Just finished Ghost of Tsushima main storyline AND Iki Island DLC.
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GOD FUCKING DAMMIT, OMG
One of the best games I’ve ever played tbh, it was beautiful, I fell in love with Jin Sakai and his character, like, he is genuinely a beautiful person and omg I felt pretty charmed by his resolve throughout the entire game—more men like Jin Sakai please. (yuna youre so lucky girl…)
I’m not much of a gamer myself, kind of I guess, I play when I have free time in my PS5 and when it comes to action games I’m a coward lol idk why whenever I am pushed into a battlefield I freak out (I almost had a heart attack when I started Ghost of Tsushima and the mothafuckers sent straight to fight at Komoda Beach, HELLO? The intro was so beautiful tho…). But Ghost of Tsushima balanced everything very well, and I enjoyed doing NPCs side missions, I felt powerful and badass.
(The way how the fear that the Ghost inflicts on his enemies is portrayed??? Chef’s kiss honestly. And the Records items, especially Conversations with the Khan, I enjoy the lore with so so so so much glee hehe.)
The characters, I fell in love with the characters. I knew I liked videogames when I first played Far Cry 4 and the characters felt so dear to me, and Ghost of Tsushima brought me back to when I was like 9?? and I was playing FC4 on my dad’s PS3. Jin’s story and the rest of the characters’ Tales hypnotized me, idk. The flashbacks, the foreshadowing, the small conservations within Jin and the others…I was sobbing in the ending and in Masako’s and Yuna’s tales. AND THE LOVELY WAY WE GOT SO MUCH APPROACHES TO IMPORTANT THEMES AS WOMEN EMPOWERING, FAMILY, QUEERNESS, TRADITIONALISM, ETC. jin baby you deserve the world.
Ngl, while I was playing the game not only I cherished every single interaction of Jin and his allies/friends, but I was glad he had the time to talk and rest, yk? And that’s why I love Yuna so much, gods.
From what I’ve seen, many ship Ryuzo and Jin, and while I kind of understand and respect Ryuzo, I don’t personally ship them. I was too excited to duel him the moment he was deemed a traitor lol, this game brought out the worst side of me (i was cackling when i got the ghost stance, run fuckers!). I did cry a lot on Iki Island whenever Jin had Ryuzo’s hallucinations, like, ouch, I would hurt forever if a childhood friendship ended like that.
(Talking about Iki Island, Kenji doing a cameo there LMAO, and Jin teasing him with “so you left Tsushima and you didn’t even bothered to say goodbye?” AJDKAKDKAKS YES YOU TELL HIM JIN)
Now, Jin and Yuna??? Muah muah muah, they are soulmates, romantic or platonically or both. Its the way Jin (throughout the story this loyalty builds up, love that) does everything no questions asked when it comes to Yuna, going with her to her tales? Damn Jin straight went and brought her heads! How romantic. The way Kenji was like “he cannot refuse if I tell him Yuna’s waiting”, AND THE WAY JIN HIMSELF OUTRIGHT SAYS THINGS LIKE ‘I would give my life for you’ OR ‘so you and Takeshi…?’ Hehehe they are so precious. They are definitely in love your honor, at least for me.
Wish I could still find the characters in the map or something after the main story ends, I’m at my new home behind Omi Monastery full of nostalgia because Jin’s home is a mosaic of gifts and remembrances of everyone he has known. Yuna’s gift, Ryuzo’s hat, Taka’s hook, Kenji’s sake, First Horse’s saddle (Nobu precious, I wish you had been there with me 😭) and lots of other stuff from Masako, Ishikawa, Lord Shimura, and many others that I don’t remember rn. Like, it is clear Jin loves his homeland, his people, his friends, I’m sure he would have made a perfect Lord, aw.
Thank you for reading my venting. Now, I need fanfics.
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I could write an essay on how the entire GOT soundtrack is filled with a sense of heartache, pain, and anger. How it correlates and, in fact, enhances the story because you feel it so much through the music alone and can also help express characters,,,,, I just- iURHRGRGEHEJ
I AM COMPLETELY SANE AND NORMAL ABOUT THIS GAME GUYS
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I’m about 2/3rd of the way into “Ghost of Tsushima”. One, I did not expect that this game would be about the origins of the ninja. Two, in a weird way, this game is secretly a coming-of-age/generational gap story.
Our main hero is Jin, who represents the current generation. He was raised to follow the ways of his elders, namely his father and uncle. However, the old ways are limited since the Mongolian invaders don’t respect them. That’s when Jin meets Yuna, who is the “rebellious” youth who shows Jin a different way of handling the Mongols. Yuna’s way clashes with the elders’ ways, but she’s getting results. This ends up creating a moral panic in Jin since he’s torn between respecting his elders and doing whatever it takes to stop the Mongols.
It’s straight up a generational gap storyline. If you take away the samurai/ninja stuff:
1) Jin is the young man who grew up in a sheltered, conservative home but grows disillusioned with his elders due to the state of the world he’s in.
2) Yuna is the rebellious young woman who wants to save the world (let’s just say, her brother is her world) and has no respect in the older generation since she feels they are responsible for the troubles of the world, such as Yarikawa’s resistance to assisting Lord Shimura.
3) Lord Shimura represents the older generation that is set in their ways and is, albeit reluctantly, willing to punish the younger generation if they stray from tradition. He also represents how older generations have created problems that the younger generations are forced to deal with, such as Jin and Yuna needing to mend the strained relationship between Clan Yarikawa and Clan Shimura.
4) The Mongols in general represent the troubles of the world that both the older and younger generations have to deal with. However, both generations clash over how to deal with their mutual problems.
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i have finally regained the ability to draw in my sketchbook consistently so heres a good ole-fashioned sketchdump
i have no clue if tumblr image captions still work anymore so ill add extra info under the cut
image 1: self portrait for the start of the sketchbook, i like to start them with something more polished. ive been having a rough year so its a bit melancholy. there were some lines in that yellow spot but they didnt scan well TT
image 2: yuna, sam and julian's kid after the end of comatelma. i actually made her up a while ago but back then she was an adopted kid, now i changed her to be a bio kid since julian can get pregnant. "nephilim" dont have angel powers but still retain parts of the full-angel phenotype as noted in the pic
image 3: my dragonsona rearing up all angry based on a pic of a tiger. also him at the bottom chewing on a Meat Stress Ball because i was very anxious that day
image 4: self portrait and lord of the rings fanart because i watched the two towers with my dear friend aeneas a few nights before
image 5: julian done with my new chisel pen, sam (both human and dragon design), and modern au ramiel, daewon, and julian at some hardcore show
image 6: taehyung from bts based on his look in the blood sweat and tears mv, a hyena, me losing my mind over a 2 week long onslaught of exams, me with my dragonsona, and daemiel + samjulian but ramiel and julian are dragons
image 7: now that succession season 4 is airing im revisiting the furry versions i drew in december 2021 and never posted. greg is a horse because hes tall and awkward and tom is a bull because he just looks like a bull to me. also of course this dialogue is from s3e7
image 8: a dracula parrot and michael emerson but a furry (also known as 'moochael emerson')
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