I can report that if one hits you they do a lot of damage so they are best avoided. Possibly in a nod to real life in Japan where no one ever illegally Jaywalks, cars no longer stop for you except at a proper crossing.
#YAKUZA LIKE A DRAGON BATTLE TOWER DRIVERS#
Weapons and armour can be purchased from the various weapons shops or upgraded at the Romance Workshop (unlocked several chapters in) while the standard Pawn shop can be found in the back streets to trade your unwanted gear for cash or better equipment.Ĭrossing the street in previous games has always been a breeze with polite Japanese drivers stopping to let you cross. A change in this game is that choosing certain combinations of food and drink from the menu gives your party various perks such as extra attack damage or a defence boost for a limited amount of time. There are the standard food shops to keep you and your party fit and well. A discovered section of the very large Yokohama map Taxis can be used to speed this up but money is hard to come by for a long period at the start of the game so I tended to just run everywhere. The Red Brick Warehouse where the twice-yearly Oktoberfest is held, the Landmark Tower and the docked NYK Hikawa Maru (with its name changed) are all where they should be.Įxploration is a must as handy locations and items are distributed liberally around the whole area. Having been to Yokohama it was very pleasing to travel to the park as Ichiban and instantly recognise the area. The map is obscured at the start of the game and is revealed as you travel around it.
It must be three times the size and this means a lot more time is spent travelling from place to place than previously.
The Yokohama location map is huge compared to the Kamurocho map. A man’s hair being disturbed by a Wrecking Ball barely missing his head was a pure joy in slow motion and the imprint of tape removed from someone’s mouth was also nice to be able to spot. Cutscenes are also slightly different in style with a lot of detail being apparent. Flashbacks are told using a very different style that looks like very dark matt paintings that is very stylish to look at. In terms of gameplay art style, Like A Dragon has pretty much the same look as Yakuza 0 and the previous releases on Xbox. Being a fan of the series, I chose to play the game traditionally with Japanese audio and English subtitles. Obviously, this is an attempt to make the game more attractive to western audiences (many of whom are instantly put off by subtitles) and so should be applauded. This is the first Yakuza game that has the ability to be played with English dialogue since the original game. As well as lots of fighting, he also finds the time to take over the management of a rundown business in an attempt to become a corporate mastermind in his spare time. This soon leads him into conflict with a deadly trio of Yakuza, Triad and Korean gangsters who all play equal parts in a money counterfeiting scheme with links extending to everyone from Politicians and Anti vice Organisations to the highest levels of the Police.īeing a Yakuza game, a labyrinthine plot is expected as standard and is always delivered by Ryu Ga Gotoku studio.ĭoing good deeds for strangers along the way Ichiban makes friends who drop in and out of the story helping him and betraying him when he least expects it. When it becomes apparant that suicide was not the cause of death Ichiban investigates. Finding a blood splattered bank note in his jacket printed only on one side and with a bullet hole through it he sets out on a quest to find out why his boss joined another Clan and betrayed him.Īfter making some friends he gets a job in a Soapland (a brothel like the one he grew up in) and things are going ok until he returns one day to find the manager hanging from the ceiling. Ichiban wakes up wearing just his trousers in a homeless camp after his almost lifeless body is found by scavengers in a pile of rubbish. With this formally prosperous area in a sad state of decline the action moves to Yokohama. The well-known faces of the previous games such as Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima are long gone from Kamurocho and the place is certainly no longer what it was. The ways of the Yakuza have changed greatly during the time that Ichiban was in prison. This has to be the bad day of all bad days, welcome to Yakuza: Like A Dragon. No one from his crime family meets him outside the prison gates, a young hair stylist botches his blast from the past hairdo and then to make matters even worse his old Master shoots him in the chest as soon as they are reunited. After serving 18 years in Prison for a crime that he did not commit, all that Ichiban Kasuga wants is a fresh ‘Punch Perm’ hairstyle as they were all the rage with Yakuza hard men when he went inside.
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