Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, basically Yakuza 8, includes a basic role-playing recreation job system that lets gamers grow to be a samurai, surfer, housekeeper, and extra.
As reported by Gematsu, the Japanese Infinite Wealth web site was up to date to incorporate info on new jobs that can grow to be accessible to gamers all through the sport’s story. Classic RPGs like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy made the job system a mainstay, however whereas these ones caught extra to fantasy tropes with mages, knights, and so forth, the Yakuza sequence likes to get a bit of bizarre with it.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon, which was the primary Yakuza RPG, featured loads of wacky jobs itself resembling Fortuneteller, Night Queen (mainly a dominatrix), Homeless Guy, and extra, however Infinite Wealth is trying to develop that wild roster.
Embracing the brand new Hawaii setting, the surfer job, formally the Aquanaut, makes use of water based mostly assaults like summoning a magical surfboard or marine creatures to wreck enemies. The Geodancer job finds comparable inspiration because it sees the character use hula dancing to unleash highly effective elemental methods.
The Samurai job appears straight out of historic spin-off Like a Dragon: Ishin and grants the character proficiency in utilizing swords and bows, particularly with consecutive and wide-ranging assaults. The housekeeper, alternatively, comes outfitted with brooms, mops, vacuum cleaners, and different instruments of the commerce to wash up the competitors.
Infinite Wealth additionally introduces the lasso and pistol toting Desperado and ninjutsu wielding Kunoichi. Character particular jobs embrace Kiryu’s Dragon of Dojima, Ichiban’s Hero, Eric’s Cabbie, Chitose’s Heiress, Nanba’s Homeless Guy, Adachi’s Detective, Saeko’s Barmaid, Seonhee’s Assassin, Joongi’s Hitman, and Zhao’s Mafia.
Launching January 26, Infinite Wealth would be the longest Yakuza recreation up to now, with developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s head Masayoshi Yokoyama warning gamers “if you happen to go at it constantly, you’ll get sick”. It takes the sequence out of Japan for the primary time, as a substitute being set in Hawaii with gamers taking over twin protagonists in Ichiban Kasuga and Kiryu Kazuma.
In our preview of the sport, IGN mentioned: “[Our] time with Infinite Wealth was about as temporary as Ichiban’s board shorts, however it left [us] to ponder the infinite prospects for enjoyable that may be hidden round its sizeable Hawaiian island expanse.”
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Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
