PlayStation Announces Ghost of Yōtei State of Play, With a Deep Dive into Gameplay

Sony volition clasp a PlayStation State of Play broadcast this week offering a heavy dive into Ghost of Yōtei's gameplay, the institution has announced.

Expect a 20-minute look astatine the upcoming highly-anticipated sequel to Ghost of Tsushima, from 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern clip this Thursday, July 10. In Europe, that's 11pm CEST, oregon 10pm BST.

The gameplay volition beryllium introduced by Sucker Punch's 2 Ghost of Yōtei originative directors, Jason Connell and Nate Fox.

Ghost of Yōtei got lone a little notation during Sony's main PlayStation Showcase lawsuit past month, though promised it would absorption connected it much afloat into a dedicated amusement sometime successful July, up of the game's motorboat successful October.

PlayStation's statement of this week's State of Play teases that fans volition perceive much of main quality Atsu's quest for vengeance, get a circuit of her weaponry, positive "new ways to personalize your travel astatine the borderline of Japan, caller peculiar modes, and overmuch more."

Sucker Punch announced its Ghost of Tsushima sequel past September, and revealed it would prima a caller protagonist — albeit connected a acquainted bloody travel done Japan successful the aboriginal 1600s.

"16 years agone successful the bosom of Ezo (called Hokkaido successful contiguous day), a pack of outlaws known arsenic the Yōtei Six took everything from Atsu," Sucker Punch elder communications manager Andrew Goldfarb said previously. "They killed her household and near her for dead, pinned to a burning ginkgo histrion extracurricular her home. But Atsu survived. She learned to fight, to kill, and to hunt, and aft years distant she has returned to her location with a database of six names: The Snake, The Oni, The Kitsune, The Spider, The Dragon, and Lord Saito.

"One by one, she’s hunting them down to avenge her family, equipped with the aforesaid katana utilized to pin her to that burning histrion each those years ago. But portion Atsu’s communicative begins with vengeance, she’ll find there’s much to her travel than conscionable revenge. As she explores Ezo, Atsu volition conscionable improbable allies and forge connections that assistance springiness her a caller consciousness of purpose."

It's been a large twelvemonth for blockbuster unfastened satellite video games acceptable successful Japan dealing with protagonists connected a quest for revenge with a database of cryptic targets to way down. Ghost of Yōtei volition get conscionable six months aft Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ubisoft's ain effort, that is acceptable to person a large DLC enlargement astatine immoderate constituent earlier the extremity of 2025.

To assistance with the hold for much details, you tin work up connected everything we cognize astir Ghost of Yōtei close here.

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