Tension mounts among these fervent followers as they grapple with the prospect of no physical copies of this hotly-tipped spin-off being available in the West. The Yakuza spin-off will serve as a way to tide fans over until the release of the next mainline installment. For fans of the beloved Yakuza series, this shift has hit close to home with Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. You can find out all the latest news by visiting our E3 2023 hub, or you can catch up with our round-up posts of everything that was announced at Summer Game Fest, the Xbox Games Showcase, the PC Gaming Show, Day Of The Devs, and our top highlights from the Wholesome Direct.The prevalence of digital distribution has shaken up the traditional models in gaming. NotE3 and Summer Game Fest 2023 is over for another year. Sega will tell you that the series now officially follows its Japanese name, Like A Dragon, not Yakuza, but don't listen to them, it's not true. It'll also be on Xbone, Xbox Xeriex XS, and the PlayStations 4 and 5.
Yakuza Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name will launch on Steam on the 8th of November, priced at £45/€50/$50.
Knowing that Kiryu is out there somewhere (and he is a real person, and all of these games are real, and it all really did happen, especially the bicycles) is enough for me. But I was at least ready to let him be that hero off-screen, to live a life of his own away from our prying eyes. As long as he draws breath, Kiryu will be a hero. If he saw a tired salaryman bump into a young girl in the supermarket, he'd go to raise his fist in anger before realising no, this salaryman needs a father figure to help him learn about responsibility by playing Scalextric. He couldn't help but get involved to protect the innocent and parent the helpless. Kiryu could never actually retire, of course. Even if I do quite like the idea of him as a secret agent man (I do hope RC Succession's Japanese version is on karaoke machines). It felt a little cheap in Yakuza 6, and it especially feels cheap now he's properly back. Look, I'm maybe a little too into tragic heroic sacrifices, but I was a little disappointed that they couldn't let Kiryu go. becoming some sort of John Wick-ish James Bond-y punchagent with wacky gadgets? Yakuza Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is a side-story showing what Kiryu was up to between Yakuza 6 (which gave a perfectly good point for his adventures to end) and Yakuza 8 (where he'll be back with a baffling new hairstyle alongside Yakuza: Like A Dragon hero Ichiban Kasuga).
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