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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth review: a must-have RPG that's an endless vacation
Posted on January 23, 2024 by Master
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth review: a must-have RPG that's an endless vacation
pros

Fantastic story
Tight, meaningful fight
Detailed Hawaiian setting
Full of deep content
Dondoko Island is a delight
Minuses

Problems with plot pacing
Some tedious repetition
I'm taking a leisurely stroll through digital Honolulu in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth when I notice a strange sight. The old man runs up to the food stand, orders an unflavored shaved ice, and tosses it into the air. He runs away in panic, and I continue walking, laughing at this scene. A few hours later I'm ready to cry. It turns out that the man is desperate to show his sick wife the snowfall one more time before she passes away, a desperate attempt to make up for the lost time he spent working instead of appreciating the time spent with her.

Like the best Like a Dragon sub-stories, the stand-alone story sums up the massive story of the massive RPG in a fraction of its running time. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, the sequel to 2020's Yakuza: Like a Dragon, is a complex epic about two heroes trying to figure out what to do with the limited time they have. went to Earth. A man simply faces a midlife crisis after a life-changing job; another stares death in the face due to a sudden cancer diagnosis. These two journeys come together to tell a life-affirming story about how it's never too late to start life - and it happens in between battles with a rogue robot out for human blood.

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the most emotionally impactful chapter of gaming's best soap opera. It struggles to remain entirely entertaining from start to finish due to its massive runtime filled with tedious exposition dumps, but developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio delivers a deeply personal and serious story without sacrificing its heart. If any video game can give you new life, this is it.

A Tale of Two Himbos
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth takes place several years after Yakuza: Like a Dragon, where Ichiban Kasuga successfully dissolved several yakuza families in an event now known as the "Great Dissolution". Since then, the life of the optimistic hero has turned out great. He has a new job helping reformed criminals get back on the job, and he works up the courage to ask his girlfriend Saeko out on a date. All this, unfortunately, collapses due to a series of failures. Thus begins a gripping narrative that features remaining yakuza families, a religious organization, and an animated VTuber with a knack for digging up dirt.

While Yakuza: Like a Dragon is a rags to riches story, Infinite Wealth is about a more meaningful rise from the bottom. Strip away all the mind-boggling deep dives into the criminal underworld, and what you get is a deeply moving story about Kasuga trying to find new purpose in life after tying much of his identity to a fickle job that didn't love him. back. This journey will take him to Hawaii, where he will search for the mother he has never met (who accidentally became the new target of the yakuza), which will be the first step towards rebuilding his life.

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth review: a must-have RPG that's an endless vacation

This heartwarming journey works as well as ever thanks to the setup of Infinite Wealth's two main characters. This time around, Kasuga's squad is joined by yakuza hero Kiryu Kazuma, although he is still operating in the shadows after faking his death in Like a Dragon: The Man Who Erased His Name. Kiryu turns out to be the perfect opponent for Kasuga, and not just because he is a pessimistic loner. The Dragon of Dojima reveals that he has cancer and has only six months to live—time he intends to spend working until he dies. It is through these two approaches to life and how we often have to struggle to survive that Infinite Riches provides a poignant story of hope. It's like the anti-Last of Us Part 2.

While this setup does create many moments of self-reflection that are sure to stick with me for a long time, it does present Kiryu's story a little short. The iconic hero plays a secondary role to Kasuga throughout the game, and only three of the game's 14 chapters are entirely dedicated to his story. Ryu Ga Gotoku spends most of its time in nostalgia, tying up plot threads from Kiryu's previous adventures. While this is a touching tribute to Kiryu, there are times when it feels like a bit of self-indulgence for the studio as it remembers its history with the series and passes the torch to its new hero. Less time
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