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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
International cover art
Developer(s)Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Publisher(s)Sega
Director(s)Ryosuke Horii
Producer(s)Masayoshi Yokoyama
Programmer(s)Koji Tokieda
Artist(s)Nobuaki Mitake
Writer(s)Masayoshi Yokoyama
Composer(s)
SeriesYakuza
Platform(s)
Release
January 16, 2020
  • PlayStation 4
    • JP: January 16, 2020
    • WW: November 10, 2020
    Windows, XONE, XSXS
    • 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 (RPG) developed and published by Sega. The first mainline title in the Yakuza franchise developed as a turn-based RPG, it was released in Japan and Asia for PlayStation 4 on January 16, 2020. Like a Dragon was released in several countries outside of the Asian region on November 10, 2020, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. A version with the subtitle International[b] was released in Japan, East and Southeast Asia on February 25, 2021, for the Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Windows, and on March 2, 2021, for the PlayStation 5.

In contrast to 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 major 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)[1] 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,[2] but it comes as a standard feature 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.[3][4]

Synopsis

Setting and characters

The game takes place in Yokohama

The game is set in 2019, three years after the events of Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. For the first time in the Yakuza series, the focus shifts away from Tokyo and the game's fictional recreation of Kabukichō, called Kamurochō. Instead, most of the gameplay takes place in the Yokohama district of Isezaki Ijincho,[5][6] which is based on Yokohama's real-life Isezakichō district. However, Kamurochō and the Osaka district Sotenbori (another area from previous Yakuza games, based on the real-life Dōtonbori district) are featured in the game.[5] Yokohama's criminal underworld consists of three interconnected factions known as the Ijin Three: the Chinese-Japanese gang Yokohama Liumang, the Korean-Japanese Geomijul mafia, and the local yakuza organization, the Seiryu Clan. The leaders of the Ijin Three form a secret pact by maintaining a balance of power over Yokohama that makes it difficult for outside forces, such as the Osaka-based Omi Alliance, to extend their influence into the city.

Yakuza: Like a Dragon is also the first main game not to have Kazuma Kiryu as its protagonist, introducing the new character Ichiban Kasuga, a low-ranking member of the Arakawa Family, a subsidiary of the Kanto-based Tojo Clan. Mandatory characters who join Ichiban's party include Yu Nanba, a homeless former nurse; ex-detective Koichi Adachi, who suspects a corrupt connection between the Arakawa Family and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department; hostess bar mama Saeko Mukoda, who is employed by soapland proprietor Nonomiya; Geomijul operative Joon-gi Han, the body double of the Jingweon Mafia leader of the same name from Yakuza 6; and Liumang leader and restaurateur Tianyou Zhao. Japanese actress Eri Kamataki appears as a character of the same name, the chief executive officer of Ichiban Confections who recruits Ichiban to help turn the company around as part of the business management minigame. She may be recruited as an optional party member once the player reaches the first milestone objective within the minigame.[7]

Important non-player characters include Masumi Arakawa, the patriarch or oyabun of the Arakawa Family; Masato Arakawa, Arakawa's son who falsified his identity to become Ryo Aoki, the upstart Governor of Tokyo; Jo Sawashiro, Arakawa's long serving right-hand man; Souta Kume, a fanatical member of the anti-crime activist group Bleach Japan and protege of Aoki; Seong-hui, the head of the Geomijul; Ryuhei Hoshino, chairman of the Seiryu Clan; and Yosuke Tendo, an opportunistic Omi Alliance member and disgraced former professional boxer. Several recurring franchise characters can be temporarily summoned, once recruited, to assist the party during battle, including Kiryu,[8] Goro Majima, and Taiga Saejima.[9]

Plot

In 2001, Arawaka persuades Ichiban to confess to a murder he did not commit, ostensibly to protect Sawashiro. Ichiban is released from prison 18 years later, but finds nobody from his clan waiting to meet him. He is approached by Koichi Adachi, who informs him that Arakawa had betrayed the Tojo Clan by revealing their operations to the police, allowing the rival Omi Alliance to take over Kamurocho. Ichiban also learns that Arakawa is serving as the Omi Alliance's de facto leader, though his son had apparently met an untimely end. With Adachi's help, Ichiban crashes a meeting Arakawa is holding, but is shot by Arakawa.

Three days later, Ichiban regains consciousness in Ijincho after being saved by Yu Nanba. He discovers a counterfeit bill in his pocket, and learns that he is safe from the Omi Alliance due to the complexity of Yokohama's underworld politics. Ichiban and his friends begin taking odd jobs to earn a living while helping people in need. When one of their employers, Nonomiya, is murdered by a rogue Liumang lieutenant, Ichiban and his friends are joined by Saeko Mukoda as they investigate the Liumang. Besides a counterfeiting ring run by the Ijin Three at the behest of Yutaka Ogikubo, an influential Japanese politician, they also discover that Nonomiya was purposely murdered to escalate tensions between the Liumang and Seiryu Clan. Meanwhile, Ryo Aoki undermines Ogikubo and the Ijin Three by manipulating Nanba and the Omi Alliance, while propping up the group he co-founded, Bleach Japan, to bolster his public image. Ichiban recognizes Aoki as Masato Arakawa, who had faked his own death, and learns that he has incited traitorous Liumang members to destabilize their own gang and overthrow their leader, Tianyou Zhao. The Omi Alliance also invades the Geomijul base on Aoki's orders, forcing Seong-hui to dismantle the counterfeiting operation in an attempt to protect Ogikubo's reputation.

As the Omi Alliance prepare to take over Ijincho's underworld after severely weakening the Ijin Three, Aoki instructs Kume to run as Yokohama's regional representative. Hoshino informs Ichiban that the counterfeit bill is actually a secret message from Arakawa and that he did not shoot to kill. Tipped off by a former compatriot about Arakawa's true intentions, Ichiban infiltrates an Omi Alliance compound in Osaka, and discovers that Arakawa is a double agent working on behalf of Daigo Dojima, the Tojo Clan's chairman, all along. Arakawa reveals that the chairmen of both yakuza factions intend to formally disband their organizations to stop their repeated manipulation by political figures. The chairmen's announcement enrages most Omi members in attendance, and a brawl begins as Ichiban and his allies protect the chairmen from reprisal.

Ichiban reconciles with Arakawa in the aftermath, and learns that his son was the one who committed the murder 18 years ago. However, Arakawa is killed later that night. Suspecting Aoki, Ichiban runs against Kume in the election to draw Aoki out, and Sawashiro assassinates Hoshino in retaliation. Ichiban fails to save Hoshino but defeats Sawashiro, who reveals that Aoki is his son. Ichiban then learns from Seong-hui that Aoki put a hit on Sawashiro to silence him, but is forced to lay low after he is nearly killed by a trap set up by Aoki's minions. To stop Aoki, Ichiban's group arranges an elaborate hoax about the existence of incriminating evidence at the Arakawa office in Kamurochō's Millenium Tower, and lures him there. Saeko and Joon-gi Han secretly record Aoki ordering Ichiban's death and leak the recording online, exposing him. Ichiban follows a fleeing Aoki and persuades him to turn himself, although he is fatally stabbed by an enraged Kume shortly afterwards.

Some time later, the evidence found in Arakawa's headquarters leads to the arrest of all corrupt officials that he conspired with. Ichiban attends the funeral for Arakawa and Aoki, and decides to remain in Ijincho after turning down Daigo's job offer for a security firm staffed by ex-yakuza in Osaka.

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,"[10] or "Shin-Yakuza" in English.[11] Sega announced that the game's story was completed at the end of May 2019.[10] 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 video 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" (一番歌, Number One Song), 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.[7][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]

Although the release of the game for the Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC in Japan was originally announced in November 2020 as postponed indefinitely,[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 "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]

Yahtzee Croshaw of The Escapist called Yakuza: Like a Dragon the third best game of 2020, praising it for turning around the Yakuza franchise "with its fun characters and greater lean into the inherent silliness of the franchise."[46] In his review of the game he commended it for how "a likeable protagonist and a bit more of a lean into the usual wackiness it has successfully charmed the nurses into keeping the life support machine plugged in. Every Yakuza game is basically a loose box of disconnected toys, but for the record, this is a particularly nice box with some choice toys. Like, legos and Masters of the Universe."[47]

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.[48] By March 2020, a total of 450,000 digital and physical copies had been sold in Japan and Asia.[49]

Awards

Yakuza: Like a Dragon was awarded a Japan Game Awards Award for Excellence in the Future Division at the Tokyo Game Show 2019.[50]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon was also nominated in The Game Awards 2020 for Best RPG category, but lost to Final Fantasy VII Remake,[51] and received a nomination for Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards.,[52] along with Role-Playing Game of the Year at the 24th Annual Dice Awards.[53]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon was also awarded with a PlayStation Partner Awards Partner Award for achieving "particularly noteworthy results".[54] Other awards included Hilarious Humor at the Dreamies,[55] and OUTSTANDING Game, Franchise Role Playing at the 2020 NAVGTR Awards where it was also nominated in seven other categories.[56]

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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