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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Brings the Vacation to You
The Yakuza series’ fidelity to real-life locations is staggering, even if the latest entry emphasizes sprawl over density.
The re-creation turned heads for its effectiveness even going back to the original 2005 entry, in large part owing to a design philosophy that, echoing good real-world urban policy, emphasizes density over sprawl. The Yakuza games primarily approach city-building through the lens of amenities; while it does aesthetically re-create how cities thrum with life by packing its streets with ambling NPCs and detailed visual assets (signs, shop fronts, lights, vehicles, etc. Yakuza: Like a Dragon, the eighth installment released in 2020 that serves as a soft reboot of the franchise, sets the action in Isezaki Ijincho, a re-creation of Yokohama’s Isezakichō district that’s considerably more expansive than any of the previous maps.
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