Ghost of Tsushima

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9.1

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  1. dayan_lv
    Mar 16, 2022
    6
    Looks good, but there is not much to do in Tsushima. Main campaign is pretty straight-forward. Most of the side-quests are boring and repetitive. And the worst part there is absolutely no reward for doing anything in the game - no useful items, resources become redundant after the first chapter, skill tree is very short (and also pretty useless).
  2. MaxieZeus
    Sep 5, 2022
    6
    Pretty good but far from the best. It's basically an Assassin's Creed game with good graphics and actual good combat, however there is a severe lack of animation even in main story cutscenes that gets you out of the story.
  3. Jakubex
    Jan 4, 2023
    6
    It's a good game but too much of it is a slightly better version of a modern AC game. World is empty and lifeless. You only have like 5 different enemy types. Side quests are ok but repeatable . Other side activities are taken straight from a Ubisoft modern open world game so they are really bad. Main story is good but nothing special with really boring and bland characters except JinIt's a good game but too much of it is a slightly better version of a modern AC game. World is empty and lifeless. You only have like 5 different enemy types. Side quests are ok but repeatable . Other side activities are taken straight from a Ubisoft modern open world game so they are really bad. Main story is good but nothing special with really boring and bland characters except Jin Sakai. Combat and graphics are good but stealth combat is really bad. Enemy AI is not good and stealth gameplay lacks mechanics like picking up bodies and hiding them even though the game is mainly about becoming a ninja. Overall ,Ghost of Tsushima is just an ok game but i am pretty sure if it was made by Ubisoft people would trash on it how repeatable it is like their every open world game.… Expand
  4. FastTriton
    Mar 17, 2023
    6
    Just completed the game and 2 missions into Iki island.

    1. Gameplay - battle system is very good and this is what Sucker Punch knows how to do well. Overall you will go from one place to another and kill enemies. There is no variety except for mini games scattered around the open world. 2. Sandbox - the visual part is very beautiful, but dead. Physics is non-existent and you feel    Just completed the game and 2 missions into Iki island.

    1. Gameplay - battle system is very good and this is what Sucker Punch knows how to do well. Overall you will go from one place to another and kill enemies. There is no variety except for mini games scattered around the open world.

    2. Sandbox - the visual part is very beautiful, but dead. Physics is non-existent and you feel that everything is a decoration.

    3. Characters - unfortunately this is where the game disappoints. Characters are not well written without any backgroud. You don't believe their words mean anything to them. Imagine that in the whole game not even one character will smile to you or laugh - terrible writing.

    4. Story and side quests - the story is primitive, only children will believe. Side quests are even worse - the game becomes footprints simulator. The end game is great though.

    5. Music and sound - music is good but you get only several classic Japanese tracks. Voice acting is bad - you always feel that the voice is from other room not from the place where characters speak.

    Overall this game had huge potential to be a masterpiece but it needs much improvement to become one. It's a shame Sucker Punch did not go further with their ambition.    … Expand
  5. Idk123456789
    Apr 7, 2023
    6
    Gameplay is fun and the game looks beautiful and thats about it story is generic and basically ripped straight out from a ubisoft game : kill all the less important bad guys and then you get to kill the big bad.

    Mission design in this game is also awful half of the time its a tracking Mission the other half its a trailing mission. Honestly the game isn't bad but i dont understand all    Gameplay is fun and the game looks beautiful and thats about it story is generic and basically ripped straight out from a ubisoft game : kill all the less important bad guys and then you get to kill the big bad.

    Mission design in this game is also awful half of the time its a tracking Mission the other half its a trailing mission.

    Honestly the game isn't bad but i dont understand all these 10 and 9 reviews    … Expand
  6. Akc018
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    It has an enticing opening with some pacing issues (some flashbacks being a bit anti climatic). The art style is fantastic, with beautiful environments and Japanese movie inspired cinematography.

    However, soon after the world opens up after the initial events, it very soon feels boring. There may be a lot of question marks or POIs on the map, but there's not much curiosity or story    It has an enticing opening with some pacing issues (some flashbacks being a bit anti climatic). The art style is fantastic, with beautiful environments and Japanese movie inspired cinematography.

    However, soon after the world opens up after the initial events, it very soon feels boring. There may be a lot of question marks or POIs on the map, but there's not much curiosity or story elements that urge me go anywhere. It's like telling you a long term goal and leave everything else to the player without good leading or bridging, which is quite different to lots of other open world games (you can have a tight main story quest lines but still free to deviate and explore the world).

    I just can't keep the interest to play to the end    … Expand
  7. newflesh
    Aug 3, 2020
    5
    The most overrated PS4 game ever with its 9.3 User Score. While TLoU2 got negged to hell by those same users. Never thought I'd say that but thank god for real critics who gave Ghost a solid 83 and TLoU2 94 score.
  8. jameshowlett89
    Dec 14, 2022
    5
    Just not everyones cup of tea.
    Definitely overhyped and overrated tho. It becomes very repetitive and a chore very quickly, very slow moving from point to point, not a lot to do but the same camps over and over, nothing interesting in the island to explore and awful dialogue story cutscenes THAT CANT BE SKIPPED (by choice of devs)
    That last bit was the breaking point for me and the    Just not everyones cup of tea.
    Definitely overhyped and overrated tho. It becomes very repetitive and a chore very quickly, very slow moving from point to point, not a lot to do but the same camps over and over, nothing interesting in the island to explore and awful dialogue story cutscenes THAT CANT BE SKIPPED (by choice of devs)
    That last bit was the breaking point for me and the beautiful visuals and at times fun stealth and combat were not enough to keep me coming back for more.    … Expand
  9. Focs
    Aug 11, 2020
    5
    Я поставил игре 5 балов потому, что это просто средняя игра без чего-либо нового или выдающегося. Поэтому я рассмотрю только недостатки. Плюсы можете посмотреть у продажных блогеров. Игра очень скучная и монотонная. У вас есть основной квест. И он не как не зависит от стиля вашей игры. Разработчики построили простую сюжетную, линейную игру. К примеру, вы можете быть самураем, у которогоЯ поставил игре 5 балов потому, что это просто средняя игра без чего-либо нового или выдающегося. Поэтому я рассмотрю только недостатки. Плюсы можете посмотреть у продажных блогеров. Игра очень скучная и монотонная. У вас есть основной квест. И он не как не зависит от стиля вашей игры. Разработчики построили простую сюжетную, линейную игру. К примеру, вы можете быть самураем, у которого честь при выше всего. Но сюжет вертел этот ваш отыгрыш и желания. Всю будет точно по сценарию. Или, например вы будете играть за скрытого шиноби. И сражаясь из тени. Это не как не повлияет на сюжет. Ну разве что вы увидите пару воспоминаний. И в 2020 этот подход выглядит очень тупо и скучно. Но это не худшее. Проблемы есть и в кветсах. Все, начиная от побочных заканчивая сюжетными сводиться к убийству монгол. И от этого начинает тошнить уже к середине игры. Они сделаны на столько монотонно и однообразно. Что под час вы просто стараетесь их избежать что бы не затягивать игру. Вы скажете, но квесты то хоть интересные? Нет. Они еще хуже. Они линейны и могут проходиться почти в любом порядке. Из-за этого рушится восприятие. Например, средний квест состоит из 9 миссий. В первой части карты 4 и во второй 3, и 2 в третьей части карты. Допустим в первой вы все проигнорировали начали выполнять во второй карет. И там выполнили все квесты потом вернулись в первую карту и начали с начала выполнять с 1 по 4. И в четвертом задание вы получаете координаты 5 который вы уже выполнили. Бредово звучит да? Но это так. В игре даже открытый мир тупо сделан. Вы можете найти сюжетную крепость, при приближении к которой вас тут же будут убивать 7-8 стрел из неоткуда. То есть, по сути, исследовать лучше уже когда все сюжетные квесты закончены. Тогда у вас не будет возникать вопросы почему из неоткуда в вас летят стрелы. Так же в игре нельзя пропустить не одной сцены. Вы зачистили лагерь монголов. Их тут много. Вам показывают один из трех роликов: «главный герой спит рядом с лошадью, стоит и смотрит на поселение или выжженый монгольский лагерь, показывают природу в конце вас». Это длится где-то минуту. Пропустить нельзя. Вот вам это будет нравиться, когда вы это увидите в 30 раз? И мне нет. А просто надпись что вы подняли уровень у святилища в 10 раз? В одной пробочке вам надо победить 4 абсолютно одинаковых генерала, при этом перед победой вы должны сжечь 4 лагеря. Перед тем как их сжечь их надо зачистить. Причем все это будет проходить по одному сценарию. Который повторялся уже 30 раз до этого. Если вы, конечно, внимательно играете. К сожалению метакритик имеет ограничения и не дает больше расписать про игру.… Expand
  10. TK4EVA47
    Dec 19, 2022
    5
    I played Ghost of Tsushima in 2021 and thought it was an average game that I was neutral towards.
  11. sh0ck
    Jul 20, 2020
    5
    La relación con el entorno en este mundo abierto es increíble. Junto a TLOU2, me está pareciendo de lo mejor de PS4.
  12. Young_Nacho
    Jul 23, 2020
    5
    Have you guys played AssAss Creed before? Well that's pretty much exactly what this game is except it features samurai. Combat is really fun until you realize that is just revolves around parrying and mashing the triangle button. Seriously, it's laughably easy even on the hardest difficulty. Story is pretty weak, predictable, and boring. And since it's an open world game, it's filled withHave you guys played AssAss Creed before? Well that's pretty much exactly what this game is except it features samurai. Combat is really fun until you realize that is just revolves around parrying and mashing the triangle button. Seriously, it's laughably easy even on the hardest difficulty. Story is pretty weak, predictable, and boring. And since it's an open world game, it's filled with tons of trailing missions and bandits camps, in case you weren't already sick of them. Still, it's a gorgeous world with some nice diagetic exploration, and the combat is fun for a bit, just too shallow.… Expand
  13. JustSayNo
    Aug 2, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game was fine until you get knocked out by a wooden stick and they kill Taka. Contrived storylines in a 100+ hour game? That’s a load of **** and these writers should all be fired or relegated to writing for Family Guy as apparently they just love to rehash tired old cliches. I didn’t give any thought or care for particularly any character in the game as none are very memorable and all of them are one dimensional and show no growth outside of Jin. Don’t waste your time unless your a fan of something you’ve seen a million times done better in almost any medium. Even the Japanese aesthetic runs thin and gets boring and bland a third of the way through the game. 100+ hours of wasted time in the most tedious dull and underwhelming story I’ve ever experienced which is a shame because it started off so strong with epic battles, learning stealth and tons of techniques but it just grinds to a damn halt and I’m struggling to find a reason to care in the slightest for the well beings of anyone. I’m more sympathetic to the mongols at this point and want all of Tsushima to just be killed off. Here’s hoping that’s how the game ends with everyone dead because it certainly has bored me to death.… Expand
  14. Gurubuzu
    Jul 19, 2020
    5
    El juego no es bueno. Tiene un control pésimo debido a la cámara, en una accion tan simple como ir recto con el caballo sé complica por la cámara usada. Con el joystick adelante como en todos los juegos del planeta tierra, y el caballo va en diagonal, lo hacen tan cinemático, que se olvidan de lo que es. Exactamente igual a los combates, el sistema es sencillo pero bueno, pero es que laEl juego no es bueno. Tiene un control pésimo debido a la cámara, en una accion tan simple como ir recto con el caballo sé complica por la cámara usada. Con el joystick adelante como en todos los juegos del planeta tierra, y el caballo va en diagonal, lo hacen tan cinemático, que se olvidan de lo que es. Exactamente igual a los combates, el sistema es sencillo pero bueno, pero es que la cámara lo rompe todos.… Expand
  15. DioBr4ndo
    Jul 25, 2020
    5
    Jogo tem sérios problemas com o mundo aberto, missões extremamente repetitivas, graficamente bom mas não salva quando a estrutura do jogo está atrasada 10 anos em comparação com outros jogos de mundo aberto.
  16. visiblelight7
    Aug 24, 2020
    5
    Graphics are average. frame rate is bad. Game has bugs. Story is average. Disapointed. Regret spending 80$ on this. Dont believe the hype: This is a Ubisoft game where you repeat the same thing over and over with a little bit of story sprinkled between.
    Its just anothet open world checklist game wity samurai skin. Average game at best. Save your hard earned money. Wait for 20$
  17. DiddleMyFiddle
    Aug 1, 2020
    5
    This game starts off so promising, the combat seems really cool and fun, but the longer you play, the worse it becomes (Switch your stance to the corresponding enemy and mash triangle.). After about hour 5, you realize everything is wildly repetitive. Within those 5 hours, Igot all the abilities I wanted. No more progression and the same enemies over and over. the timing is off, so IThis game starts off so promising, the combat seems really cool and fun, but the longer you play, the worse it becomes (Switch your stance to the corresponding enemy and mash triangle.). After about hour 5, you realize everything is wildly repetitive. Within those 5 hours, Igot all the abilities I wanted. No more progression and the same enemies over and over. the timing is off, so I would never understand why I get hit when I was blocking perfectly, which devolves the combat into rolling around like an idiot and mashing the triangle button to stun. Very easy, even on hard. The only parts you will die on is the 'duels' on hard since the timing is so messed up.… Expand
  18. finedog
    Sep 7, 2023
    5
    This is a legid action RPG I've ever played. Every moment in the game is such a beautiful.
  19. pandawan
    Jul 20, 2020
    5
    The assassin creed Ubisoft dreamed to make without succès ! Great game !!!
  20. Hobobo
    Aug 11, 2020
    5
    Kind of regret buying this game new, but the hyped up user reviews got the better of me. The game is by no means bad though neither is it the best thing ever, it's just average. I think Sekiro spoiled me honestly because my biggest gripe with this game is the combat. It's floaty, clunky, and just unresponsive at times. There's very little weight to attacks and it feels like I'm fightingKind of regret buying this game new, but the hyped up user reviews got the better of me. The game is by no means bad though neither is it the best thing ever, it's just average. I think Sekiro spoiled me honestly because my biggest gripe with this game is the combat. It's floaty, clunky, and just unresponsive at times. There's very little weight to attacks and it feels like I'm fighting enemies with a pool noodle. Meanwhile enemies are unleashing insane combos or touting gian insane weapons. Game could use more player variety cause the sword and combat feel pretty bad.… Expand
  21. LisboaVinny
    Jul 19, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game os great and have a lot of good ideias but some glitches and bugs ruined my experience.… Expand
  22. eded9999
    Oct 26, 2022
    5
    Way too boring.
    You can shift difficulty on mid playthru, thing that i hate. There's no challenge that way.
    Character looks ugly, specially women.
    Game don't stop holding my hand, which is really annoying.

    Story and art are good.
  23. MichaelJordan23
    Jul 18, 2020
    5
    A very mediocre game. The combat is extremely generic and maybe even worse than that. The combat and mechanics overall are just very bland. The story is fairly decent though. I’d give it a 6, maybe a 7 for the story. I’m just very disappointed overall with this game.
  24. Flava
    Jul 22, 2020
    5
    Playing this after TLOU2 is a bit difficult. Seems it’s taken a more arcade slash path, rather than a deep and serious view into the genre. I’m surprised by the poor graphics, a lot of blurred and pixilated areas (playing on Pro). Animation is off in terms of spoken language. Had high hopes for this game, but so far not delivering.
  25. Lomux
    Jun 30, 2022
    5
    Decent game, but incredibly overrated, it is too easy even on Hard difficulty, the story is predictable and the game is simply too repetitive. There is a lot of things to do in the world, but after playing for 10 hours, you will not discover any true new content, just repeating content with some new elements.

    My biggest issue is that the game does not allow you to actually explore,    Decent game, but incredibly overrated, it is too easy even on Hard difficulty, the story is predictable and the game is simply too repetitive. There is a lot of things to do in the world, but after playing for 10 hours, you will not discover any true new content, just repeating content with some new elements.

    My biggest issue is that the game does not allow you to actually explore, everything is on the map, the game tells you where to go constantly, if you are tracking footsteps the character tells you where to go, it is all too easy and does not truly allow me to explore for myself.

    The combat quickly gets repetitive compared to the masterpiece that is Sekiro. The open world is nowhere near Red Dead Redemption 2 levels. I take offense seeing the game have 9.1 in grade.    … Expand
  26. pikc
    Nov 5, 2020
    5
    Great graphics, but too repetitive (all objectives are just about killing Mongols), and boring.
  27. XOZcomingFRooX
    Apr 27, 2022
    5
    Ghost of Tsushima is what they call "Assassins' Creed Japan" we craved from Ubisoft but never got 'cause Ubisoft is since long killed the AC franchise after altering it's slealth gameplay.
    You might call it the RDR2 of Japan, and you would be half right.
    Welp, for me it's just another Playstation open world game like GoW4 and Horizon BS Dawn. Lets start reviewing, shall we? So...    Ghost of Tsushima is what they call "Assassins' Creed Japan" we craved from Ubisoft but never got 'cause Ubisoft is since long killed the AC franchise after altering it's slealth gameplay.
    You might call it the RDR2 of Japan, and you would be half right.
    Welp, for me it's just another Playstation open world game like GoW4 and Horizon BS Dawn.
    Lets start reviewing, shall we?

    So... let's get one thing straight, the story is as good as you want to think.
    It's basically the "Oh, following the Bushido Code is no good when your enemy give 0 f*cks about it" so you basically become a Nin- sorry "GhOst"..
    Funny thing is, the game actually lets you freely to choose you style of Combat.

    - "Samurai Mode" which is combat which has potential but its buggy 'cause they had to put the money into the "open world" BS
    - "The Ghost" which is you basic Farcry 3 skills, only this time the enemies are dump in some cases (sometimes they see a comrade's corpse and don't react :/ )
    - And technically Archery, which is way to good in this game since you get easy headshots with the slow-mo

    Anyway, even if you choose to NOT abandoned the Bushido code, the game will regard you as the GhOst 'cause why bothet making branches.
    Why bother? well that's easy, much like GoW4, GoT also thinks that havin' mediocre feature from every genre will make the game better.

    And let's not forget the amounts of ToDos in this game to keep you busy and make you like you money's well spent in this game, yay, I really wanted to play 40+ hours chasing foxes, birds and goddamn outposts.

    Some of you might say "but what about the side quests with the mini stories? with the characters you meet along the way?" to which I say...
    What about them? Do you remember every single time you had to walk around and talked with them? and strolled with them?
    Was it worth it to see your character standing still, talking to the side character? Don't you want to see a cutscene that shows way more character personality? And I ain't even a story guy in video games, because you know... I want to PLAY, not read a "script".
    By "script" I mean Cory Barlog's vision of a "video game" leaving the game out

    Before I go over to my main critic, I got thing to say to this game. Did you really have to "uglify" the Japanese women?
    Especially the Mikos, which look like native Americans. Where's my Kikyo dammit XD? That's pretty Woke move you did there....
    But seriously, but why did you make the Mikos look so ugly? Googling Japanese Mikos finds me YOUNG (not old sucker punch) women usually look good and cute.
    But no, let's appeal to the Woke BS, and put in Old hags, stuck up **** (yea, **** Yuna, her character is not in the slightest acting Japanese) or just plain ugly.
    Hugh... *sign* I finally released my anger on that part.

    But you know, with all the hate I bring to this review, I actually some pros for GoT.
    - The sword stances are very Unique for me.
    - The movement is good
    - And the game does have a charm, much like AC1.

    The main problem I have with GoT is the fact that it had to be another dull open world game that doesn't even try to make it interesting.
    The exploration is still boring. Yes I though that the "guiding wind" would solve the issue as well, but as it turns out, it's still forces you to open the map menu, select the point you want to go, and go. It's just that now you can actually look at the fields' and forests and not stare at a mini map.
    But that still defeats the whole purposes of exploration and navigation which are suppose to be the building of making a fun open world.
    And even then, riding with you horse from A to B is still dull.

    So you know what, maybe it's time Playstation "exclusives" will stop the open world crap and focus mainly on their gameplay.
    Because here's the potential I see in GoT, which is the combat stealth.
    If SP developed linear levels that let them to design interesting combat areas, they would have surely improved the gameplay.
    Instead of polluting an open world with boring ToDo list I have seen in other million open world trash games... you know..

    So here's my ending statement. Wake me up, when clunky combat in video games is ancient history.
    Or, Wake me up, when open world games actually have no compress to guide you and the exploration is apart of the main gameplay.    … Expand
  28. Vespertellino
    Jul 19, 2020
    5
    It's not a bad game per se. But honestly it could be just another Assasin's Creed Cowabunga or whatever. Just another open-worldish tower clearing clone game.
    Gameplay is eh, music is all right.
    Graphics are being weird, sometimes it looks alright, but some cutscenes are so poorly directed that it feels like a 15y.o. mmorpg cutscene~ Overall impression is just meh, probably buy it if    It's not a bad game per se. But honestly it could be just another Assasin's Creed Cowabunga or whatever. Just another open-worldish tower clearing clone game.
    Gameplay is eh, music is all right.
    Graphics are being weird, sometimes it looks alright, but some cutscenes are so poorly directed that it feels like a 15y.o. mmorpg cutscene~
    Overall impression is just meh, probably buy it if you're a fan of samurai, feudal japan, and crappy forced stealth sequences
    Oh also main storyline is around 8-12 hours, the rest are just copy-paste grindy sidequests    … Expand
  29. cvg
    Jul 25, 2020
    5
    I like the artstyle. Pretty everything else is just so-so. I mean...really.. if one tries to re-open open word pandora box again then I really expect something new.
    A kind of unique experience. Don't get it wrong - this is ok game, it would have been classic say 7 years ago.. but today?

    As of 25 July 2020 it's just solid in my book- nothing more.
  30. RainDog_45
    Aug 12, 2020
    5
    Used to trust user reviews more than critic reviews for games. But wtf happened here? This is a stale open-world game with solid graphics but a lame storyline, boring mechanics, and a lack of any originality. How is this the one of the highest scored games of all time for y'all? What a disappointment.
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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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