Players can solve the problems of myriad people on the street, play in hidden illegal gambling halls, hit some balls at the batting cages, learn powerful moves from an enigmatic martial artist, take part in underground fighting tournaments. Beyond the linear focus of the main story, there's a truly staggering amount of sidequests, minigames, and secrets scattered about. Like a Dragon games take place in an sandbox setting, with the most prominent location being red light district Kamurocho (神室町 Kamuro-chō, a fictionalized version of the real-world Kabukichō), Tokyo, with other cities of Japan coming and going between different games. The first game was released in late 2005, and got heavy acclaim in Japan for exploring yakuza culture with previously unseen depth and authenticity it was also a massive sales success, ensuring a localization and the release of several sequels and spin-offs. Nagoshi still staked his career on getting the game produced, and got the project off the ground after some convincing. His pitch was met with skepticism among Sega's brass, who were hesitant toward the proposed game's adult themes and its focus on organized crime they also believed that the extremely Japanese flavor of the game would make the game have less appeal outside of Japan. Like a Dragon was conceived by veteran game designer and Sega employee Toshihiro Nagoshi in the early 2000s. Featuring twisted conspiracies, gang warfare, soap opera plot twists, cool tattoos, bizarre sidequests, huge shirtless men punching each other over their ideals, and more minigames than you can shake a stick at, Like a Dragon is as much an intense, heart-pounding crime drama as it is an avenue for exploring intensely-detailed virtual districts of Japan and partaking in numerous diversions and side activities. Like a Dragon (龍が如く Ryū ga Gotoku) - formerly known in the west as Yakuza - is a Beat 'em Up/ Sandbox/ JRPG video game series that follows the exploits of the Japanese underworld. The remaster retranslates this line.įor the series' first installment, click here.

Kazuma Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima, Yakuza 5 note Original PS3 localization.

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