Ghost Of Tsushima Review | Ladbible

LadBible: "Ghost of Tsushima is a fine open-world game. It ticks all the boxes of what you would expect it to do - but it doesn't do anything more than that. This is one of the last exclusive games for the PlayStation 4, and it's disappointing that it has nothing new to say."

[solideagle]

I wonder if they deduct points from COD/AC/Pokemon/Smash every year for not doing something new?

[RpgSama]

I hate the double standards when it comes to game reviews, AC it's the exact same game since they revamped it with Origins, which just took things from other open world games, high scores all around, the same with other open world franchises, but when it comes to Sony, both Days Gone and GoT have been heavily docked because they didn't reinvent the wheel and I do want to add that they are at least new franchises.

[solideagle]

I have noticed it too that when it comes to Sony Exclusive they do it, I will wait for stated games + Forza/Halo (great games btw) reviews for re-inventing :)
I was pretty +ve that this would be Sucker Punch's first 90+ meta game...

[Blastoise]

84 metacritic out of 86 reviews is a very very good score though

[aquamala]

AC Origins and Odyssey 's 81/83 scores are lower than GoT

[Gameplayer1]

Thats why I've NEVER in my whole entire life bought a game reading a review. Gut feeling is the only thing that matters and it worked 99.5 % of the times I bought a game. YOU can't buy a game from someone else's opinion, you have to go with your own. What I do think is strange is this fixation with "something new" ....why can't a game be the same but damn frikking great?? Agree?

[starchild]

What's dumb is that if you're trying to be negative or nitpick you can claim that about every game. There's nothing completely new under the sun after all. It's all about new combinations and refinements.

Just to play an open world game set in ancient Japan will be a fresh experience for me. How many games let you roam a huge beautiful world as a samurai/proto-ninja? Which other game has this exact combat system? Which other game is telling this story?

[RgR]

The one difference between those open world's and Sony's is that Sony does not always inplement current social political correctness.

They wanted deacon to be something other than a straight white male. And I'm sure this new character should have been a woman or given a choice to be a woman.

[RpgSama]

@RgR

Not only you need to have the option to be a woman, but to also be able to have a relationship with anybody regardless of if your a woman or men, they love that.

[NeoGamer232]

I hate this kinds of reviews. Just by watching the State of Play 1.5 months ago it is obvious this game is not a 6/10. Didn't see it as a 9 or 10 either. On Metacritic it is currently at 84. I expected to settle in at 85-ish so no surprises for me. This is a typical Sucker Punch quality offering!

Definitively in the must play category for me. Right after I finish TLOU2.

[morganfell]

"I hate this kinds of reviews. "

Not me. I hate ALL reviews. They are nothing more than opinions about what this or that writer (in this case a cast out from Kotaku) wanted or didn't want. That isn't how it used to be or should be. Reviewers are supposed to assess the game for the individuals that are the target demographic. Instead they review it for themselves and inflict on us, for good or bad, their narrow-minded views consisting of personal likes. No listed standards, no details on how they grade a title. They just fire off their blabbermouth shots for good or ill and move on with no consideration of the damage they do to the actual gamer.

Here is a hint mr writer. You aren't our friend and all you are doing is harming our favorite pasttime. You assist no one. You improve nothing. Time for you to go.

The only review that matters now is your own. That is it. The best thing you can do is not click on any review, favorable or otherwise. With newspapers, opinions used to be buried in one of the back sections. Why? It isn't news and no one really cares. Want to see the people really damaging our beloved hobby? Its the game media.

[starchild]

@morganfell
I completely agree.

[RememberThe357]

If anyone is looking for good reviews, check out ACG on YouTube. Guy does a great job explaining a game and what he likes and why. A lot of times I'll know I won't like a game he likes just by the way he frames his thoughts so objectively.

Morgan might be right about your opinion being the only one that matters but for folks who can't just buy every single game they're interested in, reviews are really their only option to narrow things down.

[jbull]

@morganfell 100% agree, like some reviewing FIFA or a racing game when they are not into sports or cars they forget about the millions of people that.s their target market and like the product on offer.

[RgR]

@morgan

The whole point of reviews is to inform the gamers on whether they should dish out some cash or not.

Many current reviewers are pretty horrible but you just gotta find the people you tend to agree with since it will likely lead you to the types of games you enjoy.

I personally take in angry Joe's, skillups, laymens, acg and a couple of other ones from YouTube. I used to really like totalbiscuits reviews.

[Rachel_Alucard]

They gave pokemon SwSh and CoD MW's campaign a 7 so yeah I guess they do.

[SierraGuy]

Bogus review.

[Relientk77]

Ah yes, it's everyone's favorite site for game reviews, LadBible. We have all totally heard of LadBible.

[RazzerRedux]

Well...they provide the Bible...for lads?

yeah I dunno

[wwinterj]

They post memes on Facebook. That's all I know.

[CaEsAr-]

Always hated this clown of a website. They should stick to cat videos on their FB page.

[GoodGuy09]

Itll be deducted for not having originality and being similar to every other open world sadly. I expected this. But a 6/10? Lol. Funny lou2 didn't really add anything new either but it got masterpiece praise. Ofc I havent played ghost yet but it doesnt look like a 6 at all. Cant wait to pick the game up!

[KyRo]

Nothing else really plays like TLoU2. I do understand what you mean though.

The sad truth is is that all open world games have become nearly identical. You can change the locations, characters, and period but the core game mechanics always come down to go here, kill this, collect that, clear this camp. Rinse and repeat. Lazy game design has ruined open world games.

[JangoMan]

Those who scored this game a higher rating, all have praised the Authenticity of Feudal Japan, Presentation, Sword Fighting and Open worldness

Its simple if u are fan of anime, Samurai, and Legendary Akira Kurosawa, this game will be a Masterpiece for you.

Those people who doesn't understand all this will consider it another Sony Game with zero interest to play.

You have to have Honor, Courage and respect to play this game, as a smaurai!.

I'm Ready

[janus225]

"You have to have Honor, Courage and respect to play this game, as a smaurai!."
It have to be a marketing quote for this game! Kudos!

[JangoMan]

Lol. I just spoke my heart out

[Father__Merrin]

If it's any other game it will get pass eg walk into place open chest for treasure etc that's fine but in ghosts it's a case of we've seen it before if it attempted the same. This is another Satanists review

[oasdada]

So assassins creed must get a 2 for reusing evry cliche open world and rpg tropes minus the polish

[SegaSaturn669]

It looks like Assassin's Creed but without the micro-transactions. People should love it!

[AspiringProGenji]

Funny because even Skillup is saying this does stuff better than Assassins Creed (combat, world, sidequest).

[starchild]

Even as someone who generally enjoys the Assassins Creed games I can easily see that Ghost of Tsushima is better in those ways.

[RaidenBlack]

There's always that Odd one, ain't it?

[Germaximus]

LOL Come on man. Nobody could truly and honestly give this game a 6. Just like nobody can truly and honestly give TLOU2 a 10 without some kind of nonsensical bias.

[sushimama]

Pull the other one Germ. Last Of Us 2 is a bloody 10 dude. It's amazing.

[starchild]

Nah, not for me. I don't care what reviewers gave that game or Ghost of Tsushima.

[Germaximus]

Well, I suppose you could, but you'd have to have been like severely disappointed. Were you really?

[Minute Man 721]

Maybe they expect more from Sony Studios. I've never cared about review scores and gamers shouldn't

[Duke19]

Seems like pretty valid complaints even if people have issue with the score.

Im curious to try it, but for as hyped up as this game has been - I am definitely going to temper expectations

[PrinceAli]

Loool... ok

[OMNlPOTENT]

I’m not gonna judge the review until I play it for myself cuz hell it could be awful. On the other hand, I don’t think it’ll be awful and I’m still gonna play it for myself. Game looks incredible to me and I love the setting! Sekiro was my GOTY last year, it’d be cool to have Ghost of Tsushima GOTY for me this year.

[franwex]

I personally wouldn’t give TLOU 2 a 6/10, but I could see how someone could without being anti sony or having a bias.

Maybe it’s the same situation with this game too. For some people it could be a 6. A lot of games got really overhyped this gen.

[NobleRed]

Garbage article don't even clicked on It.
It's an open world Samurai game. Do you expext groundbreaking innovativions?? No as long als the package is well done.

Do you guys remember the last open world Samurai Game? Well I don't.

[Jaces]

LoU2 didn't do anything new....huh, odd. User Reviews are the only way to go.

[GodOfNothing]

Karak are ACG said must buy so... just sayin...

[jivah]

Remember when breath of the wild got nothing but 9s and 10s for doing exactly this. Nothing new and people were foaming at the mouth for how good it was. Defending it by saying yea its nothing new but it did it well. And many saying it was genre defining and revolutionary.

[franwex]

I guess the expectations are different now than 3 years ago. I suppose the same logic applies to Horizon too.

But those games had more unique enemies and allowed for some creative play styles too. By the sound of things this game is more similar to assassins creed than providing something more unique.

Still looks good though.

[Elda]

I enjoyed AC:Origins & AC:Odyssey so I know I'm going to enjoy this game minus the MTs.

[Specter229]

Yeah ... I'll just play the game myself and not rely on reviews ... everyone has a damn agenda.

[_dangerclose_]

"but it doesn't do anything more than that"

Good thing I didn't need it to.

I tell you what every game going forward on every system better do something completely new and if it doesn't it better receive the same level of scrutiny over it as Playstation exclusives always do.

[Christopher]

***There's nothing wrong with a linear story where you don't have branching narratives, but it's not fun to have characters repeatedly tell you off for things you didn't do - even if your character did them. ***

This doesn't make much sense to me. You can't complain that the story reacted to the character and should have reacted to the player. That's not how stories are told. If your argument is you didn't like the story, fine, but the story is written around the character and not the player.

***it's disappointing that it has nothing new to say***

Name a game that has anything new to say. There is nothing new to say, just different ways to present the same thing.

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Don't care about the score, but this author seems to have specific desires they want to be met and scores lower because of that. Score the game for what it is, not what you wanted the story to be or the characters to be or an out-of-left-field expectation that this game should be the one defining game to end the generation by saying something completely new and unheard of.

[ziggurcat]

ding! ding! ding!

[shammgod]

Imagine looking to Ladbible for your gaming needs. Lol.

[RgR]

I thought games were critiqued based on how good they are not about what they say. This garbage way if looking at a game is politicized and silly. The game doesn't need to have some deep meaning or current social aspects. As far as I've heard it does some new things never seen before and the graphics are gorgeous in a way that has never been seen before as well.

If this is. 6.0 I expect Valhalla to be the same or lower since it doesn't look anywhere near as gorgeous and all AC's are the same lately. Same for farcry, cod and so many others.

[ballisticvoodoo]

It's obvious by the lack of writing skill this review was penned by a child.

[derweissewolfe]

6/10...still buying it day one and will enjoy it. Reviews dont mean anything they are simply people's opinions.