Yakuza 8 Gets Development Progress Report
Yakuza: Like a Dragon toppled the existing beat-'em-up franchise formula in favor of JRPG mechanics. The game performed well and fans seemed receptive to the change, but since then, the series has gone relatively dormant.
While fans of the developer have been treated to Lost Judgment, the Yakuza-series detective spin-off in the meantime, things have been relatively quiet on the development front for the next mainline entry. Now, the team lead has shared a small development update on how Yakuza 8 is progressing.
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Team lead Masayoshi Yokoyama shared a few comments on how the next main game was progressing during a conference on Japanese video streaming service Nico Nico Chokaigi. According to Yokoyama, the next Yakuza game is going well, though it sounds as though it's still fairly early in the development process. Yokoyama says that some voice actors have begun to record their lines, but the story is incomplete at this time. Apparently, the writing team is currently working on the climax of the story.
Since Yakuza games tend to use the existing infrastructure of prior games, utilizing existing maps, locales, and character models, this doesn't necessarily mean that the next game is still several years out. Yokoyama couldn't put a timeline on when the next game might be ready for release, though he did note that he expected they'd be able to share more about the title sometime this year. With any luck, the next development update will have a little more meat to it, perhaps sharing the planned character cast, images, or even a trailer.
At this point, the title of the next Yakuza game is also unknown. While it could be called Yakuza: Like a Dragon 2, that's
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