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Ghost of Yotei main actress practices Kenjutsu
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Putonahappyface
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As long as the game isn't sodomized by D.E.I nonsense I'll buy.
HeisenbergFX4
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Please Sony do not take this game down this road as its likely my most anticipated game of 2025 now
DryvBy
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Topher, you're mistaken. They picked Keanu Reeves to play John Wick because he had a history of being in a hitman club.Not expecting anything. I don't know of what roles she has played in the past. She could be a very good actress. I'd expect so actually if Sucker Punch choose her for the part.
What I don't understand is why anyone thinks her bio in 2024 is going to affect the character she plays in 1600s Japan.
ManaByte
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Sucker Punch and Firewalk are almost down the street from each other. You really expect Sucker Punch to have a different type of workforce than Firewalk?
hemo memo
You can't die before your death
Natsuko
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I don't see a problem there. Martial arts are no longer a purely male domain. I shoot a bow as a woman. And if I had more time, I would love to learn sword fighting. We have a dojo nearby and I think when I have more peace in my life I'll just do it.
There are also women in martial arts in Japan today. I just saw this video recently:
There are also women in martial arts in Japan today. I just saw this video recently:
StereoVsn
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It was for me as well before this reveal. I have very low expectations now. Maybe I will be pleasantly surprised but this feels more Outlaws vs Jedi Survivor so to speak (technical aspects aside).
abstract alien
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Never thought I'd be saying this, but I'll wait and see on the sequel to one of the best games I've ever played
nkarafo
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First the Australian break dancer now this.
What's up with the mediocre physical stunts these days?
Kokoloko85
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Nay.
No Jin, no buy
No Jin, no buy
Roman Empire
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How the fuck someone uses all pronouns? How does that even work? Can I call it "my dude"?Whatever you're expecting, expect worse.
winjer
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Do you realize those are not warbows? Those are merely recreational bows, with very low draw weight.
A real war bow would have a draw weight of 120-180 pounds.
Unlike popular beliefs from movies, tv and videogames, using a real warbow requires a lot more strength than using a sword.
Training to use a warbow is so physically intensive, that we can identify who were medieval archers by the should bones in ancient skeletons.
Branded
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No one cares about that. Everyone is just tired of all the performative activist nonsense that's in, or surrounds, all forms of media now.
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Interfectum
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It doesn't. These people are mentally ill.
Coloress_Kafka
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I only know of her from Dimension 20 but she was very entertaining in the Burrow’s End campaign. Glad she’s all pronouns cuz I still struggle with they/them stuff. Anyways I never played the first Ghosts game cuz I typically find the samurai shit to be boring as fuck. But a female protagonist makes me at least more interested to give it a shot.
Gamer_By_Proxy
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Historically she wasn’t even a samurai 
Natsuko
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Thank you, I know what a war bow is. And I also know that the skeletons of archers are deformed. Like I said, I shoot myself. Tell me something new. That was just one example of many.
You could also use other things. By the way, martial arts is not always about the maximum. Let's stick with the bow and move on to Kyūdō. Neither women nor men come anywhere near 120 pounds. It's not about shooting the strongest bow possible. By the way: fighters in the past presumably sometimes shot significantly more than 180 pounds. So are men weak nowadays?
Warbows are a niche today. Even among men. Hardly anyone still shoots such bows. And yes, there are also a few women who shoot warbows. Have a look at April Moon. 1039 yards with 120 lb. There are reasons why many traditional bows are now offered from a draw weight of 20 pounds. Warriors who once shot with bows have trained since childhood.
StereoVsn
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This is also why crossbows and eventually guns took over. A lot easier to train someone to fire a musket or a crossbow vs required archer training.
That said, it’s a game and I think it’s fine to suspend disbelief to an extent. The question is going to be about storytelling and that’s where I suspect we will see downward trend here.
killatopak
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That's the question though. Where in the trailer is that even apparent? I mean I was pretty vocal on games where I thought it was over the line but I have no reason yet for this game.
GoT1 was praised by Japanese people for being authentic despite some designs that were not period accurate just for style points. I don't think Sucker Punch is blind to that, that they'll be willing to waste their earned good will.
Kings Field
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Pass.
GigaBowser
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fart town usa
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winjer
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That is good to know. So let us not pretend that recreational archery, or even Olympic archery are martial arts.
Because they are not. They are merely toys, that would do little to no damage in a medieval battlefield.
When trying to pierce armour, even if it's just chainmail over a gamberson, every pound of force is important.
That us why hunting bows had lower draw weights and thinner arrows. Because animal don't use armour.
For an Ashigaru, the lowest range for draw weight is 70 pounds, which is still a lot. And this is for a movement of opening the arms. Not a mere dead weight lift.
For any person, to use a war bow, it would require years of intense training. Not only to develop the proper technique, but also to develop the muscles in the proper areas of the body.
Modern man are overall stronger than men in medieval times. And taller and healthier. But modern men don't train for years, to develop the technique and the required muscles for a war bow.
War bows have become obsolete for centuries, even in Japan. So no one trains with them, except for history enthusiasts.
And distance means nothing for a war bow. What matters is foot-pounds on impact.
SEGAvangelist
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Bojanglez
The Amiga Brotherhood
Now we know why the Final Fantasy series sales are so low in relation to SquareEnix's expectations, they have changed the protagonist about 13 times.
Gamer_By_Proxy
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Starting to think gender fluidity is tied directly to how attractive or unattractive you are . . .
sloppyjoe_gamer
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She/It/He/They/Them/You/Us/Yall is already blocking people on Twitter 
I can't imagine why......probably because it will be our fault if the game tanks
I can't imagine why......probably because it will be our fault if the game tanks
Fake
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Kokoloko85
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They can make new protagonists but Id rather they finish the story of the era and Jins story. What happened to his uncle and the clan against him, how did he deal with the samurai hunting him down, all while a 2nd bigger Monghol invasion happens.
No1 expected Ghosts to be a Final Fantasy style series new stories each time, which is fine. But atm im not interested.
Final Fantasy is set in different worlds and different stories with few reaccuring story themes not including crystals, and sid and summons lol. This is a new origin story for a similar character
DeepEnigma
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Why are you concerned, this is your Disney and Marvel love 101 that you go to defense for?
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Gamer_By_Proxy
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I wish mentally fit people would quit losing roles in gaming but it’s Ghost 2, I’d buy this game Day 1 even if I had to finish each boss by anal sex or rusty trombone.
SSfox
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You look salty
Fbh
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I don't really care about the politics and mental disorders of the actress as long as it doesn't bleed into the narrative of the game.
The story and characters of GOT were one of the strong points and I actually thought they did a good job writing compelling "strong" female characters, hopefully it's the same here.
That said
.....in an alternate timeline we could have gotten Karen Fukuhara cast
Who is half japanese, has experience doing both voice work and motion capture as well as multiple action roles
The story and characters of GOT were one of the strong points and I actually thought they did a good job writing compelling "strong" female characters, hopefully it's the same here.
That said
.....in an alternate timeline we could have gotten Karen Fukuhara cast
Who is half japanese, has experience doing both voice work and motion capture as well as multiple action roles
Zacfoldor
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I play in Japanese, is she also the Japanese VA? If not, no biggie.
/freaking out to myself: Please don't say shit wokie, you will ruin this series with a "the game ain't made for you" quote, please stfu and just voice act......Sony, you idiots! Why can't you get something right without going woke all over the main bullshit of it. Why!? WTF are you doing Sony wtf!?
/freaking out to myself: Please don't say shit wokie, you will ruin this series with a "the game ain't made for you" quote, please stfu and just voice act......Sony, you idiots! Why can't you get something right without going woke all over the main bullshit of it. Why!? WTF are you doing Sony wtf!?
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Nankatsu
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I don't really care about the politics and mental disorders of the actress as long as it doesn't bleed into the narrative of the game.
The story and characters of GOT were one of the strong points and I actually thought they did a good job writing compelling "strong" female characters, hopefully it's the same here.
That said
.....in an alternate timeline we could have gotten Karen Fukuhara cast
Who is half japanese, has experience doing both voice work and motion capture as well as multiple action roles
Man, if only she was casted. Would be so much better.
She did a great job on Callisto Protocol even though that game tanked hard.
Not to mention her exceptional role on The Boys.
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hemo memo
You can't die before your death
Karen Fukuhara identifes as a female, though. That's why. They want someone who's "progressive" AKA a freak show.I don't really care about the politics and mental disorders of the actress as long as it doesn't bleed into the narrative of the game.
The story and characters of GOT were one of the strong points and I actually thought they did a good job writing compelling "strong" female characters, hopefully it's the same here.
That said
.....in an alternate timeline we could have gotten Karen Fukuhara cast
Who is half japanese, has experience doing both voice work and motion capture as well as multiple action roles
Topher
Identifies as young
I expect Sucker Punch and Firewalk are a hell of a lot more different than alike considering the incredibly different games they make. If Sucker Punch was infected by this woke mind virus then there was certainly little to no indication in Ghost of Tsushima.
DeepEnigma
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What does it matter other than a mental wank? You don't see her, since clearly they designed the character to not look like the actress......in an alternate timeline we could have gotten Karen Fukuhara cast
Who is half japanese, has experience doing both voice work and motion capture as well as multiple action roles
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
I just finished GoT so I'm in no hurry to play a sequel if its the same gameplay loop/follow foxes/gather resources/hey here is a pretty sword (1 of 30) type thing. But they did a decent job of incorporating some gay storylines into the side characters (at least 2-3 that I recall) among all the hetero couples where 99% had 1 spouse/lover die anyway. Jin himself was fairly asexual with only some light flirting.
So I doubt the new game will have a full blown romance or the ability to woo lots of characters, it will likely be set in another period of turmoil with a strong focus on revenge with no time for personal relationships. However this VO actress seems like one that wouldn't just say the lines as given if there was dialogue she didn't agree with on a personal level, so I suspect the character is at least hinted at as being somewhere on the LGBTQRS spectrum even if "her story" is fleeing a bad arraigned marriage or avenging the deaths of her husband, kids, clan, etc.
Had this character been voiced by Anna Sawai
or the aforementioned Karen Fukuhara then I don't think anyone would have anything but enthusiasm for the project, given what we know about it so far. But when they hire such an outspoken activist actress, out of alllll the talent they could have hired, you just gotta wonder what other factors are at play.
So I doubt the new game will have a full blown romance or the ability to woo lots of characters, it will likely be set in another period of turmoil with a strong focus on revenge with no time for personal relationships. However this VO actress seems like one that wouldn't just say the lines as given if there was dialogue she didn't agree with on a personal level, so I suspect the character is at least hinted at as being somewhere on the LGBTQRS spectrum even if "her story" is fleeing a bad arraigned marriage or avenging the deaths of her husband, kids, clan, etc.
Had this character been voiced by Anna Sawai
or the aforementioned Karen Fukuhara then I don't think anyone would have anything but enthusiasm for the project, given what we know about it so far. But when they hire such an outspoken activist actress, out of alllll the talent they could have hired, you just gotta wonder what other factors are at play.
Punished Miku
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They're right by Seattle and Portland. I think what has saved Sucker Punch is they're an older studio, with older more normal development leads. As younger people replace them, the danger (hair) increases.
Fbh
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I might be wrong but to me it definitely looks like they modeled it after her
Same eyes, same nose, same (or similar) face shape and structure.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I'm sure she comes at a much more expensive price tag as well since her popularity grew.
Oh, and she stared in one of the most wokefest shows produced by the one of the cringiest out of touch stoner loonies out there in Hollywood. Does that take away from her judgement and who she mingles with?
No, you judge the work.
Is this an all y'all look alike moment?I might be wrong but to me it definitely looks like they modeled it after her
Same eyes, same nose, same (or similar) face shape and structure.
They have many waifu games if you need a doting beauty queen princess as the lead.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
If this person doesnt identify as female and has issues with non-trans actors playing trans roles then why is she playing a female lead?
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Fake
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Try asking this question to a Sony fanboy.
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