Two blokes hurling chunks of sharpened steel at each other’s faces? There’s nothing romantic about that. It’s something that you get a taste of in Ghost of Tsushima, whose first gameplay demo at E3 this year was a dirty dance of blood and heads being sent flying.

Everyone was expecting a tight samurai game in Sucker Punch's gameplay reveal of Ghost of Tsushima, but the developer delivered even more with a demo that smacked of influences from legendary director Akira Kurosawa and looked simply sublime in action.

We finally get a look at Sucker Punch's open world samurai epic in action, and it looks good.

Ghost of Tsushima is clearly the kind of game that has had and still will have years of development pumped into it. In fact, it’s that lengthy and secret development time which had many a Sucker Punch fan worried about the future of the famed developer. After 2014’s inFAMOUS: Second Son, you couldn’t even squeeze a mouse fart out of the company, as they toiled away on Ghost of Tsushima. Was this a case of Sony playing its cards close to its chest and delaying the announcement of the game for as long as possible as they sought the perfect time to unveil it?

Ghost of Tsushima has all the right ingredients so far: A studio that knows what it’s doing, an interesting angle and a sandbox that has seldom been explored in this industry. It’s going to be a tortorous wait for Sucker Punch to release this game.

So when’s the next Infamous game then? While Second Son had a done-in-one story, there was still room to grow the tale of Rowe and pals further. But since First Light wrapped up, Sucker Punch’s premiere IP has been silent, with no future games announced.

inFamous First Light brings standalone open world action to the PlayStation 4.

A new patch is on the way for inFamous: Second son, adding a frame-rate cap, time of day settings and the ability to swith the HUD off.