Ghost of Tsushima is an action-adventure stealth game played from a third-person perspective. It features a large open world without any waypoints and can be explored without guidance.Players can quickly travel to different parts of the game's world by riding a horse. An item that acts as a grappling hook will be available to access areas that are difficult to reach.The game features side quests and non-playable characters to interact with. Players can engage in direct confrontation with enemies using weapons such as a katana, which can also be used to chain up a series of fatal strikes after highlighting specific enemies. Alternatively, using stealth allows one to evade enemies and strike them silently with tools such as firecrackers to create distractions, smoke bombs to disorient alerted foes, and kunai for striking multiple enemies.One-versus-one dueling with non-playable characters is also optional. The protagonist, Jin Sakai (Daisuke Tsuji), is a samurai warrior. His friend and companion Masako is a samurai woman. The main antagonist is the ruthless and cunning general Khotun Khan of the Mongol Empire (Patrick Gallagher).Other characters include Onibaba (Minae Noji), the High Priestess (Hira Ambrosino), and Ippei the Monk (Keisuke Hoashi). Ghost of Tsushima is developed by Sucker Punch Productions. After completing Infamous First Light, the team wanted to develop another open world project because they believed that choices made by the player are important to gameplay. As a result, the game will not feature waypoints and players will have complete freedom to explore the game's world. According to Nate Fox, the game's director, the team distilled the game's numerous internal pitches into "the fantasy of becoming a samurai" during conceptualization #GhostofTsushima Set on Tsushima Island in the year 1274, the game revolves around one of the island's last samurai, Jin Sakai, during the first Mongol invasion of Japan