Thanks so much for checking out the video! I adore Ghost of Tsushima and I really wanted to do it justice-what better way than an episode of The Real History? What are your thoughts on the game? Any historical elements that you think I missed? Let me know! If you'd like to support the channel, please feel free to share the video, or take a look at the benefits available on Patreon. If not, don't worry-your view is more support than I could ever ask for. Thanks again!

@Jakeyisdead

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the real Ghost of Tsushima was the friends we made along the way

@que9621

3 жыл бұрын

I love you Pixels

@grunchlk

2 жыл бұрын

@A GOAT would you recommend this game? (I like RDR2, GTA4, Hitman series)

@kagekun1198

10 ай бұрын

Gaijin Goombah made an excellent video on the subject highlighting how Ghost of Tsushima is the story of Jin Sakai's transformation from samurai to the first ninja. A shinobi. On the surface one thinks that the ninja is about stealth, but the true essence of a ninja is endurance. That's what Jin does, he endures. He does whatever it takes to defeat the Mongols and save his people. He studies their Leader's fighting styles to incorporate into his own. He steals and adopts their tools and tech like sticky bombs and armor to gain another edge. He discards his code and honor in order to get the job done, and not even once does the game call Jin a ninja. Jin Sakai is the purest form of a shinobi in media.

@howardTanti

8 ай бұрын

Wonderfully made video I really enjoyed. I actually watched this video twice because I thought it was just so well put together and you really know your history apparently so thank you for sharing that with us. I too love this game. I just started playing it last year. Put it down and picked it up again and I can't put it down. Now I have to finish it. It's a fabulous game and I hope they make a sequel

One thing I am surprised that you didn't mention is that the Game director and co director did such a good job that the local government of Tsushima made them honorary touring ambassadors to the island. I just think that is just something truly special.

Very quickly becoming one of my favorite games of all time...

@kirank287

Жыл бұрын

Same

@coldwolf7014

10 ай бұрын

It’s already my favorite, passed God of war by a small margin lol.

@linnrenn6369

8 ай бұрын

Yes plz

@linnrenn6369

8 ай бұрын

​@@coldwolf7014i can relate......

@CagedSUPERMAN

5 ай бұрын

It’s a great game. It’s up there for me with Deus ex and kingdom come deliverance

Historical inaccuracies aside, I actually really appreciate the way that bushido is used in the story. It’s clear that the concept of a samurai, and the code itself were developed only with a domestic application in mind. However we are shown that very little can/will stand in the way of the night of the Mongol army, and that traditional methods are not enough to counteract something completely unprecedented like the Mongol invasion.

@revbladez5773

10 ай бұрын

The code did not exist in the 13th century. You will find no written mentions of it from anything older than year 1616.

@HakuYuki001

10 ай бұрын

@@thebanned2807Sums it up quite accurately.

@Aman-ti4qu

8 ай бұрын

There wasn't really any one code followed by Samurais. The Bushido way has been mythologized into some amalgamation of "Honor", "Humility", etc. When the reality is Samurai followed multiple codes over multiple decades, all the way from being honorable to just being thugs. It was created even more in Modern Japan to form some form identity as the country was modernizing, loosely taking ideas and creating a better image to aspire to rather than something that was actually followed.

@kuro_kishi

Ай бұрын

True samurai honor was based primarily on giving loyalty to those you serve. For instance, if we look at the Warring States (Sengoku) Period of the 14-15th century, samurai served daimyo warlords by bringing them power to their domain. An honorable samurai during this period, would slaughter countless enemies who would pose as a threat to their daimyo, instead of showing mercy to their enemies.

Absolutely love these videos, you don’t shout and put everything in our faces, you have a really good way of narrating these videos, along with the music and editing. You literally make perfect videos which are very enjoyable to watch.

@p1ssedoffchristof48

2 жыл бұрын

Depends on the channel. I can't stand all the PewDiePie clones and don't get me started on Morgz. But channels like VaatiVidya is also good for his in-depth calm speaking style.

Regarding the inaccuracy of Bushido for the time period, I think the developers knew exactly what they were doing. Notice that throughout the game, most characters talk to Jin of going against/violating "your uncle's code". I think that because Shimura was a very respected and well known warrior, his own personal code of honor was admired by other samurais who chose to honor it instead of being the norm among samurai, especially given Shimura's advanced age, meaning that he survived countless battles and duels, showcasing his combat prowess. But I could be wrong, who knows

@jessemacaspac443

11 күн бұрын

One thing that people fail to mention; the way honor worked before the mongols. When the Mongols invaded, the Samurai would typically shout their family names and call out enemies. They were horse archers that would duel in spread out battles but the mongols didn't understand this and just killed them like a normal army would. This shocked the Japanese and they had to adapt to this new type of warfare.

@chibipotate

Күн бұрын

Late to the party, But this is something the game itself actually addresses, In a pretty heavy handed way, Jins own father often went against Shimuras personal code and argued with him about it, And most if not all characters in the game who do talk about it, Do stick to it just being "Shimura's Code" infact, The only thing against the Samurai norm as Shown in-game as well as actual history, Isnt ANY of the Crimes Jin did, Hell, Shimura pats him on the back for it when he's first rescued but the actual Crime, the thing that would have been told to other Samurai to turn them against Jin isnt him doing any of this, But him doing it **AGAINST** Shimuras direct, uncompromising order, Which is the only universal code they must abide their lives by. The other samurai break it, bend it, ignore it all the time, Just consider the BUTCHER Of Ikki Ikki island, The only difference is they arent the next Jito, They arent the ones meant to take up the legacy of the man who invented this code for his little Island, Its all a Shimura ego pull for the most-part.

Oh my god, I have been rewatching your other vids waiting for the next one. Literally, such an underrated channel, keep up the amazing work!

@acid_barrett

3 жыл бұрын

+100

@mehtabali568

3 жыл бұрын

❤

One of my favourite bits of the game is the storm at the end of the game stranding the Mongols on land and the reinforcements out at sea that couldn’t get to them because that actually happened. The storm itself being called Kamikaze by the Japanese and literally saving them from more massacres

One thing I especially love with ghost of tsushima is the soundtrack, they use a perfect mix of violins (They sound like violins to me, correct me if I'm wrong) and various Japanese and other instruments, the theme of The Ghost is especially well crafted.

It's amazing what tech the Chinese/Mongolians were using at that age. Europe was still using sword and just learned to put some kind of protection on shoulders instead of using just chainmail. While at Asia they were shooting at each other with early gattling guns!

@darkhpokinsngaming8889

2 жыл бұрын

Doubt they were used actively in combat.

@deadline93

2 жыл бұрын

I dont like this notion. Its imensly common and somewhat a part of orientalism. The idea that Europe was technologicly backwards in the high middel ages. I reality by 1270s European metelurgy was starting to produce higher quility steel and more complex pices of armor crafts then most other places in the world. This is less to do due to simple technolgical matters however and has alot more to do with the warrior culture of most of europe focusing on the knigth and his armaments. By this time as well conflict between europeans and the mongolians had been going on for 30 years. At this time gunpowder weapons where started being used in europe. Already by the 1300s we know that cannons where being used in europe as well as early hand canons as well as rockets which where the prefeard gunpowder weapon of the chinese and koreans (who invented gunpowder) in turn then adopted by the mongolians following thire sucseful conquest of china and subjegation of korea. Btw one of the main resons chainmail was used for so long was its imense strength it was the prefeard armor of the romans simply cause it was much more effective then most other pices of armor. It coverd the body and protected it leaving no holes around the armpits groin or neck (provided that a chainmail neckgaurd was worn).

@nathanbunney3604

2 жыл бұрын

This is just… wrong. The Roman’s had plate armor, and Europe never lost that technology. Did the price of it go up after the fall of the Roman Empire? Yes. Did it go away? Not in the slightest.

@KristinkaAranova

2 жыл бұрын

@@nathanbunney3604 Roman’s used mail armor Also

@Ignisan_66

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao another weeb who thinks Europeans were some backwards morons. No they were not.

I believe that the sequal will continue onto Iki and Finally mainland japan with Jin finishing off the mongols.

@RealPixels

3 жыл бұрын

I think it’s more likely that the sequel will be set in 1281, during the second invasion of Tsushima.

@growlanser5600

Жыл бұрын

@@RealPixels Yeah. The expansion covered Iki.

@SmallBrainBreen

2 ай бұрын

My idea of ghost of tushima is Genghis Khan and kublai coming to tushima to invade, they kinda are characters in the game, khouton says in the beginning he's grandson of Genghis and cousin of kublai, and I guess after Genghis and kublai heard that khouton is dead, they both come to finish what they started.

@K0RVAA

10 күн бұрын

⁠@@SmallBrainBreen Genghis Khan died 47 years before the invasion of Tsushima started.

One thing I found out myself about the haiku inaccuracy that you pointed out, is that if you play the game with Japanese audio, the 'haiku' are in fact 'tanka' (at least that's what I heard when the poems are recited) since it seems to be arranged in a 5-7-5-7-7 pattern in the Japanese audio Which I think is a bit funny, because obviously tanka has been around in Japan for centuries by then. Makes me wonder why don't the whole haiku thing be turned into waka/tanka instead?

@SaraphDarklaw

10 ай бұрын

Haiku is just better known.

Wow!! This so underappreciated. The research, the visuals, I just love it. The subtitles should not go unnoticed. The quality is topnotch. Keep going this❤️

Another great video, thanks! Great content like this is why I've become a patron.

Ghost of Tsushima = a MASTERPIECE

Great job on the video. Would have been interesting to also have a comment or side note about the parallels of Shinobi Battle tactics during this era given that they are part and parcel of the players methodology in liberating the island.

Thank you for all of your work on this video!

Amazing video essay!! Love the content, and as a fan of the games I could agree on that last part

Very impressive, please keep these coming!!!!!

An excellent video as usual. The techniques behind the longbow were touched on in this, but what about the katana? Were the techniques used in the game accurate to real life techniques?

@RealPixels

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a great question, and one that I’m not very qualified to answer. There are some great videos on KZread about that from the perspective of experts, specifically from channels like Gamology and BuzzFeed. I’d recommend checking them out if you’d like to know more!

@gamerstheater1187

Жыл бұрын

Samurai were more adapt to range and horse combat, when in melee, they preferred spears and if all else failed, they would use the katana.

I like your videos and hope the channel keeps growing :D

God I love this game. Totally an Assassins Creed killer.

Great video! I am playing this game right now, will probably finish it soon. It's a great game, definitely one of my favorites on PS4 with RDR2, The Witcher 3, and Horizon Zero Dawn. I think those who did not appreciate Ghost of Tsushima were expecting more action, events in the open world, etc. They did not appreciate the history and characters, as well as the music, locations, and how this is such a different, fascinating culture. I think that's what I love the most about the game, it takes me elsewhere, but it's still realistic. I love it. It's one of those rare games I don't really want to finish, I have been playing for a long time and there aren't many like that. Ghost of Tsushima is truly special.

I think you, and of course ultimately Sucker Punch hit the nail on the head about this game. Be as accurate as you can, while not letting it get in the way of telling a great story, and creating a great game. While also being respectful about the place and time, looking at other historically accurate Japanese things and bring them into your game. It's a great beautiful balance they did. This has been one of my favorite games of the last several years.

Best content on you tube. Wish u had more videos.

Man I love this channel so much, I get to learn stuff and hear about some of my favourite games this channel deserves to blow the f up!!!

Hi I love your videos and all of them are amazing. However one thing I’d like to point out regarding the samurai code. In the Ghost Of Tsushima behind the scene, a Japanese historian actually stated that after the Mongol war, some samurais started to question whether their orders should be superior than civilian and they can’t protect anyone if they blindly follow orders. This actually caused a civil war between those samurais who only believe order above all else and those who believe protecting people is what samurai stand for. Sadly, the samurai who believe order superiority won the civil war and thus caused the distrust from the people and some riots started.

@rebelfriend5327

10 ай бұрын

What civil war was this? Out of curiosity

@ekopradja5974

8 ай бұрын

do you mind tell what year of this civil war taken place ?

I love these type of videos ❤❤

Great video!

Amazing video thank you.

Loved this game, everything AC valhalla wasn't, it's journey into Ninja territory was a bit on the nose and cheesy. I see this as more of an homage to samurai movies from the 60s and 70s as well as the fabulous Lone wolf and cub comic series than a historical piece.

How Historically Accurate is Vice City? You gotta do that next

Its my favorite Single player story based game I have every played because of the the love and attention they put into the environment and combat as well as story and it really help that I love historical accuracy

How don't you have more subs? def deserve them

The Samurai didn't only use the Yumi, which is the bow, they also used the Yari, a spear.

@growlanser5600

Жыл бұрын

I think those are the ones monk warriors use in the game.

@YEY0806

Жыл бұрын

​@Growlanser, that's the naginata, a glaive weapon

@revbladez5773

10 ай бұрын

Yari became popular in later periods when the samurai started to develop tactics for formation warfare and shock cavalry. Before that, naginata was the polearm of choice, which lost its popularity since it is primarily a slashing weapon and thrusting weapons are generally more effective in formations.

I wish I had a PS5, the game is just so great looking

@UnimportantAcc

3 жыл бұрын

one can only hope sony will port it to pc in a couple years

@Apricity_Rpg

3 жыл бұрын

I actually won a ps5 from the Mountain Dew sweepstakes. This game looks orgasmic on the ps5

@ariel_7007

3 жыл бұрын

Looks great on ps4pro as well, smoother on ps5 though

@darkhpokinsngaming8889

2 жыл бұрын

@@UnimportantAcc Or play it on the much better PS4 where it belongs. Fuck PC Gaming.

@darkhpokinsngaming8889

2 жыл бұрын

You can play the game on PS4…

About to start my first play through of this game on the ps5 version time to see what’s up

@2:40 "Where they were pushed out by a large storm". Interestingly, that large storms were typhoons that became called the "Kamikaze", or the "god/divine winds". And that's where the word came from originally, before its usage in World War II.

amazing video ghost of tsushima is a game i was very excited for & pre ordered as soon as it opened on amazon i ended up switching my pre order to psn for the avatar but yeah & man it's such a good game definitely one of the best games that released since 2019 & if anyone happened to not played it yet go play it it's so so good i have not met anyone tell me that they did not enjoy it

And then there is AC Shadows

Ironically the most inaccurate thing about Ghost of Tsushima is the Ghost himself. All Jin Sakai does is accelerate the Khan's death by storm, which was fated to happen anyways. The "Ghost" techniques he learns along his journey are rejected by the samurai, but learned by the Mongols. And in reality they were Mongol techniques to begin with. It's kinda poetic in that sense. If the ghost hypothetically existed, he would have been lost to time, and we would have roughly had the same "true story" we have today. In the truest sense he would be a Ghost.

@Loquacious_Jackson

10 ай бұрын

Cringe

@Solotocius

10 ай бұрын

​@@Loquacious_Jacksonwe already know what you are, tyvm

To me accurate representation is nice but true love and respect for the culture is the most noticeable

Not only the attention to historic and cultural detail, and then also the art (artistic landscapes) but I really appreciate the effort to polish this game to a much higher standard than most dross AAA titles who rely upon patches. A lot of thinking went into making this game and going beyond the 80/20 was worthwhile. It’s rare I play anything twice.

the game look so good @ 60fps. GREATVIDEO!

In the same way that the "knight in shining armour" was mythologised in Europe, I see no real issue with the Bushido legend being... a legend. I mean, it is pretty explicit in Ghost of Tsushima that the events are supposed to be a mythologised retelling.

Wish games like this stilled exist. Work of Art.

No way, you deserve so many more subscribers

Dude you are so fuckin good! Keep it up you're on ur way

the swords in the games are worn incorrectly. During the Kamakura period, the swords were worn with the blade side down, not up as in the game. Blade side up is not worn until several hundred years later, especially during the Edo period.

@RiinzL

2 жыл бұрын

Why was it like that by the way, do u know?

@revbladez5773

10 ай бұрын

The swords in the game are worn correctly. The problem is that they are wrong types of swords which did not even exist yet.

how does everybody know im replaying GoT

I love love love this game I find myself immersed in it and playing for hours. I can’t wait for the sequel

Man I’m so dedicated to this game since I bought it on PS5. The music, the story, the stealth, the action, the views, the way the characters speak, the history behind it…this game is a 11/10 it personally breaks the scale for me. Thank you for explaining what I had been wondering for some time after I beat the game and now I’m on my second playthrough on Game+. Just a wonderfully executed game.

This makes me love the game even more. It is definitely one of the best open world games out right now.

Even tho i cant play the game cause i got an xbox i still gotta watch it for your watchtime

Great game I just got the platinum now onto the DLC

I love this, this scratches the itch of the gripes i have with Ghost of Tsushima and their obsessive western view of samurai honor that Inazo peddled. I love the game to death but this honor bullshit really ticks me off sometimes.

@Bova-Fett

9 ай бұрын

I don't think it's that hard to believe there were some people in feudal Japan that believed in honor in this way, just as it's not hard to beleive there are people who disregarded such notions. The real issue is simply if such values/morals were conceptualized as bushido in the way Inazo described (which is more than likely not the case).

Are you going to make any vids on RD3 and what you want from it

The most accurate historical moments in ghost of tsushima is how I die the first few minutes into the game.

Just completed my second playthrough with the directors cut. One of the most beautiful games ive ever played.❤

The lack of "flexibility" and "adaptability" is a large part of why the samurai fell.

This game has a very underrated soundtrack 😮‍💨

Have put over 100 Hours in GoT recently and it still stuns me how beautiful this game is.

Underrated

The banners are the wrong type. I thought you were going to touch on this since you even showed pictures of the different types of banners from the different eras. The old one hangs from the top, and the newer one is attached to a frame (side and top).

the tachi is a type of katana the katana we know is called a uchikatana

I watched another video that talked the historic events pertaining this. Evidently, the Khan had sent two envoys to try and talk to then imperial lords of Japan only to be turned away. The Mongolians captured two unassuming fisher men, were treated in the hospitality customs of the court of the Khanate, and sent back to Japan that they’d share their accounts. Even the Japanese fishermen were spurned away. Japan wanted nothing to do with Mongolia or the Khanate and their silent protest is what prompted the Khanate to act against them. The fights were, needless to say, very brutal particularly the tactics that the Mongolian armies employed. What is also interesting is the Khanate did not send just Mongolians but a combination of Koreans, Chinese, and other captured people to fight against the Japanese.

@YEY0806

Жыл бұрын

Yes, in fact, there were very few mongol footsoldiers. The majority of actual mongols were officers and generals

did this happen in during the first shogun rule or the second shogun rule is it close to the imjin war ?

this game is easily in my top 5 of all time games

I love this guy

Interesting video.

Just finished the main game and got the Platinum. Now on to the expansion.

I still love this game so much

The music of ghost of tsushima will always make me sad cause of how impactful it is and sad the ending is of game.

If they’re gonna make a sequel to this game, they should just use the 2nd invasion but make it to where Jin has left the island and went to stay at Iki. But since Jin is gone and Lord Shimura is dead, (if that’s the canon ending), Tsushima falls quickly. Jin hears about this and goes back to Tsushima and attempts to take back the island with his allies from Iki and new island he finds during his Journey to take back Tsushima. Now I know this just sounds like the first game all over again, but at the end of the game the samurai never took back Tsushima. Considering the mongols were still everywhere and still trying to take it over. But idk just what I think.

@gunnerjr3396

4 күн бұрын

The DLC covers Iki and according to the devs, the canon ending is that Jin spares Lord Shimura

@pcbphantom4336

4 күн бұрын

@@gunnerjr3396 cool, good to know. Thanks.

I just finished the game on PS5, great game. Some of the side missions were a little repetitive, but over all this game is a 8.5-9 outta 10. Can’t wait for part 2

Bought the game twice it was so good!

im upset that i didn't finish this game

how this game is not compared to red dead i will never know

Can you make how history Accruate of Mafia game.

What did you use to cross reference your historical points?

@RealPixels

10 ай бұрын

Good question! All the sources are in the credits. 😊

@godisgood9720

10 ай бұрын

@RealPixels thanks! Btw, I really enjoyed this game too. Do you know if they're working on a sequel?

I’m playing the game RIGHT NOW!

This is the first game I have done complete 100% playthrough beyond main story. It is simply a marvel in art direction.

I will definitely play the game even more

I think that Shimura is actually not a historical inaccuracy in terms of "honor." Shimura is a prideful man who won't budge from his ideals, even if it means disgracing his nephew and scorning him. Hell, Shimura was more than happy to throw bodies at his own castle only to take the glory for all of Jin's work. Shimura isn't some bushido-loving noble warrior. He's an old dog who loves glory hunting and shattered as soon as an enemy who didn't care about his "code of honor" fought him. It's even noted in the game that Kazumasa Sakai, Jin's father, would regularly be at odds with Shimura because Kazumasa knew what had to be done to win battles (against the Yarikawa rebels), but Shimura was too idealistic to yield.

The Hwacha was not available until the early 15th century, and was mostly used by Koreans during the Imjin War against the Japanese invasion.

My favorite game of all time

What about the Grappling hook, historically accurate?

While the bushido was not a thing at this period, the Japanese did uphold some standards in their way of fighting that put them at a disadvantage against the Mongols. Here's an account of the battle of Hakata bay: "According to our manner of fighting, we must first call out by name someone from the enemy ranks, and then attack in single combat. But they (the Mongols) took no notice at all of such conventions; they rushed forward all together in a mass, grappling with any individuals they could catch and killing them."

But they did go to Iki in the game as well 2:36

I love Ghost of Tsushima, it's a one of the best games of the last 25 years imo. Sucker Punch nailed it especially the NG+, it was on parr with Witcher 3 imo. I loved it so much I spent 60 Hours running around killing the ever spawning Mongols and collecting everything I could before I even did first mission lol. If my math was right my first play through was around 320 hours but I can't say exactly bc for some reason the game stopped keeping track of my play time after the time hit 249 hours

Maybe coming to PC PPL OMG :D

Sort of a footnote but the initial duel in game might be an allusion to the idea that the samurai of the time when fighting in close quarters would declare their identity and their lineage to their opponent, but it’s said at the mongol invasion that the mongols would just say fuck this and swamp them in groups. Now take this with a grain of salt because the book I read this in was also written by an anthropologist who’s goal was to try and dispel some of the misconceptions about how bad the mongols were while telling their history and in doing so kind of overlooked some war crimes

Actuelly the way they shoot with the bow looks like modern "traditionnal" bow shooting, we dont know how they shot back then

Glad they did the honor the way they did though gives more of an effect that you’re alone and really are a ghost

I'm still wondering about the story of the Egyptian artifact carried by the mongols ended up in Tsushima and how accurate this is 😂

excellent

im an Mongolian and i found it so weird that this isnt in our history books

I loved that game it was awesome

I've just been playing the game and i got the gist that you get the bombs/smoke bombs from the mongols, so it's not being used by the wrong side?

This game was the best way to bow out of the PS4 era