Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the devs behind the Like a Dragon (formerly Yakuza) series, shared pre-alpha footage of its next game at The Game Awards on Dec. 12, but studio director Masayoshi Yokoyama says the short video reveals absolutely none of the project’s contents.
During a Dec. 26 broadcast, Yokoyama claimed every fan theory and bit of speculation he’s seen online about Project Century is wrong. “We didn’t include any information that would enable people to guess,” he said, confirming only that Project Century is an action-adventure game like previous Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio properties.
Project Century’s first reveal indicates the game takes place in 1915, and that its as-of-yet unnamed protagonist will wield a variety of deadly weapons in combat in addition to the usual fisticuffs, and perhaps even court a woman or two. According to Automaton West, some Like a Dragon fans have speculated that the man in the teaser is a young Makoto Tojo, the founder of the Tojo Clan seen in the studio’s modern-day Yakuza games, and that rapper Snoop Dogg may be involved, but we can probably put those theories on ice thanks to Yokoyama’s statements.
Two days prior to Project Century’s debut, Sega filed two trademarks related to the property, one for the name of the company on the back of the protagonist’s robe — Yashima Boueki Kaisha, or roughly Japan Trade Company — and another for its logo. After Project Century was revealed, one Redditor noted that the rest of the text on the man’s clothing — “No matter how far, we have no limits, we are as fast as lightning” — is written in modern Japanese, rather than the style one might expect of the time period in which the game is set.
Project Century currently has no official release date or platforms.
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