A sequel video game to PlayStation‘s “Ghost of Tsushima” is set from developer Sucker Punch Productions.
Titled “Ghost of Yōtei,” the game will debut in 2025 and follow a new protagonist, Atsu, with a whole new storyline.
Released in 2020, “Ghost of Tsushima” is an action-adventure game following Jin Sakai, a samurai on a quest to protect Tsushima Island during the first Mongol invasion of Japan. Jin must choose between following the warrior code to fight honorably, or by using practical but dishonorable methods of repelling the Mongols with minimal casualties.
“Ghost of Tsushima: Legends,” a multiplayer version of the game, launched in October 2020 and launched as a separate offering in September 2021.
“When we set out to make a new ‘Ghost’ game, we wanted to maintain the core pillars established in ‘Ghost of Tsushima’: playing as a wandering warrior in Feudal Japan, offering freedom to explore at your own pace, and highlighting the beauty of the world,” Sucker Punch Productions communications manager Andrew Goldfarb said in a followup PlayStation blog post Tuesday. “We also wanted to continue to innovate. To create something fresh but familiar, we looked beyond Jin Sakai’s story and the island of Tsushima, and shifted our focus to the idea of the ‘Ghost’ instead. At Sucker Punch we love origin stories, and we wanted to explore what it could mean to have a new hero wearing a Ghost mask, and uncovering a new legend. This led us to ‘Ghost of Yōtei’: a new protagonist, a new story to unfold, and a new region of Japan to explore.”
Per Sucker Punch, “Atsu’s journey takes place in 1603, more than 300 years after the events of ‘Ghost of Tsushima,’” and “is set in the lands surrounding Mount Yōtei, a towering peak in the heart of Ezo, an area of Japan known as Hokkaido in present day. In 1603, this area was outside the rule of Japan, and filled with sprawling grasslands, snowy tundras, and unexpected dangers. It’s a far cry from the organized samurai clans who lived in Tsushima, and it’s the setting for an original story we can’t wait to tell.”
The announcement of the “Ghost of Tsushima” sequel game came during PlayStation’s State of Play presentation Tuesday, during which Sony Interactive Entertainment made several other first and third-party game announcements, including a Nov. 14 release date for “Lego Horizon Adventures,” Keanu Reeves voicing Shadow in Sega’s upcoming “Sonic X Shadow Generations” movie pack releasing Dec. 12 for the game’s Digital Deluxe edition, a free expansion pack for new game “Astro Bot” coming soon, a look at gameplay in EA’s “Dragon Age: The Veilguard” and more.
The State of Play event was held on the heels of PlayStation revealing its next console, the PS5 Pro, launching in November.
Watch the trailer for “Ghost of Yōtei” below.
From Variety US