Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is a 2023 action-adventure video game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. It is a spin-off of the Like a Dragon series. Taking place…
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is an adventure developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, released 9 November 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The main story takes about 17 hrs to finish.
What Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is an adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and released in 2023. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Dragon Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Having faked his own death to protect his foster children, the legendary former yakuza Kazuma Kiryu now lives in the shadows, his identity erased. Bound by a pact with the secretive Daidoji faction, he operates as one of their covert agents under the codename "Joryu", carrying out assignments in exchange for anonymous support of the orphanage he holds dear. Between jobs, he seeks quiet moments of meditation, trying to leave his violent past behind. But that fragile peace cannot last. When Kiryu is tasked with providing security for a smuggling operation in Yokohama, the job turns out to be a trap, as an unidentified group of yakuza ambushes the agents. Recognized despite his hidden…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 62 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is the 64th of 91 entries we hold in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. It arrived 9 months after Like a Dragon: Ishin!. The next entry was Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Special Trial Version in 2023. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Yakuza 0: Director's Cut at 88.
How it was received
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 4 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 55 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 37 hrs, roughly 2.2 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-3470, 3.2 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1200, 3.1 GHz, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB or AMD Radeon RX 460, 4 GB or Intel Arc A380, 6 GB. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 98GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name launched on 9 November 2023, within three weeks of Alan Wake II, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and The Talos Principle II. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Alan Wake II, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, The Talos Principle II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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