Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "GHOST OF YOTEI DEBUTS TO STRONG SALES, CLEARS HUGE FINANCIAL MILESTONE"

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/Analytic⁠Join The Normandy For Additional Bonus Audio And Visual Content For All Things Nme+! Join Here: ⁠https://ow.ly/msoH50WCu0K⁠Join Analytic Dreamz on Notorious Mass Effect for a deep dive into Ghost of Yōtei, the PS5-exclusive samurai epic. Analytic Dreamz unpacks its 2M+ copies sold in days, generating $140M+ revenue, outpacing Ghost of Tsushima digitally. Explore Atsu’s revenge in 1603 Hokkaido, blending yōkai folklore, dynamic combat, and open-world exploration. With an 87 Metacritic, haptic haikus, and Ainu-inspired design, it’s a cultural and critical hit despite “woke” backlash and minor bugs. Tune in for key stats, controversies, and why Yōtei is a 2025 standout. Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Getting into a game that I personally had some hands-on time with, but of course, over here in notorious mass effect, we will be getting into the overall review and sales roundups, as when it comes to Ghost of Yote, Safe to Say, it launched out the gate of success as objectively speaking, it sold 2 million plus copies within three days. And when it comes to Ghost of Toshima, when it comes to Ghost of Yote, Safe to Say, Ghost of Tseye, Safe to Say, Ghost of Tseye. she to shema which came out july 17 2020 goodness that seems like a long time ago doesn't but ghost of tishima had 2.4 million units in the first three days which was the fact fastest selling new IP for the PS4 so when it comes to this specific game when it comes to the overall developers as far as trying to make some that's notoriously affected the masses safe to say This was a success, especially when you look at sucker punch and their continuance of dealings with Sony. They obviously see that they're making such a great IP with the Ghost franchise.

So Ghost of Tashima, Ghost of Yote, they are what I would call the up-in-comers of the next legendary and iconic IPs as far as in the gaming industry. I don't want to put too much sauce on it because you know, y'all gonna say i'm glazing you guys but at the end of the day when it comes to your marios your zeldas your master chiefs of the world you're always looking for that next mascot to take your platform to the next level safe to say circle punch has objectively speaking found that with the ghost franchise where goes to tishima being the success out the gate ghost of yote being the success out the gate and of course with both of the budgets reportedly costing 60 million dollars and ghost of yote recouping that budget twice over already because two plus million copies in three days,

which is estimated $140 million in revenue, assuming the $70 base price because it's not on game pass. Safe to say, Circle Punch is going to be in great standings with Sony for the foreseeable future. Now that being said, the main thing I was going to get into was obviously the review and sales round up, but just letting you know a little bit of what Ghost of Yote is, because I had some personal hands on time with it, you know, shameless plug, analytic dreams video on Spotify to see my Ghost of Yota gameplay. But the main thing you need to know is that this is an open world samurai action sword

play stealth and horseback traversal type game. And of course it's structured in a six act structure because you're hunting down the Yote 6. And what's interesting about it is you can hunt them down in any order. So that means, I don't want to spoil anything. But there's a lot of flashback systems that dynamically alters the world state. And of course, you go back and forth as far as a protagonist from her younger self to her current self.

And when you look at a lot of things as far as the core mechanics, the combat, I mean, there's weapons for days. I mean, goodness gracious, I was playing this game and I looked into her eyes. And I said to myself, that's a murder. Shepard Just look at the state of gaming Like what is going on Like I also play Assassin Creek Shadows And of course you know how to bring that game up

But when it comes to Nowaway In shadows You look into her eyes And then you look into I forget the character's name I'm tripping I forgot her name

Anyways you look into the main character For Goseiote's eyes And you can just tell a distinct Distinct difference You know as far as Let me see go see you'll tell you main character so um at okay atsu that's probably well i forgot i don't even know if i'm pronouncing that right i think that's atsu atsu but y'all look at this right here

analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the audio y'all look at this and tell me that that's not a murderer right here like come on now you guys see that's the problem you look into this main character's eyes you could tell she's been through some things you look into now way eyes it looked like she may be on the next episode of disney channel now that being said the main thing i was wanted to say is that I'm definitely convinced that she would do the things that she's doing in this game by taking out any and everybody by any means necessary and that brings me back to my original point or my previous point as far as the weapons that she's been using throughout this game which is katanas naganata which is my favorite uh sword dual blades uh and then of course when you come to the setting

is dynamic weather base so it's very interesting that the day and night shift is pretty abrupt. That's one of the things I saw with my personal hands-on time. I was like, it could be a little smoother as far as the day to night, but it was a nitpick, really. Another nitpick is, I know this is a PlayStation exclusive, but I promise you, the dual sense is not going to catch on. I don't know. I don't know who needs to hear this in the higher-ups as far as PlayStation. Us swiping, hold up, let me get my controller. Us doing this on a controller. us doing this blowing it pause you guys you know i mean all this right here the drawing swiping it's not gonna catch all my brother it's this y'all got to give it up like i know what you're

doing your playstation exclusive suck a punch probably thinking you know let's show off some dual sense features i promise you we don't care i promise you don't we don't so they do give us you know to be fair they do give us options to skip those sections whenever uh you finish it the first time so it's not a big critique that's why i says it's a slight critique but another thing as far as the main story is 20 to 25 hours and there with side content is 40 to 50 hours but of course for a completion is out there this game will take you around 60 to 70 hours and then of course new game plus as a remix of difficulty in cosmetics which off the bat you can remix the difficulty that's one of the things i noticed like as far as dark souls games they don't give you a difficulty slider

because they want you to suffer as far as ghost this uh ghost type game i don't know if this happened in ghost of tashima because i didn't play that one but in ghost of yote off the bat they let you customize the difficulty so you can have very easy as far as certain mechanics but then on others uh you can put on expert so really customizes the experience on what you want to be easy and what you want to be hard so i thought that was pretty interesting that's the first time i really saw that i was like huh that's a pretty good idea as far as for a game based on combat So just food for thought for souls like developers out there. I know they not.

They're not hearing me. You know what I mean? They're like, hey, y'all going to suffer and you're going to like it. So anyways, getting back in the ghost of Yote, they did have some very interesting trouble as far as the marketing strategies for this game. I will say the trailers, the marketing strategies for this game did not do it justice. I know they showed off a lot of different weapon gameplay and how gory it was as far as the blood everywhere. And I just think the marketing strategy for this specific game should have focused on a lot of the world building. I know you don't want to spoil the game, but just showing us gameplay and not even showing us how much depth you put into the story.

Maybe it's because of Ghost of Tsushima. Maybe it's like a puncher's like, you know, we don't need to advertise that. People already know how we come, how we coming. But I do believe the marketing strategy could have been better. I think it was a little lackluster as far showcasing how good. this game actually is. I mean, I wouldn't be mad if somebody said this was their game of the year or if they thought this should be a contender for game of the year. It's really that good as far as the overall story. The seamlessness as far as fast travel is insane. Next gen consoles, which is technically

current gen as far as PS5, Xbox Series X and S. Yes, it's current gen for you people who still have PS4s out there. You know, it'd be like that, but hey, come on now. You guys. See, that's the problem. And they first was talking about fast travel with these current gen consoles. I think Ghost of Yote is exactly that. That's exactly what they was talking about. Fast travel doesn't even feel like you went into any type of transition screen. It's just like, it's like that. And you're in the next location.

So like open world is like very easy to transverse as far as going from one point to the next. That's one of the biggest things I would give them a huge kudos on because I don't understand. for the life of me if you're going to make a game for current gen using the update updated technology we have and you already promised that loading screens would be down to a minimum why wouldn't every game have fast travel like osiotei like we should just be instantly in the next location so anyways um this game does not have any loading screens that's the main thing i wanted to say that but the transversal is beautiful as you can see right here analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the audio and this doesn't even do it justice like i was playing on my ps5 pro

just like flex nothing too crazy um and you put on ray tracing pro as far as for performance when i tell you it looked straight up it looked like it was straight out of a movie as far as the graphics it was phenomenal so the main thing i was also wanted to aside from us already into the sales uh i wanted to talk about the reviews so as far as the reviews for this game i gian came out and gave ghost of yote a nine at a 10 saying unbelievably striking visuals and fluid captivating open world action Atsu's revenge tale feels more personal and less romanticized than Jen's story now I never play ghost of Tashima so ghost of Tashima fans don't get mad at me I'm just giving you to review roundup of this specific game game spot gave ghost of your 10 9 out of 10 saying gripping

revenge narrative shaped by Atsu's underdog journey contrasts with feud to Japan's beauty and violence masterfully with 53 plus hours of compelling content. Game games radar gave it a 4.5 out of five saying best exploration in any open world game. That's a claim right there. And then they say hyper violent samurai quest filled boundary pushing with stunning PS5 visuals and satisfying sores play. You know as a fighting game connoisseur, I'm not going to lie to you. I thought it was a. a little Tekken whenever I was getting into combat with Ghost of Yote. I don't know how to explain it because of course Tekken doesn't have the overall,

but yeah, they do have the 3D. Anyways, yeah, I feel like it's like Tekken. I feel like she's a great character to be put in Tekken, but you know, that's just me. Looking at the fighting game mechanics, the reason why I brought up Tekin is because that should give you an indication on how great the fighting mechanics are. And when you first get into the game, that's not what you're going to be experiencing throughout the majority of time because you're going to have multiple weapons that you acquire along your journey and once you get to that last weapon i think this is shaping up to be

one of the greatest fighting games that we've had in the past two to three years as far as the fighting game mechanics getting back into the review roundups game informer gave it a 9.3 out of 10 saying intimate hit list progression is incredibly satisfying polish combat narrative and world building make it a magnum opus of the genre. So it's safe to say, everybody's loving this game. I mean, that's just across the board. I haven't seen the score lower than eight. So, and I haven't, have I seen the score?

Okay, Eurogamer gave it an eight at 10. But every other score, literally every other score is above a nine. So when you look at that, I think this game, deservedly is earning the respect of the game and community, because coming after Ghost of Tashima, having a woman protagonist, you already know how the crazy people are going to come out of the woodworks to say it's a trash game because they have a woman as a protagonist, which is the most assonial argument ever.

But people make it. I swear to you, people make it for some reason. I mean, sometimes I just think to myself. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? What is the state of gaming when people can come out and give these egregious takes based on the gender of a protagonist. Anyways, that means said,

Goso Yote is phenomenal. If you don't know, it's cultural tie-ins, such as, I hope I'm saying this right, Aainu inspired design, local tourism, tourism collabs. It has a cinematic feature such as the Takashi Mike, which is the Gore mode, and then Watanabe,

what Tanabi mode, which is lo-fi, hip-hop aesthetic. Now, I was going to play that, but I was streaming this game, and I've seen other streams, where it's just completely muted when you play what to nabi mode we're not completely but it's like good there's enough portions to make you be like you know it's not worth going through all that so if you're a streamer i would not advise using what to nabi mode if you're on twitch um and then i already

talked about the dual sense controllers there's a nonlinear revenge meaning that the boss order impacts ending outcomes i'm not going to spoil it but this is this game gets deep when you start to realize what they're trying to tell you as far as the gameplay the fighting mechanics right right because you're learning throughout this entire game that's the only thing i'm saying um so that's essentially it but that being said goes to yote deservably is maybe the game of a continuum for game of the year when you look at it on certain platforms it is not on the top 10 as far as xbox when it comes to playstation it is currently the most play game on playstation uh oh i'm tripping it's see you guys see that's

the problem. I'm gonna keep that in there too. This is how you know it's one take live like jZ. You know what I'm saying? So anyways, uh, it's top 10 games in the world. But as far as the top 10 and PlayStation, because it's only on PlayStation. I wonder, you know, now I got to joke on myself for a second. I wonder why I wonder why Ghost of Yote is not on the top 10 list for Xbox. Man, if y'all can answer that for me, that would be fantastic, man. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? I swear, man. I'm 25 going on 82, man. Sadden history. But anyways, the only platform that is on, which is PlayStation,

is objectively speaking, the most play game on PlayStation, which you would think with it exclusively being on PlayStation, it would be the most play game on PlayStation. But that's not always the case. You know, this is a reoccurring joke that PlayStation players do not like to play exclusive PlayStation games like they do as far as Xbox games coming over to PlayStation. And I think Forza was an example of that. It was another game that was an example of that.

I forget, was it? Was it, uh, some type of, was it the pirate game? I don't know if it was the pirate game. Uh, it was a shoot,

it was another shooting game. That's my third example. Um, it was a Hell Divers? Was it Hell Divers? It was called. I think that game was exclusively for, um,

Xbox, so I'm not mistaken. They came to PlayStation. I think it was Hell Divers too. Maybe I'm tripping. I think it came to Xbox and then Hell Divers too came to PlayStation. It was like one of the top most play games on PlayStation. And,

you know, I just feel like, of horizon is looking at all this engagement for games that's coming to playstation they're looking at like hold on now i know that ain't who i think it is i know PlayStation gamers are coming in here playing Xbox games more than me who's exclusively on the PlayStation so you know forza horizon you know shout to you but i think he's one of the most industry-plant franchises we've had in the gaming industry ever so um go see yote deservedly is increasingly having so much praise and deservedly so once again and it is unequivocally objectively objectively speaking the most

play game on playstation so that being said click my link to you in my bio let me know one of my social media is what do you think of ghost of yote as far as the gameplay have you played it what is your favorite part about ghost of yote and do you believe that 2025 has to go down is one of the best years in gaming because this game is another question that is another game that I have to pose the Question, do you believe GOSI Yote is a contender for Game of the Year?