Sacred Symbols+, Episode LVI: Ghost of Tsushima Spoilercast and Review Discussion (Patreon)

We're entering PlayStation 4's twilight, and it's been a pretty amazing run. The console has far surpassed 100 million units sold on the back of an exceptional lineup of exclusives, and the sequence of first party hits has been officially capped off with Sucker Punch's samurai epic Ghost of Tsushima. Unlike its Sly Cooper or Infamous trilogies, the team at SP edged toward the realistic, grounded, and historical with the console's swan song. The result isn't only PS4's final first party game of consequence, but an open world adventure set some 800 years in the past, in a region of the world and time in history foreign to many of us. That, of course, is what makes Ghost of Tsushima so interesting, and so fun to talk about, especially in a pantheon of similar titles both within and outside of Sony's ecosystem. So grab your katana and saddle your horse, warrior. The Mongols draw near.