History YMMV / GhostOfTsushima

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4V48QGeIk The shakuhachi performance]] at UsefulNotes/{{E3}} 2018 has been the subject of this. [[labelnote:Explanation]]An otherwise impressive gameplay reveal was mitigated by a shakuhachi performance that halted Sony's press conference to a pause. The use of a Caucasian musician dressed in {{Samurai}} garb instead of an Asian performer was also mocked, though this lessened when it came out that the performer, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Boots Cornelius Boots]], is one of the only 600 or so living people trained in the instrument.[[/labelnote]]

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: The game did so well with Japanese players [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation_jp/status/1285801898054844416 that the game's sales in Japan wound up causing stock shortages]], during ''its first week there''. It is also one of the precious few Western-developed games to receive a perfect [=40/40=] score from Famitsu, an achievement only met previously by ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.

** For those familiar with LetsPlay/CoryxKenshin, his playthrough of the game included a replay of the clip from the beginning of the game where Masanobu Adachi was set on fire, then decapitated. In every episode. Just cuz.

** At the Golden Temple in Izuhara, NPC's that walk near the stairs of the pagoda tower have a tendency to get their pathing screwed up near the base of the steps. This results in NPCs walking over a cluster of large stones then sliding off, which triggers a fall animation that sends them flying backwards, then getting up and doing it again in a repetitive loop until they finally manage to get around the stones, sometimes launching a good ten feet into the air.

* {{Woolseyism}}: The Japanese dub of the game goes above and beyond to evoke the feel of 13th century Japan with much stylistic flair and period-accurate terms, such as the word ''mononofu'', an old and now uncommon word for a samurai.

* GeniusBonus

* GoodBadBugs
** At the Golden Temple in Izuhara, NPC's that walk near the stairs of the pagoda tower have a tendency to get their pathing screwed up near the base of the steps. This results in NPC's walking over a cluster of large stones then sliding off, which triggers a fall animation that sends them flying backwards, then getting up and doing it again in a repetitive loop until they finally manage to get around the stones, sometimes launching a good ten feet into the air.

* HarsherInHindsight: Whenever Jin mounts his horse, he sometimes says, "One day we'll go on a peaceful ride.'. [[spoiler: It did give Jin one last ride...when Jin escaped from captivity and his horse got shot by four arrows, giving up its life to put enough distance between its owner and Shimura's search party, dying not only by its wounds, but also of exhaustion]].

** The Iki islanders constantly badmouth Jin's father for coming and murdering them. However, Kasumasa was trying to root out the pirates and raiders there with the locals giving them shelter. Notably, the peasants attacked his forces first before suffering his retribution. Even by today's standards, Kasumasa acted within the standards of proper wartime behavior. They even brag about kidnapping an adolescent Jin to lure his father to his doom. The main saving grace is that Kazumasa's retaliation was unreasonably brutal.