The sales of Ghost of Tsushima have crossed 8 million copies across the world. It is a visually tuned action-adventure game with the access of samurai flicks. This game provides cutting-edge graphics, fluid combat mechanics with such incredible animations.
This PS4 game from developer Sucker Punch is a fantastic attempt to combine the structure of the conventional open-world game with a classic samurai movie.
Ghost of Tsushima: Plot
The story of the game has taken place in 13th century Japan, while a Mongolian soldier has conquered the island. The player will play as Jin Sakai who is the last samurai in his clan and he is determined to do anything to protect his people and reclaim his. Jin aims to rescue his uncle who was the leader of Tsushima samurai.
The samurai leader was captured by the Mongol leader. Jin becomes the de facto leader of a resistance force trying to thwart the invasion and keep it from spreading to the Japanese mainland.
The main conflict is not the two opposite armies, it is inside Jin himself. He is a traditional samurai who faces his enemies but he does not win the battle. For a successful fight, he has to use siege of weapons and tactics to terrorize the enemy.
The most interesting fact is the way Jin changes, he can shed slowly his samurai side to become something else and he will use some secret tactics, weapons like poison darts, and also more what the entire Tsushima city call “the ghost”. In the end, he is a samurai batman with a lot of combat skills and necessary weapons but one thing is true Jin alone cannot do it so he needs support from the island residents to fight the Mongols and kill their leader.
Now he makes a group of four allies among them a warrior, a monk, and a disgraced bow master. Undoubtedly, the beauty has been embedded into one of the best blade-to-blade combat systems in open-world action. This game provides new IP with a good story, a surprise multiplayer mode, no microtransactions, and no bugs making it more attractive.
Now we are going to discuss the Top 5 reasons behind the selling of 8 million copies:
1. Combat Skills
This game has great combat systems and it is quite simple to understand as there are light attacks to deal the damage quickly, heavy attacks can deal more damage as the player also can break through the enemy guards. There is a block button used to guard against certain attacks and also a dodge button for avoiding the attacks. After Jin finishes certain tasks he will be able to unlock new swords stances with the set of his moves. The players can unlock more skills like chained Showdown, Throwing Kunai’s, Water Stance.
2. Ghost Technique
This game will give you two play styles one is the honourable samurai and the other is the dishonourable ghost. This technique is one of the main attractions of the game as the developing affinity of Jin for stealth and misdirection like the ghost.
This type of technique reflects the willingness of Jin. This technique includes evolution, health recovery, ability to fight more enemies. Jin will get many ghost weapons like Kunai, Black Powder bomb, smoke bomb, sticky bomb, wind chime.
3. Mythic Technique
It is the most interesting part of the game. There are multi-step quests from where Jin reveals the truth behind the long-lost legendary items and discover many new techniques to combat like ‘Dance of Wrath’, the ‘Heavenly Strike’, the ‘Way of Flame’, ‘Explosive Arrow which is already very cool and strong additions to Jin’s skill set.
4. Kurosawa Mode
Kurosawa Mode is definitely a great job of Sucker Punch. This mode gives a grainy black and white filter and takes you to an old-school samurai film atmosphere. You also can get options of all the dialogue in Japanese’s this mode definitely give you an authentic experience like a 1950s samurai flick.
5. Open World Games
As an open-world game, this game represents some of the most mesmerizing virtual landscapes. In this game, every landscape scene has been packed up densely with grass, trees, leaves, and also flowers, and all the things blowing gently with the wind. This game is a blend of natural beauty that can give you pleasant joy and the trees are also filled with different colored leaves.
Also to Consider: Suspense of the Mission
In this game, there is a lot of suspense hidden in each step. While the player is on the mission he has to follow golden birds to know important upgrades, locations, NPCs, and Hot Springs. The player always should observe first then kill the captain.
The player has to face three levels of bamboo strike challenges. The charm of Inari is also the important one as you obtain the charm means you can easily become overpowered within hours. If you want to get this charm then you have to visit the arrow peak shrine in the Izuhara region.
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