Ghost of Yōtei: The acclaimed Ghost of Tsushima is getting a sequel

Should you’ve been sleeping on the Akira Kurosawa-inspired, Murderer’s Creed-esque samurai recreation Ghost of Tsushima, you have been lacking out. Provided that it just lately received a PC launch, this can be a nice time to atone for it—however now there’s much more cause to take action, as Sony simply introduced a sequel titled Ghost of Yōtei.

Slated for a 2025 launch, the sport bears similarities to its predecessor. It follows a wandering samurai who rides horses throughout picturesque, wind-swept fields, befriends animals, and defeats enemies in katana duels.

Whereas Ghost of Tsushima was set on Tsushima Island through the time of the Mongol invasion, Ghost of Yotei is (fittingly) set across the foot of Mount Yōtei, one in every of Japan’s most picturesque locales—the realm is named Hokkaido right this moment.

Most followers of the primary recreation anticipated a brand new location in Tsushima‘s sequel, however they might not have anticipated the opposite massive change: there seems to be a brand new protagonist. The lady who seems within the trailers shouldn’t be Jin Sakai, the principle character of Tsushima. This means the franchise will transfer ahead with one thing like an anthology format as a substitute of direct sequels. A blog post from Sony says the brand new character is known as Atsu.

The weblog put up additionally says that Yōtei takes place in 1603, 300 years after the occasions of Tsushima.

Developer Sucker Punch hasn’t revealed something in regards to the gameplay, although, past what we see within the trailer. Thus far, what we see appears to be like virtually similar to what we have performed earlier than. There are absolutely going to be extra bulletins to come back, although.

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