I finished Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions) yesterday. I will once again talk about the story in detail as I did in the last post. Yet again:
*SPOILERS*
I mentioned in the last post how I thought things with my uncle would go after killing the Khan (as they call Khotun Khan)–and I will say that they got the ending with the uncle right. Yes, I’m going to go into spoilers yet again–not that it’ll be very surprising to most people who played the game.
I said that I would reconcile with my uncle because that’s the way it would have happened in a Western game (and, yes, this game was done by an American developer). Since they had done so much of the story very Westernized, I assumed it would be the same with this as well. Instead, they had Lord Shimura show up to aid in the last fight against the Khan, but then he sends a message to Jin that he (Lord Shimura) wants to talk to him (Jin). They meet and walk around, talking and reminiscing. As they did this, it slowly dawned on me that they were not going to reconcile. The grave countenance of my uncle tipped me off that this was going to end very differently, indeed.
I suddenly realized that he was going to kill me. Or rather, he was going to try to kill me. Because I had betrayed him, and while he did help me (ostensibly) with the Khan–I’ll get to that in a minute–he wa still the jito of the area. He could not countenance me defying a direct order because that just would not do.
I could undrestand that (as the player, and as an Asian person), especially during feudal times. There was a rigid hierarchy that had to be followed and while I was way more on Jin’s side than on his uncle’s, I could at least understand why Lord Shimura thought the way he did. He wasn’t wrong as much as he had a different way of looking at things. He thought it was better to die with honor than to win through trickery, and while I don’t agree with him, I can see his point of view.
I’m not going to rehash my issues with the big moments of the second act, but I do need to talk about the end of the third.
I will say that I should have taken a break after the second act. And then the third. I am in the DLC now, and…well, I’ll get to that in a bit. Also, I have included the trailer for it below.
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