Among the many many video games on the February 2025 videogame calendar is Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, a Like a Dragon spin-off that includes fan favourite Goro Majima dressing as a pirate and preventing his manner throughout Hawaii. But, as wild as that concept appears, we may have had an excellent stranger spin-off.
“Throughout the finish of the Infinite Wealth growth,” RGG studio director and sequence government producer Masayoshi Yokoyama informed the PlayStation Weblog, “we started percolating the thought of a spin-off that stars characters who are usually not Ichiban Kasuga. It was virtually as if we have been making a blown-up sub-story for Infinite Wealth. For fairly a while, I wished to make a recreation known as Like a Dragon: Tuna, the place Kazuma Kiryu, as a tuna fisherman, units off to sea to battle towards fishing boats.”
What a tremendous almost-was. I am imagining a recreation someplace between Dave the Diver and Dredge, solely starring the Dragon of Dojima. Whereas Like a Dragon: Tuna sadly didn’t eventuate, the concepts behind it impressed the spin-off we’re truly going to get—one through which an amnesiac Majima learns who he actually is, in-between a complete bunch of real-time brawling within the type of the traditional Yakuza video games fairly than the turn-based menu fight of the newer Like a Dragons.
Additionally it has leaping. In a primary for the sequence you will have a leap button, an concept RGG determine so as to add as a result of, as Yokoyama defined, “the character Majima seems good whereas leaping.” One other new addition is the Sea Canine preventing type, which lets Majima dual-wield brief swords in addition to quite a lot of “tough pirate instruments” as the shop web page places it.
The Like a Dragon sequence is legendary for its substories—aspect quests with a a lot goofier tone than the principle storylines. Its spin-offs let the video games dedicate themselves to that type of silliness, and at a runtime Yokoyama calls “excellent in dimension for adults. The Like a Dragon sequence is like an all-you-can-eat restaurant the place you’ll be able to select from meat, seafood, and the rest you need and eat nonetheless a lot you want. However as you mature, you begin to recognize well-balanced, good-proportion meals. Spin-offs are like that.”
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii will likely be out on February 27, 2025 on Steam.
