My Brutally HONEST Review for Ghost of Yotei! (PS5/PS5 PRO)

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Ghost of Yōtei is an upcoming 2025 action-adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is a standalone sequel to the 2020 game Ghost of Tsushima.[1]

Ghost of Yōtei is scheduled to be released for the PlayStation 5 on October 2, 2025. Ghost of Yōtei follows a third-person perspective and combines sword fighting, stealth, and exploration. Players can wield a diverse arsenal of weapons, such as a traditional katana (including dual wielding), tanegashima, yari, yumi, ōdachi, kusarigama, and the traditional kaginawa (grappling hook), enabling varied tactical approaches. New features include dynamic weather effects such as snow, rain, and auroras inspired by the real environment around Mount Yōtei.[2]

Additionally, a flexible, non-linear quest structure allows players to choose the order in which they confront the Yōtei Six, fostering emergent narrative paths and player-driven momentum. Players will also be able to take on side missions, similar to the first game, with new content such as hunting outlaws for bounty rewards. Several side activities are available to players; bathing in an onsen and cutting bamboo strikes both return from Tsushima, alongside new activities including sumi-e painting, setting up a campsite where Atsu can cook and play her shamisen.[2] In addition to the Kurosawa Mode returning from Tsushima, Yōtei introduces two additional modes based on the film styles of Takashi Miike and Shinichirō Watanabe. Ghost of Yōtei centers around the theme of "underdog vengeance". The story is set in the environs of Mount Yōtei in Ezo (modern-day Hokkaido, Japan) in 1603, 329 years after the events of Tsushima. The main character, Atsu (Erika Ishii/Fairouz Ai), is a wandering mercenary who adopts the persona of the vengeful onryō in her quest to hunt down the "Yōtei Six" – led by the renegade samurai Lord Saitō, and comprising the Snake, Oni, Kitsune, Spider, and Dragon – who, sixteen years prior, had slaughtered her family, destroyed her home, and left her for dead pinned to a burning ginkgo tree with her father's katana.