Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, primarily Yakuza 8, contains a basic role-playing sport job system that lets gamers turn into a samurai, surfer, housekeeper, and extra.
As reported by Gematsu, the Japanese Infinite Wealth web site was up to date to incorporate data on new jobs that may turn into obtainable to gamers all through the sport’s story. Basic RPGs like Dragon Quest and Ultimate 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 somewhat bizarre with it.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon, which was the primary Yakuza RPG, featured loads of wacky jobs itself reminiscent of Fortuneteller, Night time Queen (mainly a dominatrix), Homeless Man, and extra, however Infinite Wealth is seeking to broaden that wild roster.
Embracing the brand new Hawaii setting, the surfer job, formally the Aquanaut, makes use of water primarily based assaults like summoning a magical surfboard or marine creatures to break enemies. The Geodancer job finds related inspiration because it sees the character use hula dancing to unleash highly effective elemental strategies.
The Samurai job seems to be 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 Man, Adachi’s Detective, Saeko’s Barmaid, Seonhee’s Murderer, Joongi’s Hitman, and Zhao’s Mafia.
Launching January 26, Infinite Wealth would be the longest Yakuza sport to this point, 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 stated: “[Our] time with Infinite Wealth was about as temporary as Ichiban’s board shorts, nevertheless it left [us] to ponder the infinite potentialities for enjoyable that may be hidden round its sizeable Hawaiian island expanse.”
Picture Credit score: Ryu Go Gotoku Studio
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.