Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth encapsulates a mind-boggling range of tones and themes. In Ryo Ga Gotoku Studio’s modern-day role-playing game (RPG), you can find yourself held at gunpoint one moment and in a wholesome karaoke montage the next. That said, this latest entry in the long-running Yakuza series never shies away from seriousness and gravity when the situation calls for it - which is surprisingly often.
Throughout protagonists Ichiban Kasuga and Kazuma Kiryu’s journey across Hawaii and Japan, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth shines a light on some dark and challenging themes with nuance and even-handedness worthy of the very best story games. From socio-economic inequality to issues of environmentalism and justice, Ryo Ga Gotoku takes great pains to place its story in the context of the modern world. Nothing that Kasuga and Kiryu do takes place in a political or social vacuum.
