{"id":19975,"date":"2025-09-03T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/ghost-of-yotei-a-determined-outsider-seeks-revenge-in-feudal-japan\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:37:16","slug":"ghost-of-yotei-a-determined-outsider-seeks-revenge-in-feudal-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/ghost-of-yotei-a-determined-outsider-seeks-revenge-in-feudal-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost of Y\u014dtei: a determined outsider seeks revenge in feudal Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The makers of the forthcoming open-world adventure explain how new gameplay features and an extra-resourceful sword-wielding protagonist set it apart from 2020 predecessor Ghost of Tsushima<\/p>\n<p>Atsu is no samurai. The lead character in Ghost of Y\u014dtei is a wandering sellsword from a lowly family. Her sex and lack of status mean that, following the murders of her family, she has no fixed place in 17th-century Japanese society, and there is no permitted path for her to tread if she is to get revenge on the Y\u014dtei Six, the men who killed her loved ones. As the game\u2019s co-director Nate Fox puts it, \u201cAtsu is not somebody who walks in to a room and people pay respect to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Y\u014dtei\u2019s predecessor, Sucker Punch Productions\u2019 2020 sprawling open-world game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2020\/jul\/14\/ghost-of-tsushima-review-samurai-thrills-kurosawa-cinematic-combat\">Ghost of Tsushima<\/a>, is the story of a samurai, Jin Sakai, who shreds his honour to defend his homeland. Jin can\u2019t repel the Mongols attacking Tsushima as a noble warrior, but as \u201cthe Ghost\u201d, a fear-inspiring legend willing to use any dirty tactic to gain the upper hand, he can. If Ghost of Tsushima is about a man grappling with the trade of one kind of power for another, Y\u014dtei sees Atsu seize the only power she can with both hands.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/sep\/03\/ghost-of-yotei-preview-tsushima-sucker-punch-productions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/325c231e6ed67e86abe077cbdea85ac0c09933d8\/94_0_2700_2160\/master\/2700.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cb311e50155dff7397ba7fd67d52a17c\" title=\"Ghost of Y\u014dtei: a determined outsider seeks revenge in feudal Japan\" \/>The makers of the forthcoming open-world adventure explain how new gameplay features and an extra-resourceful sword-wielding protagonist set it apart from 2020 predecessor Ghost of Tsushima<br \/>\nAtsu is no samurai. The lead character in Ghost of Y\u014dtei is a wandering sellsword from a lowly family. Her sex and lack of status mean that, following the murders of her family, she has no fixed place in 17th-century Japanese society, and there is no permitted path for her to tread if she is to get revenge on the Y\u014dtei Six, the men who killed her loved ones. As the game\u2019s co-director Nate Fox puts it, \u201cAtsu is not somebody who walks in to a room and people pay respect to.\u201d<br \/>\nY\u014dtei\u2019s predecessor, Sucker Punch Productions\u2019 2020 sprawling open-world game Ghost of Tsushima, is the story of a samurai, Jin Sakai, who shreds his honour to defend his homeland. Jin can\u2019t repel the Mongols attacking Tsushima as a noble warrior, but as \u201cthe Ghost\u201d, a fear-inspiring legend willing to use any dirty tactic to gain the upper hand, he can. If Ghost of Tsushima is about a man grappling with the trade of one kind of power for another, Y\u014dtei sees Atsu seize the only power she can with both hands. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The makers of the forthcoming open-world adventure explain how new gameplay features and an extra-resourceful sword-wielding protagonist set it apart from 2020 predecessor Ghost of Tsushima Atsu is no samurai. The lead character in Ghost of Y\u014dtei is a wandering sellsword from a lowly family. Her sex and lack of status mean that, following the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/ghost-of-yotei-a-determined-outsider-seeks-revenge-in-feudal-japan\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ghost of Y\u014dtei: a determined outsider seeks revenge in feudal Japan<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}