Ghost of Yōtei Legends will carry multiplayer to Sony’s fall blockbuster, although not till subsequent yr. The cooperative on-line mode will arrive as free DLC someday in 2026.
For anybody unfamiliar with the mode from the unique sport, Legends was a multiplayer spin-off for Ghost of Tsushima that had gamers crew up on-line to take down legendary challenges in a brand new sequence of story missions, battle off waves of enemies in a horde-like survival mode, or compete with different gamers to see who might rack up the very best rating. There have been character courses, problem ranks, and unlockable cosmetics. It was a type of multiplayer add-ons to a single-player journey that was method higher than it had any proper to be.
A PlayStation Blog post suggests issues will work just about the identical in Ghost of Yotei Legends, although this time the story missions will revolve round teaming as much as take down members of the Yōtei Six, the principle antagonists of the single-player marketing campaign. They’ll be accompanied by new enemies, nonetheless, and presumably produce other, more difficult tips up their sleeves. The return of the survival mode can also be confirmed, although it’s at present unclear if that can embody the 2v2 contest choice as effectively. It feels like Sucker Punch will reveal extra particulars as soon as Ghost of Yotei is out on October 2.
The unique Ghost of Tsushima multiplayer mode was one in every of Sony’s extra profitable first-party forays into live-service content material. Its reputation amongst followers made it seem to be a slam dunk spectacular sufficient to justify a full-blown standalone spin-off sport. However regardless of the literal billions Sony has poured into making an attempt to get a fleet of live-service video games off the bottom, Legends hasn’t been among the many initiatives launched or canceled, at the very least that we all know of. If something, the success of Elden Ring Nightreign proves there’s undoubtedly gamers on the market who need revolutionary co-op riffs on conventional single-player video games. We’ll see if Ghost of Yotei Legends can fulfill a few of that pent-up demand when it arrives subsequent yr.
