from Sony Spirit of Yotei trailer.
If you've slept on the Akira Kurosawa-inspired, Assassin's Creed-like samurai game Ghost of TsushimaDid you miss anything? Since it recently got a PC release, now is a good time to catch up, but now there is even more reason to do so, as Sony has just announced a sequel titled Spirit of Yōtei.
Scheduled for release in 2025, the game shares similarities with its predecessor, following a wandering samurai as he rides horseback across picturesque, windswept fields, befriending animals and defeating enemies in katana duels.
While Ghost of Tsushima was set on the island of Tsushima during the Mongol invasion, Spirit of Yotei is located (fittingly enough) at the foot of Mount Yōtei, one of the most picturesque places in Japan. Today the area is called Hokkaido.
Most fans of the first game expected a new location in Tsushimasequel, but they may not have expected the other big change: there appears to be a new protagonist. The woman who appears in the trailers is not Jin Sakai, the main character of Tsushima. This suggests that the franchise will continue with something of an anthology format rather than direct sequels. A blog post from Sony says that the new character is called Atsu.
The blog post also states that Yotei girl takes place in 1603, 300 years after the events of Tsushima.
Developer Sucker Punch hasn’t revealed anything about the gameplay, however, other than what we see in the trailer. So far, what we see seems pretty much identical to what we’ve played before. More announcements are sure to come, though.
Image of the list by Sony
