then

take turns to swing at you and then you've

got to parry or counter or you've got fast

attacks, heavy attacks and then rolling

side to side. You know those type of

games? They're all pretty much the same

and Ghost of Tsushima is no different and

it doesn't really do anything new or

original or unique. And wasn't it just a

year ago when this other Japanese hack and

slash kind of RPG was released? It was

called Sekiro. I never played that either

because it looks kind of boring, but it

feels like it's only been a year or

something and we already have a new AAA

Japanese samurai game. Starting to feel

like the whole Japanese samurai genre is

getting a little bit oversaturated.

Remember about 10 or 15 years ago when we

had so many World War II video games,

shooters, and there was like 10 different

World War II games being released every

year? I feel like that's what's happening

with the whole Japanese samurai genre,

and we're going to get to a point where

the market is just going to be so

oversaturated and people are going to get

fed up with it. I think the last time I

played a Japanese ninja/samurai kind of

third-person action game was when I was a

teenager. I don't know if you remember

this game called Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox.

That was the last one, and I still think

that that game looks way more fun than

this Ghost of Tsushima game. In Ninja

Gaiden, you had all these different

weapons you could play with, and there was

decapitation, and it was way more bloody

and more action-oriented. You could do

platforming and do cool things like that.

In Ghost of Tsushima, it's just kind of

slow-paced and dull. I guess it's supposed

to be realistic. Something else I noticed

about Ghost of Tsushima is there's no

ragdoll physics. One of the best things

about video games, one of the most

entertaining things, is ragdoll. When you

fight an enemy and their body flops all

over the place and they fall over in funny

ways, that's one of my favorite things

about fighting people in video games. But

in Ghost of Tsushima, when you've killed

someone, they just do like this pre-made

made animation, death animation, that's

always the same. Limbs just kind of stick

up into the air instead of flopping down

onto the surface or the floor

realistically. And I feel like there

should be decapitation when you've got a

massive samurai sword. There really should

be no question about it, arms and legs

should be coming off, but they don't. And

they always just do this boring same old

death animation every time. It's just not

a very brutal looking game, and it should

be because I'm pretty sure back when

samurai used to fight each other, I'm

pretty sure the fighting was bloody and

gory and gruesome. And if it's supposed to

be a realistic game, well, it's not very

realistic if there's no decapitation.

Even the horse riding mechanic, because

yeah, obviously there's going to be horse

riding in an open world game. Every single

one of these games like The Witcher,

Skyrim, Zelda, they always have some

stupid horse and then you have to whistle

and then it just magically appears out of

nowhere. Guess what? Ghost of Tsushima

also has the exact same thing where you

whistle and a horse comes out of nowhere.

You got to ride here, you got to ride

there. There's fast travel. You've got a

big open world. It just sounds so boring.

Like nothing new is— there's nothing new

about this game that hasn't already been

done a bazillion times before. Also, the

story looks really dull. I don't even know

what the story is about. Apparently

there's Mongols and they've invaded Japan.

You gotta fight the Mongols and there's,

there's people who need to be rescued. I

don't even know what the story is, to be

honest. There's also lots of side quests

to do because of course there are. It's an

RPG. But the side quests are just, you

know, stuff you would expect. Kill 10 of

these people, sneak into some base and

steal something without being spotted,

escort someone out of a village. Protect

some kind of thing from being attacked.

It's all just same old stuff, same old

video game tropes. Anyway, I hope you

found my review helpful. In conclusion, I

would give this game a 2.8 out of 10. I

would not recommend. I'm sorry, but I'm

just not impressed at all, and I would not

recommend you buying this game.