John Marston reminds me of myself I relate alot to him having a woman in my life growing up around guns having a back bone and even leaving my family going to other states I didn't know I nearly died in Tennesee its like Blackwater down there In the end I made it home cause I had family pray for my safe return
you are a slave to it----great freaking line, sometimes to fight and save the things we love we have to give up our association to them. its why God didn't want there to be kings. he knew what kings would have to become to serve and protect their people. Ultimately Jin's uncle is a failure and, I think, the primary antagonist in this game. His "honor" literally costs the life of thousands of people and it is Jin's inner war against this inherited ideological ideal that is the central theme of the game. What a profound victory over it in the end too. Spare him for the good man he is, but reject the fool's ideals. Machiavelli is the best philosopher for talking about this stuff. You are a failure as a leader if you succumb to it. Napolean was perhaps the wisest "modern" figure about this phenomenon saying "I am nothing. In Egypt I was a Muslim and here (France) I am a Catholic." (paraphrase) This attitude might seem cynical to some but you literally have to be that way in order to be an effective and good ruler. A ruler has to look past ideals, religion, morals to the cold hard truth. For example. Will my honor destroy my people and doom Japan to cultural annihilation and assimilation into the mongol empire? Prob might wanna get rid of it then.
When you take John’s fake last name and combine it with his first name you get the name John Milton. John Milton is the author of a book called paradise lost which is a biblical inspired story with themes of vengeance and pride. Questioning free will or predestination, if humans seal their fate by choice or if the future is already written. All in a prophecy for a world that does not forgive. This is important because it mirrors John throwing away Arthur’s wish for him to have peace and instead pursue vengeance against Micah because he was persistent, and it inevitably led Ross to find out John is indeed alive and leads to the events of the first game, and in the end, unforgivingly killing him. “People don’t forget. Nothing gets forgiven.”
This hits way harder for me since i live in the Middle East and Aryobarzan had to do the same against the invasion of mongols. He saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
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He and Miyamoto Musashi have a lot in common when it comes to going against samurai tradition; That's definitely someone he should come across and learn from in the sequal, The video game was awesome through-and-through one of the best I've seen and played thus far, (next to red dead redemption 2) keep up the good work sucker punch; As far as the character of jin sakai goes I do not consider him a hypocrite or a tratior to honor at all, He continued to show himself to be the most honorable, more so than his uncle due to the fact that he valued innocent lives more than the need to appease the rigid dogma of the bushido code for the sake of his uncle and the shogun, they were facing an enemy that was using their code against them to take over the land and the people and jin saw no other choice but to break away from that in order for his people and his country to survive the murderous onslaught of the mongols, Thus it forced him down a path that he was Initially resistant to but ultimately embraced for the good of everyone Which in turn has made him a beloved living legend among his people as well as tsushima's very own japanese zorro, He may have sacrificed and lost everything because of the harsh choices he was forced to make, but he also gained a whole lot more from his willingness to sacrifice and lose everything for the greater good of all and he for a video game character has my utmost respect for that. He uncle however is the villain of his own story because he was willing to sacrifice an innocent woman like jin's friend yuna to the shogun and blame the poisoning of the mongols on her; something a man of honor should never do, so I personally don't care about lord shimura's pain, he deserves it and what better way for him to suffer more than to be spared and live with the humiliation of having his own nephew and "son" go on to become a better person and greater legend than him, the shogun and the entire class of the samurai. LONG LIVE THE GHOST!!! 🔥💯😉😁👍
this is my second comment. Edward wanted a decent life among the common. An existence beyond the normal pirate or privateer. He made mistakes and adapted like any human would.
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