On Friday, Sega revealed the second trailer for its newest upcoming Yakuza sport, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Title, which sees longtime sequence protag Kazuma Kiryu tackle the position of a gangster tremendous spy with Spider-Man devices and explosive cigarettes at his disposal.
The Man Who Erased His Title, which takes place between Yakuza 6 and Yakuza: Like A Dragon, follows Kiryu as he assumes the id of a undercover agent named Joryu after faking his dying to guard his adopted youngsters on the finish of Yakuza 6. Apparently, Kiryu does a piss-poor job of retaining his new id a secret, and winds up getting concerned with a rival yakuza household that is aware of his previous and is threatening to hurt his youngsters on the Sunflower Orphanage. I hope these goons aren’t inside grabbing distance of a motorcycle rack, as a result of they’re in for a world of ache threatening these orphans.
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In contrast to Yakuza 7’s turn-based motion, The Man Who Erased His Title will give attention to action-based fight and may have two combating types: Yakuza model and Agent model. Whereas Yakuza model sees Kiryu carry out his typical avenue brawler combating strikes, Agent model will let Kiryu use new super-spy devices like rocket boots, explosive cigarettes, and Spider-Man-esque wires to take down thugs. You’ll be able to see them each in the brand new trailer.
Apart from showcasing some scenes from the sport’s melodramatic story, The Man Who Erased His Title’s can even see the return of lots of the sequence’ light-hearted mini-games, which is able to embody playable retro Sega titles like Sonic the Fighters, new karaoke songs to sing, in addition to revamped cabaret membership side-quests. Nevertheless, as an alternative of managing dates for purchasers like in earlier video games, gamers will as an alternative go on dates themselves in a semi-live-action format much like the web chatroom and gravure photoshoot minigames from Yakuza 6 and Yakuza Kiwami 2. The sport can even allow you to customise Kiryu’s outfits earlier than he hits the streets by having him put on a fedora and shades for the primary time within the sequence as nicely, which is rad.
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The butt-end of the brand new trailer additionally revealed that The Man Who Erased His Title will embody a playable demo of the subsequent, subsequent entry within the sequence, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, which’ll see Kiryu and Ichiban Kasuga as twin protagonists. A clip from LaD: Infinite Wealth exhibits Ichiban in handcuffs, probably for the general public nudity we witnessed within the Summer time Sport Fest trailer, earlier than an older Kiryu breaks him unfastened.
Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Title is slated to come back out on November 9 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Collection X/S, Xbox One, and Home windows.