The makers of the Yakuza video games have revealed the title of the historic brawler they teased finally 12 months’s Recreation Awards, then often called “Challenge Century”. The total title is Stranger Than Heaven, as unveiled on the Summer time Recreation Fest. It is bought a brand new trailer set in a smokey 1943, by which we meet the sport’s protagonist, and nod approvingly as he smashes a nostril or two.
Good fedora. The character we observe seems to be detectiving a bit. Knocking on doorways and inspecting a cigarettes which can “draw immense hostility” in case you select to smoke them. Disgusting behavior. The participant additionally will get a petroleum bomb thrown at them, they dodge a bullet, they throw a person off a bridge. Simply on a regular basis hijinks they bought as much as final century, these lovable scamps.
Though this pattern of combating goons and clearing out alleyways is ready in wartime Japan, the previous trailer was set in 1915. Meaning there’s some leaping round in historical past occurring. It’s going to be intersting to see what is going on on right here. An intergenerational story of fmaily, betrayal and redemption that’ll span your complete twentieth century? I am not saying that is what’s undoubtedly occurring – simply speculatising – but when anybody can try this, the oldsters at Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio most likely can.
Ah, however will or not it’s on PC? Most likely, though Sega aren’t telling us how or when.
