I have had a great time with Ghost of Tsushima and for the most part think it is an absolutely outstanding title. It is one of the best that I have played in quite some time. However, after playing it for around 30 hours or so I have to say that I think the game is too long.
Normally this wouldn't be a problem in a game where your style and powers vary greatly as you carry on in games such as Witcher 3 or God of War but with "Ghost" we don't really end up having that much of a variety in skills as you progress.
A lot of this is because of the fact that you are meant to be mortal and not posses any sort of magical powers and I can appreciate that. At the same time though this means that most battles are going to end up being very similar to one another and as I have carried on in act 3 I notice that I am just mostly rushing the gates of any objective and taking on everyone at once rather than trying to have some sort of strategy and use stealth and evasion tactics.
Without spoiling anything, even though I feel as though it is glaringly obvious as far as the story is concerned, you face off against a particular Mongol really early on and your entire quest seems to be about finding and defeating this person. Well I've done that and the game STILL isn't over. It is carrying on with a new twist in the story that I have to say, I no longer care about.
I don't want a game to be too short, that of course is much worse, but I'm only doing the main story at this point because I am already familiar enough with combat that I don't actually need anymore health or powerups in order to pretty easily overcome any obstacle that is thrown in my direction. Of course I could rectify this by stepping the difficulty up from normal but at this point I don't think that would really change how I feel about the game.
Had I continued playing the game on easy which is what I initially did, I think I probably would have just stopped playing the game by now. So even though I already made an entire post about exactly that I reiterate do NOT play this game on easy setting
Really the only thing I have to look forward to now is more and more brutal kills and even with that there are only so many of those to go around and once you've seen them 12x, it loses the allure.
I do not know how many more hours there are remaining in the game but honestly at this point I am ready for it to end. It's still a great game and one of my favorite open world action-RPG's that I have ever played. I just think that they might have made it a bit longer than was necessary.