Yakuza: Like a Dragon in Italian, the preview

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Interface Special moves Finding a job Gameplay Certainties and doubts Yakuza: Like a Dragon will be the first episode of the SEGA series to boast a localization of the lyrics in Italian, if we do not consider the original debut of the franchise in the now far away 2006 and the recent spin-off Judgment.

This is a very important feature, especially if we consider the traditional, enormous amount of dialogue present in the game, such as to discourage anyone who does not chew the English to perfection.

Well, we had a preview look at almost an hour of gameplay captured by the Italian version of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and here are our impressions.

Interface

The in-game video of Yakuza: Like a Dragon opens directly with a fight involving the protagonist of the adventure, Ichiban Kasuga, and his companions: Koichi Adachi, Yu Nanba and Saeko Mukuoda. The place where the fight takes place is inside a bar, and the mechanics are the turn-based ones of traditional jRPGs: a real revolution compared to the historical action vocation of the Yakuza series, which we have talked about in a tried some time ago.

You immediately notice the graphic interface translated into Italian: an important touch of class, which shows on the screen the options available to us as soon as the turn of one of the party characters arrives: Attack ( A button on the controller), Defense (B button), Techniques (Y button), More (X button), or Hold (LB backbone). By selecting the techniques, a window opens immediately with the list of all possible maneuvers, obviously also translated into Italian with a short description.