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Ghost of Yōtei
Sucker Punch's open-world samurai sequel, set in 1603 in the lands around Mount Yōtei.
- Role
- Senior Staff Content Designer
- Studio
- Sucker Punch Productions
- Year
- 2025
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
My pitch
Left-handed dual wield
In The Way of Dual Katana, I came up with the left-handed dual-wield minigame. It got a strong player response.
Read my roleGhost of Yōtei is Sucker Punch Productions’ follow-up to Ghost of Tsushima, released on PlayStation 5 on October 2, 2025. It’s set more than three centuries after the first game, in 1603, in the open lands of Ezo around Mount Yōtei. Players follow Atsu as she seeks revenge on the Yōtei Six for the murder of her parents.
The game sold over 3.3 million copies by November 2025 and won Adventure Game of the Year at the 29th D.I.C.E. Awards.
My role
The left-handed dual-wield minigame
In The Way of Dual Katana, the main mission where Atsu learns to dual wield, I came up with the left-handed dual-wield minigame. It got a strong player response.
Golden Path missions
- The Way of Dual Katana: the mission where you learn dual wielding.
- Shogun of the North: the mission where you first confront Lord Saito at his training fortress.
Mythic Tales
- The Storm Blade: the Jin Sakai Mythic Tale.
- Takezo the Unrivaled
- The Spider Lily General
Challenges
TODO: A hard design problem from one of these missions and how you solved it.
Results
The PlayStation Blog called The Spider Lily General a “revered side-quest” and ran a behind-the-scenes feature on it. In that piece, creative director Jason Connell describes it as “one of the earliest missions in the game and one of the first Mythic Tales we created.”
TODO: Add any other results you’d like to highlight.
Video
Trailer
Praise
…a haunting mythological adventure that lingers long in memory after its completion.
I was constantly distracted by side missions as they all offer worthwhile and different short stories…
…Sucker Punch has outdone itself and created a follow-up for the ages.
It’s a rewarding and engaging loop of samurai simulation from all angles.
Gallery
Screens
06 images
Riding through cherry blossoms toward a castle. Ghost of Yōtei key art: Atsu beneath Mount Yōtei. Armored soldiers and cavalry gather at dusk. A campfire conversation beneath a rock overhang. A masked figure in a wide-brimmed hat. Combat in a village, with a chain weapon.