Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is a 2024 Eastern RPG published by Sega and developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. It is a mainline entry in the Like a Dragon video game series and the second starring ex-yakuza Ichiban Kasuga, who has started a life rehabilitating other ex-yakuza in line with the wishes of his boss after the events of the previous game. After he and his friends are cancelled online following the release and misleading interpretation of some footage, a series of events leads him to losing his job, storming a yakuza base, and flying to Hawaii to look for his mother previously thought dead.

It released on Microsoft Windows via Steam and the Microsoft store, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and Series S.

It has a webpage here.

• Action Commands: These appear while performing certain attacks.
• Aloha Hawaii: Hawaii is a major location in the game.
• Asshole Victim: Roman when he pushes his boundaries with the Barracudas.
• Back Stab: Attacking enemies from the back offers advantages in combat.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Kazuma Kiryu and Ichiban Kasuga on the cover art, and in gameplay when they team up.
• Batter Up: One with spiked wire is used by Kasuga.
• Booze Flamethrower: Nanba can do this sort of attack.
• Console Cameo: A discussion pops up regarding the regional naming of the Sega Genesis, with Kasuga only being familiar with the name "Mega Drive".
  • The Game Gear is later brought up by another NPC.
• Crowbar Combatant: Yutaka Yamai fights with a crowbar. The player can also give Adachi a crowbar for use in combat.
• Cult: A few are important to the story.
  • Palekana is one critical to the main story, with the initial positive depictions being a facade.
  • Kiryu finds a former member of a different cult in Yokohama trying to show people how cults prey on people.
• Dance Battler: Chitose is one.
• Dented Iron: Kiryu is now suffering from cancer and a fair bit of time is spent talking about how he's not as strong as he used to be.
• Dirty Cop: The American police depicted in the game are shown to pin crimes on the innocent, as well as to work hand in hand with gangs.
• Drives Like Crazy: Encouraged in the food delivery mini-game. Fortunately, Kasuga is just on a bicycle.
• Eagle Land: Hawaii is shown as a tropical paradise with American culture infused into it, being a very positive portrayal at first. The player quickly becomes acquainted with more unsavory aspects of the American justice system and crime.
• Elaborate Underground Base: The game has a few.
  • The Sujimon League has one underneath a mall, with an elevator to it hidden in a computer shop.
  • The Barracudas have one underneath their turf featuring an elaborate counterfeiting operation and a replica of the Anaconda Mall.
• Experienced Protagonist: At the start of the game the protagonist was already an ex-yakuza who served some time in prison, taken down two clans, and was generally respected.
• Frying Pan of Doom: Zhao wields one with Kiryu during their Frying Inferno tag team attack.
• Gameplay Automation: Battles can be automated, as can navigation through the streets of Hawaii.
• Game Within a Game: Several arcade machines are playable in the game.
• Good Guy Bar: Revolve in Hawaii and Survive in Japan.
• Gotta Catch Them All: The Sujimon Sensei tasks the player with finding them all.
• Improbable Weapon User: Many scenery items on the ground can be picked up and used to bludgeon enemies, such as bicycles. Unlike the previous game, everyone can use these, not just Ichiban.
• Indy Hat Roll: Kasuga does one while dodging traffic at the start of the substory The Pursuit of Realism.
• Interchangeable Antimatter Keys: Keys are interchangeable and consumed when used.
• The Mall: A setting offered by the Mahelona Mall and the Anaconda Shopping Center in Hawaii.
• The Men in Black: The Daidoji faction are composed of men in suits playing the long game in what they feel are the national interests of Japan.
• Mini Game: These are generously peppered throughout the over-world.
• Missing Mom: The protagonist travels to Hawaii to find their long lost mother.
• Mooks: The various Sujimon encountered on the streets.
• New Media Are Evil: An important antagonist is a VTuber, as well as online influencers looking for views. It's not played completely straight, in that Kasuga also uses online video to help further his own goals.
• Oppressive States of America: The police in Hawaii aren't shy to abuse their power.
• Practical Effects: These are favored In-Universe by the director Bony Kashiwa, who dismisses the use of Computer Generated Images in his work.

This is a movie, and that means real cars and real explosions! —Bony Kashiwa, The Pursuit of Realism substory.

• Product Placement: Pepsi and Mountain Dew can be found in vending machines.
  • Some real products have appeared throughout the series prior, but usually only the ones the Suntory brand distributed.
• Shock and Awe: Some characters use specific gear to use electric attacks in fights.
• Translation Convention: Since it would be difficult to play the whole game due to Ichiban's limited English skills, the game has all character's converse normally as long as he has someone who is bilingual in his party, which is the case not long into the game.
• Wide Open Sandbox: The overworld is relatively open, allowing the player to walk around, visit businesses, fight mooks, and enjoy the sights.
• Wrench Wench: Julie is an automobile mechanic who also upgrades weapons.
• Wrench Whack: Eric Tomizawa wields wrenches as his primary melee weapon in battle.
• Yakuza: Aside from being important to the backstory, and the ones encountered in Japan, the Yamai Syndicate is encountered in Hawaii. It isn't really a Yakuza organization, as their old doctor explains.