Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii shows off Assassin's Creed Black Flag-style naval combat and brings release date forward a week
Oct. 17, 2024Here’s your first look at this wonderfully wild RPG’s naval combat
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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaiihas a new gameplay trailer with a release date that’s a week ahead of the previous one.
And, well, it looks like Yakuza’s take on Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag. The trailer shows fan-favorite Yakuza antihero Goro Majima take the helm of a wooden battleship whose hull, sails, figurehead, and trimming can be customized, and cut through waves with his signature crazed determination for violence. An enemy ship approaches and Majima crashes into it and orders his crew to fire, with plenty of boat drifting to go around.
The combat looks a lot faster than, say, Sea of Thieves, and indeed much more in line with Black Flag. The key difference here, of course, is that this is a Yakuza game, and you’re playing as Majima instead of a normal Welsh pirate from a historically grounded alternate universe. This means you’ll also stun your enemies with guitar solos, summon sharks and giant monkeys, and swing around the sails of your ship. Basically, everything you’d expect to find in a Majima-focused Like a Dragon game but with series-first naval combat, which all seems so tailor-made to my exact interests that I have trouble believing it’s actually real.
After 13 Yakuza games and 20 years, Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is finally adding a jump button that could open up some wild minigame potential.
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