You’ll duck and weave through outstretched arms and gnashing blades, hitting the block button at the very last second before an attack lands to parry it and earn precious spectral ammo. Nowhere is the shift from survival horror to action horror more evident than in Ghostwire’s frenetic combat. This Tokyo-set caper feels like Tango kicking off the training wheels and hitting its stride, putting on a dazzling showcase with brilliant lights and colours, contrasting strongly to the hideous creatures that permeate Shibuya. Gone are the third-person shooter trappings of studio head Shinji Mikami’s Resident Evil 4 that translated so well to The Evil Within, and absent is the dreary, murky art style and creature design that naturally lent itself to the aforementioned survival horror game. Ghostwire: Tokyo is wildly different from anything Tango Gameworks has produced. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. The result, deftly weaving together sound and tech like this, is eerie an paranoia that manifests often you can be looking at an empty street but hear a shutter slam shut or a demon moaning anywhere around you, pinpointing exactly in which direction it's assailing your ears from. It all folds into that sinister spooky vibe that was promised for this game years ago – and the creature sounds meld brilliantly with the PlayStation 5’s 3D audio capabilities, too. You’ll hear sinister giggling and turn a street corner to find headless schoolchildren milling about, or scraping like nails along a chalkboard heralding an imposing Yokai dragging scissors with blades the size of swords behind it. And that's for the best, because and Ghostwire: Tokyo’s sound design is exemplary. Shibuya’s absence of human noise pollution paves the way for otherworldly sounds from the demonic Yokai. The pair are serviceable, but nothing more. in his Shibuya hijinx, so there's always that interplay underpinning the game's otherwise spooky tone. Tango’s leading lads only work because they’re playing off each other, however, and you get the sense either one of them would feel relatively one-note and flat without the other. strike up a buddy routine in no time, playing off each other with wry remarks and wit, and you generally don’t go more than a minute in Ghostwire without some remark from one of the pair. The writing generally leaves a bit to be desired, though.
Ghostwire: Tokyo’s side stories are wildly unpredictable, and that’s excellent. Generally initiated by interacting with the spiritual remains of humans that were vanquished by the fog, side missions might have you taking a haunting subway trip to check out a local legend, rescuing a tanuki and his crew after they had a day trip to Shibuya and got separated, or rescuing someone from being treated like a literal dog by their brother. The saving grace of the Torii Gates is that they open up some brilliantly eclectic side stories. If even Ubisoft can grow out of this, you'd expect other studios can, too. The presence of so many towers around Shibuya feels a little wrought at times, as though Tango borrows from open world design from a decade ago without a fresh perspective or a unique spin. Lodged around Shibuya are Torii Gates, acting as beacons that suck up surrounding fog when activated, revealing a new portion of the map. Ghostwire: Tokyo’s vertical open world is a new venture for developer Tango Gameworks though, and the growing pains are evident. There’s also a procession of demons that’ll periodically roam Shibuya, and you’ll need to fight like hell without your ethereal abilities if they find you. Ghostwire: Tokyo succeeds in making the desolate streets of Shibuya feel vibrant thanks to fleeting events, like a party of ghosts descending on human spiritual remains to drag them into the afterlife, prompting you to race around and save everyone before they’re dragged to hell.
Making a world devoid of other actual humans feel alive is no easy task. Shop shutters slam for no rhyme or reason as you bound around Shibuya, building interiors rearrange themselves like they’re guts being toyed with, flying shades prowl over rooftops, and the entire thing is watched over by an ominous red moon. to merge into one body – spellweaving capabilities quite literally in hand – and get to the bottom of the haunting of Shibuya.ĭeparted creative director Ikumi Nakamura once lovingly described Ghostwire: Tokyo as “spooky” in a memorable E3 speech, and there isn’t a better word to sum up the game. It’s up to the formerly-deceased protagonist Akito and the still-deceased-but-not-really sidekick K.K. Spooky goings on cause everyone to vanish in a dense fog, leaving only their clothes behind, and an army of spectres descends on the Tokyo Ward. It all begins at the Shibuya Scramble, one of the busiest pedestrian intersections in the whole world.
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