Stranger Than Heaven Director Says Featuring Tupac Is a Good Idea in Next Game by Yakuza Devs

Stranger Than Heaven Director Says Featuring Tupac Is a Good Idea in Next Game by Yakuza Devs

Stranger Than Heaven is both a major departure from and cut from the same cloth as the Yakuza and Like A Dragon games before it. Sega's RGG Studio uses many of the touchstones of its previous games to tell a more serious story about a hapa man in early 20th century Japan over the course of decades and how his life evolves with the changing times and the budding criminal underworld. It is tied to RGG's previous games, but it's meant to stand on i…

I Played Stranger Than Heaven, and Its Big Brawls Aren't Anything Like Yakuza's

With Stranger Than Heaven, developer RGG Studio takes a new, cinematic approach to beat-'em-up action. These are my first impressions based on the exciting Summer Game Fest demo.

Stranger than Heaven hands-on: Harder than Yakuza?

Set across mid-twentieth century Japan, RGG's latest has an entirely new fighting system.

Heavenly Battles: Stranger Than Heaven's Combat Preview

I’ve been meaning to dive into the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. It’s not due to lack of interest; I’ve heard nothing but positive reviews. The main issue is I want to play the games in chronological order since many of them share storylines and characters, and honestly, there’s quite a few I need to catch up on first. Because of that, I was immediately drawn to Stranger Than Heaven. It’s a standalone preque…

Stranger Than Heaven’s combat hook makes it stand out compared to the Yakuza series

I’m a late bloomer when it comes to the Yakuza series. I remember trying one of them back in the 2010s and immediately disliking it because I wanted English voice acting. Sure, a dumb choice in retrospect. When Yakuza: Like A Dragon was released, I decided to give the series another try, and boy, did they grab me. I was obsessed, and after playing Infinite Wealth and Pirate Yakuza, I was ready to jump into Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s latest, Stranger…

Stranger Than Heaven Hands-On Preview - A Punchy Fight Club

Stranger Than Heaven—weird Tupac feature set right aside—is the most interested I’ve been in a game out of Japan’s RGG Studios, known best for the Like A Dragon games as well as its many spin-offs, of which Stranger Than Heaven is one, being a distant prequel. Almost like a Richard Linklater film, the game takes place over a long life, spanning several decades, as Makoto Daito makes for Japan in search of a better life.  Over the course of half …