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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth puts its own Yakuza-style twist on Animal Crossing in new minigame Dondoko IslandCustomise your dream home, build up the island, make friends and beat the absolute bejeezus out of unwanted visitors
Customise your dream home, build up the island, make friends and beat the absolute bejeezus out of unwanted visitors
Image credit:Sega
Image credit:Sega
If it wasn’t already clear thatLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealthis going to be plenty zany in that good ol’Yakuzaway, RGG Studio has now revealed that Ichiban Kasuga’s next adventure will pack in its ownAnimal Crossingminigame - but done Yakuza-style, naturally.
LIKE A DRAGON: INFINITE WEALTH | DONDOKO ISLAND REVEAL TRAILER - Xbox Partner PreviewWatch on YouTube
LIKE A DRAGON: INFINITE WEALTH | DONDOKO ISLAND REVEAL TRAILER - Xbox Partner Preview
Happy Resort Dondoko Island is a new activity revealed during tonight’s Xbox Partner Preview stream, showing off a mix of gathering, crafting and town management. Its debut trailer showed off butterfly-catching, first-person spear-fishing and resource gathering - in the form of smashing up a bunch of washed-up trash on the beach - with said resources then able to be turned into a bunch of furniture and furnishings. If you can’t be bothered with making it yourself, there’ll be a store from which you can buy things too. Getting that Animal Crossing vibe yet?
You’ll be able to customise both your own “dream home” (examples shown included a bare room with trash bags and a single table, room with a caged tiger, and a room with what looks like an entire fruit market stall) and the island’s wider infrastructure, laying out roads, paths, buildings, vehicles and more - including a giant fire-breathing statue shown at one point.
Like, yes, Animal Crossing, the island will be populated with a bunch of colourful characters who you’ll be able to befriend and give presents to in order to win them over.
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Those tourists will have specific wants and needs you’ll have to fulfil to get them to move in, and you’ll also be able to host campfire singalongs with Kasuga strumming away.
In other words, it’s all very Animal Crossing (except the fistfights) and very, very Yakuza. Chief producer Hiroyuki Sakamotoconfirmedthe activity will be unlocked through a side quest at the start of Infinite Wealth’s sixth chapter, and won’t tie into the main story in any way - so you’ll be able to ignore it entirely or lose hundreds of hours refining your island as you prefer.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth hits PC on January 26th. That’s soon, but not quite as soon as Katherine would like, havingthoroughly enjoyed half an hour with its bonkers demo at EGX.
