Evil Within dev gives best look yet at Ghostwire: Tokyo with 15 minutes of new gameplay

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Despite having been announced some considerable time ago, Evil Within developer Tango Gameworks' Ghostwire: Tokyo has remained a bit of a hard one to pin down, with previous gameplay trailers seemingly leaving more questions than answers. Now, however, with the game finally sporting a 25th March release date on PlayStation 5, Sony has offered an extended look at the game in a new livestream showcase.

Tango Gameworks is calling Ghostwire: Tokyo a «supernatural action-adventure thriller», and its action unfolds in an eerie, haunted version of Tokyo after nearly all of the city's population vanishes. Players take on the role of Akito, a young man who awakens in a deserted Tokyo street to discover that strange elemental powers are coursing through veins — soon revealed to be the abilities of a mysterious spirit called KK that has possessed Akito's body.

What transpires after that in gameplay terms is still a little hard to pindown, but Ghostwire: Tokyo appears to combine elements of «non-linear» exploration with first-person combat as players deploy their arsenal of supernatural abilities to bring down some wonderfully designed spirits (known as Visitors) that put a modern spin on traditional yokai of Japanese folklore — include putty faced men in suits (somewhere between Slenderman and Doctor Who's Silence), headless school girls, malevolent children wearing yellow raincoats, even a fashionable woman with an outlandishly sized pair of scissors.

Ghostwire: Tokyo — PS5 Showcase.

When players encounter these during their travels through Ghostwire's vibrant, lavishly rendered version of a rain-slicked Tokyo, they'll need to bring them down using a process known as Ethereal Weaving. There are still plenty of questions around how