Ghost of Yōtei Will Slash It Up on PlayStation 5 in October

What a twelvemonth for games based successful Japan and featuring samurai, huh? After Assassin’s Creed Shadows in March, players tin look guardant to the PlayStation 5 exclusive Ghost of Yōtei October 2.

Developed by Sucker Punch, the crippled takes spot successful 1603 Japan, implicit 300 years aft 2020’s Ghost of Tsushima. Players instrumentality connected the relation of Atsu (Erika Ishii), a warrior seeking revenge against the radical who killed her family. In the trailer below, we larn astir her targets, the Yōtei Six: the Oni, the Snake, the Dragon, the Kitsune, the Spider, and Lord Saito. Armed with the katana Saito utilized to pin her to the partition during her family’s slaughter, Atsu sets astir tracking and cutting them down, adopting the moniker of the Ghost archetypal utilized by Tsushima’s protagonist, Jin Sakai.

Like its predecessor, Yōtei is an open-world game, and players volition research Ezo (now Hokkaido), taking connected contracts and sidesplitting enemies successful assorted forms of combat. Unlike Jin, Atsu has dual katanas and different tools astatine her disposal similar a gun, an odachi, and a wolf buddy that tin onslaught enemies.

There’s a batch of overlap betwixt this and Shadows, the cardinal quality being Yōtei players tin beryllium led to their nonsubjective via the mode the upwind blows. It’s a tiny thing, but it gave Tsushima a batch of charm and highlighted the quality of its recreated island, truthful it’s bully to spot that instrumentality here.

Ghost of Yōtei will initially beryllium exclusive to the PlayStation 5, but a PC merchandise is apt immoderate clip aft its release. PlayStation’s antecedently expressed anticipation this’ll beryllium large capable to accommodate into a movie oregon film, truthful support that successful your caput erstwhile you yet play it.

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