Yakuza: Like a Dragon

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This article is about the 2020 video game. For the 2007 live-action movie, see Like a Dragon.

Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Yakuza like a dragon cover art.jpg
International box art
Developer(s)Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Publisher(s)Sega
Director(s)Ryosuke Horii
Producer(s)
  • Hiroyuki Sakamoto
  • Daisuke Sato
Designer(s)Takanori Naganuma
Programmer(s)Koji Tokieda
Artist(s)Nobuaki Mitake
Writer(s)Masayoshi Yokoyama
Composer(s)
SeriesYakuza
Platform(s)
ReleasePlayStation 4
  • JP: January 16, 2020
  • WW: November 10, 2020
Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
  • WW: November 10, 2020
  • JP: February 25, 2021
PlayStation 5
  • WW: March 2, 2021
Genre(s)Role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Yakuza: Like a Dragon[a] 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. It had a worldwide release on November 10, 2020 for Microsoft Windows (Japan, East and Southeast Asia excluded, without an official reason given by Sega), PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S; the latter being released with the game as a launch title. A version with the subtitle International[b] was released in Japan and Asia on February 25, 2021 for the Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Windows, and on March 2, 2021 for the PlayStation 5; the latter releasing worldwide on the same date.

In contrast to the previous Yakuza games that focused on the life of Kazuma Kiryu, a man trying to lead a normal life following his retirement from the Tojo Clan, this game instead introduces a new protagonist named Ichiban Kasuga. After being imprisoned for 18 years only to then be betrayed by his former boss, Ichiban goes on a personal quest to become a hero and uncover the reason for his betrayal alongside other playable characters. The game offers bilingual (Japanese and English) audio to the player. Like a Dragon received positive reviews from both players and critics who enjoyed the narrative, characters, gameplay, unique take on the JRPG sub-genre, and presentation.

Gameplay[]

A turn-based fight in the game. Here, Adachi fights an enemy while using the Enforcer Job.

Similar to previous games in the Yakuza series, side-quests (known as sub-stories in-game) can be taken up by the player to gain additional rewards and players are also able to enjoy the various side activities around the map such as karaoke. A new side-activity introduced in this game is Dragon Kart, which is similar to other kart racing games in terms of its gameplay.

A huge departure from previous Yakuza games is the battle system. Instead of the real-time beat 'em up mechanics of previous games, Yakuza: Like a Dragon features a real-time turn-based RPG (which was the result of an April Fools joke back in 2019 that was so well received that they retooled the combat from its former real-time beat 'em up mechanics) type combat, with a four-person battle team. However, unlike typical turn-based RPGs, characters may use nearby surrounding items such as bicycles to attack enemies (if the items are near the enemies) or may kick surrounding items to their target if there is an interactive item in the environment on the way to the enemy, an aspect that returns from the previous Yakuza games. Players can also call on various party assists to strengthen the party or defeat enemies, with more assists added as the story progresses or through the completion of sub-stories. Players can still continue exploring the world after completing the game. A new game plus mode with additional difficulty settings exclusive to this mode was released as paid downloadable content for the Japanese version of the game,[1] but it comes as standard in the Western release.

Complementing the new RPG type combat system are Jobs, a form of character classes similar to other RPGs. Players can change any party member's job to better fit the party's playstyle. Currently, there are two jobs that can only be obtained via paid downloadable content.[2][3]

Synopsis[]

The game takes place in Yokohama

Setting and characters[]

For the first time in the Yakuza series, the focus shifts away from Tokyo and the game's fictional recreation of Kabukichō, called Kamurocho. Instead, most of the gameplay takes place in the Yokohama district of Isezaki Ijincho,[4][5] which is based on Yokohama's real-life Isezakichō district. However, Kamurocho and the Osaka district Sotenbori (another area from previous Yakuza games that's based on the real-life Dōtonbori district) are featured in the game.[4]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon is also the first main game not to have Kazuma Kiryu as its protagonist, introducing the new character Ichiban Kasuga instead. Sega has described Kasuga as being much more outspoken and emotive than Kiryu.[6] Ichiban was revealed in August 2017. He made his introduction in the mobile title, Yakuza Online, and will then function as a main character in future games.[7]

Alongside Kasuga, other characters that can be recruited to the player's party include Yu Nanba, Koichi Adachi, Saeko Mukoda, Tianyou Zhao, Joon-gi Han, and Eri Kamataki (the latter being an optional party member while the rest are obtained through the main story).[8] Mukoda and Kamataki are the first female fighting characters in the Yakuza series who are directly controlled by the player. Additional characters, once recruited, can be temporarily summoned to assist the party during battle, including previous Yakuza protagonists Kazuma Kiryu,[9] Goro Majima, and Taiga Saejima.[10]

Plot[]

In 2001, Ichiban Kasuga, a junior member of the Tojo Clan's Arakawa Family, is asked by the family's patriarch Masumi Arakawa to go to prison for a murder he did not commit to protect Jo Sawashiro, Arakawa's right-hand man. Kasuga agrees, eager to repay Arakawa for saving his life in his youth. 18 years later, Kasuga is released from prison and finds nobody waiting to meet him. He meets ex-detective Koichi Adachi, who explains that while Kasuga was in jail, Arakawa betrayed the Tojo Clan by revealing their operations to the police, allowing the rival Omi Alliance to take over Kamurocho. Kasuga also learns that Arakawa's son, Masato, has supposedly died due to illness, and Arakawa has become the de facto leader of the Omi Alliance. With Adachi's help, Kasuga crashes a meeting Arakawa is holding, but is shot by Arakawa.

Three days later, Kasuga regains consciousness in Ijincho, having been saved by Yu Nanba, local homeless man and ex-nurse. Kasuga learns that somebody dumped his body beyond the Omi Alliance's reach due to the presence of the Ijin Three, an alliance between the leaders of the Chinese Liumang, Korean Geomijul, and Japanese Seiryu Clan criminal groups. Kasuga also discovers a counterfeit bill in his pocket. Adachi reunites with Kasuga and Nanba, and they begin taking odd jobs to earn a living while helping people in need. When one of their bosses, Nonomiya, is murdered by members of the Liumang, Kasuga and his friends investigate the Liumang to find out why. Saeko Mukoda, one of Nonomiya's employees, joins the group to help the investigation.

The group learns of a conspiracy involving a counterfeiting ring run by the Ijin Three at the behest of Yutaka Ogikubo, one of Japan's most powerful politicians. The Tokyo Governor, Ryo Aoki, is also involved, and uses his connections with the Omi Alliance to undermine the Ijin Three's power while propping up the anti-crime group Bleach Japan to bolster his public image. Aoki had Nonomiya murdered to instigate a war between the Liumang and Seiryu Clan. Kasuga recognizes Aoki as Masato, who faked his death to leave his criminal past and become a politician. He is also behind the murder Kasuga was imprisoned for.

Aoki exposes the Ijin Three's counterfeiting operation, ruining Ogikubo's reputation and paving the way for Aoki to take his place. Kasuga and his friends fail to stop the Omi Alliance from crushing the Ijin Three. With their factions in tatters, the former Liumang leader Tianyou Zhao and Geomijul agent Joon-gi Han join Kasuga's party. Afterwards, Seiryu Clan leader Ryuhei Hoshino reveals to Kasuga that the counterfeit bill smuggled in his pocket is actually a secret message from Arakawa, who shot him to fake his death.

With the Omi Alliance set to take over Ijincho's underworld, Aoki puts one of his Bleach Japan loyalists, Souta Kume, in the running for regional representative. Kasuga decides to prepare another candidate to defeat Kume in the election. Meanwhile, Kasuga infiltrates an Omi Alliance meeting, and finds Arakawa working alongside Tojo Clan's sixth chairman Daigo Dojima, as well as former Tojo officers Goro Majima and Taiga Saejima. Arakawa is revealed to be a double agent, who had been weakening the Omi Alliance. Arakawa also reveals that when the Omi leader, Masaru Watase, is released from prison, they will make a joint announcement to disband the Omi Alliance and Tojo Clan, to prevent them from being used by the government. The announcement enrages most of the Omi Alliance members, and a brawl begins as Kasuga and his allies protect Watase and Dojima. Amidst the chaos, the legendary yakuza Kazuma Kiryu reveals himself as Watase's bodyguard and assists Kasuga.

Afterwards, Kasuga meets with Arakawa, and the two reconcile. However, Arakawa is murdered later that night. Suspecting Aoki, Kasuga runs against Kume in the election to draw him out, and Aoki orders Sawashiro to assassinate Hoshino as retaliation. Kasuga fails to save Hoshino, but Sawashiro turns himself in and reveals that Aoki is his son, and Kasuga is Arakawa's son, but both children were accidentally switched at birth. Kiryu then battles Kasuga, testing his resolve, and decides that he is a worthy successor, giving him information about Aoki. To stop Aoki, Kasuga and his friends raid the Arakawa headquarters in search of incriminating evidence. They trick Aoki into ordering a hit on Kasuga and leak the recording online, exposing him. Kasuga pleads with Aoki to give up, as he let his ambition destroy everybody close to him. Aoki appears to come around, but is fatally stabbed by Kume.

Some time later, the evidence found in Arakawa's headquarters leads to the arrest of all corrupt officials that he conspired with. Kasuga attends Arakawa and Aoki's funeral. Watase, Dojima, Majima and Saejima ask Kasuga to join them in managing a security firm in Osaka (to provide employment for the former members of the disbanded Omi Alliance), but Kasuga decides to remain in Ijincho to stay with his friends and keep watch over the city.

Development[]

The game was initially announced on August 26, 2017, alongside Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise and Yakuza Online. During development, the project was code-named Shin Ryu ga Gotoku, meaning "New Like a Dragon" or "Like a New Dragon,"[11] or "Shin-Yakuza" in English.[6] Sega announced that the game's story was completed at the end of May 2019.[11] The gameplay style has changed from the traditional real-time combat into a turn-based RPG following an April Fools joke in 2019. Sega received permission from Dragon Quest series creator Yuji Horii to mention Dragon Quest in the game, which was Ichiban's favorite game. Yakuza series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi said that the new style of logo was done to reflect Ichiban Kasuga's differing personality compared to Kazuma Kiryu.[12] Sega have said that they wanted to try a different style of gameplay, but that if it is badly received, they will return to real-time combat for future games.[13] The game is also the first mainline Yakuza title to receive an English dub since the original Yakuza in 2005.[14]

The game's main theme, "Ichibanka", was performed by Shonan no Kaze, who previously performed the main theme of Yakuza 0 and Kurohyō 2: Ryū ga Gotoku Ashura hen, and Yasutaka Nakata. Alongside the English dub, as in Judgment, it would also feature dual English subtitle sets: one with the Japanese audio with English subtitles matching the Japanese translation, and the other matching the English dub, localizations in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, all of which, besides English, are localized, focusing on the Japanese audio, regardless of the selected voice language. The International release in Japan and Asia, as well as the Western release via an update, has dual audio and eleven subtitle languages—the previous five languages, as well as Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese are only available in the Western release on PS5; all other versions have all languages present regardless of region). For the first time in the series, karaoke songs in the English dub are sung in English by the English voice cast, with the English versions displaying the English lyrics (on all languages) and the Japanese versions displaying the Japanese romaji lyrics (only when the language set to English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese or Russian; Japanese kanji lyrics when set to Japanese; Traditional Chinese lyrics when set to Traditional Chinese; Simplified Chinese lyrics when set to Simplified Chinese; Korean lyrics when set to Korean), unlike the Yakuza Remastered Collection, in which lyrics between the Japanese kanji and romaji and English translation can be toggled.[15] Darryl Kurylo and Bill Farmer reprise their roles from the original Yakuza as Kazuma Kiryu and Makoto Date, respectively. Matthew Mercer replaces Mark Hamill as Goro Majima, David Hayter replaces John DiMaggio as Osamu Kashiwagi (credited as "The Bartender"), and Isaac C. Singleton Jr. replaces Gary Anthony Williams as Gary Buster Holmes.

The game was released in Japan on January 16, 2020 for PlayStation 4, with the Traditional Chinese and Korean versions being released on the same day.[8][16] It was released worldwide for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Xbox Series X/S on November 10, 2020.[17][18][19] It was released for Microsoft Windows on the same day, but purchase of the Windows version of the game was blocked in various countries and territories in East Asia and Southeast Asia.[20] A PlayStation 5 version was released on March 2, 2021.[21] In November 2020, it was announced that the release date of the game for the Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC was postponed indefinitely in Japan.[22]

The game was released for the Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Windows in Japan and Asia on February 25, 2021. This version of the game was titled International, as it will contain some features introduced with the worldwide release, such as the English audio track option, the additional costume sets, and the New Game Plus downloadable content included.[23] This version was also released in the region for the PlayStation 5 on March 2, 2021, the same day as its worldwide release.[24] Anyone who makes the purchase of the PS5 version can unlock the "Legends Costume Set" for free.[25]

RGG Studios reported that they're working on making the necessary changes to correct errors for buyers who purchased the free PS4 to PS5 upgrade.[26]

Reception[]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon received positive reviews from critics, ending up with "generally favorable reviews" according to Metacritic.[27][28][29][30][31] Critics praised the game's new take on the Yakuza series alongside the characters, but criticized the turn-based battles as being repetitive towards the end of the game.[42][43][44]

In a positive review for Game Informer, Jeff Cork praised the new protagonist writing, "Without the weight of half a dozen or so games and their associated histories on his shoulders, Kasuga is a blank slate for this new Yokohama adventure. Kasuga certainly has goals and motivations... but the fact that he’s such a small figure in this world creates an exhilarating feeling of freedom". Cork also enjoyed the game's job system saying that it "it holds a satisfying amount of depth" and allows for unique party combinations.[45]

Jordan Devore of Destructoid disliked the long animations in combat, "Early on, I had a fun enough time watching these chaotic and slightly out-of-control scenes unfold. They didn't drag on. But at a certain point, I got so sick of waiting for Ichiban and co. to run up and actually perform their attacks". Additionally, Devore wrote that, "Put another way, Like a Dragon's turn-based combat is fine, but fine can only go so far when hours-long brick walls force you to stop and grind for XP so you can stand a reasonable chance against beefy boss encounters."[42]

Sales[]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon was the best selling print game during its first 4 days on sale in Japan, with 300,000 copies sold.[46] By March 2020, a total of 450,000 digital and physical copies had been sold in Japan and Asia.[47]

Awards[]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon was awarded a Japan Game Awards Award for Excellence in the Future Division at the Tokyo Game Show 2019.[48]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon was also nominated in The Game Awards 2020 for Best RPG category, but lost to Final Fantasy VII Remake,[49] and received a nomination for Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards.[50], along with Role-Playing Game of the Year at the 24th Annual Dice Awards.[51]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon was also awarded with a PlayStation Partner Awards Partner Award for achieving "particularly noteworthy results".[52] Other awards included Hilarious Humor at the Dreamies,[53] and OUTSTANDING Game, Franchise Role Playing at the 2020 NAVGTR Awards where it was also nominated in seven other categories.[54]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Known in Japan as Ryū ga Gotoku 7: Hikari to Yami no Yukue (Japanese: 龍が如く7 光と闇の行方, Like a Dragon 7: Whereabouts of Light and Darkness)
  2. ^ Known in Japan as Ryū ga Gotoku 7: Hikari to Yami no Yukue Intānashonaru (Japanese: 龍が如く7 光と闇の行方 インターナショナル, "Like a Dragon 7: Whereabouts of Light and Darkness International")

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