Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Is Longer Than Last Yakuza Spin-Off

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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii shall be 1.3x longer than the final spin-off recreation.
The sport’s quantity elevated naturally with out including filler content material artificially.
Anticipate playtime of round 17 hours for the primary story alone, not accounting for facet content material.

Whereas spin-off video games of the Yakuza franchise are typically shorter, that will not be the case for the upcoming Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, due in early 2025, because it’s confirmed to be an extended recreation in comparison with its predecessor, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Title.

This was one thing RGG Studio director Masayoshi Yokoyama mentioned in a brand new interview, the place the developer additionally defined how they don’t seem to be making an attempt to elongate the sport artificially.

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Anticipate Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii To Be 1.3x Longer Than The Final Spin-Off Sport

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Based on Masayoshi Yokoyama, the amount of a recreation is set by the size of its central storyline. Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is about 1.3 instances longer (about 30 %) in comparison with The Man Who Erased His Title.

It isn’t a case of RGG Studio purposefully including stuff to make the sport longer; as Yokoyama explains, builders can enhance a recreation’s quantity as a lot as they need “if they fight exhausting sufficient.” This may be accomplished by including fetch quests and the like, however in Piratate Yakuza in Hawaii, it turned out to be an extended recreation with out the devs even making an attempt. Yokoyama states, “The map is big, there’s a bunch of locations to go to, and there are nonetheless options we haven’t introduced but. The amount elevated by itself.”

For reference, The Man Who Erased His Title’s important story takes round 13 hours to finish, so should you add in 30 % to that, Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii ought to take gamers round 17 hours to complete. In fact, as is with any open-world recreation, that is not even accounting for the mountain of facet quests, mini-games and different assorted actions gamers can spend time on. That ought to add a major variety of hours to the general playthrough time.

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The most recent Like a Dragon recreation launched by SEGA is Infinite Wealth, launched earlier this 12 months to an overwhelmingly optimistic reception. On Open Critic, it is sitting at a “Mighty” ranking with over 97% of critics recommending it.

Will Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii be capable of replicate this feat? We’ll know for positive as soon as the sport is out this February 21, 2025 on the PS4, Xbox One, PS5, Xbox Sequence X|S and PC.