Yes. The Iki Island expansion (included in the Director’s Cut) uses the exact same language packs as the main game. If you download the Japanese pack for Tsushima, it automatically applies to Iki Island. However, note that Iki Island’s new flashback sequences do not receive the re-animated lip-sync for Japanese; only the base game’s cutscenes do. (Sucker Punch has not patched the expansion’s lip-sync as of 2025.)
The English pack also allows for vocal diversity that the Japanese pack, constrained by period hierarchy, cannot. Lady Masako’s raw grief, Yuna’s streetwise pragmatism, and Kenji’s comic relief all sound distinctly "American-inflected" in English. For Japanese-American players, the English track with Japanese subtitles can represent the Nikkei (diaspora) experience—speaking the colonizer’s language while reclaiming ancestral stories. The Director’s Cut respects this by offering separate toggles for audio, subtitles, and menu language, enabling hybrid configurations (e.g., Japanese audio, English UI, Mandarin subtitles).
Language packs are not region-locked on the PlayStation Store for the Director’s Cut .
The standard PS4 version only has lip-syncing for English, as many cutscenes were pre-rendered files that did not have the storage space for multiple lip-sync versions.
For a solid story experience in , you have two main paths for immersion. Most players lean toward the Japanese audio for authenticity, though the English track is the "original" intended performance. Language Options