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It’d be easy to call this the indie Ghost Of Tsushima, as it’s yet another Western developer’s take on the samurai revenge game… albeit scaled down to a mostly 2D plane in a brisk campaign, rather than getting bogged down with open-world production values. But Trek To Yomi is arguably more faithful to its inspirations.
While Ghost had an optional Kurosawa mode, this game fully commits to the aesthetic: it’s all presented in super-widescreen black and white with grainy film filters, while the voice-acting is exclusively in Japanese with English subtitles.
As a lower-budget affair, the character faces and models aren’t as refined, with some noticeable jank in animations. Maybe that’s why the action is often framed from a distance, but the striking…