The Brutality of Water Stance in Tsushima

Water Stance : Water Experience Contest

The sea is all around Tsushima Island. Apart from the sea, you can easily reach hot springs, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, and creeks. Even one of Jin Sakai's stances is called Water Stance. So, in today's post, I want to involve as many water views, water stances, and any experience with water related screenshots as possible.

Wish me luck @tommyl33 for I am participating this contest in Gaming Photography Community weekly contest.

Photowalking

The last time I logged out of Tsushima, I was standing near the area of Lake Izuhara. So by the time I logged in today, I found my character standing just near the lake. I took a moment to enjoy the view, swim a bit, and take a photo of it.

Lake Izuhara

Fishermen Village also has an amazing view. The village is located near a river. You can see a few fishermen fishing from their balcony. This view grabs my attention. I stopped here for a while and hit that photo mode. I wish I can really fishing in this game, I hope Ghost Tsushima 2 will have this feature.

Fisherman Village

There were few NPC catching fish using the traditional method. I had no idea what the tool was called that was used by the women in this picture. It looks like made of rattan.

Fisherman Village

If you jump from a higher place, you will not suffer any damage if you land into the water. So, if you are running from something dangerous, needed an escape, and if that happen near a hill where there's water below, just jump and save yourself.

Fisherman Village Hill Top

Beside fighting real enemies, aka the Mongol army, training your stance alone can significantly improve your timing. Learn about the move and its effective distance. Choosing the best place to train actually ends up being wherever you want to, but for me, Water Stance should be practiced near water.

Training Water Stance at Kuta River

Taking a bath and resting in Hot Springs increases your maximum health. I have discovered two places so far. I think there will be more because I haven't unlocked all parts of the map, yet.

Maximum Health Increase

The first hot spring that I discovered was Firefly Hill Hot Spring. The maple tree makes the picture look great!

Firefly Hill Hot Spring

And the second was Castle Look Out Hot Spring. You can see Takeda Castle from here.

Castle Look Out Hot Spring

Hiyoshi Inn Hot Spring is the biggest hot spring with an inn around. There NPCs taking baths here half naked, but no picture were taken if that's matter. Another shots of Water Stance. There are a lot of beautiful shots you can get in here, but I think one is enough. I love this one.

Hiyoshi Inn Hot Spring

Battle in Beachside Camp

There was this place I discovered today, called Beachside Camp, Mongol territory. I am so happy to discover this place because it's near the sea. In this opportunity, I can have a few shots of fighting that use the sea as our battleground.

Beachside Camp

After assassinating half of the Mongols, I observed my next battleground, which was the sea. My plan was to lure the remaining enemies as near the water as possible.

Strategizing

I succeed in luring them. There were four enemies coming to me.

Luring

I am sure the pictures tell the story very well. The leader of Beachside Camp dies last. It was really fun to kick them flying and to see them land in the water. I enjoy doing it over and over again. After disabling the enemy using a kick, I quickly switched to Water Stance to kill them in a brutal way.

FATALITY!

So, that's all for today. Thank you so much for your support, until next battle! Have a nice day, goodbye!

All photos were screenshots taken by me while playing Ghost of Tsushima game.