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Yakuza Kiwami 2 Gets 23 Minute of Gameplay Showcased at TGS

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Yakuza Kiwami 2 TGS

Sega showed off 23 minutes of Yakuza Kiwami 2 at Tokyo Game Show. This new edition of 2006’s Yakuza 2 is getting a full remake and looks excellent. In the footage, you get a look at longtime series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu in action, as well as some of the all-new material featuring the Mad Dog of Shimano, Majima Goro.

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Yakuza Kiwami was a great remaster of the original game in the franchise, but Yakuza Kiwami 2 is set to outpace it. While the first Kiwami game used an older engine so that it could run on the PlayStation 3 during for it’s 2015 Japanese release, Kiwami 2 will be powered by the same next-gen “Dragon Engine” that debuted in Yakuza 6: The Song of Life.

In addition to new graphics, and smoother gameplay, Yakuza Kiwami 2 will feature new story segments, new voice acting, and the “Truth of Majima Goro” segment, which will feature a never-before-seen look at what Majima was up to during Yakuza 2. The game is set to debut in Japan on December 7, but we haven’t got a US release date yet, or even confirmation that it’s coming overseas. However, given Sega’s enthusiasm about the series in the West, we’ll likely get a release at some point shortly.

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Brittany Vincent is the former News Editor at Twinfinite who covered all the video games industry's goings on between June 2017 and August 2018. She's been covering video games, anime and tech for over a decade for publications like Otaku USA, G4, Maxim, Engadget, Playboy and more. Fueled by horror, rainbow-sugar-pixel-rushes, and video games, she’s a freelancer who survives on surrealism and ultraviolence. When she’s not writing, watching anime or gaming, she’s searching for the perfect successor to visual novel Saya no Uta.

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