Ghost of Tsushima Sequel Video Game Ghost of Yotei Set at PlayStation

A sequel online game to PlayStation‘s “Ghost of Tsushima” is about from developer Sucker Punch Productions.

Titled “Ghost of Yōtei,” the sport will debut in 2025 and observe a brand new protagonist, Atsu, with an entire new storyline.

Launched in 2020, “Ghost of Tsushima” is an action-adventure sport following Jin Sakai, a samurai on a quest to guard Tsushima Island throughout the first Mongol invasion of Japan. Jin should select between following the warrior code to struggle honorably, or through the use of sensible however dishonorable strategies of repelling the Mongols with minimal casualties.

“Ghost of Tsushima: Legends,” a multiplayer model of the sport, launched in October 2020 and launched as a separate providing in September 2021.

“After we got down to make a brand new ‘Ghost’ sport, we wished to keep up the core pillars established in ‘Ghost of Tsushima’: taking part in as a wandering warrior in Feudal Japan, providing freedom to discover at your personal tempo, and highlighting the great thing about the world,” Sucker Punch Productions communications supervisor Andrew Goldfarb stated in a followup PlayStation weblog submit Tuesday. “We additionally wished to proceed to innovate. To create one thing recent however acquainted, we appeared past Jin Sakai’s story and the island of Tsushima, and shifted our focus to the concept of the ‘Ghost’ as an alternative. At Sucker Punch we love origin tales, and we wished to discover what it might imply to have a brand new hero sporting a Ghost masks, and uncovering a brand new legend. This led us to ‘Ghost of Yōtei’: a brand new protagonist, a brand new story to unfold, and a brand new area of Japan to discover.”

Per Sucker Punch, “Atsu’s journey takes place in 1603, greater than 300 years after the occasions of ‘Ghost of Tsushima,’” and “is about within the lands surrounding Mount Yōtei, a towering peak within the coronary heart of Ezo, an space of Japan referred to as Hokkaido in current day. In 1603, this space was exterior the rule of Japan, and crammed with sprawling grasslands, snowy tundras, and surprising risks. It’s a far cry from the organized samurai clans who lived in Tsushima, and it’s the setting for an unique story we are able to’t wait to inform.”

The announcement of the “Ghost of Tsushima” sequel sport got here throughout PlayStation’s State of Play presentation Tuesday, throughout which Sony Interactive Leisure made a number of different first and third-party sport bulletins, together with a Nov. 14 launch date for “Lego Horizon Adventures,” Keanu Reeves voicing Shadow in Sega’s upcoming “Sonic X Shadow Generations” film pack releasing Dec. 12 for the sport’s Digital Deluxe version, a free enlargement pack for brand new sport “Astro Bot” coming quickly, a have a look at gameplay in EA’s “Dragon Age: The Veilguard” and extra.

The State of Play occasion was held on the heels of PlayStation revealing its subsequent console, the PS5 Professional, launching in November.

Watch the trailer for “Ghost of Yōtei” beneath.