168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ghost of Tsushima was one of 2020&rsquo🍷;s most popular games, but also one of its most polarising - arguably more polarising than a game that had very little to say about anything had any right to be. Tsushima was a gorgeous game with a relatively uninspiring open world based on standard tropes of the genre that have been done before and done better many times over. I🐠 thought the game was okay. I’m glad you enjoyed it. One thing that rarely gets talked about, however, is the multiplayer add-on Ghost of Tsushima: Legends. With a standalone version of the expansion just announced for September, it’s time we all stopped sleeping on it.
This coincides with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the launch of the director’s cu𒐪t. I’m not overly enthused about games desperately 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:cloying for cinematic prestige by latching onto the ♉term ‘director’s 🐽cut’ when they mean ‘base game plus some new DLC’ - even a game like Ghost of Tsushima, which already borrows heavily from film, would be best off avoiding it. Actually, perhaps that should be applied to a game like Ghost of Tsushima specifically, since its desire to hew so close to cinema, and Kurosawa in particular, is a big part of why its story feels unpolished, despite the beautiful framing the game affords it. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Charging 🦩us extra for Japan꧒ese lip sync in a game ostensibly about celebrating Japanese culture - despite the historﷺically inaccurate katanas - also feel𒀰s slimy.
In all the coverage of Ghost of Tsushima and its director’s cut - both good and bad - Legends has been missed out entirely. In a way, that’s understandable. I completed the game at launch, sweeping up all the bits and pieces for the Platinum and clocking out at around 60 hours played. By the time I had finished, the Legends expansion still had not arrived. It eventually launched in October 2020, three months after the single-player story hit shelves, as a free DLC to anyone who had the base game. Considering we’re still waiting for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 2’s multiplayer and several of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cyberpunk 2077’s DLC packs, three months is🌳 a pretty fast turnaround, but it’s long enough to separate Legends from the rest of the game - by the time it came out, most people had finished with Tsushima.
The director’s cut, any issues with its name aside, gives Legends a new lease of life, as players will now get both experiences in one. Even better, with Legends coming as a standalone game, even more people m🦂ay pick it up to try the multiplayer expansion out. As someone who heavily favours single-player games and thought Tsushima was only okay, the fact I’m out here imploring you to give Ghost of Tsus🍸hima’s multiplayer mode a chance should tell you something about its quality.
Legends alone will set you back $19.99, which is a fair price for the content you’re getting, especially when you consider that the director’s cut will be $69.99 on PS5♒. Legends is three times as fun as the base game, and more than three times cheaper.
Legends comes with nine different story episodes and ends with a three-part raid - all played in PvE multiplayer - as well as a Survival mode. In the standalone release, Rivals mode - still PvE, but played in two teams competing to take down the biggest hordes - is joining the party too. Jin Sakai’s story in the base game is too concerned with cinematic touches and the nebulous concept of ‘honour’, but Legends is given a little more freedom. It’s not quite as well put together - Ghost🍌 of Tsushima’s sparkling supporting cast makes up for what Jin lacks in the single-player mode - but it also takes itself a bit less seriously. Li🎶mited time events even allowed you to unlock different outfits based on Horizon, God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, and Bloodborne, depending on which of the four classes you specialised in.
Ghost of Tsushima itself is fine. It’s okay. I don’t think it ever asked me to think any deeper than that in my 60 hours with it, and so I don’t have much more to say about it. I’m happy others enjoy itꦬ, although I’m not entirely sure why so many line up to declare it a perfect game, or how it became the anti-The Last of Us game. But whether you dismissed Tsushima entirely, enjoyed it then forgot about it, or absolutely adored it, it doesn’t feel like anybody is talking about Legends. With the multiplayer pack set for a standalone release, hopefully that’s about to change.