Sega took to a special Tokyo Game Show livestream on Wednesday to unveil a new video for Stranger Than Heaven, the latest title from Ryu ga Gotoku Studio (formerly codenamed “Project Century”). The roughly 10-minute clip covers the game’s opening credits sequence, then walks viewers through its various historical eras and locations, the Showbiz Lounge, the combat system, and other in-game activities.
The team also confirmed that the game’s theme song, “Stranger Than Heaven”, performed by Snoop Dogg, Satoshi Fujihara, Ado, and Tori Kelly, will be released this year.
Eras and Locations
The game spans several pivotal decades of Japan’s modern history across the following settings:
- Kokura, Fukuoka — 1915
- Kure, Hiroshima — 1929
- Minami, Osaka — 1943
- Atami, Shizuoka — 1951
- Kamurocho (the fictional district inspired by Kabukicho, a recurring location in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series), Shinjuku, Tokyo — 1965
Story
Sega describes the game as “a 50-year saga of those with nowhere to go and their desperate struggle to find a home.” The story begins in 1915 San Francisco, where a young boy named Makoto Daito — born to an American father and a Japanese mother — stows away on a mysterious ship. Facing harsh discrimination because of his Asian heritage and having lost both parents, Makoto sets sail for Japan, his mother’s homeland, only to discover that the voyage across the Pacific is far from a free ride, and that this single decision will alter the course of his life forever.
Cast
- Yū Shirota as Makoto Daito
- Snoop Dogg as Orpheus
- Moeka Hoshi as Tae Matsumoto
- Tori Kelly as Suzy Day
- Akio Ōtsuka as Heigo Yashima
- Tokuma Nishioka as Kiyoshi Otsuru
- Satoshi Fujihara as Takashi
- Cordell Broadus as The Veiled Stranger
- Ado as Keiko Shirai
- Bunta Sugawara (model basis) and Takashi Ukaji (voice) as Genzo Iwaki
- The late rapper Tupac
- Takaya Kuroda (the voice of Kazuma Kiryu in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series)
- Kouhei Tsuji
- Yasukaze Motomiya (known as Kosei Shishido in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name and as Kazuma Kiryu in the live-action Like a Dragon Powered By Nihon Touitsu series)
Bunta Sugawara’s CG Likeness
Sega issued a special statement regarding the character Genzo Iwaki, whose appearance is modeled on the late legendary actor Bunta Sugawara. The company stated that it received formal consent from Sugawara’s family, and that Toei Company — which produced many of his films, including the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series — provided archival footage and photographs that RGG Studio used to craft the CG character design.
Netflix Live-Action Film
Stranger Than Heaven is also inspiring a live-action film adaptation coming to Netflix.
Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Now Available
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