Throughout the newest Xbox Accomplice Showcase, Sega and RGG Studio put out a brand new trailer for Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii and highlighted the ship-based fight. That is the upcoming spinoff sport within the Yakuza / Like A Dragon franchise staring long-time character Goro Majima. And whereas it returns to the action-brawler fight model of earlier entries, the trailer emphasised facet content material and new options for the sequence.
It’s going to closely function naval fight akin to Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag the place you management a ship and combat it out on the excessive seas whereas mixing in motion gameplay when boarding enemy ships. Just like Like A Dragon Gaiden from 2023, it’ll function a brand new hub space referred to as Madlantis the place you may have interaction in minigames and tournament-style battles. It is becoming for the seemingly ridiculous pirate theme whereas additionally tying the present area of the Hawaii map made for Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth.
“Whereas naval battle will probably be new, real-time motion fight will nonetheless play a big position within the sport. In addition to Majima’s Mad Canine model targeted on pace, agility, and knife preventing, he additionally has a Sea Canine model the place gamers can dual-wield cutlass quick swords, pistols and different pirate instruments in fight,” Sakamoto stated. “We encourage gamers to mix-up assaults by switching between each types and getting a really feel for the quick, enjoyable sort of motion that’s distinctive to Majima, in addition to the power to do air combos to deal much more harm. We hope that gamers will benefit from the preventing fight simply as a lot as the brand new naval fight, which we’ll unveil extra particulars about within the close to future.”
Xbox Wire, the official Xbox weblog, published an extensive interview with lead producer Hiroyuki Sakamoto, and whereas he wasn’t in a position to share many particulars about naval fight, he outlined the numerous different options that fill out the sport and a number of other new story parts. Individually, RGG studio director Masayoshi Yokoyama stated that as a result of improvement is progressing “extra easily than anticipated,” Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is being moved up by every week to February 21 (more likely to keep away from clashing with the heavily-anticipated Monster Hunter Wilds, which is ready for February 28).
Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is ready to launch for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Sequence X|S, and PC. Atone for all of the trailers and divulges with our roundup of the whole lot introduced for the Xbox Accomplice Showcase.
Michael Higham is IGN’s Tech Editor.