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[Draugoth]

The Yakuza series, now rebranded to Like a Dragon, made a controversial choice with the most recent mainline entry when it ditched the series' traditional real-time brawling combat for turn-based fights. And while Yakuza: Like a Dragon, is a triumph by almost every measurable metric, a lot of fans still wish they could throw hands in real time like the good ol' days. In Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, the next mainline game in the series, they can.

As the most recent gameplay trailer demonstrates, returning hero Kiryu can bust out his old fighting style at certain points in combat. Check it out at the 1:15 mark in the below trailer, timestamped for your convenience.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Cool that they give players options! I'll probably stick with the default turn-based combat though.

 

[killatopak]

It’s like they’re begging me to replay the game. I love it. Love both styles enough to play them.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Cool that they give players options! I'll probably stick with the default turn-based combat though.

Same. We have the prequel with real time combat anyway and hopefully more Judgment games in the future.

 

[64bitmodels]

how did they balance the game around 2 different fighting styles?

 

[adamsapple]

Looking at the video, it just looks like he's using a "skill", that doesn't look like the free-form brawling that Kiryu's games have.

 

[StereoVsn]

Yeah, it looks like it will only be available for Kiryu and only in certain situations.

 

[Hudo]

That's cool. But I rather really like the turn-based combat Sega have introduced in Like A Dragon. It's really fluent and fast if you know what you want to do. I really had fun with it. So I hope it's either optional or they don't overdo it.

 

[Nankatsu]

Looking at the video, it just looks like he's using a "skill", that doesn't look like the free-form brawling that Kiryu's games have.

Basically this, it's not real time brawling at all.