I have a confession to make: I never finished Ghost of Tsushima. Don't get me wrong, I loved the quiet, contemplative nature of the beautiful world Sucker Punch created, and the slick combat, stealthy features, and storyline really ticked all my boxes. But quite far into Jin's journey, something happened to a companion I'd become very attached to along the way (if you know, you know) and it devastated me so deeply, I had to stop playing. I'd originally intended to take a brief break, pull myself together, and see it out to the end. Life had other plans, though, and before I knew it months turned into years, and I never got around to picking it back up again.
It's one of the many games in my backlog that continues to haunt me, and with every new showing of the upcoming follow-up, Ghost of Yotei, my regret about never finishing Tsushima has only gotten worse. Now it's reached a tipping point, because if I wasn't convinced about the sequel before, the dedicated State of Play earlier this month revealed a new feature that I didn't know I desperately wanted.
The feature in question? An optional Watanabe mode from the legendary anime director behind the likes of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. Set to allow us to explore Ezo to some seriously smooth lo-fi beats, Ghost of Yotei is about to make my teen dreams come true by letting me channel the vibes of the coolest anime around, and there's no way in hell I'm going to miss out on it.
