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While for us it’ll have been a few months since we left Kiryu in a Hawaiian church in Like A Dragon Gaiden, it’s only seconds for him as we pick back up the series star’s thread in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, which begins our time with the game.
Naturally, our favourite former yakuza can’t just be allowed to take a holiday. Having faked his death to protect his loved ones, he’s now under the thumb of the Daidoji, a shadowy organisation which helps him keep his secret – for a price. His trip to the sunny island has come with some caveats, as a phone call pointedly reminds him as he leaves the church: he’s got to track someone down.
It’s an important introduction more for how it sets Kiryu up as a chess piece in the complex drama unfolding in Hawaii than for the mission itself. While the hero of the first six Yakuza games (this is