Ghost of Yotei

 

         Now we may be counting down the days of Christmas but for me it's never too late to publish my thoughts on the greatest video game of 2025. You've may or may not have been waiting for my thoughts on the Ghost of Yotei ever since I've been unleashing my Japanese samurai films weeks or months ago, maybe weeks. Now, for warn if you’re looking for a last minute gift for you loved one be warned that this game will be crack to you for the rest of your life moreover will take countess hours of your life, but by end of it all is worth every bit of your money you spend on buying this game unless you’re buying a PS5 then I still say it's worth your weight in gold.

         Sixteen years of wandering Japan, Atsu a full-fledged mercenary return to her home in Ezo and seeks revenge on six individuals called the Yotei Six, who were responsible for the massacre of her family, through the course of this journey Atsu learns more about vengeance, forgiveness as well as finding closure in a new family. 

         Granted I spent countless hours beating Doom: The Dark Ages so, that I can move on and play Ghost of Yotei, and holy crap I didn't expect the countless hours of WANTING TO PLAY, this game through and through and I would think about playing other sports games but this game just sucked me in and never let me go. Granted this is an open-world video game where you can go around the globe and do whatever you want or as Westworld would put it, "In this world, you can be whatever you want" though with this game you have the biggest open-world that combines Red Dead Redemption and Ghost of Tsushima and yet, I CAN'T STOP PLAYING IT. I mean it's both spectacular as well as unleashing a great storyline of revenge moreover gets you hooked through the course of every level as well as every upgrade of a weapon you acquire and learning that there's a HUGE version of a Katana that exists out there in the real world called the Odachi either way just granting a ton of cool looking weapons as well as wanting to learn more is also fun to play even though this game to me is like craving for crack. Now learning that you can carry a matchlock rifle is even cool but more importantly reminded me of a documentary about a Samurai series on Netflix where the Samurai used Matchlock rifles to battle is cool moreover reminded me of that series and yet was rewatching the series while being sick with the flu. I'm not going to spoil anymore details because of how amazing and probably one of the greatest video games I've ever played. I would highly recommend making this your last minute Christmas present for this year as well as state and prove that PlayStation is still a hundred times better than XBOX all because XBOX only great video games are Halo and Gears of War and haven't made a great video game since while PlayStation still stands tall with classic video games like God of War, Uncharted, and all the Ghost of Tsushima and Yotei games. Though I'm just saying this game will consume you in terms of wanting to play even more because even after beating the game I now want to replay the game again especially when you can play the game in the format of every legendary Japanese filmmaker. So, like I said before I’m not buying any video game this 2026 because I declare Ghost of Yotei, the greatest video game ever.