![]() ![]() A washed-up cop named Adachi meets him at the prison gates, and shows him how the balance of yakuza power has radically shifted while he was in jail. On his release, things don’t work out as planned, and that’s where the buddy movie aspect of Yakuza: Like a Dragon begins to gather steam. Luckily the Clan Patriarch sees him as a surrogate son, but soon, everything is turned upside-down: Ichiban displays his blind loyalty to his boss by taking the fall for a murder committed by another Clan member, and he spends the next 18 years in prison. He keeps doing things like letting people he’s supposed to be shaking down off their debts, inducing apoplexy in his Clan Captain. Ichiban is an interesting character: orphaned and brought up in a soapland (a brothel masquerading as a bath house), he’s far too nice to be a gangster. The action starts in the familiar surroundings of Tokyo’s fictional Kamurocho district, where Ichiban Kasuga is happily employed as a low-level yakuza. Rather than following just one character, this is a gangland buddy movie. This lets you control a group of characters, rather than just one – a bold move that in the context of a Yakuza game, makes perfect sense. Like its predecessors, this is essentially an interactive Yakuza film, but instead of beating up street goons by bashing buttons, Like a Dragon has you choosing actions and attacks from a menu as you would in Final Fantasy. But Like a Dragon preserves the old-fashioned, somewhat unreconstructed vibe of the previous Yakuza games, while adding a new twist that diverts it into a different genre. In our preview of the game, IGN said: " time with Infinite Wealth was about as brief as Ichiban’s board shorts, but it left to ponder the infinite possibilities for fun that might be hidden around its sizeable Hawaiian island expanse.Video game reboots are usually undertaken in order to drag longstanding brands into 21st-century modernity. The series two main characters, Kiryu Kazuma and Ichiban Kasuga, will feature as dual protagonists of Infinite Wealth when it launches January 26. ![]() Not only is it another role-playing game with turn based combat, but RGG studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama called it a "monster class" entry that will be the longest Yakuza game to date.Įssentially Yakuza 8, Infinite Wealth will continue the events of Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Yakuza 7) and spin-off Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. This isn't the first indication Infinite Wealth will be a colossal entry. Because this is a Yakuza game, Infinite Wealth will of course also feature an area called District 5 which is home to the local mafia. The post also showed off the different districts available in the Hawaii map, officially called Honolulu City, such as Aloha Beach, the Anaconda Shopping Centre, and Chinatown. A post on X/Twitter from developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio revealed the new map, which will take the series outside of Japan for the first time, will dwarf Isezaki Ijincho, which was already considered huge compared to past Yakuza locations. ![]()
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