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Yakuza studio teases Yakuza 8 scene and a come apart, unannounced courageous

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Yakuza 8 bequeath pick up several years later on the events of Yakuza: Like A Dragon, and developer Ryu Ga Gotoku is also working happening a newfangled game outside the Yakuza and Assessment universe.

Studio manager Masayoshi Yokoyama discussed Ryu Ga Gotoku's plans in a recent consultation with Famitsu (translated by Gematsu), retributory finished a month after the verification of a direct Yakuza: Like a Dragon sequel as well every bit the departure of studio heads Toshihiro Nagoshi and Daisuke Sato.

The tentatively called Yakuza 8 "will be a sequel prepare several years after the account of Yakuza: Like a Flying lizard," Yokoyama explained, later clarifying that lead character Ichiban Kasuga will return as the protagonist of the adjacent game in the serial publication. He also distressed that the Judgment series remains "very important" to the studio apartment.

We give the axe add this tidbit to our small but growing list of Yakuza 8 details, right alongside the fact that future games in the mainline series bequeath atomic number 4 turn-based pursuit the success of Like a Dragon, while the spinoff Judgment series bequeath keep the action fight going.

Speaking of Judgment, Yokoyama unchangeable that Ryu Ga Gotoku has unexpected games "outside of both [the Yakuza and Judgment] series" in the whole kit and caboodle. He didn't specify how many games are spinning up, nor do his translated remarks expressly quotatio novel IP, only information technology's not hard to read between the lines. Ryu Atomic number 31 Gotoku is null if not the house of Yakuza; information technology worked on several oddballs like Multiple Domain and a some Super Monkey Eg games, but masculine men beating the stupid stunned of from each one other is the studio's staff of life and butter. If IT's not Yakuza or Judgment, information technology's rational to assume that it's practical on something all-new, though that is just an assumption for now.

No word connected Ichiban Kasuga, but Yakuza director Kazuki Hosokawa reckons Kazuma Kiryu would win in a fight with John Wick .

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