Yakuza: Like a Dragon sequel confirmed as series creator departs - longthate1938

Yakuza: Like a Dragon sequel inveterate as series creator departs

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A Yakuza: Like a Dragon sequel is in growing, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has discovered in a new blog post.

Earlier today on October 8, the lifelong-time Yakuza developer published a newly web log post betraying internal personnel changes at the studio. A part of these changes, Masayoshi Yokoyama has been promoted to director of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio apartment, and used his message in the web log post to reveal that a continuation to Yakuza: The like a Dragon is currently in exploitation.

Yokoyama reveals that the sequel to Comparable a Dragon will continue the tale of booster Ichiban Kasuga, who took the reigns from Kazuma Kiryu in the 2020 RPG. "This game is presently being developed past producer Sakamoto and directors Horii, Ito and Mitake. I myself along with Takeuchi and Furuta are working along the story," Yokoyama writes, adding that when they eventually disclose the game, the studio wants it to find "contrary only the same."

This all comes off the unfortunate news that longstanding Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio heads Toshihiro Nagoshi and Daisuke Sato are both departing the studio, besides as parent company Sega. Nagoshi has been at Sega/RGG Studio since 1992, working happening titles wish Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter, before spearheading the Yakuza and Large Monkey Ball franchises, later branching out into overseeing countless franchises at Sega, including Valkyria Chronicles, Sonic, Hatsune Miku, and more.

Sato, then again, united Sega antitrust a few eld after Nagoshi, working on a similar range of arcade titles, before ramate out into output and art/character design for the Yakuza series at large. Neither Nagoshi or Sato comment connected where they'll be headed succeeding in the leave-taking post from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, but a Bloomberg report earlier this year that Nagoshi would be departing Sega for a new, senior role with Chinese developer NetEase.

Ii stalwarts of the Yakuza franchise may comprise deceased, but on that point are still countless veterans helping shape the future of the series with Ichiban Kasuga. A report earlier this yr confirmed that coming games in the Yakuza series would retain Like a Dragon's fashio of turn-founded combat over Kiryu's action-brawling mayhem, and as we said in our avant-garde Yakuza: Like a Dragon reassessmen back in late 2020, it's a "overconfident step in a different direction" for the brilliant serial.

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Hirun Cryer is a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning a degree in Land History specializing in journalism, cinema, literature, and chronicle, he stepped into the games authorship world, with a concentre on shooters, independent games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient role of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.