5 Things Ghost Of Tsushima Gets Historically Right (And 5 It Doesn't)

Despite some quite careful adherence to historical fact, there are also a lot of ways in which GOT takes massive liberties with its source material, even down to its most iconic weapon.

Samurai in the 13th century would not have used katanas. This may be hard to believe, considering Japanese people swinging around swords and yelling angrily has been a cultural staple from Kurosawa to Tarantino, but Katanas only came into use in the Muromachi period, around 100 years after the game takes place.

This might not seem like a massive issue, but imagine if Ezio from the Assassin's Creed franchise had suddenly started mowing down the pope with an assault rifle, for example. It'd be a tad strange.

Samurai from the Kamakura period (when GOT is set) would have mostly trained to fire bows from horseback, which is why the bows in GOT have a very different shape from the ones we're used to seeing in our fantasy stories. This is also why the helmets and armour had the strange, box shape to them- to better deflect arrows. The more you know, huh?

It's such a shame, then, that Jin's horse is sadly a little bit s**t in a fight, really.