(NTV) Set in the area around Mt Yotei during the Edo period, the sequel to the popular game is released and people are picking it up one after another

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Set in the area around Mt. Yotei during the Edo period, the sequel to the popular game is released and people are picking it up one after another... There are even collaboration goods in the local area! Hokkaido



A sequel to the hit game that has sold over 13 million copies worldwide has been released.

The setting is the area around Mt. Yotei during the Edo period.

Local residents are anticipating excitement, with collaboration products also being developed.

(Momose) "It's an electronics retailer in Sapporo. There's a special corner set up in the game section. This game is a hotly anticipated new game set in Hokkaido".

The video game "Ghost of Yotei", which will be released on October 2nd, was being heavily promoted.

Just over two hours after opening,

People were arriving one after another looking to buy the game.

(Customer) "I can see Mt. Yotei while driving, so I was curious to see what the scenery would look like in the game".

The game is set in the area around Mt. Yotei during the Edo period.

It's an action-adventure game about a protagonist who loses her family.

The previous game, set on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, was a hit, selling over 13 million copies worldwide, and this sequel had been attracting attention even before its release.

It's possible that in-store stock will run out by the 3rd.

(Yokoyama Yuki, game sales manager at Yodobashi Camera) "Among the PlayStation 5 titles released this year, it's competing for first and second place (at the Sapporo store) in sales".

(Abe) "This game is set on Mount Yotei. The quality is quite impressive, even compared to the real thing. To coincide with the game's release, surrounding towns and villages have begun selling collaboration items".

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This is a workshop in Niseko Town.

The game's influence has spread to the surrounding municipalities where it is set, and here they produce magnets and pin badges featuring logos and other designs.

They use only local wood in the hopes of raising awareness of the town's natural beauty, and promoted its attractions at the Tokyo Game Show in September.

(Kato Jin, representative of Kumagera Production) "Niseko has a very negative image, with people saying it's a ski resort and has high prices, so I hope the game will spark a positive trend (in the local area)".

The seven towns and villages at the foot of Mount Yotei are also planning to launch a tourism campaign in collaboration with their local governments.

(Resident) "Mount Yotei is the centerpiece of tourism in Niseko".

(Resident) "I hope it will spark interest in Mount Yotei".

(Niseko Town Planning and Environment Division, Takahiro Anan) "I hope that people will discover the charms of Niseko and the towns and villages around Mount Yotei outside of winter, and that this will help spread the impact".

"Ghost of Yotei" is garnering attention from around the world.

With collaboration merchandise already appearing, locals are already excited about the event.

 
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Japan always seems to have the coolest cross-promotional awareness and pride.

Don't lose your culture like big portions of the west have already, Japan.
 
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I was about to ask if those are official collaborations or not, you think they are?

Regardless I think its cool and more power to them.
They are officially licensed PlayStation products by GRAPHT:
 
I hadn't thought about how this game would be significant to actual residents of Hokkaido. Would be cool if we visit there several years from now and still see local merchandise/art.
 
Japan always seems to have the coolest cross-promotional awareness and pride.

Don't lose your culture like big portions of the west have already, Japan.

At the time I left (after living there for 15 or so years) the culture dilution was very apparent. In just the last 3-4 years, the number of imigrants has soared. As an immigrant myself obviously I was indifferent to it, but when I originally moved there in 2009 the number of forreigners was a tiny minority. People would stop me in the street to ask for a picture because they saw me as some kind of spectacle. I was a 6 foot 7 white man with a big beard and they would joke that I am Zeus, etc. Gaijin they would ask, let me take a picture with you Gaijin. I would get asked on a nearly daily basis.

By around 2022 that was a distant memory. In the early years, I would go weeks at a time without speaking to a single English fluent person. In contrast, 2025 Japan has become much more multicultural. Many English speaking schools, cafes, resteraunts and shops appeared all over the place.

My wife is Japanese so we visit 2-3 times a year depending on work comitments etc but when we go back to Osaka I am surprised every time by how much it has changed.
 
because they are racist 🤔

Maybe. They also don't like their culture being portrayed in a wrong way.

Ubisoft had MANY fuck ups during development, they disrespected Japanese people on a few occasions (and I doubt it had bad intentions, just incompetence and hubris). Game had hate campaign that impacted its sales in Japan, and funny thing is: ACS is quite respectful to Japanese culture - but the damage was already done...
 
At the time I left (after living there for 15 or so years) the culture dilution was very apparent. In just the last 3-4 years, the number of imigrants has soared. As an immigrant myself obviously I was indifferent to it, but when I originally moved there in 2009 the number of forreigners was a tiny minority. People would stop me in the street to ask for a picture because they saw me as some kind of spectacle. I was a 6 foot 7 white man with a big beard and they would joke that I am Zeus, etc. Gaijin they would ask, let me take a picture with you Gaijin. I would get asked on a nearly daily basis.

By around 2022 that was a distant memory. In the early years, I would go weeks at a time without speaking to a single English fluent person. In contrast, 2025 Japan has become much more multicultural. Many English speaking schools, cafes, resteraunts and shops appeared all over the place.

My wife is Japanese so we visit 2-3 times a year depending on work comitments etc but when we go back to Osaka I am surprised every time by how much it has changed.
Go to Kyushu, Shikoku, Tohoku and you won't see anywhere near as much change.
I've been spending a month there each year for 10 years and the tourist/immigrant areas (Tokyo, Osaka, Hakone, Hiroshima, Kyoto etc.) and the rest are different world. Osaka and Kyoto are like Disneyland Japan these days but huge parts of the country have not been affected like that. Last year and this year I was in places like Nakamura in the Shimanto Valley, Oita City, Miyazaki, Toyama etc. and you see few foreign tourists and little English (beyond the standard train stations, motorway signs etc.)
TikTok tourism has done a number on the golden route in recent years.
 
Go to Kyushu, Shikoku, Tohoku and you won't see anywhere near as much change.
I've been spending a month there each year for 10 years and the tourist/immigrant areas (Tokyo, Osaka, Hakone, Hiroshima, Kyoto etc.) and the rest are different world. Osaka and Kyoto are like Disneyland Japan these days but huge parts of the country have not been affected like that. Last year and this year I was in places like Nakamura in the Shimanto Valley, Oita City, Miyazaki, Toyama etc. and you see few foreign tourists and little English (beyond the standard train stations, motorway signs etc.)
TikTok tourism has done a number on the golden route in recent years.

oh man what a small world haha. My wifes family is from Fukuoka! You visit that often? but yes you are right. When we leave for the more rural ares and lesser touristy cities it's much less apparent. I think that will change soon tho
 
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Mark my words. I did not buy it and didn't play it. I buy almost anything with any potential.

It's success will be marked in some way.

I'm too representative of the zeitgeist.

Sony counts the zeitgeist for sales and me not buying means enough people didn't buy that they will notice. It will slip out that it missed expectations. My reasoning may not make sense to you but it doesn't necessarily make it false.

The result will be a change in plans from Sony about the next game at whipperwheel games here or whoever the fuck makes this shit(Sucker punch supposedly). It's a shame too, I was a bigger fan of Tsushima than any of you but they didn't go in the direction I wanted. Betrayal.
 
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oh man what a small world haha. My wifes family is from Fukuoka! You visit that often? but yes you are right. When we leave for the more rural ares and lesser touristy cities it's much less apparent. I think that will change soon tho
I love Fukuoka, would very happily go and live there and eat mentaiko endlessly :D
I've been 3 times to the city, cracking place, big enough to have loads going on but not mental like Osaka, great beaches and amazing mountains close by.
And of course, a ferry ride from Tsukushima 😀

You're lucky having family there!
I'm not so sure, so much of the current wave of tourism is purely in the Golden Route and it's all influencer driven "cheap yen, bargain Japan" stuff, they'll move on to somewhere else.
I hope so anyway, pains me to see the reports of dickheads in such an amazing country..
 
Rise of the Ronin sold great in Japan, but nowhere near the level of Ghost of Tsushima. You just gotta admit the series is on another level, my man.
Rise of the Ronin was a fun game that I really enjoyed. Aside from the they/them pronouns characters were using to describe me. I will play it again sometime. That, and I also did not like the change to certain historical characters as to if they died or not. Still not sure why they changed those two characters that way. Not going to spoil who.
 
Well, I heard this is cap, so much outrage as this is not historically accurate blah blah blah lol /s
 
Just being real, but, I'll take great art and entertainment made by shit people, over mediocrity made by nice folks any day of the week.
Same.

I've never bought anything for those reasons and don't plan to start.

I even tell people on here, if you hear me say I hate this team or this publisher etc, all of that is subject to change IF THEY MAKE A GOOD GAME. I don't care about any moral idea regarding a fucking team, this is irrelevant to me and too many different minds work on a video game, for me to act as if I need to vet 3000 plus people in order to play a fucking game lol

I feel very confident in that I've yet to play 1 game in my whole life, where 100% of that team shared and supported all the same ideas as me.

Its odd, its weird and people take the comments of humans a bit too seriously when its now become a determining factor to buying a damn video game vs fun.
 
Same.

I've never bought anything for those reasons and don't plan to start.

I even tell people on here, if you hear me say I hate this team or this publisher etc, all of that is subject to change IF THEY MAKE A GOOD GAME. I don't care about any moral idea regarding a fucking team, this is irrelevant to me and too many different minds work on a video game, for me to act as if I need to vet 3000 plus people in order to play a fucking game lol

I feel very confident in that I've yet to play 1 game in my whole life, where 100% of that team shared and supported all the same ideas as me.

Its odd, its weird and people take the comments of humans a bit too seriously when its now become a determining factor to buying a damn video game vs fun.

Totally agree
 
ChorizoPicozo ChorizoPicozo that's what I asked you to explain
Explain what? I mean, we know what kind of people are working at Sucker Punch; one even celebrated and doubled down on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The studio took its sweet time to make a statement too. It's blatantly obvious what kind of agenda these people are pushing, right? It's as simple as that.
 
Explain what? I mean, we know what kind of people are working at Sucker Punch; one even celebrated and doubled down on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The studio took its sweet time to make a statement too. It's blatantly obvious what kind of agenda these people are pushing, right? It's as simple as that.
so, the ending you mentioned does not exist, you brought up some random comparison to some random star wars slop without elaborating, and are still trying too hard on latching onto the fired employee.
you are the perfect example of this:
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Most people? The vast majority of people are normies, who are the target of this subversive narrative and agenda. Fortunately, the Internet Army is here to expose this BS
Nah, just looks like they don't get too retarded over it for no reason. And what BS? I thought you were just talking about ""vibes"".
 
Nah, just looks like they don't get too retarded over it for no reason
The Acolyte flopped. It was canceled after one season, the media pushed hard to make it a success tho. Just like TLoU Season 2, neither show won any awards for its writing. (I guess people are just too retarded to recognize masterpieces, am I right? ) In both cases, the word of mouth was poor. The same will happen with Yotei.

. And what BS? I thought you were just talking about ""vibes"".
Bullshit vibes.
 
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