The upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive Ghost of Tsushima has cast One Piece voice actor Kazuya Nakai for the Japanese voice of the game’s protagonist, Jin Sakai. Sony recently featured the game during their latest State of Play presentation, which showed off a ton of new gameplay as well as the option to use Japanese voice overs with English subtitles.
Kazuya Nakai’s voice is easily recognizable to any One Piece fan who saw the Ghost of Tsushima presentation. He has been the voice of One Piece’s Roronoa Zoro, the Strawhat Pirates’ own swordsman, for around two decades now, making it his most iconic voice acting role. He has also voiced quite a number of other anime characters such as Mugen from Samurai Champloo, God Eater’s Soma Schicksal, and Toshiro Hijikata from Gintama, among others. Some of his other video game voice acting roles also include Final Fantasy X’s Wakka, Shinjiro Aragaki from Persona 3, and Granblue Fantasy’s Eustace.
Kazuya Nakai’s role as the voice of Ghost of Tsushima’s protagonist was initially noted by GameSpot, where they mentioned the feature to switch between the game’s Japanese and English voice tracks as well as the option to turn on subtitles. The publication also noted that Daisuke Tsuji, who has previously voiced characters in Death Stranding, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, and Prey, has been cast as the English voice actor for Jin.
Some of the other gameplay features that developer Sucker Punch showed off during the presentation was a “Samurai Cinema” mode which turns the game’s visuals into something reminiscent of a classic Akira Kurosawa samurai film, complete with black and white filter, film grain, and more wind. The game also includes a pretty extensive photo mode that allows players to control elements such as color grading, depth of field, wind direction and speed, selectable particles, overlays, and even the accompanying music track for those who prefer to take videos.
Ghost of Tsushima is setting itself up to be a rather interesting experience not only for video game fans in general, but for fans of samurai games and cinema as well. Even from what has been shown so far, the amount of detail the developers have put into the game is pretty evident, not just in its visual and features but also Ghost of Tsushima’s gameplay and combat. It will be incredibly exciting to see how the entire game looks and feels when it comes out several months from now.
Ghost of Tsushima is scheduled to release exclusively on the PlayStation 4 on July 17, 2020.
