On Friday, Sega revealed the second trailer for its newest upcoming Yakuza sport, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Identify, which sees longtime collection protag Kazuma Kiryu tackle the function of a gangster tremendous spy with Spider-Man devices and explosive cigarettes at his disposal.
The Man Who Erased His Identify, which takes place between Yakuza 6 and Yakuza: Like A Dragon, follows Kiryu as he assumes the identification of a undercover agent named Joryu after faking his loss of life to guard his adopted youngsters on the finish of Yakuza 6. Apparently, Kiryu does a piss-poor job of conserving his new identification a secret, and winds up getting concerned with a rival yakuza household that is aware of his previous and is threatening to hurt his youngsters on the Sunflower Orphanage. I hope these goons aren’t inside grabbing distance of a motorcycle rack, as a result of they’re in for a world of ache threatening these orphans.
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Not like Yakuza 7’s turn-based motion, The Man Who Erased His Identify will give attention to action-based fight and can have two combating types: Yakuza fashion and Agent fashion. Whereas Yakuza fashion sees Kiryu carry out his typical road brawler combating strikes, Agent fashion will let Kiryu use new super-spy devices like rocket boots, explosive cigarettes, and Spider-Man-esque wires to take down thugs. You may see them each in the brand new trailer.
Except for showcasing some scenes from the sport’s melodramatic story, The Man Who Erased His Identify’s may even see the return of most of the collection’ light-hearted mini-games, which is able to embrace playable retro Sega titles like Sonic the Fighters, new karaoke songs to sing, in addition to revamped cabaret membership side-quests. Nonetheless, as a substitute of managing dates for patrons like in earlier video games, gamers will as a substitute go on dates themselves in a semi-live-action format just like the web chatroom and gravure photoshoot minigames from Yakuza 6 and Yakuza Kiwami 2. The sport may even allow you to customise Kiryu’s outfits earlier than he hits the streets by having him put on a fedora and shades for the primary time within the collection as nicely, which is rad.
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The butt-end of the brand new trailer additionally revealed that The Man Who Erased His Identify will embrace a playable demo of the following, subsequent entry within the collection, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, which’ll see Kiryu and Ichiban Kasuga as twin protagonists. A clip from LaD: Infinite Wealth exhibits Ichiban in handcuffs, seemingly for the general public nudity we witnessed within the Summer season Sport Fest trailer, earlier than an older Kiryu breaks him unfastened.
Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Identify is slated to come back out on November 9 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Sequence X/S, Xbox One, and Home windows.
