Ghost of Yōtei: Walkthrough & Boss Guide

This is a short story and structure overview of Ghost of Yōtei based on Wikipedia's article. Boss move-sets, optimal builds and exact region-by-region quest steps are not covered because we have not verified them, so this page does not give boss attack patterns or strategy.

Ghost of Yōtei is set in 1603 in Ezo (modern-day Hokkaido), 329 years after the events of Tsushima. Atsu, a wandering mercenary, hunts the “Yōtei Six” for slaughtering her family sixteen years earlier. The Snake (Yukiharu) is fought first. According to Wikipedia she finds him drunk in a backwater village and kills him, but is seriously wounded; witnesses who see her survive fearfully dub her an onryō.

According to Wikipedia, Atsu can choose to pursue either the Oni (Lord Hyozo) or the Kitsune after the Snake. While pursuing the Oni in Ishikari Plain she discovers that her brother Jubei also survived the massacre and was rescued by the Matsumae clan, becoming the samurai officer Lord Kitamori. Atsu and Jubei infiltrate the Oni's stronghold, Ishikari Castle, to assassinate him, but their attempt is unsuccessful and the two flee.

Wikipedia describes Teshio Ridge, in the north of the map, as dominated by the Kitsune and the Nine-Tails shinobi clan, with freezing temperatures that reduce Atsu's maximum health. After narrowly surviving an ambush there, Atsu assists the traveling shamisen performer Oyuki in tracking down the Kitsune and stopping his production of wolfsbane poison at his fortress. Atsu deduces that Oyuki was the original Kitsune, who had served as Saito's shinobi before being betrayed and replaced by her disciple, Dojun.

Ghost of Yōtei is an open-world game: according to Wikipedia the player can explore the regions of Ezo at their own pace on the quest to defeat the Yōtei Six, with the exception of the Snake and Lord Saito's family, who are fought as the first and final bosses. Returning elements from Tsushima are combination attacks (that must be parried) and unblockable attacks (that must be evaded). New features include disarming attacks that can cause Atsu or her enemies to drop their weapons, and the ability to pick up and throw dropped weapons. Atsu begins with a katana and later unlocks the yari, kusarigama and ōdachi, and can dual-wield katana. She befriends a wild wolf that she can summon to aid her in combat or stealth encounters. Dynamic weather includes snow, rain and aurora borealis.

Ukichi (the Dragon) and Sakichi (the Spider) are Lord Saito's sons. Wikipedia describes the Oshima Coast in the south as dominated by the best-equipped of Saito's forces, with many of them wielding firearms. In the story, Oyuki tells Atsu and Jubei that Saito and his sons are planning to attack the Matsumae heartland; Atsu goes on to kill the Dragon, and later tracks down the Spider at Saito's clan cemetery. After a duel she spares the Spider, who offers to lead her to his father's castle before leaving Ezo for the mainland.

Wikipedia calls Atsu's allies her “Wolf Pack”. They include Oyuki, a traveling shamisen performer and former Yōtei Six member; Jubei, Atsu's twin brother and a Matsumae clan samurai who goes by the title Lord Kitamori; and Kiku, Jubei's teenage daughter. Atsu also trains under various weapon masters, for example learning to dual-wield katana from Hanbei, formerly Ezo's best bounty hunter and an old friend of her father.

Lord Nariaki Saito, the renegade samurai lord who led the Yōtei Six when they slaughtered Atsu's family sixteen years earlier, is the final boss. According to Wikipedia, Atsu's quest culminates in her final battle against him. This page does not describe the ending or the duel in detail.