Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Just Keeps on Getting Bigger | Push Square

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We've been noting with increasing alarm the leviathan developer RGG Studios appears to have on its hands with the upcoming Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, out 21st February on PS5. In October, the developer suggested that the game would be quite a bit longer than the recent Kiryu spinoff, The Man Who Erased His Name, and that's not including the expectedly ridiculous minigames.

In an interview with Automaton (thanks, GamesRadar+), RGG Studio director Masayoshi Yokoyama says the team didn't intend to make the Majima-centric game bigger than Kiryu's but that the total volume of the game's content means that it is, and so here we are: «The map is huge, there’s a bunch of places to visit, and there are still features we haven’t announced yet. The volume increased by itself.» Appropriately, Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii will retail for around $10 (or your local equivalent) more than The Man Who Erased His Name, which, if nothing else, shows that RGG is feeling confident about Goro's prospects.

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Have you managed to keep up with RGG's constant onslaught of releases? Are you looking forward to a return to Hawaii, but this time, as the Mad Dog of Shimano himself? Let us know in the comments section below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With six years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

I'll be getting a PS4 copy from Japan, as Sega aren't releasing it physically here.

Will be an unpopular opinion but I love when they require 100% for the platinum on 'yakuza' games. Kinda missed they stopped that recently. It's a slog but it feels such an achievement when done. I enjoy the yearly hell of Mahjong