Ghost of Tsushima has some seriously brilliant main tales and side tales, but arguably the highlight are the Mythic Tales.
As Jin travels Tsushima, he'll encounter a musician called Yamato. Yamato also moves around the island, telling tales of ancient warrior techniques, weapons and armour for Jin to try and find and recover. All are engaging, and the introductory cutscenes are suitably stylish, modelled on sumi-e paintings rather than being modelled using in-engine footage.
Whereas some of the other side tales in the game can feel a little so-and-so compared to the main quests, the Mythic Tales are almost certainly just as good.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
