Funny / Ghost of Tsushima

The hero of Tsushima, everyone.

• Seeing the Khan effortlessly dispatching Harunobu after the latter's big talk early in the game by dousing him in wine and setting him ablaze before finally cutting him down can serve as a Catharsis Factor for those who dislike how the Samurai are portrayed in-game and prefer the more realistic and historically accurate Combat Pragmatist depiction.
• The game has the environment to tell the player about nearby interesting spots via golden birds. Occasionally you'll encounter a golden bird flying forward without caring whether Jin can actually traverse the land without falling off a cliff.
• During the quest "The Sensei and the Student" Jin and Sensei Ishikawa are faced with a cliff which the Sensei says Jin has to climb. Upon reaching the top, however, Jin finds that Ishikawa is already at the top.
  Jin: You said the only way up was to climb.
  Ishikawa: No, I said you had to climb.
  • Later on in the same mission (which is all about tracking down Tomoe, one of Ishikawa's former students who betrayed him due to his methods), Ishikawa has Jin investigate some Mongol archery targets, only to be ambushed, something that Ishikawa knew in order to test how Jin would respond to it. When Jin finds out about this, he says "I can see why Tomoe attacked you", causing Ishikawa to laugh.
• Masako wastes no time straight-up annihilating Ishikawa upon learning of his relationship with Tomoe.
  Masako: Serves you right. An old man taking up with a young woman... only leads to trouble.
  Ishikawa: I treated her like a daughter.
  Masako: For some women, one father is more than enough.
  • This is some Hypocritical Humor, seeing as Masako actually had a dalliance with a maid much younger than her.
  • Well her Exact Words were "An old man taking up with a young woman." She never said anything about an old woman taking up with a young woman... It also may be her speaking from experience given how her relationship ended.
• Kenji is less respected among the townspeople than he would like you to believe.
  (after Kenji talks about how he's helping the village)
  Villager: Set yourself on fire and mate with a Mongol bomb.
• When Kenji suggests Jin climb into an empty sake barrel to ambush marauding Mongols, Jin is less than amused.
  Kenji: The barrel is very roomy. It could fit a heavily-armed, heroic samurai—
  Jin: (annoyed, cutting him off) You know what would fit better? A flabby, flexible sake merchant.
  —
  Jin: (after sitting inside the barrel) It smells like your breath in here, Kenji.
  Kenji: The barrel didn’t empty itself!
  • When you're in the barrel you can hear the Mongols stealing Kenji's horse and beating him up.
• When bathing in a hot spring, you can choose different subjects to have deep thoughts about. Choosing "A Lover's Touch" has Jin wishing he had some female company in the bath and it's been too long since he last had sex.
  • Another option in another hot spring is to have Jin to reflect on Sensei Ishikawa. Jin wonders if he's ever relaxed in his life and snarks that he's wound up tighter than one of his own bowstrings.
  • One spring gives the option to muse on Kenji's sake... Which Jin ruefully realises would also mean putting up with Kenji himself.
• In one cutscene, after repelling a bunch of Mongols, Yuna calls Jin a vengeful spirit back from the grave to defeat the Mongols. Yuna is clearly grinning ear to ear as she says it while Jin tries to give a speech. After it is done, he turns to Yuna and asks what that was about, and Yuna replies, clearly trying to avoid laughing, that she thinks the refugees enjoyed it. This is one of the few times Yuna is deliberately funny, as most of the other scenes with her are quite tragic.
• "The Other Side of Honour" is a more light-hearted mission than most, especially when the fake samurai challenges Jin to a duel. Cue the usual boss standoff cutscene only for him to drop his sword and surrender the moment gameplay starts. Even funnier, the fake samurai's name is Jinroku, which literally translates to "dunce" or "blockhead".
• Jin shows himself to be a Deadpan Snarker during the side quest called "A Healer's Touch". While escorting a monk to a survivor camp where a sickness is spreading, Jin gets lectured by said monk for getting violent with bandits harassing some peasants. When they encounter Mongols later on, Jin sarcastically asks the monk if he'd like to try talking to them politely, while the monk just sheepishly leaves it to Jin.
  Jin: Would you like to talk to them? Ask them politely to move?
  Hanaoka: I'll leave it to your discretion, milord.
• In Act 2, as Jin's legend as the Ghost is starting to climb, he can take on a side quest to retrieve a map from a merchant who somehow doesn't seem to believe he is who he says he is.
  Jin: I'm Jin Sakai. Come out and give me the map.
  Merchant: And I'm Amaterasu, the sun god. No.
  • And a few moments later, when Jin sneaks into the building the Merchant's holed up in and confronts him.
    Jin: You must be Amaterasu.
  • This exchange is doubly funny in that the most famous myth about Amaterasu is that she hid herself in a cave, sealed it with a boulder, and refused to come out until the other gods tricked her.
• In Act 2, during The Walls of Yarikawa, Yuna takes a shot at roasting Shimura.
  Taka: We used to catch dragonflies here. Didn't we?
  Yuna: And make them fight.
  Taka: We'd pretend once was a Yarikawa samurai. And the other was a... a...
  Yuna: A Shimura samurai. And Shimura always lost.
  Jin: Interesting choice.
• During a rescue mission, Jin can unlock or break the bamboo cage holding a bear. If there are no enemies left for it to pursue, Jin says "wrong cage" as the bear charges at him.
• The description of the Fundoshi:
  "A true samurai needs no clothes."
  — Jin Sakai after too much sake
• During the quest "The Husband", Masako struggles to get information from the wife of one of the conspirators, who is far too afraid of her wrath to tell her where her husband is hiding. She then teasingly implies that Jin should be a Honey Trap for the woman, since she would be far more likely to answer to a handsome warrior.
  Masako: Maybe a young samurai will charm her.
  • Even funnier, Jin's only response is a frustrated sigh.
• To those familiar with One Piece, hearing the name "Straw Hats" used in a serious context can be amusing. And then it takes on an ironic bent when they betray the player character, and their leader turns out to be a disloyal cur who ultimately goes out trying desperately to backpedal on his betrayal and begging for his life.
  • Becomes even funnier in the Japanese dub when you realize that Jin's voice actor also voices Zoro.
• While "The Spirit of Yarikawa’s Vengeance" is rather creepy, there is some Nightmare Retardant in the discovery that the "spirit" is just a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax. Plus the fact that she keeps up the charade despite Jin not buying it for a second.
• "You're the Ghost? You're suppose to be ten feet tall!" Being said in the middle of a battle.
• The Charm of Distraction that you can acquire in New Game+ lends to some hilarious moments of its own. The Developer's Foresight to add cinematic hornets to the cutscenes that play after you defeat a boss, if you defeat them with the summoned hornets adds to the humor.
• Jin's meeting with Goro in "A Message in Fire". Made even funnier by Jin's deadpan tone throughout the exchange.
  Jin: You must be Goro.
  Goro: (obviously drunk) Well, we must all be someone. Who must you be?
  Jin: Lord Sakai.
  Goro: Ha! The samurai are all dead!
  Jin: I'm very much alive. But my patience is dying.
• During the last Tale of Sensei Ishikawa, Jin deduces Tomoe's plan to escape to the mainland with a boat from Umugi Cove.
  Ishikawa: Forget the Mongols. What does she want in Umugi Cove?
  Jin: There's not much here besides thieves and cut throats...dammit, and smugglers.

Iki Island

• Shortly after arriving on the island, Jin tracks down his horse after they got separated and washed up on different parts of Iki, and finds him about to be captured by Mongols. For a moment, he's afraid that he'll need to rescue his loyal steed, only to be proven wrong seconds later.
  Jin: He needs me!
  (The horse breaks free of the ropes the Mongols are tying him down with and charges straight through an approaching Mongol patrol, killing most of them.)
  Jin: ...Or not.
• During 'The Legacy of Kazumasa Sakai', the storyteller of the particular tale is an old man clearly very embittered against Jin's father and family for the deaths caused during the Sakai Invasion, and spares no effort to paint him in the most unflattering light possible. It wouldn't be funny, except this attitude extends to Jin as well, saying that Kazumasa's one mistake was bringing along his 'whelp' of a son to Iki, and the tale's illustrations depicting the young Jin as a extremely deformed caricature of himself crying inelegantly as he's being attacked in the canyon. Needless to say, Jin is not happy to hear himself being degraded in this way and protests so angrily he's thrown out.
• In one mission, Jin learns that there's someone on Iki Island pretending to be the Ghost, forcing him to track down the imposter and learn why he's doing it. Said imposter turns out to be Kenji, and the look on Jin's face when he realizes this after entering the hut is absolutely priceless.
  Jin: (confrontational at first, hand on his sword) Alright... (does a double take in disbelief and exasperation) YOU?!
  Kenji: Lord Sakai! Get me out of here!
  • And then there's Kenji's justification for pretending to be the Ghost.
  Kenji: A respectful tribute!
  Jin: (sounding as though he'd very much like to strangle Kenji) Respectful-?!
  • Kenji's outfit as the 'Ghost' is just his outfit, but dyed black.
  • Also, he has a "pupil", a young fisherman who rescued Kenji from drowning. Jin watches the boy approach a Mongol camp presumably for the reason Jin would... and instead he just drinks all their sake.
  • Jin meets a couple of people discussing the 'Ghost of Iki'. He can irritably claim that he's the Ghost, or he can cheerfully contribute outrageous lies to the legend, like that the Ghost snapped the Khan in half like a twig.
  • Listen in on the conversations about the 'Ghost' and you'll hear about him supposedly challenging the onibaba Iyo to a dance, causing her to renounce her vow of vengeance. Yes, the terrifying spirit monster who serves as the Big Bad of Legends mode. Once you find out it's Kenji, it becomes even funnier with the mental images.
• Listening in on some raiders' conversation about Fune can allow you to hear them recounting the time she had caught a man relieving himself in her cove and how she'd punished him by taking his head. Normally, this wouldn't be funny. What makes it funny, however, is one of them asking, "which head?", and the other saying, "probably both".
• There's another conversation between two raiders where they talk about a fellow pirate who surrendered himself to the Eagle Tribe because he wanted to try the Eagle's sacred medicine. Yes, that's right. Someone surrendered to the Eagle because they wanted to go on a hallucinogenic-induced trip.
• As Tenzo is leading Jin down to Fune's Cove, they come across a large gap in the path, which prompts this exchange between them.
  Tenzo: No way to cross.
  Jin: There is always a way.
  Tenzo: (annoyed) Do samurai always have to say shit like that?
  Jin: (dryly) Do pirates have to mouth off?
  Tenzo: Just the clever ones.
• When a disbelieving Tenzo asks Jin what the worst thing that has ever happened to him could have been, Jin has two choices. He can be honest and say that it was losing his father, or he can be snarky and say that it was meeting Tenzo.
  Jin: (wryly) I'm haunted by visions of this withered sailor. Half-drunk, breath that stinks of rotten shellfish. He keeps eyeing my katana. Like he wants to steal it.
  Tenzo: (chuckles)
• Not too long after Tenzo discovers who Jin really is, Jin responds by persuading the former that they have to work together to save their home; a similar speech he's made many times. Tenzo's response?
  Tenzo: (rolls eyes with a scoff) You samurai and your speeches...
• Khunbish tells Jin that he's wasting the Eagle's "gift" during their duel. Jin's response?
  Jin: You waste the air we breathe.
• After defeating the Eagle, we have this gem between Jin and Tenzo.
  Jin: Looks like you're healing up.
  Tenzo: It only hurts when I laugh, so... I should be be fine around you.
  Jin: You only laugh at your own jokes, anyway.
  Tenzo: (chuckles, then winces in pain.)
• If you have Jin bow to Tenzo at the end of the DLC, he'll tease him for it, saying that he's officially seen it all now.
  Tenzo: (amused) A samurai bowing to a raider. Now I've seen everything.

Meta

• When the live-action film adaptation was announced, Daisuke Tsuji tweeted that he is more than happy to do butt-nudity if he were cast in the movie. Followed up with Earl T. Kim (Norio), Patrick Gallagher (Khotun Khan), and Leonard Wu (Ryuzo) all agreeing to do the same.
• The fact that the game has horse armor as a major part of the DLC despite how the basic concept is one of the most well-known examples of pointless paid DLC when it was first introduced in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, except it actually has a proper gameplay effect in this game and has significance to the plot: essentially it feels like Sucker Punch is thumbing their nose at Bethesda and going "see, here's how you properly add horse armor DLC to a game ".