Sega’s subsequent recreation within the Like A Dragon franchise, previously identified within the West as Yakuza, is coming in January. Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth sends the franchise to Hawaii, the place protagonist Ichiban Kasuga travels looking for his mom, solely to wind up penniless and at all-time low. Former Yakuza hero Kazuma Kiryu can be playable in Infinite Wealth, and primarily based on Sega’s first gameplay trailer for the following Like A Dragon recreation, the whole lot the duo will do is past ridiculous.
Right here’s what that features, in keeping with Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s first gameplay trailer.
Combating an enormous shark
At one level, Ichiban and pals will battle a Megalodon. Ichiban may even come nose to nose with an enormous squid. These two moments someway really feel associated.
Summoning a fire-breathing dragon
The Like A Dragon video games at the moment are turn-based RPGs, and Ichiban and friends can mainly do magic, summoning pals and fighters for rent with the Poundmates app. However now, Ichiban may also simply whip out an enormous dragon to smoke his foes. (Yakuza: Like A Dragon allow you to name upon Kiryu, who may use the Essence of the Dragon God, however Ichiban’s dragon powers are much less metaphorical.)
A Loopy Taxi religious successor
A brand new minigame referred to as Loopy Eats is a reimagining of Sega’s basic arcade recreation Loopy Taxi, however this time, you’re on a motorbike. Loopy Eats is a brand new spin on the gig financial system, the place gamers will collect and ship meals to hungry Hawaiians. (Curiously, Uber Eats signage seems in Infinite Wealth, however that licensing deal doesn’t appear to increase to its gig-economy minigame.)
Combating Danny Trejo
In Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, actor Danny Trejo performs a counterfeiter and the pinnacle of an area gang generally known as the Barracudas. Naturally, he’s armed with a couple of machetes. Actor Daniel Dae Kim of Misplaced and Hawaii 5-0 fame may even seem within the recreation, because the voice of Masataka Ebina, a captain of an area yakuza syndicate.
New lessons, like Housekeeper
Just like Yakuza: Like A Dragon, Infinite Wealth will characteristic a wide range of jobs that your get together can tackle. New ones embody Samurai, Desperado, Geodancer, Pyrodancer, Motion Star, and Housekeeper, the place a teammate can blow away enemies with an influence washer or suck them up with a vacuum cleaner.
Actually breaking the turn-based fight guidelines
Whereas Ichiban and pals are sure by the comparatively new turn-based fight route for mainline Like A Dragon video games, Kiryu has at all times been a real-time motion man. In Infinite Wealth, Kiryu has the ability to actually smash the S-E-G-A menu command buttons (Talent, And so forth., Guard, Assault) into mud and go full brawler mode. Actual-time brawling is again! Type of!
Driving a Segway
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Visiting a Dean & Deluca
As soon as a New York establishment, the upscale grocery chain shut down its U.S. operations in 2019 amid crushing debt, however you’ll be able to nonetheless discover a Dean & Deluca in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth. In the true world, two Dean & Deluca shops are nonetheless going issues in Oahu, and Ichiban and pals will be capable of get their posh refreshments there.
Befriending a rooster
Ichiban will type bonds with the residents of Hawaii, together with this rooster. It’s unclear whether or not this chook can handle an actual property enterprise, much like Nugget from Yakuza 0.
However these unknowns will turn out to be identified when Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is launched on Jan. 26, 2024, on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X.