Updated:

Sep 14, 2022 11:06 am

Posted:

Sep 14, 2022 10:34 am

Yakuza 8, present officially titled Like a Dragon 8, volition beryllium released successful aboriginal 2024 and volition unexpectedly diagnostic a instrumentality for archetypal bid leader Kazuma Kiryu.

Announced during a stream from developer RGG Studio, the crippled volition besides see the instrumentality of Yakuza: Like a Dragon heroes Ichiban Kasuga, Koichi Adachi, and Yu Nanba. We saw a teaser trailer featuring the Kasuga and Kiryu (who has a new, grey haircut) wandering done the fictional Kamurocho. The crippled volition beryllium released for PS4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Steam.

Onstage, the game's shaper and 2 dependable actors appeared to tease the game, saying that this would beryllium the communicative of some characters, some of whom volition pb a party. It appears to beryllium an RPG again, successful the vein of Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon. The squad besides said it volition beryllium "the largest crippled to date" successful the series. Kiryu volition seemingly besides present a caller warring benignant successful the game.

As for wherefore Kiryu is returning, the squad was coy, but they said the game's taxable is astir "the antheral with each the value of the past connected his back, and the antheral with each the value of the aboriginal connected his back".

We'll get an mentation for however Kiryu returns successful the spin-off, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, which arrives successful 2023.

This volition beryllium the archetypal mainline Yakuza crippled made without bid creator Toshihiro Nagoshi, who has left the workplace to make his ain with NetEase.

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