Yakuza Rebirth
Since yesterday, an extract from a livestream celebrating the launch of Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Tides causes a lot of reaction from those who love Yakuza for years. We see Masayoshi Yokoyama explaining that there will a priori be no more Yakuza Kiwami in the futureso no Kiwami 4 Or 5at least with these precise titles, and this because of the changes made in Kiwami 3which open the way to a potential new saga:
“ I think Yakuza Kiwami 3 will be the last one, and the Kiwami episodes will end. I don’t think the Kiwami series will continue. I think a different series will begin. Ey not something like Like a Dragon 9, but rather a new series on a different niche, with a different goal. This is something you will be able to understand once you play Yakuza Kiwami 3. »
Without going into any spoilers, Kiwami 3 makes narrative changes which do not necessarily go down well with fans, the latter now being afraid that the rest of the saga will take another path by telling the rest of the story of Kazuma Kiryu in a completely different way (Yakuza 4 And 5 now being difficult to connect to what is being said Kiwami 3). It remains to be seen what this means for Ichiban and the rest of the saga. Like a Dragon.