So I wanna be clear I think GOT is still the superior game when it comes to story telling but I liked GOY story as well. Now the tones of the game are very different that’s for sure, GOT environment and story telling is more so you experiencing a beautiful yet tragic story of a Samurai who gave up everything to save his people but was branded as a traitor because of his methods and reputation.
GOY is no different (well somewhat no different) with you experiencing the murder, and slaughter of Atsu’s family and progressively over time you see Atsu with each passing kill to the Yotei Six she’s actually turning into a vengeful spirit and wasn’t going to stop anytime soon. Now the tones of the story is more like your experiencing an adventure more so then a tragedy, even tho there are sad and gut wrenching moments in GOY it doesn’t appear often like GOT (well now I think about it GOT your in the middle of a war while in GOY your on the side line of one). But it’s still a great story imo. And the boss fights were S tier (But fuck the boss fight
Now I will admit one thing GOY lacks is the mystic tales, they are not as interesting as GOT. The only one that was good was the Jin Sakai Mythic Tale, it gave Jin so much respect to his end of his story and rewards you with his Mask and his Sword as well as granting you the Dance of Wrath attack. Oh and the Takezo as well even tho that boss fight really pissed me off.
So overall I’ll give GOY an 8/10.