Ghost of Yotei Hype Thread

[mibu no ookami]

Ghost of Yotei is now my most anticipated game of 2025.

So many things that I think most people haven't picked up on that have me excited for this title

• Yellow outfit, a nod to the Bride from Kill Bill another female driven revenge story
• The six swords surrounding Atsu suggests she is hunting 6 ronin
• The area burning in the trailer suggests these ronin burned her home and killed her family and she tracks them up north to hunt them down
• The wolf companion is a divergence from human companions in other SIE games
  • The wolf has been a huge symbol in samurai stories a reason why I've rocked with it for 20 years
  • I'm sure they drew inspiration from John Wick 3, the director of which is directing the Ghost of Tsushima movie
• Sucker Punch is leaning into spaghetti western themes
  • Atsu's bounty poster
  • The western music playing in the trailer that feels right out of Sergio Leoni's Man with no name trilogy by Ennio Morricone
  • Atsu walking into the bar as a wanted person
• The time period might lend itself to some legendary samurai like Miyamoto Musashi and Yagyu Jubei maybe in special modes or DLC
• I'm calling it now that Anna Sawai will play Atsu in the Ghost of Yotei movie, which I think will also be directed by the John Wick director
  • Chad Stahelski worked on the movie Ninja Assassin as a second unit director, he was also the stunt coordinator
    • Anna Sawai was in that movie
  • They're trying to get Hiroyuki Sanada to star in Ghost of Tsushima, almost certainly to play Lord Shimura, it would make sense to get Anna Sawai to play Atsu

I'm also hoping they take a lot of nods from Red Dead Redemption 2. If Ghost of Yotei is successful, I could see them really building out Sucker Punch similar to the path Rockstar San Diego took after Red Dead Revolver and Red Dead Redemption 1.

 

[Sircaw]

I have still not played GOT, just the mp aspect of it.

Saying that, SP don't miss, looking forward to this as well.

 

[ethomaz]

Super hyped.

 

[Say1nMan]

One of my take is that the new weapons that were shown aren't more weapons for you to "pick up" but rather the new weapons are the new stances for the game. Atsu will have a normal katana stance, a duel wield stance, and a sickle chain stance. The rifle will be another range weapon in addition to a bow.

 

[Bryank75]

Don't care about the controversy, this game will be fire. Pure fire.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I will not be playing the Miles Morales of Tsushima but GOT DAMN do I respect what OP did here. High quality thread.

 

[peter42O]

Can't say that im hyped as the game is probably a year or so away and I get hyped for games when they're within a month of release. But in general, I was very happy that it was announced so I know it's coming. Definitely hyped though to see the combat/gameplay and what changes Sucker Punch made. Hoping they keep the boss fight duels and the companion side quest story lines like they had in Tsushima.

 

[Entropi]

GoT was my GoTY 2020. I’m hyped!

 

[anonpuffs]

I have still not played GOT

how

 

[mibu no ookami]

I have still not played GOT, just the mp aspect of it.

Saying that, SP don't miss, looking forward to this as well.

That's really sad to hear. It was a top game of the generation last generation.

I really hope that there is a PS5 pro patch for the game that removes the checkerboard rendering in place for PSSR. Visuals could be slightly better and I'd love to see a high frame rate mode with VRR, maybe 90 FPS...

All games moving forward should have DRS 60 fps modes and uncapped frame rate modes on console by default.

 

[Sircaw]

That's really sad to hear. It was a top game of the generation last generation.

I really hope that there is a PS5 pro patch for the game that removes the checkerboard rendering in place for PSSR. Visuals could be slightly better and I'd love to see a high frame rate mode with VRR, maybe 90 FPS...

All games moving forward should have DRS 60 fps modes and uncapped frame rate modes on console by default.

I will play it eventually; I have always wanted to. My backlog is gigantic, and I am very slow when playing games.

Been playing Astro for about a week now, about half way through it.

 

[mibu no ookami]

I will play it eventually; I have always wanted to. My backlog is gigantic, and I am very slow when playing games.

Been playing Astro for about a week now, about half way through it.

The smart play that Sucker Punch is doing here is they are lifting the ceiling on the games' sales by not making it a direct story sequel to Tsushima. Anyone can hop into the franchise even if it is their first time and they didn't play the first game.

A similar albeit different decision to reboot God of War in 2018 catapulted God of War to new heights.

Definitely take your time with Astro. I wish I hadn't beaten it yet.

 

[Yobo]

I hope they make Japanese subtitles work this time

 

[mibu no ookami]

I hope they make Japanese subtitles work this time

I played GoT in Japanese with subtitles.. not sure what you're talking about.

 

[Yobo]

I played GoT in Japanese with subtitles.. not sure what you're talking about.

There are no subtitles for background NPCs, you miss out on half the dialogue and they didn't even have lip sync at launch. It was very half assed for the way a lot of people would prefer to play it

 

[Entropi]

There are no subtitles for background NPCs, you miss out on half the dialogue and they didn't even have lip sync at launch. It was very half assed for the way a lot of people would prefer to play it

SP added lip syncing later?

 

[Yobo]

SP added lip syncing later?

Reading the whole post might help you

 

[Entropi]

Reading the whole post might help you

Yeah, and you could have answer yes or no, and not be a dick about it.

 

[Yobo]

Yeah, and you could have answer yes or no, and not be a dick about it.

Sorry thought you were just contradicting me they added lip sync I think with the director's cut version. Still wasn't perfect from what I played though but much better than at launch

 

[MrAss]