Sony Confirms Ghost of Yōtei PS5 Release Date With New Trailer

Sony has confirmed Ghost of Yōtei releases connected October 2, 2025.

Sucker Punch's PlayStation 5 exclusive sequel besides has a caller trailer that introduces the Yōtei Six — pack members protagonist Atsu has sworn to hunt down — arsenic good a caller gameplay mechanic that lets players "glimpse Atsu’s past and recognize everything that was taken from her."

In a station connected the PlayStation Blog, Sucker Punch elder communications manager Andrew Goldfarb described the game's story.

"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. 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."

By releasing Ghost of Yōtei successful October, Sony is perchance moving up against the all-consuming Grand Theft Auto 6, which is inactive down to merchandise autumn 2025. But Rockstar has yet to denote a steadfast merchandise day for its surefire smash hit, and intelligibly Sony felt it needed to marque an announcement present alternatively than hold immoderate longer.

The trailer is dense connected communicative set-up and cutscenes, but there's a decent dollop of gameplay too. We spot the gorgeous environments and Atsu's question done them connected horseback, arsenic good arsenic greusome combat.

Sucker Punch's extremity is to springiness players much power implicit Atsu's communicative compared to the archetypal game. Creative manager Jason Connell had said that 1 of the changes compared to Ghost of Tsushima volition beryllium a little repetitive unfastened world: “One situation that comes with making an open-world crippled is the repetitive quality of doing the aforesaid happening implicit again," Connell said. "We wanted to equilibrium against that and find unsocial experiences.”

Now we cognize what this means. According to Goldfarb, players take which leads to travel arsenic they prime which Yōtei Six subordinate they privation to hunt down first. Atsu tin besides way different unsafe targets and assertion bounties, oregon question retired limb sensei to larn caller skills.

"Ezo is wild, and arsenic deadly arsenic it is beautiful," Goldfarb continued. "As you trek crossed the unfastened satellite you’ll find unexpected dangers and peaceful reprieves (including immoderate returning activities from Tsushima), and you’ll beryllium capable to physique a campfire anyplace successful the unfastened satellite for a remainder nether the stars. We privation you to person the state to research Ezo nevertheless you determine to, and we can’t hold to stock more."

New limb types see ōdachi, kusarigama, and dual katanas, and determination are “massive sightlines that fto you look acold crossed the environment, skies of twinkling stars and auroras, and vegetation that sways believably successful the wind,” arsenic good arsenic “enhanced show and visuals connected PlayStation 5 Pro.”

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