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Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (PS4/5, Xbox, PC - 09/11/2023)


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Oh my goodness. The Yakuza games are coming in hot and I'm all for it :D 

Can't wait for the remasters and Yakuza 6 to arrive on PS+ Royale With Cheese Edition so I can prepare for the onslaught of new titles next year.

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  On 9/14/2022 at 1:29 PM, bob said:

I'm confused. Is Like a Dragon the new name for Yazuka? Are these all spin-off games?

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It's the new name for the series, a translation of Ryū ga Gotoku, which has been the Japanese name since the start.

 

This one and Like a Dragon: Ishin are spin-off games, but Yakuza: Like a Dragon was essentially Yakuza 7 and Like a Dragon 8 is the next main game.

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Whelp, guess I have to buy this game now...

I can't believe that after 25 years, the only home release that Daytona 2 will ever have is as a hidden minigame in a Yakuza title, but there ya go.  Would much prefer this to have been a standalone release, but I'll take it nonetheless!  @S.C.G, this is certainly relevent to your interests :hehe:

The Model 3 arcade version of Fighting Vipers 2 is also going to be included! Insane!

Let's hope that Spikeout is next :D

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Holy crap, this comes in at almost 90GB on PC! :o

Played through the opening section, loving it already. :D Man, Kiryu's movement in this is crazy! The way he picks up weapons off the ground is so slick!  :cool: And what's with this Spider-Man web move!? :heh: This is absolutely insane, even by Yakuza standards. :laughing:

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  On 11/10/2023 at 10:01 AM, Dcubed said:

For those of you playing, how far in do you have to get before you can unlock the ability to play the arcade games?

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Not playing, but I read somewhere that between skipping cutscenes and completing the mandatory fights it probably takes 30 - 40 minutes to get to the arcade. 

Considering just how cutscene-heavy Yakuza games are from the outset in setting things up story-wise before opening up for you to explore, which can take up to an hour or two in many of the other games, that sounds about right to me! 

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How calm is the geezer that got caught up in the fight with the bicycle? :laughing:

The combat in this feels just like Yakuza 6 but with physics and particle effects dialled up to 11! I bloody love it! :bouncy:
They've also made some crazy additions to the gameplay with...

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While I eventually ended up loving the new turn-based direction with Like a Dragon, playing Ishin recently and now Gaiden has reminded me how much fun the real-time combat is too. Hopefully RGG studio is planning to keep using both gameplay styles going forward, because they're both fantastic. :)

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Switched over to the english dub since i was curious and whoever is voicing Kiryu in english really sucks. Guy is supposed to be in his late 50's and he sounds like a nasily young guy in his 20's

The dub for everyone else is fine but Kiryu just doesn't sound right at all.

I'll be sticking to Japanese

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  On 11/13/2023 at 7:24 PM, martinist said:

Switched over to the english dub since i was curious and whoever is voicing Kiryu in english really sucks. Guy is supposed to be in his late 50's and he sounds like a nasily young guy in his 20's

The dub for everyone else is fine but Kiryu just doesn't sound right at all.

I'll be sticking to Japanese

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Have they changed his English actor since Like a Dragon? That's the only game in the series that I've ever played though with the English dub, but yeah, don't think I ever will again. :hehe:

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OK, I've never been so damn distracted by side content in a Yakuza game as I have with this! :o Over 12 hours played but I'm still only at the very beginning of chapter 3! :laughing:
Once the game opens up it really opens up, and is packed with so much highly entertaining stuff to do. I love the way substories are handled in this version as well, it's super streamlined compared to previous games. :cool: Also, the coliseum mode in this is pure crack, cannot get enough of it. :D Especially since unlocking... :woops: more on that bellow:

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So yeah, that's where I'm at with the game so far. I should probably get back to focusing on the main story, but they really are making it extra difficult to do so this time around. :grin:

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Whoa! Looks like I was actually further through the main story than I thought, as...

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I'd heard this game's story was shorter than your typical Yakuza game, but that still came as quite a surprise. :o However, I've done so much side content stuff now that I'm approaching 20 hours of game time anyway, and I still have a few substories left to do, quite a bit of mini-game stuff, plus a big chunk of the coliseum as well. So I reckon 100% completion will probably end up taking around 30 hours.
But for anyone that isn't a fan of the extra content in these games, if you were to focus purely on story I get the impression you'd be done with it pretty quickly indeed. :blank:

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