Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the longest Yakuza game yet: "If you go at it continuously, you'll get sick"
Nov. 14, 2023Best not to marathon this one
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth will be the longest Yakuza game to date.
In a new interview withGame Watch(and translated byAutomaton Media), Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama dubbed Infinite Wealth a “monster-class game longer than anything we’ve made so far,” and something that can’t be completed in just one or two all-nighters.
“This means that a lot of people are going to hesitate to play the game or will end up having it wait on their shelves. I found the possibility of that kind of outcome sad, so I thought, we have to get everyone hyped up enough to play it,” Yokoyama added of Infinite Wealth’s length.
“We have to get people to play the game in about a week or a month, even at the cost of their health, which is why it’s our duty as creators to generate enough to be excited about. I’ve thought this way for the past year or two – for a game like Infinite Wealth, we have to get a festival going on. It would feel kind of rude to just drop such a long game and be done with it,” Yokoyama continued with a laugh.
The prospect of Infinite Wealth not only being the longest Yakuza game, but also folding in huge elementslike the Animal Crossing-style island, is a lot to take. It’s understandable to see why Yokoyama feels a lot of people will get put off from such a long game, but it’s also easy to see why he feels like he needs to get people heated enough to play the entire thing.
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