Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio

We talked a few months ago about NetEase, who was the primary funder of Negoshi Studio, pulled their funding.

Negoshi Studio was made of former RGG folks that were making what effectively looks like an RGG game in Gang of Dragon, which had, what's that dude's name, Micah? You know his name.

That one actor?

Oh, that big dude.

They all suck.

But as an RGG fan, a fan of this dude's work, the Yakuza series, the things he did, it's like there was something funny about when that game was revealed.

I was like, oh, so he is just doing his own unadulterated Yakuza game again.

Like, fuck yes,

It's like- No, I get it, man.

Yeah.

It's one of those things like from business perspective, I'm not a businessman with lots of money to give money, like give these game developers studios, but I can imagine a sort of a tough sell where it's like, okay, so you're the dude who basically created the Yakuza series, the Like a Dragon series, right? You split up from RGG because you want to do your own thing.

So you want to deliver another one of those kinds of games in your style.

Let's get it.

Yakuza Dead Souls was released in the year 2011. was developed by rgg studio and published by sega just like all the other yakuza games but this one kind of went through a tumultuous development uh for a number of reasons um this studio you know where we're at now with rgg they pump out yearly yakuza titles and you usually get two in a year because they're known for reusing assets they crunch a lot it's just kind of like japanese game development culture uh this is not where the yakuza series was back then it still was kind of in its niche i think it just started getting a little more popular in the states but they were still trying to like work on making it as popular as it is in japan here in the states so they said let's add zombies like it's kind of a weird thing we gotta think about where we're you're telling 11 walking dead was like all-time high and you know we went through the vampire craze in 2000s and i feel like zombies were very much like the 2010s

Zombies lasted too long, and we need to get back to vampires.

Yes, dude.

Yeah.

Which will be interesting next year, too, with Stranger Than Heaven, whether that's a good jumping-on point for you to experience an RGG game, like you've played The Man Who Erased His Name, which is a good bite-sized experience.

Also ended up on our Game of the Year list for that, yeah.

Yeah.

So I am actually really getting on board with the combat.

The summer game first build...

So Stranger Than Heaven, for those who don't know, it is the new game from RGG Studios who make the Like A Dragon Yakuza games.

And so whereas those games are typically brawlers and then they moved into turn-based for Like A Dragon, this... is an action game where each half of the body of the character is controlled on a different side of the controller so right bumper and right trigger control uh you know light punching and what and kicking whatever on the right side and similarly on the left side two uh lb and rb together is like a That's the grab.

And there's kind of ways that if you deflect.

Wow.

And I'm really interested to see how it all comes together.

Like, I am a big fan of RGG Studios and their work.

Yakuza like a dragon, especially, you know what I'm saying? I got, I got, I got love for Kiryu and those guys.

RGG salute.

Starfield or Marvel versus Capcom.

Oh, I didn't.