Although you might not vibe with each one in all their video games, it’s exhausting to disclaim that the folks behind the Yakuza/Like a Dragon sequence have an ample sense of favor. It’s not yearly, nevertheless, we get a brand new franchise from the legendary Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, however rattling if this subsequent title doesn’t look particular.
Initially teased at The Sport Awards 2024 as Mission Century, the studio has now given the sport an official title: Stranger Than Heaven.
Stranger Than Heaven’s debut was on the Summer time Sport Fest occasion stage, and it was exhausting to guess simply what sport we have been initially. The trailer begins off with the character sitting at a stay musical efficiency in what appears to be Forties Japan, earlier than they exit the bar and we get the long-lasting Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio emblem.
There are, in fact, loads of trademark RGG parts on this one. Fight appears about as brutal (and foolish) because the older Yakuza video games, and the exploration and metropolis life aspect does present up within the footage, too.
There seems to be extra of a puzzle-solving, and decisions focus on this one, nevertheless, which isn’t sometimes what you come to Like a Dragon for. One thing else nicely value mentioning is that the sport takes place over a number of eras. The preliminary reveal trailer confirmed a 1915 setting, whereas in the present day’s re-reveal takes place in 1943 – which is a large soar.
If the sport’s working title holds true, the sport could allow us to expertise a narrative that takes place throughout all the nineteenth century, however we’d be joyful to simply see pre and post-World Warfare 2 Japan. There’s clearly quite a bit happening on this; not least of which the American affect factor, and what appears to be a supernatural aspect to our hero.
Stranger Than Heaven doesn’t but have a launch goal, nor do we all know which platforms it’s going to be coming to, but. Contemplating how cool this re-reveal is, nevertheless, the sport already has followers desperate to see what RGG Studio will present of it subsequent.
