Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth review: must-play RPG is an endless vacation
23.01.2024 - 17:12
/ digitaltrends.com
/ Ryu Ga
/ Giovanni Colantonio
Like a Dragin: Infinite Wealth MSRP $70.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product Pros
- Fantastic story
- Tight, meaningful combat
- Detailed Hawaiian setting
- Full of deep side content
- Dondoko Island is a delight
Cons
- Story pacing issues
- Some exhausting repetition
I’m taking a leisurely stroll through Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s digital Honolulu City when I catch a bizarre sight. An old man runs up to a food stand, orders a shaved ice with no flavoring, and proceeds to toss it into the air. He bolts off in a panic, and I continue with my walk, chuckling at the scene. Hours later, I’m on the verge of tears. It turns out that man is desperate to show his ailing wife snowfall one more time before she passes away, a desperate attempt to make up for the lost time he spent working instead of cherishing the time he had with her.
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Like the best Like a Dragon substories, the self-contained tale sums up the massive RPG’s sprawling story in a fraction of its runtime. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, a sequel to 2020’s Yakuza: Like a Dragon, is a complex epic about two heroes struggling to figure out what to do with the limited time they have left on Earth. One’s simply facing a midlife crisis after a life-altering layoff; the other is staring death directly in the face thanks to a sudden cancer diagnosis. Those two journeys come together to tell a life-affirming story about how it’s never too late for your life to begin — and it does that between battles with a rogue Roomba with a taste for human blood.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the most emotionally impactful chapter in gaming’s best soap opera. It struggles to stay fully engaging from start to finish due to a supersized runtime filled with exhausting exposition dumps, but developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio delivers a deeply personal story that’s serious without sacrificing its heart. If any video game could leave you with a new lease on life, it’s this.
A tale of two himbos
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth picks up a few years after Yakuza: Like a Dragon, where Ichiban Kasuga successfully disbanded multiple Yakuza families in an event now known as The Great Dissolution. Life has been great for the optimistic hero since then. He’s got a new job helping reformed criminals rejoin the workforce, and he’s working up the courage to ask his pal Saeko on a date. All of that, unfortunately, comes crashing down thanks to a series of mishaps. Thus begins an enthralling narrative that intersects with the remaining Yakuza families, a religious organization,
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