Lately, followers of Sega’s Like A Dragon video games — the sequence beforehand referred to as Yakuza within the West — have pestered the builders to permit their characters like Kiryu Kazuma and Majima Goro to look in preventing video games like Tekken or Road Fighter. The sequence’ former producer, Toshihiro Nagoshi, had ceaselessly dismissed the concept, saying, “I don’t actually wish to see Kiryu hitting girls.”
Like A Dragon sequence producer and author Masayoshi Yokoyama, who took over for Nagoshi in 2021, has a distinct take: Please assume greater.
In an interview with Yokoyama across the upcoming Prime Video sequence based mostly on the video games, Like A Dragon: Yakuza, I requested him how he’d really feel about characters like Kiryu, Majima, or Ichiban making the bounce over to a preventing sport like Tekken 8.
“I believe it’s higher to say that going throughout mediums like how we did with [the Like A Dragon: Yakuza TV] sequence is best, slightly than simply going to a different sport,” Yokoyama stated. “We obtain all form of invites to look in different video games, however we by no means truly went over to their doorstep and stated ‘allow us to in.’ I believe going cross-medium is the higher method to go about it.”
That’s actually a extra versatile and extra bold reply than the one Nagoshi gave Pink Bull in 2020. So perhaps we’ll see Kiryu battling Kazuya Mishima outdoors of a Waffle Home sometime.
Like A Dragon’s Kiryu has appeared in video games outdoors of the core franchise, after all. He was a visitor golfer in 2011’s Sizzling Pictures Golf: World Invitational, and he’s appeared alongside different Sega characters in video games like Challenge X Zone 2, Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, and Tremendous Monkey Ball: Banana Mania.
I suppose what we actually want is for Sega to lastly make Fighters Megamix 2, so we are able to all dwell out the fantasy of taking part in because the Dragon of Dojima in fistfights in opposition to the automotive from Daytona USA, Bean the Dynamite from Sonic Fighters, and some other dude that Kiryu feels snug punching.
