Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii acquired a brand new trailer on the Xbox Associate Preview occasion Thursday, highlighting the sport’s naval fight. The trailer confirmed off ship battles, melee skirmishes and extra of Goro Majima’s eccentric adventures. Developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio additionally introduced that the action-adventure Yakuza spin-off will now be launched per week earlier on February 21, 2025.
First revealed in September, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii straight follows the occasions of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. The protagonist this time is beloved sequence anti-hero Goro Majima, who wakes up on an island with out his recollections and shortly finds himself because the captain of a pirate ship and crew, on the hunt for an important treasure.
Pirate Yakuza’s Naval Fight Revealed
The most recent trailer focussed on Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag-style naval fight within the recreation. Gamers will be capable to absolutely management and customise their ships, interact in action-packed battles on the ocean and fulfil their pirate fantasy as rival crews compete for a hidden treasure.
In an interview printed on Xbox Wire following the brand new trailer, Like a Dragon sequence producer Hiroyuki Sakamoto mentioned that gamers will be capable to discover a number of islands past the Hawaii setting within the recreation. “On this recreation, Majima and his crew will take to the excessive seas and discover completely different areas past Hawaii, together with Wealthy Island, Madlantis and different hidden islands. Whereas we can not reveal particulars simply but, gamers can count on thrilling cannon battles and an entire lot of motion, each between ships and brawls,” he mentioned.
A New Preventing Fashion
Sakamoto mentioned that RGG Studio would share a extra in-depth have a look at Pirate Yakuza’s naval fight system sooner or later. The ship fight is new to the sequence, however the acquainted action-brawler fight, a trademark of Like a Dragon video games, returns, as effectively. Within the trailer, Majima-san will be seen taking over an entire crew of rival pirates. The Mad Canine of Shimano may also be getting a brand new pirate-focussed combating fashion that can utilise the brand new weapons at his disposal.
“Whereas naval battle might be new, real-time motion fight will nonetheless play a big position within the recreation. Along with Majima’s Mad Canine fashion targeted on pace, agility, and knife combating, he additionally has a Sea Canine fashion the place gamers can dual-wield cutlass brief swords, pistols and different pirate instruments in fight,” Sakamoto mentioned.
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii will deliver a brand new brawling fashion
Picture Credit score: Sega/ Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Madlantis Awaits
The trailer additionally featured a few of the vibrant forged of characters from the sport and offered a glimpse of Madlantis, a bustling pirate township that serves as a hideout for all of the gangs, a centre of commerce, and a hub of aspect actions within the recreation. Sakamoto offered extra particulars in regards to the pirate hideout and all that it has to supply: “Madlantis is a ship graveyard dug right into a cave on a secret island. It has a sprawling pleasure district the place criminals go to blow off steam and do battle within the Pirates’ Coliseum, the place ships duke it out in exhilarating real-time naval battles.”
RGG Studio additionally introduced that Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii would now launch on February 21, 2025, per week forward of its unique launch date of February 28. The studio mentioned this was celebration carried out as a result of improvement on the sport was progressing extra easily than anticipated, and since it needed gamers to expertise the sport the comes proper after Pirate Yakuza with “peace of thoughts.” RGG is probably going referring to Capcom’s Monster Hunter Wilds, which releases February 28.
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza is accessible to pre-order throughout PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Collection S/X. Gamers who pre-order the sport can add Ichiban Kasuga, the protagonist from Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and his pet crawfish Nancy to their pirate crew.