Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii acquired a brand new trailer on the Xbox Companion Preview occasion Thursday, highlighting the sport’s naval fight. The trailer confirmed off ship battles, melee skirmishes and extra of Goro Majima’s eccentric adventures. Developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio additionally introduced that the action-adventure Yakuza spin-off will now be launched every week earlier on February 21, 2025.
First revealed in September, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii instantly follows the occasions of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. The protagonist this time is beloved sequence anti-hero Goro Majima, who wakes up on an island with out his recollections and shortly finds himself because the captain of a pirate ship and crew, on the hunt for an important treasure.
Pirate Yakuza’s Naval Fight Revealed
The newest trailer focussed on Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag-style naval fight within the sport. Gamers will be capable of totally management and customise their ships, interact in action-packed battles on the ocean and fulfil their pirate fantasy as rival crews compete for a hidden treasure.
In an interview revealed on Xbox Wire following the brand new trailer, Like a Dragon sequence producer Hiroyuki Sakamoto mentioned that gamers will be capable of discover a number of islands past the Hawaii setting within the sport. “On this sport, Majima and his crew will take to the excessive seas and discover totally different areas past Hawaii, together with Wealthy Island, Madlantis and different hidden islands. Whereas we can not reveal particulars simply but, gamers can count on thrilling cannon battles and an entire lot of motion, each between ships and brawls,” he mentioned.
A New Preventing Model
Sakamoto mentioned that RGG Studio would share a extra in-depth take a look at Pirate Yakuza’s naval fight system sooner or later. The ship fight is new to the sequence, however the acquainted action-brawler fight, a trademark of Like a Dragon video games, returns, as effectively. Within the trailer, Majima-san could be seen taking up an entire crew of rival pirates. The Mad Canine of Shimano may also be getting a brand new pirate-focussed preventing type that may utilise the brand new weapons at his disposal.
“Whereas naval battle will likely be new, real-time motion fight will nonetheless play a major function within the sport. Along with Majima’s Mad Canine type centered on velocity, agility, and knife preventing, he additionally has a Sea Canine type the place gamers can dual-wield cutlass brief swords, pistols and different pirate instruments in fight,” Sakamoto mentioned.
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii will deliver a brand new brawling type
Picture Credit score: Sega/ Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Madlantis Awaits
The trailer additionally featured a number of the vibrant forged of characters from the sport and supplied a glimpse of Madlantis, a bustling pirate township that serves as a hideout for all of the gangs, a centre of commerce, and a hub of facet actions within the sport. Sakamoto supplied extra particulars in regards to the pirate hideout and all that it has to supply: “Madlantis is a ship graveyard dug right into a cave on a secret island. It has a sprawling pleasure district the place criminals go to blow off steam and do battle within the Pirates’ Coliseum, the place ships duke it out in exhilarating real-time naval battles.”
RGG Studio additionally introduced that Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii would now launch on February 21, 2025, every week forward of its unique launch date of February 28. The studio mentioned this was social gathering performed as a result of growth on the sport was progressing extra easily than anticipated, and since it wished gamers to expertise the sport the comes proper after Pirate Yakuza with “peace of thoughts.” RGG is probably going referring to Capcom’s Monster Hunter Wilds, which releases February 28.
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza is accessible to pre-order throughout PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Sequence S/X. Gamers who pre-order the sport can add Ichiban Kasuga, the protagonist from Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and his pet crawfish Nancy to their pirate crew.
