As such, some of this may be touched on in this review. Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is very reliant on covering the history and lore of the prior franchise entries. Maybe, in this brief moment, it’s okay to be spoilt rotten. Running through the concrete jungle of Sotenbori, getting into weird shenanigans and caving dudes’ heads in with bicycles all with a grin from ear to ear, it’s apparent that maybe I can’t let him go either.
Largely because developer RGG (Ryu Ga Gotoku) Studio can’t seem to let the ex-Yakuza member turned hero-of-the-people go, even after giving him a poetic swan song in Yakuka 6: The Song of Life. They have simply brought him back from his dead to the world status here in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. Though they’re an outstanding hero from SEGA and personally my favourite video game protagonist of all time, their history is a little bit complicated. For going on eighteen years now, Like a Dragon (formally Yakuza) protagonist Kazuma Kiryu has been gracing our screens in one way or another.
