This text accommodates minor spoilers for a scene and placement featured in Like a Dragon Gaiden Chapter 3.
Yakuza followers are getting some main Persona 5 vibes from Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Title.
The most recent Yakuza/Like a Dragon entry seemingly takes inspiration from the beloved role-playing recreation with followers noticing some music and person interface parts bearing resemblance. One scene particularly actually drove the thought dwelling although, by which protagonist Kiryu Kazuma swings round a shiny and vibrant on line casino space in what might be a tribute to Persona 5’s opening.
Kiryu, underneath his new guise as a undercover agent Joryu, will get a number of devices to play with in Like a Dragon Gaiden together with the Spider, which ejects a skinny wired used to seize enemies and objects from a distance. Throughout a cutscene in Chapter 3, when operating via a shiny and vibrant Las Vegas-esque on line casino space, Kiryu makes use of the Spider to grapple and swing round to evade the baddies.
That is similar to Persona 5’s opening minutes, above, by which protagonist Joker makes use of his grappling hook to swing round a shiny and vibrant on line casino to keep away from baddies.
“Joryu thinks that is Persona 5,” mentioned ekbruheee on Reddit alongside a clip of the scene. “This recreation giving me some Persona 5 vibes,” mentioned Cahosspace02 who posted an analogous clip.
Past this, one Like a Dragon Gaiden character known as Akame has additionally invoked ideas of Persona 5: “Akame provides off confidant vibes too,” mentioned OutsideSignificant16. That is referencing the Social Hyperlink mechanic in Persona, the place gamers can work together with characters to develop their bonds and get entry to stronger skills in battle, as an analogous system applies to her character in Like a Dragon Gaiden.
Akame’s menu and visuals additionally bears resemblance to Persona 5’s famously placing crimson, black, and white UI, and the music additionally has touches of the RPG’s soundtrack. “Jogs my memory of the gun store music in Persona 5,” Reddit person longbrodmann mentioned.
Like a Dragon Gaiden is a Yakuza spin-off however the first within the west to drop that branding altogether. Yakuza via Yakuza 6: The Music of Life (and Yakuza 0) launched underneath the title, whereas the seventh recreation mixed it with the Japanese collection’ title as a subtitle to create Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Going ahead, nonetheless, the collection will solely be generally known as Like a Dragon.
In our 7/10 assessment, IGN mentioned: “Like a Dragon Gaiden’s fight hits with flash and fury and its story is sharp, however its setting and aspect actions really feel a bit on the stale aspect.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
