We’ve talked about Tango Gameworks’s upcoming action adventure game GhostWire: Tokyo twice in the past.
The first was when it was announced at Bethesda’s 2019 E3 conference, where it caught my attention because of its supernatural premise.
We talked about it again much more recently, after the PlayStation 5 showcase. I noted that it had more action than I expected, although it still looked interesting.
Now some new details have surfaced through an interview with IGN.
In the interview, director Kenji Kimura describes Ghostwire as taking place “in an original version of Tokyo where most of the people have vanished” and says the protagonist gains “paranormal abilities, through the use of hand gestures, to help solve the mystery.”
You’ll be exploring the city and fighting paranormal creatures using these powers, and these abilities can be powered up as you play. The part about hand gestures is further explained to be based on Kuji-kiri gestures.
As for the enemies themselves, they’re based on yokai, as well as urban legends and similar stories.
Curiously, they wouldn’t say who the protagonist is when asked. I don’t know why that would be a secret, so maybe there’s something important about the main character’s identity that we’ll learn later.
The question of horror came up a few times in the interview (to the point where it feels like the interviewer really, really wanted GhostWire to secretly be a horror game after all), but they made it clear that GhostWire: Tokyo is action adventure, not horror.
GhostWire sounds like it could be a fun game, and I hope we get to see more of the protagonist’s supernatural powers the next time it’s shown. Are you interested in GhostWire: Tokyo?