Review Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth PS5 The Best Yakuza Game Ever Made
Finish the fight.
If Yakuza: Like a Dragon was SEGA setting up a baton toss so legendary protagonist Kazuma Kiryu could finally retire after eight games' worth of story, then receiver Ichiban Kasuga needs to work on his handling technique. The new kid on the block doesn't just require the Dragon of Dojima to handle a few side stories as his hair greys; he needs him for an entire game. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, therefore, demands RGG Studio carry the baggage of eight mainline entries all the while setting up something fresh and new for the turn-based future of wild child Ichiban. That's a weight heavier than anything that's come before it, but it's proved to be no sweat off RGG Studio’s back: it's just gone and created the greatest Yakuza game ever made.
To a degree, you're sort of getting two Like a Dragon games in one. Much of the epic 60-hour main story sees Ichiban and Kiryu teaming together to solve a common goal: find the former's mother Akane in the new destination of Honolulu City, Hawaii. New and returning characters help them in their plight, but there comes a point where real life gets in the way of Kiryu, and the RPG becomes about fighting on different fronts.
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