Oh absolutely Kasumasa was already half of the ghost He was brutal, cruel and unfair but still faced the opponents headon That would be the only difference between them I wonder if jin was able to become the ghost because they are both relatives of close blood Pple do tend to be very similar to those closest related And has saw Kazumasa actions on iki

@@blu3d3vil97 Jin became the ghost out of necessity, to do whatever it takes to drive out the invaders, not because he enjoys it. Compassion is what sets him apart from his ruthless father who sees people as tools to wield to establish his superiority. He calls the opposing force "rats" is dehumanizing ppl defending their homes while Jin even as a teen objects and questions this level of violence because he sees people instead of animals like his father. He does not revel in the events there, hates it even, but is complied to follow his father. Prove to him he is a worthy son etc. What sets him apart from his father is the inherent level of empathy, to see people as people no matter their class, which is why he as the ghost has the support of the general population, as he is and is perceived by them to fight for them, not against them. The whole point of the dlc is basically for Jin to face his past and to let go of his survivor guilt, yes, but also to show that underneath the warrior is a kind man who cares deeply about his home, nature (he is basically a feudal disney prince playing the flute in the forest for the animals lol) its people and how to improve their lives instead to destroy it as his father did. Like, there are several instances where Jin says and affirms that he is not like his father, and it shows in how he treats those, outside of his enemies, with compassion instead disdain. He makes different choices than his father did, and thus stops the cycle of hate and death started in the past instead to repeat it. (choosing not to kill you know who... spoilers spoilers xD) KM has failed Jin as a father, was never present in the way Jin needed him to be. KM even called him too soft to be a samurai when this "softness" is actually Jin's biggest strength and what sets him greatly apart from KM and why Jin is able to reconcile with the raiders despite their brutal history with his father/samurai. That and his strong sense of justice, to right the wrong no matter what. Sry for textwalling you but i I really like the dichotomy of Jin's kindness & deep care for others with him slashing off the heads off his enemies and hunt them down to the last men as the ghost of their nightmares, haha.

Perfect

Wonder that also if his father supported his son during that invasion ether secretly helping him or something.

If you paid attention to what Yuriko said when you first return to Jin's home village to collect the armor and get the ability to poison enemies, you can probably remember her saying something along the lines of "Your father wasn't much for the conventional style of warfare either, you and him have much more in common than you think." I definitely think that while Kazumasa would look down on the backstabbing and trickery, he would love the fear that Jin has weaponized to attack the enemy and reduce friendly casualties.

I thought the same. Someone else pointed out that in ghost stance the wind still directs you to the nearest enemy. I think Kazumasa would be on board with the ghost if he saw what Jin had seen.

Yuriko, Jin's caretaker and served under Kazumasa, said Kazumasa would have approve of The Ghost. Kazumasa and Shimura always argued about their differences.

Implied? At the end of Iki Island, the guiding wind creates the shape of Kazumasa out of leaves. It's way more than implied.

I don’t know if I remembered this correctly, but there is yellow bird following us in exploration. And I think it could be his mother. Not really sure if it makes sense

@@Kolegadodz Yes you are correct. Wind is the father and yellow bird is the mother.

He says that while the samurai have masks and helmets that strike fear into their opponents.

@@TheACTIONZ he himself wears a helmet with demon horns lmao Don't remember if he's ever shown with a mask, or at least a full mask.

​@@TheACTIONZto be fair, being feared because of your scary mask and helmet is a far cry from being feared because you poison an entire platoon of army or butchering villages of raider families.

My guess shimura prefer a more honest method of fighting and also helps preserve reputation as being too brutal can start revolutions

Shimura could have easily saved Jin by lying a bit so that he and Shimura wouldn't have to fight

@@aadarshpandey3024 or perhaps accepting the ghost but telling him to be careful who he performs the actions around maybe that the real shimura couldn’t perform deceptive tactics even though he is more than capable a civilian conversation says he deceive me mongols and bandits into killing each other but no evidence of his involvement was ever found Jin was too blatant with the ghost tactics and did not know much about maintaining reputation

Yeah he probably would’ve pushed Jin to be more secretive about his actions or hell faked his son’s death.

I was thinking the same thing. Kazumasa was far truer to who the Samurai really were.

I was ok with Kazumasa, until he went after the civilians. He had no reason to butcher the village

@@ntfoperative9432 There were raiders hiding amongst the civilians, not saying that butchering all of them was the right choice but you can put just as much blame on the raiders for using their own civilians as a sort of cover or meat shield from the samurai rather than fighting to the death, then again honor is not what raiders strive for so it makes sense for them to use such tactics instead of fighting bravely especially when facing certain death like the samurai did with the mongols

are you implying that jin killed civilians

I do not hope for it .... They will woke a fly it transgender black Muslim samiui do you wAnt that

@@ntfoperative9432 Raider's were posing as civilians. There is pretty much no way to identify before you stabbed in the back. Unlike Jin who was fighting Mongols that you know, don't hide among people. The Raider's could be anyone. Even young kids can be groomed into murdering and you will never know. So he did what he had to

The strength we need is all around us

Always felt that shimura had some sort of tension with kazumaza, especially how (in my eyes) he was trying to steal Jin away from him by wanting to adopt him and follow HIS code

@@Wolf-bz6kq to be fair Kazumasa had 0 idea how to deal with jin after his wife's death if i were an uncle who saw that type of relationship with my best bro child i would not feel too happy about that too xD

@@throttlestraw yea it's one thing to foster Jin but to give him the shimura name and essentially surrendering the Sakai clan to extinction says enough. Like shimura was saying " I took your son and made him call ME father and the Sakai clan ends with you" to kazumaza

@@Wolf-bz6kq nah they had disagreements but those two were practically brothers when shimura called upon kazumasa he answered

From shimura he inherited fighting abilities, knowledge and I think also popularity. Shimura however doesn't care how many people he will lose to achieve his goal and follows code of honor which costs him a lot

The whole of Tsushima was criminal haven before the samurai came in

@@GnosisZXyeah the samurai had brought discipline and law and in Iki they were doing the same

i think it’s a great expansion because it doesn’t feel forced, it goes into the story jins father and how that impacted him which is a secondary story to the main one and also gives us and jin more closure

@@arthurmorganhimself yeah it doesn't feel unnecessary cuz im not gonna lie i though that guarma wasnt important at all (unless you count on how it made arthur more likely to think for himself and see beyond dutches lies and worsened his tb aswell)

@@goldendragon8929 100% like chapter 5 in rdr coulda replaced guarma with any other event that impacted arthur to accelerate his tb whereas iki island gives jin and us the full story and relationship of his father and his death and why he blames it on himself, like it gives us more lore about him while naturally intertwining it with the poison arc so it’s not shoved in your face, love it personally

It’s better because it’s optional, it’s something u can save until the end game when the actual main threat of the story is dead, so instead of feeling like a giant distraction from the main conflict it’s an actual expansion that extends the story in an effective way. Not saying Guarma wasn’t effective in its own way because it shows the “bad” gang members descent and Arthur’s own character development where he changes for the better, but everything about it feels like a huge waste of time while the rest of the gang is helplessly wandering the swamps not knowing of you or the others will ever come back or not

I LOVE the comparisons between rdr2 and got

In their eyes, he redeemed the Sakai name by aiding them. Just like Yarikawa, Jin makes allies out of old enemies to fight the Mongols

@@alexandermagnus82 I mean when he was a child

@@ZegetaX1they didn’t want to kill a child

@@ZegetaX1 Jin done practically nothing wrong. also since Kazumasa was the one he killed first, whats the point to kill someone's child where the guy is already dead

He was killing raiders. Who were posing as peasants.

Normal farmer those were raiders whom it seems the people shelter

When you fight to protect your people, you dont use them as a shield. When you use the people you protect as a shield, like the raiders did, you're gonna be in the crossfire.