New Like A Dragon spin-off stars Majima in Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has announced a caller Like A Dragon spin-off, wherever you sail the seas astir Hawaii arsenic Goro Majima.

While galore feared the adjacent crippled successful the Like A Dragon franchise would beryllium a leaked mobile spin-off, it turns retired Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has been cooking up thing else, that’s much successful measurement with instrumentality expectations.

During the studio’s RGG Summit 2024 presumption connected Friday, the squad announced a caller spin-off rubric called Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii, wherever you play arsenic Goro Majima. While the quality has been playable successful erstwhile instalments, notably Yakuza 0, this is the archetypal introduction wherever he’s the pb protagonist.

Judging by the trailer, it looks akin successful scope to erstwhile spin-off Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, lone with a overmuch sillier, pirate theme. Like that game, it besides removes the turn-based combat introduced successful Yakuza: Like A Dragon, successful favour of the bushed ’em-up benignant enactment from older entries.

The crippled itself appears to instrumentality spot aft Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth and sees Majima shipwrecked connected a distant land and incapable to retrieve his ain name. He is saved by a lad named Noah, who accompanies him connected a travel to reconstruct his mislaid memories.

Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii is acceptable chiefly crossed 3 locations. Infinite Wealth’s Hawaii representation makes a return, but there’s besides 2 caller areas successful Rich Island and Madlantis, which is simply a vessel graveyard wherever the coliseum warring arena is, alongside different activities.

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio states determination volition beryllium different islands to research too, which you tin find by sailing the Hawaiian seas arsenic pirate skipper Majima. According to the game’s description, you’ll assemble a pirate crew, upgrade your ship, and prosecute successful real-time cannon battles.

‘When an force pirate vessel catches you successful their sights, an exhilarating real-time cannon conflict breaks out,’ reads the description. ‘Quickly manoeuvre into presumption portion avoiding fire, past present devastating harm to committee the force vessel and instrumentality down the skipper successful all-out unit vs. unit brawls. Conquer the seas, observe hidden islands, and get loads of loot similar a existent yakuza pirate!’

When it comes to the existent brawling, Majima volition person 2 antithetic warring styles, successful the Yakuza-style Mad Dog and Sea Dog with the second geared astir dual-wielding swords, pirate firearms, and concatenation hooks. For the archetypal clip successful the series, you’ll besides beryllium capable to leap successful battles and utilise aerial takedowns.

The developer besides outlined the spin-off’s roster of mini-games, which includes Crazy Delivery from Infinite Wealth, Dragon Kart from Yakuza: Like A Dragon, and Karaoke. The lone announced caller mini-game is Minato Girls, which revolves astir quality Masaru Fujita’s quest for emotion and features unrecorded enactment chopped scenes.

While it’s intelligibly gathering disconnected Infinite Wealth, the pirate vessel angle, if done well, mightiness beryllium capable to springiness this spin-off a distinctive flavour.

We don’t person excessively agelong to hold either. Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii is acceptable to travel retired connected February 28, 2025 crossed PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC.

Before that, Yakuza Kiwami, the remake of the archetypal crippled successful the series, is acceptable to beryllium released connected Nintendo Switch connected October 24, portion Amazon’s TV adaptation is acceptable to debut connected October 25.

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