Sega unveils new game in long-running franchise but it isn’t at all what fans were expecting

SEGA person been connected a rotation this twelvemonth delivering fans immoderate of the astir fashionable games of 2024.

This twelvemonth unsocial we’ve seen Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Persona 3 Reload, some of which are Game of the Year contenders.

And the year’s not implicit yet, the caller Atlus RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio seems poised to cleanable up astatine the yearly grant shows.

That’s not counting games similar Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble, Two Point Museum and Sonic X Shadow Generations, each of which person their passionate fans.

Sega has blown fans distant this year, and inactive managed to astonishment them with a precocious successful the twelvemonth announcement.

While radical were expecting a caller crippled from Ryu Ga Gotoku, the workplace down the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series, the crippled that was revealed was inactive surprising.

Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza successful Hawaii was precocious announced by Ryu Ga Gotoku astatine the RGG Summit Showcase.

It features fan-favourite quality Goro Majima successful the starring role, and is simply a spin-off from Infinite Wealth that was released earlier this year.

It’s the archetypal clip that Majima volition beryllium the sole protagonist successful a Yakuza/Like a Dragon game, though helium shared the relation with long-time prima Kazuma Kiryu successful Yakuza 0.

Like Infinite Wealth it is acceptable successful Hawaii, erstwhile Majima washes up connected an land without his memories.

Majima volition besides person a caller warring benignant to complement his well-established and fast-paced Mad Dog-style.

The caller stance is called Sea Dog-style, and volition play into Majima’s caller relation arsenic a pirate.

It is besides said to person naval combat, which volition beryllium a archetypal for the bid which is usually stuck to metropolis life.

There were rumours that the adjacent crippled from Ryu Ga Gotoku would beryllium pirate-themed, but it seemed truthful outlandish that radical didn’t judge it.

However, we present cognize it’s real, and that it stars everyone’s favourite quality successful the starring role.

Fans volition person to hold a small longer earlier they spot Majima successful each his pirate glory and it won’t motorboat until adjacent year.

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza successful Hawaii volition motorboat connected February 27, 2024, for Steam, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.

There is nary Nintendo Switch announcement, but with Yakuza Kiwami releasing soon connected Switch determination is inactive anticipation for fans.

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