{"id":35894,"date":"2026-03-13T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35894"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:00:42","slug":"from-zelda-like-climbing-to-multiple-worlds-the-cut-content-of-ghost-of-yotei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35894","title":{"rendered":"From Zelda-Like Climbing To Multiple Worlds: The Cut Content Of Ghost Of Yotei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sucker Punch Productions\u2019 Ghost of Yotei is already an ambitious open-world adventure that builds on its predecessor in several ways, but the team had a number of other ideas that never made the final game. At GDC, the studio\u2019s two creative directors discussed both the features that made it into the game and some ambitious concepts that didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>From mechanics that would have let players climb anywhere to dual-timelines and a fully diegetic map system, Ghost of Yotei began as a game full of possibilities. Some ideas proved too large to implement fully, but they still influenced the final experience, leaving traces of that ambition in the game\u2019s narrative and design.<\/p>\n<figure data-align=\"center\" data-size=\"large\" data-img-src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/original\/1595\/15957481\/4665466-4579138-ghost-of-yotei-shamisen-songs-locations-1a.jpg\" data-ref-id=\"1300-4665466\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"1280\" data-embed-type=\"image\" style=\"width: 1280px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"No Caption Provided\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/original\/1595\/15957481\/4665466-4579138-ghost-of-yotei-shamisen-songs-locations-1a.jpg\" data-width=\"1280\"><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One of the most ambitious features was the ability to switch between young and old Atsu at any point in the game. This would have created two versions of the world simultaneously, meaning the entire map would need to have versions in spring and winter.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/from-zelda-like-climbing-to-multiple-worlds-the-cut-content-of-ghost-of-yotei\/1100-6538760\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sucker Punch Productions\u2019 Ghost of Yotei is already an ambitious open-world adventure that builds on its predecessor in several ways, but the team had a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12278,590,1445,4374,6246,3117,4375,17965],"class_list":["post-35894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-climbing","tag-content","tag-cut","tag-ghost","tag-multiple","tag-worlds","tag-yotei","tag-zeldalike","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}