(without hate) What are some small things that bug you about this game?

There are lots of empty spaces. As a guy who hates those ? symbol , I had to ride alot until it goes away only to find stupid legends storyteller.

Losing track of fox in tall grass area

Not able to smash tomoe

Pressing R2 to pick up items and also opens trap doors. So annoying

The gameplay is amazing, but the open world doesn’t really feel alive.

I really wanted a transmog system. I loved the perks of the ghost armor but found it a little bulky. I love the crimson dye on the Samurai armor.

See I like the trailing NPC thing cuz the whole thing is that they go your speed which is so so nice.

One thing that bugs me though is that the perfect Dodge ded not get unlocked until the very end of the evasion skill tree. So you either have to forego upgrading your stances or cut back on your ghost abilities to be able to have the full moveset.

No search bar for charms, masks, and hats. Or even just a grid would work better.

No more large scale skirmish in the scale of the intro fight in the Komoda beach or a kill box scenario where you're locked in a castle hall with a never ending swarm of mongols!

The lack of a homebase to sleep in. I am given the Sakai Family home at one point in the game. Why can't I use it?

How Jin locked out from attacking during small chatter in duels. I'm perfectly fine with conversation in the middle fight, but please don't hinder the *clink*clank* dances of the blades. Really break the immersion imo since GoT has such fluid combat.

Also, would really love an option to disable finisher just like AC games offer, as players are vulnerable when executing these movements, this proved to be fatal especially if one is playing on higher difficulty.

1. Equipment system - i want to mix and match my armor sets.
2. Transmog - be all dripped out while retaining the passive and stats
3. I cant hide bodies
4. There should be an option to use ghost tactics in duels. You lost honor so go ham
5. Only two sword techniques

My main complaint is how repetitive the game could be. The combat does get repetitive after a while, especially when there’s only 4 kinds of enemies and a stance for each of them. I preferred the duels to fighting a bunch of mongols.

Then the collectibles were very repetitive. Way too many fox dens for one. Having 10 or less would have helped keep it feeling charming, but then there were over 50 of them. And the fox dens are never addressed by any of the characters. At least with the hot springs, you get some insight into Jin’s thoughts on things.

I prefer when side quests and collectibles add to the story and flesh out the characters or the world in some way. It’s a bummer they just went towards stats and nothing else.

Following footprints is kinda hard in this game. While i like this game doesn't straight up highlight them, it has been confusing for me because I can barely see them in the mud and grass at times.

I know that place with the bench. You bet I looked all over for a way to sit on it.

It does sometimes feel like you’re running around a world you’re only half way in. I’m not sure how the developers could make it where the players interacted more with the environment without adding a million little unnecessary things

The fact that the parry doesn’t always work when I’m clearly pushing hard on that button.

Very well said brother.

I remember the first time an npc shut the door to my face I got mad as hell.

Lack of emotes. Don't get me wrong tho, I really appreciate the idle animations when you go afk but Jin being able to sit or drink sake outside of story missions would have been really great.

It's also highly suitable for photo mode enthusiasts.

Jin doesn’t walk up stairs, he just floats at an incline, often clipping through them in the process.

Speaking of clipping, Gusoku’s armor often clips through the jinbaori (surcoat).

More than half of the side-quests in the game have no directed cutscenes. Just a wide shot in which two characters converse while idle. I understand it would be super difficult to flesh out the entire game with cutscenes on par with the main missions but it does get tiring viewing the same animations over and over again with little variation.

Not being able to step down off a short piece of terrain, forcing me to jump. Especially when I am being stealthy because the jumps don't feel stealthy.

I kid not the fox animation I love petting them but the animation looks so janky to me like they clip on themselves other than that not really mad at anything or I’ve played it so much that anything that did used for bother me I’ve gotten used to and don’t really care as much anymore.

I do like the fact that following nature is how you discover a lot of the exploration stuff or collectables, but I swear to god half my playtime in this game was me running after birds

Not sure if it's considered a small thing but how every Mongol patrol honorably and patiently takes turns to attack you after you challenge them.

1. Context sensitivity overload. The difference between picking up an item and LITERALLY VAULTING OVER THE LEDGE INTO A GRAPPLING HOOK HANG can be 10 degrees of the camera. I do the wrong action quite often because of stuff like this.

2. Missions where you're supposed to inspect the environment or find something and you're just walking around forever waiting for a marker to become visible on the screen. Hate that crap. Nothing kills immersion harder.

3. Scripted parkour sections with no depth or difficulty. They look cool I guess... but it feels like this is a game design concept that should've become outdated a long time ago with the early Assassin's Creed games.

4. Missed opportunity with the end of Masako's storyline. Masako's sister should've had children she loved, and Masako should've been faced with the opportunity to kill those children in front of her sister to make her suffer in the same way she suffered. It would've come down to her controlling the rage that blinded her (which the storyline leads to in many ways) and breaking the cycle of violence (killing only her sister, and not anyone innocent). I think that would've been way cooler.

That when the winds guide you, they do not tell you the optimal way to get where you’re going. And by that I don’t mean “There’s a shortcut over here” I mean that they just launch themselves directly up the mountain without telling you “Oh you actually can’t climb up here at all. You have to go all the way around”.

No way to sort charms. I poked my nose in everywhere, and very soon had more charms than I could easily keep track of, or evaluate.

Kinda wish for rhe Standoff times there's a chance you can break their weapons if done it correctly since Jin's sword is stronger than a normal Samurai sword.

It would be nice to build the relationship with your horse more, pet it, feed it, maybe a bonding system like Red Dead Redemption 2. Could even have some fun little missions to do that are specifically to do with the horse.

I fucking hate having to babysit companions constantly getting downed (especially Norio) during fights while they regularly interrupt my combos and block my movements. Only part of the game that’s induced actual rage in me.

Also I don’t like how the auto-save system doesn’t actually take you back to the last save but instead just spawns you at an arbitrary checkpoint and also removes all the enemies you previously killed. I want to redo the whole fight and get it right, or at least not have to anti-climactically kill 2 guys and beat the whole mission because I died right before clearing the camp right before. It also makes it unnecessarily difficult to load manual saves.

I finished the game tonight with the exception of legends mode and very few side objectives yet to be complete. 142 hours. I loved this game. Stumbled across it on PS+. I enjoyed just riding through the fog and discovering new camps, villages, and running into random foes and dispatching of them accordingly. I appreciated the scavenger aspect of it and the cultivating of the character with tech points and building your legend through the experience.

I had that some thought about this game. There’s really but a few minor things that I found to be inconvenient or anti to the flow of the game. Basically the things OP listed.

Now I’m gonna go try to knock out all the target practice locations on Iki Island under 7 seconds and then go through and complete the legends mode.

There’s a couple missions that don’t appear on your map until you’re almost right on top of them, making them easy to miss. I wish they were a little easier to find.

It is beautiful but it feels empty also No bumping uglies with Yuna. Also if the second game is in mainland Japan I would love to see social stealth like Hitman or older AC games.

small thing that really bugs me is you have to stand still to sheath your blade

When you're in kill finish animation, you're open to attack. On hardest difficulty it makes enormous difference, especially with brutes.

going in the middle of nowhere to check out a "?" but it turns out to be a fox den or gyozen for the 1000th time

Being locked out from incomplete side missions in Act 3 or later

i hate looting corpses when i mean to change stances

I wish the game had proper death physics. Minor thing, and I'm not talking anything wacky, but maybe something like how Halo games do it where it blends scripted death animations, then shifts to ragdoll afterwards. Super minor but it is kinda goofy to see dudes floating halfway off rocks.

I think only one sword sheathe animation properly animates blood landing on the ground. Again, minor but the game has a wildly cool blood animation system and seeing the drops phase through the ground on every animation but the one is a bit silly.

Personally find the whole "we need to break in but there is no way, OH WAIT they forgot to repair the wall so there is a hole we can go through to break in" instead of actually being able to break walls, its lazy game design to me. I'd rather have the ability from iki island but more elaborate that makes me able to break down specific walls.

I want more utility in the little blade other than assassinations. Better ways to find random hats and headbands (i forgor what they’re called) and for god’s sake, some gig shrines are absolutely bullshit. (Scarlet rock shrine specifically)

The yellow bird. I like that it's symbolically Jin's mother, that's cool and it can sometimes lead you towards things you wouldn't find otherwise, but most of the time it's just crashing into walls, or changing elevation in a really annoying way, or leading you towards something you were already heading towards. It's a cool idea, I just think the execution is really hit or miss.

You have to constantly change armor but it takes so long even with loadouts.

There's too few colors for gear.

There is no hand to hand combat, I know I sounds crazy I wanted to do some kicks and punches like sleeping dog where you can jump of tents or horse and land a kick to the face and knees to the head while breaking the bones like BATMAN

yeah the door animation kinda sucks, I would have like some variety like maybe opening the door with your foot when your sword is drawn or adding a crouched door opening animation.

Fast travelling speeds up the time randomly instead of a set amount of time bugs me out a little

I have only 1 petty complaint. The deer that hang out by the road as you pass by, get startled, and somehow always find a way to run directly into you

+1 for ways to interact with the environment. Animal skinning and survival mechanics out of Red Dead 2’s book would go a long way in GoT’s open world

Always irks me how little there is for assassination animations. Mongol standing by a ledge? Should be able to stab and push em off, not just leave them on the cliff edge to be found. Mongol squatted on a pier? Should be able to pull him into the water. Mongol sitting on a log? If I want to stab him, it shouldn't glitch us both into a standing position immediately.

I think there are only two things that truly bug me: one, small issue is the the main missions are pretty mundane, but that's not a big problem, with the side missions being interesting AF. The only thing that REALLY bugs me is that all the interiors, especially of the yurts in the Mongol camps, but for the most part also of the houses in the villages are all exactly the same.

It really bugs me that it ended and I didn’t have anything else to do. This game was awesome.

For clarity, I did everything. I just wanted to play forever haha.

Something that bugs me that idk if anyone has thought about. I hate that you can only survey camps when prompted to do so, I wish I could survey any mongol territory so I can better plan my stealth route. It would make it so much more immersive and fun. Other than that the stealth mechanics are perfect.

I hated some quests in Iki island DLC where you have to climb destroyed sips ob the beach. Also I hated some of the shrine climbing

I love the ability to just sit and chill out in a game, maybe eat and drink or smoke something, listen to music, hang out with NPCs. So far, only Rockstar has figured this out with GTAV and RDR2. It's a refreshing change, and awesome for immersion, to do something other than run/drive/shoot.

I wish there were optional mechanics that made hunting/fishing a possibility. I don’t mean some hardcore survival simulator, but perhaps temporary buffs from preparing and eating certain foods.

I would want it to be light and, again, very optional, but it would add some value and fun to the open world. Japan has a rich culinary history, and it would be cool to highlight that through a gameplay element!

I also wish we could sit down again at haiku sites and just experience the zen every once in a while the way we can at hot springs.

I kinda don't like the multi-player mode I think they could have done better then a wave battle system and its not that fun to me but that's my opinion

The bulky ass un aesthetic samurai armors - not enough ninja gear that looks cool. Basically means only ghost level 1 and travelers attire are viable.

The cosmetic-only and ahistorical wakizashi on the ghost armor for no reason.

Can’t use Mongol weapons or Japanese polearms like naginata or yari.

His haircut. I don’t know how to describe it but it just really bugs me how there are 2 strands of hair that hang outside the bun. I don’t know. It just rubs me the wrong way like petting a cat the wrong way or shaving against the grain.

no matter how hard you try, you are either forced to, or are just made to be the bad guy, what I mean is, the story should have had the option to choose between an honor path and a dishonor path. Either ending depending which you choose isn't inherently bad, or good, there should be consequences for both, but I wanted to choose, because I played as honorably as I could until Spoiler

I would ideally like to be able to quick swap outfits on the fly like quickswapping between other equipment. I’m in the menu every like, 5 minutes changing outfits for the right occasion. I’m not sure how feasible this would be and its impact on performance, but I would like some way to reduce the amount of times I’m going back and forth between menus. Loadouts significantly reduced the amount of time spent in between gameplay and the main menu, but it could be better.

Also ragdolls and dragging/carrying bodies. It’s a small thing that can greatly enhance immersion imo and idk why SP doesn’t have ragdolls in their games yet.

Me and the climbing system are not simpatico

NPCs.

The tracking missions are god awful, that’s about it really

Combat animation can be janky. If a bear grabs me but gets staggered by an enemy I will still be stuck in the grabbed attack animation being thrown around by nothing.

Very minor petty peeves:

NPC’s that stand there waiting to get captured again after you rescue them (I guess I should take “best day ever!” guy at his word. At least the ones that do run free are smart enough to hide until the fighting is done.  Not like the ones in Legends, who always run towards the Mongols…

Thinking the NPC is going to give you a side quest, only to be locked listening to a dialogue you can’t escape from on the virtues of following the Kami and visiting the shrines, etc in Act 2 (when I’ve already been doing these things for many hours already).

I grew to hate all of the flute tunes that brought the sun, so imagine my joy when they repackaged it into many of the DLC’s mini games.

Mongol patrol, stop running away and hiding mid-skirmish so I have to play hide & seek just to free the captive.

I want to feed my horse & interact more with other animals & NPCs.

There was a lot of chit-chat from the villagers that I would have loved to have captioned.  I couldn’t make out a LOT of what they were saying.  By the time I positioned myself to hear, they would finish chatting.

Would love more bokken duels with more characters — both as a chance to practice different styles (training mode) and to challenge yourself (trial mode).  Would like to duel PvP as well.

1. The only stealth hiding spots are tall grass.

2. No way to change the day/night cycle, missed opportunity for meditation imo.

3. No way to drag/hide bodies.

4. The grapple hook mechanic is underused and is somewhat broken.

A torch would have been nice for exploring dark areas.

For me it’s that the game doesn’t really penalize you for going stealth. Just a cut scene or two for most part.

Small, but I hate that my horse makes almost the same noise every time I tap the sprint button.

The side quests are too repetitive. Why so many Fox dens, Haikus and Shrines? There is absolutely no distinction in between each one of them and they just feel like tick-mark activities.

Repeative

Save unarmed, sometimes tied up Japanese man or woman. She bows, says thank you and just stairs at you.

I can complete a quest for an NPC that is standing next to me but if I want to start the next one I have to go to a certain location.

I dont know if there's anything I have a serious issue with.

THE AMOUNT OF FOX DENS IS SO EXTRA

Not having a lock-on option when fighting groups of enemies, especially in Legends mode. I’ve thrown away so many sticky bombs even when 5 large enemies are right in front of me, it’s maddening sometimes

Fox dens.

• Chain assassination has no animation variations
• Jin not ever cleaning his katana
• Doors mechanic

People are going to hate me, but i don't really like the graphics and lighting.

Empty open-world and the lack of interaction with the environment. Like, I know it's realistic but this is a video game.

The side quests are a bit too boring by and large, feels more of a chore to get through most of them. Unlike say, W3 which has better writing and more variety. This is after a few playthroughs though. Note I mean the ones on the map you stumble on and not the Tales or the legendary techniques/weapons ones

The lack of subtitles for the casual dialogue between NPCs or between Jin and Horse when playing in Japanese.

The horse’s movements. They are very off and unnatural particularly while running, it’s atrocious

Not having subs for the random convos between NPCs

Not being able to interact much with NPCs outside of missions and quests

Not being able to sleep

I'd really like to wear the AMAZING looking Ghost armour, but in it's V1 state. It's the only armor I genuinely loved looking at.

Not a big samurai guy, so the other armors just looked bulky to me.

I count controller layout as a small thing but before i learned i can remap on steam, it was a deal breaker. I dont get it. Modern layout is R1/R2 for melees. Why change everything around? Also its not specific to ghost of tsushima but its adjacent. Why does every game have diff button for running and mount dismount.

I get you want uniqueness but atleast give us the option to use mainstream layout.

The spinny/flashy movements of the Wind and Moon stances.

The armour clipping, ot is really bad for the heavier armours, especially Gosaku

1. The trailing NPCs system (maybe wrong term?) It feels like you aren't able to actually follow the NPCs because they stay only like 3 feet ahead of you and only walk or ride at your speed.

Once upon a time this feature didn't exist in games and just killed the overall pace and immersion. Cyberpunk also released without it and lead to these absurd situations where the NPC will walk with the speed of a snail to the objective while having no more dialogue lines left.

I do agree there should've been more chasing missions(there were only 3 I think).

Not being able to enter the castles without glitching your way in

I wish you could mix and match different parts of the outfits

— Lack of ability to sleep — Jin need to take poor people's supplies to upgrade everything (you can roleplay and not grab everything from houses, but game will be more difficult and rescued people will give you «everything they have» anyway — cmon man I have thousands of supplies feed your family or smth) — You can't ride back to 1st island without fast travel — Standoffs are repetitive and boring — You can't hide bodies for stealth approach

I thought the facial animations were poor at times and I would have liked more customizable armor

When I'm running laps around a farm for 15mins looking for the last hostage to free.

I love the lack of HUD and how natural they've tried to make the gameplay feel but... just have the icon pop up for a second or two if it's been too long.

Sprinting at the same spot wid horse

I thought about the little things I complained when playing the PC version.. it has a lot but I just think to myself that it's a -not technically their first game- new game for them. in all honestly it's also indie like but it still stood out of all the rest.. + samurai..

1. Opening/Closing the door is ass, I often just break the doors after the misssions just to avoid opening them again.

2. The parkour needs a little more polish..

3. The stealth also needs polishing..

I forgot some little things but I just wish that the sequel improves + fixes some of the issues.. IKI ISLAND was awesome..

I feel like that bug that kept resetting the number of ghost weapons I was carrying, never got patched.

Even once you complete the game there are areas you can't explore, like Shimura's Castle though that could be the ending I got. I'm also not a fan of the amount of resources in the game being useless once I got everything kinda early.

let me pet my horse!!!

I just wanna skip through all the silly cutscenes

The lack of weapon variety. Would've loved to be able to wield a yari, naginata and/or a kusarigama. (Don't get me wrong, I loved the katana gameplay and had a lot of fun mixing stances for combos)

Quests are incredibly repetitive

While I liked the long animation for starting duels by the end of the game I really just wanted to be able to start them faster.

I also wish cutscenes were skippable. I don't want to rewatch everyone when I start a new game. Also it's a pain when your game crashes and you have to restart the cutscene right when you were at the end.

• The "investigation phase/ look for clues" (usually footsteps)... I feel it so freaking boring and overdone.

• The lack of quality animations outside of combat. (Walking upstairs, no sitting, no phishing,)

• Jin's Facial animation / lipsinc in Jap feels very off. Was obviously thought with "play with mempo anyway, who cares" in mind

• Texture quality are not the best (wet stone) but the beauty of the game is elsewhere

• mud

Lots of side quests follow the same pattern of 1. Meet someone who worries about someone else 2. Go to check on them, fighting enemies along the way 3. Find them dead 4. Inform the quest-giver

Like I'm surprised when i find someone alive and well by the end of a quest lmao

4 little things that if fixed make this game 10/10

1. YOU CAN'T LEAVE A FUCKING DOOR OPEN. WHY DO THE CHARACTERS JUST SHUT IT IN MY FACE?????

2. There's such a small attack variety. They make it seem like there's a lot, but every enemy variation is the same enemy with 1 extra attack. Essentially there's just 5: bow, sword, double sword shield and brute. That's not enough for me, but I've olayed for hundreds of hiurs so anything would get old by then.

3. There are a few, not many, but some very few select attacks that are IMPOSSIBLE to dodge consistently. Some unblockable boss attacks, especially the DLC monkey boss ones, need to be dodged as soon as you see the red marker and at a specific direction. Problem is, there's more than one of those for the same fight, and they have different directions you have to pre dodge. So if you guess wrong in lethal mode, you just die or lose 2/3 of your health.

This may seem like not a big deal but it really ruins the mojo of an otherwise great fight. Another example would be the Spoiler Fight with that stupid little pummel touch that depending on your position is literally impossible to react to. If you're too close to him it's insignificant fractions of a second. You just can't have impossible to dodge attacks in a melee game. That's a no no.

1. Boss attack variety is way too low. Kind of the 1st point rehashed but you get my meaning.

I too want Jin to be able to sit on the bench. Wish they added poses into photo mode

The lock on system. Or rather, the lack of it. Controlling attack directions with wasd is stupid

Too much time following foxes

No cool animation to draw your sword

I hate that even after liberating a village, the bodies of the people who lived there and were killed by the Mongols never get picked up. They're going about their normal daily lives while their buddies' corpses rot.

Why did all the foxes disappear after I completed their shrines‽

Abundance of female warriors and random lgbt crap in feudal japan…

The rain doesn't seem to actually land on character models during cutscenes. There's just an effect that makes it look like little steaks of water running down the faces occasionally. Didn't notice it until I replayed on PS5 for the first time a few months ago and now my brain fixates whenever it happens. I don't think it happens during normal gameplay either

Clearing fog on the map is quite tedious.... I know the Travelers Attire clears a larger area, but it's still annoyingly small. Even when I try to explore my map just looks like worm trails.

Jumping onto ropes is finicky. It doesn't do it automatically, then asks you to press R2 when you jump.

Not getting hides from deer. What's the point in them?!

I wish the in-game map was more detailed. Say what you want, but Skyrim’s in game map was incredible. It helped me plan routes and when I saw a weird gap or space in the mountains, I knew something was hidden there

You cant manual save in Iki Island

Lack of wearable Lord Shimura armor. It should have been the reward for completing his duel at the end of the game.

If you enable hidden "dev" items using cheat table on the PC version, his helmet is available which makes it seem like they started this and never completed it. It's also available in legends.

Fox den

I loved the duels but i wished they offered more And the last boss fight was "meh" for me nothing too exiting

Lack of big cities to explore, that’s why i’m quit excited about AC Shadows

During every duel the same animation of a singular samurai sword click lmao Everything else is top tier and it just felt so lazy and lame. at least make 2-3 animations and randomly rotate them or something.

There’s no compass. By this I do NOT mean quest marker, I mean an actual compass. As in, a way to tell which direction is north when I’m running around. If I look at the map, then go back to the game, and end up turning in any direction, I have to go back into the map to figure out which direction I’m facing. It’s really annoying when trying to travel to a particular location.

I like the stealth, so my one complaint is the lack of diversity in the chain assassination animations.

I like the stealth, so my one complaint is the lack of diversity in the chain assassination animations.

The other thing that bugs me is that if you are running and want to sheathe your sword manually, jin stops cold and stands still to slowly do it. It is extra annoying bc he does it while running automatically, so the code exists

The fact that you can't walk smoothly onto a slack line is maddening

Not being able to skip any cutscenes

The fact that the game will pause mid fight to tell me I'm using the wrong stance even when I'm well past the tutorial.

the endless leaves and sparks everywhere in the wind. I added a mod to make at least the wind invisible.

And I wish the scroll wheel would just change the stance without having to press the t first

The world feels too empty. All the side missions felt very samey.

I don't like the post game and I think some of the enemy types are annoying

1. Y’all open door/close? I’ll fucking slash them all the time.
2. How would you want to interact with the environment? For example, I’d love to have Jin take a shit under a tree and wipe his ass with the leaves

Only big thing is the stealth is rather silly. And they were onto something with the directional queues they used, but they dropped the ball with the AI. Last of Us 2 isn't perfect, but the enemy AI is about as good as I've seen. VERY different games, but that's the kind of AI I'm looking for.

Re activate running after menu pause.

1. I wish there was more to hunting. Maybe some quests or more animals to hunt. Kind of like the archery trials on iki.

2. Also wish we could make use of the sword on Jin's back in the ghost armor.

3. Wish we had more, even just 1 or 2 more options for weapons with unique stances (or even similar ones) for at least a polearm of some kind.

4. That we could have side quests for settlements to help rebuild or something, and for rewards we could get even more armor dyes

5. That the foxes wouldn't disappear into tall grass while following, I am aware you can use your senses but it's still annoying

6. More uses for the grappling hook.

7. More legends to get gear and moves. These were some of my favorite missions and I just want more.

When upgrading armor, the game equips the armor currently being upgraded, even if you're not wearing it while upgrading.

It’s a nickpick but that one monkey samurai outfit you get in ishki island when you level it up it gets those wraps on the feet that don’t fit in with the color of the outfit and I wish you could take it off in level 3 armor variation

This is extremely niche but I think the only thing that takes me out of this game is how flighty and physically nonsensical Jin's movement is.

Changing direction mid-jump, the grapple hook, and the way Jin's jump physics work just feel kind of cartoony and at odds with how immersive everything else about the game is.

I really dislike games without a safe house or a base of operations or whatever. I'm a person who enjoys to be immersed in games and roleplay them to the best of my abilities so not having somewhere where my character can rest or live in kinda breaks that immersion.

clipping armour