Good Smile Company - Ghost Of Tsushima Jin Sakai Figma Action Figure

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Are you interested in having Jin Sakai watch over you from the nearest shelf? Strike a deadly pose in the comments section below. From the popular game "Ghost of Tsushima" comes a figma of the samurai known as "The Ghost" Jin Sakai. Among the points of interest the golden birds want to guide you to are hot springs that offer permanent health increases; shinto shrines that provide very Assassin’s Creed-style environmental platforming challenges you can complete in exchange for charms that confer passive bonuses; and spots where you compose haiku by selecting lines of poetry via multiple choice to earn cosmetic rewards. This piece stands 9.75” tall from base to top of sword, depicting Jin Sakai as he steps with expert care across a clear flowing stream, sword raised, ready to strike! The statue comes with two portaits: both masked and unmasked. I never played the game, so I don’t know much about it, but were they going for a super modern look with his outfit?

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Jin was raised and trained in the ways of the samurai. When the Mongols handily defeat the samurai forces, Jin’s world is shattered. He is faced with the most difficult decision of his life: honor the tradition and customs of his samurai upbringing and maintain a fight he cannot win, or deviate from his samurai path to protect the island and its people by any means necessary.

Games aren’t designed in a vacuum; they should be in conversation with each other and seek to build on what came before. The problem is that Ghost of Tsushima isn’t interested in doing much building. There’s a superficial samurai aesthetic here, and a very good one, but in terms of the rhythms of battle and the feel and function of the tools at your disposal, the combat, with a few cosmetic changes, could have been taken from so many other games, or put into so many other games, that I could never find the particular soul of this game. I valued these quests not for the chance to fight yet another predictable battle, but for the insight they offered into these people’s lives and their philosophies. Particularly memorable are a few quests you can do with Yuriko, Jin’s childhood caretaker, now an elderly woman he has enlisted for her knowledge of poisonous flowers. Her quests offer an opportunity for reflection on memory, decline, and impermanence, and they tie in beautifully with the natural splendor of the island itself. Jin does what he feels he must to protect Japan from its would-be conquerors, and for it, he ultimately pays a heavy personal price. Ghost of Tsushima’s tale isn’t one of unambiguous victory or triumph. The samurai films of director Akira Kurosawa, after all, which Ghost of Tsushima expressly pays homage to, may be a lot of things — funny, thrilling, and often tragic — but they were never comforting stories with upbeat endings. Handmade Katana Full Tang Sharp Samurai Katana sword 1060 Carbon Steel Hand Forged Japanese Katana Dragon Wing 40.5 inches

Ghost of Tsushima has sold 9.73 million copies since launch Ghost of Tsushima has sold 9.73 million copies since launch

And finally, the incredible team at Prime 1 Studio is hard at work on an absolutely stunning Jin Sakai 1:4 Scale statue. While we can only share this early concept with you today, rest assured that the detail here is truly awesome, with details including a fox and shrine, guide bird, and ginkgo leaves straight from the Golden Forest featured in the game. We can’t wait to share more of this one!Though I’ve completed the main story in Ghost of Tsushima, done numerous side quests, liberated some Mongol-occupied strongholds, collected tons of cosmetic gear, and done several of every type of activity the game offers, there are still vast swaths of my map that remain shrouded. Do I really want to repeat each kind of mission or challenge over and over, until I’ve seen it all?