New Lands and Ways to Explore
Beginner's Guide and Starting Tips
Combat Guide and Fighting Tips
List of All Trophies
How to Setup Camp
How to Skip Cutscenes
How to Lock On Enemies
How to Win at Zeni Hajiki
How to Switch Weapons
How to Heal
How to Increase Spirit
How to Fast Travel
How to Hide Helmet
How to Parry Attacks
How to Disarm
How to Defeat Shielded Enemies
How to Upgrade Weapons
How to Upgrade Armor
How to Use Loadouts
Wolf Companion Guide
Which Horse to Choose
How to Name Your Horse
How to Upgrade Charms
How to Unlock Charm Slots
Best Locations to Visit Early Game
How to Unlock Focused Hearing Ability
How to Defeat Bears
Ending Explained
Is There Romance?
How to Catch Fish
How to Unlock Fire Arrows
How to Go Up Rocky Paths
How to Negate Fall Damage
Should You Buy Travelers Maps?
Dialogue Choices and Consequences
How to Get Guns
Can You Increase Attack Speed?
How to Interrogate Enemies
Best Way to Farm Coins
Heavenly Strike Guide
Weapon Aligned Explained
How to Put Out Fire
Stats Explained
Can you Respec?
How to Get a Perfect Score in Ku-e-shinok
Onryo's Gift Explained
How to Unfreeze Health
Best Side Quests to Complete
Best Bounties to Get
How Many Skill Points Can You Get?
How to Set Grass on Fire
How to Pistol Parry
Lethal Mode Guide
Difficulty Settings Explained
How Long is Ghost of Yotei?
Best Settings
All Director Modes
List of All Controls
Is There a Minimap in Ghost of Yotei?
Is There New Game Plus?
Should You Play Ghost of Tsushima First?
How to Play Ghost of Yotei Early
New Features and Gameplay Changes
Missables and Points of No Return
How to Get the Deluxe Horse
Story Explained
Is Ghost of Yotei a Sequel?
List of Secrets and Easter Eggs
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Ghost of Yotei
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Ghost of Yotei introduces new features, which include new weapons, bounties, a campsite mechanic, companions, and more. Learn more about the latest features, gameplay changes, and their differences here!
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New Lands and Ways to Explore
300 years after the events of Ghost of Tsushima, Ghost of Yotei takes place in Mount Yotei, Ezo currently known as Hokkaido.
Use the Spyglass to Survey the Area
To help players with their exploration, Ghost of Yotei features a spyglass that allows players to see ahead of them or survey the area for enemies for better stealth execution.
Bounties For Extra Rewards
One of the new feature added to encourage players to explore is bounties which allow players to accept requests to find and take down powerful foes for rewards.
Interrogate Enemies With The Clue System
The Clue System allows players to interrogate enemies to gain knowledge primarily on where the location of the Yotei Six are and hints on minor things such as upgrades, regions, weapons, items and more!
Hunt the Yotei Six in Any Order
Ghost of Yoei's decision with nonlinear storytelling, players are tasked to eliminate the Yotei Six in any order you want when utilizing the clue system.
Story Walkthrough and List of All Chapters
Expanded Arsenals
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 Odachi |
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Ghost of Yotei will feature more selection of melee, range and throwable weapons that will suit your needs in the middle of a battle.
List of All Weapons and How to Get Them
Disarming Weapons
With the inclusion of new weapons, Atsu and the enemies can disarm weapons. It is represented with a glowing yellow light indicating that an enemy is about to disarm you.
Pick Up Dropped Weapons
Players will now have the ability to pickup weapons off the ground or off the hands of the enemies when you disarm them giving you an opportunity to use it temporarily or as a projectile.
Enemies Will Switch Weapons
Atsu is not the only one capable of switching weapons. Now, most enemies can switch to an entirely different weapon in the middle of a fight, encouraging players to switch up strategies on the fly.
Unlikely Companions
Sometimes, a wild wolf will join Atsu in the middle of fights or during a standoff to assist her. Many animals will be alongside Atsu in her journey through Ezo but the Wolf will be Atsu's main feline friend in the game alongside new techniques and skill trees to upgrade the Wolf companion.
Setting Up Campsites
Campsites allows players to rest anywhere to craft items, cook meals and play songs. You can also see NPCs join your camp by chance, interact with them and add them to your wolf pack.
Two New Director Modes
Ghost of Tsushima featured director modes that enhances or changes the way you play the game. Ghost of Yotei will keep the same director modes like the black and white Kurosawa mode and also add two new ones alongside it, Miike mode and Watanabe mode.
New Minigames are Added
A couple of minigames will be introduced in Ghost of Yotei. A minigame named Zeni Hajiki inspired by the Japanese children's game Ohajiki where players flick coins and compete against NPCs. There are minigames during camping too where players will use the full functionality of a DualSense controller to start a fire, cook fish or play the Shimasen.
Gambling Guide: How to Win at Zeni Hajiki
Gameplay Changes
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Cards Will Lead The Way
Ghost of Yotei uses cards you gathered during an interrogation to point you in a general location of that objective instead of the usual quest markers found in Ghost of Tsushima.
Speed Boost When Moving Through Flower Streams
In Ghost of Yotei, flower stream now gives Atsu and her horse a speed boost to quicken the travel between areas.
Melee Weapons Instead of Stances
A major change compared to Ghost of Tsushima is the removal of stances in favor of multiple melee weapons. Each weapon Atsu carries is effective against a unique enemy, the same with the stances Jin learns.
For example, dual katanas are effective against spearmen the same as Jin's Wind Stance.
Upgrades, Shops and NPCs in Campsites
Players also have the option to select anyone in Atsu's wolf pack to visit her campsite essentially making it so upgrades, shops and important NPCs comes to you instead of the other way around. Atsu can still go to specific locations to meet certain NPCs and interact with them.
List of All Characters and NPCs
Charm Upgrade Conditions
Some charms obtained in Ghost of Yotei can now be upgraded when conditions are met. It helps strengthen existing charms and still be usable late in the game.
Gain Abilities by Finding Altars of Reflection
Learning skills and techniques are now tied to finding Altars of Reflection found hidden throughout the land of Ezo. Seek these out so you can access game changing abilities that will help you with the hunt of the Yotei Six. Other abilities can still be obtained through other means such as teachings via a Wolf Pack mentor or side quest rewards.
All Altar of Reflection Locations
Lethal Difficulty Available on Release
Lethal mode is the highest difficulty in the game that changes the gameplay to force players to perfect everything in the game. Atsu will die in one hit, and so will the enemies, alongside trickier attacks, tighter parry and dodge timing, and harsher stealth. Lethal difficulty will be available to choose right from the start of the game.
Sumi-e Paintings Instead of Haikus
Sumi-e Paintings will be a replacement for Haikus which are collectibles that rewards the players with cosmetic items when found in the world.
Ghost of Yotei Related Guides
Ghost of Yotei Wiki and Guides
Meta Guides
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Best Guides for Beginners
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