Ghost of Yotei is certainly a big game, but whether it is bigger than Ghost of Tsushima is debatable. One thing that players like to do in open-world games is look for Easter Eggs. They are tricky to find because open-world maps can be so vast that it can be like finding a needle in a haystack.
Players may not even be looking for them in Ghost of Yotei before stumbling upon them. That’s when the discovery is the sweetest test of all. From Sucker Punch games to other PlayStation titles, these are the Easter Eggs that stick out in the game.
InFAMOUS 2 Painting
A Classic Mural
inFAMOUS 2 took place in a New Orleans-inspired southern territory called New Marais. The game was about the first game’s protagonist, Cole, getting stronger to face a large mutated entity known as The Beast that was making its way south. This battle is depicted on a mural in Ghost of Yotei, including The Beast and Cole facing off.
To find it, players will have to climb the Amber Respite Shrine in the Ohara Plains region of the game, and the mural is hidden behind a cliff on the way to the top. There are other murals too, including nods to the Sly Cooper games, Rocket: Robot on Wheels, and other inFAMOUS games, but this mural is the most elaborate one.
Dressing Like Sly Cooper
That’s One Devious Samurai
There are three items players can dress up like Sly Cooper from his titular series. First, players can get a Sword Kit at the Blue Dye House located in Oshima Coast, called Tanuki Mischief. It has a fuzzy raccoon tail attached to the sheath. To get a raccoon mask, players must complete the Shiro the Swindler bounty hunt side quest in Ishikari Plain, with the Sly Thief Mask being the reward.
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Finally, players need to complete the Wayward Oni Raiders bounty hunt in Oshima Coast. At the final fight scene, there is an ordinary chest by the gates that contains the Sly Bandit dye for the Mercenary Attire armor. Putting all three on will make Atsu look like a debonair thief or perhaps a feudal era furry.
InFAMOUS Strike
A Flash Of Inspiration
One of the mountainous Shrines players can climb is the Sun’s Peak Shrine, located in Ishikari Plain. Players will eventually come to a fork in the road as they climb, and if they dart to the left, they will start to hear thunder and see flashes of lightning.
Around the corner, they can get the Sword Kit called inFAMOUS Strike, which is quite obviously another cool reference to Cole from inFAMOUS. Unfortunately, players cannot call forth lightning when they equip this Sword Kit onto their Wolf Blade in Ghost of Yotei, but that would have been cool.
Jin’s Final Resting Place
One Mystery Solved
This is one of the coolest Easter Eggs in the game as it answers some questions about Jin from Ghost of Tsushima. In Oshima Coast, players can find the Forgotten Shrine. Inside, they will discover Jin and Yuna moved to Ezo together and quite possibly had a child, as players can find a drawing with baby handprints.
Whether this was their child, just Yuna’s, or someone they adopted is unknown. Inside the shrine, players can find several things from Jin, including his horse’s saddle, his mask, his helmet, his sword, and even his flute. How all of these things tie together will be kept quiet for now, as players should go through it themselves to see the epic conclusion.
Sucker Punch Is Dead
In The Game At Least
There is one last thing players should do after they complete the Forgotten Shrine quest about Jin. From the final area of the tree, players can go left to grapple onto a beach. Once at the beach, players should follow the wall to the right to find an epitaph.
There are names scrawled in Japanese, and in the middle are the initials SP, which stand for Sucker Punch. This is a list of names of those who worked on Ghost of Yotei, immortalized for all time on a memorial stone. They’re also in the credits, but this is without a doubt cooler.
The Last Brother
A Clever Nod To TMNT
One of the strangest references is tied to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In the Oshima Coast area, players can take on a bounty quest called The Last Brother. At the end of the trek, players will come across three graves, each with a different flower color. The blue references Leonardo, red is for Raphael, and purple belongs to Donatello. Upon finishing the quest, a new grave will pop up being decorated with orange flowers, which is a nod to Michelangelo.
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Overall, this quest is a bigger reference to a specific TMNT comic called The Last Ronin, wherein several of the turtle bros die and only one remains. Who that turtle is would spoil the mystery. Now, as a reward in Ghost of Yotei, players will get the Yoshitada’s Fourth Pearl Sword Kit, which is decorated to look a bit scaly like a turtle, although a shell-based coating would have made more sense.
The Golden Mask
Higgs Says Hello
The most difficult Easter Egg to find in Ghost of Yotei is tied to the mountainous Shrines players have to climb. At the end of each one, players will get an Amulet, and some are useful, especially if players like using ranged weapons.
However, by completing all of them, players will unlock the Golden Mask. It doesn’t do anything, but it is a reference to the mask Higgs wears in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, who is the game’s main villain. Likewise, players in that game could unlock Atsu’s iconic mask to make Sam, the game’s protagonist, look like an Onryo too.
Ghost of Yotei
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 87 /100 Critics Rec: 94%
- Released
- October 2, 2025
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Language, Partial Nudity, Use of Alcohol
- Developer(s)
- Sucker Punch
- Publisher(s)
- Sony Interactive Entertainment
WHERE TO PLAY
- Genre(s)
- Action, Adventure, Open-World
