Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Review

Ryu Ga Gotoku's 2024 entry splits its time between Yokohama and Honolulu and is the largest game in the series by a wide margin. It keeps the turn-based combat that Yakuza: Like a Dragon introduced and fixes its main complaints: positioning now matters, characters move within a radius before attacking, and terrain and objects can be used deliberately rather than by accident. Ichiban Kasuga shares protagonist duties with Kazuma Kiryu, whose storyline is the emotional weight of the game and is handled with unusual restraint. Around it is the usual overwhelming volume of side content, and two substories are effectively full games: Dondoko Island is an Animal Crossing pastiche about running a resort, and Sujimon Battle is a Pokemon parody with a league structure. The tonal range - broad comedy in one scene, terminal illness in the next - is the series' signature and it has never been wider than here. Roughly sixty hours before the optional content.