Ghost of Yotei State of Play July 2025: Everything Revealed

Sony and Sucker Punch Productions conscionable wrapped up their July 2025 Ghost of Yōtei State of Play, showcasing a amended look astatine its world, combat, and caller modes up of its merchandise day this fall.

The 20-minute gameplay presentation, hosted by originative directors Jason Connell and Nate Fox, arrived contiguous to assistance showcase however Atsu’s travel volition beryllium some acquainted and caller for players who enjoyed 2020’s Ghost of Tsushima. Any mode you chopped it, the Ghost of Yōtei State of Play is the closest look astatine 1 of the PlayStation 5’s biggest games of the twelvemonth that we’ve seen yet.

For those who missed retired connected the State of Play, IGN took the clip to stitchery each of the highlights for you close here. You tin cheque retired everything revealed during the presumption beneath portion we hold for much updates up of Ghost of Yōtei’s October 2, 2025, merchandise date.

The Sights and Sounds of Ezo

Ghost of Yōtei focuses connected Atsu arsenic she seeks revenge against the Yōtei Six astatine immoderate cost. It's a bloody travel that has led Atsu's enemies to fearfulness her, with galore disquieted that she is simply a legendary Onyro tone travel to life. Ghost of Yōtei fuels its travel of vengeance successful a wholly caller way, allowing players to flash backmost to its protagonist's younger years with the elemental property of a button.

Traveling passim Ezo means encountering a onshore acold antithetic from the war-torn land of Tsushima. Beautiful successful its ain right, Ghost of Yōtei's caller representation encourages players to acquisition Atsu's travel however they please, with Sucker Punch going arsenic acold arsenic to accidental the escapade "focuses connected subordinate state much than immoderate game" it has ever made. One illustration of this newfound subordinate state tin beryllium recovered successful the Clue System, which tin pb the subordinate successful caller directions. While immoderate accusation gained during an interrogation whitethorn spot Atsu question to snowy mountaintops that fell hidden attackers, different whitethorn instrumentality her to a colony ravaged by occurrence and an service of samurai.

Sucker Punch wants players to take to absorption connected combat, exploration, story, oregon immoderate it is that satisfies their quest. However, 1 recommended mode to spot each Ezo has to connection involves simply utilizing a spyglass and walking toward immoderate catches your eye.

Exploring a 1603 Japan means uncovering acquainted points of interest, specified arsenic caller Bamboo Strike challenges and adjacent much Hot Springs to unbend in, but players tin besides look guardant to taking retired hard fights arsenic a bounty hunter, too. There are besides Altars of Reflection, which unlock caller abilities for Atsu that volition nary uncertainty assistance her connected her journey.

Ghost of Yōtei Combat Get an Upgrade

With a hefty terms connected Atsu's head, players volition request to utilize an arsenal of caller tools and weapons. While it looks similar fans volition person plentifulness of opportunities for modular sword encounters, immoderate caller blades volition assistance spice things up. Highlights see the weapons similar the katana and spear arsenic good arsenic the much unconvential kusarigama concatenation blade, the lengthy odachi, and adjacent dual swords. Each offers circumstantial advantages successful conflict depending connected the circumstances, with each weapons featuring upgrades to utilize, too.

Ranged combat, meanwhile, volition spot Atsu chiefly utilizing 2 tools: a bow and a gun. The Ghost of Yōtei gameplay showed disconnected a glimpse astatine however the second tin beryllium utilized to rapidly instrumentality retired a distant force astatine the outgo of stealth. In different words, Atsu comes with a fewer much tools than Ghost of Tsushima's Jin did, and she's got nary reservations erstwhile it comes to utilizing them to instrumentality retired the Yōtei Six.

In betwixt combat encounters and brushes with death, players tin let Atsu to remainder nether the stars. Here, you tin navigator food, play music, and adjacent conscionable up with allies portion taking successful each Ezo's skies person to offer. With these changes besides comes a replacement for the modular diary that is known arsenic Atsu's Wolf Pack. Sucker Punch calls the paper strategy a "more character-driven mode of managing allies and vendors" met during Atsu's journey. It's a straightforward mode to spot who mightiness person thing to offer, and it's wrapped up with creation for each look you meet.

Where Ghost of Tsushima approached its transportation to quality successful 1 way, Ghost of Yōtei appears similar it whitethorn beryllium the transportation players person with the satellite astir them. One mode it volition bash this involves a caller wolf companion who, arsenic shown during the State of Play, tin teardrop retired an enemy's pharynx during combat. Traveling done a tract of flowers, meanwhile, tin springiness your quality a boost portion riding connected your horse. Sucker Punch besides showed disconnected a archetypal look astatine what appears to beryllium a dense customization strategy for Atsu's armor arsenic good arsenic the quality to disarm enemies with capable well-timed attacks.

Kurosawa Mode Returns Alongside New Immersive Options

Kurosawa Mode, a black-and-white omage to legenadary manager Akira Kurosawa, makes its instrumentality aft fans fell successful emotion with it successful Ghost of Tsushima. It's a motion not lone that Sucker Punch is blessed with the effect it received the archetypal clip astir but that the squad remains influenced by immoderate of the salient artists successful the genre.

This power tin besides beryllium felt successful 2 further modes: Miike Mode and Watanabe Mode. As immoderate movie fans mightiness person guessed, the erstwhile takes aft 13 Assassins manager Takashi Miike, moving the camera successful person with much humor and much mud. The latter, meanwhile, brings successful the enactment of Samurai Champloo anime manager Shinichirō Watanabe by featuring archetypal lo-fi beats that backmost moments of exploration and combat.

Other highlights from the Ghost of Yōtei State of Play see a archetypal look astatine photograph mode arsenic good arsenic options for Standard English audio, Subtitled English audio, and Samurai Cinema, which features afloat dependable acted Japanese dialog with English subtitles.

Ghost of Yōtei launches October 2, 2025, for PS5. As a last-minute surprise, Sucker Punch promised that peculiar variation Ghost of Yōtei PS5 consoles and unsocial DualSense controllers volition besides beryllium disposable astatine launch. For much details portion we hold to spot more, you tin cheque retired everything other we cognize astir Ghost of Yōtei here.

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