Currently re-playing on PC.
I should say that despite this getting 4/5, it's among my all-time favorite video games. I can't rate this a perfect 5 down to a form of design that I tend to find entirely exhausting and mind-numbingly boring: The Ubisoft formula. It's all over this game and in good conscience, I can't pretend otherwise ...
...even if in this iteration, I actually find that it works mostly pretty fine. When I say that, I mean possibly the best way it has been implemented since the legendary Far Cry 3 (which is a game that is both an all-timer and heavily responsible for this type of bloat design that has plagued so many games).
I feel that a Ghost of Tsushima sequel that reins in the open-world bloat a bit while providing more substantial / meaningful encounters would hit the top of the mountain. The first game though, it's not perfect but for what so much it IS doing, it's like fucking candy to me. Satisfying combat, stunning artwork/design and killer voice work (two of my buddies played this in English and hey, different strokes right ... but i'll never understand why anybody would do that).
Also, yes, I adore Kurosawa and Kobayashi so no shit this hits a particular chord with me haha. All the great, and some of the bad. One of my favorites.
I should say that despite this getting 4/5, it's among my all-time favorite video games. I can't rate this a perfect 5 down to a form of design that I tend to find entirely exhausting and mind-numbingly boring: The Ubisoft formula. It's all over this game and in good conscience, I can't pretend otherwise ...
...even if in this iteration, I actually find that it works mostly pretty fine. When I say that, I mean possibly the best way it has been implemented since the legendary Far Cry 3 (which is a game that is both an all-timer and heavily responsible for this type of bloat design that has plagued so many games).
I feel that a Ghost of Tsushima sequel that reins in the open-world bloat a bit while providing more substantial / meaningful encounters would hit the top of the mountain. The first game though, it's not perfect but for what so much it IS doing, it's like fucking candy to me. Satisfying combat, stunning artwork/design and killer voice work (two of my buddies played this in English and hey, different strokes right ... but i'll never understand why anybody would do that).
Also, yes, I adore Kurosawa and Kobayashi so no shit this hits a particular chord with me haha. All the great, and some of the bad. One of my favorites.