In a vaguely Yakuza form of means, we have been handled to our first glimpse of what is more likely to be Yakuza 8. First noticed by Japanese online game journal Famitsu, MMA fighter Mikuru Asakura and his staff posted a video of them touring Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s places of work 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 residence. Ichiban has a ponytail! Apparently, there is a new city? And I obtained 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 recreation and reaffirms that they are creating a title outdoors of the Yakuza and Judgment collection. Other than 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 digicam pan over what seems to be 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 previous 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 combating crawfish, or diaper-wearing gangs. From what she gathered, they appear to be speaking a couple of “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 might confer with Ichiban having “destroyed the environment”, however it’s unclear what and the way and why, clearly. What’s semi-clear is that they are on the lookout for somebody or one thing and that Ichiban might have tousled.
Proper on the finish of the video, we see Asakura head right into a particular area the place they picture your face in some elaborate web of cameras. It is superb to see the work that goes into capturing sensible mugs.
So, there now we have it. Our first take a look at Yakuza 8 via an MMA fighter – how apt. And because of my mum for a little bit of translation with zero context and the persistence 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 in the course of the tour.
And if you have not touched Yakuza, I would extremely advocate 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 collection is on there too.