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Stranger than Heaven, out this winter, sees the Yakuza devs blend Snoop Dogg into a musical adventure/Tojo Clan origin story that looks fascinatingly quirky

Rock Paper Shotgun·Mark Warren·26 days ago
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RGG studio's latest work explores "identity, belonging, [and] history" in addition to the usual crime and ambition Image credit: RGG Studio Right. So. Stranger Than Heaven , the Like A Dragon/Yakuza devs' hop through different decades of 20th century Japanese history? Snoop Dogg's in it. And, also, it's telling the story of how the Tojo Clan - the famous yakuza group Kazuma Kiryu belongs to - came to be founded. Oh, and it'll have you wandering around town sampling the sounds of brooms sweeping and steam trains chugging so that you can turn these into symphonies, as you plunge headlong into a career in band management. All of that and more has just been shown off in a fresh look at the game, which is out this winter. Watch on YouTube Previously, developers RGG had revealed that this historical take on their usual underworld brawling was set across five Japanese cities in five different decades , running from the 1910s to the 1960s. Now, narrative meat's been put on those bones.…

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