In a vaguely Yakuza type of means, we have been handled to our first glimpse of what is prone to be Yakuza 8. First noticed by Japanese online game journal Famitsu, MMA fighter Mikuru Asakura and his workforce posted a video of them touring Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s workplaces earlier than he will get his face scanned by a wall of cameras. However earlier than the face-scanning, they document snippets of the Yakuza: Like A Dragon lads having a heated dialogue in a small house. Ichiban has a ponytail! Apparently, there is a new city? And I received my mum to translate some bits. Sorry mum.
The video in query sees Mikuru Asakura wandering about RGG’s studios having a good time. First, he chats with Sega Sammy’s President Haruki Satomi, who says that there is a new city within the subsequent Yakuza sport and reaffirms that they are creating a title outdoors of the Yakuza and Judgment sequence. Except for that, it is a jovial sufficient chat with no extra morsels of information to chase.
After which Asakura is given a correct tour of the event space by RGG consultant Masayoshi Yokoyama, the place he marvels on the sheer variety of of us engaged on the sport and the face movement seize on some dev screens. Then onto the juicy stuff, which sees the digital camera pan over what appears like Yakuza 8 footage. In it, we see Ichiban Kasuga (who now sports activities a pony tail as a substitute of a wild mess of hair), Yu Nanba, and Koichi Adachi from Like A Dragon having a proper outdated natter. Asakura even asks whether or not it is okay to be filming these bits, however Yokoyama offers him the go-ahead.
So I requested my Japanese mum to translate what they appear to be speaking about, devoid of any context surrounding Yakuza, its preventing crawfish, or diaper-wearing gangs. From what she gathered, they appear to be speaking a few “fighter’s bat”, presumably referencing Ichiban’s baseball bat? One line of dialogue says roughly, “Are you joking, you did not throw it away?”, whereas one other seems to query whether or not he is okay with it being misplaced, saying, “You do not have an issue with that?”. Different scattered bits of dialogue could confer with Ichiban having “destroyed the ambiance”, nevertheless it’s unclear what and the way and why, clearly. What’s semi-clear is that they are in search of somebody or one thing and that Ichiban could have tousled.
Proper on the finish of the video, we see Asakura head right into a particular house the place they photograph your face in some elaborate internet of cameras. It is superb to see the work that goes into capturing real looking mugs.
So, there we’ve got it. Our first have a look at Yakuza 8 by means of an MMA fighter – how apt. And due to my mum for a little bit of translation with zero context and the endurance of a saint as I ensnared her in an excuse that it is for work. My solely disappointment? Majima did not come out of a bin at any level throughout the tour.
And if you have not touched Yakuza, I would extremely suggest you give Yakuza 0 a go! It just lately discovered its means again on Sport Cross and if you find yourself having fun with it, the remainder of the sequence is on there too.