Sega has revealed a change to the Yakuza 7 identify within the West, and a launch goal.
To coincide with a gameplay reveal at TGS this week, Sega dropped a brand new localised story trailer for Yakuza 7. The game can be identified within the West as Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and it’s due out right here someday in 2020.
Today’s story trailer options acquainted footage from earlier Japanese trailers. It’s totally targeted on the brand new protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga, a low-ranking yakuza who takes the autumn for a criminal offense he didn’t commit, solely to come back out of jail 18 years later to seek out his clan has forgotten all about him.
As beforehand revealed, the game takes place in Yokohama for the primary time, a large-scale surroundings even by Yakuza requirements. Combat is turn-based, an enormous change for the collection.
JRPG followers will know that turn-based usually means you’ll have the ability to summon highly effective allies for a restricted time. Yakuza: Like a Dragon has its personal set of summons, together with a number of weird ones like a crayfish.
The Japanese trailer launched earlier this morning (beneath) additionally reveals off a few the minigames and facet actions in Yakuza: Like a Dragon, which embody kart racing, a rhythm game involving film theatres, Pachinko and extra.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is out January 12 in Japan, and in some unspecified time in the future later within the yr within the West, on PS4.
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