Preview Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth Is the First PS5 MustPlay of 2024
Our thoughts after four hours of play.
Is there a better way to start the year than playing a new Yakuza / Like a Dragon game? It was Yakuza 0 that fronted the first few months of a memorable 2017 for Japanese gaming fans, and now Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is primed and ready to begin another hot streak for the country's developers seven years later. The likes of Persona 3 Reload and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will follow in the weeks that proceed it, but the joint adventure of Ichiban Kasuga and Kazuma Kiryu is what you'll want to play first. 2024 opens with the SEGA series in its prime.
After various short hands on sessions at industry conventions in the back half of last year, we were given the chance to take a proper deep dive into Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth at a sunny New York preview event. We got to play everything you'd hope to: as Ichiban in Hawaii, a stretch of gameplay as ageing veteran Kazuma Kiryu, and then even a sampling of Dondoko Island — a new side activity so vast we've spun our coverage of it out into its own article.
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