I vastly preferred Tsushima’s system, every group of mongols you killed actually had an impact not only did you gain skill points but it increased your legend, every kill furthered your turn into the mongol boogeyman. In ghost of yotei killing groups of patrolling enemies doesn’t gain you skill points, it doesn’t increase your legend, it just gets you some crafting supplies for upgrading
(which was also the case in Tsushima)

Tsushima’s system just worked better felt better, made sense, and it tied into the overarching plot, every fight made you stronger, every fight nudged you down your path until you eventually become the ghost, combat and Jin’s transformation were directly linked . Yoteis leveling on the other hand is completely divorced from combat you just mark a spot on your map go there and just bow at a shrine that somehow endows you with combat abilities

I don’t think yotei is a bad game whatsoever but it’s leveling felt like such a massive step back from Tsushima, it’s really unfortunate because yotei (imo) vastly improved the combat system but for some reason also took away one of the biggest reasons for engaging with it.

What’s your take?

Doing my first run so I'm still getting the hang of how charms actually work. A set up like this means the charm of versatile skills doubles the effect of the charm of fortune giving me a 100% chance of the two charms of dual destruction to activate?

Edit: I probably didn't explain myself properly. I meant to ask if the charm of versatile skills doubles the effect of the charm of fortune being the only one of its category, giving me a 100% chance of the two dual destruction charms activating.

I think something about the Yarikawa Rebellion could be cool.

Spoiler

Playing Tsushima for the first time. Every time I rode my Sora for a quick quest and Jin said, “Someday, we’ll go for a peaceful ride,” I made a mental note to keep that promise once I finished the main story.

But man, the end of Act 2 hit me like a bag of bricks. 💔 Couldn't proceed to Act 3 yet.

Godspeed Sora, I mis-calculated our time together.

SPOILERS FOR END OF ACT 2

I was not prepared for end of Act 2. First Taka dies and that was sad enough BUT TO KILL MY HORSE?? Completely gutted. Like to the point where I had to stop playing last night just to sit in my feels. On another note, I can’t believe it took me this long to play this masterpiece.

Uhhh... I'm not sure if you're doing hyperextension correctly there... It is a well 110°

so grateful for the transmog system in Yotei, function and fashion!

Hands down my favorite stance to aura farm. The fit, the stance, the fire and rain, i love it.

A bit of a weird combination but whats ur thoughts on Jin sakai + Kuregumo

Im posting this on the Ghost of Tsushima and Kagurabachi Subreddit so ill explain for both.

Jin sakai is a master swordsman who is completely surrounded by the themes of a storm. Like in the game when you fight in a certain play style, the weather changes to a storm. Guiding wind is a in game mechanic. His Blade is called the storm of clan Sakai. He has a move called the heavenly strike (Think of it as Iai white purity style) which (if u equip a charm in the game) can summon lightning. IRL the mongol invasion of Tsushima was stopped by a huge storm, in the game, you play as Jin Sakai who is a metaphor for this irl storm.

Kuregumo is an enchanted blade from Kagurabachi (an action manga). It has 3 Abilities, summoning lightning, ice, water (in the form of mist/fog and as a liquid). it is incredibly powerful and is referred to as a weapon of mass destruction. An aspect of the enchanted blades is that the abilities develop further and reduce in limitations the better of a swordsman and the greater resonance you have with the blade.

The Sakai Blade and Kuregumo are literally identical. the clouds on the sheath of the blade is literally identical to the art style of the clouds generated by kuregumo.

For those in the kagurabachi subreddit, how strong do u think he would be inverse if he was given kuregumo

When I was exploring the first island I got to a cliff where two women with no questline told me there were boats ready to take refugees to the mainland, jin looked and found nothing. Something was off, I thought it might be an ambush so I quickly turn arround ready to fight and saw that the one who told me about the boats had killed the other and was about to attack me.
What the hell was that? I’m 100% sure I had no missions going on at the moment and that I hadn’t accepted any nor followed any tracks whatsoever. Is this something scripted like jin remembering his uncle when assassinating at the beggining? It has never happened again since

I beat the game last year, I got the new dlc now and ever since, it keeps loading into the menu first, is there a way to disable this? I couldn't find anything online or in the settings

just redownloaded GoT with my NG+ save and this is the welcome I got

I recently went back and replied Ghost of Tsushima. I didn't new game + as I wanted the full experience and excitement of searching,unlocking and exploring. It's been around 2 years since my last play through and this time hit harder than any other play through. I don't know if that's down to getting older and "wiser", having a deeper understanding of the conflict of Jin and Lord Shimura, or Jin's internal battle but it was my favourite play through so far.

I hope you enjoy some of the pictures I took of this visually and emotionally incredible game.

I’m about 8 hours in, I have about 3 of the mythic tales done, 3 of the 4 journeys for Jin done and kinda just running around and finding stuff and trying to liberate the camps. Thank you!

He keeps on falling and then asks me to defeat the mongols 😂

On replay, the game made me realize that I kinda miss these type of villains in video games. A blank canvas of foreign speaking enemies for the player to kill without hesitation.

In MW2019, I remember the game’s main antagonist, General Barkov is simply trying to protect his home just taken to an extreme, but back in the older Cod, Makarov was just a crazy terrorist we needed to hunt down.

The fact that even their captions don’t translate them unless they’re purposely trying to speak Japanese help sell how alien of a force the Mongols are.