What is this game about?

Sucker Punch Productions and Sony Interactive Entertainment are the developers and publishers of the upcoming action-adventure game Ghost of Yōtei. It is a stand-alone follow-up to the video game Ghost of Tsushima, released in 2020. In 2025, the PlayStation 5 version is scheduled for release. “Underdog vengeance” is the central topic of Ghost of Yōtei. The narrative takes place in 1603, 329 years after the events of Ghost of Tsushima, in Hokkaido, Japan. Atsu (Erika Ishii), a female warrior who takes on the character of “The Ghost,” will be controlled by players. In contrast to Ghost of Tsushima, developers assert that players will have greater control over Atsu’s story and decisions. Sucker Punch Productions’ numerous trips to northern Japan served as the inspiration for the setting of Ghost of Yōtei. After spending hours gazing at Mount Yōtei, creative director Jason Connell was captivated by its grandeur. At Shiretoko National Park, the development team captured natural sounds. “Transporting the player to the romance and beauty of feudal Japan” was one of the key components that creative director Nate Fox wanted to be preserved in the sequel to Ghost of Tsushima. On September 24, 2024, the game was unveiled at PlayStation’s State of Play conference. Atsu, a young woman seeking retribution, will be the starting point of a new origin narrative in the Ghost of Tsushima sequel. Although there aren’t many details available about her story, the trailer did offer some intriguing hints about the newest fighter to don The Ghost’s mask. First of all, Atsu has the ability to wield two katanas, something Jin Sakai did not have in the original game. It might imply that Atsu might favor the straightforward strategy above the covert means by which Jin could evade and kill adversaries. Though the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi invented the “two heavens as one” niten’ichi technique with two blades in Atsu’s 17th-century world, this detail actually corresponds with historical records that indicate dual wielding wasn’t a common practice in Japan during the time period in which Jin lived. The name gives us the setting for the game, but for those who aren’t familiar with it, Yotei refers to Mount Yotei, sometimes known as “sheep-hoof mountain” in less glamorous terms, which is a volcano in northern Japan. Particularly on the second-largest Japanese island, Hokkaido, which Atsu’s time would have referred to as Ezo. Additionally, the trailer opens with an unnamed man—who appears to be one of her targets—giving a speech that reveals two details about her story. She is hunting someone, or perhaps a group of individuals, to start. Second, it appears like “every Ronin here” is chasing her due to her notoriety. It implies that Atsu may be an outlaw and that she may have certain targets to locate during the game.