After the recent showing of the game I know a lot of people were worried about the game being easy so I thought this was relevant enough to warrant its own thread.
In a recent episode of PlayStation podcast which featured an interview with Nate Fox and Jason Connell from Sucker Punch, Nate Fox said this about the combat in Ghost of Tsushima:
You can listen to the podcast from here (this bit starts in around 28-29 minutes mark)
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In a recent episode of PlayStation podcast which featured an interview with Nate Fox and Jason Connell from Sucker Punch, Nate Fox said this about the combat in Ghost of Tsushima:
We have this phrase that we use to describe the combat in the game: Mud, Blood and Steel.
We wanted it to feel really really grounded and lethally precise. If you've ever seen a samurai movie you know what it's like. These men cut each other down with a single stroke of their sword and to capture that samurai movie, fight is very different than a lot of other games because it means you can die very quickly and your enemies can too. And that took us a while to get right but we are very pleased with the results and we think it shows up well on the screen.
You can listen to the podcast from here (this bit starts in around 28-29 minutes mark)
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