{"id":1220099,"date":"2026-02-23T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=605099"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:38:53","slug":"like-a-dragon-devs-stranger-than-heaven-is-la-noire-but-make-it-yakuza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/like-a-dragon-devs-stranger-than-heaven-is-la-noire-but-make-it-yakuza\/","title":{"rendered":"Like A Dragon dev\u2019s Stranger Than Heaven is LA Noire, but make it Yakuza"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following the reveal of Project Century<\/em> during The Game Awards 2024<\/a>, Sega and Like A Dragon developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio showed up to Summer Game Fest 2025<\/a> with a new trailer, a new era, and a new name: Stranger Than Heaven<\/em>. Where the initial trailer looked like early-20th century Judgment<\/em>, where a detective wandered around a rain-soaked, 1914\u2019s Japanese city, Stranger Than Heaven<\/em>‘s latest trailer is more like RGG Studio\u2019s take on L.A. Noire<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A detective named Mako Daito moodily searches for clues to an unknown mystery in a glitzy city filled with people lost in their pursuit of excess, glamorous nightclubs, rowdy street fights, seedy tenements, and neon-soaked high streets. It looks like RGG Studio is digging more into survival and simulation elements than usual as well. In one brief shot, Mako holds a cigarette as an on-screen tooltip pops up that reads \u201cDraws immense hostility when smoking.\u201d He has hunger and thirst meters, a first for the studio, and makes split-second decisions about what to do in fraught situations, like whether to show a dangerous opponent mercy.<\/p>\n

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