One Like A Dragon Gaiden Side Mission Has A Cool Connection To Judgment

Despite sharing a setting and game engine, the Judgment subseries has been fairly disconnected from the larger Like A Dragon franchise, but Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name finally has a proper Judgment crossover, which is good news for fans of both series. The Like A Dragon games, previously known as Yakuza in its Western releases, starred Kazuma Kiryu for the first seven mainline entries, which were beat-em-up style action RPGs. Yakuza: Like A Dragon introduced the new hero Ichiban Kasuga and switched to a turn-based JRPG format. Judgment, a detective genre spinoff, used the original combat style and followed Takayuki Yagami.