>>257208
A really stale movie game. I recall Ghost of Tsushima being called a soulslike, because what the fuck isn't anymore, because of difficulty settings that made you die incredibly quick with the tradeoff being the enemies also die incredibly quick, including bosses.
It's an obvious game-trying-to-be-a-movie. Everything is set up that way. This anon >>257211 has it right with the cutscenes. There's supposed to be some kind of drama but it's a traditional, unremarkable story. Open world, lots of pretty environments that are filled with nothing and that would be prettier if you stepped out of your house and saw them in real life instead of in a video game.
You will reach the combat skill ceiling quickly. There is no real mastery, no true feeling of accomplishment, it's not difficult to be good and it's not that much more difficult to be great at parrying or dodging or pressing attack button to make enemy die. You can switch stances that you will unlock to make it easier to fight specific enemy types, but it's not in-depth, it's more that this enemy takes less hits to kill with this stance than with others, though it's not necessarily outright presented as such.
It's incredibly unremarkable and not worthy of the praise I remember it getting. It's not horrible, but it would've been better off shredding the walk-and-talk segments and ~story~ and ~drama~ and focusing on expanding the combat or tightening it up to make it more intense with greater depth and reward. After I personally got to the last area, the snow one, I stopped caring about doing the sidequests I only half-heartedly did up to that point.
I am not smart and forgot how to spoiler so SPOILER: You honorabru samurai, but you get your shit pushed in by Mongols along with your Uncle Daddy. You get saved by naughty thief woman who teaches you to stab people in the back, much to your inner turmoil. You recruit a psycho bitch whose family got murdered, an archer who is a terrible teacher with two (2) students that turned to the dark side of the force, some boring monk, a blacksmith (rip), and an asian jew (not china). You also recruit old friend and leader of The Rovin' Ronins. Eventually you get really good at stabbing people in the back and save your Uncle Daddy, but best friend is now bad and follows Mongols because he and his posse are hungry. I forgot what order everything after this goes. You ask Grandma Maid for poison and she gives you some. Blah blah blah, you killed your friend, oh no so sad. Uncle Daddy doesn't like dishonobru stab in back tactics and you go bye bye. Mongols have poison and use on you, your blacksmith friend dies at some point. You go to snow place and make way back to Uncle Daddy and leave a letter asking him to have a threeway with the Mongols to make up for dishonor. You kill Mongols, Uncle Daddy loves you but you cant be his Nephew Son anymore. You fight him, choose to kill him or spare him, and dote on how engaging this movie game was.
TL;DR
Boring, play something fun instead, or watch a movie