been wondering how do i even write this to be honest, somehow i feel this game is important to me despite never playing it till now.
i always been a PC player through and through, i was finally able to play it but it came with such a baggage, in a time where people rather follow the drama surrounding a game, sony barely scraping by, making pc ports not because they want us to experience it but because they wanna break even with costs, then the game comes and its finally time to experience it but the port is so-so.

despite it all i loved it, a bealtiful tale about human struggles and how imperialism can fuck up an entire family bloodline them loving each other a whole lot.
this is a sad game that i somehow managed to avoid spoilers for half a decade and i'm glad i did.
gameplay wise this game tackles my favorite aspect about games, the abbility to gamefy the romantism behind a genre, the same way rdr 2 romanticises the western, how ace combat is a romantization of flying jets, this pretty much is the very best aspects about the romantization of the samurai genre, everything must be tied to give you that feeling of being a suited up samurai cutting homies and doing honorable poses while doing so, people spouting one liners about sad stuff and sad stuff happening all around them, its like i'm playing with samurai toys and making the most effed up plot imaginable, comparing games to toys is not a bad thing, sometimes its exactly the feeling i'm looking for, the romantization of playing with a certain genre and not necessarily needing to be realistic but still maintaining a degree of believabillity. this is exactly why i play video games.. man, this is it.

if i loved it so much then why is it 8 and not a 10 ? dinky port
i've seen it all, memory leak making the game perform worse the longer you play, forcing you to restart the game.
FSR 3 crashing the game, the sky turning black, a button literally not working, and those actually costed me deaths, fortunally the checkpoint system is really good.

i will remember this game in the future, i still have to do the dlc, just decided to stop on the main story because 60 hours on a single game is rather exhausting despite how fun the game is.

SPOILER AHEAD : man i fucking hate that jin became homeless after everything he did, i hate imperialism.