After spending game after game in the oppressive suits of the Tokyo Yakuza, it was about time Like A Dragon took a break abroad. Sometimes we all need to up sticks and take our open-world, minigame-filled gangster action to new climes. Infinite Wealth did just that, jetting off to Hawaii for a vast swath of its plot. I’d not have put money on RGG Studio following that game up with a pirate adventure literally called Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, but that’s exactly what they did this year.
Series regular Goro Majima’s swashbuckling sojourn is pitched firmly towards those who revel in the surreal side of the Japanese crime series. Waking up on a beach with no memory of his gangster life back in Japan, yakuzaman Majima sees the goons sailing about the modern-day Hawaiian seas in Age of Sail-style galleons and frigates and decides the pirate life’s for him. And so begins a treasure hunt full of the usual Yakuza shenanigans.
