Table of Contents All hands on deck A pirate’s life for me There’s been a renaissance of pirate games over the past few years, and the quality of them has been all over the place.
Rare’s Sea of Thieves dominates the space with its wondrous sense of adventure and swashbuckling exploration. Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones, on the other hand, is filled with mundane tasks that make for a live-service slog.
Now it’s Like a Dragon’s turn at the wheel with the series’ latest spinoff, Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. While Sea of Thieves and Skull and Bones put ship battles front and center, Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii uses them as side dishes to the main Like a Dragon formula.
It may be a minigame, but it’s a surprisingly well-fleshed-out one considering its relative scope compared to the rest of the game.
Recommended Videos At a recent preview event, Digital Trends spent two hours playing Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.