Sony’s Ghost of Yotei trailer.
If you happen to’ve been sleeping on the Akira Kurosawa-inspired, Murderer’s Creed-esque samurai sport Ghost of Tsushima, you’ve got been lacking out. Provided that it lately bought a PC launch, this can be a nice time to make amends for it—however now there’s much more purpose 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 in the course of the time of the Mongol invasion, Ghost of Yotei is (fittingly) set across the foot of Mount Yōtei, one in all Japan’s most picturesque locales—the realm is known as Hokkaido in the present day.
Most followers of the primary sport anticipated a brand new location in Tsushima‘s sequel, however they could not have anticipated the opposite huge change: there seems to be a brand new protagonist. The girl who seems within the trailers shouldn’t be Jin Sakai, the principle character of Tsushima. This implies the franchise will transfer ahead with one thing like an anthology format as an alternative of direct sequels. A blog post from Sony says the brand new character is called Atsu.
The weblog publish additionally says that Yōtei takes place in 1603, 300 years after the occasions of Tsushima.
Developer Sucker Punch hasn’t revealed something concerning the gameplay, although, past what we see within the trailer. Up to now, what we see seems nearly similar to what we have performed earlier than. There are absolutely going to be extra bulletins to come back, although.
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