Ghost of Tsushima 2

[Thalstarion]

It's a hard pass from me. I generally prefer playing male protagonists in such games in the first place but the voice actress is extremely outspoken on social media and seems to recently be heavily promoted and involved in various projects not due to talent but rather due to politics. There's some creepy video floating around involving the voice actress and a handful of others exploiting gaming/role-play to try and promote Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Source: https://x.com/goodtimesociety/status/1836188571822141547

 

[DemonKing]

Unless the "actress" is doing both the Japanese and English VO just swap to the other language if their politics offends you so much you can't bear to hear them utter a word in game.

 

[JC'sBarber]

I'm not playing as a female character in 2025, and I don't give a damn about Jap history, or the fetishization of it.

 

[Ezekiel]

Unless the "actress" is doing both the Japanese and English VO just swap to the other language if their politics offends you so much you can't bare to hear them utter a word in game.

Reading subs and playing at the same time is impossible in story-driven action-adventure games, especially after the death of cutscenes.

Were the subs in the first game for the Japanese or English audio? I still haven't played it.

 

[Thalstarion]

Unless the "actress" is doing both the Japanese and English VO just swap to the other language if their politics offends you so much you can't bare to hear them utter a word in game.

It's less that I'm 'offended' and more so that I'm simply bored of their ilk and I like to call them out when and where possible. These people are spiteful mutants and narcissists who contribute very little to society beyond deluding themselves into thinking that they need to spend every waking moment injecting their political views into absolutely everything. I'm a firm believer in the idea of companies operating with a degree of tact and keeping things fairly professional and apolitical.

I plan to ignore the game as I do not want to fund such individuals even indirectly.

Given that pattern recognition is a thing, the chances of the voice actress and company itself being able to restrain themselves with the activism is also highly unlikely.

 

[DemonKing]

Were the subs in the first game for the Japanese or English audio? I still haven't played it.

I played it in Japanese with English subtitles without issue.

I think the voice actor for the original did both the Japanese and English VO though.

 

[Fedora Master]

Also its hilarious that the game will be called GOY if they do the same thing as they did for the first one.

Ghost of Yotei: Samurai Legends of Pinneshiri

Nobody got this one, really?

 

[Fedora Master]

So out of the millions of Japanese women in Japan, they couldn't find a single one to voice the protagonist. They had to go for a dude. Okay then.

Jap VOs are all trained to sound like 8 year olds and scream "No daddy!" and nothing else

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Reading subs and playing at the same time

Not hard at all, l2r

 

[Konjad]

The VA for the main character (also possibly the face model)

You know what, black samurai would be rather cool

 

[Konjad]

So out of the millions of Japanese women in Japan, they couldn't find a single one to voice the protagonist. They had to go for a dude. Okay then.

Jap VOs are all trained to sound like 8 year olds and scream "No daddy!" and nothing else

Asian cinema/acting is more emotional, yes. It's a cultural difference, if you can't stand it then I don't think you should play in original VO Asian games at all.

 

[Elttharion]

Also its hilarious that the game will be called GOY if they do the same thing as they did for the first one.

Ghost of Yotei: Samurai Legends of Pinneshiri

Nobody got this one, really?

GOYSLOP!!!!!!

 

[Fedora Master]

So out of the millions of Japanese women in Japan, they couldn't find a single one to voice the protagonist. They had to go for a dude. Okay then.

Jap VOs are all trained to sound like 8 year olds and scream "No daddy!" and nothing else

Asian cinema/acting is more emotional, yes. It's a cultural difference, if you can't stand it then I don't think you should play in original VO Asian games at all.

The point




Your head

 

[mediocrepoet]

I think this is one of the first times in the modern AAA game space where the character looks better than the face model.

 

[Elttharion]

Do you think we will also get semi nude armor and nude hot spring scenes in this? The first game had both of those

 

[Softgels]

Hokkaido at this time is just small villages scattered around like in Tsushima, disappointed because I was expecting a sequel set in mainland Japan with big cities and many npcs with complex behavior.

 

[ferratilis]

Looked over at Resetera, nothing but overwhelming hype. A lot of "day 1 purchase" and "GOTY 2025" posts. And that's coming after Sony announced a $700 console. With goyim like that, these companies can't lose.

 

[Elttharion]

Hokkaido at this time is just small villages scattered around like in Tsushima, disappointed because I was expecting a sequel set in mainland Japan with big cities and many npcs with complex behavior.

The game is also set arount the beginning of the 17th century if I read it correctly. I wonder if you will play as an Ainu protagonist fighting against the japs trying to colonize the island. Would be an interesting choice, to say the least.

 

[cvv]

The first one was a parable of masculinity, I predict 'disappointing' sales for this.

Absolutely this.

A huge factor in the first game blowing up so much was male gamers finally getting to play a masculine, positive, competent male hero, albeit a slanty.

I guess devs and publishers will have to suffer a few more "sales below expectations" episodes until they stop making games for journalists and Resetera and start making them for 90% of their audience.

 

[911 Jumper]

The actress playing the lead character in this game:

 

[Morgoth]

First Blue Eye Samurai, now this.

Wamman Ronin relegating Men Ronin to mere bandits.

 

[Siel]

Was the first one even good? Looked like your typical Ubislop open world garbage so I didn't bother

 

[Rean]

A female samurai going around killing people is as accurate as a black samurai but I doubt the people who complained about 'historical accuracy' will talk about this game as much as they did with the Ubislop one.

Female samurai were actually a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onna-musha

Black samurai not so much...

Female warriors were about as much a thing in Japan as in other nations.
Once every few years, a daimyo might have deigned to allow a woman to walk around armed and grant her a stipend, and he'd have her deal with other females (like collecting taxes) so as not to be seen as heavy-handed. In some other cases, what they call 'female samurai' were typical misfits or thugs, just of the female persuasion, who could have received some combat training (often archery) through family members. They sucked up to the shugodai for pay.

 

[JC'sBarber]

Also its hilarious that the game will be called GOY if they do the same thing as they did for the first one.

Ghost of Yotei: Samurai Legends of Pinneshiri

Nobody got this one, really?

GOYSLOP!!!!!!

"OH MY SCIENCE!, I'M SO EXCITED TO PLAY GOY!. ARE YOU EXCITED FOR GOY?!"

 

[Fedora Master]

Was the first one even good? Looked like your typical Ubislop open world garbage so I didn't bother

It was decent and captured the look and feel of a samurai power fantasy very well. Half the cast were stronk females though, so it was obvious where they're taking the series.