They really bustin out games.

Supposedly this is like a side story, action game, takes place between 6 and 7.

They’re dropping ‘Yakuza’ from the title & ‘Like A Dragon’ is the new name.

Like A Dragon: Ishin - Feb/2023

Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name - 2023 Will be about Kiryuu after 6.

Like A Dragon 8 - 2024 Ichiban & Kiryuu will both be protagonists.

Summer 2018

Wonder if its turn based

they confirmed that Like A Dragon Gaiden is action. Like A Dragon 8 is turn based

Plus the Judgement franchise might survive also

Man, Gaiden makes that 2024 release for 8 so much less far away lol

2024 is so far

How does Kiryu keep finding his way back into the bullshit

Wonder how this'll work with the RPG s*** since technically all the goofy RPG s*** is supposed to be in Ichiban's head, so how will it look when you're playing as Kiryu

Cleaned up the OP

A new chapter awaits

I'm still calling these Yakuza games tho, they gonna miss me with that rebrand

THATS A LOT OF KUZA

F*** these guys bringing back Kiryu man I'm actually annoyed

normal combat and turn based

Kiryu pushing 60 and still in the streets

they finally made him look old (kinda)

also

I CAN FINALLY TRY THESE 2 OUT

Best RGG games by far. Enjoy.

Forreal

Don't get me wrong, I love Kiryu; it's hard not to. I take issue with the fact that 6 is built up to be the end of his story and the torch is passed to Ichiban in 7, then they bring his ass back as a main protagonist again?

From what I saw on Twitter, Kiryu will also have turn based combat, along with his own party.

I think it's dyed as a disguise because (6 spoilers) He's supposed to be dead after 6, I think, or like faked his death lmao

Saw someone on the reddit theorize that since the 6 ending

It'll be Kiryu pretending to be someone else and hiding his own abilities, since as we know he mopped up Ichiban and crew, and is still like the strongest guy in Japan even at like 56 now lore wise

Yakuza and continuity been wacky so I'm not bothered with it, but it's like what's it take to finally retire this man for good lmao

Like in 5 the ending didn't even matter

Nagoshi wouldn't have let this happen

man i’m all for it. keep churning em out and i will keep playing RGG

Nagoshi officially left around this time last year

So he probably had some input on these or future ideas in general

He probably left on good terms with the directors, so they could probably still hit him up get his thoughts if they wanted I'm sure