Everything about Sega’s new Yakuza game looks bonkers

polygon.com:

Sega’s next game in the Like A Dragon franchise, formerly known in the West as Yakuza, is coming in January. Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth sends the franchise to Hawaii, where protagonist Ichiban Kasuga travels in search of his mother, only to wind up penniless and at rock bottom. Former Yakuza hero Kazuma Kiryu is also playable in Infinite Wealth, and based on Sega’s first gameplay trailer for the next Like A Dragon game, everything the duo will do is beyond ridiculous.

Here’s what that includes, according to Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s first gameplay trailer.

At one point, Ichiban and friends will battle a Megalodon. Ichiban will also come face to face with a giant squid. These two moments somehow feel related.

The Like A Dragon games are now turn-based RPGs, and Ichiban and pals can basically do magic, summoning friends and fighters for hire with the Poundmates app. But now, Ichiban can also just whip out a giant dragon to smoke his foes. (Yakuza: Like A Dragon let you call upon Kiryu, who could use the Essence of the Dragon God, but Ichiban’s dragon powers are less metaphorical.)

A new minigame called Crazy Eats is a reimagining of Sega’s classic arcade game Crazy Taxi, but this time, you’re on a bike. Crazy Eats is a new spin on the gig economy, where players will gather and deliver food to hungry Hawaiians. (Curiously, Uber Eats signage appears in Infinite Wealth, but that licensing deal does not seem to extend to its gig-economy minigame.)

In Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, actor Danny Trejo plays a counterfeiter and the head of a local gang known as the Barracudas. Naturally, he’s armed with a couple of machetes. Actor Daniel Dae Kim of Lost and Hawaii Five-0 fame will also appear in the game, as the voice