Polygon.com / 07.06.25
Like A Dragon dev's Stranger Than Heaven is LA Noire, but make it Yakuza
Following the reveal of Project Century during The Game Awards 2024, Sega and Like A Dragon developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio showed up to Summer Game Fest 2025 with a new trailer, a new era, and a new name: Stranger Than Heaven. Where the initial trailer looked like early-20th century Judgment, where a detective wandered around a rain-soaked, 1914s Japanese city, Stranger Than Heavens latest trailer is more like RGG Studios take on L.A. Noire. 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 Draws immense hostility when smoking. He has hunger and thirst meters, a first for the studio, and makes split-second decisions abou...
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