After a grueling series of seven main games, a few spinoffs, and the Sandwiched but Excellent Trial. The Yakuza series has entered a new era in 2020 with the release of Yakuza Like a Dragon. Also, it's trying to be something completely new, but it isn't either.
It sure looks new. Yakuzas 0-6 star Kazuma Kiryu escaped into the sunset in the 2018 game and now makes way for a new gangster, with a new face, a new haircut, a new backstory and a new personality. . Also new is the game's setting, which briefly features Kamurocho before departing for Yokohama-based Isezaki Ijincho.
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Yakuza Like a Dragon
Another novelty is the game's combat. Since its inception, Yakuza has been a brutal action series, with its mind-blowing physicality one of its main attractions. That has now been replaced by turn-based JRPG combat and a very thin narrative cover. Although it's nice.
For the first time in a Yakuza game, Like a Dragon does not star Kazuma Kiryu. A walking caricature of Yakuza righteousness burdened by carrying his own backstory with him 120 hours a year. Ichiban might wear a similar suit, but that's where the similarities end.
He's a breath of fresh air, a wild, unprofessional idiot who's as happy punching first as he is getting into trouble. His hair is a mess and I don't know if I'll get used to it (even if the story has an excuse), and sometimes he goes too far from "serious" to "reckless fool", but I can let these momentary lapses pass. Ichiban is a more approachable and flawed character than Kiryu, and I like him a lot.
Ichiban is also the cover story for the game's change to RPG battles. Building his character's heroic impulses around a lifelong love for Dragon Quest, to the point every time he enters street combat, he imagines he's fighting monsters and evil creatures. So just to be clear before we go any further here, the entire combat system of the game, where street thugs and rival gangsters transform into terrorists and deep-sea creatures, exists only in this guy's head.
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Anyway, translated the game from English – Yakuza: Like a Dragon, is a role-playing video game developed and published by sega. It is the eighth main release in the Yakuza series, and was released in Japan and Asia for Playstation 4 on January 16, 2020. But, it doesn't end there! Why is it also possible to play the game on platforms; PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS.
