Each Yakuza recreation has some type of bizarre aspect hustle happening the place gamers can sink hours of their time into what’s primarily a administration sim. In Like a Dragon is was a confectionary retailer. In Yakuza 6 it was a baseball crew. In one of many sequence’ two upcoming video games, although, it’s going to be one thing extra acquainted—and beloved—by followers.
That’s proper, cabaret administration is coming again for Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Identify, the Kazuma Kiryu spinoff that’s going to fill in some Yakuza story (and provides gamers a throwback preventing expertise). A key a part of entries like Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami 2, the game-within-a-game noticed gamers taking management of a membership, outfitting their hostesses then overseeing an evening’s enterprise, monitoring conversations and swapping out personnel like essentially the most glittery sports activities recreation ever made.
That’s fairly a paragraph, but it surely additionally doesn’t even scratch the floor of why folks like it a lot, and why it was such an enchancment—by way of gameplay but in addition tone—over the hostess administration present in older video games. Phrases can solely achieve this a lot. This video does a a lot better job:
I’m very into the entire retro (from a design perspective) factor they’ve obtained happening right here with The Man Who Erased His Identify! Like a Dragon, aka Yakuza 7, made some fairly large modifications when it shifted an action-centric sequence to extra of a JRPG, so it’s good to see the builders proceed catering to a extra conventional Yakuza expertise, first with the Judgment video games and now this.
Whereas the English-language cabaret announcement merely mentioned “The cabaret mini-game might be returning in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Identify!”, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s Japanese account had much more data, primarily as a result of—as is sequence custom, each for the cabaret membership however different video games with hostess sections as nicely—most of the cabaret fashions are going to be based mostly on actual folks like idols and Japanese grownup video stars.
For this recreation specifically they’ll be holding auditions open to the general public as nicely, with winners scoring $8,000 in money, a job selling The Man Who Erased His Identify and an look as one of many hostesses within the recreation itself.
