Ghost of Tsushima

 PlayStation 4
User Score
9.1

Universal acclaim- based on 21430 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19,664 out of 21430
  2. Mixed: 823 out of 21430
  3. Negative: 943 out of 21430
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  1. Cherokee_1000
    Jan 22, 2021
    1
    How would i describe it? How about boring, uninspired and overrated, yeah that's about it.
  2. aintgood
    Jan 22, 2021
    0
    Whatever happened with originality? It's so similar to AC games, but then again it's worse than AC games. Worse because it's just not that unique. You are dude with sword and you are in Japan: the Game.
  3. GamesMustBeFun
    Jan 22, 2021
    0
    Pretty generic open world game, not recommending this to anyone who likes good games.
  4. maybetoday
    Jan 22, 2021
    0
    Put your character to the center of screen, not somewhere in the corner. How can anyone even play this?
  5. Joenightwalker
    Sep 22, 2020
    0
    Very inferior version of what Ubisoft has been doing with open worlds, and a very poor interpretation of Japanese culture and history. Gameplay wise it is very shallow compared with games like the soulsborne series.
  6. hitmanthree
    Jan 22, 2021
    0
    Boring assassin's creed clone. World has nothing interesting in it. Yeah it's hard pass.
  7. deadxlift
    Sep 29, 2020
    4
    Looks quite nice for the most part, but that's about it. The Japanese paint job that was slapped on the same old open world mechanics can't stop the game from feeling incredibly generic after a couple of hours. Combat is too easy, camera is clunky, too. Probably would have felt better if it came out a couple of years ago, now it's just a bunch of mechanics that have been done better byLooks quite nice for the most part, but that's about it. The Japanese paint job that was slapped on the same old open world mechanics can't stop the game from feeling incredibly generic after a couple of hours. Combat is too easy, camera is clunky, too. Probably would have felt better if it came out a couple of years ago, now it's just a bunch of mechanics that have been done better by other games.… Expand
  8. flowflow444
    Jan 22, 2021
    0
    Inferior version of basically any Assassin's Creed. Graphics are cool, but what else? There's nothing interesting to do in this open world. People who try to say it's better than AC games seem to forget that big part of AC games is parkour.
  9. TheAmazingxx
    Jan 23, 2021
    1
    Graphics - 9/10, Story - 6.7/10, Open World - 3/10, Characters - 3/10, How fun is it? 3/10
  10. browat
    Sep 29, 2020
    0
    Honestly surprised the user sore is so high for this game. I thought it was just ok. Ghost of Tsushima offers some pretty landscapes, but they are lifeless. The movement is relatively clunky, and it really could have benefitted from some refinement there. It's a game where there are elements of ninja-like stealth, but the movement is extremely one dimensional. You hide in the grass, stayHonestly surprised the user sore is so high for this game. I thought it was just ok. Ghost of Tsushima offers some pretty landscapes, but they are lifeless. The movement is relatively clunky, and it really could have benefitted from some refinement there. It's a game where there are elements of ninja-like stealth, but the movement is extremely one dimensional. You hide in the grass, stay out of sight, and that's about it in terms of stealth. They do a great job with the map, but moving throughout it is also very one dimensional.

    I won't go on with a long review, but I was unfortunately pretty disappointed by this game. It's also pretty ridiculous that so many people are using TLOU2 to influence their review of this game. They are completely different games that happened to come out within a month of each other. Too many biased reviews here, I'd pay attention to the critic score for this one.    … Expand
  11. St-Anger
    Oct 3, 2020
    4
    Get out of here with all these 10's!!
    This game is not a 10 at all. Its an extremely average game. When I first started out playing I did see its potential that unfortunately got boring fast. I'm just glad I purchased it on disc because I ended up trading it in.

    Feel free to give it a go but much better games are available than this!
  12. ManofCulture_
    Jan 23, 2021
    0
    I tried it for 3 hours and i didn't like it really. Story kept dragging and nothing really interesting to do in this open world. Meh.
  13. Jansen89
    Aug 20, 2020
    4
    First: The 83 average score is pretty accurate. The high user score is most likely a result of internet culture and review bombing (#tlou2).
    Now the game itself:
    Story is mediocre. Jin is one hell of a boring protagonist. Side quests are uninteresting and the characters are kinda empty. Nothing catchy here. The game itself feels grindy way to often. I'm over 25 hours in and had not a    First: The 83 average score is pretty accurate. The high user score is most likely a result of internet culture and review bombing (#tlou2).
    Now the game itself:
    Story is mediocre. Jin is one hell of a boring protagonist.
    Side quests are uninteresting and the characters are kinda empty. Nothing catchy here. The game itself feels grindy way to often. I'm over 25 hours in and had not a single "wow" moment. Worth playing... But there's a whole lot better games. Nearly every other Ps4 exclusive. DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE USER SCORE. REVIEW BOMBING.
    The visuals are good. The fighting is good.
    Another problem is the difficulty. The game is too easy in my opinion. But that's not really the point.
    This can't match with rpg standards of the Witcher 3 or something. Sucker Punch did a good job but the last of us 2 is better in every aspect if you want to compare it.    … Expand
  14. TheColdNight
    Jan 23, 2021
    0
    Bought it with 60 dollars and gotta say i don't like it at all. Very disappointing. Story is very generic, but my main issue is that character is not in center of screen. So playing it really makes my head hurt. So just before you buy it make sure you are able to play game where character is literally in the corner of screen. I have never seen it done like that. Little bit off center?Bought it with 60 dollars and gotta say i don't like it at all. Very disappointing. Story is very generic, but my main issue is that character is not in center of screen. So playing it really makes my head hurt. So just before you buy it make sure you are able to play game where character is literally in the corner of screen. I have never seen it done like that. Little bit off center? That's fine, but this one is just bad.… Expand
  15. kostokc
    Sep 16, 2022
    2
    Unplayable horrible aim movement. So sluggish and time consuming that every single time you want to look at any direction, which is several hundreds of thousands to a million times on one play though, it takes full second till anything starts really moving. It has so ridiculously slow and bad acceleration system that takes eternity and any sane people needs to wait turning to the edge ofUnplayable horrible aim movement. So sluggish and time consuming that every single time you want to look at any direction, which is several hundreds of thousands to a million times on one play though, it takes full second till anything starts really moving. It has so ridiculously slow and bad acceleration system that takes eternity and any sane people needs to wait turning to the edge of insanity. What kind of d##b a## s##t is that. Whoever develooer decided to do or accept that should ged fired immediately. Also there is no options to fix it. On fastest settings it just is very slow. At slowest, its like do you want to wait retirement or insanity come first. Samurai and ninjagames should be superfast, not slower than a snail. No options to change buttons neither.
    Good graphics get 2 points. Other than that, absolute failure.    … Expand
  16. ergonomicoT2000
    Jul 19, 2020
    4
    This game could be amazing but many nonesense dialogues, weak combat mechanics and a terrible camera make it look like a rushed product. To be honest you could overlook the first issues but the camera is really, really bad, worse than demon souls just to be clear :/ i really hope they do something about.
  17. herrmoekl
    Jul 20, 2020
    4
    9,2 User Score? For real? I feel incredibly shocked by gaming culture these days. TLOU 2 which Set a new bar for storytelling in video games was review bombed and this repetitive game that does everything the exact same way and 100% caters to a non inventive open world trend with full of open world cliches and lackluster level design gets a 9,2? This could easily be an assassins creed game9,2 User Score? For real? I feel incredibly shocked by gaming culture these days. TLOU 2 which Set a new bar for storytelling in video games was review bombed and this repetitive game that does everything the exact same way and 100% caters to a non inventive open world trend with full of open world cliches and lackluster level design gets a 9,2? This could easily be an assassins creed game it’s not less inventive in fact Ubisoft create more detailed and prettier open worlds and Users would downvote the hell out of it. Unbelievable truly....… Expand
  18. Happyhughes2001
    Jul 19, 2020
    2
    Very, very disappointed. Game looks great but it has loads of filler and the story and writing is poor imo. Combat is very easy and gets old quickly. Camera angle is very clunky. Game feels very dated, if it came out 5 years ago I think it would have been received much better. Disappointed.
  19. conan_mcparland
    Jul 19, 2020
    3
    Looks amazing sometimes and so bad others , sword fighting is cool , but so many problems , it’s just not polished
  20. Mrpiax
    Feb 25, 2022
    4
    Para mí parecer, es un videojuego muy aburrido que se hace largo a partir de las 10 horas de juego. Las misiones son super repetitivas y el ir de un sitio a otro se hace muy pesado. El personaje principal no tiene ningún carisma ni personalidad. Eso sí la ambientación es increíble y acompañan los gráficos.
  21. CloudStrifes
    Sep 17, 2022
    0
    Love This Game..
    The Game.. Story, Culture, Haiku, Sauna, Animal, Flute, Art, World Design, Combat Style, Archery, Stealth, Cavalry etc..
    BEYOND EXPECTATION..
    Totally In Love With "GHOST OF TSUSHIMA"
  22. yaminotenshi1
    Jul 16, 2022
    4
    i dont get all this hype for this **** game? is another crappy copy of ac formula. another checklist with repetitive boring task to complete. kill 10 of those, save 5 of those, free camp base, is devastating tedious, is just an AC for dump japan fanboys... input lag is ridiculous, you cant skip dialogue, il clunky and boring boss fight are unfair and broken...what the huk people are makingi dont get all this hype for this **** game? is another crappy copy of ac formula. another checklist with repetitive boring task to complete. kill 10 of those, save 5 of those, free camp base, is devastating tedious, is just an AC for dump japan fanboys... input lag is ridiculous, you cant skip dialogue, il clunky and boring boss fight are unfair and broken...what the huk people are making this game a huge hit??… Expand
  23. HankAdvanced
    Dec 1, 2021
    3
    Sorry but this game is not for me, i seen the trailer, and the gameplay, and it turns out boring and somewhat downgrade, almost the same downgrade like ubisoft, the story is just ordinary, there's not hing that really made me interested on this, gameplay is super crap, graphics is just ok, i don't know if this a rip off, but if you ask me, i do not like it, and i do not recommend it.
  24. Thomsy
    Dec 15, 2021
    2
    Artificious difficulty, bad level design, bad IA, unbalanced, combat system Is initially exciting but It get more and more boring since few hours from the beginning. The only good thing here Is graphic and some parts of the Story. The thing Is this game Is broken and boring.
  25. raoki_
    Apr 28, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I think it's an open world game too much limited, it took me 'bout 20 hours to rescue Shimura, hours that seemed endless clearing Mongolian camps in Izuhara like a Far Cry, the story had excellent potential, but it is poorly told, Everything is going very well, and one mission later everything goes very wrong, I did everything I could without using stealth, I would have liked that the use of stealth or face-to-face combat had consequences in the story and the characters, like Dishonored does, the way how is limited by camps that aren't your level is also very abrupt, with deluges of arrows coming from… non-existent bows? please. I have completed it 100%, and I have felt all this as an rpg player and a lover of Japanese culture, artistically it is amazing, but in terms of playability I don't like it.… Expand
  26. tdebug
    Dec 25, 2020
    3
    Japanese cannot let dead souls go and continue to produce repetitive from software style slashers. This one looks beautiful but otherwise still a typical slasher with repetitive fights, almost nonexistent stealth and many other game mechanics. Enemies possess a challenge mostly because they overwhelm you now and then. So much overrated game. Like many already said here - if you willing toJapanese cannot let dead souls go and continue to produce repetitive from software style slashers. This one looks beautiful but otherwise still a typical slasher with repetitive fights, almost nonexistent stealth and many other game mechanics. Enemies possess a challenge mostly because they overwhelm you now and then. So much overrated game. Like many already said here - if you willing to buy it just because you see high score here, just don’t.… Expand
  27. Harsh_Reality
    Jan 24, 2021
    1
    Very generic open-world game that takes place in Japan and idea is great, i would love to play good game that takes place in japan, but this one is so boring. Not recommending. Only reason it has so many positive reviews is because people were making thousands of fake accounts, so they could beat last of us 2. While i agree that last of us 2 is bad game, that doesn't mean that Ghost ofVery generic open-world game that takes place in Japan and idea is great, i would love to play good game that takes place in japan, but this one is so boring. Not recommending. Only reason it has so many positive reviews is because people were making thousands of fake accounts, so they could beat last of us 2. While i agree that last of us 2 is bad game, that doesn't mean that Ghost of Tsushima is masterpiece. Like i said, it was only rated so high, so it could surpass Last of Us 2.… Expand
  28. braveen10
    Dec 12, 2020
    0
    Bought this game because it had 9.3 score on user review, I played the game for 15 hours now I can definitely tell u this is a typical boring repetitive assassins creed game. DONT BUY IT , PEOPLE ARE OVER HYPING THIS **** GAME
  29. Phuz
    Aug 22, 2022
    1
    I'm pretty surprised at the score here.

    So I played the intro section and a few minutes more and I was bored. Really bored. I just got an old Monster Hunter a few days ago and it was more entertaining in 5 minutes than this was in an hour. So basically this feels like a more boring, less fluid, worse looking version of Gujian 3. I have played a few hours of Gujian 3 and it has left me    I'm pretty surprised at the score here.

    So I played the intro section and a few minutes more and I was bored. Really bored. I just got an old Monster Hunter a few days ago and it was more entertaining in 5 minutes than this was in an hour.

    So basically this feels like a more boring, less fluid, worse looking version of Gujian 3. I have played a few hours of Gujian 3 and it has left me wanting more . Ghost of Tsushima left me deleting the game.

    The game felt like a film with button presses and sluggish action. Now I can deal with this type of thing, I really enjoyed Beyond Two Souls but the character, this Jin guy, I didn't want to be him, he was so (and I know I'm repeating this word) boring. I just wanted him to get killed off. I love Samurai, I love Japanese things and this is a stunning game but that is it. This Jin guy was like an annoying little millennial **** of a Samurai. There is honour and there is being a bell end. There is a fine line and he crossed it. Jumped up and down on that line.

    GoT is a bit like pulling a model on a night out and getting her home to find out the beef curtains be smelling more like a 2 week old tuna butty than a prime cut.

    As if the immersion of being in the shoes of a character I wanted to punch wasn't game breaking enough. The PS4 started up its propeller every 30 seconds, sounding like it was ready to launch a NASA rocket.

    So if you want a historical Asian style game with good action and stunning graphics. Personally, for me, Gujian 3 is way better.

    I give a point for the bloody brilliant graphics.

    -9 for bad characters, story, gameplay and making my PS4 fan work it's ticket to the extreme. I don't really remember the sound being good, or bad. I'm guessing it was probably just OK. Maybe I just couldn't hear it over the frigging fan that was only recently dismantled and cleaned out.    … Expand
  30. Nerdcast
    Nov 23, 2021
    4
    I didnt like the game, gameplay was repetitive, graphics where dull and story was cliche. Missions were the same all over the game and skills didnt make an impact.
    Maybe my problem was that I played this game right after Sekiro and Sekiro is much great than this one. But Ghost of Tsushima is, for me a very big mistake.
    I wasnt able to finish it, played around 15 hours and was so bored    I didnt like the game, gameplay was repetitive, graphics where dull and story was cliche. Missions were the same all over the game and skills didnt make an impact.
    Maybe my problem was that I played this game right after Sekiro and Sekiro is much great than this one. But Ghost of Tsushima is, for me a very big mistake.
    I wasnt able to finish it, played around 15 hours and was so bored that took it away from my PS4 and never looked back.    … Expand
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#19 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 122 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 107 out of 122
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 122
  3. Negative: 0 out of 122
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Oct 7, 2020
    100
    The best samurai game in a long time and a great fun for all, who love action. Love for Japan and its history is a big plus, but its knowledge is not necessary to enjoy every minute of this beautiful game. [Issue#305]
  2. PSX Extreme
    Oct 5, 2020
    85
    Ghost of Tsushima is a flawed, but fun, game. While the gameplay itself was solid, and the story was decent, I definitely expected a lot more from Sony’s final PlayStation 4 exclusive. It had enough to keep me hooked, but lacked the polish we’ve all grown to love from a Sony first party game.
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  3. Siliconera
    Sep 15, 2020
    70
    Ultimately, it feels like the game could have benefited from a smaller scope or a more linear structure. Focus on the duels could have created a more engrossing product, especially if it honed in on the narrative for a more concise and cinematic experience. But as it stands, Ghost of Tsushima is another AAA open world title and doesn’t seek to define itself as anything other than that.
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