Sony and Sucker Punch offered a gameplay deep dive for Ghost of Yotei at a devoted State of Play livestream Thursday, detailing the sport’s clues-based exploration and questing, fight and weapons, particular sport modes, and rather more. After the almost 20-minute-long presentation, the PlayStation guardian additionally revealed a limited-edition Ghost of Yotei PS5 bundle, that includes new console and DualSense controller designs.
Ghost of Yotei Gameplay Deep Dive
Within the first prolonged have a look at Ghost of Yotei’s gameplay hosted by inventive administrators Jason Connell and Nate Fox, developer Sucker Punch shared extra particulars about how gamers will go about exacting revenge on the Yotei Six, the notorious group of bandits who killed Atsu’s household and left her for useless. In a departure from 2020’s Ghost of Tsushima, the developer described Atsu, the brand new protagonist, as neither a samurai nor a ninja, however a “lone wolf mercenary” prepared to select up any weapon or trick to get the higher of her enemies.
Sucker Punch emphasised that Ghost of Yotei focuses on participant freedom greater than any of its earlier video games. The sport will characteristic an exploration model that differs from different open-world video games. The action-adventure sport incorporates a clue system that informs gamers of attention-grabbing areas to discover, quests to tackle, and extra. Gamers can interrogate defeated foes to unlock new clues about their subsequent goal, main them to new areas of the map.
This clue system is represented by way of playing cards that assist gamers preserve observe of their quests and duties. The sport additionally incorporates a bounty searching system that goes each methods. As Atsu’s legend grows, the value on her head goes up, attracting different bounty hunters to trace her down. Atsu, too, may decide up bounties and go after wished outlaws for rewards.
The grappling hook from Ghost of Tsushima returns, however this time gamers additionally get a spyglass to identify attention-grabbing landmarks on the horizon and spy on enemies in a camp. Sucker Punch additionally supplied a glimpse at some new and returning aspect actions, together with scorching springs, a brand new sketching exercise, bamboo strikes, and a brand new tabletop sport.
Ghost of Yotei New Weapons, Sport Modes
On the State of Play livestream, the studio additionally detailed the fight in Ghost of Yotei. Atsu can take her decide of melee weapons from a katana, a spear, a kusarigama, an odachi, and even twin wield swords. All weapons play distinctly and are efficient in opposition to particular foes in fight, Sucker Punch stated. She additionally has entry to ranged weapons like bows and rifles and a wide range of thrown weapons like bombs, kunai and blinding powder to offer her an edge in fight.
The livestream additionally confirmed that Atsu will likely be accompanied by a number of allies in her journey, together with a mysterious wolf who can assist her in encounters. And very similar to Pink Lifeless Redemption 2, Atsu can put down a camp anyplace within the open world to relaxation, prepare dinner, play music and verify in with varied allies that present her with upgrades.
Sucker Punch additionally detailed the assorted modes that will likely be out there at launch. The black-and-white mode impressed by the movies of Akira Kurosawa returns. The sport may also pay homage two different Japanese filmmakers, Takashi Miike and Samurai Champloo director Shinichirō Watanabe, by including two new modes that change the sport’s visible and audio expertise for gamers.
Ghost of Yotei is ready to launch solely on PS5 on October 2. The sport is at present out there to pre-order on PlayStation Retailer.