![]() ![]() The game’s gorgeous visuals will likely draw many curious visitors to the island-or they would, if COVID-19 hadn’t put a huge chunk of the world in quarantine. Fishing villages cling to the jagged coastline, and small farms are tucked in narrow valleys. Ninety percent of the island is forested mountains. Even most Japanese people, when I tell them I lived there, reply, “Really! I’ve never been.” Tsushima is remote and rural. ![]() That Americans hadn’t heard of the island isn’t surprising. ![]() Now, thanks to Sucker Punch Productions’ PlayStation 4 game Ghost of Tsushima, about a samurai battling the Mongol invasion of the island in 1274, I see lots of people talking about the bloody assassinations they pulled off in places like the fishing village of Kechi, where I used to go to the gym and then get food at the popular chain Mos Burger once a week. Up until last month, when I told fellow Americans that I used to live on the Japanese island of Tsushima, they inevitably responded, “Where’s that?” They’d never heard of the island, let alone the small town of Toyotama where I lived. Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Entertainment A scene from Playstation’s Ghost of Tsushima. ![]()
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