Few trailers have been as cool as Stranger Than Heaven’s Summer time Recreation Fest reveal, and never simply because the Yakuza dev’s DNA is throughout it

Although chances are you’ll not vibe with each one among their video games, it’s laborious to disclaim that the individuals behind the Yakuza/Like a Dragon sequence have an plentiful sense of fashion. It’s not yearly, nevertheless, we get a brand new franchise from the legendary Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, however rattling if this subsequent title doesn’t look particular.

Initially teased at The Recreation Awards 2024 as Mission Centurythe studio has now given the sport an official title: Stranger Than Heaven.

Stranger Than Heaven’s debut was on the Summer time Recreation Fest occasion stage, and it was laborious to guess simply what sport we have been taking a look at initially. The trailer begins off with the character sitting at a stay musical efficiency in what seems to be Nineteen Forties Japan, earlier than they exit the bar and we get the enduring Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio emblem.

There are, after all, loads of trademark RGG components on this one. Fight seems about as brutal (and foolish) because the older Yakuza video games, and the exploration and metropolis life facet does present up within the footage, too.

There seems to be extra of a puzzle-solving, and decisions focus on this one, nevertheless, which isn’t sometimes what you come to Like a Dragon for. One thing else effectively price mentioning is that the sport takes place over a number of eras. The preliminary reveal trailer confirmed a 1915 setting, whereas immediately’s re-reveal takes place in 1943 – which is an enormous bounce.

If the sport’s working title holds true, the sport could allow us to expertise a narrative that takes place throughout the whole nineteenth century, however we’d be comfortable to only see pre and post-World Battle 2 Japan. There’s clearly lots happening on this; not least of which the American affect factor, and what appears to be a supernatural facet to our hero.

Stranger Than Heaven doesn’t but have a launch goal, nor do we all know which platforms it’s going to be coming to, but. Contemplating how cool this re-reveal is, nevertheless, the sport already has followers wanting to see what RGG Studio will present of it subsequent.