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[WARNING: Spoilers for Ghost of Tsushima's ending below]

It may take players a while before they reach the end of Ghost of Tsushima, but they will likely be surprised when they actually get there. While many players may assume the game ends with the elimination of Khotun Kahn and the eradication of his Mongolian forces, Ghost of Tsushima actually has one more important moment left.

Sucker Punch Productions' Ghost of Tsushima takes place on the island of Tsushima, a real-life location situated between Japan and the mainland. As the last remaining samurai on the island, it's up to players to step into the shoes of Jin Sakai and become the titular Ghost of Tsushima, a dangerous force who will stop at nothing to rid the Mongolians from his lands and free his people.

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It's this journey towards becoming the actual Ghost of Tsushima that encompasses most of the emotional arc of Ghost of Tsushima, and the way Jin handles his newfound approach to violence is tested over and over again throughout the course of the game. While his new friends like Yuna and Taka may tell him there is no other option, Jin's upbringing at the hands of his uncle, Lord Shimura, tells him differently.

Ghost of Tsushima's Final Duel

The final battle in Ghost of Tsushima is not against Khotun Kahn or any of the other Mongolian warlords. Instead, players must face off against their uncle, Lord Shimura himself, who has been tasked by the Shogun to kill Jin for the war crimes he has committed. Lord Shimura taught Jin to always look his enemies in the eye, to never strike from the shadows, and to always be as honorable as possible. However, by the end of Ghost of Tsushima, Jin has had to perform numerous dishonorable and murderous things.

Although he is conflicted about his own actions, Jin does not believe what he did was necessarily wrong, especially because he only took such extreme measures in order to ensure that no harm would befall the people of Tsushima. His uncle cannot see things his way, however, and neither can the leader of Japan, who has called for Jin's execution. After sitting down to write poetry together one last time, Jin and his uncle face off for Ghost of Tsushima's final story duel.

After defeating Lord Shimura, the player has the option to either kill their uncle or offer him mercy. Whichever option the player chooses has no bearing on the overall flow of the game (either way, the story is over and players are free to explore the open world at their leisure) but it is up to them as to whether Jin offers his father figure another chance at life or not. While some players may worry that leaving Lord Shimura alive may cause futher complications down the road for Jin, this does not seem to be the case, and either way the Ghost will always be a hunted man on the island of Tsushima thanks to the Shogun's decree.

At the end of Ghost of Tsushima's story Jin is a wanted man, hunted by the shogun and the Mongols alike, but he is also the savior of the people of Tsushima. Much like Batman, he may not ever get the glory and rewards he deserves from the government, but the people he serves know how integral the Ghost of Tsushima was in securing their freedom.

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Christopher J. Teuton (540 Articles Published)

Christopher J. Teuton is an author, journalist, film director, producer, and video game developer based out of Savannah, GA, in the United States. Owner of Filthy & Free Publishing. When not working on his various projects or spending time with his family, Christopher J. Teuton mostly enjoys playing with dogs and climbing on trees.

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Software for Writers

I love software for writers.  My computer is full of such programs. I’ve tried outliners, storyboards and character designers. So how do I actually write? I do first drafts longhand in spiral bound notebooks, the seventy-page kind Wal-Mart sells for a dime apiece during their back-to-school sale every fall. Then I type my work into Word, and keep notes and charts in Excel.

[5/20/17: I wrote this article in July 2011, for my RWA chapter newsletter. By June 2013 I had switched all my writing, from novels to blog posts to book reviews and articles, to Scrivener, which, for me at least, covers all the bases. Yesterday (May 2017) a reader kindly informed me that the original link for Storybook now leads to a nasty site in Japanese. I’ve removed that link–really, you don’t want to go there–and replaced it with a current link. I also checked the others, all of which still lead to good sites for writing software. I hope you find something useful here.]

But Temptation dropped into my email box last week, with the subject line Writer’s Blocks 4 is Here! Rewritten from the ground up for Windows 7, it promised, along with all sorts of new and/or improved features. I knew I was doomed. I closed the email, but I didn’t delete it. In fact I flagged it. I knew I’d come back.

Writer’s Blocks is one of the latest in a long string of programs I have tried, and usually abandoned, in the pursuit of some magical writing aid. Maybe that mysterious program that enables some writers’ computers to turn out several books a year. Haven’t found that one yet.

One of the earliest I tried was something called IdeaFisher. It was, as I recall, something of a cross between a thesaurus and a brainstorming program. I’ve long since lost track of both the software (which probably came on a 5.25 inch floppy disk and ran on Windows 3.0) and the manual, so I looked it up on Google. Somewhat to my surprise, the old IdeaFisher has been resurrected and rewritten as ThoughtOffice, with an add-on called Muse for novel writing.

Another early foray into writing software was a disk called Software DreamPack for Writers. That one came on a CD, and I found it in a box of old software. The contents consisted mostly of trial versions of software programs, both shareware and commercial, all dated 1998. I used a few of the programs, including a couple of games I played for years, but I think the only one I bought a commercial version of was Action Outline, an excellent outliner, still going strong, although I haven’t used it in quite a while.

Character Pro used the enneagram method to assist in character development, although at the time I wouldn’t have known an enneagram if I’d tripped over one. I’ve since been introduced to them in various workshops, by people who really make the system pay, but I find I’m not one of them. Character Pro has evolved (thanks to the charmingly named Typing Chimp Software) into a broader program called Character Writer. Darn, now this research is leading me into temptation–Character Writer looks interesting.

Many writers swear by WriteWayPro, which was designed by a writer and written by her programmer-husband. The program combines an outliner and a word processor, with areas for research, character development, etc. I tried it for a while, but I couldn’t get used to some features of the word processor.  (A similar program called Scrivener is very popular among Mac users. A beta version for Windows is available, with the full version due in August 2011.)

When Randy Ingermanson released a software version of his Snowflake Method of novel writing, I popped for a copy at the introductory price. Haven’t used it much yet, it’s kind of a start-from-the-beginning tool (for me–no telling how it might work for you), and I’m half-way through my current project. The price has gone up since the introductory offer, but you can cut it down considerably by buying a copy of Ingermanson’s Writing Fiction for Dummies. And while you’re nosing around the site, you can read the non-computerized version of the snowflake method and subscribe to his free Advanced Fiction Writing Ezine.

Writer’s Blocks, now in version 4, has been around since 1994. It’s essentially a story-boarding program, although it does include a word processor. A couple of years ago I treated myself to version 3, and used it extensively in writing Paper Hearts. Although I continued to write in Word, I found the visual aspect very useful, putting up a block for each scene, with location, characters, and a line of action, and color-coding the blocks by the point of view character, which gave me an instant sense of the POV balance, and the outline view produced an excellent summary for use in the dreaded task of writing a synopsis. I also found the learning curve a bit steep, some of the commands less than intuitive, and the help files not always helpful. There were a few programming glitches that annoyed me, too (although as someone who knows nothing at all about programming, I hesitate to criticize).

Needless to say, I downloaded the trial version of Writer’s Blocks 4 (even as an upgrade, the program’s not cheap, and I want to look at it before I buy). It looks gorgeous, all Windows 7 and ribbon commands, and the glitches that annoyed me seem to have been worked out. The learning curve hasn’t flattened, and it took me half an hour to figure out a couple of new features, even with the 155-page PDF manual. But I can spread out a lot of blocks on my very large monitor. I used version 3 when I was starting to work on Bathtub Jinn, although I’m not sure how much of that made it into the manuscript. Now that I’ve got half the book written, maybe I’ll put the first eleven chapters into blocks and really see what I’ve got. Oh, dear, where’s my credit card?

On the other hand, I’ve recently run across a free program called Storybook, which looks like a slightly different angle on the story-board format.  I may have to take a longer look at that before I pop for the Writer’s Blocks upgrade.  And then there’s that soon-to-be-released Scrivener for Windows.  Oh, my!

Software is an amazingly subjective area. What works brilliantly for one writer (or engineer, or graphic artist) may be a total flop for another. Looking over some of the programs I’ve tried over the years makes me think that the story board, the computerized index card, may be the approach that works for me. If something else works for you, there’s a lot to choose from. Write on!

Kay Hudson continues to search for the illusive magic program that actually writes novels.  She blogs about writing, and whatever crosses her mind during her daily commute, at kayhudson.com.