Sucker Punch dated the rest of Ghost of Yotei for October 1. The PlayStation Blog post went up August 12 and got a clarification on August 14. Complete Edition is $69.99. The upgrade, if you already own the game, is $14.99. Echoes of Sekigahara and Most Wanted arrive that day. A free patch lands for every owner that same day, which is the part a lot of people will skip in the headline and then be glad they did not have to pay for.
I checked the blog and the prices. Both dollar figures are in the official post, in USD. I am not converting them into something cuter.
Echoes of Sekigahara Cuts Between Now and the Mainland
Echoes of Sekigahara is the new story expansion. Andrew Goldfarb’s post for Sucker Punch splits it between the present and flashbacks to Atsu’s time on the mainland. You meet Nagato, someone from her past who has arrived in Ezo. In the present you ride a valley the studio says you have not seen, once held by The Snake and the Vipers. In the past you get Atsu at the Battle of Sekigahara, a key moment before she came home hunting revenge. New enemies, new heavy weapons, new armor sets, new dyes. The usual “and more,” which I will leave as “and more” because they did.
Most Wanted is the other half of the paid drop: a single-player combat survival mode Sucker Punch calls its spin on a roguelike. You take bounties to start runs. Kills earn perks and unlock extra characters. The official trailer shows the split they want you to argue about in the comments. Atsu with the dual katana. Oyuki with the kusarigama. Nagato with a yari. If you have been clipping combat for a year, this is the mode that pretends those clips were homework.
$69.99 New, $14.99 If You Already Own It
Complete Edition at $69.99 includes the main game, Ghost of Yotei Legends, Echoes of Sekigahara, and Most Wanted. Legends is the online co-op side, up to four players, multiple modes, a Raid at the end. Online play needs PlayStation Plus, which the blog is careful to say. Buy Complete Edition now and you can start the campaign and Legends immediately. Echoes and Most Wanted land with the October 1 patch.
The bundle also folds in the old Digital Deluxe content and the Charm of Hokkyokusei. Order digitally by September 30 and you get an early unlock of the Sakai Armor on October 1, Jin’s family kit from Ghost of Tsushima, which is the kind of cosmetic that will live on a thousand photo-mode cliffs. Already own the game? The Complete Edition Upgrade is $14.99. If you never bought Deluxe or that charm, the upgrade unlocks them when you pre-order.
The Free Patch Is Not a Consolation Prize
October 1 is also a free day if you never spend another dollar. Beauty of Yotei is a screensaver-style pass through Ezo for the TV you refuse to turn off. The August 14 update moved new Watanabe Mode tracks into that free patch, so they are not paid extras. Quality-of-life includes keeping one armor set’s look while you use another set’s stats, which is transmog in the language of people who have jobs, plus a high-contrast accessibility option. Complete Edition still adds photo-mode stamps, New Game Plus cosmetics, and new Trophies for the paid modes.
The patch is v.2.0 on October 1 globally, October 2 in some territories including Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Sucker Punch noted the timing sits right on the game’s one-year anniversary. Watch @PlayStation and read Goldfarb’s PlayStation Blog post for the version that does not grow extra modes in a screenshot. The official announce trailer is on PlayStation’s own YouTube. October 1 is when the valley, the bounties, and the quiet Ezo screensaver have to show up together.