Ghost of Tsushima Best Early Game Tips (No Spoilers)

Just started playing a couple days ago, i REALLY appreciate you avoiding spoilers.

The BIGGEST and most INVALUABLE thing every new player needs to grab is the Charm of Inari as soon as you can, right at the beginning of Act 1. It will effectively double your supplies and other bits for as long as you keep it on. I'd honestly recommend never taking it off your first playthrough, you'll be able to upgrade nearly double the things you usually would be able to. x2 to the predator hides is also really nice because my first time playing on the PS4, I had nowhere near enough hides to max out my capacity upgrades; even after beating the entire game. That changes with this charm. I'd also recommend the Charm of Mizu-no-Kami as the bigger perfect parry windows are honestly way more impactful than any of the other major charm effects at this point. After "getting good", I've since replaced it with Nekoma's Hunt, which you get from Iki's cat sanctuaries. Being able to chain assassinate 4 enemies is wild. Chain assassinate, smoke bomb, chain assassinate again, and you've already killed 8 enemies. Honestly, the stance upgrades are super unnecessary and I'd recommend maxing chain assassinations first, then getting concentration/focused hearing upgrades, then maxxing out the samurai/evasion trees. The stagger and misc. upgrades you get from upgrading stances are niche and really unimportant. I usually get to act 2 and only after Iki do I actually start putting points into these, after everything else. Also it really does not take that long to unlock all your stances, if you're clearing all the camps you come across you should have it easily way before completing act 1.

Another useful tip for new players is make sure to liberate Azamo Bay during Act 1 as there are 4 commanders to kill there which will help in progressing jin's stances. Also make sure to observe the commanders during their training animations before killing them. This gives you two progression bars instead of 1.

For Anyone wondering how much silk you need to farm to upgrade every armor including the one in New game plus it's a total of 90 silk if you don't care about the new game plus armor set its 84 silk

Got this game on pc. Looks great with my ultrawide monitor and ultra settings. I barely played it on my ps4 years ago. Already playing now on the second part of the map.

Just started a couple weeks ago. Will utilize this as much as possible!!!

I never had problems with silk, since I always engaged the charm of Inari as early as possible so I could upgrade everything faster. I ended up with all the silk I ever needed to fully upgrade all the armor.

Nice guide Jusa, and props for editing it down to be more concise.

I played the game upon release back in 2020 and finished it, but I never got to play the director's cut with the Iki Island expansion. Now im replaying the whole game on my steam deck, and just as i finished Act 1, I saw your video. Thank goodness that I did, because if not, I would've finished the entire main story before ever stepping foot in Iki Island. Now, early in Act 2, I went straight into Iki Island, and WOW!! the mongols are more ferocious, aggressive, and smarter than the ones on Tsushima. They be switching up weapons from shield to spear to sword and back to shield again, keeping me on my toes and engaged. I feel like when I return to Tsushima, im gonna be bad ass samurai like Hitokiri Battōsai, Himura Kenshin... and that's even without the Sarugami armor.

I am only playing campaign for my first go around, unlocked everything on the main start island and now i am going through act 2 and was going back and fourth about this. great video

As a long term fan of the game, I’m happy to see more people get to experience it. Enjoy!

Thanks for deflection tip

Cheers buddy, i play it the first time now on PC and happy for these tipps <3

thanks for this video mate, was looking for this sorta thing.

Its almost scary, I just was about to enter Iki when i had quit and do some other stuff. And this video came in my feed when i was about to start the game again.

for anyone curious, 9:25 - silk farm is not available on PC, that spot is a couple of NPCs, one will speak to you about haiku, but no silk loot to get all armors, you will need 90 total silk, but supposedly the devs made it so you can get this amount by just completing the base game. I completed 100% on PS4 previously, so let's see what happens.

If you finish all of the tales, you will have enough silk to fully upgrade all armor sets and even have some leftover. You don’t get enough silk in New Game+.

Hmmmm priotizing stone Stance? It is best focusing getting Wind Stance with the Auto Parry technique when attacking in Wind stance (WITHOUT Sarugami Armor)

I think I'm going to have to restart my playthrough and get the techniques in the order you suggest. Looks like an interesting path, instead of my "get chain assassination asap" as if i am playing AC. I have a pc so i just bought the game a few days ago.

I hope there will be more Samurai themed games in the future. I dont think Ubisoft can afford making one. Although some features of this game reminds me of Assassins Creed.