Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT: graphics 2.8 times usual in Japanese reviews
Graphics and art direction appear 2.8 times as often as in a typical followed game's reviews. The count covers 631 Japanese-language reviews written from 2024-05-16 to 2026-11-01.
Own research by 648 News. Every figure in this article was counted by us from 631 Steam reviews written in Japanese, collected between 2024-05-16 and 2026-11-01.
Collected Japanese reviews match Steam's total
This collection counted 631 Japanese-language reviews written from 2024-05-16 to 2026-11-01. In that own count, 572 reviews recommend the game and 59 do not. The recommendation share is 90.6%, with a 95% confidence interval from 88.1% to 92.7%. All 631 collected reviews were placed into topics, and 516 were classified by the model. Steam's own totals for the whole history, read on 2026-11-05, show 631 reviews, 572 positive reviews, 59 negative reviews, and a 90.6% share labeled Very Positive. The mean sentiment score in the collected Japanese-language reviews is 76.1.
The numbers
Graphics and story stand out against other games
Against 166 other followed games, graphics and art direction appear in 158 reviews, or 25.0% of classified reviews. That is 2.8 times the 9.0% baseline and 16.0 points above it. Reviewers describe wind-guided navigation, golden birds, black-and-white period film filters, architecture, vegetation, and photo mode. They often connect this visual style to respect for Japanese history and period dramas.
日本史や時代劇が好きなら間違いなくおすすめできる素晴らしい作品
If you like Japanese history or period dramas, it is a wonderful work you can recommend without hesitation.
Story, scenario, and writing also stand out. It appears in 163 reviews, or 25.8%, which is 2.5 times the 10.5% baseline and 15.3 points above it. Reviewers describe a serious period drama tone, strong supporting characters, and side quests about loss, jealousy, and duty. Some say the main story has clear structure and does not feel preachy.
Performance appears more often than usual too. It appears in 127 reviews, or 20.1%, which is 1.5 times the 13.7% baseline and 6.4 points above it. Reviewers mention PC freezes, crashes, audio failures, and duel input problems. Some also report stable play on certain hardware and settings.
フレーム生成の項目を有効にすると、頻繁にフリーズ、クラッシュするようです。
When frame generation is enabled, it seems to freeze and crash frequently.
Amount of content, length, and replayability appears less often than usual. It appears in 72 reviews, or 11.4%, which is 0.5 times the 24.6% baseline. Reviewers who mention it discuss travel time, collectibles, hot springs, haiku, and the value of a second playthrough.
Performance and gameplay divide the two sides
Performance, optimization, bugs, and crashes split the sample. In reviews that do not recommend the game, the topic appears in 45.8%, against 17.5% among reviews that recommend it. That is a 28.3 point gap, and the topic is raised more by the non-recommending side. Reviewers describe freezes, crashes, missing sound, and input problems during duels. Some give settings changes that seemed to help.
Gameplay, combat, and core mechanics also divide the sides. It appears in 67.8% of negative reviews and 51.9% of positive reviews, a 15.9 point gap. Non-recommending reviewers call combat repetitive and say systems are unhelpful. They mention no cutscene skips, forced conversations, map controls, and long travel between tasks.
戦闘は単調、システムは不親切
Combat is monotonous, and the systems are unhelpful.
Compared with typical negative reviews, story appears far more often among this game's non-recommending reviews. It appears in 27.1% of negative reviews, 3.2 times the 8.5% baseline and 18.6 points above it. Graphics and art direction appear in 16.9% of negative reviews, 2.3 times the 7.3% baseline and 9.6 points above it. Some negative reviews praise the visuals while rejecting the gameplay loop.
Longer play time groups recommend more often
Play time separates the sample. The least-played quarter contains 157 reviews written with play time up to 8.7 hours. In that group, 86.6% recommend the game. The most-played quarter contains 157 reviews written with play time from 67.2 hours onward. In that group, 94.3% recommend it. The difference is 7.7 percentage points, with p = 0.021. The median play time across the collected Japanese-language reviews is 38.6 hours.
Topics also shift with play time. In the least-played quarter, gameplay appears in 42.0%, performance in 37.6%, and graphics in 31.8%. In the most-played quarter, gameplay appears in 68.2%, story in 36.3%, and graphics in 27.4%. Story is a leading topic in the longer group. Performance is a leading topic in the shorter group.
Methodology and sources
Data
Steam user reviews, retrieved with Steam's public review listing between 2024-05-16 and 2026-11-01: 631 written in Japanese. Steam's own all-time totals for Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT were read on 2026-11-05.
How the reviews were classified
Every review was read by a language model, which rated how positive it is, how much concrete detail it gives, and which of 15 fixed topics it talks about. The counts and percentages in this article were then computed from those labels in ordinary code, not by the model. Automatic classification makes mistakes, so single percentages should be read as approximate. Reviews of fewer than 15 characters were not sent to the model; they count as positive or negative from the reviewer's own recommendation and carry no topic.
Limits
People who write a Steam review in Japanese are not a representative sample of everyone who plays in Japan, and the language of a review does not establish where its author lives. Steam's default filter for off-topic review activity was left on, so periods Steam marked as review bombing are excluded from the counts in this article. Reviews that arrived after the retrieval date are not included.
Links
Data from Steam. Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation.