@@dsmoothd1211 Because first off, it was a his last wish, and sparing him would basically be like spitting on him. Second, it would've been Jin's last honorable act before truly becoming the Ghost. Finally, the Shogun would've made Shimura commit sepuku (basically suicide) for not killing the Ghost. So basically, he either dies with honor, or dies with shame. So I would choose kill all day long, regardless of the fact that it's "heartless"
The cool thing is that all the team of Ghost of Tsushima have brought so much tourism to the actual island of Tsushima that the team is being made an official Ambassadors of Tourism for it. I think that's nice
@@pearsemolloy9656the game isn’t 100% true to history, like most things, but the Mongols really did invade the island of Tsushima by Kublai Khan from 1274-1281
Most people dont realize that significance of both Jin and his uncle dropping the sheaths of their katanas... It was the samurai way of accepting and understanding they would not live to re-sheath there weapon.
But then you have the spare ending and both happened to stay alive albeit with 2 very different destinies afterwards. Both will be disgraced in the eyes of the shogun but for 2 different reasons.
@@Shirohige4yonko Damn I failed to consider that. Lord Shimura deserves better either way. I thought by killing Shimura, Tsushima will fall into chaos as the jito kept the samurai lords from in-fighting and be the judge, jury and executioner if need be. With Shimura gone, it means the other lords will try to win the Shogun's favor and civil war is the last thing Tsushima needs after the Mongol invasion. But then if Shimura is disgraced it means the chaos will happen anyway unless the Shogun appoints a new jito.
jin doesnt do this in any other fight. in both fights vs ryuzo, ryuzo throws his but jin doesnt. this is the only fight jin did it for which made it better.
I noticed this action and couldn't understand it at first. I didn't think a Japanese samurai would treat his weapons like this. Thank you for your explanation. The production team has once again demonstrated in-depth research on samurai culture. It’s a masterpiece.
So many great lines, the best between Jin and Uncle “Honor died on that beach” “You have no honor” “And you’re a slave to it” I’m so glad I decided to get a PS5, easily 10/10 game
I got lucky and randomly came across a ps5 at game stop. This was the game I picked up with it. I'm usually a Xbox advocate but I can say that this experience has converted me to the playstation nation.
Dunno why his uncle would be so hard on Jin, in reality the code of bushido only extended to other samurai, not enemies or peasants. Actual samurai would have done whatever it took to win so Jins actions would have been pretty accurate. You only have to look at Japanese treatment of POWs in ww2 to see there was little to no respect or honour for enemies
I was literally thinking for 5 minutes on the kill or spare moment! Imagine how fantastic the characters and their development have to be to make you so conflicted! In the end, I had to kill him, It was horrible and I hated doing it but I had to honor him, he deserved that much.
They spent the whole game trying to show you that honor did nothing but get people (especially civilians) killed and the moment he stopped basing his actions off of honor, he got shit done and drove the Mongols away. Sparing lord Shimura would have fully cemented Jin's transition from samurai to the Ghost because he no longer follows that code (plus he doesn't have to live through the weight of having killed his uncle). Giving in to his request just feels like such a disingenuous quick step back.
Theirs so much nuance to the choice and it’s not just bad end or good end. If he lives he’s robbed of his honor, the Shogun may seek retribution for his failure and he may die on the Shoguns orders but he’s alive, or he could kill his Uncle, keep his honor in tact and would be remembered as a hero who died upholding the law, but you just killed your last remaining family member
@@zerg6001honestly following the Star Wars analogy a lot of this is similar to Obi vs Anakin during ROTS. Except if instead of the Sith Anakin realizes both orders that follow the force suck butt.
What I particularly love about this choice is that you're not killing him out of spite, but out of love. By killing him, you are giving him the death he seeks, even if it breaks your heart. By sparing him, you're spitting on his honour one last time before you go into hiding, but he's still alive. My only problem is that both endings touch on different subjects. Spare has Jin donning his mask once more, embracing the Ghost, and leaving without another word, while Kill has Jin finally telling Shimura that he loves him like a father, and how he wishes that there was another way. It just hurts knowing that even if you spare him, Shimura probably thinks you despise him or something, but the only way to actually tell him you love him is by stabbing him in the heart.
To be fair, sparing Shimura isn't actually all that much better, as he would've been disgraced for the failure and likely made to commit seppeku because of it. So either way Shimura is dead, it's just whether you can bring yourself to give him the honorable death he wanted at the cost of the guilt from doing so, or spare yourself the guilt at the cost of forcing Shimura to die without honor
He might honour samurai Shimura but not his uncle Shimura there is no honour in killing own family. Jin was there to save innocent lives not to take them Shimura knew samurai would have been fallen against Mongols if Ghosts wasn't there he couldn't dislike Jin not killing is the right choice there.
Jin literally reminds his uncle when he spares him that his honor can't be reclaimed by killing him, because he has none of it. You illiterate fuckwit.
Jin says that his uncle is alive, he did not commit seppeku, this completely bs theory, why would shimura commit seppeku, if is the player choice to leave him alive or not also that uncle thinks that everything is about him and his honour code, what people don't get is that JIn is The Ghost Of Tsushima, and Not the Samurai of Shimura Jin died in that beach, he is ghost, he does not own his uncle nothing, he literally saved his ass and the entire tsushima while he was concerned about xogum, and samurai codes
12:11 "I didn't think this game would get me emotional at the end. Like honestly. Like, everything was great. Nothing was super emotional until that ending." Horse: "WTF Bro." Taka: "Yeah, WTF bro!"
Everytime she did something like that I was like: cry me a river, the game makes this heart-fed moment and you're sitting there "YoU kIlLeD mY hOrSe" Actually one of the most annoying people I've ever seen.
@@somerandommushroomhead1534 as much as Kaze will be immortalized for me as the best horse companion in history... There is no right choice at the end... they both suck, they both make you cry... neither man wants this... but it's the situation they find themselves in nonetheless.
I have to completely disagree. Asura's wrath, chapter 12, Gods of Death. THAT is the best loss scream I've personally heard of all time in any media. Asura's scream as the little girl dies it the best I've heard. LIam 'O Brian nailed that voice.
YOU SEE, THIS IS HOW YOU END A GAME. How this didn't win Game of the Year is an absolute travesty. Shame on em, Tsushima shouldve gotten it hands down.
@@keleko77 Also, last of us 2 is already out of updated list of the most purchased games while Ghost of Tsushima is still there, i could show a video that explain that but it's on my native language (PT-BR)
Tbh, though I liked the game. This is literally the only good part about the story. The rest is very stereotypical, in the plot and the characters. Every character is just "Japan: the human". It definitely deserved it's best art direction win
“Life hardest choices are those who make you question your own moral code. History may brand Jin a traitor, rebel, or renegade. But in the end it doesn’t matter how History remembers him. What matters is that he followed he’s own creed.” -Shay Patrick Cormac
I was just like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO okay I’ll stop now
Jin's screams is what gets me man, every time I hear them, I cry, his screams are the saddest thing. You can feel his screams in your heart and it sucks...
What Sucker Punch did perfectly was making the choice not an obvious one. The fact it makes gamers take a moment to really think about it shows how powerful this story is
When I finished the game, I ugly cried when I killed him. Jin's cries really got the tears flowing. This game made me cry twice, almost three times. Jin's horse got me, and this got me. God Sucker Punch, you really upgraded from infamous and Sly Cooper.
I saw a great point earlier this year saying honouring Shimura's wish would be a contradiction of Jin transitioning into the Ghost. But Shimura was really gonna fold Jin infront of his folks smh
The thing is, half of the game is being a Samurai and the other half being the Ghost. I personally played the whole game as a "Samurai" and not the "Ghost", and only did stealth when I had to. So for me the honouring his wish and killing him made more sense, because I still felt like a Samurai, even if the game is trying to tell me the character development of Jin is that he's no longer Samurai and just the Ghost now.
I think one of the reasons as well that killing your uncle during this tale is still canonically good because he did his uncle the Honorable death for HIS uncle and not for being a samurai, so in a way, his uncle would be proud knowing that the last thing jin did to him is show honor even tho he lost his way.
Lady Masako tried to do the same thing to Jin and yet Jin let her live. Heck, Jin let all the people he helped live and don't give a damn about the honor.
@@hansbune3467 this was my thinking as well. Killing him has nothing to do with Jins honor but the honor of your uncle. Either way, you are still going to continue to be the ghost and stand by your convictions so killing him isn't contradictory at all. In my head, even though Jin disagreed with how Shimura went about things, he knew that everything he did never had any malicious intent behind it, but rather he was an old, stubborn, dense man who genuinely wanted to help his people the best way that he knew how. If we want to praise Jin for sticking to his morals and ideals then we should show the same respect to his uncle as well which, to me, Jin would. And he would kill him not just out of respect for him as Lord Shimura, but out of love for him as his father.
The outpouring of forgiveness and love from Shimura for Jin, saying hell wait from him on the other side wrecked me. Left me pondering life a good few days afterwards. What a masterfully put together game.
I thought a while about this choice. Decide to spare him, for Jin is no longer a samurai. This game gives you the choice, to play as a samurai or the ghost. In the end, I chose the ghost, to save the people of Tsushima. That includes Lord Shimura.
well... realistically shimura would've still ended dead since he would've lost his honor and would need to perform seppuku to regain it but i guess they decided not to since i think the shogun spared him or something like that
@@johnartem845 My thought process was that he would have either willingly gone into exile or have been pardoned regardless by the Shogun, albeit stripped of some of his power. Shimura is a great tactician, and has seen direct combat against the Mongols. The Shogun would find his knowledge on their workings and operations indispensable.
Same. Took me awhile to decide, but I also decided to spare him. I couldn't see Jin choosing to kill him, not after everything he became; not after the becoming Ghost. Jin already lost his estate and the position of Samurai, so it isn't like killing his uncle would be of any advantage for Jin in the first place, although he definitely was not at any advantage by sparing him either.
Like Jin said: Honor died on the beach. The ghost saved Tsushima, the ghost brought the people of Tsushima together, the ghost terrified the Mongols. Shimura stuck to his old ways despite knowing that the Khan knew everything about his code, strategies and morals. In the end Jin the ghost was the one that the island needed
@@tranminh-hm2nk If u killed shimura u are still a ghost, but u did a honorable decision to kill your uncle because he wanted to die with honor. He killed him because he loved him.
Politics that pretty much ruined every piece of media in the United States. This is why the Japanese industry is dominating the market more and more Americans are going towards Japanese entertainment than anything American because it's ruined by political crap they try to shut down people's throat. Look at Marvel and DC for example the comic book industry is dying because of sjw political propaganda garbage. Movies are also failing because of it and so are cartoons.
@@onisfury8264 You weebs are so goddamn delusional. It's incredibly sad that you think Japanese media isn't filled with politics, either. Just straight up smooth brain takes all around.
@@SaladKnife. they are only complaining because a beloved character gets brutally murdered. Bunch of soft bitches who are mad about the story line (which is genius 🙌🏾 by the way ) but when you get to the gameplay NO complaints there. Gameplay handles extremely well especially if your into zombie apocalypse type of theme
The streamers are all happy and excited at the start and then they’re emotions immediately turn into shock and sadness when they realize they’re gonna fight. It’s incredible.
@@luis7215 yeah i played whole game in japanese dub, and i think the japanese dub were way way better than the english one, but the last scream in the english version is 10x more emotional and fits this way more than the japanese one
Truth is during the second Mongol invasion they would call in jin to help take down a army he is the only one who changed to defeat them the first time jin would Train a army
What gloco said at 13:29 are just facts and more realistic, i chose to spare Lord Shimura because i agree on what he said, thats also what i thought on my first playthrough when i was choosing the decision. i feel like i don't deserve to honor his death wish instead, i will embrace my character as the Ghost without honor and a disgrace to the family and to the shogunate but saved tons of people and lives.
I agree it's a masterpiece but Naughty Dog's TLOU2 is just as deserving, yes the story divided fans but on a technical level it checked far more boxes off than this awesome game. The graphics, stealth, characters, enemy AI, little details, etc. All of it was absolutely insane and people argue that TLOU2 shouldn't of gotten GOTY due to the dev crunch, and I must argue that they made one of the greatest games of all time all while under that pressure.
@@mass_cular you look clueless , ghost won people heart and the people game of the year , the player voice , gamers consumers , buyers , we fans voted it for the game of the year and won it , but the game award still gave tlou2 the award , so tell me is it rigg or not?
@@Hitman-sn2by it's not "rigged" and people's choice was a vote to give an honorable mention to a fantastic game but they analyze games far deeper than purely hate it receives online. The story was not bad it just didn't go how people wanted it to go because for some reason you guys expected another game with the same story and tone as the first, while if other games do that they start getting called formula recycling 🤣
You can't please everybody and naughty dog accepted that and told THEIR story how they wanted it, this isn't Crash Bandicoot and Uncharted so if you're looking for happy adventures you should stick with those because I don't know how you thought there was gonna be a happily ever after when this world they've built is littered with nothing but loss.
People donated to restore a Torii gate on the real Tsushima island because of this. Additionally, the developers are honorary ambassadors because of this game. We need a sequel. The Mongols invaded again in 1281 and they went to the mainland the second time. The sequel could be someone who heard the legend of Jin Sakai and became another ghost
My friend and I chose different endings, but when we explained it to each other, we discovered we had the same reasons. I chose to spare cause I felt that if Jin were to kill Shimura, he would see it the same as his fathers death. Another father he couldn't save. So leaving him alive, even on bad terms, gives him the peace of mind that he did everything he could and was at least able to come to a decision he can be satisfied with. My friend chose kill because she wanted to honor Shimura's last wish. She felt Jin would do this as a final means of reconciliation. To give Shimura the peace of mind that Jin isn't completely honorless. That with his death, Jin and Shimura can come together for one last moment. As father and son. We both thought about how Jin would feel and how this final choice would affect him going forward.
That’s cool and all, but knowing ancient Japan and their emperors….he would’ve been killed along with his entire bloodline anyway if he failed to turn in the ghost, might as well give him a death on his own terms by his own family
This ending choice brilliantly conveys the games theme: what is honor? Khotun Khan follows an idea of honor as being remembered or being compared to the greats, like his cousin or grandfather. Lord Shimura (do we ever learn his given name?) follows a traditional definition of honor: you take the hard but moral high path, even if it dooms you. And Jin, by contrast, abides by a definition of honor more in line with modern definitions: self sacrifice. If it saved his people, he was willing to go to hell. He knew full well what the consequences were likely to be when he poisoned the Mongols. He refused to put the blame on Yuna when his uncle begged him to not take responsibility for his actions. Despite losing literally everything he had (title, land, home, best friend, family, younger brother figure, freedom, TWO horses,) and without a word of thanks he's willing to do it all again because his notion of honor is the same as a hero's: protect others before yourself.
Jin is more honorable than the Shogun or The Jito realize for it. However the people he protects realize it and that is why they believe in The Ghost. 🥷🏻
Sucker Punch made the best move to give the players the ability to choose which they think is the right ending. And both endings are plausible and thematically correct and wrong at the same time, which makes it even more compelling and heart wrenching.
I think sparing ending is more in line with Jin’s character. Neither ending is good because it shows that Jin truly chose a path of no return no matter what you choose. Masterpiece.
This last scene was BEAUTIFUL. “Our last day together. It is beautiful.” Whole tears role down shimuras face. And they dropped their sheaths because in futile Japan if you dropped your sheath you weren’t going to pick it up again unless you killed your opponent.
I spared him because I felt that becoming the ghost would mean that I've forsaken the samurai and have given up honour. Choosing to save people over following tradition.
While i killed him, as my one final honorable act by the wish of my uncle, before I became the ghost forever. It is the ultimate disrespect and a spit in the face to our uncle who has raised us, to deny his final wish and make him live in dishonor and shame for failing the Shogun for the rest of his days.
Although the game on its own is a masterpiece, can I just say that the soundtrack brings it all together and adds so much emotion to the game as a whole.
@@ishicucked fuck yeah. We ain't killing jins only family bruh tf. his honor can go fuck itself. I feared he might commit seppuku after Jin spares him tho but glad that didn't happen. I wonder which branch they'll take with the next game
@@ishicucked problem is that once he reports back to the shogun as a failure, he'll be stripped of his titles and promptly executed due to how bushido law works
@Zachary Erickson You think? Every other jouno somehow calling it a 'masterpiece', with thousands of reviews having the same structure? Ratings manipulated, with any negative criticism being 'evaluated' while one word 5stars going through without issue - on a scale that's second only to Captain Marvel's debut?
@Nahje Masukat That's probably the main reason, along with making Ellie so vengeful and making us play as Abby so we can understand her side... urgh... ruined the entire setup from the 1st game...
Ghost of Tsushima to me is really one of those games that makes you wants to learn more about Japanese culture or buy some Japanese stuff likes katanas LOL
@@jarrettstewart1885 Ninjas didn't exist at all lol. The interpretation we know as "ninjas" is based on shinobis but they were more like espionage spies
First time I played I also chose kill because it was what the uncle wanted but it messed me up so badly I immediately went to my last save point replayed the last fight and chose to spare him and have decided in my heart that is the true ending. Because Jin who had already turned his back on tradition, I think that is the choice that he would have made.
i can't play this game since i don't own a PS4 so i've watched play throughs and man no matter how many times i watch the ending where Jin kills his uncle it always makes me cry. well done Sucker Punch, well done.
That dude's reaction at 8:39 😂😂😂 that was literally my same reaction to having to choose which one to pick given what his uncle put him through especially in the scene near the in where jin had to confront his uncle lord shimura and given the fact he basically disowned jin i choose kill and gave him his wish. Eventhough i think you can't go wrong with either choice but damn it when lord shimura told jin to find me in the next life and jin screaming and crying over his decision damn that got me it hurt my soul it was that heartbreaking.
I am still not sure what I would have picked. Cause technically, he would die no matter what right? Either you kill him and give him the death he wished for or you spare him and he probably gets killed by the shogun and them he would have lost his honor. Or died of the wound. I mostly go with the spare options cause I am just too much of a softie but here its the first time I am not sure.
In my opinion the ending where you kill him is way sadder and makes more sense bc it shows that you still love each other and the tender moment you share before Jins guttural scream followed by the music is breathtaking
When you noticed, both ending are depressing, because no matter what it leads to shimura death. There is no way a samurai won't do a seppuku after that lost of honor.
I held through the fight and gave the uncle his peace, but when the credits rolled and the music built up, I lost myself and cried. Beautiful game. Ill never forgive TLOU2
@Issac Wayne Gomez I liked TLOU2s story better honestly, it kept me going more and it feels like there was a reason for everything you did. I had to take some breaks from GoT because of how repetitive a lot of the missions were. The missions with Jin’s former caretaker were gruellingly boring. That being said, I still loved GoT but I feel like the story had way more cliches and just followed an outline of many games before it. You can even liberate the entire island of Tsushima and still Mongols will be walking around. The attention to detail is also what gets me
@@issacwaynegomez3640GoT was better in world and gameplay. The only thing tlou was better at was it's story "direction." Not even the story by itself. GoT's story narration/direction was already good but if they put the same amount of budget and effort into facial animations, cutscenes like tlou2 did then GoT would've been even better.
Killing Abby would make the whole story pointless. Ellie was hell-bent on killing Abby because she didn't get closure with Joel and took away the chance to fix things between them. Sparing her was a symbolic moment for Ellie's character arc as she forgives herself. That flashback with Joel at the end proves it. Joel was at peace with the outcome of his actions because it was worth it to save Ellie. So it was Ellie who wanted redemption and sparing Abby was actually Ellie forgiving herself for her mistakes that broke the bond between her and Joel.
Hate to burst your bubble but in real life samurai acted more like ghost and tricksters than in this game lmao this is not 100% accurate at all they never barged into battle like barbarians and vikings they actually strategized plans to eliminate the enemy as any means possible
this vid is great! but now i really wanna see how the actual japanese gamers react to the ending lmao. its gonna be more tricky than this one, because of the subtitle and everything, but pretty sure its gonna be more fascinating to see too.
I picked the kill option as I was crying my heart like a baby I said in a low voice this is game of the year lmao I’ll never forget that moment I’ll remember this game forever
The final choice in this story is truly one of the most difficult I've ever seen in a video game. SP does such a good job writing Lord Shimura into toeing the line between forgivable and irredeemable, and all that compounding with the idea of honoring a warrior's death and respecting one's culture makes it even harder. For a game that isn't heavy on plot-relevant multiple choices, they did a good job with this one~
I think that sparing Shimura makes more sense from the gameplay standpoint. The whole game, you are trying to get out of the Bushido because while Bushido is what makes you a warrior and Japanese, countless people have to die pointlessly. That is what Jin keeps doing in the game... he goes out of his way to actually HELP people and not only talk about it while sending them to die. Sparing him, while dishonorable for Shimura, shows Jin outgrew Bushido and actually saved innocents by sacrificing his own Bushido honor...which ironically, is what was the most honourable thing to do to save more people than Shimura could ever do. Shimura was selfish... he did not care... he only cared about his legacy and not people. To beat mongols and their clever grasp of Samurai shackles, one had to outgrow those shackles. Without Jin, Tsushima would have been doomed. Shimura would rather let whole Japan fall than go against his pride and stubborn desire to leave great Bushido legacy.
I have played a lot of games in my life, I am 53 years old, I mean old enough, but this game is something else, make me cry 2 times like a baby, never feel like that before and I doubt I'll feel that way with a game again
Everything about this game is a masterpiece
@ oof
Other than it being a PS exclusive
It deserves GOTY!! I feel sorry about xbox users.. GOT is truly a cinematic masterpiece for a video game
Not the stealth, it's average.
Goty this game deserves
When you kill him your controller vibrates in a heartbeat pattern until your uncle dies. You feel his heart stop. This game is a masterpiece.
That was a nice touch. I felt weird after. Felt like i was holding his heart and i had to put controller down lol
Why kill him heartless. I spared him
@@dsmoothd1211 It's your final act of honor before fully embracing the Ghost persona. A fitting ending.
@@dsmoothd1211 Because first off, it was a his last wish, and sparing him would basically be like spitting on him. Second, it would've been Jin's last honorable act before truly becoming the Ghost. Finally, the Shogun would've made Shimura commit sepuku (basically suicide) for not killing the Ghost. So basically, he either dies with honor, or dies with shame. So I would choose kill all day long, regardless of the fact that it's "heartless"
@@ABozowithDignity you got a point
The cool thing is that all the team of Ghost of Tsushima have brought so much tourism to the actual island of Tsushima that the team is being made an official Ambassadors of Tourism for it. I think that's nice
h u h
I didn’t know this.. that’s amazing
Hey, it's nice when hard work pays off. Now the place has tourism.
Oh wow since the game is historical fiction I assumed the Island was made up.
@@pearsemolloy9656the game isn’t 100% true to history, like most things, but the Mongols really did invade the island of Tsushima by Kublai Khan from 1274-1281
Most people dont realize that significance of both Jin and his uncle dropping the sheaths of their katanas... It was the samurai way of accepting and understanding they would not live to re-sheath there weapon.
But then you have the spare ending and both happened to stay alive albeit with 2 very different destinies afterwards. Both will be disgraced in the eyes of the shogun but for 2 different reasons.
@@Shirohige4yonkoNeither of them expected to survive, that's the point.
Samurai don't do that unless they fully believe they're gonna die.
@@Shirohige4yonko Damn I failed to consider that. Lord Shimura deserves better either way. I thought by killing Shimura, Tsushima will fall into chaos as the jito kept the samurai lords from in-fighting and be the judge, jury and executioner if need be. With Shimura gone, it means the other lords will try to win the Shogun's favor and civil war is the last thing Tsushima needs after the Mongol invasion. But then if Shimura is disgraced it means the chaos will happen anyway unless the Shogun appoints a new jito.
jin doesnt do this in any other fight. in both fights vs ryuzo, ryuzo throws his but jin doesnt. this is the only fight jin did it for which made it better.
I noticed this action and couldn't understand it at first. I didn't think a Japanese samurai would treat his weapons like this. Thank you for your explanation. The production team has once again demonstrated in-depth research on samurai culture. It’s a masterpiece.
The editor who put this together really needs a raise. Those transitions between the different reactors was flawless
Thank you! :)
@@Gamology I agree. Best reaction video I ever saw
Hey gamology
Thanks to this commentator and the editor
If we’re highlighting moments, that transition with the two reactors’ perfect parries was immaculate
The ending got my face turning into water stance.
Water Breathing
10th Form
It got me drowning like the side mission.....too much? Sorry
😂😂😂😂
That’s clever
Lmfao 😂😭
So many great lines, the best between Jin and Uncle
“Honor died on that beach”
“You have no honor”
“And you’re a slave to it”
I’m so glad I decided to get a PS5, easily 10/10 game
I got lucky and randomly came across a ps5 at game stop. This was the game I picked up with it. I'm usually a Xbox advocate but I can say that this experience has converted me to the playstation nation.
Man this game sets standards for the future alright so good
Dunno why his uncle would be so hard on Jin, in reality the code of bushido only extended to other samurai, not enemies or peasants. Actual samurai would have done whatever it took to win so Jins actions would have been pretty accurate. You only have to look at Japanese treatment of POWs in ww2 to see there was little to no respect or honour for enemies
those are my favorite lines of the game tbh, that and when Jin tells Khotun “No, you will be forgotten”
@@trenth.8464 I also love the contrast for when you chose to kill Shimura and he says “you will be remembered”
The fact that his uncle led him to their family cemetery to kill and bury him there as last Sakai though...Damn.
That is evil
@@rishi1363 its respectfull, he wanted jin to be burried as a samurai and as a member of the sakai clan
@@rishi1363 you confuse yourself. It's respect and honor
Lol I buried his old ass instead.. 😏
@@rocketscientist14 bro😭🤣🤣
Jin doesn’t win the war with the Khan, he survives it.
“Honour, died on the beach.”
gta v is better ending than this garbage
@@xx_javier83_xx97 "gTa iS beTteR" keep telling that to yourself lmao 😂😂
@@coltslvstr7582 why do you even care about my opinion?
@@xx_javier83_xx97 if you don’t want people commenting on it then don’t post it
@@ar_reactions612 I just want to act as a troll or just be annoying to see people's reaction. It's the reason I'm basically commenting.
I was literally thinking for 5 minutes on the kill or spare moment!
Imagine how fantastic the characters and their development have to be to make you so conflicted!
In the end, I had to kill him, It was horrible and I hated doing it but I had to honor him, he deserved that much.
He would have been branded a failure if he lived and didn’t kill the ghost it was like a mercy kill
I think to accept the true persona of ghost, Jin had to kill Shimura, to leave his past, as a dead soul would
They spent the whole game trying to show you that honor did nothing but get people (especially civilians) killed and the moment he stopped basing his actions off of honor, he got shit done and drove the Mongols away. Sparing lord Shimura would have fully cemented Jin's transition from samurai to the Ghost because he no longer follows that code (plus he doesn't have to live through the weight of having killed his uncle). Giving in to his request just feels like such a disingenuous quick step back.
@@MegaTech81 that's how you feel I guess. that's why you chose the other option.
Theirs so much nuance to the choice and it’s not just bad end or good end. If he lives he’s robbed of his honor, the Shogun may seek retribution for his failure and he may die on the Shoguns orders but he’s alive, or he could kill his Uncle, keep his honor in tact and would be remembered as a hero who died upholding the law, but you just killed your last remaining family member
This game has no good ending this perfectly shows that war has no good outcome
True
Every Ending leaves A burden pain in jin heart
Kill:Burden of killing His only family
Spare:Burden of always getting hunted
There is if your the victor but the grunts always carry the burden.
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Fate/Zero kiritsugu's Speech on war
Kiritsugu: justice and righteousness cannot save the world
@lacamiseta tell that to the generals and politicians to the survivors of conflict to the brothers in arms there is always a victor
@lacamiseta you a civi ?
Shimura: _you have no honor_
Jin: *_and you are a slave to it_*
followed by the haiku and duel is one of the greatest moments in gaming history
It’s like the luke v Darth vader fight in Star Wars but even more Japanese/samurai vibes. I got the same feeling both watching that and playing this .
One more 5 syllable line and that right there is a haiku in itself, crazy
@@zerg6001honestly following the Star Wars analogy a lot of this is similar to Obi vs Anakin during ROTS. Except if instead of the Sith Anakin realizes both orders that follow the force suck butt.
What I particularly love about this choice is that you're not killing him out of spite, but out of love. By killing him, you are giving him the death he seeks, even if it breaks your heart. By sparing him, you're spitting on his honour one last time before you go into hiding, but he's still alive. My only problem is that both endings touch on different subjects. Spare has Jin donning his mask once more, embracing the Ghost, and leaving without another word, while Kill has Jin finally telling Shimura that he loves him like a father, and how he wishes that there was another way.
It just hurts knowing that even if you spare him, Shimura probably thinks you despise him or something, but the only way to actually tell him you love him is by stabbing him in the heart.
To be fair, sparing Shimura isn't actually all that much better, as he would've been disgraced for the failure and likely made to commit seppeku because of it. So either way Shimura is dead, it's just whether you can bring yourself to give him the honorable death he wanted at the cost of the guilt from doing so, or spare yourself the guilt at the cost of forcing Shimura to die without honor
He might honour samurai Shimura but not his uncle Shimura there is no honour in killing own family. Jin was there to save innocent lives not to take them Shimura knew samurai would have been fallen against Mongols if Ghosts wasn't there he couldn't dislike Jin not killing is the right choice there.
Jin literally reminds his uncle when he spares him that his honor can't be reclaimed by killing him, because he has none of it. You illiterate fuckwit.
Jin says that his uncle is alive, he did not commit seppeku, this completely bs theory, why would shimura commit seppeku, if is the player choice to leave him alive or not
also that uncle thinks that everything is about him and his honour code, what people don't get is that JIn is The Ghost Of Tsushima, and Not the Samurai of Shimura
Jin died in that beach, he is ghost, he does not own his uncle nothing, he literally saved his ass and the entire tsushima while he was concerned about xogum, and samurai codes
"A candle cannot light the night, if its flame is quenched."
12:11 "I didn't think this game would get me emotional at the end. Like honestly. Like, everything was great. Nothing was super emotional until that ending."
Horse: "WTF Bro."
Taka: "Yeah, WTF bro!"
Jin's horse died - 😭😭
Arthur's horse died -😭😭😭😭
For real. Taka was a shock.
S E R I O U S L Y
I find takas death more emotional den shimura.
@@mohammedrizwansadik6977 i find the Horse death Was the most emotional of all😂
The real tear jerker is when you feel Shimura's heartbeat slow down through the controller gradually till it eventually stops.
I am emotional as a stone but the ending of this masterpiece was a punch in the stomach.
you could say it was a... sucker punch?
I'm sorry
@@dummy.phat_womprat oh no...😭
@@dummy.phat_womprat can't help it, don't you?
Door is right there, fellow internet person.
It felt like i got a muy Thai kick.
Same bro
Everyone that chose to kill: it was his final request, I had to 😔
The one girl: *fuck you you killed my horse*
That was pretty annoying tbh
Everytime she did something like that I was like: cry me a river, the game makes this heart-fed moment and you're sitting there "YoU kIlLeD mY hOrSe"
Actually one of the most annoying people I've ever seen.
@@somerandommushroomhead1534 as much as Kaze will be immortalized for me as the best horse companion in history... There is no right choice at the end... they both suck, they both make you cry... neither man wants this... but it's the situation they find themselves in nonetheless.
True, that was so annoying....
@@ivanrenic4243 im prety sure he is not the one who killed your horse as well
That scream at the end by Jin literally kills me. The best screaming for a loss in every show media of all time, PERIOD!!❤❤
I have to completely disagree. Asura's wrath, chapter 12, Gods of Death. THAT is the best loss scream I've personally heard of all time in any media. Asura's scream as the little girl dies it the best I've heard. LIam 'O Brian nailed that voice.
@@tatsunithelennyking2540OMG yes, that scream is burned in my mind
Gohan seconds after getting SSJ2 4 a 1st time: Hold my beer.
Attack on Titan: Eren Loses Hannes
Nah Odin in god of war Ragnarök
YOU SEE, THIS IS HOW YOU END A GAME. How this didn't win Game of the Year is an absolute travesty. Shame on em, Tsushima shouldve gotten it hands down.
Still crying like a little baby?
@@jorgediaz4742 still being petty because no one wants that shitty game to be game of the year
It won players game of the year. But it was rigged in favor of The Last Of Us P2
@@keleko77 Also, last of us 2 is already out of updated list of the most purchased games while Ghost of Tsushima is still there, i could show a video that explain that but it's on my native language (PT-BR)
Tbh, though I liked the game. This is literally the only good part about the story. The rest is very stereotypical, in the plot and the characters. Every character is just "Japan: the human". It definitely deserved it's best art direction win
“Life hardest choices are those who make you question your own moral code. History may brand Jin a traitor, rebel, or renegade. But in the end it doesn’t matter how History remembers him. What matters is that he followed he’s own creed.” -Shay Patrick Cormac
I like how you made this reference with assassins creed
Like, GoT is literally what Assassin's Creed Japan would look like 🇯🇵⛩️
@@danhyang6881 nah, story always goes back to abstergo
Such a good AC quote
Assassin's creed rogue
Patrick shai cormac's quote
This is probably my favorite game all of time. It had me balling tears during the end. "Find me, in the next life." That hit hard 😔
Me too
Man you Muslim right ? if I am not wrong Muslim people don't believe in rebirth.
I feel so sad this didn’t win game of the year
Cuz its rigged
This shit right here made me cry lmao. The last of us 2 really didn't do anything emotional just irritating.
Cuz its not deserving.
Rigged.
@@garretboyd3092 so unless you cry its not deserving hmmmm not really a good arguement there
Not gonna lie: I cried when I chose to kill him in my first playthrough.
Enough to make a grown man cry.
“Is okay, big man need time to cry when he needs to cry” -Goodbye Goodington Jr.
@Berserker honorable doesn’t mean not sad. Jin literally cries after killing him.
@Berserker I know, I’m saying a thing can be both sad and honorable at the same time.
I was just like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO okay I’ll stop now
Jin's screams is what gets me man, every time I hear them, I cry, his screams are the saddest thing. You can feel his screams in your heart and it sucks...
Hollow: Dont say father mother-
*literally 2 seconds later*
"and a great father"
Hollow: oh my gahd
The dialogue "find me in the next life"broke my heart apart.
😪
What Sucker Punch did perfectly was making the choice not an obvious one. The fact it makes gamers take a moment to really think about it shows how powerful this story is
When I finished the game, I ugly cried when I killed him. Jin's cries really got the tears flowing. This game made me cry twice, almost three times. Jin's horse got me, and this got me. God Sucker Punch, you really upgraded from infamous and Sly Cooper.
So true
😭😭😭
Wait sly Cooper was made by suckered punch ....
@@MagicMaster997 It was. I think it was the first 3 games made by SuckerPunch, and the 4th might've been made by a different company.
@@poorboy819 fun fact: you can get an achievement by matching armor's that will eventually make you look like sly cooper.
I saw a great point earlier this year saying honouring Shimura's wish would be a contradiction of Jin transitioning into the Ghost. But Shimura was really gonna fold Jin infront of his folks smh
That's actually how i thought about it as well, Jin doing it the Samurai way wouldnt really make sense in terms of character development
The thing is, half of the game is being a Samurai and the other half being the Ghost. I personally played the whole game as a "Samurai" and not the "Ghost", and only did stealth when I had to. So for me the honouring his wish and killing him made more sense, because I still felt like a Samurai, even if the game is trying to tell me the character development of Jin is that he's no longer Samurai and just the Ghost now.
I think one of the reasons as well that killing your uncle during this tale is still canonically good because he did his uncle the Honorable death for HIS uncle and not for being a samurai, so in a way, his uncle would be proud knowing that the last thing jin did to him is show honor even tho he lost his way.
Lady Masako tried to do the same thing to Jin and yet Jin let her live. Heck, Jin let all the people he helped live and don't give a damn about the honor.
@@hansbune3467 this was my thinking as well. Killing him has nothing to do with Jins honor but the honor of your uncle. Either way, you are still going to continue to be the ghost and stand by your convictions so killing him isn't contradictory at all. In my head, even though Jin disagreed with how Shimura went about things, he knew that everything he did never had any malicious intent behind it, but rather he was an old, stubborn, dense man who genuinely wanted to help his people the best way that he knew how. If we want to praise Jin for sticking to his morals and ideals then we should show the same respect to his uncle as well which, to me, Jin would. And he would kill him not just out of respect for him as Lord Shimura, but out of love for him as his father.
The outpouring of forgiveness and love from Shimura for Jin, saying hell wait from him on the other side wrecked me. Left me pondering life a good few days afterwards. What a masterfully put together game.
I thought a while about this choice. Decide to spare him, for Jin is no longer a samurai.
This game gives you the choice, to play as a samurai or the ghost.
In the end, I chose the ghost, to save the people of Tsushima.
That includes Lord Shimura.
well... realistically shimura would've still ended dead since he would've lost his honor and would need to perform seppuku to regain it but i guess they decided not to since i think the shogun spared him or something like that
@@johnartem845 My thought process was that he would have either willingly gone into exile or have been pardoned regardless by the Shogun, albeit stripped of some of his power.
Shimura is a great tactician, and has seen direct combat against the Mongols. The Shogun would find his knowledge on their workings and operations indispensable.
Same. Took me awhile to decide, but I also decided to spare him. I couldn't see Jin choosing to kill him, not after everything he became; not after the becoming Ghost. Jin already lost his estate and the position of Samurai, so it isn't like killing his uncle would be of any advantage for Jin in the first place, although he definitely was not at any advantage by sparing him either.
Like Jin said: Honor died on the beach. The ghost saved Tsushima, the ghost brought the people of Tsushima together, the ghost terrified the Mongols. Shimura stuck to his old ways despite knowing that the Khan knew everything about his code, strategies and morals. In the end Jin the ghost was the one that the island needed
@@tranminh-hm2nk If u killed shimura u are still a ghost, but u did a honorable decision to kill your uncle because he wanted to die with honor. He killed him because he loved him.
The ending broke my heart, this game was a true masterpiece. I won’t forget it. 🌹Thank you for including me in the video Gamology!! ☺️♥️
No problem! Thank you too! :)
Jin hit uncle with
"Im not the samurai Tsushima needs but im the Ghost it deserves"
"I hate politics. Always ruins everything"
Truer words have never been spoken.
Those people should not vote
Politics that pretty much ruined every piece of media in the United States. This is why the Japanese industry is dominating the market more and more Americans are going towards Japanese entertainment than anything American because it's ruined by political crap they try to shut down people's throat. Look at Marvel and DC for example the comic book industry is dying because of sjw political propaganda garbage. Movies are also failing because of it and so are cartoons.
I feel that
@@onisfury8264 You know Ghost of Tsushima was made by a western company right?
@@onisfury8264 You weebs are so goddamn delusional. It's incredibly sad that you think Japanese media isn't filled with politics, either. Just straight up smooth brain takes all around.
The most depressing part when this game was robbed by the game award.
Great game this is but The Last Of Us 2 trumps it 🤷🏾♂️
Dont compare this game to The game of the generation
@@ryansimpson3560 idk, when i played the game, I wasn't satisfied much. Could be just me, but I'm hearing alot of ppl complaining about it.
@@SaladKnife. they are only complaining because a beloved character gets brutally murdered. Bunch of soft bitches who are mad about the story line (which is genius 🙌🏾 by the way ) but when you get to the gameplay NO complaints there. Gameplay handles extremely well especially if your into zombie apocalypse type of theme
@@ryansimpson3560 yeah, i see why the game won, but it would've been nice to see GoT win. Probs cuz i just like it more lol
The streamers are all happy and excited at the start and then they’re emotions immediately turn into shock and sadness when they realize they’re gonna fight. It’s incredible.
The screams Jin has in the Japanese voice just made me scream too Jesus Christ 😭
Idk i feel like the screams in the english version are more heartfelt
Both made me cry 😢
Normally I never cry but that hit like a truck
@@luis7215 yeah i played whole game in japanese dub, and i think the japanese dub were way way better than the english one, but the last scream in the english version is 10x more emotional and fits this way more than the japanese one
And then the fact Jin has to live with that for the rest of his life as the ghost…
This ending had me waaaaaay too conflicted when it came to the choices
I honestly was surprised it gave us a choice
I can tell you now, the best course of action is to Honor him.
@@danku1122 I can tell you now, the best course of action is to spare him.
@@zaer-ezart You would think that but then it actually gets sad as you think about it deeper after
@@zaer-ezart And have him hate you forever? Nah better let him die with the honor he so much loved
Truth is during the second Mongol invasion they would call in jin to help take down a army he is the only one who changed to defeat them the first time jin would Train a army
Yeah and jin should know there tatics first hand
Yep
Loved everything about this game. It's one of my favorites
When a game makes you cry, it's when you know that it's a masterpiece 👌🙏
What gloco said at 13:29 are just facts and more realistic, i chose to spare Lord Shimura because i agree on what he said, thats also what i thought on my first playthrough when i was choosing the decision. i feel like i don't deserve to honor his death wish instead, i will embrace my character as the Ghost without honor and a disgrace to the family and to the shogunate but saved tons of people and lives.
Same
Just finished this game today and I also had the same exact reasoning, down to a t!
What a masterpiece.
including Lord Shimura's life.. bravo!
And this is why we know the Game awards was rigged. This masterpiece should have been GOTY.
everything is rigged brother yee haw
I agree it's a masterpiece but Naughty Dog's TLOU2 is just as deserving, yes the story divided fans but on a technical level it checked far more boxes off than this awesome game. The graphics, stealth, characters, enemy AI, little details, etc. All of it was absolutely insane and people argue that TLOU2 shouldn't of gotten GOTY due to the dev crunch, and I must argue that they made one of the greatest games of all time all while under that pressure.
@@mass_cular you look clueless , ghost won people heart and the people game of the year , the player voice , gamers consumers , buyers , we fans voted it for the game of the year and won it , but the game award still gave tlou2 the award , so tell me is it rigg or not?
@@Hitman-sn2by it's not "rigged" and people's choice was a vote to give an honorable mention to a fantastic game but they analyze games far deeper than purely hate it receives online. The story was not bad it just didn't go how people wanted it to go because for some reason you guys expected another game with the same story and tone as the first, while if other games do that they start getting called formula recycling 🤣
You can't please everybody and naughty dog accepted that and told THEIR story how they wanted it, this isn't Crash Bandicoot and Uncharted so if you're looking for happy adventures you should stick with those because I don't know how you thought there was gonna be a happily ever after when this world they've built is littered with nothing but loss.
People donated to restore a Torii gate on the real Tsushima island because of this. Additionally, the developers are honorary ambassadors because of this game.
We need a sequel. The Mongols invaded again in 1281 and they went to the mainland the second time. The sequel could be someone who heard the legend of Jin Sakai and became another ghost
The sequence will be with Jin, there are only 7 years between one invasion and the next, he won't age that much.
My friend and I chose different endings, but when we explained it to each other, we discovered we had the same reasons.
I chose to spare cause I felt that if Jin were to kill Shimura, he would see it the same as his fathers death. Another father he couldn't save. So leaving him alive, even on bad terms, gives him the peace of mind that he did everything he could and was at least able to come to a decision he can be satisfied with.
My friend chose kill because she wanted to honor Shimura's last wish. She felt Jin would do this as a final means of reconciliation. To give Shimura the peace of mind that Jin isn't completely honorless. That with his death, Jin and Shimura can come together for one last moment. As father and son.
We both thought about how Jin would feel and how this final choice would affect him going forward.
That’s cool and all, but knowing ancient Japan and their emperors….he would’ve been killed along with his entire bloodline anyway if he failed to turn in the ghost, might as well give him a death on his own terms by his own family
This ending choice brilliantly conveys the games theme: what is honor? Khotun Khan follows an idea of honor as being remembered or being compared to the greats, like his cousin or grandfather. Lord Shimura (do we ever learn his given name?) follows a traditional definition of honor: you take the hard but moral high path, even if it dooms you.
And Jin, by contrast, abides by a definition of honor more in line with modern definitions: self sacrifice. If it saved his people, he was willing to go to hell. He knew full well what the consequences were likely to be when he poisoned the Mongols. He refused to put the blame on Yuna when his uncle begged him to not take responsibility for his actions. Despite losing literally everything he had (title, land, home, best friend, family, younger brother figure, freedom, TWO horses,) and without a word of thanks he's willing to do it all again because his notion of honor is the same as a hero's: protect others before yourself.
Jin is more honorable than the Shogun or The Jito realize for it. However the people he protects realize it and that is why they believe in The Ghost. 🥷🏻
Sucker Punch made the best move to give the players the ability to choose which they think is the right ending. And both endings are plausible and thematically correct and wrong at the same time, which makes it even more compelling and heart wrenching.
I think sparing ending is more in line with Jin’s character. Neither ending is good because it shows that Jin truly chose a path of no return no matter what you choose. Masterpiece.
This last scene was BEAUTIFUL. “Our last day together. It is beautiful.” Whole tears role down shimuras face. And they dropped their sheaths because in futile Japan if you dropped your sheath you weren’t going to pick it up again unless you killed your opponent.
Feudal, not futile
I spared him because I felt that becoming the ghost would mean that I've forsaken the samurai and have given up honour. Choosing to save people over following tradition.
Same.
While i killed him, as my one final honorable act by the wish of my uncle, before I became the ghost forever. It is the ultimate disrespect and a spit in the face to our uncle who has raised us, to deny his final wish and make him live in dishonor and shame for failing the Shogun for the rest of his days.
me too. we have given up on being samurai anyway and embraced the ghost.
and 1 other thing, i would never kill family even if they will hate me for it
The fact that you can only experience the impact of that last decision you make at the end of the game once in your life make it more emotional
The soundtrack for this game was just out of this world.
*This horse will accompany you your whole journey*
Such lies...
I was so sad when I found out they lied to me.
7:24 Bruh, that transition between 2 perfect parries was beautiful
Although the game on its own is a masterpiece, can I just say that the soundtrack brings it all together and adds so much emotion to the game as a whole.
I spared him. I cried on that walk away. Shit was so intense and immersive all the way through.
Yeah same, honor died on the beach in no way I'll be killing a family
@@ishicucked fuck yeah. We ain't killing jins only family bruh tf. his honor can go fuck itself. I feared he might commit seppuku after Jin spares him tho but glad that didn't happen. I wonder which branch they'll take with the next game
@@ishicucked problem is that once he reports back to the shogun as a failure, he'll be stripped of his titles and promptly executed due to how bushido law works
@@somerandominternetuser5730 He dies either way, either by Jin or the shogun
@@serraramayfield9230 but if jin kills him, he will die the way he wants, honourable.
05:10 Have you noticed the Yin and Yang symbolism? Jin is kneeling in white leaves whilst Shimura in red.
This game is a masterpiece!
That was the moment I knew it was about to go down lol
Just finished it a few minutes ago, what a game man, now I feel empty.
Still cannot see how this lost to TLOU2... It has been so long since a game made me cry so hard...
because the industry is full of snowflakes. They don't like strong entertainment.
Ppl got paid
politics and money
@Zachary Erickson You think? Every other jouno somehow calling it a 'masterpiece', with thousands of reviews having the same structure? Ratings manipulated, with any negative criticism being 'evaluated' while one word 5stars going through without issue - on a scale that's second only to Captain Marvel's debut?
@Nahje Masukat That's probably the main reason, along with making Ellie so vengeful and making us play as Abby so we can understand her side... urgh... ruined the entire setup from the 1st game...
The dramatic music hitting at all the right times, Sheesh!!! That alone should've won an award!!! Enhances the feels for real!!!
Ghost of Tsushima to me is really one of those games that makes you wants to learn more about Japanese culture or buy some Japanese stuff likes katanas LOL
This game has made me follow the bushido code
This game makes me wanna learn the flute
This game made me learn about the way of Ninjutsu even though ninjas didn’t exist during the Time period
@@jarrettstewart1885 Ninjas didn't exist at all lol. The interpretation we know as "ninjas" is based on shinobis but they were more like espionage spies
GOTY 2020
Sadly TLOU2 got it
@@KenKaneki. In my book GOT is the winner.
@@radan__s in mine too
Should have been
@@radan__s In My Book As Well
First time I played I also chose kill because it was what the uncle wanted but it messed me up so badly I immediately went to my last save point replayed the last fight and chose to spare him and have decided in my heart that is the true ending. Because Jin who had already turned his back on tradition, I think that is the choice that he would have made.
the two options are canon. it's only about opinion.
i can't play this game since i don't own a PS4 so i've watched play throughs and man no matter how many times i watch the ending where Jin kills his uncle it always makes me cry. well done Sucker Punch, well done.
GLOCO is spittin straight facts here 13:28
The guy that said “And you” 😭 3:58
For me sparing him is the only way for you to fully become the Ghost. Leave samurai code behind you and live by your own rules.
Seeing Lord Shimura hold onto Jin for as long as possible, then seeing his grasp fade as he moves out of this world, it breaks me every single time...
That dude's reaction at 8:39 😂😂😂 that was literally my same reaction to having to choose which one to pick given what his uncle put him through especially in the scene near the in where jin had to confront his uncle lord shimura and given the fact he basically disowned jin i choose kill and gave him his wish. Eventhough i think you can't go wrong with either choice but damn it when lord shimura told jin to find me in the next life and jin screaming and crying over his decision damn that got me it hurt my soul it was that heartbreaking.
Please do reactions to the ending of the Yuriko side quest line
Cried my fuckin eyes out on that one
Yuriko 😔
Oh fuck no not this please
I'm still SO GLAD I did NOT kill him. Nope. No way. Man, this game was so good. Phew...
I am still not sure what I would have picked. Cause technically, he would die no matter what right? Either you kill him and give him the death he wished for or you spare him and he probably gets killed by the shogun and them he would have lost his honor. Or died of the wound.
I mostly go with the spare options cause I am just too much of a softie but here its the first time I am not sure.
How did this game not get game of the year???
Because the game that won fits the check list of today’s society…tLoU2 is a joke of a story and you cannot tell me otherwise.
In my opinion the ending where you kill him is way sadder and makes more sense bc it shows that you still love each other and the tender moment you share before Jins guttural scream followed by the music is breathtaking
NGL, I just saw the Thumbnail and I automatically click it because of GLOCO. Yeah I'm from Philippines and I'm a fan of GLOCO
Glocco‘s conclusion for sparing his life was really savage😂
He was ready to destroy this mans whole life and reputation
Sucker punch knows how to make one hell of a good game
Yo gloco was spitting some facts at the end
When you noticed, both ending are depressing, because no matter what it leads to shimura death. There is no way a samurai won't do a seppuku after that lost of honor.
Bruh I haven't even played the game and I'm tearing up just like them.😅😅
Damn you spoiled it for yourself!
Man, you should’ve played for yourself! Such an amazing game.
Then im sorry for you
@@kivenamery691 😂😂
@@ohwni I couldn't anyways I have Xbox, and I'm not good at games like this.😅😅
Damn Gab was really feeling that ending. She really FELT that betrayal. Just waiting for Coryxkenshin’s reaction to the ending tonight
I held through the fight and gave the uncle his peace, but when the credits rolled and the music built up, I lost myself and cried. Beautiful game. Ill never forgive TLOU2
Bruh 😂
TLOU2 is better in all aspects except story
@Issac Wayne Gomez I liked TLOU2s story better honestly, it kept me going more and it feels like there was a reason for everything you did. I had to take some breaks from GoT because of how repetitive a lot of the missions were. The missions with Jin’s former caretaker were gruellingly boring. That being said, I still loved GoT but I feel like the story had way more cliches and just followed an outline of many games before it. You can even liberate the entire island of Tsushima and still Mongols will be walking around. The attention to detail is also what gets me
@@issacwaynegomez3640GoT was better in world and gameplay. The only thing tlou was better at was it's story "direction." Not even the story by itself. GoT's story narration/direction was already good but if they put the same amount of budget and effort into facial animations, cutscenes like tlou2 did then GoT would've been even better.
@Issac Wayne Gomez gameplay for me is TLOU2 as well, GoT I like more for the customization obviously and the art style is awesome
The Last Of Us Part II should’ve made a decision like this to either Spare or Kill Abby.
It still would’ve been more impactful in my opinion.
No
But what if they were making a third game
Killing Abby would make the whole story pointless. Ellie was hell-bent on killing Abby because she didn't get closure with Joel and took away the chance to fix things between them. Sparing her was a symbolic moment for Ellie's character arc as she forgives herself. That flashback with Joel at the end proves it. Joel was at peace with the outcome of his actions because it was worth it to save Ellie. So it was Ellie who wanted redemption and sparing Abby was actually Ellie forgiving herself for her mistakes that broke the bond between her and Joel.
@@agasthya9128 oh so all those deaths and people ellie killed before abby are pointless? Oh ok good job naughty dog I guess...
@@mariomorgan6083 well maybe we can see their story in part 3. lol
This game was such a great experience, the art, the soundtrack, the combat...sucker punch knocked it outta the park.
Now I see why the Kill ending is more powerful, dear god that is heart wrenching
Bruh I only assassinated like 3 people the whole time it felt so dishonorable I hated it. I felt so bad for Shimura
It felt good going through the front gate hahaha
Sorry but if the character would have went full honorable samurai he wouldn't have stopped the war and would have died a long time ago
Hate to burst your bubble but in real life samurai acted more like ghost and tricksters than in this game lmao this is not 100% accurate at all they never barged into battle like barbarians and vikings they actually strategized plans to eliminate the enemy as any means possible
We should get Game of the Year in this game
Dont compare this game to The Last of Us 2
@@marcoco_ It's "Rigged of Us"
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the last of gay
I was so surprised by the story and the voice acting in these incredibly tense and emotional scenes. So happy I bought this game
this vid is great! but now i really wanna see how the actual japanese gamers react to the ending lmao. its gonna be more tricky than this one, because of the subtitle and everything, but pretty sure its gonna be more fascinating to see too.
I picked the kill option as I was crying my heart like a baby I said in a low voice this is game of the year lmao I’ll never forget that moment I’ll remember this game forever
The final choice in this story is truly one of the most difficult I've ever seen in a video game. SP does such a good job writing Lord Shimura into toeing the line between forgivable and irredeemable, and all that compounding with the idea of honoring a warrior's death and respecting one's culture makes it even harder. For a game that isn't heavy on plot-relevant multiple choices, they did a good job with this one~
That ending hit me so hard.
Edit: props to the editor during the fight, those transitions were nearly flawless!
Still thinking that this game is the best thing happen in 2020, masterpiece.
The Editing was insane! THANK YOU!
Such An amazing ending. I love the way they let you choose and interpret your own ending... 10/10
Cool they included GLOCO
I think that sparing Shimura makes more sense from the gameplay standpoint. The whole game, you are trying to get out of the Bushido because while Bushido is what makes you a warrior and Japanese, countless people have to die pointlessly. That is what Jin keeps doing in the game... he goes out of his way to actually HELP people and not only talk about it while sending them to die.
Sparing him, while dishonorable for Shimura, shows Jin outgrew Bushido and actually saved innocents by sacrificing his own Bushido honor...which ironically, is what was the most honourable thing to do to save more people than Shimura could ever do. Shimura was selfish... he did not care... he only cared about his legacy and not people.
To beat mongols and their clever grasp of Samurai shackles, one had to outgrow those shackles. Without Jin, Tsushima would have been doomed. Shimura would rather let whole Japan fall than go against his pride and stubborn desire to leave great Bushido legacy.
It's ridiculous the number of people that act like Jin was faultless throughout the story.
GOTY or we riot lol
And they HAVE to make a second game
Facts this game is too damn good not to have a sequel
It got players choice, the one that matters
Well it got robbed of it.
@@amalajay9541 it sure did
@@Misfitbear honestly. Even if ghost lost to something like doom eternal, wouldn't have even been mad. But fuckin tlou2? Fuck off
I have played a lot of games in my life, I am 53 years old, I mean old enough, but this game is something else, make me cry 2 times like a baby, never feel like that before and I doubt I'll feel that way with a game again
I love how everyone is considering all the implications and Louise is just “you killed my horse, time to die!”