Bit late to the party but I've just finished Ghost of Tsushima for the first time. I've got so many feelings about that game and will think of it fondly for years to come.
But it broke my heart and I have no desire to replay it anytime soon.
The scenes between Jin and Lord Shimura were so poetically beautiful and I really can't fathom the hate that Shimura gets.
I played the game in Japanese with english subtitles because I felt that it was the most appropriate, so for the majority of the game the language barrier created a sort of rift for me with the emotional state of the characters (Nothing to do with the Voice Acting or Mo-capping) but not in the flashback scenes between Jin and Shimura -those emotions were conveyed beautifully-
The one outside Castle Shimura where a young Jin is upset because his friend told him his uncle would cast him out the moment he had a "real son" it really resonated with me and made the ending that much more heartbreaking.
I could talk about their interactions for hours but put simply;
What a masterpiece of a game
10/10
Would recommend only if you don't mind a bit of heartache.
it’s just hard not to think about the fact that in 1915, JRR Tolkien went to war not with but certainly in the same army and many of the same battles as his 3 best school friends, all nicely upper class young men who had never known much loss, and only he and one other came back alive - and a couple decades later, he wrote a book in which 3 nicely upper class young men (and one very excellent gardener) who have never known much loss go to war together, or at least they start out together, and they all come home alive. (Though one cannot bear it, and does not stay.)
So I finished Horizon: Forbidden West this morning. I'm not going to spoil anything for anyone because I know the game has only just been released.
However if someone can explain to me why I've seen footage of Erend handcuffed on a beach in trailers and whatnot but didn't experience it in-game? Was it a side quest I missed? Cut content?
Okay, so I've just replayed AC: Valhalla and realised something. (SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAME)
In Porcestre after Eivor rescues Sigurd and defeats Fulke there is a cutscene outside of the church. Sigurd has now regained some strength and tells Eivor that he will fight, he then refers to Eivor as "mad one"; (Which is one of Odins epithets)
So is it safe to assume that when Fulke "unlocked Sigurd's potential" and he realized he was the reincarnation of Tyr, he also "remembered" that Eivor is Odin?
If so why does he not tell Eivor? Come to think of it, does Eivor ever really find out?
I realise there's the whole Eivor/Odin confrontation scene late in the game but did Eivor ever really grasp the actuality of it all? Or could his/her ancient mindset ever comprehend it?
I'm about 98% confident in my understanding of the lore but there are a few things that rouse my curiosity from time to time.
So anyway I'm curious to hear everyone's opinions.