Reducing the “burden” of open-world games, Ghost of Yotei replaces Ghost of Tsushima’s journal menu with a “wolf pack” of important characters that meet you under the stars: “The game comes to you”

While I, a woman of small frame and large stress, usually think of meeting a stranger in the middle of the night as the last thing I do before I get saw cleavered, PlayStation’s State of Play stream today makes it sound like a really useful game mechanic in Ghost of Yotei.

That’s because it is, and the Ghost of Tsushima sequel’s protagonist Atsu is a woman of muscular frame and generational bitterness. So she sets welcoming campsites up under the stars and waits for characters to reveal themselves, important upgrades, and weapons to her – or, as creative director Jason Connell says during the State of Play stream, she watches to see how “the game comes to you.”