Live: Watch the Ghost of Tsushima State of Play Right Here

Sucker punch

by Sammy Barker Thu 14th May 2020

Sony’s resurrecting its State of Play format for a special Ghost of Tsushima broadcast, and you can watch the whole thing live right here. The livestream is set to get underway from 1PM PDT / 4PM EDT / 9PM BST, and you’ll find the video feed alongside live commentary and live chat on this page. We’d love it if you joined us.

Ghost of Tsushima State of Play

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21:21

And that's the end of the stream. Thanks for joining us, we hope you enjoyed it.

21:20

"We have more to show you in the future," Nate Fox says as he wraps up the stream.

21:19

You can also play with a grainy, black-and-white filter for the true samurai movie experience.

21:18

We already knew this, but there'll be a Japanese voice track if you prefer to play that way. Both the English and Japanese voices sound good!

21:18

You can also make short little videos, and you can set the wind direction and particle effects.

21:17

And yes, there's a Photo Mode. Unsurprising, as Sucker Punch pioneered the idea.

21:17

And now we're moving to customisation. You can change your armour and unlock different techniques. Flowers also allow you to dye your clothes in different colours.

21:15

You have a grappling hook and a bow and arrow, too. Jin is a very mobile protagonist. There's a lot of traversal in this particular area, as he navigates a ship in stealth.

21:13

Combat looks very aggressive. Enemies drop quickly, you just have to time it properly. We're now seeing some stealth. There are lures you can use to draw the enemy into the position you want.

21:10

Now on to some combat...

21:09

You can pet the fox in Ghost of Tsushima! It's very cool how the environment guides you through the world.

21:07

The scenery will direct you to important destinations on the map. Even birds will direct you to points of insterest. There's very little HUD.

21:05

You can use the wind at any point to direct you to where you want to go.

21:04

We're getting a look at the map. Winds will guide you to your waypoints.

21:03

We're going to first get a look at exploration in Ghost of Tsushima.

21:02

Ghost of Tsushima's State of Play is underway. Join us LIVE.

21:00

get2sammyb said:

YouTube Premiere never, ever works properly. I can't believe Google hasn't fixed this yet.

20:54

It'll be interesting to see if this becomes the future of State of Play. There can be no unrealistic expectations with tonight's episode, and it seems like a good way to give lots of information about an anticipated game.

20:54

get2sammyb said:

I wonder if there'll be a console bundle. Is such a thing possible at the moment?

20:53

Presumably this State of Play is being broadcast in place of previews, seeing as press haven't been able to play the game prior to release yet. Should include lots of depth on the gameplay most of all.

20:52

What are we expecting tonight, then? Well, Ghost of Tsushima, of course. Expect a trailer, a recap of what we know so far, a ton of gameplay footage, and perhaps even some information on DLC and post-launch support.

20:49

Around ten minutes to go until Ghost of Tsushima's State of Play.

13:14

Hey everyone! Who's ready to see some Ghost of Tsushima?

bye

Peace out

DeepSpace5D said:

Take care all, til next time

Oh, and the music is great.

Great visuals. Nice exploration. Not quite sold on the combat, but we'll see. I was hoping for something more visceral.

LocalPenguin said:

Very impressive. Cheers for the stream, night all.

Thanks Push Square

DeepSpace5D said:

Looks like a solid 8.5 to me, albeit without me playing at all. Just my guess

I've got to say, this is one of the prettiest games I've ever seen.

seriously, it's like only for 5 minutes, but it's already 18, I wan to see more of b&w gameplay..

rjejr said:

And of course there's always the PS5 improvement question. Well lot's of PS5 questions still really.

I think Ubi would do a different look/style - more realism/less stylised

LocalPenguin said:

Red blood would be very Frank Miller

chris730920 said:

Bye all, see you soon

@rjejr I had the same thought. It pays to wait for Sony games to drop in price in a few months. PM will still be full price in four years, lol

yeah the story and gameplay in ubisoft game is okay but not great

DeepSpace5D said:

A black and white filter that only shows color for blood would be dope

jdv95 said:

seeing this why you still want a AC in japan? no way ubi can do better

rjejr said:

I'll probably get Paper Mario Day 1 b/c that will be $60 for 3 years but this will be $20 Black Friday.

RazielReaper said:

Samurai AC, nice

Oh it's already 18 minutes? time flies fast..

Ryu_Niiyama said:

ok, back to studying. later all. Have a good day!

Not sure how I feel about the combat. Exploration looks reasonably fun, though.

Majimagorojr84 said:

Awesome!

Mix of samurai and ghost for first play, samurai only and b&w for second playthrough seems fine for me

hydronics311 said:

damn sucker punch gets my money again

Seemed to go by quickly

Ryu_Niiyama said:

hmm. some nice points, but If i wasn't already sold I would have been a little underwhelmed. Still getting this and Paper Mario day one.

bak to bbc2

lacerz said:

@BAM yeah, the said 18 minutes

SegaBlueSky said:

Love it

Agramonte said:

First Paper mario and now This. Today is a fantastic day.

Feena said:

Loved it. Sold

Paper Mario looks quite nice. Just hope the game measures up. We'll see

and that's it??

jdv95 said:

i'm sold.

BearsEatBeets said:

cool, know more without spoiling too much

weird eeing it with color again lol

rjejr said:

Same day as Paper Mario. Need a good B1G1 sale.

Quite stylised visuals too

I do hope they didn't spend too many resources into building this B&W filter. It's cool, but most won't look forward to missing the amazing colorful environments

LocalPenguin said:

Both

Cornaboyzzz said:

Ghost Mario

Ryu_Niiyama said:

why not both?

So the million dollar question is: Paper Mario or Ghost of Tsushima?

chris730920 said:

better than the xbox show

roe said:

HYPED!

RazielReaper said:

well they did say 17-18 minutes

the colour really adds to the look and atmosphere

Cornaboyzzz said:

NICE

yep day 1

rjejr said:

Can he ride a shield down a hill though?

roe said:

aHy

lacerz said:

That was totally worth every second

DeepSpace5D said:

Combat looks very forgiving. Nothing like a Souls game for example

Ryu_Niiyama said:

that's it?

BearsEatBeets said:

that flew by

Is that it?

Ryu_Niiyama said:

wait.

That would look good if a few colours were still shown such as red for the Blood

Cornaboyzzz said:

colors are too gorgeous in the game to play without them

lacerz said:

Wow, it's already been 20 minutes

black & white for 2nd playthrough

gmxs said:

This B&W thing seems completely..pointless

Ryu_Niiyama said:

ok, I am so playing this in black and white, japanese, no subs.

Feena said:

B/W with HDR on will be something

roe said:

I’m tempted by this option

LocalPenguin said:

One playthrough in colour, one in Black and White. Simple

lack of colour spoils this

This might be OK for NG+

get2sammyb said:

I wouldn't play it this way but it's an awesome option.

rjejr said:

If EVER a game needed Japanese it's this one. Not a fan of BW though.

Choices Hmmm

and not use B&W either

lacerz said:

seven samurai

jdv95 said:

tbh this does waste the collor palette so no thank you

I'll play with japan vo

Def playing in Japanese

Eh. I like the colors.

Ryu_Niiyama said:

ok, the black and white is cool.

I will NOT play in Japanese...

Feena said:

Wow! The Kurisawa movie experience.

Ryu_Niiyama said:

i hope you can turn the subs off though.

lacerz said:

Subtitles please

Nintendo games have terrible photo modes.

ApostateMage said:

RogerRoger will be all over this

Cornaboyzzz said:

Of course we'll play in japanese, this is the only way

Ryu_Niiyama said:

THANK YOU

rjejr said:

OK that photo mode is a bit better than my Animal Crossing camera. 🤣

lacerz said:

How feudal

The way I'll be playing it

Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy said:

Not bad at all!

Motion photos. That's fancy

BearsEatBeets said:

there goes my hard-drive

we love photo mode mad max was mental

not interested in Photo modes...

ApostateMage said:

It does look lush

roe said:

photo mode!

Ryu_Niiyama said:

not into the dress-up aspect but I know some folks live for that.

Feena said:

So pretty in white.

Shouldn't be difficult to take stunning shots in this, lol

BearsEatBeets said:

sweet

lacerz said:

I hope they offer leopard print. Becasue

There you go

rjejr said:

"Burn baby burn" better be the name of that trophy.

DeepSpace5D said:

I see the lineage here from Infamous to be honest

chris730920 said:

I love AC and this is more or less the same

Stealth seems more fun...

I've disliked every AC game I've tried.

lacerz said:

Spoiler alert!

rjejr said:

Full disclosure - I've never played more than 5 minutes of any AC game.

Ryu_Niiyama said:

@rjejr while true, many of those series have tried to change so its nice to see something that brings certain styles back.

Stealth looks a lot more fun

lacerz said:

Here comes the boom

LocalPenguin said:

Love the weight of those bow kills

rjejr said:

This is AC, TR, HZD. Gotta be so hard to make a 3rd person game these days and not "be" something else.

Crafting next?

Ryu_Niiyama said:

ooh like the fear reactions.

lacerz said:

I'm not complaining. This looks amazing

Ryu_Niiyama said:

well considering they nuked assassinations in AC odyssey ill take a return to focused stealth kills.

rjejr said:

So.. rated M then.

Feena said:

We wanted a feudal Japan AC, didn’t we?

gmxs said:

This is just AC really

ApostateMage said:

It is very AC Odyssey

lacerz said:

A lot of AC

Haha this is literally AC lol

lacerz said:

Ooooo...different play styels

rjejr said:

My son is a "high-red" belt in kummooyeh, I kinda recognize this.

LocalPenguin said:

Bushido Blade was so good! Thanks for the remind DeepSpace

mrbone said:

Wow great sword play! Day one buy. Both TLOU and this.

Payback time! Who has the 1-hit kill now, japanese videogames?

Ryu_Niiyama said:

a little slower than i like but still very fluid combat.

Oh yeah this really reminds me of AC: Odyssey

lacerz said:

parry!

Gyro aiming? Please?

ahh bows

DeepSpace5D said:

Bushido blade 1-strike

roe said:

Don’t mess with Jin

One slash man

LocalPenguin said:

Hot dam!!!!

lacerz said:

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

Hmm

Please don't drop the ball now

rjejr said:

Lighting is always a plus.

I'm buzzin now pre order deffo.

roe said:

I am so In for this

lacerz said:

This is what the Fox says

lacerz said:

I saw that. Internet outrage!

Feena said:

Gaps!

BearsEatBeets said:

Hope this has photo mode at launch

And this game looks amazing

rjejr said:

FAST TRAVEL woohoo. I'm easy to please.

The music is gorgeous

ApostateMage said:

Gap squeeze

roe said:

The fox!

The open world looks awesome

rjejr said:

If you played BotW w/o the wolf amiibo you missed out.

DeepSpace5D said:

Fast travel there it is

I hope Ubisoft is watching. They might learn what sharing gameplay means.

fast travel confirmed

R2

roe said:

Game looks lovely though

Press R2 to Pay Respects

roe said:

Just me or does the stream quality seem terrible?

rjejr said:

R2 to speak? That's new to me.

lacerz said:

What's the fox say?!

chris730920 said:

by the looks of it there'll be crafting

lacerz said:

I really like how Sony is handling this

I do too Chris - but less so after I have travelled the area a lot

gmxs said:

This is very much like AC Oyssey with the horse and looting

Ryu_Niiyama said:

hmm lots of notification queues from Assassins creed and botw. looks organic.

chris730920 said:

I won't be galloping in this game, I like to take my time and take in the scenery

roe said:

Lack of hud is great

lacerz said:

Hated having to get off my bike or horse

roe said:

Interesting idea

lacerz said:

looting on the go is nice

lacerz said:

Enemy indicator

I am hoping this is PS4 zelda esq

Instead of using guiding lines, use wind instead to highlight the way...

ApostateMage said:

Wind's howlin

Reminds me of the sword from SotC

The wind! So simple, yet brilliant.

rjejr said:

Is there fast travel? No fast travel in SW:JFO was awful to watch.

DeepSpace5D said:

Addressing the waypoints right away

rjejr said:

SUE-she-ma? I've been calling it "sue-SHE-ma in my head. So, that['s 1 new thing for me.

That's so smart

looks vast

lacerz said:

Must be Cerny's brother

lacerz said:

His voice is so zen

music is good

Sweet mother of god

lacerz said:

GAMEPLAY

DeepSpace5D said:

Wow

Yes!

lacerz said:

This looks wow

So pretty

lacerz said:

Oooo the front of a PS4 waking up from rest mode

BearsEatBeets said:

will they use new logo?

Ryu_Niiyama said:

lol, I do own everything but yeah that's fair

Hey @Number09

Hi Ryu. Fancy seeing you round these parts!

This is the Exclusive I am most excited for...

jdv95 said:

the vertical gameplay should be interesting.

Hi Ozzy

Ryu_Niiyama said:

sup Ralizah

Hi @Ralizah

SegaBlueSky said:

Most excited about exploring the game world more than anything, looking forward to hearing more about it

Hello~ BAM

Enuo said:

You really can’t believe google hasn’t fixed something?

the way things are going enuo ill end up cutting my own too

lacerz said:

@get2sammyb Google is focused on Stadia

SegaBlueSky said:

Excited!

Chilled music hype

Hello all

roe said:

Ah I love this timer countdown thing

lacerz said:

Ah...the timer to a timer

Katanas at the ready.

Ryu_Niiyama said:

I just hope the collector's edition opens up in more places...can't find it anywhere....

okay, 2 minute lol

chris730920 said:

woo hoo

lacerz said:

Action! Run and shogun!

2 more minutes lol

It's late. Riot!

get2sammyb said:

That thing never works properly

get2sammyb said:

If it's YouTube Premiere it'll be a while yet lol

here we go, 1 more minute

Enuo said:

I cut my own hair

i need a haircut

This SoP will either sell me on the game at launch... or not.

jdv95 said:

i say it's my second. TLOU2 is nr1 for me.

@Ryu-Niiyama You're welcome. Likewise. I've already pre-ordered the game, hoping a special edition console will happen as well.

lacerz said:

shortly

chris730920 said:

hi

Enuo said:

Yo wuddup dudes and dudettes

lacerz said:

Yeah, I pressed play. Says it premieres in 60 seconds

chris730920 said:

my 1st SOP as well

Ryu_Niiyama said:

@Churchy Howdy and thank you! This is my most anticipated ps4 game of the year!

chris730920 said:

yeah, guessed that ta

jdv95 said:

@chris730920 it will only be ghost of tsushima so don't expect anything else.

Welcome to the fold @Ryu_Niiyama

Ryu_Niiyama said:

my first state of play! I'm excited!

If there's a console bundle that's an instant pre-order from me.

chris730920 said:

Hi all, 4 mins to go , hope it's better than the xbox show a couple of days ago

lacerz have you pressed play

roe said:

If there's no console for TLOU 2 I'd be surprised at one for this tbh

I'm expecting the game might have quite a minimal HUD.

lacerz said:

3 minutes

lacerz said:

Will this start playing once the 4 minute times ticks down? Or do I need to do something?

I am at peak hype for this one.

hello

I Must say with all the delays..i'm looking forward to Ghost of Tsushima an AAA Game?

Hello all

Can't wait to see more of this game

yeah, this is a really smart way to promote one of their big games

BearsEatBeets said:

I can see a console version. Supermarkets still open/ delivery still a thing

lacerz said:

I bet there's pre-order horse armor

hello

roe said:

Hello there

Quintumply said:

Hello all

just watching the end of fare dodgers ch5 ..compelling

Oh cool, I made it

like one of Rockstar's trailers

i think we might get a small cinematic trailer at the beginning, and then a narrated playthrough of it that's been edited to hide spoilers

hydronics311 said:

it'd be awesome if they actually showed off a little of it running on PS5, or like a side-by-side for 20-30 sec at the end. small little sizzle for ps5 using Ghost

lacerz said:

Welcome

get2sammyb said:

Made it!

lacerz said:

Weird, the chat has my old avatar and not the new one with the white background

BearsEatBeets said:

I think it will be like the very first reveal. One continuous piece of gameplay, maybe finishing with a few trailer style clips.

hello everyone

lacerz said:

I doubt we see anything like yesterday though

lacerz said:

In all honesty, I want to compare this to the games on show last week just to see how this gen and next gen stack up...

RazielReaper said:

I want to see more of the combat

RidingMower said:

Lovely day to everyone.

I mostly want to see the open world aspect and how the story missions are

hydronics311 said:

hey all! so what's everyone hoping to see? i'd love a similar demo as that UE5 one, playthrough a level but stop to show stuff off. thoughts?

BearsEatBeets said:

Evening/Afternoon/Morning! (delete as applicable)

LocalPenguin said:

Thanks for hosting Sammy

LocalPenguin said:

Evening everyone!

lacerz said:

Geez...got so wrapped up with work that I totally forgot about this. Went for a walk and checked here when I got back.

jdv95 said:

hello

Hello!

get2sammyb said:

Testing