Popularity in the West doesn't affect Yakuza series says Infinite Wealth producer, 'we don't try to take any suggestions from outside'

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is already a franchise highlight, receiving the highest metascores the series has ever received.

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the highest-scoring game in the Like a Dragon / Yakuza series.

There’s a new way to travel in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth. While you can still pay taxis to get around Hawaii faster, you can also use a Segway-like device called the Street Surfer. This battery-powered standing travel device lets you zip around the streets, and you can mount it at any time. There’s just one downside. The battery life is limited and gets used up, so you’ll need to recharge at stations located all over the city. Using the Street Surfer is very simple and it can be summoned (or put away) at any time. You can even purchase higher capacity batteries from Hawaii Pawn Shops. The Street Surfer isn’t just limited to Hawaii either, you can use it when you travel back to Yokohama.

It’s easy to get breathless talking about Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.

The best healing items in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth can be acquired right at the start of the game — the tricky part is just farming all the materials you’re going to need to make them. As soon as you arrive in Revolve bar in Little Japan, you’ll be able to bring ingredients to the owner to mix drinks and other healing items. These are by far the best healing items in the game, able to heal your entire party or heal both HP and MP at the same time.

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the best-reviewed Yakuza game to date.

Few phrases in video games send chills down one’s spine like, “It gets good after eight hours.” With that much time, you could beat Bowser in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, watch most of The Bear, or read The Great Gatsby — twice. It should be no surprise, then, that those six cruel words hang like an albatross around the necks of countless role-playing games collecting dust in my backlog.

Blake Hester is hard at work on Game Informer’s full review of the exceptionally long Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, but while he is gathering his final thoughts, I wanted to share my impressions so far.

The Ace Attorney series will never end, a Capcom producer has stated.

Yakuza fans really aren't happy that xQc was chosen to show off Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth before its launch, with many pointing out his lack of interest and familiarity with the series.

can make up for the worst combat sin committed by its predecessor — and no, it's not the turn-based combat. The previous game in the series,, served as a soft reboot for the long-running RPG franchise. It transitioned from the original English series title,, to a direct translation of its Japanese title,. It introduced a new protagonist, the shaggy-haired, -loving Ichiban Kasuga. And, perhaps most divisively, it replaced the series' classic brawler combat with a turn-based system, heavily inspired by RPGs of yore.

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is locking its New Game Plus mode behind more expensive editions.