Although we still don’t know if it belongs to the Like a Dragon franchise.
We have long since learned to respect the revolutionary ideas of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, creators of the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series. The genre shift from real-time action to turn-based RPG was a welcome revival for fans of the series, exhausted by the formula, and revitalised Japanese crime underworld stories.
And there are sure to be surprising things on the horizon. For starters there’s the live action series coming this autumn on Prime Video, Like a Dragon: Yakuza, which will give us a slightly different take on the series‘ original protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, and then there’s the next title in the Like a Dragon series, which we’ve already been tipped to be a surprise when it’s unveiled at this year’s Tokyo Game Show.
