Current Events > Ghost of Tsushima sure is an open world game

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Don't get me wrong. I overall enjoyed it. A part of my lizard brain likes clearing icons on an open world game. But honestly I am a bit confused why Ubisoft type open world games tend to get shit on online while this was highly praised. I felt like I've played this game many times before. The graphics were really nice and the combat was fun (although quite brain dead and easy).

It's a much better game than Infamous Second Son but I do think Sucker Punch made some of the same mistakes. They really need to think about if the content they're adding is actually fun. Chasing a fox a few times is a cute novelty. Looking it up there are 49 of them. 49 instances of giant FOX DEN font telling you to mindlessly follow a fox for the shrine. There's no challenge or fun factor here. The game feels like it's afraid of ever really pushing the player in any way. It's all rather inoffensive and designed to just fly right through it. Either you're fighting Mongols, stealth killing Mongols or doing something disposable and quick. The game just doesn't offer anything else. Which is overall okay but usually these games tend to be shit on the internet but this one seemed to avoid it.

Even the random encounters are samey. There's like 5 of them. All of them are slight variations of fighting Mongols or fighting a bear and Mongols. There's no real reward for actually exploring. There's always a method for the game to simply just tell you where to find things.

The story did its job but the characters and writing were awfully dry. The ending was effective though and it had a few epic moments.

But yeah it was still a fun time but I have a fun time with open world games that a lot of people here seem to dislike (even Mafia 3 and Agents of Mayhem). It's a solid 8/10.

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because people have a hard on for samurai and ninjas.

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