Ryuzo- "ill help Jin as long as more of my men dont die"
Ryuzo-betrays Jin
Jin- kills 90%of Ryuzo's men

I can’t be the only one that actually likes yuna she actually saves Jin multiple times, once at the beginning of the game, and another time when he gets poisoned in act 3 by a dart, she sacrificed a lot for him.

One thing I did love about Iki Island DLC, is that it shows something rarely shown in media, or even talk about IRL. How one person acts as a parent/family vs how they act as a commander (or in this case clan leader), Kazumasa (I wreck the name) goes full crazy on the people of Iki, regardless if they are innocent or not.

Yet, pre DLC, Kazumasa is barely mentioned, and what is talked about its that is that he was a honorable man. Meanwhile for everyone else Kazumasa would be a sociopath who would fit in a secret state police that would erase everyone from existence just because some random person hide a random low level smuggler.

It shows the reality of people: For some, you may be a hero. For others, you are the biggest POS that ever touch planet earth.

Maybe that adds why Lord Shimura insisted so much to Jin to stay honorable, maybe he feared Jin turning into a similar Kazumasa, and who could blame him.

I love laying in bed with the fan blowing in my ear, watching videos like this in the dark. It’s pretty much my favorite thing in the world right now lol. video game retrospective vids are the best

The amount of shame I felt when Shimura openes the gate to Jin's assassination is unforgettable

just started a new game and immediately saw this

Man hearing how interested you’d be in a sequel and knowing today the sequel doesn’t even have Jin in it…..😮‍💨 RIP Jin

Watching your videos has made me really enjoy replaying this game again

Fuck it I’ll play it again

Thank Youuuuuu, I haven’t really see anyone go into this much detail for games. Replaying it right now and this is perfect to better understand the story ❤

Make a video about the eagle and fune

Dude your doing all of my favorites. I love this game! 😍

Another excellent deep dive, Cynic. I've enjoyed all your Tsushima vids. I don't have the empathy for Ryuzo that you do, but I appreciate the work you put into this.

32:34 Jin was only wary of the Mongols AFTER the samurai already crossed the bridge. He was muttering to himself when watching the scene unfold with Lord Shimura and Yuna from above. He was too busy killing Mongols to actually realise and warn anyone beforehand.
I'm saying this to point out that Jin also made his own mistakes during this battle.
All these characters' flaws made the story tragic.

Unreal thumbnail. Downloading it for a long drive, looking forward to it!

I truly love this game. It’s so great to its story. Even the side stories are some of the best in any game. Also the graphics are great as well. Damn near perfect. The fighting style is my favorite as well. I even got the directors cut as well.
I replay it every couple months can’t wait for part two

1:36:48 the horse bro 😂

He and Miyamoto Musashi have a lot in common when it comes to going against samurai tradition; That's definitely someone he should come across and learn from in the sequal,

The video game was awesome through-and-through one of the best I've seen and played thus far, (next to red dead redemption 2) keep up the good work sucker punch; As far as the character of jin sakai goes I do not consider him a hypocrite or a tratior to honor at all, He continued to show himself to be the most honorable, more so than his uncle due to the fact that he valued innocent lives more than the need to appease the rigid dogma of the bushido code for the sake of his uncle and the shogun, they were facing an enemy that was using their code against them to take over the land and the people and jin saw no other choice but to break away from that in order for his people and his country to survive the murderous onslaught of the mongols, Thus it forced him down a path that he was Initially resistant to but ultimately embraced for the good of everyone Which in turn has made him a beloved living legend among his people as well as tsushima's very own japanese zorro, He may have sacrificed and lost everything because of the harsh choices he was forced to make, but he also gained a whole lot more from his willingness to sacrifice and lose everything for the greater good of all and he for a video game character has my utmost respect for that.


His uncle however is the villain of his own story because he was willing to sacrifice an innocent woman like jin's friend yuna to the shogun and blame the poisoning of the mongols on her; something a man of honor should never do, so I personally don't care about lord shimura's pain, he deserves it and what better way for him to suffer more than to be spared and live with the humiliation of having his own nephew and "son" go on to become a better person and greater legend than him, the shogun and the entire class of the samurai. LONG LIVE THE GHOST!!! 🔥💯😉😁👍

Man what the fuck😭 I fell asleep then woke up to this😭

1:36:46 cinematic