Ghostwire: Tokyo Best Skills To Get First
Ghostwire: Tokyo features an interesting take on first-person combat. Because the game’s enemies are Visitors, a form of evil spirit, encounters aren’t conventional in nature; instead of guns and melee-based weapons, you’ll use hand gestures and magical items to invoke different supernatural skills during battle. Surviving in Ghostwire: Tokyo is all about knowing what skills to use and when.
Some skills offer a means of escape or a way to stave off death. Others, like the game’s Ethereal Weaving attacks, will allow you to subdue, banish or outright destroy enemies. All of them will need to be unlocked and/or upgraded before becoming viable options during encounters. This is especially true during the first few hours of play. To help in that regard, we’ve listed some of the best starting skills and upgrades in Ghostwire: Tokyo below.
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One of the best skills to grab first in Ghostwire is the Tatenui. When Visitors are attacking you, it’s possible to block by holding the L1 button on your controller. If you press it right before an attack lands, you’ll perform a perfect block, staggering them while negating any incoming damage. Once you unlock the Tatenui, however, you’ll also be able to gain Ether--the magical material needed to perform Ethereal Weaving attacks--whenever you perform this move.
Running out of ether during a given battle isn’t a huge issue. There are times, however, when the number of enemies will balloon to the point where the managing of this
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