Yakuza: Like a Dragon Features Pokemon-Inspired Side-Mission
Yakuza has ever been a series famous for its wacky jokes and bizarre easter eggs, together with every one of its 8 mainline Yakuza entrances filled with humorous moments sure to capture even the most experienced veteran of this franchise off a shield. But it appears Yakuza: Just Like a Dragon is maybe one of its wackiest thus far, with the latest release containing everything from extreme go-karting races across town to a military of crayfish falling in the heavens to aid Ichiban mid-battle.
Among Yakuza: Just Like a Dragon’s bigger than life substories even references an iconic Nintendo property, together with the game that offers a whole side story centered around a Pokemon parody. Titled”Who Is That Sujimon!?” it starts during the match’s fourth chapter, together with Ichiban, along with his group coming across a crazed man wearing panties in the center of the street.
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Defeating him in conflict, the fighters are perplexed when a second person with a large white coat looks from nowhere pulls out his phone and logs the enemy into his apparatus. It soon becomes evident that the notion is a riff on Pokemon, together with the mysterious guy showing himself as Doctor Morikasa, the so-called”professor of Sujimon.” Taking Ichiban into his study center, the doctor shows that Sujimon is harmful, monster-like animals he gathers data to help safeguard innocent bystanders walking the roads.
Before long, Ichiban, along with his allies, have been roped into Morikasa’s very recognizable plot, as they are tasked with collecting information on rampant Sujimon’s within their”Sujidex.” To make matters even funnier, players have been given a choice to pick from three different starters Sujimon to log: A reddish henchman, blue henchman, or green henchman. It is clearly a fun nod to this iconic choice between bud, water, or flame Pokemon that is offered throughout every match’s prologue. No matter who gamers pick, they will be made to fight all three anyhow. Logging them at the Sujidex, gamers can notice 252 Sujimon within Yakuza: Just Like a Dragon to conquer and log.
It is a good reference but one which doubles up into meaty content for gamers to dive right into as they try to gather all the Sujimon for Doctor Morikawa. In terms of Yakuza: Just Like a Dragon itself, its latest introduction at the West has once more seen the series profit a good deal of focus online, as lovers discuss humorous clips in the franchise’s latest entry. Shifting up the match’s original beat’em up the battle for a turn-based system and substituting series basic Kiryu with fresh protagonist Ichiban, it sounds like Yakuza 7: Just Like A Dragon is seeking to be a new start for the infamous series. Early reviews appear to hint that it has definitely succeeded, too, with powerful responses all around.
